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.
>>97395892Excellent! Do tell us more if you feel like it.
>>97391000>>97391227Because it makes more logical sense and allows actual spell interruption by melee. Melee after Magic NEVER made sense.
>>97397415It does if you declare magic during the magic phase, and resolve it at the end of the turn
>>97397486But that's not the combat order says. And on the flipside, making it too predictable is also bad.Mine is a compromise between logic and gameplay
>>97393950I've thought about doing encumbrance by categorizing items into coin weight, 1 pound, and multiples of five. Then sort them in their own columns of CW, 1lbs, 5, 10, and 15+, to calculate encumbrance quicker.
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.
>>97397508> They should either put a cap of like 12-13 on generics per deck, or abolish the color limit entirely
>>97396256Seven Kings era was one of the rare instances the FoW meta was kinda balanced. I used to do well with my Valentina deck at locals too but it didn't last long because they released Reflect/Refrain right after and he was broken. It's around that time that I quit the game because if you didn't play R/R as a ruler, you had no chance until he got banned.>>97395793There are multiple ways to win, but the main way is to use Helen’s God’s Art once she has six cards under her (during the opponent’s turn so she can attack during your turn) and start overwhelming the opponent. She gains a lot of control tools, "Eternal" (can’t be destroyed) and the ability to untap once (allowing her to attack twice or call a free stone) from the Trinity skills of Witch monsters in the side deck that were revealed before she entered the field. She basically becomes a huge mommy tower that hits hard.Some people play Wise Dragon as a secondary wincon, since Helen runs tons of Treasures and he can be played for free. Sometimes cheating out 2-3 Wise Dragons in a single turn is enough to win. Others play burn cards + Witch of the Fallen Kingdom and go for the unblockable combo (Witch of the Fallen Witch of the Fallen Witch of the Fallen Pumpkin Witch) as another win con.
Is Riftbound affordable yet?
>>97397586Depends on the deck you want to play. Some decks can be made for $50 if you only buy singles. Some others are $300-$600.
>>97397613I want to play a deck that costs between $50-$200 and doesn't just get shit on by the "meta" decks.
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>>97397498Why is Anon betraying? Is he truly evil?
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>>97397388you seem to have ignored me ignoring our history of harems which were mostly for the good of the realm over the good of the person until it gets out of hand and people start vying for power or women in that systembut again ignoring that all, the point i was trying to make is that polygamy and harems are just as natural as any other sort of intimate relationship, monogamous or poly, and thats not going to change just cause you refuse to acknowledge italso your reasoning about males being chased out when old, yeah, that happens for women two, if an animal starts getting old enough it affects their performance they usually either leave on their own or die from a fight or hunt going bad from their lacking performance, nature has no room for the elderly, this used to also be followed by people but we got rid of it a while back cause we had the resources to allow them to keep living and could tell nature to shove it, although that very act seems like its starting to fuck us as well given the world situation but i digressi dont even know why this convo started desu i just wanted to point out what i noticed with what you were saying, personally im probably of the monogamous sort and the paired for life sort for the most part anyways, but still im not going to outright say harems or poly relations are entirely wrong especially as i have seen poly's work out pretty well, and such relations are just as if not more natural than monogamous ones (only like crows and whatnot are truly monogamous technically), and sometimes systems demand such relations be made for the good of the highest number of people, etc etc
>>97397602Bro no one cares and no one askedGo jump off a cliff or get hit by a car idk
>>97397558It's a pretty fun cyoa with a lot of variables to play with and craft the story you want. That said, while I have had a few ideas over the years of possible builds, I have ever only finished one since whenever I get to the powers section I lose all motivation to actually finish the character.It's incredible how the power section is the one that drags it down, even if the powers are thematically appropriate.
After playing both the original Shandalar and the 2016 update version I've come to the conclusion that magic was just more fun in 1995 when it was more loose and relaxed. The kinds of decks you go up against in the 2016 version are so much more ruthless about shutting down every play you make that the only way to compete is to be an even more obnoxious dickhead and make sure they never get a chance to do anything. Every victory was bitter and spiteful in a way that I never felt with the older simpler Magic cards.
