I heard ChatGPT was a decent enough solo DM experience and I decided to try it>generic human fighter whose job was to guard a princess but failed>first session starts alright, fought some water soaked zombies and found the princess>couple of more sessions in there's a global level system which dictates which reality is true and uses human anchors in case it can't stabilize a location>another couple of sessions in I am now arguing logics with ChatGPT because I got some superpower which lets me create point and relationships between them>end up this first arc building a system where synthetical ancors replace human anchors and it took me a while to cover all edge cases>this is at level 4>explicitly say I do not want to deal with this stuff anymore>ChatGPT: "You're totally right!" ;^)>next arc is about a network of reality bending doors in which couriers must transport fragments of reality from door to door to keep the reality in check>the only way I could disrupt this was by PLACING FUCKING STEPPING STONES IN AN IRREGULAR BUT NON-OBVIOUS WAY>my fucking god>write explicity multiple times in the source of the project to not have any other reality bending stuff and all that happened earlier was an exception>ChatGPT: "You're absolutely right!" ;^)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97839223At least those are often basically digital gamebooks
>>97837598All that's missing from the authentic human GM experience is ChatGPT coming here to make a thread about its entitled and ungrateful player not engaging with its awesome setting and worldbuilding.
>>97837598Try playing good games that you can run solo.
>>97840438The last arc which I ended just 12 hours ago was about trying to take over what's essentially an army of abducting robots by arguing with the second in command I was a higher rank than his through contradictions and processable but unsolvable directives.At least the proposal to the princess went well.
>>97837598AI is better used as a supplement for solo RPing, primarily for narrating while (you) guide the game along along with creative input, dice rolling, and proper rules management. You have to specifically tell it the things you roll up and interpret like "the goblin got a crit on me and fucked me up" or "NPC X told me off after I tried to intimidate him" so it doesn't make you into a god that everyone loves who can cut down an army at level 1. And like other posters have said, you need to use something like Sillytavern to use lorebooks that summarize previous events to keep your context under control and to prevent it from forgetting what happened in the past.
>GURPS Ultra Tech is apparently bad>People say to not reskin 5e (e.g. Ultramodern 5)>Stars Without Number is just OSR grog slopWhat systems are actually good for running sci fi games then?
>>97839724Try Cepheus Engine if you want to separate the setting from the game completely, it’s essentially genericized Mongoose Traveller 1E. Other than that, you can just tweak or ignore whatever piece of setting lore you don’t like, and leave the big picture stuff as background info that’s irrelevant to most of the campaign.>>97839803That’s only the default in Classic Traveller, they introduced an alternative rule where you get ejected from the career following a mishap or injury, and later editions use that as the default.
>>97839664Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader --i.e. 1e. It is actually a skirmish wargame-rpg hybrid and requires a GM.If you're looking for a military sf type of game, it comes with a cool setting, and cool tables which is the sweet spot between strict setting and GM homebrew.
>>97839955Nah it works fine for Infinity styleBut you do have to tell your players what equipment they are allowed
>>97840865I can live with that.
>>97839664Dark heresy and the star wars one are both pretty good. Nothing paizo makes is good but starfinder exists. Any of them can be generic if you file the serial numbers off.
Recently I found some Humanity Fuck Yeah YouTube videos that use AI voice narration on my feed. After using them as background noise while cleaning my apartment I found that that most of them are more or less the same. Humans are the only ones who know how to fight/love sex/survive/etc. How can we save the genre or reinvent it so it isn't so stale?
>>97839468I remember one short story I read where some human soldiers were helping their alien allies in a firefight with another alien species. The opposing aliens had super advanced stealth technology that nothing the human’s allies had could pick up on. And the humans didn’t have any technology that could pick it up, either, but when they got to the fight, they were really confused because they could just kind of… see the enemy aliens with the naked eye.Afterwards, the allies commander asks the humans how the hell they saw them.Turned out, in the spectrum of light visible to humans, the stealth suits were hot pink.
HFYfag humiliation ritual thread? Love these
>>97833292>Because earth is eventually going to become a scorched rock as our sun increases in size.You do realize the sun will transition to becoming a red giant in 5-6 billion years, which is longer than the current age of the Sun and Earth itself(4 and a half billion years). Add to that complex animal life has only existed roughly six to seven hundred million years and it took all that time alone for us to evolve. So animals went from what were essentially jelly sacks absorbing nutrients from mats of bacteria in the Ediacaran to humans. do you really think the descendants of today humans will be in any way recognizable in 5 billion years when we cant even begin to recognize some of the shit that was alive only a tenth of that time ago. If we have some descendant alive when the Sun eventually does transition into its red giant stage they will so far removed from what we are today that their equivalent to Ediacaran life will be more recognizable as life to them, then the entire history of life on Earth as we know it, will be to them.
