Aura of Despondency 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.
>>97247752>TQCompletely shit. 2026 is going to be even more shit. I’m facing a divorce and false rape allegations. My family don’t talk to me because I told my brother he would never be a woman. I haven’t been able to see my kids in months and will have to go to family court to see them. My wife has been telling them I’ve abandoned them when she’s the one who kicked me out. To top it all off my favorite hobby is now filled with gay tranny shit, children’s cartoons, and inexplicably sci fi shows like star trek in a fantasy game. Dark days are ahead of me boys. At least I have money but probably won’t after getting divorce raped.
Merry Christmas 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.
>>97247779I see this happen once in a while. I don't know why events or shops do this, kid is obviously gonna get WRECKED.
>>97247779This feels like the real life version of that one ProZD video.
>>97247787Afaik it's typically the winner of the lower age bracket at some tournament, but it's really dependent on the game how much their comparative skill level is. I wonder what this would look like at something like Pokémon's world championship, if the lower aged players can actually stack up against older ones once you reach a critical mass of participation.
>>97247791It just looks like Yu-Gi-Oh! to me.
>>97247638I guess to make it a bit more accurate, I'd need to add some sort of trait to some Equiments/Artifacts. Like it wouldn't be able to send a theoretical Fate version of Excalibur.Another thing I was thinking of, it should make only control 1 unit card, so while you can use any generic cards, you're limited to just having Gilgamesh on board. You'd still want to run multiple Gilgamesh cards, because some would let you play them on top of your normal Gilgamesh, like Evolution Creatures in Duel Masters or Shift in Lorcana.
Another Infernals edition edition>What is Exalted?An epic high-flying role-playing game about reborn god-heroes in a world that turned on them.Start here:http://theonyxpath.com/category/worlds/exalted/>That sounds cool, how can I get into it?Read the 3e core book (link below). For mechanics of the old edition, play this tutorial:http://mengtzu.github.io/exalted/sakuya.htmlIt’ll get you familiar with most of the mechanics.>Gosh that was fun. How do I find a group?Roll20 and the Game Finder General here on /tg/. good luck>Resources for Third Edition>3E Core and SplatsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97246135>"If you want to be a martial artist, pay a 4-dot Merit tax to be one"
>>97246135A lot of these feel fake or really minor but charms that can interact with each other and let you auto win shit without explaining how they interact with each other bugs the shit out of me.There is a speed charm that makes you faster then anything else in infernals. What happens when two people use it? You can't just ignore that it is going to come up in game. Or I'm dumb as shit and missing an obvious rule on these things but whatever, it's not even the only example of this.
>>97247333Did 3e do away with the Essence roll off?But yeah, one of the reasons I don't like 3e is that it seems to be operating under the assumption that only the PCs follow the rules , everything else the ST handwaves half the time
>>97244838And San doesn't even remotely resemble a Full Moon. Revy at least has the attitude down, per the lyrics to the OP, Red Fraction.
>>97247438maybe??? I think I read somewhere what to do when things conflict but I honestly can't remember. If there is something like that the charm should reaaaally point it out for me.fucking christmas hang over i'm still drunk how tf is this possible.
Love Wins Edition>>IF YOU ARE ASKING A QUESTION, PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH GAME YOU'RE PLAYING<<Previous Thread: >>97099515 /pfg/ (pathfinder 1e) link repository: https://pastebin.com/RSt0rF0T/p2g/ (pathfinder 2e) link repository: https://pastebin.com/1zySxwm3/sfg/ (starfinder) link repository: https://pastebin.com/5yp9s2U3>>CHECK THE SHARE THREAD FOR MISSING MATERIALS<<TQ: What is your favorite pantheon? What pantheon(s) would you want implemented/updated?
>>97245297>you can't just fake it like you can with Halfings you can quite easily, just go straight at the source and make bigfeet/yetis a playable race
>>97245413At the very least they should have baked Plasma Sheathe into Solarian's kit, in addition to the upgrade sharing and brutal on Flare, but a ton of its feats are underwhelming and I cannot fathom why it feels like they went out of their way to snub Lunar Weapon from 1e. To say nothing of the travesty that is the feat version of Solar Shield.
>>97245120>and probably fine even if I find the choice to make them Con-basedFind it what?
