In your game, do you treat bows as strength- or dexterity-based weapons?
>>97258104It's not like anyone on this board has games to discuss. That's why everyone needs a specified system for every thread because otherwise they have nothing to contribute.
>>97223140>Strength minimum to wield>Dex for odds of hitting
>>97223165>its a puckee spam thread why are you replyingI don't know what a Puckee is nor do I care
>>97223103nobody uses bows in a future spacefaring civilization where people have laser guns
>>97254831100% SOVL
RIFTS! The science fantasy world of post-apoc cyborgs, wizards, dragons, ninjas, giant mecha, super-nazis, robot ninjas, vampires, underwater kingdoms, remnant human supertech civilizations and everything you can imagine all rolled into one setting where interdimensional RIFTS have pierced Earth's fabric and turned it into a playground for aliens and monsters!Plus other Palladium Games about superheroes, zombies, classic fantasy, supernaturals investigation and more. Talk about:>RIFTS(tm)>Heroes Unlimited>Palladium Fantasy>Beyond the Supernatural>Dead Reign>Robotech (lol)>TMNT & Other Strangeness + After the Bomb>Splicers>Nightbane>Savage RiftsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97173634What are the strengths and weaknesses of Rifts? What about some of the other games like Heroes Unlimited?
>>97264750The strength is being one big huge never ending game with a ton of source material, no new editions or shit like that.Its also a flaw because not everything has actual rules. & sometimes those rules have been updated or changed in another book somewhere down the line.But another strength is being a dimension spanning menagerie of 80's heavy metal kitchen sink scifi & fantasy
I really love how Amazons from South America can gain the powers of the monsters they defeat.
>>97265301Strengths:>fantastic campaign kitchen-sink setting>play any kind of race or class imaginable>intricate combat involving martials, strikes, parries, leaps, etc.>shift between genres and go to other planets, dimensions, places using the rifts>wild, weird and funWeaknesses:>too many skills>combat options get very complicated>many rules don't make sense, are inconsistent, or contradict each other>hundreds of tiny subrules everywhere>over 100 books published so a lot of reading to understand everything>poor editing and layout, difficult to find rules or specific info
>>97265922Get the fuck out of this thread
Love Wins Edition>>IF YOU ARE ASKING A QUESTION, PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH GAME YOU'RE PLAYING<<Previous Thread: >>97099515 /pfg/ (pathfinder 1e) link repository: https://pastebin.com/RSt0rF0T/p2g/ (pathfinder 2e) link repository: https://pastebin.com/1zySxwm3/sfg/ (starfinder) link repository: https://pastebin.com/5yp9s2U3>>CHECK THE SHARE THREAD FOR MISSING MATERIALS<<TQ: What is your favorite pantheon? What pantheon(s) would you want implemented/updated?
>>97263499>complainers don't fucking read the booksStick to 1E champ or google it
>>97263499It’s a hyperbole, what happened is Torag gave his seat in the Godclaw over to some Orc that ascended to godhood because that’s how orcs work now. It happened in Triumph of the Tusk.This is already lame but Paizo somehow fucked up even that by refusing to make it a hard truth. You can still say Torag is in the Godclaw and get power. Nothing changed but, “haha fuck that nasty old straight man - keep working though.”
>>97265899I wonder what would happen if we showed some of that bloodthirsty decolonization literature from our world to the Hellknights. I bet they'd find some way to use it against Andoran or something.
>>97265987>>97263499Stupid lazy faggots like >>97265899 who also can't read will lie to you and tell you whitey is getting whipped when this is the only time the dwarf's name shows up in any of the 3 books in the AP. No one will post anything else because as I said before >>97178093 You "guys" don't even read the adventures.
Go ahead and cry to your fucking organized play table you're forced to play at instead of here I'm sick of speaking to you ingrates about the game you don't and won't ever play. Have a great day and see you tomorrow for the next woke mob outrage complaint over whatever trooned out samurai gnome leshy monk tripped in the last lost omens book.
>>97256937It's because "lol dystopia" so it's assumed to be a grim setting where things aren't meant to genuinely get better.
>>97260104But surely one would notice that Blade Runner, a seminal work of the genre, actually does have a happy ending and strangely no sequel.
>>97256435The zimmerman telegram was WW1 not WW2
>>97256937The whole basic concept is "technocratic corporations use computers and consumerism to create problems for characters to solve". If you want computers and consumerism to create solutions, you'd just have generic science fiction.It's likes asking "why are there no happy endings in post-apocalyptic fiction? why is everything so dark and chaotic?" Uhhh, that's the point. It's post-apocalyptic. The world got nuked or something, things tend to suck after that in ways that are not easily fixable and thus cause a condition of struggle and conflict which generates stories to tell.
