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
>>97270336What does he do?
I have pocket money to spend.Who are the surviving toy soldier manufacturers still in operation on this fair isle?From Carlton to Broxtowe, Ashfield to Rushcliffe, show me some production houses still limping on.
>>97270847... sure that's a particularly helpful line of enquiry, and even if I were a nogaems, sources of little tin lads for yesgaems would still be of value to the board.Anyway here's Mammoth Minis, another dude that does the sort of community casting thing where amateurs can get their sculpts moulded and cast for just a moderate profit-skim.
>>97270847>Are you about to sound the nogaems siren because I'm notAwfully defensive for a legitimate question asked without hostility.Regardless, here's a comprehensive list I dug up from my bookmarks, but it was updated just over a year ago so some of it might be out of date:happy-splash-a25.notion.site/f606e639ebdf443c9f6df663a13efe9a?v=9c38b21864104f5cb76ddaeb56b54aab
>>97270872Your post was one of the classic thought terminators currently rendering the chan unusable, rendered in one of the classic forms, anon.That's a good list.Have you bought from any yourself, and do you have any recommendations or condemnations based on those experiences?I tend to grab a couple of models or a pack from Black Scorpion every Salute, they are well sculpted and properly proportioned and tend to be very nice and crisply cast.I have some stuff from Black Sun as well, their 54mm Hawk Knight, I think, and some steampunk top hat clockwork power fist guy.Similarly good quality. Their shop looks less and less active every time I check on it.
>>97270896>Have you bought from any yourselfI think the only ones I've bought from are (all in 28mm too):>Makashi's Tea House and Space Vixens From Mars (some not!Star Trek metals)>Northstar Figures (Oathmark heavy human plastic and metal preorders)>Perry Miniatures (plastic Agincourt Knights)>Victrix Miniatures (plastic Norman Infantry)>Wargames Atlantic (lots of stuff from them)WGA is actually American, but to get around tariffs if you order from outside America they cast and ship from a British factory they opened.>Warlord Games (plastic and metal Euro Wars of Religion)I recommend all of them, but be warned that Warlord Game sculpts can be hit-or-miss and some of the older Victrix are a mix of multipart and multipart monopose (but they seem to be getting better with recent kits on avoiding monopose elements)
>>97270927Is it WGA that does the regular polls for the next new kits?Landschnekt ogres etc.?I was planning on picking those ogres up until I saw the Desperate Dan-ass faces, way too cartoonish for my tastes. I wish more places just made ogres big ugly men, instead of bizarro caricatures.I wish more websites would post fucking scales or sizes of their models too>sold with a 25mm base>base not picture to use as referenceor even better>x model in photograph is for scale only>x model is from their own line, impossible to accurately judge scale fromFucking why.
humans are boring nuff said
>>97244887>they don't stand on two legs, don't communicate through language, don't use weapons, and don't adhere to concepts of philosophy, politics, or societyThere are animals that do all of those things IRL
>>97245227I wish I had opportunities to roleplay as a dragon
Humans are the the Children of Seth. Elves are the Children of Lilith.
Humans in the constellation of species how tolkien used them are the newest one.But other authors and even tolkien himself failed to use that dynamic.Humanity overall should behave like toddlers, compared to something like elves. Unhinged little things, with a lack of higher reasoning.Yet toddlers are curious and have a lot of potential so humanities strength should be maturing into the ultimate beings. But they have yet to get there and no clue that they even could.
>>97270878stfu faggpt
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.
>>97254699Why do you think it's incoherent?
>>97260896>Jesus christ dude you need to seek emergency psychological help.Thanks so someone else noticed he is having a schizo breakdown
>>97238257You’re an alcoholic
>>97265294OK schizo I try.>>97248919>Why 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? How do I even answer this?Take your response and ply it to litterally aby post or thread on /tg/>Someone talks about a TCG and its mechanics>Different board gameetc etc.And then you post your crap.How do people actually answer it? It is literally>I do not like this ideaComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
The /btg/ is dead! Long live the /btg/!Scratch one Cameron boat editionPrevious Thread: >>97249401================================>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.
>>97270817My problem with the Griffin and several others of the 55 ton trio, and I didn't realize this until I started mostly playing campaigns rather than BV matched pickup games, is that most of them after introtech immediately switch to an XL engine and jump to ~10 million cbills.
>>97270033I mostly hate it because of the people who love it, but ultimately it's dumb and silly and I don't ever actually see it on the tabletop so it seems like a weird fundraising box more than anything. Like I didn't buy the larger scale mechs that are just display pieces either.
>>97270879I just hate it because it’s an urbanmech.
