Tell me /tg/ what makes a good tabletop wargame?
>>97370701Das it. Thank you, Anon.
>>97361746>what makes a good tabletop wargame?An entity, whether an independent person, group of people, or corporation, who both cares about game design and has experience making tabletop wargames.
>>97372402Probably the one time you'll want to be able to switch to a Bong VPN?
1. Good lore2. Balanced gameplay3. Robust tournament support 4. Emphasis on activated abilities and single entity hero units/monsters5. High accessibility. Preferably by favoring low model counts, small boards, and simplistic terrain/paint schemes.6. WYSIWYG and IGOUGO. Alternating activations is a bad mechanic.7. And this is the most important one, a genuine respect for diversity, inclusion and representation
>>97363016Wrong, parasite.
It's Da PDF Share Thread!Get ready to stuff your hard drive like it's 2025!STEP 0:<----- That image is not a PDF, it's an image, at least for now. Check the 4plebs link below to find the PDF.PLEASE READ DA FAQ BEFORE REQUESTING OR SHARING.It will answer 99% of your questions about this thread. If you haven't read it, we will know.STEP 1:Please exhibit good manners. Threads start sliding off the board after a certain number of posts. More posts wasted on being rude means fewer posts available for sharing.STEP 2:Request, share, stay awesome!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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Kindly requesting lore game book "Mock Soul" by Salamander King
Requesting Five Parsecs from Home: Planetfall. Thanks!
Can anyone hook me up with Mothership stuff? I want to see what it´s about.
Can someone shade the world of IO/Brettultimus hardcore rules or is that one not allowed?
>world's first 100% vibes based tabletop setting
>>97365173>ArchWhat happened to hiding your power level? I know a neo-nazi guy who only plays Black Templars but he doesn't paint swastikas on his minis because he knows soft retards would not play with him>>97373573Fantasy and Mordheim were beautiful until GW got greedy and banned fun
>>97372992Literal circular reasoning.Also, not a redditor, not an atheist.
>>97354543Croatians are hellspawn
>>97374291>tfw no Albanian master race that is incorruptible and immune to satanic influence due to low IQDog shit world building
>>97350485Wow its troon slop. No thanks
Hey thereI've decided to start a West Marches-style campaign on my LGS. It sounds the perfect style to run for a public setting w/ rotating players, but I myself have never DMed oneAny experiences, tips and advices regarding DM-ing/playing West Marches style games?Or general tips for running games on LGS ? For those unfamiliar with West Marches style, here is what google have to say about it:>Player-Driven Exploration: Players decide where to go and what to explore, venturing into unknown territory from a safe starting town.>Rotating Cast: A large pool of players participates, but different combinations of adventurers form parties for each session, preventing the need for a single regular group.>Sandbox World: The world is a sandbox, with the map and plot emerging as players discover new locations and rumors, rather than being dictated by the GM.>No Fixed Schedule: Sessions occur when players organize themselves, often on a voluntary basis.>Low GM Prep: The Game Master (GM) focuses on creating a world and potential encounters, responding to player choices, rather than crafting complex plots.>Self-Contained Sessions: Adventures are often designed to be resolved in a single session, with storylines evolving over time.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97369691Welp, good luck with convincing the management to let you keep it going, OP.Still, maybe the other West March campaign is using another system, so it won't steal your participants, right?
OP here!Played the test session today, only 3 players (Bob from >>97355904 was a no show)My usual group is... something. They have about 0% focus, is very hard to explain anything to them, and I thought they were familiar with 5e but turns out only 1 player was (even then, there were several mix-ups/hold-ups with character creation)With that being said, I think a future session with those players would be ~50% more productiveNevertheless, the session turns out pretty well. Identified some minor flaws, but overall travel made sense, they discovered interesting things, they kind of easily completed a quest/rumor, then afterwards just exploring on their own:>Decided to follow a quest to find the missing doctor around the coast>Found him only 1 hex away>Nevertheless, had to fight 4 murlocs (pic related) to get to him>Actually, the chance the guy was there where the murlocs were was only 1/6>After making that small-chance roll, I mentioned it to the players, and opened to the discussion the likelihood (in %) of the doctor even being alive>We settled, being optimistic, at 25% of being aliveComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97373401I'm glad you're having fun with your game but this is absolutely nothing like a West Marches, you might want to consider relabeling it especially if there's another WM game that's going to be ongoing in your FLGS.
