Wanted to talk about advice on GMing, settings you prefer, and styles or issues you as a GM have. I generally tend to prefer dark fantasy or sci-fi settings rather than trying something a little different. I also tend to have a style, depends on the system though, where i have a combat heavy session or two and then a more intrigue/exploration focused session. I have been working on how to better balance games I run, but trying to tie that to timing a game session gets tricky at times. Another issue I noticed is that puzzle solving or investigative games can be a lot harder for a player to get into the mindset for than the dm. It is easy to think everything you planned makes sense when you thought it out in your head but the players might not have the same line of thought.
>>97228205>>97228209You really need to stop trying to force this completely imagined dichotomy.
>>97228209I don't see what any of that has to do with the Hickman manifesto.
>>97232124There's no dichotomy but continuity, one path leads to the other, that's why you need to master both>>97233834Here's the actual one:1. A player objective more worthwhile than simply pillaging and killing.2. An intriguing story that is intricately woven into play itself.3. Dungeons with an architectural sense.4. An attainable and honorable end within one to two sessions playing time....as you can see i simply expanded the meaning of each point for clarity.
>>97232001It sounds like you spent a long time running a game where there were no real consequences for anything, swerved into a game where there were serious but complex and unpredictable consequences for everything, and swerved again to make the consequences more straightforward and obvious. And now you're wondering why your players are struggling to keep up.Did you discuss these changes with them, or just expect them to pick up "clues"?
>>97232001Have you tried putting in place systems to give players tips/answer their questions in a very explicit way?I play Mini Six a lot, and one way you can spend a Hero Point (akin to inspiration in 5e) is to get info from the GM. Sometimes that's a "I'm stuck" but sometimes that's more like "Hey, GM, we're trying to X but worried about Y. What's your take?" and the GM makes a best faith attempt to put the players on the track they want either by saying "I wouldn't worry about Y" or reminding them of the Y expert they met two sessions back. Generally characters are more plugged-in to the world than your players can ever be, so it's not a cheat to give players a limited resource that mimics that connection.Plus, if the way to replenish that resource is "go do hero shit" then you get a virtuous cycle of players knowing what to do and then getting it done.
>>97230476Is it any good? I liked his previous OOTS stories
>>97233474>He's back, but he's not JUST Elan's brother anymore.ftfyNale is making it extremely clear, and the context is supporting, that this is not the same as the past encounters. He is a character who has personal motivations unrelated to his brother and his father this time, and his brother just happens to be involved.
>>97235651maybe the next few strips will prove me wrong, but so far it feels less like Nale really changed and more like he's convincing himself he changedinstead of constantly talking about how he's defined by his brother and father, now he's constantly talking about how he's NOT defined by his brother and fatherhe's still not free of their influence
>>97232693Well, he IS in Hell... or HIFL.
>>97235675It could be the case, but I think that establishing that "no, actually, this is not like that" isn't unreasonable for him to do. We'll have to see how he acts in the coming pages.
Give the princeps the reigns edition>Previous Thread:>>97216117>HH 3.0 - Complete gofile - All Books:https://gofile.io/d/cnJk0N>New Edition, to a great wailing and gnashing of teeth:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/setting/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Official FAQ/Errata/Downloads:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Thread FAQ (very old, remembers Age of Terra)https://pastebin.com/iUqNrrA8https://pastebin.com/8riDmnhS>30k TACTICA & TIPSComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
https://youtu.be/of9sfJBfGYcI kinda like these Abominable Warhammer songs
>>97235642I think it's more that there's no more models they can really do for it. Their buisness model won't allow them to make a new edition without new models.
>>97236080me too, but don't tell the others
>>97235776Just give them disintrgrstor blasters
>>97235707Hell yeah
>hear a rich merchant has purchased your local tavern>go to check it out>see this mural painted on the wallyou ordering or leaving?
>>97235290You lose.
>>97231864My character doesn't eat food so it's very unlikely he would be ordering anything anyway.
>>97233261unironically VTM is better suited for what they want but they don't want to be edgy punk vampires for some reason?
>>97236019brand recognition is a helluva drug
>>97231864I might be retarded, but I don't see any overt red flags here.>>97236019>>97236076Brand slavery to DnD really. On top of VtM being washed down enough that no one cares but not so washed down as to actually get normie appeal. Also, no Critical Role for free marketing
Any problems you have with Warhammer 40k/Games Workshop over the past few years, anon? Do you see it getting better or worse?