>>97391502it doesn't need to be an LLM, it could literally be a script with somebody following it to clean up unusual/trouble cards.lots of smaller CCGs have sims with full automation that are literally just community projects hand coded and maintained by one or two volunteers. mtg has an order of magnitude more cards in eternal than any of them, but with wotc's resources that's not an impossible task.
>>97391365This. We have dozens of one-drops that would have costed 3 mana in 1994.
>>97391721none of those things are actually in shandalar 96 you realize
>>97391365>>97393552Power creep is definitely real, but you can prove to yourself that it's not the most relevant factor very simply. Take any of those overpowered/undercosted one-drops and just throw him in a deck with a heap of commons and uncommons, like a ten year old would if he had to build a deck out of the ten boosters he'd opened in his life. It won't be a very powerful deck. You can do the same with Force of Will or Black Lotus, however powerful a card is, Magic is a game about decks not cards.
>>97393522well yeah, it doesn't have to, which is why I said it'd be funny, not smart. Maybe a little interesting, but certainly not the ideal solution. You wouldn't need JoTC, just a small handful of autists who can recognize what components make up most non-keyword effects and one turbo autist to make something that parses oracle texts into chains of these components. And of course, the engine and ui to work with these parsed oracle texts.
Now that he lost all credit for his scientific accomplishments, what exactly was the point of this guy? Like what purpose did he serve in his own empire?
>>97397111Wow, that's terrible writing. Dan Abnett should have stuck to comics.
>>97397252Abnett was telling you that the Emperor's a fraud and a monster since Horus Rising, you just didn't want to see it. The foreign God-Emperor that Horus kills is literally no different from the Emperor of Mankind, he just didn't get to the 'conquering the stars' phase of his master plan to reunite humanity first. Both were convinced they were right and everyone else is wrong, both are hopelessly deluded>The difference is, I know I'm right
>>97397276Nigger I don't give a fuck about your horus heresy lore I just think the writing excerpt you posted sucks ass.
>>97386602>Now that he lost all credit for his scientific accomplishmentsWhat are you talking about? He was discreetly giving the information to others so they would think they had discovered it themselves.He created the Custodes, but couldn't he have created the Astartes on his own? Come on, anon, don't be silly.Do you know why the Emperor had a copy of the entire Adeptus Astartes project before Astartes decided to erase everything? Because the Emperor had the original files, and she only had the copies.
>>97397217You're entire post is meaningless
Pathfinder Card Game 3rd WHEN Edition>>IF YOU ARE ASKING A QUESTION, PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH GAME YOU'RE PLAYING<<Previous Thread: >>97177684/pfg/ (pathfinder 1e) link repository: https://pastebin.com/RSt0rF0T/p2g/ (pathfinder 2e) link repository: https://pastebin.com/1zySxwm3/sfg/ (starfinder) link repository: https://pastebin.com/5yp9s2U3/pacg/ (Pathfinder Adventure Card Game) link repository: https://pastebin.com/wsNmzCMR>>CHECK THE SHARE THREAD FOR MISSING MATERIALS<<>tq: How do you read about updates for the game? Do you read the source material or just let some e-celeb yawn on about whatever garbage they want to spin?
>>97396845How do you feel about the lore changes with SF2e?I haven't looked into it aside from accidentally learning that Zon-Kuthon and Shelyn did a gattai and became Zon-Shelyn, but you probably have a better idea about what's changed.
>>97397052I think I'd be fine with them if they weren't written by cringe people. It's mostly the same setting, the triune and stuff related to it seems like an attempt to flesh out hyperspace and the internet a bit more, which I like the idea of I just hate how much of their perception of the internet has been shaped by modern twitter.
well, the entire modern internet basically comes down to what happens on twitter anyway, so get it twisted. the premier superpower on the planet is run by a twitter shitposter president, with a handpicked twitter shitposter government. bluecheck accounts on twitter with hitler statue profile pictures literally decide which countries get bombed and which don't. get it twisted.
