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.
does this look like a cool mech weapon
>>97234923Is that a fucking mosin?
>>97235022yeah
Merry Christmas, /mechm/Hope you all have a good one.
The /btg/ is dead! Long live the /btg/!Now I have a BattleMech too, ho, ho, ho! Special Christmas Edition Previous Thread: >>97217175================================>BattleTech Introductory Guide & PDFshttps://bg.battletech.com/?page_id=400>Overview of the Major Factionshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/great-houseshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/the-clanshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/other-powersComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97241859Did you see there are new Hermes III variants in the latest Shrapnel? The 6K has dual snubbies and a c3 (and a second hand), the 7K goes back to (ER) large lasers, but throws in every utility option they could think of. C3, Bloodhound, Tcomp, Angel, and a supercharger.
>>97241965>Did you see there are new Hermes III variants in the latest Shrapnel?I don't read Shrapnel. If they have official record sheets I guess I'll see them when they show up on Sarna and the MUL.
>>97241987They usually put out a free record sheet PDF eventually.There's also a 2R Hermes II that has been retconned as a first succession war lostech variant which is what the 4K is based on now. It uses DHS and ERLL.
>>97241923>guy who is unaware of the centuries old concept of bathroom readers
>>97242092That's how you get hemorrhoids
Another Infernals edition edition>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 SplatsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97241066>Years ago I remember a program named Anathema. Is there something better?There's no 3e equivalent, unfortunately. There was a project for it but it's long dead.
>>97241066If you're looking for just straight online use, Lot-Casting Atemi is probably the best choice. Unfortunately, it's not printer-friendly.
>>97241105>>97241122I see. I haven’t heard of Lot-Casting Atemi. Thanks guys!
>>97218678What have you done for Calibration in your campaigns? And have you ever used Five Days Darkness?
>>97241846I've never really heacily featured Calibration in my games. I've had Calibration-adjacent things, and plothooks sort of cause by Calibration, though. One game featured a city-state close to a Shadowland where Calibration was time when dead relatives walked out of the shadowland to walk among their living kin. Player characters, who were Dragon-Blooded and in various degrees into Immaculate Faith, put an end to it. The same game had a bit with a village that had been taken over by a teodozjia who'd slipped out of Malfeas during last Calibration. Players put an end to that, too. I've had no real big in-game happenings during Calibration itself, however.
On the spectrum of rubber forehead aliens to complete starfish aliens that are made out of silica and breathe methane, where are YOU specificially comfortable with. Does there come a point where an alien becomes too weird for you to "relate" to in order to include them in your games as playable races?Personally I am fond of aliens that look plausibly like they could have evolved in a different world and have no distinguishable lineage to earth life, even if they share some superficial features.
>>97240164I think a spectrum is appropriate. It'd be odd if all aliens looked like humans but it'd be even stranger if none did.
>>97241544Outright technicolor space babes is a ridicilous concept outside of the softest and pulpiest of scifi tho.
>>97241451>A lot of artists want aliens to be strange for strange-ness's sake, never once considering how these aliens live as both biological animals as well as sentient individuals.Hot take but this is how i feel about birrins. They very clearly have bug limbs and eyestalks just to be weird.
>>97240164I wouldn't say it's an either/or but a both/and. The universe is big enough to contain the entire spectrum, and it's great having different agents in the galaxy with different ceilings of interaction you can have with them. With some aliens you can trade or fuck, with others you can make alliances or go to war, but some you can only observe in wonder...or be observed by.
>>97241222I don't think that's gonna happen much. I mean, you usually get viruses from bats, not from trees.I do suppose microbes would be harder, but those we deal with mostly with basic hygiene, don't we? >>97241835Funnily enough I think this is one thing we could more or less justify easier than in the golden age of scifi.Why? Because genetic engeneering.
Is it finally over for scalpers?
>>97239551I bet they mean packs and some retail wagie just make a mistake. Still, limiting packs like that is pretty good anti-scalping too.
