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.
>>97345420Eat shit fishfag, the DMG is essential and obligatory reading
>>97346691>the schizo, poorly formatted ramblings about why niggers should be exterminated are essential to the game, anon!
it's been a while since I've come round to these threads. what happened? there's far less discussion and story times, just endless trolling, thread after thread of the same shit too.anyways, it's been a long hiatus since my party has gathered, due to a combination of the holidays and my schedule changing. the party essentially wiped on floor 3 of stonehell. two of them were paralyzed and captured, they may yet live. when we finally play again, I've introduced the additional classes from ose's advanced rules. really looking forward to it.
>>97346714Yes, they are. By the way, can you quote me where exactly in the DMG he says that, because that's very based.
>>97347152We have a schizo troll who is obsessed with trying to convince us that 2e is on topic for the thread. He has made a fool himself in numerous ways on numerous occasions, and has even begun actively bothering other threads
A thread for discussing the Star Wars franchise and its various media and tabletop games.Exotic Cuisine editionPrevious: >>97304062Fantasy Flight Games’ X-Wing, Armada, and Legion>https://pastebin.com/9puqx1zeStar Wars Roleplaying Games (d6/d20/FFG)>https://pastebin.com/iUriRfaAOther FFG Star Wars tabletop (Imperial Assault, Destiny and the LCG)>http://pastebin.com/ZE4gn0yNComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97345857>>97346100>>97346472>>97346494>>97346517>>97346541>this frakking dive bar, man i tell ya >it's rough>both on your senses in general>and on your health in particular if you aren't careful>why did our contact want to meet here of all places>i feel like i need two sonic showers to just feel grimy>my eyes might never be the same after what i've seen>and just the staff and not counting the clientele
Definitely sounds like a bar where you could talk shop without being bothered by security forces
>>97346558Man, it would absolutely suck if there was some kind of miscommunication and the contact was actually waiting at the super tacky and gaudy Hutt Casino on the other side of town
Anyone else avoiding looking for Star Wars games because of picrelated?
>>97346119He's the one who established the tradition, tho. Therefore, the best Mandalore.Also, consider our non-Sith puppet Mandalores:>Boba Fett>Din Djarin (maybe)>Bo-Katan (maybe)With that competition, Mandalore the Ultimate becomes the clear winner.
previous: >>97290097Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8Survey results: https://pastebin.com/YJPZ44rqThread Question:what is your stonemaier-tier concept for a sure money board game megahit?
>>97344091Depends how much you like Carcassonne. If you do, get the big box. It has room for other expansions that are not included. >>97345082>Star Trek Captain's Chair or UnstoppableIs Captain's chair an upgrade from the Imperium games? I saw anons claim it's very thematic but I don't know or care about star trek, is it still better than Imperium if you don't care about the theme?>>97344088>March of the antsHow do you like it? Obviously is in your top 9 but do you feel it has staying power? I like it but don't think it's special enough to keep longterm.
>>97343855But otherwise the difference is just the factions? Same with Classics?
Got to play Galactic Cruise tonightreally great game and very well designed, but my group did NOT like it, they like euros but it was 'too much'I think it really wasn't that bad but I guess I understood it better, it was all our first times playing but it was very clear I was going to win near the end.
>>97347088>really great game and very well designed,Die in a fire. There's almost no meaningful decisions to be made. At the start you can race people for the bonus cubes, between launches you sometimes have meaningful choices between the cruises you can draft, and the rest of the game is just checking boxes. Most of the boxes can be checked at 2 (or 3) different places but one of them is obviously correct for whatever else you're doing.And if you took just the meaningful decisions and packaged them into a (much) shorter game no one would buy it because it would still be a lackluster experience. The only thing Galactic Cruise has going for it is it's production value.
>>97344091Speaking on the current edition big box, I think it's a good package. You get expansions 1 and 2, which many basically consider part of the base game, so you would likely want to get them anyway. I never play without 1, even when testing a new expansion. 2 is also great. The minis are basically a bonus and let you add more variation in small steps as you like. Past big boxes had more regular size expansions, but I don't think this one loses out in comparison. What is a bit of a bummer is that you don't get more than six player colors. I really like purple and grey from my 2014(?) big box.
