Where do people actually play VTT in 2025?I searched for games on Roll20 for the first time in probably 5 years, and it's an absolute fucking ghost town.Pic unrelated
>>97269909No I ironically have a great group I've had countless awesome campaigns withI'm very intentionally searching for a game outside that group for reasonsHonestly I put all of 30 seconds of thought into this. These shitty text games on Roll20 used to come by the dozens.I honestly don't think I've ever seen a culture like that change so radically so quickly
>>97269920Seems more like r20 game listings are dead in general (outside of niggers advertising paid shit and/or their discords) rather than specifically text-based ones from my own 30 seconds of looking
>>97267957I wonder if you could make a matrix client specifically for ttrpg games...If not than its fine, just hop on VoIP and use Ogers or Rolz.
>>97266040>Months to years where our schedules don't line upThis never goes away. I became disabled three years ago and have all the time in the world to game. Be it table top or vidya. Boardgames or RPGs. All I need is at least one other swinging dick to visit at any time, day or night, any day of the week to game.It STILL takes months. I get, at best, two gaming days a year with RL friends.
>>97269843I'm literally in a text-only westmarch right now on a discord server.
Is it a good advice for game masters who want to run campaign in the "exotic" place instead of generic "coast of swords" clone?
>>97273860The meandering waffle posted is abysmally at conveying the sentiment. What's all the nonsense about it being "home" that needs to be "treated well"? The idea is incredibly simple but that paragraph talks around it instead of actually stating it.
>>97273791>You're trying to twist good advice into something that you can be mad at, anon>Hypocrites>Giving good adviceIf they wanted me to treat cultures fairly then they should treat mine just as well.
>>97270237I can barely comprehend what it's trying to say, it's such a meandering wafflemouth piece of writing that's only legible to people who communicate exclusively in highschool word padding essays.Charitably I can try to parse and convert to a concise TL;DR as "Don't boil down other cultures to just exotic stereotypes, there is logic and history behind those stereotypes that is lived by its members. Let exoticism come from what other cultures find normal, not what yours finds strange".
>>97274840>Let exoticism come from what other cultures find normal, not what yours finds strangeI'd argue these are mostly the same thing
>>97270237I feel like it really takes away from your message when half the people reading it can't even tell what the fuck it's trying to say.
Obscure conflicts editionPrevious thread:>>97095668>Thread Question:Which obscure conflict would you like to collect miniatures for and get a game going?>Community Summary of Wargames:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11JoUpGIRDp5DZdgJ24rijKHgyY-qvvR5QnVtHIp57Tw/edit?usp=sharing>List of Historical Tactical, Strategic, and Military Drill treatises:http://pastebin.com/BfMeGd6R>ZunTsu Gameboxes:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97266709>Washes sound scaryAnon, washes are the best thing for tabletop-level painting. Just block your colors neatly a bit lighter than you need, then paint some wash all over, magic happens.
What is the current deal with battlefront? are they going to make new hard plastic infantry or they are moving most stuff into that new soft plastic? Also, did they rereleased most of the mid war and late war stuff in compilations? i just saw they just released a Bagration book
>>97264599Well done, this is your first step on the road to no longer being a retard
Anyone have a scan of Heiho for Samurai wargaming? Or any alternative recommendations? Preferably looking for something that handles larger battles, rather than individual skirmishes.
>>97266928I will do it now. Thanks for the advice, Anon
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
>>97271222A performance artist!
>>97272662You go in and offer. The library might have some budget to allocate. Or you get some budget from the city, county or whatever, they might have call for funding. Or you can present it as an activity in which the parents pay to send their kids (at library prices).Then again I'm an Euro, I dunno what kind of library welfare exists in the US
>>97268852This bitch, tho, I would absolutely ruin. Even if (or maybe exactly because) her grift of using TTRPGsimps to propel herself into full e-thotery is basically in the open
>>97274757Would. Also. Who
>>97271215What general range of people show up? How urban or rural is your area? What do you run?
