Would love to share some YTers I like to use for inspiration. Looking for anyone you find helpful. Preferably smaller creators and not restricted to 5e. I’ll submit three that I really enjoy while I’m doing prepFirst I’ll submit is Desk and Dorks. The channel is made by a medieval historian and combines his knowledge of subjects to enhance games. I particularly like his take on Bronze Age fantasy and building better town guards
>>97225250My second pick is a guy named RPG PhD. He’s a theater professor, I think, who incorporates a lot of the techniques and lessons learned from performance into making RPGs better.I like his discussion on how to use Chekhov technique to generate payoff and curiosity loops to keep players hooked on your ideas
>>97225265The third submission is Bandits Keep. It’s a distinctly OSR-themed channel where Daniel spends a considerable amount of time explaining some older styles of play that I’ve found very valuable.Any that you all enjoy?
>>97225250Daddy Rolled a 1 is pretty good
>>97225250I skimmed through and watched a couple of videos from your first recommendation: he's a fart sniffing redditor that doesn't even know how to make the fucking ampersand character in d&d. Thanks for wasting my time i guess, i'm safely assuming that the other suggestions are on the same level so i won't even try.
>>97226804NTA. Bandits Keep has good advice for OSR-styled games, some of it might apply to other games. Daddy Rolled a 1 is almost entirely a D&D historical channel, the one upside is he doesn't villainize the creators of the game.
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.
>>97227358Essence does this, solars just get that shit for free
>>97227804Never got into it but it's good to hear that the idea is out there at least.
Can an Alchemical whose become a city use Synthesis of Divine Affiliation? Asking because the idea of turning a bunch of Matropoli/Patropoli into a giant robot is cool.
>>97227780and then it says that different backgrounds experience greater difficulties, not that such a thing is flat out impossible.>"Lore in 3e requires you to focus on a subject the Lore is in, and allows or forbids rolls based on that,That's only half right though, seeing as how you can use your lore for other things besides just what your subject is. It's not like craft where you have several types of craft, basically.I don't get why it's so hard to get some in game examples of these things in action.
Behold the relationship dynamic between Eye And Seven Despairs and the Soulsteel Alchemical he built for himself>Eye=Mayuri>Soulsteel+Necrotech Alchemical=Nemu.
What is it about? Why is it interesting? Should I care about it?
>>97217381>spiritualanon... more like physical
>>97179249Do we really need anything more than that? Most people are going to use either the Gold Box, From the Ashes, or The Adventure Begins Gazeteers for Greyhawk anyway, completely throwing out the 5.5e blurb.Greyhawk isn't like other settings. It's canon outside of official sources like the gazetteers, modules, or novels is meant to be purely homebrewed. If you want any further canon, check places like canonfire as other Anons said, the lore is mainly community made.Or you could just make shit up as you go along at your table.It's meant to be a worldbuilding framework. Worldbuilding on training wheels if you will, Gary didn't even want to publish it as a setting, he wanted people to make up their own. Which is kind of what every GM that plays in Greyhawk does.I had a friend ask me today if Greyhawk was a grimdark setting. Now, at my table it's not, I prefer the nobledark approach, but there's no doubt someone who plays a grimdark Greyhawk in the From The Ashes era.
>>97134425you type like a retard so you've no place to judge
>>97184016Atleast it tackles that better than Dragonlances retarded gods did. Mordenkainen´still a fucking moron though.
>>97133885personally I'm a fan of the Sundered Empire/Godwar portion of the setting that was created for the short lived WOTC version of Chainmail;https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Sundered_Empire
Work in Progress, Pink Edition>Full-on /WIP/ OP Links Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/BE42AEcD>WIP Tutorial Images Megahttps://mega.nz/#F!TvQFCaLb!w8WZKCcOsTRasxrI0JWezw>Saint Duncan's "Six Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Painting"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufP8ka3KGno>Saint Duncan also explains thinning your paintshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxWgsqSf74s>Paint thinning 102Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97219649>basing first and then the modelYou are one very special kind of retard, but I like your dwarves
>>97228060That’s how I do all my models. Done a base coated but no highlights yet test model. I think the brass/teal works well. 1/2
>>972280782/2. The Nasdreg yellow came out way too red so that it blends with the brass armor. I will not be using it for the rest of the dwarfs.
