How It All Began edition>Previous Heresy: >>97346571>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.
>>97361913Share the load
>>97361212You should read FW black book Prospero if you want more lore, but not about webway war specifically. The old visions of heresy artbook have some pages about it tho.
>>97362617>>97362691
>>97362862SOVL
how do I run tzaangors in thousand sons?
Fuck Players thread. >be me>not even GM>join Cyberpunk Red effort game>GM says make sure you're active, can post decently, not busy with work life>answer honestly and get accepted in>discuss DM on character concept day 1>get character sheet done, get world integration in>basically Corpo looking to move up in the world in his company and looking to make underground allies, eventually taking down rival bitch girlboss>GM already made girlboss NPC, already made the company I work at, doing work like proper good GM>3 days pass, only one person has made their character and chats a bit>DM asks the other two if they're ready to make their character yet>"busy with work, I'll be available in 2 days">didn't you say you had free time?>uhh yeah but stuff came up it'll be done after this weekComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97362783whats a cyberpunk red effort game? obviously the cyberpunk red part, but never seen effort in context.
>>97362783Your fault, stop playing online shit. If you’re not playing in person you’re not actually doing /tg/
Every so often I ask my players if there are any kinds of adventures they want to do or sorts of situations they would like to be put into to play off of. Its how I strike a balance in the group to make sure everybody gets to have their bit of fun. This time around, two different players put down 'hostage negotiation' and 'hostage crises'. But I'm having trouble coming up with a good way to do that.This is a flintlock era adventure sort of deal, no magic on the table at all so bullshitium to force a contrivance is not an option. Obviously, most of our "hostage negotiation" tropes are based around police negotiating with some gunman making demands, but I just don't see how that realistically works in this scenario since not only do modern police not exist but what kind of demands could they even make that don't even with them shot anyway? With single-shot gunpowder weapons, if there are more guys outside than inside there's very little reason not to just storm the place, but also if the demands are met the guys is never getting out of there alive anyway. Its not like he can ask for an escape helicopter and fly away, at most he gets a horse. So what occurs to me is that the hostage and hostage taker are in an unknown location and everything is being done by written correspondence, but I'm not sure how to make that particularly interesting as an adventure either. Like, what is there for the players to actually *do* in that situation? Anyone have any good ideas for how to make this work that would actually be any fun to play?
>>97362705This could be a nice twist, and the PCs would have to come out with a way to prove the hostage didn't die because of some fuck up of their own.
But how should you do hostage elves in your setting?
>already resorting to passive aggressive bitchingkek
>>97362548Given that it's a stock image rather than pic from a bondage photoshoot, I think this is a genuine question from OP.
>>97362819It is. So far, I think that >>97362101>>97362182remains the most interesting option. Start off the session with half the team hostage and half the team not. Let them decide how they ended up in this situation in the first place, and then its up to them to resolve that. Give a ticking clock where if they don't resolve this quickly enough, a third party will get involved to exert their authority over the situation and if that happens a violent outcome becomes inevitable because the two players in custody are not *that* important. I'm on the fence regarding whether there should be NPC hostages as well or not. Perhaps their actual assignment was to rescue someone who had already been taken captive and it went sideways and the two people that scouted ahead got captured.
Is it possible?I like scifi as a genre because all the new tech that show us, but in terms of aesthetics, always looks like shit.Do you know any scifi RPG with good aesthetics? Even if it's just concepts, draws or artworks.PD: If someone is going to say 40k, I admit it has cool things, but I don't find it pleasant.
>>97337980What is "good aesthetics" to you?Is it Star Wars or Star Trek? Destiny or Warhammer 40.000?Mass Effect or Starfield?Dune or The Outer Worlds?Titanfall or Starfinder? Avatar? Killzone?You gotta give us something here, anon. Do you look for Science Fantasy? Sleek and modern? Realistic? Gritty? Over the top, stylized and exaggerated? Depending on your personal taste, each of these can either be visual Gigakino or total shit.
>>97337980right's better
>>97338463>TTRPGs aren't known for their Aesthstics because they're make-believe pretend games where all the visuals happen in your head for the most part.God I wish I had Phantasia ...
>>97347883Jesus Christ, ME looks so fucking good. Even the generic people in the lineup have subtle character to them and you can tell them apart quickly. In an era of schlocky space military games it really stood apart.
>>97338327Maybe Traveler? I haven't played it myself but I hear it's less grim than 40k.
What's your theory for why all the talent is leaving Leder Games?What’s your worst/best board game break up story?
