Lets talk about what makes a player or GM truly great? Is it how a player makes their character, roleplay at the table, a GM who is very descriptive, etc.Or we can share stories about really good players or GMs we met at our own tables.
>>97337028>me, realizing that's been pretty much my entire group for the last year and a half.
>>97337621Oh no. I can feel you here very well. :(I still believe some of these cases can be engaged enough to do at least something (trust me, I tried my best here ... and almost typed "tried" as "tired"). But for an entire group that sounds like playing on nightmare mode ...
>>97337743Worst is I don't think they were always like that. It's as if something shut off in all of them as we moved from one arc to the next. It's perplexing, because they are the group with the best attendance record I have ever had. Yet their passivity was enough to make a friend of mine who joined on bow out, since there's only so much a single person can do to ensure the entire party isn't gawking (metaphorically) at the GM silently for a solid minute when an NPC is speaking with them, or being presented with a situation that doesn't have an obvious thing to punch.
>>97336345this
>>97336205Speaking as a perma-GM I’ll just do players>Can pay attention for several hours at a time and remember things not just from today but from weeks/months in the past in reasonable detail>Possesses critical thinking skills and a basic level understanding on how things work in reality (they don’t need to know the fictional stuff, that can come later, but you should know things like “water flows downwards”, “smoke will fill a room if there is no opening for it to escape”, etc.)>Has curiosity and asks questions about the things they encounter in the game. I swear there’s little worse as a GM than to present something, and just be met with dumb silence>Sucks for autistic people but it really helps if you’re able to read the tone of conversations, the situation, as well as the room of players itself>Is not a narcissist >Hygiene and manners when in another person’s house. >>97336368> not politically brainrottedUnfortunately a huge problem in current year. I do not care to seethe about what trump tweeted nor about gay people I am here to have joy when you find the safe key I placed taped under the toilet tank’s lid
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>>97343300I see you. Those digits are exquisite.
>>97343412Same actually, I went in hoping to get some cards for a Mihawk deck, but I only got like two.
>>97343710Isnt mihawk pricy?
>>97343783I think it's like $150, which is pretty pricey, but less so than decks like Ace, Boa, or Roger.
>>97343234I'm not a fan of it. When I played, every deck basically did the same thing. According to people who have been playing a long time, the game used to be much more varied but it seems like Bushiroad can't design and sustain a card game to save their life.I really liked Buddyfight a lot but towards the end of its life the powercreep was insane.
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>>97344164>Kithler
>>97344149Honestly a set designed by a Lakota artist would go hard as fuck
>>97344167Art:cleavage and order by release date, dude
>>97344166Digital. MTGO too.But what does it matter. He has full art.
>>97344231>Art:cleavageIt looks pretty barren if you add -is:reprint to it. Final Fantasy is such an outlier.
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>>97343860Most of those are either cross-splat or could be dramatically improved by being made cross-splat
>>97340626Wouldn't those be the Baali?
>>97343161This was what my ST did when he ran CofD. He basically used it as a replacement for the Weaver.
>>97340758Nah they suck so badly. I hate nuDemon the most because it should have been called Matrix or made into a technomancer splat as it has no theme that makes it demonic enough. Demon the Fallen is amazing and should be ported to the nWoD instead.Hunter the Vigil, Vampire and Geist are the better games. Also Promethean even if its clunky to play with other splats.>>97340746Why be a Wraith when you can be a Geist? It has all the upsides without the downsides.
>>97342940Funnily enough, it was originally Mage only until a backer who purchased a word count reward and asked for Werewolf stuff, because Mage loves hogging Eras that are better for other splats. I'm looking at you, Golden Age of Piracy.This isn't Mage's fault, but the fanbases, but we missed out on a Gilgamesh Era for King Arthur because the Mage fans gaslit themselves into thinking it'd be Merlin's pre-ascension Camelot instead of post-ascension.
