>>97250997
They made a game, not a polished big corporate product

>>97253276
>2. Wrong
Lmao, How would you know? As far as the people of my char know the universe is a bunch of floating continents that are tied with silver cords to the central pillar of creation that is the source of all light and life. There is no lunar cycle. There is no real day cycle either. Nights are like solar eclipses where another continent gets between yours and the pillar.
>3. Wrong
Objectively correct actually.
>4. Doesn't make any sense with your answer to 1.
Why?
>5. Doesn't make any sense with your answer to 4.
Why?
>6. Doesn't make any sense with answers 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5.
Why?
>7. Doesn't make sense with answer 4.
Why?

>>97250997
>Why were so many of the "OG" game designers insufferable faggots?
Because they had to deal with people like you. Becoming misanthropes is a perfectly logical defense mechanism after dealing with self-righteous entitled ungrateful faggots like yourself as their players.

>>97251504
>>97250997
Why are modern trpg players so fucking gay? Go read a visual novel if you just want to inagine yourself being some fantasy hero with zero adversaries. Someone has to be the foil to the party and only the dm has that power.

>>97253535
>you just want to inagine yourself being some fantasy hero with zero adversaries
You forgot the gigachad image.

>>97245577
are you saying... i can see you in a cute dress?

>>97252836
>Australia isn't habitable
It's a first world country. You think the average Australian is living in the outback like Crocodile Dundee?

>>97252847
are you saying 3rd world nations are on average less degenerate?

^^^^^

>>97252936
woops that one was meant fot you

>>97252986
Transgenderism is a luxury illness

>>97252983
Okay whatever then. Whats your prefered word for mystical kungfu bullshit so I dont make you sperg?

>>97253624
Colonialism isnt evil & wasnt evil. Just because someone disagrees with you doesnt mean its /pol/.

>>97253639
>Whats your prefered word for mystical kungfu bullshit so I dont make you sperg?
You will never not make me sperg, I am a proud anti-wuxia sperglord, nothing in this world will quell my disdain for this parody.

>>97253624
>colonialism is evil
Colonialism gave Africa South Rhodesia.
"Liberation" gave Africa Zimbabwe.

>>97253648
What would you call Mortal Kombat type fireball blasting ki channeling kungfu stuff?

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>>97253562
So Dale of Merchants follows VotK, deviating from conventional deckbuilding design by not having any VP at all. You win by achieving the objective of completing your market stall, which gets more difficult as you need larger values of cards in specific value combinations. This is the main tension of the game, giving up or gaining tempo in setting up for that late game push of being able to complete your stall. You'll select a couple decks of cards to form the market cards and some starting decks, and what decks you play with, similar to dominion, will shake the game up. Unlike dominion, every card in the market can be used to add to your stall, so no card is ever left untouched. It also borrows the conveyor belt market from Ascension/Star Realms, but with no card having a base cost more than 5 (and you always having a five card hand), barring take that! cards being played, you will always be able to buy at least one card in the market if you want.

Now about that tempo, you cant do much on your turn in DoM. You can do one thing from the choices of buy from market, play card for its technique, complete a stack in your market stall, or discard cards. Sure, some techniques let you take a bonus action afterwards, leaving room for some combos, but you wont see someone drawing out their entire massive deck and do a billion buys/point scoring. You have to be selective and plan ahead, focus on the here and now or you likely won't be able to keep up in the stall completing game. This was a huge draw for my group. I'm often buying a card for its purchase value now, its ability in a few select situations soon, but mainly for its end game stall completing potential.

Then there are the suites. Each deck has a different theme, different deck options lead to wildly different combos, player interaction, and tempo. The cards themselves dont have any crazy designs like you see in later Dominion, Ascension, or VotK sets. They are all pretty straightforward. (contd)

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>>97253574
So what sold me on this game when anons pitched it was the victory objective, the mix and match of sets within the games (and between boxes, everything is compatible), and the price.
The first 2 are really affordable, give you plenty of mix and match options, and every additional set you get just adds to the options. This is why I went all in.

The collector box also has a ton of these interesting avatar cards, with their own abilities and game breaking powers, or additional objectives to win. I havent touched these yet, but one anon here said that when his group started using them, they never went back.