>>97362116I dunno much about what a 'euro' entails, other than it's usually called 'dry' and methodical vs colourful and random.All I was looking for is epic scenarios, important choices and situations you'd talk about for a long time after
Is leder going to just endlessly churn root expansions now? I love Ahoy but I know it's polarizing
>>97360696>What's your theory for why all the talent is leaving Leder Games?I think Cole still wants to make insane game designs and Patrick doesn't want to fund/encourage it considering the bloodbath of 2025 in the board game industryA split that seems like both sides stay rather happy seems like the best option, but what in the fuck is Leder other than the root guys?
>>97362550Josh Yearsly is leaving too; who will even be working on Root?
>Take with Kyles art is still a go-goHuzzah!
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>What are these radical ‘fixes’ then? I’m genuinely curious. Worst-case scenario you give us all some pointless well-worn platitudes, at best you save some lives from waste.NTA and not that radical, but here are some roughly verified platitudes that might help:>you don't need motivation, you need discipline(Motivation is an ephemeral thing and a shitty goal for the depressed, but discipline is something you can actually work at and plan. Plus being able to see what you achieved makes life feel a bit less shitty.)>you are what you are withFix your environment, get into regular contact* with something/someone nice/good/that makes you feel better. Don't actively hang on people though, or it will make you feel like shit about being a parasite. And yes, there's a major gap between basking in external glow and active parasitism.)* (If "you don't feel like it" - see point 1, this is unfucking your life, work at it)Thanks for reading my blogpost, I now return you to your regularly scheduled shitposting.
>>97357922Are you retarded? French are fucking OP as fuck in the book, Germany is Britain tier, good luck destroying those French tanks oh and good luck trying to stop their multiple 2 gun batteries that function as a 4 gun
This is simply the best box set I have ever seen. I was blown away with the contents, especially the pamphlets they include, the effort and attention to detail is unmatched. I genuinely don't know how other companies compete. That being said, does anyone know what RULES I should use for the actual skirmish? It's 38 Spanish, which is a mix of line infantry and guerillas and 27 French, which are mostly elite companies, ie. voltigeurs. Is this enough for a game of Sharpe Practice?
>>97362063Forgot pic of course
>>97362063it would be a smaller game but Sharp Practice should certainly work
Obnoxious Beastmen Edition>Resources:WFB: https://pastebin.com/qVGrgwwhWM: https://pastebin.com/EsDAgebaWFRP: https://pastebin.com/inbyBsR6Novels: https://pastebin.com/PFqPDr0H>TOW:https://gofile.io/d/fxFgXShttps://www.warhammer-community.com/downloads/warhammer-the-old-world/>Warhammer Chronicles:https://files (dot) catbox (dot) moe/0xt777 (dot) zip>Time of Legends:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97361406>TQNot much, really. I have a tiny collection of Rogue Trader orks, so that I guess. Right now I'm too busy with my fantasy greenskins.
>>97362111Thinking of starting with Sevens, I hear some people prefer it to default BB.
>>97361998Orange, red and white, start dark go brighter, ensure you didn’t prime black.>>97362343>>97362093Yeah I think there’s terminal shitposters, they infest every thread and derail it so I stopped going here for 6-7 months, I then turn up for a few weeks to see how it fares. Disappear into the mists again. Bit of a shame really.Here’s my test scheme stormvermin, batching 20 is a moral trial. I had to stop today and paint some terrain as a palette cleanser, and then I still couldn’t do it so I touched up and rebased a secondhand corpse cart. Now I feel rejuvenated to do another step or two of the batching.
>>97361406>TQbit of everything really, my experience with HH3.0 has got me anxious over the future of TOW and it's hard to explain to the people I play TOW with, but lets hope lightning doesn't strike twice. Been coming back to WotR recently which is always a fun pick up game.
>>97362834Same here anon, I pray to fucking god that we don’t go on the 3 year cycle and get customisation nuked. They’ll do something like say magic banners don’t have a model so they should remove them
Enlightenment achieved only through overprinting your value Edition Here 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.
Is FoW good? Is it fun?
>>97362613It's pretty good for a "Magic-but" I'd say. Fixes the land problem, but doesn't particularly innovate too much elsewhere. My friends and I enjoy it casually. No idea what the meta looks like these days.
>>97362369Yeah I was talking to a vanguard friend recently who keeps up with it better than I do and I just don't get why there's an energy system?It's barely vanguard now and it just didn't seem that fun, not feeling bad that I quit.Bandai games are typically better managed (only certain ones though)
>>97362613I picked it up towards the end of last year to play with some friends and it's pretty fun. There's a lot of interesting deck building you can do and I think the art can be pretty great. I'm not a fan of the card frames and the font feels kind of cheap to me. But like >>97362667 said, it's not doing a lot that's "new". I will note I tried Grand Archive around the same time, which does innovate a lot more, but I ended up like FoW's gameplay more.
