>>97349486
The bandits are allied with a settlement for trade. They demand tribute rather than just attacking. They're led by an interesting/charismatic character, like a nobleman. They've come into possession of a valuable item that they can't get rid of for anything close to a reasonable price

The bandits offer to handle part of a quest for coin. They fake it convincingly. The PCs can find their hideout.

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>>97353837
This is how my current 3.5 campaign started (though technically he was from a merchant house LARPing as one).

>>97349486
Make the ambush so unexpected or so weird, people go with it.
Last time I had a bandit ambush in a game, there was a dead man and a dead wolf on the road, apparently killing each other. When one of the players decided to check, the wolf spring out on him and the "dead" man fired a crossbow at one of our wagon's horses.
Was unexpected enough that everyone went with it, especially since it kinda fit into the campaign goal and sides of conflict in it to be ambushed by bandits like that.

The "bandits" intervene on the party's behalf in a fight theyre not necessary in then demand a fee thats worth more than the loot.

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>>97355762

I wish they'd included a plastic Samwise with the phial in there. Hobbit minis are only an inch tall FFS. And it would have increased the set's appeal to collectors/painters/diorama-makers.

And the competitive crowd are mad the base size went up.

I'll probably grab it eventually.

>>97355762
GW has been moving away from Resin for a while now. I wouldn't be surprised if we get any new resin models after next week

>>97348058
I have kind of told him that screening is a better choice for the most part, but he just says he would rather deal with the ball carrier directly rather than waiting, and he says that the threat of a blitz is still there so he wants to take the fight to players directly to hit people before he gets hit. He even sends his throwers and catchers after people. I would get it if he throw his weight against stunties or he was making a risky play for a touchdown, but this is not it. I have shown screening when I play other teams, but he does not seem to fully get what I am doing.

>>97356705
>he wants to take the fight to players directly to hit people before he gets hit.

And he has a hard time understanding that basing the opposition generally guarantees he is the one who gets hit first? He might actually be retarded.

>>97355762
>tactical rocks
>nice!
NGMI

>>97344438
They seem to be better balanced between their individual books but when you bring it from other books or especially from the DBee book.

This does not apply to the Ultimate Edition, ironically. Those OCCs are kind of the ones found everywhere, including space. They are not balanced with within themselves at all. Really, I would not call the ultimate edition at all. Its more like a very thick primer for people to join games.

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Here is the rough for the skullwalker. I tried drawing it first but I don't think that worked as well as I hoped. Looks kinda like modok mixed with darth vader.

Which is the best glitterboy & which ones might as well be scrap?

>>97353596
That does look pretty silly. It's going to be hard to get an accurate, scary-looking spidertank from that angle. Good luck to ya.

>>97344438
The game is old-school and assumes the GM has a brain large enough to comprehend that certain upper and lower limits have to be set at the beginning of the game, tailored to the part of the world and power level the GM is expecting to run, not "Make any PC from any of the 100 books, I don't care lol".

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>>97353752
Best? The space one from mutants in orbit.
Worst glitter girl. Of the real ones, the black markwt non glitter "shodow boy" is truly the worst
Here is the crazy SA one

>>97356733
>lies
>>97290527
They started in 2021. This is the current iteration of this cancerous shit.
Keep seething.

>>97290527
>>97356927

So he's iterated on it, gone through stages of playing with fad components like NFT's, abandoned them, and persisted.

Sounds like you just don't like the guy.
Like it or not, he's still trying to make something.
And I haven't seen him ask anybody for money.

At this point, I'm going to bump these threads whenever I see them just to spite you.

>>97357072
>im gonna keep doing what I've already been doing.
Lol okay OP.

>>97357090
Actually, I was bumping them because the concept is cute, and I like green frogs and silly memes.

NOW it's about spite.
You ain't gonna enjoy looking at the front page for a while buddy.

Ciao, finocchio.

>>97357147
So your literally just going to prove me right by not even engaging with the thread and just keeping it artificially bumped. Lol. Why don't you just order a free pack of cards and post a picture of it and I'll literally leave. It's free and youd support the game you already want to support. Can't be that daunting of a thing to do unless by posting a picture you might reveal something.

>>97349794
I mean yes this movie was famously repulsive. Most depictions of animal people are less disgusting than this.

>>97356436
Ngl I'd still do a significant portion of the female cast

How do I introduce mythologically-inspired Feline People? Batet-kin Cat People or Leopard-Men in Not-Africa? Jaguar people in Not-America?

>>97356577
Which probably has little to do with the artstyle being good and more with you being desperate horndog.

>>97356666
Not untrue, Mega Satan

>>97348405
>too much of a bitch to reply and make a real argument.
Fiasco is for telling stories where some big plan goes sideways. Monster of the Week is PBTA for Scooby-Doo capers, usually supernatural mysteries. Sluglaster is FITD (PBTA-adjacent) gonzo, 80s themed sci-fi about cool kids doing hoverboard tricks.

None of them emulate Scott Pilgrim.

