>Medieval fantasy setting>Magic is nanomachine tech>Ancient ruin is a crashed spaceship>"The Oracle" is an AI>Gods are original humansPLEASE stop doing this.
>>97352571>Setting with magic>Absolutely no limit on what magic can do>Magic widely available to everyone with enough money>People still living in medieval squalorPLEASE stop doing THIS
>>97363044>life is a simulation/game/layer/realm/world within an XI've been tired of this since the 2000s at least.
>>97360797There's also that manga that's basically Underwater Ray Romano but also toxic yuri.
>>97355371there definitely is hyper advanced precursor tech in dying earth (including one Evil AI story, if memory serves) but most of the magic is actual magic.I think OP is thinking more like Gene Wolfe or Linda Nagata where all the mysterious forces are just the compounded wreckage of a thousand previous technological civilizations.
>>97353409To be fair in Wolfe's case it was more like "it actually was clearly scifi all along and you couldn't understand it".At least I THINK so. Man, those were some good books, but not the easiest.
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?
>>97364831dotp had 2hg actually
>>97365130Yep, and 4 player FFA too, that's why I said "and earlier digital magic clients"
I played the phantom sealed midweek thing, never played sealed before. Was fun, I might start playing it over draft but I heard it's really bad "value"
>>97363875I don't believe you.
>>97294915Play your decks more, boosts hidden mmr. You'll play smarter players the more you play a deck as you win more.
▶ Thread Task: Cosmic fantasyPrevious thread: >>97346073▶ Generatorshttps://bing.com/images/create/https://sora.chatgpt.com/https://gemini.google/overview/image-generation/https://perchance.org/ai-text-to-image-generatorhttps://civitai.com/Curious about local genning? Check out /g/'s stable diffusion OP or ask one of our friendly locals.▶ Perchance pastebin of generators and links:https://pastebin.com/XRGqaW4W (embed) (embed)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97365743>Shes happy as a knight.>But shes happier when she doesn't have to wear the armor anymore.
About a decade ago we got a rumour that the Primarchs would come back (before it actually started happening).Part of that rumour was that one loyalist would turn traitor and one traitor would become a loyalist.So who's it gonna be?Picture potentially related, Angron for ants.
>>97366030>inb4 XYZ could NEVER come back!Big E literally said he'll get them all back when he used Guilliman as a muppet, so obviously there's a way.
>>97366030Perturabo comes back to the light because he gets cucked out of his machine empire by Vashtorr.Jaghatai Khan goes over to Khorne, because that's where he belonged all along.
>>97366063>Jaghatai Khan goes over to KhorneUndivided, clearly.Guy has loyalty to nothing and nobody.
>Brutus' Drivehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1qb0_OLhDrDYVVpbllIREdOczg?resourcekey=0-m3LU1xaC5-PnnA0VLRfK9g>DriveAnon's Drivehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Cx7KoDkQa9qmDfJN9_CehZ0fxXEweKOu?usp=sharing>Jumpchain IRC Chathttp://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.rizon.net/?#JumpchainCYOA>Ruleshttp://pastebin.com/Gqj3iKyn>How to Jumpchainhttp://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1qb0_OLhDrDVDFBR2NpdG03S0U/viewComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
...Also, currently irrelevant detail that will probably never come up but that is canon for this chain - Messier's dad assassinated Cannibal's parents.
>>97359478Yeah fuck this guy.
So are Witcher signs like runes or are they hand gestures?I only played Witcher 3 and from what I could tell they seemed more like simple hand gestures used to cast relatively weak magic, but quickly and without incantations. The actual symbols used for them seem more rune-based and the gestures used typically draw the symbols.Asking because I don't know if I can merge Witcher signs into the general rune/glyph build of my Jumper or if it's something unrelated.
>>97359478>>97362338There's children and there's atrocious brats that deserve a violent late abortion. For me it's picrel.
>>97365992The Witcher Wiki says there's a dude in The Witcher 1 who couldn't use Signs because he broke his fingers, so I'm assuming they're handsigns?
