I have a bit of an inane question for the peanut gallery. Do you have a favorite thing that you'd never actually play/play as?For example, I just realized that I really fucking love the Samedi/Cappadocian clan/bloodline of Vampire: The Masquerade.But I don't think I'd ever consider playing one, and I'd likely opt to play a Malkavian instead under virtually all circumstances, or a Tremere. Samedi doesn't even register on the list of characters I'd like to play, even when I do have concepts I'd include if I were the ST/GM.
>>97343390An AD&D 2e Paladin. Even if I didn't end up at a table with a DM trying to make me fall, I think I'd end up doing it myself. I'm too rash and impulsive for the class, I think, to live up to the morality required of it.
Over Christmas at about 3am I suddenly had the coolest concept for a cleric of loviatar who I now desperately want to play, but I'm pretty sure any campaign would drop me the moment I said "cleric of loviatar."Just let me be a little edgelord as a treat
>>97343390I like the carefree brutes that just bulldoze through their problems willy-nilly. I never play one, because everything I'd want to demolish is either far out of my character's league or would create 10x more problems for the party than it would solve.
>>97343390I love the idea of Promethean: the Created but it sounds impossible to play with most groups: you'd need literal theater kids that also want to play as a Frankenstein, Golem, etc. on a Pinocchio becomes a real boy quest
>>97343390Man I would love to play Night's Black Agents, but my group would be totally incapable of it. Delta Green was enough of a disaster that it's also gone in my "never again," pile.
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.
>>97347384>"""Fishfag""" posted actual sheetsThose are not actual character sheet lmaoAnd that link you posted has nothing to do with me, so it's irrelevant
>>97347396>those aren't REAL character sheets because they have house rules! He clearly made them up to FOOL us! Yes! He's out to get us!And it has everything to do with you because you posted it lol.
>>97347417It has absolutely nothing to do with house rules and everything to do with the numerous glaring errors. Having exactly zero XP is also very telling, because even if they were authentic, you've never once played with them, and if those are the only examples you have, then you've clearly never played at all.
>>97347417I'm really curious, can you tell us about what house rules your DM was specifically using that are reflected on your sheets?
>>97347429> if those are the only examples you have, then you've clearly never played at all.>What is a Forever DM?>you don't understand, you must have a record of character sheets to show you have played, every true scotsman has all their sheets.
Why can't they do a decent Angron model? It's either giant fat stubby-winged ork or massive wings with weirdly-proportioned humanoid attached.
Jesus. Has nuhammer really been torturing us for so long that they felt the need to release a new version of a primarch that already had a model?
>>97345624Yes. Twice.
>>97345624Sort of. One is the 40k plastic model, and the other is the Forgeworld Heresy one. I'd have to check but I'm pretty sure FW has a model for all the primarchs but 40k only has the 4 daemon primarchs, Roboute, and The Lion.
>>97345511What did you have in mind? I think the new one looks good. I'd never fucking pay for it though. $200+ is fucking stupid for any model.
>>97345624Yes. It's so the retard consumers who are obsessed with this particular super villian keep buying another one. If they just had the one figure, most would just buy one and then stop, something that would be bad for GW sales. Repeatedly releasing different versions means GW gets a continuous income (until the retards wise up they are being scammed and quite GW products altogether)
New year new me 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.
>>97341241I am not confident you are doing this on purpose so I'm trying not to chew out your entrails, but the answer to the problem of 'people keep wanting to cut systems' being 'you should cut systems' is textbook begging the question and I'm about a minute away from actually fucking tweaking over it.Without the ability to make new stuff, Tech is just a slow Fixer with a bunch of extra skill points and the ability to fix their armor for a fight and no social skills.
>>97341731>Without the ability to make new stuff, Tech is just a slow Fixer with a bunch of extra skill points and the ability to fix their armor for a fight and no social skills.This has a really simple solution: Don't put Tech in core. Only introduce it alongside its complex subsystem.
>>97310423This Gonk don't crack borgs.
