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.
>>97236853Argos has historically been a word defined and used by the Church to mean laziness, slow, and idleness in duties you should perform for God (worship, charity, etc). So the City of Argos can be translated as "(Performing) No Good for God" in Christian context. Maybe it succumb to Sloth worship in some manner and was wiped out for it? They must've posed a unique threat for God to have taken action personally, something potentially that violated his plan.
>>97190110>Finally got my pre order from the summer from onlygames that were meant to arrive in september>it's missing literally half my minis and another one has a missing part that didnt even snap off, they just shipped a mini without a featureGenuinely quite dissapointed, it's been a shitshow from start to finish and now it will drag out even furtherMerry christmas i guess
>>97237344Should be able to get replacements if you email
>>97236990>Seething thieving poorfag calls me a redditorOh no! Whatever shall I do?
>>97237808It's Christmas Anon, have a heart for the poorfags kek
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.
I don't even know anyone who's played the Halo video games.
>>97236626I want to buy the elites as a painting project but my FLGS hasn't gotten them in yet.
Will George Floyd get a mini?
>>97236626Bungiefags will buy virtually anything even if they never intend to play it. The fact that they only reached the breaking point on Destiny's bullshit THIS YEAR, after a decade of "vaultings" of $100 DLC, is actually insane.
>>97236626I probably would have picked it up if it hadn't been based on the vidya pvp model from day 1. Spartan vs Spartan tdm is lame for a wargame.
Christmas edition▶What is Kingdom Death?Kingdom Death is a tabletop miniature brand stared by Adam Poots and operated by himself and his Team that later spun off into a miniature based bored game funded by two very successful Kickstarter campaigns.▶What is Kingdom Death: Monster?Monster is a Nightmare Horror cooperative boss battler/miniature hobby game for 1-4 players about hope in a strange world of bizarre monstrosities and perpetually darkness. Players take on the role of survivors that band together to form a settlement, fighting monsters, crafting weapons and gear, and developing their civilization to ensure survival from generation to generation.Prologue Narration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNLc8dHv0AcThe Game is broken up into 3 phases:1. During your Hunt Phase your band of survivors traverse the world of KD in pursuit of their quarry.2. After successfully tracking your quarry you will begin the Showdown Phase, where you must fell these horrific creatures in order to acquire precious resources.3. After the battle, your survivors wander home with loot in hand to begin the Settlement Phase. Arm yourself by developing new weapons and bizarre structures to prepare for next year's hunt.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Merry Atnas Day to all anons. May you all receive a jolly lump of Atnas and have minimal offspring disappearances.
>try and name a survivor somthing serious, especially with a surname>Obliterated instantly on any hunt or showdown due to bad luck>other players name survivors shit like Loaf, Schnappi, Bagel, ect>Shining Davior of the phoenix who has reached God like levels of permanent stats and a robust bloodline of weapon mastersEdgy is out. Retarded is in.
>>97231483Old Master art is pretty amazing.
I've decided in the new year I'm going to finally start putting my armor kit survivors together, and I'm going to put half of them in "stereotypical" loadouts and save the other half to immortalize important survivors at the end of campaigns. With that in mind, how does this sound for the stereotypical ones: >Unarmored: Bone Sword, Bone Axe, Bone Sickle + Pickaxe + Bone Darts, Catgut Bow>White Lion: Paired White Lion Katars, Paired White Lion Daggers>Gorment: Gaxe + Knuckle Shield + Gorn, Rib Blade>Silk: Amber Poleaxe, Paired Hooded Scrap Katars>Screaming: Counterweighted Axe, Lance of Longinus>Phoenix: Rainbow Katana, Paired Sonic Tomahawks>Rolling: Digging Claw + Beacon Shield, Juggernaut Blade>Dragon: Nuclear Scythe, Nuclear Dagger>Cycloid: Ink Blade, Skleaver>Rawhide: Cat Gut Bow, Rawhide Whip>Leather: Zanbato, Skullcap Hammer + Leather Shield>Lantern: Dragon Slayer, Bone Club + Beacon Shield
>>97226604idk what this is or anything I just came to say awooga at that picture
Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy? >A world rocked by cataclysm>landscapes filled with chaos and wonder>mage storms>An enduring mystery; what happened, and what happened in the intervening centuries?>An atmosphere of hope and renewal, as heroes rise, and mysteries are investigated.>Darkness and evil await in corners and ruins, like pools of dank water waiting for the sun>the brink of a New Age Interesting setting? What elements would you include? I'm just gonna throw zombies at them.
