Skinwalker editionTell us about your horror settings, games, etc. Share inspirational art, prompts, etc.>List of games:Call of Cthulhu, Chill, Cold and Dark, Degenesis, Delta Green, Don't Rest Your Head, Dread, Esoterrorists/Fear Itself+Book of Unremitting Horror, Fall of Delta Green, GORE, Into The Shadows, KULT, Little Fears, Mothership RPG, Nemesis (free on Arc Dream's website), Nights Black Agents, Silent Legions (Mostly for the tables), Stalker: The SciFi RPG, Symbaroum, Ten Candles, Trail of Cthulhu, Unisystem (All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Witchcraft, Conspiracy X, etc.), Unknown Armies, The Whispering Vault, Vaesen>Inspirational stuff:Caitlin R Kiernan, Castlevania, Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, Doom Watch, Fear & Hunger, George Romero, Ghostwatch, House of Leaves, I Am In Eskew, John Carpenter, Kolchak the Nightstalker, Laird Barron, John Langan, M.R. James, Nick Cutter, Old Gods of Appalachia, Quatermass, Ramsey Campbell, Remedy Series (Alan Wake, Control), SCP Foundation, Scarfolk Council, Shaun Hutson, Silent Hill, Stand Still Stay Silent, The Evil Dead, The Magnus Archives, The Secret World, The Stone Tapes, Anatomy, Thomas Ligotti, Twin Peaks, Vault of Evil forums, toomuchhorrorfictionOther News:H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society releases "The Spark Devil"https://www.hplhs.org/sparkdevil.phpCurrent Book Club Topic:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97247410Don't get my hopes up anon
Maybe the real horror was the fa/tg/uys we met along the way.
>>97248475Honestly if you ask me it's probably easier to end with the stereotypical man with tits in heavy action games than in a "real" setting, if you can roleplay just a tiny bit. Horror starts up almost inevitably in a "real world" type of situation, which is good for characters if that's what you fear.However, there a lot of horror and horror related tropes that are feminine-coded and you'd probably want to avoid those. Like the final girl in slasher movies or the vamp in hard-boiled novels. I'd say amusingly enough the RPG horror milieu isn't particulary prone to dwell on them, thanks to Lovecraft's almost asexuality or something, but anyway. Probably if the GM isn't riffing on Clive Barker and the other players don't want to fuck everything with a vagina you're good with a female professional, you're gonna have other priorities (like, you know, surviving). Just don't try to make her not!Buffy, if anything try to make her sensible if vulnerable (and probably older).
>>97199002Delta Green. I like the mix of government conspiracy and horror. I like it's ruleset more (tho tbf it isn't vastly different".Shame all the latest releases have been dogshit tho.
>>97255821>5 years since the last sourcebook
>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.
>>97255004Not OR but looks great
to this anon>>97172985Can you repost your request in this thread so I know you're still around?
>>97237055 Update. I'll have to continue this probably in the latter part of January as I'm losing access again, but this time I'll have a tablet for my potato computer at home. Enjoy the rest of your holiday.
>>97214283I could try in a bit. Need to get the tablet drivers working.
Requesting this insect sexed, hardPlease and thank you
Recently I was thinking about alternative combat systems.I remember someone talking about instead of HP the payer has a Jenga tower and he needs to remove peaces once hit, the skill is to remove peaces without the tower collapsingSo I started thinking.For example what if the combat somehow involves cups and balls?Instead of a D20+modifier nonsense why not change it up? Why not give a player 10 balls or legos or whatever and to win an encounter the player needs to land 2 balls in 1 cup?There can be variants of this like a super hard encounter demands the player lands all 10 balls or what about reducing the size of the cup with the difficulty of combat?What if we implement a fate system from Talisman for the players? What if legendary bosses have something like that for themselves? And can negate the players victory? What if different monsters use different "balls" like for example some bone golems will be you throwing legos into cups and zombies are aluminum balls while naga can be gummy bears? That actually makes the monster feel different and not a copy pasted set of numbers. Also the different aerodynamics of these "balls" are part of the fun.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97249109ANSWER ME.
>>97254077>>97254276WTF you schizo?!>Why would I want to do this? Nothing in your post makes it sound appealing or useful. Are you trying to convince people not to use this method?Is literally incoherent crap.Take your meds.
>>97254699"Why would I want to do this?" is not only coherent but the most basic and fundamental question you should be able to answer when proprosing a new way of doing something, anon.
GURPS has the best combat
>>97243106>Was it fun?It was a lot of fun, but I was also a little buzzed because that game night doubled as a holiday party.
Who was in the right?
>>97222211Sorry that Zoomers like you can't recognise good games from the characters alone. Why don't you go whine "what game?" when you see someone post Guilliman or Ultramarines without spelling out "Warhammer 40k" for you?
>>97221448Sheng, of course.
