Is it a good advice for game masters who want to run campaign in the "exotic" place instead of generic "coast of swords" clone?
>>97270237Yes and now. It is true if you have lived your entire life there, for native NPC, but I prefer if the people outside enter it with some prejudices, sneering, and cultural posturing.
>>97270237>Mwangi
what settings have you played in so far.dont worry, we know you wont reply.
>>97270265This is extremely important.
>>97270237I came here for entertainment, not a lecture.
I wanted to see what cool maps people had! Bonus points for castles and high res maps, as i love the idea of running some kind of castle seige as those are my favorite maps from Fire Emblem
>>97268824What kinda stupid question is that? No: we design our battlemaps around our games.
>>97269405None of these battlemaps were designed by anyone in this thread and furthermore don't forget to hang yourself.
>>97269520The one I posted was: >>97263029We used it last Sunday in Spelljammer. I made it on Inkarnate.
>>97268638I wouldn't know, it's a random I found for my collection.
>>97262980Have you considered covering the out of play bits with cardboard or some such?
JUDGE! JUUUUUDGE!! YUGI'S CHEATING AGAIN!!
How tf do you even proxy this thing?Making a cities of sigma army with these lil fellas but my dumb ass is stumped by the warhulk. Obvious answer is a crows nest from plasticard or something but that'll shatter if you breathe on it wrong
>>97265258>Skill issueWell yeah. I can and will mess anything up, and plastic glue never seems to hold. Hell I can't even get green stuff to hold, it just never hardens
>>97265295Greenstuff dries, but only really hardens after several days, and even then is still springy. If you want hard, try milliput. For your question, you'll have to scratchbuild something. Maybe a halfling howdah on a pygmy elephant? Bigger contact points than a crows nest. Also, have you tried using superglue and braided wire instead of plastic glue and just plasticard?
>>97265231>balsa sticks and hotglue gun, wire as barbewire also holds together >disposable plastic shotglass with stuff attached to itCould try using small pushpins to fix the card to the outside, glue them and put a dob of putty on the inside so it has a fastener.
>>97265295>plastic glue never seems to holdGet better plastic glue (I use Revell Contacta Professional and Tamiya Extra Thin) or better plastic (HIPS or similar, there are specific plastics the glue will work on and ones where it won't).
>>97265276>Or perhaps he is wondering why you would shoot a man before throwing him through a realmgate?
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.
Upcoming repertoire changes as black:HippoDutchSiciliansCurrently studying.
>>97266428>always be at the bottom of open tournamentsBut I thought women are equal to men? So why would they be worse?
>>97270280Scientists say that they have a smaller brain.
>>97270280Women are less ambitious than men on average and are self-contained and self-satisfied. Men are constantly reaching outward and upward and trying to distance themselves from the womb. This is how civilization was raised, and why religion changed from Mother Earth worship to Father Sky God. It’s not that women are less intelligent, they’re just different, on a deep level. Women want to burrow, men want to conquer. Theoretically, if a woman was grown in a lab and brainwashed to want to be a competitive chess player, there’s no reason she wouldn’t be able to, and her name is Judit Polgar.
>>97270280Women are not as adept at spatial-visual reasoning, presumably a biological hangover from when men were hunters and needed to anticipate and plan the movements of prey they were hunting. It's why they also suck at making furniture, they don't have the same capacity to visualize moving and placing objects in the future. Doing that well is obviously fundamental to complex chess but I'm sure there are other reasons too like women being in general less autistic and competitive than men.
