2026 editionPrevious: >>97198774>News & RemindersArena Championship 10 won by Michael Debenedetto-Plummer (Mono-Red Prison, United States, he/him)Complete winter achievements for rewards December 16-January 6From 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 Linkshttps://pastebin.com/QFA0hqaA>TQWhat's your New Year's resolution?
Also cards here have to follow paper designs where, unlike arena (or earlier digital magic clients), you can play with more than one other person, thus making you have several opponents. And sometimes those players aren't even your opponents, which gives a lot more weight to cards that are worded differently. Think about how "target player", "target opponent", "each player" and "each opponent would work in a 4-man FFA, and then compare it to 2-headed giant (a 2v2 mode with shared healthpool)
>>97364831dotp had 2hg actually
>>97365130Yep, and 4 player FFA too, that's why I said "and earlier digital magic clients"
I played the phantom sealed midweek thing, never played sealed before. Was fun, I might start playing it over draft but I heard it's really bad "value"
>>97363875I don't believe you.
Are there any tabletop RPGs similar in style to the classic video game Baroque?
>>97365408Well not what I expected, thanks for clarifying anon. Yeah, seems like one of those OSR under a sadistic GM while there's a storm outside and an EMP fried your cars so you can't go away.
>>97364864Similar in style according to what, the gameplay or the story?>A literal Dungeon Crawl.>Taking place entirely inside a Tower.>Populated by Monsters.>And all your equipment is RNG.>You are meant to die a lot, because it's a Roguelike of sorts.This is OSR D&D.>The world is post-apocalyptic after a cult did experiments with the setting's God.>Everyone is now a mutated abomination (to varying degrees).>Some angel guy has chosen you, the super special chosen one, to fix the world by delving into the Tower (but not really), which contains said God (or something, idk).>Your plot device is a cannon that shoots angel fetuses.Yeah okay, I don't think you are supposed to play D&D with such a premise, although strictly speaking, I don't see why not.
>>97364864Paranoia has the Duncan Idaho clone thing but it's totally different otherwise
>>97365430The dungeons part itself could be done using just about any system, though OSR games would be ironically a bad fit because they have far too much in the way of random and unfair deaths. Baroque is not an easy game, and you're expected (and even required) to die a fair amount of times even just to progress the story, but you can reach a point where you will never unintentionally die unless all the worst luck hits you simultaneously, and it's actually important to reach that level of skill in order to avoid accidentally losing some item that you've been babying for several dozen dungeon cycles or some key item needed to progress the story. A more skill-based rather than luck-based system would probably be best.The dungeon exploration is really not all that unique, and what makes Baroque special is the larger mechanics and structure. Ultimately, Baroque ends up being several different experiences for different people, so replicating it comes down to what kind of Baroque you're hoping to emulate.At the most basic level, it's a few nasty dungeons cycles with some incomprehensible story floating above it. Not really that hard to emulate, and it's definitely a matter of style over substance. At the next level, with players who really get into it, you'd have players who reached one of the more accessible endings. A DM would really have to plan and prepare some esoteric nonsense for the players to slowly unravel, with various moon logic puzzles on how to get further and further into the dungeon. And, beyond that, you start diving into various guides and FAQs and discover that there are still unexplained mysteries, with inconsistencies between ports of the game (there's been 10 versions, thanks to different systems/publishers/regions/languages, resulting in people getting as far as to believe they have 99% of the mysteries solved only for another version to introduce a dozen new ones). No one should play a TTRPG like that.
>>97364910just stick to your pukee thread then
I've found from the grapevine that Jes Goodwin is soon to retire from Games WorkshopHe really is the king. His concept sketches and absolutely timeless work on mk7 Space Marines and the Eldar particularly are worthy of the highest praise.His influence will be sorely missed, though with how miniatures are often 3+ years in the pipeline before being seen on shelves, his legacy will continue.
Imagine still caring about GW.
>>97361582It is good to remember what once was..How else will we recall what was taken from us?
>>97362083>remember what once wasAll GW games have always been shit. Your glasses are so rose tinted they're just actual fucking flowers.