>>97363280>In fact, it's placing hermeticism ABOVE science.lolok
Why the insistance of comparing magic with engineering, when in many settings a wizzard acts way more like a lawyer?>needs to know how to adress and talk the language of the demons/ghosts>needs to be able to make pacts with devils>able to decipher incomprehensible rules and stipulations, which are often archaic, counter intuitive or evencontradictory At least thats how i rationalise the "basic spells". Want to cast fireball? Thats the equivalent of getting a fishing license. Want to do something unique? Well thats like trying to get a building license in a nature reserve. It MIGHT be possible if all stars align, but might fail with no obviois mistake on your part.As an alternative i could present dungeon meshi. Gnome mages are mediators who convince the magic to do their bidding. While Elf magic, in dungeon meshi, is more akin to programming. >but programming is science!I am not sure if i would invite skyrim nude modders to a science convention
>>97363891I’ve always considered law a form of magic. Just whipping out a retarded statement can delay a case for years just because of some hundred year old shit everyone forgot about. Someone even demanded a trial by combat once, not too long ago, in fucking America. State by state shit gets weirder and more esoteric. In England some village has an ancient law stating all red heads must be killed or something. But what is law if not social engineering? That’s what Ruscoe Pound said. Law is a tool and a building block.
>>97363891>>97364039I like when magic is a literal living thing. It opens up avenues like this. What if spells are conversations? Or actual organisms?
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Work in Progress, Hawken Invictor Editionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFQ7Pg07edc>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=wxWgsqSf74sComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I'm pretty new to painting and chose Warcrow as the game to invest in. Wildly fun game but the models can be a pain in the ass to paint in my limited experience. Anyways I finished her finally. I'm new and just try to mimic the color pallet from official reference photos. I need to get better at highlighting but whenever I do it I think the model ends up looking worse. I'm now painting from Crisis protocol minis. Any tips on how to do eyes and lips?
>>97365400Only newfags, find yourself some guys who were laying before CGL put rainbows on shit, it's in the very core of battletech rules (and spirit) that you can paint your mechs however you want and field any combination of mechs you want.out of my hundreds of mechs, 6 are a "canon" scheme and even then only at a stretch as star league preferred military green, not factory grey.
>>97360721You weren't supposed to notice that...He's looking better currently, I'll post updates after tonight's painting sesh.
>>97366008did antialiasing fill the gap between chin, neck and chest? happened to me a few times.
>>97360213>purple and whitei cum
Time to talk about weird monsters again.As usual, any rants about Bog will be treated as bait unless you have actual proof.
>>97363443Cannontown is for chumps. I’m a retro and I just live in the sewers with a bunch of rats I trained to eat anything that looks at me funny.
>>97356624>>97358554Apropos of nothing, what are the most chivalrous monsters a guy could stick on his team? For no reason.
>>97360923>>97362569>>97363443>t. people who think >>97353468 is the height of sexuality Away! AWAY I SAY!
>>97365240Here's all the ones I can think of off the top of my headDoomboros: Cowardly, but will defend it's friends with its life.Bang: Dislikes people who exploit the weak and hates corrupt authority. Out of all the Boo-Men he's the most liked by retrohumanity (As well as the coolest).Hisscreant: Loves fighting but despises those who pick on the weak. Will never back down from a challenge.
>>97365418I'd also like to submit Coconaught since they have protective instincts over allies, to the point where they're often employed as guardians and established populations of Coconaught developing cultures based around chivalry and altruism.
What's your theory for why all the talent is leaving Leder Games?What’s your worst/best board game break up story?
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>>97365780Thats a minor expansion, only four characters, not standalone.
>>97365643I like tom and respect his opinion but I've grown tired of their slowly presented top 100 years ago. It'd be fine if they were either better at describing the essence of a game or had more visuals, as I remember it it was largely the picture of the games box with a 7 minute monologue struggling to convey why some nebulous concept in the game is really fun.
>>97365756They didn't even bother upressing, brushing up, nothingJust a screenshot
Here's my top 9 games of 2025, 2024, 2023, etc.
