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.
>>97225811Pregens are never a bad idea for a oneshot.
Thoughts on Vagabond Pulp Fantasy RPG?>https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/512122/vagabond-pulp-fantasy-rpg-core-rulebook
>>97227627The same thoughts you read the last three times you posted this.
>>97225852>Portraits will help too.gay
>>97227627>thoughtsfagging>a game you already posted several timesdegueucontribute some substantial thoughts of your own if you want to discuss it
How has a wife/girlfriend joining the group affected your games?
I play with 3 women (individuals born with a vagina for you americans), AMA
>>97223515I didn't realize AoS had a solo RPG, neat!
>>97223515Slapped him silly there, you did.
>>97223311>JoiningWe met through a gaming group, so I guess the reverse order of things
>>97223515
Yu-Gi-Oh! General #590A Few Points EditionPrevious thread: >>97134848Most Yu-Gi-Oh! discussion encouraged. Post OC, write dumb fanfics with bad CaC in them, duel each other, have fun, etc.>Yu-Gi-Oh! Online PlayAutomated Sims:●EDOPro website: https://projectignis.github.io/download.html●EDOPro: https://discord.gg/ygopro-percy●YGO Omega: https://discord.gg/duelistsunite●Dueling Nexus: https://duelingnexus.com/●Master Duel: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1449850/YuGiOh_Master_Duel/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97226916If you want to reduce the number of shuffles you make each turn and go into your deck a lot, ask the opp if they're ok with you doing a single shuffle and cut at the end of your turn (and before you draw a card if applicable).Other post outlines a usual simple method. I can maybe aid in it by drawing a simple diagram. I combined written steps 1 and 2 into drawn step 1. The idea is that you're shoving the corners of your left hand pile in between the side edges of your right hand pile and then straightening the halves once they have about 1cm of overlap.
>>97226727I'd like to see them retrain all the handtraps with the charmy text. The biggest problem with them has always been the going 1st player using them on the 2nd player's turn. How often have you managed to break their board and then your last card gets ash'd and you're just fucked?
>>97226132>>97226404You don't like Diabellstar into Last Warrior?
is this gay little faggot good in a kewl tune deck?i want to have sex with them but maybe also win once
>>97227438>Make board>Primite engine for Dark Magician>SS Last Warrior, it doesn't pop your board thanks to Lode.
Excess Dragonballs 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 Ruler>Battle SpiritsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Is there a complete set of good quality scans of Duel Masters card art anywhere, or a database of higher res art from promo images and the artists posting them to their accounts?Are the artbooks scanned?
>>97227709I use the wiki and quality varies wildly obviously. I have still not seen a decent Bolshack Dragon and that's the main characters fucking card.The original Bolshack isn't even a good card, just incredibly cool.
With >>97225249 being a prime example, and not just about MtG but about life in general, younger folks usually have more of a tendency to project some idealized image of the past into their brain and be very vehement about it. The people who were actually there know better usually.Now don't get me wrong, older folks have a different but somewhat similar bias as well, idealizing their own teen years. So the important part is to see which overlaps are where on a timeline, because these are two kind of biases that are very strong in people. One is about the perfect outside (ideal past), other about the perfect inside (ideal me). Point is, if you identify any of these posters, don't argue with them, it's pointless. They have beliefs, not opinions.
Do non-game trading cards go in this thread?
>>97226253Is it really "the Aeons Torn?" It looks like how it does when it shows up in Innistrad with normal tentacles and not the original crooked tentacles and hands.
obviously, clan skryre is the most advanced society in the setting. do you think they had access to warm, running water? you could use warpstone to heat the bath houses for example, and they had plenty of access to metal for plumbing.
>>97223096>>97223118Canonically they're sub-sentient, hideously bloated, probably mostly blind, and permanently super-pregnant chaos-spawn-like abominations.Think Daemonculaba but with less steps.
>>97223075at this point you dont even like skaven. you're just making up your own rat girls and pretending they're genderswapped skaven.
>skaven>bathing
>use the hot water-steam to clean-bathe, then sneak-stab rivals when they clean-bathe! >Skyre technology dispenses warp lightning into water, killing every skaven present.>Somewhere, Thanquol squirts the musk of fear.
>>97223075>Look up picture>Spend way too long searching because every search engine is AI fucked>Finally get the full image >Solo bathing time All this work and she's not even getting rimmed by Snivel Claw. What a let down.
