>>97171444 >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.
>>97221934You have permission to put me down.
>>97221935Hard to say without having them together. Might need some putty work to get everything together, but if the scale works together, I don't see why not. Not a huge fan of them though. They kind just look like they're about to go for a bike ride.
>>97221822I know they didn't tell you this, but. If you root around for a bit in the past threads and know the PDF sharethread customs, there's a trove of all the rules for KDM. You can find readily-available recasts as well as 3DP proxies/scans elsewhere for a lot cheaper than plastic.That said there's not much else that does the highly-tactical PvE boss fights and freaky monsters thing you seem to be looking for. Sadly. You could try to scrounge up the official Dark Souls board game. Or hit up /3DPG/ for information on STLs inspired by stuff like Blasphemous and Souls. Be aware that they're pretty fucking cancerous.
>>97222004thanks for the info ladyes while I was waiting I was already searching for printnplay kits for KDM (one would think that there should be some), but seems like I'm going to make it from scratchGlad to have a direction, I'll fish for that rulebook aroundAnd for what I can understand, looks like the player minis are basically just stand-ins anyway, I'll probably go for some Bestiarum hero minis
>>97221891How do you even complete a model without completing the base as well?
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.
>>97219738Yeah, if you're doing it free and under the radar, but who's gonna spend a year+ reworking the PHB and DMG and then not be able to publish it and recoup any of the time and money lost? I mean somebody might, but that'd be pretty fuckin' saintly
Yeah yeah, I know it's 2e but one of players found this for free.
>>97220447Cool blogpost bro
>>97220459Thanks :DD
>>97219339Part of the AD&D appeal is precisely the monk-like dedication to parse rules from obscure musings from half-forgotten paragraphs in the DMG. OSRIC 3 was always going to be a betrayal of sorts, but I believe it's a needed one in a moment where the original PHB and DMG are available as PoD and retroclones such as OSE or Dragonslayer are slowly but surely evolving into AD&D-lite.
In my games, high level wizards turn to stone.
>>97216650I am not much of an anime or manga fan, but I did like how in the Soul Eater setting witches all have animal motives, or can turn into their respective animals — but there’s this one “witch” (…Blair) who is really just… a magical cat who can turn into a human. A cat cosplaying as a witch lol. Although who says cats can’t be witches?
>>97195417Looks like candy. What flavor?
>>97217899That’s cute
I thought moon magic was superior to star magic ?
>>97195417what system do you use?when's the last time you played?
Surprise 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.
>>97221800finesse is gay anyway
>another weekend where we all miss every attack and the DM never misses, then obviously fudges numbers to keep up alive
>>97221726It is, but some prefer to do very little with it. The John Smith the farmer type. I think a better question may have been do people like going in depth or making complicated backstories?
>>97221896the last session I ran, everyone missed, me the GM included, somehow felt very much in line with the tone of the game as it was set in Brancalonia, but fuck it made the combat longer than it was supposed to
>invited to join a large two-shot adventure this past weekendstorywise, we're all hired onto an ancient fortress exploration crew after an unrelated party of dragon hunters cleared out the resident wyvern infestation>lvl 3 thief>get fucked during char gen with 6 str, 15 dex, 9 con, 18 int, 16 wis, and 18 cha and an anal retentive DM that only allows 4d6dl1 AFTER you choose the stat>end up just dumping background ASIs into STR and CON just so im not a weak fuck>come out the other side with a whopping +4 to hit on my longbow>everything we fought had 15 AC or better>four big combats with a total of 17 combatants>i attacked fourteen times and missed eleven times>i only successfully triggered sneak attack oncethe dm and the dice fucking hate me
Vista edition>Cyberpunk 2020 vs. Cyberpunk RED?Cyberpunk 2020 is the second edition of the Cyberpunk TTRPG that focuses on simulation gameplay and has a black trenchcoat aesthetic.Cyberpunk RED is the fourth edition of the Cyberpunk TTRPG that is set after Cyberpunk 2020 following the Fourth Corporate War, focuses on more balanced gameplay and is more streamlined but has less content.You can discuss Shadowrun here too because I also feel bad for those guys.>Cyberpunk Rulesets (The Vault) (May not have all updated rulebooks, check official sources for updates):bit<dot>ly/2Y1w4Md>Resources for RED:https://datapool2045.net/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Is Shadowrun 6e decent? I heard the release corebook was trash, but since then they've released two updated editions that fix alot of the problems.I want something Cyberpunk adjacent to run for my group. Getting tired of doing another Red campaign and figure Shadowrun is just Cyberpunk with higher power scaling and more build variety. Basically the things I try to homebrew into Red anyway.