So while VotK is the favorite game of its type for two player matches between my wife and I, Dale of Merchants is offering a different, but also very engaging experience. With the deck selection at game set up, you can make the game as interactive, solitaire, beginner friendly, or cuththroat and full of off the wall shenanigans as you want. Last night we played with crocodiles, raccoons and fennec foxes (among two other decks) and cards were exchanging hands, decks, discard piles left right and center. Luckily things arent entirely one sided, as cards being stolen are always replaced with something. It happens to be junk most of the time, but hey, at least you got a payment for your velocipede! It was maybe a bit too much chaos, but if thats what you want, you could add even more insanity with the inclusion of other interactive/punishing races like echidnas or magpies. I'm smitten with the design and look forward to teaching others.

My fellow anons guide me towards the light once again.

Hey /bgg/ long time no see. I need good recommendations for a party game for the upcoming New Year's Eve party. We received Horrible Therapist as a gift this Christmas and it's awful, it doesn't even come close to being remotely funny. That made me realize I sorely lack a proper party game.

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>>97253063
>>How do you deal with friends&family absolutely resistent to any form of game teach?
I'm not autistic so I never pick a game that is unfit to the target audience. No one resists any teach.
>>How important is winning to you? Almost noone is a mustwin-tourneyfag, but we all tend to like games we are good at more, conciously or subconciously.
I play to win but I don't care about winning that much. The autists in my group love their bgstats bullshit and logging plays and wins and whatnot, I'm just glad I get to partake in my hobby. One of my favorite games I've never ever won.

>>97253633
Deception: Murder in Hong Kong
So Clover
Just One
Hot Streak

on the heavier side,
Decrypto
23 Knives

>>97253006
You just listed some of the factors that might be important, without actually addressing the why and some of the how.

What do they want to do with their character? Each class has things that they are good at doing or are part of the class identity. Decide on which of those things are most important and then pick the corresponding class.

Next, what kind of background does the character have? This will matter both mechanically (will give you proficiency in skills that make sense for your character as well as a bonus to stats that are important for your character's class) as well as for roleplay (a character who grew up as a Sailor would be played differently than one that was a Farmer). The ones listed in the guidebook are mostly fine, but you can also work with your DM to make your own if you have a specific idea for a character's backstory (or if you want to be a Monk that isn't a Sailor).

You also get to pick your race (species now? I forget), which gives your character additional abilities and informs how your character roleplays. Think about what your character's culture is like and if you want to have certain attributes.

After you do those things and decide if you want to have the equipment each class and background provides, then you roll and/or allocate your stats, write down your class and background abilities, and pick your spells if you have them.

>>97252298
int is undertuned so they need to trick you into taking it

>>97252961
>>97252964
>Not in a book, it was a promo image for Pride
Man, you get your nuts twisted about everything, don't you.

>>97252961
With how much that gets posted here, I'd assume that WotC has people going to 4chan to promote it.

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Why is it the Divine powersource and flavor is so devoid?

I was looking back at 3.x content for inspiration and one of the PrC, the Contemplative and looking back at its class abilities are basically stuff you'd get as a mix of the monk and Paladin's fluff buff of being a neigh immortal magical being who is no longer affected by aging.

How often did stuff like wholeness of body or stuff like that actually come up in games? Then there is the fact that the Divine power source can't blend well with other flavors when you look back to the psionic books and the whole !clerics had "mantles" instead of "domains"

>To long, didn't read

The Divine powe source should be able to touch all flavors and it doesn't and the classes/prc/subclasses suck and suffer for it.

Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

>>97245890
>>97251593
>Be Shisrak the Chill Bloodletter
>I say a few solemn words in Old Khonish about lost brotherhood, blood to fire, bone to ash, and then dispose of the doll version of myself down the volcanic vent.
>That should keep the daemonettes guessing. They will spend so much time picking apart why I said those things, they will completely forget why they found the doll version of me funny to begin with. Slaaneshi are almost as bad as Tzeentchians when it comes to unnecessary scheming, and both seem to assume everything things the same way they do. Speculating about the Slaaneshi Necron I fought should also distract them, unless it is something they already know about.
>I head back to guest room of Khorne’s Palace and get in only a few more minutes of conversation before I am informed that Cummissar Analstasia has somehow become trapped in Khorne’s Realm.
>No idea how that happened, and I don’t really care, but in the spirit of maintaining the only day per year of peace between Khornates and Slaaneshi, I use my extra special Khornemas magic to teleport to Analstasia’s location, teleport her back to the arena on Nordica II, and then teleport myself back to the guest room in Khorne’s Palace, where I convince the daemonettes to watch the Khorne versus Slaanesh Blood Bowl game that has just started.

