Previous thread:>>97209588>What is /awg/?A thread to talk about minis and games which fall between the cracks, or peoples' homebrew wargames.The >>>/tg/hwg thread doesn't entertain fantasy (for good reason) and the other threads are locked to more specific games.This thread isn't tied to a game, a publisher, or a genre, let's just talk about fun wargames. Any scale, any company, any miniatures.>Examples of games that qualify.A Song of Ice and Fire, Argatoria, Batman Miniature Game, Carnevale, Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings,Deadzone, Dragon Rampant, Dropfleet and Dropzone Commander, Freebooter's Fate, Frostgrave, Gaslands, HeroClix,Kings of War, Maelstrom's Edge, Malifaux, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Masters of the Universe: Battleground, Moonstone,Oathmark, OnePageRules, Open Combat, RelicBlade, Rumbleslam, SAGA, StarCraft, Stargrave, Sludge, Urban War, Void,Warcaster, Warmachine, Xenos Rampant, Xenotactics......and anything else that doesn't necessarily have a dedicated thread.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97365530Yeah it was a shitshow because it was trying to be historical 40k and fell on its ass because of it. I did like the v4 cards and thought it streamlined what was a clunky game, but honestly, it attracted the worst kind of ahisotrical bullshit. You'd see photos of tank parking lots exploiting the rules. Just shit. I only liked to play casually where I could sprinkle in awg elements and minis. Ironically the games rules being so bad are why it is more of an awg because it sure as shit aint historical
Inq28.I wish Inhad the creativity and skill of weirdingway (aka Isaac Tobin). These are his Navigator House of Merz-Itano, and they are fucking brilliant. I also love his AoS28 Exalted Champion of the Mantigryph Dormant.Anyone who does inq28 got any tips for sparking inspiration and then kitbashing well?
>>97365703>Anyone who does inq28Prob find then at /gwsg/ >>97339316
>>97364164Loved by people who play games, hated by Wehraboo retards who don't
Anybody got a pdf of full spectrum dominance? Thinking about picking up a copy but I'd like to have a flip through before I spend any money
What's your theory for why all the talent is leaving Leder Games?What’s your worst/best board game break up story?
>>97367204I don't want anything. I just made a casual observation.what do you want from your crowd funded yt list maker?
>>97367086>unfortunatelyWhat other anon said. Pricey game for what you get, but I know I'd love it. It should be $40-50
>>97367320ummm anon they print in europe with sustainable materialsyou should feel lucky to pay $150 for their strangely ugly games
>>97365236The two core boxes (heart and star) have bullets and 8 characters, the other boxes (orange, paw, puzzle piece, etc) have only 4 characters each. And then there's the premium tokens pack which is just the tokens but wood instead of cardboard, pretty good but pricy.
>>97366410>Are all deluxe versions such massive scams?Almost all. Pushing a deluxe upgrade that isn't worth the extra cost is a classic way of milking Kickstarter whales.I shamefully still love the deluxe edition of Catan with the painted 3D resin pieces though
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>>97367217I told you anon, I had my internet down. Little known fact but I am actually the one driving most discussion in this general by replying to my own posts. Since you're here, any recommendations for what I should talk to myself about?
>>97367246You should do Martial Path so we can pretend it's alive, much like MHA
>>97367256After this Martial Path run expires, do you think we'll finally learn our lesson about playing xianxia?
>>97367338nokth cape AU is next
>>97367351This would unironically solve the biggest problem of xianxia, said issue being the setting.
>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.
>>97366213yeah, nothing too crazy :) the aesthetic i have in mind is somewhere between star wars and cyberpunk. all the tech is chunky and tactile
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>>97364742>>97301126OR here. Thank you for delivering, this place inspires me as always to begin sketching on my own
>>97366293Not the OR, but it's great to see you drawing again.
>>97367145I've got the time finally, I had a ton of stuff, albeit good stuff that was keeping me from drawing for quite a while. Plus being out sick from work with the 'rona sort of forced me to just sit and be still for a while.I'd love to see more requests. The fills I've done lately have been fun to do.
▶ 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.
>>97367242this looks like the cover to a dogshit, very obscure, black metal demo from the CD-R era (this is a compliment)
>-and that's why we must rise up and tax the gentry!
mondays editionInfinity is a 28mm tabletop skirmish game produced by Corvus Belli, and includes the related games Aristeia, Defiance, TAG Raid, REM Racers, and Acheron's Fall. Corvus Belli also produces the fantasy games Warcrow and Warcrow Adventures.>Latest official update:January preorders>Rules and missions:https://infinitythewiki.com/index.phphttps://infinitytheuniverse.com/resourceshttps://infinitytheuniverse.com/games/infinity/its>Beginner FAQs and guides:https://pastebin.com/x06JG55Uhttps://pastebin.com/xtQzRcq5 https://pastebin.com/xUBR7QFU Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97364589Matrix bot vibes in the backside.
