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>>97269418
Chat GPT's answer is rather intriguing, I'm going to try to get it to give me some more authoritative sources. It is really annoying too because 3.5 is such abandonware at this point, why does it matter if I reference their creatures, when they don't make stuff for 3.5 anymore.

>>97279214
When asking about this stuff, enable web search and peek at the sources.

>>97279453
Yeah I read some guys blog and it wasn't hugely helpful.
It really does sound like you have to make such vague references. Like "there is a tall horned humanoid, a minotaur with earth elemental talents, you can learn more from the third Tome of Monsters on page 113, if you know what I mean" but even that might be too much.

Honestly? Might just copy some stats for monsters, change their ability wording (probably improve it, if anything) and do things that way. Just rename it and change it enough. Like those guys who made "OGL safe illithids" for Pathfinder.

ironically this solution screws over WotC more because it bypasses their content entirely, and means that fewer people will buy their books (not that most people would be anyway, nor is WotC even making money off of 3.5 books anymore)

Hello everybody.
I am planning a dwarf based campaign (all my PCs will be dwarves and the majority of items, feats, monsters etc will, in some shape or form, be associated with dwarves as a race) for next session.
Can anyone please recommend any d20 3.5 books that are, for the most part, dwarf themed.

So far I have used Races of Stone (WotC), Dungeon/Dragon Magazine articles, Quintessential Dwarf I/II (Mongoose), Heroes Of High Favor - Dwarves (Badaxe Games), Races Of Renown - Hammer & Helm (Green Ronin) and Advanced Race Codex - Dwarves (Green Ronin).

Thank you in advance.

>>97279899
Depends on the type of dwarfing you're getting up to but Drow of the Underdark and Forgotten Realms - Underdark have sections on cave ecology, spelunking, and the like.

>cults are flooded with jeet scam spam
Oh great

>>97255035
Thanks, anon, found them using the names you listed. Preesh.

I want to buy a printer, but I also don't want to drop a significant amount of money on something that I am going to have to then spend even more money on to replace once I hit the clear and obvious barriers the printer has as a "starter" option. I have $1,250 to blow, what're my options?

>>97280107
Resin or fdm? Either way, that's way more than you should be spending. Even Elegoo Saturn 4 Ultra 16K is like $400.

>>97280137
I was looking at a specific project I wanted to do, and the YouTuber who made it was shilling a Bambu that got $2k.

>>97279624
dropping a trvthnvke and expecting us to think "wow evil fascism"

>>97272931
You should not partake because the present day incel movement decided they're all tradcaths now

>>97279428
To be fair, while it's not my area of expertise and I could be wrong here, from what I know Mendel figured out the basic rules of genetics by noticing the patterns in how the plants in his monastery garden manifested different traits. These were observations and experiments that could be done by an intelligent person regardless of the state of science of their times

>>97279919
>its highlighting terrible practices in various forms of Humanism
Secular materialistic humanism is exactly the ideology Warhammer espouses per its own OG designer.

>>97279887
>He literally says they weren't thinking about it that much and its not that deep.
He says they didn't think about it *that* deeply *at the time*. They thought about it, and he agrees it was their intention.
>is calling out all partisan politicization
No it isn't, because he then goes on to pull a reddit "hurr conservatards are brainwashed puppets" remark at the end.

And that's just Ricky P. Graham MacNeil, also a longtime GW figure and very influential, is an outspoken Marxist atheist who has plainly said on his blog that he intends stories like Last Church to be an argument for the validity of atheist materialism RL.

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>>97280272
>Graham MacNeil
As a side note, this is the same man who, back when he still had twitter, tweeted that he was excited for the day Sikh culture would replace Scottish culture.

>>97277832
Good point. That really beats having less paint flasks and mix it, but having it easier to paint.

Got both their Battletech sets. Been liking it so far.

>>97278301
It's not so bad. You basically write something like:

Tyranid carapace
Basecoat Leviathan Purple (dot of paint)
Shade 50/50 Burnt Umber/ivory black (dot of wash)
Highlight Slaanesh Grey (dot of paint)

Or something. I bought a cheap journal from the dollar store and kept it on my desk.

>>97277514
thinner

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>>97208930
>>97208930
>I just cannot play it.
Anon, be careful to avoid voicing an opinion so loudly on a game you've never played. Had you played it you'd have reached Tulla which has some of the vibes you're describing. Otherwise it represents thinking around the industrial age, not the medieval age.

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>>97239397
Yeah, no one wears stuff like that in Arcaum

>>97274435
>define Atlantean
nta, but plato described it as being advanced naval power compared to his ancient greek world. I don't think he expected it to be more advanced than aircraft carriers and submarines.

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I’ve always said: “Atlantis wasn’t then, it’s now.”

>>97276731
I actually find all of that very appealing and diegetic, too.

