Holiday cheer editionPrevious:>>97223714Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8Survey results: https://pastebin.com/YJPZ44rqSeasonal TQ:>How do you deal with friends&family absolutely resistent to any form of game teach?>Will anon repeat his autistic data gathering endevour this year?Actually interesting TQ:>How important is winning to you? Almost noone is a mustwin-tourneyfag, but we all tend to like games we are good at more, conciously or subconciously.
>>97255343Kek, I almost choked.
the rulebook is terriblealso I've played 12 rounds without hitting anything, or getting hit
>>97255774>the rulebook is terrible>GMT Gamesand water is wet
>>97256096What more do you need. The rulebooks are almost all the exact same format and not rocket science for anyone that ever held an encyclopedia. If you need to have your handheld through a meandering watchitplayed rulebook it isn't the genre for you anyway because a CRT will make you rope
>>97254961Yes both in my top 10, though I'd obviously play marine at 4. Only do normal DS at events due to how long it takes.Similar game with vertical action selection and area control would be empires:age of discovery. Criminally underrated game which has always gone down amazingly well with tense agonising final actions. Currently out of print but there's potential for a new kickstarter (albeit with horrific new art style)
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.
>>97253464The food pyramid was built by food slaves in food chains
>>97240164I'm more into the birrin/star wars level of "they're obviously not human, but they're still clearly people"but of course the best pick is human-created genetically-engineered catgirls for domestic ownership/military applications/industrial labor that have gone rogue after the local human population disappeared.
>>97241222I liked that arc of the Expanse. Ayyeast just setting up shop with mutual incomprehension at the micro level fucking macro humanity up good.>>97241908The eyestalks emerge pretty reasonably from their marine worm origins (same deal as the flower-mouth). What do you mean by bug limbs? The wide-stance centaurism reflects Chirrah's lighter gravity iirc.>>97249080Straight up. Sci-fi is a dozen genres in a trench coat masquerading as one. What aliens "should" be depends almost entirely on the role they serve in the story. That said while >>97248952 takes it too far I sympathise with the irritation. Hopefully project Hail Mary will get across empathy for characters lacking any straightforward "cute" factor to normies.spam filter can eat a dick
>>97253201Runaway to the Stars' Scuds are amusing as a marine biotech civ who discovered microbiology before sex. Consent if relevant may be more like farmers' interminable disputes over boundary stones.>>97255518Transhuman diaspora is definitely the best take on SW/Trek rubber foreheads imo if you're too autistic to stomach it otherwise. It's nice when baselines from completely distinct evolutionary histories bump into each other and find they have more in common than ever more derived "cousins" (To'ul'h = best bros).
Thoughts on the humanity lost aliens?
Have you ever roleplayed a female character?
>>97254580>BrazilNow I'm far from an expert, but Brazil seems overrepresented in the South American tgirl porn market. It almost feels like the South American equivalent of Thailand being the ladyboy capitol of Asia.
>>97248432>healers must be womenMMO-brained nonsense.
>>97246015>i personally didn't play a woman any different from how i'd play a man because i don't care>MARXISM! BRAINWASH! BAD!!!get your autism diagnosed so you can get those disability checks
>>97234702I would if I could find a local GM to play a TTRPG with at all.
>>97234966Imagine inviting one to your table.
winter edition >Chess websites, tools, videos and books:https://rentry.org/vxdsw7k5>Calendar:- Tech Mahindra Global Chess League | December 13th - 24th- FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships | December 25th - 31st- Rilton Cup | December 27th - January 5th- Lichess Winter Marathon | December 28th- European Women's Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship | January 8th - 12th- Tata Steel | January 16th - February 1st- Speed Chess Championship Finals | February 7th - 8th- Prague International Chess Festival: Masters | February 25th - March 6th- FIDE Candidates Tournament | March 28th - April 16thComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
What the fuck is up with Benko players online? I play the Half-Accepted variation where instead of accepting the second pawn you go e3 instead. I have heard that this can be a bit annoying to Benko players - well fucking tough. But it's like they make every move in like 1-3 seconds and end the game usually with 2 minutes on the clock. Is it supposed to be some kind of intimidation? Is it they really hate the e3 variation? Do they just know where they want to put their pieces immediately, even though I win more than Iose against this type of person? Is it that it's a bunch of kids playing the Benko? Like what is going on? I wish I could say I don't let it affect me but it is offputting, this feeling like there's someone on meth at the other end. First few moves obviously is fine, still in opening theory, but this relentless speed and aggressive play also, do they think they will end with 2 minutes on the clock and everyone will applaud at this magnificent player? It's just offputting. Chess is supposed to be a relaxing game. Genuinely curious if anyone knows anything about this. See a little of it in KID also.
