Thread #02 Lean Winter on the TundraPrevious Thread: >>97090196Welcome to /un0/, an RP thread for playing a World of Darkness/Chronicles of Darkness Hunter. For any OOC questions about WoD/CofD, check the official general. >>97224887Rules:>We are acephale. There is no storyteller, we are not a quest.>This thread is based primarily but not exclusively in the nWoD/CofD game Hunter: the Vigil. However, Vigil is defined by being highly setting agnostic, with a system for creating entirely custom monsters that do not exist in other WoD/CofD games. Thus, you have significant freedom in what you want to play and what you want to hunt. Feel free to play a member of the Society of Leopold, or a member of the Lucifuge hot on the tail of a Lasombra.>Namefagging is encouraged but by no means mandatory.>Keep in mind that even highly experienced Hunters typically only have fractured pieces of the puzzle, and every table has their own canon. The night is dark and full of misinformation.>/un0/ is conceived of as an experimental end to end encrypted program that is very hard to compromise, retains very little data and purges that data regularly. Please play an actual Hunter.>Spoiler any OOC discussion.Happy hunting. Unless this thread somehow takes off like a rocket, this will be the last un0 thread for the foreseeable future. Towards the end of the thread, please give your feedback in regard to these shorter, limited run RP threads.
As always thank you for your work in these trying times Net0. I hope your whale hunting has been going well? I'm going to try to see if I can finish my book nearish to the end of the week in time for my initiation. Should be nice to be in Europe again, though Normandy isn't fully my favorite. Hopefully, I can get some insight to impress upon the lads with my book. Though, I'm surprised there's no thread question but then again I assume there's probably not much need given we're going a bit slow. Thanks regardless.
Previous Thread: >>97096644For: Creation and discussion of Lewd RPGs; including Solo Rpgs, Homebrews, and Greentexts about your game sessions (specify the system you are using)>DON'T post or ask for "Looking For Group" or "Looking for Players".>DON'T sperg about Hentai logic, Hentai Artists or NTR. Take your meds.>NO Shota/loli crap. Go to /trash/>What's a Solo RPG?1: YouTube (Season 1 of Me, Myself & Die! gives a good explanation)2: Ask in the Solo RPG General: >>970620423: Solo is a good way to test out systems and to avoid problems such s "Schedule Conflict" or "Playing with Weirdos">Solo RPG Toolkit (NPC Generator, Mythic GM Emulator, etc.)https://infinityweavers.link/re-up/solo-rp-toolkitComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Rolled 20 (1d20)I heard word of a dragon to be slain. Stand aside.
it gets hated on a lot here but i thought vice and violence was pretty well put togeather.covered somethings i didnt expect.
>>97227033you gonna sink in all that armor friend
>>97227055Indeed, so I might reach the wicked serpent faster!
>>97227033Finally got it. Time for me to crack open the MS Paint. I was just about to bitch about all the attempts with no 20. For all the anons who got close but didn't quite seal the deal, here's this ending again.
>>97171444 >What is /awg/?A thread to talk about minis and games which fall between the cracks, or peoples' homebrew wargames.The >>>/tg/hwg thread doesn't entertain fantasy (for good reason) and the other threads are locked to more specific games.This thread isn't tied to a game, a publisher, or a genre, let's just talk about fun wargames. Any scale, any company, any miniatures.>Examples of games that qualify.A Song of Ice and Fire, Argatoria, Batman Miniature Game, Carnevale, Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings,Deadzone, Dragon Rampant, Dropfleet and Dropzone Commander, Freebooter's Fate, Frostgrave, Gaslands, HeroClix,Kings of War, Maelstrom's Edge, Malifaux, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Masters of the Universe: Battleground, Moonstone,Oathmark, OnePageRules, Open Combat, RelicBlade, Rumbleslam, SAGA, StarCraft, Stargrave, Sludge, Urban War, Void,Warcaster, Warmachine, Xenos Rampant, Xenotactics......and anything else that doesn't necessarily have a dedicated thread.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97210948>How come there aren't more Napoleonic inspired fantasy settings?mostly because of this >>97217171, it doesn't translate well into a fantasy setting since many fantasy tropes just invalidate the whole thing; at best you could come up with a setting with nations, characters and events inspired in the Napoleonic era, me thinksi can think of 3 on the spot, tho, and one of them is an actual skirmish game>Silver Bayonet>Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell>Temeraire, His Majesty's Dragon
Anyone here play Armored Clash?