>leather armor>studded leather armor
>>97265418Meant for >>97265345
>>97258354>Cuirboulli is a thing.not spelled like that it isn't
>find mercury armour from super cold ice cave>leave cave and it meltsFUCK
>>97258355It's not leather with studs.
>MY FUCKING EPIC WHOLESOME REDDIT 100 FANTASY MONSTER KILLING GAME WHICH IS PART OF A LINEAGE SPROUTING FROM A GAME BASEMENT DWELLING LOSERS MADE IN THE 70S WITH A SHAKY AT BEST GRASP OF HISTORY WHICH WAS FURTHER DILUTED BY A NEED TO CREATE CLEAR AND PLAYABLE TIERS OF EQUIPMENT DOESN'T HAVE HISTORICALLY ACCURATE TERMS FOR ARMOUR GRAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
Previous thread: >>97111514GURPS is a modular, adaptable system, capable of running a wide range of characters, settings, and play styles, with a level of detail varying from lightweight to completely autistic.Optional rules allow you to emulate different genres with a single system, or even switch genres within a single game.A nearly complete archive of GURPS books can be found by using the image. Never post direct links to the archive anywhere in plain text.If you're wondering where to start:- The Basic Set covers everything, including a lot of optional rules you probably won't use.- A genre guide can be found in the archive, under Unofficial/GURPSgen. It tells you what extra books and articles you may find useful for many common genres.- How To Be a GURPS GM is a good read even for players.- GCS (gurpscharactersheet.com) is an excellent character-builder software, with page references to all the books and the option to export to both Foundry and Fantasy Grounds.Thread question: How often do you use an official GURPS setting? Which are your favorites?
>>97265485Huh, first link is pretty neat for new ideas and stuff.
Quick I'm GMing a game right nowwhere are the rules for shooting more than one person with the same attack using high rate of fire weapons?
>>97265874make it up, bozo
>>97265874It's just rapid attack bro
>>97265915Oh ok thanks
Christmas Edition>Previous thread:>>97173638Battlefleet Gothic, Blood Bowl, Epic, Kill Team,Man-o-War, Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game, Mordheim,Necromunda, Shadow War: Armageddon, Titanicus, Underworlds,Warcry, Warhammer Quest, Warmaster ...... and any other GW system and board game are welcome.>Helpful resources: (feel free to suggest additions!)https://pastebin.com/qq9N8V0V>TQComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97261802>disconnect between player expectations of balance (that every option should be relevant and fairly well-balanced against each other)curse those insane, unreasonable player expectations!it has fuck all to do with design intent, cmon. GW not playtesting sufficiently isn't a new phenomenon. in 40 years they've released a grand total of zero games where the internal balance wasn't blown to shit. (which isn't to say they have made no great games, but you usually need 10+ years of post-oop community patches before you have anything that could be called "balance" with a straight face) they don't care now and they didn't much then either.
>>97264514I meant the second conversation point. Using paper stand-in is ok. And noone needs to be able to buy minis. It is sad when someone cant afford them, but they are not that important to not use paper minis.
Love me kelpies
>>97263270Are these prints or what?
>>97260946>Kowalski (German)German citizenship does not make you German.
Forgotten People Edition>2024 PHB Scanhttps://files.catbox.moe/g8oo9h.pdf>Cropped and rotated, but more artifactyMjAyNCBQSEIsIE5vIFRodW1icywgT0NSZWQsIEFub24ncyBCb29rbWFya3MgdHJhbnNmZXJyZWQgb3Zlci4gCgpodHRwczovL2Vhc3l1cGxvYWQuaW8vd2Fvcm9h>2024 DMGhttps://files.catbox.moe/fd04pq.pdf>2024 Monster Manualhttps://files.catbox.moe/atd38s.pdf (D&D beyond version)https://pomf2.lain.la/f/1en5qwum.pdf (scan)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97264991use your spell slots on more than smites
>>97265039I could, but there's been no need. There hasn't even been a good opportunity to use any of my Channel Divinity options or even any of my Lay on Hands pool, since the damage has never gotten to a point where resting wouldn't recover whatever was lost.I'm pretty much just acting as security for the time when we stop to rest and something interrupts us, but I also don't anticipate that ever actually happening.
>>97263525That's why I did this.
>>97264475ScreenDiceNotebooksPencilsErasersThat's all you need.
I'm surprised by how many people have tried to make a healing Fighter subclass before.
Everyone I know who watches Fatt Coville videos is a fucking terrible GM. I've never fully watched one and I am widely considered the best GM out of all 3 groups I'm part of. I am regularly requested to run campaigns. People borderline fall asleep in the games others run. There's also no tension because they know that these Coville acolytes will fudge rolls until all PCs survive the battle. If you're a good GM, it's an inmate talent you can hone over time. You're born that way. If you aren't, then no amount of shitty advice is going to make up for your lack of talent. It just is what it is. This idea that everyone should "try" DMing is retarded. The idea that anyone can be good at it? lolno. Its like some fat divorced on who suddenly decides he's gonna become a famous author. Fat chance. Most people fucking suck at GMing. Hell, most of them suck at playing, but at least in that case the game depends less on them.
