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Discuss and post elves. Elf lore, gameplay, and art are all appreciated.
QOTT: Which artists do you think drew the best elves?
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>>97278643
based
>>97279387
cringe
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>>97280222
Biel-Tan are the bestest and greatest of the Eldar.
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>>97281141
hearty fucking kek
I really hope this is a shitposter and not the faggot himself
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To a year of interspecies friendship.
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I love the aesthetic of astral elves

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Christmas edition

▶What is Kingdom Death?
Kingdom Death is a tabletop miniature brand stared by Adam Poots and operated by himself and his Team that later spun off into a miniature based bored game funded by two very successful Kickstarter campaigns.

▶What is Kingdom Death: Monster?
Monster is a Nightmare Horror cooperative boss battler/miniature hobby game for 1-4 players about hope in a strange world of bizarre monstrosities and perpetually darkness. Players take on the role of survivors that band together to form a settlement, fighting monsters, crafting weapons and gear, and developing their civilization to ensure survival from generation to generation.

Prologue Narration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNLc8dHv0Ac

The Game is broken up into 3 phases:
1. During your Hunt Phase your band of survivors traverse the world of KD in pursuit of their quarry.
2. After successfully tracking your quarry you will begin the Showdown Phase, where you must fell these horrific creatures in order to acquire precious resources.
3. After the battle, your survivors wander home with loot in hand to begin the Settlement Phase. Arm yourself by developing new weapons and bizarre structures to prepare for next year's hunt.


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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)
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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.
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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)
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>>97281332
Any good stl scans? I surprisingly find non on telegram
How's the recasts prices?
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>>97280007
What 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.
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>>97271193
Took a whole day to convince yourself of that, huh?
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>>97279869
Still conceding? lol
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>>97279918
Boring troll.
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>>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
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>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 you
That's not adversarial GMing or faggotry, huh.

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Post your favourite Warhammer Terrain kek
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>>97281174
What 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.
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>>97281986
>he doesn't know
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LGS has some decently colorful stuff, we can do more than the bare minimum at tourneys!
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>>97282246
Is this satire?
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>>97282246
Nigger half of it is unpainted, not to mention the paintjobs on the models
I take it you're an amerimutt
Do you ever play with thematic objective markers or do you just stick to faggot shit?

Valakut edition

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>News & Reminders
World Championship 31 won by Seth Manfield (Izzet Lessons, United States, he/him)
Complete winter achievements for rewards December 16-January 6
From 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 Links
https://pastebin.com/QFA0hqaA

>TQ
Have you played the brawl challenge, and if so, which commander?
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When are we getting the steak sauce UB? It would have focus on food token synergy, of course.
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written and posted with the help of google translate
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>>97281850
2-3
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Discard decks are not strong.
But it does feel good to drop a Liliana and get an immediate scoop.
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esl attack

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Helstorm Fireworks Edition
(Happy New Year, men of the Empire)

>Resources:
WFB: https://pastebin.com/qVGrgwwh
WM: https://pastebin.com/EsDAgeba
WFRP: https://pastebin.com/inbyBsR6
Novels: https://pastebin.com/PFqPDr0H

>TOW:
https://gofile.io/d/fxFgXS
https://www.warhammer-community.com/downloads/warhammer-the-old-world/

>Warhammer Chronicles:
https://files (dot) catbox (dot) moe/0xt777 (dot) zip

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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?
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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.
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Tilea. 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.
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>>97281140
Law 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.
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>>97281713
As 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.

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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 Guide
https://pastebin.com/EVvt6P0B
>n00b Player's Handbook
https://pastebin.com/XALkXkV0

>Troves, Resources, Blogs, etc:
http://pastebin.com/9fzM6128

>Need a starter dungeon? Here's a curated collection:

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>>97280830
Oh lmao, the Dragonbane post got deleted already, that's what I get for leaving the thread to auto-update
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>>97280032
Could be something worth using there. I'll take a look.
>>97280209
I think I have Halls of the Blood King floating around somewhere. Worth considering. Thanks.
>>97280830
Yeah 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.
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>>97280181
There 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.
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>>97280181
TL;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.
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>>97280830
>Lone Colossus of the Akolouthos Sink by Gus L
Now 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.

