Anyone play Riftbound? Thought about giving it a try but I'm afraid that the gameplay might suck ass just based on how similar it looks to marvel snap.

>>97288074
I managed to get rid of it quick (thankfully) but it is a nasty card. It's asking to get pitted. The way you posted it I bet it brought back some memories.

Doesn't HOCG have the same draft problem Pokémon has?

>>97288102
Im having a great time with my pauper format ! Since mispacks means there's no rares in boosters

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>>97284793
>>97286744
>>97287821
The lengths one man will go to samefag
>>97285167
>>97284780
It's okay anons, I've been loving the gothic set. No games under my belt as I can't force my little group to try anything new- but pulled this guy today from my second booster box!

>>97285724
master duel is a monkey's paw game, by far the best card game simulator for any given tcg. but doesn't support anything but the 1 format.

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>>97287030
>shaddoll
It's easy for dogmatika. Send garura with nadir to add maximus and draw 1, banish the card you sent to summon it, use his effect to dump apkallone and some other DARK card, like titaniklad (to add fleur in the EP), then force the opponent to send two extra deck cards as well. Then you add schism and discard 1. The issue is that i don't really like floodgates ie winda, schism and fleur are garnets, and i sometimes can't afford to discard anything.
>synchro
You mean malong? I actually asked in my lgs for nadir/ultimate slayer targets and people recommended that card and wind pegasus, so i bought them.

So far i have this:
>fusion
N'tss and garura
>synchro
Arc light and malong.
>xyz
Vallon and mereologic.
>link
Arms mouser. I DO own bucephalus, but that only works as a ultimate slayer target. If i wanted to send garura to draw, i can just... send garura directly. And again, i don't find barren blossom's mulligan too useful. But voiceless voice doesn't really need anything from the extra deck (just chaos angel, ty-phon, almiraj, secure gardna and dyna mondo), so maybe i'll add her anyway.

I'm thinking of getting a paper collection of white forest/azamina deck since it's my favorite deck in MD. Currently I'm looking to get an Asian English version of the cards (I live in singapore anyway), is getting them via singles the recommended way? What's the status of asian english stuff anyway?

>>97288220
Singles will always be cheaper. Even with the better chances in OCG's pack structure. Any pack you open that doesn't contain cards you want or dupes is wasted money. The other problem you might have is finding the packs unless you buy online, the set they come from is from 2024. And if you're going to be ordering stuff from online then why wouldn't you just purchase the cards you want?
IDK how buying singles works for your region so best of luck on that. Maybe someone else here can help with that.

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>>97288220
What do you mean by status? They're obviously legal in your cunt, and the AE prints are of noticeably higher quality than TCG. I couldn't tell you about buying them however, i DO know they're significantly cheaper than OCG and TCG, but i'm not sure about the actual prices and rarities.

>>97287458
Then don't, I was just sharing what worked for me and my group
If you're gaming with super milsim autists then they probably won't need guidance, just saying I don't

>>97287839
NTA but the guy who tried to break down OP's advice is clearly insecure and not as good as he thinks he is. The guy replying to him is probably just dancing to the same tune.

>>97278784
Okay my weigh in.
1) Only useful in situations and scenarios where time is a factor. In combat yes it works, also in race against the clock scenarios but ineffective in say a meeting with an NPC.
2) Sorry no rail roading. Players will feel forced and can lead to outright rebellion resulting in destruction of your game, especially if you have experienced players. This does not mean no simple linear missions, just no forced path missions.
3) Immersion is great as is impact but it isn't everyone's cup of tea. A GM reflecting on impact of players actions and including something later in the campaign is very satisfying for both groups.
4) Calendars are great, and yes events should happen whether the PCs get involved or not.
5) This can be tricky. Today's gaming social environment is different than it was decades ago. If running a older scenario there may be elements that newer gamers find cringey.
6) Assume competency? Absolutely. However remember that the opposite doesn't hold true. A player may be good at something that their character may have no clue about. As an example in a fantasy game I was in another player wanted to build a flame thrower like device, Theoretically it could have been built but her barbarian wouldn't know how to go about it.
7) "Insight" rolls are only a problem if exploited. Not everyone is great at puzzles or mysteries and can become genuinely stuck. An insight roll to help move the story forward is good. A player requesting one because they can't be bothered isn't a failure on the GMs part it is laziness on theirs.
8) Notes can be useful on many levels. They can help with distracted players. Had a table once where 2 guys would have side conversations when their characters weren't in the spotlight at the moment. I sent a note to a different player and they started to pay closer attention. To this day they don't know the note said. "Hope everything is well. Just wanted to say hi."

