I would like to talk about the Chronicles of Darkness game line Deviant: The Renegades, or more specifically, one major upcoming supplement. Deviant was released in late 2021, and has had three additional sourcebooks since then. A new supplement, Black Vans, has been in playtesting for a while, and is currently being previewed.I am not being paid or sponsored to promote this book in any way. I am just very fascinated by it, and indeed, I already ran a mini-campaign using the playtest material.Deviant is, by default, a game about playing angsty, scarred superheroes who either fight world-manipulating conspiracies or work for them. Black Vans is a toolkit full of variant rules, quick NPC creation, variant character types, and variant genres. These variants range from the minor to the dramatic, completely overhauling what were once non-negotiable, foundational themes and mechanics. Maybe your character is not angsty or scarred at all, perhaps they are a """""regular human""""" like John Wick or Batman, or the campaign might have nothing to do with world-manipulating conspiracies.These variant genres include cyberpunk, high fantasy, post-apocalypse, space opera, and superhero emergence.This is a beefy supplement. For example, one chapter alone dedicates 38,000+ words to playing other monsters of the Chronicles of Darkness: Beasts, changelings, demons, Sin-Eaters, hunters (entirely separate from the variant rules for """natural""" superpowers), mages, mummies, Prometheans, vampires, and werewolves. No additional supplements beyond Deviant are necessary; the rules are self-contained, allowing the group to play a monster mash of an urban fantasy setting without needing a daunting 7+ books. And yes, they are supposed to be balanced against one another, so a vampire in the same group as a full-fledged mage is probably some older Kindred.(Continued.)
What do I need to replicate EGO from project moon?
>>97277915>>97280346It is ultimately the same d10-based dice pool game as Chronicles of Darkness in general, for good or for ill.Resource-management-wise, Deviants have no "Mana" pool. Instead, they work off 1/scene, 1/chapter, and in some cases, 1/story abilities. (Almost like D&D 4e.) However, each Clade has a method of instantly recharging abilities.Black Vans' earlier chapters introduce ways to adjust dice rolling, such as by allowing automatic success under certain conditions.>>97281142The Player's Guide to the Contagion Chronicle actually has a small section on crossing over Deviant and Hunter specifically, though this was not written by Eric Zawadzki.Eric Zawadzki did, however, write Black Vans, which has a much larger and comprehensive section on crossing over Deviant and Hunter.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97276424>Secret World of Alex MackFuck, dude. I completely forgot about that show. Now that I think about it, the Demon: the Descent campaign I ran a while ago accidentally had a bunch of Pete & Pete shit in it, from taking place in a small town full of weirdos that was weirdly isolated from the rest of the world and strangely without place to seemingly everything in town being owned or manufactured by a monolithic corporation with robotic, unsettling employees. How much has my lens for perceiving World of Darkness been informed by Nickelodeon shows from the 90's?
>>97282060what is magic like? spellslots or can you just do it however you like?What level of space opera are we talking about? Only psykers like star wars and starcraft or space magic?
>>97283540As explained here >>97217944, the game cares about five "Clades," Cephalists, Chimerics, Coactives, Invasives, and Mutants. Beyond this, the game does not bother distinguishing magic and super-science from one another; they are essentially two sides of the same coin. Even in-setting, the lines between magic and super-science are very blurry.Here are some examples of various flavorings for powers: >>97242552Even then, two characters within the same Clade might have wildly different flavor. A Coactive could manipulate quantum mechanics, or they may be an outright wizard. An Invasive might be a cyborg, but they could just as easily be the bearer of a cursed blade instead.>What level of space opera are we talking about? Only psykers like star wars and starcraft or space magic?Given the sheer diversity of Clades, it is closer to a kitchen sink space fantasy setting than anything. You can play a Chimeric space druid or a Coactive space wizard just as easily as an Invasive space cyborg or a Mutant bioweapon.
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Happy New Year, everyone!
Happy New Eldritch Year!