>>97225416Never read it but this one too. There was a rulelite in 10mm with grimdark cubeheades and Napoleonic a e s t h e t i c but I don't know if it got past beta. Mechanically its not hard to think of ways to have it work, I think its that its boring to most people interested in fantasy.
>>97212059Fantastic idea, shitty execution
>>97225416Wars of Ozz is Napoleonic and has witches and wizards. They mostly made the magic utility focused though. When I get home I'll find some examples. It's super boomer coded and there's only a physical book with Facebook eratta, no PDF.
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>>97227105>>97227100Spooky.
>>97227100care to share the proompt friend?
with all the AI there is on the internet, google only give me is the same oni mask done a million timesthe internet is dead (or at least google image search)
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>>97216804Best I can do is this other 2-headed oni.
>>97222708Thanks anyway!
Magic should be rare, mysterious, superstitious. It should take time to use and be exhausting to cast When did fantasy magic and wizards turn in Avatar the Last Airbender shooting fire and lightning out their assholes?
>>97224331Everything that is cool to 12 year old me is what is actually cool.
>>97224083>>97224382No anon. You're supposed to sit around and watch paint dry and act smug about how you're not doing anything someone younger than you might enjoy.
>>97223997Okay fine, pedantic Anon, if the scene with Theoden wasn't flashy then how about before then when he reappears to Aragorn & co in Fangorn, first revealing himself as a near blinding source of light? Is that flashy enough? I'm not sure because fighting a huge demon monster isn't enough for you.
>>97226413Again it was a big light. Turning Aragons sword red hot was more magical imo. The flashiest thing the wizards do in the movies is Sauruman casting fireball but that got cut. My favorite thing Gandalf does in the entire series is throwing a bomb at the goblins in the Hobbit
>>97227006>Hobbit 1 enjoyerRare patrician taste detected, I will now give your arguments weight and consideration.
Vista edition>Cyberpunk 2020 vs. Cyberpunk RED?Cyberpunk 2020 is the second edition of the Cyberpunk TTRPG that focuses on simulation gameplay and has a black trenchcoat aesthetic.Cyberpunk RED is the fourth edition of the Cyberpunk TTRPG that is set after Cyberpunk 2020 following the Fourth Corporate War, focuses on more balanced gameplay and is more streamlined but has less content.You can discuss Shadowrun here too because I also feel bad for those guys.>Cyberpunk Rulesets (The Vault) (May not have all updated rulebooks, check official sources for updates):bit<dot>ly/2Y1w4Md>Resources for RED:https://datapool2045.net/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97222554You can apply that same logic to Combat Awareness being a bad ability because it's exclusively a combat power. Solos aren't bad because they're only good at combat and nothing stops a solo from taking skills that aren't combat skills, buying equipment that's not combat equipment and doing things that aren't combat. It's players that pidgeonhole their characters into not doing anything their sheets don't tell them they can explicitly do.
Hi, my group wants me to run a game set in this system, but they don't want to just play as the usual cyberpunk downtrodden gang characters. So I'm curious as to how balanced the game is for something like a party where everyone is an average corpo soldier being sent out to put out fire in other branches or to do combat run against other corps.I'm still reading up on the system and lore for this game, but it seems like there's a massive divide between street level gears and actual corpo grade tech.
>>97227021Not really. Most of it boils down to cost and availability. Your average dyed in the wool corpo grunt isn't going to have a magical assault rifle that's better than all other assault rifles; but the one the corporation issues him is more likely to be an EQ one with attachments, possibly already bolted on.Of course it's not really HIS rifle.
So Interface Volume 5 is supposed to come out this year still, isn't it? Where is it?
