>Player or GM>Preferred System(s)>Schedule/Times Available (include timezone)>Voice or Text>Method(s) of Play (Skype, Discord, IRC, roll20, etc)>Tone/Theme Preferred>Contact Info>Other Notes
>Player or GMGM>Preferred System(s)OSR alike (I did the classic ORS thing of taking rules and systems I like from many OSR games but I pulled from a few non OSR d20 games as well) (in order of amount of content pulled, LotFP, DCC, DnD RC, 13th age, The Black Hack, ect.)>Schedule/Times Available (include timezone)3:30pm EST every Saturday if enough players RSVP, no worries if you can't make a session though.>Voice or TextVoice>Method(s) of Play (Skype, Discord, IRC, roll20, etc)Discord, Theater of the Mind>Tone/Theme PreferredClassic fantasy, sometimes funny, sometimes serious, high death if the players aren't careful, low-mid death if they are.>Contact InfoSmashed on discord>Other NotesComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
anyone hosting hackmaster?
if anybody wants to blind prog the Dungeons & Dragons Online MMO friend me on discord at @roninlordthere will be a neopronoun jumpscare
Anyone playing GURPS?
>voice
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>>97852277Thought it would be obvious enough, but the specific enhancements are general perceptive ability or better attunement to to observation where applicable.>>97852285It's similar enough to Pacifista programming that I intend to treat it as such.>>97852290Revenant helping his crew live without regrets works with her need to assert herself.
>>97852356Who what?
I'm starving. Anons, what do I eat?
>>97852431It's time for a fast. Push through the hunger and let your body purge away the impurities.
>>97849579https://rentry.org/kosshichartThis was mostly for a while but I just didn't have the energy to do the handful I hadn't. I'll try to get something for the relay out soon.
NATO intervention editionPrevious thread:>>97576097>Thread Question: What have you been working on recently?>Community Summary of Wargames: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11JoUpGIRDp5DZdgJ24rijKHgyY-qvvR5QnVtHIp57Tw/edit?usp=sharing>List of Historical Tactical, Strategic, and Military Drill treatises: http://pastebin.com/BfMeGd6R>ZunTsu Gameboxes: Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97850277See >>97849757
>>97850277>trusting troonhammer recommendations
>>97850524Recommend me a good online publication for tabletop news and teviews
>>97851513/hwg/
>>97829149IKS DiscordGame Design Discord
Reject all AI from TTRPGS! If a player uses AI to make a character portrait of their PC - BOOT THEM FROM THE GAME!If a player uses AI to make a character biography - BOOT THEM FROM THE GAME! If a GM uses AI to write an adventure for a session - QUIT THE GAME! If a GM uses AI to generate a picture of where the PCs are - QUIT THE GAME!If a GM uses AI to generate a battle map - QUIT THE GAME!REJECT AI FROM TTRPG!REJECT AI FROM TTRPG!REJECT AI FROM TTRPG!
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>>97818057The reality is that AI is a self limiter, the players that crutch it will leave the game of their own accord, there's no need to police what takes itself out.
>>97818204Read more books and take your meds
>>97851749I don't take meds but I'll read more.
>>97851739???
Since I can't find a Lancer thread at the moment, I'll start one I guess.I've recently gotten very into mecha, but the exact flavor I'm looking for seems to be somewhat limited. I'm looking for a good system to play with some friends, and so far, Lancer and Beam Saber see to be the only two that standout to me. Lancer seems pretty cut-and-dry simple to get into without being too crunchy, but I've heard it lacks on the roleplaying aspect, which confuses me, and is typically my favorite part of TTRPGs. I suppose I'd just like to know the following: - How does Lancer's system negatively impact the RP portion of the game? Isn't that more or less completely affected by the players themselves and/or myself as the GM? - For those with experience with both systems, would you recommend Lancer or Beam Saber? Or are there any other mech-based systems you'd recommend?For context, my players and I have mainly only played 5e (I've been a forever DM for about 5 years). I personally love complex mechanics, but my players not so much.