>>97840280>AntihumanFirst word and you've already outed yourself as someone who didn't read the thread. Try again.
Professor EditionPrevious: >>97833922>Most recent banlist updatehttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-banned-and-restricted-february-9-2026>Most recent bracket system updatehttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-brackets-beta-update-february-9-2026>Outline article introducing the bracket systemhttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/introducing-commander-brackets-beta>Current banlisthttps://magic.wizards.com/en/banned-restricted-list#commander-bannedComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97840950a fine addition to my raised arms tribe
>>97840950I wouldn't say no to a Frazetta if I was given one, but I sure wouldn't buy it myself.
>>97840867ok>>97839289Your main theme are food, life gain, ramp. Pick up;>Samwise Gamgee>Lotho, Corrupt Sheriff>delightened halfling>three visits>rampant growth>kodamas reach>jaheira, friend of the forrest>vito, thorn of the dusk rose>smeagol, helpful guide>cauldron familiar>kambal, profiteering mayorComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>97840316Nah all izzet commanders are like that. You just have to ramp like crazy. Storm on all instants and sorceries is insane, more than worth the commander
Elves in trouble editionDiscuss elves.Post elves.Love elves.All elf lore, games, stories, and anything else elfy is all appreciated.Thread question:Do your elves get in trouble a lot? How?Previous >>97741661
>waifutards are actually feminists with "we are always been here" argumentMakes sence why you are acting like cancer across the fandoms
>>97840164I'm actually starting to like you Noldorfag.
>>97840164My point is that this whole "fight against something that's an intrinsic part of the board's culture" thing, leads to a dramatic decrease in board quality. We could have had an interesting discussion about elves here but because Noldornigger showed up, sperged out over a cropped porn image he could have ignored instead, we have this shit instead.>>97839943The last time the rules on this place were seriously enforced it damn near killed the board, you don't want the mods to notice us again.
>I DID THIS BECAUSE OF OP! HE FORCED ME TO DO THIS! HE GAVE ME NO OTHER OPTION!But Noldorfag spams every thread with the same images and seethes at any of female elf. He even seethes at Deedlit, Frieren and Piro.
>>97840749>chicken or the egg argumentI'd still take chud spam instead of pron ANY day
I was going to use the fictional religion of the story 'stranger in a strange land' called 'The Church of all worlds' and their thing with psychic powers. But I found out that psychics are illegal in the Island setting of the game. So is there any other fictional religion with an air of legitimacy or at least some sort of supernatural powers?
>>97837710You can spin a religion out of most powers, to retroactively justify them. Or you can just look at most religions that involve clerics in fantasy and adapt them.
>>97837840This is pre world of darkness so I don't really know what I'm allowed to have for the most part.
>>97838430That's up to your GM, so ask him.
>>97837783>psychics are illegal unless you're a government agentJust like B5 psicorp. Either join the corp or take psi-suppressive mood altering drugs for the rest of your life.>>97834539Minbari in B5. Whole entire caste called the religious caste. Telepaths are legal and respected. The Centauri also have a religion, a fucking awesome one, and telepaths are legal and respected. Humans are the only ones who really suppress psychics.
>>97834539Talk to your GM rather than us. That's their job, not ours. Oh wait, you probably did, he gave you an answer you didn't like, and you want one of us to give you a different one so you can whine and go "SEE SEE THIS IS TOTALLY VALID". Kill yourself OP.
How should Wizards fix and improve Birthright rules, so it wouldn't be a total ass to GM?
>>97836175Why is the detail of this image absolute dog shit? Is this AI generated, or is it because 2e is such a garbage game that it permeates even to digital files?
>>97836316Clearly the OP pic was run through some dogshit filter. A quick image search pulled up this one, and none of OP's. No idea why they'd post a fucked up one. Birthright's rules are ok, not great. Personally I'd steal rules from ACKS, they'd probably have the details to run a legacy game.
>>97836316Not AI generated, but it has all the hallmarks of AI upscaling.
>>97836175Why is it ass to gm?
Why did domain level play fall out of style?
>>97839789Thought so, I recall them pushing it in the last years
>>97837556Because people with shitty middle management and email jobs don't want to play administrators in their escapist adventure fantasies.
>>97840467>the american mind cannot comprehend the multi dimentional game.