>>97256478Yang's ratio of cooking to burnt is better than Miriam's. The extent of her ethics were about respecting God's plan, which humanity left behind several millennia ago. Yang at least understood that information was equally important as food, water, and housing, and that humanity needed to transform to meet their new condition.
>>97257288>Yang at least understood that information was equally important as food, water, and housingAnd then denied each of those to his people as much as he could!
>>97257470cooking (sicko mode)
I feel like this edition has alot of objectively bad things about it and is absolutely where the alot of worst qualities of current editions showed up. But I feel like I prefer playing this edition compared to a lot of previous editions and 10th edition. Its a weird transitional period where there's still a lot of the old units that haven't been legended yet while still having the fucking Primaris lot. Its strange but I don't feel like I'm missing out on much staying on this edition and playing with friends casually instead of going back to playing the current edition.
>>97245050elaborate
>>97186108>Does anyone here like 8th EditionRight here chief!
>>97213017The god-specific elite Chaos units actually slot into the 3.5 Codex just about perfectly. All you have to do is take some Chosen Aspiring Champions and kit them out with the right gear
>>97186166>I liked 8th edition because the few times I was able to have games I had fun.Common trait
>>97190642>Main issues were powercreep and how bloated the rules quickly got.Which edition doesn't this phrase describe?
>dwarf speaks>scottish accent
>>97249305Jews cutting diamonds is kinda a big stereotype
>>97233279I tried playing them with an Icekandic accent, but unfortunately it sounds distractingly silly to most people
>>97254657icelandic is a beautiful language, sounds like you need less shit colored skintone friends.
>>97254657I don't know what that even sounds like, but if it's like most Nordic accents it's going to sound goofy as shit and not badass at all
It's the easiest to do
>mogs your worldbuilding
>>97252252>old European lore yuck
>>97252161We have a worldbuilding general for all you nogames shitposters.
>>97252161AI thread.
>>97252587seething
>>97252271whats wrong with that? it's where we get elves and dwarves
>Player or GM>system(s) preferred>days and times available (with timezone)>text or voice>method of play (Roll20, etc.)>contact info>other notes
>>97247228>Player or GMGM>Preferred System(s)Custom>Schedule/Times Available (include timezone)GMT+0 for the GM but its PBP>Voice or TextPlay-By-Post>Method(s) of Play (Skype, Discord, IRC, roll20, etc)PBP>Tone/Theme PreferredAn overlap between Invader Zim and Kickass, Starship Troopers.>Contact Inforoleplayerguild.com/topics/197358-the…Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97252937Imagine being so narcissistic you can't understand why someone wouldn't want to be talking in voice wile playing an ERP game.
>>97252937I don't believe you because I don't believe anyone actually plays fetish erp games.
>>97254708It used to be more in vogue but the trend died down lately.
>>97251988lmao
You have to play Monopoly.Which Monopoly do you play?
Monopoly City at least gives the formula little twist with option to build polluting or otherwise detrimental buildings that can be used to reduce the value of other player's properties.
>>97249729It's genuinely hilarious that this is a legitimately far better designed game than monopoly, since there's alternate win conditions and lose conditions. Like collecting three indulgences becoming free of sin or being shot and killed by the rat mafia for being in debt to them
Why do they make so many different versions?
>>97257355More to sell. You can sell the University of Washington monopoly in the same campus bookstore that also sells Seattleopoly. People love this shit for gifts. It costs almost nothing for a different version since it's mostly just a few small changes to the board .
I don't. :-)
>>97256237>>97256309This is acknowledged within the aesthetic. There are two acknowledged subdivisions of dieselpunk, with World War 2 as the central divide.>"Piecraftian" dieselpunk is during/post-WW2>"Ottensian" dieselpunk is pre-WW2
>>97256237>1940's WW2 and the aftermath. The culmination of the insanity reaching boiling point in the form of another World War. From Paris to island beachs in the Pacific people must take up arms again. Britain and France need Allies to defend against the Axis, but who are the Allies and who are the Axis? America is hesitant to join the war effort, China is besieged by Japan, Russia has a treaty with German, Japan is in a uneasy partnership with Germany, and Mexico is receiving messages from Germany promising them American land if they join the Axis. Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and Hilter Marching on the USSR makes everything clear. The teams have been determined and war is in full swing. Rationing at home for the boys abroad, Women entering the work place, and everyone making sure that everyone is doing their part, aka TURN OUT THAT LIGHT. Espionage between enemy and ally and ally and ally ramps up to discover everyone's secrets. After never-ending combat 2 bombs send a loud roar over the nation of Japan with fire and force shaking the earth and blinding the sky. They announce the end of the war and the new age of man, the Atomic Age. The point is there was so much going on in that time, for example the birth of aviation combat or sea Battles of WW1 or the formation of the studio system in Hollywood. If the only thing you know is the very end, Nazi spies for atomic secrets, you aren't properly using the setting. If you are really interested in things that have to do with Deisel Punk you need to do you research. There's a wealth of cool things waiting to be discovered by you and shown to the modern world. Trapping yourself in what has been presented to a mainstream audience since the late 80's is not going to do anything.Thank you for reading.Part 2
>>97256309>Complaining about the most recognizable period of Diesel PunkNo that's not the purpose of my post. I understand why there is a focus on WW2. My point is people in this thread who are interested in this time period but feel pigeonholed to one part of it need explore more and see all the different things it has to offer.>>97256326That's nice but why isn't this being shared with the people who are saying that they don't see much of this period other than getting to the Atomic age?