What is the counterculture of 2020s, that could be used as the basis for a contemporary countercultural tabletop game?Take the World of Darkness for example, which was so grounded in the the counterculture of the 90s that it comes across as dated and strange today. How would you update the World of Darkness so that it better represents the counterculture of today?Nightmare Mode: Talk about more than just politics. There's more to rebellion against the status quo and the prevailing social norm than who you vote for.
>>97343448>Oh yeah, you'd never say that aloud, hahah->Replies with a recording of himself reading it aloud without a shred of hesitation or shameImpossibly based.
>>97343925>>97343767>gooners>mysoginists>gymbros>cryptobros>alt-right and tradcaths>ironic schizos>political schizosNone of which still have a unified cultural identity or particular aesthetic (beyond liking anime).
>>97339717But nobody these days even likes Werewolf: the Apocalypse.
>>97346982I like Werewolf: the Apocalypse.
>>97346900An aversion to the traditional late-20th-century work-life balance, disillusionment with traditional late-20th-century media (television) in favour of new digital media (streams and podcasts) and radical honesty about their beliefs and interests.Being bold and outspoken, searching for digital media that compounds their views and cringing at the thought of letting wageslavery define them are traits shared by all of the countercultural groups you listed and more. Which is reasonable, as at least two out of three of those traits are shared with the countercultures of prior generations.
"Crusader, crusader, please take me with you" Edition>Resources:WFB: https://pastebin.com/qVGrgwwhWM: https://pastebin.com/EsDAgebaWFRP: https://pastebin.com/inbyBsR6Novels: https://pastebin.com/PFqPDr0H>TOW:https://gofile.io/d/fxFgXShttps://www.warhammer-community.com/downloads/warhammer-the-old-world/>Warhammer Chronicles:https://files (dot) catbox (dot) moe/0xt777 (dot) zip>Time of Legends:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97341539Nice to see mods ban people who try to keep Perrynigger away while literally allowing him to ruin and run wild with his off topic historical spam. The janitors on this board are legit worse than useless niggers and I hope perrynigger has a heart attack for for subjecting us to his vile hatred. Incredible what one loser can accomplish in damaging a community. I’m off to better forums where people like him aren’t allowed to shit all over everyone.
>>97342901Yes. Looks fun. TOW on the otherhand is on 40K esportification trajectory
>>97347072Historipigs go oink oink if their toyset isn't as immersive as playing with Barbie dolls
>>97347092Never played historicals but why even use miniatures. Why don't you just use tokens or just paper with the unit names written on it. Would save you a lot of time and money if you give zero shits about the aesthetics of the game.This is what esportification at it's worst looks like. You have two identical armies with barely painted minis fighting on a shitty looking table.
>>97347092Complaining about this shit has nothing to do with historicals, it's just caring about your hobby and being dismayed to see a lack of effort and caring become so normalized
We're going to have to come up with a phrase for the new era of Warhammer 40,000 ushered in by the Amazon TV show, DoW 4 and Total War 40k, and increased market value of Games Workshop.nu40k isn't going to cover it. nu40k is already bad enough for many of us from headier days like 1st through 4th edition. You are going to see horrific debasements to the thing you know and love that you will still see with your eyes closed. Every 80 IQ person with internet access will have an opinion on Warhammer without knowing what a Tau Remora Drone is.