>>97228681Thanks, anon.
>>97223139The lore of 40k has been circling the drain for years, the gameplay is even worse and I think you need a reset on the magnitude of 8th to unfuck 40k currently. But they won't, because they are making more money than ever from newcomers to the hobby. So 40k will continue down the road of enshitification it's been on for a while.
>>97229880As someone who played warhammer fantasy before I am baffeled how important named named characters are for the 40k armies, in fantasy they were fluff pieces that were banned in tournaments.I really do not like that I have to play angron instead of a no name greater demon or korn, I used to enjoy playing with my "own" army with namless lords and heroes.
>>97233646We didn't gatekeep hard enough.
>>97222984I don't mind the Horus Heresy, but Primarchs turn 40k into Marvel. Who gives a shit about chapters sacrificing themselves to stop a daemon primarch when Bobby or Lion can whoop their ass in a DBZ fight and save the day.
>Nagas>Opidians>Serpentmen>Yuan-tiSnake and person. Snerson? Discuss all things snakepeople related here. These guys are my go-to mid-level baddies, they're so fucking cool and evil.
>>97232116I love Sneople.But I will not play a Sneople unless the systems considers:>Grappling>Venom>Long>The fact that they may weigh upwards of half a ton if not more.
Every man is a little bit zoo for a lady snake the same way every woman is a little bit zoo for horses.
>>97233803That sounds like a lot of LA. I know sneople were hard to play in 3.5 because of it.
>>97234578LA was inflated partly from a really awful process around it (just look at Savage Species overriding its own results for being stupidly high, or that one time it was explained and looked too weak so the writer added a racial hit die as an improvement...) and partly because a LOT of the designers didn't actually want people playing Weird Shit.Given what Totemist can pull in the field full-time, such a package COULD have been quite cheap.
>>97232116Ka nama kaa lajerama.
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.PREVIOUS THREAD>>97206318
>>97235681*Ediition he keeps adding the extra 'i'
Soon gonna GM the BFRPG "Monkey Isle" module, anyone that got any heads up or tips when it comes to GM OSR hexcrawls?
>>97235777Yeah, play a much better game.. The only reason bfrpg ever existed was because BX was hard to source in the early 2000s.Bfrpg is a half baked dumpster fire that is only still an extant novelty because it is "open source".Mechanically, the game is just bad, and the content for it is some of the most unpleasant dry material I've ever digested.
>>97235777Didn't run BFRPG specifically, but here are my 2 centshexcrawls are driven by two things, random encounters and rumors. Monkey Isle seems to have a boring random encounter table, too much rolling for encounters (roughly 3 times the amount compared to the original Isle of Dread), and lacks a rumor table.The latter is a game killer on such a giant map. Players need to have rumors to direct them towards points of interest. My advice is to think how are you going to handle it. You can make a random rumor table yourself or have specific rumors about several close by POIs prepared which are going to get presented to players in village X or Y.PSDon't listen to the BFRP hater
>>97235857Actually do listen to the hater, because this isn't an echo chamber and if you're going to be posting on 4chan of all places you should be expecting to hear all sides.
Work in Progress, Christmas 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.
Sup anons, I'm picking up a job lot local to me. The pictures all look like Vaseline is covering the lens... Can anyone help me discern what the fuck is going on here.I can post models if it helps I SWEAR!
Japan anon, this is SC anon. Got your gift. Is it alright if I wait 'til Christmas to open it?
>>97236046On the 12th day of Christmas anonymous sent to me:12 ork bikes - just make sure these aren't printsSeveral ork Boyz and sprues Boys with what looks like missile launchers3 assault marines2 knight armigers2 terminators1 converted librarian
>>97236087Thanks mate, and Merry Christmas :D (I think the bikers are on sprue) I'm picking it up from a guy who lost his brother and is just selling off everything in one go. Hoping to give them a good home. And thank you for helping me discern what's going on here! I think I see Morkanaut bits but it's just the arm and I don't know if the sprue is hidden away somewhere.
