Threat Null editionaaah I'm being re-conditiooooned sub-edition>Previous>>97250318>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.
>>97261927He already has enemy, can a caitiff even have a clan to hate him?>>97261704Did you take Enemy 5?
>>97261704Take Enemy 5 Amnesia 2 so you don't know who your enemy is
>>97261966>Be literally clueless while flopping around like a hunted fishAlbrecht himself is going to pop out of the shadows for him.
>>97261704Do you have a coterie?If so, get the Omega flaw.
>>97261980But it would be fun. Like the opening to Dark City, you're gonna have to be quick & canny
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
Kinda felt like this was a waste of Dark Sun. Really wish the setting was still more popular.
>>97258839On the topic of campaigns, >Can anyone sauce me up a pdf for this thing?
>>97258742ALL of the Essentials classes fall off very hard past level 10 because of pausity of options.Basically, what you got from 1-10 gets a bigger number, but nothing new or something that matures the class in to new heights.>>97258839I disagree, as someone who played Dark Sun in 2e and recognizes that it was built with a different mechanics paradigm in mind.It was still ruthless on paper while instilling the fear of death in even high level pcs. Losing healing surges is the best and most efficient way to remind players of their pcs mortality, especially if they are cocksure, and it is really damn easy to do so in DS.That said, it also offered a way to do real heroics and cleave to the 4e ethos of 'You are big damn heroes, and can do big damn heroic things'.>>97258879A friend of mine was planning on running this. If you have time and the thread lasts, I can ask him to send me the pdf on promise to not read it.
>>97258879Not that last anon but I got youMF /folder/qnx91216m4tp4/Stuff
>>97260346What is this file type??
Post compliance market edition>Previous Thread:>>97242255>HH 3.0 - Complete gofile - All Books:https://gofile.io/d/cnJk0N>Titanicus Compendiumshttps://gofile.io/d/qdYzem>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/iUqNrrA8Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97261656Like what? Remember the goal here is killing, you know it, Cataphractii-sized targets. Surely you don't mean Vanquisher rounds that take a whole tank to kill a single model.Wait, don't tell me... "go read the book", right? *Gets Rapier lasered*
>>97261891This isn't an actual war, silly, it's a game lmao. Not even an actual historical either.Plus, one octave down but outnumbered 10 to 1 still nets you a positive 10/8, which is a full +25%
>>97261913Are you actually retarded or pretending? Leman Russ' can take plasma executioners too. Which is better at killing terminators than a demolisher cannon, because>Large blast instead of small>Breaching 4+ when overcharged instead of breaching 5+ of the demolisher>More range
>>97261891Then you wouldn't have a problem if I play my entire 15k points marines collection against your 3k marines army, right? Because as you said, war isn't fair.
>>97261959Ignorance, really. I don't know if that plasma weapon is 2D, but if the big blast hits more than 2 targets more than the vindicator, it might be deadly enough :OLike a tracked Deredeo
>dwarf speaks>scottish accent
>>97254657icelandic is a beautiful language, sounds like you need less shit colored skintone friends.
>>97254657I don't know what that even sounds like, but if it's like most Nordic accents it's going to sound goofy as shit and not badass at all
It's the easiest to do
>>97254657Icelandic accent are for elves, anon.
>>97254657lol
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.)
>>97250334I am afraid I do not see the issue. There is really nothing stopping you from flavoring your Mutant's abilities as grotesquely as possible and taking a high-Magnitude Conspicuous Appearance Scar. You could also take the Outsider Form if you want to be an actual alien.>I'd rather it was telling you not so subtly to build Alex Mercer, y'know?The [PROTOTYPE] series is listed as one of the inspirations in Shallow Graves.
>>97217938One aspect of the space opera genre in Black Vans that I find goofy, in a good way, is how even the lowest-powered (but still, of course, capable of mowing down goons due to the goon combat rules), just-a-bit-more-than-mortal characters are capable of toppling an interstellar empire in a fairly short amount of time. They do not even need the backing of a full-on rebellion.Somewhat like Star Wars, except taken to a more blatant extreme.
Sick thread, been looking to get into Deviant for a while, thanks for all the info
Is it possible to 'deconstruct' a different splat with Deviant? Basically making a dude that has all the powers and weaknesses of a vampire, but it's not a vampire? Like, a lab-made recreation of what a vampire should be like
>>97217920> A new supplement, Black Vans, has been in playtesting for a while, and is currently being previewed.I thought paradox had pulled the plug on CofD from onyx path in '24
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>>97261373u is a real letter not something borrowed from magicthe concept and idea of categorizing them together sure might be, but its an apt description from a real letter.
>>97261798>ree why does no one use my made up term!!!!I accept your concession
>>97261806>>97261798I don't know about any of this but what I do know is that your adoptive father, Dr. Yuki -- who went missing in a time-space anomaly -- wouldn't want you two to fight like this. This infighting won't lead to the discovery of how to advert the Shinjuku Inferno, speaking of which the two of you should send me any leads you find.
