There are a lot of examples of knights being implemented into a sci-fi future setting (Warhammer 40k, Battletech, Dune), but are there any examples of medieval societies with modern-esque professional soldiers?
>>97339397>>97343780>>97343804>>97344362Can we not have this argument again!You're not going to convince each other, and its just going to derail the thread.
>>97339216>ambushes>guerilla tactics>focus on ranged combat over melee>fights for resource control
>>97342484Retard-kun, OP gave you 3 examples
>>97339495>what is a cataphract but a knight wearing scalesOther way round. Cataphracts existed long before knights.
>>97344362>>97343780>>97339397No, shut up and get lost
Time to talk about weird monsters again.As usual, any rants about Bog will be treated as bait unless you have actual proof.
>>97337791I imagine those little guys inside Trashwalker's eyes can run around inside of it to repair it like the crew of a really little mech.
>>97338865>>97339658I had the idea that Trashwalker could be like an expy of the martian vehicles from war of the worlds. Only you can put two medium sized or less monsters in it to boost it's combat power. Say putting an Eyedra inside of it so it can be used as an arttilery platform.Now that I think about it having the anthropoid bioconstructs all be vehicles for the bugs sounds like a neat idea. Caterclops could be like a blimp that attacks from above while Deathdaisy could be used as a burrowing or aquatic bio vehicle.
>>97337791I wonder what core feature this monster subclass will have.
>>97340352My assumption it'd be something like "An Anthropoid Bioconstruct can use the [ENGULF] action without possessing the required block. Allies engulfed can increase number of dice rolled when engulfed and will not take any negative conditions unless otherwise stated" With a block that shows how the dice increases/how many monsters can fit inside it or something like that.
>>97339658That image is funny
Is your character the type to hit on barmaids?
>>97342924I guess you don't play games.
What's a better way to unwind after an adventure than letting off steam with a good ale in your hand at the local tavern?
>>97337982I dunno. Maybe mind control to turn into a hypnotized sex slave.I wish I didn’t have to homebrew thrallherd.
>>97343045Based af
>>97337982For fuck sake, puckee, at least use different images for each of your threads. My God.
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>>97345498Well I am an Ausfag, so of course they do. I'm posting from work because its boring as fuck today.
>>97344673Hyperspace isn't safe and there are the things in there
>>97345520Larry Niven please go, this was the moment when Ringworld jumped the shark and you don't need to jam it into this too.
>>97345072>Genetic manipulation is not something that will ever be commercially available.Yeah nah, they can "Accidentally" make Horses obligate carnivores...
>>97345034There's a canon rumor of a subtype of Dark caste called the Genecaste, the logical conclusion of clan genetic science and The Society. Not IS however. >>97345565I don't think the clans would ever sell or grant their genetic tech to the IS/Periphery on principal.I imagine the Sharks would price it so high no one faction could afford it.
What’s the edgiest tabletop game of all time
>>97344326>The Lamentations art promises a historical horror game set in the pike and shot/wars of religion era and then you crack it open and it's another AD&D retroclone with elves, dwarves, armor etc. Just totally baffling to me. it's weird because the elves, hobbits etc are almost there because they're 'standard', what little setting there is they're all DYING OUT and MORE GRIM THAN FAIRYTALES SUGGEST.again it was just the best retroclone we had at the time (B/X Essentials and Old-School Essentials have effectively replaced it). but you might like some of the actual modules.picrel is a 100+ page book about exploring 17th century Germany, with a sadistic witch and protestants. in fact a lot of adventures are set around the same time in historical Europe, with a few magic/horror elements. The God That Crawls gets recommended a lot. creepy horror adventure, mostly set in a church in England, 1630. no pixies wandering around.
>>97345329It's hilarious how The Boys was always going to be the one comic adaptation that's better then the original because they literally would not be able to make it worse
>>97343357Garth Ennis is such a gigantic faggotron. To keep this /tg/ related im also going also say RaHoWa
>>97344326>a Wraith splatbook about the HolocaustIt was very well done, I thought. It was tasteful, even. We had a lot of fun with it.
>>97343420>be clone of evil superman>created solely to kill evil superman if he becomes a liability>grow impatient with your life's purpose taking too long>do lots of horrible shit (like eating a baby), photograph it, then send it to evil superman so he thinks he's tripping>he gives up on his reputation and besieges the white house, thus finally providing an excuse to carry out your task
First Order of the Stick of the new year is up.
