In your game, do you treat bows as strength- or dexterity-based weapons?
>>97234351How big are the hands of the women you interact with regularly?
>>97234358He's either British or German.
Bumpfag thread
>>97223140>>97223130/thread
>>97234320I don't know what that is.
How do we fix Steampunk?
>>97206781maybe, but make the focus of the game steam-powered machinery while everything else hasn't caught up. you may not having the printing press or industrialised farming, but rudimentary trains ALONE mean you're getting (scribed) messages from A to B. shifting coal around. i suppose you could just decide that people still work glass to make goggles in order to make the machines. and they keep those goggles on top hats.
>>97238084Makes sense, the "what if Rome industrialized" alt history is pretty underutilized as a whole.
>>971964231.) Start with gassing anyone who has ever dressed up like pic related and burning all literature associated with steam punk.2.) Make the practice and even a mention of steam punk illegal and punishable by death.3.) Wait until steam punk is forgotten completely 4.) The world is now a better place
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>>97198341>but what are the big works?Wild Wild West
TTRPGs are a social game first and foremost. That means there's unspoken rules that vary from group-to-group, but a common one is "acceptable breaks from sensibility" in the name of game experience or table cohesion. It's the kind of thing that keeps the bitter rivalry between the Elf and the Dwarf largely to amusing banter and not outright PvP. It's an innate instinct: nobody likes to spoil the atmosphere, because that's a large part of the appeal of a good game (alongside the freedom).That being said, there are also times when the group's course of action is patently retarded and you can't meaningfully push back on it without feeling like you'd cause a big fight over nothing (and then feel obligated to keep comrades away from the consequences), or something a character cannot abide has to be "sanded over" somewhat, or you as the GM don't want to cultivate the feeling that you're antagonizing your players by hitting them over the head with "you murdered someone because it was convenient and didn't even take measures to cover your tracks" or whatever unhinged misadventure occurred because something about the player position of the table cause human beings to lose IQ. Have you ever had that feeling? I think I see enough greentexts to think it's common.
>>97228101>muh forced meme
>>97228087Hasn't been a problem for me because I don't just play with the first people who apply on roll20. Play with people you know beforehand if possible, whether IRL friends or people from online communities you're a part of, but if you do have to get randos at least vet them first.
>>97238808If the wizard can do that, and he wants to talk to the PCs, then that is a logical consequence of the PCs refusing to speak with him. That's not railroading. That's the consequences of the PCs actions. That's literally what good GMing looks like.
>>97239357Consequences are railroading. I don't play games to have to experience consequences for my actions.
>>97239357>If the wizard can do that, and he wants to talk to the PCsIf only there was a simpler way to get a group of adventurers' attention for a chat. Ah well, the backtaverns it is!
Does anyone else feel like the Byzantine Empire is the closest thing human-kind had to an Elven civilization analogy during our actual history's middle ages? Or am I crazy?Even the part where their highly advanced culture was eventually wiped off the face of the Earth and forgotten in most normie perceptions of history.
>>97222151>This thread once moreFind.New.Material.
>>97222151DUDE I just LOVE the hustle and bustle of the big polis, it’s so DYNAMIC and makes me feel like i’m in one of my favorite Acritic songs. you should totally come on down to my courtyard villa, it’s got EXPOSED ASHLAR BLOCK walls and everything, we can tap open a Cretan muscat or the whole amphora and get crazy watching some torchlight processions on Apokreas! and dude, dude, DUDE, we have GOTTA go down to the Hippodrome- listen here, right, it’s a stadium where us ROMAIOI who do our civic duty can go watch CHARIOT RACING. BUT!!!! it’s also an POLITICAL FORUM like when we were GREEN senators, so we RIOT and FIGHT the BLUES, without dumb quaesitores bothering us. speaking of which Paraskeva and i have finally decided to tie the knot- literally -we’re tying our prayer ropes this evening and becoming monks! that way we can save denarius to spend more on our piety and our ICONS . i’m fuckin JACKED man, i’m gonna SLAM this Retsina and pop open another one!!!
