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>>97285501
UB reprints have /tg/ seal of approval.

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>>97285425
>new to mtg and willing to proxy
Print off a bunch of decks from a standard era set you like from mtgtop8.com.
*Warninng: Play patterns in magic the gathering commander result in a desire for wearing dresses*

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>>97285550
>yes goy! play arena
> a "game" rigged to saturn and back
>and totally teaches you mtg by eliminating half the phases
try again, shill.

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I run this version of Iteration because it's just funny as fuck and the regular art is particularly hideous.

>>97285425
As most other have pointed out, there's a dedicated general for the format because it's very detached from the rest of the game as it's basically a party game and a reason for people to socialize rather than play magic. I also wouldn't recommend it as the entry point but it sounds like that's all your friends are going to play so whatever.
Most people get thrown the krenko deck to start because it's beyond braindead easy and considering you play stuff like PTCG and HS that sounds about your speed. Get your feet wet with it but don't become too attatched to it as you'll likely get bored of it fairly quickly.

>>97285155
JITE and Martial Path are active here right now, with JITE itself being OC made by thread anons. Fantasy Village is less usual, being a heavily sartre'd (houseruled) nsfw cyoa repurposed into some kind of survival crafting MMORPG isekai.

>>97285155
>instead of say, a few pages of encounters to pick from?
There are missions sometimes, but they are more like prompts for the imagination rather than something structured and you can just ignore them and do your own thing. Once again, some do have structure, like the aforememtioned Life Chronicles, but most are very open.
This general is based much more on the open ones, mechanical ones don't really work with our MO. The current runs here are the ones posted at the start of the thread, they have all the compiled information on other PCs and the stories/content up to now. You can just pick one, make a character, post it, and then start writing for it or discussing it in thread. The other general is about the same, but they don't write stories about the characters and they are all separate, they don't interact. There have been a couple of exceptions but it's not how it's supposed to work and even those were not really the same thing as here.

>>97285457
>Fantasy Village is less usual, being a heavily sartre'd (houseruled) nsfw cyoa repurposed into some kind of survival crafting MMORPG isekai.
It's also active. And it's not sartre'd that much. The mechanics, as little of them as there are, were not changed much, it's only the setting that has been changed to remove the more degenerate aspects of the original. It's a very freeform cyoa by nature, it's supposed to be like that.

I'm in the mood for capeshit but not enough to want to learn MHA lore, this sucks

>>97285596
You don't really need to learn the lore. Just wing it, the last revival did that.

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>>97285231
I've had a really weird introduction to this game. I'll blog post to share that with you:

My Brother and I use to go to Sci Fi conventions all the time together, usually joined by a few friends as well. One day we're walking around in the dealers' room and we spot some Star Trek card packs on sale. Dude goes "Yeah man, good fookin game, you should play it." We said we didn't know how but it would be nice to learn. Vendor knows of a buddy who's actually running a game event in the mezzanine level; so he tells us to buy some starters, buy a few packs, meet him there. We oblige and scurry off to go get taught the game. My Bro has a hardon for the Enterprise E and he fucking pulls it in his packs. So he builds his entire deck around that, and it was disgusting because it's basically Trek's Charizard. I got the DS9 starter deck and when I opened my packs I got Rom as one of my best cards; it was an abstract kinda feel but I realized he had potential. The event was pretty short, it was mostly a teaching lesson and the guy watched us build our decks and play a game of it and then packed up to leave.

When we went home I started getting into it hard core, me and my Bro's friend went out and bought new starters. He wanted a Romulons deck, I wanted Klingons. The matches were so fucking hilarious because each deck is basically playing keepaway and footsy with themselves. Eventually his Romulons deck got so degenerate to play against I had to switch tactics, and that's when the Borg set was newly dropping. I fuckin' loved playing it with that guy, but my brother refused to evolve his deck from that day we all learned off of starters, and he would lose, and then say "forget this" and go play dead or alive beach volley ball while me and his friend assembled killer awayteams. Fun fucking game, they captured the theme of Star Trek quite well, but it always felt like you had to play to a specific timeframe and theme and it was kinda never worth mixing decks together.

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>>97285433
>I am a tourist
Yes, we've already established that. Perhaps we could try a new topic?

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>>97285456
That's fucking awesome, anon. Bit of a bummer about your friend, though. I've had to solve similar issues before with "Here, I bought you everything to upgrade your deck. Get to sleeving," which works but can get rather costly on occasion.
Do you still play? Certainly looks like a fun game.
>dead or alive beach volley ball
Kek, I might be the only person on the planet who actually played that game strictly for the volleyball and thought the mechanics were actually really good.