>>97255113They probably watched one of those clickbait videos about it.
>>97252564Cute chessfu bro!
>>97255632Very qt face but completely waxed arms, I checked. :(
>>97255632>>97255706Check the new girl from Russia in the FIDE flikr gallery, Diana Preobrazhenskaya: she scored 7 points in the rapid tournament (more than Ju Wenjun).
Thread failed its save overnight huh Edition▶Previous thread:>>97021561▶News:Reminder that next box is Sisters vs Raptors:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/zrjpzrms/adepta-sororitas-battle-chaos-space-marines-over-a-long-forgotten-tomb-in-kill-team-shadowhunt/▶Official Key Downloads, FAQs and Erratahttps://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/kill-team/▶Rules Scanshttps://gofile.io/d/AinK04▶Boxed Set Rules Scanshttps://gofile.io/d/NWRByw (deprecated)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97252165official statement: "As Vantage terrain is also Light, an operative on Vantage terrain will often be in cover from operatives lower than them" so there are cases where this is not the case but i guess they refer to special rules that ignore light cover or units that do not get light cover.
>>97252348So an operative in vantage is basically untouchable until they've taken a shot and then lose their conceal?
>>97252165Page 60 of the core rulebook states>As Vantage terrain is also Light, an operative on Vantage terrain will often be in cover from operatives lower than them — imagine them crouching down to gain a cover save or avoid being a valid target.So the rules for drawing targeting lines from one operatives base to another still apply>>97140366You can download the rulebook here and check for yourself
>>97139724Friend wants to get into KT with us and wants to play custodes, but as far as I can tell they no longer have rules, is that true?
>>97256295Brah custodes are from like 2015 edition.See the "Brief team summaries" catbox image for what's available. Then look up classified teams
Welcome to the Old School Renaissance General, the thread dedicated to first-decade, Gygaxian D&D, its faithful modern clones, and content created for use with them. Later editions (2e and newer) should be discussed elsewhere.Broadly, OSR games encourage a tonal and mechanical fidelity to Dungeons & Dragons played as intended by its creators from 1974 to 1983 — less emphasis on linear adventures and overarching metaplots and a greater emphasis on player agency.If you are new to the OSR, welcome! Ask us whatever you're curious about: we'll be happy to help you get started. We also have two excellent beginner guides created by Anons with feedback from the thread that you can check for help:>n00b DM's Guidehttps://pastebin.com/EVvt6P0B>n00b Player's Handbookhttps://pastebin.com/XALkXkV0>Troves, Resources, Blogs, etc:http://pastebin.com/9fzM6128>Need a starter dungeon? Here's a curated collection:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97256008>Does anyone have a good resource or tools for creating pre-gen characters at higher levels? Should they all have magic items etc?dmg appendix p
>>97256008https://www.atarv.dev/chargen-frontend/ is an osric character generator with adjustable levels. There's basically a character generator for goddamn near everything if you google it. Could also pick the pregens from various TSR modules of similar level.
>>97256247use a paper and pencil to prep your games like the lord intended
>>97256278The lord intended us to make and use tools as we see fit. Pregenerating characters and putting them on character sheets or printing them out so players can have them to keep is zoz.
>>97256278I like using generators to whip up quick NPCs when the players encounter a wandering party or what have you. Beyond that, rolling characters is fast and fun. I sometimes fill out character sheets to stick in my portable books just for lulz.