Merry Christmas everyone. I started paint this summer and chose to start with Warcrow (not a smart move people tell me because the models can be quite a difficult job to paint.) anyway I'm paint this unit in pic. Since I'm new I'm just trying to copy the paint schemes of models from official promotional art. Anyways I think her grey hair is a too much grey and I want another color. Red might work, I was thinking black but it might not jive with the dark head piece. I considered blonde/brown but I think it might be too ugly. Thoughts?
Holiday EditionDiscuss and post elves. Elf lore, gameplay, and art are all appreciated.QOTT: What are some of the best gifts to give elf-lovers? What gifts would you give to lovers of other races/species/ancestries/whatever?
>>97235712they don't look like the same drow
>>97235748the little AI persona generator on Perchance very consistently thinks Elves are cooler than humans. No idea where it would have scraped that data from though.
>>97235798my uncle has this album on vinyl
>>97230669Santa just wants free labor, and he doesn't descriminate
>>97235949damn, why didn't I make my one shot about a drunk fat-bastard dressed in red, abducting elves and forcing them to work in his factory making toys?it is even christmas themed
Mondstille Edition>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/the-old-world-downloads/>Warhammer Chronicles:https://files (dot) catbox (dot) moe/0xt777 (dot) zip>Time of Legends:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97235422True, but also debatable. Having a character or other model capable of monster slaying at minimum provides a disincentive to the enemy. The threat of monster slayer is frequently more important than the ability itself.Also against a T7 monster you're already only wounding on 6s, so you're not fishing any deeper than normal.
Merry Christmas /tg/. Made my Warboss from the command set.
>>97235727Merry Christmas anon, looks great, can't wait to see how you paint him up!
>>97235410That model should have stayed around longer
>>97235853I posted that image and went to look at the model again only to find out they have retired it for the new even more AoS Wight King.How long was it around for? I feel like it was only released 3-4 years ago.
Excess Dragonballs EditionHere 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.
>>97235935>Players do not like being messed with and "interrupted" , it creates negative play experiences that affect retention.Didn't stop millions of mtg players back in the day, sounds like a bunch of pussies to me.
>>97236038I think it is stupid and purposely limits the design space but it just is what it is trendwise. Star wars unlimited, all the bandais.Easy example is them fixing issues with digimon by creating an entire keyword around being able to digivolve on an opponents turn but it has a lot of restriction and deterrence from overusing itIt helps to remember that only a few games go full sweat anymore, most are just trying to make a buck selling art. So if you make a game system that doesn't make the players pissy if they ever do play that is always the goal. And I can say that oppressive playstyles like milling your opponent or heavy removal, or heavy counterspells to take from mtg turn a lot of people off and we are constantly told that, and those cards are limited
>>97235903>so many ACG focus on hero main charactersthere's two reasons to do that, and the reasons are pretty different depending on the implementation:>#1 Avatars as class/faction selectionthis is where you pick your character or avatar first, and then that decision heavily limits which cards you can use. the reason to do this is it expands your design space, so you can print more cards before you have to reboot/rotate or just start blatantly reprinting or powercreeping. it basically isolates the game into little sub-cardpools. so if your design could normally accomodate 300 unique cards before it felt bloated or started breaking under its own weight? well, make it 10 different classes and now you can go to 3000 unique cards instead.>#2 Avatars as modifiersThis is where the character choice doesn't restrict your card picks or archetypes to a significant degree, and instead just gives you an extra ability or bonus card or something. It can look superficially similar to the above, but it's done for the exact opposite reason: to make a small cardpool seem artificially large. so if say you're only going to have 300 cards in 5 years because you're an indy company, slow release schedule, whatever, you release 20 characters that can all run the same general set of decks and you basically just made your deckbuilding options 20x bigger.>so many ACG focus on creature combatthat one's simpler. it's easy to understand and all 3 of the biggest 3 games use creature combat. it's more selection pressure than anything. there's some notable exceptions though. netrunner and its spawn like hubworld focus on running nets. the fighting games like DBZ and FAB use few or no true creatures. political games like L5R, VTES and AGOT have combat, but it's either between armies and leaders or some kind of combat-that's-not-really-combat. few of the newer ones like keyforge, lorcana and altered have combat but it's not the focus or the way to win. all kinds of shit out there anon
>>97233888To learn the game? There is a training app on phone and desktop you can access for free. There is a Learning Deck Set with 3 beginner (shitty) decks to play the game. There are individual starter decks (also for the most part shitty). You can go down to your local game store that runs it (search bandai tcg+ for events near you) and find bulk to build decks before playing.>Get into One Piece as a whole?Read the manga
>>97234105>>97235709I'm pretty surer LGS are full of boxes because no one plays the game.Meanwhile online everything is getting bought by collectors that dont even know what a lgs is.My lgs dropped the game after arthurian legends basically killed all the hype, gothic seems cool, it should have been the second expansion instead
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?