>GM has the boss cast 'Never Mind' on my witch round 2 (god awful re-naming for the feeblemind spell imo)-fail with a 15 on the dice (DC 32). My will save is 16-stupefied 4 forever. 45% chance to lose spell. spell DC reduced by 4. Basically i'm a crappy heal bot that can only run around and battle medicine for the rest of the 3.5 hour long boss fight.That was so fun.
>>97247847I had so much fun I failed at greentexting. I love being a caster in PF2
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>>97247750This but for immortality and I'm not playing without it.
>>97247793No.The name you suggest has no aura
>>97247750But anon, what if the electromagnetic constant is only locally consistent?What if it could be changed by exceptional circumstances?(Ignore how we will transport humans with this, it's handwavable)
>>97247793Boring ass name.
>>97247750Actually bending spacetime is pretty rare in science fiction for FTL. Like even star trek while they are supposedly bending spacetime, it's more of gravity/mass manipulation where they seem to reduce the mass and effectively the inertia of everything within an area, and that lets them exceed the speed of light because they basically change the speed of light in doing so. Star wars though goes fully in on tachyons where entering hyperspace transforms the ship into tachyons, which are particles that can't go lower than the speed of light.Personally I never find bending spacetime to be particularly compelling, and if you want to make ftl an issue I prefer things more like what Half Life does where actual meaningful travel is by changing your direction and going to other dimensions. As those other dimensions are actually nearby, just in a direction you can't normally travel in.
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?
>>97221863>Doesn't work well for tabletop RPGs, or rather requires tremendous effort on GMs side of things.Not really, you can go the Fragged Aeternum route and just have a very soft ritual magic system that pretty much says you can do whatever you want as long as you've know the mechanical effect, did the research to figure out a ritual, spend ritual components, succeed at a ritual roll, and submit yourself to the consequences of whatever arcane force you choose to invoke for the ritual. The metaphysics can be entirely decided by some broad guidelines and however the GM wants to specifically rule those guidelines.
>>97223708Thanks. I needed a laugh.
>>97233587>animeAnime fantasy magic is a direct lineage from tabletop game magic, which is their main introduction to it rather than early literature. So you can blame D&D.
Why is it that people don't seem to understand that the players are almost always outliers by design?
>>97244819>So you can blame WizardryJapan is pure video game Fantasy. Though to be fair in the olden days their takes were a lot more traditional. Jun Suemi looks like he could have had his worked slapped on any western novel. I really wonder how we got from here to were we are.
Who was in the right?
I feel like logically they should easily be able to leave the planet and just build space stations and shit until the whole godhead thing endsI got the impression it was like cyclic, the planet wakes up, realizes its alive, and then dies.
>>97243884It'd be smooth brained to assume that every single quote refers to the exact technology or secret project they're paired with.Like Miriam has a negative quote about teleportation in the Bulk Matter Transporter, but a seemingly positive quote in the Psi Gate. Which is it? Is she for or against teleportation? Given that the Bulk Matter Transporter quote is clearly about transportation, she's against. Who knows what she is talking about with the Psi Gate quote, she may just be talking about technology in general.
>>97221448>LalWeak, incompetent imbecile. Plan is to use sheer weight of biomass to govern democratic political system. Plays like Yang except he can't win fights.>MiriamThe Baptist KGB. Either a typo or Meier's tremendous sense of humor gives her the strongest Probes stack in the base game, will probably have second highest research in game because she'll just rob Zak.>SlaveWrong by definition.>DeidreWould be based if she were also super racist but sadly is not.>MorganElon Bezos with an African skin, likable, funny, him paying his way onto the last ship off Earth is hilarious conceptually.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97245039Certain social engineering options are hard-locked for certain factions, no? Lal can't use Police State, Zakharov can't use Fundamentalist, etc. unless there is a late-game option I'm not remembering.>>97245029Kingdom or Microscope make sense, yes. I've also considered using Out of the Ashes to cover the establishment of a new base immediately after Planetfall.>>97245488Interesting. I've played (and loved) their Conan game, but I've heard mixed things about the Dune version of the system. What has your experience been with it?>>97245843I mean, I thought the janky mechanics were part of the charm!>>97246921In the base game, maybe, but Alien Crossfire implies that "the Flowering" has a potent psychic component that can reach across interstellar distances. So it is possible that simply moving into orbit, or even fleeing to a nearby star, would not be enough.Alien Crossfire is pretty weird, though.