Douchemachine used to be the largest competition to GW. Now look at it and laugh
>>97330704Looks like a higher tech khador man o'war, which is presumably what it isI don't mind how the new Mk4 models look, but neglecting core factions like Cryx, Menoth, Skorne and Circle for stuff like trollkin pirates kinda killed a lot of the potential hype they could have gotten
>>97332225The Mk4 lore isn't even that bad, what little there is of it. The main Mk4 rulebook is pretty anemic on lore compared to previous corebooks and there's next to zero character driven narrative posted anywhere outside of small story blurbs on their blog.It sucks because they actually DID make a pretty great character agnostic setting with good worldbuilding with Warcaster, which got an entire hardcover book just for lore.Mk4 Warmachine so far is:>it's 7-ish years after the battle of Henge Hold>Everyone has advanced in technology, Cygnar is much more tolerant of Cyriss and other religious minorities, which leads to even greater advancements in tech and magic>The Orgoth suddenly return, having learned their lesson and made their own warjacks and blackpowder weapons. They take a big portion of Khador's coastline, a bit of Ord and an island from Cygnar>Everyone rushes to defeat them, Cryx includedThat's it. That's all that has happened in the 2-3 years since they relaunched Mk4. There aren't any boots on the ground perspectives or any character stories, it's just a wikipedia entry for the most part.>>97332398They DO still exist, but the original Protectorate is a shell of itself. Instead, the good guys from the faction left with Tristan (an actual lawful good paladin) to Zu, and are likely to return.
>>97343812They have kept releasing armies, but Mk4 armies are small. Like theme forces back in the day, but not optional and you can't use models between them even if they're both Cygnar, for example.The problem is that they had to have their arms twisted to release Cryx at all, and other core factions like Menoth are only now going to get their first armies this Summer where Trollkin, Khador and Cygnar are already up to 2 separate forces.
>>97344010No, the kickstarters for Warcaster did quite well but PP was severely in the red even then, those kickstarters were all that kept the company going for several years until they flubbed the Mk4 relaunch and officially ran out of funding.
>>97343812Pretty grim relaunch.
How do I recapture the vibes of this game in my West Marches campaign?
>>97344106Literally can't, as Ico depends on visuals, music, and clunky controls to create its vibes.
Sure, go for it.
>>97344211>clunky controlshard disagree.
mondays editionInfinity is a 28mm tabletop skirmish game produced by Corvus Belli, and includes the related games Aristeia, Defiance, TAG Raid, REM Racers, and Acheron's Fall. Corvus Belli also produces the fantasy games Warcrow and Warcrow Adventures.>Latest official update:January preorders>Rules and missions:https://infinitythewiki.com/index.phphttps://infinitytheuniverse.com/resourceshttps://infinitytheuniverse.com/games/infinity/its>Beginner FAQs and guides:https://pastebin.com/x06JG55Uhttps://pastebin.com/xtQzRcq5 https://pastebin.com/xUBR7QFU Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97339691Bultrak? More like Bullshit!
>>97341005>not Bulldrek
>>97342177Let me guess. Everyone player is a basist.
do YOU field and use jetpack troops anon?
Is it better to have fully anthropomorphic beast people in your settings or just humans with like animal ears and tails?
>>97331863Fascinating. I wonder why it got worse with every iteration?
>>97344041
>>97344201She's very cute.
>>97337300Is this supposed to be an example? This looks like a human with fake ears and some makeup.
>>97332073I was hoping for more, guys...
Imagine… Queer Worlds… #wow #whoaImagine if there were Queer Worlds…#wow
>>97337524Hue hue hue
>>97334560SEXOSAURIO!SEXOSAURIO!
>>97334560I bet she has a bonus to anal circumference checks.
>>97334560>the triceraTOPS and tiefling double-dicking you and the thick slampig baddie is crushing your head with her thighs while you eat her outMUH
>>97334588Bruk agree with Thog. Don't care.
Could it work in a /tg/ context? Say you used the Damaging Objects rules from the d20 System.
Agree with the above.
>>97343823 JUST YOU AND ME MINER
>PCs get to fuck around with the railgun and chucking attachable mines onto people
The big gimmick of the red faction games is environmental destruction which ports poorly to tabletop because environmental destruction was never a limitation in this format.
>>97344210Check the objects/hardness rules in your D&D 3.5 DMG (or just the SRD). They account for material, thickness, and resistances.
White Wolf died. But where's the replacements? DnD has hundreds of clones. But where are all the vampire/mage/werewolf clones? Is because DnD is more generic and easier to copy?
so apparently the order is>storyteller>storytelling>storypath>storypath ultra>>97340279>just read ~2000 pages of textyeah i will resort to that if i can't find the answers online. i got other things to do than read systems i might never ever get to play >>97340378apparently storyteller is the very first version too, which is impressive that they iterated on it and of the successors one is hated the other
>>97343530I hate to be the one to break this to you, but reading is the main way one learns games, it's kind of important, actually. If reading is so tough for you, you might want to reconsider your choice of hobby.
