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>>97209588

>What is /awg/?
A thread to talk about minis and games which fall between the cracks, or peoples' homebrew wargames.
The >>>/tg/hwg thread doesn't entertain fantasy (for good reason) and the other threads are locked to more specific games.
This thread isn't tied to a game, a publisher, or a genre, let's just talk about fun wargames. Any scale, any company, any miniatures.

>Examples of games that qualify.
A Song of Ice and Fire, Argatoria, Batman Miniature Game, Carnevale, Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings,
Deadzone, Dragon Rampant, Dropfleet and Dropzone Commander, Freebooter's Fate, Frostgrave, Gaslands, HeroClix,
Kings of War, Maelstrom's Edge, Malifaux, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Masters of the Universe: Battleground, Moonstone,
Oathmark, OnePageRules, Open Combat, RelicBlade, Rumbleslam, SAGA, StarCraft, Stargrave, Sludge, Urban War, Void,
Warcaster, Warmachine, Xenos Rampant, Xenotactics...
...and anything else that doesn't necessarily have a dedicated thread.

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>>97358457
TONNAGE don't do this, battletech is a weird game and tonnage is somehow worse than BV
Could do something with force organization charts for basic troop requirements and X number of upgrades depending on the mission or other factors. The upgrades or support elements get picked from a different list army dependent.
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>>97358851
Sorry, for the other anons Ash from GMG. I figure his name would be recognizable since he positioned himself at "the awg guy" for so many years.

All I'll say is that optimizing his filming schedule to maximize the capitalistic exploitation of the community that puts food on his table is VERY on brand for his assholish personality. He has truly never given a shit about awgs and it's almost impressive that people still platformed him for like a decade now

>>97358983
DW about putting them up anon, I found a huge trove and flipped through rangers. I dont think it will be a good fit for them, but I will keep it for my own collection. I was a bit wary of post frostgrave mccullugh and after reading through it this afternoon feel like I kinda was right to not actually spend money on it

>>97358983
. It likely won't hit my table. En garde is definitely in my collection and I had forgotten about it, it will probably do just fine!
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>>97358457
Force organizations that are highly thematic and restricted. Pick a list of related units, take variant A, B, or C for that list which changes up exactly what's in it but are all still line with its base concept. Make each player pick the same number and maybe types of lists.
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>>97358457
Keep your AI generated slop outta here, faggot.
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>>97359404
>thematic and restricted
So much this. I want to skim an 'army book' of a game Im familiar with and immediately pick up on which faction it is because they're all distinct in fun and meaningful ways. The worst games are ones where you cover names and show me stat lines and abilities and I have no clue

Apart from the rampart series and similar where it's designed to let you make yourdudes yourway with what you might have on hand of course

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>Dark elves exist to be evil elves
>There's occasionally orcs that are noble savages rather than pillagers
>Even dwarves have some evil equivalents like chaos dwarfs in warhammer and whatnot
What would a "Dark" equivalent to gnomes be like? How do you corrupt a little jolly bearded man from the woods into something evil?
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>>97354130
Anyone who's played Arcanum knows that.
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>>97354058
cute and fuckable
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>>97353926
What about the peoples who built thor's hammer or that golden boar?
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>>97354058
They attract furfaggot tourists like Satan here >>97359666 and thus should never be used.
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>>97359712
I've been on this site longer than you most likely. Does that upset you?

Thread #007 Countess Edition

Welcome to /schreck/ where you can rp your VTM character! For all questions concerning the World of Darkness, please consult the WoDg and CoDg thread
>>97258877

Previous Thread
>>97131386

Brief rules
>We have no story teller, we are acephali
>Threads are v20 based, although the night is long and full of whispers, lies, and half-truths. Decide your own canon but all will not believe you
>all nicktuku will be diablerized on sight
>all OOC discussion should be spoilered

THREAD QUESTION

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>>97359079
If it's really the Black Hand we're dealing with - and not a random freak accident where one unfortunate lupine becomes the embodiment of everything he opposes - we're going to need an army.
Not one or three coteries dressed in SWAT gear. An army.
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>>97359079
>>97359148
Even if the boogeymen of the Camarilla is involved they aren't the instigating element and they wouldn't be involved in creating something like this. I've met with exiles from western provinces where the Sabb made gains. They don't fuck around with science experiments or beat their chests, they go for the kill. Cut the head off local establishments and scatter the subordinates. If there is a threat it is beyond individuals, and you do best prepare.