I would like to talk about the Chronicles of Darkness game line Deviant: The Renegades, or more specifically, one major upcoming supplement. Deviant was released in late 2021, and has had three additional sourcebooks since then. A new supplement, Black Vans, has been in playtesting for a while, and is currently being previewed.I am not being paid or sponsored to promote this book in any way. I am just very fascinated by it, and indeed, I already ran a mini-campaign using the playtest material.Deviant is, by default, a game about playing angsty, scarred superheroes who either fight world-manipulating conspiracies or work for them. Black Vans is a toolkit full of variant rules, quick NPC creation, variant character types, and variant genres. These variants range from the minor to the dramatic, completely overhauling what were once non-negotiable, foundational themes and mechanics. Maybe your character is not angsty or scarred at all, perhaps they are a """""regular human""""" like John Wick or Batman, or the campaign might have nothing to do with world-manipulating conspiracies.These variant genres include cyberpunk, high fantasy, post-apocalypse, space opera, and superhero emergence.This is a beefy supplement. For example, one chapter alone dedicates 38,000+ words to playing other monsters of the Chronicles of Darkness: Beasts, changelings, demons, Sin-Eaters, hunters (entirely separate from the variant rules for """natural""" superpowers), mages, mummies, Prometheans, vampires, and werewolves. No additional supplements beyond Deviant are necessary; the rules are self-contained, allowing the group to play a monster mash of an urban fantasy setting without needing a daunting 7+ books. And yes, they are supposed to be balanced against one another, so a vampire in the same group as a full-fledged mage is probably some older Kindred.(Continued.)
>>97275171Or Kamen Rider, or Akira
>>97275171>>97275276That is merely one of many, many ways to spin Deviants and conspiracies. Even without bringing in Black Vans, the game and its setting are pretty darned flexible in flavoring, as explained here >>97217944, here >>97217956, here >>97217964, and here >>97217974.A Deviant and their conspiracy could be John Wick and the assassin underworld, Baki and a grotesque fighting circuit, a magical girl and a wider network of fuzzy mascot creatures, a [vampire/werewolf/mage/changeling/etc.] gone wrong and their supernatural society, and so on.
Snagged a copy for super cheap on eBay, hoping I can get my group to try this out next year. I've always wanted to run something CoD/WoD, this seems a little more... approachable than Vampire.
>>97275333As I mentioned to someone else earlier, you have a lot of material to work with. Are you interested in running a vanilla Renegades game, the assumed default? A vanilla Devoted game? One of the Black Vans variant genres? Something else entirely?What starting Standing/Threat Level were you considering?
My Buddy Proposed that we play a game of DTR and when I was really into it and we were ready to go, my first instinct was to buy the first two volumes of 2000's Ultimate X-Men. Because it matches vibes, almost 1:1 especially in the second volume.Now I need to wait for foundry to have a good deviant module before we play so the damn game is probably delayed until 2026.
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.
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.
Cool trolling, bro
Just report and move on. No need to feed it.
Happy new year! I hope the cyberpunk game really takes off. I'm so ready to jack into the system and take some shitbird corpos down a peg.
>>97275100Corpo pegs you, choom
>>97253534Dumb bitch, where are her shoes
What are your thoughts on this?I have never been a die hard fan of greek mythology but I do not dislike itMy group wants to run a long campaign with this starting january
>>97272940How does it compare to the Ravnica and recent Lorwyn book they did?
>>97272559this. And I adore theros as a setting. its little more than a handful of feats and enemies and a few encounter maps with lore tidbits sprinkled in. you get the most written about each city state that just rehashes blatantly obvious elements. Did you know the city based on gladiator games and spartans like sports and war? did you know the city that worships the forest god looks down on industry??did you want a plot idea? tough.
>>97274754The Ravnica book is a pretty mixed bag. Heavily ignores the previous two Ravnica blocks in terms of history in order to focus solely on the most recent one. There's things that feel like they're missing, but it's passable enough to be worth a read if you wanted to do a Ravnica campaign. I'd just recommend quite a bit of extra reading on top of that.The Lorwyn book I have not yet read, but everything I've seen puts it closer to a glorified Planescape supplement, but costing money rather than being free. It has a few races, but those are mostly reprints, such as Flamekin just being Fire Genasi. That also means that it suffers from the same issue as Ravnica, where it ignores the previous block in favor of the current one, so it'd be useless for someone trying to run something during the great aurora period. Plus I haven't seen any mention of Shadowmoor's demigod cycle.I'd want to give it a proper read before I call it worse than Strixhaven, but as it stands I can't imagine that it's worth 15 bucks for 30 pages.
>>97275123>I'd want to give it a proper readhttps://5e.tools/book.html#lflIt's pretty uninspiring.