>>97344950The genre is about technology, not having the tech guy is a huge miss.>>97340658What about Brawling and Martial Arts?
>>97341731Why are you so salty about people critiquing Red? I don't even agree with that anon about moving invention out of core, but jesus get a grip.>Without the ability to make new stuff, Tech is just a slow Fixer with a bunch of extra skill points and the ability to fix their armor for a fight and no social skills.You're really underselling how good raising all your Tech skills is. Anytime the party faces a problem that requires technical knowledge, the Tech can ace it easy. Fixing armor in the field situational, but a god send in a drawn out, combat heavy gig. Makes Tech/Medtech really good because you can heal Armor and HP.Fabrication is meh, but has its uses like putting a couple points in to mass produce cocaine or rockets. Invention is ok but gets cucked by the time/money it takes to upgrade more expensive items. Still being able to upgrade everyone's LAJ is worth putting a few points into. Even without Invention, Tech is still one of the better Roles. I think others ITT were right that Invention feels like a crutch for the writers when they design a bad item. Invention lets you circumnavigate the game's autistic balance rules and fix shit gear whilst also not having to deal with the scarcity horsehit by adding strong items with a low price.
Feels like forever since we had one of these.
SCP editionTell us about your horror settings, games, etc. Share inspirational art, prompts, etc.>List of games:Call of Cthulhu, Chill, Cold and Dark, Degenesis, Delta Green, Don't Rest Your Head, Dread, Esoterrorists/Fear Itself+Book of Unremitting Horror, Fall of Delta Green, GORE, Into The Shadows, KULT, Little Fears, Mothership RPG, Nemesis (free on Arc Dream's website), Nights Black Agents, Silent Legions (Mostly for the tables), Stalker: The SciFi RPG, Symbaroum, Ten Candles, Trail of Cthulhu, Unisystem (All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Witchcraft, Conspiracy X, etc.), Unknown Armies, The Whispering Vault, Vaesen>Inspirational stuff:Caitlin R Kiernan, Castlevania, Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, Doom Watch, Fear & Hunger, George Romero, Ghostwatch, House of Leaves, I Am In Eskew, John Carpenter, Kolchak the Nightstalker, Laird Barron, John Langan, M.R. James, Nick Cutter, Old Gods of Appalachia, Quatermass, Ramsey Campbell, Remedy Series (Alan Wake, Control), SCP Foundation, Scarfolk Council, Shaun Hutson, Silent Hill, Stand Still Stay Silent, The Evil Dead, The Magnus Archives, The Secret World, The Stone Tapes, Anatomy, Thomas Ligotti, Twin Peaks, Vault of Evil forums, toomuchhorrorfictionOther News:H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society releases "The Spark Devil"https://www.hplhs.org/sparkdevil.phpCurrent Book Club Topic:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97343510>OG Delta Green combines the greatest hits conspiracies from the last century>nu Delta Green is focused on shallow contemporary stuffSo what modern conspiracies do you suggest they include if they’ve already exhausted all the material, hotshot? Pizzagate? Qanon? Cults that turn college grads trans? What exactly is deep and clever enough that it should make into modern Delta Green?
After a nightmare I had last night, I've come to a conclusion that zombie media has been doing it wrong. Zombies are way WAY more fucking terrifying when you can't tell someone has turned until you interact with them. Bonus points if they hopelessly cry for help early on during the infection.>To avoid friendly fire and to avoid hiding from help you have to make yourself known to potential threats>Anyone sent in to clean up the situation is much more likely to shoot first and ask questions never>Mercenary responders can be willing to even kill each other to claim killed competitors as zombie heads taken which puts you in crossfire and endangers any well-meaning respondersAlso exploding zombies need keratinous skin growths for shrapnel spikes.The zombie film series I watched in the nightmare was scarier than the shit in the nightmare actually trying to kill me.
>>97345114The cool old conspiracy that already got adapted into numerous movies and books? Good and very cool. The cringe new conspiracy that is talked about on 4chin and that everyone and their grandma saw on Fox News? Bad and shallow.