>>97285413
In an ideal world there wouldn't be such a ludicrous markup on sleeves especially now that the hobby is filled with nogamers because I too would love to get stupid funny sleeves and also have random themed binders. The idea of paying for an inner and outer sleeve at current prices is comical. But at the same time the faggitry in here today claiming that penny sleeves don't work is all I need to know that the average age is quite low considering it was all we had when tcgs were sport cards' little brother

Decades ago I would add random stupid ass anime show sleeves to my import order for other crap because it was like a buck for a 100 pack. And I would have a bunch of random binders that were the home for games I couldn't find players but it was pre internet so you would just look at the art and back then it was 5 packs for 10 bucks so it was just an easy splurge

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>>97285517
My brother's married and he comes over to learn games (usually at starter deck levels) to this day, but he's just so low commitment we never get to see real constructed battles of anything. I admire the fact he's a good sport about learning whatever game I'm playing though. Some things never change, eh?

Do I play that game anymore? No, but I thought about surprising my brother with a new star trek deck and trying to get him back into it. The game plays really well, I can't remember what the flaws were because it's been decades since that story time. Maybe one day I'll build two really good construction decks and we'll have a go, for old time's sake.

Presently he's the same bro that bought me Gothic starters for the holidays, so I'll be teaching him that next. He's in for a real treat with that one, I reckon. The Doom decks have some nice teeth to em, unlike the older ones.

As for DOA BVB, we use to legitimately play it for the mechanics. When my Bro first rented it from Block Buster me and my freind pulled an all nighter taking turns with him, playing the mini games and getting some sick volleys in. Great times. Miss the simpler days, as I'm sure others can relate.

>>97285405
>>97285418
>>97285423

>Gw makes shitty female sculpts
Is this supposed to be some sort of revelation?

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>>97285452
I know.

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>>97285523
>vapor eagle
>boxy
LMAO

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>>97285529
>>Gw makes shitty female sculpts
But Fantasy chicks are more or less fine, unlike 40k/AoS

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>>97285543
Nigga that thing is literally drawn as a collection of boxes and cylinders. The battletech look is a bunch of boxes and cylinders arranged into vaguely humanoid or chiken shape and strapping a bunch of guns on them. I don't even dislike the look because I like battletech (Timberwolf my beloved), I just am very, very confused over why you insist anything in BT looks even remotely elegant. The entire point of the battletech look, at least these days is making the mechs look like militarized industrial machines with legs.

>>97284951
>>>/vg/552034439

>>97284963
>>97284951
Is it a thread where you can post what did you write with AI or rather a thread for bitching about chatbots?

>>97285062
There’s a whole lot of the latter, mostly arguing about which ones are best and complaining about updates (or lack there of). But you can definitely post things you write with AI and might get some comments on it.

>>97285072
So your average 4chan experience. Thank you.

>>97280039
Really good. The solo adventure can start feeling a bit limited, but it still does set up a good point crawl framework, and it is easy to just expnd it to wider adventuring on your own.

>>97283138
Would you say it's worth picking up then?

>>97284342
I would say yes. The starter set is really good value.

>>97277252
So you start with two yesses and then you have alternating yes/no? Y tho?

>>97285533
Awesome, I think I'll pull the trigger then. Thanks for the input anon.

>>97283761
>spoiler
The Heavy Metal film

>>97277617
It's got to be "The Scorpion King."

>>97285282
Which one?

>>97285294
In my opinion, the various sequels lack the polish, charm and tight pacing of the original, so I would not recommend them.

>>97280944
Amuse us, oh epic good opinion haver... What do you watch?

>>97278541
>Jedi Tales' "Remember, Obi-Wan. The reason Jedi dont have sex is because one time, 2 Jedi tried to bang the same chick and, long story short, the entire planet exploded. Good night!"
I need to know what comic is that, because it sounds hilarious, and I want to see just how bad this is.

>>97283590
Ahsoka is Lancelot, and Rey is Galahad.

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>>97284973
Star Wars Tales. They are not supposed to be very serious with some of them being more like "what if ..." stories or straight up comedy, like A Death Star is Born.