Winter Gloom EditionPreviously on /slop/: >>97227237 ▶ Thread Task: Moody and gloomy winter pictures.And maybe characters trying to find a comfy warm corner.▶ Generatorshttps://bing.com/images/create/https://sora.chatgpt.com/https://gemini.google/overview/image-generation/https://perchance.org/ai-text-to-image-generatorComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97256033I don't think it was these two tho
>>97256004Pantoran wife actually
>>97256004>>97256119>Pantora and Pandora are both sources of blue waifusCoincidence? I think not!
>>97256151All of scifi is full of hot blue women
>>97256270>>97256119>>97255950>Pantoran>no yellow facial tattoosWould this be considered as an edgy counterculture thing among her people, much the way that having facial tattoos is considered among us?
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.
>>97256097I really just want a boxnaught that can do *something* good.Or maybe even a contemptor but whatever. Really my problem is my list is too scattered about and I need to focus in certain things
>>97256109Can't really go wrong with a mortis boxnought, doesn't even really matter what ranged weapons you give it. If you really need something to kill terminators one with twin gravis plasma cannons is probably one of the better choices.
>>97256123>If you really need something to kill terminators one with twin gravis plasma cannons is probably one of the better choices.Will go with this then, thanks anon(s)
This frog lookin' muthafucka is taking forever
>>97254686Busy with the holidays, still uninterested in 3.0Kits prove GW absolutely want to kill options, they're just smart enough not to rush it this time. Not that it matters, I ain't getting invested in a 3-year cycle anyway.Progress on tweaking 2.0 is happening, friends still play casually, and I never cared for tournaments. I guess the return of proper drop pods is a plus?
>>97251797>but there is no other meaningful option to take... what. the fuck. dude.So either you didn't play the game at all, or you have the media literacy of an especially stupid dead rat.
>>97255124But then you might go too far and start stepping on the toes of atompunk, which is the era of the 1950s-60s defined by living under the looming specter of the bomb. It's its own form of retrofuturist sci-fi where the transistor was never invented, and so the world never truly goes digital.
>>97230970>>97251047The problem is the concept of Diesel Punk as it's been presented to the mainstream public focuses closer to WW2 because it's more of a recognized period of time. But when you look at the entire period of time it's supposed to represents it's 1910s–1950s. There is a lot that happened in that 40 year period. > 10's and WW1. Mix of different possible enemies because the whole world went berserk. Gremany/Preussia, The Turks, Russia both Imperialist and Communist, France, Britain which includes Canada, Mexico, America, various parts of Latin America and Asia. That's not counting the different groups, Public and Secret, that were fighting in and across stare boarders. The group the Black Hand is considered to be what kicked of the war. Seriously, read about WW1 it's amazing how many countries and groups were fighting each other, it's a wealth of story material.>The Roaring 20's. The Raise of Hollywood, Gangsters, Bootleging, and Federal Police fighting with local Police to see who got the glory of catching them. > The 30's aka The Red Decade and the Great Depression. Economic Collapse, Government dominance, and the publics fascination with Socialism and Fascism (America's Wonder of Urban Planning, Stanlin's Soviet Union, Mussolini's Italy, and the Raise of Hitler's Germany). Drought and the Depression causing mass migration from Rural and City areas leading to cultural upheaval. Chinese, Japanese, Nazi, and Soviet espionage. Soviet back anarchist groups terrifying the public. The return of the KKK roaming rural areas. In the midst of this chaos and Insanity, The Birth PULP, RADIO, and COMIC HEROES! The Shadow, Doc Savage, The Spider, The Green Hornet, Secret Agent X-9, Sam Spade, Flash Gordon, Superman, Batman, Captain America, the list goes on and on. Capable men of means standing up for good and battling the corrupt.Part 1
>>97256237>The problem is the concept of Diesel Punk as it's been presented to the mainstream public focuses closer to WW2 because it's more of a recognized period of time.>Complaining that an era containing the most famous war of all time is thematically dominated by that war in its aestheticI get what you're going for, and I love to see more of the era represented (this is where decopunk shines), but it's kinda hard to ignore.
