The /btg/ is dead! Long live the /btg/!Tex Talks editionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38cHV-lZCXIPrevious Thread: >>97267187================================>BattleTech Introductory Guide & PDFshttps://bg.battletech.com/?page_id=400>Overview of the Major Factionshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/great-houseshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/the-clanshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/other-powersComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97282178>SLDF 18 month Special Military Operation to conquer the Periphery takes 20 yearsbased Tex reference
>eceleb cum gargling in the opoff to a great start
>>97282135This Fiction Rule of Thumb is relevant. You want to add crazy stuff, but the more you add, the less things are likely to work out.By my reckoning, if you keep things localized, then you can do 2 crazy things or 1 really crazy thing per thing they have you write. Especially if you give it to the antagonist.A Speed Demon Draconis Combine warrior who's spent a fortune upgrading a Stinger LAM with Clan Tech? If this special Stinger is blown up by the end of the book, you can probably get it in.A Free Worlder who surrounds themself with people augmented to look like a variety of mythical beings using Canopus tech? Bigger ask, but if it's the only thing and you integrate it into their personality as a mythology obsessed to the point that they only employ mechs with names of mythical creatures as well, it could make it through.You're considered new for them, so you can't go full Kojima and make everything crazy. But you can make one element wild if everything else remains grounded, and that will make you stand out.
>the dark lord just wants bitchesIs this a good villain motivation?
>>97275563Sort of, but not quite.He was already wandering around Ansalon in service to Kitiara and Takhisis before he encountered Laurana at the battle of the High Clerist's Tower. She either reminded him of his elven wife and it was instant desire for her, or instant desire for revenge on elves using her. Kit's plan is to present Laurana to Takhisis and get as a reward the Crown of Power.In return for his assistance Kit agrees to ask that Laurana's soul be given to Soth, though at the same time Kit promises Tanis to release Laurana into his care. Takhisis agrees to give Laurana's soul to Soth but of course that never happens. There's a bit of a scuffle and it turns out that Laurana is protected the the gods of goods so Takhisis couldn't do it anyway.At the end of that scuffle Soth says Kit has amused him and as an undead he might wait for her, which might be the moment that he pivots from Laurana to Kitiara.
>>97275612Well done to your DM, that sounds like a really great plan and good on him for adapting his ideas to fit in with what you guys were doing.
>Serious setting with serious stakes>My villain is a cartoon demon with looney tunes powers>Players either love him or hate himI'm having the time of my life with him
>>97258165Me when I play Crusader Kings
>>97258165No, in fact many heroes have that motivation.>>97258178But this is a good motivation for a villain.
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>>97282211Nurarihyon ahh motherfuckerdo nothing but get hyped up because the series gets cancelled
>>97282241Anons need to make some cult builds so we can get HLA kino again...
>>97282092Not really. We have these >>97282130 things, and this >>97282211 was discussed but we didn't reach a consensus. Both times we tried the discussion eithere died down or devolved into powerscaling/elder stuff. Considering the level of activity right now I don't think it's the right time for it but we can try. Some revival does seem appropiate, as for Wuyu's artifact it seems more lilkely they would want it because it's a problem rather than because it's needed for a revival, it's a counter to half of what they can do. Maybe they need sacrifices of a certain quality? So they would rather capture the various prodigies that make up the cast instead of kill them on the spot.
>>97282241DCEU Darkseid... That Samurai manga by Naruto's author...
>>97282211>>97282278I like the idea of a revival, cults love chanting and invoking beings. What would they be reviving? A dead devil-god? Maybe a high level cultivator that created the cult because he knew he was going to die before reaching immortality. It should probably be something that has died so that it makes sense that the artifact is so sought after.
Is it a good advice for game masters who want to run campaign in the "exotic" place instead of generic "coast of swords" clone?
>>97279141>>97279132>>97279072Go back
>>97279196You first, kike.
>>97270237>we are the aliens getting to know the place together>not exoticIt's logically contradictory because they can't say what they actually want to say, which is "treat fantasy not-Africa with kid gloves".Morrowind did the whole "bizarre place is normal and you're weird one" thing quite well. The difference is that PF wanted to have their cake and eat it too by putting Africa in their game.The Mwangi Expanse does not exist. The Mwangi Expanse is not anyone's home. The Mwangi Expanse is simply a backdrop.What they wrote only makes sense if you substitute Mwangi with Africa, and realize they want you to put a campaign in Africa without any problematic connotations.
>>97279201>no u
>>97279257/thread
Redneck EditionDiscuss and post elves. Elf lore, gameplay, and art are all appreciated.QOTT: Which artists do you think drew the best elves?
