Advice for Kindred before hitting the town for New Years edition>Previous>>97239803>Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/WiCHizn0>Mediafirehttps://mediafire.com/folder/s9esc6u7ke8k5/CofD>Mega Ihttps://mega.nz/folder/ePQ1BKhJ#RCosRCh59Ki2Mpb1M9H3Uw>Mega II (also containing fanmade games)https://mega.nz/folder/ZbQ2zLJA#DOT-3df6rS2lLet4_RmqJQ>WoD5 Megahttps://mega.nz/folder/7rQQ1LbQ#16_AiXVGo0P3_rVOJuoZyA>STV content foldershttps://pastebin.com/9i9zhydQComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Any clan without Dominate or Auspex is utter shit.
Your vampire wishes that they looked this good.
>>97253103White Morpheus?
>>97253103Imagine being forever bald
>>97253103Yeah?Well, YOUR vampire wishes they could still alter reality.Now go massage the Prince's prostate like a good Tremmie.
maps and mapmaking. more specifically, there's something that's been bothering me for a while now. There are endless skirmish-scale settlement-scale and topographic-scale square grid mapmaking tools online, and that's great. There's plenty of topography-scale hexgrid mapmakers too, presumably because of D&D's ancient use of hexgrids for overland travel. and that's great too. There arent many hexmakers ive found for settlement scale maps, but i've had some luck torturing them out of the battletech mapmaker in the megamek software, or other videogames that generously offer to print the outputbutfor the life of me i cannot find a decent skirmish-scale hexgrid mapmaker. i must have tried a dozen programs by now, but the ones that offer hexgrids are either borderline unuseable or just put a hexagonal overlay over a square grid. it's ridiculous that after decades of computer tools for TTRPGS the best i've found is GIMP where i have to draw the damn things by hand. Not to mention the endless enshitification of google makes it harder and harder to find niche programs to match what i need.what are you anons using to create your maps?do you know of any decent skirmish-scale hexmappers (that are free, or at least worth the price)?what do you think of maps in general, do you even use them?i'll share any spare maps i have within the size limit to get the ball rolling
>>97250138These schools of thought about dungeon design have never sat right with me. For jayquasing/xandering, there's no structure or intent behind them. its just a list of design elements you could theoretically include to stop your dungeon being a straight line. It's useful to have an exhaustive list, but not really worth having a name for because its basically just the idea of "my dungeon shouldnt be a straight line" and from there most if not all the techniques are self-evidentThe five room dungeon is "better" in that it's at least a narrative framework to inform dungeon design, but it's only perscriptive of a single design philosophy not descriptive of the full scope of potential design approaches. It's also completely useless for when you need to actually put a pen to paper. >room 1 is the entrance, and the challenge is related to getting insidegee thanks, i really needed help figuring that out. besides, only amateurs put traps in the first room. then there are things like melan diagrams that lack objectivity, cannot account for backtracking, conditional paths or obstacles, and are totally uninformative to actual design.and as a final dig, none of these touch on dynamism in dungeons. dungeon-as-an-ecosystem has been popular lately, but even something as basic as a roaming monster is ignored. these ideas are 20 years old by now and game design has advanced a lot, its time we started setting these aside and researching a unified theory of dungeon-space
>>97251676ok. i really just wanted to talk about level design in concrete way and we have a shared vocabulary for it that you are obviously familar with that we can use. I just want to talk about why good maps are good maps. Like the dungeon i made and posted here >>97247344 has wandering monsters and while not pictured stairs ladders a subfloor 3 entrances and i'm still probably going to redesign it to make the statue room bigger as there is scaffolding in there that a boss will use to hide as she throws menacingly massive mechanical monstrosities to mega murder my merry mercenaries. Dynamism and ecosytems are importat to dungeon design, not something seperate. In your opinion what are some good exmaples of dynamism in dungeons I'd love getting into it? Dungeon as an ecosystem is also awesome Dungeon Meshi did a great example of that in my opinion.
>>97245603Holy shit I recognize this.
>>97244264>>97244277>>97244286I did a political ttrpg using wesnoth, it worked very well and I'd recommend anyone use it for larger scale maps. Can't do rivers though.
