On the spectrum of rubber forehead aliens to complete starfish aliens that are made out of silica and breathe methane, where are YOU specificially comfortable with. Does there come a point where an alien becomes too weird for you to "relate" to in order to include them in your games as playable races?Personally I am fond of aliens that look plausibly like they could have evolved in a different world and have no distinguishable lineage to earth life, even if they share some superficial features.
>>97240164Any sufficiently weird human civilization is indistinguishable from an alien one.On the rare occasion I wish to depict a truly alien life-form I don't give them speaking parts, because any dialog I write is informed by me being a human being with a human perspective; I literally cannot create anything that is truly alien to the human condition, because if I can experience it, then it is within the scope of human understanding.I just think there's more of interest when you take a human mind and remove it even further from it's natural context.Like a posthuman civilization composed entirely of space-faring cyborgs in non-humanoid bodies, that spend most of their eons-long lives drifting through space, eternally dreaming in low-power mode.I can imagine what it would be like to be such a being better, to get into it's "character" which is ultimately derived from humanity itself.On the other hand, if I try to narrate the internal dialog of an alien tubeworm that evolved clinging to a sea-floor smoker, I'm going to anthropomorphise it no matter what I do - humans can only think like humans."Truly alien" aliens are as such, better as inscrutable mysteries and nigh on forces of nature.If you want your aliens to be basically goofy humans in motivation and outlook, star-trek rubber forehead alien is basically visual code for just that.
>>97246364Everyone obviously has their own personal opinions, but as a general rule 1, 3, 5, Generations, and Insurrection are considered bad by the general populace, while 2, 4, 6, and First Contact are considered good.Galaxy Quest is obviously good; Nemesis is obviously bad, so inserting Galaxy Quest preserves a trend that had already been observed for decades by that point.Once you get to the Kelvinverse I think broadly speaking people will agree that the 2009 movie is a lackluster Trek film but a serviceable sci-fi action movie that did its job of getting people interested in Star Trek again.Into Darkness is 9/11 Trutherism: the Movie on top of the problems surrounding it trying to recapture the Khan magic with precisely the wrong actor cast as Khan. Benedict Cumberbatch isn't even *bad* as Khan, he just absolutely should not have been him.Star Trek Beyond is good, with the new actors all firmly settled into their roles, everyone getting a chance to shine, and on a personal note watching it literally made me a better person due to my overall relationship with Trekkies up until that point.Note that even though some of these movies are "bad", though, they can still be fun to watch. Search for Spock is great; I love Kruge as a villain. And I will die on the hill that Trek V has three good scenes, and while it's bad it is never *boring*, which is more than can be said for Trek 1 or Insurrection.Trek 1 is best described as a movie that wants very, very badly to be 2001: A Space Odyssey, without actually understanding what makes that movie a good one.
Traditional games?
>>97242723Ferengi are like the only interesting alien in star trek.Maybe klingons when the writers remember that you need something else beside warriors to make a civilization.
Writers who primarily write fantasy fiction should simply not be creating alien races. They're too concerned with things like "how will the reader feel" "how well do they work in interactive scenes" and stupid bullshit that has nothing to do with sci-fi. Aliens should be designed from a sci-fi fantastical point of view. Their physiology and behavior should stem primarily from the thought "what would intelligent life look like on another world" and not "what should intelligent life look like to casual players?". This is just another example of fantasy writers being unintelligent hacks who are incapable of true imagination. Everything has to be carefully crammed into a little box that they decided has to be based on a specific theme and genre created in the 20th century.
What kind of fantasy monsters are you into? I like original abominations, standard humanoids/mythological creatures/giant animals are boring to me.