So what do you put on a DM screen, and are there any recommendations for how to make one?
To reiterate.

>>97276467
for some reason half-breads were racist and removed because hasbro is owned by leftwing jews and indians

>>97280098
Then go for it I guess. In my experience no one at any table liked using heavy mechanics for base building.
If you ever played the Kingmaker and that one crusader game for Pathfinder, the biggest complaints people had was the base building itself. And I'm pretty sure those two games basically used the Bastion rules.

>>97280229
half-breeds are sort of outcasts because they don't fit in anywhere and liberalism is about celebrating our differences because everyone is the same
the dissonance is too strong to describe accurately so anything that might shine a light on that is sinful

>>97280067
Figures you had already read those, but yeah, the X-Wing series should go there as well if you haven't read those.

>>97279863
I found Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina randomly in a thrift store years ago, and it's pretty fun.
Haven't read the others, but they're probably fun, too.

>>97279863
I’ll add Galaxy of Fear

>>97277907
Medstar is so good. MASH Star Wars works

>>97279947
Courtship is a fucking mess. I still had a good time.

>>97278340
B/X printed version when

>>97278728
you can order it, it's POD in dtrpg or whatever

>>97278092
how do you run an osr-adjacent game without magical healing?

you might want to check out Cartel (the pbta Narcos game) or the 100 Bullets comic for inspiration, it's like a modernized digestible take on the era without the kids on bikes trope.

>>97279021
>how do you run an osr-adjacent game without magical healing?
In ItO games you have 1d6hp that recovers with minimal resting but all attacks hit. Damage above your hp is taken down from your stats. Functionally what is called "HP" is actually consumable AC.
If your stats go down you roll under your new lowered stat and if you fail it's a crit. I don't recall how it goes in ItO but in this one crit damage means you're down until someone takes an action to help you.
People went down and up all the time. Any hit has a high chance of downing you, anyone can pick you up, you are constantly more and more likely to go down with any hit.
That aspect went pretty good, the players had multiple options and tried things I doubt they would in other settings/systems.

The mechanics for automatic weapons are also pretty good and in-line with the system. You roll a die for each target and everyone gets the lower one. That means each new target probably lowers the damage, but after a couple rounds all HP is spent so any damage could be critical and get them out of the fight.

It was a decent one shot. I just wish I had some better way to make players adapt to a different genre.

I recalll 100 Bullets being more grunge than glam. I wanted that Phil Collins playing over a shoot out kind of vibe, the closest players got was wantign Push It To The Limit playing all the time. But I read like over a decade ago.

>>97279136
>I don't recall how it goes in ItO
Similar but deadlier.
Failing a critical damage roll means you're out of action until someone else gets to you and you have a short rest to restore HP. If no one gets to you in an hour you're dead.
Sounds like the Miami 86 helping each other up is faster and fits the fleshwound action run and gun vibe. Combat in ItO can get very deadly very quickly if enough party members get hit and taken out of action. Tends to result in TPK or a few survivors running away in my experience. Might try the 86 method next time.

>>97279661
>>97279679
But that's how I ended up here on 4chan, searching Jessica on forums, there is a lot of talk about biel (tan) on 4chan

>>97279642
This is a vintage style of meme.

>>97279661
Retard. Newfag.

>>97279642
It clearly refers to the colour idiot

>>97280083
Beat it, gooner, our Biel-Tan is 2 years older than yours

>>97243662

I was about to download the latest update and I noticed that you've added stuff for Soul-tethering, which made me wonder...

Some of these creatures used to belong to player facing races, have you considered supporting the player transforming into one of them, like someone becoming a Succubus or a Vampire or such.

All it would really take is having XP costs for the relevant traits and feats, and maybe a framework to better come up with the rituals to do it (which would be useful to have as player objectives even if playing the monster itself were to fall beyond the scope of the game).

In that vein, are there any plans to support controlled transformations on the part of the player? One idea I had for a character was a creepy mega-nerd alchemist (or mage who knows alchemy) in a journey to become a THE Tentacle Monster and I've found the lack of recipes for mutagens pretty disappointing.

>>97275856
It is, and I didn’t

>>97276542
>have you considered supporting the player transforming into one of them
No but the succubus has her own Corruption table. Other than that, that's more for homebrew especially considering how succubi and incubi work in Labyrinthus
>All it would really take is having XP costs for the relevant traits and feats, and maybe a framework
That's a lot of work, balance-wise, especially if you read the succubi and vampire Traits
>maybe a framework to better come up with the rituals to do it
The framework is Oracles+Imagination. You don't always need the game to tell you what to do, just get the idea and go
>a journey to become a THE Tentacle Monster
There are many ways to mutate, mostly through corruption. Mutagens are left vague so you can come up with something. Or make a homebrew.
Most of the stuff I add is often something suggested which is simple, but if it's complex either it requires me to put effort OR to use homebrews as inspiration and currently I'm focusing on testing and making sketches. if you want to can post your ideas in the discord so you can also test them and have other test them too
>I was about to download the latest update
I hope you still had downloaded the update

>>97263091
Damn any interesting stories from it?

