In all seriousness, how can you get yourself to enjoy playing games when /tg/ players are so insufferable, socially and aesthetically in real life >try to play 40k >it's all actual obese autists with animes T shirts and don't understand the concept of an inside voice >try to play RPGs>It's fat 40 year olds with goatee or ungroomed beard and shaved head, marvel T shirt and jorts and wearing those weird flat Irish hats >visit LGS on card gaming night >take one whiff and immediately turn around and leave It's actually distressing because I want to actually get to play in the hobby I love so much, but it doesn't seem to be possible if you can't find normal people to play with Solution?
>>97263815> It's easier to convince someone to participate in something that requires months of training - it's an activity most people find physically painful - than something with no real prerequisites.It's actually the opposite, and I know this as someone who used to be into running (not marathons, though). You do not know how normal people are.
>>97268785If you are afraid of telling people you like tabletop, you are the socially maladjusted weirdo. You're just so mentally ill that you don't realize it.Also, it isn't merely about being accepted. If you are charismatic, then your hobbies not only become acceptable, but also desirable. It's how advertising works, dimwit. Wanting to attach yourself to fashionable hobbies to appear better than you are is social bottomfeeding.Tabletop only ensures being with weirdoes if you lack the social competence to convince the people you want to be with.
>>97253799Your post comes across as more offended and defensive than his. By your smoothbrained logic, you must be unlikable, unlovable sperg mentioned in his post.
>>97250075>I can't play with people are fat>I can't play with people who wear marvel or anime shirts>I can't play with people who are bald or have a messy beard>I can't play with people who wear flat irish hats>I love the hobby and they are the maladjusted ones by the way.
>>97268887Not even the same anon, anon. >>97268938Oh, I don't have a problem telling people I play tabletop because I curate who I play with to avoid people who are socially inept. But you'll never catch me playing at a game store, because, like OP said, >it's all actual obese autists with anime T shirts and poor hygiene,and I like not being an incel. It's also not my only hobby, or a hobby where I try to meet people, for the same reasons.
A thread for discussing the Star Wars franchise and its various media and tabletop games.Sheev I'm NJO editionPrevious: >>97217145Fantasy Flight Games’ X-Wing, Armada, and Legion>https://pastebin.com/9puqx1zeStar Wars Roleplaying Games (d6/d20/FFG)>https://pastebin.com/iUriRfaAOther FFG Star Wars tabletop (Imperial Assault, Destiny and the LCG)>http://pastebin.com/ZE4gn0yNComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>972697840%Sex hadn’t been invented at that point.
>>97268071There are Disney canon things mentioning how the Jedi have a wide array of investments, which they allow the Republic to manage. Sort of like how the UK has the Crown Estate which technically belongs to the King but he by custom and tradition and convention hands over to the government to manage.Jedi also don't draw any salaries. Any government on Earth would salivate at the notion of getting peak educated space wizard monks to do all their diplomacy for them FOR FREE. Pay for a building base (that the Jedi owned outright for 25k years anyway, they're signing over premium Coruscant real estate TO YOU), for travel budget (which all government diplomats would get anyway, and Jedi are much better at the job), and you don't even need to pay them wages? How good is that? Just declare a couple planets like Ilum nature reserves for the Jedi and you're off to the races.
>>97267760>How much meta chasing is there in SWL?Kind of depends on your community, Anon. But It's nowhere near the competitive level of 40k. In my experience, there are plenty of casual players If you stick to smaller tournaments and leagues, rather than the big, important tournaments.>How balanced is the game?Pic rel. All proper factions are within 48-54% winrate. AMG has a tendency to do small points updates every 3-6 months.>Are all lists viable, or do you just HAVE to take certain units?Of course, the game rewards good listingbuilding. It kind of depends on the faction, but all factions have multiple kinds of competitive lists:>CIS The one faction where every unit besides the bounty hunters is playable. Geonosian spam, mad max lists with wheel grievous and STAPs, Kalani gunlines with ion spiders, it's all good.>EmpireThe have a few godawful units like the inquisitiors or ISF, but there are still a few vastly different viable ways. Stormtrooper battalion lets you put something like 70 stormtroopers on the table while giving them the right buffs, Tempest Force lets you spam AT-STs, Remnant has dark troopers and lets you mix different infantry units with each other.>GARWhile they do have quite a few too expensive units, there are several ways to play. 212th battalion can do armor spam with Cody, you can do sniper spam with Commandos and Arcs, hyper Aggressive lists with Anakin and Bad batch, they can do some very strong melee beat stick units with Shotgun clones + Ahsoka/fives>RebelsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97267760>How much meta chasing is there in SWL? Depends on local communities. Small tournaments are chill but big in big ones there tends to be a meta>How balanced is the game? Are all lists viable, or do you just HAVE to take certain units? Well balanced. There is only like 3 underperforming units (Wookies, Rebels commandos and Inquisitors) but they are still very usable.