I'll start>D&D 5E is a heroic fantasy game (I didn't say good), trying to do anything else should have you using a different system.
>>97820126So, I've deliberately included things that happen at tables which- when corrected for- actually produce roleplaying. Here's the mistakes (and how to roleplay instead)>Player: "I'm going to cast a cure wounds spell, I think. DM can I cast and move second?"The mistake is that the player should know these rules. If they don't they learn them. Failing to learn the rules is not considerate of the time of the GM and other people at the table. Instead of naming what they do, they should describe what they do, roll the dice (I, as the GM should be able to trust you to know your rules and not cheat... this is called high trust tables). "My hands glow blue with the holy energy of my god, shooting energy out to Anazar (Eric's character) to heal 9 points".>"Who has the fewest hitpoints?"This isn't something that a character would know. If you are trying to find who is most injured structure it in a way your character would learn this information, "I scan the battlefield for my allies to see who is most haggard" "GM: You see that Anazar is particularly wounded">"Okay eric, I'm going to cast on..."Needless mechanical description. Describe what the other players see and feel. The only relevant mechanical detail you need is the 9 hitpoints.>"Cool, thanks"Does Anazar say this? It's fine to talk during combat, but it's all in characterComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97820126>>97826614Here's what this same post looks like with roleplaying.Alarain: "I scan the battlefield to see who is most haggard."GM: "Anazar seems particularly wounded."Alarain: "My hands glow blue with the holy energy of Chastain, shooting energy out to heal Anazar." "9 pointsAnazar: "Grunting, "Thanks""Alarain: "I then move behind Gortruk, hoping his shield can defend me from any incoming hostiles."Gortruk: "I motion to your belt, "Potion. You. Now"Alarain: "Oh, yes, I quickly down a sour, burning potion" (Marks the HP recovered without having to mention it out loud)Gortruk goes next. Unprompted, because everyone knows the order of initiative and turns take 20 seconds at most.
>>97826589Wrong.
>>97826614holy fucking CRINGE
>>97826614>Instead of naming what they do, they should describe what they doprecisely
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.
>>97825806I always assumed those are the same thing up there.
>>97826419>up/downAbsolutism/Wingdings>left/rightProgress/TraditionI checked :^]Let me reveal higher mysteries to you my friend :^]I have such secrets I could share :^]
If I copy paste a vaguely hyperborean steampunk story here, will anyone read it?
>>97827065Go for it, I dumped some chapters of Moorcock in here once. If you're feeling generous it would be kind to put it in a png or two to avoid creating a big wall of text
I have a distinct memory of doing a reading at U.C. Irvine, where Avram was teaching at the time, to find him sitting in a front row, holding a frisky helium balloon in one hand, and a pretty young student’s hand in the other. After I finished my gig (somewhat distracted by performing in front of one of my major heroes, old friend or no), Avram came up to give me a hug and to inquire, quite seriously, “What do you know about feral camels?” As it happened, I did know something about a tentative attempt by the American Army, in the days after the Civil War, to introduce a small force of camels into the deserts of the Southwest. The attempt was soon abandoned; but for many years afterward, soldiers and nineteenth-century tourists alike would report having seen impossible ghostlike creatures materializing out of a sandstorm, and vanishing again just as swiftly.I happened upon this while flipping the story I'm aiming for. It reminds me of the oldlore of saurs being introduced to the west like these camels. It makes me wonder if whoever came up with that knew this story, or if it's just such a perfectly natural idea that strange animals should be introduced to the deserts of America.
A thread for discussing the Star Wars franchise and its various media and tabletop games.Spectres minis edition>Adepticon roadmaps:https://www.atomicmassgames.com/transmission/adepticon-2026-roadmap-star-wars-legion/https://www.atomicmassgames.com/transmission/adepticon-2026-roadmap-star-wars-shatterpoint/Previous: >>97615500Fantasy Flight Games’ X-Wing, Armada, and Legion>https://pastebin.com/9puqx1zeStar Wars Roleplaying Games (d6/d20/FFG)>https://pastebin.com/iUriRfaAComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97809718...and if you're being put under an Inquisitor's yoke, arrange their heroic demise at earliest opportunity.