A thread for discussing the Star Wars franchise and its various media and tabletop games.Sheev I'm NJO editionPrevious: >>97217145Fantasy Flight Games’ X-Wing, Armada, and Legion>https://pastebin.com/9puqx1zeStar Wars Roleplaying Games (d6/d20/FFG)>https://pastebin.com/iUriRfaAOther FFG Star Wars tabletop (Imperial Assault, Destiny and the LCG)>http://pastebin.com/ZE4gn0yNComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97267760>Do scenarios affect gameplay a lot, or do you just basically want to wipe the enemy?As of now, the game has 7 primary and 7 secondary missions. They are fairly diverse, and you gain most points through your primary mission. However, there are a couple of primaries that are very prone to draws (eg. Recover the research), in which case you usually win on secondaries. There are only 2/7 secondaries that award points for killing. >Also wot are the factions like, do they have their niches, or can anyone be good at anything basically.As mentioned before, each faction CAN play in multiple ways, but they do have a core identity.>EmpireThe "vanilla" faction. They have the fewest tricks and mostly rely on raw statlines. Besides their heroes, they are definitely a shootling army first and foremost.>RebelsThe tricksy glass cannon faction. They have by far the most ways of messing with the enemy through command cards. They hit hard, with lots of pierce, but most of their units fold like wet paper under sustained fire.>CISThe endurance/synergy faction. Lots of bodies, lots of armor, tons of multi health units, many support abilities to keep your dudes alive just enough to score. As a CIS player, you also have by far the best order control, being able to plan out which units go when due to units like b1s having coordinate.>GARThe elite/synergy faction. Your units are generally expensive, but every clone trooper can generate tokens to share with other clones. Your objective as a clone commander is to make a list where every unit compliments each others' abilities.
>>97269143>Also, any example of Rebels/NR APCs?Cilpari APC, if you're looking for something tracked. If you're after something that hovers, then the good ol' A-A5 is your go-to for the rebels.
>>97270010>>97270035>>97270040thanks a bunch!Couple more things, does the game... "flow" well? Is there always different things to do, or is it the usual "activate my strongest unit and shoot the enemy's unactivated strongest unit"? And can you snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, or if some random bad stuff happens early on, you are just in for 90 minutes of losing right from the start? And how does the game feel on the table, I mean... most games I have played are on the skirmish level and have that feeling of "this guy is behind this barrel so he gets a cover bonus, meanwhile this guy is aiming for an extra to hit bonus", from the couple of games I have seen SWL is a more "high level" with entire units doing things - which could be fine, but I am worried about the "granularity" of the game... like... like the units being sort of abstracted with the "only move the squad leader" and "everyone does the same thing" and the other models in a unit basically being tokens, window dressing, if that makes sense?This is one of my pet peeves with 40k, it is a game where the models "don't matter", it feels like in 40k you could draw a couple of blobs/rectangles on paper and just precisely position/measure them in a way to maximize your shots without really having to put models on the table. Especially with competitive table setups it boils down to geometry and math...
>>97268071The Sith vault within the Jedi Temple, whatever happened there?
>>97270346>does the game flow wellIn my experience, as long as the result of the game isn't a foregone conclusion, absolutely. Playing Legion is almost constant tension, action, rolling, planning and reacting. Every activation can change the state of the game, requiring you to adjust your plans. The only down time in Legion is when your opponent is thinking and when you're moving filler units.>And can you snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, or if some random bad stuff happens early on, you are just in for 90 minutes of losing right from the start?You can, definitely. I recently had a game where my opponent killed most of my army, but I managed to win by knocking one of his b1 squads off an objective in the last activation. Or, winning with exactly 1 b1 on the board because I scored more on turns 2-4.>other models in a unit basically being tokens, window dressingNope, where you put your non-leader minis does matter. For one, only minis that can draw line of sight to an enemy can shoot them. Two, you can bodyblock enemy squads and vehicles by spreading out your squads. Furthermore, enemy can only kill as many minis as they can see in their shooting attacks, so hiding your boys can limit enemy killing power.
Is Age of Sigmar good yet?
>>97253959>unironically timmys first paintjob tierstick to your sluggish rank and flank slop, faggot
>>97253903>rulesIt currently has a better ruleset than 40k and Old World..but that is not a high bar. >loreThe lore has improved a lot. Sill got nothing on 40k but I would rate the lore on par with Old World now.>modelsOnly GW system getting better models these days is Necromunda.
>>97253959I think you were a great painter when you were 12.
>>97254047Can't you just make your own terraiN?
>>97253903>Games Workshop>GoodNoIt's probably their best game, but it is shit
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.
