On the spectrum of rubber forehead aliens to complete starfish aliens that are made out of silica and breathe methane, where are YOU specificially comfortable with. Does there come a point where an alien becomes too weird for you to "relate" to in order to include them in your games as playable races?Personally I am fond of aliens that look plausibly like they could have evolved in a different world and have no distinguishable lineage to earth life, even if they share some superficial features.
>>97242244While true, they also do it because it's a cheap way of conveying an idea or a specific kind of character trait to communicate the idea of the story.Star Trek is specifically guilty of this although it can be said that at least the Ferengi got a massive glow up from being slinking monkey dudes with bulbous foreheads and dragon dildo laser whips to a respectable race who represent old world capitalism in a post scarcity "we don't use money" world.
>>97240164What are some good resources for creating alien species? Or sapient races in general?
>>97242465Sometimes things just aren't that complex. Especially when they have a big folder to dump in threads of their specific favorite alien design.
>>97242244One film was brave enough to say>Why not both at once?
>>97240164Traditional games?
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.
>>97237314I should note, whenever I think of crazies or corpos in Cyberpunk I always thought of this guy.
>>97237314>>97237317>>97237330>>97237336>>97237352Nice, nice, but I don't know who the last guy is.
Merry RIFTSmas
>>97241774The top thug of an Evil CEO in a 6am UPN kids show about basically cyberpunk. He was stone cold killer that they slapped crude corporate family friendly designs on his armor, ie Mr. Stinko and a tie.>>97241774I have been searching our Merry Juicemas stuff but cant find it. Happy juice year!
>>97242760>>97241774Merry Juicemas, Riftsbros.
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.
>>97227893What are the best Christmas-themed supplements/games?
>>97241573/o-s-rchive
>>97238987>>97238991>SWADE & Companionsgf/d/LDubUH
>>97242727>Christmas-themed supplements/gamesIronsworn has a christmas themed hack. The game is aimed to solo rp, but it can be used for group playing without problems.https://mmcv.itch.io/ironsworn-snowforged
Does anyone have GODSTRENGTH? rat-bastard-games(.)itch(.)io/godstrength
I refuse to believe Halo Flashpoint is even a 10th as successful as Mantic claims. In terms of online, easy to find metrics it has:3100 people as part of its sub(P)reddit.2100 or so people as part of Facebook Groups.No one discussing it on Twitter gets many likes/comments/retweets.No one big or well known talks about/plays it on Youtube.Yet it's one of the fastest growing and more popular tabletop games to come out recently?I don't buy it.I don't hate the system, but I am baffled by Mantic's ability to get away with lying about how successful this game is.
>>97236626What recently released tabletop wargames are more popular if you ignore 40k and everything GW is constantly releasing for a second?
>>97243089Bolt Action is one of the biggest non GW games.
>>97243098Can't play that, it has the nazis and that gives modern gay kiddies the ick.
>>97243098It is, but it's not fast growing. It has an established player base for sure, but it's been out for over a decade. Same with MechWarrior and Frostgrave. Those exist,and they are big for non-gw games, but they aren't new, and they aren't fast growing.
>>97243089Trench Crusade, maybe?
Blight edition>Banshttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-november-10-2025>NewsThe 2025 Magic Con and Pro Tour Schedule:https://www.magic.gg/news/the-2025-magiccon-and-pro-tour-schedule>Metagame Mentor: The Winners and Losers from Standard's 2025 Rotationhttps://www.magic.gg/news/metagame-mentor-the-winners-and-losers-from-standards-2025-rotation>Spoilershttp://www.magicspoiler.com/https://mythicspoiler.com/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97243111Did you miss the MTGO announcement?
Commander is REAL Magic
>>97243186Commander is monopoly with magic cards.
>>97242171The game is so bad that my friends all lost interest even in drafting cubes and custom sets.It's fucking incredible. Aspects of the game that the shit designs don't even touch are somehow still being ruined just by the stink alone.
>>97241916Fuck thread theme. This is so based it should be included in the OP as the national anthem of /mtg/.