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What kind of fantasy monsters are you into? I like original abominations, standard humanoids/mythological creatures/giant animals are boring to me.
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I 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.
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>>97268497
>NOO YOU MUST LIKE THING I LIKE OR I WILL CALL YOU NOGAMES
played more games longer than you anime traash goblin
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>>97275306
Anything 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
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Gotta say something like the thing Shapeshifting assimilating creature that learns more every victim

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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" Edition

Previous thread: >>97191908

Most 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 Play
Automated 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/

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>>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
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>>97278993
UN-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.
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>>97245405
>>97245434
Definitely 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.
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>>97282196
Anyway, 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.
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>>97282203
If 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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>Brutus' Drive
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1qb0_OLhDrDYVVpbllIREdOczg?resourcekey=0-m3LU1xaC5-PnnA0VLRfK9g

>DriveAnon's Drive
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Cx7KoDkQa9qmDfJN9_CehZ0fxXEweKOu?usp=sharing

>Jumpchain IRC Chat
http://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.rizon.net/?#JumpchainCYOA

>Rules
http://pastebin.com/Gqj3iKyn

>How to Jumpchain
http://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1qb0_OLhDrDVDFBR2NpdG03S0U/view


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>>97281816
Thanks 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.
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>>97281071
>That option is supposed to replace itself every Jump with a new one
As 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.
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>>97279867
I'd prefer a character replacement toggle.
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>>97282197
That would also be nice. I just wanna have a Noelle expy as my loving vessel
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>>97282067
Take Wasp Milk you COWARD.

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New Year Edition

>2024 PHB Scan
https://files.catbox.moe/g8oo9h.pdf

>Cropped and rotated, but more artifacty
MjAyNCBQSEIsIE5vIFRodW1icywgT0NSZWQsIEFub24ncyBCb29rbWFya3MgdHJhbnNmZXJyZWQgb3Zlci4gCgpodHRwczovL2Vhc3l1cGxvYWQuaW8vd2Fvcm9h

>2024 DMG
https://files.catbox.moe/fd04pq.pdf

>2024 Monster Manual
https://files.catbox.moe/atd38s.pdf (D&D beyond version)
https://pomf2.lain.la/f/1en5qwum.pdf (scan)


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>>97281663
https://youtu.be/JulJxOIfPYo?si=gw5zM7mtbq9wr6H1
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>>97276232
Hopefully 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.
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>>97282227
Do you want a quick short thing to kick off a campaign or a whole 3rd party campaign to run for a long time
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>>97282245
I’d prefer whole campaigns, but also open to quick short things if they’re easy to add onto.
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>>97282303
>Whole campaign
I will always shill for Odyssey of the Dragonlords. It's cool as shit
>Quick
The cult of the Gol'Goroth is a fun one shot that's easy to plant into pretty much any campaign

Welcome to /wbg/, the thread for the discussion of in-progress settings for traditional games.

Here is where you go to present and develop the details of your worlds such as lore, factions, magic and ecosystems. You can also post maps for your settings, as well as any relevant art. Please remember that dialogue is what keeps the thread alive, so don't be afraid of giving someone feedback or post whatever relevant input you might have, cunt!

Last thread: >>96999149

Worldbuilding links: Post some
Fantasy map generator: https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator
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>>97276203
Isn't that just Melfina in Outlaw Star
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Realistically what would life in a world of superheroes where your ability is defined by your bloodline be like? Would eugenics be common place in such a world? Would government affect them if the abilities could range from pointless to Homelander level at best?
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Elves are hunted because
>Their meat tastes better than anything
>Their blood can cure illnesses
>Their bones are beautiful and jewel-like
>Their hair is nearly unbreakable and can be woven into unbreakable fabric
>Their organs have specific properties
As a result, they've gone from living like well, elves to basically becoming an entire race consisting of Guts from Berserk.
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>>97276203
>>97278886
That's Five Star Stories.
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>>97281054
Depending on the timeline of the powers appearance:
In Ancient times: It would probably be a feudalistic society with the superheroes being treated as gods or noble with noble arranged marriages being the closest thing eugenics.
In modern times: Superheroes might be encouraged to use their power for good. If they are sufficiently strong the government could legally institutionalized to closely monitor them. Probably away from others like them to prevent an uprising.