Teclis you fucking prick- edition>Previously in the Mortal Realms:>>97215908 #>Official AoS website:https://www.ageofsigmar.com>Downloads, Rules Errata, Sharty on the 'log and FAQs:https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-downloads/>Toolshttps://runebrush.pa-sy.com/warscroll/>Anvil of Apotheosis hero creator:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Where do you find your 3D print models?
>>97227654Fuck on ratanon
At one point is an army "too big" exactly? I just realised I've got 4690 points of Maggotkin and I kinda want to keep going but it feels like it's getting a bit absurd at this point lmfao
>>97227654I did something similar to far lower left on my silver tower dude and had a good time
>>97227787If you want more then it's not enough, unless you want a new army more
Dedicated Drizzt Do'Urden EditionDiscuss and post elves. Elf lore, gameplay, and art are all appreciated.QOTT: What drove you to elves specifically?
This is the art I am using for Sister Garaele in Lost Mine of Phandelver.Started with art by Van Criisse, then edited with Gemini to be more claric-y.
>>97227698This is the art I am using for The Black Spider. I used Gemini to gender swap the original art by Axel Defois.
>>97227698>>97227722What do you use for Nezznar.
>>97227759This is Nessa, The Black Spider's disguise as an adventurer. >https://files.catbox.moe/i41sa7.pngOriginal art by Satoshi Kamanaka.I have to link the image instead of attaching it because the thread is at the image limit.
>genderswapped NezznarHoly fuck, you deserve zero presents.What is fundamentally wrong with you coomers.
Wanted to talk about advice on GMing, settings you prefer, and styles or issues you as a GM have. I generally tend to prefer dark fantasy or sci-fi settings rather than trying something a little different. I also tend to have a style, depends on the system though, where i have a combat heavy session or two and then a more intrigue/exploration focused session. I have been working on how to better balance games I run, but trying to tie that to timing a game session gets tricky at times. Another issue I noticed is that puzzle solving or investigative games can be a lot harder for a player to get into the mindset for than the dm. It is easy to think everything you planned makes sense when you thought it out in your head but the players might not have the same line of thought.
>>97218290I've learned not to lock main plotline progression behind puzzles; like a door or something.But "best possible ending" will be, as well as all the best loot.Competent evil wizards don't just leave their best shit lying around in storage cupboards with nothing but a deadbolt and a green slime to protect it.Best thing is to give your players inscrutable hints; a map with a cypher, a key to an unknown lock, or rumours of a treasure in a jungle ziggurat.Take a few of these elements and blend them together.With skill, you can make your players "feel" like they solved a puzzle even when they didn't, just by giving them the components piecemeal; real puzzles should be presented alongside physical props; something tactile like a printout or a real sliding puzzle box.
>>97218365>picThat's scratching some old memories. Isn't that the Paladin that some fag in 2009 or something posted with a big sob story about how it belonged to his dad that recently passed away, and then a bunch of anons in the thread figured out that the story was bullshit cause the character sheet didn't make a lick of sense with AD&D rules?
>>97218290Almost all the problems I see people have with RPGs are communication problems. Talk with your fucking players. Note that that means listening as well. Be clear what you expect from them, what you want the focus of the game to be, what sort of tone you want, and so on. Don't expect them to read your mind.
>>97219648The kobold guides and the lazy dungeon master guides are pretty bad in my opinion. The lazy dungeon master stuff started ok if a little basic, but then went into shit not even about the games.
GM advice thread?
"Contemplate This on the Tree of Woe" EditionArchives & Other Resources: https://rentry.co/cyoagAllsync: https://cyoa.allsync.com/s/owWor64yLTngDk3Previous thread: >>97219855>Thread Question: What would you ask as a thread question if you took the burden upon yourself?
>>97227519thumbnail looks like phallus
>>97227608Ultimate God.I've been waiting ever since Aromagus updated Demigod, before she even announced it was in the works.
>>97227676Goat which I sacrifice for demonic powers after drinking its blood in an unholy ritual. With the blessing of Shibobah'dad'ilith I conquer the kingdom and get revenge on the nobles fattened by the lifeblood of my family. My father lacked the courage to go through with it, but where he failed, I will succeed. Using my dark magic I'll conquer the kingdom one step at a time and raise an alter to the mighty Tri-Horned Goat. The blood of kings shall flow and only then shall my wrath be abated.