>>97272541>OddiseyYou idiot. You moron. You nincompoop. You absolute fucking fool
Forgotten People Edition>2024 PHB Scanhttps://files.catbox.moe/g8oo9h.pdf>Cropped and rotated, but more artifactyMjAyNCBQSEIsIE5vIFRodW1icywgT0NSZWQsIEFub24ncyBCb29rbWFya3MgdHJhbnNmZXJyZWQgb3Zlci4gCgpodHRwczovL2Vhc3l1cGxvYWQuaW8vd2Fvcm9h>2024 DMGhttps://files.catbox.moe/fd04pq.pdf>2024 Monster Manualhttps://files.catbox.moe/atd38s.pdf (D&D beyond version)https://pomf2.lain.la/f/1en5qwum.pdf (scan)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97275277>it isn't my fault that only white men, the japanese and the occasional autistic women can write good narratives.It's also not true, but that's typical /pol/.
>>97275260Oh oops I misread the question.It does at least look a little bit more fun to play? And if you don't get to spell storing item I think your potions being better will be felt more. You might actually invest spell slots into being an alchemist, so it has that going for it at least.
>>97275288>It's also not true,it is true. that's why all media fucking sucks now and has sucked since white male writers like ed greenwood stopped getting pushed by the industry in 2014.
What do you want out of 6th edition? Do you think they'd be talking about including AD&D elements if not for Stranger Things?
>>97275320Yeah, the potion feature is improved by basically every metric. It might not be as strong as the other artificer subclasses, but it's functional enough where I wouldn't be telling somebody to avoid picking it. Plus you can really lean into the alchemist stuff with crafting rules if the DM is willing to play ball.
Previous thread: >>97111514GURPS is a modular, adaptable system, capable of running a wide range of characters, settings, and play styles, with a level of detail varying from lightweight to completely autistic.Optional rules allow you to emulate different genres with a single system, or even switch genres within a single game.A nearly complete archive of GURPS books can be found by using the image. Never post direct links to the archive anywhere in plain text.If you're wondering where to start:- The Basic Set covers everything, including a lot of optional rules you probably won't use.- A genre guide can be found in the archive, under Unofficial/GURPSgen. It tells you what extra books and articles you may find useful for many common genres.- How To Be a GURPS GM is a good read even for players.- GCS (gurpscharactersheet.com) is an excellent character-builder software, with page references to all the books and the option to export to both Foundry and Fantasy Grounds.Thread question: How often do you use an official GURPS setting? Which are your favorites?
>>97273925Seems like a fairly extreme IQ penalty, but the basic principle is sound. By a strict reading of the Temporary Disadvantage rules, you can't actually take attribute penalties, only disadvantage traits, but I'm fairly sure even official material has done it before.An alternative would be Backlash, which explicitly allows attribute penalties, among other effects, but seems more designed for 'instant' advantages and persists even if you switch it off.In terms of realism, there are absolutely mechanisms by which the brain trades off speed for accuracy, completeness, etc. under different circumstances. The classic is that adrenaline reduces your reaction time but makes it significantly harder to engage in careful reasoning or even things like fine motor control. These could certainly be pushed to the point that -4 IQ would be justified, but I don't know how much more basic speed you could reasonably hope to get, because a normal human brain is probably already doing almost all it can to maximise quick reactions in most circumstances where basic speed would matter.Also, remember that IQ drags your Per and Will with it and Basic Speed includes Move. Separating them out could be challenging.
How durable the Standard Demon from Magic/DF9 actually is in play? DR 5, HP 25, Fragile (Unnatural) and Dodge/Parry 9.Asking because the Demonologist from DF9 acquires it through Ally (Summonable), not Conjured, and the Fragile (Unnatural) seems to make it quite prone to death.
Here's hoping for much more gurps for the new year
>>97272811I needed a second opinion
>>97275272Hear hear.Happy New Year, fellow GURPSfags! I hope we get vehicles and other good stuff in '26. Thanks for introducing me to my favorite game.
Happy New Year’s Eve and Calibration Edition!>What is Exalted?An epic high-flying role-playing game about reborn god-heroes in a world that turned on them.Start here:http://theonyxpath.com/category/worlds/exalted/>That sounds cool, how can I get into it?Read the 3e core book (link below). For mechanics of the old edition, play this tutorial:http://mengtzu.github.io/exalted/sakuya.htmlIt’ll get you familiar with most of the mechanics.>Gosh that was fun. How do I find a group?Roll20 and the Game Finder General here on /tg/. good luck>Resources for Third Edition>3E Core and SplatsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97274813Yeah, and a Nigerian prince also needs just a small donation from you.
>>97274813The chip on your shoulder must be a mile long.
>>97274801There's an active sid in the CB night.>Sid Favoritism.It was thin veiled, but it showed up here and there.Like Sidereals having the greatest destines.