Have you healed from female Custodes yet?
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>>97279696
Ironic
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>>97280210
Why? She already has one that's meatier, girthier, and smellier than yours
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>>97280292
The 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.
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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.
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>>97278830
That's the exact attitude that makes them built for instant loss

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winter edition

>Chess websites, tools, videos and books:
https://rentry.org/vxdsw7k5

>Calendar:
- Tech Mahindra Global Chess League | December 13th - 24th
- FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships | December 25th - 31st
- Rilton Cup | December 27th - January 5th
- Lichess Winter Marathon | December 28th
- European Women's Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship | January 8th - 12th
- Tata Steel | January 16th - February 1st
- Speed Chess Championship Finals | February 7th - 8th
- Prague International Chess Festival: Masters | February 25th - March 6th
- FIDE Candidates Tournament | March 28th - April 16th

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>>97266529
To read them.
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>>97263947
Thanks for the info, I didn't know about it.
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https://www.twitch.tv/matthenningsen

ameri football man is better at chess than you
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You have to choose one of the current top ten to win a Classical game against, and if you lose, or draw, you die. Obviously, you’re going to die. But for the best of the slimmest of chances, who do you choose?
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>>97282255
Keymer easily. He’s pretty blind tactically and is basically an overtrained mediocrity whose parents had the means of hiring Peter Leko to coach him from a young age. His natural talent is minimal. I would complicate the game as much as possible and hope he fails outside of his classically trained comfort zone and misses a tactic.

Welcome to the New School Revolution General, the thread dedicated to games derived from the OSR movement.

>What is NSR?
>NSR is a subcategory of the OSR, it mostly follows the same play style but experiments further with the mechanics and settings.
>Broadly NSR games have a gm, a living world, are rules light, deadly and focus on emergent narrative, interaction and exploration.

>What is this thread NOT for?
Meta discussions or drama of the games and its creators aka shadowboxing with twitter, reddit and the OSRG (frens with osrbros)
>stay on topic

>games
Shadowdark, into the odd, mausritter, cairn, mörk borg (and its hacks), dungeon crawl classics, mothership, knave, troika!, whitehack, blackhack, old school essentials (we know this is just a retroclone), etc.
>links, resources, more games!, etc:
https://pastebin.com/0W8WmbCk (BROKEN we're working on it)


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>>97280484
Secret countdowns never worked for me. You could go the BitD route and have a pizza slice clock on the table, more gamey and players can act accordingly to clear canonical information.
I usually lie a bit because anything you do to inform them of stuff they shouldn't use to decide is gonna break immersion. At that point just make it as dramatic as possible.
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>>97280484
try narrating knock-on environmental effects like stuff detaching loudly in the distance or have a fire break out and an alarm go off. if they spend time investigating, give them a fair estimate of time left.
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>>97280802
I've run BitD, and I agree with the pros/cons of the clock. I think for Mothership, it makes it too meta-gamey and doesn't suit the horror setting where you should never have complete information. But thinking about it in the way you've set out has helped. If the players can't control it/take decisions based on it, move it earlier so it acts as a shock rather than as a complication. They're unlikely to go to the reactor first as the power is still on. Thanks.

>>97281127
I think I'll write in that there's a transponder on Renato’s suit so the bridge can pick it up.
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>>97281270
This more about movies, but Hitchcock once said that you can either have surprise or suspense.
>Surprise: Two men are talking in a bar. Their table blows up.
>Suspense: Someone sets up a bomb. Two men sit down and start talking. You see the clock ticking and getting closer to blowing up. Then it blows up.
It's kinda similar. If they have meta information you can use it to create suspense, but you'll lose impact. If you focus on impact you can't really build it up without killing it.
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>>97281270
>>97280802
Wait does Blades make the MC clocks from pbta player facing? That's fucking dumb.


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