>>97362405Essential for set design, imperative for the diversity of the game. Show me a game with zero archetypes and I'll show you a boardgame.
Are interspecies pairings allowed in your game?
>>97353480Fucking hell is she is almost bald.
>>97362791as above so below
>>97362829if her home is clear cut so must she, I guess.
>>97362775>still trying to make this a thing
>>97362853what Paladin shit tests? Yeah not a good idea
I need a new GOOD fantasy race to base a campaign region around.
The Cynocephali (The Dog-Headed)Based on the legends of St. Christopher and the accounts of Marco Polo.Sub-Race: The Saint’s Kin (The Orthodox Variant).Trait: Bark of the Word. Their barks can carry the weight of divine authority, capable of frightening demons or "howling" a prayer that bolsters allies.Sub-Race: The Desert Raiders (The African Variant).Trait: Carrion Sense. They can smell blood or decay from miles away, making them the ultimate bounty hunters of the Silk Road.Social Status: In the East, they are seen as noble guardians. In the West, they are often caught in a theological debate: Do they have souls? If they can pray, the Church allows them; if they only howl, they are hunted.
>>97339873Look at some of the more obscure yokai, like samebito.
>>97335858A race of sapient constructs is always a possibility.
>>97339873Monopods are fun too
>>97335858Fighting-ManIt's like the male version of Amazons
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.
>>97362742>Crafting is based because it's the epitome of HFY in a single skill.no it isn't. Dwarves and elves are better craftsmen than humans in most popular canons.
>>97362788Dwarves and elves are just quirky humans.
>>97362793no they aren't. they're different species.
>>97362507>I have never seen a player actually dedicate time and resources into craftingNot-homebrewing-it-yourself issue. Book writers always overcomplicate crafting when ripping of Terraria is hands down the best method.
>>97362507>and I have never seen a player actually dedicate time and resources into craftingI'm playing in a D&D 3.5e table where one PC is a crafting specialist.Shit's starting to get wild with him crafting things like prosthetics arms (effectively grafts) to replace the perfectly working arms of another PC.He's also slowly turning himself into a sort of half-golem.
What can you do to make bandit encounters more immersive and interesting than the old ambush-fight shtick?
>>97349486Try playing traditional games for starters.
>puckee spamming his commission againhttps://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/v9he6h/calloway_pierce_highwayman_art_by_indigo_jenar_art/https://desuarchive.org/_/search/image/oYACxsqx5QYwSnNxrb1AcQ/>43 times
>>97360175Done. Now engage with the thread topic.
>>97361883you first.
op should specify in what system he is playing so we can be on topic and actually offer suggestions in regards to his particular game's limitations and capabilities.
Thread #007 Countess 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>>97258877Previous Thread>>97131386Brief 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.
>>97360967My money is on the Painted Tribe, Dancers. The others wouldn't survive long enough to become an actual threat or would otherwise be bound. Even then, the Pictii are a much broader threat and their rogues attract monsters like flies are attracted to a corpse..Hm. I've passed on the information. Let's see if my friends have anything to say about it.
>>97362279Probably smart, going by some files from an old caper, Wereblood is a nasty mix with Vampirism. Course it only mentions Aboms, Licks taking regular ass Wolfy vitae and assurances that it wouldn't mess with the boss' pet project that shouldn't be relevent here. Apparently nobody at this unethical pharaceutical/peteoluem shell company had the bright idea to see what drinking Abomination blood does. Or did and the fallout was so bad they scrubbed all records of the results. If that's the case, Boy Toy may get worse before he gets better. Assuming he doesn't split the difference. How's his Aura look?
>>97362385>Boy Toy may get worse before he gets better.It's why we all voted to get rid of all the abomination's vitae with the erythroexchange (hope I spelled that right, damn the Greeks) and plasma exchange, pretty much all the blood inside him is human now, and a couple drops from mom's foot, I guess. We gotta pay staff some extras this month.>How's his Aura look?I don't need an expert to know it looks like shit. Colors change between gray, green and brown, almost like a dancing camouflage paint really, and there's this like, inner layer, and it's orange and silver and black.At least there ain't any black veins and for what's worth, the colors are still "vampire pale."I asked my man if he's under some kind of transfixion or shit. He said: "I don't know."Fucking hell.
Assoluta knee-clasped me and kissed my hand, and Blue Fairy kowtowed. I surrendered, and let Blue Fairy be in the same room as Boy Toy with nobody else.They're haven't even said a word, she's just crying her eyes out.
Oh, he's crying too? I'll wait some more and have Assoluta sing the Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde in there, then we go with Princess Charming plan.>>97362334>Hm. I've passed on the information. Let's see if my friends have anything to say about it.Thank you.
