>>96457768
I think the real question is "why do you hate Conan?"
The "heestoreecalee ackyurate" barbarians you want are just flavored warriors, no mainstrea system hates them or is stopping you from playing one... the classic barbarian class is there to justify running around semi-naked because people love Conan.
If you want actual historical accuracy then who would call themselves a barbarian? It's like some non-japanese going around saying "I'm a gaijin", makes no sense for anyone who can lift and thrive in physical labor.

>>96461415
>It's like some non-japanese going around saying "I'm a gaijin
>He's not taking it back

>>96457768
The "problem" you've found here is that Barbarian is much, much wider archetype than it appears at first glace. The progenitor is Conan and if you read the classic stories the only things barbaric about him are his origins. Otherwise Conan is a remarkably well-spoken, fair-minded and even-handed man who looks down on "overly civilized" folks because to him they appear helpless, weak and cruel. Conan doesn't have a berserker rage like we think of it today, he has a survival instinct and no special powers. So when he encounters a giant spider or a gorilla-mummy-demon, he panicks and he goes all out. It's got elements of horror to it. And when he fights against men his superior body isn't what sets him apart (it helps a lot against nameless soldiers but he fights other individually powerful fighting men as well) it's often his martial skill, which is mental. He's also an accomplished burglar as well as statesman, famously taking the corrupt aristrocracy to task for extorting the smallfolk with huge taxes.

Barbarian barely touches base with it's roots anymore. It's evolved as a category to include berserkers as well as mystical nature powers. Barbarians now are essentially classified as nature fighters in the same vein of paladins being holy fighters. Which is fine, but something is definitely lost in translation here. Conan is a scrappy warrior unburdened by civilization's specialization. The Fighter compared to his brand of Barbarian is essentially a soldier, someone who can *only* really fight because that's their job. Conan doesn't have a job, he has many survival skills that give him freedom.

The best fix I see imho is to rebrand Ranger as Barbarian, and give the current Barbarian bag of tricks to Druids. These are cultural discursive categories though so it's not actionable. If you want a "lore accurate" Barbarian however he needs to be a jack of all trades (explicitly besides magic) and yet forced to do odd jobs due to being an unspecialized yokel.

>>96461497
It always makes me smile to look back and remember the first Conan story ever has him already king and he's drawing maps.

>>96461876
Yes! Exactly! He's a competent monarch because monarchs are de facto outside of society by being above it. Conan has a deep bag of tricks born out of his rugged outdoorsmanship and many travels. He will never make a good farmer and he doesn't have what it takes to be a brewer or miller. A Barbarian doesn't have those ties to civility like a Fighter might. But you need someone as a sellsword, sea reaver, burglar, bodyguard, assassin, monarch, hunter, horseman or dungeoneer then you would be wise to call on Conan in every case. That's the Barbarian bag and origin. All the magic powers, totemic spirits & berserker rage stuff is best left to Druids. High level Barbarians should be frightening because they could spring almost anything on you and they're accustomed to fighting with fear, rage & hunger in their hearts all at once. The Barbarian is cool under pressure and comfortable being threatened by primal sources, he does not command nature, he is a survivor that is part of it. When you feel the fear you start sweating, when the Barbarian feels the fear he starts thinking.

>>96440290
Same here. Can't wait to see what's next.

Happy Labor Day! I wish you luck with the next update!

>>96427061
I know exactly what you mean, it can be exhausting sometimes.

You still here OP? How’s it going?

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Well, it looks like OP has left the building. Let's give it one final bump and if they want to post more they can make a new thread.

>>96457225
If you're only interested in the game, go play Tabletop Sim.
>for the last 15 years
Are you not humiliated by the fact that you've had a decade and a half to get your shit together and are still somehow unable to manage even the most basic of paint jobs?

>>96458257
Not especially. I dont know how to paint, so i dont paint. I know im not good at anything artistic, so i dont try. I know what i should try and what i should not. Miniatures perform the same with or without paint on them.

PS: Playing Infinity in TTS is a terrible experience. A 2 hours game can easely went up to 4. Also, nothing beats the sensation of physically throw dices

>>96447407
>find magical venus idol
>activate it
>get rock golem
this is NOT the magical realm I was supposed to enter!

For any lore master here:

According to the background, Yu Jing has 8 armies:

>Yellow Banner Army - Based on Earth
>Green Banner Army - Based on Paradiso
>White Banner Army - Based on Svalarheima
>Red Banner Army - Based on Mars

Do you know what the 4 missing ones would be?

>>96461604
>>96461615
Just browsing etsy: for that price you can get much nicer 3d printed tanks (or just buy a printer you pleb).

>>96461632
seconded

>>96461632
Invite only sorry, its had issues in the past getting shutdown when too many people came in.

Just gotta move to countries that have extra retarded GW prices - you'll have much higher odds of anyone in the community already being in recast groups

>>96461513
entire genital region obliterated by previously unknown xenos weapon

>>96461885
Not many Kor Phaeron fans around

>>96461072
This too is a lie.

