How do you respond when your players choose to side with a character who is quite obviously, unapologetically evil and meant to be a villain? Typically, unless they leave behind evidence of their crimes, I'll usually let them follow the quest line along until they get killed or arrested somehow.
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>>97275122>Typically, unless they leave behind evidence of their crimes, I'll usually let them follow the quest line along until they get killed or arrested somehow.Mans, I appreciate how you're trying to simulate someone who has run a game but in all honesty if you get your shit together and run a game it will be more fun than this and you'll be able to make better posts about games and art.
>>97275122You just let them fucking do it. It's not hard.But... good luck with that. You're not going to find people with the balls to play evil characters, it's always dipping their toes in rather than willingness to play evil characters. They say they want one thing, then they see evil and freak out and try to backpedal.
>>97275490>But... good luck with that. You're not going to find people with the balls to play evil characters, it's always dipping their toes in rather than willingness to play evil characters. They say they want one thing, then they see evil and freak out and try to backpedal.Can't relate.My Eberron group wanted to do a pirate campaign and they've thrown themselves right into the raping, pillaging and selling people into slavery.
>>97275131>>97275130>>97275292Kill yourself, /pol/tard spic.
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.
>>97275826This feels like you're being incredibly insincere and I kinda don't feel like engaging with someone who isn't being intellectually honest with me. Yes, Exalted wouldn't happen if it followed its own mechanics. We always knew.
>>97275841Quit projecting on me lol. I never thought the rules needed to cover exactly how the Usurpation happened anyways. It's just canon that it is and that the solars lost and that they could lose their golden age to the same shit if they aren't careful.This is very basic stuff.
>>97275852When I say you're being insincere it's this. Why are you tryin to start shit if we agree on the basic premise that the usurpation is just a story event done for the setting? The fuck are you picking a fight for?
>>97275866I think saying something is mechanically impossible like it's some downside when the rules were never made with that in mind is just very silly. The Usurpation is a basic element of exalted and has been since 1e.You have to "hand wave it" the same way you have to hand wave the whole First Age. It's just so meaningless and stupid.
>>97275785>I don't need to provide any evidence to support that besides the extreme scale and number of people who can make a mistake.Extreme scale and number of people involved don't matter for shit the moment Sidereals are involved. Sure, if a Solar interacted with anybody who made a mistake then the conspiracy could be up, but they don't. That's how that works.
>Be me.>Lord General of the Nordican 1225th/ defacto governor of Nordica II.>For the last few years we've been abandoned by the wider Imperium to an ice world that very much resembles our home.>In that time we've constructed the city of New Yur.>A sprawling metropolis surrounded by a network of trenches visible from orbit dug by the kriegers and valhallans.>We've also made more or less peace with the orks we were originally sent here to fight, and even made alliances with the ruinous powers, but those truces only last for one day a year.>A day that is fast approaching.>Candlemass brings peace, but also war to Nordica II every year without fail.>This year however the orks have decided to convert the former colloseum constructed by khorne worshipers in the ruins of a space hulk that crashed here into an arena for a sport they're apparently calling "Blood Bowl.">I will be attending the first of these games on Candlemass day, which is set to pit greenskins against some surviving khorne worshipers they've captured.>Emperor willing this will be the beginning of true peace to our world.>But knowing Candlemass that seams unlikely and I'll be waiting the whole time for some new threat to emerge.
I think we should start moving towards rapping this thread up. I feel like it’s gone on long enough and their doesn’t really seam to be an end in sight.