>>97227690Some calculations because I got curious.Voyager 1 took 35 years to cross the heliopause, which is ~0.0019 light-years from the sun. An archmage that can skip space should be faster than that—let's say 10 times, so 0.35 years. The nearest star to the sun is Proxima Centauri, ~4.25 light-years away. 4.25 / 0.0019 x 0.35 = ~781 years. Exploring the nearest solar systems is unrealistic at that speed.However, what if the archmage has connections with a higher entity or some such? If we suppose that the entity is 100 times faster than them, it can travel to Proxima Centauri in 7.81 years. Add some permanent portals and exploring the nearby solar systems seems plausible. Then, add a few million years of age behind the entity and many other similar entities and exploring the Milky Way seems plausible.
>>97227776>—let's say 10 times*100
Do you prefer playing anti-heroes or just straight up heroes?
>>97227701So rough-around-the-edges heroes?
>>97227592I play turbo-edgelords exclusively.
>>97227746So, self-righteous heroes
>>97227748That's almost all heroes
>>97227592Do you prefer playing games or shitposting?I know, tough one>>9722767273 here. This is 74th
The /btg/ is dead! Long live the /btg/!Can't show POV of being taken bondsman by a Clan Jade Falcon Aerospace Phenotype on this board.Previous Thread: >>97195724================================>BattleTech Introductory Guide & PDFshttps://bg.battletech.com/?page_id=400>Overview of the Major Factionshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/great-houseshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/the-clanshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/other-powersComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97227456He's already deleted the comment chain. Or at least it was gone when I checked it yesterday
Fucking pirates had two lances of ASF and they are destroying me. Muh fucking FEDCOM air cover cant dogfight to save my or their lives.
>>97227393>>97227398It's not even C&D; 'Hey if you fix this and relaunch we're cool'
>>97226583God I love the White Birds
>>97227578Honestly it sounds like a bullet dodged? These guys come off like massive cunts desu.
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?
>>97227543Embarrassing samefag loses argument AND forgets to make a second reply.>Your struggles to distinguish posters with extremely different stylesEvery samefag says this excuse lol.>No, it's because the amount of play that is feasible for me is far below any standards of representative sample sizes.It's also far below the sample size of 1 game.>By your own logic, WotC would not awkwardly weasel around a line refresh like 5.5My logic holds then because they don't, 5.5e isn't, as we've already established, actually considered 5.5e by them, and only gameless 3aboos think it's an apt comparison to 3.5e.In your specific case, it also makes you really fucking mad that 5e won't die and contradict yourself trying to explain how a few rule changes are the worst thing since hitler.>Not on the level of the product placement being significant media phenomena in themselvesYeah? Prove it, you have 5 minutes.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97227488This "I win" faggot has been plaguing /tg/ for a while, but I've never seen him try so hard to appear smart and informed about shit he's clearly just desperately googling for material. I almost hope this is just an extremely drawn out attempt to bait for replies to get some activity on this board to make the whole site look less dead, because I'd hate to believe there was actually a faggot this pathetic alive on this gay Earth.
nope you lose
>>97227645sorry meant for >>97227583
I think that D&D 2e/3.X/5e, Pathfinder, and Draw Steel's cosmologies all have major issues with scale and in-game practicality. Setting authors tend to get weird about scale whenever extra worlds are involved, and these are no exception.These games' settings want to fulfill multiple conflicting desires:• #1: One or more "flagship" fantasy worlds: the Realms/Greyhawk/Dragonlance trio in 2e, mostly just the Realms in 5e, Golarion in Pathfinder, Orden in Draw Steel.• #2: A vast universe full of so many other worlds, so that GMs can feel cool about their own homebrew worlds somehow sharing the same universe.• #3: Otherworldly planes full of celestials, demons, devils, fairies, and the like.• #4: These planes are so vast that they influence many worlds simultaneously! We have heard since 2e about how the Blood War has spilled into and ruined many worlds. Pathfinder's Hell has "countless malebranche," each specifically tasked with conquering a whole world for Hell.• #5: The adventures that take place on a "flagship" fantasy world are of super-great import. Their stakes and consequences ripple throughout even otherworldly planes.• #6: The planes and their cities and hierarchies should be approachable in-game and understandable, not totally mind-boggling.(Continued.)