>>97845366https://pastebin.com/E2wi55AZcheck the RPGs here
>>97848197Nice! Didn't know that existed. Appreciate that.
>>97845366>For those with experience with both systems, would you recommend Lancer or Beam Saber?Different ends of the spectrum; Lancer is based on D&D 4E and Beam Saber is a Forged in the Dark game. How much crunch do you prefer?Or are there any other mech-based systems you'd recommend?Take a look at Battle Century S on Itch. It is currently PWYW; if you like it, but would prefer to use tokens and minis, check out Battle Cnetury G Remastered. The systems are very similar, but S is theatre of the mind, and G uses minis and maps.
>>97845366Lancer's mech rules are going to be pretty familiar to someone coming from D&D, but the pilot-side rules are based more on PbtA/FitD. This means that there are fewer stats, fewer mechanical "hooks" to work with, and the overall style of play is much more focused on "narrative". Any roll boils down to failing on 10-under, crit success on 20+; a single successful "Move Unseen and Unheard" roll might resolve an entire stealth scene. Frankly, the gameplay difference between mech rules and pilot rules throws a lot of people off, and I suspect that is the reason for the complaints.My experience (~150 sessions, multiple campaigns) has been that the default pilot rules are serviceable enough for a full out-of-mech session every so often, or more frequent pilot scenes interspersed with the mech fights, but this assumes the GM and players can wrap their heads around the intended gameplay style. I have not used them, but I know that the Karrakin Trade Baronies book adds more mechanical hooks to the pilots; it still leans on PbtA/FitD style.Beam Saber, as I recall from my one time playing it, uses only Forged in the Dark mechanics. This makes it a bit more mechanically consistent, but also means that if you just don't gel with FitD at all, you're not going to have a good time of it. Also, Beam Saber pushes interpersonal drama and archetypal characters more than I personally wanted; it is pushing for that Gundam feeling, and I'm not always down for Kamille to sperg out just because someone made fun of his name.There are plenty of other mecha systems out there, which all do better or worse depending on what kind of mecha story you want to tell, and how well you mesh with their rulesets. Maybe also look at Battle Century G, which I would class as middle crunch, roughly in the same tier as Lancer, but works a bit differently.
>>97852500My experiences were pretty different, and I don't think play was focused on narrative much at all. It was kind of secondary to clocks and skill check turns, with the players describing more or less what they'd like to achieve and entire large narrative sections being turned into extended skill checks. The system's focus felt like it's heavily geared towards skirmish wargaming, rather than narrative play. But maybe that's something more of a GM thing. One thing I tried when I ran was to do combats with the pilot rules once or twice, the idea being that the pilots were out on foot exploring an abandoned station, but we used mech combat initiative and pilot weapons rules and kind of made up stats for enemies on foot since there wasn't much to work with in the book, but it bombed spectacularly when pilot narrative and mech skirmish rules were mixed and didn't flow well at all, so I agree that the difference throws people off. Out specialist wanted to roll narrative assault to fight, because they had specced hard into it, and our hacker wanted to use the pilot combat rules and mech initiative because they had a weapon and no combat skill triggers, and the two butted heads so much it killed the vibe. I looked at the Trade Baronies RP stuff after but the group felt really l put off by it, and said that it was too restrictive for their character ideas. Tough system to run, for reasons I didn't see coming, considering how simple the actual combat rules are, so nice job on doing that many sessions.
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Looking for Shadowdark Runes 7, 8, and 9 if anyone would be so kind, cheers!
And Monastery of Misanthropy if anyones snagged it yet.