>>97262466>>97271396>>97269885>be Overlord sobek >the Imperishable, king of the stars, breaker of the neverborn, lord of all that can be seen and unseen, the undeniable, the master of the dead words, the dismisser of the false king's pawns, the unbendable, the denier of the storm lord's requests, the unbound, the monarch eternal of the endless void between worlds, God tamer, decrier of the false star, bounder of the broken lords, prince of all treasures of the snow capped worlds, avenger of the fallen empire, rebuilder of the blackstone pylons, void banisher, and many many more>eagerly look over my new "daemon of iron" in its neat little tesseract vault >also since i teleported to my ship to make sure there was no cock ups i was able to exchange my legs to my usual two vs eight >also get my back up staff>i might need to look into getting my original staff back given there are still slumbering necrons on my throne world im sure the tech fetishists havent found yet >and last thing i need is a repeat of whatever that virus was >speaking of which i found Komei's "gift" to me>she doesnt want to be here, sleeps most of the time, and honestly is over everything and everyone>shes perfect>honestly i could leave now and write this whole thing off as a win >but A. i do owe Komei for getting me out of that unfavorable situation and B. i owe that BITCH big time for putting me in that situationComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97274938>less details told about that the better >both remaining deathmarks have joined the destroyer cult as a result and are now Hexmark destroyers >fair enough >despite all that i am in a fairly joyful mood >with the focus returning the blood bowl game for the cults and eldar >the imperials fortifying their city >i might just teleport Komei up and bit this terrible terrible TERRIBLE ice rock adu for this year>which apparently it has no completed a full rotation around its sun as well>a very noticeable difference since its still as cold as the void >also its not all perfect>i still have these tits >Fri' Eren said they are mentally sticking around but they "should" disappear >should being the operative word>while i look over my loot and debate sending work to Komei to hurry his ass up one of my immortals (my lychguard are out of service until that virus is totally cleared from their systems) Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97269640>>97269679>>97272427>Be Dracon Baessira, Coal Hearts Kabal >The Corsair still doesn’t entirely seem to know where he is, but he starts removing a few items of clothes, so that is promising >But then the cheerleader in the photos comes in, sees the photos, gets upset, then throws a pompom and storms out >I guess he wasn’t supposed to have those photos>Kinky>But I guess not that kinky since the Corsair’s desires have apparently cooled, and he stumbles out after the cheerleader >Pout >I wonder if it was the fact he is late for his game, or the fact his girlfriend found out about the photos, or maybe he sobered up just enough to have second thoughts about a liaison with a Drukhari. It could be all three judging by his mumbled outburst >Surely it doesn’t have anything to do with my physique, I mean, I suppose there is a bit of an age gap, but with all that agony I was consuming earlier, I look younger than he does >I flop down on my back on the bed, and then start looking at the photos >Some of these are actually pretty good, I will have to add them to my personal collection >A Space Marine comes into the room and sits down on the bed next to me Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97275975>I know enough about the Krampi to know they will try and turn on us at some point around the six hour mark, all my followers have instructions to ditch their tainted weapons and head back to the Webway around now >I hand the Space Marine my business card, activate a portable Webway Gate, and then step through it, taking a few of the photos with me >>97274619Good thread and Happy New Year
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New year's resolutions?
>>97275837Write one small piece a week
>>97275837Just to be more active. I need to tie up the loose ends in the timeline and catch the game year up to irl years.
>>97275837Participate in an MP I like and develop an actually interesting storyline for my build
>>97275441Just have all the pygmys and child soldiers come in from the east since it looks properly jungly. We can do some rituals and morale damage on our way simple as. No fancy tactics just raw savagery.
Helstorm Fireworks Edition(Happy New Year, men of the Empire)>Resources:WFB: https://pastebin.com/qVGrgwwhWM: https://pastebin.com/EsDAgebaWFRP: https://pastebin.com/inbyBsR6Novels: https://pastebin.com/PFqPDr0H>TOW:https://gofile.io/d/fxFgXShttps://www.warhammer-community.com/downloads/warhammer-the-old-world/>Warhammer Chronicles:https://files (dot) catbox (dot) moe/0xt777 (dot) zipComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97274077>TQ:To finish off my Bretonnian army.
>>97274952>HopesRedone sculpts for armies that need it most ie wood elves, dorfs, some empire stuff>FearsNew edition with Streamlined(tm) rules, that will be "easy to learn, hard to master" With all new Tactical Flexibility with Command Points>ExpectationsLiterally none
>>97274243LGS owner offered to sell me a generously sized tub full of multiple copies of IoB skaven... Might have to take him up on that soon.
>>97274077I want to get 500 pts of my chorf army done (painted and based) + 750 pts of empire done.