>>97248214if you want to be a pedophile just be open about it so people can deal with you appropriately like fate dealt with miura for being a degenerate
>>97248214didn't griffith sell his bussy to afford his army? didn't he rape casca which breaks her mind and makes john berserk go on his magical girl pirate quest to find the one piec- I mean her brain?was john gutso raped by a large black man?that's the 3 main characters all being raped or being rapists, it's pretty important to their story
>>97228517Scary animals with a quirk. Give me a giant boar with antlers, a wolf with two sets of jaws, a two-headed deer, or make something breath fire. The further it gets from being a real animal, the less interesting it is.>>97248185Berzerk's quality is all over the map. There are arcs that are pretty good. There's a shit ton of perv-for-perv's sake, and edge-for-edge's sake. The attempts at humor are god-awful. The stories are meandering. Some of the characters are well developed. Most aren't. The art is beautiful.I think "well-realized" is probably the right complement for it. There aren't many issues of Berzerk that are, themselves, amazing as anything other than cool art. But 10,000 pages in, yeah: he spent a helluva long time realizing his idea, and it's impressive.
>>97228517I'm a fan of things that poorly pretend to be other things. You can barely tell that the chest is a mimic because it is breathing. You can barely tell that a person is a skinwalker because the proportions are slightly off. Things like that.
>>97248740Or the Marxist academic making (((my fellow whites))) posts on twatter.
Is your character someone commoners would like off first-impression?
>>97246941Nah, I always have CHA as my dump stat, and my characters are always some sort of social outcast, frequently for good reasons, ranging from.>Violent foreigner with barbaric customs>Worships an evil god>Practices black magic>Is a member of an "Always chaotic evil" race played straightGenerally speaking, my characters join the party as a third-wheel with ulterior motives, and any encounter where I get to play "Face" is going to be turned into a farce, as roleplaying my character takes precedent over choosing the obvious correct action.Random peasants however, tend to be poor sport, and I see them as a walking signpost to a more interesting encounter to fuck up on purpose.
>>97248762Nah just two of the board's worst schizos fighting
Traditional Games?
>>97246941He's a good Cleric with a decent amount of charisma working for under the head of the main religion of the setting.So probably yes.
>>97248930This is another no games thread I'm afraid
Why the FUCK is his power armor broken? The Badab War was 100 years ago. This dude leads a legion-sized band of space marine pirates and is one of the wealthiest and most powerful space marine lords in the setting, on par with chapter masters of the first founding chapters.WHY THE FUCK WOULD SOMEONE NOT HAVE FIXED HIS POWER ARMOR. Does GW even know their own fucking setting anymore?
>>97244061the iconic "tennis serve" posea chaos classic
>>97242133Holy Mother of Hindo this model is atrocious.
>>97246622That's been a part of the lore for most of 40k NoGame LoreLet.
>>97242133it's a status symbol, you wouldn't get it
>>97242176Huh. I've been running this model as a Chaos lord in my 3e army not even realizing it was a named character
How do we fix Steampunk?
>>97248704And to its credit, colonialism is a fair avenue of narrative within steampunk.>New (potentially unspoiled) land discovered>Not directly underneath the ruling authority's thumb, so lots more freedom and autonomy in this region (this is why the Wild West works)>Multiple new competing interests racing to put their stakes down and claim the land, offering multiple avenues for competition>All while dealing with locals and the exotic local culturesIt's a gold rush for new land and resources, all while meeting interesting new people from all directions, and that's reason enough for adventure.
>>97248721The main things that involve making colonialism unsavory to the modern public has to do with questions of racism and inequality. Essentially, as long as you're not racist and are catering to the needs of the locals, you might get away with being called the "good guys" in a colonialism story.
>>97248721They did this in Pillars of Eternity 2 and no one liked it.
>>97196423buy returning it back to its roots as said by this anon >>97221874 these days it just an aesthetic & nothing more now I'm not talking about some bullshit like "Capitalism big bad" you hear the retards spew but this form of Capitalism, Corpitism is bad here is the why, have it heavily focus more on the Steampower Machines & what it does to the natural world & how it corrupts & erodes Magic.