>>97361428Ah gotcha. Thanks for the info, anon. >>97363974Sorry, I dont play blizzard games or aos
>>97355390Alas, my heart belongs to another.
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?
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.
>>97364831How would "target player" instead of "target opponent" behave significantly different in these game modes except opening up options in the context I mentioned? "Each player" and "each opponent" are completely different cases. Again, I never argued all cards should be worded more openly every time.Also I was talking about nonsense restrictions in general. "Target creature YOU CONTROL gets +1/+1" - why? Why one I control? It's an effect that by design is something that will already be used the intended way in 1v1. Wouldn't a more open effect also make team games more interesting? Another thing is that magic does have tons of cards that are actually worded that way. I just don't get the ones that are not
>>97365637sealed is a little more chill but also more luck based since you see less cardslimited in general you can just get fucked over by unlucky opens (and draws of course)draft is really good value if you want the cards in the set you are drafting, and okay value otherwise if you maintain a good winrate
RIFTS! The science fantasy world of post-apoc cyborgs, wizards, dragons, ninjas, giant mecha, super-nazis, robot ninjas, vampires, underwater kingdoms, remnant human supertech civilizations and everything you can imagine all rolled into one setting where interdimensional RIFTS have pierced Earth's fabric and turned it into a playground for aliens and monsters!Plus other Palladium Games about superheroes, zombies, classic fantasy, supernaturals investigation and more. Talk about:>RIFTS(tm)>Heroes Unlimited>Palladium Fantasy>Beyond the Supernatural>Dead Reign>Robotech (lol)>TMNT & Other Strangeness + After the Bomb>Splicers>Nightbane>Savage RiftsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97357148Mutants in Orbit one always needs to cool down though. It'd be great to find a work around to that
>>97360307The mark V has unlimited flight time, and only 100 mdc less.You are talking the mark IV, which in atmosphere is cool but not as amazing as the V
>>97362177Ah fair. Yeah the Mark V is great 10/10 would create a TW Golem out of it
>>97359418>chipwell glitterboy>30,000... sdcOn a 1 a random limb will fall off no matter if it was a roll firing a weapon or a skill roll or intiative.
>>97357108how is this?
Emotional support elf editionDiscuss elves.Post elves.Love elves.All elf lore, game stories art and any else that's elfy is all appreciated.Thread question: To what extent do elves share their wisdom and experience with other races to help them emotionally and psychologically?previous thread: >>97278632
>>97365462They're parodies of elves rather than the genuine article. It's like calling that weird Thumb Wars CN special a canonical Star Wars movie.
>>97364462>slop == artNo you little retard, those are not the same thing.Making art is something that skilled people can do, something they have spend time training to do. They impose upon themselves a goal and limitations to create something new, something that few others can make, and yet want to see.You don't do any of that. You do something that anyone else could do. You spend a moment typing words into a machine, and at most 5 minutes deciding if what the machine made was good enough, if even that. Your "work" has no value, no benefit. But you share it anyway, with the same pride as a toddler shares a potty, because he didn't shit on the floor this time.Nobody needs your 'help' with making slop. Nobody wants to see your piece of crap you had the machine belch forth. Even the other slopshitters don't really care about what you make, only about how their outputs compare to yours, about who can make the machine do the funniest lurch. That is why you feel alienated by the AI thread. You have no home, because you haven't earned the right to be anywhere. It is only through the flaws in this board that your existence is even noticed and despised, like vermin skulking beneath the floorboards. So take your filth, leave this place and do not return. Both your live and ours will be better for your passing, even if you can not restrain yourself from fulfilling a desire to create by claying with your stool.
>>97365624z-list 'artist' detected lmao
>>97365624Arianne's Player... dude. Please. Get the stick out of your ass.
Next thread belongs to half-elves.
Composite Critter editionPrevious >>97320851>Basics Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/GWjTU9Uv>Anon's Locals Survival Guidehttps://pastebin.com/xXp5jShL>Fanmade PC simhttps://pastebin.com/u6aKrBSg>Official Mobile sim (Release Date TBA)https://www.digimon-alysion.com/en/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97367296>likely Yuuki100% yuuki.I dont think unchained getting 2 sr/1 sec (my wallet died typing this) is a bad thing since he gets a "complete" deck off the bat. Sure others needs support too but they fucking frontloaded his set of shit at the "last" liberator set all at once so gotta complete it somehow. I wont say anything to defend the mc because i hate gallant.
>>97367241So the gameplan is to digivolve into a level 5, then hopefully play the other level 6 with assembly, digivolve the other stack for free, pass turn and DNA on the next turn?
>>97367341>DNA on the next turn?More like same EOT.