>>97263913
It is what it is. I was sorta achievement hunting at that point, the character had become pretty strong (being a vampire is actually pretty great, at the potential risk of a death spiral if you ever get captured/defeated) and I had just arrived at the Fae Forest to learn a ton of magic, since the free massive Magic you get as a vampire had been pretty underused so far.

>>97279597
Going off of memory here, when she visited the city her first sewer mission (the homebrew one) went about as poorly as it could've gone without her straight up getting defeated. She had to escort a city official down to a blockage and on the way she almost got defeated by like... three slimes. Because she relied mostly on blocking and so the acid + slimed debuffs were stacking up on account of poor rolls. If she didn't have the clean spell she might've lost there, which would've been insanely embarrassing as she already killed an Orc Boss in his stronghold at that point. Then she encounters a pair of sewer crocs at the mission's objective which messed her up, shredded her armor into nothing and by the end she was at half health. This was all made much worse since I ruled early on that if a vampire feeds while escorting an NPC, they gain +5 Vigilance reduced by 1 per success on persuasion, so I was trying to avoid drinking meaning no healing for free after combat. The problem compounded when she ended up saving a kidnapped girl on the way back. By the end she got like +6 vigilance from the two NPCs seeing her feed and was butt naked.

>>97279760
I'd say so. The details look a bit shallower and you got all these print lines present. The almost impervious release agent at least could slowly be brushed away or slowly covered in several primer attempts
>>97279805
It's a halfling jouster from their half tilt game. It's a fun enough little game

>>97280025
Arent halflings under maxmini though ?

>>97280048
Nah, it's under "other games" and "half tilt". This was the guy I was specifically crying about
https://ttcombat.com/collections/half-tilt/products/halyas-bambleberry

>>97279760
I got a mini where part of it was just missing, it was cast resin and either there was a huge bubble or they didn't use enough resin. I don't know how they get away with it.

>>97280095
Small family company, please understand

>>97279955
>curated
This is going to be custom game pieces not pirated games or they'd get big sued

>>97280014
nobody would pay for game pieces. some mods I could people paying for (they're much better than the official DLCs they've been selling). Except it's gonna be a massive shitshow, given that a lot of current mods were 95% taken from somebody else's version and then tweaked.

>>97279955
now to think which mods are worth backing up before it's too late...

>>97279541
i think sea salt & paper ranks higher in my list, i also think the base game was fine but i own every expansion

i'm really struggling to find a competent racing game to add to my collection, i've tried/owned:
>astro drive
>heat
>jamaica
>cubitos
>titan race

and the one that worked out the best is the simpler one, astro drive, also can somebody help me remember the name of a game? it was also a racing game but it was cyberpunk and neon cars (could be bikes)

>>97279906
Each player runs 2 colors, you can do a lot more fun collusion stuff
>>97280010
That's why you have favorite youtube clickbait bullshit artists, got it

>>97279578
Chinese

Maybe it is a matter of tastes, but I think the more human elves become the lamer they are. I find Fay elves more interesting than human+ ones.

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>>97278632
>QOTT: Which artists do you think drew the best elves?
really has to be Yutaka Izubuchi and Nobuteru Yuki for at least two very good reasons

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>>97277097
Why elves cant count humans as retarded animals that they are?

>>97280222
>Eldar 1: Why is this monkeigh blue?
>Eldar 2: I also think they should have noses?
>random human watching vid: Look at this! They must have kidnapped a mutant!
>Tech priest with rudimentary knowledge in xeno biology: 'May the Omnissiah bless this unit with patience'

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>>97262980
I agree, it adds a lot of work with organizing and very easily bogs the game down into a awkward miniature game where people start thinking way too much.
That said sometimes you really need to know where characters are, but you should ask yourself if you need anything more than a sketch on graph paper and if its worth the effort to prepare an actual map.

>>97263348
This is cool, basic but logical and matches terrain.

>>97262980
If you're on a VTT, you can conceal parts of the map or even set up dynamic lighting so illumination levels and line of sight are live.
If you're playing in-person at a table, then you're using terrain and minis and all kinds of things anyway. So even if you somehow don't understand how to use photoshop (it's fucking 2026, dude... not knowing how to do basic image manipulation is like not knowing how to drive...), you can still place a bush or a token or something where you need it to be.
You're being a fucking lazy dumbass. No, you are not superior for being a lazy dumbass. "Theater of the mind" is not carte blanche to just not do any fucking work. If you don't wanna be a GM, don't sign up to be a GM. Just be a player like all the rest of the worthless, lazy parasites.