>>97269894Fun is for faggots. This is a wargame and war is a serious endeavor.
>>97270870>>97270870there is a big chunk of time where you have to wait out, until they start using Clan xlfe or IS light fe.it makes mediums the new lights, especially when the clannerfaggot enemy is bringing so much more firepower at such greater ranges.
It's Da PDF Share Thread!Get ready to stuff your hard drive like Santa's Magic Sack!STEP 0:<----- That image is not a PDF, it's an image, at least for now. Check the 4plebs link below to find the PDF.PLEASE READ DA FAQ BEFORE REQUESTING OR SHARING.It will answer 99% of your questions about this thread. If you haven't read it, we will know.STEP 1:Please exhibit good manners. Threads start sliding off the board after a certain number of posts. More posts wasted on being rude means fewer posts available for sharing.STEP 2:Request, share, stay awesome!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I would love to have the entire lineup of Star Trek Adventures 2e, pleaseLooked back but links sadly didn't work anymoreWould someone have a kind heart and share?
Kindly r-ing Burrows and Badgers 2nd edition. The 1st is up there but the 2nd is elusive.
Is Dolmenwood already available? Thanks
>>97252892Looking for Aether Nexus, the fantasy mecha rpg
Humbly requesting Arkham Horror RPG - Dreams of Kingsport
>the dark lord just wants bitchesIs this a good villain motivation?
>>97258165It worked for Genghis Khan, I don't see why it wouldn't for whatever other bandit/demon/wizard.
>>97264938Yes.
>>97258165Yes, absolutely. Consider how the main political power of women came from their eventual inheritance. If the dark lord seizes and legally marries multiple high-status women, he gets his hands on all of their estates. If you marry the Queen at swordpoint, congratulations that makes you King. Raping the shit out of her is a bonus.
>>97258165>kills every woman that gets naked for him>his fetish involves them flying naked in the air around him>but he can't fuck them that way>he seethes in his chair about it until his boner motive sends him trawling for strange again>the party is contacted by one of the ghost bitches because she's been seeing this happen to girls just like her for 200 years and she's tired of this shit
SEX SEX MONEY MONEY POWER - Yilmaz, the lord of fools
What are some of your experiences with BRP or mythras? Favorite stories, characters, or supplements? I generally like running pulp or horror campaigns. Funniest story setup was how my players thwarted a small series of adventures I planned before it even started.>Players role up an old priest, a journalist, and basically fred from scooby doo. >Investigating a series of murders and disappearances. >Get captured thesmelves and wind up in a rundown factory converted to sort of look likea victorian mansion.>Meet an obvious vampire who uses them for basic company and conversation before planning to kill them.>My players escape, the frail priest manages to full nelson the vampire, and the other players manage to use a stake to kill him. It ended what I planned to be a multi session adventure in one night. It was a lot of lucky roles and ended up with being funny.
>>97268961Quite a few actuallyImperative is broadened and highly simplied While regular mythras is designed for fantasy settings from a tech level range of paleolithic all the way to late renaissance and napolnicBut assumes classical era bronze/Iron Age most of the time Also way more shit to play with about five diffent magic systems you can chose to include or exclude entirelyAnd a complete combat effects system Imperative is really a wide vertical slice that is missing a lot of shit though it has rules from a few supplements It even has a heavily simplified version of the supers rules present in the standalone game destined If you want sci fi stuff I would reccomend giving Luther Arkwright a spin
>>97269029>If you want sci fi stuff I would reccomend giving Luther Arkwright a spinThere's also M-Space for sci-fi mythras.
>>97269029You seem like you're a knowledgeable fellow so sell me on MythrasBonus points if you outline its biggest flaws too
>>97269950Cons: >Requires system mastery to flow correctly. Especially combat.>Combat maneuvers become a bit solved with pcs always choosing the target location special ability to dog pile damage and incapacitate an enemy. (i have had to homebrew around that)>Focus on simulationism even more than other d100 games might feel overly constraining.>it is more of a toolkit system as far as magic is concerned especially.>piles a lot on the gm to get it running properly.>character creation is kinda flawed and deigned towards making you mediocre at 5-10 things.Generally a lot of constrains when creating characters feels like an over correction more than anything. >Combat style is inherently superior to other combat skills like evade, endurance and willpower which are your resistances>action point system is kinda gamey and hardlocks you a little bit into mostly defending if numerically disadvantaged >lack of gm advice and procedures for dungeoncrawling, hexploration, sandbox play even if it was large part of the oldschool d100systems with settings like griffin island, especially considering that all the tools for such a style of play are there and the d100 is probably the only other game that can do that as well as the osr>armor is a little weaker than it should be.>the way xp rolls are gained is just worse and more gamey than the other organic ways used in d100 systemsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97270691>>97269950This covers a good chunk of the cons. They did try to fix some of the issues with the target location thing by making that counter combat maneuver, but that implies a success getting used for that just to negate an issue. Make it really punishing if it happens.I would disagree and say armor can actually be a little too strong in mythras at times in the hands of the players.