>>97213989Same as rats irl, they're pests, they reproduce too fast and live in shitty places or in sewers that make the effort of getting rid of them not worth it for how much of annoyance they areSo you kill them when they're in front of you causing problems but above that you just ignore them if they aren't annoying you
>>97233625That's why the correct punishment is to have both hands broken for first time offenders, and then one hand removed for each following offense.
>>97234666Exactly that very one satan. We wouldn't have this problem if the Europeans colonized correctly (eradicated the natives), jewish capitalism was abolished, and women were not given rights.
>>97233522That's the thing, you CAN'T kill them all, let alone FIND them all
Can someone tell me the difference between a dwarf muker and a shortstack? What makes the latter more appealing to people who find real dwarf porn laughable?
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.
>>97235765Yes, the Martial can do that, at the levels we are talking about, assuming:>Nobody has persistent delay death on themselves.>Nobody has contigency on themselves.>Nobody has bothered to take measures against ambushes.Nah, at this point it's just getting too far-fetched, I suppose a Level 20 Martial can be a CR 20 challenge if played correctly.>>97235839Wealth by Level, the gear characters are supposed to have (valued in gp) at each given level.
>>97235808CR in 3.x starts real shaky at low levels, and gets worse at high levels.As for 'boss' type foes, I tend to use regular dudes with a field advantage of some sort, which the CR system really struggles to account for.An ambush situation increases CR by +1 or +2, iirc, by RAW. What about foes that are already buffed when you meet them? Bad weather?>my players once got in to a fight during a typhoon, shit was cashTo wit, CR is a kinda sorta base you can use, but you really need to feel out what is appropriate, because some foes can btfo the party if they do not have the right setup. I threw a deathshrieker at a group once, and they had to run for their lives because no one had the gear, abilities or spells to counter a powerful incorporeal undead, including the cleric (spent 4 turn attempts for nothing).
>>97235879I think it doesn't work at all, PC/CR, unless you have class levels on a monster chassis.See vampire with Master Vampire levels.In 3.x, the capacity of pc classes swings too wildly to have a set challenge, outside maybe Druid. Even other casters could be loaded with poor spell choices. You think that level 20 cleric loaded up with divination spells is going to take on the party?
>>97235896Depends on his domains kek
Going all in on fire magic, because I want to blast.I recall a prestige class in the same vein as the Force Missile Mage that specifically added bonuses to fire spells, but can not find it. Anyone have an idea what it was called?
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>>97235837>all of Vietnam red>while iran is blueYo unc, wut the absolute fuck timeline this map supposed to be repping here?
>>97235837The point is that if you don't live in one if a handful of countries/economic blocks importing board games via crowdfunding is fucking dumb and as an adult you should not have been surprised that you dont have a free trade agreement in place for chinese shit if you are importing it to yourself
>>97235091I expected to hate Flip 7, but honestly it's kind of fun in its place, as a zero stakes end of the night filler when you have like 5 minutes before the pub closes.
>>97235871Read the filename, mid-1975, South Vietnam ceased to exist after the fall of Saigon in April and Iran was US-allied since the US coup to re-install the Shah (and long before) until the revolution removed him in 79.
>>97235441Happy christmas anon
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.
>>97234577>needThis is a 3rd party app made by an anon here for convenience, things like this exist for 40k too...
What's the status of the game? 1.0 rules are out and free? STLs and resin prints available with more plastic minis coming (looks like one new one a year, which sucks).Any word on starter boxes?
Does anyone have access to some reliable source for STL files? I see one anon already posted a Telegram link, would anyone have more?
>>97234577As the companion anon, the main Thing that makes people want to use it is that the various variants and abilities are listed as modifiers to the base rules, so the site means you dont need to go "okay so these guys get +X range for grenades, let me flip back to the page for grenades to check their base range" over and over.
>>97233482Rent free in this homos head lol