>>97224798Ewwwwwww
I like the Thundarr approach.
I've been working on a fantasy post apocalyptic TTRPG. Just starting to get art for it now so it's hard to share it on /tg/ outside of the monthly game dev threads.
>>97237504This looks cool. :-)
>>97219278I like the concept, but it depends heavily on what exactly the pre-apocalyptic state of the setting was. Was it a high-magic medieval stasis (or antiquity stasis) paradise, like Netheril from FR? If so, that makes a good backstory for structures like ancient, evil ruins and old dungeons and such.I really like the idea of a pretty "standard" fantasy world that exists in the ruins of a modern or sci-fi civilization, where among the more recent dungeons of the typical character you might expect there's also ancient shopping malls and skyscrapers and crashed space stations and shit around. Bonus points if magic and such existed in the pre-apocalypse too and remnants of advanced magitech one might expect from a 21st century (or beyond) and there's dangerous but powerful artifacts the players can salvage or interact with. The only issue here is you'd have to either ignore the elephant in the room of guns and other modern technology that would cause mechanical or gameplay problems or come up with some reason they can't be used (or go through the probably significant effort of shoving modern firearms or laser guns or mopeds or whatever-have-you into whatever system you're running).
>Session 1 of buddy's new campaign>It's clear he hasn't read the rules at all and is totally winging it
>>97232744>HE'S actually put together a group, with players, and is out there running the gameIf you can't do something perfectly then you shouldn't do it. Get it right or stop.
>>97230596>Prepare to run game in new system>Make sure I have read all the rules>Go over them in the half hour before the game, just to be sure>Session starts>Can't remember a single rule or mechanic>Trying to remember them chases the resolution for the session from my headI think I'm retarded.
>>97230596It's almost new year's, do you think SIR will post a new comic for 2026 or is he a thing of the past?
>>97235209The only person I've seen do that was at least in his 50s and didn't seem entirely clear on which edition he was running.
>>97236400Make me.
>Dragons that exist on a level above Kings and are paid tribute but otherwise largely don't interfere with the affairs of mortals Vs>Dragons establish their own empires with their own bureaucracies, integrating half-dragons, dragonborn, humans, kobolds, and other racesWhich do you prefer? Or is there one that fits a particular type of dragon more than the others?
>do you like red car or blue car or a different car entirely
>>97237640>Dragons are a dangerous animal: their only interactions with civilized societies are violent
>>97237640Fully-grown dragons should be treated like natural disasters. Towns and cities around areas that dragons have claimed as their territory should be ruins that were evacuated long ago out of fear, if not already burnt to a crisp. Killing one should be unthinkable - not because of morality, but because it simply can't be done. How does one kill a hurricane? A tornado? A tsunami? You can't do anything except wait for it to go away, or pray it doesn't hit.
>>97237640I prefer whichever one is a part of a game, and a game whose play has fewer interruptions, and whose interruptions are shorter duration; but ideally, a game whose play has no interruptions at all.
>>97237845Okay, keep to your video games since we all know you don't play tabletop ones.
>>97211865how would a rogue prevent a monster from attacking a caster?
>>97231040Well, there's the issue right there; this thread is predicated on unanswered questions in regards to a gay frogposter's likely fake scenario that didn't provide a game or hardly any context to begin with.All we ("we" as in, those of us with interest in this topic) have to go on is it's supposedly a game, and has at least rogues and casters as character options, and features hostile monsters.
>>97229548WTF is the OP's pic supposed to be of?