The funny thing is that a lot of scalpers are millennials, but everyone is getting tired of it. New rules will be put in place to fuck them over and they will have nothing to do. "Hmm yes it seems you bought up all the childrens cards in the area....hmmm you might be able to be a fry cook'
I work at a Walmart in the midwest, and there are only automated limits put in place, per transaction. Usually 4 per same item. However, there is nothing stopping a cashier from just doing multiple transactions of the same cards. Might flag something in the system eventually, but I have yet to see it.My manager doesn't really care about scalpers and re-salers, so there's always this group of arabs that come in and buy the whole set of laptops that just went on clearance, just so they can sell them online for 2x/3x the clearance price. Wish we could tell them to kick rocks, but Walmart only cares about "number go up!" and other self-destructive behavior.
They'll just scalp something else. I saw a guy buy over 200 pounds of ground beef at a supermarket and excitedly tell me about how he was going to flip it on a local buying/selling app. I wonder if he still has a freezer full of it.
>>97242128I've been flipping meats for the past 4 months since I got put down to part-time hours at my work.
Have you ever roleplayed a female character?
Yep, i alternate between playing a man/woman each gameMy last character was a woman
>>97239515>it requires non-retard IQRetards are incapable of playing women? Is this some "I worship the divine feminine" bullshit?
>>97240917It's just a sexual fetish
>>97241926You apply affirmative action to your fantasy? Good for you
>>97234702Does a magical parasite that took over the body of a wizard count?I was basically just helping my friend play an NPC that would betray the party and be a more interactive boss fight.The wizard was technically a half elvish female, but the brain slug never cared about such trivialities, part of the fun about being a parasite was being weird and off putting to see if anyone caught on.Only time I even bothered with a female and I technically was playing something else entirely.
Grogmas in the hive streets editionPrevious Thread:>>97019770Check out here for useful links and a catalogue of relevant miniatures retailers:https://pastebin.com/nnNqqFLnThe Rogue Trader magazine article compilation:https://gofile.io/d/yNK9bq
My Christmas present was a replacement general for my orcs.Merry Christmas to all
>>97238608>replacementThat original general looks surprisingly unpainted. Do penance by painting them both.
Death Eagles
>>97241132should have been been this pic but eh whatever
>>97241140I wonder if they get mistaken for Doom Eagles a lot.
Winter Gloom EditionPreviously on /slop/: >>97227237 ▶ Thread Task: Moody and gloomy winter pictures.And maybe characters trying to find a comfy warm corner.▶ Generatorshttps://bing.com/images/create/https://sora.chatgpt.com/https://gemini.google/overview/image-generation/https://perchance.org/ai-text-to-image-generatorComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97242045I made >>97241634 on Fluxpro.art (online generator that costs money). But since she had her right hand stuck awkwardly behind her, I had ChatGPT-4o on Bing fix it.
>>97242045She was made on Perchance.
>>97241997>>97242083
>>97242070If you run the exact same prompt in both that, bing, perchance, and pick one of the big 3 company ones like Google or such, what do you get out?
Previous thread: >>97111514GURPS 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: How often do you use an official GURPS setting? Which are your favorites?
>>97241755You'll have to wait until next year for that.
>>97241840There is hope.
>>97241840I don't care about Vehicles, but godspeed to that anon. Hopefully people will shut up then.
How to represent realistic nerve strikes?The existing Pressure Points skill gets some of the effects; you can mess up a limb or stun someone for a few seconds and it usually takes a significant blow (i.e. 1+ HP of injury). 5d seconds is probably too generous. I'm pretty sure that you can't blind someone (optic nerve goes straight to the brain). Solar plexus might make you start suffocating, but is easily resisted with tensed muscles and doesn't last long.I don't think many nerve clusters can be reliably hit with normal levels of skill. Anatomy is messy and nerves are small, buried behind muscle, and prone to slipping around inside people, so there is always a chance of failure. On the other hand, sometimes people hit them accidentally. The most vulnerable one is probably the 'funny bone' behind the elbow, but its effects are minimal.
I want to write up a bunch of guns using Gun Stats, but (a) I don't want to re-do ones which have already been written up and (b) I don't really know enough about guns to name many obscure ones.Does anyone have a list of all the guns already published in 4th ed. supplements?Or any suggestions for cool guns?