>>97269004looks sunny enough. I'd be worried about wind though
>>97268923It's >>97268983It was the same with roll&write games. Cheap to make so they can just churn them out and take the risk.
>>97266583>Molly House, Old Kings Crown, and SpeakeasyI think only OKC will last. MH will be a niche for wehrles fans to say they own it and Speakeasy will be just another Lacerda. He's got next one ready to sell.
>>97268923I suppose anon is correct >>97268983. The biggest driver is is hard to single out, but I reckon it's between publishers gladly junping on the train because productionis dirt cheap, shipping is much less of a factor per unit and smallbox games having a mild revival. The latter of which I think is an overall objective good; fuck boxed air
>>972665832025 games are too new to judge. A lot of these have not hit the wide market yet. If we look at 2022 and 2023:>2022JC 2nd and GoA II were a later hit. Big names from the time that are probably forgotten or less popular now are: Carnagie, Tiletum, GWT Argentina, Endless winter, Flamecraft, Libertalia 2ed, Lacrimosa, Weather machine, Mosaic, Ahoy, Encyclopedia, Cat in the box...>2023Horseless Carriage was forgotten but the wide availability and price drop have seem to given it second wind.Others: Bloodstones, ICE, Darwins Journey, Nucleum, Distilled, Apiary, Expeditions, Kutna Hora, Daybreak, Evacuation, The fox experiment, Septima, Arborea, Last light....Maybe I'm wrong and these are still widely played? But there might also be more, do people still play Earth, Vale of eternity, Age of innovation, Sky team?
How is it? Looks bretty fun
To add to this >>97264903 looks like JTT has some great plastic sheets in corrugated and other styles. Is 1:100 a good scale?
I'm just gonna toss two words in here;WACKY. RACES.You're welcome.
>>97265462I've seen people run Mario Kart with it. Ironically, I think races are what Gaslands is worst at, because rarely does anyone actually finish the race. It's a huge collision clusterfuck right at the start, then weapons come online and the idea of actually racing goes out the window. I much prefer deathmatches or some of the arena types with goals to accomplish.
>>97269328What's the best mode to teach some new players (including myself) and let them have some fun? 1 car each and deathmatch?
>>97269808the official kids ruleshttps://planetsmashergames.com/sdm_downloads/gaslands-kids-mode/2 pages!
Previously on /slop/: >>97241519▶ 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-generatorhttps://civitai.com/Curious about local genning? Check out /g/'s stable diffusion OP or ask one of our friendly locals.▶ Perchance pastebin of generators and links:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97270051>experimenting Idk man, the same OC standing still front and center for, so far, a hundred images, in the same style, is not experimenting, but very much jorking it
>>97269350don't despair blonde 1girl anon. if you're the same one i was talking to the other day who recommended perchance- my brother in slop - i haven't stopped using it in days. my soul wanes. my vim is near depleted. i should curse you but my entertainment knows no end! I appreciate you wholeheartedly! keep posting!
>>97270051>porn taghahahahahahaha
>>97267068>>97269853It's a different AI now, you must use new prompts for itYou can take advantage of the new Remix, it does wonders on changing the artstyle
The DM reveals that all this time, the 'Chaotic Evil invading soldiers' you've been fighting and slaughtering were actually Lawful Good innocent untrained peasants. They were tricked/convinced into believing they were fighting for survival and defense of their impoverished homeland.THE PALADIN FALLS AND LOSES ALL POWERS!!!Do you feel like a hero yet?
>>97264543>Consummating your marriage automatically causes a Paladin to fallOk, exactly fucking how do you rationalize this?
>>97268221Men are always stronger than women. ANY time there is a power disparity during sex, genuine consent cannot be given. Therefore since men are always stronger than women, any sexual contact between men and women is inherently rape, because the woman is physically unable to grant genuine consent.And since all sex between men and women is rape, and rape is always an Evil act, and the paladin is knowing engaging in sexual congress with his wife, the Paladin has knowingly committed an Evil act and therefore falls.
>>97268309Okay dworkin.
>>97264534Anyone who wants a Paladin to fall and tries to make it happen is a faggot. People like you are the cancer responsible for the shittification of sci-fi fantasy and ttrpgs as a hobby.