>>97227042So it's not that hard to balance the encounter and enemy for a fully equipped and decked out group?
What is it about? Why is it interesting? Should I care about it?
>>97217381You sound like a newfag. I shan't be spoonfeeding you.
>>97184051I actually remember that game or a game very like it.
>>97221181Bounded accuracy
>>97217381>spiritualanon... more like physical
>>97179249Do we really need anything more than that? Most people are going to use either the Gold Box, From the Ashes, or The Adventure Begins Gazeteers for Greyhawk anyway, completely throwing out the 5.5e blurb.Greyhawk isn't like other settings. It's canon outside of official sources like the gazetteers, modules, or novels is meant to be purely homebrewed. If you want any further canon, check places like canonfire as other Anons said, the lore is mainly community made.Or you could just make shit up as you go along at your table.It's meant to be a worldbuilding framework. Worldbuilding on training wheels if you will, Gary didn't even want to publish it as a setting, he wanted people to make up their own. Which is kind of what every GM that plays in Greyhawk does.I had a friend ask me today if Greyhawk was a grimdark setting. Now, at my table it's not, I prefer the nobledark approach, but there's no doubt someone who plays a grimdark Greyhawk in the From The Ashes era.
Why did 5.5e drop the ball so hard? Everyone I know who likes 5e is staying with 5.0e. And more than a few of them have moved to 3.5, OSR, or other games entirely.Is WOTC just stupid?
>>97223141That source puts PF1's entire consumer base in the 100k range, by the way.
>>97226806>4e existing.Your disproof of market saturation effects required for this to indicate what your argument needs it to?>Yeah and they didn't even after 4e failed so this was just a load of shit.But I didn't say 4e was a failure, it just didn't have as much retention as the previous edition's OGL frenzy, as demonstrated by its own tail end being eclipsed by a rather direct substitute for the edition you're insisting faile.d>I notice you say "TTRPG communities" and not "playing games", nogames.Individual campaigns are far too sensitive to the individuals participating for isolated personal anecdotes to predict much, especially with how time-consuming WotC D&D tends to be limiting breadth of participation, making comparison of numerous playgroups rather important.>Unless of course, you're 5e then apparently they rake in the big bux.5e's big bux are overwhelmingly rolling-total userbase, not supplements. The relatively low sales of modules and setting-specific material is clear supporting evidence for my position that TTRPG player retention is troublesome because it causes them to ignore new products in favor of continuing their current campaigns.>>97226873>Now we're at the "IT WAS JUST LUCK, ANYBODY COULD HAVE DONE IT!" phase of denial.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97226933>Your disproof of market saturation effects required for this to indicate what your argument needs it to?"Disproof" wew we're deep in ESL territory.Anyways the burden of proof is on you, not me.>But I didn't say 4e was a failure4e was infact a failure.>Individual campaigns are far too sensitive to the individuals participating for isolated personal anecdotes to predict much, especially with how time-consuming WotC D&D tends to be limiting breadth of participation, making comparison of numerous playgroups rather important.tl;dr "I am a nogames but I want to pretend my opinions matter"Newsflash: They don't. You're probably just seething that you got kicked out of a group.>5e's big bux are overwhelmingly rolling-total userbase, not supplements.Which is why WOTC dropped it 5 years in and put up a new... Oh they didn't? They just keep printing new modules and making bank through insane player retention? Shit... There goes your argument LMAO
>>97226933>The luck>IT WAS LUCKY! IT WAS JUST LUCKY!!! 5E NATTY 20'D for 11 years in a row ignore that please AND THATS THE ONLY REASON IT BTFO MY FAVORITE FAILDITION OF D&D!!!>And the core rulebooks of 3.5 sold [numbers]Like I said we don't trust you with those anymore after the mathematic catastrophe you just demonstrated where you thought 100k book sales would translate to "hundreds of millions". Besides, Ben Riggs already proved you wrong. 3.5e itself didn't even sell 1m, you can just barely get 1m if you include LIFETIME sales of 3e and 3.5e. You'll cry when you google this and realize I'm 100% right again and reality still doesn't align with your delusions. >GURPS never top-fi-Doesn't matter, you said discourse is what you're using as a measurement. GURPS has had persistent discourse since 4th came out, which was before 3.5e. It is therefore the most successful ttrpg ever according to you.Wanna try shifting the goalposts again?