>>97343759RPGs are notoriously badly written, distilling information from them is a very time consuming act and i am grateful that i do not need to do it every single time. i also disagree that reading is the way to learn tehm, because playing it is how you actually get a feel for the game. something that only reading will not instill into you.
>>97340688oWoD had much more globetrotting metaplot silliness, in my experience
>>97344125So, by your own logic, trolling for information from randos on a nogames board is probably the absolute worst way to gain any insight into anything.
What would be the best system for a Predator vs Na'vi game ?
What about best system for Predator Vs Three Stooges vs Anton Chigurh?
>>97338561You are never going to run this so why do you even ask?
>>97338646Is this A.I generated?
>>97339021I can't believe only one person went for it.
which of the films is /tg/'s favorite?for me it's Predator, especially 2, although the Navi ones are pretty good too.
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>>97343899I went with a more Spartan cooking honestly. Which in ancient times was described as being something non-Spartans considered traumatizingly awful, but Spartans themselves loved. Tasting History recreated one such Spartan stew and described it as bland with a metallic aftertaste if I remember correctly. The spin of New Mando cooking was to marry the Spartan-style cooking with what Galaxy’s edge considered mando cooking. And frankly it just felt right, I can imagine that with the new pacifist philosophy, traditional tests of courage and strength would be seen as taboo, so a more “socially acceptable” way to prove oneself might just be seeing how spicy of food you can handle before tapping out.
>>97344024Geonsians can be force sensitive and their larvae can be used to mind control hapless victims, or puppet corpses
>>97343023>>97343899>>97344038My take would be that Mandos have three style of cuisine>old-school cookingolder nordic/slavic-esque with influences of self-sufficient homestead cooking. Using all parts of animals/fish for stuff like bloodfood, bone broths, pickled fish, lots of hearty soups/stews. Big shared meals for important occasions like births. Lots of salt and acquired flavors that would weird out people who didn't grow up with it.>field/deployment cookingmix of MRE/nutricubes plus whatever you can trap and cook in a way that doesn't give way your position.>new-school cooking lots of fusion cooking blending different cultures into a melting pot of flavors. Some of the old style still hangs around but is supplemented with a lot of non-traditional ingredients and side dishesOr to break it down into easier concept, a christmas dinner example:>old style: smördgåsbord of 3-4 various styles of pickled herring, crisp bread, eggs with salted roe, salted fish and cold-cut meats, mustard-glazed ham or slow-cooked frozen moose roast and rice porridge >field: turkey MRE and beaver meat prepared in a smoke-diffused cooking pit >new style: smördgåsbord of a wild variety of pickled herring, sushi rolls, eggs with salted roe, deep-fried banana bread, cold-cut meats, turkey roast
>>97343023IIRC Wookiee food is mentioned to often be spicy as hell, to the point of potentially causing damage to the human digestive system, because they have a far higher tolerance of spiciness than humans (or possibly are unaffected by some spices entirely, like how capsaicin has no effect on birds because they lack the specific taste receptors it affects).
>>97344057I bet some scummy Corporate Sector MedTech company would experiment with drugs to keep geonosian larvae from outgrowing their larvae stage. Or some dark jedi/inquisitor would meddle with sith alchemy and make chrysalid version of geonosian larvae
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>>97344088I want to play March of the Ants so bad
>>97344062Being generous
>>97343940>building two ships at the same time onew ith each hand trying to rack up a high scoreactually based idea
>>97344099I got the retail version and after playing it multiple times, I wish I backed the kickstarter for the deluxe edition. In 4 player games you run through the whole deck so I'd like to have slightly more variety. Can't complain with how smooth it feels overall.
>>97344200I think the expansion is coming to retail at some point
What sci-fi setting has the best Space Rome?
>>97340258>Warhammer 40k hardly uses Latin in a competent wayThat's... the joke? Do you not understand that?
>>97340343And don't you forget it!
>>97336278>What sci-fi setting has the best Space Rome?Unironically these dudes.
Always loved the roman influence in star trek when it came to the romulans
>>97340399Nah the Hegemony are the good guys, I myself almost exclusively play for the Hegemony **Total Faggot League Death and Total Tri-Cuck Death**