>>97285371
Looks like kiddie trash. EU shouldn't really be judged because shit like the Ewoks and Droids TV shows or this exist

>>97285397
>star wars is srs bizness

>>97279518
unfathomably brown post

Anyone got stories of when they were a shit GM?
>Playing call of cthulhu.
>Running a pre-written adventure in a hunted house.
>One player immediately recognizes it.
>Try to deny it and throw in some curveballs from other adventures.
>He recognizes those too and immediately knows what to do.
>End up ending the game early with some dumb plot thread of there being a haunted video game console and series of haunted books a poltergeist of a child was reenacting.
In hindsight, I should of just did the original pre-written adventure instead of trying to make some half-assed Frankenstein thing.

>>97284801
For me, I don't have any particular moments but I had a bad habit of envisioning some cool scene and then trying to force the game towards it and panicking if things went off the rails. Lost a few shitty and a few good players doing it, but I figured out what I was doing wrong after the 3rd time around thankfully and now I just feel stupid for not catching myself the first time.

>>97284801
should have.

>>97279518
Would you say this money was promised to you 3000 years ago?

>>97284550
>How is labyrinth lord?
Great.

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>>97283686
>what is the most streamlined way to prepare a hexmap for my group of Pathfinder players to get a few sessions of play out of
Anon gave you a great answer, but as an alternative suggestion, consider not prepping your own map at all and using one of the Wilderlands of High Fantasy maps. They're a little bit harder to read than the colorful Basic-style maps, but the playability is unmatched, and if you want to expand the area of play there are lots more maps ready to hand. You can just plonk your dungeon down in any hex that seems reasonable. Alternatively there are also various remakes of the original Outdoor Survival map that was recommended for use in the original D&D box set from 1974; pic related is one. I hope you enjoy it, Anon!

>>97284203
Yeah, I'm pretty sure he made them as supplementary material for an ASE game he was running. It looks like all his stuff for it is on the All Dead Generations blog now, together with some of his embarrassing political rambling.

>>97284550
>How is labyrinth lord?
It's B/X, so it's good. Personally I like the way he implemented addon AD&D material (in the Advanced Edition Companion) better than the way Norman did it for OSE, but that's a matter of taste.

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>>97283686
>>97283851
Welcome, friend. You seem to have a good measure of "the spirit of the game" and I'm sure you'll have a great campaign going forward. Others gave you fantastic advice. GFC is an absolute treasure as is Melan (the Beyond Fomalhaut fellow linked above). I'd also recommend Prince of Nothing's Age of Dusk blog, though he primarily does module reviews. His musings are good stuff, though, and his No Artpunk module contest collections are rock solid. I would also urge you to poke around old articles from magazines like Fight On! and Dragon. Lots of stuff to shamelessly steal for your games in there.
As someone who converted his group from PF and 5E to AD&D, I feel it's crucial to set the hook early. I don't mean in a storygame way, mind you, but give them something they want to get done. A solid dungeon that they can't reasonably finish in a handful of sessions, but with the promise of more treasure if they push on. Something like that. Obviously you have a better measure of your players than we do, but if you are enjoying the OSR style then you'll have to convince your group, through gameplay, that it should be your primary game after the first few sessions. You could run one of the established classics like Keep on the Borderlands or what have you. Or you could mess around with Appendix A from the DMG and roll your own dungeon. If you go that route, I recommend being a bit malleable with some of the interpretations of the results. It's a great way to start getting a dungeon hammered out, but don't be beholden to what it creates. Use the results for inspiration and guidance, but get creative with it! GFC has a great video regarding traps that shows a great method for making your own.

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>>97285258
(Cont.)
As far as making a setting goes, I recommend not fleshing out everything before you start. Give yourself an aesthetic you're aiming for (mine is "somewhere between Tolkien and Conan by way of Frazetta"), decide what sort of biome you want to start the players in (frozen north, deep woods, coastal region etc.) and hammer out the rough shape. At least one major city if appropriate, maybe some hamlets and villages, key landmarks. Then establish some basic stuff regarding political things like rulership and antagonizing forces. I feel that things move much more smoothly if you just let things develop organically though you may prefer a more rigid method. Beyond that, just go for it! Sit down and start putting stuff to paper. I'm sure you'll have something great shaping up before you know it.

Also, I second Wilderlands of High Fantasy. The booklet can be a bit difficult to parse but it's fantastic for stocking hexmaps.
>>97284550
I really like LL. I would like to pick up a copy but don't really have the need at the moment as I don't play B/X. I may pick up 2E when the physical book releases.

>>97283513
If you don't know how to compile c++ code then maybe you shouldn't be in the hobby.