>>97226949>Anyways the burden of proof is on you, not me."3.5 is a garbage failure and 5e is the best system ever" is an extraordinary claim you have offered very little and poor evidence for, so the primary burden rests on you.>tl;dr "I am a nogames but I want to pretend my opinions matter"The point is literally that my personal opinion means little, and thus I focus on what I see from others.>Which is why WOTC dropped it 5 years in and put up a new... Oh they didn't?Because the total of users kept rolling.>They just keep printing new modules and making bank through insane player retention?No, modules and setting-specific material sales pale in comparison to setting-agnostic supplements, and the core rulebooks remaining strong "evergreen" sales only occurs when you have an ongoing intake of users that would only reflect retention if supplements continue growing considerably.>>97226969>>IT WAS LUCKY! IT WAS JUST LUCKY!!! 5E NATTY 20'D for 11 years in a rowComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
This is a second OSRG, seperate from the main osrg thread, where you CAN talk about 2e, retroclones, and any osr content you want.This is different than the regular osrg as due to rampant trolling from a handful of bad actors, discussion is impossible.PREVIOUS THREAD>>97206318
>>97227005ACK forgot pic
>>97227008>>97227005>Comic sansI'm not reading the rest of your post when you're this obvious. I take it back, you can't be fishfag, he would never be this funny of a troll.
>>97226974>>97227016yeah, he went from posting fake broken char sheets (cant even into BX), and a week later he's posting levelled ACKS chars, cleanly organized. kek, you seriously need meds dude. I cant even imagine what youre mad about>somebody used apostrophes?!?>somebody posted about what they use as iron ration then asked about what others use?!?>somebody has a character in a spreadsheet?!?>somebody has a character in COMIC SANS?!?!REEEEEEEfor real, talk about games.Ive explained my iron rations, what do you use?Ive discussed gaze attack chances, how do you rule them?Ive said why I prefer tiered reaction rolls, care to weigh in on your preference toward them?
Reposting this because these threads need talk about games. Something I can think of that you could justify tracking torches (how many you have and how long they last) would be something like what you see in Alone in the Dark: Illumination https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLogNWdLsq4 [Embed] The game itself is clearly crap but the idea of foes being weaken by light stuck with me since hearing about his game. I would make the area windy or have a torrent downpour so the torches last only for a very short time and because they have so few torches the player would have to pick how and when they fight. This would only be in one or two area as gimmick stuff only really works if done very rarely.>>97226981Never said you were a troll, dong poker. I see you as being retarded.
How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, fishfag?
Why is it called Age of Sigmar anyway? It'd be like calling the Victorian Age the Hawaiian Age or something. Sigmar is the weakest god in the setting and his faction is almost entirely irrelevant. If anything it's the Age of Nagash ft. Stormcasts with special guest appearances by Elves and Chaos. Sigmar barely even features in anything at all aside from short stories with black stormcast protags of ambiguous gender talking about how pathetic he is and how much they hate working for him.
>>97227007Ask the general, the place filled with lots of people who would know, the kind of place that exists to trap these inane faggot threads.
>>97227007Brand recognition to hook in ex-WFB players. Age of Chaos would be too generic, Age of Nagash would be less recognizable since Sigmar's a way better known character. Warhammer: Stormcast probably would've worked but again brand recognition.
Nagash is a cool guy
if siggy diggy was relevant it would ruin the woke ritual humiliation the game's story is supposed to be
>>97227007Why do you care? AoS doesn't have any good video games, and you don't play tabletop- no TWW fan ever has picked up a mini.
Deck the boards with solos burningWhile the poles and leafsScream REE REE REETis the seasons to be follyAll AffO freaks go 'wege 'wege 'wegeOP dons his gay apparelLacerda, Knizia hand in handTroll /bgg/ threads we feel compelledFucking birds and FIRST, my (you)s sell wellWelcome to the Holiday Edition of the Board Games General!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97226794I had picked Oya, wife, Anansi.He went Aje-Shaluja with Herds and is wrecking face.