>>97222356This is literally Carriers of Linked EarthAre you working anon?
It's Christmas Yes I know I'm late, shut up a time of mercy and cheer.SO WHY NOT CELEBRATE WITH THE MOST MERCIFUL MAN IN THE IMPERIUM, THE REDEEMER!?!I'm going to storytime the entire classic comic. Shout out in the thread if you're reading (especially if it's your first time) and enjoy one of the greatest works of Warhammer 40,000 fiction.
How can one man be so kind and forgiving
>>97247463If you want the actual forbidden redeemer lore the redemption cult is based on the red redemption from lone sloane and the redeemer's character is sort of an amalgamation of characters from Pat Mill's other comics, mainly torqy from nemesis the warlock. Also there's a similar khrone cult in Warhammer fantasy.
>>97247080thanks as always dude great to reread this every year
>>97247456That or a sorcerer of some description.You don't technically have to be a psyker to do magic in 40k, but it helps.
Anybody else always picture Clovis with Jim Cummings' Dr. Robotnik voice?
>Be me.>Lord General of the Nordican 1225th/ defacto governor of Nordica II.>For the last few years we've been abandoned by the wider Imperium to an ice world that very much resembles our home.>In that time we've constructed the city of New Yur.>A sprawling metropolis surrounded by a network of trenches visible from orbit dug by the kriegers and valhallans.>We've also made more or less peace with the orks we were originally sent here to fight, and even made alliances with the ruinous powers, but those truces only last for one day a year.>A day that is fast approaching.>Candlemass brings peace, but also war to Nordica II every year without fail.>This year however the orks have decided to convert the former colloseum constructed by khorne worshipers in the ruins of a space hulk that crashed here into an arena for a sport they're apparently calling "Blood Bowl.">I will be attending the first of these games on Candlemass day, which is set to pit greenskins against some surviving khorne worshipers they've captured.>Emperor willing this will be the beginning of true peace to our world.>But knowing Candlemass that seams unlikely and I'll be waiting the whole time for some new threat to emerge.
>>97247294>>97247505Guy who does Lord Morvi, The Burmaze Arsonists, Marcus Scumbag, Montag Helljumpers and Violet Canines here. Feral world sounds good, Catachans sound fun.As for Marcus story Yuri. Just haven't got round to it, between work being a constant drain and general writers block of trying to think of a bigger picture outside of just Marcus returning home, I have no clue what to do. Its gone from assassinating the Planetary Governer and Tau Commander to recovering some artifact in the depths of the underhive thay Inquistor Vortigern doesnt want the Tau getting their hands on.
>>97247242I will be on vacation January 21 to 28, but am otherwise always happy to enjoy these threads>>97247254>>97247294>>97247354I think since I have started doing these threads, we have done tropical paradises twice, and tropical hellholes three times, and then there was Archipelagia, which had a bit of both, so I think both concepts are pretty popular. Admittedly one of the tropical paradise threads was fairly recent, but I think some of the people who asked for it around this time last year didn't get to participate.You could always just do a bit of both and stick a megaresort on an island off the coast of feral jungle continent
>>97244357>>97244743>>97244845>>97246777>>97236137>Be Overlord Komei>I don't think my magos disguise is holding up but I'm having fun dropping more of Trazyn's collection all over the place, just squished a squad of kriegers beneath several empty knights>There seems to be some of the bloodbowl teams still trying to play but an equal amount of people also engaging in general slaughter>And sobek's poor guards affected by this virus trying to do things to each other no necron was ever meant to do>Glad I'm not the Silent King, he'd probably break down and cry if he could see this>I'm just doing my best to disintegrate the infected with a gauss blaster I picked off one, but I really need to find the source>Can't let myself turn into a girl after all, be a pain after all the shit I've given Sobek>Not really sure what's going on with the virus, but I'm keeping a portable blackstone pylon in my pocket just in case>Making sure to disintegrate any daemonettes I come across too, but suddenly notice something weird>Presents are being delivered to them out of thin airComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97247242Delwyn anon hereI'm pretty flexible with whatever we do next, but long greentexting experience has taught me that threads need at least a few weeks in between to let everyone recharge.Sorry for being absent from the thread over the xmas period by the way. You know how it is.I'd also like to add, while I'm always up for the usual chaos, it'd have been nice if we could have actually had a BB tournament this thread.
