Welcome to the Old School Renaissance General, the thread dedicated to first-decade, Gygaxian 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.
>>97386287FWIW this is EXACTLY my evaluation for that website, but for once I didn't feel like being the party pooper.
right, started fiddling around with appendix A today and came up with a first floor. also went by the method suggested here to get some ideas>https://youtu.be/lk_5gNe0oSsthe main ideas I came up with are - old not!roman fort & villa, villa now populated by crazy guy that believes he's the local administrator & his seemingly tamed basilisk. he will demand taxes if the party talks to him and will be friendly if they comply. he has a statue garden in his yard and is secretly allied with the goblins on floor 1, his villa has a passage to their area of the dungeon.the main dungeon is in the keep, it's walls melted by dragon fire long ago and fused them to make a giant bowl like structure that is now mostly flooded. ruins of main keep lead to first level, home to goblins and tomes of previous inhabitants (now undead) second floor will house hobgoblin area, they got access to the still standing tower and an old MU fused with mushrooms on the top floor. also maybe some frog man in flooded caves?3rd floor will have a dragon cult trying to awake a petrified dragon egg, a few apprentices sent by the wizard in the local tower to investigate this place (now hiding in on of the rooms after suffering grave loses) and a golem guarding a vault
>>97375705>Big question is what scale are your hexes?six miles, as they are (roughly) to scale with irl england >including some area outside the top to explore and figure out which entrance to usethanks for that, helped me come up with the mansion idea>Have you seen this blog post and/or this video?I watched the video before but haven't seen the blog. I did read it and it does clear some things up, I'll rethink the points of interest after finishing the dungeon>>97375781>or during a session as it goes.it's a fair point but I had time on my hand >>97376630thanks!>D&D kind of expects your game to be set in 19th or even 18th century America but with medieval trappings, not anything like the actual medieval Europe which was populated out the ass.didn't think of it like this, but yeah it makes sense. >>97375754Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97386495>and came up with a first floor.layout only for now, I will stock it today hopefully
Should I switch playing 5E to Castles & Crusades?
Who you callin' pinhead edition>Previous Heresy>>97369180>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.
>Word Bearers teaming up with Skitarii to do a quick smash-and-grab on Medusa in the months after the Dropsite Massacre is what jumpstarted the War of Bitter IronFuck around and find out, I guess.
>>97386705Cheers I'll try that out
>>97386589They are pretty cool as despoilers
>>97386703Thanks, appreciate it!
I don’t get the complaints for the legs. I have more issues with the heads and general breastplates.
>Brutus' Drivehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1qb0_OLhDrDYVVpbllIREdOczg?resourcekey=0-m3LU1xaC5-PnnA0VLRfK9g>DriveAnon's Drivehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Cx7KoDkQa9qmDfJN9_CehZ0fxXEweKOu?usp=sharing>Jumpchain IRC Chathttp://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.rizon.net/?#JumpchainCYOA>Ruleshttp://pastebin.com/Gqj3iKyn>How to Jumpchainhttp://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1qb0_OLhDrDVDFBR2NpdG03S0U/viewComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97384789thankfully Eidolon's only desire are caring for my needs and desires. And with the inspiration perk giving her the effects of Invictus there are no external means of mind controlling her. I wouldn't know how to go about getting other powers that don't have inbuilt bias towards you to be loyal outside the long hard way.
>Found out The Protomen Act III: This City Made Us finally finished earlier this month, a few days ago>Been thinking about the ending nonstop.>Mega Man is still fucked off in his tent like Achilles>Some random girl who is neither confirmed nor denied to be Roll urges her small army not to give up the fight against Wiley and argues with Light. Girl finds Mega Man but he tells her to fuck off, girl throws his helmet at him in frustration>Light gives her Mega Man's address, then fucks off to assault Wiley's fortress like the Don't Fear The Reaper ending In Cyberpunk 2077>Wiley himself is buttblasted the rebels are hiding out in the south side of the city where apparently his army can't reach and drinking heavily. By the time Light hacks drones, infiltrates his fortress and generally action movie heroes his way to his lair, Wiley is having a full-on existential crisis about whether he should've turned on that machine at all. The entire Protomen saga culminates in a fucking Liquid Snake-style knife fight between two old men that ends with Light trying to convince him to turn off the machine with Emily's music box, and Wily having his robot guards beat the shit out of him in a fit of rage>Then it all ends with Light being publicly executed like he merely imagined in Act II, though not before he sees a flash of blue in the crowd-and the final song confirmed Mega Man does rejoin the fightWell goddamn, that's a bittersweet takeaway. Anyone take that drawback in the Mega Man Classic jump?