I’ve recently been opening up my copy of EotE after years of having it sit on a shelf and after reviewing the chapter on healing and recovery:I honestly forgot how potent bacta was. Reduces natural recovery from a measure of days, to hours. I just imagine that among other ”adventurous” sorts in the galaxy, bacta is as good as credits.But also, and I need to recheck if it specifies in the item entry for bacta or not; but do you guys typically treat bacta as a consumable resource? Like, once you pull your Buddy out of the tank, that shit needs to get dumped. Because aside from otherwise making this stuff really, kinda, sorta, broken; it just makes sense, because once it’s used if it’s healing properties haven’t been diminished, it’s certainly going to be contaminated. Just seems like soaking in used bacta is a great way to get some kind of infection.
>>97821441Nah, he may've helped them organize but the "Large group of planets and companies who are sick of the Republic" was around long before he was. There would've eventually been a war even without all the Jedi and Sith meddling and fighting in the background.>>97822499>>97822577I always forget that Star Wars originally had a very Japanese aesthetic and setting. C3PO's design mimicked 50s/60s Japanese future art, Stormtrooper/Vader's armor was meant to look Japanese, Rebel helmets were meant to look Japanese, the Imperial officers are all in Japanese uniforms, even the cantina is supposed to resemble late era Japanese sake dens iirc.>>97822499They may be a bunch of cucks but Reddit Letter Media was right about how lazy most Star Wars material is aesthetically. I sorta get why, but I also hate it.>we can't sell our ancient past star wars game unless we have not!stormtroopers and not!clones and lightsabers and jedi and the same droids and at-sts at-sts at-sts at-sts
>>97812875I adore the M5, but I can't help but see the Chevrolet logo in the magazine lol
>>97822251Thats a dude, you fucking tr00n faggot retard. Also. Not canon. Doesn't exist.
I win the argument.
>>97826491That doesn't seem very done to me. You don't really seem to have a handle on things squirt
>>97823551yeah you are :)
>>97826698Ironic.
>>97826955Well that's lame, I guess I shouldn't expect anything else
>>97826554I don't care about railroading, I care about you getting the fuck back in your hole. Get gone.
Work in Progress, "No Foolin'!" Edition>Full-on /WIP/ OP Links Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/BE42AEcD>WIP Tutorial Images Megahttps://mega.nz/#F!TvQFCaLb!w8WZKCcOsTRasxrI0JWezw>Saint Duncan's "Six Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Painting"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufP8ka3KGno>Saint Duncan also explains thinning your paintshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxWgsqSf74s>Paint thinning 102Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97825694Had one left that I forgot and just mashed it in a bit and cleaned it up before it dried. Seems to have worked well enough. It was a bit difficult since this was the one where I made the mistake of gluing the slotta in and couldn't get the model off, but it's good enough. They're just skeletons.
>>97825014Night Shift on Youtube has lots of great videos on the subject.
>>97827012If you want to go out and buy a bunch of new and difficult to use products maybe.
>>97827058I don't have cameras in all of your homes yet, so I don't know what Anon has access to. Some of it can be replicated with what he might already own and other things might still be cheap. There is still value in watching someone with experience in the matter work and hearing their thoughts.
>>97826642Cheapest one for me is $40. For $25 I'd try one, for $40, no chance in hell.
>What is Exalted?An epic high-flying role-playing game about reborn god-heroes in a world that turned on them.Start here:http://theonyxpath.com/category/worlds/exalted/>That sounds cool, how can I get into it?Read the 3e core book (link below). For mechanics of the old edition, play this tutorial:http://mengtzu.github.io/exalted/sakuya.htmlIt’ll get you familiar with most of the mechanics.>Gosh that was fun. How do I find a group?Roll20 and the Game Finder General here on /tg/. good luck>Resources for Third Edition>3E Core and Splatshttps://www.mediafire.com/folder/b54o6teut3fx6/Exalted_3eComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97825763Partying until burned at stakes?
>>97825763What were they doing the entire First Age?
>>97826736Going to designated Lunar social clubs to mutter uneasily about how unsure they are about how much agency they even have, getting caught in Wyld experiments and being forgotten about by their own Solars.