>>97246767
>>97251593
>>97252704
>Be Cummissar Analstasia Van Gina of the Schlick LXIXth, formerly Vanessa
>Shisrak gets me out of Khorne’s Realm and brings me back to the arena, where I find my subordinate daemonettes squabbling over who should temporarily have my job
>I find out that the second Blood Bowl game has started, Slaaneshi versus Khornates, and I head back up to my box seat to watch, and support my mentor Dixie
>I definitely haven’t forgotten about Priscilla though
>My subordinates claim to know where she is hiding, so I order them to find her and bring her to my box seat
>Now that I know she is potentially a spy for an unknown organization, I plan on tying her to a chair, and then dosing her with extra extra doses of my emotion heightening truth syrum, as well as plenty of good old fashion aphrodisiacs
>Hopefully she spends the game alternating between telling me all her darkest secrets and telling me what she wishes I would do to her in the carnal sense, but it may take some trial and error to get the doses right to produce a mix of both results, and also counterbalance the effects of Old Krampus’s mind control magic
>I use my own magic to restore my appearance to that of Vanessa’s old body, but with a bit more...shape...than before
>My clothes are completely gone by this point, and I can’t be bothered to do anything about it right now, maybe I will check some of my presents at the half-time show, the ones that weren’t crushed by the Space Marine and/or soaked in the blood of my fallen servants during his brief rampage through my box seat that is
>The only thing that survived the trip to Khorne’s Realm is the mysterious Necron artifact, but it soaked up so much Khornate energy it just looks like a half-melted blob of bronze and gore. No idea if it even has any value at all at this point, but I will return it to its proper owner once I have had the time to think of some excuses for its condition

>>97244723
>>97244760
>Be Stoopid
>Be diggen thru a wreck of a humie fighta bomba dat crashed
>Red Mek wants useful gubbins but most ov des ave fleshy bits fuzed to em loik most spoikey humie gitz
Spikehumiesaresogross.pngrot
“Ol on, watz dis now?”
>I pull out something interesting
>A furry red coat and cap with goggles
Seamsgrotsized.sus
Hmmm.kunnin
>Maybe… I should try them on?


>Be Da Invincible Red Gobbo!

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>>97252804
>>97252704
>>97247051
>>97236137
>be Spencer
>of the Alpha Legion
>i sit up in a white void
>Durus is there, still dressed in his iron warrior disguise
>Alpharius and Alpharius are there from happy ending in their death watch disguises
>by the secret third triplet of the alpha legion if the afterlife is just doing missions for eternity i might actually shoot myself
>Durus laughs
"you know this isnt real."
>"yeah, i know..."
>guess this is shock setting in.
"the mission isnt done yet, you need to get the contact off planet. that daemonette just made her way back to the arena"

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>>97252804
>>97250632
>>97247800
>be Lady Sobek
>the Imperishable, king of the stars, breaker of the neverborn, lord of all that can be seen and unseen, the undeniable, the master of the dead words, the dismisser of the false king's pawns, the unbendable, the denier of the storm lord's requests, the unbound, the monarch eternal of the endless void between worlds, God tamer, decrier of the false star, bounder of the broken lords, prince of all treasures of the snow capped worlds, avenger of the fallen empire, rebuilder of the blackstone pylons, void banisher, and many many more
>KILLKILLLKILLLKILLKILLKILL
DEFENSEPROTOCOLSENGAGEDCONTAINVIRUS.internalmacafee
>what the hell was that?
>sudden surge of violence came over me
>which granted how this is gone isnt unusual but that was
>not normal
>i bet this is somehow that bitches fault
>might end up having to scrap my entire personal lychguard if that burst is anything to go by
>not every lord can contain these things you know
>breathe

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>>97253499
I won't bore you with the wall of text history, LCG basically means "fixed rarity products" at this point anyway.

>>97247921
I was hoping he'd at least give a cool answer like Duel Masters or Wixoss or something

>>97253389
>still sucessful
>boxes selling for 30 bucks
You sure about that?