>>97288058
Damn, you'd be a terrible GM.

>>97288058
9) This will be very difficult based on the age, maturity level and experience of the player. The concept of "moose ears" (1 or both hands open palmed touching the side of one's head) to distinguish out of character talk was introduced. Worked out great.
10) Not always an option. It is always better to have more than one way for the party to accomplish goals. I do not see how being blunt helps.
11) Sorry first part violates "boxed text" rule. The second part I agree with.
12) Not sure what you mean by this.
13) Obstacles in a game should always have solutions. The trick is not to discourage "alternate" solutions and reward creative ones.
14) This not necessarily a good idea. Introducing conflict because there is a potential for it can be counter-productive. It is better to allow players to direct the course in these situation. Helps with immersion.
15) This is essentially my counter to 14 above. It is usually unnecessary for me to ask as players tend to approach me with their plans.

Now for my additions

16) The GM is not the adversary, they just control the adversaries. The GMs job is not to kill PCs and GMs who brag about TPKs are bad GMs. If the players beat a kick ass encounter easily, move on and make a better one (more challenging one) next time.
17) GMs remember it is YOUR table so maintain control of it. This is a corollary to 16. I do this every time I start a new group in session zero BEFORE characters are rolled up. I give a speech introducing the "peanut" rule. It goes like this..."As the GM it is easy for me to kill off a character. " pick a player "roll a d20" regardless say "I'm sorry your character just died by chocking on a peanut in the bar" (why you do it before char gen). "See how easy that was. Easy sure, but not fun and we're here to have fun."
18) This one I can't stress enough. BE FLEXIBLE. The rules are written on paper not set in stone. To paraphrase Captain Barbosa "They're more like guidelines really".

>>97288069
Try looking for Phthalocyanine Green paint, it's a fairly common pigment and it might even be the pigment they used for that.

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>>97288141
The color from a screen and on the model will never really match, but if this looks familiar, then Phthalo Green is what you should look for

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>>97288176
It probably won't be in cheap kids paints, but I've seen it in most "artists" paint brands.

>>97277498
>gets trashed in /wip/
>makes own thread to shill in
Wow.
Wooooow.
>>97277745
If you use fluid acrylics in dropper bottles you can easily write down the exact ratio for any color you mix. It's a good idea with mini paints too if you don't want to buy 100 different colors made from the same 10 pigments.
There's a guy on youtube who made a mix chart with only 3 inks, but that's a bit far.

>>97288176
What's funny is that it's literally the only non-toxic lightfast green pigment, almost all green paints are based on it but it's a rare color among mini paints apparently.
>>97288069
Phthalo green is translucent on its own (it's dark so some grading systems consider it opaque but it's not) so if it's covering power you want, adding some opaque pigments might help.
If you want it pre-mixed, Liquitex Soft Body Hooker's Green Deep Permanent or Viridian Hue Permanent might be what you're looking for. If you buy a basic paint set you can also mix it yourself using the pigments they list if you look those up.
>Soft Body Hooker
Yeah I know.

all bots, every single post

The schitzo posts alone in his make believe world.

Looking for the Helsmiths of Hashut battletome and the Skaven (2024) battletome. Any kind anons able to assist?

>>97288030
No thanks

>>97288030
https://gofile.io/d/aRd9nI

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>>97288060
That's okay, anon. You are excused. With some luck, a greater, more magnanimous and more handsome anon will rise to the occasion.

>>97288098
And look, there he is. My sincere thanks!

How about uhhh belladama volga vs droggz the sunchaser

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>>97287478

>when moving, strip tumble to beat out digi emperor

>>97287804
Kaiser is -2 and Tumblemon is only +1, there's still a loss. And multiple Kaisers can stack.

>>97287804
Promo Landramon has SOMP and Icemon had When Moving so Emperor does nothing against rocks other than stopping warp Proganomon desu

>>97287691
>Age of Boulders
Truly an era before the Age of Fire.

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Say something nice about 'em.

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How are we feeling about the new 5.5e Artillerist in Forge of the Artificer?

