The /btg/ is dead! Long live the /btg/!Tex Talks editionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38cHV-lZCXIPrevious Thread: >>97267187================================>BattleTech Introductory Guide & PDFshttps://bg.battletech.com/?page_id=400>Overview of the Major Factionshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/great-houseshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/the-clanshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/other-powersComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97290926two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda
Considering that the destruction of the Word of Blake was only able to be brought about by every faction in the Inner Sphere working together to defeat them, imagine if that would have been used as an excuse to import Arms Fort-like things into Battletech - the ruins of such war machines turning into battlegrounds in the IlClan trial.
>>97291957You mean like the Rattler that the Blakists did in fact use?
>>97291957The Wyrm also needed orbital bombardment to typically take down
>>97291957We already have Ace Combat bosses like the Argo and Wyrm.
the paid dm defenders have always said they help people with no friends, but the last few months they are being promoted as>fun for friends>give your dm a break>let your group try a new systemim talking ginny d, reddit, forum posts, irl in-store. in all seriousness will people fall for this instead of having one of their friends dm
Ironically, I started doing paid GMing cause just after I finally got my degree all the entry-level positions for my career basically got kneecapped by AI. Every boomer that has their position is fine, but now the pipeline from the bottom is severely sieved.>>97291737Supply and demand like >>97291694 stated. Lots of players, not enough people to run things half decently. You probably have a friend group that's reliable enough, but most of my clients are either grogs in their later years or younger peeps in tech whose old group splintered as life and responsibilities pushed them away. These people want to have a good experience, want players that are committed to coming each day, and want to know that the GM won't drop out just cause they woke up on the wrong side of bed that day.Honestly, I was afraid I'd get burned out but it hasn't been the case. I refuse to run 5e so instead I do everything from Pathfinder 2e to Mothership, Lancer, Fabula Ultima, etc. and I can always find enough players to get the ball rolling. The more people I introduce to something other than WOTCslop, the better for the hobby.
>>97291731>Paid friendship always will beYou're essentially describing any business transaction, ever.>>97291737>Why would anyone payBecause they want to enjoy a good game, and a good game is a rare thing, especially in the current state of the hobby. People get tired of clueless DMs who don't prep and/or can't tell a story to save their lives, people get tired of half the table being on their phones all session, people get tired of people bailing on a session last minute because *insert weak ass excuse here* when really, they just couldn't find enough give a shit in their hearts to go through the motions of a game they have no reason to care about that week. Some of these people are tired enough to pay.Growing up, it would never occur to me, or I imagine, anyone, to charge their friends to run a game. It still doesn't. That said, the landscape has shifted, and paid GMing came about because of the massive influx of normies into the hobby. Normies aren't necessarily a problem, they just tend to be ignorant of a lot of things grogs take for granted, and having them at the table can be a bit of a distraction, and it tracks that nobody wants to take on an entire table of them without being compensated.Maybe you don't mind spending your time, energy, and resources on people you barely know, and hey, if that's the case, I guess you're just more altruistic than me. But if your stance is that it's somehow a moral transgression to be expected to be paid for a service, or paid to teach a skill, please explain to me why GMing should be different from anything else, or better yet, dine on my unit and fuck all the way off with that noise.
>>97291780Just out of curiosity, why do you refuse to run 5E? I try to avoid supporting WotC as a company, but I just know... so... fucking... much... about Eberron, and am really good at running campaigns set in the same. From a mechanics standpoint I find it tiresome how much the "standard" balancing for combat coddles players; I'm not (always) trying to flirt with a TPK, but I think the people writing for WotC are woefully ignorant of how quickly feeling like your choices don't matter can kill interest in a game.Anyway, yeah, I try to encourage players to give PF2/Starfinder a try whenever possible, but some people are slaves to branding. But then hey, that's probably a big part of why they have to pay me in the first place.
>>97291851I'll answer your question for $20.
>>97291931Because I was there when 5e launched, both as a player and as a GM. I experienced the ups, the downs, and the absolute trickle of content while fixing nothing concerning the worst of the system.I've had more than enough after a few years, especially as a GM. When you're asking people for money there's obviously a certain standard that you have to deliver and I simply do not have the patience for something that I am neither passionate nor optimistic about.I have no doubt that my own influx of players are because they feel the exact same way about 5e. Hell, a handful of them have basically come my way because they are the only ones sick of 5e in their group and cannot convince their players or GM to do anything else.