>>97253573
>cool
>Duel Masters or Wixoss
The only good TCG is YGO because it doesn't have an arbitrary resource system that limits your plays

>>97253499
An lcg sells packs where you get 3x of every card in a set. Generally the chaff gets cut.

>>97235387
>5e players are slop guzzlers, they may complain about you changing there slop, but most won't leave.
They will if you aren't running 5e, which is the source of the problem. You want to play a different system, but the rest of the people at the table refuse to even try to care unless you are running 5e. What do you do? Matt Colville advice is the entirely retarded bit of advice where you simply ignore that problem and insist on running a different system with the assumption that everyone will keep showing up regardless of what kind of game is being run. There is no follow-up advice for what to do when they simply refuse to show up until you agree to run 5e again.

>>97251340
>Maybe Fatt Coville isa good DM, but his hordes of Patreon simps that blindly copy his stupid ideas, rarely are.
He's not. He talks a big game and loves to say things that sound intelligent, but in practice he runs games with a lot of blunt force railroading.
>In videos: Be flexible! Improv! Put the spotlight on the PCs since they're the stars! If they come up with a cool idea, just use it! Player choices matter!
>In practice: Talks over the players. Spews obnoxious drawn out exposition dumps instead of player-NPC interaction. Gets annoyed when players don't immediately follow the exact things he planned from start to finish for the entire campaign. Whenever they go outside of his plans, he just forces them back on rails. Cutscene narration as often as possible.

>>97252486
>Spews obnoxious drawn out exposition dumps instead of player-NPC interaction.
This is happening in our game right now. It sucks because our GM is usually great, but the module he's running is really terrible.

>>97252361
The right answer would be to slowly transform the game with houserules using the best and most attractive mechanics from the other system.

>>97252486
Yeah. So he's just like Brennan Lee Mulligan and Matt Mercer. Total overdramatic söyfuck reading off a script. Barely even a real dm, frankly.

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>>97252549
>Autistic retards and paid agents want this place to be shit by
>a) wasting everyone's time
>b) attemting to curate and author the content and oppinions of the board
>c) pushing culture war bullshit

>these things mean more threads per hour which means more advertizer revenue, so the mods let it happen and often actively defend or participate in it
>these threads are not actually interesting or relevent though, so noone posts in them
>if noone is posting and no threads are interesting or relevant, the board death-spirals to the point that only spam threads are made
>look at catalogue
>only spam threads are made

>>97252585
Game discussion, artistic techniques, independent creations, broad concept strategy, writing advice, and historical and scientific topics that contribute to the previous items

>>97252585
Big fukken tiddies.

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Reminder that /tg/ mods protect puckee and literarylord/bumpfag for some strange reason

>>97252549
They're mod threads to fake engagement & trick advertisers that 4chan still has a lot of users.

You can just stay in your general and stop spamming the board with your "what system" spam. Nobody cares about your impotent seething all over the board and is time you understand that.

>>97253277
No, some people get autistic over this, but singular they is fine ONLY for uncertain gender

>>97253277
"He" was the default gender neutral pronoun in my native fucking tongue until very recent times. If you do not have PREDOMINANTLY english ancestry, your opinion on my language does not matter.

>>97253478
>until very recent times
Singular "they" for unknown gender is literally as old as Modern English, being first attested at about the same time as the transition from Middle English.

>>97253277
It's either he or they. Anything else is 100% incorrect.

>>97253481
And did I say anything to the contrary? It's simply true that "he" in place of a gender neutral pronoun was the norm, with "they" also being used but more often only when referring to groups.

>>97248652
>Oh no! A typo!
Kek that sure pissed you off.
>It isn't
It is.
>Your whole point is that a 5% chance to miss an attack at minimum is too high when combat professionals miss more than 70% of their shots
Exactly 0% of Combat professionals will miss a shot at point blank range against a target that's standing still. Meanwhile every single D&D character will fail to hit a straw dummy with a stick 5% of the time.
>What is irrelevant is saving throws
Nope, they are relevant because saving throws are also used outside of combat.
>Your main stat being 16 isn't min maxing
Yes it is, the average is 10.5.
>Average people tasks are not rolls
Yes they are, they are even given explicit DCs. Take 20 implies repeated failures until you eventually net a rare success.
Take 10 is only possible if you are not distracted. There are also instances like walking across a 2x4 that the average level 1 commoner can't beat even if they take 10, even though no person I know irl would fail that.
You failed and don't know the rules.