Beyond words and intelligence, I can't offer much. I'm on the opposite side of the continent right now. Nor do I care to endanger mine.

>>97359109
Then the sky remains blue and the moon pale. To be fair though, depending on the Loups they might well have been there first.
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>>97359245
>They don't fuck around with science experiments or beat their chests, they go for the kill.
I hope you're right, because something like an abomination on the loose makes for a very conspicuous diversion.
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>>97359307
The fact that you're even in a position to be gabbing speaks volumes. I've seen what happens when someone wants to wipe out people. I know how you wipe out populations.

Something else is happening here little princess. You have resources. Make sure you're asking the right questions.
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>>97357749
I understand and sympathize, Scarlet
Blue Fairy, where was the abomination located, don't ask why, just trust me.
Venus, you are lucky. That is all I will say and I speak from experience. -Kakophoni

If the situation demands it, I will take Boy Toy to Scholar. Hopefully we can fix this, depending on what kind of abomination it is.

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>Brutus' Drive
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1qb0_OLhDrDYVVpbllIREdOczg?resourcekey=0-m3LU1xaC5-PnnA0VLRfK9g

>DriveAnon's Drive
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Cx7KoDkQa9qmDfJN9_CehZ0fxXEweKOu?usp=sharing

>Jumpchain IRC Chat
http://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.rizon.net/?#JumpchainCYOA

>Rules
http://pastebin.com/Gqj3iKyn

>How to Jumpchain
http://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1qb0_OLhDrDVDFBR2NpdG03S0U/view


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>>97358496
You have so much autistic love for him that you keep several photos of him to look at daily.
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Partially inspired by a certain jumper here, is there anyone in Jumpchain who can drive your jumper for 0 to ape shit pissed. Anyone who you would stab at from hell's heart? Go full captain Ahab on? Pic unrelated just nice.
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Stopping in real quick for old times sake.

Are the PDFs still gone and the community still split between here and whateverthefuckchan?
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>>97359665
Yes. Although this thread's almost entirely dead these days
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>>97359665
Yes
This place is also basically a graveyard, as 90% of the posters migrated to the bunker.
But at least we have gohanposter...yeah!

How It All Began edition

>Previous Heresy: >>97346571

>HH 3.0 - Complete gofile - All Books:
https://gofile.io/d/cnJk0N
>Titanicus Compendiums
https://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/iUqNrrA8

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>>97359433
>>97359445
Get a room you two
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>>97359403
Im so broke I can't even pay attention
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>>97359450
not yet please I'm so close
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they should make a conversion beamer rapier carrier
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>>97359659
I also want conversion beamers on tech marines and forge lords back.

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Do you prefer Pokémon, Yugioh, or Magic the Gathering?
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>>97355518
>>97354184
PTA and PTU (which is based on PTA) are a total slog. You basically need tools, because there's so much fucking crunch. The powerscaling gets pretty insane too, since trainers can potentially learn how to use moves like Pokemon do.

You can play Pokerole instead, which is much less cumbersome, and takes inspiration from Storyteller system, but you might need to be ready to improvise and homebrew some things.
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>>97356918
pokerole is pretty promising, I'm not looking for a full package just a startpoint I can simplify further to introduce the concept of rpgs to 10-year-olds. PTA, PTU, Oddysee and PTR yeah they seem too complex for that.
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>>97357118
Part of the issue with PTA/PTU is that the math tries to resemble the video games too much. It just bogs everything down with bookkeeping, and makes generating new things laborious.

Pokerole is simple. Attribute+Stat=Dice Pool and roll for successes is the type of thing. It's meant for more fast and loose adventuring, with a style closer to the manga, and where you can control the scale of the game as a GM by using the sort of tier system for what trainers are capable of doing.
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>>97356664
japanese arts on good decks of magic are top tier art , just lookj sephirot alternate art styles
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>>97326799
No.

▶ Thread Task: Dark Altars

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https://bing.com/images/create/
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Curious about local genning? Check out /g/'s stable diffusion OP or ask one of our friendly locals.