Will laugh so fucking hard if he finds his way to TC, and anons start insisting he's always been bad/woke/evil/shit tier.Still, it's a shame to see him go. One less real one, means one more position of power taken over by corporate hellhole drones who think creativity starts at a market prediction spreadsheet.
What's your theory for why all the talent is leaving Leder Games?What’s your worst/best board game break up story?
>>97365245>>97365269i think there's three of us here that might literally be the same person
>>97365345Did you play Eclipse, and how would you compare the two?
>>97365334There are different characters in each. Heart is considered a bit better than star. Both are good.
>>97365245Anon >>97365171 has shilled so much shit he should be locked up for it.
So much sloppa in Tom and crew's top 100 so far... fuck...
Tell me /tg/ what makes a good tabletop wargame?
>>97361819This.Along with models that are fun to paint
>>97362959MAJOR LENNOX ANSWERED WITH HIS SHITPOST, SIR!
>>97362627...In any combat encounter...
>>97362900>Usually you can get 2/3.Thats my observation too.
>>97363789...I have a cousin at Hasbro, sir. And friends on Discord.
A thread for discussing the Star Wars franchise and its various media and tabletop games.Exotic Cuisine editionPrevious: >>97304062Fantasy Flight Games’ X-Wing, Armada, and Legion>https://pastebin.com/9puqx1zeStar Wars Roleplaying Games (d6/d20/FFG)>https://pastebin.com/iUriRfaAOther FFG Star Wars tabletop (Imperial Assault, Destiny and the LCG)>http://pastebin.com/ZE4gn0yNComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97357584>>97359671any kel dor minies recently/currently printed? want to grab one and try painting it up for my game
I mentioned in the last thread concocting a cluster of systems that are comprised of D&D reams (or near-mirror copy, with any discrepancies being made to make them more comfortably fit into the Star Wars Galaxy)While using Wiek’s entry, I kinda wanted to compile a list of what Star Wars species would most likely be mistaken or misconstrued as D&D races. So far I have:> humans = humansNo explanation needed > Lanniks = DwarfsShort, gruff, and hardy beings, seems like dead-ringers to me> Trandoshans = Dragonborn I mean, come on! They’re both large draconic-looking anthropomorphic lizards. So what if Trandoshans don’t actually breathe fire? A good bluff would fix that.> Devaronian = TieflingI must admit, I was torn between Devaronians and Zabrak, but ultimately felt that Devaronians had a more demonic appearance Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97364703Anyway, just thinking out loud, if anyone here has ideas to add, I’m all ears
>>97364703I'd think Arkanians fit elves a little better. Live long, highly intelligent, arrogant as all fuck. Do medical experiments on lesser beings.And are rife with half-breed Offshoots like Jarael >>97353771, and you can come up with your own, either made in a lab or the old fashioned way.
>>97362823Sorry, none on my end. I've got Empire and Shadow Collective minis, and another reason I've been collecting them is for an upcoming rpg campaign--always need more bad guys.
Oh no no no
>>97363845"Oh whoops, I was wrong" would have sufficed.
>>97327751>M.41. The Melanochrome organ doesn't exist anymore.>>97334971Astartes have Acromegaly (unless they're from the Ninth). The heavier features of basketball people would actually fit that better.
I never thought i would see a Space Wolf with "black hair".
>>97329384>Recruitment from very VERY niche pools of accepted tribes and sources.>Geneseed that physically alters their Phenotype to a VERY SPECIFIC model, either looking like their Primarch, or close blood brother/son of their Primarch.>A specific organ that up and down regulates production of melanin in the skin.Basically Space Marines are bywords in older lore for despising diversity, and being incredibly fussy about their ethnographic spread in chapter.Space Wolves (those in the pic), recruit exclusively from an Ice World that's turbo-norway, where peak aspirants are genetically filtered out, then given extensive physiological alterations over puberty to make them resemble picrel in all aspects of physical apperance.They also, specifically, have a dedicated organ to alter their skin darkness depending on local radiation levels. We know it can, and does, downregulate melanin expression as well as upregulate it because the Raven Guard's melanochrome exclusively downregulates, and the Salamanders' exclusively upregulates, giving them both pigment disorders.Unless the Space Wolf has been operating plasma cannons for hours without a helmet, or has a SERIOUS malfunction in his armour leaking radiation everywhere, he should not be dark skinned.This is either due toComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97361553None of the seething retards will acknowledge this post though. Because they don't actually care about the game, they just care about winning their culture war
We have all experienced the coming and going so GMs, Players and games; and then left holding the bag too start all over again at Square One. If and when you have to start over from scratch how and where (online) would you start I'll look for groups and games?There has been numerous reasons that would force someone to start all over again be it scheduling, life, work, people changing.