>>97248117
Don't forget that it also works the other way around where you're too likely to succeed at tasks that should be nearly impossible. A random untrained person has a 25% chance to instantly stabilize someone that's been stabbed in the throat with a sword (he can also be recovered and fully functional just by sleeping for a full day).

>>97248203
I think so

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Even in real life physics doesn’t fuck around and will fucking kill you if you aren’t careful

I don’t know why the concept of dangerous magic pisses people off

>>97253568
>magic should be rare, mysterious, superstitious
nobody ever claimed that magic should not be dangerous

>>97252918
IIRC Germanium is one of the rare earth elements (which, despite the name, aren't actually all that rare, but normally found in such tiny concentrations that it's rare for them to form ore deposits), in which case you'd be looking for highly derived magmatic rocks (basically the very last rocks that crystallized in a large magma chamber) or certain kinds of volcanogenic hydrothermal deposits. Most REEs stick to the molten phase of rock for as long as possible, so they tend to get more concentrated in the remaining fluid as crystallization progresses. And in most cases the magma will cool down too quickly to allow for a high REE-concentration phase to separate.

>>97252956
To carry over damage use the mul file generated at the end of the air battle. Next import the units to the lobby of the main game substituting the original fighters with survivors and the appropriate delay. Alternatively you can run both the ground battle and air battle at the same time in 2 instances of megamek and when the air battle is done use the [reinforce from mul file] option to import the surviving fighters to the side that won, or even give both sides their surviving fighters if the air battle was inclusive.

>>97246352
hostis humani generis
>>97246421
You make a good point. A mercenary is an employee whereas a privateer is a licensee.
Additionally, mercenaries are “foreigners” relative to the conflicts in which they fight. By contrast, privateers are subjects of the sovereign from whom they obtain their letters of marque.
Wolf’s Dragoons, for example, could never make it as privateers, lacking the requisite patriotism.

>>97252905
>>97252867
I was talking with someone about this the other day and we concluded the germanium for the first jump core probably came from asteroids because it's way easier to get at.

>>97249405
what regiment?

anyone with an urbie on their insignia knows they're in deep shite.

>>97249278
I don’t play or read about Warhammer. What happens to chaos dwarfs? Is being stone a good thing?

>>97195417
No they don't.

>>97252435
Normally Dwarfs in Warhammer can't wield magic at all because they were made so by the Old Ones (in part because they wanted them resistant to Chaos). Dwarfs however created Rune Magic that is a bypass for them and their inability to use magic.

Chaos Dwarfs however can use magic because they were granted it by their own Chaos God Hashut after they abandoned their traditions and Ancestor Gods for pragmatism in order to survive all the shit that was falling on them in the Dark Lands. When they did embrace him and changed over the generations, they got their magics (including the Lore of Hashut which is unique only to them).
Problem is, and it was mentioned before, that Dwarfs were not build to wield magic. And the more their Daemonsmits and Sorcerer Prophets use their powers and channel the Winds of Magic the more they turn into stone.
And no, being turned into a stone sculpture IS NOT a good thing for them (in fact it's not good for anyone). In fact the main temple of Hashut in Zharr-Nagrund has the main road to it decorated with stone sculptures that uses to be Daemonsmiths and Sorcerer Prophets that succumbed to the stone curse.

>>97253098
Grim

>>97253558
Yeah. But they use it either way due to the fact that it is power that is useful to them.
They have to however conserve their powers and be careful while casting. Even then the curse of stone is still a thing and it simply very slowly affects them.

>>97249324
>>97249458
>>97250448
I see, cheers. If this gets anywhere after the wreckers and arms masters, I might look into more gangers with fancy guns for vanity's sake, to give a feel of progression.

>>97249353
>How deep is your bit box?

Fairly shallow, got a bunch of random bits from mostly Heresy kits and then some. Doubt any ranged weapons from the nu-Mks or SoS will fit without some serious modding since they're two-handed by design, but I've plenty of leftovers from the MkVII kit otherwise, which are one-handed so I guess there's those.

>>97252057
https://heresyminiatures.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1_10_24
There are a couple decent heads in there for what you want. Molds are a little flashed-up but I really like the sculpts.

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>>97251503
Ok.

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>>97253024
nice fleet

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>>97253186
Pics i found.