>>97346884Most conspiracies are shit either because they're true like the smoking industry conspiring to conceal the fact that that shit causes cancer or because the people that believe them are insufferable assholes that act in the worst fucking ways possible in furtherance of their tinfoil beliefs.The rare exceptions are the ones where the entire thing is a joke like birds being invented by the CIA to spy on us or shit like flat earth where the belief generally has no real world way to act on it that impacts other people and we get to laugh at a bunch of mentally ill people as they rave like lunatics and occasionally get punched by an astronaut or blow themself up doing a DIY rocket launch.
>>97345114CIA-Mossad Jinns
>Everyone• PLEASE BUMP THE THREAD IF IT REACHES PAGE 10!>Requesters:• Provide good, detailed references (pictures are better than verbal descriptions), so the artists know what you're looking for.• If you have a WIP quote the Anchor Post, and attach the WIP so your Drawfag can find you.• Do not reply to other deliveries with a request that the artist fill your request next. This is called 'piggybacking'.• Do not make multiple requests in the same thread and do not serially request multiple characters after a delivery. Suggesting several concepts for artists to choose from counts as making multiple requests.• If you're unsatisfied with your completed request, please wait at least one week before you re-request. If someone follows this rule, don't waste posts by complaining about it.• Stay on topic.>Drawfags and Drawfags-to-be:• Drop your tumblrs/websites/commission/etc information, but if you're dropping your commission info, please consider filling a request beforehand instead of just advertising.• Please keep AI deliveries to the /slop/ threads. This is a thread for human-made art.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97346058pyw or gtfo the art looks great. that artist probably already left, seemed like they didn't want to deal with the captcha or the bullshit so your shit probably got them to bounce, congrats, you made another artist leave with your shit.
>>97345472Hobgoblins are just human sized goblins that aren't retarded and have militaristic slant to them.
>>97346830The only two kinds of hobgoblin that come to mind are the Dungeons & Dragons hobgoblins and Warhammer hobgoblins, and I'm struggling to imagine either as a femboy.
>>97346891People have made goblin femboys, it shouldn't be that hard to do the same with their bigger cousins.
truth time, how many of y'all goon during your game sessions? (assuming you have any at all)
Finally. This will lower the price Warhammer in the US. Right?
it will increase it.
>>97337588WH prices in the US are entirely about profit maximisation as a monopoly with a luxury good and not at all related to actual cost. Thinking that a local factory would decrease prices is ludicrous. If anything they'd slap a "made in the us" on it and increase prices. It might improve stock/availability though, but I suspect some of the stock issues are deliberate fomo-building from GWs US division.In short WH is expensive in the US because the retards there are willing to pay those prices.
>>97337063you earn more so you will pay more. its that easy.
>>97347455Wages haven’t gone up since 2008
>>97337063yeh niggy, expanded investment costs are usually born by the company alone and not the customers. Can't wait to finally get some other Bruthas in the Hobby
Archives & Other Resources: https://rentry.co/cyoagAllsync: https://cyoa.allsync.com/s/owWor64yLTngDk3Previous thread: >>97339463>Thread Question: What is your screen width? What do you think are typical screen widths that authors should expect, as of present day?
>>97347458You should if you want your waifus to be good.
>>97347454>Welcome to UA University, where all our students are 18 years old.I understand why this is said, but it being the opening line is just ridiculously funny to me. It's some hentai dialogue level of surreal.
>>97347463I don't think I agree. Waifus are built from archetypes and tropes.>Tall, easily flustered nerd girl with round glasses and blue hair tied in a ponytail, who secretly wants to be courted in an proper way, with letters and bouquets, but can't bring herself to say that because she's afraid of being seen as naive and sheltered.She IS a waifu by every metric, especially if you add an anime portrait, but there is no mention of any fetishes.
>>97347454Do you remember how was it called?
>>97347454>If you go in blind it can be hard to get enough pointsI went in blind and got 110 points with both girls. Either I'm the normiest normalfag to ever norm, or options are just not balanced and escalate too hard from 'act normal' to 'act like a composite hentai rapist'.
