Welcome to /wbg/, the official thread for the discussion of in-progress settings for traditional games.Here is where you go to present and develop the details of your worlds such as lore, factions, magic and ecosystems. You can also post maps for your settings, as well as any relevant art (either created by you or used as inspiration for your work). Please remember that dialogue is what keeps the thread alive, so don't be afraid of giving someone feedback or post whatever relevant input you might have!Last thread: >>97165346Resources for Newfags: https://sites.google.com/view/wbgeneral/Worldbuilding links: https://pastebin.com/JNnj79S5 (embed) (embed)https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/Eo+fK41FKVR7xDpbNO0a0N4k0YYxrmyrhX3VxnM14Ew/Fantasy map generator: https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator/wbi/: https://discord.gg/6ZjEc7dy4TWorldbuilding Hub: https://discord.com/invite/wGjxK3YThe Writer's Forge: https://discord.com/invite/CUxHxWqTira: https://discord.com/invite/f52W6KgComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97334788You really want telomeres and Elves in the same setting?
>>97373894>more curious take could be something like willingly passing the magic talent to the next generation.That would be too chaotic to worldbuild. The mechanism needs to be simple and predictable.
>>97373637What >>97374059 said. Why would society prioritize magical eugenics? What advantage does your clan or tribe get from breeding more Mages? And is it worth the disadvantages or investment?
>>97374058Start by answering the question of why are the things the way they are?Doesn't have to be a common goal of some sort.I.e. in case of Planescape's Sigil, it's because Sigil is the multiversal hub.People sometimes just drop in there through a random portal.Once you figure out the "why", think about the "how", as in how are they living together.Like, whether or not fire elementals have their own, fireproof, "elemental" district.Without going into details, a nondescript tavern for the travelers on a budget should work.Fair grounds, markets and neighboring areas - anywhere that sees a lot of traffic, both locals and outsiders.People from all over can share news and information, and alcohol often helps break the ice.Tea and coffee houses, opium or hashish dens, look for places people can go to relax and have a quiet conversation in private.>>97374168Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97373637Yes? Many important traits are genetic but most societies historically did not practice eugenics. Natural selection sufficed.Eugenics has really only ever been practiced to (unsuccessfully attempt to) remove discontinuous negative traits from the gene pool, whether it was Spartans leaving out disabled babies or the Nazis killing all the schizophrenics. Positive selection for discontinuous traits was never practiced, because humans do not like being forced to not ever have children because only the special people with the magic genes get to have children, and that kind of eugenics would do that to the majority of the population.(To be clear, the magic users will be more sexually successful unless it has huge disadvantages elsewhere, for the same reason rich people are more sexually successful; eugenics refers to the specific practice of bringing intentionality into it.)
>Dark elves exist to be evil elves>There's occasionally orcs that are noble savages rather than pillagers>Even dwarves have some evil equivalents like chaos dwarfs in warhammer and whatnotWhat would a "Dark" equivalent to gnomes be like? How do you corrupt a little jolly bearded man from the woods into something evil?
>>97353926No such thing as """celtic"""
>>97353846Look into deep gnomes or svirfneblin or whatever they're called in your setting/ruleset. They're already a thing.However, you can always just have a character be evil and not a separate race.My Pathfinder guy is a gnome that wants to be a magical overlord, and I use Veigar (pic related) as a portrait/inspiration. He's Lawful Evil. Cartoonish, yes, but fun.
>>97367238lollmao
>>97353846>gnomesgnomes=dwarvesthe stupidity begun when they split them
>>97353846You have the "totally not an antisemitic stereotype" gnomes from Kobold Press.
Tell me /tg/ what makes a good tabletop wargame?
>>97361746>what makes a good tabletop wargame?An entity, whether an independent person, group of people, or corporation, who both cares about game design and has experience making tabletop wargames.
>>97372402Probably the one time you'll want to be able to switch to a Bong VPN?
1. Good lore2. Balanced gameplay3. Robust tournament support 4. Emphasis on activated abilities and single entity hero units/monsters5. High accessibility. Preferably by favoring low model counts, small boards, and simplistic terrain/paint schemes.6. WYSIWYG and IGOUGO. Alternating activations is a bad mechanic.7. And this is the most important one, a genuine respect for diversity, inclusion and representation
>>97363016Wrong, parasite.
>>97374307Kek
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>>97373148It's ok Aure. She was named after Bing after all.