>>97261826>how to advert the Shinjuku Inferno>advertJust put up billboards 5head
>>97261454it's to differentiate blue and black in shorthandbut since black doesn't exist in dcg it's unnecessary
I’m running a low fantasy game, and social advancement is gonna be a thing. So the PCs are gonna be rubbing elbows with a lot of noble families as they make their way into high society. I’m just asking for NPCs and ideas.Most of the nobility are humans, but a few are half-elves and halflings.
>>97251474You have no idea what charisma actually is, do you anon?
>>97257602In a historical context it's a magic word used to handwave everything you can't explain.
Watch costume dramas and soap operas. Read 'period' bodice rippers and pot boilers. Cheerfully rip off any character who grabs your attention and stick them in appropriate clothing, with pointy ears/fangs/whatever as appropriate.Well-paid professionals have already done most of the spade work for you, it would be a shame to let it all go to waste.
>>97233040Alayisa The Courtesan.The Matron of the most respected "House of Culture" is renowned of her taste and finger on the pulse of high society. But jealous enemies fear her and her female "courtiers" ability to know most rumors well in advance of even the official spies. To suggest that she fucks the crown prince is a capital offence - they are just old companions. Most cruel of her enemies accuse her being a vampire or demon. She is not. But is her patron?
>>97256826>Orcs that murder and pillageBased
how did you explain having literal blue human women in your scifi setting?
>>97259986I stole a plot point from StarCraft for a sci-fi game using the old Shadowforce Archer Spycraft rule set.The OG precursor race had genetic memory (each one had all the memories of their bloodline back to the beginning) and were dying out from Reasons, but created two inheritor races. One was humanity, the other was the not!Asari/not!Twi'lek/not!Orion race. Each was designed to include an "explorer gene" in part of the population and thus to develop the desire to seek spaceflight and to reach out across the cosmos like adventurers in human history, with the (unknown to them) goal of one day meeting the race designed to be compatible with them as their other half, designed to appeal to each other on a genetic level as sexually attractive, and thus to fuck like rabbits, where after a couple of generations the precursors would have bodies to be reborn in from recombining the DNA of each.All other alien races are not cross compatible, and people have recently been looking into why there is one exception. It played into the main narrative for a while, but the game fell apart when a couple of the players got deployed overseas. I hadn't decided whether the Precursors were evil or not.
>>97259986They make my dick hard
>>97259986Alien interface organism.Basically, aliens use custom printed biomorphs instead of space suits, when you come to a new planet its easier to simply copy the template of the existing local life forms and use whatever THEIR evolutionary optimizations are for the local environment than it is to try and solve all of those problems yourself on short notice to keep your true self alive on a planet wildly different than what you were evolved for. If you are a methane-ocean jellyfish creature, life on the surface of the Earth is never going to work very well without massive life support systems and robotics. So instead of that, you whip up a human/jellyfish creature hybrid thats human enough to survive on Earth but jellyfish alien enough that its compatible with your brain patterns and then download yourself into that to walk around on Earth and talk to humans with.if you are going to do this anyway, you naturally would also design the interface organism to be as broadly attractive as possible to the species you are communicating with, making it more likely that you will be accepted and treated favorably. There are almost never downsides to being considered hot. So what do aliens talking to humans end up as? Different varieties of space babes. Space hunks might *seem* like an option, but male humans are more likely to feel intimidated by a sexy space man, so that's counter-intuitive to the purpose of the interface.
>>97259986In that specific example, it's implied they project a mental effect that makes them attractive to whoever is looking at them (since different aliens claim they have traits humans can't see). Tho even in that it's implied they mostly humanish
>>97261670>we can thus conclude that these are in actual fact sexy clam girls.FUCK YEAH!!!
The /btg/ is dead! Long live the /btg/!One Confederation, One Vision, One Chancellor editionPrevious Thread: >>97234667================================>BattleTech Introductory Guide & PDFshttps://bg.battletech.com/?page_id=400>Overview of the Major Factionshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/great-houseshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/the-clanshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/other-powersComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K7dbnFeyWYmkqGlBdKCCYoQ7krdmwKxqFTlFn3KxYlo/mobilebasic>Matches Jan 2-302 teams, players randomly assigned to team, 4 missions w/ possible 5th mission, 7.5kBV max Mechs only, Early Succession Wars era, No Clan factionsFirst time seeing Early SW being played
>>97261877Early Succ is mostly just Star League but also there are Jenners and Hermes II. And every match should end with a nuke going off in the direct center of the map, if the players aren't cowards.
>>97261813The Pilots Federation doesn't have any magical means to stop you. It's just that certain systems are locked out of the nav computer. If you hack the nav computer and either bring about an interstellar incident or fuck around with protected alien life, that's when you're in hot water. I think the most notable incident of someone actually getting got involved that person not only pissing off the PF, but also directly spitting in the face of the setting's Illuminati equivalent.They do get spooky, though. Because behind the PF is very likely the true Dark Wheel, which is a mystic secret society dedicated to protecting whatever Raxxla actually is.So it's not exact, but it's close in the purpose.
