Tabletop RPGs tend to split up crafting into a high number of crafting subskills for every individual area of expertise. There's no question that crafting is still extremely powerful despite forcing you to go through this hassle, but what are your thoughts on which particular crafting subskills tend to be the most useful in the context of a TTRPG campaign, be it a medieval or modern or sci-fi setting?Pic related is from Legend of the Five Rings, where I'll be playing a crafter soon, and I intend to invest heavily into crafting. But feel free to talk about any game you've had experience with.
>>97386543I doubt that.
>>97386550What's the issue? Instead of Acrobatics, you take a skill in crafting a certain item. Then you double your prof if you have proficiency in appropriate tools as well. If you have neither, you're not able to make a functional item, they will have at least two flaws. You can use Arcane for enchanting, but if you have proficiency on a homebrew "Evocation" skill, you can make a flaming sword with much lower risk of failure.
>>97384463Thanks for confirming it kek
>>97386077Wrong.
>>97386586lmao TRASH
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>>97386981Himari...Sen...
>>97386766hey mr. author can I have permission to turn the current rentry into an interactive? I can even share it when I'm done if you'd like to use it for the final product instead of an image version. Sorry if I'm being rude but I just have an easier time mathing things out this way.
>>97387000Sure, there's a few major differences incoming but I'd be pretty ecstatic if you want to do that.
>>97386838That's neato>>97386981That's based
>>97386838There's plenty of abilities that buff your brain like Sensory Arts and Mental Arts, both of which use Mental Energy (same as Illusion) flavourwise too so easily enough room to Sensor/Mental/Illusion max and fluff it as Full Genjutsu Support Man. Sounds neat.
Previous thread: >>97295718GURPS 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: what's the best classic GURPS cover art?
>>97377472Start creating your setting. The first steps are you figure out your fetish and your political ideaology.
>>97379108When i get confident as a gm i may contact you.
>>97377472Read whatever book catches your fancy.
>>97376955As an additional GURPS source, Pyramid 3/87 (page 17) gives slaves an approximate value of $21,000/slave, which is about $350/month by the "5 years of full time pay" metric.This feels really expensive. I remember GURPS: Aztecs pricing it at:>Household Slave: $1,000>Without faults, able to sing and dance well: $4,000 And half that in the countryside.
>>97387032The new Basic Set won't even have the slave section
I know /tg/ had a pretty active Space Station 13 community way back in the days of yore, and now that the open-source modernized Space Station 14 is coming along nicely i was wondering if there is a SS14 /tg/ community kicking around. It would be fun to get stuck in with the old robust grey tide crowd again. Otherwise, general Space station 13/14 thread i guess.
>>97368003>playing clown>running around station doing the old pulling people onto bananas trick>using my pda since I lost my banana>see some nerd just standing still in front of a random door>slip his ass, pickup my pda, and run off honking>someone starts spamming radio chat>KILL THE CLOWN, KILL THE CLOWN ON SITE, GET THE CLOWN>check my hands>didn't pick up the pda>picked up something he dropped>it's the fucking nuclear disc>spend the rest of the round being hunted through the station by security until engineering fucks up and releases the black hole
>>97383480Most of these people still play, more or less often.
>>97368483>When I made a ss13 thread here last year, a guy who was involved with the project said he wants to resurrect d20 and host something.If this is who I think it is, fuck him. d20station can stay buried.
>>97386455hipekans did nothing wrong
>>97367706not really
The original Dark Erufu EditionDiscuss elves.Post elves.Love elves.All elf lore, game stories art and any else that's elfy is all appreciated.Thread question: Do you prefer your elves as fallen empire from the past or as dominant and hegemonic entity in your world? previous thread: >>97318413
>>97380543this one goes hard idgaf
Should an elven wizard be more powerful on average than a human one? Explain your answer.