Yu-Gi-Oh! General #591"All i want for Christmas is for Dark Magician Girl to materialize in my bedroom so i can summon her in face down ass up position, have sex with her, and end my turn" EditionPrevious thread: >>97191908Most Yu-Gi-Oh! discussion encouraged. Post OC, write dumb fanfics with bad CaC in them, duel each other, have fun, etc.>Yu-Gi-Oh! Online PlayAutomated Sims:●EDOPro website: https://projectignis.github.io/download.html●EDOPro: https://discord.gg/ygopro-percy●YGO Omega: https://discord.gg/duelistsunite●Dueling Nexus: https://duelingnexus.com/●Master Duel: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1449850/YuGiOh_Master_Duel/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97270273*DFissureWhy do so many faggot floodgates have with Dimension in them?
>>97270285Because Dimension = Banish and you hate banish since nearly every deck for the last decade uses the gy as a 2nd hand.
>le gy is le 2nd handName a more reddit statement
>>97262640Kek what a sperg, guy's in his early twenties at best and believes he's already got the entire wisdom of the world figured out jfc>le "systematic level" of a corporate product that is a children's card gamelmao give me a break
>>97269592There are three guys working at Konami right now.>One made Ishizu Tear>One made War rocks>One made all the other tier 2-3 decks like Karakuri and a lot of the legacy support they getKonami only cares about the first two for some reason.
Shit GM Thread, because while you players are awful, there are some really shit GMs out there too.>GM advertises game as a destroyed world by demons and whatever and people trying to live through or retake the world>sounds good, throw my application in and get in>trying to make a character from a destroyed noble house destroyed from said demons>no info or lore or anything so just make one background that can fit in>ask GM if it's okay and if I can fill it in with finer details>he just says nah you're good>is there a map?>he just gives me some random borders map that looks like it was generated from some website>yeah choose a region where your noble house was from I'm still working on the details>his username is some pretentious TheLoreMaster btw>whatever as long as he can provide a good story as the game goes on>me and other players make our characters>he then tells us to create a shared backstoryComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I played in a one-shot where the GM used hallucinated ChatGPT-drawn maps so bad they were actively useless. Not that positioning mattered, we were there to listen to the GM going on about his cool NPCs we didn't even get to interact with really. The maps were the worst part though, 10 minutes and graph paper could have made intelligible maps for the entire session. Hell, you could even use AI for reference, I don't care, just make them playable. Don't have us fighting in a 4 floor spiral staircase in a 2 floor house
>>97270217>DM "“Technically the oath was to protect the realm from those outside of it that would threaten it, and he was in the realm”Traitors are a-ok since they were there to begin with, checkmate atheists
>>97270217Cringekino
>>97269308>>"hmm looks like people were too busy" he says as he deletes serverThat's way too fucking real.
Why do I have a feeling this thread was made by the anon from the player rage thread who was crying about not being allowed to roll his way through a game?Anyway>gm asks me if I'm a tranny because a play a female pc, ignoring that way over half of my characters are men (I rng most characters unless I have a solid concept) and other players do the same>complains that his session ends early due to deck of many things shenanigans despite having introduced said deck and made us all draw from it>invited way too many players, turns can take hours and we advance at a snails pace>is ginger (the 2nd greatest of all sins)>unfortunately got hooked on critical roll and that cartoon of it and now brings a lot of cr'isms into his game such as rule of cool, story arcs, and characters having big personal plot arcs>watches anime in dub (the greatest of all sins)That's all pretty minor though, he's a really great guy and his good parts outweigh those by a massive amount. Save for watching anime in dub, for that he will burn.
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.
>>97266862Just use the OSE srd
For all its shortcomings in the censorship department, I think Dolmenwood mostly does well to add to the B/X base with clarifications, some from AD&D. For someone like me who is too autistic to organically fill in the blanks left in the rules, it's great material. The SRD is a bit messy, but at least it is easy to navigate (and thus it is easy to cherrypick the additions). It specifies the weight of misc. adventuring gear as well as things adventurers are capable of (thus preventing mudcore slowdown of play). However it still does not complete the wilderness game or add a complete domain game.
