In your game, do you treat bows as strength- or dexterity-based weapons?
>>97231684>so balance-wiseWho fucking cares for balance, other than 1d6 of autistic asshats?Especially when it comes to witcher-related stuff. The game anon posted has>Racial splats that don't add up to the same total value, and certain races are just plain better than others (humans, witchers, half-elves and dryads)>Certain character picks give you superior gear right from the start (witchers get their swords, dryads get their bows, if you are making a knight, you are getting a horse and a solid weapon/armour with the package [just need right stats and it's point-buy] etc)>If you are making a caster, you are obligated to pick skills that make you an even better caster (they are mandatory, not optional) because the lore says so>Armed and unarmed combat, along with any form of casting and thieving skills, are Dex based, and this is a game where higher stats shower you with bonuses and increased chance of success>Ranged combat is deliberately designed to be more lethal and impossible to shrug off with higher skills than melee>Combat moves aren't even pretending to be balanced, because three of the best ones are the cheapest, the strongest and the most straighforward to use (and they are further underlined as such in the rulebook, not just some meta conclusion)>The perk system is deliberately and intentionally broken, because the authors wanted players to just get to the "epic adventure" feel in 5-6 sessionsThis list goes on and on, reallyIf anything the fact that aiming and dodging are under Perception and high-end bows require sufficient Agility to use at all IS a game balance, because if they were using Dexterity, Dex would be just "do all" stat.And this is a lesson learned from their prior project (well, a project they were involved with as a publisher), where Dex was a "do all" stat and they wanted to dominish it. Dex is still powerful, but a lot of stuff "traditionally" associated with Dex got moved to Agility (including defense bonus) and Perception
>>97234047>Get a bow that doesn't require user's stregth, because it wasn't made by mongoloids from the Isles, so you can apply your STR bonusNigga, you clearly didn't think this shit>>97246062... that's an exampe of being SMARTER, not stronger. Odysseus' bow is explicitly a recurve bow. The reason why Penny's suitors can't string it comes from the fact they are dumb faggots trying to use raw strength, while also being clueless how to even string a bow. Odysseus just does the counter-intuitive thing of directing the force and thus strings the bow, then turns the suitors into his target practice.
>>97223165Whats a puckee thread? I dont usually click these threads
>>97247419A redditor who spams his commissions on /tg/ and has been doing so for a few years now>>97202272
>>97247428I didn't even full view the op hahahaah figured it was AI hahahaha but fascinating, seeing this i can recognize many threads he started
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>>97243437>enemy plays fetchland>waits 10 seconds>cracks fetchland>waits 20 seconds>gets a land>waits 30 seconds>passes>I play a land and pass in less than 2 seconds>enemy plays fetchland>waits 30 seconds>passes>post combat cracks fetchlandComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97246128Wait, I can get a name change if I just put in a support ticket telling them seeing my dead name causes me distress?
>>97246851Yeah, for sure!I literally just said I wasn't happy with my current nameJust be respectful and you should be good
>>97246444Has anyone made a macro you press when you know you've lost that draws out the game as long as possible without conceding or forfeiting? Then you can just walk away until it's over. If you can't beat 'em might as well frustrate them into maybe quitting.
I refuse to believe Halo Flashpoint is even a 10th as successful as Mantic claims. In terms of online, easy to find metrics it has:3100 people as part of its sub(P)reddit.2100 or so people as part of Facebook Groups.No one discussing it on Twitter gets many likes/comments/retweets.No one big or well known talks about/plays it on Youtube.Yet it's one of the fastest growing and more popular tabletop games to come out recently?I don't buy it.I don't hate the system, but I am baffled by Mantic's ability to get away with lying about how successful this game is.
>>97243089Gundam Assemble has way more motion in my LGS than Halo Midpoint
>>97243076all the gen 7 consolefags got gaming pcs anon
>>97236626Why the fuck are the rules not free...
>>97243139You dont like to kill nazis?
>>97243245I haven't yet seen an IRL SWL or TC games but I've seen a few Halo games played.
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>>97246151>Rate of Degradation:High>Original Countries:Retorian Holy Kingdom, Solanian Federation>City:AaerstaadDrawbacks: All>Extraplanar Allies:Feyfolk, Insectoids>Invaders:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97247263>roleplayingHow I yearn for your optimism...
>>97244625Body: Woman.Home: Storefront, something high class like jeweler or magic item store. Depends what kitsune can help with I guess?1) Catgirl, cook, to take care of the group.2) Catgirl, crafter, helping with the store.3) Kitsune, two tail.Friend: Priestess. Or maybe Sorceress, dunno.Problem: Isekai, for free wolfgirl companion, it's basically free since wolfgirls have no skills this affects and learning to be store/house guard can't be that hard. Having someone who gets your jokes/old job/cultural references looks really important from sanity/adjustment/downtime perspective, too.Cowgirls are ewww, and even if I do eventually convince myself to try that special milk I don't want to see how it's made. Can't be too expensive anyway.
>>97247160>That beta version that the author deemed incomplete the literal next day?That was not a beta version of the Magi Case (There is no beta version), it was not incomplete, and I did not say that. Your statement is completely false.