>>97227489Edna, I don't know what to tell you. Good worldbuilding is better than bad worldbuilding? People should get that a universe is a big fucking place and nothing that happens on one planet means a goddamn thing to someone 5 parsecs away?Personally, I don't do big, universe-spanning stories with cosmic stakes, or when I do, it's way more about the people and what they're doing on a personal scale than what happens to the world around them, which is really its own kind of bleakness but sometimes that's kind of the point.
>>97227489>>97227492It's also a problem with numbers. 3e onwards can scale and level infinitely, but there's a point where that +1 to hit, or even +5, or +10 becomes naught but a rounding error. The Immortals Handbook books tried to create cosmic-scale D&D and had some really cool ideas, but the balance and number inflation resulted in it being hot garbage.One big issue is that the games are designed with the idea that +21 is only a slightly better than +20 which is already in the realm of epic heroes, rather than "You're not a guy with +21 to the roll, you're one of the ten guys in the world with +21 to the roll, and there's five with +22, and one with +23, the guy with +25 is the weakest member of the Great 10 and..."Another big problem is the d20, the bigger the core roll, the harder it is for a modifier to mean something. Though cosmic adventures are possible, the simple fact is that numbers break down at a certain point, and you end up having to do things like "My infinity is bigger than yours" or "Only paragon-tier and higher heroes can inflict damage on this monster".
>>97227489Fantasy is the last place there should be multiverse slop, all you need is one main terrestrial setting, a divine/heavenly realm, and a netherworld
>>97227634>"Only paragon-tier and higher heroes can inflict damage on this monster".This is the norm in some settings.
Multiverses and parallel timelines are the worst thing that can happen in any story for multiple reasons. Scale just happens to be one of them. These are concepts that appeal to literal retards that find the whole idea that there is more than one of a thing the most mind-blowing shit ever and genuinely believe that that makes them smarter.
If elves weren't the pinnacle of all creation than why do they get the privilege of working in Santa's workshop?
>>97227616>>97227678They in turn enslave kids to their products. Binding you in debt ridden consumerism for life.
>>97227678These pictures are the same.
>>97227704no they arent!one has better tits.
>>97227678Where is my VN about a depressed elf girl who makes old timey toys she knows nobody wants anymore?
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Christmas edition▶What is Kingdom Death?Kingdom Death is a tabletop miniature brand stared by Adam Poots and operated by himself and his Team that later spun off into a miniature based bored game funded by two very successful Kickstarter campaigns.▶What is Kingdom Death: Monster?Monster is a Nightmare Horror cooperative boss battler/miniature hobby game for 1-4 players about hope in a strange world of bizarre monstrosities and perpetually darkness. Players take on the role of survivors that band together to form a settlement, fighting monsters, crafting weapons and gear, and developing their civilization to ensure survival from generation to generation.Prologue Narration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNLc8dHv0AcThe Game is broken up into 3 phases:1. During your Hunt Phase your band of survivors traverse the world of KD in pursuit of their quarry.2. After successfully tracking your quarry you will begin the Showdown Phase, where you must fell these horrific creatures in order to acquire precious resources.3. After the battle, your survivors wander home with loot in hand to begin the Settlement Phase. Arm yourself by developing new weapons and bizarre structures to prepare for next year's hunt.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>starting a new campaign >man I don't really want to deal with king's man bullshit, I should slot in lion knight >but I don't really want to deal with lion knight's bullshit either >don't have slenderman, GCE, or Red Witches Curse this easily presentable pain
>>97226926Get Red Witches, obviously.I was hoping to get Slendy during BF but he was sold out.
Man how the fuck do you hunt level 2+ gorms, the story events seem so debilitating and the vomits start hitting instant heavy or severe levels. Do I just send out newbies (I have song of the brave), and if they die they die?
>I think it's time I finally try hunting the Phoenix>hmm the current survivors are too old, better get some fresh blood>but they're a bit too young for the phoenix, better hunt a lion/antelope or 2 to get some xp first>ope someone died on the hunt, get a newb and hunt lion/antelope again>ope nemesis encounter>hmm the current survivors are too old, better get some fresh blood>repeatI don't think I'm ever actually going to hunt the phoenix this campaign, I'm on LY20 already
After 1078916 lion fights, we wanted to try Croc (we were waiting to beat a core game before trying gce). This is really a node 1? Are we just supposed to sit in the blood puddle the whole time? We must have just had really shit rolls on getting insanity events because the croc would just delete us from terrified