Emotional support elf editionDiscuss elves.Post elves.Love elves.All elf lore, game stories art and any else that's elfy is all appreciated.Thread question: To what extent do elves share their wisdom and experience with other races to help them emotionally and psychologically?previous thread: >>97278632
>>97345740The masks are inferior to Fantasy Battle's Witch Elves.
>>97341174>>97341227I'll raise you male elf on female human.
>>97345740Is there a way you can kitbash them to keep them bald but take away their masks?
So, what's the best inspiration for elves for a 16th century-inspired setting? I guess I have to have to strip away the "High Fantasy" tropes and lean into 16th-century Folklore, Magic and Demonology.
>>97344965>>97344970ignore those other anons. they are simply to weak to behold the raw power of Fel infused Vengeance
>Ok roll a perception check>*Rolls*>6>*DM squints, adjusts glasses, looks puzzled for a moment.*>okay you think you notice a tiny key sticking out of the bushes nearby that might fit the keyhole to the wizards tower"Why do DMs do this?
>>97334565It's called railroading. It's when the DM has decided what happens beforehand and pretends the player has agency apart from the tactical combat decisions, and also the DM isn't allowing his players to be creative enough to come up with other ways to get to the story beat.In my old party, this type of shit would happen a lot. And I'd come up with a solution and my DM would shoot me down. Luckily my new group will actually make lists like follows:>Is there a window we can climb into>Can we wait for someone or some thing to come out/go in and ambush them>Lets go hire a thief>Lets go find a spell scroll to unlock>Use stone shape on the wall>Lets dig under the tower and break into it from underneath >I set fire to the door>The fighter chops down the door with an axe>Heat metal to weaken the hinges so we can pull it out>I knock on the door, pretending to deliver a message or package from a rival wizard. What package and message? Eeem, I'll put my immovable rod in and tell the wizard his rival says to stick it up his ass and then beg for mercy throughout the interaction.
>>97347319If that's in the order you want to try those things then sorry to tell you man but nobody's opening to your knock after you tried to fucking burn the door down and then take it down with an axe.
>>97345119The suggestion is that you can't work with the failure of your player as a GM. But I think there are plenty of ways to deal with it. I'll keep to dnd vocabulary:Study and practice costs money for reagents and inks and shit. You also need downtime because you use spell slots on the appropriate level when practicing. Some spells require rare reagents / materials to learn that will take some adventuring to obtain.You need to find information on the spell, or have instruction from one who mastered it to attempt it. Experimentation without information or instruction will be more costly in time and reagents, and have a higher chance of failure. You can't attempt to learn a spell without information or instruction unless you have seen it being cast, or you can realistically argue that two or more spells you already know should give you enough insight to start the process. In general, given the risks involved, populated areas don't take kindly to magical teachings and experimentation within their communities. Depending on local laws and customs you might face fines, exile, mob justice, the stink eye, theft/espionage from competitors, general displeasure, whatever. This is part of why wizard towers are a thing.Failure to learn the spell can result in backfired spells. You might:>take some damage>turn yourself into a newt for 1d4 days>block your chakras causing you to lose access to 2 spell slots of the level of the spell> literally blow your hand off>cause you to become "wild magicked" for 1d4 weeks>a thundercloud follows you constantly inside and outside causing you to be soaked and take 1d4 lightning damage every 2 hours until dispelled>you create a rift and 1d6 void imps enter and attack youComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97347407It isnt, its in the order i pulled them out of my ass while writing that comment obviously
>>97337713He didn't let your teammates help you out of the water? Or did they not want to try?
What’s the edgiest tabletop game of all time
>>97346302>human action is always perfectly ordered towards maximum utilityMeanwhile in reality, pedophiles run the schools and we're letting bankers ethnically replace us while jacking it to anime.