>>97266427Go with OSE. The best gateway into OS D&D. This general will try to convince you otherwise as it is popular and therefore bad
>>97270693>This general will try to convince you otherwise as it is popular and therefore badBait used to involve a minimum of effort and plausibility.
>>97266427Just use AD&D or OD&D.
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.
>>97269759Nope. And honestly, I think another reason the expansions are delayed so much and content comes at a snail's pace is because Poots doesn't want KDM to end. It's his baby and without it, he (and KDM) will drift into obscurity and irrelevance.
>>97269759Well, pinups are not for Monster even tho some have promo cards. But yeah, it's his life now. Pretty good imo. Other than that, I can see licensed 3rd party studios making vidya, ttrpgs, etcetc.
Every time I hunt spidicules I regret it. My best survivor has two broken legs now from the pit, all because he stole my survivor with tumble who WOULD HAVE been the event revealer right before I rolled the pit, and now since i only had 3 survivors I had to push everyone to get through the forest wants what it wants and the broken leg guy's starting the showdown with 3 bleeding tokens. FUCK SPIDICULES
>>97270083Well, aftermath the bleeding tokens didn't really matter but I'm still pseudo retiring the survivor as murder bait and breeding bitch. A shame, since he was pretty promising with all 3 people of the stars abilities and +1 accuracy. I probably could work around 3 movement (ESPECIALLY IF I COULD EVER FUCKING FIND CHOREIA), i have other promising children.
>>97270211The only thing I houserule on this game is IntimacyI use Intimacy 1000x times more than say Courage, and I don't have an Intimacy leveling upFuck that niggerThis bitch I had it's on her EIGHT offspringIf you are going to literally gamble your life every single time you intimacy, you sure as hell deserve some bonus for surviving over and over and over on that taskAt this point in the game my survivors have more chance of dying from Intimacy than showdown
Gundam Meta Edition Here is a thread to discuss trading card games other than the big three.>Build Divide>Force of Will>Final Fantasy TCG>DBZ CCG>Wixoss>Keyforge>Gundam>Legend of the 5 Rings (L5R)>Digimon>Flesh and Blood>Gate Ruler>Battle SpiritsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I saw a YouTube series once where two guys would use DM pack emulators to simulate a sealed pool of the first expansion and play a few games with each other. Then instead of creating an entirely new pool, they would instead get a pool from the second expansion, add the two pools together and play with decks created like that. So on for the third expansion, the fourth etc.Do you think it would be fun to do something like this with another acg? And instead of two random dudes, it's a weekly tournament. Basically going through the history of a game.Does this post make sense? I might be too tired
>>97270291I think this is called a "Progression Series". It seems pretty popular with Yu-Gi-Oh.I've never done it. It does sound fun though.
>>97265332TT handling of beyblade must be fucking studied in school
>>97270358Uh, I didn't know that was a thing, I was half convinced I hallucinated it. Do you think anons here would be interested? What games would you guys want to play?
>>97270291That sounds so fun. I played ScoreZ from the first set to the last, and it would be wild to go through that journey again using cards that were good at the time but were powercrept into irrelevance down the road.A real headache, though, would be implementing the errata/ban/restricted along the way since the final CRD has been etched into my mind for over 20 years now.
How do you like your mutants?Do you like them looking more like anthros or circus freak shows?
>>97257071It's interesting how you can automatically tell when an animal is mutated or suffering from genetic diseases. Healthy creatures have a natural beauty to them even when they're dangerous predators or old as shit.Abominations and mutants should instinctually unnerve you when you look at them.
>declair>no uCringe.
>>97257506I think Warhammer had to say there was something unnaturally off about mutants to avoid the potentially risky Oldhammer lore that people with sixth toes would be killed alongside Asian people as Chaos mutants.
>>97262176>sixth toesNEPHILIM BLOODKILL IT
>>97257506it's always "oh they're all in such horrible pain and miserable in life"like they are mutated beyond recognition but miraculously have a functional nerve system that work well enough to tell them how fucked they areat a certain point you're just killing disabled
Holiday EditionDiscuss and post elves. Elf lore, gameplay, and art are all appreciated.QOTT: What are some of the best gifts to give elf-lovers? What gifts would you give to lovers of other races/species/ancestries/whatever?
>>97264977The brown elves in my setting are the wild ones.
>>97265076they better not just be noble savages
>>97265304They're not very noble or terribly savage, more country-bumpkinish types that opted out of high elf society. What's it to you what I do with my elves though?
>>97259864>chuds outone way to nuke 4chan trafficjust install reddit jannies and you will get your wet dream
>>97266676>this happened 4 years ago.