>>97343724I liked Banjo the Assassin, I felt like that joke was set up nicely
>>97343711>MitDsomeone must have already figured out what he is by now, right?
>>97345439probably, I mean the comic is more than 20 years old, every single monster in the monster manual has been named as a candidate at this pointbut nothing definitive enough that there's a single "yes this is it" answer
>>97345439variant human
>>97345439>>97345612My guess is that he's not a D&D monster at all, but one of the Greek Gods, who took the form of a D&D monster. He's severely weak from the lack of worship and his mind is clearly rattled, but I think it'll be the big revelation that allows the snarl to be destroyed once and for all.
At what age do magic users start training in your setting?
>>97330634What's a puckee?
>>97345073>puckeeA /tg/ boogieman that some anons use as a catch-all term for anything that could in any way, shape or form be construed as sexualized or fetish content. >see also "Royce" and "Hater Eight conspiracy"
>>97345363>construed as sexualized or fetish content.Where the fuck did you get that from? He's a literal redditor who posts his commissions for upboats and then comes here and makes retarded low effort spam threads, which he usually bumps himself when people aren't telling him to kill himself.
>>97330092magical aptitude usually manifests at around 12 but some prodigies manifest it at a younger age. Some wizards take in students as young as 8 before they show signs of magical aptitude if any on their parents had magical ability, gambling on getting ahead of the curve and raising a powerful apprentice. Most of the time they just get a decent but utterly nonmagical helper but the 1 time out of 10000 it works out the extra years of early magical training pays off extremely well.some wizards take on very young apprentices for other reasons as well.
Depends. Wizards ideally start as soon as the kid has learned to read and write, while shamans and the like either follow whatever local tradition they might have, or get snatched by fairies and come back as raving magic lunatics two hundred years later. Priests begin training whenever, it doesnt really matter; if you can get a god to think you're his nigga, you get magic powers.
Con/Health is a conceptually boring stat that should at the very least be looked at>Don't play DNDyeah I included health retard
>>97345443I don't like the wound-based systems more because you might as well run the second you take any kind of debuffing injury because it just means you'll take more and more until you die.
>>97345463Exactly, and there's nothing wrong with that. I guess to sum it up, players want to feel like they're "in danger," but not like they're "dying," and wound systems really drive that second one home. I like wound systems because they feel more realistic, but it's also fair to say that we sacrifice realism the moment we decide to pretend to be vampires or elves or whatever.
>>97344629Take the GURPS pill. Health not only gives better physical "saves", but also improves Speed, Move, and Dodge, and gives FP which you need for spellcasting, martial-arts skills, psionic powers, and pretty much anything cool. It governs many athletic skills such as Hiking, Running, and Swimming, as well as skills you wouldn't expect (but make total sense in retrospect) such as Carousing, Sex Appeal, and Singing.
>>97345500Yeah I feel like that sort of system works better for less heroic games like CoC where you're just a normal guy dealing with supernaturals.
What if you had an injury system but something else to let you 'ignore it' for a turn at a cost? Like you spend stamina to keep ignoring your injury for a time? Would protect against death spirals and potentially give you a definite time limit based on what you've suffered.
>>97337754And funnily enough basically all parents think so. "My kids, their brats", as the saying goes.
>>97317329Those high customisation codex were really fun to read, but let's be honest most of those options were just trap options. You could ignore most of them.
>>97341186We should destroy America.
>'98 zoom zoom newfag that started at the very end of 9th>Find 9th unbearable and 10th completely insipid>Star looking into 4th and thinking it sounds really cool>Try it with a friend and we like it>Successfully manage to make a small but comfy and close-knit playgroup with the fellas>Two fence-sitter friends finally make the jump into 40K and also want to play 4th (CSM and Nids)>They still like 10th (for some reason) but are perfectly willing to play both editions (and allegedly won't get into 11th)I know I got lucky, but things turned out pretty good over here. I've also bought a bunch of 2nd hand white metal minis and I really like them, even if they're squatty as hell.>>97327571>3.5 orksThere's no such codex, Orks have either a choice of fluffy but rather basic and empty early 3rd Codex or strong but boring late 4th Codex. I know because I'm homebrewing my very own 3.5 Ork dex.That said, if you were just refering to 3rd+FAQ+WD Clan rules, then my mistake. I kitbashed a Looted Chimera for my Blood Axes' Warboss.