>>97274894It's never felt more thinly veiled than in 3e, not even with Astrological Charms being straight up an upgraded fucking Charmset in 2e. The level of wonder and passion conveyed through the artifact fluff for Sidereals is like night and day compared to everyone else, with Infernals as a close runner-up. Compare that to fucking Abyssals just going "hurr durr, someone was pissed and now this edgy frost scythe is soaked in their blood" over and over again.
>>97274801I honestly think it could have succeeded perfectly fine with good enough planning and setup, it just couldn't have succeeded with the frankly tepid way CB: Night laid out the alpha strike at the Calibration Feast going down. I mean seriously, your nova is setting up with warstriders and Cantata of Empty Voices? You could have had spell-capturing cords with third circle sorcery and dumped a Total Annihilation on them at minimum. If the hall was durable enough you could feasibly lift the entire thing with Solars inside and smash them with Gaia's Rebuke, and that'd be a fucking comical way to start the Usurpation that I'd have loved to see. Hell, even Dragonblooded acting alone without any direct Sidereal backup could have set things up to call down third circle demons to improve that alpha strike, or pinched one of the experimental N/A essence cannon and shot the hall with an infinite damage attack over and over until the Dragonblooded army ran out of motes.I blame it on CB: Night coming out just after Games of Divinity. They were probably being written at the same time and if you were operating on the same sort of level Book of Three Circles was implying everybody stood at, the Usurpation as described makes some sense, but it got completely revamped and tuned upwards with Savant and Sorcerer. Still, sorcery-capturing cords were a thing in Bo3C, so the point on third circle sorcery (and third circle demons being beckoned over!) should still count. At the very least, put a Rain of Doom over Meru!
After about 8 years since I last DM'ed a game, I've been asked to run a session. Unfortunately my books - adnd, 2e, 3e, 3.5, 4e, and 5e are in storage two states away.And i prefer physical copies. Thanks to critical role and the movie DND books have gone up in price which is weird.>4e books are ~10-15$ now. Is it viable to run 4e in 2025? I don't remember hating it and I still remember some home rules to streamline combat to speed it up a touch. Does anyone have suggestions for 1-3lvl adventures or campaign settings? >4e thread I guess
>>972642603e encounters being hard is also because so many enemy stat blocks are filled with ridiculous powers and spells while 4e's enemies can almost all but the most powerful be gleaned a d understood in a few seconds.
>>97262021It's literally not a link.
>>97260346What the fuck is MF? I can't find anything from MEGA
>>97248299>Been doing this a long timeThe worst GMs of all time all say this btw. All it means is you've spent a long time learning nothing lol
>>97275110MediaFire. You couldn't figure that out from the initials?
ive never made a custom card before, how did I do?
>>97275056oh. my bad. how do I delete this thread?
>>97275012Are you sure she is human?
>>97275252I'm not that far yet. Although I wonder if she is when she consorts with poles
>>97275252She's an android. I haven't even played the game but I know that.
Oko, Even Worse GURLegendary Creature - Orc RogueNonbasic lands are Elks (they become 3/3 green Elk creatures and lose all other types and abilities)3/3
Work in Progress, End-of-the-Year Edition>Full-on /WIP/ OP Links Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/BE42AEcD>WIP Tutorial Images Megahttps://mega.nz/#F!TvQFCaLb!w8WZKCcOsTRasxrI0JWezw>Saint Duncan's "Six Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Painting"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufP8ka3KGno>Saint Duncan also explains thinning your paintshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxWgsqSf74s>Paint thinning 102Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97274720Looks great! If you're fine with chinesium you can get a decent foldable and usb powered light box in the 20-30 dollar range from anywhere like amazon, temu, AliExpress etc. They're pretty handy, just don't leave them plugged in overnight
The melted roof set looks so fucking stupid. Did nobody actually look at the concept before building it?
>>97275241Whoops. Meant for the stranger things thread. Have a happy new year, /wip/
>>97270456Happy New Year everyone.Got the 2nd corsair painted up.
What's the best way to strip paint off a cast resin model like a forgeworld sculpt? I know I can't use acetone or IPA for it
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.
>>97274605schloppened with nano banana, just spitballing NPCs for a personal setting
>>97272108>>97272257>>97272526>>97274171>>97274249>>97274443>>97274461Happy New Year, /slop/!
Eh?The fuck is all this noise?Too fucking old for this bullshit. I'm going back to bed.
>>97274563Kill'em with kindness.
>>97274688>As the night wore on, Aure celebrated the New Year again and again (with more champagne), hour after hour, in solidarity with every distant kingdom she could think of...including a few made-up on the spot.