>no display names>no player cards >large groupHow do I keep track of the characters? It’s such a weird thing to ignore. Just throw a name and picture onto the screen like every other Channel does
>>97286571From their Kickstarter to mandatory Amazon Prime Grift (in which they had already been working for and with Amazon), to playing both sides of every directly related Hollywood union strike (actors, voice actors, writers, etc.), it's unbelievable how much they continue to get away with.
>>97291783The Kickstarter grift in which the Twitch leaks alone showed they had the funds to do that special themselves.>No, let's exploit our gullible, often mentally ill fanbase.
>>97291783>>97291881isnt that just the status quo across all of california? scheming and e-begging and doing whatever it takes to stay relevant/employed.
I laughed at the part of the thread where the liamposter was like>umm no i am not THE liamposter, sweaty>i an simple A liamposter
>>97291930Status quo across all of the U.S. this very day, and at the highest levels.
After about 8 years since I last DM'ed a game, I've been asked to run a session. Unfortunately my books - adnd, 2e, 3e, 3.5, 4e, and 5e are in storage two states away.And i prefer physical copies. Thanks to critical role and the movie DND books have gone up in price which is weird.>4e books are ~10-15$ now. Is it viable to run 4e in 2025? I don't remember hating it and I still remember some home rules to streamline combat to speed it up a touch. Does anyone have suggestions for 1-3lvl adventures or campaign settings? >4e thread I guess
>>97291094They're on all the popular shadow libraries.
One thing I really like about 4e is the ability to challenge tactically savvy players with enemy group synergies.For example, let us consider an encounter against a group of xivort darters (level 1 artilleries) who have tamed a bunch of thornskin frogs (level 1 brutes) and wolf packmates (level 1 minion skirmishers).http://iws.mx/dnd/?view=monster5029http://iws.mx/dnd/?view=monster4879http://iws.mx/dnd/?view=monster4614The xivort darters can daze PCs, which is annoying enough. However, the thornskin frogs can move in to deal heavy damage and knock PCs prone. Standing from prone takes a move action, and a dazed creature can take only one action on their turn, so a dazed PC who wants to use a standard action will have to settle for staying prone. Unfortunately, the wolf packmates can then move in to deal extra damage to the prone PCs. Simple but nasty enemy synergy.How about a positioning challenge for PCs of a slightly higher level? Let us say a couple of centurions of the Iron Circle (level 6 soldiers) have rounded up several dwarf warriors (level 1 minion artilleries) and a couple of extremist wilden ancients (level 4 artilleries [leader]) to stir up trouble.http://iws.mx/dnd/?view=monster6025http://iws.mx/dnd/?view=monster115713http://iws.mx/dnd/?view=monster5027Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97291171>>97291191I managed to locate HotFL, HotFK, Monster Vault, and the Rules Compendium. Now all I'm looking for is the Dungeon Master's Kit.
>>97291353Here you goMediaFire/file/wwpyoq6rz5iaumc/Dungeon_Master%2527s_Kit%252BReavers_of_Harkenwold.pdf/file
>>97291552Thank you kindly, bud.
New Year Edition!>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 SplatsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97290914What dumbass Exalted writer is trying to deconstruct the Great Man theory in Exalted, "Great Man Theory: The Game"
>>97291061Grabowski, but he and subsequent writers fusilladed the message.
>He was looking into a great chamber, whose walls and floors were of stone, and whose mighty roof was upheld by gigantic stone columns, strangely carved. Ranks of feathered black warriors lined the walls and a double column of them stood like statues before a throne set between two stone dragons which were larger than elephants. These men he recognized, by their bearing and general appearance, to be tribesmen of the warriors he had fought at the chasm. But his gaze was drawn irresistibly to the great, grotesquely ornamented throne. There, dwarfed by the ponderous splendor about her, a woman reclined. A black woman she was, young and of a tigerish comeliness. She was naked except for a beplumed helmet, armbands, anklets and a girdle of colored ostrich feathers and she sprawled upon the silken cushions with her limbs thrown about in voluptuous abandon.>Even at that distance Kane could make out that her features were regal yet barbaric, haughty and imperious, yet sensual, and with a touch of ruthless cruelty about the curl of her full red lips. Kane felt his pulse quicken. This could be no other than she whose crimes had become almost mythical—Nakari of Negari, demon queen of a demon city, whose monstrous lust for blood had set half a continent shivering. At least she seemed human enough; the tales of the fearful river tribes had lent her a supernatural aspect. Kane had half expected to see a loathsome semi-human monster out of some past and demoniacal ageOh, Nakari really is proto Raksi.