>>97221936Unless they fundamentally altered the core systems my understanding was that 6e was irredeemable garbage that played like FATE; in which case you could have just played fate and cut out the middle-man.
>>97221960Okay cool. I'll avoid and look for something else or wait for that Anarchy 2.0 to come out. Preview looked decent.Also off topic, but why do designers have a hard on for rules lite "narrative" style games these days? Why is there such a big push to reinvent the wheel instead of just reiterating and improving on what previously worked.
>>97221936Gobbet, my beloved.
>>97221975There's this idea that there's a barrier to popularity in complexity; and that the simpler a game is the more money it's going to make. Not only is this completely wrong, they're often stupidly tearing out most of the interesting systems and mechanics and leaving behind dull ones because they weren't complicated.RED thankfully didn't make this mistake, not entirely. It's simpler, but there's plenty going on to keep people interested without also being in modifier hell (though I feel a lot of GMs I've played with are terrified of applying circumstantial modifiers, so it's whatever). There are other flaws in the system, but the bones are good and you can build it up where it needs bulk.
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>>97221109I expected something extremely similar when I hovered over that spoiler.
no 11:30 or 5pm reveals. definitely being kept for liberator (releases on Christmas), so likely Shoto's Digimon
Are SPs guaranteed per case?
>>97221531Mucho GODS
If BT23 Rosemon is deleted with a When Attacking effect, plays itself back with Fortitude and then suspends itself, can it redirect the attack to itself or did it miss the "When one of your opponent's Digimon attacks" timing
Mobile Siege Platform EditionA thread for discussing the Star Wars franchise and its various media and tabletop games.Fantasy 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/ZE4gn0yNOld links>https://pastebin.com/yUVx32wBComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>97220965Because the Mk.1 looked like this https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Torpedo_Sphere/Legends
>>97218669double revenge triggers suck, but Dooku would at least give you a revenge trigger of your own. The best list atm seems to be Riff/Grevious but I don't know how well it performs into double revenge as it is so killy. Ventress has god tier activations but doesnt really do anything outside of them unfortunately.
Finally saw this, it was basically the prequels if they were actually good
>>97220915Maybe you should stop installing mods without knowing what they do, Visas' class is jedi sentinel and will stay that way. Sith assassin is one of the player only prestige classes.
Wacky Races edition>Previously in the Mortal Realms:>>97206969>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.
The still not retconed background existance of dwarfcasts and elfcasts implies all you need to be a SCE is a soul, which further implicates grotcasts
>>97221996ok
>>97221138Will he be able to stay alive long enough to kill 3-6 varanguards though? He might be able to delete one of them, but the 2-5 others will in turn just mulch his ass.
This fat bastard's One Piece-tier shit-eating grin literally debuffs people.>GRIN OF THE GRANDFATHER: To look upon Pust's ever-smiling visage is to glimpse the face of Nurgle – a sight that is hard to stomach.>Declare: Pick each enemy unit in combat with this unit to be the targets.>Effect: Roll a dice for each target. If the roll equals or exceeds the target's Control characteristic, pick 1 of the following to apply for the rest of the turn:> · Subtract 1 from hit rolls for the target's combat attacks.> · Subtract 1 from wound rolls for the target's combat attacks.> · Subtract 1 from the target's Control characteristic.
>>97222018I get it, creepy little fucker
How do we fix Steampunk?
>>97219174If referencing and drawing inspiration counts as ripping things off, then yes, an AI can only rip things off, but by that logic, the same should be said of human beings. Art is built atop art.
>>97221835Tradition is by definition a living thing. It is cultural continuation, the passing down of cultural elements from one generation to the next. If such continuation doesn't exists anymore then we are not talking about tradition. We are talking about history.
>>97217321>go pray to Harry Potter, plebbitI pray to Odin. The true god-wizard.