▶ Perchance pastebin of generators and links:
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▶ Sora artstyles/tips:

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>>97359541
>talking about a relatively insignificant amount of gens.
so the OCfags aren't actually that much of a problem? :^)
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>>97359541
>dunelike guy
/slop/ has someone doing Dune fanart? Based.
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>What.
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>>97346883
>doing actual digital art to make slopping easier
Doesn't that kinda defeat the purpose of AI?

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>gameplay
For Centaurs, you should be able to use them as mounts when not in combat if they're lightly armed & armored. I think you could ride into battle with them and fight on their back without overburdening them, depending on your loadout. Squeezing into dungeons and caves might be a bit of a bitch, and your centaur companion may find themselves too cumbersome to accompany you in certain locations. If people in wheelchairs can make do, I'm sure a transmog potion or a shrinking potion might solve the problem.
>fantasy settings
They're more at home here for sure, like having a horse. Some taverns may give you a hard "no" for your centaur companion, but I'm sure regions that are steeped in centaur culture or adjacent ones have accommodations for their unique anatomy. If nothing else, they could help carry your camp supplies and other provisions.
>loadouts for fantasy
If you're not riding them, I think they can be pretty well armed and armored- think tower shield and a mace/flail. They also make good spearmen, so I think they'd be comfortable wielding a halbard and similar pike-style weapons. This would be with them wearing plate mail cuirass for the human portion and chainmail curtain over their horse hind quarters, or perhaps some specially fitted Gambeson. Other plate sections could be fitted to their horse body as needed. Archery and crossbows seem like they'd work for ranged options. I've not considered them using magic, but having a fairly mobile spellcaster seems cool as well.
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>>97276299
Reminder to keep the human and horse half appropriately proportioned.
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>>97344760
Looks great, like a coping Grecian's feverdream about dealing with Scythians.
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>>97348360
Thanks, it's like a big amalgamation of those early iron age iranic and turkic elements, bitches love their gold and harness
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>>97289191
No Shining Force enjoyers?
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>>97325229
I tend to make centaurs native American-inspired.

Usually, their lore for me is
> They used to be savages in the plains/hinterlands, but they were subdued and civilized by the more "sophisticated" races.

Pathfinder Card Game 3rd WHEN Edition

>>IF YOU ARE ASKING A QUESTION, PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH GAME YOU'RE PLAYING<<

Previous Thread: >>97177684

/pfg/ (pathfinder 1e) link repository: https://pastebin.com/RSt0rF0T
/p2g/ (pathfinder 2e) link repository: https://pastebin.com/1zySxwm3
/sfg/ (starfinder) link repository: https://pastebin.com/5yp9s2U3
/pacg/ (Pathfinder Adventure Card Game) link repository: https://pastebin.com/wsNmzCMR

>>CHECK THE SHARE THREAD FOR MISSING MATERIALS<<

>tq: How do you read about updates for the game? Do you read the source material or just let some e-celeb yawn on about whatever garbage they want to spin?
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>>97358933
They know enough to make a Disable a Device check at least, although how much more than that kind of depends on the hazard. The relevant rules here are (as listed here https://2e.aonprd.com/Rules.aspx?ID=2846):

Detecting a Hazard:
>"Every hazard has a trigger of some kind that sets its dangers in motion. For traps, this could be a mechanism like a trip wire or a pressure plate, while for an environmental hazard or haunt, the trigger may simply be proximity. When characters approach a hazard, they have a chance of finding the trigger area or mechanism before triggering the hazard. "

Later in that same block of text:
>"Anyone who succeeds [a secret Perception check against the hazard's Stealth DC] becomes aware of the hazard, and you can describe what they notice."

The first quote specifies that they're rolling to detect the trigger area or mechanism, and the second clarifies that a successful perception check makes them aware of the hazard, with the GM describing what the character actually notices in the world. Nowhere does it say that they learn what the hazard *is*, although it's often obvious (e.g. the mechanics of a hidden spike pit are pretty clear once you've noticed it), and when it's not I imagine a relevant Recall Knowledge would probably tell them more about it.

What's clear, however, is that they've definitely found it, and they can make a roll to disable it. The rules for disabling hazards are a little further down:

Disabling a Hazard:
>"A character must first detect a hazard (or have it pointed out to them) to try to deactivate it."