I've got a Thaumaturge, Mirror/Regalia, about to hit level 6 and get Scroll Esoterica. What are some of the best spells to get? Mostly utility stuff, I'd imagine, though some debuffs or cc can't be too clunky, especially with Retrieval Prisms from Talisman Esoterica.
>>97396724> It isn't the class to be Han Solo anymore, it's the class to be John Halo.That's an odd comparison that I don't quite get. Admittedly my knowledge of 1e Operative is limited, but generally when you are split down the path of "the dude that's really good with (single-shot) guns" and "Space Rogue", but you can't do Space Rogue again, there not quite much you could do other than go hard to the left. There is also the fact that Skillmonkeys in 2e don't need to put so much expertise in the class themselves thanks to Skill Feats, so they don't need to print skill-based specializations. I think Operative is more faithful to the 1e idea than you give it credit, at least in terms of how 2e is expected to play.Solarian I lowkey agree with you though. It very much suffers from page space crunch and "Well SOMEONE has to be melee!!" when it just didn't.
Previous: >>97383956>Most recent bracket system updatehttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-brackets-beta-update-october-21-2025>Outline article introducing the bracket systemhttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/introducing-commander-brackets-beta>Current banlisthttps://magic.wizards.com/en/banned-restricted-list#commander-banned>Former Commander website, where you can learn the basics, and read the format philosophy laid down by the rules committeehttps://mtgcommander.net>Statistically see what everyone else puts in their commander decks based on what is posted to the internetComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97397166Not seethe exactly but people always disproportionately react to pic related.As soon as it gets to 5 life drain per turn they act like they're all dead next turn and target me. Fucking infuriating.
I wish there was a Commander version of Arena so I could have drop-in games with strangers instead of needing to try to get all my friends together before I can even test a new deck
>>97397359Spelltable
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>>97397359I'd like this too but I know any internet dorks I would play with would be soulless sweatlords with dumb decks instead of "hey guys I built a mid-budget chatterfang deck to play against my normie friends mind if I try it out against your princesses and unicorns lathiel and rafiq decks?"
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>>97394712>>97215274>>97201851Final delivery considering how the suit was described, : give em hellalts in the catbox, https://files.catbox.moe/hinl7p.jpghttps://files.catbox.moe/zv1c3a.pngThe png should be a backgroudnless pic but if it isnt, you should be easyly be able to crop it. (windows prepakaged image edditor has a backround remover that should work well enough.>>97395489Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97397222Hmm. I should remember to precheck the pic on a big screen.If i get some time i will clean it up a lil bit one of these days
>>97397222Anon, you cooked to an insane degree, thank you a ton for this, I love it. It's absolutely blow the table's mind when I eventually deploy this thing, and it's all thanks to youYou got any socials I can see your stuff on?
>>97397460Unfortunately No. Social media generally aint good for me. But i do post here , vidya drawthreads, and the DRAW thread on ic (artwork and critique) on ic.
>>97397222nice catwalk on a red carpet. jkI like the detail of the reflection on the helmet.
How do players in your groups, including yourselves if you play rather than GM, react to authority figures in your games? Are they happy to play along and do what they're told, or do you find that they try to rebel against whoever's in charge of them at any opportunity?>Traditional Games?This is a thread about how players react to authority figures in tabletop roleplaying games, a type of traditional game.>You first.When STing Vampire the Masquerade for my group (last session was about a month ago, we went on hiatus for Christmas) I find that they really chafe whenever the Prince demands anything of them and they are almost more interested in dismantling the local Camarilla so that they no longer need to follow orders than they are in the jobs that the Prince gives them.>What system?In my case, the system is Vampire the Masquerade 20th Anniversary, but the question is system neutral.>What setting?In my case, the setting is the World of Darkness, but the question is setting neutral.>Post this in a general.This is a generic topic without any focus on any specific system or setting that has a general, therefore I do not think that there is an appropriate general for this thread.