>>97826736being riden by solars in every way you can imagine.
>>97825763It's still kind of funny to me that Sidereals didn't get nearly as mistreated as Lunars during the First Age, and by all accounts were treated about as respectfully as a First Age Solar could treat an inferior. You would think there would be at least one or two accounts of Solar and Sidereal hubris clashing, but nope.
Absolute Unit 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.
>>97826965I’d rather take the playmobil ones man holy shit. Also is the flag bearer a chick? Is she supposed to be an armored damsel?
>>97826890Yeah I think they just really doubled down on the grim dark overplayed month python jokes for bretonnia before ultimately forgetting they exist. Which sucks because I feel like a lot more cool fantastical shit could be done with bretonnia rather than “le nobles so mean lolz!”. I still want the kidnapped boys to be badass spellblades and for them to ride more cool monsters
It’s a little annoying that the Chaos Warriors are seemingly the only true faceless armored dudes available since Foot Knights have their eyes visible through their visors. I think if you liked heavy armored fantasy dudes that full faceless look is important, though it explains the popularity of Chaos historically.
>>97827049>I still want the kidnapped boys to be badass spellblades and for them to ride more cool monstersBased knower. I hope they get models some day, would make for a really cool campaign scenario.
>>97827062See that would be cool. In general it just feels like not much is done with bretonnia when it could be so much cooler but they’re limited by GW treating them like a joke faction. I have some hope though since they were a TOW launch army
Jolly good time>Cyberpunk 2020 vs. Cyberpunk RED?Cyberpunk 2020 is the second edition of the Cyberpunk TTRPG by R. Talsorian Games, set in a (then) future inspired by film noir and the dark science fiction films and books of the late 20th century. It focuses on simulationist gameplay and lethal near-future combat.Cyberpunk RED is the latest edition of the Cyberpunk TTRPG, set after the devastating Fourth Corporate War. It focuses on more balanced, streamlined gameplay and is currently supported by R. Talsorian Games.>Resources for RED:https://datapool2045.net/>RED has free DLC and extra content, including character sheets:https://rtalsoriangames.com/downloadable-content/>RED Easy Mode is available for FREE:https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/409912/cyberpunk-red-easy-modeComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97826307>>97826360No one's been at the helm for a while, sailor.
>>97826360Thing is, if Maxtac is in charge of security, it means that only key assets are protected, like energy lines. Maxtac is responsible for the whole city - if 2d10 hits them, it's likely an area without anybody claiming responsibility.
>>97826897don't trick yourself into thinking it's intentional, a different table has you more likely to run into a gang boss than a gang member
>>97820620I always took radio host Mike as a conspiracy theorist and a way to cram in references to non canon table top adventures not anything to be taken seriously as lore.
>>97827052Is tales from the forlorn hope not supposed to be canon? it was first party wasnt it?
Welcome to TODD!This thread is for OPEN discussion of TSR-era D&D (up to and including 2e), TSR-era settings, and related games, such as retroclones, OSR, and OSR-adjacent games. Free discussion of house rules is encouraged.>GamesIncluding but not limited to: OD&D, B/X, BECMI, AD&D 1e, AD&D 2e, For Gold & Glory, Hackmaster, Myth and Magic, Shadowdark, Into the Odd, Mausritter, Cairn, Mörk Borg, DCC, Mothership, Knave, Troika!, White Hack, Black Hack.>What is this thread NOT for?Meta discussions and drama related to game creators and other /tg/ threads. We come in peace.>Resources2e fan wiki:https://adnd2e.fandom.com/wiki/Advanced_Dungeons_%26_Dragons_2nd_Edition_Wiki2e archive:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Looking into Castles and Crusades (with various rules tweaks) and considering other options for spending XP.Are there any decent rules for skill training or similar in an OSR that you like?
>>97824885Thats a wrong retarded definition with no grounds in reality. This entire thread is a bad fakth cintainment thread designed to try and shift trolling into while /osrg/ remains hijacked.
>>97826406Woah, look out! tin foil hat anon is on the case. It's your fault you decided on 2e instead of pure OSR.
>>97823971>Welcome to TODD!