>>97360729>>97360751>>97384871>Your power develops into a voice in your head>This voice develops into your waifuschizophrenia is strong in isekai protags.
>>97385114I don’t know about all the story and lore, I just think it’s a banger album.
The biggest problem with filtering someone because they never contribute anything to any conversation they're a part of is the endless curiosity about what contentless post they made whenever they make a post
How would you humanize enemy mooks even if the players have to put them down at the end of day? How do you make it so that players leaving piles of corpses in their wake is not a trivial matter?
>>97386177In the Uruk-Hai chapter in book 2 we do see orcs arguing and being antsy about the danger of their mission. Also the whole thing in Cirith Ungol when Frodo gets captured. Please read the books.
>>97384224Don't bother. Every shmuck has a story but if you play stupid games you win stupid prizes. You wouldn't feel any remorse for magdumping some "yn" in a "sheisty tryna hit a lick" on you, why should you feel remorse for fake bandits?
>>97386598Interesting take. I want to disagree, but I truly couldn't care less about a modern "bandit" getting hurt.
>>97384224Sounds like you'd have to build the campaign around avoiding combat if you're going to rub in the consequences of killing them
>>97386598>You wouldn't feel any remorse for magdumping some "yn" in a "sheisty tryna hit a lick" on you...the *fuck* does all that mean? This is an English-language board, Anon.
How can card shops survive the rise of armed thefts?
100k doesn't sound like a whole lot to go to jail for, especially if it says "robbers" meaning you're splitting the profits several ways, plus since it's pokemon that's super gay and retarded and you have to figure out who the fuck you're selling this garbage to
>>97386313>plus since it's pokemon that's super gay and retarded and you have to figure out who the fuck you're selling this garbage toThey probably already got some cynical scalper in mind who just buys them to his warehouse to sit on them in hopes their value goes up. There is insane number of people these days who unironically try to pull off the Beanie Babies retirement plan by hoarding collectibles.
>>97384943>Your pieces of paper with nintendo characters on them aren't worth a human life.Those stealing pieces of paper don't count as human.Also post hands.
>>97386478It's like /biz/ except instead of gold and botcoin it's cards. Though there was a /tcg/ on /biz/ for a while, it beat out the /real estate general/ and /start a business general/ threads. I think silver going ballistic pushed all the small generals off the board though.
By reprinting the product to fulfill demand so these 2 cents of cardboard stop being an artificially scarce currency that gets shortprinted on purpose to appease scalpers and paypigs and nobody else.They made this bed and deserve no sympathy.
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>>97386552The writers can't seem to make up their fucking mind. One minute its fucking Space Vietnam with constant rebellions and act of sabotage with even Clan Warriors defecting en masse then next minute they are totally chill and going about their lives like nothing happened.
>>97386078So you've warped your entire gameplan just to deal with a cheap light.Do you guys ever sound the shit you say out?
>>97386552Logically, they would have to just leave everyone alone beyond being the new tax collectors because otherwise they would have to kill 80% of each planet refusing to live like clan laborers, some of the most impoverished, mistreated humans in history according to in-universe accounts. But the actual writing is extremely inconsistent and nonsensical so you might as well make up your own headcanon since there isn't even a canon consensus.
>>97386646>Hey man good to see you, what did you bring today?>Hehe, get this, Four Fireballs XFs.>Dude that's not going to be any fun to play against>You're just scared you're going to lose>Fine, lets pick map sheets. I choose River Delta 3.>Okay never-mind let me pick something not retarded
>>97386509Honestly, it's difficult to find a "victory scenario" for the Blakists in the Jihad after it starts. It's simply badly written in such a way that it's almost impossible to make a coherent "final objective". Victory conditions for the Blakists are pre-Jihad:> Second Star League endures, Protectorate and Periphery States are in> All the IS recognizes the Clans are a major problem and organize Bulldog 2.0> The MD/"hidden divisions" are revealed, used as a spearhead against the Clans and sent in a one-way trip to genocide the Homeworlds> After Clans are dead a new Star League rises again, with the WoBbies as "benevolent" overseers of a united Inner SphereBut again, it's such a badly written mess (despite the WoBbies being great) that it's difficult to fix.>>97381839>>97381483Nugget MD is truly the superior Blakist waifu.