>Do scenarios affect gameplay a lot, or do you just basically want to wipe the enemy?A lot imo. You still want to be killing stuff but it may sometimes be more beneficial long-term to capture a point or grab the secret intel dropped by an enemy.>Also wot are the factions likeEach has a niche but can do most things.Rebels have fragile but very mobile and lethal units. Their heroes and elite units typically fight at closer range with melee weapons and pistols. Their vehicles are very different from other factions' since they don't really have any big tank, just speeders and an APC.The Empire has tankier units that don't shoot as well. Their heroes are mostly officers that help their troops, bounty hunters focused on killing other heroes or Vader/Inquisitors who fight in melee. Most of their generic units are focused on shooting at medium to long range. They can make lists focusing on armors with 3 AT-STs or armies that spam stormtroopers.The Republic is the elite faction. Their clones are tanky, shoot well and are good in melee, but you'll usually have fewer soldiers and their vehicles are better but cost more points. Their heroes are mostly Jedi who fight in melee or support their clones. They also have some clone heroes more focused on support.Separatists get a bit of everything. Cheap but fragile units like B1s, Geonosians or STAPs but also tanky elite units like the AAT, B2s or Magnaguards but droids rely more on their commander to give orders. Their heroes are also very varied with a lot of lightsabers-users, bounty hunters and tactical droids that still fight well.
>>97267760>Do scenarios affect gameplay a lot, or do you just basically want to wipe the enemy?As of now, the game has 7 primary and 7 secondary missions. They are fairly diverse, and you gain most points through your primary mission. However, there are a couple of primaries that are very prone to draws (eg. Recover the research), in which case you usually win on secondaries. There are only 2/7 secondaries that award points for killing. >Also wot are the factions like, do they have their niches, or can anyone be good at anything basically.As mentioned before, each faction CAN play in multiple ways, but they do have a core identity.>EmpireThe "vanilla" faction. They have the fewest tricks and mostly rely on raw statlines. Besides their heroes, they are definitely a shootling army first and foremost.>RebelsThe tricksy glass cannon faction. They have by far the most ways of messing with the enemy through command cards. They hit hard, with lots of pierce, but most of their units fold like wet paper under sustained fire.>CISThe endurance/synergy faction. Lots of bodies, lots of armor, tons of multi health units, many support abilities to keep your dudes alive just enough to score. As a CIS player, you also have by far the best order control, being able to plan out which units go when due to units like b1s having coordinate.>GARThe elite/synergy faction. Your units are generally expensive, but every clone trooper can generate tokens to share with other clones. Your objective as a clone commander is to make a list where every unit compliments each others' abilities.
Who was in the right?
>>97226563Isn't Morgan the busted one? In every game I've played with him he's such a fucking beast
>>97264330>entire ideology is based upon being militarily superior to everyone around them>starts war of conquest>gets conquered It's really that simple.
>>97264605In almost every civ, if you build tall and build your economy aggressively enough you can out science and out military everyone else with the sheer weight of the almighty dollar (energy credit).Morgan is no different.But he's weak to early aggression, as are almost every faction that is focused on this.
>>97221448Lal, Miriam, Roze & Domai.Cyborg is neutral I guess.The pirate is evil.The rest are degrees of abominable evil.
>>97267364I find my drone population outstripping my bases ability to provide for them about midgame.
Out on Patrol Edition>What is this?/TG/ DEVELOPED A GAMEIT IS PLAYABLE. IT HAS BEEN PLAYED.EXPEDITION is a ~1880s era, Jules Verne-inspired retro-futurist, underground blood soaked adventurescape.It is a Skirmish wargame. Two players with their own expeditions, on a hexgrid map, explore & fight each other for victory and profit.3 versions of the rules exist, 2 of which have been playtested. The main one is 2e, to be found :>https://www.mediafire.com/folder/us7vnek39dc6k/AgarthaRulesas with maps, tokens and lore resources.>TL;DR Dochttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1LxdaGoBlJRTMuziMDupG5TeeFwNDnsIW2pfaRAcFDgA>Main Lore Doc, including links to anon-written short stories and additional lore in "Recommended..." sectionComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97267280I vote against having a named guy for the industrialist. We already have Edison in the background and the Neptunium baron for oil stuff, having an ambitious but as-of-yet unsuccessful generic character works better in my mind. Most famed American industrialists were not known for getting out in the field too often.>Lost Man priceWhen I wrote it, however long ago that was, I think most units were a little cheaper. Instead of adding any more caveats to the already fairly complicated rule governing them I'd recommend just bumping the price up to where they're still cheaper than the units they imitate. At a price of 5ish they aren't economical to copy cheap mercs like the Outlander Irregular, but they do add a bit of a discount when picking up classics like the rebel. Three lost men at a price of 5 each and three rebels to copy gives you 36 silver as opposed to 42 for six rebels flat.It mostly comes down to the ratio of discount we're looking for, keeping in mind the risk of the models becoming effectively worthless if they get moralblasted. Keeping their price the same but reducing their native stats could also work.