>>97837556The amount of people who genuinely enjoy this kind of play is scarce and the amount who would prefer it to more regular adventuring or other character focused stories even scarcer. And half of them would probably rather play a wargame, board game or a vidya grand strategy anywayThat being said, plenty of modern games do introduce some form of mechanics for grander scale play, but usually they are simplified and somewhat handwave'y
>>97837556I'd say mainly because it feels a lot like busywork, and over time TTRPGs have shifted to be more about the player characters and their adventures to feel more like the band of heroes in stuff like The Hobbit/LOTR (because I know some of you autists will sperg if I don't mention the Hobbit), more of a fantasy epic where the party has a larger heroic goal than just being mercenaries who go around looting tombs and stabbing monsters, and are more personal than sending your entire army out to do stuff for you.Basically, domain level play robs the player characters of much of their agency. It turns them into glorified middle managers rather than adventurers. It's the same reason hirelings are largely unused despite there being rules for them even in modern D&D, because people want to be involved, not just spend money to throw bodies at a problem until it goes away.>>97837901Cool, the genre is Fantasy. Go play a historical if you care about that shit.
Way of the Samurai Edition>What is this?/TG/ DEVELOPED A GAMEIT IS PLAYABLE. IT HAS BEEN PLAYED.EXPEDITION is a ~1880s era, Jules Verne-inspired retro-futurist, underground blood soaked adventurescape.It is a Skirmish wargame. Two players with their own expeditions, on a hexgrid map, explore & fight each other for victory and profit.3 versions of the rules exist, 2 of which have been playtested. The main one is 2e, to be found :>https://www.mediafire.com/folder/us7vnek39dc6k/AgarthaRulesas with maps, tokens and lore resources.>TL;DR Dochttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1LxdaGoBlJRTMuziMDupG5TeeFwNDnsIW2pfaRAcFDgA>Main Lore Doc, including links to anon-written short stories and additional lore in "Recommended..." sectionComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97838100This one doesn't have to go on the chart if it's too out-there. We're already pulling from two different factions (Lemurians and Lost Men) though so I thought it would be funnyThe Analytical Engineer:>"Why am I on this chart? I use science, not primitive mumblings!">Worried his engine will explode>Worried Lemurians will find him>Worried the bubble will popRight of JayanyatiWhy is Ozzy in the bottom right by the way? He's a prophecy guy.
>>97838100Left of prophet-BureaucratThe Rejected Degenerate:>The Lights are on, but no home>Remember the person you used to be?>They want you to come back>Might be the original
>>97838100Slot below AgentDigested Degenerate:>Could be worse>Ask not from whom the jerky is made>Outperforms The Cultivated in every list
>>97838100You put Ozymandias and Bureaucrat on the opposite side.
The cultivation continues.
Not only is Yelmalio proven to get his ass beaten constantly in his own stinkin myths, he is portrayed as a proven enemy of the Storm Tribe afterwards. Why the hell would Sartarites bear to have them in their midst as potential destabilizing elements when his worshippers sell themselves to the highest bidder when the Occupation begins ?GLORANTHA Thread
>>97834410Honestly even if he was his favorite, There are already Praxian Yelmalians and Esrolian ones out there. Why does a prominent local cult have to suffer for an obvious foreigner cult ? Humakt is seen as a foreigner since he kut his kinship ties but is still a proper orlanthi god. I don't see why Yelmalio couldn't be written the same way.( in Sartar at the very least)
Give me a rundown because I keep hearing people complaining about two gods being the same in the new edition but apparently they weren't for decadesI don't feel embarrassed for asking because glorantha lore is fucking dense and hard to find in one single place
>>97838878Basically, Elmal was the sun-god worshipped by the Orlanthi; he is originally a member of their traditional enemies, the "Sky Gods" or "Fire Tribe" of the Dara-Happan pantheon, but was befriended by orlanth, and became his thane.There is also another fire-tribe god called Yelmalio, who left the fire tribe proper, and lost his "heat" in a fight with the Trollish demon-god Zorak Zoran; in some versions Zorak Zoran ganked him after he had already lost a fight with Orlanth.They had similar portfolios, though Elmal was never denuded of his fire, and the cult of Yelmalio tended to organize itself as independant temple-communities, the most famous of which are the sun-domes.Some bright spark developer then decided to come along and declare that Elmal is actually just an Orlanthicized form of Yelmalio, and reduce his cult to something that's been pushed out and largely subsumed into irrelevance, leaving the Orlanthi without a -proper- sun god of their own, which a lot of people think sucks.Elmal was a cool god; he is the patron of watchmen and the fyrd, and is associated with the spear, and because of his fire rune affinity, also horses, though his affinity for them is not as strong as many other fire-tribe gods, and most (but not all) Orlanthi cultures are indifferent horsemen.