Winter Gloom EditionPreviously on /slop/: >>97227237 ▶ Thread Task: Moody and gloomy winter pictures.And maybe characters trying to find a comfy warm corner.▶ Generatorshttps://bing.com/images/create/https://sora.chatgpt.com/https://gemini.google/overview/image-generation/https://perchance.org/ai-text-to-image-generatorComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97243059Looks like the cyberfashion vods got her.
>>97243075goddamn cyberfashion barons
>>97243059It's not "slavery" she's a DeadAss (Dedicated Asset) basically an indentured servant whose contract is own by a conglomerate so she gets shifted around to different horrible jobs as the contract for her labor is bought & sold. She's hoping to pay off her families 100 year mortage before she dies. It's a compliance collar most deadasses wear. Try to take a break longer than what corporate alloted? You get shocked. Try to break a law? You get shocked. Try to go outside the permitted live-work area? You get lit up like that youtubers dog. They track your movement & vitals through it too. All that Apple watch tech evolved into orwellian monitoring.
>>97242577>>97242602Sorry, I should have been more specific. Perchance has no *content* limits. It's generative limitations are a different animal, though.
>>97242990
Previously: https://desuarchive.org/tg/thread/96936967/When last we met, we made G.E.T.S. (Generally Entertaining Team-built System). Thus far, it seems to be a fairly minimalist system.Now, we shall make our first setting for this system.If your proposed idea gets doubles, it is canonized. Any canon characters, worldbuilding, themes, et cetera can be modified (but not outright contradicted or discarded) by triples, quadruples, et cetera.Let us continue.
>>97238155What sort of messages would they send?
Robots that is all
>>97243010>one offI'm killing myself
>>97182030All inhabitants reach sexual maturity at age 10. Curiously, physical development resembles an almost identical state to that of a human of the same chronological span, in most races of angels.
>>97182030All pedophiles are marked by heaven and killed on sight.
I’m running a low fantasy game, and social advancement is gonna be a thing. So the PCs are gonna be rubbing elbows with a lot of noble families as they make their way into high society. I’m just asking for NPCs and ideas.Most of the nobility are humans, but a few are half-elves and halflings.
>>97233040Heinrich De Sandea, secret occultist.A nobleman of an old and distinguished family that has a large estate and town out in the middle of nowhere. He commands significant respect at court due to his family line and wealth, but he secretly has a fascination with banned magic and forbidden books. He believes that the kingdom/empire/whatever has foolishly forfeited a powerful advantage by "needlessly" discriminating against these topics and schools of magic, and believes that ignorance of them will not serve as protection should some competitor choose to invest in them when we have not.So he's performing horrific magical research with the "justification" that he is doing it for the good of the realm, even if the realm would have him hanged if they ever suspected he was doing it. When Sinistaar the Dark Lich rises from his thousand year slumber, De Sandea will be the one guy who knows *exactly* how a phylactery works, how it might be found and destroyed, and maybe an uncomfortable amount on how to make one if you were so inclined (which is impractical, you'd never get ahold of that many orphans without drawing attention to yourself, there HAS to be a better way...)
Beautiful Princess who is removed from everything and lives of luxury.
>>97233040What do you guys think is the best set of skills for upward social mobility? Use any game that you're playing. Doesn't even have to be medieval.
>>97242977Fuck off Puckee, you worthless faggot.
>>97243171Historically, the best set of skills for upward mobility is the right combination of martial prowess, strategy, and charisma that you can just kill whoever is currently in charge and say "I'm in charge now" and get away with it. No matter how royal your bloodline and fancy your title, go back far enough and it started with one of your ancestors killing a guy and planting a throne on top of his grave. Everything else about noble society is to dissuade people from remembering that murdering your way to the top isn't just valid, its how the current guy's family got there.
The /btg/ is dead! Long live the /btg/!Now I have a BattleMech too, ho, ho, ho! Special Christmas Edition Previous Thread: >>97217175================================>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.
>>97242920The hard truth in Battletech is that the tabletop game and the lore have only an aesthetic connexion and are otherwise unrelated.
>>97242963Not an acceptable answer.
>>97242963The even harder truth is that any setting with more than one writer + decades of time is just chinese whispers and re-interpretation anyway. You could ask two different official current battletech writers and they'd probably give you different answers, and they'd probably be different to what you'd get if you asked any of the original guys.