>>97259507>Van GoghYou mean the man who died broke and insane, with his art considered worthless and talentless until he died? That's really your comparison for "you're either gifted or you're not", the man who couldn't sell his skills to literally save his life? Jesus christ, how are you such an idiot?
being a good DM/player is mostly attitude.I've DM'd for people who bragged about having decades of experience and they ended up being annoying problem players and I've DM'd for first time players who had great instincts and were a lot of fun to play with.most GM advice is common sense that anyone with social skills and storytelling ability will know.
>>97262938Nah it's about 25 percent attitude. The rest is genuine competence in running the game and making it engaging and imaginative.
>>97233508>If you have it, you have it. If you don't, you don't.I think a lot of disciplines in general can look like this, but I think time spent doing something can really help someone that didn't start with it to get it. I think the wrong attitude like that games and art are all about following rules perfectly will prevent someone from improving, but once they find the right attitude then they can learn anything
>>97262938I've played alongside a guy who really loved to flex their oldfag credentials about how he once played at a table with Arneson or how he had Gygax's signature on the first dungeon master's guide or some shit. He was the most obnoxious, annoying, derailing piece of shit I've ever played any game with. I've also run games for literal children who were better players than the highly opinionated, stubborn oldfags who prided themselves on their expertise and deep knowledge of TTRPGs.The old players get set in their ways and believe they already know how to play and don't need to change their habits. Everyone else does. Their egos and undeserved confidence in their mastery of game systems makes them feel smug that they are the truest authority at the table, even as they misquote every rule and cite made up houserules or something some other GM allowed as justification for them to always get their way.
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>>97264097Verne is a EABA 1e book, not 2e. Here's everything I have for both editions.g0file /d/C49T21
Does anyone have Xanathar's Guide to Everything for 5e?
>>97264248thx! I already had those and was fishing around for other stuff. But maybe that's all there is for 3rd edition :uhm: never even have laid eyes on older ones, maybe don't even exist online>>97265356g0 f1|e /d/94ezUs
>>97265645>Xanathar's Guide to EverythingThanks, man!
>>97263313Oh, well, cheers for that friend!
Valakut editionPrevious: >>97129473>News & RemindersWorld Championship 31 won by Seth Manfield (Izzet Lessons, United States, he/him)Complete winter achievements for rewards December 16-January 6From November 18, 2025–January 19, 2026 Golden Packs will temporary contain cards differently than before due to "various pieces of internal nonsense"https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/announcements-december-15-2025>Useful Linkshttps://pastebin.com/QFA0hqaA>TQHave you played the brawl challenge, and if so, which commander?
>>97265215Honestly going as high power as you possibly can and playing exclusively in hell queue is the only time I've ever had fun. And even then the format is an absolute shit show where players can just win on turn 1 or 2 without you being able to do anything about it if you didn't mulligan into your perfect answer. The whole format is just inherently flawed because it's a format balanced around multiplayer but only being available as 1v1 on arena.
>>97265253>win on turn 1 or 2 without you being able to do anything about itwut?
>>97265253>balanced around multiplayerActually, making it 1v1 is the balancing factor. Duel Commander is much more competitively viable than cEDH for a variety of reasons including architype viability and actually being able to score an event.
>>97263225combat decks/board presence decks inherently need to play firstplay combo if you want turn 0/any turn I can win type decksFWIW if you are a Greenslut go play Nyxthos in Pioneer
>jace avatar>the brilliant title>ropes literally every priorityi mean, are these just bots? there are so fucking many of them
They always tell you to try not playing D&D, but they never tell you that basically every game other than 5e is almost exclusively played by autistic (and not the fun kind) powergaming social retards who either never say a word, or only communicate by being the loudest one talking over everyone else about their hyperfixation that nobody else gives a fuck about. The kind of people who post anime girl reaction memes and go "this is my character's face right now" or unironically show up with cropped porn as their character art like it's normal.There's a reason nobody touched this hobby until they saw fellow normies playing it on some podcast, I wouldn't even want to talk to the average sperglord who plays these games let along be stuck with them for 4 hours in a game that is supposed to be about social interaction.
>>97258892Never had this problem, sorry your group is bad.