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.
>>97374584Nevermind I found a decent angle I'll try this and see if it prints well. The giant raft is because I sometimes get bed adhesion issues with tiny models I don't care if I'm wasting filament.
>>97367488Do you have a makerspace around you? 120mm square is a whole lotta suction, even tilted (which you need to do, unfortunately; I don't think you get into build plates that go that wide until you're talking about high end prosumer stuff). And you're easily burning a couple bucks of resin a shot.
What's the heat tolerance of resin left inside a hot car? I can find lots of information on the subject when it comes to filament types, but then info seems very fuzzy for printed resin. Would be good to know for the purpose of transporting minis from place to place.
Printchads of the thread, I need some star wars alien heads for some kitbashes I want to do but I'm not getting much good shit searching on cults. Who are some sculptors I should check out that'll meet my needs?
So my DND group was kind of disolving, 2 out of the 4 players left because of life issues (one got a job abroad and the other one is dealing with life), to keep playing we incorporated 2 new players with not so much experience but avid watchers of Critical Role.One of these player conditions was that we incorporate x cards to the game, she says that it makes it much more comfortable for her to know she can avoid unpleasant story elements having this tool. I started to read a bit about it online and is this something you guys have used? In my 20 years playing I've never used this.
>>97378431>Is this some Burgertown phenomenon?Yes it is, it was invented by a burgoid pervert and not something that needs to concern anyone but them, their RPG scene is full of scoldy dangerhair child molesters and that's why they're always having to cope with this type of shit.
>>97363372This is something that was pushed from the fetish BDSM community, not something that appeared organically because there was a need for it.
>>97377882Damn, you only allow one fuck per session?
>>97381859Even less, i don't give a single fuck, not even of the flying variety.
If you're in a game with minors, better safe than sorry. But if you're playing with adults, grow the fuck up, life ain't fair or even pleasant.
Now that he lost all credit for his scientific accomplishments, what exactly was the point of this guy? Like what purpose did he serve in his own empire?
>>97386602HNIC
>>97386602The more important question is how does that affect playing the game?
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I need help with something for a game. How do people know stories about astartes, sisters of battle, guardsman, etc? They don't usually work around civilian areas. Are there comic books, dramas, or whatever? Where do people get their info about them? I want write up stories about a astartes chapter that is in a near by system but how much accurate info would civilians have about the activities of Space Marines?
>>97384894Space marines are mythical to the average man. There may be statues of them or the primarchs and legends told, but that is about it for the average joe. SoB and guardsmen are far more common since one is a part of the ecclesiarchy and the other is just off-world military service. It is extraordinarily rare for someone to see a space marine and their presence usually means there is something of worth for them to fight or just shit that needs purging. Either way, it should generally not be a pleasant time.
>>97383322It's genuinely crazy what you can accomplish with a group of friends willing to talk things out. The other day I mentioned to another GM that I currently had a space marine mixed in with my RT party without problem and he simply couldn't wrap his head around the idea that it worked because... the actual, real world person was trustworthy and onboard with the party dynamic. He liked the idea of playing a circumspect guy somewhat uncomfortable with the regular human camaraderie, and for whom the idea of threatening or intimidating his allies just didn't connect - why would he need to state or imply something that was so painfully obvious? The other GM just couldn't accept that it could be done by any other way than harsh rulings from on high, which is sadly the default of most GMs I've met.
>>97381536That is utterly fucked up, man. What the hell was even the draw for it to them? Did they want to be primarysue marines or something? There's nothing else post-rift that would even affect the game, even if they wanted to play in dark imperium you can just localize it to somewhere in way the fuck away boonies beyond the Astronomican's light. These places exist, we know they do - they're the only reason Macharius' crusade stalled out.>>97383983Not quite so. The issue is that they've done such a great job abandoning everything 40k used to be in exchange for mass-market appeal that the majority is now composed of people who heard about it on tiktok and never bothered to learn what a Rogue Trader is - and of those people, the ones who want to learn more look first to the Heresy series, which is a steaming pile of dogshit.