Fluffy
>>97374485A cat is fine, too. . .but that is still dangerously furry.
Have any of you ran your players through the Theater Kid Wood Chipper? How many of them tried to stick something in Acererak's mouth?
>>97374137No, it's still possible to put the skull in a bag of holding and then throw the bag into the sphere of annihilation / black hole.
>>97374464This is the real answer.Also, the OSR movement is a fool's errand carefully constructed by real players to help quarantine the cancer. Do you part and help to preserve the illusion which befuddles them by pretending you don't know about this fact.
Theatre kids are more fun to play with
>>97374607In my experience, they're the most boring, because they always took time away from playing the game.
>>97374656ntsa but the table has to have some flare for dramatics or weeb energy or something, or otherwise you get 'ill move my character into range and attack' for every and all steps of combat.
So I tend to run high-powered games with lots of homebrew and shenanigans going on in PF1e/D&D3.5e/d20 systems/etc. and I've used plenty of optional rulesets and such and tend to allow copious (some would even say insane) amounts of 3pp and alt content as long as I have a chance to review it first and it seems like it'd fit. Among other things I have used the Mythic rules for some of my games and overall I do find some of the content rather overboard even for my games. I have also granted players customized extras (that occasionally scale) before, once I called them "atavisms".I am trying to design an "add-on" system that's a bit more regular for my games instead of the random campaign specific stuff I've done for people. I'm just not entirely sure what to call this though and I was hoping you lot might have some interesting suggestions (barring making up my own word ofc).Thus far some name ideas include> atavisms> blessings> boons> awakenings (there is a 3pp system for these)> gifts> modifications/mods> templates> splats (WoD reference)> sides (eating lol)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97372311I was also inspired by Souls to add a "Gift" system, as I think it could add a lot with roleplaying. The term for them is still somewhat TBD, but right now I'm calling them Keepsakes, which happens to be the what the same Gift system is called in Elden Ring. I'm using them as more of an optional roleplaying method at the end of character creation. They do have some passive and active effects, but they're minimal to keep them (mostly) roleplaying devices. Players can write a short blurb about how they how and why they have their chosen Keepsake; useful for potential future situations, especially since some Keepsakes are associated with different races, cultures, nations, etc.Essentially they're there for sentimental and roleplaying reasons, with minor effects in gameplay.
Sovl
>>97372311Are they items? "Heirlooms". Are they intrinsic / innate boons? "Blessings". Both? "Gifts".
>>97372311>gift in the title>gift in the OP image>gift in the list of example names>ctrl+f "gift": 9 results in a thread with 8 repliesBiggest case of "answered your own question" in /tg/ history.
Trinket.Keepsake.Memento.Treasure.Prrrrrrrecious!
I was diving in the archives and discovered this thing that /tg/ made a long time ago. Catgirls + an underwater world. It looks like the project withered away and everyone involved left this board ten or so years ago. So, how was it? Did it ever get off the ground?
>>97374295here is a link to the pdfhttps://docdro.id/jBG3Kog
>>97373289Not sure if it was for the project, or just inspired by the threads (maybe this anon >>97373764 can confirm?), but my friend drew this piece. She doesn't visit /tg/ much these days, but she is still into RPGs and still making /tg/-related art. She never actually got to run or play CATastrophe, now that I think about it.>>97373607Yes, that is a pretty good idea!>>97374449Thanks, anon
>>97373335>then they killed 1d4 chan because jealousy.Didn't the owner of 1d4chan die or something and the site died with him? Anyway, who cares, 1d6chan is up and active at least.
>>97373848>bro quest>>>/qst/
>>97373988This.>>97374314>the site in general had an (irreverent) left wing bentThe kind of Zappaesque anarchic liberal that thrived on here has less than nothing to do with the shrewish, censorious SJW type the anon you replied to clearly means. Both of you are right but your argument is way off in that it doesn't counter his at all.
Modern Imperator edition>Previous Heresy:>>97358462>HH 3.0 - Complete gofile - All Books:https://gofile.io/d/cnJk0N>Titanicus Compendiumshttps://gofile.io/d/qdYzem>New Edition, to a great wailing and gnashing of teeth:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/setting/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Official FAQ/Errata/Downloads:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Thread FAQ (very old, remembers Age of Terra)https://pastebin.com/iUqNrrA8Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97374392Compared to the tiny bodies of the earlier ones?