Who was in the right?
>>97225302I don't understand what the video is implying. The video is showing industrialized food production, but eating human clones doesn't make sense.
>>97221448Well none of the women are, on the basis of being women.
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.
Then an executive saw the K-pop movie Demon Hunters and decided it was a good idea to adapt it into Dungeons and Dragons.Opinions?
History:Greetings, adventurer. Come walk the glowing streets of Lumenica, a cavern-city where runes and sigils blaze like neon, their arcane light woven into stone and crystal, every one a vow that darkness will not win.Such vows are not kept lightly. In Lumenica, they are upheld by the Idols: fierce, stylish heroes who wield blade and spell, fighting with rhythm and song to defend the innocent and drive back the shadows
>>97247390 Idols of the Neon Dark lets you step into the role of a magical idol-warrior in an arcane-neon underground city, combining familiar 5E rules with fresh, performance-based powers.Whether you’re a long-time DM, a parent introducing your kids to D&D-style adventures, or a group of friends who love K-pop, anime, or colourful fantasy, this book gives you everything you need: > A brand-new Idol class with three distinct subclasses.> A K-Pop inspired, fantastical setting where your adventures take place.> A fully guided Adventure taking players from level 1 to 6.
Every day, we stray further from God's light.
Skinwalker 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.
>>97237734This is actually a suprisingly faithful adaptation of The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
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>>97246849samosbor soon
Guys, I want to talk about HELLPIERCERS. I bought this game a bit ago because I thought it looked cool, and I've read it, and I don't know enough people weird enough to play it with me, and I can't stop thinking about it, and I just have to talk about it with someone.>First up: what the fuck is Hellpiercers? And why do you spell it in all-caps? Do you have autism?HELLPIERCERS is a tactical tabletop RPG developed by SandyPug Games alongside a few people who did some dev work on some of the Lancer supplements. It casts the PCs as gnostic demigod heroes and veterans of the War in Heaven, who aided the forces of humanity in regaining their stolen gnosis and slaying the Demiurge, his Archons, and angelic generals. Having conquered Heaven and liberated the mortal plane from the tyranny of false divinity, they now cast their eyes downward, into Hell, where countless human souls remain enslaved by the demon lords below. Hellpiercers, armed with their god-slaying weapons, clad in armor forged from the corpses of angels, lead a war of liberation against the forces of Hell, to free the enslaved souls of every human who has ever lived.I spell it in all-caps because it's title is rendered in all-caps. I'm pretty sure I'm not autistic, but I've never been tested, so who even fucking knows?
>>97243533>It might sound like a nitpick but it's a critical distinctionIf a guy calls himself a god and I kill him, I don't care if he was lying; I'm calling myself a godslayer>It's a red flag that there's no reference in the text to there being any sort of actual god in the settingIn the narrative present, it's been, like, five years since humans put the Demiurge to the sword. They might not actually know about the Pleroma. Or it's an excuse plot for tactical demon-slaying. Probably a little of both.>Even the rapists and child molesters? Would the devs want Hitler to be "liberated"?I won't make any argument on the part of the devs, but if someone told me Hitler was a devout servant of the archons who was consumed by his masters in their hour of need, I'd believe it. In a more abstract sense, if someone told me "Only humans are fit to judge humans. Hitler must be judged, but that judgment is neither the responsibility nor to the right of anyone but humans." I wouldn't... disagree with it.
>>97242679It's edgy atheist christianity for edgy atheist ex-christians: familiar enough to build off of without any real research and also easy to use as the base for a cynical dystopia.
>>97242679Lets you keep the cultural trappings of Christianity while pretending to be not a Christian, have cool badguy demons be good guys and other edgy appealing things. Its an easy stylistic with a lot of prebuilt cultural traction.
>>97242679trannies are disproportionately extremely online
>>97235095Give me the PDF
How do you like your mutants?Do you like them looking more like anthros or circus freak shows?
>>97242872Some old D&D (AD&D? I forgot which edition) had huge tables for generating tieflings before they made them generic horned exotics.
>>97227263Why not use actual deformed people as examples for muties?
>>97242052Oh so the new threads are good. Glad we can always make more.
>>97245108You're actually dumbass if you got that from what I clearly explained otherwise.
i like my mutations unsettling, unnerving, and unexplained
Surprise Edition>2024 PHB Scanhttps://files.catbox.moe/g8oo9h.pdf>Cropped and rotated, but more artifactyMjAyNCBQSEIsIE5vIFRodW1icywgT0NSZWQsIEFub24ncyBCb29rbWFya3MgdHJhbnNmZXJyZWQgb3Zlci4gCgpodHRwczovL2Vhc3l1cGxvYWQuaW8vd2Fvcm9h>2024 DMGhttps://files.catbox.moe/fd04pq.pdf>2024 Monster Manualhttps://files.catbox.moe/atd38s.pdf (D&D beyond version)https://pomf2.lain.la/f/1en5qwum.pdf (scan)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97247248He's the cousin of a guy who's a) very important and b) He is one of the original party members and my character is ridiculously forgiving - so while I didn't resurrect him, we had the ability to. It's also an important note that the party "split" on this issue was 2/4.>2 "team free demon hitler" are dead>1 was K.O and sold to the demon as soon as he came back>1 sold the K.O'd to the demon as soon as he came back >team free will was me and a fighter. Demon hitler had hands, so we ended up getting out (just) with me and the fighter along with the corpse of the other guy. for the record, almost everyone is ok with how it went - even myself, though I do lament how much fucking "work" we just gave ourselves (the joke is currently we just unlocked the extended game DLC) while the problem child continues his agenda pushing, the rest of us are moving on. It's just a pain in the hole and now I have to watch my HP so I don't get into "hoho whoops, gunned you in the back." range.