>>97825475It'd be more basic, but you could try taking the existing Wizard kits and reworking those into specialist variants. Some of them already have barred schools, or otherwise lean towards a specialty. It might be relatively simple to line up the Witch kit with Conjuration specialization with both having Con requirements, where the Witch offers a free familiar starting at 3rd level, as an example.
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?
>>97821609Any property humans have, mental or physical, is likely to be average among sapient species. There is no reasonable justification to expect anything. Any option other than average is by definition less probable than the average, and in the absence of examples, the most probable assumption is the only reasonable one (again, tautological).
>>97823553this is based however
>>97823573uh bro there are only a tiny number of species on Earth that humans have domesticated. nearly all living things remain wild.
>>97824449Criticizing things that suck is fun. It is its own reward.
>>97824807it's ok bud some people are just smarter than you
>Everyone• PLEASE BUMP THE THREAD IF IT REACHES PAGE 10!>Requesters:• Provide good, detailed references (pictures are better than verbal descriptions), so the artists know what you're looking for.• If you have a WIP quote the Anchor Post, and attach the WIP so your Drawfag can find you.• Do not reply to other deliveries with a request that the artist fill your request next. This is called 'piggybacking'.• Do not make multiple requests in the same thread and do not serially request multiple characters after a delivery. Suggesting several concepts for artists to choose from counts as making multiple requests.• If you're unsatisfied with your completed request, please wait at least one week before you re-request. If someone follows this rule, don't waste posts by complaining about it.• Stay on topic.>Drawfags and Drawfags-to-be:• Drop your tumblrs/websites/commission/etc information, but if you're dropping your commission info, please consider filling a request beforehand instead of just advertising.• Please keep AI deliveries to the /slop/ threads. This is a thread for human-made art.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97817984anon IDK anything about firegiants or warhammer but those are gorgeous, I would totally wear that in a tshirt, specially the ones on the right. I think that is the way
I decided to draw a funny about a mass murdering maniac who may or may not kill all the PCs in the next session. At least the players will have a laugh before their PCs are brutally scalped, hahahaha....
>>97826776"One shudders to find inhuman thoughts behind that smile. What dreams contains such chronic cruelty!!"
>>97826793
>>97826919"I'm not talking about that freak!" "He' not here, is he?">Struggles to get the microphone off."How....How do I take this thing off?!"
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
>>97822013>You would join current conversation,I have.>what i started,may I see it?>showing your elves,I did last thread (nobody replied)
>>97815784Chuddolai has HAD ENOUGH!
>>97815873This looks like a gangweed template
Vulkans are still better sci-fi elves than Eldar
Can we just kick out Eldarfags back to /40kg/?
Which D&D canon setting do you like most? Which one would you like to try out? >Blackmoor? More like, Blackwhore!>Greyhawk? More like, Gayhawk! >Mystara? More like, Fagstara!>The Conan universe? More like, the colonoscophy universe! >Dragonlance? Not worth giving a chance!\>Forgotten Realms? More like, forgettable realms!>Spelljammer? More like, go-to-Hell jammer!>Dark sun? More like, No Fun!>Al-Qadim? More like, All-Cocks-In-Him!>Planescape? I'd rather plan an escape!>Eberron? I like it, the creator is a creep though>Ravnica? More like, Ravnigga!>Exandria? More like, Retardia!>Theros? More like, Lameos!
>>97824218Thank you friend Anon. That was very kind of you to say.oops... I meantScrew you, I'm going home.
>>97813540>Birthright? More like Birth Shite!I like it too though.
>>97825382>Basically a meta-setting that was literally intended to tie all the universes together. Therefore, not particularly unique in its own right, but neat concept.I like it as space fantasy. Not sci-fantasy, just straight fantasy in space, I don't see that enough
>>97826912That's true, I also enjoy the concept, it's very unique and very true to D&D's Sword and Sorcery roots; science fantasy is cool and I think proper science fantasy is kind of underrated still, but literal, outright "fantasy in space" is even less represented.
