How much would/should changing the default setting from High Medieval to Late Bronze Age change the game? For example, lowering AC across the board to simulate the lack of general armour. How much would that affect balance?
>>97353965India's one of the places with longest history of civilization, anon. It might not be civilized today because it hasn't made it to the 21st century, but back in the Bronze Age I don't think Egypt was any more advanced or civilized than the Indus Valley Civilization.
>>97350722D&D is practically that already, you just need to extract a few items.
>>97355062>but back in the Bronze Age I don't think Egypt was any more advanced or civilized than the Indus Valley Civilizationyou would be wrong
>>97355062It depends on how you count and it's all up for debate because a lot of exciting discoveries are being made over the last 20 years. But yes, that's right. Sumer starts having "cities" before either one, but the Indus Valley and Egypt both appear around the end of the 4th millenium bce (3300-3000). But yeah, it's dope.Also the Indus Valley civilization was in the Indus Valley. Which isn't in India (mostly).Also India just isn't some uncivilized shithole. It's rad and democratic and english-speaking. What it is? Fucking huge. And it's got corrupt officials and huge wealth inequity. Which all pretty much equally apply to the US. Go look at the worst off parts of Appalachia where literacy is around 65%. India is neat.
>>97355062>>97355107Oh, also it's mostly called Harrapan (after the type-site) rather than "Indus Valley Civilization" in professional literature because A. that's the right convention for naming archeological civilizations and B. India and Pakistan are in an entirely political and stupid fight about what counts as what where.
Obscure conflicts editionPrevious thread:>>97095668>Thread Question:Which obscure conflict would you like to collect miniatures for and get a game going?>Community Summary of Wargames:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11JoUpGIRDp5DZdgJ24rijKHgyY-qvvR5QnVtHIp57Tw/edit?usp=sharing>List of Historical Tactical, Strategic, and Military Drill treatises:http://pastebin.com/BfMeGd6R>ZunTsu Gameboxes:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97354566>mental weaknessNTA, but calling it weakness is entirely accurate. A man who can't pick up his infant son is just objectively physically weak (ie. less strong than expected for his species). A man who can't get arsed to get out of bed and provide for himself and his family is mentally weak (ie. less motivated or disciplined than expected for his species).And I'm saying this as someone who still "deals with depression" or whatever we're gonna call being a weak cunt.Acknowledging your weaknesses as weaknesses and flaws is a necessary step in overcoming them. People achieving things despite their weaknesses does not mean that they didn't have those weaknesses or that those things weren't weak, just that they overcame them or compensated.A deaf nigga that paints a nice painting is still deaf (ie. having extremely weak hearing).The cure for weakness is strength.
Depression is just not enjoying life, it's that simple.This anon is retarded >>97354667
>>97354937>t. guy who has the strength to do enjoyable stuff
>>97354667This is to buy into the idea though that mental illness is not illness. Both depression and MS are ultimately physiological, even if the symptoms they exhibit are different. I don’t think most of us look at someone with an ‘obvious’ ‘physical’ illness and see it as a character flaw. To draw an artificial category distinction, both ‘physical’ and ‘mental’ illnesses can be helped through pharmacological intervention and non-medicinal coping strategies and behavioural changes. For both categories, the latter are often more difficult than the former for obvious reasons: a pill doesn't have to fight habits and behaviours often long ingrained by coping with a particular illness. The body shepherds its energies for survival and is loathe to expend them ‘unnecessarily’. It’s one of the cruellest paradoxes of any long term illness.Most people with depression do get out of bed to provide for themselves and their families, not least because they have no other choice. I know you aren’t that anonymous, but you both seem to think that people with depression have no self-awareness and would kill to be able to just ‘stop that fag shit’. I don’t want special treatment or accommodations - I want to be normal, productive, functioning and socially contributory, and it would be nice if those efforts came to feel normal, easy and healthy.