>>97196423>>97196434Whereas cyberpunk was an aesthetic but also a social commentary on unrestrained hedonism/corporate greed and the consequences thereof, steampunk is just an aesthetic, which is why it's so hollow and why it mostly appeals to cosplayers. There's no substance so it's nebulous and vague, which makes it easier to get into but less poignant.>tl;dr it's shallow
>>97221874>steampunk is just an aestheticSteam punk deals with themes of rapid industrialization, colonialism, Victorian class structures, the impact of anachronistic advanced technologies, such as the "difference engine" would have on the world at large. Steam punk isn't just cyberpunk with brass googles it's a genre of alternative history, a fact people sadly forget.
Wasted Edition▶Previous thread:>>97108804Battlefleet Gothic, Blood Bowl, Epic, Kill Team, Man-o-War, Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game, Mordheim, Necromunda, Shadow War: Armageddon, Titanicus, Underworlds, Warcry, Warhammer Quest, Warmaster ...... and any other GW system and board game are welcome.▶Helpful resources: (feel free to suggest additions!)https://pastebin.com/qq9N8V0V▶TQComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97219933Drukhari? No that's Dark Eldar son
>>97220134Very cool, I got an unfinished Dwarven lotr army as well, I really like the comfy dwarven rangers sculpts.
>>97221410>I must be fucking retarded but I can't find shit for dark eldar BFGThey weren't exactly a common release, they went mail-order only after about a year. If you mean the rules, they're all in Armada and magazines. I've been debating selling off my fleet because I haven't done shit with them anyway
>>97194515Cool dudes, nice kitbash. This is why I enjoy this hobby.
>>97221933I have the models from a random Ebay BFG lot I bought but were they even called Dark Eldar in that Armada supplement or just Eldar Corsairs? I can't even remember at this point and I refuse to walk the 10ft to go check my book case.
ITT: secret knowledge your party would kill for, either to get it, protect it, destroy it, hide it, whatevermaybe just playing delta green would scratch that hitch but I'd like to avoid intergalactic reality warping monsters and keep things tech noir / cyberpunk related because the setting is eclipse phase with nechronica and cowboy bebop shoehorned in but anything goes reallybtw the twist for my players is that they don't know they're onboard a generation ship but I'm looking for ideas to get them on a shitload of false leads kthxbye xoxoxoxo merryxmas & hppy new yr btwfuck this new captcha so much wtf
>>97217422Without knowing more about your party or your world's history, generally anything that indulges or promises to enrich or empower the players is enough.The price for profit can always be reduced to money. Life insurance is proof enough that even the average person understands how much someone's life is worthIf you're talking about raw power, heck just attach a meta-mechanical benefit for getting a piece of treasure or book. You promise to give them a feat from the book? If it's the first time, you don't even have to tell them it's the worst feat in the book.
>>97217429OP asking for plot hooks to engage players (unless he's not just botting, which he probably is)
>>97217422>false leads Give them one that is almost correct but not quite >schizo ramblings about being trapped in a lab-test Have them find a brain-in-jar experiment underway. >abort, retry, fail? t b h hiding that they're on a generational ship is difficult to do unless you get into megastrucutres. Doesn't take that long to get from one side of a ship to the other and player characters will have inordinate amounts of free time.
>new captcha is an IQ test>OP gets filtered Kek
>>97218230>bottingqrd?
What is the best system for playing a paraplegic fantasy adventurer?
>>972154905eThey have a 3pp officially promoted module where you for the cheap price of nothing become better than people with functional legs
>>97221198Eastoids make them hot. I unironically think that westoids would have gotten away with the social justice movement much longer if they kept the marquee characters conventionally cool and attractive.
>>97221926That's only part of the issue, token characters always feel forced and hamfisted because inherently are unless the whole thing is made with levity in mind or they're part of a joke. In the specific case d&d adventures aren't generic fantasyland escapades but are specifically and for the vast majority about outdoormanship, underworld delving and monster fighting, putting a guy in a conventional wheelchair there only evokes annoying, dragging scenarios, making the guy sit on an unconventional wheelchair (that offsets those inconveniences) makes the whole exercise moot. On the other hand having the cripple strapped to, for example, a dire wolf mount makes the whole experience potentially interesting balancing out the potential grievances.