Thread #006 Dark Imperial Blood EditionWelcome to /schreck/ where you can rp your VTM character! For all questions concerning the World of Darkness, please consult the WoDg and CoDg thread>>97129837Previous Thread>>97024850Brief rules>We have no story teller, we are acephali>Threads are v20 based, although the night is long and full of whispers, lies, and half-truths. Decide your own canon but all will not believe you>all nicktuku will be diablerized on sight>all OOC discussion should be spoileredTHREAD QUESTIONComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Sigh.
>>97248257
>Nice aether rate faggot!Magesisters how do I respond without looking salty?
1. Now that Princess Charming and Blue Fairy came back in one piece, I can honor my part of the deal: my most embarrassing memory.2. Believe it or not, our house wasn't always this affluent. This tale takes place in one such lean year when I was still a fledgling.3. Mother made me meet this Toreador lady: smart, attractive, cultured.4. She was completely out of my league, even so, we kept dating - I mean the way normal people use the word, not House Venus' meaning of 'date' - because I had something to give her.5. She was a Volgirre. The vicious bloodline that takes the name from Philippe Volgirre, sire of the infamous Justicar Madame Guil, and a bloodline that is even more infamous among those who know of their cruelty with and without their signature Discipline: Vicissitude.6. But it wasn't simple body horror that got her going, her "fascination" was with emotional humiliation and suffering.7. In short, she turned Boy Toy into a Girl Toy, then turned herself into Boy Toy, then violated this Girl Toy I became. Another satisfied customer.8. I was so completely destroyed Mother had her staff spoon feed me vitae for a month.9. Eventually Mother handed me to her Tzimisce Antitribu buddies in Brazil, they were enthusiastic to "help her daughter get a sex change." Yay another trauma.10. Here's a quote from Blue Fairy:"Baron Volgirre said: 'Art is the truth. Life is the lie.' Such superficial thinking! Disgusting, provincial, dualistic, in one word, Western! I want to unveil the truth hidden within the lie, and expose the lie concealed within the truth. I say: 'Yes' to nature and art, to life and unlife, to light and the shadows it casts. I will not choose between one or the other. I want everything. I am worthy of everything."11. Mother canonized that statement as the official position of House Venus on this subject.12. I would have finished my essay discussing the relationship between art and truth too if it wasn't for those meddling trespasser shitheads.
>>97248244>When I come home I expect a battle plan to share with the competent authorities for a coordinated counter-offensive.1. We're currently cross-referencing the data we're extracting from the interrogation with the information from the ongoing double drug trade investigation.2. Scarlet too is helping as she has an easier time appealing to and interacting with drug users than any of us - without having us resort to Disciplines, I mean.3. Besides your return, the other thing we're waiting for is for an official statement from the Prince on whether House Venus has, or does not have, a license to Diablerize enemy kindred encountered during the eventual Blood Hunt.
This is a general for everything 3D printed relating to /tg/ from sci-fi, fantasy, historicals, fantasy football, and more! Share your printed minis, terrain, print fails, 3d modelling, printing advice, works in progress, or anything else /tg/-related to 3D printing.>DO:- Post pics of your prints be they fails or triumphs- Keep discussion/photos about tabletop games only- Post your resin/printer/settings for faster advice- Help your fellow anons with advice>TRY TO:- Remember that this general is monitored by GWendolin and her lawyers- Not make a new thread until old one dies- Not encourage namefags, tripfags, fumefags and coomers- Not spoonfeed- Not war over Filament/Resin consoles- Keep your model pics naked (no paint/undercoat only)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
New to proonting, is this a common occurence or is it just a guy casting a big net for the holiday season?>>97245880Sunlu is okay, can't speak much for eSun but most if not all settings profiles FDMfags pass around are with it in mind.
>>97247547seems like some sort of scammer
>>97198758Yes it can be done in blender and I do it regularly for something different, but no it's not easier nor faster than manually arranging the model, even if it clips, and just merging them
>>97228852>G2kxVTMuM3Ztq2yfoPOeoz93BvObqUEjpmbiY2qiMzyfMF5col9xY3xjH1SDMDb>going TWO steps of decodingnot even worth looking the answer through the archive, not even videogames do this much DRM for this little content for "fear of pirates"cmon now
One thing i dislike about scans is that they never label the parts.One thing i dislike about myself is that i never catalog what parts go together if i want to make more.Atleast one of these guys will have the wrong legs attached.