>>97278643based>>97279387cringe
>>97280222>>97280222Biel-Tan are the bestest and greatest of the Eldar.
>>97281141hearty fucking kekI really hope this is a shitposter and not the faggot himself
To a year of interspecies friendship.
I love the aesthetic of astral elves
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2026 KDM predictions: >Poots is gonna surprise us and say Bee + Weaver is out for pre-printing in January/February>SG completed same time>Both ship before gencon around July along with some other minor thing (Preacher, Dead armor, promos of death, etc)>CoD delayed til 2027>Instead another expansion will be released around end of year (mosquito or first hero most likely)
I will buy recasts of monsters in order to have multiple palette swaps for higher levels.Also because spidicules is a spindly fuck and I need to practice ways to magnetize or convert his ass into something more wieldable for play.
Alright, Tyrant Lvl3 is dead (after a very scary early harvester incantation draw...) and we have our 4th people of the star and our 2nd and 3rd frozen heart. I think we're going to work on polishing their gear grids now, we've got 2 calcified shoulder pads cooking that'll pop right before the level 3 nemesis at 23, going to see if we can get 2 beast knuckles and a set of Lantern armor and dragon slayer for our katar and grand weapon user respectively. Ultimately, we're hoping to finish this campaign this weekend before we have to get to work, so we honestly might say it's a wipe to the king man at 23 to save time since we still don't have pottery (thank God barber burgeoning locked behind that anymore)
>>97281332Any good stl scans? I surprisingly find non on telegramHow's the recasts prices?
>>97280007What is the CoD expansion exclactly? Just an upgrade to the current ones? Or is it its own thing like gamblers?
Why were so many of the "OG" game designers insufferable faggots? It seems like the vast majority of game designers from the 70s and 80s were self-obsessed dickheads who openly hated and looked down on their customer base. There were obviously exceptions, and some like Gygax would go on to regret and apologize for it, but still, what made so many "professionals" back then such fags?Pic related: WFRP author James Wallis's response to a letter criticizing how railroaded The Enemy Within campaign was.
>>97271193Took a whole day to convince yourself of that, huh?
>>97279869Still conceding? lol
>>97279918Boring troll.
>>97263198>There's another one where a character in one of his games get arrested, and he just makes the player do nothing for what sounds like literal months of sessions.This stinks of being something he made up since there's no fucking way somebody would put up with that
>>97276477>yeah i negated your characters achievements by fiat>this game should be about an inevitable downward spiral>you should be knee deep in shit at all times and never succeed at anything>the gm should fuck you over at every possible opportunity because the world should hate youThat's not adversarial GMing or faggotry, huh.
Post your favourite Warhammer Terrain kek
>>97281174What am I supposed to be upset at here other than the god-awful angle of the photo?All models I can see are painted (and based), even the movement trays are decorated.Terrain is sparse, but that's mostly what you want for WHFB/TOW. You need room to maneuver.
>>97281986>he doesn't know
LGS has some decently colorful stuff, we can do more than the bare minimum at tourneys!
>>97282246Is this satire?
>>97282246Nigger half of it is unpainted, not to mention the paintjobs on the modelsI take it you're an amerimuttDo you ever play with thematic objective markers or do you just stick to faggot shit?
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>>97280416>/40kg/>I wish our characters were hot like WFB's characters>/wfg/>I wish we had uglier characters like 40k so people would stop magical realming our setting.Ironic, innit?
Here's a question for all the loremasters out there: Did the Warhammer World have its own equivalent of not-Romans or the not-Roman empire? I have some ideas for my dudes that would benefit from this question although I'm still going with the idea even if I get a negative answer.
>>97281713Tilea. Also, Ulthuan is Warhammer Atlantis, with a dashing of More's Utopia and lots of Melnibonea, so elves have a ton of Greco-Roman influences, with Dark Elves hewing closer to Sparta/Rome and High Elves being closer to Athens.
>>97281140Law magic empowered by Arianka. Ice = purity and stasis. Realm of the Ice Queen basically states that The Ancient Widow is something to do with Arianka trapped beneath Praag.
>>97281713As the other anon said, tilea, specifically the city of Remas was the former Capital of the Reman Empire, an ancient empire of men possibly founded by the goddess myrmidia when she lived as a mortal. The cults of myrmidia disagree on many details including where myrmidia may have been born or if her ancient empire started in either estalia or tilea.
