the paid dm defenders have always said they help people with no friends, but the last few months they are being promoted as>fun for friends>give your dm a break>let your group try a new systemim talking ginny d, reddit, forum posts, irl in-store. in all seriousness will people fall for this instead of having one of their friends dm
>>97278466>lrn2googlehttps://www.impactlab.com/2025/07/19/the-death-of-google-search/
>>97278505>spambox (0) lol
>>97278501Can you imagine someone telling himself he's superior because he knows how to google art, instead of knowing how to make actual art?As if googling was an actual skill instead of something broken to make you get the results the company wants that will be broken again and again because they can.
>>97278505>But that's not the same thing as "dms using AI to write adventures are "destroying" the hobby."An argument no one ever made. Yeah, make up random bullshit to win arguments with yourself.The point was that the flood of generic AI art hides older art. So when people look for examples they don't get module art, pulp art, or even randos; just generic slop that looks like it was made at some random point with no direct intention. You want to run Conan and players will come with art that looks just like 5e, because when they searched for stuff they got all the same stuff.
>>97278505So you acknowledge that >>97278264 is a real problem? Great. Glad we had this little chat.
This is a second OSRG, seperate from the main osrg thread, where you CAN talk about 2e, retroclones, and any osr content you want.This is different than the regular osrg as due to rampant trolling from a handful of bad actors, discussion is impossible.>Troves, Resources, Blogs, etc:http://pastebin.com/9fzM6128>Starter Dungeonshttps://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/86342023/#q86358321PREVIOUS THREAD>>97226728
>>97277328>Dungeons should come in a variety of styles,SureThe issue is that you only have so much playtime so why would anyone ever opt for a boring dungeon for the next session?if you don't have any time to prep I guess doing a branching/linear cave-dungeon is OK, but then you have no time to search for the right natural cave mapthat's all IMHO
>>97277429that might actually work in a business senseselling AI-GM-chatbot subscriptions is a much better business model than selling a book and then your customer is fine for life because he can find endless entertainment in the product he already got from younot a future I wanna be part of though
>>97277765Simple fix: stop calling it OSRG.
>>97278396But this is OSRG. Your thread doesn't even include the full OSR. That's why this thread is needed. This thread existing doesn't give you the right to shit it up.>>97277384>I bet you could train a model just using Gygax's books and forum posts. No, you'd have to do a lot of work to get it to have anything at all in common with something Gygax might say. There's so much LLMs can't do and so much that they can do and it's not intuitive yet. Like you can't give it a rulebook and have it run a game, because it's not like it's reading the rulebook and then internalizing that and then pushing everything else through that filter, as a human would. It just can't do that. I bet a specialized LLM could get within like 60% of emulating whatever Gygax presented publicly though, but no one is gonna build that because its so specialized.
>>97278542I'm betting that I could turning test it, using AI quotes and quotes from Gygax, and most people wouldn't be able to recognize which quotes are the real ones.
Archives & Other Resources: https://rentry.co/cyoagAllsync: https://cyoa.allsync.com/s/owWor64yLTngDk3Previous thread: >>97267022Happy new year brosI love most of you, all of the timeThreadly question:What was your favourite Cyoa of the last year?What would you like to do differently?Will you finish that never ever?
>>97278616Translation: it was I who called him tokjeet in the first place and I will continue calling him that until he dies. Hopefully soon. I also liked mongoloid (because he's some mystery meat mutt) but that was another anon
>>97278622Cute dragon
>>97278622bad example, the dragon is too pale, i liked the tomb kings and the 'legion of evertok' more
>>97278668Pale dragons are cool
>>97278665>Hopefully soonyou are not going to get rid of him anon, he will outlive you
Previous thread:>>97209588>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.
>>97275454>TQLooking forward to the Starcraft game coming out, I'm super hyped for it
>>97276464Its in the filename. By Eureka games.
>>97275534I am amazed that a ruleset so bland and boring actually has enough traction to warrant a 2nd edition.
>>97275538Depends on what you consider skirmish but for fantasy stuff Song of Blades and Heroes is a classic but lately I've been using Thud and Blunder more and more. Unironically Savage Worlds makes for a pretty good wargame thanks to its heritage. If you want Sci-Fi Stargrunt 2 is the king IMHO but there are some worthy competitors like Fast and Dirty, Clash on the Fringe, Fivecore, No Stars in Sight, and Tomorrows War.
>>97275454Im excited for warriors of Athena or whatever frostgrave greek edition is called. I just want more fantasy greek monsters and amazonians in plastic.>>97275534As am I
If you created an Amazon setting, what would it be like? By Amazon setting, I don't mean a single society among many where women are primarily the fighters, I mean a setting where every society is this way. Some question to start someone off:>What genre would you make your setting be?>Do women tend to be musclegirls, men tend to be twinks, both, or does comparative height and build not change?>Is the magic that men and women are capable of different?>For pursuits that don't involve combat (such as hunting), are ones that are considered masculine and feminine swapped? Which ones?>While women would dominate military matters, what about other goverment matters? Do those end up women dominated?>How does courtship change?>Did you Amazon setting start off as such in-universe or was it some new development that lead to it being that way?