>>97286867What are your hopes for new Exalted content in 2026? I hope we get more 3e fiction, be it a comic like picture related, a novella, or otherwise.
>>97291863I'm thinking it's going to be nice to play some infernal games in 3e using some actual canon rules. I'm not really sure about new content but I'm always happy with new whatever.If I were to ask for something then I guess it'd be more demons and NPC's to play around with. Especially now that we have so much content and more years of experience to work with making cool npcs. Say what you will but I actually liked those Devil-Stars that were posted.>>97291061A big part of solars is that them being great didn't stop them from losing due to hubris. Between the first age and the great contagion it's pretty canon that the exalted can't just fix all the things.
Bloody Rose Edition>/40kg/ Community Linkhttps://rentry.org/40k-General>Community Links:https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-40000-downloads/https://www.unitcrunch.comhttps://www.newrecruit.euhttps://wahapedia.ru>3rd Party Models Pastebin:https://pastebin.com/Q33bkBUh (embed)>Pre 10th Torrent:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97291944I prefer the Minotaurs
>>97292025thank them for the service of driving down home prices.
>>97291944I don't care for Meme Templars.
>>97292029Couldnt pay me to live there lol
>>97291944because I think loyalist marines are boring
Why are wolves so common in TTRPGs as enemies?
>>97291809>>97291858Nice projection, retards.
>>97291771Yes, because unlike the dumb dong lover who thinks he can easily win a fist fight with a wolf people will make use of tools.
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>>97291570Are you in every thread saying ">no u" and "I accept your concession"?
>>97291972Sounds like you're conceding a lot...
Will 2026 be a good year for /tg/?
>>97291887>as many video gamesAnon its the price of pcs and consoles that are going up, not the games themselves. There's a big difference between the 2~3 games you buy a year going up by $10 and the machine that lets you play them at all doubling in price.
>>97291901You talk as if it's necessary to buy a PC every year.
>>97291921Sorry, I forgot everyone upgraded last year so they could run Win 11.
>>97291599Probably not. It's been a constant downward trajectory of bad threads, most of them inane quesitons with no OP involvement, none of them with any value.This used to be the place I came to get some really esoteric info on myths and folklore, people genuinely knew so much about the craft of worldbuilding, there were some interesting perspectives and reimaginings of things, there was always someone who impressed me with what they knew or thought about a topic. But they've all left. Ask a question about some obscure Greek creature of myth, you get some retard going "traditional games?", another thinking Percy Jackson is source material, some /pol/ reject goes on rant about Greeks not being white, and a couple of retards posting fetish shit. There's no imagination any more, no knowledge, no passion, it's retards shitposting their lives away.
>>97291599>41% of posters have simply, disappeared.What a odd number...
Giving a new meaning to "cell mate" its another obsessive thread of the Board Games GeneralPreviously on /bgg/: >>97253063 Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8Survey results: https://pastebin.com/YJPZ44rqThread Question:What aspect of the hobby do you have an unhealthy compulsion over? Sleeving? Logging plays? Reviewing games? Monitoring reviewers ratings to shit on them with greater accuracy?
>>97291782The tile randomness isn't as big of a factor as it might seem. While it can help, the real strategy of the game is smart stock buying: how to best benefit when company A gets acquired (stockholder bonuses) and how to best benefit when company A acquires a smaller company (preexisting shares get more valuable). It's a great game that you have to play by your gut instinct and mind games, rather than pure calculation alone. There's a reason why it's still popular 60 years later.The anniversary edition is also great, the poker chip money and tile bag are nice to have.
>>97291782>>97291880>If you get stuck with a tile that helps other peopleThis isn't the best wording since a merger pretty much always helps multiple people. I meant a tile that helps only other people but does nothing for yourself.
>>97291889That can still be planned around, do the merger early and deny a potential bigger payout.
>>97291898Sometimes it's the right move and sometimes that keeps people liquid in the middle of the game who otherwise wouldn't be. I've lost more then one game that way.