Welcome to the Old School Renaissance General, the thread dedicated to first-decade, Gygaxian D&D, its faithful modern clones, and content created for use with them. Later editions (2e and newer) should be discussed elsewhere. And as we enter this happiest and newest of years, remember: 2e was never an old-school game, bait is for reporting, and fish is for smoking! Happy new year, grogs! Broadly, OSR games encourage a tonal and mechanical fidelity to Dungeons & Dragons played as intended by its creators from 1974 to 1983 — less emphasis on linear adventures and overarching metaplots and a greater emphasis on player agency. If you are new to the OSR, welcome! Ask us whatever you're curious about: we'll be happy to help you get started. We also have two excellent beginner guides created by Anons with feedback from the thread that you can check for help: >n00b DM's Guidehttps://pastebin.com/EVvt6P0B>n00b Player's Handbookhttps://pastebin.com/XALkXkV0 >Troves, Resources, Blogs, etc:http://pastebin.com/9fzM6128 >Need a starter dungeon? Here's a curated collection:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97280830Oh lmao, the Dragonbane post got deleted already, that's what I get for leaving the thread to auto-update
>>97280032Could be something worth using there. I'll take a look.>>97280209I think I have Halls of the Blood King floating around somewhere. Worth considering. Thanks.>>97280830Yeah my initial idea was to generate a small lair and give some landmark designators to point them in the right direction when they search for it. (5 miles East of Obelisk, just beyond the lake. Place Obelisk and lake hexes accordingly on hexmap etc.) but I also thought this may be a good way to break up the process of delving such a huge dungeon as Stonehell.I was considering using The Hyqueous Vaults as it's been recommended by Prince and others. I could also have one of the macguffin rods from the module be bundled up in the map as my player hasn't actually examine it yet (fortunately for me). It's maybe a bit longer than I was looking for, at about 60 rooms, but it's only one floor and has "vault" in the title, so the allure of treasure would be strong.>Reposting the magic item I came up with the other day as I think the sloppa image I generated for it turned out decent.
>>97280181There is a supplement called Dungeon Grappling, you could maybe look into that.Although though it purports to be compatible with S&W, it seems to me that it's mainly written with modern editions in mind, but could be what you're looking for.
>>97280181TL;DR: No. The DMG has unarmed combat rules that are way more extensive than they ought to be, but they're not as detailed as what you seem to want.
>>97280830>Lone Colossus of the Akolouthos Sink by Gus LNow that's a name I've not heard in a long time. His Red Demon in the Vile Fens is in that level range although on the lower end.
What kind of fantasy monsters are you into? I like original abominations, standard humanoids/mythological creatures/giant animals are boring to me.
>>97228517I like having a decent mix of >humanoid enough monsters with similar but different goals for fighting and negotiating with >medium to large somewhat magical and violent predatory monsters to fill in for lions, tigers and bears>occasional fucked up monsters of unearthly bearing, alien desires and immense power Been trying to have an actual dragon every now and then too, everyone's been trying to be so different from dragonlance for so long we've forgotten dragons can be cool. The variety I have found, is the most important over time.
>>97268497>NOO YOU MUST LIKE THING I LIKE OR I WILL CALL YOU NOGAMESplayed more games longer than you anime traash goblin
>>97275306Anything that isn't a clone of American Werewolf in London where it's a normie with a Jekyll and Hyde situation except Hyde uses BlueSky
Giant animals can be cool if they are classic
Gotta say something like the thing Shapeshifting assimilating creature that learns more every victim
Yu-Gi-Oh! General #591"All i want for Christmas is for Dark Magician Girl to materialize in my bedroom so i can summon her in face down ass up position, have sex with her, and end my turn" EditionPrevious thread: >>97191908Most Yu-Gi-Oh! discussion encouraged. Post OC, write dumb fanfics with bad CaC in them, duel each other, have fun, etc.>Yu-Gi-Oh! Online PlayAutomated Sims:●EDOPro website: https://projectignis.github.io/download.html●EDOPro: https://discord.gg/ygopro-percy●YGO Omega: https://discord.gg/duelistsunite●Dueling Nexus: https://duelingnexus.com/●Master Duel: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1449850/YuGiOh_Master_Duel/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97280716>my lgs has its custom banlist and also lets you use a card from the official banlist ie you can run pot of greed or apollousa in your deck.Shock Master Onomat Ryzeal
>>97278993UN-ignoring the elephant in the room; the field spell deals lethal amounts of burn damage. I've had some oxygen thieves say that it's just like a regular OTK build, but you can block battle damage pretty trivially as long as your opponent isn't on a gimmick build like Mikanko, Yubel, or heaven forbid Ritual Relinquished. You can't block effect damage, or at least not reliably with fucking anything in the current meta short of One Day of Peace in Runick (which is to say, not reliably with fucking anything in the current meta). It also doesn't take a hell of a lot to pivot it into being an FTK build instead.A single card should not be able to repeatedly burn your opponent for over half their starting LP at the start of every single turn. If it only happened during your own standby phase? Sure, the archetype's theme is Judgement and you're punishing your opponent for their opulent playstyles when it only happens during your own standby phase.. But it does it every. single. turn. It's just not right.