>>97222182the byzantines would fit all of these.
>>97231486need a Romanoi jak saying this
>>97222151No one else feels like that. You're crazy.
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christmas
Teaser for the next one!
>>97236538Scorpion and Harimtu looking good
Bluh Bluh!https://files.catbox.moe/1pzpir.png
>>97237922Nice lack of panties
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It's still Halloween, guys...
Merry birthmas
I got my dad a confederate reenactment hat. He's got drunk and has been rambling about chicom yankee U.N. gungrabbers for the last three hours. I think it was a hit.>>97239365Anons, in most instances, will trend towards amassing as much power as possible to satisfy their ambitions as quickly as possible with as few limitations as possible. The paladin gives anon a huge amount of power, and exactly the kind of power that satisfies ambitions- counters for demons and undead, and prestige needed to gain authority of masses of men that he could then structure a state out of. The flipside of this is that paladins are defined by their impersonal ambitions, they're driven to do good, and by their limitations, they have sworn oaths. The problem in anon's eyes is that he doesn't have the cool powers without the strict rules holding him in place. In that sense, so long as they are so bound, the powers don't feel like anon's. Anon isn't intrinsically a paladin, he's a mortal who currently happens to be a paladin. That is the damning distinction for him. This looks like it will be a very well-rounded take on a paladin and what it means to strive for pure, selfless good, but it falls short of fulfilling anon's desires for his own power, influence, and freedom. Myself, I'm looking forward to it and hope everything else is as good as the oaths we've seen so far have been.
>>97239486I hope it doesent disappoint.
Shopping For Games in 1992https://youtu.be/CaDUUyp3hCg?si=YFLo6jtRhksIh-DK
How edgy do you like your characters? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYU-8IFcDPw
>Wait, all of you?>Is there a convention in town?>Sorry guys, I'm hiring adventurers, not running a rape crisis centre- t. hooded quest giver in corner boothAnd lo; OP and his band of booty bothered belligerents journeyed forth to find somebody who cared about their backstory.
>>97233944>hooded quest giver in corner booth
>>97233944What a fucking hypocrite. Quest giver's as much of a pizza cutter as they are.
>>97233698Traditional games?
>>97233698not edgy at all, the world and reality is already edgy enough.
>Dragons that exist on a level above Kings and are paid tribute but otherwise largely don't interfere with the affairs of mortals Vs>Dragons establish their own empires with their own bureaucracies, integrating half-dragons, dragonborn, humans, kobolds, and other racesWhich do you prefer? Or is there one that fits a particular type of dragon more than the others?
>>97237845Okay, keep to your video games since we all know you don't play tabletop ones.
>>97237838You generally build defenses for natural disasters like the japanese. Im sure the same could be done for a dragon given enough effort, ie if a dragon decided one day to roost right next to a large economically important city like smaug, but i dont think you'd bargain with or anthropomorphise them.
>>97237640In my setting, there were twenty-eight progenitor wyrms, born from the dreams of mortals. In dreams, they had held dominion over different aspects and archetypes, but the waking world doesn't operate cleanly along such lines. So, when they were forced to migrate to the waking world, the progenitor wyrms had an eye to conquest of one another. One would rule and then determine how dragons would interact with their new existence. And so began the great game, a centuries-spanning contest between the dragons. Even the basic rules of the game are typically kept from mortals, but it is known that each of the progenitor wyrms also chose a personal set of rules that govern them and their offspring, servants, and conquests. These rules are typically kept secret, but they define the nature of the dragons--not only can a dragon be punished by the rules of the game for breaking a rule, they are sometimes literally incapable of doing so. The layers of complexity and opacity principally serve as an excuse to avoid having to define all the details of how the game works, since letting my players know all the rules of the game would quickly turn into them trying to figure out how to game or break the system.Because a dragon's rules define them both physically and metaphysically, they're incredibly varied. Some have rules that encourage them to play complicated political games with mortal nations, pulling the strings from behind the scenes to advance their position in the game without mortals ever realizing that several prominent nobles are secretly minions of a dragon. Others have rules that encourage them to be aloof but approachable, a difficult-to-find oracle whose prophecies might be of use to heroes but who sees little reason to allow just any mortal to find them. And others have rules that encourage direct, violent conflict with mortals. So it all depends on which dragon you're dealing with.