>there is now an internet community name for sandbox campaign figure it out as you go mapswelp, there goes the only kind of campaign i like to run anymore now that everyone will have pre set expectations because muh west marchums. fuck me i guess.
>>97373422>absolutely nothing like a West MarchesWell, considering that Google's definition (made up of whatever the internet consensus is) has 6 definitions:>1. Exploration Focus: A sandbox world with uncharted areas that players map and discover as they venture out.>2. Persistent, Shared World: Actions by one group affect the world for others, creating a dynamic, evolving environment.>3. Hub & Spoke Model: Adventures start and end in a safe, central location (like a town or guild), with characters returning there between sessions.>4. Episodic/Serialized: Sessions are often self-contained adventures (like one-shots) that build upon each other, making it great for new GMs. All of these (4 out of 6) definitions are un-arguably part of what we are doing>5. Player-Driven Scheduling: Players organize sessions among themselves and the GM based on availability, rather than a fixed weekly time.>6. Large, Fluid Player Pool: Accommodates many players (even 50+) by having different groups play at different times, all part of the same world.Out of these, item 5 is also valid because A) this core group as 3~5 players that maybe be present at a given day, and B) we often do guests that may play a session here and there. And 6 because I'm planning to keep this the same world as the one from the LGS, so actions wouldn't be contained just between those few players (I wouldn't call WM if it was just the core group, to be a proper WM experience it should have at least 10+ players overall)But please do enlighten me how a definition that matches 6 out of 6 criteria is "nothing like it"Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I was diving in the archives and discovered this thing that /tg/ made a long time ago. Catgirls + an underwater world. It looks like the project withered away and everyone involved left this board ten or so years ago. So, how was it? Did it ever get off the ground?
>>97373945>we've lost the rules for Catastropheno i have them, but 4chan is now a no pdf posting place
>>97374019>4chan was always getting scraped by other sitesI don't disagree with this, Twitter and Youtube have just encouraged monetizing it. With 9gag and Reddit the worst you had to worry about was internet points and just flat out claiming your ideas were theirs.And the fundamental problem is the kind of thread this sort of monetization encourages. Like the pattern on Twitter is>4chan OP with a question>the thread got a lot of replies, so it must get a lot of replies on twitter tooAnd again these accounts are monetized, so you have an endless churn of>ELF GF WHAT DO>WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF ELF GF>ELF GF IS RACIST AGAINST HUMAN, OH NO WHAT FUNNY SITUATION
>>97373814Prove that point. And you'll never be a man, even if you have all the appropriate parts.
>>97374023Can you post them on a file sharing site or something?
>>97373777Nice digits but we always had leftists, the site in general had an (irreverent) left wing bent. Redditors are more of a problem. The real death knell was furries no longer being gatekept after MLP brought in so many tourists
Back From The Dead Edition Previous Thread: >>97241180The thread to talk about Super Heroes/Villains/Spies/Agents/Rogues be it in spandex or not.Popular Choices for Games:>Mutants & MastermindsCurrently the most played one, uses a d20 resolution for everything, has powers building and rules for tactical combat.>Marvel TSR/ FASERIPClassic Supers game from the 80s, still has a lot of fans and various retro-clones. Uses a d100 with an universal resolution table to decide the degree of success, has random character generation and abstract rules for powers and combat.>Masks (PbtA)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97364645https://youtu.be/PsQ0nDeQgK4?si=mcWDyrbiXcuYzugH'Turning X into a Character Design' was a whole thing.It probably is a really good exercise, along with those with those 'draw 1 character in 10 artstyles' things.
>>97368062Yeah, there was also the "turn thing into a spaceship" trend, I really like these things.
What are your favorite superhero archetypes to play as? Have you ever done a cross system conversion so you could keep playing the archetype?
>>97361714What more can you say about your character please?
>>97355136Anyone got any stories or experience running Tiny Supers? I was looking into running it, it looks like it strikes a nice balance between mechanics and powers without having massive lists detailing every power.
After playing both the original Shandalar and the 2016 update version I've come to the conclusion that magic was just more fun in 1995 when it was more loose and relaxed. The kinds of decks you go up against in the 2016 version are so much more ruthless about shutting down every play you make that the only way to compete is to be an even more obnoxious dickhead and make sure they never get a chance to do anything. Every victory was bitter and spiteful in a way that I never felt with the older simpler Magic cards.