>>97345330We'll spare you when the revolution comes, you're one of the good ones.
We're going to have to come up with a phrase for the new era of Warhammer 40,000 ushered in by the Amazon TV show, DoW 4 and Total War 40k, and increased market value of Games Workshop.nu40k isn't going to cover it. nu40k is already bad enough for many of us from headier days like 1st through 4th edition. You are going to see horrific debasements to the thing you know and love that you will still see with your eyes closed. Every 80 IQ person with internet access will have an opinion on Warhammer without knowing what a Tau Remora Drone is.
Zombiehammer?
>>97345299meanwhile, Peter Cushing:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGag8Qllgnw
>>97345348no wonder he made it to space admiral
>>97345269He was just a normal kid.
>>97344553Slophammer 40Gay.
>A New Warhammer World is coming to the USA!>...just outside D.C.https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/u6jqjmvz/a-warhammer-world-in-the-usa-get-the-details-here/
>>97336820>"Obama is so cool, he has a pen and a phone and doesn't afraid of anything">Here comes Hillary the Hag, the single most unappealing candidate the Dems have ever run>Oh no, the famous television star who just says shit won the election>It is now no longer cool for the President to just do what he wants and let the courts try to stop himTen years of this, now.
>>97335451>"If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?"
>>97336820Rules should only apply to Republicans.
>>97329851This anon knows. My parents drove me by there back in the day. Also, Anne Arundel? Cheap? Are you crazy?
>>97335451>Because you don't want a government that doesn't follow its own laws and regulations? I've never known anything else.
A thread for discussing the Star Wars franchise and its various media and tabletop games.Exotic Cuisine editionPrevious: >>97304062Fantasy 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.
>>97345117Definitly a CEC gunship of sorts, probably like >>97345288 said a militarization of the VCX-820 line
>>97345117>>97345288>>97345324It does look like a up-armored VCX-820
>>97341812Does the ffg rpg even get new updates? Feels like I haven´t seen anything new on that front since covid started a few years back.
>>97345395Last thing I remember was the release of Gadgets and Gear.
>>97343899>>97344190I feel like with Mando food, you'd see a lot of recipes based on adapting various canned/preserved ingredients that got their start as military rations, in much the way that Spam came to dominate post-WWII Hawaiian cuisine.
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. And as we enter this happiest and newest of years, remember: 2e was never an old-school game, bait is for reporting, and fish is for smoking! Happy new year, grogs!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.
>>97345471NTA, bu you have the weird mannerisms of someone who's gotten owned a whole lot, but instead of learning anything, you just try to copy the times you got owned but try to apply them in situations they don't fit. Even a monkey could do better.Like, a jerkoff response doesn't fit at all. Ironically, it does fit as a response to that "let me tell you what REAL games are" post though.
>>97345516Maybe he just misclicked?
I'm growing convinced that this is just one guy shitting up the entire thread. Notice how every time one guy in the argument "owns" the other one, two more people chime in on the winner's side?
>>97345558>on the winner's side>""""winner""""Of course it's just one guy samefagging. He astroturfed all his hijack threads too, with the most pathetic no-effort single line replies. Just report and ignore, the jannies are actually doing a decent job rinsing these days.
He really does EVERYTHING in bad faith, huh.
TP4 reanimation protocols Edition▶Previous thread:>>97139724▶News:Reminder that next box is Sisters vs Raptors:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/zrjpzrms/adepta-sororitas-battle-chaos-space-marines-over-a-long-forgotten-tomb-in-kill-team-shadowhunt/▶Official Key Downloads, FAQs and Erratahttps://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/kill-team/▶Rules Scanshttps://gofile.io/d/AinK04▶Boxed Set Rules Scanshttps://gofile.io/d/NWRByw (deprecated)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Just let the general fucking die already. Lets regulate ourselves to gwsg
>>97345512They haven't liked that in the past. People keep using the thread enough for it to usually stick around until bump limit, so I'll keep making it until that stops happening.
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.
>>97343525YOLO
I MADE A BRILLIANT MOVE followed by a blunder in the next moveI love being hard stuck at 300 elo
>>97344396Happens to the best of us, I had a game yesterday where I was up on material all the time and then missed the opponent setting up mate in one I could have easily defendedjust keep at it
a good victory
>>97345600his strategy is to stop playing when he loses