I've stopped playing D&D and am now a GURPSfag, but I have played some Forgotten Realms and Spelljammer in GURPS using GURPS Dungeon Fantasy (*not* Dungeon Fantasy RPG). Very fun stuff. Much more fun than in D&D to be honest. In any case, Mystara, Forgotten Realms, Spelljammer, Greyhawk, Dark Sun, Eberron, Planescape, Al-Qadim and Ravenloft are all varying degrees of kino in their own way. A good and passionate GM can run excellent games in any of them.The rest are trash.
Last Thread:https://desuarchive.org/tg/thread/97697487/The 1d6Chan:https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Chyna_SecundusGiven that both the 1d6chan page and end of Thread 3 imply that the Tyranids were eliminated (if I'm wrong... admonish me)That said... this thread will be a more traditional epilogue with some planning for next thread...Now then... lets wrap up Chyna Secundus anons...>be Felinid Lt. Tom, aka "Big Daddy">I can't help but think of the absurdity of the past week>the war for this polluted grox-shit pit of a planet is over... mostly>still a couple stragglers here and there, but they won't last long>the sieges of both Hive Kong and Hive Bei'jing have been won, and the few surviving heretics routed into the wastesComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97823517>be Felinid Lt. Tom, aka "Big Daddy">be with the Silver Astartes and the Cadians>we just pulled up to the warehouse that Tiny Tam was rambling about...>well... at least I think it is...>this place is far more run down than the rest of the buildings in this district>and HOLY EMPEROR... does this place creep me the feth out...>the constant creaking and other noises I keep hearing has me on edge...>thankfully the Silver Astarte is taking point...>If he trips a land mine or an ambush he would probably survive...>probably>Inside its dark as hell>most of the lights don't work anymore>the ones that do are either dim or flicker constantlyComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97826740>>97823517>be Spencer >huh...>that went well >strangely well >so obviously im high alert >i order shoulder lights on as we move through the dark of the warehouse >besides the light breaking through the opening where i suppose the tanks tore out from >this entire area is empty >DAMN IT KID>im about to write the whole thing off as a wild grouse chase when the kid>no not the psyker one the other boring one >fiddles around with something in his pack >are those?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97826708>did you mean the Sweeper model servitors when you said seeker variantsWhoops, yes I did lol. Thanks for the catch.
>>97826792>be Felinid Lt. Tom, aka "Big Daddy">be inside this warehouse with the Silver Astarte and Cadians>start to think that this is a bust when...>my nephew decides to light up one of the fireworks i bought him>the little rocket flies deeper into the warehouse and explodes>momentarily bathing the chamber in red light>and for a moment I see something in the gloom>I make a run toward it, the others following hot on my heels>my jaw drops when I illuminate it with the light on my lasrifle..."Holy Terra... is that a fething Stormsword?!">it is indeed a Stormsword>I turn around...>the Cadians and my nephew are also in awe (especially my nephew... I don't think he has ever seen a super heavy before)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97826953>>97826792>>97826792>>97826792>i am F.O.L.O>i am a tank >i am infact a super heavy tank>machinery we were, but never mere>in fact im quite clever if i do say so myself >when those ingrates came and converted all the lesser units in my regiment i held the line as i once did back then >back when the Saint named me >back when the cities ran red with blood and needed to run even redder >i remember her hand on me, how warm it felt>nothing has ever come close to that so i felt no-one else was worthy >well worthy is a strong wordComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Would your human male fighter ever consider getting themselves a nice trad peasant wife and settling down in the countryside?
>>97826630Hey man Scipio Africanus and Cincinnatus ended their lives peacefully retired in the countryside.
>>97826640And they were normal mortal humans. My fighter decidedly is not. He should not be lowering himself to some twig who will snap in half if he exerts the slightest force. If she doesn't have at least 70 hp she's not worth looking at, and if she dies to Power Word Kill she's decidedly not a keeper.
>>97826669So an equal is what he likes? More like a Germanic or Viking?
>>97817852The closest I have to a human male fighter is an undead deathknight, but he does have a chinese style courtesan tradwife (now also undead) that he's fighting for the freedom to settle down with.He also has a shapeshifting feralwifeAnd a swordwifeHe's very traditional
>>97824895I literally always wanted to write a banana republic setting dude, what the hell