>>97356786I agree
>>973567283.5e handled this by giving elves a bonus to Intelligence, which is truly WotC's official only trait that makes them stronger. At the heart of your post, yes. Yet this is all we got and now even the stat bonus for species has been removed.Why do elves deserve to be better wizards? Because they are documented as getting their powers from years of study and hard work. A being that can live 5 times longer than a human has much more time to study and develop. If we were being real, there would be no comparison, although with a game interested in balance, they won't make a dichotomy that severe.
>>97386643Yeah elves sort of having to be balanced for game mechanics takes some of the lore away.
>>97386798Quite a bit in fact. I mean, not to get onto this topic, but look at people on Earth. We vary in size more than the race guidelines for character creation in the Player's Handbook does. Same with innate strength and intelligence. A species that lives an extra few centuries, be them elves or dwarves, would be incredibly different and diverse. It truly is balancing these factors that greatly takes away from what race differences could be.
>>97386945That's why level adjustment existed to balance some nonhuman PC's long ago, now gnomes run the same speed as goliaths.
Tell me /tg/ what makes a good tabletop wargame?
>>97386472Langley, Virginia?
finally a good fucking thread
>>97374324This would be used as an example of the game dying now.
>>97386517>>97386472>TACOS, PIZZAS AND MILKSHAKES ALL MELTED DOWN INTO BURGERS
>I've lost the Greggs!>I want a happy meal, a happy meal prepared by Ronald McDonald himself!
Prototype editionHere is a thread to discuss trading card games other than the big three.>Build Divide>Force of Will>Final Fantasy TCG>DBZ CCG>Wixoss>Keyforge>Gundam>Legend of the 5 Rings (L5R)>Digimon>Flesh and Blood>Gate RulerComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97377499just seems like a standard new game buying frenzy. give it a couple years to cool off. if the game is good it will stand the test of time.
>>97386820>CCG>collectible card GAME>without the GAME>on the traditional GAMES board
After 3 months kartomantik came to me... reading the rules right now and it's seems cool>>97372693>>97372683Love the mat! What is it?
>>97386820Anons always posted their non-sport collectible cards here and there was always some nice discussions about it>>97386883what a turist
>>97387023This seems neat. What's the pitch? You can't just drop an exotic tcg on us without a pitch.
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>>97384000Incredibly based opinion; I say that about us Goblins every set but this last one. Finally. *pops party popper*>tqI’m still riding the lorwyn waveThe last “goblin” set that gave me anything neat was Modern Horizons and a few Jumpstart chase rares. You may not like us because we live under bridges and steal your dwarf children but we gobs are a proud people, we’re here to ruin the green and blue players day, does that make us THAT bad?
Darksteel colossus, we hardly knew ye.
So if I have the right setup, fodders and mana, I can soft-lock opponents into only drawing lands for the rest of the game, is that correct? Need to hear your opinion.
>>97386949No? How do you think that works anon?They reveal cards until they hit land and then dumpster all those cards. What’s the next card going to be? You have no idea
>>97386960lel I guess I just have to dump their whole library then.
why are many creators so afraid of making a setting with napoleonic wars era technology?
>>97285005Because there's no reason to. The Napoleonic Wars are already interesting. Adding dragons doesn't do anything and would bring into question a lot of what people like about Napoleonic warfare (the infantry tactics and formations that are unlike any other period). If you're interested in the period, by a copy of The Campaigns of Napoleon (David G. Chandler) and The Peninsular War (Charles Esdaile), read them, then buy a copy of either Age of Eagles or Field of Glory Napoleonics and enough Perry or Victrix figures to make a brigade with a few battalions of infantry, a unit or two of cavalry, and some guns.
This thread made me wonder how a napoleonic version of Dishonored would look like. Thats a type of setting that i can see working, with less focus on open warfare and more focussed about urban stuff, the occult and the supernatural. Just not with a victorian steampunk coat, but a napoleonic one.
>>97386414>dragon One volley of well timed musketry would delete a dragon in an instant
>>97384394https://www.alternative-armies.com/collections/flintloque-game-systemFrench is elves, Brits are orcs, Russians undead, Prussians dwarfs and Austria 'dogmen'.