>>97247246Dilate ywnbaw
>>97247302Choke on your own hate.
noob here, my fighter hit lvl 3 and I liked the idea of Eldrich knight, but instead of learning and using wizard spells, he learns and uses bardic spells, calls himself the grinning knight or some cringe shit, is there any reason why this might be a bad idea,like over/underpowered
Which bard subclass best fits thematically with a bard who studies myths, legends, cultures, and ancient traditions of distant regions?
>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.
Anon posting as Felinid Sgt. Tom here,Thinking about starting a 40k green text sometime next month. Would be great if you nut jobs were to join in.Thinking about having it start on Tropical Pleasure world known for its Nude beaches.Will definitely have a Slaaneshi cult problem.Felinids and more get sent to put down said Slaaneshi up rising.Hilarity ensues, /tg/ 40k style.
>>97247242Lady Sobek here id be happy to join but we did a pleasure world already https://desuarchive.org/tg/thread/96405537/#96477470obviously with /tg/ writefaggotry more is always welcome just figured you should know
>>97247254Sgt. Tom here again.>id be happy to join but we did a pleasure world alreadyFair point... How about a Feral World then?Tropical, humid, and COMPLETELY overgrown with rapidly growing flora and Megafauna tooCatachans riding space dinos anyone?
>>97247294>>97247254Tiny Tam/Spencer of the alpha legion in both threads here Id be happy to do either I have a votann character I wasn't able to work into the thread id enjoy using next thread regardless of which world it is
>>97247294Lady Sobek againsounds good.again, i didnt want to discourage you i like these threads the more the merrier
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.
>>97247274It already is
>>97247274Anon people like Bombergirl for it's fast paced MOBA gameplay. Nobody actually plays it for the splash screens of girls in torn clothes.
>>97247341Uhhh
>>97247195Anime western aesthetic is kino.
>>97247216>Is it similar to any other card games?Bandai games play pretty similar. It's pretty popular so should be able to find games.
Winter Gloom EditionPreviously on /slop/: >>97227237 ▶ Thread Task: Moody and gloomy winter pictures.And maybe characters trying to find a comfy warm corner.▶ Generatorshttps://bing.com/images/create/https://sora.chatgpt.com/https://gemini.google/overview/image-generation/https://perchance.org/ai-text-to-image-generatorComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97246977Hey now, the sky isn't uncaring! It hates you
>>97246977What's with the sweat & dirt & armpits, anon? Are you okay?
>>97246937I'm okay with the cold as long as there's no snow, but it's been awfully warm for christmas
>>97247332I don't usually get snow so it's not something I worry about. It's cool for a little bit but it overstays its welcome
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>>97246710Life one again stands in my way.
>>97246710I am doing too many things at once, as usual. Speaking of.>>97239398Do we have a specific location for the Mystery Bleeding Zone from the mission? Like a park, an abbandoned warehouse, a cemetery, something like that? Did anyone write anything about it?
>>97246432>hits bluntMan, I want to do a jedi one but where we know everyone gets killed by the clone troopers at the end. No powerfagging. Everyone can be as strong as they want. Get the coolest battle scenes they can dream up. But we know where, when and how it ends. No arguments, no drama
>>97245743Thank you!It's alright if you recontextualize it. I just wanted to make a noir-esque detective scene with Kaoru tracking down Grinches.And yeah, fair gripes. I'm surprised people aren't mentioning the rough pacing more since I wrote this in 3 days with low editing.
>>97247145That sounds like ass ngl. Not because the jedi die, but because it's inherently canonslop.
Gets Hot edition>Previous Thread: >>97227248>HH 3.0 - Complete gofile - All Books:https://gofile.io/d/cnJk0N>New Edition, to a great wailing and gnashing of teeth:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/setting/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Official FAQ/Errata/Downloads:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Thread FAQ (very old, remembers Age of Terra)https://pastebin.com/iUqNrrA8https://pastebin.com/8riDmnhS>30k TACTICA & TIPSComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Not too bad for an evening. Anyone else working on anything?
>>97247207I'm gonna onna start my own dire wolf conversion tomorrow.
>>97246639no prob, you can do both, I paint the whole squad in acrylic colors first then do the wash once it's dry to tie everything together and give shadows
I like this art. Sometimes you really need the humies to put the superhumans into perspective.
>>97247207Lovely AT as always anon. I am working on a cheeky Alpha legion allies to plug into my Solar Aux. Just need to build 2 seeker sqauds and a command squad and I will airbrush the lot metallic blue.