I have been seeing one in play. It has been highly effective due to one key change: the Eldritch Cannon not being locked to one "mode" during creation. The same Eldritch Cannon can be used to spam temporary Hit Points before combat (just keep rolling again and again until the whole party has 8 + Intelligence modifier temporary Hit Points) and then use either Flamethrower or Force Ballista during the fight itself.

The Artillerist still has no Extra Attack at level 5, but cantrips can help it catch up... somewhat.

>>97288047
Absolutely not, I've already danced this dance before.
I've already DMed this campaign (and this setting) for another group, and I'm deeply unsatisfied with a lot of the elements of both the story and worldbuilding. And the problems with the story come from me not having things planned out properly from the start.
Some plot points emerged from nowhere, others disappeared into the nothingness after being established. NPCs and plotlines I've intended to be important fizzled out because I've created them and then didn't have any idea what to do with them next. The stories that we did end up doing didn't have any foreshadowing. The final dungeon of the arc started with the premise "Go to this place you've never heard about before, because the BBEG's master plan is unfolding there - thus speak I, the hastily slapped together exposition device".
Looking back, act 1 and act 3 were very solid, because I've had an idea of what to do with them right from the start, but act 2 is rancid garbage that makes me want to vomit, and it's the one where I just did stuff.

No more trying to improv the entire middle of the campaign.

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So I have this idea in mind for a tiered environment that focuses on the center being the massive crater where the corpse of a farplanar entity fell and the surrounding areas up to a point are affected by the corpse's proximity.

What would be some good ways to represent the environment becoming more and more affected the closer the PCs get to it?

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>>97287122
I'm personally a fan of the Bladesinger/Fighter who pole dances to cast spells from a Pike they use as a spellcasting Focus while they use some other weapon like a Scimitar to cut folks on!

>>97288159
That just sounds like you're bad at developing your notes between sessions.

>>97283258
Had a deep romance between the adept lead acolyte and a scum recruit he initially picked up on Iocanthos when we were running the starter adventure in the core rules. She started as an obscura addict and he just hired her. The adept character ended up saving her during the final fight and the relationship bloomed in character from there. We were a group of all dudes so it was purely an "awww bless em" between the group. Had an assassin, a psyker and me GM. They both ended up dying later but ya know, dark heresy and all that.

Why do the other departments trust the Ministorum to produce important individuals via the Schola Progenium? Shouldn't they be worried that these people who are often given a lot of power would be loyal to the Ecclesiarchy first, and their new department second? Every source goes to lengths to make it clear that the Imperium isn't one big happy family, so why are the Progena the exception?

>>97279044
This is why I like that Dark Heresy Genesys homebrew myself. You don't have as much crunch, but there's still a fair bit of weight to things. Genesys encumbrance I always felt struck a good balance between "number crunch" and "narrative".

>>97278596
>My character received a donkey and gifted a lion cub.
Awww that's actually sweet

Guys am I am idiot for going all in for UM system. I wanna support the hobby and fact it support foundry modules it great. What do people think of the new Ad mech book?

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Rolled a dread wraith from PF1 as a random encounter for a night time mission PCs are planning to take.
Trying to decide how start it off and how to fight
>Option 1
Wraith is smart: hides in the ground on the road, uses life sense to do spring attack as they get in range and hides back into the ground.
Keeps doing that, targets them one by one and PCs can only fight back with readied actions
>Option 2
Wraith is smart and bloodthirsty: like 1 except rather than hide it flies up above the group, uses its Sense Motive 23 and Spot 23 to id the weakest members of the group and than proceeds to spring attack going for the weakest, trying to generate more spawn
>Option 3
Wraith is confident and doesn't bother hiding in ambush because its the scariest thing in the area and it got no one to hide from and none can outrun it, so it hunts in the open. Comes at them fast, does spring attack from the air.
>Option 4
wraith is cocky, like 3 except it doesn't try go for the weakest first, goes at random to spread the misery around
>Option 5
wraith is confident but lazy, like 3 but goes after mounts first because it doesn't want the party to try and separate and run
>option 6
wraith is playful, like 1, only pick targets randomly each time

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>>97235678
>earth is canon in D&D and you can't level up here

Where are you getting this from? Honestly curious.

>>97287765
nta, but the core difference in leveling up in d&d vs real life is permanence. In d&d the skills and attributes you get at level up are permanent and stay with you even if you never use them again.
in real life everything degrades rather quickly and its a constant race to keep up which everyone loses with old age.