Dubs and above turn into canon.
>>97257888Based
In the western islands there live giant chlams that seep up salt and limestone to creat massive pearls, which are extremely valuable. Pirates seek them and each ship usually has one pearl which is a mark of legitimacy. The bigger the pearl, higher the clout. Having more than one pearl is looked down upon as it diminishes the effect and sentimentality.
Being a tiefling is a curse bestowed on anyone who commits a homosexual act. Do something gay and you turn into a tiefling. The more gay it is the more tiefling you become. The Muslims obviously hate tieflings.
>>97256170Considering how OP disappeared, you were proven right. No one is going to do anything with this trainwreck.
Dragonborn are always red and they openly discriminate against other reptile races like lizardfolk and frogfolk
>>97257442>I'm not talking about a game, I'm talking about the literary genre.Then your input is worthless.
>>97251151>the dregs of society striking back against mega corporationsGo read the Burning Chrome collection and count how many are about sticking it to the man and how many are about lowlifes just scraping by.
>>97254971Hi!
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>>97276595Don't worry anon, everyone else is confused too, on account of it not making a goddamn lick of sense.Invent a subsector and roll up two or three factions to fight over something inconsequential in it, you'll have more fin that way.
>>97276595Almost all of the crappy OC "deep lore" HH writers tried to stash in there sucks and is completely inconsequential for the setting as a whole. Just ignore it
>>97275833>Callidia's much cuter when she's drawn in this style instead of Helltaker's.Well Helltaker/Vanripper style is what has really been making me money and clout lately. Just filling a niche need in the market for people who want their ocs in helltaker style and the ones that really like helltaker40k. Helltaker style Callidia is basically Lucifer with some changes too lolBut I plan on doing my own style more this year, at least for anything more serious and grimdarker, rather than the whimsical funnies.
>>97277816I find your pen and ink style that you post in here sometimes to be quite striking, personally. It's a little Helltaker, but not quite as rendered as your normal style, at least in my relatively uneducated view.
>>97275281Oh my god, that's adorable! In my game Sister Famula had a personal plushie collection, and she bonded with a former Sister of Battle from another order by trading plushies. Our team happened to share a ship with a radical Inquisitor known as the "Demon Scourge" because her daemon-sword can perma-kill daemons by eating them. Nobody in the group was happy about it, but she was killing daemons and she outranked us so we coped. My character clocked one of the Inquisitor's retinue as a former Sister of Battle, so she inquired how a fellow Sororita would have fallen in with such a radical. Turns out that she'd been burnt out by losing all her friends and comrades to her Order's infamous fanatical suicide charges, and was forced to go Repentia when she lost the ability to conceal her resentment for her superiors. When she got caught up in the Daemon Scourge's business, she decided that she could do more good serving someone focused on killing the enemies of the Emperor rather dying gloriously for Him.The two of them had really different backstories. My Sister Famula was a talented but troublesome child tithed by her very powerful highborn family because they felt they couldn't control her. Whereas the former Sister of Battle was sold to the Ecclesiarchy because her parents couldn't afford to feed her. However, while sharing their tales, both of them mentioned missing their childhood plushies, so eventually they each went to their rooms, grabbed one of their adulthood plushies, and gifted it to the other Sororita. My character received a donkey and gifted a lion cub.
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.
>>97270251If you have to ease your group into playing other systems, there's already a problem. Alongside that, if you are fucking sick of generic D&D fantasy bullshit, playing more generic D&D fantasy bullshit isn't a solution to that grievance.
>>97232331I think session zeros should be a thing, formal or informal. Either way GM/DM advice is useless because every GM, theor skills, style, and what they want is different. Some GMs probably benefit from having 20 pages of notes for a session and planning for every possibility, my notes are a few stat blocks for likely enemies and some possible loot with me winging the rest. Some GMs might like reading 5 page backstories, I for one just want to know family, friends, origin, and goals of PCs. Some GMs like games built around the story where it's 90% roleplayong 10% mechanics, I for one love mechanics and combat.
>>97271637>Either way GM/DM advice is useless because every GM, theor skills, style, and what they want is different.There is still advice that is universal regardless of what your style is.
>>97235163These are very close to Alexander Macris's example scenarios where fudging is "justifiable", however he is a simulationist (which is rare), while most narrativists state that you should actively fudge the dice for the purpose of "telling a good story" or preventing lethality.Example of a narrativist defending fudging for purposes other than patching mistakes/illogical gameplay results: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vguHd5IHFAgI agree with >>97235185 that in the first scenario it is better to have enemies behave logically than like video game enemies (making enemies surrender/flee is actually good for grimdark), and that roll tables for encounters are mostly suggestions/idea seeds/map-making tools rather than an exact description of how the world is structured, and that if you have a premade setting you should probably also have custom encounter tables for it rather than using the ones in the base rules.