>>97374441Not really, I think they just take more ammo from vehicles n stuff. At the start of the great crusade emps didn't even want human forces outside of the old 100 regiments so it would be silly to put serfs in the harm's way. Serfs don't do a lot of stuff in 30k in the first place because I think most maintenance is done by marines anyways. There are a lot of scenes in the first 2 BL slop books which have Loken just fixing up his armour and weapons while waiting his next deployment. Serfs are just there to help marines do things only humans can do.
>>97374229>>97374215>hip platestassets are a way of providing heavier armour without sacrificing the ability to move your legs; they've been on every new (Indomitus) Terminator since at least Assault on Black Reach in 2008 and are a visual shorthand for "heavy armour" so their absence from the relatively simple Betrayal At Calth Cataphractii sculpts is something of a mystery (particularly as the Cata Praetor in that box has them, as do most FW resin Cata)technically all Cata have tassets because the leg armour, like Mk III, is composed of banded hoops with heavy frontal plates stuck on; the difference here (and with the 2016 resin Praetor and various others over the years) is that the tassets are free at the lower end (not tucked behind the poleyn/greave)interestingly Tartaros also have the fixed-position tassets protecting their outer thighs - but made of thinner plates because Tartaros is more advanced>>97374209>look, I took out a part of the abdomen that even the old cata models had and now they look weird!fucking manlets, how is he supposed to turn his body if his belt is jammed into his chestplate? idiocyComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97374595No terminator of mine ever had hip plates on them. And I bought terminators since 2ed codex CSM came out.
>>97374595I am from a region that was a mining region since 3000BC. Hight above 165 is not just useless, but actualy detrimental to you being a man that finds a proper job.
But only the bad ones.
What kind of obsessions or hobbies would vampires or other undead have? They don't need to worry about time so money or the time needed to learn a skill wouldn't matter to them. Would they stay with the games/hobbies of their mortal youth or do you think they would gravitate to whatever would be popular in each era?
>>97374476What game?
Obsessively scrolling the catalog and trying to police it. Just perfect.
Not undead, but still immortal, so the basic premise is the same. Arknights tackled this with the sui siblings. Each of them got fascinated by a facet of human culture, and decided to commit to it. From engineering, to the pursuit of art, to cooking, agriculture, commerce, you name it. The point is, you can have them obsess over something for all eternity (like liches usually do with magical knowledge), or chase the trends of mortal society to try and keep in touch with their former selves, or just the world in general.
>>97374598>asking for context that would help answer OP's nonsense questions is "catalog policing"You're fucking retarded.
>>97374648Why do you feel called out?
Clussy EditionPrevious thread: >>97241303Battlefleet Gothic, Blood Bowl, Epic, Kill Team,Man-o-War, Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game, Mordheim,Necromunda, Shadow War: Armageddon, Titanicus, Underworlds,Warcry, Warhammer Quest, Warmaster ...... and any other GW system and board game are welcome.>Helpful resources: (feel free to suggest additions!)https://pastebin.com/qq9N8V0V>TQComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97372720Thanks for the feedback, I was always interested in the skirmish model, so the game felt like a good alternative to mordheim for the times when I wanted something different.
>>97372479It's not worth much, the killzones are all bespoke now and have predone arrangements. Super nice for Horus Heresy or Necromunda though. Current edition of Kill Team is honestly a tournament-focused game (and it does it better than 40k).
>>97372479>I'm getting back into Kill Team after a few years and found a box of all the terrain they sold in 1st edition including the original starters massive 40k terrain and all the shit like trenches given away with kill teams to clear stock.None of this sounds familiar. Do you have pictures? The Wall of Martyrs is the only trench-like official terrain I remember. I do not recall GW "giving away" terrain with Kill Teams at any point, and it doesn't sound like a normal GW practice.
>>97372479I play kill team with custom terrain setups all the time. Assuming that by "1st edition" you mean either KT18 or KT21, the game is still played on the same size of board.It's also just the most recent teams being 5 model squads, I imagine a result of the design team finally feeling brave enough to open that option up for new teams and being able to unleash all the options that they've had in store. There are still teams with up to 14 models and 10-ish models is very common.
>>97371812I think they are interesting, but i dont see any benefit over a paper-based map or tiles. You can make this Risiko-like game aspect by yourself.>>97371333Ok, thats sad. I can find some, but i dont know if the 3D sculpts fit well. And even some 3D scanned ones cost $10. Kinda bold that they want money for stealing others sculpts.