I'd have stuck with 3.5 and not really branches out except for fate
>>97359641Hell yeah ... Hee Haw.
>>97357989>Bump to live>Bump to stay alive >Bump to keep on buying me
>>97349305Sexy as fuck. Cant wait for him to start doing gay porn
>>97349305Pick a game/system. Most games have a "Starter Set" that comes with the base rules, usually a module or scenario to play through, dice and pregenernated characters. You could make your own if you wanted. Get some friends tell them we are playing the scenario/module. Then run it. Usually you being the person interested you should be the one to buy and read the starter set and GM/DM the scenario. Once done if people want to keep play go buy other campaigns/scenarios/modules (a campaign is just a really long scenario/module that takes many sessions to complete) maybe pick up the "Core" rule ok for whatever system you are playing.
Jabbering Jabberwock EditionDiscussion of the Towergirls CYOA, RPG, Setting, or Video Games welcome here!Everyone is welcome.FAQhttps://pastebin.com/vv4xQuwDCharts:Main Gens: https://e-hentai.org/g/2556775/f1669e072b/Imgchest backups(not sorted): https://imgchest.com/p/na7ko9dky8dhttps://imgchest.com/p/pg73rmbv7rnLegacy Charts: https://imgur.com/a/IRtoHXhSide Quests: https://imgur.com/a/7euVXRTComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97359447'Dis is some good shiz.
>>97359447She is cute.Wouldnt we see her nipples with that top? Did she tuck them under the fabric or doesnt she have nipples because reptile?
Feelin' Froggy!https://files.catbox.moe/s02grr.png
>>97364723Kind of derpy in a cute way
>>97364723>Twerking>BossomI see a tendency!
Boss edition>Previously in the Mortal Realms:>>97349032>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.
>>97365519Thanks guys, that's very helpful. The edited version looks much closer to what I'm aiming for.
>>97365527>>97365539Meant to reply to both of you
>>97365539>>97365546No prob. To add on to the edit, I'd also say to pick a primary light source angle and the further away an edge is from that angle, the softer the highlight it produces. Just glaze or even filter a layer black onto them until it looks right.
>>97365555Great suggestion, I was just edge highlighting/hatching without thinking about the light source
im so excited for OBR
If your campaign were a tv show, how charming would people find your character?
>fifth puckee thread shitting up the cataloghttps://old.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryAssassins/comments/10n9cf7/thief_by_istvan_straban/
>>97362142Holy fuck you are an insufferable autist
>>97363458get a grip
>>97353744What an ugly artwork. Who would commission such piece of shit?
>>97363857It's a book cover for Pippa DaCosta an author.
>What is Exalted?An epic high-flying role-playing game about reborn god-heroes in a world that turned on them.Start here:http://theonyxpath.com/category/worlds/exalted/>That sounds cool, how can I get into it?Read the 3e core book (link below). For mechanics of the old edition, play this tutorial:http://mengtzu.github.io/exalted/sakuya.htmlIt’ll get you familiar with most of the mechanics.>Gosh that was fun. How do I find a group?Roll20 and the Game Finder General here on /tg/. good luck>Resources for Third Edition>3E Core and Splatshttps://www.mediafire.com/folder/b54o6teut3fx6/Exalted_3eComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97364986You're absurd.>>973651261e was, in a lot of ways, much closer to existing WW lines at the time. Power Combat is when things started to get more distinct. What exactly are you trying to move over?
>>97365151Just a few charms.The rule of thumb seems to be "cut the mote costs to a ⅓, and make them last longer".
>>97365318Good to know if true. I know there is a mote to willpower to hp conversion thing out there for 2e, just a rule of thump thing to help out. For the life of me I couldn't think of where to find it though.Same thing with all those old homebrewed devil tigers. I can find one called Amy that seems to be deleted in a lot of places but I'm still looking for the one that has a water clock inside its soul.