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Happy belated new year
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>>97283397In the 2500's their worlds were densely populated, heavily industrialized supported by a booming mining industry. Having a lot of planets doesn't for shit if most of them are populated by a guy with a rake named Bob and his pet seagull named Alan.>>97283433>On the ground Taurians were lagging way harder.>>97283447In practice yes but its a lot more complicated. Rim Worlds was quite strong with a decent military and industry but it was aligned with the SLDF so it wasn't going to help out. When the Reunification War did happen they descended essentially into a civil war over it.Magistracy of Canopus were strong in medical science and had a very strong economy but that didn't translate to them having a strong industry to fall back on nor did they invest heavily on a strong military. So when the Reunification War did break out they did what they did best; spread their legs, welcome the invaders aboard and when the invaders guard was down gave them a pegging that fucked their economy up.Outworlds Alliance were an agrarian society essentially with a non existant military or industry. The best they had were a bunch of kids throwing snowballs at some Dracs. Ended up more as a proxy war between the Davions and Dracs with the Outworlders being caught in the middle.
>>97282608Reminder that anyone who says they wouldn't is gay
>>97283447Asteroid mining needs a lot of highly trained specialists with access to interplanetary shipping and all the tech that entails. Can you see Dracs or even FedSuns allowing something like this? Dracs would sooner murder everyone than allow peasants to have access to machines capable of destroying military bases or tools capable of producing something like this without strict supervision.Taurians were built around it.
Taurian delusions get stronger with every Tex video. Two more videos and they start telling people they won the reunification war.
>>97283546Hegemony kinda had all the Taurians had only like 10 times more. The only thing that was slowing them down is absolutely ridiculous levels of investment into bizarre projects and design by committee that resulted in shit like Essex coming out the other side.
Previous Thread: >>97278407>Most recent bracket system updatehttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-brackets-beta-update-october-21-2025>Outline article introducing the bracket systemhttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/introducing-commander-brackets-beta>Current banlisthttps://magic.wizards.com/en/banned-restricted-list#commander-banned>Former Commander website, where you can learn the basics, and read the format philosophy laid down by the rules committeehttps://mtgcommander.netComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97283259>>97283260Sorry no one thought your "joke" was funny :(Guess pretending to be retarded didn't work out for you.
Currently working on a Krark the thumbless Jund strategy inspired by Catch-22.Basically "what is good for me is good for the syndicate and everyone owns a share".So right now I am looking for cards that look like they benefit the group, but primarily benefit me, cards like wheel of fortune, cards that let the players buy into my ponzi scheme and big spells that kill anyone with kindness or just generally go well with the high stakes high variance nature of the deck. Any recommendations for cards in Jund that lets me exploit my friends for maximum profit?
> I wish we had more 4 color commanders-Andrew Swordbro, 2025
Commander would be more fun if everyone ante'd a booster pack
I think the game's entire color identity is archaic as fuck and that locking essential game mechanics behind colors was extremely retarded design that would've resulted in the instant death of any other tcg made after mtg. Green is the best color because it has reasonable access to the two most important game mechanics, ramp and draw, albeit it handles draw the way it should've been for every color from the start by making it conditional based on what the color generally tries to do (big creatures).The mechanics of the Magic are solid but the design of the color pie and colors themselves is mega shit and if it weren't for the fact it was the first tcg and has a playerbase of sunk cost pay pigs who have turned this game into their intended retirement plans Magic would've folded years ago due to how badly designed its actual color pie and mana system is. I hope someone can finally figure out to just copy Magic's rules but make a better color pie and mana system so mtg finally dies and we can all move onto playing something better.
This is a second OSRG, seperate from the main osrg thread, where you CAN talk about 2e, retroclones, and any osr content you want.This is different than the regular osrg as due to rampant trolling from a handful of bad actors, discussion is impossible.>Troves, Resources, Blogs, etc:http://pastebin.com/9fzM6128>Starter Dungeonshttps://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/86342023/#q86358321PREVIOUS THREAD>>97226728
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>>97281269It's a thread about ALL OSR games, hence the name "OSR General". The fact that you're bitter that your fave isn't old-school doesn't change that in any way.