>>97230655sounds like fag shit
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How do you run an all dwarf campaign
>>97233986True, I forgot that in my interpretation, but the rest of it would be true. They would be seeing things for the first time constantly, would have improper or non existant instincts for above ground situations, and likely either a sense of wonder or dread/disgust for everything they come across. Think of an old tiny hamlet medieval Catholic lady obsessively crossing herself every five minutes because she’s walking downtown Las Vegas. A dwarf would be doing similar things for their first time above ground, gawping at the sky or a lake or birds, signing the cross equivalent everytime they see a wooden building or stone structure that was made of brick instead of carved of fully native stone. Would they even understand the concept of windows or think they’re senseless unnatural openings? All kinds of things would be new and uncanny and scary or awe inspiring to them. Might even cause them to become completely neurotic.
>>97234008Dwarves literally craft windows for underground village homes. They keep the bugs out, while letting them keep an eye on the neighborhood. The primary differences between an underground village or city in a fantasy setting and one on the surface are building materials, flora and fauna, disasters (cave ins, quakes, and floods vs. hurricanes and hail or snow), and the sky or lack thereof.There may be cultural differences as well.But most dwarven and even drow cities are similar to surface cities and built in immense caverns.
>>97234156That’s because the people who write them can’t think about living other ways, but such caverns are rather rare and it makes zero sense build a house from blocks in a cavern when you can readily tunnel. You should go look at the designs of the actual underground cities and villages in human history and see what I mean. Theres one in turkey that held an estimated 20000 people iirc and there’s not a window in the whole damn thing. It’s like a human ant hive.
>>97171380It was a hill dwarf.
>>97232194>How do you accurately roleplay as a dwarfBe very drunk
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Merry Sanguinala-Eve, /slop/! The tale of the Techpriestess continues from: https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97090988/#q97097155 Here we have the last gens of the dearly departed Old Sora. Requiescat in gloria ad aeternum.>Scarcely noticing as the Inquisitor rejoined the others, the Techpriestess ushered her guests onto a lift platform set into the wall of the Enginarium, promising the nobles that it would bear them to one final wonder on their tour of her ship. Yet as the platform rose out of the acrid smoke and arcing energies of the reactors below, the nobles stood as grim as men heading to the gallows. After hours wandering the automaton-haunted corridors of this cursed ship, there hung about them all a feeling that they were being led unto an inescapable doom.>Upwards, ever upwards the platform rushed, through hundreds of meters of stygian darkness, until with the thunderous grinding of distant gears, a crack appeared in the blackness above them as a set of massive blast doors parted, flooding the lift with brilliant golden light. >With a sudden jolt, the lift ground to a halt, depositing the party onto the wind-swept outer hull of the 'Pitiless Blade,' shielding their eyes from the searing rays of the setting sun that stabbed down through the thin upper atmosphere of Sarnath. Though little more than a ledge upon the superstructure, the Priestess beckoned the nobles to join her out on the radiation-pitted adamantine plating with a mad theatricality. She had promised her guests wonders, and did not fail to deliver, for who among Mankind could say that they had walked on the outside of a void ship?>No sooner had the nobles realized that they were not being conducted to a vivisection chamber than they congratulated Salafié on a most excellent "prank," and wandered out along the hull, each doing their very best to convince their fellows that they had not been in terror of their very souls but minutes earlier. All, that is, save for one of them...