>>97237640Depends on the dragon:>Some Dragons exist on a level above Kings and are paid tribute.>Some Dragons establish their own empires with their own bureaucracies.>Some Dragons are a dangerous animal: their only interactions with civilized societies are violent.>Some Dragons use shape change or illusion to blend in with the local dominant society. >Some dragons lead secluded and isolated lives.Fuck off with all that freakshit half dragon, dragonborne shit though. I want dragons to be unique and powerful creatures of legend, not a neighbour running a coffeeshop in every street.
>>97237640Traditional games?
If elves weren't the pinnacle of all creation than why do they get the privilege of working in Santa's workshop?
>>97227708>one has better tits.Yes, the one on the right. Better size too. Flat is justice!
>>97227600https://youtu.be/fw7dexoX4pQCollege Humor did this gag 7 years ago.
>>97227600Santa shouldv'e made dwarves the toymakers instead.
>>97236515Dwarves and elves are literally synonyms. So in a sense they are.
>>97227600Traditional games?
Thread #006 Dark Imperial Blood EditionWelcome to /schreck/ where you can rp your VTM character! For all questions concerning the World of Darkness, please consult the WoDg and CoDg thread>>97129837Previous Thread>>97024850Brief rules>We have no story teller, we are acephali>Threads are v20 based, although the night is long and full of whispers, lies, and half-truths. Decide your own canon but all will not believe you>all nicktuku will be diablerized on sight>all OOC discussion should be spoileredTHREAD QUESTIONComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
To get ready for my date I watched Sasha Grey's The Girlfriend Experience, since Assoluta of all people mentioned it, good movie but it's informative only if you live under a rock though.Princess Charming casually recommended Carol with Cate Blanchett while I helped her choose clothes for her one-night return to Italy.I gifted myself a double feature.I think Venus looks like Blanchett did in the 80s facemerged with a young Charlize Theron from that decade.Blanchett's Carol also moved a lot like mom, the dignified poses, the gestures, that straight back, as classy as she's fuckable.I miss mom and her theatrics already. We all do. The house just ain't the same without its Venus in Furs.>>97239284>Thank you for reminding me why I haunt farms and live in a dirt whole to survive comfortably. Merry Christmas Scarlet.Merry Christmas to you and the rest of the survivors of the apocalypse, seems you need more merriment than I.>>97234780>>97236188Here's what I think will happen in that trip: Princess Charming and Blue Fairy bring an assload of clothes, never wear any in all nine fucking hours, and buy the latest designer drip they can find in Rome, doubling the amount of bags staff has to carry.
>>97239373>Here's what I think will happen in that trip: Princess Charming and Blue Fairy bring an assload of clothes, never wear any in all nine fucking hours, and buy the latest designer drip they can find in Rome, doubling the amount of bags staff has to carry.We have a designer at home...
>>97239381Well my home is in Rome.
>>97239373>Princess Charming and Blue Fairy bring an assload of clothes, never wear any in all nine fucking hours, and buy the latest designer drip they can find in Rome, doubling the amount of bags staff has to carry.HOW DOES SHE KNOW>>97239419That sculpture is not.
>>97239427>That sculpture is not.1. It's in Austria, but that's not the reason your girlfriend posted it.2. The god of thresholds, of doors, is blocking the path of the goddess of war. "This is not the time for war."3. She's about to hit him with her bloody flagellum, the one Virgil mentions in the Aeneid, to make him get out of her way.4. Do you see what Princess Charming did there?