>>97280846No young fren, I was there when osr was nascent. I had no real need for it. I had my old rule books so didn't need the reprints. Only reluctantly played 3e, even then our DMing and playing was old style in tone even with all those silly feats. Not sure why my friends adopted 3e rules, maybe cult of the new.I was here when people made the first osr generals. Outside of some trollish 4channers, and apparently outside of your blogger's head as he's wrongly conflating things, osr still means what it meant.Your opinionated little blogger hero doesn't get to redefine "osr" to suit his means. He's engaging in revisionism and I reject his attempt. Even if 2e was not, as in his opinion it isn't, "old school" it was and is part of osr and has been for 21 years or more.While it's nice to read him admit Cook wrote frames for modules, though unfortunately mistakenly trying to equate this with railroading, and that>such a thing isn't really different from several treasured modules released earlierhe has the rather poor and wrong opinion that>module tells you to place an encounter at a certain point in timeis bad. There's no real difference between a dm deciding to reschedule, omit or add an encounter all on his own, whether for a module or own adventure, and a dm deciding to do that based on advice from a module. It's called being clever, wise, adaptable.In a footnote he adds>I'm not arguing that the old-school method is the one true way to play D&D, though it's the one I prefer.but the trouble is he's talking about "the old school" when there wasn't a universal and monolithic "the old school" and old school isn't synonymous with old school renaissance.>>97281268Mine wasn't the first reply so you're being a bit choosy.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97279450>no doors are visible>only a stone arch descending into darknessmeh...it got that heavy "grammatically and technically correct but no human ever conveys information like that" feel
>>97281625in no universe is 2e not old school, actual 50-something year old grognards that played holmes and molvay when they came out will call even 5e offshoots like shadowdark and olde sword regin OSR. in reality, you are a cavalcade of autismos
Fs in chat for Spiral and Reed. Another pair of top waifus lost to the bugs.
>>97277512The WIPs come out semi-regularly, they're up to 285.
>>97265461So it really is just Tempo, Beryl, and Fireblade and that one other soroin we saw for one panel left now.
>>97280772>that one other soroin we saw for one panelTalon's been in the series more than Spiral.
>>97280772Can't have more than one of each class of elf in the main cast.
>>97277464>>97277464You can get money if you can get eyes and sell out. You can keep your dignity if you're really fucking good and willing to live like a monk like Ashley Cope. Only recently did she get a publishing deal she felt she could trust.
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>>97275307Yuyu>Akina for cardfights. Yuyu catches enough Ls to keep him somewhat interesting during cardfights and his deck has actual variance in what its doing by design, even if his xod lists get foulAkina>Yuyu for character. Yuyu failed to do in six cours what Akina did in three, who also doesnt get shafted by Tohya Mirei and Danji in the character department at the same time
>>97275579I honestly fucking hate Danji as a character. So much fucking wasted potential and hia development fucking sucks. He starts off as this cool big brother type with a hidden backstory and mysterious motivations. But the more you learn, thr worse it gets. He ends up being a shitty person with little actual substance or justification for his terrible behavior. He's just annoying now.
whats supposed to be the higher rarity in SVE? SP or SL?
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>>97283300I mean, as long as you survive it's not a bad deal (become 4th gen, be a blood doll for some time).
Come to think of it, if the regular Ventrue feeding restrictions apply to their antediluvian, that'd mean he'd be able to get vitae from human blood, right? It wouldn't make any sense to have a refined taste that doesn't actually give you vitaeWould that make him the only ante that can feed from humans?But his actual refined taste is probably something really bad, like can only feed from world's top 2 richest people or such
>>97283348I thought all antes could drink from humans in the beginning? Sure, as they got older the desire/need for the forbidden drink became stronger, but by then ventru was already actually dead.