Requesting Caught in the rainhttps://the-ravensridge-press.itch.io/caught-in-the-rain
Any of these would be appreciated:Bloody HollowExploit Zero OmnibusHametsu - The Ryu & The Rain ExpansionHametsu Legends - Musashi Solo Expansion
>>97850968>Hollowsno luck on wretched domain/d/5OZDr1>>97852045>Citizens of the Lunar Empire/d/q3Vx3T>>97852524>Caught in the rain/d/YawiU0>>97852469>Cy-Borg stuffComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I'm torn between the two to recommend to my GM since he's interested in running either, can anyone actually list some differences and all to help us all decide? Also 4e would be through Foundry VTT and 2e through Roll20.
>>97852050Not really lol, but then again I can run through Dark Heresy (and the other FFG 40k games) rather quickly.
>>97852050Been running the Path of Damnation campaign wiht players who never played WFRP before, they got it quickly, it's nothing complicated if you ever played D&D or CoC.
>>97852032we play ignoring the Advantage rules for trash mob encounters to not bog down the game, saving it for the final "impossible" encounters to kinda abuse the dogpiling and survive encounters that should mathematically wipe us. like sort of put your finger on a scale, final boss mechanicsit wasn't something deliberate, we mostly played 1st ed before that and forgot the Advantages were even there, until deep down into the campaign and facing Chaos Warriors, and it was like "holy shit, we're cooked, where's the manual". so basically, it's optional and up to the players at any given moment if they want to track it or not
I can't give you an objective truth, OP. My group played both but we prefer 4E. My dudes like the advantage system even with the snowballing problem. It makes fights go SO much faster than in 2E. The only thing is that you have to book keep a whole lots of points but It's also pretty easy to do If you have some kind of physical counters.After you get used to the system, adapting 2E stuff to 4E gets really easy. I think there's a shitton of things converted already
>>97847900First of all, I'd rather kill myself than ever run R20 after getting used to Foundry, but whatever, your dm might feel differently.I'd reccomend 4e, but with using whatever 2e splats you can't live without. Especially the mutation book is really nice, and it works fine in 4e. There's also 2 different combat systems in 4e and the newer one is better, but they're both an improvement on 2e.I ran 2e for 6 years before switching to 4e when it released, and it's not a night and day difference or anything, but 4e is a definite upgrade in my opinion, rather than a sidegrade or downgrade like the newer shadowrun editions.>>97848663You can't blame 4e for not being set after the Storm of Chaos. I don't think SoC is even canon anymore. I personally run my game during the end times similar to the vermintide games.
What races exist in your setting, or at least are races that you like, be it in science fiction or fantasy settings, and wish were seen more often? For me, I wish Warforged were in more D&D settings naturally.
>>97843201Pathfinder is kind of just dogshit in general.
>>97844372To be fair, it was based off of 3rd/3.5 Edition, which was a broken bloated trashfire of an edition.
>>97844535Sure, but they somehow kept digging.
>>97847190>Sure, but they somehow kept digging.It's that bad? Wow.
>>97699163Ittania is a human world. Humans build its kingdoms, fight its wars, and fill its taverns. The other peoples exist at the margins: rare enough that encountering one is noteworthy.>HumansThe dominant people of Ittania. Varied in every physical respect, but recognisably one people: ambitious, adaptable, and convinced the world is theirs to shape.>ElvesTheir lands lie east of the Emryn Marches, ancient and unwelcoming. Those who venture west carry centuries of memory and a wariness that most humans mistake for arrogance. There are three broad Elven cultures sharing one stat block: the High Elves, ancient traditionalists who make no effort to be liked; the City Elves, cosmopolitan and mistrusted by everyone; and the Wood Elves, isolationist and feral by reputation.>DwarvesDwarves live beneath mountains in foreign lands: vast hollow-earth compounds carved from living rock over thousands of years. They are the most technically accomplished people in the known world, and they know it. They have been at war with the Elves for centuries, over a grievance that both sides remember differently. They like humans and Hobbits without reservation.>HobbitsNobody talks much about Hobbits, which is largely how Hobbits prefer it. They live in rolling hills and quiet valleys across every kingdom, in houses dug into banks, in communities so unobtrusive that travellers pass through without noticing. They are warm, hospitable, and quietly fierce when threatened.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Thread died and I recently got to play so I'm making it again.>What are you painting?>What are you looking forward to?>good stories about your huntsThread question: favorite fight? Least favorite fight?