>>97367340Heavymetaldramon: Metalacolpyse Mode lets go
>>97367344Right forgot about what Unchained does.
existential edition >Chess websites, tools, videos and books:https://rentry.org/vxdsw7k5>Calendar:- Tata Steel | January 16th - February 1st- Speed Chess Championship Finals | February 7th - 8th- Prague International Chess Festival: Masters | February 25th - March 6th- Chesscom Global Championship | March 14th - April 26th- Reykjavik Open | March 25th - 31st- FIDE Candidates Tournament | March 28th - April 16th- European Individual Chess Championship | April 7th - 19th- Lichess Spring Marathon | April 18th- Grand Chess Tour: Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland | May 3rd - 10thComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
does the CIA still recruit chess players?
>>97360345Thanks anon, I was wondering if this liver move develops bad habits and whether I should get rid of it. Analysis says it's fine though.I just googled it now and realized that originally you were supposed to mate with the queen, and not just fork with the knight. I'm sure I saw it somewhere before but I've arrived at it independently, more or less. Neat.
>>97364302The Cold War is over, so no.
>>97367099>implying
>>97364302No, thankfully they screen for that now. None of them make it past the initial recruitment stage.
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.
>>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
>>97365812Oh, the black ones. Man, you're double fucked. I understand the bitterness.
Douchemachine used to be the largest competition to GW. Now look at it and laugh
>>97354640They proved to be incompetent by not retaining people during/after the covid lockdowns. Most of those new customers didn't stay very long after the lockdowns lifted, and realized the model kits were extremely expensive. However, you're not wrong about their IP having reach, because even if they're not buying kits, they're buying games and eventually other media (when/if the amazon slop comes out?). GW still makes a ton of money from licensing and potentially bringing in more people into their product ecosystem regardless of how long they stay. Battletech does have games, but I dont know how popular they are. Corvus Belli is trying to get their trash aristeia game into vidya, and they supposedly have a movie being made.
>>97330812There are options at the large army scale, but all the games that ask you to bring more than 20-30 models are mostly model agnostic rulesets that are being sold. Outside of historical minis, most of what comes to mind is fantasy rank and spanks that exist fill in for Warhammer Fantasy being dead for a decade: Mantic Kings of War and Oathmark.
>>97334752>Didn't BT get discovered by the sjw's?The biggest thing culture warriors point to for BT becoming pozzed is an unofficial fan publication.
>>97366968Not entirely true, CGL has been pushing progressive stuff for years now. Which is pretty comical when you consider that BT is a setting that is pretty amazing when it comes to everyone and everything having representation without pandering and badly written LGBTQ+ characters/plots being jammed into campaign books and novels.
>>97331077>I can't believe it actually got approved for publication.Really?
I'm trying to write a campaign and have a good idea of where I want it to go, but I'm not sure how to get started. In your current game, what was the main threat facing the party in their starting location?
>>97364443Prison they were all in got ransacked by necromancers. The necromancers got what they wanted, and left the walking cadavers as a distraction. The party broke out of their cells and fought their way through when the initial chaos settled down.
>>97364443The party got their entire equipment confiscated by corrupt city guards at the gates as their first interaction and introduction to the setting.
>>97364443Shipwreck.
>>97366834Because if you had any sense you'd pick up on the meaning. You're not writing a novel. Tell your players what you're doing then do it.
>>97364443>what was the main threat facing the party in their starting location?two unrelated ones: one was a member of a minor branch of the huge and powerful Alibakkar merchant family that got it into his head that he'd rather be a robber knight, and the other was a sea hag controlling the weather to keep Amn's navy grounded for reasons related to the BBEG's overarching plot to ruin that nation because they're the only ones with Carrack technology to get over the Trackless Sea where his fortress is.
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. 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.
>>97366337Same answer as the last six times you posted this.
>>97365331>I'm not a fan of one-stop "tower of knowledge" structures, I think they're FOEGYGVery minor point, but I have here a hadith of sound transmission indicating that Gygax (pbuh) used such a structure:>https://www.enworld.org/threads/gary-gygax-things.669413/
>>97366059>by the book the only way for them to realise that they have is by finding contradictions in their maps, for example their position with respect to a known landmark, or a hex they've already been in seeming to have a different terrain than it shouldWhile this is true in most editions, it's worth noting that it's not true in OD&D, where it's clear from context that the players immediately know when they're lost (since the getting-lost procedure specifies that they're allowed a directional deflection as per the rules of Outdoor Survival).
>>97367158I guess it's similar, but it's less a cosmopolitan wizard school/wizard mecca in that case, and instead is just one powerful, dickish wizard in a tower who will cast spells and stuff for you in exchange for an exorbitant payment in magic items.
>>97367280Oh yeah, there are definitely good and bad implementations. Hogwarts School of Identification for a Flat Fee is ass.