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>>97349178
I give you points for not doubling down on your bitchiness and actually providing reasons this time.
You're underselling MotW as Scooby-Doo. It features serialized mysteries themed around investigating and taking down the titular monster of the week, but unlike with the mystery gang that shit is assumed to be real. It's not just Barry the janitor in an animatronic, there's legit supernatural stuff going on. Fuck, even the players can use magic. That's practically the same thing as a serialized sequence of urban fantasy mysteries/fights against seven deadly exes. I mean it's literally based off fucking BtVS, if you can't see the similarities there then I'm afraid I can't help you.

Likewise with Slugblasters, "cool kids do X supernatural shit while dealing with mundane life drama" is literally Scott Pilgrim.

You're bang on about fiasco not emulating SP. That's the only kudos I can give your retardation, however. Frankly I preferred thinking of you as malicious.

>>97350001
MotW having actual supernatural shit does not make it a good fit for Scott Pilgrim. It's not "practically the same thing" just because there's some magic. It's also PBTA which OP specified he does not want.

Slugblaster, likewise, is a poor fit. It's all gadgets and robots and "HEY REMEMBER THE 80s/90s?!" but it's a FITD game, which means it's about staging heists and adventures and trying not to fuck everything up. The FITD component already disqualifies it again. It's just clocks and handwaving shit, like most FITD games are.

Scott Pilgrim isn't cool kids doing supernatural shit. It's painfully mundane outside of the fights, which was kind of the entire point. Scott can't fist fight his way into a healthy relationship and until he realizes that, he'll continue to be a fucking loser and an asshole. If you want big combat in between hyperbolic 20-something relationship drama, both are a bad fit.

>>97344560
apothecaria
one day at a thyme
iron valley
although idk how much like scott pilgrim they are.

>"Slice of life"
>Roleplaying as a human being with a life

That's tragic man.
I was going to make fun of the notion, but actually, It's sad.
Like actually "dead dog" sad
Rather than "You are so sad" sad.

>>97326799
MTG seems to have the best underlying game systems (yes, lands are still the the best resource system out of any of the big TCG's and half the problem of new games is trying to "fix" lands)
WOTC is still retarded however

>>97328387
Pokemon: best gameplay, best cost, but dogshit art
MTG: Dogshit gameplay, extremely expensive, dogshit art
YGO: the most dogshit gameplay ever, extremely expensive, ok art
Honestly I would play Pokemon if the cards werent so ugly

that's the second-best outcome tbqh.

the best is just: delete thread, ban OP. you COULD make some /pol/ thread ACTUALLY about big-lipped gorilla-men in your setting. or you could simply not, and /tg/ remains better off for it.

>>97355518
>>97354184
PTA and PTU (which is based on PTA) are a total slog. You basically need tools, because there's so much fucking crunch. The powerscaling gets pretty insane too, since trainers can potentially learn how to use moves like Pokemon do.

You can play Pokerole instead, which is much less cumbersome, and takes inspiration from Storyteller system, but you might need to be ready to improvise and homebrew some things.

>>97356918
pokerole is pretty promising, I'm not looking for a full package just a startpoint I can simplify further to introduce the concept of rpgs to 10-year-olds. PTA, PTU, Oddysee and PTR yeah they seem too complex for that.

>>97356290
based

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>>97354362
>>97354424
Grok's been fast and simple enough that its been good enough for what I'm after. Only downside is the image generation limit, since I'm not paying for anything. I have 3 X accounts though, so I get around it a little bit.

Haven't had any junk generations with it yet, but It does like to forget that people have two arms a lot of the time. Sometimes it cracks out a banger, though.

>>97356290
It's a trifacial trinity

>>97354424
So you can use already existing pic as a reference, but can it be used to refer to desired art style, or only what is on the refereed pic?

>>97356729
I haven't tried art style prompts that way but I guess technically it should work. Gemini is IMO not great at style prompts and I'm out of sloppa for the day so I can't test, but it seems to latch onto whatever style the reference pic has, anyway

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>>97355783
>She is designed sleeveless for a reason.
>Kanan wearing just one thighhighs for ZR reason plus Pits.
Really?

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>>97356271
Yes. I think you get it, but is pretending not to.

I have a question about When Attacking digivolve effects.
If I digivolve into a Digimon using a When Attacking effect and that new Digimon has the same effect can I activate the new Digimon's When Attacking to digivolve again?

>>97357076
No. When attacking only resolves when you declare the attack. Since the attack was not declared after the new effect is online, it doesn't trigger.

>>97357092
Thanks for the clarification. I appreciate it.

>>97354708
That's basically Deedlit in wonder labyrinth, you might mean the dreamcast game though.

In general elves that used to be enemies meeting 200 years later and realizing that there's no point in fighting because the conflict hasn't been relevant the last 190 years is another underused elf thing

>>97355132
So, pirotess and deedlit lezzing it out right over their human lovers graves?

>>97355178
Lezzing out is one of the methods we can use to mend the difference between elves and dark elves.

>>97351179
>Seething about Deedlit and Pirotess
Noldorfag is truly cursed by the Valar to always attack his own, huh? You don't deserve to be called noldor anyway at least they were cool.

