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.
>>97360839Hydrate and sleep well, Anon. May Gary (pbuh) send you dreams of dragons and tavern wenches.
>>97360851This is an extremely pedantic reply that is ignoring the spirit of what I'm asking. Generally I agree with you. But I'm not asking about how you would run a game, I'm asking about what you as a human and a DM prefer to run, something that is either generally shallow yet broad, or narrow yet deep
>>97360858And may you have twice the number
>>97360863>I'm not asking about how you would run a game, I'm asking about what you as a human and a DM prefer to runOdd distinction. By and large, DMs run what they prefer to run. Why DM, otherwise?
>>97360863>'m asking about what you as a human and a DM prefer to run, something that is either generally shallow yet broad, or narrow yet deepI'm with the other anon that this is a very odd and artificial distinction. Everything starts off narrow and shallow when you begin prep, and you fill things out from there. They grow less shallow or less narrow as needs be, and you'll eventually have a wide variety of environments in a range of depth and width.There's no hard line between one and the other. And I don't give enough of a shit about the meta structure of it to have a preference one way or the other as a player or as a DM. I'm less interested in whether dungeon A is shallow/wide while B is deep/narrow than I am that Dungeon A might have humanoid factions players can interact with, but most of the treasure is art-based stuff that will require time and men to remove and carry off, while dungeon B has easily ported coins, but is full of nasty undead. That's a more interesting kind of distinction, on both sides of the screen.
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>>97360769Parse it like this other hint>>97360856
>>97360854Have not seen Hot War 2e yet. Here's Cold City 2e... g0f1le /d/Q1D9t5
>>97360567>https://acoupleofdrakes.itch.io/deadbeltMy old version is 21mb this one is 31mb so there's new stuff here.
>>97360930>My old version is 21mb this one is 31mb so there's new stuff here.Pic shows the main book at 21.3 MB, the two oracles make up the rest.
>>97358340>Animal Adventures Far Away Sea/d/NKCO8d>>97359322>rillem/d/zBmS3g>>97359755just tried from 2 seperate devices and it works, are you at the correct location? G0F1L3?>>97359825>No Time to Scream and The Order of the Stone/d/KgUQq5Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
It's pic related. Peter Jackson tried to copy Blix's swag for a good reason
>>97342942>I tend to want other species to never look like an upright walking animal. This goes for fantasy races or aliens in a scifi. I always thought just two legged upright standing dog/horse/rat/cat/pig/etc was just being lazy.Same, but then when you just stick an animal head on a human body and call it a demon or something I'm suddenly fine with it so I guess I'm just a hypocrite
>>97297692Rollan
For me it's the gnoblars.
>>97350843Peak in the sense that they are a real and terrifying threat, as opposed to comical bad guys you meet on low-level dungeons.
>>97356791Just makes me think of psychicpebbles.
Why don't zombies eat each other?
>>97300419Cause that would be gay and an abomination in the sight of ours Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
>>97305476Why don't they?
>>97328109holy fucking cope LOL
>>97300419Why do you want to know?
>>97360477Want to try to refute it with actual words instead of hiding behind shit-eating memes?
Do you include seasonal changes in your campaigns when time goes by?If so, what do you implement int the world to showcase the changing seasons?I personally include sea raiders who begin assaults on the kingdom's shores in spring and through summer, who then return to their homeland in fall to winter it out. So essentially a raiding season for my world's vikings, like in real history.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWc0DvoY6qw
>>97345120>The revolution/orbit of Earth doesn't determine seasonsI said that a longer revolution of the planet around its star would make them last longer.>>The planet needs to have a slower revolution around its star for seasons to last for years.>the axis doesThis was also not disputed. Higher axial tilt = more seasonal effects.>>Axial tilt determines the severity of the extremes the planet experiences in its seasons.You okay?
>>97345148>luckily i've never had a campaign last long enough in-world to worry about anything after summer.I find this funny, you can have a season change in a single session if you so desire, but for some reason most of you have never encountered it.