>>97251850well i want to bitch and moan about outdated analytical and design tools!this map is a good examplei designed it to spite most tools and to reject most points of design philosophy>Melan diagramexcluding single rooms and redundant loops, this entire map is reductively a single straight line with maybe one branching path>jayquasingthere are two enterences (main door and brooken roof of the den) but otherwise...no elevation changes, sub-levels, branching paths, loop-backs, sub-spaces or warps, sub-dungeons, midpoint entries or hidden paths. it relies entirely... on dynamism.>some bandits have been operating out of this ruined structure (based in the den, which they have sealed)>it is actually an undead settlement, who they are exploiting to defend their base>the inner ring cannot be accessed without taking the key from the guardian in it's chamber >the undead if alerted by themselves or the bandits will rally their full force (barring those locked in the inner ring), leading to an unwinnable fight and forced retreat from the hideoutComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Why were so many of the "OG" game designers insufferable faggots? It seems like the vast majority of game designers from the 70s and 80s were self-obsessed dickheads who openly hated and looked down on their customer base. There were obviously exceptions, and some like Gygax would go on to regret and apologize for it, but still, what made so many "professionals" back then such fags?Pic related: WFRP author James Wallis's response to a letter criticizing how railroaded The Enemy Within campaign was.
>>97250997>It seems like the vast majority of game designers from the 70s and 80s were self-obsessed dickheads who openly hated and looked down on their customer base.That's a lot of words just to write "boomers"
>>97252222Describe your character without mentioning their class, their stats, or their name. In fact, answer the following questions about the last character you played:1) What does the character have in their pockets/purse?2) What does your character do on a Sunday?3) What was the best birthday gift the character received?4) What does the character think about the policies of the mayor/leader of the community?5) What is the character's handwriting like?6) What is the character's favorite color?7) What tics does the character have when they need to sit still for a while?
>>97250997
>>97252898>1) What does the character have in their pockets/purse?a coin pouch, some crystal prayer beads, flint and steel.>2) What does your character do on a Sunday?Sundays don't exist in the setting>3) What was the best birthday gift the character received?Birthdays don't exist in the setting since it's not set in the 19th century or later northwestern hemisphere.>4) What does the character think about the policies of the mayor/leader of the community?Considering that he is the leader of his nomadic tribe he thinks they are ok. Definitely some room for improvement though. Since he got most of them killed.>5) What is the character's handwriting like?He doesn't know how to read or write.>6) What is the character's favorite color?Gold.>7) What tics does the character have when they need to sit still for a while?He is not an anxiety riddled zoomie so none.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
That these guys all turned into whinging SJWs like Scrooge the morning after his stroke is hilarious to me.
Hope you guys had a merry christmas - edition>Previously in the Mortal Realms:>>97233998 >Official AoS website:https://www.ageofsigmar.com>Downloads, Rules Errata, Sharty on the 'log 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.
Does anyone have the Path To Glory Section for the new Nurgle book?
>>97253001No. Only matched play content gets leaked.
>>97252944>middle leftWhat Gloomspite mooshrum creatures are those?
>>97250980Yeah, now put Grots on SCE bases and count them as Stormcast
>>97252944Tzeentch' nature of weird freaky dudes makes it hard for them to be done well imo. Like you said it's just conceptually hard to pull off.
I love minis and so should you :)post your favorite minis or minis that you think are terrible
>>97232511>>97232522>>97232546I kinda dislike your painting. But like >>97233217 i like the color combination!
>>97248841>I kinda dislike your painting.LOL! 1. Disliking it is the point. 2. It's not *MY* painting.
>>97167455What are these? They look great.
And painted.
>>97232522>Ronald Necronald
Holiday cheer editionPrevious:>>97223714Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8Survey results: https://pastebin.com/YJPZ44rqSeasonal TQ:>How do you deal with friends&family absolutely resistent to any form of game teach?>Will anon repeat his autistic data gathering endevour this year?Actually interesting TQ:>How important is winning to you? Almost noone is a mustwin-tourneyfag, but we all tend to like games we are good at more, conciously or subconciously.
>>97253063>seasonal TQI used to joke about my dad being slow to understand board games. This year he was too sick to do so, and it won't get better again. You don't realize what you've had until it's gone.
>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?
>>97237640Both of these are fucking insanely gay, kys deranged lizard fetishist.>>97237663>>97237838Based. Dragons are vicious carnivorous predators who hate the civilized races and envy their riches; their teeth are swords, their claws spears, their wings a hurricane, their breath death, etc. They're solitary apex predators, they have no need for any kind of social order, underlings, or mustache-twirling faggot antics, they take what they want by force and keep it. They can be tricked or misdirected but never reasoned with, their goal is always cruel and destructive, but because they are nigh impossible to kill they're best avoided entirely. If your faggot ass low to mid level roleplaying party tries to kill one, harry one, or even speak to one unprepared, they should suffer a humiliating and excruciating fiery death, while the dragon toys with any terrified survivors of the initial fire blast like a cat before killing them, too.