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>>96460625
>Any other zombie/skeleton soldiers with large shields?
https://www.victrixlimited.com/en-us/collections/plastic-shields
Pick an era, add plastic skeletons of your choice. If you're specifically wedded to the Iron Age/Roman thing, then Wargames Atlantic's zombie box has half a dozen Roman and Saxon heads plus some bare heads and early Medieval helms on every sprue. There are a bunch of extra arms too. If you know someone who's interested in a different period you could easily split the box, or see if someone's selling the Roman heads for cheap.

>>96461867
Oh those are perfect shields. Thank you!

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Do yall think I have rnough Weird War 2 stuff?

>>96458890
I look forward the clips of Brennan doing some shit that knocks the players off their guard. Very few of them have actually played with him, and he's good at taking their shit into account and then using it to create shocking moments.

>>96461400
>I look forward the clips of Brennan doing some shit that knocks the players off their guard. Very few of them have actually played with him, and he's good at taking their shit into account and then using it to create shocking moments.
I've never watched this slop and so accept the possibility you're being serious. Do his "shocking moments" ever result in a liked character being permanently killed? No? Oh wow, le epic repercussions.

>>96458890
Better question is "can it be good?"

>>96458890
Considering the player count and lack of initiative to back their own fucking system, I expect it to be the same made for entertainment crap it's always been with stakes as imaginary as most "B" movies like the acting gigs that are the peaks of the their careers.

>>96458890
What the fuck happened to Matt's wife? She looks 50 lbs heavier

My friend has played one (1) male character out of over 50 I remember. All the rest have been female characters with vaguely similar looks (might just be his artstyle) but also very diverse things from monsters to mundane humans. He doesn't roleplay them with voices or anything, nor has he (except once) had his female characters do anything sexual. IRL he is asexual, aromantic, etc. I don't know if I should expect him to come out as trans in a few years. Tbh it's not even really my business but it does make me wonder. I can understand playing a female character once in a while, for me it's a big no-no as a PC, as an NPC certainly, and I do admit enjoying it. It is nice, on 2 steps of removal (both "it isn't me" and "it isn't even supposed to be a proxy of me") to play a female character. It's nice to include cute girls in your setting, as well as just normal women who would be part of the setting and any DM would include. When I used to DM for my dad it was intensely awkward to include ANY female NPCs and I only did so once. Now that I am older, in my early 30s instead of mid teens, that awkwardness is gone. But I still will not play a female PC, nor do I really feel any desire to.

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>>96455057
>Grimdark realistic setting
>secular paladin
>"female" Gnoll
>archaic spelling
>meta playing allowed

>>96455057
>>96457156
Rroleplaying means pretending to be something you're not.

>"Alright, here's a narrative arc my character will have through the game."
>pastes 70 pages of text that don't account for anything that might happened during the game

The worst are the paladins with prewritten "fall arcs".

>>96455057
>a grown man saying "red flags" like some tiktok thot
You're roleplaying a woman irl

>>96461737
I always loathe the smudginess of GPT's gens. In addition to its lack of style and disregard for pleasing aesthetics. Bing, for all its faults, at least tries to make its subjects attractive (unless told otherwise) and give you much more minute details.

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Just how hard can it be to generate a pirate fighting skeletons on deck? I kept gstting one-image results.

>>96461780
Not gonna lie, the cheating makes it funnier.
Also John Belushi is having a great time back there.

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>>96461864
It even gave me a blaxploitation result. I mean it's kinda cool and I had been wanting to generate one character like that, but it's weird.

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>>96461616
>>96461879

>>96449206
>>96454342
>>96440890

Yeah, not really sure what this is all about but bot or autist, I don’t really care.
As long as the questions are interesting, I’ll see about answering them.

But yeah, holidays… kinda more of a cultural question. They’re pretty disconnected to the environment itself and wholly dependent on the history and culture of the people.

Technically Sundowning (a cyclical natural disaster described in the google sheets) would be a sort of holiday. A very morbid one but there would probably also be a celebration afterwards for surviving another cycle.

And in the plane of water proper (Tír Fo Thuinn) the Anáil na Mara would definitely count as a week long celebration event.

So really, it just depends on the people.
But those are my examples, probably more that I’m forgetting at the moment that are in the google sheets.

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>>96455066
>>96454872

This is pretty good for play, but just for inspiration you kinda just need to look around. Ironically starting this process has opened my eyes to looking for stuff like that. Gotta think outside the box sometimes.

I’ve got some stuff on my computer, I’ll post on here later.

>>96455003
> just have the plane of fire be the “sun” either 24/7 light or if you still want night make it so that the plane of smoke becomes too thick for hours at a time.
I cannot believe I didn't think of that.

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>>96455066
Finally home, here are a couple.
Different environments that aren't always fantastical, but do just enough to get the juices flowing.