KJ in France, I do apologise on behalf of my countries postal service. Your parcel has not moved in the system since December 7th, I have put in a request to investigate this but I dont have a lot of hopeIf there is no movement by the start of January, I'll send you something new. Apologies again!
>>97228206I have a feeling that every single postal service is more or less screwed up. Mine is infamous for no longer even delivering packages, just notes (officially that "nobody was home", even when people were inside and waiting) and doing essentially less for more (package delivery is usually slower than courier services and cost more).
Moloch's Fun Park Edition>What is Trench Crusade?An alternate weird history 28mm/32mm tabletop skirmish game still in a pre-release playtesting phase but with the full release slated for this year. Based on the art and lore of Mike Franchina, whose illustrations you may have seen floating around on /tg/ for a several years now, and designed by Tuomas Pirinen, one of the original creators of Mordheim. It's grimdark, it's visceral, it's awesome, and it's very Blanchitsu.>What Trench Crusade is notTC not an excuse for you to discuss IRL religion, history that didn't occur in the game, culture war shit, or discord bullshit on /tg/. Keep it on topic.>What's the QRD on the background?The Knights Templar turned heretic and opened the Gates of Hell when they took Jerusalem during the First Crusade. Over 800 years later the war is still ongoing as technology has developed to a pseudo diesel-punk WW1 standard and a third of Humanity has sided with the Infernal Princes.>How do I get started?All the files are free online:https://www.trenchcrusade.com/rules/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97227681If anything is I'd say that Heretic Legion are the default faction in terms of gameplay>access to any weapon under the sun in quantity>most units are simple and genetically good>no faction special rules to speak of>detachment rules are all super simpleWhile New Antioch genuinely requires a lot of experience to leverage their key strengths. Aesthetically you're right, but for all practical purposes I feel that that should be clarified.
>>97225909I would buy that premade slop
>>97220374How the fuck are Scythians still a thing in 1914 lmao. My God the world map is such garbage
>>97228105Presumably the name was resurrected by a resurgent Scythian cultural/ethnic identity at some point in the thousand years of divergent history. Hell, they might be a buffer state that was just made by the Golden Khanate. Alternatively, it might just be what people call them regardless of their actual name, since they might not be a unified state, which seems likely.
Bro what a tease is this gameThis was sold as tits and goreAnd there's barely like 2 models with titsCall me when they have a lust demon and all the warband is tits
Ok real talk. Do you think design choices like this were what ultimately killed AoS? Or were there other factors at play?
>>97174129>unironic white people dun season dey food posting
>>97226758Even /pol/ saw a sharp decline in it >its just indians And who do you think pays them?
>>97145871>tfw skaven player in fantasy>skaven player in aos>very hard if not impossible to pozz>and even if you that just makes them more ulikeable
>>97228067Skaven are already and have always been reddit rats. No need to pozz what's already pozzed
>>97228067TWW crowd made Skaven synonymous with homosexuality a decade ago, there's no saving them
Excess Dragonballs 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.
Do non-game trading cards go in this thread?
>>97226253Is it really "the Aeons Torn?" It looks like how it does when it shows up in Innistrad with normal tentacles and not the original crooked tentacles and hands.
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>>97227799If we're being that pedantic, it doesn't look like Promised End either because the texture on its non-tentacle parts is totally different to all MtG Emrakul versions..
>>97227792I guess so considering >>97227000Is here
Jabbering Jabberwock EditionDiscussion of the Towergirls CYOA, RPG, Setting, or Video Games welcome here!Everyone is welcome.FAQhttps://pastebin.com/vv4xQuwDCharts:Main Gens: https://e-hentai.org/g/2556775/f1669e072b/Imgchest backups(not sorted): https://imgchest.com/p/na7ko9dky8dhttps://imgchest.com/p/pg73rmbv7rnLegacy Charts: https://imgur.com/a/IRtoHXhSide Quests: https://imgur.com/a/7euVXRTComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97220637Yes. I see thick Lampad just fine.
>>97223238Weird. Now it works.
Sold!https://files.catbox.moe/fdnepf.png
>>97226620The art and personality of this Merchant Princess is quite nice
>>97226620Nice!>>97226973Depends on the investment return!
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.
>>97227627>thoughtsfagging>a game you already posted several timesdegueucontribute some substantial thoughts of your own if you want to discuss it
>>97227627I thinj you should buy an ad, faggot
>>97207832wtf a year ago I asked about upkeep and was told I was an FOE and deserved to die for using them in game?Now you guys make infographs about them!