This is a general for everything 3D printed relating to /tg/ from sci-fi, fantasy, historicals, fantasy football, and more! Share your printed minis, terrain, print fails, 3d modelling, printing advice, works in progress, or anything else /tg/-related to 3D printing.>DO:- Post pics of your prints be they fails or triumphs- Keep discussion/photos about tabletop games only- Post your resin/printer/settings for faster advice- Help your fellow anons with advice>TRY TO:- Remember that this general is monitored by GWendolin and her lawyers- Not make a new thread until old one dies- Not encourage namefags, tripfags, fumefags and coomers- Not spoonfeed- Not war over Filament/Resin consoles- Keep your model pics naked (no paint/undercoat only)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97238556fabelzel
>>97238766thanks, I forgot about those existing, I even had them bookma--ofc they've been james'd recently... should've downloaded them instead of just saving the link
>>97238888fabelzel is everywhere. james cannot stop the chorfs
>>97181041Merry Christmas anons!
>>97239148I don't deal with the gram, but yeah I could find enough here and there for a varied team
>Setting Basically late medieval to early Renaissance Europe >Magic Not really available to players, expect in the form of extremely rare high level magical weapons and items. BBEG should possess magic abilities >Player characters European presenting male fighters only, maximum one low level hedge wizard or shaman>Races All NPCs and PC should be human, finding a non-human village like elves should be extremely rare, unlikely, and magical experience
imagine projecting that hard KEK
>>97222512Op, just play the Pendragon grand campaign with "High Chivalry" cranked to max.Myself I prefer the Dark Ages.
>>97235154This board isn't for discussing games, it's for discussing settings and worldbuilding primarily, with literature, film, and history, and a little bit of anime and manga on the side.This is /tg/ - Everything But Games.
>>97236641This nigga has impeccable taste btw.Just want to put that out there.>>97236641
>>97239387meant to reply to >>97235183
Magic should be rare, mysterious, superstitious. It should take time to use and be exhausting to cast When did fantasy magic and wizards turn in Avatar the Last Airbender shooting fire and lightning out their assholes?
why is it always gandalf who gets taken as an example? wasn't dude strictly prohibited from meddling with the mortals and yet he overstepped that line several times, one of those times straight up blasting light rays at his opponents?
>>97218359>the books in the SilmarillionTolkien's prequel trilogy; thank God he had the sense to refrain from publishing it.
>>97223708Well comedy shows aren't really meant for deep lore
Fast, powerful, common, and well understood.
>>97239138Fuck off Rowling. Nobody likes your books. We just wanted to fuck Emma Watson before she turned 19 and hit the wall.
>dwarf speaks>scottish accent
>>97237224I don't think you have to worry about being invited to games, anon.
>>97237224it's very rarely all or nothing rollplayer-kun
>>97237069>my fantasy races are just real world ones with minor cosmetic details changed!This is fucking lame.
>>97237235If you're listening to a presentation on Babe Ruth, are you playing baseball?According to your logic, your answer would have to be "yes".
>>97233279>traditional>gamesPlayed any???
Do you prefer systems with a strict class-based martial/caster division or classless systems that allow anyone to dip into anything at the cost of never being great at it?
>at the cost of never being great at it?Any classless system that doesn't provide for synergies across disciplines is inherently shit.I'll go a step further. The dynamics of builds in any system should be that in a solo single-class build should be worse than a solo multi-class build, but a sufficiently organized team of single class builds working together should be better than an equal number of multi-class builds. The point of multi-classing should be to shore up an individual character's weakness that another class would cover if they were available to let that character reach their class's maximum heights.If you can't strike this balance, your system shouldn't allow for multi-classing at all.Not only that, if there is a class that isn't worth multiclassing into for any other class, you fucked up.
>>97229027Class-based because it's a game for more than one player. If you use some Elder Scrolls-ass shit for character creation all the players will make the same gish and seethe about not being great at everything.
>>97238882Anon got candleja
>>97229027Class based with the ability to mix and match and make tradeoffs here and there.
>>97239169Truth.