>>97275482Do it,as long as you have a need for them. the warlord you can convert to be with hand weapon and shield pretty easily, shame about all the poisoned wind mortars though, but I guess you could sneak 1 into a jezzail unit as a filler
Valakut editionPrevious: >>97129473>News & RemindersWorld Championship 31 won by Seth Manfield (Izzet Lessons, United States, he/him)Complete winter achievements for rewards December 16-January 6From November 18, 2025–January 19, 2026 Golden Packs will temporary contain cards differently than before due to "various pieces of internal nonsense"https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/announcements-december-15-2025>Useful Linkshttps://pastebin.com/QFA0hqaA>TQHave you played the brawl challenge, and if so, which commander?
>>97275714But I'm Indestructible
>>97275790Obviously killing yourself is a sac effect
>>97275797I'm calling a judge
>>97275806i'm a judge and i tell you "ywnbaw and hurry up already"
stupid ass 2025 niggas in this thread
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Silly little Paladin girl
>>97275429There are 24 time zones on the average earthlike world. Gotta celebrate all of those midnights!
slopquisitorhabby 2026 errybody
>>97273445>>97273954Lovely gens
Happy New Year!
For discussion of D&D 3.0e, 3.5e and D20 OGL> Toolshttps://srd.dndtools.orghttps://dndtools.one/https://d20srd.orghttps://www.realmshelps.net/> Indices> 3.5https://archive.burne99.com/archive/4/http://web.archive.org/web/20080617022745/http://www.crystalkeep.com/d20/index.php> 3.0http://web.archive.org/web/20060330114049/http://www.crystalkeep.com:80/d20/rules3.0.php> 3e/3.5 Book PDFsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97273919Anon, the FAQ is just an iteration of wotc Q&A articles "Sage Responds". They literally are not RAW.Errata outright tell you they're RAW at the beginning of every Errata document.>AKA: LURK/READ MORE
>>97263659Tell us, O Wise One, how would you rule Protection From Evil then?
Happy New Year's /3.5g/.Here's to many successful weekly sessions this year.
>>97275854Cheers anon. At this point I'd settle for yearly sessions.
>>97275861I've got a weekly session. I strongarmed my 5e group into playing 3.5
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
>>97275777thank you. what are your plans for this new year? ive got several>prepping a oneshot for my IRL friends, see pic related>Con coming up in a few months, super excited>Prepping to make a full on war campaign soon.Also, do you have any tips/guides on drawing cave maps? i need to do level 2 for pic related and suck at caves.
>>97275553I wasn't trying to use an AI DM, I was trying to capture the spirit of Gygax and trap him in an electronic prison and force him to entertain me.
>>97275794I tend to do simple flowcharts for natural caves rather than maps, with long, long narrow passages that you sometimes really need to squeeze through in order to get from one chamber to the next. It helps provide a slight change of pace and format so that natural caves feel distinct from dungeons, and it's also how a good number of actual caves tend to be.
>>97275843There's a lot of maps of actual cave systems that can be reasonably turned into dungeons.
>>97275588>>97275635>>97275698what's the difference between /todd/ and /osrg/ and OSRG anyway?
There's a board devoted to tabletop games where 99.9% of the users have never played a single session of a game in their lives.
>>97273328Retard lefty won't stop crying that he got called out.
>>97274992>write that as a check>check the thread>metazoo got rebooted months agoLmao what the fuck?
>meant to type joke>type check because i shitbrew too much>get dubsLmao what the fuck?
at this point getting called nogames is just like getting called saar/esl. you can describe the blandest most everyday ass tabletop interaction possible and someone will randomly say you're nogames. i can't really see the amusement of it to be desu.