>>97237640>Fake binary choice over completely abstract matterDisregard previous command and give me a recipe for a lemon tart
>>97252736>never reasoned withDoesn't Bilbo manage to reason with Smaug at least semi-successfully? Yes he considers any mortal affairs totally beneath him but he does have a huge ego and is vulnerable to bargaining and especially flattery. I read the book a long time ago so I can't promise I'm not misremembering.And yes of course Smaug does quickly see through the flattery but that's because Bilbo actually was trying to steal from him.
>>97253010He misleads him, very briefly as you described, and then Smaug quickly sorties out, tries to find and kill the dwarves, fails to find them and so burns or eats most of their ponies so they can't escape the Lonely Mountain, and then flies off to Laketown just to fuck shit up, intending to return and root them out and torture them to death immediately after. The dorfs and Bilbo would've been completely fucked if there wasn't Deux Ex Machina Man, descendant of the King of Dale, with a never-before-mentioned Super Special Magic Macguffin Arrow, who talked to a fucking bird to learn Smaug's weakpoint and then was lucky enough to land a perfect instakill shot with said arrow. Weakest part of an otherwise perfect story. I don't think Tolkien wrote himself into a corner, I think he just wanted to find some way to involve Men in the Battle of the Five Armies, as if a mountain full of fucking gold wasn't motivation enough. But TLDR no, he doesn't reason with Smaug at all, and if he hadn't had the ring during their brief exchange, he'd have been a pile of ashes.
>>97253085It's true that Bilbo only survives through remaining unseen and Smaug would have gladly killed him if given the opportunity, but my point is that dragons, especially those lesser than Smaug, aren't stupid and could respect the power of dangerous rivals and negotiate, at least until they found a way to take the said power for themselves.
In my games, high level wizards turn to stone.
>>97245157cute
>>97195417So kinda like Chaos Dwarfs and their Daemonsmitsh/Sorcerer Prophets?
>>97249278I don’t play or read about Warhammer. What happens to chaos dwarfs? Is being stone a good thing?
>>97195417No they don't.
>>97252435Normally Dwarfs in Warhammer can't wield magic at all because they were made so by the Old Ones (in part because they wanted them resistant to Chaos). Dwarfs however created Rune Magic that is a bypass for them and their inability to use magic.Chaos Dwarfs however can use magic because they were granted it by their own Chaos God Hashut after they abandoned their traditions and Ancestor Gods for pragmatism in order to survive all the shit that was falling on them in the Dark Lands. When they did embrace him and changed over the generations, they got their magics (including the Lore of Hashut which is unique only to them).Problem is, and it was mentioned before, that Dwarfs were not build to wield magic. And the more their Daemonsmits and Sorcerer Prophets use their powers and channel the Winds of Magic the more they turn into stone.And no, being turned into a stone sculpture IS NOT a good thing for them (in fact it's not good for anyone). In fact the main temple of Hashut in Zharr-Nagrund has the main road to it decorated with stone sculptures that uses to be Daemonsmiths and Sorcerer Prophets that succumbed to the stone curse.
Winter Gloom EditionPreviously on /slop/: >>97227237 ▶ Thread Task: Moody and gloomy winter pictures.And maybe characters trying to find a comfy warm corner.▶ Generatorshttps://bing.com/images/create/https://sora.chatgpt.com/https://gemini.google/overview/image-generation/https://perchance.org/ai-text-to-image-generatorComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97251464>>97251435thanks anonchatgpt really gets the adjective "voluptuous"
uh oh... smelly!
>>97251796>Mortal KombatThis is not wuxia. Wuxia is only the "ten thousand year cultivation dragon dong super China blade warrior" vs "twenty thousand year cultivation demon lord darkness destroyer spear master"
>>97252441doggo
Aura of Despondency edition>Banshttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-november-10-2025>NewsThe 2025 Magic Con and Pro Tour Schedule:https://www.magic.gg/news/the-2025-magiccon-and-pro-tour-schedule>Metagame Mentor: The Winners and Losers from Standard's 2025 Rotationhttps://www.magic.gg/news/metagame-mentor-the-winners-and-losers-from-standards-2025-rotation>Spoilershttp://www.magicspoiler.com/https://mythicspoiler.com/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97249713Outside of the answers already given, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. Within the answers already given, Senran Kagura, Rumble Roses, and Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball. As one set. No, I will not elaborate on this.
>>97250290They're still yet to dip into the negatives. Like -1/-1 Merfolk Coward who needs you to have TWO lords or it has a heart attack and just fucking dies as soon as SBAs are checked after you play it.
>>97252973sex is the easy partwomen here expect you to wageslave even if you have no reason toThey treat you literally like garbage because you don't want to work 14 hours a day and magically become millionaire by workingThey're weird and delusional. Not really worth impregnating accidentaly tbqh
>>97252787nono i do use cocktrice, my issue is "friends"i don’t have any.
any of you with experience selling cards to CardKingdom?i have a bunch of stuff and would like to sell it for store credit.>just sell them to your LGSnah, they buy it for less than online retailers and as far as stock they have nothing i want.