How do I get my players to stop calling everything dwarf related "digslop"?
>>97355111I have a feeling that OP (if this even real and not a larp) is acting like an obnoxious 1d4chan Dwarf-fag, so it's nothing but "knife-ear" thing and "book of grudges" that, so his players just can't take Dwarves seriously anymore.Doesn't help that its very rare to see people move away from Gimli-likes.
>>97355111Because dwarves are based and cool and should be respected like the chads they are, not reduced to a cringy reddit meme like "digslop"
>>97355111OP does not have a game or friends and is just a retarded shitposting faggot.
>>97355151>so his players just can't take Dwarves seriously anymore.But that’s the best part of playing a dwarf imo, not having to take the beards on legs so seriously
I prefer beardslop, personally. Dwarves don't have to diggy diggy hole or even live underground, but god forbid you introduce a clean-shaven one.
>Dark elves exist to be evil elves>There's occasionally orcs that are noble savages rather than pillagers>Even dwarves have some evil equivalents like chaos dwarfs in warhammer and whatnotWhat would a "Dark" equivalent to gnomes be like? How do you corrupt a little jolly bearded man from the woods into something evil?
Funny emoug, in his early drafts, Tolkiactually used the word "Gnome" to describe Elves, not Dwarves.The "Wise" Gnomes: Tolkien liked the word because it sounds like the Greek gnome (intelligence/wisdom). In his early Book of Lost Tales, the Noldor (the most intellectual and craft-oriented Elves) were called "Gnomes." He eventually stopped using the word because popular folklore (influenced by 16th-century alchemy and Victorian garden gnomes) had turned "Gnomes" into small, earth-dwelling, often comical spirits.In general folklore, the lines between dwarves, gnomes, and kobolds were very blurry. Both were earth-spirits who lived underground. However, Tolkien specifically moved his Dwarves away from the "gnome" archetype.Almost every dwarf name in The Hobbit (Thorin, Fili, Kili, etc.) and even the name "Gandalf" was taken directly from a list called the Dvergatal (Catalogue of Dwarves) in the Old Norse poem Vöouspa. The idea of dwarves as master smiths living underground, associated with stone and mining, comes straight from the Norse dvergar.The "Greed", The "dragon-sickness" or obsession with gold mirrors the Norse dwarf Andvari, who guarded a cursed hoard.What he invented (The "Modern" Dwarf):Tolkien gave them a secret language (Khuzdul) and a deep internal history. He famously compared the Dwarves' history dispossessed of their homeland and wandering among other nations to that of the Jewish people, which added a layer of solemnity and tragedy not found in most folklore. Before Tolkien, dwarves were often portrayed as ugly, maggot-like, or purely mischievous. Tolkien made them brawny, honorable, and formidable warriors. He intentionally used "Dwarves" (plural) and "Dwarvish" instead of the then-standard "Dwarfs" to distinguish his "elder race" from the "dwarfs" of nursery tales and Snow White.
>>97353846>What would a "Dark" equivalent to gnomes be like?A normal gnome?
>>97353846I mean, D&D already has Deep Gnomes, svirfneblin. They're paranoid, greedy and solitary master-trappers.Maybe explain why you're looking for something else?
>>97353846Svirfneblin exist, fucking newfag child.
Disintegrate gnomes, behead gnomes, gut gnomes, crucify gnomes, destroy gnomes, disenfranchise gnomes, discombobulate gnomes, eviscerate gnomes, shred gnome flesh, rend gnome corpses, shatter gnomes, defile gnomes, slice and dice gnomes, burn gnome homes, hit gnomes with big stones, fucking end all gnomes, kill gnomes and stab gnomes, prod gnomes with sharp sticks, throw gnomes in a dark ditch, bury gnomes alive, starve gnomes for fun, harm gnomes for sport, end the lives of gnomes everywhere, total gnome death, crispy tender flayed gnome flesh is a delicacy to some but breakfast for me, butter up gnomes and strike when they least suspect it, trifle with gnomes, gore gnomes, cleave gnomes in two, crush gnomes with oversized gnome-crushing mallets, send gnomes into dragonfire, cause all gnomes to expire, burn them all in fire, wrap gnomes in rugs and suffocate them, hurt their stinky gnome feet, spear them, pike them, impale them, cut gnomes, stab gnomes, maim gnomes, petrify gnomes, end the bloodline of gnomes, trample gnomes, engage in constant anti-gnome rhetoric, write a manifesto persecuting gnomes and nail a copy to the doors of gnome abodes, invade gnome domiciles, incinerate gnomes, strangle gnomes, throw gnomes from tall towers, scrap gnome innards into pots and throw the pots over other gnomes. God I fucking hate gnomes.