>>97359103I know that it's never gonna happen but I wish they'd do another duels of the planeswalkers been replaying 2014 cause have time to invest in arena
>>97356397>always play Cube Draft, no matter the cardgameLive draft Algomancy is better than cube draft Agomancy.
>>97354218The main thing I remember about Shandalar was wandering from town to town searching for cards to improve my deck, avoiding powerful enemies and pouncing on weaker. The meat of the game was the process of building your collection and sorting the wheat from the chaff. Even with a more modern deckpool I don't see why you couldn't do that.
>>97359103MTGO is fine how it is.
>>97359103There's Forge
So my DND group was kind of disolving, 2 out of the 4 players left because of life issues (one got a job abroad and the other one is dealing with life), to keep playing we incorporated 2 new players with not so much experience but avid watchers of Critical Role.One of these player conditions was that we incorporate x cards to the game, she says that it makes it much more comfortable for her to know she can avoid unpleasant story elements having this tool. I started to read a bit about it online and is this something you guys have used? In my 20 years playing I've never used this.
>>97364410>Dude no one wants to hear the GMs sexual fantasies uncheckedWhich is why you actually suss out whether the GM is a magical realmer before playing with him instead of opting into a performative social justice bludgeon that is intentionally designed to be as abusable as possible.
>>97366512>"we aren't going to have a conversation about,"That is EXACTLY how these people expect the X-card to be used, anon. It gets slapped down, you skip what's happening, period. No asking if they are okay, no asking what triggered it even.
>>97363372>player putting ANY condition to the GMI would just look at them like picrel without saying a thing making a "shoo" hand gesture to entice them to get the fuck out. If you have even 2 players available you can make a game OP, you don't need more than 3 for filling the 4 side of a table anyways, anything more is just unnecessary.
>>97369892I only ever watched a couple of videos from that channel but the ones where i stumbled in Larry he was always and unapologetically correct, just rude and callous if anything but correct nevertheless.
>>97365142>>97368437That's the thing though, I have never seen this shit used in an "Actual Play" series. They expect you to use this shit, not them. Critical Role has some of the most absurdly crude crap in it at times too, things I'd tell a player to pump the brakes on.
Who willl it be? edition>Previously in the Mortal Realms:>>97363911 >Official AoS website:https://www.ageofsigmar.com>Downloads, Rules Errata, and FAQs:https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-downloads/>Toolshttps://runebrush.pa-sy.com/warscroll/>Anvil of Apotheosis hero creator:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>TQUh…a mounted hero, hopefully.
>>97374097>tq Ogor VS OBR boxwishing for new 40mm OBR more elite infantry, obr monsters and im hoping the ushabti rangers are like tall, imposing guys with big ass cross bows or sum
>>97374097Early thread no?Anway tq:Tzaangor pity hero for tzeentchRiver or zenith pity hero for loomies to tease a 5th edition releaseBunch of stuff for obr as has been rumoured, maybe a new arkhan?Unsubtle teaser for ogres like they did with chorfs last yearSome more space marines for 40k
>>97374253>Early thread no?It's later this day, isn't it?We couldn't shake off an off-topic OP in that time
>referee makes big 3D dungeon model>players therefore already know the entire layout>completely destroys the fun of exploring and mapping a dungeon
>>97367637>trapdoors/hidden ladders>portals>ortogonal feystep/knightleap beacons>mystery blocks enchantedvwith druidic growing vinesTicked closed and user shadowbanned
>>97368163>the gamelmaoI'm so glad the mere proposal of playing other systems filters out trash like (you).
>>97368510It's actually the one reason why, despite having a lot of fantasy miniatures in general (both GW and others) I don't actually like using them in RPG's. Any markers or grid maps or the like, really. In my experience it flips players straight into 'wargame mode' and they move and fight accordingly. Ends up quite dull.
>>97373785that is some serious clutching at straws.
>>97373785It's so effective it has filtered you out from ever playing any game at all
>Brutus' Drivehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1qb0_OLhDrDYVVpbllIREdOczg?resourcekey=0-m3LU1xaC5-PnnA0VLRfK9g>DriveAnon's Drivehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Cx7KoDkQa9qmDfJN9_CehZ0fxXEweKOu?usp=sharing>Jumpchain IRC Chathttp://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.rizon.net/?#JumpchainCYOA>Ruleshttp://pastebin.com/Gqj3iKyn>How to Jumpchainhttp://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1qb0_OLhDrDVDFBR2NpdG03S0U/viewComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
What is your jumper's excuse for not being a billionaire before they started their chain?