>>97348472STRICT TIME RECORDS MUST BE KEPT!but yeah, if you're of the mindset where D&D is more like a novel or film, you can do a "6 months later..." transition, cool. although i might get annoyed if it's just for the sake of "now we're doing a WINTER adventure!" like the world's natural order is just a dial being flicked around at random.(even narrativist/storygames guys must hate that shit.)
>>97353177I don't play D&D so I don't understand your problem.
>>97345181Sounds like a sucky system
>gameplayFor Centaurs, you should be able to use them as mounts when not in combat if they're lightly armed & armored. I think you could ride into battle with them and fight on their back without overburdening them, depending on your loadout. Squeezing into dungeons and caves might be a bit of a bitch, and your centaur companion may find themselves too cumbersome to accompany you in certain locations. If people in wheelchairs can make do, I'm sure a transmog potion or a shrinking potion might solve the problem.>fantasy settingsThey're more at home here for sure, like having a horse. Some taverns may give you a hard "no" for your centaur companion, but I'm sure regions that are steeped in centaur culture or adjacent ones have accommodations for their unique anatomy. If nothing else, they could help carry your camp supplies and other provisions. >loadouts for fantasyIf you're not riding them, I think they can be pretty well armed and armored- think tower shield and a mace/flail. They also make good spearmen, so I think they'd be comfortable wielding a halbard and similar pike-style weapons. This would be with them wearing plate mail cuirass for the human portion and chainmail curtain over their horse hind quarters, or perhaps some specially fitted Gambeson. Other plate sections could be fitted to their horse body as needed. Archery and crossbows seem like they'd work for ranged options. I've not considered them using magic, but having a fairly mobile spellcaster seems cool as well.
>>97325229I tend to make centaurs native American-inspired. Usually, their lore for me is > They used to be savages in the plains/hinterlands, but they were subdued and civilized by the more "sophisticated" races.
>>97276298Looks like you forgot to mention which specific, individual traditional game rule system you wanted to discuss.
>>97347771Movement isn't measured in numerical distance, thank god. We're not stuck in 1970.
>>97360418I'm open to any system as long as it's not overly complicated. I've heard good things about Pathfinder and GURPS. >>97360426>Movement isn't measured in numerical distance, thank godThat's not how it's done in D&D? I thought it was.I was thinking of D&D-style movement when I suggested that anyway.
>>97360812>not overly complicated>Pathfinder and GURPSI can't tell if you are trolling or just horribly misinformed
why are many creators so afraid of making a setting with napoleonic wars era technology?
>>97328376>Russia>taking over any country>everHow's that special military operation going comrade
>>97286097>I think this post actually summarizes very succinctly why the Napoleonic era is not popular in fantasy, and that is that the average fantasy consoomer is not very well educated or historically literate and their understanding/conceptualization of the period is downright retardedThis is because there is not much popular media about the time period.
>>97305029The Wild West exists independent of the Napoleonic Era aesthetic.
>>97286216>everything he standsUnironically what did Napoleon stand for?Other than self-aggrandizement and gay liberalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Egypt_and_Syria
Time to talk about weird monsters again.As usual, any rants about Bog will be treated as bait unless you have actual proof.
>>97353251She kinda does it for me.
>>97356624Retros will see this and say "Wife"
>>97353291LEPIDOPTERAN CATERCLOPS - Enormous Arthopoid (Abomination)Brains 16/Brawn 2/Scan 36Endurance 20Caterdeck - Eyesocket - (2): [ENGULF Ally][COMPOUND 2][INSULATE][ASSIST 1d10 bombing]Float Like a Butterfly - Mantle - (4): [MOVE hover]Cyclopean Judgement - Eye - (4) :[PERCEIVE 1d10 farsight][INFLICT 2d10 kinetic/brain][PIERCE 1]Wriggling Caterkillers - Larval Tendrils - (6): [SPAWN 9][REACH +1]SPAWN: CATERKILLER - Average Arthopoid (Abomination)Brains 3/Brawn 63 endurance[MOVE land][DAMAGE +2d10 physical/brawn][DRAIN] [REACH +1][RESIST +1d10 kinetic]Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97353251None of them, jesus christ anon. It would be difficult to find a setting with LESS fuckable creatures than this.