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>>97358795
this quality of the video is hilariously shit as I expected it to be, but what did you think about the gameplay? Better than that Dawnsbury crap I constantly see people glazing
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>>97358795
It’s 2025, nobody speaks English natively anymore.
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>>97359283
Seems pretty uninspired, but the execution will matter the most.
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>1e
Gonna be playing strange aeons with my friends. The party is a barbarian, mesmerist, and a witch. I was looking at the oracle. The thematic suggestions are dark tapestry, lore, and time. As a first time oracle I was curious which of these I would have the least amount of trouble with.

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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 Guide
https://pastebin.com/EVvt6P0B
>n00b Player's Handbook
https://pastebin.com/XALkXkV0

>Troves, Resources, Blogs, etc:
http://pastebin.com/9fzM6128

>Need a starter dungeon? Here's a curated collection:

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>>97357375
>I am thinking of that room having a ladder up to a hatch right by the entrance of the dungeon - this being the lower level - to cut escaping players off.
I'm not sure I understand how a potential escape route might serve to cut the PCs off. Are you suggesting the dungeon inhabitants have reinforcements up there who will come down? Or is the idea that PCs will not find the ladder/not think to use it to flee if they do find it, and the undead will thus use it to get to the exit before the players and maul them there?

Anyway, as long as it's discoverable I can't personally see a huge issue with it as long as you're okay with the PCs using it to escape faster if they find it, instead. Multiple passages between levels is ideal.
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>>97358748
You're not very intelligent
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>>97356147
>>97356150
primarily, the loot increase is only for magic items, not gold. this will give them a gold sink in having to get many items identified or scrounge up scrolls. experimentation can still be used, but a scroll or identify spell is immediate and thorough, without the risk of being cursed. that's my thought anyway. maybe I've been playing too much POWDER and shattered pixel dungeon.
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>>97356839
If you're using stock software for the kindle don't waste your time. If you're using 3rd party software, don't waste your time.

Physical dimensions 5.6" (142 mm) by 4.2". Pic related is what you'll see at various zooms. The coloured boxes match the colorsoft ar. I could have just told you to zoom the long side of each box to 5.6" on your screen but I went to the extra effort to make those details. They're 840 px on the long side, same as the colour res of the colorsoft so you can zoom them to 5.6" as well. It's all readable but it's a poor experience.

If you abandon the native software, which you'll do unless you're stupid, reflow doesn't improve things very much for a pdf full of tables, some of them sideways. The zoom, column and and scroll when zoomed options help but not a lot. Native search options are poor. The 3rd party software searches are better.

Reflow and search rely upon the book being oef or properly ocred. A lot of lazy people use fully automated ocr on poor scans and leave thousands of errors. There's a really good chance a search will miss that one instance of "ultravision" you really needed. Page searching through an actual paper book can be a lot faster than tapping through an ebook.

The colorsoft is very well named because the colour is soft. Colour murders the resolution from 300 ppi to 150 ppi. Fine for comic books, not good when you have a text dense document like a D&D rule book. They have the technology to make the colour 300ppi but they throw on a cfa and still charge premium price.

The book switching is still a major hassle. It's one book loaded at a time like most tablets. If you can handle book switching on a tablet you'll have about as much success on a kindle with 3rd party software.

I would recommend laptop, tablet, other ereader in that order with the ereader as a last resort. Unless you're playing outside the contrast of a led screen is good enough. The extra size of even a 10" tablet makes a huge difference.
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>>97359536
Seconded.
Kindle sucks ass for game stuff. It's for slow reading, not active reference

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Dark Heresy is for Manly Men Edition

>RPG Rulebooks
https://rentry.org/40kRPGLinks
>Homebrew Collection (Feb 2025)
https://rentry.org/40RPGHB
>WANG/Imperium Maledictum News
https://cubicle7games.com/blog/warhammer-40k
>Bestiary, armoury, weapon quality and NPC database
http://www.40krpgtools.com/
>Dark Heresy 2e Character Creator:
https://apps.ajott.io/dh2chargen/
>General 40kRPG Encyclopedia
https://www.scholaprogenium.com/
>Offline Combined Armory (v6.48.161023)

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Post lore retcons that would piss you off