I found some Atlan (Atlans? Atlanese? Atlaneans?)https://www.artstation.com/artwork/NDL2P
New magma field map. Are the colors too jarring? I saved before adding the water, so I can walk back pretty easily. > In which the map features need a Chest count.
>>97269480Fuck me.
>>97269484I think it's a bit jarring. Are you doing these in a standard image editing software?
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Can't seem to find Deify in solo. Anyone have it?
Does any Anon have Devin Night tokens for the sharing? Or any VTT tokens would be great. Many thanks.
>>97269597Thank you
Does any Anon happen to have the Shard RPG books?
>>97266764>>97267114Try actually looking in Da Archive.rb /cymbergaj
winter edition >Chess websites, tools, videos and books:https://rentry.org/vxdsw7k5>Calendar:- Tech Mahindra Global Chess League | December 13th - 24th- FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships | December 25th - 31st- Rilton Cup | December 27th - January 5th- Lichess Winter Marathon | December 28th- European Women's Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship | January 8th - 12th- Tata Steel | January 16th - February 1st- Speed Chess Championship Finals | February 7th - 8th- Prague International Chess Festival: Masters | February 25th - March 6th- FIDE Candidates Tournament | March 28th - April 16thComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97267750Good job. Don’t be alarmed when your rating drops back down, progress isn’t linear. Just focus on improving and don’t pay too much attention to rating. Sometimes when you’re improving and experimenting which will make you better in the long term, you can sacrifice rating and take some losses in the short term. That’s fine x
Chessbros I started a couple months ago and am around 500 on chess.com, any tips on how to progress more quickly?
>>97269776Tactics on Chesstempo, studies on Lichess, review your games on WintrChess, play the same opening over and over until you master it.
>>97269776Watch Chess Fundamentals by John Bartholomew on youtube.Watch opening videos by Hanging Pawns on youtube and decide on an opening. Play nothing shorter than 15 minute games and study them after. This means turning on the engine and seeing what it says you should have played instead, and understanding why.As you get stronger, begin to take an interest in chess history and look through the games of the greatest players. You can do this on chessgames.com. Just keep playing and making a conscious effort to do better every game, seems like it would go without saying but a lot of people just spam new game and treat it like Candy Crush. Don’t mistake the fact that chess is fundamentally an intellectual pursuit and a science and requires immense amounts of study and education.
>>97268806I always find games where I think I played a blinder I end up getting like 60 accuracy score, and games that I swore were sloppy low grade crap end up being 80-90. Happens every time.
how did you explain having literal blue human women in your scifi setting?
>>97259986>it’s very important that we have blue women in our game with cum gutters for hair
>>97259986I don't. They simply do.
>>97259986The progenitor race had a fetish for blue human women.
>>97269869based galactic uncs
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Stories, art, don’t care. Post it or don’tWhite human male and orc female pairings are the key to fixing the realm
>>97266591How is Coc2? I heard that there was more cuck shit, more self inserts than Urta and less goblin fucking so i stayed away.Also TITS kinda put me off it because the UI sucks so hard in that one compared to one for some fuckin reason
>>97268995Depends what you're into. I think the UI is fine in COC2, I couldn't personally get into TITS. I find that CoC 2's story is more fleshed out and has had more work put into it but is substantially tamer. There is less focus on corruption and wacky stuff, ironically, and way too many futas and femboys.
>>97187485>White human male and orc female pairings are the key to fixing the realmOk fine but can we have some M human / M orc pairs too?
>>97269948Preferably with this style of orc male.
>>97235202You're turned on by the idea of being physically dominated, your opinion means nothing.>>97249645Sorry, desperate faggot, but only one of those was me.>>97237019Nice strawman, faggot. Where did I ever say I wanted a "dainty waif?" Oh right, never did., That's just you needing something to talk shit about, because you know I'm right. If I were wrong, you wouldn't have to make up shit I never fucking said, would you? Pathetic. But, that's par for the course for you faggots.
Would you say wizards (class) in D&D are generally a little autism-coded?
>>97252141That description of wizards is setting agnostic.