>>97243005Argue against the tide, debate the sunset, plea with the wind not to blow.
>>97243005Whether or not you will accept an answer has no bearing on whether or not it is true. No media depiction ever describes LRMs as being supersonic and they would not need to be in their combat role. The fastest published ground mech does not even go a third that.Weapon ranges cannot be corresponded to speeds as they're an abstraction over a combat round; however we can actually determine by game geography so to speak what an LRM would have to be doing to be supersonic. Since hexes are 30m across and turns are 10 seconds, a supersonic weapon going at Mach 1 would travel 114 hexes in one round from its point of origin. Assuming a stationary launcher, the missile would need to accelerate to that speed, unassisted from its launcher. Air to Air missiles of comparable size accelerate to supersonic speeds several seconds after launch, during which time at the ranges Battlemechs are fighting they would already likely have reached their terminal guidance phase.If we ignored the abstraction and simply mathed out the speed that a missile would need to reach its maximum in-game range, we can find the fastest missiles being IS ELRMs, capable of reaching 44 hexes. 44 hexes over 10 seconds is 475 kph, which must be at least its average speed over its acceleration and guidance to target. Funnily enough, that makes it just faster than the previously mentioned ALM-XF Fireball.To wit: Do LRMs fly at supersonic speeds? It's not likely.
Moloch's Fun Park Edition>What is Trench Crusade?An alternate weird history 28mm/32mm tabletop skirmish game still in a pre-release playtesting phase but with the full release slated for this year. Based on the art and lore of Mike Franchina, whose illustrations you may have seen floating around on /tg/ for a several years now, and designed by Tuomas Pirinen, one of the original creators of Mordheim. It's grimdark, it's visceral, it's awesome, and it's very Blanchitsu.>What Trench Crusade is notTC not an excuse for you to discuss IRL religion, history that didn't occur in the game, culture war shit, or discord bullshit on /tg/. Keep it on topic.>What's the QRD on the background?The Knights Templar turned heretic and opened the Gates of Hell when they took Jerusalem during the First Crusade. Over 800 years later the war is still ongoing as technology has developed to a pseudo diesel-punk WW1 standard and a third of Humanity has sided with the Infernal Princes.>How do I get started?All the files are free online:https://www.trenchcrusade.com/rules/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97242268scenario generator seems like it'd be useful for one offs although im not too sure, ive not played in a bit
>>97242284She's cute enough to kill us
>>97242284I want to fill her asshole up with my seminal fluid, personally. Can't attest to what everyone else will do.
Alright Anons, Saint Nicholas of Myra has been good and jolly this year. Did you do good enough deeds so god got you presents? Or were you sinful, getting naught but coal?Either what, let's see some cool stuff.
>>97243070>Or were you sinful, getting naught but coal?I did a few things of that nature.But my family and I aren't big gift givers anymore. We just had a nice meal. Very plesent.
Merry Christmas edition>Previous>>97224887>Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/WiCHizn0>Mediafirehttps://mediafire.com/folder/s9esc6u7ke8k5/CofD>Mega Ihttps://mega.nz/folder/ePQ1BKhJ#RCosRCh59Ki2Mpb1M9H3Uw>Mega II (also containing fanmade games)https://mega.nz/folder/ZbQ2zLJA#DOT-3df6rS2lLet4_RmqJQ>WoD5 Megahttps://mega.nz/folder/7rQQ1LbQ#16_AiXVGo0P3_rVOJuoZyA>STV content foldershttps://pastebin.com/9i9zhydQComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97242808neat.
>>97242748He's doing it to plug his friends' profiles, pretty clear
>>97241317>>97241340>>97241455Fucking retards. It’s all the same fabric of reality.
How difficult would it be to create a Changeling character using Changeling the Lost 1st edition that replicates the Malefactor's skills and appearance from Demon: the Fallen?
>>97242812How do you explain him living for so long?>>97243072Schizo marauder talk.
do you use character portraits in your game?how do you get them? do you use any websites\generators? do you use AI? how do you prompt it?
>>97242200Maybe not, but it doesn't look bad, or at least not worse than plenty of real art I've seen. I like it anyway.