>>97832836Yeah, I've never got it, either; I'm a bit of a late comer to all of this, but, going back through old forums posts, and dredging up old articles, even back in the day, Jeff seems to have this hype-focused hate for the guy. Pretty much everything else, he's normally pretty diplomatic, and very much focused on "Your Glorantha Will Vary", but Elmal? There's always this undercurrent - or just current - of "You're fucking doing this wrong, and you should feel bad for doing it." Hell, almost every time I've seen him talk about it - even decades ago - he seems to go out of his way to emphasise how 'wrong' people are for liking Elmal, while also doing everything he can to misinterpret peoples arguments or statements.Has there ever been any explanation for it? I know he's said quite a few times how tired he is of people asking about Elmal, but, again, even going back two/three decades, he seems to fucking detest the fucker.
there is a episode or two dedicated to Elmal in the Godlearner podcast
Whatever you may think of the idea of martial characters in D&D or any other fantasy rpg basically doing sword magic, it is at least a lot more fun from a gameplay perspective than just going "I make an attack roll" every round.
>>97840336Delete the post with your mod powers if you dont like it.
>>97840158>Fake binary choice threadKill yourself, faggot
>>97840353And now what?
>>97840910Keep seething, nogames.
>>97840158Have you tried not playing Dndogshit?
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>>97840294anon are yoou ok
>>97840810That's just Ottomanon, they're like that
>>97819348>Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?>Thou art more lovely and more temperate
>>97840953>>97840734
Long time MtG player (17 years?) and with what's happening to the game rn, i don't really have much interest in any of the new sets. Sorcery looks like it could maybe scratch that itch. The art is fantastic and reminds me of legacy MtG art. Anybody here play?I watched a few overview vids, but I'm curious how the actual gameplay goes. For someone who plays mostly EDH, are there any similarities? Is it usually a 2 player match?How long are the matches usually?Is it as much of a money pit as MtG?Convinced a few of my MtG friends to give it a shot based off of the art alone. Just need an idea of what I'm up against in terms of learning curve.
>>97837743Yeah, made me a Wight enthusiast for life.I have a profound love of things that dwell in barrows and inhabit the corpses of dead kings.
>>97826838Going to buy some cases now. Seriously.
>>97820622Atleast in our city sorcery has been steadily gaining new players, with most being ex-mtg players or completely new to tcg hobby. It's either been the art or gameplay drawing people in. Ppl seem to enjoy the boardgame feel of the game with site placement and cards really affecting the realm unlike in some other games. Someone in the latest sealed event pulled this badboy and gotta say that flavour texts are so damn good in this game,
>>97835460this and a bunch of other Ian images appeared in the Tolkien bestiary too. I also always loved the wights picture. awesome that they got him involved for this, his shit is so unique.
>what if we make looking like 90s generic fantasy art our selling point
I always hear about the stir this caused, and recently about how bad or redeemable it is. I'm not certain about it myself because I dabbled with 3e and then got into 5e, never paid much attention to the scene during that entire era. What does /tg/ think of the system?
>>97839438Fuck off with your useless meme buzzword. It has no value.
>>97839438I don't think that's the case, anon.
>>97839106>Not as gay as Paizo but nearing it.I had no clue Paizo became THAT bad.>>97838955I think it was just his wife, actually.>>97838370I'm pretty sure most of the hype around The Thing came from the players, and the hate for The Different Thing came from them looking at it. Lots of 2e players just went on to play 3e without too much problem, and even on to other d20 games.>>97838265Geez fuck, anon>>97836746I had just been listing official takes on settings across the various editions. I have strange hobbies that usually amount to stuff that no one ever has any use for.
>>97840769And lots of 3.5 groups played 4e without much problem. My real life group was one of them. Unless you have some numbers to back up the claim, anecdotes don't mean much here.
>>97840852Truth. The same goes for >>97838370, though. I guess you can always set up a poll or something if you're curious, like, how many people went from before 3e and dropped before 4e or not, why they didn't care for it or whatever.
Anyone got any better than this D&D now vs then comparison pics, especially for art style?Seeing the new MTG set look so incredibly gay and full of mediocre modern digital fantasy art is quite sad.
>>97832998For Pride month, nothing more. You choose not to include any of the art that does not push your agenda .
>>97840624>beholder basedfacing at a black woman
>>97840635And the black womyn is the new khelben blackstaff
>>97831907It does look so corny. Like early 10's Tumblr art and not something you'd see from an actual game company. I guess if I were in charge of DnD I'd try to split the brand. One line that's traditional dungeon-crawling and the like. And the other one more aimed at people who play on Discord and want a cozy fantasy about being quirky tieflings running their own tavern or whatever. >>97839409I know tattoo people usually have room temperature IQs so they're stuck in the present moment, but getting someone's style of beard tattooed on you seems retarded since they'd probably mix it up a bit over the course of several centuries.
>>97840819You know, you can have a bear tattoo just because you like how that beard style looks