>>97374021Wrong skillset for their home plane. That's why they're so much more in their element on other worlds.
>>97373058>Although I'm curious what problems you are solving with the fluff swarm that couldn't already be solved with 6? That's a lot of eevees.The biggest problem is not having enough eevees to wholly submerge myself into the fluff
>>97374205All you need is gigantamax and one is enough.
>>97374273>Warps their personality and artificially augments their fluffNo thank you
The original Dark Erufu EditionDiscuss elves.Post elves.Love elves.All elf lore, game stories art and any else that's elfy is all appreciated.Thread question: Do you prefer your elves as fallen empire from the past or as dominant and hegemonic entity in your world? previous thread: >>97318413
>>97374068headpats and ear rubs with Chloe. Maybe even a bit of handholding.
Would it be logical to assume that elves see other races especially humans as mostly children or pets?
>>97374267That would be High elves and Dark elves.
It's pic related. Peter Jackson tried to copy Blix's swag for a good reason
>>97328676Overall, I liked how WoD handled the old Orcs. Particularly Gul'dan. For all the "it was just cowwuption!" bullshit Blizzard pulls on so many of their villains it was refreshing to see Gul'dan be unashamedly evil and just a smug asshole enjoying himself being evil.
>>97370240>Tolkien didn't invent the word "orc"No. He did. That the syllable existed and had been used before in other languages doesn't create an etymological connection between the prior uses and the modern use. There isn't one. The modern word is a construction of Tolkien.>and wasn't the first to use it for some kinda monstrous beingHe was. It previously meant "hell". Tolkien misunderstood a couple Old English references as meaning "demon".
>>97370240>>97374061More to the point, even if the word had existed, it wouldn't mean there was some sort of mythological or folkloric basis around its existence. There isn't one. The surviving references come from a poem written as fiction at the time (and even there only as part of a compound word likely meant as a euphemism for draugr) and a glossary.Orcs as entities do not come from folklore. They come from Tolkien. Or rather from D&D ripping off Tolkien, since Tolkien just meant for it to be a word for his goblins.
>>97370240>>97374061>>97374112And to further cement this distinction between orcneas and orc. Tolkien himself personally said orcneas as draugrs were the basis for his barrow-wights, ie not his goblins/orcs.
>>97374061https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1abs8w3/the_word_orc_in_robert_browning/Numerous other examples aside from Beowulf
What's your theory for why all the talent is leaving Leder Games?What’s your worst/best board game break up story?
Thoughts on SUSD?
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>>97373723sweetlands isn't very impressive to me. competent and cute are the best i can say about it.
>>97374206What do you think of Seti and Galactic cruse, if you played them?
>>97374150How would you compare Arcs to TI to Eclise?
First-time Proctor Edition>Previous>>97354664>Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/WiCHizn0>Mediafirehttps://mediafire.com/folder/s9esc6u7ke8k5/CofD>Mega Ihttps://mega.nz/folder/ePQ1BKhJ#RCosRCh59Ki2Mpb1M9H3Uw>Mega II (also containing fanmade games)https://mega.nz/folder/ZbQ2zLJA#DOT-3df6rS2lLet4_RmqJQ>WoD5 Megahttps://mega.nz/folder/7rQQ1LbQ#16_AiXVGo0P3_rVOJuoZyA>STV content foldersComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97373688I remember an anon recommending an adventure where your coterie was converted at a lab of some kind and you were trying to find your sire and understand your clan, so the adventure let you play around with starting disciplines as sort of soft-caitiffs. It was pretty interesting but I don't remember the name or if the guy himself made it
>>97373763You're talking about Alien Hunger, and the scientist is literally Louis Pasteur.
>>97373805Yes that's the one, thank you king. Seems like a very interesting adventure though K haven't had the time to run it yet. May adapt it as a storyline for my New York game.
How to make an interesting Tzimisce PC?
Been homebrewing some Imbued stuff for v5 Hunter for the hell of it. Sent picrel to the Vengeance-oriented Hunter, who sent video related in response.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwZP95xaBnw