People play oathkeeping like It's an algorhitm set to the chosen gods rules, forgetting that this is magic and miracle and any good aligned god would look down on the situation, pat the paladin on the back empathetically and let hm continue his job.It's the fuckers that are really lost or try to jew the oath that make the god irked
Stories, art, don’t care. Post it or don’tWhite human male and orc female pairings are the key to fixing the realm
>>97268995Depends what you're into. I think the UI is fine in COC2, I couldn't personally get into TITS. I find that CoC 2's story is more fleshed out and has had more work put into it but is substantially tamer. There is less focus on corruption and wacky stuff, ironically, and way too many futas and femboys.
>>97187485>White human male and orc female pairings are the key to fixing the realmOk fine but can we have some M human / M orc pairs too?
>>97269948Preferably with this style of orc male.
>>97235202You're turned on by the idea of being physically dominated, your opinion means nothing.>>97249645Sorry, desperate faggot, but only one of those was me.>>97237019Nice strawman, faggot. Where did I ever say I wanted a "dainty waif?" Oh right, never did., That's just you needing something to talk shit about, because you know I'm right. If I were wrong, you wouldn't have to make up shit I never fucking said, would you? Pathetic. But, that's par for the course for you faggots.
>>97269956Dangerously based.Orcs willingly being plowed into submission are cute!
Everyone I know who watches Fatt Coville videos is a fucking terrible GM. I've never fully watched one and I am widely considered the best GM out of all 3 groups I'm part of. I am regularly requested to run campaigns. People borderline fall asleep in the games others run. There's also no tension because they know that these Coville acolytes will fudge rolls until all PCs survive the battle. If you're a good GM, it's an inmate talent you can hone over time. You're born that way. If you aren't, then no amount of shitty advice is going to make up for your lack of talent. It just is what it is. This idea that everyone should "try" DMing is retarded. The idea that anyone can be good at it? lolno. Its like some fat divorced on who suddenly decides he's gonna become a famous author. Fat chance. Most people fucking suck at GMing. Hell, most of them suck at playing, but at least in that case the game depends less on them.
>>97262938Nah it's about 25 percent attitude. The rest is genuine competence in running the game and making it engaging and imaginative.
>>97233508>If you have it, you have it. If you don't, you don't.I think a lot of disciplines in general can look like this, but I think time spent doing something can really help someone that didn't start with it to get it. I think the wrong attitude like that games and art are all about following rules perfectly will prevent someone from improving, but once they find the right attitude then they can learn anything
>>97262938I've played alongside a guy who really loved to flex their oldfag credentials about how he once played at a table with Arneson or how he had Gygax's signature on the first dungeon master's guide or some shit. He was the most obnoxious, annoying, derailing piece of shit I've ever played any game with. I've also run games for literal children who were better players than the highly opinionated, stubborn oldfags who prided themselves on their expertise and deep knowledge of TTRPGs.The old players get set in their ways and believe they already know how to play and don't need to change their habits. Everyone else does. Their egos and undeserved confidence in their mastery of game systems makes them feel smug that they are the truest authority at the table, even as they misquote every rule and cite made up houserules or something some other GM allowed as justification for them to always get their way.
>>97252361Did you try and get them to play something marginally different to 5e like ACKS or Pathfinder with 12 million rules for them to remember? Get them used to other systems buy running short campains with rules light systems like Mothership or Cairn.
>>97270251I don't even think rules light systems are always necessary; nine times out of ten, the people complaining about being unable to get their groups to try a new thing are doing a dogshit job of pitching the game. I will say it again: don't expect the players to buy in to learning a new game based on you telling them how cool it is; run a one shot with pre generated characters that introduces the basic rules and showcases how fun the game is.