Previous thread: >>97295718GURPS is a modular, adaptable system, capable of running a wide range of characters, settings, and play styles, with a level of detail varying from lightweight to completely autistic.Optional rules allow you to emulate different genres with a single system, or even switch genres within a single game.A nearly complete archive of GURPS books can be found by using the image. Never post direct links to the archive anywhere in plain text.If you're wondering where to start:- The Basic Set covers everything, including a lot of optional rules you probably won't use.- A genre guide can be found in the archive, under Unofficial/GURPSgen. It tells you what extra books and articles you may find useful for many common genres.- How To Be a GURPS GM is a good read even for players.- GCS (gurpscharactersheet.com) is an excellent character-builder software, with page references to all the books and the option to export to both Foundry and Fantasy Grounds.Thread question: what's the best classic GURPS cover art?
90% of unofficial GURPS content now seems to just be one extremely autistic guy who is trying to stat the entire past from the carboniferous to the cold war.Why aren't there more people like that? You can't convince me that the GURPS fanbase is lacking the necessary level of autism. There should be dozens of obsessive-compulsive loons writing up every steam locomotive, or species of butterfly, or something.
>>97366018>Be me>Faggot who has fallen in love with HTML, and also likes GURPS>Start having fun with converting GURPS PDFs to HTML and statting GURPS vehicles in HTML>Fall ill with depression>Stop doing HTML stuff>Amass enough wealth at work to retire early>Slowly recovering from depression (hopefully)>Dungeon Fantasy 8: Treasure Tables is the most relaxing GURPS book to convert, since the conversion actually involves making huge improvements to the tabular formatting, rather than just brain-dead copying and pasting into <section> and <aside> elements>Currently halfway through converting it to HTML for the second time (I already uploaded an HTML version to the trove back in 2021)Based? Or the most disgusting faggotry that you have ever laid your eyes on?
Prototype editionHere 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.
>>97364883>picrelsex>TQA boy playing against a videotape to save his grandpa played a /fit/ skeleton on the table
Is the shop I'm looking at wrong or will DM's Pandora Wars set really only have 48 card boxes?
>>97364883>>97337212>Practicing for a a Skirmish this weekend>I keep beating my IRL Teemo deck with Annie, the most popular deck around meFuck my stupid chungus life, bro. Cards won't come for another week so I won't make it, senpaitachi.
What’s the edgiest tabletop game of all time
>>97365145>>97365195That's not to say that there weren't Roman nationalists, but they didn't win out against the Roman imperialists. The Romans complaining about Germanic senators were being nationalistic.After all, reactionary opinions to drastic change are normal, and nationalism is the default setting to fall back upon.
>>97351077That's honestly funny. Good on him.
>>97343498do you believethat the human body produced a nutritional superfood... >a) for you, the random dude father, to eat? >b) for the newborn creature that just developed? >c) for the mother of such creature, that will have to closely take care of if now?
>>97365731Alpha males don't allow mere women access to extremely rare performance enhancers. She popped one out, good for her, let's all clap. She's done, on to the next one.
>>97347512>you might want to talk to a shrink about why you think it's a good ideaI did, and they told me that so long as I didn't hurt anyone or myself it wasn't anything to be concerned about. This is basically how all therapy is. "Do you want to kill yourself or someone else? If no, please stop bothering us."This was after getting all nutrition and supplement stuff done (which combined with working out did have a side effect of actually making me WAY happier and healthier) but, no, still wanted to eat... "placenta".Finally got to do so this year (consensually, ofc) and holy shit, it's like everything is quiet all the time now, I'm so much less highly strung, I didn't even realise how bad it was until I was out of it. So hey, if you've had a compulsion to eat long pig for most of your life and you can't fix it...Sorry for the blogpost but I don't exactly get to talk about this often and on the Vietnamese Caligraphy Forum everyone is potentially the cannibal anon.
TP4 reanimation protocols Edition▶Previous thread:>>97139724▶News:Reminder that next box is Sisters vs Raptors:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/zrjpzrms/adepta-sororitas-battle-chaos-space-marines-over-a-long-forgotten-tomb-in-kill-team-shadowhunt/▶Official Key Downloads, FAQs and Erratahttps://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/kill-team/▶Rules Scanshttps://gofile.io/d/AinK04▶Boxed Set Rules Scanshttps://gofile.io/d/NWRByw (deprecated)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97364539Both are unusual teams (Vespid with universal fly and XV28 with stealth fields)But probably fine as long as you bear in mind that you're gonna be learning some parts of the game 'wrong'Also be aware that Vespid suffer hard on ITD/TW boards where fly does jack shit, and XV28 are on the weaker side balance wise atm
>>97364539Vespids are unusual but work from what I've heard, because the thing that looks most obvious is often what is best to do. There is a bit of nuance to them, but you'll do completely fine going balls to the walls as long as you get to shoot before you die.Stealth suits are a different story. I've yet to get much experience with them but they can't just trade openly like most teams and need to be very careful about distances and enemy options, on top of being vulnerable to mistakes with their few models. They're fascinating, but are a completely different game than other teams for both player and opponent.