Also, hello!

>local group all complaining about 3.0 terrain rules
>they all play shooting focused lists
every time

>>97285399
I'd have more respect for all the WAACfags infesting HH if they were at least honest about it. Instead they bitch and whine about the rules being wrong when it doesn't support their "narrative"

So, the most resilient Astartes are Salamanders because of their trait, Iron Hands because of their trait and units, and Death Guard because of their units. Is that right?
Every Iron Hand is hard to kill, and their special terminators even more so. But for the Death Guard, it's just a specific unit and their characters, innit? They are great, but I sometimes wonder how it relates back at to the spirit of the fluff and rules we were presented since HH1.
The Death Guard is a great legion, to be sure. But they seem better at jogging that at being hardy idk. Like, Phraetus also are EW and Gal Vorbak are 3W but we don't call the Word Bearers a resilience legion

>>97285451
The death guard reputation wasn't for being extraordinarily tough in the HH, it was for being enduring, IE, they were the better iron warriors not the better iron hands. Grinding assaults and all that.

>>97285459
Hmm. They used to resist Pinning's and Crew Stunned's immobilizing effect before. Unstoppable u.u

>>97283398
not in the least
it doesnt blow you away
throw you around
it cuts
stick an arm into the blast zone and you will stay where you are and past that line of deliniation the arm will have been cut to its interity, disintegrated if you will.
same with concrete and steele.
by the current stats it has less than a 50 percent chance to drop an unarmored human to 0 if they fail the dodge check.
it is frankly generous.

>>97283484
lmao alright. i did watch a video a couple weeks ago of a shaped charge splitting a tungsten vube into 4.

>>97272708
You seem retarded, happy new year

>>97284049
happy new year anon you fucking bitchboy

In the middle of session 0! we have a Robotic Esper and a custom species Plantoid Smuggler so far

>>97284248
I pretend to play by vibes but I've memorized the entire book.

>>97283934
>try to explain to them when and where developers give contradictory information so they should make their own judgement at a certain point (believe iut or not, BL isn't even the worst out there).
what is? World of Darkness is also up there.

I only host public games to poach players for my private games and if you aren't going to make the cut I basically start ignoring you in game.

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>>97283507

I told people different start times for a game based on their level of flakiness and got them to show up at the same time.

I sometimes sneak in Magical Realm shit like the party being hunted by brown Amazons who think they'd father strong daughters.

I sometimes run games in secret because I don't want to hurt the feelings of friends whose playstyle I hate or think their personalities would clash with those of my favorite players.

I don't consider online games real RPGs. It's like the equivalent of condom sex with a woman you find unattractive. You didn't have sex, you fapped into another person and your subconscious knows it.

Whenever someone here asks for a system recommendation, I always suggest 5e. Especially if it's a modern game. I've also noticed that I'm not the only one who does it.
Awesome.

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>>97284319
Wtf does it even mean? A link about some nobody cuckservative calling out kikes for once and, even then, in a amerilard partisan manner means we're infested with neonazis now? Nigger, the closest thing to a neonazi existing in the hobby is fucking Varg and that's 1 (singular) guy that did his shit and the rolled back into irrelevancy. You're absolutely disgusting in this manichean posturing, i genuinely hope you choke on dicks and die leaving the rest of us free of this sensless circus nobody genuinely interested in games gives a flying fuck about, the sooner the better.

>>97284605
Not him but
>A link about some nobody cuckservative calling out kikes for once
Bruh. No shit you're offended by someone else pointing neo-nazis out.
>WHAT DOES IT EVEN MEAN, THOUGH?
lol

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>>97284724
First explain to me how the link points specifically to neonazi, be my guest. Second even if that's the case why matters that some nobody in ttrpgs is le scary neonazi, unless there's a significant movement systemically acting in seizing the hobby (as in controlling the majority share of production and leading actors in the scene) why would that affect anything about you. Some retard with a retard opinion is making a meme game somewhere? Do you get my point faggot?
Literally every major game and the overwhelming majority of indie production ships sensitivity pamphlet, safety tools and self censor themselves accordingly to amerlard current year sensibilities, how the fuck there's even a "neonazi" problem in this goddamn hobby? Explain that to me you disingenuous piece of shit.

>>97284319
Not in any significant numbers, and definitely not coming from the link you provided.

>>97284724
>he thinks calling out kikes in 2025-26 means you're neonazi
I didn't know antifa, ngos and propal groups were neonazis bro.