>>97247800>Grab the arms and begin waving them about"Oh! Woe is me! I have been turned into a girl! My greatest dream! But if only I had some ways to 'enjoy' it more I would be so happy! If only there were something listening that could help me feel the kind of pleasure this metal body hasn't felt in milllenia!">Feel dirty I'm even saying this but the payoff will be worth it>And right on cue something starts buzzing and I turn on my mini-pylon and see a tiny daemon flying right above me with a wrapped present in its hands>Reach out and grab it"Now listen here you little shit.">Grin from ear to ear (or wherever my ears used to be) as I begin shaking the thing"You're going to take me to whoever came up with the sexchanger virus so I can give them a present, capiche?">Lift the mini-pylon closer and watch the daemon squirm"And I shouldn't need to tell you what'll happen to you if you don't.">Also think to myself I should probably find one of Sobek's noke-balls to put this thing in, it seems like it'd be a good collectable>>97247294Yeah, I'd be up for anything. Need to dustoff Kaptin Krunch anyway, and come up with some others.
>ten years ago>meet random GM over Roll20 of all places>says he wants to run a PBP weeb game where you collect waifu team and go fight shit>eh why not, can't be worse than all these terrible games I played or these god awful players I GM'd that made me quit GMing>throw an application that isn't complete shit so he invites me over>chat a bit, find out we have some things in common>we both like history, dynasty warriors, rance, final fantasy, zero no tsukaima, warhammer fantasy, etc etc>world is built with all of this combined in some autistic smorgasburg mix of everything we both like>despite what sounds like a recipe for a terrible game it's actually fun as fuck>combat is challenging and every move I make can end me>lots of plotting and scheming to build myself an army>good roleplay with characters that have a shit ton of personality >go through a shit ton of interesting plotlines and quests >also, lots and lots of waifus>play through a full 1 year long gameComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97247523I have this but with a romantic partner
>>97247523I have old RPG and RP partners I miss. People who vanished into the online ether. It's a common thing, so you're not alone in missing having great player relationships and great games.The reality of it though is that it's just over. And you have to accept that. But you can also appreciate that you got to enjoy it, and look at the best parts of those experiences and strive to make them a part of how you play games going forward. Most of all, I see one really awesome thing in particular you should take away from this: you can find, and should try to find, games with people that share some of your own interests.
>>97247523Wage slavery really destroys you mentally. Lost lots of friends and groups to it. Getting destroyed by it myself now. Don't expect to ever play again before retirement.
>>97247729Honest to goodness, I just had a discussion with my group about this. The worse things get in terms of affordability, and the more demanding work conditions get, the less we're about to schedule games. I've seen lots of people in my other circles fall out of the hobby these last few years because they just don't have the time, and they're exhausted.
Blessed naive anons that don't know what "discord name dead" means
Christmas Edition>Previous thread:>>97173638Battlefleet Gothic, Blood Bowl, Epic, Kill Team,Man-o-War, Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game, Mordheim,Necromunda, Shadow War: Armageddon, Titanicus, Underworlds,Warcry, Warhammer Quest, Warmaster ...... and any other GW system and board game are welcome.>Helpful resources: (feel free to suggest additions!)https://pastebin.com/qq9N8V0V>TQComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97243620Thats alot of lore.My Imperial Fleet was just some Space Wolf inspired sector fleet.
>>97242386I dont think BFG players hate the design. I think the Imperial, Chaos and Eldar designs were well recieved. Orcs maybe was seen as metal blobs.
Are any of the status items even worth getting in necromunda? I don't really rate any of them as being better than just buying better guns
>>97247022You'll cap on weapon slots eventually. Furs and raiments are useful. But the most popular status items are the skulls, because building them is fun.