>>97360597Coward
Douchemachine used to be the largest competition to GW. Now look at it and laugh
>>97354719>Literally falseLegacy armies DO NOT include all models in the old factions, in fact most are very curated.Furthermore, they're purely a gameplay concession and nothing more. Most of the casters are dead, most of the units and warjacks don't exist anymore in lore, you are no longer collecting something that is relevant to any continued world building and the setting didn't do the Battletech thing of having separate eras that are all supported.They're also bad for the game, because now half the tournament legal armies in the game are quite literally unable to be purchased. If a legacy army becomes meta, it either gets nerfed fast or the cost to entry skyrockets past GW prices.Again, this could have been avoided if every original faction had some representation by now, but if you wanted to play Skorne and don't already own it? Get fucked retard. Menoth? Wait 3 years for Adepticon 2026. Mercenaries? Circle? Kill yourselves.They found a solution for the sweatest of tournament scenes but neglected to do anything to generate interest in new players. Paywalling ALL the Mk4 lore behind the FUCKING PHONE APP was the dumbest decision they could have made.Jesus Christ, just release PDFs so people can at least TALK about it before they pay any money.GW does so well because there are a million onboarding points for random dorks to be exposed to 40k prior to being funneled into buying plastic crack.Mk1/Mk2 had plenty of discussion on /tg/ back in the day, and great word of mouth in stores that was supported by physical lore books that could be seen in person before purchase.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97353578>OSR is alt rightA very vocal group of AD&D 1e literalists that are somehow in the BAPsphere on Twitter are not reflective of the larger OSR, or the politics of the authors in the 70s-90s.For every Jethro, there are many Patrick Stuarts, Scrap Princesses, etc.
>>97332225>Infinity is way too complex and niche. Soicast also made all the details on their minis soft. They did well in N4 to remove spanglish and nested rules, but rebloated in N5. Lore is actually bad, it's very boring, bland and generic. I remember when Toni Macayana died, everyone just asked when they'll rerelease the tikbalang. No one cares at all.They made the biggest mistake of trying to become more mainstream. Infinity used to have anime aesthetics, hot female minis, and more grounded designs. They used to set the trends that even GW tried following, and made miniatures so incredible it crashed their own website. Now it's all capeshit, safe bland designs, NA2, and some of the most retarded looking minis like the new MAF, SP and CA. They're now constantly chasing trends, every army plays like herohammer, and they're constantly fighting SKU bloat by discontinuing armies while introducing new ones. All for the 'mainstream' audience that will never give them the light of day especially with 40k dominating that audience and the fact that they do not have good PR no matter how many influencers they pay.
>>97354640They proved to be incompetent by not retaining people during/after the covid lockdowns. Most of those new customers didn't stay very long after the lockdowns lifted, and realized the model kits were extremely expensive. However, you're not wrong about their IP having reach, because even if they're not buying kits, they're buying games and eventually other media (when/if the amazon slop comes out?). GW still makes a ton of money from licensing and potentially bringing in more people into their product ecosystem regardless of how long they stay. Battletech does have games, but I dont know how popular they are. Corvus Belli is trying to get their trash aristeia game into vidya, and they supposedly have a movie being made.
>>97330812There are options at the large army scale, but all the games that ask you to bring more than 20-30 models are mostly model agnostic rulesets that are being sold. Outside of historical minis, most of what comes to mind is fantasy rank and spanks that exist fill in for Warhammer Fantasy being dead for a decade: Mantic Kings of War and Oathmark.
realistically, how can I roleplay him?
>>97358481Make sure your >huh? face is in good form.
>>97358481Play the video game.
>>97358481gurps
>>97358481weirdly, VtM. I played him as a Toreador who uses Celerity for slow-mo, Auspex to boost gunplay, and he wouldn't stop fucking monologuing about his cynical dreary life.
>>97358481Play either Wushu, Feng Shui or Outgunned, while being after a glass of hard liquor and some oxy
It is probably not too controversial to say that the art of modern rulebooks is made with female representation in mind.These women are predominantly filling important roles, such as archmages, military officers, or nobles.But how come there is barely any art that shows them in peril, or at a clear disadvantage? Regardless of their status.There is no shortage of men in peril.Neither in classic nor in modern art.