>>97242579You do you anon, but honestly it doesn't really look all that appealing to me. That's honestly the most indicting thing about ai art I can say, since I know next to none of the people obsessed with it give a shit about the sheer environmental waste involved so far (cause progress or whatever) or how most of it is ugly (cause it'll look better we totally swear), most of it mainly looks unmemorable and passe.
>>97242706>or how most of it is uglyActual human beings produce plenty of ugly art. Pic related (Paladin Alhandra, D&D 3rd edition PHB): Right leg's very obviously fucked, left arm's fucked, left boob's fucked, neck and back are fucked, scale mail looks like a texture tool, left knee is too low, what is that leathery flap in the back supposed to be, and everything kind of looks like it was drawn independently and then crudely assembled with clothing to hide the seams (bandana, collar, shoulder pads...)This was drawn in 1999 or 2000, way before AI art was ever a thing.
>>97242878Anon, I pointed out that ai art looking boring and unmemorable is imo far worse than any of it looking ugly, since I get that ugly is in the eye of the beholder anyways.
>>97230620>do you use character portraits in your game?I find visual aids help my players and myself visualize things better. Also we use Roll20 so I like to represent people with tokens when I can.>how do you get them? do you use any websites\generators?I get like 90% of my character art from here, though the character art threads have been poor quality - if high quantity - this year.>do you use AI? how do you prompt it?I try to avoid using AI images if possible, partially on principle and partly because they mostly look like shit.
Thread 449: Ikemen Gabwelius EditionBushi-Navi EN: www.en.bushi-navi.com/Deck Log:decklog.bushiroad.com/ (JP)decklog-en.bushiroad.com/ (EN)Beginner guide, decklists and other info: pastebin.com/QxKQRhrQ (embed)Up to date fanmade PC online games, 3DS/Switch emulation and Mobile games: pastebin.com/7Fj8VqA2 (embed)Cardfight and Buddyfight matchmaking server: discord.gg/6xVFD4rWeiss/Schwarz Resources: pastebin.com/sk2iSjW1 (embed)BCS 2025/26 Info: https://en.bushiroad.com/events/bcs2526/DivineZ DELUXE Finals Ep 12: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0mj1pSvrusDivineZ Parallactic Clash Trailer: https://x.com/cfvanguard_PR/status/2000909190534246745Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
The fact the new nationless dragontree/masques support unit doesn't search Corrosive Smoke Signals is honestly criminal.
>>97240079CSS is locked to hydragrum vg so its not a masque engine piece though they could have also made the masque a calamity order and then have daat target masques, dragontrees and calamities
what did bushi mean by that tomori alt
>>97242281>"Impregnate Tomari's pits"
Christmas edition>Previously in the Mortal Realms:>>97225164 >Official AoS website:https://www.ageofsigmar.com>Downloads, Rules Errata, Sharty on the 'log and FAQs:https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-downloads/>Toolshttps://runebrush.pa-sy.com/warscroll/>Anvil of Apotheosis hero creator:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Anons help, I've got some 40k stuff on the way but I want to avoid the 40k thread as much as humanly possibly. Wat do.
>>97242944You can paint your bases and share them here. I like seeing people get creative with their bases desu.
>>97242945I could stand to improve my Ork bases. I did them a few years back and they're about as basic as I could have conceived of. But fair, worst case scenario I rotate paint projects constantly so I guess it'll be fine.
>>97242944Post your recipe for brown/black leather, or your recipe for skin, or you're favorite recipe for steel/silver, or your favorite gold recipe. Essentially share your entire paint scheme you're planning but remove every mention of 40k from your reply. Also does your captcha even triforce
>>97243148▲▲ ▲
What'd you get for Christmas /tg/? Picrel was under my tree :)
/tg/ discussion?
>>97242804kinda.Also ordered a set of YMI Riichi Mahjong Tiles if that counts more as /tg/.maybe also considdering grabbing Heart of Crown 2e and the expansion (physical deckbuilder)
>>97241808based, hope you and him have lots of hot gay sex :3
>>97240999Saint Seiya blind box, got Shaina.
>>97240999Something deeply personal that pretty much nobody else will ever give a shit about and has no monetary worth.