For me Horus comes back and is the one sitting on Golden Throne
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>>97359435
Why would I go out of my way to think of scenarios that would piss myself off?
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>>97359435
I agree with the other poster, what a daft thought exercise. Probably the worst thing I could think of already happened anyway with Lion pardoning The Fallen, removing anything interesting they and the DA had going. I haven't kept up with nu-lore mostly due to this stupidity, but what drives the Angels now? Are they still all secretive and still race away from engagements, or what's their shtick now?
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>>97359530
They're still searching for Fallen, but Lion does the initial investigation. If he decides they were cool, they become a Risen. If he decides they were a nigger, then he lets the Interrogator Chaplains do their thing. The Dark Angels are doing what they normally do. The Lion is doing his forest walk thing to put out fires in Nihilus.
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>>97355569
Fuckin forgot to post before I went to bed. Sorry for leaving you hanging.

My personal experience boils down to a single utter shitshow of a game which didn't even last a session, because the GM quite literally opened with "Okay so you're all on a spaceship and you want to go do some heresy, there's three planets nearby, a forgeworld, an agriworld, and a hiveworld, pick one and then go kill some people." The situation devolved from there. Note the distinct lack of "who are your guys and what are their motives, why are you all working together, what's your objective" in there. An hour in and nobody's mentioned my name once, the GM clearly doesn't care to go into enough detail to make tech-use applicable, so I mentally check out, lower the volume to something less distracting, and go finish a video lecture. Get up for a bathroom break, come back, the server's fucking gone. I ask my buddy, another player, what the fuck happened, and he just says "Sometimes you gotta rip it out root and stem, man."

Now that's just a shit GM being a shit GM, but it's representative of a subset of people who are only there to do lolrandom dumbfuckery. Black Crusade attracts those like flies, because they see "this game is about being horrible evil chaos bastards" and they think "oh, finally, a game for me!" They don't want to engage with the game as it's meant to be played, they want to use it as an excuse to act in ways that are unacceptable at a table, and they think the subject matter gives them that excuse. Y'know, like FATAL.

This is not exclusive to the lolrandoms, either, but I'm fresh out of brain juice so I'm just gonna tell you to imagine That Guy, think about what makes him That Guy, and think about whether he thinks he could use Black Crusade as an excuse for being That Guy. I'm telling you, man, it's like flies. And it's fucking shameful, because the careful political aspects of balancing a chaos warband are actually a compelling premise.

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Hey there

I've decided to start a West Marches-style campaign on my LGS. It sounds the perfect style to run for a public setting w/ rotating players, but I myself have never DMed one

Any experiences, tips and advices regarding DM-ing/playing West Marches style games?

Or general tips for running games on LGS ?

For those unfamiliar with West Marches style, here is what google have to say about it:
>Player-Driven Exploration: Players decide where to go and what to explore, venturing into unknown territory from a safe starting town.
>Rotating Cast: A large pool of players participates, but different combinations of adventurers form parties for each session, preventing the need for a single regular group.
>Sandbox World: The world is a sandbox, with the map and plot emerging as players discover new locations and rumors, rather than being dictated by the GM.
>No Fixed Schedule: Sessions occur when players organize themselves, often on a voluntary basis.
>Low GM Prep: The Game Master (GM) focuses on creating a world and potential encounters, responding to player choices, rather than crafting complex plots.
>Self-Contained Sessions: Adventures are often designed to be resolved in a single session, with storylines evolving over time.

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>>97355649
>>97355711
Adding to this... I literally almost fell to the quantum ogre theory when I started to plan this campaign:
>decided that first session would not start in camp
>instead, players will have fled the sinking ship on a long boat and land somewhere else on the coast
>first quest is to find the remaining of the survivors (aka the camp)
>players have two options - follow the coast north or south
>one is where the rest of the survivors are, the other now
>"but what if they go wrong way? maybe i should put the survivors to any direction they go"
>immediately realized *THAT* would be textbook quantum ogres

Now I'm between either dropping that idea and already starting at camp w/ ~3 rumors (what I had in mind for session 2), or maybe still do the idea but set camp on a fixed direction (effectively keying it to a hex), and in case they go to another direction too bad

In the latter case, penalty for not finding the rest of the crew would be missing an experience reward from doing the objective, but still they could just go another route or even decide to fuck it and go deeper into the continent to see what's there. Depending on how far they explore, they could potentially make as much experience not following the objective