>>97215592>geez, he raped your dog but it was like a 5min thing why are you still talking about it, just let it go if you don't mention it ever again everyone would forgot already why are you STILL talking about it, it was like 10 years ago? I didn't even remembered about the dog rape untill you mention it AGAIN geeeez
>>97217028Look it at this wayIf the rules says you can make a downie, BUT you don't have to talk like a downie, and everyone around you treats you normally (not like they would treat a downie), plus you have extra perks like "perpetual Rage", why wouldn't you play a downieThey want to play the gimp in a wheelchair precisely because they DON'T have to be a gimp in a wheelchair
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Do the Skitarii have any martial arts? What if they developed some?
You know, I always find it odd that while Nurgle and Khorne have proper chaos space marines that represent them in the Khorne berserkers and plague marines, the same cannot be said about Slaanesh and Tzeentch. Like, shouldn’t Tzeentch marines should be something like a sorcerer unit, or a heavy mutant marine unit? And I don’t know what Slaanesh should have got to be honest
>>97221709I think so. Player 3 is foaming at the mouth for the chance to kill daemons and already delivered two IC rousing speeches. We got a "daemons could be here. With the warp, you can go anywhere you want" joke and we pretended we never started doing DW and were instead playing our other campaign.>>97221751They're all new players but one, a big fight against a greater daemon would've been too tough for their level, especially since no one would've had fun cause only the librarian is equipped to battle them effectively, and the main enemy are Nids.>did that test completely wrongThat's what I was going for, to be fair. Completely flip the expectations of how a normal test should go, hence offering players to pick a -20 penalty. The highest WP player failed his 90% chance to succeed, while the lower one passed his 18% twice, so the RNG was also tzeenchian. The reward for the room was a fate point, so they got that back as well, no "gotcha! you wasted resources on an illusion".
>>97221929Slaanesh does have his Noise Marines though, who are supposed to represent love for extreme stimuliTzeench has plenty of sorcerers serving him, which aren't relly a "unit" per se, but it would be hard to make one of them seeing how individualistic they tend to be. And rubric marines are associated with him, who are a resurt of sorcery
>>97221976I know that, but they don’t represent them well like how Khorne berserkers and plague marines represent Nurgle and Khorne. Like, which part of rubric marines scream Tzeentch? These automatons could well be Nurgle units considering how tough they are
How do you justify a "pest race" like goblins or rat people in your setting? Why wouldn't the dominant species make a concentrated effort to eradicate them if they were a problem?
>>97214004>Consider: Why can't modern states exterminate the nazi populations within?Because they are cowards.
Who on Warth would want to exterminate this? Anyone who would is a monster.
>>97213999Canada is not the best example to cite of a nation capable of dealing with invasive pest species
>>97215103God I hate millennial writing
>>97220088>can't name a single traditional game he playsYeah I don't think so
Games where Intelligence is the best stat? Hard mode: not because of magic.
>>97217507Starfinder 1e because hacking is broken and it's an INT skill. Basically everything in the game can be either reproduced or circumvented via hacking. You can hack doors, alarms, vehicles. You can hack people's phones, even their weapons and armor. It's the best combat skill, the best social skill, and the best utility skill. And it all hinges on a single kind of skill check: Computers, which is INT-based. You can even get wireless hacking at a very low level, allowing you to basically hack anything in Bluetooth range, removing the need to actually touch what you're hacking or look suspicious while doing it. The developers released a supplement later on that tried to nerf hacking by splitting it up into three separate skills, forcing hackers to at least choose one or two things to be absolutely broken at, rather than bending the game over and fucking it constantly. However, the devs didn't have the balls to just straight-up patch it, so they released the change as a set of "optional rules," which--when a playgroup is even aware of them--are generally ignored.
>>97218454Those people aren’t actually in charge. The real puppeteers are unseen. Even Epstein was just a pawn. Level up lil bro
You get to improve skills by +10% for each point of Intelligence in BRP at the end of character creation. Also the Idea rolls can be versatile and really useful, depending on how much the GM lets PCs get away with.
>>97219434He's a retard who hasn't played with it either. Again. Play a game for once in your life with real players.
>>97217507Digimon Digital Adventures 1.4, where investing into Improved Derived Stat Brains + Technician and its branching qualities + Prodigious Skill Computers on your Digimon can effectively let them warp reality because they can affect all code and have a bare minimum of like +30 on their 3d6 Skill Checks.