>>97346302>Anon, I promise you, if it were meaningfully advantageous for us to be eating placentas, we would have been doing so for a long time with elaborate reasons to justify itNot that anon, but they're right that placenta is superfood insofar as all "long pig" is superfood. You generally don't get more essential nutrients in nature than your own species cause you're made up of all the shit you need.The reason cannibalism isn't more common is obviously the risk of disease is high as fuck with cannibalism vs other foods and also eating your own is a good way to not effectively grow a population and therefore pass on traditions.That said, while you can mitigate the disease risk from consuming placenta to a large degree nowadays, I would still suggest anyone that wants to pop a fucking Flintstones chewable instead unless you're in a fucking starvation situation or something. It's not something most would need to do and it's not exactly socially normal to want to do so. Shit's a free country, but you might want to talk to a shrink about why that shit sounds like a good idea.
>>97347439But pedophiles get jobs at schools for reasons of utility. Same for you letting brown people do manual labor for minimum wage. Those are horrible examples.
>>97345461Now you say that but Wanted still managed to be worse than the source material. Never doubt the film industry's ability to fuck up.
>>97347519I don't know how you interpreted my post as me making the argument from the point of view of bankers, browns and pedos.
Previous thread:>>97209588>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.
>>97341614>they are interconnected and by fulfilling one I finish most of the other.truly the way of kings. my rank n flank. skirmish, and dungeon crawling projects are all set in the same world, so pivoting always always brings progresshow's mk4? i found 3s launch so bad i instantly bailed.rumbleslam is a surprisingly good game
>>97325840>historical pre-ww1the war game by charles grantcharge by peter young
What's the current state of CMON's ASOIAF game? Their boxes always seem to be out of stock and it's hard to tell if the game is going to continue to exist.
>>97343704I heard CMON is circling the drain, so get in while the getting is good
>>97343704CMoN got hit HARD by tariffs because they were relying on Ponzi-scheme Kickstarter pump-and-dumps. They had to sell off several of their IPs and they posted a massive loss last year, they're almost certainly not going to have enough money to renew the ASoIaF license. Hell, they can barely afford to advertise anymore.>continue to existMy dude, I played a game from the 1970s last week. Existence is always up to the fans and not the company.
It is the year 199X. Your friends have just sent you a text message to your Nokia 3210, saying they can't make tonight's D&D game.Which of these games do you play, to single-playerly experience that classic 'dungeon crawler' feel?
>>97344461Wizardry V on the SNES.
>>97344461Ultima Underworld 1 for the perennial classic, Dungeon Master 2 for the atmosphere.
>>97344461I continue to play Civ 2 as if nothing happened.Also, none of my friends had a cell phone until early 00s
>>97344461DOOM.
>>97344461>It is the year 199X>Your friends have just sent you a text message to your Nokia 3210So it's at least 1999. Why am I playing half a decade plus old games?
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.
Anyone else avoiding looking for Star Wars games because of picrelated?
>>97346119He's the one who established the tradition, tho. Therefore, the best Mandalore.Also, consider our non-Sith puppet Mandalores:>Boba Fett>Din Djarin (maybe)>Bo-Katan (maybe)With that competition, Mandalore the Ultimate becomes the clear winner.
>>97342391Coruscant has been built up and over so much that nobody, and I mean nobody, knows what is down there.There are over five thousand levels, built up from the crust. Coruscant long ago got so deep that it started hitting the mantle. It's effectively the same as 40k's Terra, but Terra has been done for about 40000 years. Coruscant was already fifty levels (and some of these levels are skyscraper height and more, they're entire ecosystems) deep and a complete planet wide city a hundred thousand years before Ep4. It's only gotten more built up since. The entire world requires constant oxygen processors and atmospheric regeneration, satellites to direct heat, and millennia upon millennia of systems built over and atop each other designed to keep the planet livable and not a co2 ruined rock. It doesn't even have the capability to provide its own oxygen, hence super-oxygenating algae are strategically located across the surface.Even with all that, if weather regulation fucks up just a bit, then you get megastorms big enough to ruin a planetary shield and rip the atmosphere wide open for invasion.Coruscant is fucked up.
>>97347481that sounds so radical. a single turbolift can go far enough to get all the genres and themes of sci-fi done in one ride.
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