>>97354096Wow, not a single wargame worthy anecdote>Pretending WW2 is boringWW2 is the most popular historical wargaming period, that is an objective fact. I am in no need to convince you of it being cool. But (You) are completely incapable of making a pre-industrial wargame sound interesting at all, which is why it will remain a dying niche of a niche>Dude you can do epic diplomacy!Yawn
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>>97354939High elves team should be interesting
>>97354866>Don;t they have all the rules publishedTabletop rules infamously can't be copyrighted I'm pretty sure, so publishers have to fall back on shit like icons and saying that actually keyword "Drukhari Spaerchuckkkers" is within their IP and can't be used by third parties>imagine white wont be any betterNTA but the nu citadel white actually has pretty good cover, 2 coats is usually enough.>>97354229Personally I always build as many full command options as I reckon I need out of a box, because it's fun and looks nice. I pretty much only ever play casual games so it's easy to just go over each unit before game start to explain what options exactly they're fielding.>>97353235>Sadly it only looks good under bright light, in any setting other than a spot light it just looks a dark indescribable something with yellow trimIt's an honourable standard that has seen many battles, it's visage dusty and sooted from innumerable arquebus volleys... It would a shame to part with such history merely because its colours have faded under the suns of endless campaigning...No but unironically it looks top, maybe like go back in to add more highlights or something? I love the Saxon theme, one of the better german heraldic traditions if you ask me. The weird vegetal crown they have that Barbarossa allegedly gave them, the wild man motif, it all works very well for Warhammer. Could make an entire jade order themed army out of it with some digging. Also I cba to check that rn, but I'm almost certain there's Wildmen motifs used in like Mordheim at least, it's such an obvious thing. I think it definitely works for an Empire army. Mordheim had endless illustrations based on weird Renaissance symbols like that (green lions, green suns, knight & death, talking animals, gargantua-style wreathed ogres) so to me those fit perfectly with the Empire aesthetic, even if they're maybe not as present in WHFB.
>>97354939Bloodbowl v 2026 is coming out, so makes sense. All its changes look decent to good, and it's still the best game they've ever produced. It was completely by accident. But still the best.I do think we'll get some stuff anyway, they just wanted only 4 graphics for the preview.
>>97355067>I do think we'll get some stuff anyway, they just wanted only 4 graphics for the preview.if it's not on the graphic it's not in the reveal, at best we'll get teasers, but otherwise we're inbound for some monday reveal down the line insteadprobably after the second cathay wave drops, they can't risk splitting the hype for it
>>97353579>Sword of the Swimming Skeleton
How do I get my players to stop calling everything dwarf related "digslop"?
>>97354655Sorry that happened but you should probably stop crying about groodgeslop with a bad scotish accent being mocked.
>>97354690That's going in le slopbook!
>>97354435Kill them.
>>97354435Fucking hate DiggersCrucify those filthy axe chucking Cave Cricket Beardbacked Beer guzzling Digroes
>>97354435Why would you stop that? I’ve never heard Dwarf stuff called Digslop, so that means it’s an in-house meme. Generally, you don’t want to stop those because it’s the purest expression of, “we’re having fun” beyond the game itself.You’re running a collaborative story for friends, having shitty jokes and memes is healthy.
Dead Good Edition>Previously, in the Mortal Realms>>97335819 >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.
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>>97355064Lel
>>97355064At least in Hammerhal Aqsha I don't have to worry about being randomly pregnant
>>97355064kek
>>97354734>>hammerhal aqshahas blood elves, so it's shit>>hammerhal ghyrahas wood elves, so it's shit>>tempests' eyehas mail elves, so it's shit>>excelsiswas saved by elves, but also has an anti-elves movement, so it's whatever >>hallowheartis plagued by magic, practically elves, so it's shit>>living cityhas wood elves, so it's shit>>greywaterhates elves, so it's greatComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>97355097Into the ocean she would probably control some monster to escape
Okay, how to break the Dommy Mommy Witch.Curse Caster with Mortality MienSealing ChainLich HandDream Passage Rigor Mortis GauntletsShifter Potion Distiller Shifty DivinerStubborn CrossbowmanNull ReincarnatorStep one - train our collective asses to Witch's level.Step two - kill a dragon and stuff his corpse into Shifter Potion Distiller.Step three - use Shifty Diviner to locate DMW's Tome. If fails, see below.Step four - pester DMW in her dreams, turning them into nightmares. Mortality Mien makes our Dream Passage extra potent against her. If we don't know where the Tome is, nudge DMW's paranoia until she reveals unconsciously in her nightmares.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97355044The base Necromancer ability is soul trap I am assume they have methods of ripping out souls from an incapacitated living target. The witches immortality specifically says immunity to her body being damaged nothing about soul manipulation, but her body would most likely stay alive even after you ripped out her soul.
>>97355065Lesser Reaping just takes too long.The moment witch realises you are actually damaging her, she would run. And even if she doesn't, you're still taking too long to kill her and are exposed to her femdom aura all the while.
