show me your 2025 wargaming "year in review"
>>97334092Broken Arrow is called, the company commander calls 2 Skyraiders loaded with napalm on his own position. Deviation dice roll is very lucky, they manage to miss most of their own units by a fraction of an inch. A warm day in South Vietnam just got a lot hotter for these lucky GIs
>>97334106these aren't all from the same game, just kinda grabbing my favorite pictures
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>>97334117I really gotta figure out a better way to do water. These are hideous and I only like them because they're flat and generic enough that I can put them together to form a river, a bay, a beach, etc. Extremely versatile but they look awful and the clear gaps between the sheets trigger the fuck out of meAnyways thats the last one I promise
>>97332722Holy fuck I just googled and these are WAAAY over priced!! Too bad, they are so sick but that company is so Jewish in their prices
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. And as we enter this happiest and newest of years, remember: 2e was never an old-school game, bait is for reporting, and fish is for smoking! Happy new year, grogs!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 Guidehttps://pastebin.com/EVvt6P0B>n00b Player's Handbookhttps://pastebin.com/XALkXkV0>Troves, Resources, Blogs, etc:http://pastebin.com/9fzM6128>Need a starter dungeon? Here's a curated collection:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97334181I'm inspired by Jaquays' work, especially Borshak's Lair and the top level of Thracia. I love her style so much! This is at a 10ft scale, so there are some huge rooms. I'm probably gonna make the rooms on the right side smaller, as those are kobold bases.
>>97334181sounds like its time to railroad them tbdesu
>>97334219Bad advice, players need time to grow into their agency.
>>97334268yes, but by putting them into the thick of a bigger situation, a DM can force action or punish inaction.It doesnt have to be over the top or harsh, but show them that they need to self-invest.
>>97333776Just give them 3 options to do in town and if they're not doing any of those move onto the dungeon. I've been using the Heat score from Scarlet Heroes for years at this point and it works well for adding occasional urban adventure that isn't the mainstay. Tends to come up frequently enough its a factor and the players think about it but not so often it becomes the whole game.
Can your party be trusted around surrendering enemies without committing even a single war crime?
Noble, or reasonably well off humans yes as they can be ransomed. Commoners should be executed or just let go they are worthless.Exterminate all orcs on the other hand
>>97314091Well they are killing everyone else in a whole village in this scene.
>>97294582It depends on which enemy. If it's one of those>I'm committed heinous things against you, I've just threatened to kill your little dog, I've explicitly refused surrender before, but now we've fought, I've lost, and now I surrender, so you have to spare my lifesituations, fuck no, we're hanging him. Respectfully and with dignity, but he's gonna die.
>play a character that explicitly hates pirates>a sailor who was previously marooned and crew all killed by pirates>party is attacked by pirates>"Surrender or we'll kill you all!">we don't surrender>pirates lose the fight, when down to a quarter left they surrender>DM acts like I'm totally crazy and out of the blue when I convince the party to execute them alldont want to be killed, don't be pirates
>>97294582being real, they were committing war crimes before the enemy surrendered.
Previous Thread: >>97096644For: Creation and discussion of Lewd RPGs; including Solo Rpgs, Homebrews, and Greentexts about your game sessions (specify the system you are using)>DON'T post or ask for "Looking For Group" or "Looking for Players".>DON'T sperg about Hentai logic, Hentai Artists or NTR. Take your meds.>NO Shota/loli crap. Go to /trash/>What's a Solo RPG?1: YouTube (Season 1 of Me, Myself & Die! gives a good explanation)2: Ask in the Solo RPG General: >>970620423: Solo is a good way to test out systems and to avoid problems such s "Schedule Conflict" or "Playing with Weirdos">Solo RPG Toolkit (NPC Generator, Mythic GM Emulator, etc.)https://infinityweavers.link/re-up/solo-rp-toolkitComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97331758Hmm, well, you see I much prefer the cute girls team up against savage monsters, various magical lewd creatures and hordes of ugly bastards rather than fight each other.
>>97332485Oh, don't worry, the girls do that to each other.
>>97327027>Well, what are your couple of fetishes?Amongst others, I like when women do sex for non-sexual reasons. Such as: "fighter, you are poisoned, but i think i could suck the poison out if i make you cum, trust me im a healer". >>97327005>Do you only want to draw those fetishesThanks anon, you made me realize that mostly yes, though not totally closed. Still, It would be nice to hear In-game stories just for curiosity on Lewd games. Never played any myself
Getting a chance to play my girl again, but like always my dice roll luck is far too high and she is in no danger zzz
>>97333887You can try that Femme Fatale thing an Anon made.https://desuarchive.org/tg/thread/93701252/#93760097Turn lewdness from a failstate into a mounting inevitability.