Previous Thread: >>97096644For: Creation and discussion of Lewd RPGs; including Solo Rpgs, Homebrews, and Greentexts about your game sessions (specify the system you are using)>DON'T post or ask for "Looking For Group" or "Looking for Players".>DON'T sperg about Hentai logic, Hentai Artists or NTR. Take your meds.>NO Shota/loli crap. Go to /trash/>What's a Solo RPG?1: YouTube (Season 1 of Me, Myself & Die! gives a good explanation)2: Ask in the Solo RPG General: >>970620423: Solo is a good way to test out systems and to avoid problems such s "Schedule Conflict" or "Playing with Weirdos">Solo RPG Toolkit (NPC Generator, Mythic GM Emulator, etc.)https://infinityweavers.link/re-up/solo-rp-toolkitComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97269374In that case it chould be something like Table 1 Action Table 2 Thing. Labyrinthus has some results which combined might have a lewd meaning but other than tat the majority are generic since it has a broader use. If you want to make something specific it could like: Table 1>lick>suck>fondle>grope>tease>strokeTable 2>breastsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Guess what came in the Mail today.
I'm going to post this greentext story because man, I just remembered this sad sack of shit and fuck him.>player I played with before invites me join a Skyrim game with Pathfinder as rules>lewd game, but not the main focus>she's a player and some other dude is DMing>cool, been itching for a game>make my character an Imperial merchant Skald looking to enrich himself and eventually become a noble>send backstory and stuff to DM to see if we can work together and he just kinda dismissively says its fine play the character>she's an Artificer that wants to tinker with Dwemer stuff>others are a Sorc and Fighter I think? not really important to story so omitted from the rest of greentext >start off in tavern, make a big scene with my character playing music, initiate all of the roleplay>telling Artificer some made up stories of my adventures and roleplaying is going nice>DM interrupts by throwing some magical dude who invites everyone to the table>my character greets him and compliments his nice hat>for some reason magic man greets everyone happily but me, calling me a pompous buffoon>at that time dismissed it as nothing and continue onComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97270288>do some more RP, fight a few monsters, get to Windhelm eventually>Artificer gets some huge story moment about her device>all the higher-ups at the castle are praising her and direct party to go to nearby dwemer ruins >at this point Artificer has been getting all the story points and most attention>at some point DM even made her character have a wet dream about spirits fucking her character>didn't notice at the time but man was he glazing her character and setting her up as the MC>all the characters go to bathhouse to wash before heading to dwemer ruins>at this point Artificer says her character is flustered at my character being naked>some flirting, my character asks to wash her hair, eventually think of scoring>and then DM throws in a NPC>kinda stupid to throw someone in when RP and possible ERP is about to happen>this NPC is... a Skald>he starts making a story about some ghost ship and ancient artifact he has that is connected with this ghost shipComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97270314>this is when DM starts sperging >UHHH RAPE IS BAD NOT OKAY>THIS IS SUPPOSE TO BE HEROIC CHARACTERS>RAPE IS OBJECTIVELY EVIL>ANON'S CHAR IS SUPPOSE TO BE GOOD HERO>uhhhh... I never said my character was a good guy>in fact if you read the character backstory I sent it literally said character is vain, arrogant, willing to dirty his hands, and if that Skyrim civil war starts he's planning to take advantage of it and join whoever gives him most power>he starts asking Artificer player if this is okay>she says yeah? she's the one who initiated the conversation>at this point already connecting all the dots at this fucking simp>whatever, initiate ERP>like three posts in where I say my character starts touching Artificer sensually DM sends me private message>long ass paragraph about how I'm in this game only for the ERP and being disruptiveComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Thread #007 Countess 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>>97258877Previous Thread>>97131386Brief 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.
>Thread questionI would expect my childer to answer "Venus in Furs" or some affectionate nickname referring to me, but if you ask me, they should join me and give this answer: "the Prince of Paris."By "fear" I don't mean I did anything bad (how could I?), I just feel a great sense of awe by this amount of power, influence and quite the divine majesty, which I cannot match.>>97269990Most excellent, so we are indeed dealing with kindred and not merely with clumsy robbers, and at least seven of them.
>>97270221>Thread questionI only met the Princes of NY and Bridgeport? The first ain't even looked at me, the second had all these questions about metal. I say the first.
>>97270170>Thread QuestionScholar, I've seen what he does to kine and kindred alike. -Kakophoni