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>>96461903
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>>96444065
Not too bad.
There's lots of monsters and demons in the wilderness, but they're repelled by the human psyche so they stay away from populated areas. It's an industrial setting, so technology is good. Society is secretly controlled by magocratic fascists who conduct a lot of political assassinations and mind control, but they take their Illuminati business somewhat seriously and actually try and make sure it's generally for the greater good. Generally.
Violent oppression only happens against magic users who aren't sanctioned by the magocratic fascists, and there hasn't been a major war in like 20 years because most of the conflict is between mages and other mages, and monster hunters and monsters. Normal people are actually vibing out without giving a shit about all the retarded shadow wars happening in the woods outside town.

>>96444065
My setting is pretty wholesome overall, there are some Byzantine intrigues and the usual deals with the Devil for power, and the usual wars for resources...but ultimately it takes place in a Dark Ages with greater availability of hot baths, competent herbalists, the occasional bit of difficult to explain archeotech perceived as magic items.

Even my orc analogues aren't good or evil, just cattle rustling steppe types with rude heads who kidnap their wives.

>>96445063
All my elves exist here and "there" at the same time so have innate magical properties but are ill perceived as their head is literally in the clouds. Existing in another dimension in part, making them seem fickle, lost, spiteful. Increased human admixture is bringing them more into this world.

I don't have any dwarves. Just arsehole techgnomes

>>96461532
>Late Roman "outpost system" of protected trade routes built on earlier empires, most nations intermingled
>Elven demi humans that exist in an extra dimension
>Evil technological Gnomes who are mostly unseen
>Cattle rustling Steppe Goblins and secretly intelligent Troll Rangers
>world has second and third moons which are habitable but harsh, a Barsoom-moon of deserty bronze ageness with radium muskets and a moon of granite plinths where Dragons live

Taking OP pic an example, the difference between cozy and dystopian is if the world magically smells fresh and clean or if it smells like shit as would be the case IRL.

>>96444065
The one for my Modern Fantasy system isn't. It's more utopian than anything else. The main antagonistic force is the environment in the modern day, and it's not so much evil as it is just nature doing its thing. Of course, there are evil people who choose to be evil - but heroism and good are baked into society from thousands of years of Adventuring being pushed as an ideal, a profession for those who seek to help others and seek adventure.

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Just got the Children of the Five Winds. Pretty okay, better than the shit in Writ of the Wilds.
Super Natural Encounters are pretty good addition, and does represent the inhuman aspect of these beings when you fuck up etiquette on them. Meishido is also pretty good.
Kinda sucks that they're still focusing on Non-Rokugani schools, and they're still kinda unimaginative. I can't really see their uniqueness or flavour unlike the earlier schools in Path of Waves.
Plus side I really like the elemental gimmick for Kitsune Naturalist. It kinda sucks for a master ability, but I do like how you have to rotate your stances to represent seasons changing.
One more book left and hopefully we have enough fa/tg/uys working on it to reverse engineer the system.

>>96460770

Fuck l5r. Let it die. AEG was a shit company full of assholes.

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>>96461348
AEG had some good blood, but I generally agree.
L5R should be a memory.
....especially with the chinese in charge of a mainly japanese game

....
I can't offer more, but I am planning on making the next samurai fantasy game.

Where Clan War 2: electric boogaloo?

>>96461658
>comfy
>good art
>japanese theme
>totally uninspired, rote gameplay

why are they like this

>>96461634
Yes, yes, we're all in the TTS Save discord. I have both uploads too.

>>96461658
But what about the worker placement action selection? I thought that was gonna be at least somewhat interactive...

>>96461766
Go play Argent then.

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>>96461634
>>96461658
>Korean version
>when the English version was posted a few posts before you
Not the brightest bulb...

>>96455265
>What repels the hypothetical vampire is the fist of God Almighty himself
You mean God™ Almighty©

>>96455513
>Saul
No, it was שָׁאוּל

>>96455018
>Silver
it's because of the antimicrobial properties

>>96456448
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ-sIm-qsgE

>>96455049
Fucking literal retard consider the noose

>>96454897
this guy made a comic that basically boiled down the liberal worldview to its most basic, digestible form and accidentally redpilled a bunch of people against it

>>96455235
>>96455190
He will cut himself with the machete and infect you with his AIDS

>>96453011
>boss is easier than the filler

>>96459162
DMs who allow players to do literally anything just if they roll 20 and their consequences has been a disaster for roleplaying.

>>96460932
Shen would not dare tresspass on Trudy Cooper's gimmick.

>>96461509
>what does she do
Mostly run at people for hand-to-hand combat, though some are capable of creating an energy bubble that slows down anything passing through it in order to support other Invem (though this is a concentration ability).
>what is her attitude
They have a chipper and clingy demeanor, but, like most Invem lifeforms, they only have animalistic intelligence.
If offered as a companion, it'd be an unusually intelligent specimen, and it'd have... interesting implications for the setting, since they're created by a series of events that Jumper is capable of preventing.
Also, she's technically a nugget, since the slime-arms are disconnected from the main body and the legs are cybernetic

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>>96461490
I know nothing about the series, but this creature is cute.

>>96461594
I think she should be a follower and have a small group of them and I WOULD buy them anon

>>96461490
>>96461594
What jump?

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>>96461840
Blaster Master Zero. It's a work in progress.