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>>97333803Primordial ratmen. Experimental lab creatures of a more developed race long lost to the eons. They were fed potions & were experimented on until they grew minds like those that kept them as pets...
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>>97334193>What is known about the Order of the Bitter Ashespretty much what the ashen knight book writes they are the knight order of the collectors that became knights after being thrown out of the middle eat by either the euthanos or true black hand and took the holy grail with themreally like the Path of Chivalry and collecting trinkets>and what happened to them?heavily implied that they going to get wiped out by the Knights of the Temple of Solomon because they been allies in the past + they have a prophesy that they are going to meet again and they assume that the knight templars will also remember them foundly as allies, but had major beef with goratrix in france and are soon going to join the newly created order of reason so they are not at all in the mood of entertaining vampiresat least one of their grail knights is however still around in the final nights
>>97334179True. Ugly bastards are clearly fomor.
What were the Lasombra and Ventrue like in the Dark Ages? Were the Lasombra already as psychopathic as they'd become, or was that a post-Anarch revolt transformation like how the Ventrue would become CEOs?
>>97334227>>97334254Woe, NTR and incredibly nasty Fomor(i) sex be upon you. Just hope it isn't a sex toy Fomor.
>me when imperfect creatures start talking about procreation (I'm a drone)
Have you seen this Primarch edition>Previous Heresy: >>97313986>HH 3.0 - Complete gofile - All Books:https://gofile.io/d/cnJk0N>Titanicus Compendiumshttps://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/iUqNrrA8Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97333877The entire unit can have meltabombs for 25 pts. Besides the other things they do you can put a bomb squad in a Rhino and blow even a super-heavy tank into orbit.>>97334060Effrit are still very good at that. Though so far each I've used Effrit in 3.0 the opponent got so frustrated with them they send their elite melee unit to deal with the Effrit.
>>97334174Yeah, I found if they got tied up with a real powerhouse unit they just folded. Hence why I picked on weaker units with them. Also that sounds hilarious to me. Pissing people off with effrit sounds like a blast.
>>97334053>It's almost as good as Fear2 by itselfit's a 1/16 chance to roll a higher 2nd D6 than the first; in fact it's worse than that (even though the roll itself is technically out of 206 for rolling 3D6) because the rule is worded so ambiguously: "discard the lower roll" means you compare that 3rd D6 to both the dice you would normally roll, which becomes 1/256 (16*16); that you're rolling all 3D6 together doesn't influence that one bit"if the test is passed, the Controlling Player of a Model with this Special Rule may choose to discard one of the D6 results and have that Dice rolled again" would be better (1/16 natural, but also unnaturally low chance of success if the test actual were passed on a high double), but still significantly worse than "Hydra's Wail (1)" or whatever the stacking rules would otherwise be, largely because (1) is easy to understand and apply and doesn't require screwing around with rerolls that basically don't exist any more, and applies directly to the Characteristic being Checked rather than trying to modify the probability of that Check failing
>>97333893>They're bad vs termies, the main thing HHG cares aboutAnon, their shotguns have Shred. That's good literally only against 2W things. ...eh, they're regular shotguns, really. Shred 6 is basically no shred at all.>>97334037>>97334060Headhunters have daggers as well. I know Effrit have 2W and the Wail, but it's kinda the same thing, no?: Shoot, hope for Breaching, charge with Daggers if convenient.>>97334053I would combine Effrit with an assload of Havoc launcher Stun and Seeker's Suppression. Not Panic (Seekers, Flamers, Phosphex) because Wails don't affect Ld, only Cool & Int. I don't think I'll use Pinning (Grav).Seeing how Sniper rifles merely gain S+1 (S5) from standing still, maybe I could arm a couple of Effrit with them, like they were special weapons. Or should I ditch the shotguns for snipers? It's so expensive!!
>>97334263What happens when you roll a 6 does not define the main role of a unit. Shred is more of a neat bonus that can sometimes come in clutch, but that's it.Effrit have 2 attacks, headhunters only have 1 attack. Honestly all power daggers are on headhunters is a points tax for having cool models, because sadly they're just worse more expensive seekers for the third edition in a row.Only take a few snipers in an Effrit squad, you want them for the status effect not the damage.