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>>97355767
>Thoughts anyone?
You've got more than enough ideas that its getting in the way of running your game. Really. Its just piling more shit on at this point and I get you're excited about a thing but the more you fantasize about it before playing it the worse its going to get.
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>>97355777
Well, if I could I would have scheduled the first session for today (Tuesday night), but manager from the LGS said there were already too many groups playing today and asked to start at next week instead

While I agree that thinking too much can be a problem, I'm actually getting A LOT of prep done these past few days. Currently, I'm researching combat balance tips and CR monsters to put together interesting tables of what can be featured on which biome and whatnot. Nevertheless, some ideas that come to me I just put them on hold because there are things that are simply not worth thinking about at this stage

One thing that came to me right now is:
>my play test session has only 3 PCs atm
>however, I'm "balancing" everything to be at least 4 PCs
>considering inviting one of the "official" players to the test session (lets call him Bob)
>that could potentially make the test session an official session
>next Tuesday, I would tell the new players that the Bob's PC arrived in the camp later and already explored the wilderness

This would be interesting because it would fix the size problem for my test group, and would link both groups together - that way, if the group I'm using for test decides to keep playing the WM campaign, I could run that group in parallel (that would be schedule efficient since we already meet every week anyways) while already having a connection to the "main" LGS group

Helps that Bob already knows my core group since they are all part of my MtG draft group
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Color scheme looks shitty, but I've been testing the map generation procedure in hand (plus, getting familiar with it - the hex copy feature is still a bit harder to remember the directions)
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>>97355767
I think you should abandon the idea and just start with the camp with some rumours. Having your first session be set up differently than the rest of it just seems strange, especially because so few of the players will actually get to experience it.
However, if you do stick with this and want to avoid quantum ogres, I would let them make a choice but give them very strong indicators that one direction likely has more shipwreck and maybe more people, while the other direction is complete wilderness. Otherwise having them choose to go north vs south is a meaningless choice anyway.
>>97355904
This feels a little strange to do. I could imagine a new player being put off by "hey this one dude already has gotten to explore the world a little bit with my friends, a group that you'll never meet". Also I think having some people that are part of the campaign but who never meet or interact with any of the other people might also feel odd, as I imagine that ideally everyone in the LGS group would end up at least get acquainted with everyone else. Having a separate group completely disconnected from that would be weird. I don't think it's a huge deal though if you really want to do it

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>Build Divide
>Force of Will
>Final Fantasy TCG
>DBZ CCG
>Wixoss
>Keyforge
>Gundam
>Legend of the 5 Rings (L5R)
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>>97359359
I wonder how few is too little. My game has three
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>>97359359
I don't think you can make a general rule, depends on how consistent and accessible resources are.
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>>97359522
That new cyberpunk (genre, not IP) card game has just one.
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>>97359359
Mine has 12, and it's almost certainly too many for any other game
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>>97359495
>Yugioh has 6
But functionally 0, which is why it so strongly shapes itself around archetype synergy. It lack the kind of power insulation inherent to the MtG system.

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>>97358698
That's fine.
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>>97330128
What if they had animalistic features on their arms and legs instead of just animal ears and tails?
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>>97353862
Objection!
As a magically animated entity, this feline could have been subject to any level of tampering!
Need I cite the precedent of Baron Blutwanger IV, of lower Doodle who appointed a talking harp as justice of the peace, which communicated solely in satirical verse and hypnotic tinkling sounds?
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>>97359158
Surely the visual can be executed better than that. Legit looks like she is either wearing a partial costume, or was some Frankenstein experiment.
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>>97359595
How about this one?

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Is your character the type to hit on barmaids?
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>>97355182
Nope, you are.
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>>97343045
you could go back to playing the better version of the game with the Thrallherd.
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>>97355182
Kys for defending a redditor who spams his low quality slop on the catalog
>>97354345
Sharty was right, 4chan has gone to shit when the mods promote reddit spammers
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>>97355246
Sounds like your character is literally Johnny Bravo
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>>97337982
My current character is an evil over-deity's lab experiment (a daemon god of lesser deity status that is basically an amalgam of various fiends and Cthulhu on steroids). If he deigned to visit the mortal realm in the guise of a mortal, he'd probably avoid anyone that isn't in some way useful to his agenda. Hitting on her would not serve his purposes unless she had some value beyond her holes. So...probably not.


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