>>97223714very nice OP pic>>97225649>>97225580>>97223746God, I love the Japanese.
>>97226084>that torturing schoolgirl gameFinal Girl?
>>97226991Oh my sweet summer child
>>97226991https://haven-games.jimdofree.com/ボードゲーム
Hey /tg/ I'm playtesting an initiative system that's been tried before in other systems and is detailed nicely on "Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet"The system uses Meyer (and Kieth Farrell's modern adaptation) of "Vor, Nach, Gleich, Indes" as steps in a fight.Basically, the player with the initiative chooses an action ("Vor"). The enemy chooses a reponse ("Nach"). The dice are rolled to determine an outcome ("Gleich") and the movement into the next state ("Indes").Practically it looks like: Player A chooses a bind. Player B chooses to parry. Both players resolve a dice roll. The resolution will determine who has initiative for the next system.Very fencing-like, and makes initiative more of a "push-pull" based on success rather than a "you-go, I-go" traditional style.I believe systems like TRoS and their derivatives (like Song of Swords) use a similar sort of initiative style.My questions for the thread:1. While this system works pretty well for individual combats, it struggles when there are multiple combatants. It also falls into the same trap of "you go, I go" which is; in a real fight, you're probably waiting for an opening (e.g. an enemy attacking an ally) to take advantage of in order to strike. I wonder if anyone has creative solutions to this problem?2. Are there initiative systems that you find work well? Anyone forego initiative entirely in favor of fully narrative initiative (e.g. Daggerheart)?
>>97221759I truly am. I suppose it mimics what occasionally happens in fencing. Making decisions anticipating an outcome rather than brute force reaction.
>>97197145>2. Are there initiative systems that you find work well?7th Sea 1st edition.Round is divided into 10 phases.You roll a number of d10 equal to your Panache (2-6) and whatever you rolled shows in which phases you act. You can have more than one action per phase. Whenever you expend an action a die with that number rolled is removed from your initiative pool. If multiple characters have actions in the same phase the first to act would be the one with higher sum of initiative dice still on the table.For example Character rolls 2, 3, 8 (Panache 3) while a Pirate rolls 3,9 (Panache 2). Character expends action in phase 2 to throw a bunch of Brutes overboard the ship. In phase 3 both Character and Henchmen have an action, but since Character expended his phase 2 die his initiative total is 11 instead of 13 and thus Henchmen would act first. It may seem convoluted at first, but after you get accustomed to it its fucking perfect for swashbuckling adventures that 7th Sea is made for.
>>97224032No this genuinely seems so fun. Does this result in simultaneous actions?
>>97223429>“Occasionally”Dice rolls that are equal or within 1 number of each result in a double where both attacks get through
>>97225574Technically - no, You can play it like this, but there are ways of resolving who acts first within a phase. Though you also can spend 2 initiative dice to do interrupts.
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/9fzM6128>Need a starter dungeon? Here's a curated collection:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Im running a scifi campaign and I'm wondering if there are any good adventures or modules that take place in a literal theme park.
>>97226823ASE book two has a circus central to it
>>97226895Ive actually been using the ASE for the basis of this campaign. I was hoping for something like on the scale of Disneyland or Wonderland.
>>97226929you could take the map/encounters from fallout 4's "nuka-world" and heavily re-skin it
What are some good (free) resources for gnarly OSR adjacent monster art?So far Ive just been pilfering old Super Sentai concept art
Wasted 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.
>>97222524Good chance of a high tier deck coming up after they ban otters
>>97225009Block, I try to stick to block themes only tweaking for balance
>>97226311this image is 100% on target, I fucking lol'd
>Ba Sing Se landfall winning every challengeMy apologies to the schizo
>>97226935>My apologies to the schizoIt’s more common than posters here think.https://www.mtggoldfish.com/format-staples/standardNotice the constant nonwhite meta