>>97384894>Are there comic books, dramas, or whateverIn the 41st millennium, most marine-related info comes in the form of scripture, propaganda, state-sanctioned histories, legends, and the occasional memorial. In 30k, the remembrancer order had a variety of different artistic types producing works to glorify the Legions--historians, photographers, playwrights, poets, composers, architects, sculptors, painters, and even a comic book artist (see Fear to Tread).Different Chapters also interact differently with the common people. Some might be distant and aloof sky warriors who only show up to abduct the most worthy warriors of the local tribes every few years. Some might be actively involved in their home realm's communities and governance.
Have any of you ran your players through the Theater Kid Wood Chipper? How many of them tried to stick something in Acererak's mouth?
>>97374022My group relatively recently finished it as it happens. There were a total of 12 deaths, mostly to snakes, but one person at least decided to climb in the mouth.We're on to Isle of the Ape next, so it'll be interesting to see how they handle the change of pace.
>>97383267Wait, nta, what game doesn't have range combat?
>>97385999its just rage baiting to try and trigger some random schlub on 4chan.
>i like totally ran and surprised people with the tomb of horrors!when, the 80s? everyone knows what ToH is and has for a long time. and I know ain't none of you fucks have been running games for longer than a long time.
>>97385999I said it doesn't happen in all games with ranged combat. I didn't say there are games without ranged combat. DO NOT LIE ABOUT WHAT THE ARGUMENT IS ABOUT.
Welcome to /wbg/, the official thread for the discussion of in-progress settings for traditional games.Here is where you go to present and develop the details of your worlds such as lore, factions, magic and ecosystems. You can also post maps for your settings, as well as any relevant art (either created by you or used as inspiration for your work). Please remember that dialogue is what keeps the thread alive, so don't be afraid of giving someone feedback or post whatever relevant input you might have!Last thread: >>97165346Resources for Newfags: https://sites.google.com/view/wbgeneral/Worldbuilding links: https://pastebin.com/JNnj79S5 (embed) (embed)https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/Eo+fK41FKVR7xDpbNO0a0N4k0YYxrmyrhX3VxnM14Ew/Fantasy map generator: https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator/wbi/: https://discord.gg/6ZjEc7dy4TWorldbuilding Hub: https://discord.com/invite/wGjxK3YThe Writer's Forge: https://discord.com/invite/CUxHxWqTira: https://discord.com/invite/f52W6KgComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97386327Amerindians have less genetic diversity than other populations due to the bottleneck; basically, imagine there being 100 different "locks" against diseases in Eurasiafrica, and only 3 in the Americas. A disease adapted to Eurasian populations can get into Amerindian ones, but not vice versa. It will infect people (indeed, when people showed up in America, they tended to get sick as they were exposed to every new disease simultaneously), but it doesn't form the basis for a pandemic like smallpox.As for Africa, "Eurasian" diseases like smallpox were already present there, because it was physically connected. However, the mainstay "African" diseases like malaria and sleeping sickness are born by parasites like mosquitos and the tsetse fly, and thus can't "leave." (Well, Italy used to be a malarial zone, but you know what I mean.)
>>97311994I want to incorporate a catholic splinter movement into what I want to do, but I cannot for the love of me come up with something that feels original. I want to make their beliefs interesting. As of now, all that occurs to me is that they could believe Mary is Jesus' literal Equal (taking the Mediatrix and Coredemptrix stuff to the next level), Victim souls are official dogma, and they believe in Thaumaturgy. But all of this is basically just exaggeration of what splinter catholics believe. The only things missing are having a fake pope and being sedevacantist. Another idea I came up with is that it could be all but run by 'nuns' (not actually ordained), but I fear that would be leaning too much onto the woman angle.Can you guys provide me with some feedback? Some other niche catholic religious concepts are also much appreciated.