Anyone got Hall of the Ancients?
winter edition >Chess websites, tools, videos and books:https://rentry.org/vxdsw7k5>Calendar:- Tech Mahindra Global Chess League | December 13th - 24th- FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships | December 25th - 31st- Rilton Cup | December 27th - January 5th- Lichess Winter Marathon | December 28th- European Women's Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship | January 8th - 12th- Tata Steel | January 16th - February 1st- Speed Chess Championship Finals | February 7th - 8th- Prague International Chess Festival: Masters | February 25th - March 6th- FIDE Candidates Tournament | March 28th - April 16thComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97173764>FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championshipspress conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqV1t3mIc5w
nice username! https://www.chess.com/member/lichessisbetter99
i will never be good at chess because I will never stop making retarded blunders like this
>>97242844day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ulgp0HCO-M
>>97245077
Why did GW make them chicken nuggets instead of just putting the crotch at the knee like real life exoskeletons?https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EC33gaqQKSI?feature=share
>>97246576No it doesnt. You would have to amputate the pilots legs to make them fit in those legs. The thigh gap is as wide as the pilots shoulders.
>>97245552Because the sculptors at GW are half-assed artists with no understanding of anatomy. The SoB mechs are just a repeat of the Space Marine Centurions from 7th edition just messing up the legs instead of the arms this time.
>>97246669>No it doesntYes, it does.>You would have to amputate the pilots legs to make them fit in those legs-No, you wouldn't.
>>97247606sorry bud, even accounting for the wider hips and flexibility of women this cannot be accommodated by any human anatomy
>>97247726Ah, but it can, the same way you can fit space marines into their armor. Canon says you can, and no amount of redlining will change it.
After about 8 years since I last DM'ed a game, I've been asked to run a session. Unfortunately my books - adnd, 2e, 3e, 3.5, 4e, and 5e are in storage two states away.And i prefer physical copies. Thanks to critical role and the movie DND books have gone up in price which is weird.>4e books are ~10-15$ now. Is it viable to run 4e in 2025? I don't remember hating it and I still remember some home rules to streamline combat to speed it up a touch. Does anyone have suggestions for 1-3lvl adventures or campaign settings? >4e thread I guess
>>97247640>don't approach it with the mindset that it's just like every other edition of the game.Every edition benefits from this. At worst, it staves off the spread of the 3.x rot that led to Main Character Syndrome. At best, it allows for the game to be appreciated entirely on it's merits without the foulness of comparison.>If you aren't prepared for the tactical wargame stuff 4e is designed for, you will probably have a bad timeI'd argue this affects the DM even more than the players, because you can get a lot of mileage out of well honed enemy groups and setpiece battles, even if the enemies are under leveled. Brainless enemies are miserable to experience in 4e.
>>97241883The most overlooked part of Mearls' perfidy.
>>97247720>Every edition benefits from this.Yeah. But in my experience you can run almost every edition like they're fundamentally the same and it'll be fine, except for 4th edition. If you don't respect the differences it has, it tends to fuck things up.
>>97247015>>97247111Hell, they hid an incredibly interesting concept for the Lizardfolk - that they used to have an advanced civilization based on their reverence for their dead creator-god Kecuala, but it was destroyed by a populist uprising under the leadership of the future cult of the god-beast Semuanya, whose shamans have kept the lizardfolk locked in their Stone Age near-bestial state ever since - in an adventure called "Captain Slygo's Treasure" in Dungeon Magazine of all places.
>>97235255>Is it viable to run 4e in 2025? If you have a table that wants to play 4e or you want to run on Discord, yes.If not, you're a 5e player.
Why the FUCK is his power armor broken? The Badab War was 100 years ago. This dude leads a legion-sized band of space marine pirates and is one of the wealthiest and most powerful space marine lords in the setting, on par with chapter masters of the first founding chapters.WHY THE FUCK WOULD SOMEONE NOT HAVE FIXED HIS POWER ARMOR. Does GW even know their own fucking setting anymore?
>>97244061Abaddon is the better mini.
>>97244061Maybe the real chaos is the friends we made along the way.
>>97244014>So powerful that the traitor Primarchs bow before him.nu-lore is so fucking gay lmao
>>97243855It does, he was wearing his relic tiger claw at the time (its explosion made melta shot thing much worse) and it was terminator sized, sooo...Plus, there is kinda no way of surviving melta shot in regular armor, even in terminator one it's kinda stretch and he probably ditched it because renegades have no resources to repair it. It's not normal PA where capturing replacement suits is not that hard, for SM anyway.
>>97243897presumably it extends out when he needs to use it.