>>97362804>I think the incessant negativity is good because it takes that energy to make the game better. Let the dissatisfaction boil over and then turn it into something better.how on earth is it going to do that, no one here works on the game and the one major homebrew this thread is mostly focused on mechanics over fluff
>>97365529Why would anyone here be on staff?
We're going to have to come up with a phrase for the new era of Warhammer 40,000 ushered in by the Amazon TV show, DoW 4 and Total War 40k, and increased market value of Games Workshop.nu40k isn't going to cover it. nu40k is already bad enough for many of us from headier days like 1st through 4th edition. You are going to see horrific debasements to the thing you know and love that you will still see with your eyes closed. Every 80 IQ person with internet access will have an opinion on Warhammer without knowing what a Tau Remora Drone is.
>>97352775This poster is 16 and has never actually played anything beyond 9ed.
>>97362174Cain's story is a basic comedy of errors and misunderstandings.>Real!Cain: "Sure, I'll volunteer to go scout somewhere.">Narrator!Cain: "I tried to get out of the main assault, little did I know...">Real!Cain: "We've been ambushed! Jurgen get us out of here!">Narrator!Cain: "It was at that moment I noticed that one of the Genestealers was one of the women who had been flirting with me last night. Bloody hell. I almost slept with her.">Amberley: "FUCKING CAIN IF YOU WEREN'T ALREADY DEAD I'D KILL YOU!">[laugh track]
>>97344553cu4k?
>>97364661Amberly's catty footnotes about the other women Cain sleeps with will never get old.
>>97365558>"Amberly gets snitty at the mention of other women"*>* I am NOT snitty!
I'm working on a journey system with a few specific goals. One of which is to hone down on events that can happen to parties during a journey which - ideally - present the players with interesting problems to solve.Working document is here if you'd like to peruse: https://files.catbox.moe/7hfxya.pdf I'm curious if any experienced GMs have ideas on interesting journey complications (both positive and negative) that- ideally- might allow for opportunities for players to problem solve?Picrel is the list I've got right now (very basic)
>>97360250No game works that way, or possibly could. There is no hobo with free will, just the GM making decisions. Your comment is idiotic and nonsensical.
>>97361206Yeah, I'm getting the impression he's just full of shit. Though I do like the shared assumption that the GM tries to make the world as "real" as possible.>>97360523This is excellent for ideas, I love it. Thank you!
>>97360517No, I leave most of the simulation (by which I mean, the creation of a full, real world, in real life) to the archotech I constructed for that purpose.
>>97361206Not possible for you, clearly.
>>97364151>Archotech Go on…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekU3T9M3E9IFrenopolis is a gamified tetragrammaton clothed in the memetic zeitgeist.This thread is for discussion and development logging.It's easiest to learn with YGO/MTG experience.It's not for sale, but you can request a free physical 2-player 90 card set by following the instructions in the description of this video:https://youtu.be/oPoBUoagO_k(No payment or identifying info required)Playmats have arrived and will be sent out with the playtesting kits. Anyone who already received a set with the shipping label name "Current Resident" should be receiving one by 1/10/26. If your shipping label was not sent to "Current Resident", email or DM me on telegram so I can send you one. Tabletop Simulator Demo Implementation:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97282550That's dumb
>>97362226Your mother is dumb, but you still kiss her.
>>97362049>Did the first iterations develop in such a way that revealed inherent structural weaknesses?yes in the sense that there was little structural development to speak of. the actual game design didn't occur until 2024ish.>but because I suck at maths, finding the sweet spot for bonuses and balancing stats for asymmetrical point values has been very hit and miss.i started by sorting them into tiers based on much immediate card advantage effects caused. if you know the ones that are clearly the most powerful and clearly the weakest, you can start to fill in a hierarchy and then adjust cost weights from there.for example picrel is the current weighting iteration of card effects in the game (as translated into card costs)
>>97362543Seems rational.Given the nature of my project I'm gonna need to build a similar sort of matrix, so I can cross-reference the value weight of different stats and bonuses when prototyping a unit.
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