>>97256237>>97256309This is acknowledged within the aesthetic. There are two acknowledged subdivisions of dieselpunk, with World War 2 as the central divide.>"Piecraftian" dieselpunk is during/post-WW2>"Ottensian" dieselpunk is pre-WW2
>>97171444 >What is /awg/?A thread to talk about minis and games which fall between the cracks, or peoples' homebrew wargames.The >>>/tg/hwg thread doesn't entertain fantasy (for good reason) and the other threads are locked to more specific games.This thread isn't tied to a game, a publisher, or a genre, let's just talk about fun wargames. Any scale, any company, any miniatures.>Examples of games that qualify.A Song of Ice and Fire, Argatoria, Batman Miniature Game, Carnevale, Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings,Deadzone, Dragon Rampant, Dropfleet and Dropzone Commander, Freebooter's Fate, Frostgrave, Gaslands, HeroClix,Kings of War, Maelstrom's Edge, Malifaux, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Masters of the Universe: Battleground, Moonstone,Oathmark, OnePageRules, Open Combat, RelicBlade, Rumbleslam, SAGA, StarCraft, Stargrave, Sludge, Urban War, Void,Warcaster, Warmachine, Xenos Rampant, Xenotactics......and anything else that doesn't necessarily have a dedicated thread.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97249468You've reminded me that I have a shit load of lizardmen I need to paint up for my AD&D group. I should get on that tonight.,
>>97255594There's too much competitive orientated balance in the game, it doesn't have a Warzone bone in its body, the only thing that's Mutant Chronicles about it, is the models. I got a taste of the rules long before the game release and all I can say about it is that it's balanced. But Warzone isn't supposed to be balanced, it's meant to be broken.
>>97255896Yeah, I don't buy that. Being a balanced game isn't what's holding it back, its the fact that its a 20+ year old niche franchise that has been relying on literally 2 guys to develop and promote for the last few years. The only talk I have seen about it, other than the odd painting blog talking about the minis, has been one or two YT channels doing a video or two to show the game off and Facebook posts. It really needs a community ambassador to help show it off.
Drew up my map for 5 leagues after using a generator to get the initial landmass and landmarks. It's surprisingly fun. Haven't done something like this since I was a kid.Also we need to behead whoever came up with the captcha of the dots in squares. I keep forgetting I need to read the prompt.
>>97256068I've been meaning to give 5 Leagues a go. Seems up my alley. Unfortunately most of my larger terrain is with my dad still (he made a lot of it) so I'll need to put together some more unless I want every encounter to take place in a dungeon or campsite.
Why are there so many threads that ask vague non-questions about obscure non-topics? Like half the OPs on here are some gay shit like >How do we fix the scrimblopunk genre?Or>How do you accurate portray glup shittos in your game?
>>97255802Did you think that pretending you can't see >>97255747 makes your mistake suddenly go away?
>>97255802You come across pretty obtuse yourself, buddy. Ever try jogging?
>>97254502I can be angry at more than one group. >us nogames You are necessarily the worst on a board about traditional games. That there are about a hundred posts about whatever the fuck metaposting about board culture is going on here, rather than just playing some fucking games and posting about them, is also a bad group. There can be overlap as well.
>>97252879This
People simply engaged in good faith more often back in the day. Disinterested tourists have proliferated, oldfags have diminished, and schizos have not only stayed the same in number, but gone deeper into psychosis. Nothing lasts forever.
Why did GW make them chicken nuggets instead of just putting the crotch at the knee like real life exoskeletons?https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EC33gaqQKSI?feature=share
>>97254299THANK YOU. This is a perfect example of the negative effects of flanderization. A newfag thinks "wow a dreadnaught is cool because its a stompy robot with guns for hands" and thinks more of the same is "40k".completely missing the point that the core design idea is that its an armored, walking sarcophagus filled with a tortured quadriplegic zombie. THAT is 40k, but modern GW designers really just don't fucking get it.