>>97850744Thats my plan, to get all the monsters done before getting any (more) survivors. I did the OP Pic after the smog Singers and the BK posted. Working on Atnas now. Way more gaps then I'd like on the cloth surfaces. >>97851179God speed anon. I am currently trying to find the microscopic baby arm from pic related as well.
>>97851436Damn. Good luch with that. I may end up green stuff sculpting them since I don't know where to look for stls. I could.... clean my desk... but that is probably more work than making new ones
>>97851179Are those STL even available online? Never seen them
>>97850462I found it in a junk folder a couple days late. I'm mad, since it means I missed out on the options of getting Lion Knight Scholars wonderful ass and the Forgot Bust. I may not have gotten the latter, but it would've been nice to have the option.Hopefully the former comes back in plastic (with a few other older models I want badly)
Black Guard Style says Swords in your grid get Deflect 1, does that mean you have to activate them to gain the Deflect token as its own action or does using the sword to attack get you the Deflect token?
Pigheaded Edition>What is Trench Crusade?An alternate weird history 28mm/32mm tabletop skirmish game. Based on the art and lore of Mike Franchina, whose illustrations you may have seen floating around on /tg/ for a several years now, and designed by Tuomas Pirinen, one of the original creators of Mordheim. It's grimdark, it's visceral, and it's very Blanchitsu.>What's the QRD on the background?The Knights Templar turned heretic and opened the Gates of Hell when they took Jerusalem during the First Crusade. Over 800 years later the war is still ongoing as technology has developed to a pseudo diesel-punk WW1 standard and a third of Humanity has sided with the Infernal Princes.>How do I get started?All the files are free online:https://www.trenchcrusade.com/rules/They used to be split between the website and the discord, but no more. For posterity's sake, the old mega will still be kept active even if it's unlikely to need updating: https://mega.nz/folder/70QH0BBa#Eg-blxYQKkY_C02wErnFTQ>third party sources for making trenchers:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97820513I'm just getting into trench crusade this evening, and I whipped up a basic list of the Sultanate. I vaguely understand the rules, but not the meta or really how games actually go. Did I make a shit list?## Muslims ## Faction: Iron SultanateRating: 700 Ducats | 0 GloryPatron: None## Elites ##Yüzbaşı Captain - 101DBattlekit: Jezzail, Sword / Axe, Medi-Kit, Standard ArmourJabirean Alchemist - 82DComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97852148No real meta per se, there was some bad grenade spam but than was nerfed a bit. If you can spare 60 Ducats you can upgrade your Captain to "Janissary Veteran" for 10 for the "Strong" keyword, then equip with a machine gun for 50. +2 on ranged is very good
>>97846169>>97845990Thanks for pointing that out anon, will be fixing that asap.The warband builder was updated when the official rules came out, I'd forgotten to update this rules text.
Table top sim gang. All no games must fucking hang.
>>97852471You're doing god's work companiononMost everyone at adepticon was using your tool it was great to see. And your implementation made me realize I was playing a couple things wrong with list building so that's appreciated too.
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/9fzM6128Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97852443fuck off already
>>97851906>You mean it emphasizes the need to track timeYou mean when no play is happening?Sure, but that has nothing to do with High Gygaxian. It's just a concept that got forgotten and lost outside of O/AD&D.
>>97852443"Fuck off" is an "autistic meltdown" to you? Your standards for that are super low, you should consider fucking off and never coming back.
>>97852558Meltdown is one of those words he considers to be magic.If "By the power vested in me by Andrea Dworkin, by god you're gonna stop talkin'" worked he'd be using that instead.