>>97228131Depends on what you asked, how you asked, and who happened to be on that dayLike if you were all like "I hate that my players have money, how can I take it away from them?" I can see people being unfriendly to that
>>97228131>wtf a year ago I asked about upkeep and was told I was an FOElink or it's bullshit
>DM does the tired old Yin-Yang as mutually exclusive gended-coded principles of magic>acts all uppity when we figure obvious loophole to master both
>>97222383this guy gets it
>>97222366While it reads like a thinly veiled fetish thread, a bunch of cultures in history had strange or semi-mystic perceptions of the concept of hemaphrodites BECAUSE they bore the aspects/animus/energies of both masculinity and femininity.OP is still gay. But in that patrician ancient greek kind of way, where it was based and not cringe.
>>97227251If that's the retard I think it is, he gets a real boner just complaining about threads but has no actual input of his own. I once saw him rolling in his own shit over other people having creativity and him not being able to join in, so he cried about "mechanics" in every post but when a mechanics thread was made for him, he couldn't contribute and it died with no further posts.
>>97228004Time to give him a name, like /v/ does. Eric, Barry, and Cris are all taken.
>>97228044Wilbur.
Speed Edition.>Previous>>97205272>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.
>>97227437See, this is why people stick to referring to it as WoD5, "gWoD" is just not self-explanatory and you don't need an insulting nickname to get people to look upon something with scorn (look at "5e" being a shorthand for you-know-what).
>>97227589At first glance, it also feels a bit like trying to adapt Circle of the Crone to Masquerade.
>>97228010It feels like so much of v5's problems are because they're just taking things from Requiem without understanding why they were used and the purpose they serve in CofD.
>Your Tremere gf suddenly burst into a mass of tumorous tentacles during GehennaIs the Usurper pussy really worth it?
>>97227437>gAnon opens his retarded mouth yet again
Mythic Rakshasa Maharaja pisses off a god. Said god is aware of xenomorphs and kills said Rakshasa with a xenomorph, causing said Rakshasa to be reincarnated as a predalien style Mythic Rakshasa Maharaja King Alien horror bound to the god's will and forced to serve said god eternally as his personal assassin.1. What new powers might said rakshasa gain? DM said something about it having absolute mastery of reincarnation. What would that even possibly entail?2. How would said rakshasa feel about his unique situation?3. How would the world react to the existance of this abomination?DM plans to make him an enslaved demigod and the big bad of our setting (fantasy/horror/sci-fi).
Have you tried Space Gits? It's an unusual skirmish game by Mike Hutchinson (made Gaslands). It seems to be the ultimate casual skirmish that you play while chugging beer.A lot of mechanics are dexterity based, for example instead of losing health or wounds, your fighters add D6's to their dice tower, which has to be moved alongside them (and when it drops over, they drop down). Shooting is also quirky - you roll dice equal to the number of shots and then trace lines between a shooter and each die to see if you hit the target. Landed shots use die's result, so a single roll is made to-hit and to-wound, which I think is neat.I'm going to try it this thursday. My only two complaints so far is that close combat seems bland (its basically rock-paper-scissors) and it's really easy to deny it by spamming shove. My other complaint is that the rulebook's art is atrocious vomit.Everything else checks out though, it even seem to have a basic campaign system.
i did try it (the demo pdf they gave for free)the thing is being dextrity based, can make it really inbalancedyou throw the dice to decide the shooting angle, but, of course, its not the same, throwing the dice 5 cm over the board than 15cm.it was okish to try, but i didnt really like it, you can cheese it a lot without even trying, if i get the full pdf i may read it out of curiosity, but i dont think i will play it againjust use painted miniatures and nice terrain, and at least you will have some nice visual apeal
>>97223299Depreciated, we only play Chitty Hexen Modelo, which is technically a hex and chit game, but the only commercially available box has miniatures and 99% of all players use them instead of the chits.
>>97223296>makes you sound like marketing.Sorry, this wasn't my intent. I just like the game's premise and I'm a huge fan of Gaslands and Mike's games, so I was excited to post it here. I agree that it potentially could get boring quick, so I want to try it IRL.I've watched 2 battlerepports on youtube, and it looked fun, although in both reports people kept messing up the rules.Also after re-reading the PDF I'm stunned that there isn't any clear instructions from how to actually do the dexterity involved stuff to avoid cheesing the system; for example, when moving a dice tower nothing in the book says that you cant use a second hand from holding it together as you move your tower. I'm going to agree on some restrictions with my opponent before the game.>>97224046I guess this counts, although this seems more like an attempt to save time from doing an extra roll. Looks cool though.Also holy fuck, the captcha is somehow even worse now.