>>97261890Was nuke that common and widely available that it could be thrown at lance vs. lance battle and stuffs?
>>97261742What? No, reading comprehension.Falcon was all spaceX. NASA estimated it would have been ten times more expensive for them to develop the falcon series compared to what it actually cost spaceX. It cost spaceX 390 million and NASA estimated their own attempt at something equivalent would have cost 4 billion.
Happy New Year’s Eve and Calibration 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.
I'd like to play in a Solars in the Realm game at least once before I die. Why is it so rare?
>>97261065Because if you go loud and flare Anima you will have to be hunted down until you're dead or you flee the Isle
>>97261300You flare when you exalt. That's the whole fun of it.
>>97261065You will turn into kill-on-sight persona nongrata in the moment when your anima glows a bit.And contrary of D&D, rerolling and having spare characters is a hassle.
>>97259597it's white wolf and they are scared of repeating the same mistake as with WoD games, guns are cheap and effective and at least in Mage, usually the easiest way to solve things
In your game, do you treat bows as strength- or dexterity-based weapons?
>>97240302/thread.
>>97223129>OP says "In your game">"Depends on the game">Doesn't elaborateI get that it's not a very deep thread concept, but that's just obtuse.
>>97223103Ugh! Shit! This looks like SHIT!
>>97223103>
>>97257189based
>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?
>>97253010He misleads him, very briefly as you described, and then Smaug quickly sorties out, tries to find and kill the dwarves, fails to find them and so burns or eats most of their ponies so they can't escape the Lonely Mountain, and then flies off to Laketown just to fuck shit up, intending to return and root them out and torture them to death immediately after. The dorfs and Bilbo would've been completely fucked if there wasn't Deux Ex Machina Man, descendant of the King of Dale, with a never-before-mentioned Super Special Magic Macguffin Arrow, who talked to a fucking bird to learn Smaug's weakpoint and then was lucky enough to land a perfect instakill shot with said arrow. Weakest part of an otherwise perfect story. I don't think Tolkien wrote himself into a corner, I think he just wanted to find some way to involve Men in the Battle of the Five Armies, as if a mountain full of fucking gold wasn't motivation enough. But TLDR no, he doesn't reason with Smaug at all, and if he hadn't had the ring during their brief exchange, he'd have been a pile of ashes.
>>97253085It's true that Bilbo only survives through remaining unseen and Smaug would have gladly killed him if given the opportunity, but my point is that dragons, especially those lesser than Smaug, aren't stupid and could respect the power of dangerous rivals and negotiate, at least until they found a way to take the said power for themselves.
>>97252736>They can be tricked or misdirected but never reasoned withSo you don't like mythological dragons. Got it.
>Dragons that exist on a level above Kings and are paid tribute but otherwise largely don't interfere with the affairs of mortals This is kino
>>97252946lol
Dubs and above turn into canon.
>>97261705too bad for them because alexander just got isekai'ed with a contingent of a few thousand light and heavy horse cavarly so horse is back on the menu
The sexy evil snake girl villains hunt human for their milk.
the corpses of dead people that were either blessed or with any sort of inherent power still maintain that blessing after death making for almighty and valuable artifacts
>>97261716I can see the factions of the Caliphate:>Janissaries: the big dogs. The power behind the throne. Militarists.>Emirs: landed nobles jealously protecting their own holdings. Conservatives who >Ulama: Islamic scholars. Theological Jurists who dictate the laws of the Empire. Religious bloc. >Ghazis: holy warriors. ISIS on crack. Hardcore religious fundamentalists. >Court boys: the really, really, gay administrators of the court. About as liberal as it gets here. Three want the Makedonians dead. One might cut a deal with the Makedonians. And one faction wants Alexander to stick right up their asses.
I kind of like the Timars and Lizard horse lore, so I'm going to run with it.>Not all Timars submitted during the coup. Some fled to their holdings in the frontiers of the Empire where they held out against the Janissaries. Eventually these became Emirates in their own right, with the Timarots taking advantage of the Dwarven lizard trade to cement their social status. Some have become heretics and adopted beliefs like the Tribal fetish cult, almost as a big 'fuck you' to the Ulama. They're Aristocrats who get shit done.
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.
>>97252353GWAR: Rumble in Antarctica, or KDM? You make the call..
>>97252496What I'd give for a revival of GWAR: Rumble in Antarctica.
>>97252353>Hammerer of Wombskek
>>97248342it was always suppose to be a full hobby tho.
i like systems with crafting
Would you consider this IP slop or worth playing?At least the system isn't d20 or PbtA...
>>97252802Monty Python is the name of a group of comedy performers (about half of which are now deceased), rather than the name of a particular individual.
>>97252786lmao
>>97252685I feel like most classic DnD games probably didn't go too long without a Holy Grail reference
If they really wanted to make a good Monty Python game they should base it on the weird animated segments rather than yet more Holy Grail. I remember there was this old computer game from the late 80s or early 90s like that, but sadly it was just another Mario-clone since the technology just wasn't there yet to do it justice.
is it lulzy?