>>97287636
Option 3 would feel the most "fair" to the players, with option 1 being a good step up in difficulty if it feels the need to step up it's game. The issue would mostly be trying to out-damage it before the CON loss does the party in, 184hp with incorporeal defenses is quite a lot to blast through, and once one guy is down it's a wipe
>should an incorporeal ghost be prevented from passing through tightly packed living people like that?
RAW, Creatures are not Objects, and as such incorporeal creatures do not get a free pass to pass through them. Of course there's several hundred years of fiction depicting such an occurrence, so YMMV

what is the usual rule if you need to do two things at once that would each require a skill check? do you add the DCs, simply resolve them sequentially or, use largest and add some portion of the other?
this is in regards to that possibility of protecting a group with a tight blade barrier from a large flier >>97287636
>DC 20 to Turn 180° by spending 10 feet of movement
> DC20 to Fly up at a greater than 45° angle
If I am imagining how it would work out if one did a dive attack at a tight cylinder, I think the wraith would need to do both of those to regain altitude
I am wondering if that should be a DC 40 combined maneuver with a chance to clip the barrier on fail by more than 5.

>>97286254
All women are colonizers in gaming spaces

>>97284794
>outsiders trying to save the tribal culture
Why would i want to do that. No, my Taldan Nobleman will go there to find some taldan relics from the time the taldan army of exploration went there with a super weapon, but got crushed by demon monkeys. He doesnt give a fuck about the tribal people.

My wizard is looking for ruins of the ancient hyper magic civilization and their flying cities, he too doesnt care about the the tribal guys.

My mystic is looking for that one portal to another planet hidden in Mwangi, the struggles of the locals are their own

>>97286254
And it's totally okay to ignore the advice Paizo gives and the feelings they have about certain people. Take the best, ignore the rest.

>>97287309
There is nothing good.

It's extra fucked up because early explorers really did encounter some of the most ridiculous culture shock and some peoples are genuinely completely alien and bizarre to us and they basically just don't want you to admit that.

If they wear a suit and a tie and get on a boat to your country, they become you, so they have to be very very normal. Even if they speak in clicks, don't comprehend personal property, mutilate their women and eat their elderly, it's all tabula rasa and their kids can go to your school and become just like you immediately. They need to believe this.

>>97283421
>Hexes
DoA

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>>97285831
>troops huddled in L shaped terrain like nuhammer
>using 40kucks as playtesters
Come on dude

>>97286177
Nah fuck off if there is any use case for shitty L shaped ruins its testing out new systems. You do not wish to invest too much into that side of the project as that consumes time you can spend improving rules.
>>97285831
Will give it a look.

>>97285831
>>97283421
What's the flavour and what's the post-it pitch?

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Good evening /awg/,
What are your favourite unusual resources for your gaming?
Here's some examples
>Toys, decorations, game pieces for minatures
>Terrain from old packaging
>Cut twine for flocking

>>97282255
Magnus with wooden pieces, a small board and bullet time control :D

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>>97283999
It's owned by a quirk chungus virtue signaling Marxist who makes a very loud point about never selling it or allowing advertisers and insists on being funded by Bernie-bro type "match me!!" donations. It's aggressively anti-capitalist, don't know what you don't understand

>>97266900
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krikor_Mekhitarian

>>97285249
holy chungus

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cute puzzle https://lichess.org/training/cn7up

>>97229027
This looks like shit, dude.

>>97251422
Well?

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>>97229027
>AI art
>AI prompt

>>97234704
In my experience many GMs have no concept of how minmaxing works and can destroy the balance of their own game worse than the players will. I've only known a few who had credible optimizing chops. One of them, to his credit, TPKed our group multiple times with ridiculous antagonist builds.

>>97285069
Sure, if you like. It's your money. But a better analogy would be that the best, $200 walking pole from REI versus a stick from the forest aren't fundamentally different, except that you wanted one or the other. Same for TTRPGS.

>>97266860
>You do realize Japanese message boards have heated debates over whether King of the Hill should be watched subbed or dubbed, right?
what the fuck

>>97285914
What? It's a great show and the first step on your way to awakening your own Texas damashi.

>>97257447
Who are you quoting?

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>>97287353
>>97285080
I guess it makes sense in retrospect.

>>97257447
>Name some non evil demons. NO THOSE ONES DON'T COUNT.
Your faggot ass probably watched Crybaby too.