>>97291885>the poker chip money are nice to have.There's not a good way to hide the chips and Acquire with open information is AIDS. In a just world Acquire would have Chinatown paper money instead of Monopoly paper money.
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.
Some context: Color Tree is a spammer who has been attempting to promote "frenopolis" for around half a decade, originally starting in 2021 as "honktopia" with the effort accompanied by a crypto grift. Since then, it has only managed to become less comprehensible and playable.https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/78296561/https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/78411889/https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/87845408/https://web.archive.org/web/20210328154043/https://opensea.io/collection/the-people-s-game-honktopia-new-world-orderHaving renamed the effort "frenopolis" later, he continues to promote this "game" by creating threads on /tg/. He sustains these threads by flooding them with self-replies containing sections of the "rules", "gameplay examples", and expressions of support and praise for himself and the "game"; no organic discussion of the game occurs in this or other threads.
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Implementing some new effect interaction symbols, as using -1 or 0 stat for everything led to too high of effect output.▲ Up Triangle = Upon Projection ("upon added to the stack")▼ Down Triangle = Upon Manifestaiton ("upon entering")◀ Left Triangle = Upon Removal ▶ Right Triangle = Tap (changed from -1 stat)■ Square = -Stat as cost◆ Diamond = +Stat as costEnergy Symbol = Energy as costAlso looking to implement a way to limit the number of effects which get combined into a composite card, because it also led to too swingy of gameplay (basically, if the other player found a way to remove your large composite card, it was hard to come back from, and if they didn't the other player would have a hard time coming back).Picrel is the tenative plan. The card can use all of the effects, but only the bottom effect gets passed onto a composite card. This also cleans up a lot of board space usage, because you only need to have a 13mm section of text box instead of ~40mm.Also, with this change, you can now see a card's cost and type at a glance while it's your hand, which is smoother tactile gameplay.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Holiday Special EditionPrevious Thread: >>96962908 The thread to talk about Super Heroes/Villains/Spies/Agents/Rogues be it in spandex or not.Popular Choices for Games:>Mutants & MastermindsCurrently the most played one, uses a d20 resolution for everything, has powers building and rules for tactical combat.>Marvel TSR/ FASERIPClassic Supers game from the 80s, still has a lot of fans and various retro-clones. Uses a d100 with an universal resolution table to decide the degree of success, has random character generation and abstract rules for powers and combat.>Masks (PbtA)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97272538Incorrect. Public Safety Commission. No other. Do NOT argue.
>>97265446Why is the Illuminati basically the default secret society, anyway?
>>97282902Because they are a stable trope in almost all modern fiction with secret societies so much so that alternatives are basically called the not!Illuminati. Also the name is cool.
>>97254715What causes it? Is there any intelligence to it?
>>97241180How does Worm rate as a supers setting? What about Weaver Dice as a supers system? Does either have any ideas worth stealing, I mean adapting, lol?
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?
>>97288944whenever wizards release an uncucked actually good set
I'm playing skeletons.
I speedrun dailies must be new record.2 bo3 initiated both scooped on turn 1. 4 wins in 2 minutes including queue time
Pigs eat slop.Ywnbaw.
>>97288900>corotinho is about to be invaded by trumpkek
Thoughts on Scion?
>>97275695How will Celtoids ever recover?
>>97257539>You play as a Demigod>There’s a Lovecraft PantheonHow does that work exactly? The Dunwich Horror featured some Lovecraftian Demigods, and I don’t think that’s really something that fits into the setting.
>>97281865They’re mostly Chosen Scion, instead of Born
>>97281782For a game about myths and gods, people don't treat the source material with any love.Lugh is not a sun god like Apollo or Amaterasu, he shouldn't be lumped in with them.
>>97257539What are your hopes for Scion 2e in 2026?
>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.
>>97291752Which'st oneth?
>>97289348>>97289390Based
>>97290492A figure 9 inch figure of the '54 Godzilla, a Godzilla (Evolved) figure, and I'm going to be picking up an 89 Heisei figure.
>>97291765Thank you based anon
>>97291759There's a lot of options.
But have you ever noticed DM's barely disguised TRAUMA?
>>97291199No
>>97291081Save the trauma for yo momma, oh wait...
Disguised? I was at the funeral.
Drag queen gossip thread, however you might slice it.
>>97291872What?