>>97350588
obviously reacting to the 2nd to 3rd age brown "elves" getting purged magical documentary

>>97353189
Tasty.
The cheese I mean.

>>97349718
should be a win for black every time, if using superior Capture The King rules

>>97353677
2>1>4=3>6>5 with varying margins

>>97349718
>>97349789
It's all about the key squares. The key squares of a pawn where it's the only (relevant) pawn on the board are if it's on the enemy side of the board all six squares directly in front of the pawn, and if it's on its own half of the board it has only 3 such key squares - you skip the row in between.

What the hell is a key square? A key square means if the attacking king can occupy it, the pawn queens, if not it's a draw.

So here the pawn is on d7, the key squares will be c5, d5 and e5 - skip a rank due to it being on your own side of the board remember? So these concepts are kind of clunky at first and can take time to get to know but they're well worth it if you want to be good at such endings.

If white moves first: Kd2 Kc7 Kd3 Kd6 Kd4 - and the black king can never reach one of the key squares because the white key can gaurd them. Obviously if for example Ke6 instead white will just go Ke4, still stopping him from getting to the key square. The key squares are only different for a rook pawn, where the defending king only has to get to the last rank on the third file across c1/c8/f1/f8 for it to be a draw.

It's more interesting if the king has to go to the side. For example if the position is a white pawn on b4 and the white king is on c1, and the black king is on f8 the key squares become a5, b5 and c5 and the attacker must get to one. But if he goes Kc2 Ke7 Kc3 Kd6 Kc4 Kc6 he again can't get to a key square. But if he goes for the a5 square instead: Kc2 Ke7 Kb3 Kd6 Ka4 Kc5 Ka5 and he's made it and he queens.

2/2
>>97357011
Also if you're the defending king always put your king in one of the two squares in front of his pawn when you can, when that's not possible, move it to the side to match his king's movement. You can do things different but when you've seconds on the clock you want simple rules. It's very painful to lose a clearly drawn k vs p ending.

>>97356880
how is your game going to be called?

>>97356955
I still don't know

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>riftbound spiritforged already sold out at riot merch store

>>97357033
the store crashed instantly for me and I couldn't get anything. Still have 1 box at the LGS, hopefully.

fell
for
it
again

>>97348431
Only retardsthink it will be a marine show or a titus show.

>multiple races on one planet
Earth to Retard, I repeat, Earth to Retard. There is a gas leak in your house.

>>97350583
>fallout is a great setting but amazon studios seems to keep hiring writers who do not understand why fans enjoy the games and cannot write within the confines of established lore to save their lives
The writers they hire understand Fallout perfectly, it's just that all of their understanding comes from Bethesda Fallout. I guarantee you the next Fallout video game is going to be a stupid nonsensical theme park just like the TV show, Fallout 4, and Fallout 3.

>>97354023
60 IQ post

You have already been replaced and no, you are not missed

>>97357053
>Sorry paypigs, I have a new audience into findom
Oh no my disposable income its not going to GW, the humanity!

>>97356216
All the g0f1les with it were nuked

>>97356216
>>97356801
It will come again.
We have had these issues before.
We have learned much since The Trove was nuked; mostly to never stash all your treasures in one place.

Conquest looks so fucking fun, but no one here plays it nor care about it, I think not being bog-standard fantasy is a cons for most of the people...
I like Spire, might as well just buy the models

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>>97356868

Conquest models are pretty neat I must say, regular grunts pass for monstrous infantry in other games.

>>97356981
is that the variangan guard?Old dominion is another army I want to buy, I dont like its stranger models, but the normal zombies are fantastic
Do you play the game?

>>97351966
you are either a dndfag or nogames, opinion discarded.

>>97345045
>what alternative do you suggest?
Shadow of the Demon Lord cuts the six stats down to four, so it's just Strength, Agility, Intellect and Will. All attributes are desirable for everybody so it's a meaningful tradeoff, and it means things like being a fit and strong mage or thief are actually worthwhile and not trap options.
While it's theoretically possible for somebody to be a roid-raging jacked power lifter with horrendous cardiovascular and immune health, vs a tiny Japanese housewife who can't lift 40 pounds but will live to 106 and never gets sick, the separation between CON and STR in fantasy games is largely irrelevant because the fantasy archetypes who have a bunch of one also have the other, Conan does not get winded running half a mile and his heart is stronger than Secretariat's. Fantasy enemies that are really strong are also really tough as well, like dragons, giants, orcs, trolls, vampires, werewolves, etc.

Separating Strength from Constitution pretty much just exists as a way to make playing a martial character more difficult, since it means if they want to be strong AND tough they need twice as much ability score luck or investment, while spellcasters are fine having the strength of a commoner but the constitution of a hydra.

>>97349378
/thread.

>>97352121
how is strength and con more investment than int and con?

>>97348470
>For some reason you could make an olympian strength hero with the durability of wet tissue paper
he's one of those bodybuilders with sculpted muscles and no stamina whatsoever
high strength + high constitution turns you into one of those built like a bear strongfat motherfuckers