>>97302765Yeah you're right OP, I respect your decision to argue against the Jews, faggots and shills, you are clearly correct in this matter and it's plain for anyone with eyes to see
I'm kind of surprised the cover of 6e doesn't feature a scantily clad man tied down to a sacrificial slab, being rescued by a big fat dyke warrior.
>>97360777That would be funny, but when 6e comes out, it'll be the times the Chuds have won.
>>97302765I dont like when women are getting hurt so thats a positive for me.
>>97357504>>97358051Let me know if you ever find some sort of point you want to make.>>97360816That's the main idea of putting women in danger in this sort of fiction. You are eager to prevent the harm. It's a ticking clock. Think of it as "the terrorists have planted a suitcase nuke in NYC and set it to go off at midnight because they hate our freedom", but instead it's "the cultists are going to rape and eat the princess at midnight to invoke their savage demon god".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekU3T9M3E9IFrenopolis is a gamified tetragrammaton clothed in the memetic zeitgeist.This thread is for discussion and development logging.It's easiest to learn with YGO/MTG experience.It's not for sale, but you can request a free physical 2-player 90 card set by following the instructions in the description of this video:https://youtu.be/oPoBUoagO_k(No payment or identifying info required)Playmats have arrived and will be sent out with the playtesting kits. Anyone who already received a set with the shipping label name "Current Resident" should be receiving one by 1/10/26. If your shipping label was not sent to "Current Resident", email or DM me on telegram so I can send you one. Tabletop Simulator Demo Implementation:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97357199Been shops, I brought some cream for you.>>97282550So OP, how long HAVE you been iterating this card game?This inarticulate perennially disruptive dogfucker claims he knows your work, though he expresses it in less than flattering terms.Did you flirt with nft's and stuff?It was pretty big for all of one hot minute, and a lotta people did.But on the other hand, people on the internet talk shit and blow smoke.
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>>97320732>This thread is like if Chris Chan made a card game instead of a comic.You're making it sound based.
>>97355943there is a live demo in the OP.here is an unboxing:https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j0Dhm_Vk_Q0
>>97357899>So OP, how long HAVE you been iterating this card game?around 5 years. i started it shortly after my exposure to the culture war, which was around 2019. the game at this point shares very little with the first iteration. the main thing it still shares is that it uses memes for pictures, but that's about it. that's also another reason the name has changed, because it's a different game. i have also changed a lot over those 5 years, unrecognizably in some areas. i'd hope that most people who been on this ride since normie season ended 2015ish (w/ trump) have also changed a lot.
This is a general for everything 3D printed relating to /tg/ from sci-fi, fantasy, historicals, fantasy football, and more! Share your printed minis, terrain, print fails, 3d modelling, printing advice, works in progress, or anything else /tg/-related to 3D printing.>DO:- Post pics of your prints be they fails or triumphs- Keep discussion/photos about tabletop games only- Post your resin/printer/settings for faster advice- Help your fellow anons with advice>TRY TO:- Remember that this general is monitored by GWendolin and her lawyers- Not make a new thread until old one dies- Not encourage namefags, tripfags, fumefags and coomers- Not spoonfeed- Not war over Filament/Resin consoles- Keep your model pics naked (no paint/undercoat only)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Thread needs more prints!
>>97360043Freshly printed overnight
>Trench Crusade I am at peace, thank you OP
I have no fucking idea what is going on, this is a S4U, I have checked it is leveled to the tabe, default settings (lychee) for my resin, all screws are tight, nothing is moving during print time.Is my printer just fucking cursed and trying to print a demon?
>>97348653>projecting
>>97343604Is a counter factual a kind of counter spell? Writing was once seen as a kind of magic.
>>97304468fpbp
>>97337235He should have turned the squirrel human
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>>97360782That's kinda my strategy yeah, i just have a ton of fodder and edicts to stack up his emblems. Zero targeted removal in the entire deck
>>97360317But Anon, the Gitrog Monster dredge combo isn't included in the World Shaper precon.
I only play against mono white
>>97360814
does a blink spell only combo with abdel + felidar/resto?