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.
place your bet
>>97369770anish or vincent win, hans middle of the field somewhere
>>97369770Erigaisi > Keymer > Giri > Erdogmus
>>97341642
Can someone here explain why every player at lichess that loses a game refuses to resign? Instead, they wait for the clock to run out; why? Is this part of chess culture now? And then, if they lose, they ask for a rematch. But if you ask for a rematch, very rarely do they agree. WTF is their fucking problem? Goddamn passive aggressive faggots.
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.
>>97373383>Thoughts?No, I don't believe he actually has any.
The results are in. Silverage has had a disastrous season 0; massive winners in format are already emerging before the official competitive launch event in London. Everything rides on the next set supporting it already, CC as well. Given their track record, LSS rarely moves the needle that dramatically. If they don't push the envelope hard enough they could poison pill "the future of flesh and blood."
>>97373812Question about silver age format. What if I have my favorite hero in silver age format and I want to play that hero another format. I can do that right? Asking for a friend.
>>97373989*in another format
>>97372860huuuh all the card games anons on here play, I think they have money to buy and play many card games(sorry am ESL)
The new year brings new resolutions, inspirations, goals, dreams and half-baked ideas.>Why should I homebrew?/tg/ products are fairly unique in that it's actually pretty simple to make them these days, with a plethora of products to assist in making and playtesting your game. Making your own games helps understand why games are made the way they are, as well as being fun to do.>What you should postIdeas for games, games you're currently making, updates to your own games in broad strokes, and any homebrewing for existing products that don't get much attention. Discussion about the above is welcome. Post good, be good, and look over others products, they care if someone looks more than anything.Had to remake the thread>Resources for the aspiring developer>https://anydice.com/ (A fantastic resource for checking probabilities)>https://miro.com/ (A online whiteboard with tools to help organize yourself)>https://www.notion.so/ (Similar to the above, but in a bit cleaner format for those who work in larger teams)>https://rolz.org/ (Impromptu playtesting at its finest)>https://www.youtube.com/user/georgephillies/playlists (Game Design Lectures)
>>97354371I came up with acuity for a game project of mine and I think it could fit here.
>>97354371ResolveHopefully my physical copies of Prim arrive next week. Apparently the binding was done last night and they should be ready to ship today.Im stuck doing a ton of work, but hopefully in a few weeks Ill have enough free time to work on supplements.
>>97368538Thats great thanks.On that note, thoughts on it as a mechanic?
>>97372011>On that note, thoughts on it as a mechanic?I honestly wish more systems had extended test by default.Standard task resolution, extended tests and a teamwork mechanic seem like they should be foundational.
>>97374626>Standard TaskBasic roll dice, add modifier, compare to TN>Extended testsYou saw it here, its the standard but with expanded resolution stuff>TeamworkNothing major at the moment. Just bonuses on whoever has the best roll. Nothing hard mechanically. Mostly for fighting against mobs.
It's Da PDF Share Thread!Get ready to stuff your hard drive like it's 2025!STEP 0:<----- That image is not a PDF, it's an image, at least for now. Check the 4plebs link below to find the PDF.PLEASE READ DA FAQ BEFORE REQUESTING OR SHARING.It will answer 99% of your questions about this thread. If you haven't read it, we will know.STEP 1:Please exhibit good manners. Threads start sliding off the board after a certain number of posts. More posts wasted on being rude means fewer posts available for sharing.STEP 2:Request, share, stay awesome!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97374424doesn't seem to be working, throws me back to my own account
4AD stuff for anyone interested:The Tunnels of KendrasCrypt Of The Lich KingLair of the Horned BeastmenThe Tunnels of KendrasDungeon AtlasThe Frightful DozenIsland Of The Screaming StatuesLantern 03gf /d/Es7PMt
Looking for Pendragon 6e Core Rulebook
Hi! I use ScribdVdownloader to download PDFs, but some documents are unreadable when they are too large (more than 250 pages). Do you know of a website that allows me to download documents of up to 500 pages? Thank you!
>>97374063Requesting a copy of the "Super Skirmish Gaming" rulebook. Thanks!http://www.four-colorstudios.com/super-skirmish-gaming.htmlhttps://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/409525/super-skirmish-gaming