>>97344553Seeing as Tau are nu40k bullshit and should be removed from the setting, I think you're part of the problem >B-but muh 3eNah
>>97345237>t. New Vegas glucker
>>97344605>>97345237I feel like Fallout isn't the same thing at all. Fallout has some lore, some depth and some decent entries but nowhere near the quantity of WH and the last thing hardcore fans of the series genuinely care about came out 15 fucking years ago. Fanbase was barely alive anyway. Bethesda turned the setting it into pretty much a franchise that exists only to push merch and low quality products a long time ago and the TV series was exactly that, also clearly aimed at normie-normiesMeanwhile 40k still has very large, active and alive communities that are going to get flooded and gradually morphed into something largely different. TV show secondaries will probably be largely deflected, but game secondaries from Total War or DoW4 often do try to stick around and get into fandom, despite usually sticking out like a sore thumb
>>97346133Lmao. You lost that battle decades ago brother. Still seething about Matt Ward and Newcrons too?
>>97344553>>97344605DoW4 will either flop or at best people will beat campaigns and uninstall it. Gay krauts will fuck it up, that's given, they clearly have no idea what they are doing nor do they feel the setting.Whatever Cavill and Amazon are doing has a high chance of being so shit that it will forever mark 40k as bad and cringe for normalfags and thus halt it's momentum. Like Rings of Power or Netflix Witcher. A blessing in a disguse.TW40k tho is a guaranteed massive success. Might be the most popular strategy game even, challenging HoI4. And it will live on for years.Dark Heresy will do far better than other Owlcat games and most of other games in a genre, but it's still just an isometric crpg which will limit it's reach.SM3 will be just SM 2.5 and so will do even better as well.
Obscure conflicts editionPrevious thread:>>97095668>Thread Question:Which obscure conflict would you like to collect miniatures for and get a game going?>Community Summary of Wargames:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11JoUpGIRDp5DZdgJ24rijKHgyY-qvvR5QnVtHIp57Tw/edit?usp=sharing>List of Historical Tactical, Strategic, and Military Drill treatises:http://pastebin.com/BfMeGd6R>ZunTsu Gameboxes:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Evening lads, I don’t suppose anyone knows of a trove containing all the old PnP games by The Perfect Captain? I’m mostly interested in their medieval rules/games especially Ironbow II, Strongbow, Princes of the East, In the Shadow of Byzantium, Villehardouin, Alexius 1113 AD etc.Cheers boys, happy new year.
>>97344408Wikipedia will get you participants. As for heraldry, it isn’t that common before the 13th C and even then, we rarely know the arms even for big names. There are usually fictive arms for the earlier period made up in the later middle ages, if you aren’t asspained to the Nth degree about historical accuracy.There is the additional difficulty in that the eastern mediterranean societies the Latins found themselves in did not themselves use arms as in the west, even much later than this - this may have meant that local Latin settlers felt little pressure to take arms as it was not the local ‘fashion’. Sorry it’s a ballache, but I hope it helps. I think it means that you can actually be quite free in your painting without being implausible or even inaccurate.
>>97345263I should have added that the Perfect Captain site (in the OP) hasn’t had working downloads since 2020.
>>97345344I’m an absolute mongoloid, some hero put them in the new trove link. Sorry boyos.
>>97345297Wikipedia just gives the major participants, kings and such. I want to see the dukes, barons and even lower.
>four "chaos" gods>only one actually embodies the concept of chaoswhat did they mean by this?
Of course the real answer is just Moorcock and Anderson. That's where Warhammer and D&D both get their law/chaos dichotomy from.
>>97345916>also the ocean is chaos for some reasonthis is perfectly reasonable logic if your seafaring technology caps out at coracles and a prayer
>>97345916>>97346153Chaos was associated with the ocean because back then it meant the primordial abyss from which all life came from. Chaos being associated with disorder is a more recent invention.
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>>97345793Spreading warfare, disease, and/or wanton lust would lead to a lot of chaos in a civilized society so yeah they do all embody chaos, moron
This thread is dedicated to all kinds of solo games, systems, tools, and campaigns.Fail Forward Edition.>Last Thread: >>97062042Resources:https://rentry.org/srpgghttps://infinityweavers.link/re-up/solo-rp-toolkitMore threads:https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/subject/%2Fsrpgg%2F/orhttps://desuarchive.org/tg/search/subject/%2Fsrpgg%2F/type/op/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97345874You got a point.I print the 2 first pages in a single sheet of paper.I guess the author should call it One Sheet Solo Engine.
guys i really really really fucking love kal arath/al rathak and all the supplementsliterally just so perfectly open for emergent play that gives you JUST enough for your imagination to run wild and come up with fun fusions and progressions in plot and wild eventsi even have a rough idea/working of a cool subsystem expansion supplement i want to write and add on... it's gonna be fuckin lit...