>>97283242Thinking more about mechanics than in-game reactions.I had this idea in a HtR game to reward the Imbued that reach max Convinction by retiring the "old" hunter and turning them into Solar Exalted.
>>97274976This is the type of bullshit that wod was made for.
Dubs and above turn into canon.
>>97282125Alright. This setting does not exist. It's just a shitty WB thread ruined by a bad gimmick. None of this exists.
Several pages in and I think we can call this thing closed. The dubs gimmick ultimately failed with even the OP giving up on the sheer amount of spam that followed.
>>97282435>>97282454Yakub kills everyone. The end.
This is a bad thread. The sheer amount of spam overtook whatever potential this thing could've had. What's sad is that there were people who were trying to add to it, especially early on but ultimately lost out to gooners and shitposters which led to the thread going nowhere at all. Even the OP took off.>>97282533As a lore fag, this is the biggest W of them all.
The current Caliph is Alef al-Harbiniya residing in Dajaaj which is an ancient capital of a long gone cat empire
>join a game>it's a new system>spend time looking through book, get ideas, munchkin slightly to at least have a good mechanic character, think backstories and character immediately, be excited to play>takes me a few hours to get my character in>at worst, it takes a day>everyone else takes like 2 fucking weeks because hurr durr gotta read a book and that's so difficult life comes first>join a game>its 5e DnD shit>since it's the most popular shit and easy to make just need to think of a character and ask what others are playing>get a character in 1 hour>others take fucking days to week>life, job, friend, vidya whatever is the excuseFuck. normalfags. Kill them all. Tabletop and nerd culture becoming the hip thing to do is the worst thing that has happened to this once niche culture.I work 40 hours a week, play vidya, workout, have to take out parents/grandparents out to eat on holidays and birthdays, and I can meet schedule and play tabletop just fine because this is my hobby and has been my hobby for 20 years. If you truly love something you can make time for it. There is no excuse.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97275912I think I'm too far on the opposite end, where I'm so abnormal I'll sit at a table by myself for hours just testing mechanics I'd enjoy in games, because I'm not going to ever get mechanics like those sitting with a group "game", and my friends aren't interested in tabletop games that aren't casual card games like UNO or Cards Against Humanity.But you're so fucking right about being able to make time for something you love; most people just like to flake and make excuses. I get maybe two days to myself if I'm lucky, and I still find time to either develop mechanics or test them.
I agree
Isharmla..
>>97275912>>97282627Which games let me play as Isharmla?
>>97275912That's also something that annoys me a lot. Players sign up for a game weeks in advance, then, one or two days before the session they sent a message: "I forgot my aunts birthday. Can't join the session." Fuck you! I spent hours writing a story, integrating the characters, preparing props. It really makes me want to drop the hobby.
Why do "modern" and modern people go insane when they see some eldritch blorblo, but Conan could just kill it without going "aaaaaahhh save me niggerman!!!!!"
>>97283247What if i don't care and just take the thread as an excuse for talking about conan because i think he's cool, huh?
>>97283317Well he did rock bangs like no other man ever could. Neither Schwarzenegger nor Mamoa even tried. Sorbo did though(Kull isn't Conan but you get it).>>97281870Since we are talking about games, PCs in Conan 2d20 are surprisingly competent combatants but fear(threaten) attacks, that horrors do very well, sometimes without even using an action throught the Fear X trait, can absolutely shred them in one round.
Lovecraft's protagonists are usually intellectuals. They're highly educated individuals with a lot of knowledge regarding the inner workings of the universe and the nature of society. They lose their minds not because the monsters project a supernatural insanity field that makes people go crazy, but because they realise that a great deal of their knowledge is built on falsehoods and that the universe is far larger and far stranger they ever thought. Their entire identity as educated men disintegrates and the world as they know it is destroyed. So, they lose their minds.Take someone less cerebral who doesn't give a fuck about how things work, who isn't curious or informed about the universe, who just accepts the current state of affairs and adapts to it, whatever it might be. This caveman survivalist would take on deep ones without giving a fuck about how they are supplanting humanity and violating our entire species. He would see Cthulhu as another terrible monster like an orca or a polar bear, some great beast to be feared but not as a sign that his entire reality has been built on a lie, so he wouldn't go insane. He would take one look at non-euclidean horrors and assume that they just look funny and behave in strange and unusual ways, rather than lose his mind over this flagrant disregard for the rules of physics as he understands it.The more intelligent you are and the more you value your intelligence, the more vulnerable you are to Lovecraft's horrors. Conan has the perfect incurious, action-over-intellectualism psychology to face everything that Lovecraft ever devised without blinking.