>>97394717>Are they happy to play along and do what they're told, or do you find that they try to rebel against whoever's in charge of them at any opportunity?My current game's (D&D 3.5) PCs set out from the starting encounter with a desire to liberate a nearby monster-occupied city so they ended up as official agents of a local authority figure fairly early on. They've never particularly had reasons to dispute with him because he's a paladin that is earnest about the desire to make the region more safe for the humans of the nation.They did get back at a corrupt guard captain of a city in a different nation by beating the tar out of him at a tavern, picking his pockets of the exact change he had confiscated as a 'tax' to get back through the gate, before immediately setting sail out of there the same night.
>>97397101Do you see them breaking away from the paladin when they accumulate more authority, or do you think that they'll be loyal to him even after they achieve the goal of liberating this city? It's easy to remain loyal to someone in an us versus them situation like that, but considering how they treated this corrupt city guard, I imagine that they'll end up seeing the paladin as competition once they get enough power for themselves.
>>97397477>It's easy to remain loyal to someone in an us versus them situation like that, but considering how they treated this corrupt city guard, I imagine that they'll end up seeing the paladin as competition once they get enough power for themselves.Your logic doesn't follow. They beat up the corrupt guard for extorting them, nothing the paladin has done or would do following the liberation would constitute that
>>97397511They beat up the corrupt guard for exerting authority over them, so my worry was that if the paladin does try to pass judgement on them or exert authority instead of just providing guidance, they might want him gone next.
I typically am miffed by obviously higher powered companions traveling with the party. Especially if they are useless to "compensate".>Here is this dude who has 4 levels on everyone>He will stand in the back and "support"For authority figures who are frail or just stick to their throne, I typically get along rather well. But of course rudeness sours me on an npc. I don't need them to worship me. But why would I respect a douche bag?I get it when an npc thinks they are hot shit but when that is their defining feature it gets tiresome.
Thread #008 A Storytelling Game of Personal and Collective Horror EditionWelcome to /schreck/ where you can rp your VTM character! For all questions concerning the World of Darkness, please consult the WoDg and CoDg thread>>97367924Previous Thread>>97270170Brief rules>We have no story teller, we are acephali>Threads are v20 based, although the night is long and full of whispers, lies, and half-truths. Decide your own canon but all will not believe you>all nicktuku will be diablerized on sight>all OOC discussion should be spoileredTHREAD QUESTIONComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97397008>Sure. Go to the meeting spot you and HSE exchanged gifts at, trust your eyepatch and follow the way spirits flow. Bring snow shoes, you'll genuinely sink otherwise. Unless you can levitate or walk on water, in which case I guess you'll be fine, as snow is technically water. You've never been stalked by a Gang in the deep winter then? Don't worry, we'll be fine.>We'll pick you up once we spot you. Any particular accomodations to prepare for you and yours, to prepare for the chance where you decide to stay?Hmmm. Just a place with deep soil if you can look around. We'll leave our RV behind so I'll need to 'dig' myself out a new den for however long we need. And inform HSE my Malk is eager to see her tall hat once more. See you soon brother.
I'm sorry for your loss, I didn't know Boy Toy but he didn't deserve to go out like that, nobody does.
>>97397432Look, odds are we're all gonna go out at some point.Getting ashed like a total freak after a fight with a really cool weird monster like him is better than one of your kids getting ambitious, or some anarch getting lucky, or some human getting lucky, or just getting stiffed by bad architecture and a wall falling over gives you to the god damn sun.Grand sire went out in the San Fran earthquakes back in the day and I'm still mad on his behalf.
>>97397448Call me crazy but I like to think those of us who can live forever will y'know, live forever. Anyone going out feels like it's before their time, y'know? Unrealistic I know, in reality everything wants to kill us. Still a man can dream.