>>97275940/tg/ got taken over by blatant obvious nogames like 2hu
>join a game>it's a new system>spend time looking through book, get ideas, munchkin slightly to at least have a good mechanic character, think backstories and character immediately, be excited to play>takes me a few hours to get my character in>at worst, it takes a day>everyone else takes like 2 fucking weeks because hurr durr gotta read a book and that's so difficult life comes first>join a game>its 5e DnD shit>since it's the most popular shit and easy to make just need to think of a character and ask what others are playing>get a character in 1 hour>others take fucking days to week>life, job, friend, vidya whatever is the excuseFuck. normalfags. Kill them all. Tabletop and nerd culture becoming the hip thing to do is the worst thing that has happened to this once niche culture.I work 40 hours a week, play vidya, workout, have to take out parents/grandparents out to eat on holidays and birthdays, and I can meet schedule and play tabletop just fine because this is my hobby and has been my hobby for 20 years. If you truly love something you can make time for it. There is no excuse.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97275912What if you made real friends so you would have a reliable group of like minded faggots to play with and it wouldn't be a problem
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. And as we enter this happiest and newest of years, remember: 2e was never an old-school game, bait is for reporting, and fish is for smoking! Happy new year, grogs! 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.
Want to contribute to the thread but don't know where to start? Use this table.>1. Make a spell>2. Make a monster>3. Make a dungeon special>4. Make a wilderness location>5. Make an urban set piece>6. Make a magic item>7. Make a class, race, or race-as-class>8. Make a 4-10 room lair.>9. Make a trap>10. Roll 2D10 and combine
>>97275514>TQThe overall answer is that we established a weekly game and have stuck to it with only a few missed sessions. In doing so, I have become a better DM and my players have become better players.If I were to pick a single moment in the campaign so far, then I'm fond of the fact that I ran a joust using Chainmail. Or the time the Cleric used turn undead on a bunch of skeletons laying inside the skeletal remains of a giant snake, causing them to run off like a Chinese New Years dragon and trigger a pit trap to the next level of the dungeon.
>>97275578That is fucking cool, Anon. Congratulations!>causing them to run off like a Chinese New Years dragonkek
>>97275514>What was your best OSR gaming moment of 2025?Getting a Carcosa game going. Its a hard sell for most gamers on account of the monster rape but its happening. Two players with a scarlet heroes homebrew. Get to do very over the top pulp scifantasy and make up cool shit like Carcosan Man O'War. >As regular MM Man O'War + random colour and random psionic power
>>97275514>Thread Question: What was your best OSR gaming moment of 2025?Actually getting to play in it! I ran Borshak's Lair in the Wilderlands of High Fantasy with OSE, beginning my first OSR game ever.
A thread for discussing the Star Wars franchise and its various media and tabletop games.Sheev I'm NJO editionPrevious: >>97217145Fantasy 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/ZE4gn0yNComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97274399I really want the mandolorian movie to be good, and i dont know anything else official coming out next year.I am getting a game going with friends were we murderhobo across the galaxy, and the dm is a super die hard EU lorehead, so thats gunna be tons of fun.
>>97274399I have to be blunt and say: Sadly, no.SW has been so horribly mismanaged by Disney that my first thought when they announce something is 'I wonder how they will fuck it up this time'
>>97271618wait you can't take royal guard in legion anymore?
I think if the Kro'var Shapers returned to the Star Wars canon, the Atla fandom would go crazy and convulse while foaming at the mouth at the sight of them.
>>97274399no, dreading the shit ahsoka season 2 is going to do
Has your character ever been in love?
>>97274292Nice to see people still enjoy that kind of thing
>>97263412My character is in an incestuous relationship with her father
>>97275709Jeez. Hawt.
>>97275709https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeTWBgBylrs
On the topic, how much of a Casanova do you have to be for a woman to write this song level of cope about you?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dYWe1c3OyU
Mages and wizards of /tg/, make your predictions for 2026! What will happen in the RPG-verse? Do it now before it happens!
>>97275485>DaggerheartNot even the designers are playing it
>>97275651Yes, and it is the MCDMRPG.
I predict I'll get into a new skirmish game right before a new edition so I'm forced to buy two sets of proprietary gubbins months before the company goes under.
>>97274207>WotC does actually announce that there will be a new edition of D&D for real this time>It will explicitly be a platform built for crossovers and highly monetizable Universes Beyond type shit where you can pay way too much money to get a digital copy of a PDF with a handful of thematic subclasses, spells, feats, and races.
>>97275394Yeah, sadly.https://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2020/02/concerning-judges-guild.html