Christmas edition>Previously in the Mortal Realms:>>97225164 >Official AoS website:https://www.ageofsigmar.com>Downloads, Rules Errata, Sharty on the 'log and FAQs:https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-downloads/>Toolshttps://runebrush.pa-sy.com/warscroll/>Anvil of Apotheosis hero creator:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97241675When I look at 4th and see the crazy lack of spells and few, if any, ways to customize your army, it just looks barren and boring.
>>97241898The main idea was to replace warcry with something that would sell more paints.
>>97241675>>97241717Galletian Champions warscroll standardizing combat ranges is a nice change, as well as fixing Look Out Sir. Combat ranges led to bullshit situations where base size did much more to determine the viability of a unit than it should have. Being on a 32mm with 1" combat range should not have been the massive liability that it was. Between that and having some kind of logical timing explicitly spelled out, 4e is better than 3e from a GHB perspective. Unfortunate that they changed every single warscroll to d3 mortals on a 2+.
>>97241867that looks like little piles of wasabi, horseradish and spicy mustard.
>>97241903Yes, it has a lot of nice sculpts. I plan to use some of it for (non-gw) rpg, since classic undead show up in a ton of games.
The Ghost of Christmas Past exhorts you to post your pile of shame, so that you may resolve to address it in the coming year.
Keep this up until tomorrow evening and I'll show you something.
>>97239664Looks more like a pile of pride. Nice haul, anon. Enjoy and play.
>>97240102More of a hoard than a haul. I think the oldest of those boxes is from around when they brought Guilliman back.My crappy crop job also cut off the 3 combat patrols at the bottom.>Enjoy and play.one day Anon...
>>97240102>Looks more like a pile of pride.Only in the sense of "OP is a fag".
>>97239913I'm interested but I doubt this thread will make it. Post a new thread?
What'd you get for Christmas /tg/? Picrel was under my tree :)
Battleforce from my bf and combat patrol from my family :>
>>97241759that cover looks insane
>>97241907Sadly my copy's cover is a shitty print. Inside looks cool tho
>>97241962damn, never saw that version though. only know the original
>>97240999New headphones, 6 novels, and some underwear
Moloch's Fun Park Edition>What is Trench Crusade?An alternate weird history 28mm/32mm tabletop skirmish game still in a pre-release playtesting phase but with the full release slated for this year. Based on the art and lore of Mike Franchina, whose illustrations you may have seen floating around on /tg/ for a several years now, and designed by Tuomas Pirinen, one of the original creators of Mordheim. It's grimdark, it's visceral, it's awesome, and it's very Blanchitsu.>What Trench Crusade is notTC not an excuse for you to discuss IRL religion, history that didn't occur in the game, culture war shit, or discord bullshit on /tg/. Keep it on topic.>What's the QRD on the background?The Knights Templar turned heretic and opened the Gates of Hell when they took Jerusalem during the First Crusade. Over 800 years later the war is still ongoing as technology has developed to a pseudo diesel-punk WW1 standard and a third of Humanity has sided with the Infernal Princes.>How do I get started?All the files are free online:https://www.trenchcrusade.com/rules/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97240801Theres lots of fan-stls to print. I assume the official ones are pirated somewhere, but I don't know where.I think there used to be a link in the thread OP, am I imagining things?
>>97241045I live in a shit third world country with fucked up inflation and can't afford the STLs for a full warband. Any link to a trove would be great.
>>97240697Tuomas said that he is planning to release a guide, which helps creating your custom warband rules. But who knows when that will be published.>>97241084Try cults 3D for free stuff.I was considering sharing some stls for everyone in the thread, because of Christmas. But for now, I'm not getting near my computer for a while. I still might do it at a later date.
Trenchmas witch
>>97240801Cults3D has quite a bit of stuff. Weird that you have the money for a printer and resin and IPA and shit but not for STLs though.
Wanted to talk about advice on GMing, settings you prefer, and styles or issues you as a GM have. I generally tend to prefer dark fantasy or sci-fi settings rather than trying something a little different. I also tend to have a style, depends on the system though, where i have a combat heavy session or two and then a more intrigue/exploration focused session. I have been working on how to better balance games I run, but trying to tie that to timing a game session gets tricky at times. Another issue I noticed is that puzzle solving or investigative games can be a lot harder for a player to get into the mindset for than the dm. It is easy to think everything you planned makes sense when you thought it out in your head but the players might not have the same line of thought.