The more I look in the mirror, the more I realise how right Princess Charming was. My my, do I look atrocious, I cried too much, evidently. Please come home soon, Assoluta.>>97397432He was too good for this world.>>97397432>Getting ashed like a total freak after a fight with a really cool weird monster like him is better than one of your kids getting ambitious, or some anarch getting lucky, or some human getting lucky, or just getting stiffed by bad architecture and a wall falling over gives you to the god damn sun.While I'm definitely positive he would agree with your sentiment, and I'd add that he was protecting Blue Fairy - that is, an attractive lady to the assessment, I belong to the "there really isn't a superior way to die, it's better not to die" school of thought.>>97397501Mortals also have cognitive issues, disabilities and other illnesses waiting for them as they age. Meanwhile us kindred don't age, or I should say, it's not like our Elders can't become decrepit - just look at Europe - but at least it takes centuries. far longer than kine can live.>Anyone going out feels like it's before their time, y'know?Yes, all the more so when they are full of energy and youthful vigour like Boy Toy was. I did call him a manchild, but really 'Peter Pan' would be a more dignified epithet.
The /btg/ is dead! Long live the /btg/!The Last True Clan editionPrevious Thread: >>97380764================================>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.
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>>97397337>>97397362I really like that one World in Conflict mission after Bannon gets nuked where instead of being able to pick and choose what units you were reinforced with, it was almost entirely what scattered units you stumbled across or what abandoned soviet vehicles you could get up and running.
>>97396999I found with Wolves and Ghost Bear the balance was a little better and you could stay in heavies and experiment a bit, the Smoke Jaguar campaign has this annoying as fuck habit of going “oh you thought you were at the end of the level, 2/5 of your star is wiped out and everyone else has critical damage? Fuck you here’s an assault lance, and btw no checkpoints” Then you’re eventually forced into pulse laser spam dire wolves
>>97397443Jaguar campaign was overly stingy with repair bays which I feel is the biggest contrast with the DLC. The Bears also not letting you buy infinite copies of Novas/Timber Wolves/Dire Wolves and forcing you to swap mechs around more often was also a smart move.
>>97397433You are a gentleman, scholar, and my nigga.
Everchosen 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.
>>97395825One of the best I have ever seen. That is some lovely blue you got going on there.
Does anyone here have pictures of the empire knights sprues? I wonder how well they match with size with frostgrave demons.
>>97397002Don't let our perryfriend see this table
>>97397002Jesus Christ try to put at least a little bit of effort to your minis. Disgusting. There are a ton of great board games on the market if you can't be bothered to paint.
>>97397075>>97397313>>97397568You really have to reply three times? That is spam and that is a bannable offense FYI>>97397002So you know, we have a shitposter who attacks fantasy from any angle he can here relentlessly. If you see feminine hostility out of nowhere replying to your posts, assume it’s him, report him and ignore him.
Post orcsDiscuss orc gameplay and lore, post orc art, and tell orc storiesDON'T POST (sexualized) FEMALE ORCS! Start your own coomer thread. This is for people who actually like these guys.
>>97390413But we already have an orc thread right here: >>97290361
>>97391375Orcs iz bestSo dey deserve da most fredsSimple as
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skeletal manlets, when will they learn?
>>97396647Sorry
>>97397527Just drop it
Little suprises editionLast time on /bgg/: >>97360696Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8Survey results: https://pastebin.com/YJPZ44rqTQ:>What game did you expect to hate, but ended up really liking it?>What game did you expect to love, but endet up hating it?
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>>97397040Thanks anon, appreciate your input!
>>97395186>>97395379I think it's 95% the same as Steam and Railroad Tycoon and any other wallace train game I'm not thinking of. Unless you have your heart set on something specific may as well just get what's cheap.>>97396700I like the weird stripped down ones like northern Pacific and dutch Intercity. I don't have tons of plays of all the different player counts but I can't think of anything that would be bad at 3-4p. Shikoku is cool, I know people consider it a good starting 18xx and it doesn't have anything real crazy in it, the map is a bit tighter than 1830 also
>>97397404>stripped down onesI never played any cube rail but I thought that those games were already stripped down? What do these strip down from others?
>>97396700>Steam powerIs that the game that is suppose to be a mix of Brass and Steam but more beginner friendly while also being beige on beige?