>>97354106Yeah, but t Warhammer Fantasy battles is a wargame not a RPG
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>>97385922I think it’s the leader of the church of the silver flame. Kind of like a loli pope. It’s been a while though so I could be wrong.
>>97385944>>97385922Jaela Daran
>>97385308>>97385351An archivist as a concept isn't somehow inherently tied to the Heroes of Horror class from 3.5.
>>97367195I push damsels and dudes in distress too much honestly. My players get sick of only doing quests because "it's what a good person would do." The only problem is I struggle to get five unique theatre kids to all agree on a quest.
>>97385551I gave it to them knowing it wasnt getting filled out or at the bare minimum, filled out wrong. Its more of a prop (also just funny because at the end of the day, we're just there to laugh and blow off steam). That said, if one wanted to read it a little closer than a glazed over skim, one might divine some key clues about the underworkings of Eastsand City and maybe some valuable clues.... I spent like 5~ish hours. I am loathe to admit that there was AI involved in the middle. Turns out if you want gobbledygook, its really good at it. I provide the base and main ideas, it spits out formatting and superflous words, then I go through it and heavily edit. I was only going to do the first section but some of the shit it spit out was so retarded I ended up seeing how deep the rabbit hole went.>I treat AI, when it comes to ttrpg stuff, like a first year trade apprentice: it does all the bulk, stupid work that is a time sink like formatting, generating custom statblocks, etc while I abuse it verbally. Then, as the foreman, I tell it 'this sucks, do it again' and stand there like a hawk making sure details are right. My hands go where theyre needed most to tweak, edit, or add/remove anything that needs it. I still have oodles of sticky notes and long docs of ideas and plot points and in-world errata that is entire humanly-breathed.
The new year brings new resolutions, inspirations, goals, dreams and half-baked ideas.>Why should I homebrew?/tg/ products are fairly unique in that it's actually pretty simple to make them these days, with a plethora of products to assist in making and playtesting your game. Making your own games helps understand why games are made the way they are, as well as being fun to do.>What you should postIdeas for games, games you're currently making, updates to your own games in broad strokes, and any homebrewing for existing products that don't get much attention. Discussion about the above is welcome. Post good, be good, and look over others products, they care if someone looks more than anything.Had to remake the thread>Resources for the aspiring developer>https://anydice.com/ (A fantastic resource for checking probabilities)>https://miro.com/ (A online whiteboard with tools to help organize yourself)>https://www.notion.so/ (Similar to the above, but in a bit cleaner format for those who work in larger teams)>https://rolz.org/ (Impromptu playtesting at its finest)>https://www.youtube.com/user/georgephillies/playlists (Game Design Lectures)
>>97371541Not a publisher per say, But if all you are looking for is printed material (rather than someone to sell them for you) I remember seeing a few online publishers that can cheaply print presized small books. Look for local family owned print shops too. Somewhere where you can actually talk to someone and they want your money.
>>97385154>it's not their desired mode of solving problems.I honestly don't mind if they desire it or resort to it first, I just want it so that when they use violence it's>I'm doing this because it's what my character would do or it seems like a good ideaand not>I'm doing this because violence gives me the higher rolling numberbut I think>make situations that aren't best solved with violence the bread and butter of the game. Or give a similar bonus to other things outside of combatAre my best options. The former should be fine because it's a game about getting tangled in the local affairs of wherever you end up at, and with the latter skills are freeform and give an equivalent bonus to the one you get from your weapon, but they can stack in theory so if you really wanted you could give yourself a combat background and stack it with the weapon bonus, but I suppose that's balanced by the fact you're specialising and giving up potential versatility elsewhere.
>>97384731>Mathematically it is very close to advantageDamn, you're right. I guess it's a clear case then.