>>97233945Not only was i clear about it, it was structured this way basically on their request.>>97236121I have one player who is playing an investigator, and has a built in "I'm stuck" mechanic. But he refuses to use it or gets frustrated when I just "give him the answer". Another player also did a few things to effectively put him in contact with a god-like entity with near omniscience, but he also only uses it if he's completely lost.I also do cut in as they're discussing something really wrong with something like "based on x, y, and z, your characters would not make that assumption but instead think something else" and they'll generally agree with this assessment.
>>97236294>I have one player who is playing an investigator, and has a built in "I'm stuck" mechanic. But he refuses to use it or gets frustrated when I just "give him the answer".*fanfare.wav* Congratulations, this situation is no longer your fault.
>>97218290That’s a really interesting style—I never even thought about that. I’ll have to try it sometime. I’m new to GMing, so I’m happy to take any tips.
>>97236294>Not only was i clear about it, it was structured this way basically on their request.Discuss with them why it's not working. Presumably what you're giving them isn't what they wanted, so either you misunderstood or they failed to describe it.
>>97236448OP here. The style thing is something I am trying to correct more so than anything else. While I leave thing open ended, I have noticed that the set ups tend to favor either combat or more thinking outside the box solutions. It tends to lean back and forth based on the game. As for advice I have learned:>Do not over plan your games. This can be bad and make you struggle if someone does something you do not expect.>This doesn't mean don't plan at least some possible solutions to an issue, but just keep an open mind.>Don't be dead set on certain events happening specifically at a certain location. Things can be moved around if needed and stuff ends up completely derailed.>If playing some pre-written adventure, you might have to adjust rewards to fit the party.>Actually map out and draw locations if it is important. Dungeons, combat arenas, etc. Some pots might not need it but even a basic map can be really useful. >Make encounters interesting. Some encounters might be basic, but it is a good idea to throw a curveball every once in a while. Spearman hiding behind shields or barricades, a lone caster buffing or healing enemies, etc.
Vista edition>Cyberpunk 2020 vs. Cyberpunk RED?Cyberpunk 2020 is the second edition of the Cyberpunk TTRPG that focuses on simulation gameplay and has a black trenchcoat aesthetic.Cyberpunk RED is the fourth edition of the Cyberpunk TTRPG that is set after Cyberpunk 2020 following the Fourth Corporate War, focuses on more balanced gameplay and is more streamlined but has less content.You can discuss Shadowrun here too because I also feel bad for those guys.>Cyberpunk Rulesets (The Vault) (May not have all updated rulebooks, check official sources for updates):bit<dot>ly/2Y1w4Md>Resources for RED:https://datapool2045.net/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97238800Well, that's how our Ref solved the problem of making CI distinct from the social skills.I agree on the main point, I don't think Roles should be balanced power-wise, but they should receive roughly equal attention from the devs and it's obvious they hadn't.Media's Credibility has miserably low numbers at first, but at least you can always use a high skill to gather actively Rumours.>>97234206Remember that you can use LUCK for the CI roll. This doesn't increase the scope of favours, but helps a low rank Rockerboy to ensure they get them.
>>97227867>Mike wouldn't stand for something like anti-grav in the game.They crossed that rubicon when edgerunners came out and revealed Arasaka's new mech suit had a gravity gun that could crush an entire platoon like a pancake.
>>97238800A starting level character having a 1 in 3 chance to get a major favor from an NPC seems like pretty good odds to me, dude, and as >>97239432 said, you can use luck to make it a sure thing.
>>97240830Always found it funny that Adam Smasher is a boogeyman because he targets basic level street punks when Arasaka has tech like this. And the body is supposed to go to Smasher, so Smasher will go back to unga bunga bullying babies again because he is a sore loser that cant get rid of his grudge of losing to a old coot with a stick.
>>97242019In my games I made Smasher the true boogeyman, all the stories of him jobbing are just fake copes and his stats are so bloated (beyond what the basic rules would allow) that he's basically "YOU FUCKING LOSE" statblock, unless the party's goal is to escape.