>>97345993I'm going to try this one very soon!I got me a copy of it.
>>97346043hell yeah brother. enjoy.
Choir of Flesh book just showed up, got my character all made and stuff. Looks like it'll be a fun romp around, I like the look of the settlement building system
Keep going edition >Previous Heresy: >>97332279>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.
>>97346933Really can't think of one unless you want to just straight up take a baneblade's running gear and build a custom troop compartment.
>>97346933A triaros with the ram replaced with a Spartan's protruding ramp.
>>97346815We aren’t actually going to war anon. It’s a tabletop wargame and by skewing your list you deny the enemy significant output per turn. Like your opponent is playing with a hidden points handicap if you skew.
>>97347066Well that no longer works in 3.0All tanks? No scoring objectives, they obscure each other's view, AV 14 are too expensive to be effective when spammed and anything with low rear AV is gonna get jumped by units charging out of rhinos and blown up with krak grenades.Infantry only? Blast weapons will tear you a new one.
>>97347066Anon solar aux vehicle skew isn't a thing, your vehicles are all AV10-11 in the back you go down to krak grenades and power fists like nothing.
Imagine… Queer Worlds… #wow #whoaImagine if there were Queer Worlds…#wow
>>97334560>Imagine if there were Queer Worlds…Don't have to, I'm already living in one.I'll be here all week, folks. Try the fish!
>>97334560That fat bitch is sexier than 98% of all women in most recently published books and I want to pop her open so this is 100% a buy in my book.You're a faggot OP
>>97340324I mostly played the Chronicles of Darkness. "Metaplot" is just wankery for wannabe novelists.
>>97337334Not all queers like WoD but everyone who likes WoD is some flavour of queer.
>>97345321RIP Warrior, loading the space ships with the rocket fuel in Heaven.
Jabbering Jabberwock EditionDiscussion of the Towergirls CYOA, RPG, Setting, or Video Games welcome here!Everyone is welcome.FAQhttps://pastebin.com/vv4xQuwDCharts:Main Gens: https://e-hentai.org/g/2556775/f1669e072b/Imgchest backups(not sorted): https://imgchest.com/p/na7ko9dky8dhttps://imgchest.com/p/pg73rmbv7rnLegacy Charts: https://imgur.com/a/IRtoHXhSide Quests: https://imgur.com/a/7euVXRTComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97337428Nice ass
>>97339682Which one?
>>97330902It probably just faded out.
Boop!
>>97345589Now this, this is some gud shit.
Enlightenment achieved only through overprinting your value Edition Here is a thread to discuss trading card games other than the big three.>Build Divide>Force of Will>Final Fantasy TCG>DBZ CCG>Wixoss>Keyforge>Gundam>Legend of the 5 Rings (L5R)>Digimon>Flesh and Blood>Gate RulerComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97346265>>97345902danke
>>97346723As are evil monolithic corporations, and since we've come to the consensus that the theme of David vs Goliath is a universally popular theme and has little to do with whether people actually want to be in either side's shoes, I think we can shake hands and call it a day.
>>97343300Based
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>>97343300thanks for the positivityonce I have a way to represent my idea on cards without too much manual computing involved I will get back to you
At what age do magic users start training in your setting?
>>97330092magical aptitude usually manifests at around 12 but some prodigies manifest it at a younger age. Some wizards take in students as young as 8 before they show signs of magical aptitude if any on their parents had magical ability, gambling on getting ahead of the curve and raising a powerful apprentice. Most of the time they just get a decent but utterly nonmagical helper but the 1 time out of 10000 it works out the extra years of early magical training pays off extremely well.some wizards take on very young apprentices for other reasons as well.