>Brutus' Drivehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1qb0_OLhDrDYVVpbllIREdOczg?resourcekey=0-m3LU1xaC5-PnnA0VLRfK9g>DriveAnon's Drivehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Cx7KoDkQa9qmDfJN9_CehZ0fxXEweKOu?usp=sharing>Jumpchain IRC Chathttp://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.rizon.net/?#JumpchainCYOA>Ruleshttp://pastebin.com/Gqj3iKyn>How to Jumpchainhttp://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1qb0_OLhDrDVDFBR2NpdG03S0U/viewComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97246218>>97248355 (me)Oh, and same question for Progression System I guess.
>>97248355>>97248667All previous tiers of moves are still available. If a Pokemon is limited to 4 moves, they can relearn previous tiers of their moves out of battle at no cost.>>97248602They all get 200cp for free as well as the 200cp item stipend.Spending 100cp gives each companion an additional 200cp.It's basically a 100:1600 ratio of cp spent to total cp gained if you import a full 8 companions.
>>97248709Thanks
i'm attracted to [[pokemon]]
>>97248916Me too.
Recently I was thinking about alternative combat systems.I remember someone talking about instead of HP the payer has a Jenga tower and he needs to remove peaces once hit, the skill is to remove peaces without the tower collapsingSo I started thinking.For example what if the combat somehow involves cups and balls?Instead of a D20+modifier nonsense why not change it up? Why not give a player 10 balls or legos or whatever and to win an encounter the player needs to land 2 balls in 1 cup?There can be variants of this like a super hard encounter demands the player lands all 10 balls or what about reducing the size of the cup with the difficulty of combat?What if we implement a fate system from Talisman for the players? What if legendary bosses have something like that for themselves? And can negate the players victory? What if different monsters use different "balls" like for example some bone golems will be you throwing legos into cups and zombies are aluminum balls while naga can be gummy bears? That actually makes the monster feel different and not a copy pasted set of numbers. Also the different aerodynamics of these "balls" are part of the fun.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
TG nerds are inventing sport from first principles
>>97243007>Why not repeat it in other games? It worked well for a horror game designed around one shots and Dread already filled that niche.>>97238257Dexterity based ttrpgs are mostly good as a gimmick and nobody wants to carry a moving box full of props to game night.>>97239023>And this is a bad thing. Not really>Are you playing with literal cripples? Yes. >The point is that the players can concentrate to improve their chances and really feel the combat.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97238257Damn this idea sucks Rocksolid.
Check out One More Quest. I haven't played it but it seems to have a similar silly tone and play style to the board game Dungeon Fighter (there's a bullseye board, you throw the dice and the results are better the closer it gets to the center. You also have various limitations on your throw depending on the skill you're using).I also played Dread once and it's fun for horror one shots.
>>97238257Why would I want to do this? Nothing in your post makes it sound appealing or useful. Are you trying to convince people not to use this method?
>>97211865how would a rogue prevent a monster from attacking a caster?
>>97243882So you can't answer the question?
>>97243940Can't force an enemy to attack you.
>>97243949Yes, games are defined by their rules.
I haven't played dnd in 12 years and the last thing I played was 3.5But here's some answeres for you fucking kids without imagination, i don't care if it fits the rules or not in your edition of choice:>stand between the monster and the wizard>run and tackle the monter>run and tackle the wizard out of the way, grabbing him (bit gay but you would use your body as a shield)>run and tackle the wizard out of the way, pushing only>spread your bag of caltrops between the monster and the wizard>spend your smokebomb between the monster and the wizard>move in an intersecting, but not crossing, the path of the monster, as to generate a threat of AoO>use the AoO
>>97248784- monster walks around you and kills the wizard- monster easily beats your grapple check- this doesn't do anything, the monster kills the wizard on its turn after you tackle the wizard for no reason- monster walks through the caltrops and kills the wizard- monster walks through the smoke and kills the wizard- monster barely notices your pathetic damage and the attack probably misses anywayyou've really never played a single game in your life huh
Why are you still using plastic terrain?