>>97337136this is proving much more difficult of what I thoughttesting the game further, I've come to a sad and worrisome realization>COMBAT IS FUCKING BORINGit basically boils down to:>pay to attack>the attacker rolls dice equal to its Strength>the defender rolls dice eqaul to its Strength>5-6 cancels are successes>successes cancel other successes>uncancelled successes turn into damagemost of the time, a player attacks so nothing happensessentially wasting a turnComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97284925>>97301326>>97322617>>97354371>>97364786Post the links to your games
Skellies Edition>Previously in the Mortal Realms:>>97374097>Official AoS website:https://www.ageofsigmar.com>Downloads, Rules Errata, and FAQs:https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-downloads/>Toolshttps://runebrush.pa-sy.com/warscroll/>Anvil of Apotheosis hero creator:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97386922They like twice as tall as a mortek
>>97386795By the way if anyone's wondering about the value of the new spearheads (calculations done in eurobucks):>obr2 sets of kavalos deathriders (2x51.50), terratic cohort (also 51.50) and the liege kavalos (50) make this a total of 204.5 yuros value, good for a 41.5% discount, which is I think the highest they've ever done. New idoneth one was close at 200. That being said, that only works if you value the terratic cohort at 51.50 euros (65 in burgerbucks), which ehhhh. The liege kavalos also feels pricey at 50. Still, great value box.>tzeentch2 sets of tzaangor enlightened (50 each), a shaman (32.50), and a standard box of tzaangors (45). 180.80 in total, so 33.6% discount. Not bad.>loomies51.50 for the wardens, same for the spirit of the wind, 57.50 for the windchargers, and finally 34.50 for the windmage. Evens out at a nice 195, 38.4% discount, another good one purely in terms of value.So yeah when going off pricing alone these all look to be good discounts. Obr one is especially great on that front, though again, teratic cohort.
>>97386886IIRC they've got the same movement stat as the dogs so yeah they run swift. That's still slower than the birds and the centaur, mind you.
Remember when subfaction rules were interesting
>>97386942Oh and if people were wondering about the battleforces:>loomiesvanari bows: 51.50vanari spears: 51.50bladelords: 51.25riverblades 51.50twins : 45ballista : 50TOTAL : 300.75>tzeentchbig bird: 135screamers : 32.50flamers 32.50pink horros : 37Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Who you callin' pinhead edition>Previous Heresy>>97369180>HH 3.0 - Complete gofile - All Books:https://gofile.io/d/cnJk0N>Titanicus Compendiumshttps://gofile.io/d/qdYzem>New Edition, to a great wailing and gnashing of teeth:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/setting/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Official FAQ/Errata/Downloads:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Thread FAQ (very old, remembers Age of Terra)https://pastebin.com/iUqNrrA8Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I don’t get the complaints for the legs. I have more issues with the heads and general breastplates.
>>97386715That seems to be all word bearers are good for >try and kill Corax on Istvaan V >die in droves >try and kill Guilliman and the Ultramarines on Calth >die in droves >try to steal shit from Medusa >die in droves Next you're gonna tell me they tried to corrupt a bunch of solar sux regiments and well, patterns and all that
>>97386715>the War of Bitter IronIs there any info on how that ended? I mean Colchis was still around a little while after the HH so the fighting might not have reached it.
it is inevitable that the imperator titan will be released for ligma, thus the question: which is worse?1. dick cannon is removed, no refunds2. dick cannon stays, but an optional assembly is added on the sprue: "squirter"3. who cares I'M PROOOOOOOONTING! (the only right answer)
>>973869724. It'll be a complete redesign that sucks.
Just fucking release a box of like 20 MK7 helmets. They are clearly making them.
>>97386476You could still use Raiders as Legionaries, I guessI'm considering just using the regular Legionaries with powerpacks and helmets from tactical marines and scrapping all the chaos iconography
>>97386355looks like Raiders kit will come with only 5 dudes (10 dudes in the battleforce but only 5 sculpts for bodies) so their point cost is almost certainly closer to chosen and other elite infantry models than to legionaries
>>97386596They copied the vent pattern from the Mk.IV but the Mk.X's face is smooth and flat while the Mk.IV has a big hard-edged triangular snout sticking out of it which gives it a very different profile when viewed from anywhere other than direct front. Calling them "subtly different" is laughable.
>>97386164Wow, you're unique.
>>97384037>nu-marineslmao