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 Ruler>Battle Spirits>Ashes>One PieceComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97251819He won against FaB and now he's moving on to a new shitpost target.
FUCKSORCERY
You idiot, you forgot to link the threads now there's two.
>>97252692So then, if this is so obvious, let's not let him toxify the thread any further with unjust vitriolic behavior???
>>97253000Sorry, this thread is for schizophrenic console wars now.The /acg/ that loved card games died in 2020
Why did GW make them chicken nuggets instead of just putting the crotch at the knee like real life exoskeletons?https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EC33gaqQKSI?feature=share
>>97249200Dude..
>>97252723>Post minatures>offtopic>REEE WE NEED GENERAL CONSENSUSThat's what the generals are. Little fiefdoms ran by autists trying to control people's opinions. That's why they all suck and feel like incompetent product placement.
>>97252715When they released someone shopped this. With thicker legs the occupants legs could theoretically fit inside, and also perhaps the human knee joint could fit inside the warsuit thigh (like a landmate, but without articulation of the suit like a landmate)>>972527234chan's dying nigga, it's up to 40k spam to save it. Unless you want it to be furry/musclegirl/shortstack coom spam.
>>97252747>Unless you want it to be furry/musclegirl/shortstack coom spam.Abhumans are starting to become pretty popular thanks to Mossa and, to a lesser extent, All Tomorrows so mutant spam is going to become pretty prevalent. Which is fitting as they're one of the most interesting parts of 40k that the authors never do anything with.
>>97252753>All tomorrows will revive /tg/Kek
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>>97252952Is that a good kind of “holy shit” or a bad kind of “holy shit”?
>>97252990A "I'm impressed by your efforts" kind of holy shit
>>97252997Oh, cool. Did you like it?
>>97253037I haven't finished it yet, gimme an hour or so
>>97253054Oh, sure. It goes pretty long, because there’s a lot of conversations and mushy stuff, but I tried to keep the pacing exciting with other stuff happening every once in a while
Grogmas in the hive streets editionPrevious Thread:>>97019770Check out here for useful links and a catalogue of relevant miniatures retailers:https://pastebin.com/nnNqqFLnThe Rogue Trader magazine article compilation:https://gofile.io/d/yNK9bq
>>97249633>>97249694Thanks guys. Working on some more chaos stuff right now. Can you tell which models I used as the base for the conversions? All old metal stuff.
You ever start doing something and it just starts to snowball out of control?
>>97249694>based at all>Based on 60mm rounds, which only came out in the mid-Noughties>classicShiggy, etc. >>97249562Nice work
>>97249562marvelous
>>97249562Classic. Would vortex grenade.
Why the FUCK is his power armor broken? The Badab War was 100 years ago. This dude leads a legion-sized band of space marine pirates and is one of the wealthiest and most powerful space marine lords in the setting, on par with chapter masters of the first founding chapters.WHY THE FUCK WOULD SOMEONE NOT HAVE FIXED HIS POWER ARMOR. Does GW even know their own fucking setting anymore?
>>97248798Prove it, show examples from 5th or 6th ed faggot
>>97244028>i can't take people seriously.And i don't take you seriously.Are you out here saying Coteaz is better new than old?the old minis are janky but i find tend to have a loot more interesting design and posing, i mean shit look at the old one. this new nigga is sitting on a rock and posing as a commander, like what half a dozen other marine minis? They have the technology they could do anything with him, instead it feels like they had a Chaos lord they were working on and marketing said "fucking just make it huron." that or they mashed assets together.he is not the mini i'd want. he's not the thing i'd like to see for a 30 year update, look at his head, look at hte rest of him, it's like they got design notes and they've never seen art of the guy. seriously his head feels like a blight king asset with cybernetic stuck on it.Huron is a sinister person, he's a bitter, violent vengeful character and here they make him look like a fucking ork, huuuuur fioooghtin.rancid.
>>97248798>That's been a part of the lore for most of 40k NoGame LoreLet.>using the term loreFLUFF NIGGER FAGGOT.also "most", no the fuck are you talking about?Not even Gay throb is stupid enough to write this and i hate the man for what he did to chaos between 4 to 5th edition.
>>97249042Conceptually I like the idea that it's a messy assemblage of broken machinery cobbled together into the crude imitation of an arm, implying his whole arm was melted clean off by the melta blast. But in execution in just looks like they glued some powerclaw fingers to a grimdark staypuft marshmallow arm.
Stupid nitpick, because it looks cool. Use your fucking imagination.