>>97251172>>97251460Where did this no happy endings in cyberpunk thing come from?
>>97256093Atompunk isn't actually a thing, you're just describing an, incorrect, fanbase assumption about Fallout - which doesn't actually fit your criteria either.>>97255153I'm not talking about a game, I'm talking about the literary genre.
with all the AI there is on the internet, google only give me is the same oni mask done a million timesthe internet is dead (or at least google image search)
bump
Player Hate Thread, because fuck you little shits.>say I'm looking for active people to play with>bro I'm totally active I can be there every game>you sure you can be there every Fri night?>yeah totally I can be there 99% of the time>okay fine you're in>bro my job is getting too hectic something something they put more responsibilities I can't play anymore after 2 sessions>let me make up this retarded plan where I walk up to the guards at the armory and tell them we're taking their shifts>what? who the fuck are you why aren't you in uniform?>uhhhhhh... I was just hired by your captain I'm just a hired helping hand>I've never heard of something this ridiculous, which captain so I can confirm?>uhhhhhhhhhhh captain steve rogers>there is nobody by that name who the fuck are you people>DM bro how come we don't even get to do diplomacy checks for this?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
WTF OP? How do you find these losers?I've had the same table for a decade and they're awesome
>>97257407If you were a good GM that ran fun games you wouldn't have this problem.
A girl made me the most awkward of dice sets>inb4 fat hands
>>97245090WHOAAAAAAA BUDDYYYYYYYHe's FATHe's OBESEHe's A PERSON OF CALORIES
>>97241189Exactly right, I think. Tell her that you aren't using them because you don't want to wreck the labels and seals by handling them regularly. Win-win.
>>97252562Also notice how the bottom of the flask is curved, the dice could just slide and change number in the process.Why not use a flat bottom?
>>97252522Having zero standards is how you get taken advantage of.Your peace and stability are worth more than what you think you'd get from bottom-barrel trash nobody else wants.
>>97252522I'm a girl. Are you into warhammer or anything anon?
I’m running a low fantasy game, and social advancement is gonna be a thing. So the PCs are gonna be rubbing elbows with a lot of noble families as they make their way into high society. I’m just asking for NPCs and ideas.Most of the nobility are humans, but a few are half-elves and halflings.
>>97251270>If you're aiming for maximum believability, there's almost no way that humans would accept a different species ruling them. They struggle enough with humans of different nationalities ruling them (William of Normandy had to practically burn down England before they stopped revolting at the idea of a Norman King).I will clarify that the half-elven (as in humans with significant elven ancestry) and halfling nobles are mostly ruling over other half-elves/halflings, or areas that have integrated for centuries at this point.
>>97251505Whats wrong with it? It's a classic trope.
>>97242977This looks like shit.
>>97252769I mean yeah, that’s what makes it lame. It’d be like if the OP was asking for evil humanoids to fill out the setting and you posted “Orcs that murder and pillage” and an AI slop orc that looks like a cross between Thrall and the Harvey Weinstein orc from LOTR.
>>97251364The only "skill" that matters is the ability to generate wealth. And this is actually mostly about information gathering, finding the right resources or people to exploit.
>>97238074Honestly the competitive only side of things has ruined most games beyond just 40k. Any conversion for 40k, AoS, or even old world has led to some people getting pissy. You get questions like, "How will someone know that this conversion is supposed to be a bloodthirster." I don't know, maybe because it is one of only two bloodthirsters in a list and is one of the largest models on the board.
Great group, mostly. Biggest problem is this one annoying troon who keeps trying to migrate everyone to her personal discord and act as the "group mother" despite not playing games a lot. She's a great opponent when she does play (Old World, 2e 40k, etc) but she tries to police what everyone else does. Nobody really pays her mind and asks her to leave them alone when it gets overbearing.
>>97245767This isn’t a thing anymore and its a shame because even with sound off a local scifi toystore is where I first say bits of the Matrix and all sorts of cool things that got me excited as a young kids.
I wish one was near me, I live in the burbs and only cool DT hipsters run gameshops
>>97232835Pre-covid I played at an LGS that had a years old standing community that followed the shop as it grew through four different locations.Post-covid the old boys straight up disappeared and the new crowd is totally different, mostly DND5E types and a whole different batch of 40k players. I still buy from them, but I don't like playing there anymore. It's too weird, like the covid lockdown is the temporal line of a Mandela Effect for the store's game room.