Imagine thinking that insanity in cosmic horror is that you actually go crazy and not just that the truth you've learned means everyone else thinks and treats you as crazy
>>97281870In actual Lovecraft and not the pastiches, people tend not to go entirely mad witnessing eldritch horrors. They instead demonstrate symptoms of what we would today call PTSD, which makes sense, because Lovecraft was writing in a recently post-WW1 world and evinced clear interest in the trauma then known as 'shell shock.' Lovecraft himself had a lifelong fear of heritable insanity due to his parents, and this also shows in some of his work.Conan, for his part, does show bad fear and trauma when he encounters the ineffable more than once. Hell, just seeing a dead dude revived as a zombie by a friendly evil wizard upsets him. REH intended Conan as an ideal/aspirational character, and in-fiction you could argue his Cimmerian upbringing and mercenary life selected for a protagonist more resilient to trauma.Oh, and traditional games? Faggot.
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>>97282542All these are exactly the kind of ideas I was trying to avoid since they really make a couple of builds the center of the story rather than on par with the rest.>>97282581>I feel like the revival plan should be "perfect" in the sense that, with no interference, a high power level for the ressurectee could be achieved. So instead of them reviving a mid-low tier threat setting wise, they end up reviving a high tier threat but with weaker power (in order to be fightable) due to PC interference.That's what I meant with my suggestion. I feel like if they have a god guiding them there would be less chances of mistakes, since the god would find out and react. I guess we could go with a god that can't comunicate to allow for a weaker revival. So we can also have the scene where it awakens unaware that the ritual was fucked up and it isn't at full power, so it gets beat up and runs away to gather more power.
Back from the end of year break.I'm only playing MP, before I go deep diving into the last few threads has anything major happened? New writefags or plot developments. I see it looks like we are discussing the BBEG?
>>97282721It was christmas so basically nothing happened.Moyu anon wrote something, other anons came back and made promises. That and what you see here is about it.
>>97282092There was a proposal that they're "pure land" type of a sect, and their plan is to extend the ancient domain to the entire north domain to nerf the cultivators.
Which characters are going on the expedition again?
I started working on a Science Fantasy TTRPG. It was originally a GURPS setting, but i wanted something more pulpy, less realistic, and it's spun off into its own thing.Here's the latest draft, tell me what you think>https://files.catbox.moe/maxhmu.pdfthe new captcha is fucking gay btw
coulding find a description of what "breaching" does, its a tag on shaped charges.i assume its an anti armor thing seeing asthe damage itself is only about two gunshots for something that cuts through bulkheads
>>97283375i realized that too. it's been updated.thanks for the catch :)
>>97283395although maybe since a shaped charge bypasses vehicle scale, 5d10 is a little much...
>>97283398not in the leastit doesnt blow you awaythrow you aroundit cutsstick an arm into the blast zone and you will stay where you are and past that line of deliniation the arm will have been cut to its interity, disintegrated if you will. same with concrete and steele.by the current stats it has less than a 50 percent chance to drop an unarmored human to 0 if they fail the dodge check.it is frankly generous.
>>97283484lmao alright. i did watch a video a couple weeks ago of a shaped charge splitting a tungsten vube into 4.
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>>97282603The Emperor Protects
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>>97283142Thank you very much
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>>97279663Would anyone happen to have 40k 8th edition Harlequin codex? Please and thank you.
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