>the dark lord just wants bitchesIs this a good villain motivation?
>>97333181Sure. They’re all from the same prompt so they might be a bit samey, but I tried to get the most striking ones.
I’ll stop here unless people really want more
>>97332762>>Apart from nazguls maybe>which means he's not asking about the D&D monster literally called "death knight" but more about the concept ofThe Nazghuls were the direct inspiration for the "Wraith" type undead coming from the translation of Nazghul as "Ringwraith." The more knightly depictions of them seem to have originated from the Peter Jackson films and likely were inspired by D&D and Videogame Death Knights. Death Knights as a form of cursed undead paladin are very much a more modern creation that Charles Stross can be credited for and trying to find evidence of them further back is not going to really go anywhere.
>>97258165Not really. There’s about a million more-bitch oriented paths to take. That’s like becoming a doctor so you can have free tongue depressors all the time. But you could easily do that by just investing some small part of your income into tongue depressors and skip the medical school and all that
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>>97334039i mean they tease taizo x hikari and he is like a decade older they dont care
Guys, I have an ongoing build on Keter Blangdmire right now.4x Zero of Salvation 4x Teithfalt 4x Cerrgaon 4x Wisdom of beginning order 4x dedicated RRR 4x dedicated RR 4x Gragaon4x PG 16x Triggers
>>97334076T0
Wonder what kind of upgrade Kagetsu will get. New Veissrugr? New Mythstich?
Expectations for the Varga Mythstich? Dare I say CC is practically guaranteed? I think it might give Varga +1 drive and maybe some power when it gets destroyed by Varga's effect.
Thread #007 Countess EditionWelcome to /schreck/ where you can rp your VTM character! For all questions concerning the World of Darkness, please consult the WoDg and CoDg thread>>97258877Previous Thread>>97131386Brief 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 spoileredTHREAD QUESTIONComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97328300Here I found one for you, details in attached image.
>>97328321I'll be over when I am free, still getting the hang of Obtenebration. -Kakophoni
>>97326628Travel log #3 [Boise, Idaho]-[*4/10]>>>>>Pros> So long as you're in the East of town it's easy to get out of civilization> Pretty enough nights even if the light pollution still gets me> Almost no kindred in this neck of the woods, easy enough to set up shop with the only authority, the 'Baron of the Garden'>>>>>Cons> Still nominally in Loup territory and the way they built most of the town makes me almost cheer them on> Pricey and easy to stick out if you aren't the 'common clay of the land' > Why is this place a colony of Deseret with all the fucking Mormons?Some people could make something out of towns like this, but I certainly couldn't. Which mercifully I don't have to. I get to piss off back to Rocky Mountain roads. Outside of an encounter with a dirty cop (who made the mistake of side-eyeing the Cat) and an incident with a toddler at a gas station, not as much trouble as I was led to believe. How badly does a child have to be educated if they've never seen red hair before?>>97328258Heading for Sun Valley soon as the sun sets, will be there whenever you arrive. No rush either, I prefer hills and mountains to more plastic cities anyways. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
How's your night going?My Prince had a nervous breakdown lmaoBut there're words of new arrivals on the borders so I'm getting a wee bit worried>>97332322Hey you're getting around! Already have an end planned?
>>97334045>How's your night going?As well as it could. No major incidents or portents of doom from my travel partner.>Hey you're getting around! Already have an end planned?I'd be lying if I said I'd ever had an end planned. For most of my life post bite. My current tour is almost incidental, mentioned to my Malk I was a nomad before getting into a small circuit near Marquette. Promised to take her around the continent if we made it out of that mess. Can't say where we end up. Worst case scenario I invade Winnipeg. Who knows though?
About to start a daggerheart one-shot that could potentially lead into a stable groupWhat am I in for? I thought there'd be more fanfare for this
>>97332330>What am I in for?Rank mediocrity.
whatever the standard quality of your group usually produces. if they are not actively disinterested, at least.
>>97332330>What am I in for?Something even the creators of the game wanted to avoid, lmao.
>>973323305e but "better" (latin for worse). At best you're going to get the average 5e experience you would with those people, at worse you're going to get bored.