>>97243696Battle systems pretty much has cardboard terrain locked down.
>>97247932right, well i'll continue posting about on-topic things i like on the message board. you can also do the same. if you feel 'pushed' or 'forced' then that was not my intention, and i don't see how you got there. maybe it's you should take the pathological route, talk to your doctor, i dunno.
Oh hey, this autist is back.
>>97243915Yeah; I had my first experiment in using a candle to melt and braid sprue offcuts into model trees recently.It's easy as fuck and fun.Buying model trees is a scam; you get more than enough material to make a free tree on basically every infantry sprue.Just base it on a coin for weight, and apply paint and flock as it pleases.
>>97244209>aestheticPainted and well crafted foam terrain will always have a better aesthetic. Cope.
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.
>>97248648I am not neither. You should be just a little bit confused. Cataphractii termies had 6 torsos for 5 dudes, same for Tartaros. Mk3 marines had crest for the head, mk4 had one more torso, helmet with crest and tabard. Those four boxes are ten times better than any shit that GW published for 2nd edition onwards. Instead of going i that way now we got 5 identical poses for all the marks, less options and shit new Cataphractii box. Just look at your bits box... Oh wait, there is NONE because you do not gaty any additional bits anymore. Well, glad you are happy, for sure it's better to be happy than to be sour.
>>97247864>But Custodians and Primarchs fucking 12 feet tall? Actually ridiculous.I always thought Custodes were around 9' tall, and Primarchs hovered around 10'>>97247871The bigger somthing gets, the less impressive increases in size gets. 8' is big enough that it feels scarily big to even people who are 6'4"
>>97248139We got a RICH nigga over here guys
In 4 months it'll have been 20 years.
>>97248875Anon please, I didn't need to feel this old right now
How is it? Looks bretty fun
Making cars is fun as shit even if I never get to play
>>97247771The Freddy Kreug-car
>>97247529Refuelled is same shit but prettier and more optional content.
>>97247570Only if you insist on putting dykes in your car. It's a miniature wargame with a heavy Mad Max/Death Race flavor that uses Hot Wheels or Matchbox scale cars. Partly an excuse to raid your forgotten beaten up childhood cars, convert them into post-apoc style and give them a new life. The game itself is fun too.
>>97247524Gaslands has an optional rule where if you and the DM can't decide on the outcome of a rule, it automatically becomes whatever outcome is most destructive for everyone involved.How you feel about that should let you know how you'll feel about the game as a whole.
You have to play Monopoly.Which Monopoly do you play?
>>97247712The Original
>>97248054Do they make an edition for each region in a country or some shit?
>>97248543I've seen versions for cities less than 20 miles apart >>97248112>>97248511I'd be genuinely interested in playing both modes, at least once each as "an experience" if nothing elseThe other answer is I'd buy Make-your-own-opoly and have more fun with my board game group making the thing than the game we had afterwards (idk if the make-your-own version lets you change the rules, maybe it does)
>>97248559Everything I've seen anyone do to change the rules makes the game longer, and therefore worse.
>>97247712I choose death before Monopoly.
Archives & Other Resources: https://rentry.co/cyoagAllsync: https://cyoa.allsync.com/s/owWor64yLTngDk3Previous throg: >>97238477
>>97248540That's not true, tok keeps samefagging it every time he shills the cyoa.
Should multiplayer be instead of companions?
>>97248877What? What does this mean?
>>97248883If there is the option for multiplayer in the cyoa, should this prevent access to the companion section?
>>97248886Not really. The other thread ignores companions but that multiplayer is not the only way to have multiplayer. Some anons may want companions anyway, creating a team. After all other anons are not companions, they are an unknown.