>>97355109This strategy doesn't take into account all her subordinates, and how do you think you will level up so quickly? And why didn't ask the shifty diviner where the book is and sent the null reincarnator to steal it secretly? And why didn't you take lesser reaping to kill her once you captured her?
Any good RPGs for doorkicking combat? Something kinda slick but hyper lethal, letting the PCs take down most mooks pretty quickly but always having the chance to lose it all with poor tactics. I've been running RED and it feels a bit pillow fisted but my group is afraid of RPGs from before the turn of the millennium
>>97347315>Any good RPGs for doorkicking combat?PCCS has for intro scenario SWAT team entering meth labit checks all your boxes if by "quickly" you mean with one good bullet hit, not in seconds of gameplayunironically post, I did GMd this twice actually
>>97354519OP HerePost a link for a free pirated copy of this right now or you're a shill bot.
>>97354686>spoonfeed meif you cannot make effort to find it in /tg/ repository, stay away; it takes some work to correctly grasp mechanics
>>97354769You're a shill advertiser bot. Never post in my thread again.
>>97347315Wushu Open
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>>97353735Death cult assassins are diff than officio assassinorium doughbeit
>>97353937oh that, sorry then not gonne happen because sanctifier already have one.
>>97353304I'd say your best options are either using e.g. striking scorpions/banshees as a proxy, or enjoying the assassins in either sanctifiers or starstriders teams.
>>97354064nta, but Sanctifiers already overlap with Inquisitional Agents like this and those in turn overlap with Battleclade. I can see Death Cult kill team being made eventually, it would make sense here
>>97353304>>97354080What this guy saidEither use one of the teams that has an assassin in the roster or proxy BoK if you want a whole gaggle of em
Dark Heresy is for Manly Men Edition>RPG Rulebookshttps://rentry.org/40kRPGLinks>Homebrew Collection (Feb 2025)https://rentry.org/40RPGHB>WANG/Imperium Maledictum Newshttps://cubicle7games.com/blog/warhammer-40k>Bestiary, armoury, weapon quality and NPC databasehttp://www.40krpgtools.com/>Dark Heresy 2e Character Creator:https://apps.ajott.io/dh2chargen/>General 40kRPG Encyclopediahttps://www.scholaprogenium.com/>Offline Combined Armory (v6.48.161023)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97349482The context changed, because among other things, suddenly the presence of a crusade fleet to report back to is no longer a guarantee, and your willful blindness to that fact does you no credit.Modern warrants grant explicit permission to trade with xenos. 30k warrants are more desirable because their conditions are generally far more permissive, and you can reasonably assume their wording is more along the lines of "May trade freely with any such polities as seen fit".You're making a false association, because you don't have wording for any 30k warrants that includes the word 'xeno', because you don't have any wording for 30k warrants at all. Your 'implication' is baseless horseshit and you know it.
>>97351717>asserts baseless horseshit >accuses others of baseless horseshitThis general only has a few IQ points above the the 40k general.
>>97346680I had two show up in my DW campaign. A Deceiver shard disguised as Trazyn the Infinite lured the kill-team and an Imperial task force to a rival dynasty's tomb world under the pretense that they could find valuable pylon components to send to Cadia. In truth, the Imperial force was a distraction to draw away the Necron occupants and the Eldar keeping the world quarantined, while the Deceiver got to work on unshackling the Nightbringer shard buried within.
>>97351910Oh, look, an utter lack of defense for your prior statements. That couldn't possibly be because you're just trying to get a rise out of folks - it's not as if you've been abandoning your position in favor of an at best tangentially related one every single post, or anything silly like that.>>97349937>The FunnyThis is some serious goofball shit, which could work great in a goofball group - basically, know your audience. Personally I could see it as a fun one-shot or very short arc, perhaps even as a very occasional recurring NPC. I think it'd wear on me if it was the whole campaign, though. You don't want the joke to get stale. Again, highly audience-dependent.>The VillainsClassic, there's a lot of ways this could go. Road to hell like anon mentioned, where they can act to the highest moral standard they like - but, if they do things the easy way (just this once, we swear!) they gain power, or persuasion, or evasion, or some tangible benefit that just barely pushes them over the edge to success - but it's always at a cost. Hand out tiny little faustian bargains like candy. If they don't take them, what's the harm? The offer's there. The offer is ALWAYS there.For every boon they accept, maybe they take -5 to Willpower saves against one specific daemon (a surprise tool to help us later), or maybe one of their subfaction slips just a tiny bit further away from the so-named positive aspects of their god. You've got a lump of grease in that skull of yours, I'm sure you can figure out something more narratively compelling than I.