>>97254299That would work as a predecessor to a dreadnought. It would be the piloted frame that a techmarine would install the life support system keeping a crippled marine alive so he could continue fighting as a dreadnought. Someone just completely forgot that the dreadnought frames are pretty much lost tech when that was designed.
>>97252723could have =/= should have feel free to make your own threads, that's the idea otherwise check your spam box for your janny application
>>97256095Dreads still serve their purpose as a way for marines to keep fighting as zombies.The idea of using the frame to empower a still very abled marine isn't that farfetched at all and in fact way easier than hooking a brain to command it.If the vehicle is destroyed you might still get a full marine still ready to fight.
This makes sense from a military perspective>Have a powerful vehicle>But only use it for broken marines when it could be a force muiltiplier used by healthy marines.The only stupíd thing is making it a scout with no armor.
Go To Church Edition>RPG Rulebookshttps://rentry.org/40kRPGLinks>Homebrew Collection (Feb 2025)https://rentry.org/40RPGHB>WANG/Imperium Maledictum Newshttps://cubicle7games.com/blog/warhammer-40k>Bestiary, armoury, weapon quality and NPC databasehttp://www.40krpgtools.com/>Dark Heresy 2e Character Creator:https://apps.ajott.io/dh2chargen/>General 40kRPG Encyclopediahttps://www.scholaprogenium.com/>Offline Combined Armory (v6.48.161023)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97255851Whose fucking idea was it to make you do math to get the base price of an item? Is this shit for real?
Is there a "Tom Bombidil" in 40K? A warp god who just wants to be alone and do his own thing?
>>97255851I don't think that's true, I think that's the case for item quality and when you're bartering items you already have for a new thing, but not for the base price of the item. >>97255779I was using the wrong version, so my complaint about the chain weapons is moot, though the rest of the economy is still really strange. Thanks for the heads up though! Appreciate it.
>>97255900Ah, nah I was checking the wrong bit. For rarity it just can flat limit the quantity you can buy in certain locations. The base price does multiply based on quality/flaws, and it effects bartering using the weapons/items themselves as product though.>>97255948Right, right, my bad, was reading the wrong bit.
>>97255926Probably, there are endless warp entities which GW just doesn't have the time to write about, so they focus on the big 4 and whatever else their writers feel like writing. If you want to make a Bombadil-esque god for your game, go for it.
Who was in the right?
>>97249535>Do you guys actually play the game or just argue about lore you heard from a youtube video?I had to check which thread I was even in. Jesus Christ, this board is depressing.For what it is worth, I do intend to run an Alpha Centauri RPG someday, I frequently use elements from Alpha Centauri in the RPGs that I do run, and I make a point of playing the vidya at least twice a year.For example, in Mage: the Ascension, I had Morgan and Yang show up as competing Technocratic directors (Syndicate and NWO, of course). Morgan was more willing to negotiate with the PCs, because he was confident his philosophy would outcompete theirs in the marketplace of ideas, given enough time.
>>97249535GURPS is for faggots and videogames are for troons.
Only one of them is a Heritage-American and so only one of them isa right, Miriam Godwinson.
>>97249535Where do you think you are?
>>97249616>reading the actual written fluff is wrong and I'm going to be extra salty about it lol good job
>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.
>>97250286>So what did your Jumper do in FGO? Who did they do in FGO?Beat the shit out of Goetia and stopped Chaldea by unplugging it to charge my phone (Forgot about part 2 while writing that part)
>>97255592>enjoy your vacation in the Nasuverse>Laughs in spider>Laughs in Kotomine>Laughs in Magus society>Laughs in Crimson moon
>>97255988I trust Kirei, he's a good lad.
>>97253378>It's ESPECIALLY amusing if that child is GOHANBut would you REALLY want to use the blood of Gohan of all people?
>>97255988For a normal character I might agree. For a jumper it's like injecting Abridged Alucard in to the setting with no restrictions. They might adopt the spider as a pet, feeding in new things to see what happens.