>>97222350>>I game to play game with socialization being the background event.Serious question: Are you a fucking loser?If socialization is a background event then go play video games in your room ALONE.
>>97227551NTA but I get what he says. Some games you want to play to fuck around and socialize. In some you want to concentrate on trying to outplay your opponent, if the game has any tactical depth ofc; something like classical battletech.
Wasted 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.
When do we get a planeswalker that can use 1 loyalty ability every turn any time you could play an instant?
>>97228159like this?
>>97228170We have crossed the Rubicon and there's no going back. RIP Magic.
So, now that this stupid set is done... Are we going to get more M. Night Shyamalan sets? I'm hoping for Signs
>>97228098Chink carp is cheap because it's shiped in bulk in a cotainer. I'm not sure how a mail with a foil Tarmogoyf from Germany is shiped to USA, but it's probbly less standarized and thus more expensive
Wanted to talk about advice on GMing, settings you prefer, and styles or issues you as a GM have. I generally tend to prefer dark fantasy or sci-fi settings rather than trying something a little different. I also tend to have a style, depends on the system though, where i have a combat heavy session or two and then a more intrigue/exploration focused session. I have been working on how to better balance games I run, but trying to tie that to timing a game session gets tricky at times. Another issue I noticed is that puzzle solving or investigative games can be a lot harder for a player to get into the mindset for than the dm. It is easy to think everything you planned makes sense when you thought it out in your head but the players might not have the same line of thought.
>>97218290Almost all the problems I see people have with RPGs are communication problems. Talk with your fucking players. Note that that means listening as well. Be clear what you expect from them, what you want the focus of the game to be, what sort of tone you want, and so on. Don't expect them to read your mind.
>>97219648The kobold guides and the lazy dungeon master guides are pretty bad in my opinion. The lazy dungeon master stuff started ok if a little basic, but then went into shit not even about the games.
GM advice thread?
>>97218290Be a Master of both paths my sonWorld path) take the OSR pill, as in internalizing the following truth:- be like an Arena Master and a Referee, not a Director. Your job is to throw the PC in the scenarios you engineered, to move the set pieces and react to your players decision accordingly, not to be an illusionist altering the threads behind your screen to force your predetermined and inescapable decisions on the pc;- keep the world around the pc moving, the osr specific tool here is to keep strict track of time in all dimensions. Just as for the microcosm of combat rounds use calendars for days (where to keep track in advance of weather, factions actions and events to be) and proceduralized turns for explorations;- be callous but just, learn to advertise and telegraph dangers but never shy away from them, instead of fixing mistakes in post (fudging dice, use failing forward and deus ex machina tricks) convey openly the risks beforehand leaving ALL the responsability weight on the players decisions alone, make their agency truly matter;- treat combat (and by extension all sorts of scenarios) as a war and not as a sport, make terrain matter, make features matter, make morale matter, make psychology matter, make any of the pc interaction matter. The players are traversing a real field, not a theme park with triggerable events and puppets;- focus on a (per adventure) narrow theme, ask yourself what your game will be about. Hunting monsters? Tomb raiding? Street gangs war? The more specific the better.[Part 1/2]
>>97228205[Part 2/2]Story path) take the Hickman manifesto pill as in internalize the following truth:- have the players engaging with the world on a deeper level than what the game focus presents. Ask them a poignant, short and relevant reason (that may be honest to themselves or not) for their characters motives;- there should be overachieving events in motion the effects of which should influence the characters microcosms (and their decisions influence these events back), have them tackle with this spontaneously unfolding narrative;- make the world have verisimilitude, don't just throw random dungeons and encounters in random locations but try to make sense of them within the context of the world, even in post if necessary. Make notations of these reasons to keep this internal consistency for yourself and not to explain the world to your players. Leave them to make head and tail of it by themselves but reasons should exist nevertheless;- overarching events should culminate within 1 or 2 game session tops in a satisfying manner (as in resolutive). Make extensive use of in media-res to initiate the game and keep the pacing snappy!