I would like to talk about the Chronicles of Darkness game line Deviant: The Renegades, or more specifically, one major upcoming supplement. Deviant was released in late 2021, and has had three additional sourcebooks since then. A new supplement, Black Vans, has been in playtesting for a while, and is currently being previewed.I am not being paid or sponsored to promote this book in any way. I am just very fascinated by it, and indeed, I already ran a mini-campaign using the playtest material.Deviant is, by default, a game about playing angsty, scarred superheroes who either fight world-manipulating conspiracies or work for them. Black Vans is a toolkit full of variant rules, quick NPC creation, variant character types, and variant genres. These variants range from the minor to the dramatic, completely overhauling what were once non-negotiable, foundational themes and mechanics. Maybe your character is not angsty or scarred at all, perhaps they are a """""regular human""""" like John Wick or Batman, or the campaign might have nothing to do with world-manipulating conspiracies.These variant genres include cyberpunk, high fantasy, post-apocalypse, space opera, and superhero emergence.This is a beefy supplement. For example, one chapter alone dedicates 38,000+ words to playing other monsters of the Chronicles of Darkness: Beasts, changelings, demons, Sin-Eaters, hunters (entirely separate from the variant rules for """natural""" superpowers), mages, mummies, Prometheans, vampires, and werewolves. No additional supplements beyond Deviant are necessary; the rules are self-contained, allowing the group to play a monster mash of an urban fantasy setting without needing a daunting 7+ books. And yes, they are supposed to be balanced against one another, so a vampire in the same group as a full-fledged mage is probably some older Kindred.(Continued.)
>>97322107Thank you. I hope you might find it useful.Shallow Graves would also be good to pick up. The next I would look for is The Clades Companion, and the The Devoted Companion last. I would get the lattermost of these only if you are really interested in organization-level rules.
what's combat like in storyteller? how fast is it? my only experience i 5e
>>97324576Chronicles of Darkness combat is what it is. By default, it is gritty and lethal, but this can vary significantly based on the precise power levels and supernatural abilities of everyone involved.Combat between low-powered schlubs, where nobody gets to apply Defense against firearms, is very different from combat between high-powered heroes who do get to apply Defense against firearms.
I am currently adapting the shades from Mummy: The Curse 2e to a Black Vans space opera setting. I am stripping away references to Sekhem and Duat and making them broader in concept. My basic idea:>The tenebrae dwell in the interstellar medium. Outside of it, reality forces them into a unique Twilight frequency. The tenebrae are creatures of darkness who loathe light, and yet, they are deeply curious about corporeal sophonts and their societies. Tenebrae happily hop onto FTL ships mid-journey, then disembark to explore sapient-populated worlds, keeping to the shadows and the night. While they are eager to help out sophonts if asked nicely, people must be mindful that tenebrae have discovered a great taste for blood; it is something that does not exist out in the interstellar medium. They are thrilled to be around spilled blood, and to gorge upon it.They probably feed on Acclimation rather than Sekhem, too.
>>97328753what length are we talking about though? i dislike long drawn out combat. our last two session were a single fight and it's incredibly boring
There seems to be two types of wizards:>Slovenly eccentric geniuses>Strict organized perfectionistsI think this is because you have to be highly intelligent to become a wizard.
>>97320050I think he's right.
>>97330225So you think she'd be shy?
She cute
>>97305962This looks like total shit.
>>97333748I disagree, she cute
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?
Any recommendations here? So far it’s been my best win rate of the season, it’s not as aggressive as other mono B decks in standard but I can pretty consistently control early game until they gas out and I finish them off with demons or annexes/talents. It doesn’t have too many natural predators, but artifact and hard control are tough matchups, not much to be done there. I don’t know if I even need cover-up. Cerebral Confiscation also seems like a weak link, but it’s come in clutch a few times.
>>97333486You could try adding something cheap to put on a bit of pressue to make youa bit more midrange. le blackman of many damage here is a good choice. 2 drop, 4 damage puts some pressure on players. To kill it basically requires a 2 for 1 from them. Hard control really doesnt want to just eat 4 damage a turn and killing it isnt card effective for them.
>>97333423That’s a great idea, I’ll pass that along to the team
>>97333279get better at samefagging
>>97334258
The PCs must restore the power of the four crystals to defeat the Dark Lord. What should I base the four crystals upon, instead of the four elements?doubles decide
>>97328476*Dreams (Ether/Spirit)
>>97326915>>>/qst/
>>97326915Hustl'n, trapp'n, bangg'n, represent'n
>>97326915niggers, kikes, women, canadians
Death, Chaos, Order, Humanity/Life