>>97852558An autistic meltdown is an intense, involuntary response to overwhelming sensory, emotional, or cognitive input, resulting in a temporary loss of behavioral control.A person may yell harsh things due to panic, fear, or an inability to communicate their needs.
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>>97851445I don't get sslyth, what's the draw other than 'tempramental vishu wannabe'? There's barely anything expanding on their stuff
>>97851876Visually and thematically, I just think they're cool. Mechanically, I gravitate towards beefy bruisers and tanks who can shrug off gruesome hits for their allies, especially if they're monsters or off-humans like Ogryn, and they're fairly potent blenders on top of that.
>>97850872Liber imperium
I know most folks brew volkite as 'if your hit damages, roll another hit' but wouldn't it be far simpler to just say they deal 2x damage after reduction from armor and toughness? It's effectively the same but more streamlined. Thoughts, arguments for and against, wording improvements?
>>97851876Furries don't need much other than "looks like an animal"
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>>97852366Not yet! I have to move, so I wouldn't be around for the harvest. Hopefully my next landlord is also amenable to it. I do have a bunch of sesame varieties that I'm excited to try
>>97852146How would you describe a CYOA? Or CYOAs in general?
>>97852547Imagination games
Welcome to /2eg/, a thread dedicated to all things 2nd Edition D&D related - including settings, lore, modules, and derived systems (Alternity, Buck Rogers XXVc, For Gold and Glory, Hackmaster, Myth and Magic, and more).Since 2e draws heavily from earlier editions, older modules are welcome too. Other media derived from AD&D (such as Infinity Engine video games) also has a home here.It's what you play, not how you play it. RAW or homebrew, as long as your table is having fun, there's no wrong way to play.There's a surprisingly complete 2e fan wiki for rules stuff, it's excellent for quick reference:https://adnd2e.fandom.com/wiki/Advanced_Dungeons_%26_Dragons_2nd_Edition_Wikiad&d 2e archiveaHR0cHM6Ly93ZWIuYXJjaGl2ZS5vcmcvd2ViLzIwMjUwMjA0MTczNzUwL2h0dHBzOi8vdGhlLWV5ZS5ldS9wdWJsaWMvQm9va3MvcnBnLnJlbS51ei9EdW5nZW9ucyUyMCYlMjBEcmFnb25zL0FEJkQlMjAybmQlMjBFZGl0aW9uLw==Remember to keep things civil.Previous thread: >>97806516Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97852088D&D is ideally MMO, it's the idea behind West Marches and what Gygax envisioned when stressing the need for time keeping. WoW just gave MMOs a bad name.
>>97851624>completely make-believe false narrative of the OSR, yet againDo you think if you just spam this any time the OSR is mentioned outside of /osrg/ people will eventually start believing it, or something?>>97851773>What evidence do you have to disprove it?Those blog posts an anon posted were incredibly well researched and backed up by people who were there in the comments, I actually read them and you should too.
>>97852399Can you show me evidence of the OSR community starting in the 90s? Can you show me evidence of these supposed communities?
>>97851624>>97852492>Repeats the same schizo theories for the hundredth time.We're not an autistic fixation support group, fishfag. Seek medical help.
>>97852492Total non sequitur response. Try answering the question I asked instead. Do you actually believe spamming your pretend history will make people believe it and then besiege the /osrg/ based on their misunderstanding? You were already told that we're not your personal army and we're not going to brigade /osrg/ for you.
I keep seeing so many third party DnD stuff with massive kickstarters and loads of books. Are there any of these that are actually good?>inb4 no because 5e
>>97852049Let's hear about some
>>97850203ACKS BAO
>>97852049>Wrath of the River KingWe counting Pathfinder 1e for this?
>>97852562he seriously just got mad and read some random books off his shelf or had chatgpt make him a list?I was honestly asking if anyone had ever played any of those and if so, what they thought about a couple they tried.
>>97851918Lmao.Here's your (you) for trying, retard