Depends. Wizards ideally start as soon as the kid has learned to read and write, while shamans and the like either follow whatever local tradition they might have, or get snatched by fairies and come back as raving magic lunatics two hundred years later. Priests begin training whenever, it doesnt really matter; if you can get a god to think you're his nigga, you get magic powers.
Holy fuck, this looks like SHIT
>>97345546That's likely puckee, he's samefagged before.>>97345073Puckee is a known redditor who has spammed his commissions for 4-5 years as the other anon has pointed out, his threads are all low quality with vague questions just to so he can post his commissions. At one point, he had at least 3 threads up at all times and posted his commissions weekly in various threads. See his "lich" commission he spammed throughout late 2021 to 2022 throughout that year almost weekly.https://archive.4plebs.org/_/search/image/0uAsjic8baHEf61Jm2Wu6Q%3D%3D/page/4/He has also spammed his commissions on other threads like the draw thread, trying to pass his paid commissions as fills.https://desuarchive.org/tg/thread/92628290/#92687500Anons picked up on his spam in 2022 and he has also infested the character art threads since then, posting at least a few of his commissions in every thread.https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/84892301/#84901094
>>97345615seems about right>>97345672>if you can get a god to think you're his nigga, you get magic powerslol
Welcome to /wbg/, the official thread for the discussion of in-progress settings for traditional games.Here is where you go to present and develop the details of your worlds such as lore, factions, magic and ecosystems. You can also post maps for your settings, as well as any relevant art (either created by you or used as inspiration for your work). Please remember that dialogue is what keeps the thread alive, so don't be afraid of giving someone feedback or post whatever relevant input you might have!Last thread: >>97165346Resources for Newfags: https://sites.google.com/view/wbgeneral/Worldbuilding links: https://pastebin.com/JNnj79S5 (embed) (embed)https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/Eo+fK41FKVR7xDpbNO0a0N4k0YYxrmyrhX3VxnM14Ew/Fantasy map generator: https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator/wbi/: https://discord.gg/6ZjEc7dy4TWorldbuilding Hub: https://discord.com/invite/wGjxK3YThe Writer's Forge: https://discord.com/invite/CUxHxWqTira: https://discord.com/invite/f52W6KgComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97345195Absolutely. Asteroid composition is anything but monolithic, as it were, but loosely falls into 3 categories, C, M, and S type. Those are easy to remember since they are short for carbon, metal, and silicate, or stony. C-type, carbon rich asteroids, are the most common, making up 75% of asteroids, while S-type, silicate or stony asteroids, comes in a distant second at 17% , M-type Metallic asteroids are much less numerous.Now when it comes to mining that hardly tells the whole story, M-types are mostly nickel and iron, neither of which we’d particularly want to bring home to Earth, but which would be valuable for building stuff in space. For that matter there are also several sub-types of asteroids and two different classifications systems, and the asteroid belt is anything but the only place you can find asteroids nor the nearest place to find them. It also is not unusual for two asteroids of different types to blunder into each other and merge or to be somewhere in between these types.C-types, the most common asteroid and also the ones that gets ignored a lot in asteroid mining conversations focused on impressing folks with the idea of mountains of gold, are quite valuable themselves. They contain lots of water, which is never a bad thing to find in outer space. But they also contain plenty of life-useful elements and particularly noteworthy is phosphorus. Something that is quite hard to find on Earth in concentration and a major bottleneck on agriculture, so if asteroid mining ever gets heavily developed and cheap, that is the sort of thing we might bring home since it is valuable. Not as valuable as gold or platinum of course, nowhere near, and these big space boulders have a lot of those.
>>97345195it would probably be easier to just mine out the inside and build your habitat in there
>>97338417Extra lad to the roster. These guys are heavily augmented and armored, elite cavaliers that specialize in close combat and being bodyguards to the Baryxian nobility.
>>97338417protoss/eldar, neat.
>>97314389The first mistake you make is thinking magic is something to systematize.