>>97258892it's the age of AI, you don't need to interact with people at all if you don't want to
Garbage Thread. But we need a system finder thread anyway.What systems do you recommend for high magic space opera that are not dnd based. so no SWN>>97258892>who post anime girl reaction memes
>>97258892>til faggy story games are for powergamers
>>97265470GURPS
>>97171444 >What is /awg/?A thread to talk about minis and games which fall between the cracks, or peoples' homebrew wargames.The >>>/tg/hwg thread doesn't entertain fantasy (for good reason) and the other threads are locked to more specific games.This thread isn't tied to a game, a publisher, or a genre, let's just talk about fun wargames. Any scale, any company, any miniatures.>Examples of games that qualify.A Song of Ice and Fire, Argatoria, Batman Miniature Game, Carnevale, Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings,Deadzone, Dragon Rampant, Dropfleet and Dropzone Commander, Freebooter's Fate, Frostgrave, Gaslands, HeroClix,Kings of War, Maelstrom's Edge, Malifaux, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Masters of the Universe: Battleground, Moonstone,Oathmark, OnePageRules, Open Combat, RelicBlade, Rumbleslam, SAGA, StarCraft, Stargrave, Sludge, Urban War, Void,Warcaster, Warmachine, Xenos Rampant, Xenotactics......and anything else that doesn't necessarily have a dedicated thread.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I got an FDM printer lately and now I'm livid because I realised how fucking awful Pajeet47's prints are. Even with a 0.4 nozzle you can print smooth surfaces with great detail as long as you go with the lowest layers possible. Scenery, tanks, scatter terrain - none of those have to look like carved wood if you are willing to use just a little bit more of material and wait for a bit longer as well. I won't even mention how much the quality improves with a 0.2 nozzle.
>>97264623I doubt jeet47fag's prints look THAT terrible in person, it's partially because the camera is picking up the layer lines far more than what you'd with naked eyes.
>>9726291428mm is way to small for them, 32mm kind of work but really end up on the really tall side. they are at a weird 40mm kind off.
>>97265367>>97262914but I suppose you could go for the big monsters and animals.they being big doesn't matter really
>>97262146Checks out, I was at least hoping it was something less blatantly retarded. That's an expensive d2.
Do any other fa/tg/uys prefer papercraft dungeons and terrain to the plastic stuff?
I like it personally and making a map with a few papercraft objects and character stands is much easier done than figures. It's a lot more delicate though and if one of your players is a IRL Ogre with meat-clamps for hands you won't play long with your stuff. >>97263756Wooden or paper wouldn't be much difference in "sustainability" since a few sheets of paper can yield a lot of objects but wood figurines are much more durable. That being said, proper woodwork is an art in itself and you are probably hard pressed to find people able to craft something half-decent as a figurine. I'm not half bad at diy projects and love working with wood for desks, couches cabinets etc but making a beautiful sculpt is really difficult and takes a lot of time.
>>97263675 I don't really have a preference but some papercraft terrain look pretty nice. I used to have a pretty decent sized collection, haven't looked in /po/ in an age. There were some pretty impressive creations there. One thing about papercraft was that they don't stand up to handling in the long term. I remember seeing someone running a home brew game at a convention ages ago, she put a ton of work into a card/paper town and I'm just imagining the state of those buildings now, if they're even still around.
>>97263738 Certainly not me. Can you imagine the paper cuts?
>>97263790You're not showing your original message, you're lying.
>>97263675>PaperPuckee
>Currently judging a top level competitive Pokemon duel>Opponents are the 2 current top PokeMasters: Bobby James, and Jim Robertson>Bobby plays Misty’s Duel, a powerful trap he is well known for using>Jim claims to not know how to play rock paper scissors so we should coin flip>Bobby calls BS, as they have previously played rps when he used Misty's Duel against himWhat is your call, professor?
>>97263623How is RPS worse than a coin flip? If even one participant chooses their picks randomly, it's a 50/50 game too. Are tournamentfags retarded? Risking getting a penalty for stupid shit?
>>97265472People don't pick rock paper or scissor at random.
>>97265712People can't telepathically read thoughts either, so how the fuck is strategizing for a singlr RPS round in the middle of a card game possible? Unless you know that you are a moron that always picks rock, what's the point of strategizing, just pick 6 random digits and calculate the digital root base 3. That's pretty fairly random even for very biased number pick from humans, if that's what you fear.In no case does it make sense to risk a penalty for this shit.
>>97265472Are you a woman? Men do not randomly play rock paper scissors, men will always start out with rock. Always. In games against other men this is a harmless way of comparing manliness. At least three iterations of rock are required before any player is allowed to switch to paper, which will win him the game but the opponent shows himself to be more honourable. If both switch to paper at the same time, this is a bonding moment. Switching to scissors is a tricksy move and allows both winning the game and obtaining honour, but equally allows loss of both if the opponent kept playing rock.It is very easy to understand that this manliness ritual has no place in a children's card game tournament. This is why one might be tempted to ask for a coin flip, obviously relinquishing some aura to do so.
>>97265833>Unless you know that you are a moron that always picks rockPretty much it, some people are pretty predictable when it comes to RPS. The ones who are aware of predictability however tend towards scissors.