>>97386327In the case of Americans, because Eurasia concentrates the grand majority of urban populations AND the majority of domesticated animals. Zoonotic are relatively rare because the jump of a diseases from species to species is a low probability event. But you massively increase the chances of that happening in places with a lot of domesticated animals and population concentrations:SmallpoxTuberculosisTyphusCholeraInfluenzaMeaslesMumpsBlack DeathThese are history's biggest killers, and they ALL come from the Old World and a most of them come from animal domestication. Cows alone is responsible for measles, tuberculosis and smallpox. For cows these diseases are like cold for us, no big deal. But things that make a cow a little sick makes humans very sick or deadly.
>>97386638>>97386327The reason these were a "cold" for many Europeans but a death sentence for Native Americans was natural selection. Because these diseases had been circulating in Eurasia for centuries due zoonotic diseases from animal domestication (no cows, pigs, horses, sheep, and goat in America), those who survived them passed on some level of genetic resistance or antibodies to their children.When these germs reached the Americas, the population had zero prior exposure, leading to "virgin soil epidemics" where mortality rates often reached 80% to 90%.
>>97386657Smallpox killed a third of the population in virgin soil epidemics, including in Iceland. Evolutionary impact on immunity is quite muted, even for high-lethality endemic diseases; acquired immunity (exposure earlier in life) is mostly what does it.
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.
>>97349305I'd find a dungeon crawler board game and a case of beer and 3-4 well adjusted fun people with good hygeine
>>97349305I play with my friends rather than randos, so I've never had to experience this and likely won't ever have to experience this since all of my friends have lives and work jobs and we play around their schedules.If I ever reached that point I'd probably just drop the hobby all together, because I'm not here for MUH COMMUNITY or MUH HOBBY or whatever collectivist garbage you faggots whine about, I'm here to play a game with my friends.>>97349886>Not having friendsWhat's it like being a miserable misanthrope?
Start over in current year? I don't. I take one look at the low quality garbage that focuses entirely on pandering and realize its not a good hobby.
>>97350211Only if you are friendless loser that any actual table would vet out right before even meeting for the first game. Which is part of the reason why nobody sane wants to play online - the only players out there are (You)s
>>97349305Unironically Critical Role, get hyped, join a game, isn't what I expected, learn to love it anyway: Is how I think it would go.
Just fucking release a box of like 20 MK7 helmets. They are clearly making them.
So if I'm playing corsairs why would I want to take generic Legionaires when I can take the much cooler Raiders?
>>97386355I don't think Raiders can take heavy weapons like lascannons, autocannons, etc.
>>97384935I dunno anon, I think it kinda needs to be you who's blind? The copied homework of the mark 10 helmet is unmistakeable.
>>97386476You could still use Raiders as Legionaries, I guessI'm considering just using the regular Legionaries with powerpacks and helmets from tactical marines and scrapping all the chaos iconography
>>97386355looks like Raiders kit will come with only 5 dudes (10 dudes in the battleforce but only 5 sculpts for bodies) so their point cost is almost certainly closer to chosen and other elite infantry models than to legionaries
I was diving in the archives and discovered this thing that /tg/ made a long time ago. Catgirls + an underwater world. It looks like the project withered away and everyone involved left this board ten or so years ago. So, how was it? Did it ever get off the ground?
>>97386004>imblyign demonstration vests have a cartridge at allembarrassing
>>97386017>plane has an emergency landing in the ocean>you can't swim, but that's what the inflatable vests for>you put yours on>it's a dud for demonstrations someone mistook for the real thing>you drownYou are retarded and I have 3 points to show how1)The above situation2)Why would someone bother making a dud? It's extra work and you have more than enough vests.3)>imblyign
>>97384291>it is simply slowly becoming mainstreamYou act like that's a good thing. Probably BECAUSE you're a fairweather mainstream tourist.>think of how much you get now.And it's all shit because there's no passion. It's just grifter faggots looking for a quick jewtube buck.
>>97382431>The concerted effort to ruin /tg/ came from a mod in 2014. Anyone and everyone saying it's 2016 is just ideologically grinding an axe rather than speaking facts.Man I wasn't around back then because moot was a massive faggot was actively killing the site it the few years before he sold it to Hiroshima Nagasaki, mods were fags moot met at SxSW who hated us. There was a war between anons and goons and moot is a goon not an anon.
>>97386086>you put yours on>it's a dud for demonstrations someone mistook for the real thingYou do know you can inflate them manually? Embarrassing