>>97254067>>97254093Both of you are correct at the same time. Autism is massively over diagnosed, but the indicators are still what they are.
>x-codedstop
>>97257838I don't play wizards
>>97263872Looks like a crackhead.
Why are wolves so common in TTRPGs as enemies?
>>97269790https://desuarchive.org/tg/thread/96357946/You've already made this thread. Were the responses you got back then unsatisfactory?
Attacks from desperate wolves used to be a common problem, at least in medieval France. One possible origin of the werewolf myth is peasants (or their livestock or children) seeing wolves that are big and scary enough that they feel it must be supernatural.That said, packs of wolves regularly attacking groups of awake, armed, and uninjured adult humanoids is unrealistic, unless if there's a particular reason for why those wolves would be desperate.From a gameplay perspective it's also more challenging to make wolves interesting to fight. Even a goblin can speak, use weapons, or make traps. Most animals can't do any of that, so you have to get creative with set-up (Like a pack of wolves eating a dead horse, its rider nowhere to be found. Or there's something visibly fucked-up about the wolves, implying that there's some greater force that's corrupted them).Adding dogs (or wolves) to a group of humanoid enemies (Guards, hunters, druids, bandits) can make an encounter feel more varied though.
>>97269790Why don't you try playing a game and find out for yourself?
>>97269790They're individually weak and a hazard for farmers. They're the goblins of animals.
>>97270004Also they aren't super weak. Being tripped is a big fucking deal at the level you're fighting wolves, and they use pack tactics, so you're tripped *and* flanked. That's a serious threat.
Gun to your head, you can only put 5 humanoid/demihuman races in your setting. After those five, you’re done. You chose humans, elves, dwarves, halflings, and ents? No gobbos and orcs for you. What are you choosing?
>>97268243yay cool ty anon
>>97265597Fuck yeah
>>97269749I only found at that these were remade from the old freeware games of the 90s like a couple years ago. Been replaying them. Fuck these were good.
HumansEnlightened beastsAbstract creatures that are sentient hills, mushrooms, goop, or whatever else is lying around
>>97266124/tg/ - Everything But Games
Doombull 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.
>>97269954Thanks anon! Now I'm sure some people spurge about the historical and I didn't want to add to the pointless flaming but I like the idea of matching some historical, especially for a list like renegade crowns ya know. Cavalry is from the wargames Atlantic Renaissance heavy cavalry set, I think their scale is pretty good for lining up to gw humans for the most part, but the horses are very much gonna look smaller
>looking at GW alternatives for skeletons>none have a similar appeal as the 2008 skeletonsI really hate it that James really has the best offering here. I’ll have to pull the trigger on secondhand skellies after all.
>>97269954Historical models are not the problem here. You should know this by now. The guy who was accused (rightfully) of being perryfag didn't post any models. Either stop being disingenuous or don't post about something you don't understand.
>>97269982Nigga oathmark mantic and Atlantic are right there.
>>97269982You can get them recast in resin. Ive got a few.
>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.
>>97269832Zamasu is also immortal.
How much money has your jumper stolen using fake daycares?
>>97269926None. Running a fake daycare is too expensive, especially since they can just set up a completely legitimate laundromat for free money
>>97269926I am sorry Anon, my jumper shat in your pants and stole your waifu while you were busy political shit posting.
>>97269993Why do you think it's political?
Elven/Elvish edition>Banshttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-november-10-2025>NewsThe 2025 Magic Con and Pro Tour Schedule:https://www.magic.gg/news/the-2025-magiccon-and-pro-tour-schedule>Metagame Mentor: The Winners and Losers from Standard's 2025 Rotationhttps://www.magic.gg/news/metagame-mentor-the-winners-and-losers-from-standards-2025-rotation>Spoilershttp://www.magicspoiler.com/https://mythicspoiler.com/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97269722>What has MTGO league data revealed about Premodern?It in NO WAY indicates a rising interest for a format that doesn't feature UB.
>>97269581What are you doing?! Keep casting cost as 10 for Tron, but give it a WUBRG activated ability for Commander! That way it shows up in every format!
>>97269716no fucking shot that's right. >>97269722The only thing it revealed is how bad RDW was IMO. Jackal pup btfo.
So since WOTC cancelled the MH secret lair to work on it again. I had this pipe dream of what could be but will never come and I just had to mention it.Seltas and Seltas Queen would actually make for some pretty sweet partner commanders. They are literally built to be partner commanders ya know
>>97269978Nobody at WOTC plays Monster Hunter, they don't even play Magic for starters.
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How THE FUCK do we not have any half good Time-Travel CYOAs? Traveler doesn't count, its focused on interplanar travel mostly.
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