Are there any deep, dark, secret communities out there that play Black Crusade? I've always wanted to play a cackling villain, but I never see any campaigns anywhere.
>Medieval fantasy setting>Magic is nanomachine tech>Ancient ruin is a crashed spaceship>"The Oracle" is an AI>Gods are original humansPLEASE stop doing this.
>>97354422the hell she did? before or after becoming a spider? also for what?
>>97352571>>Medieval fantasy setting>>Magic is nanomachine tech>>Ancient ruin is a crashed spaceship>>"The Oracle" is an AI>>Gods are original humans>PLEASE stop doing this.I will not stop doing this, because I like sci-fi origins of fantasy worlds, and you can't make me.
>>97352571>>"The Oracle" is an AIIt's more of an enterprise software suite than an AI, really.
>>97353888>they hate the idea of a setting where science couldnt potentially explain everythingThen why not just have magic follow its own measurable and observable laws? The scientific method would be perfectly applicable to such a scenario without needing an elaborate backstory about how magic is artificial.
>>97352571Never. The foundation of the genre is on dying Earth post apocalyptic sci-fantasy.
Welcome to the Old School Renaissance General, the thread dedicated to first-decade D&D, its faithful modern clones, and content created for use with them. Later editions (2e and newer) should be discussed elsewhere.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.
>>97354899>STILL SPAMMING>>97354877>more moral yapping in why 2e "is not osr because it has rulings i don't like, so that means it's not osr, even though it stated the rules are just guidelines"
>>97354910>asking for classic starter adventure module recommendations >as if this hasn't been answered NaN inf times>calls other people nogames
>>97354910>fishfag-trollsNot fishfag, and i can post maps.
>>97354910Every thread with a proper OP has a link to the PDF of starter classic adventure module recs. Don't be surprised if people don't spoonfeed you when you can't even be bothered to read properly.>>97354923>he is now trying to UNO Reverse the "moral yapping" postKek, that one really chapped your ass, huh, fishfag?
>>97355055>I'm not butthurt, you are!Your next line is, "fuck you fishfag"
First Order of the Stick of the new year is up.
>>97351983Thread's been up for about four days now? Odds are good the next page will appear sometime between 2-5 weeks after the last one, so it's probably way too soon still even if we wait around another week.
>>97350564>implying
>>97350564keeping this thread alive much longer would be necromantic blasphemy
>>97353378at this point keeping oots alive is necromantic blasphemyit fits
>>97351309>one can put some blame on the Pyreens, since one of their number named Rajaat basically taught 15 humans defiling magic for the purpose of using them and their human followers to ethnically cleanse the entire planetthat does sound like this Rajaat guy is largely responsible desufrom what you're saying, humans are more like an artificial plague that went out of controlit's one of those plans that in retrospect don't sound like a good idea at all
Is it better to have fully anthropomorphic beast people in your settings or just humans with like animal ears and tails?
>>97351691We get it, you're brown.
>>97353511>>Barnyard cat and retired wizard's familiar is sole witness to a murder, but cannot legally testify, due to still being a cat.being a cat is no excuse to not answer a court summons, especially since it is known that the cat knows how to speak and thus presumably listen to a reading of the court summons.
>>97351382That looks even worse though
>>97351510Yeah theres no good faith argument here.
What’s the edgiest tabletop game of all time
>>97343357monopoly or battleship.
97354699The whole point is to not give you a (You) nigger.Don't forget to kill yourslef
>>97351339Ennis has made some good comics, Preacher, Punisher Max and Hitman were decent.Sure hes made alot of edgy stuff but I'd rather go back and read The Boys again over most shit that gets pumped out these days.
I'm a little disappointed no one posted the Mock Man LotFP pictures.
>>97343357Are we talking strictly TTRPGs or including board/card games.Because there was Hecatomb and pic related. Which go kinda hard.https://bbs.ruliweb.com/community/board/300143/read/37161428
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>>97354188Well, don't I feel like a complete dum-dum; thanks for the heads-up!
Humbly requesting the 2025 edition of the trio of books of Catacombs and Large Lizards made by the Mage of the Beach..i know there is another thread but they are poor quality scans!thanks in advance
Requesting XDM: X-Treme Dungeon Mastery - Quest for the Tavern.
>>97354496Thank you...the anon brigade is strong!
>Wretched BastardsThanks, Super Anon!>>97354454