>>97244651>>97245405>>97245434Definitely these. Having grown up with KidsWB, you kinda felt they were often marketing toward a more "urban" market, with the presentation and the commercials as well. As for YGO itself, you had millennium items that were bling, dramatic dudes with crazy hair, hot female side characters, and general shounen shit. It should not be surprising at all that blacks got really into YGO, more so than Pokémon. Sonic X too. It's like how Latino kids were the ones wearing DBZ T-shirts to school.
>>97282196Anyway, I haven't played YGO in 20 years. If I want to collect graded copies of some old favorites, should I stick with English or should I try for the original Japanese versions of the cards? Not thinking of it as an investment, but just collecting and aesthetics. Think the God cards, Five-Headed Dragon, those kinds of things. I have a handful of Pokémon cards for the same reason, and they're all Japanese versions, so I'm wondering if it'd be best to stick with that.
>>97282203If you're okay with reprints, Konami's reprint policy is really freaking good these days and they also kinda blew their load for the 25th anniversary and printed some nostalgia sets. Otherwise it just depends on your preference, though the Japanese ones will almost certainly be cheaper.
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>>97281816Thanks for the list. Damn, this is pretty good! Honestly, Racist Blake and Uncle Ruckus is just comedy that writes itself.Also like the Medusa one quite a bit! Shame Arachne yet again is overlooked. Tired Femme Fatale Milf is a mood. Oh well, nothing the Import Option can't fix. Still thanks for your work, and great taste! Also Flayne is such a cutie, bless her.
>>97281071>That option is supposed to replace itself every Jump with a new oneAs in, you can't even keep the brainwashed students in your basement or something? That should probably be called out then, since the Simps section header says all options are Followers but some may work more specifically.Poor Misaki. A shame, but ah well.>That said, being a Wasp is the one that guarantees a reason why she can't just control you.Not even LOVE? Alas!Nah, that tracks. Though if you take female human here without a way of protecting yourself from stings I'm pretty sure you are *literally* asking for it.As for building to counter her, it's less intentionally doing that and more that as mentioned, her whole Smother Mother-Dom thing kind of falls apart just with the basic "be Queen, have Soldiers, they instinctively hate her minions" issue. A bit of a problem when that's her whole deal.Speaking for myself, I've done several Wasp builds for different chains and they all took Misaki, while any build that takes(/is taken by) Red would be Human (with a penis and/or mind control immunity, because Himenospia). But oh well, it's just an extra 100cp for out-of-origin anyway.>Kind of stretching it but sure.Sweet.
>>97279867I'd prefer a character replacement toggle.
>>97282197That would also be nice. I just wanna have a Noelle expy as my loving vessel
>>97282067Take Wasp Milk you COWARD.
New Year 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.
>>97281663https://youtu.be/JulJxOIfPYo?si=gw5zM7mtbq9wr6H1
>>97276232Hopefully starting to DM for a group here soon.Anyone have any suggestions for campaign/adventure books that are good and would save me some trouble with prep? I always read most official WotC shit is ass but I don’t know what third party stuff is better.
>>97282227Do you want a quick short thing to kick off a campaign or a whole 3rd party campaign to run for a long time
>>97282245I’d prefer whole campaigns, but also open to quick short things if they’re easy to add onto.
>>97282303>Whole campaignI will always shill for Odyssey of the Dragonlords. It's cool as shit>QuickThe cult of the Gol'Goroth is a fun one shot that's easy to plant into pretty much any campaign
Have you healed from female Custodes yet?
>>97279696Ironic
>>97280210Why? She already has one that's meatier, girthier, and smellier than yours
>>97280292The Magistry of Canopus inherited one of the most advanced medical facilities of the old Star League and they use it for, among other things, copious amounts of cybernetic enhancements, often cosmetic. Their main export are also traveling space pleasure circuses so you can imagine the sorts of shenanigans they get up to.
As representatives of the Latin American fandom, it didn't bother us too much. That is to say, we were offended that the only explanation they gave us was "they were always there," but it didn't escalate as much as it seemed to for the English-speaking fandom, from our perspective.
>>97278830That's the exact attitude that makes them built for instant loss