>>97364490Thanks a lot. I was looking at the plague marines and they seem like a fun kill team to paint and kitbash with death guard hh kits.
>>97364886can't go wrong with death guard, tanky marines and poison can do a number on many teams and scenarios. They stomped my hunter clade last time I played against them
>>97364607>>97364694>>97364836Thanks for the input.
Yu-Gi-Oh! General #592"how the fuck is this deck still meta" EditionPrevious thread: >>97236634Most Yu-Gi-Oh! discussion encouraged. Post OC, write dumb fanfics with bad CaC in them, duel each other, have fun, etc.>Yu-Gi-Oh! Online PlayAutomated Sims:●EDOPro website: https://projectignis.github.io/download.html●EDOPro: https://discord.gg/ygopro-percy●YGO Omega: https://discord.gg/duelistsunite●Dueling Nexus: https://duelingnexus.com/●Master Duel: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1449850/YuGiOh_Master_Duel/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97350706Makes sense actually. Another question: Would Sky Galloping Gaia the Dragon be too strong for the Gx era(by itself, none of the support)
>>97364169>Without any of the support (without the singular card it searches on-summon) No, it would not. The "GX-era" was Reaper format which was dominated by stuff like Frog Monarch, which could put out monsters that either had better stats, removal effects, or a combination of the two, and Cyber Dragon, which had some of the easiest OTK lines that could easily get over a 2600atk monster. Even with the singular card it searches, it wouldn't be very good.
>>97354074i would say play the retro formats. DO NOT touch modern. retro ygo events and online play is the most fun you'll have with this game. also collecting vintage ygo is way easier because for some reason our vintage cards arent worth much(obviously outside of the super popular cards like 1st edition 1st printings of DMG, BEWD, etc). you could also just collect reprints of these classic cards, like the legendary collection yugi/joey world. they dont have the holo stars and arguably have better foiling than the originals.
>>97354609Disliking tewart and jerome's (thankfully) shitty TCG-exclusive format doesn't mean you're a fan of some faggot jewtuber, ultimately he should play whatever the fuck he wants, but introducing yourself to the game with a format strictly regulated by the 2 people who keep shitting up the franchise in this side of the world (with both awful decisions and horrible business to the consumer, because those hebrews line up their pockets with the expensive shiny cardboard they peddle practices) is madness.
>>97365935>a format strictly regulated by the 2 peopleThat was for what they were calling "early access". All of the future point lists will primarily be census-driven based on what's dominating in tournament settings.
Welcome to Mecha Monday! Here we dedicate ourselves to mecha RPGs, wargames, and boardgames alike. Here we start games, tell campaign stories, share resources & assets, and seek advice for our games and homebrew.Assorted Mecha Goodness:https://pastebin.com/E2wi55AZEmbryo Machine Translation:https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1r_cjOLuUp3HussVRhbQYU3G0zK6hwy1rLancehounds Homebrew:M3g4 folder/eMEBUbCL#kj2FRrlqTa-02U16XpnVRgPrevious Thread:>>97092391Question of the Thread:Should mecha have hands? Should the hands be humanlike? If they shouldn't have hands, what should they have? If no hands, why even have arms?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97346485>>97347899The print quality actually seems pretty good, but that might be helped by how dogshit the plastics are in comparison.
>>97359585Finish building that Hunter!
>>97362008>Finish building that Hunter!And while you're at it, finish hunting that Builder!
>>97362008It's not mine, though I did buy into the kickstarter a few years back, so I have a huge pile of BLACK plastic miniatures to complain about.
>>97257597>>97257730Update, I dug around and found this, which I think will work for the scale I need