>>97271637>think session zeros should be a thing, formal or informal.Session zero is a gay concept. Informal? Ok then it's not a session zero, it's campaign planning and chargen. Wow. Hipsters just need a new word for everything.
What are some fantasy and sci-fi movies you should watch to inspire your games and players?
>>97277617what movies have you felt inspired by before, anonor is just this another vaguepost that will get 20 ish replies before dying off
>>97277753Baron MunchausenThis one actually feels like a game.> Bullshit PC plans> Ridiculous backstories> Filmsy excuses for the other players to join the game> Party' face acting like it's a game all the time> Cucking Gods, fighting giant monsters and entire armies by themselvesFeels like a group of friends having a great time pulling the silliest of shit in an otherwise serious adventure.
>>97277636>>97277753These are solid. Gonna add some series as well that I use for inspo.Maxmilian and Marie de Bourgogne (german TV show)The Last Kingdom (skip the movie) TV showAndor- if you like star wars, it basically runs like a game out of Age of RebellionThe FIRST season of Mandalorian- basically runs as an Edge of the Empire campaignThe Last Charge of the Light BrigadeReign of FireBig Trouble in Litlte ChinaThe ThingEscape from New YorkYadoThe Maltese FalconComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97278561What's wrong with the older Shogun mini series
Fs in chat for Spiral and Reed. Another pair of top waifus lost to the bugs.
Glad to see an update
This thread is obviously a shill thread, so I'm gonna say my own opinion on webcomicsThe only thing I really miss is Gone with the BlastwaveIs there a market for this shit still? I have a friend that draws and could be willing to do it, and I can manage a site, should I poke him to do something long term?
>>97265461I haven't read this in years, there's probably three whole pages I haven't seen.
>>97266914The character sheets are posted on the page, which you'd know if you weren't a newfag tourist.
>>97265461what a bummer, spiral was fun.
RIFTS! The science fantasy world of post-apoc cyborgs, wizards, dragons, ninjas, giant mecha, super-nazis, robot ninjas, vampires, underwater kingdoms, remnant human supertech civilizations and everything you can imagine all rolled into one setting where interdimensional RIFTS have pierced Earth's fabric and turned it into a playground for aliens and monsters!Plus other Palladium Games about superheroes, zombies, classic fantasy, supernaturals investigation and more. Talk about:>RIFTS(tm)>Heroes Unlimited>Palladium Fantasy>Beyond the Supernatural>Dead Reign>Robotech (lol)>TMNT & Other Strangeness + After the Bomb>Splicers>Nightbane>Savage RiftsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
kk, men of magic tokens.
>>97276029Oops, forgot the fusionist. Has anyone played on of these guys?
>>97275077>CS SAMAS Pilot>Dog Boy>Dog Boy Handler (female)>Combat Juicer>Manhunter Psyker (licensed)>Human Courtesan (closet Mystic)
>>97276029Could you name the OCCs here? I see a Shifter, LLW, maybe Magus? >>97276044They were just a new thing Kevin added to sell RUE and I have never seen them played or even mentioned anywhere else. (except the PoP video game that nobody bought)
How would you implement undead PCs in a game, in a way that feels flavorful and meaningfully different from regular PCs?
>>97256187Not OP but that sounds kind of fun actually. Gotta try running something like this with my group.
>>97272112it very obviously DOES you failed abortion because its YOU you cuntall goddamn fields
>>97275227Incorrect.
>>97255834This looks like SHIT! Puckee, your new years resolution should be commissioning actual artists instead of ai sloppers.
>>97255834>How would you implement undead PCs in a gameJust dont.Solves your whole issue.
Is this really what 40k fags consider fun?
>>97270260>companysNice try. Almost landed it.
There hasn't been a single moment in any episode of Space King worthy of a silent smile, let alone a laugh. The whole thing exists on I RECOGNIZE THAT! memberberries shitstinct
>>97276860Sometimes I feel like I should roll up to a table with my paint-only ass so good guys like you can get a win.
>>97268994>flashgitz Only the most autistic redditors find it funny. So yes, 40k fans think it's hilarious.
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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.
>>97277754He gives the WoB stuff like LAMs and tge like because you aren't supposed to like the WoB, and thereby dislike the stuff they are given.He forgets that this isn't a seting where you choose a Hero but instead your favorite War Criminal and in that competition, looking cool is the important factor. Additionally, the WoB wanting to burn everything is a goal that diminishes official factions but makes more room for Your Dudes.
>>97278302Fuck you nerd. I'll take non war criminal mary sue mercenaries for my favorite thank you very much.
>>97276499Is it just me or does his voice sound younger in this one? Guess he was affecting a grizzled old man voice before and got sick of doing it.
>>97278336Individual mercenary companies can be non-war criminals because the aggregate of Mercenaries as a psuedo-faction are War Criminals. But factions as a whole? Those are absolutely Choose Your War Criminal, no matter how much Blazers try to deny it.
>>97278336Have your Mercs ever fought in an urban environment?