>>97237722>Inquisitor Corsini stood at the edge of the hull, contemplating what could be the last sunset he would ever see. Though abandoned by his order and opposed by a foe even he could not truly comprehend, the day of his vengeance was finally at hand. The sabotage device was in place, and all that remained was to choose the proper moment to strike.>Interrupting his thoughts, the sibilant voice of Salafié came from behind him; "You draw close to the edge, my lord. Take care lest you should fall.">The Inquisitor scowled under his hood at the double meaning of her words and responded in kind; "He who walks in the Emperor's light does not stumble, heretic.">"He speaks at last..." Salafié drew up alongside the Inquisitor, gazing out at the blazing horizon. "But heretic? Surely you misspeak. Have not the High Lords of Terra themselves attested to my innocence?">"Do not speak to me of innocence!" the Inquisitor growled, his voice like low thunder, "Nor of your pardon bought with the blood money of that damned Rogue Trader. I was there the day your machines laid waste to my homeworld. There and on a dozen worlds since, I bore witness to your guilt with my own eyes.">"Ah..." the Priestess sighed, "So you are the one who hunts me. Am I all you imagined I would be?">"Do you mock me? You stand accused! Have you nothing to say for yourself?"Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97237735>"The God-Emperor will punish you for your pride.">"Such certainty..." Salafié gave a hollow laugh, "Know that I have been slain time and again over the centuries, and ever have I been recalled to life by the same technologies for which you call me heretic. Yet in all of this, never has the Emperor passed judgment on my soul. If I am damned, it is by my hand alone.">"Blasphemy..." the word came reflexively to the Inquisitor's lips. "Blasphemy!" he bellowed once more, raising an accusing finger at the Priestess.>Moving with a speed and force the Inquisitor could not have hoped to counter, Salafié seized his outstretched arm, bones cracking under the grip of pneumatic claws. Even as he tried to pull away, Corsini felt his heavily muscled frame yielding to the hideous strength of metal limbs that folded him into an embrace and drew him irresistibly towards the precipice.>"I waste my words on you, zealot," she hissed in Corsini's ear as she forced him closer and closer to the howling gulf of open air. "Well, Inquisitor? Here is your prey, and there the ledge. If you are so sure of your faith, but ask it of me and I will bear us both down to our fate below, and prove whether the Emperor's will is the match to my artifice." >With a sudden exertion, the Inquisitor wrenched himself free from Salafié's grasp, collapsing to the deck with a groan. "I have nothing to prove to you, abomination," the Inquisitor gasped between ragged breaths, "You will not escape judgment!">"You lack the courage of your convictions, Inquisitor." the Priestess sneered down at him, before sweeping away to rejoin her noble guests, confident that beneath the Inquisitor's costume of fanaticism beat the heart of a coward. But for all her talents, Salafié was a poor judge of character, and even as Corsini lay upon the decking nursing his shattered arm in the fading evening light, he resolved that he would be a martyr before the dawn.
What are some things that retired adventurers in double-digit levels could get up to in a city?I have an idea for a faction for the next chapter of my campaign being built around five such figures who hold different forms of formal or informal power in the same city, and are still on friendly terms with each other. Each of the five has a successful business operation or other field of influence which may or may not be related to their class abilities, and they can call upon each other for assistance if they run into problems of any kind.
Most adventurers either die on the job or become vagabonds once they cannot do the job anymore.
>>97237394Most. I want these five to feel like the competent exception, good enough to retire comfortably while still being "in the game" to the point where they get most of the reward with little of the risk.
>>97237367What game?Assuming 5e double digits is high enough to solo mid level devils and demons, so you're probably on retainer with a mercenary company defending the city or its more powerful institutions, leading your own prominent temple, enjoying high placement as a city official or as celebrity researchers/alchemistsReally this is easily solved by writing the characters first, then assigning them an organization after
Since you're obviously talking about D&D where even reaching second level as an adventurer means you've made more money than the average commoner will see in his entire life, these people are probably going to be too wealthy to care about anything besides engaging in unspeakable acts of hedonism.
They'd probably have their own "games" they play with each other that ends up involving the citizens of the city. From staging fights or bar brawls to couping each other for fun or disguising as monsters or villains and menacing the population only to be defeated by one of the others. They're effectively demigods they can do whatever they want, maybe pay dudes to larp with them to try and respark that old feeling of their adventuring days
How has a wife/girlfriend joining the group affected your games?
>>97223311There characters kept having sex and the wives didn't want to play the game much beyond that
>>97235337Well, there's nothing women hate so much as their husbands being happy, so it tracks they aren't going to want to be in that environment.
>>97234669>when you sternly tell them to stop being such a fuckwit at the game table because they wanted to eat/rape an elf babyImagine being a faggot and trying to stop this.
>>97229001>>97229080>>97229087>>97229149>>97229167>>97229179>>97229228>>97229256>>97229283Okay guys, lets stop talking about board games and your shitty group. Tell me who's your favorite tranny?
>>97237863You.
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
>>97235698I've been using these retards since 2010, but I don't disagree that ose is good.However, I'm running a game for dudes that grew up on WoW, bg3 and RuneScape.
>>972352554E runs much much better with the compendium and character builder.
>>97236301>running a game for dudes that grew up on bg3If they grew up on BG3 then you're probably not old enough to post, OP
>>97236988While the Essentials line is stinky, to say the least, having Heroes of the Fallen/Forgotten Lands on hand means that you have an easily passed around copy of the core errata. That's part of the reason why I took it off my FLGS's hands some time ago.>>97237057Well, open development for BG3 did last for a very, very long time.
>>97237714I wouldn't call 3 years ago very, long, long time
What the fuck was the Emperor doing during the DAOT and the age of strife?
>>97204994>What the fuck was the Emperor doing during the DAOT and the age of strife?Being King Fedora, smug about the death of religion and sitting in the back chortling to himself as mankind tore itself to shreds. Frankly with the DAOT's level of advancement that was probably a wise choice. Dark Age tech could compete with War In Heaven tech and godslaying would have been piss easy for Dark Age mankind.
>>97221845>Next you'll act like the primarchs were actually his "sons" and not just warlordsWorse than that. He compares them to Pinocchio. In his mind they're barely even human.
>>97204994The Unification Wars ended like a week before the debut of the Astartes, the Imperial Palace was being built, the Scattering had already happened and the highest ranking mortals on Terra still didn't know that Emps had already taken the whole planet yet, he let them think he was still finishing off the last few warlords. So, I would say he was developing the Primarchs and Astartes almost right up until the start of the Crusade.
>>97204994Gooning to Erda
>Be a Perpetual that watched Big E kick you from power and hijack power from you,.>Retard crashes and burns humanity with shitty empire.I would be laughing my ass off.
Have you ever roleplayed a female character?
>>97236159Roleplaying is deciding the character and behavior of someone who isn't oneself.Pretending is role adoption, which is one kind of roleplay, but not the only kind.It isn't that hard to understand.
>>97237242>taking something not cool and adding porn to it?Someone literally caused a cultural shift by taking goblins and making them shortstacks.
>>97234706What is that?
I have a cool idea for a threadWhat about talking about the human aspect of the psychological implication of a male (in real life, on the material plane) roleplaying as a girl in the Etos of the world, the non-manifested existance (kinda like in a computer game, but let's say something a bit more material and less abstract, maybe one of those pen and paper games with funny dices)
>>97237821Nah this would archive with maybe 3 replies.
>>97236119>in the coming pagesSo, another six months.
>>97229250What exactly is Nale expecting to get out of this? Why the fuck would you blow the best tactical advantage you could EVER have (enemy not knowing you're coming) to try and team up with a team that he's stabbed both in the back and in the face?
>>97237435Because The Order isn't an enemy unless Nale makes them an enemy. His goal doesn't involve The Order. 1316 goes over the general change in his mindset. Nale's goal is to break the last gate. The Order is the group that's going to be within spitting distance of it, and working with them openly is the best cover possible. Fighting them just wastes time and resources, and hiding from them would likely fail. Nale also has no intel on the gate's location beyond it being somewhere in the wall of doors. The Order is his best shot at information. On top of that, unlike with Xykon there's no impetus for The Order to specifically protect the gate from Nale, so even if he has to retreat they're not going to act any differently.
>>97237435Cause whether he realizes it or not, Nale's still living by the same tired old tropes of the evil twin/rival dichotomy, just that this time it's the old "rivals team up temporarily against a far greater threat". And it makes sense to a degree, Xykon alone is basically way too much for Nale's team by themselves nevermind Redcloak and Oona, and considering he has no personal beef with Elan anymore due to how he can't blame his twin for his current deal it makes sense to work with someone who grasps that Xykon is the bigger threat in the here and now to their respective goals.
>>97237486>working with them openly is the best cover possible. Fighting them just wastes time and resources, and hiding from them would likely fail.except they call his bullshit immediatelysuccessfully lying to them is even more likely to fail than hidingit is possible he will still manage to convince them, but it will be against some really long oddsthe obvious choice is to wait for Roy and Xykon to fight and then act amidst the chaosmaybe Nale feels it will take too long for them to clash, and his tacky makeover is time-limited
