Why do DMs love putting paladins into 'you must fall' scenarios?
>>97196956>Because AmericansOpinion discarded
Why don't paladin players act like paladins? There's no danger of falling if you do
>>97180635Same reason they put regular characters into "you must die" scenarios. Because without the actual threat consequences, there is nothing to be gained
>>97194721I'm living in 2007 you fucking faggot, don't ever compare me to yourself ever again
>>97180635Because it's the best way to beat your opponent as the DM, why wouldn't you do it?
Thread failed its save overnight huh Edition▶Previous thread:>>97021561▶News:Reminder that next box is Sisters vs Raptors:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/zrjpzrms/adepta-sororitas-battle-chaos-space-marines-over-a-long-forgotten-tomb-in-kill-team-shadowhunt/▶Official Key Downloads, FAQs and Erratahttps://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/kill-team/▶Rules Scanshttps://gofile.io/d/AinK04▶Boxed Set Rules Scanshttps://gofile.io/d/NWRByw (deprecated)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97197469I don't noBut if you're looking for specific pages I could take some pics from my physical copy
>>97177963Yup. I have the team now so I'm gonna paint them, but I have a bunch of Blackstone Fortress minus up next and they look 200% more fun to paint.Ty to all anons for paint scheme feedback, will post progress later
>>97198887not him but are there any interesting joined ops rules in it?
>>97200414There are no dedicated joint ops rules in it.The book has the lore section, the two teams, and a section dedicated to a campaign system. The latter can be used for a PvE campaign, but it's not really written for it.
>>97200984is the campaign system any good? or just again 5 missions in a mission tree and thats called a campaign?
>author adapts his D&D campaign into a well-written, highly-entertaining animated seriesWhy has nobody done this since?
>>97197459just because you really really really like how it looks doesn't mean it is a well written series i love the look of escaflowne but its not great
>>97198183Louie's adventures take place maybe a smidge before the actual Lodoss adventure starts. And also it takes place in the northern part of the Alecrast continent. Following the novels, Louie and the gang go all over the contient, and in "Season 3" of the novels, second volume, it takes Louie's gang to Lodoss Island. As far as the Lodoss story is concerned, it takes place (in terms of the OVA), between episodes 8 and 9. In terms of the Novels, it's after the first novel "The Grey Witch">>97194481Oh I'm pretty sure Gygax would be PERFECTLY FINE with having Lodoss be an official BECMI setting... ...had not the Blumes, then Williams been involved.>>97198251TECHNICALLY part of the Sword World Universe. One of the Bubble Worlds in the Raxia setting. And hells, there's even a replay coming out soon which involves travel between Raxia and Forcelia (the world where Lodoss is.)>>97197649Least it's not Chaos Dragon.
>>97194125It's called Critical Role, and you get upset about it for some reason.
>>97194125>D&D campaign>well-written
>>97199555>bimbos with personalities that make brick walls look downright personableDeedlit's legacy lives on.
Why is it that so many fantasy writers make their evil cults unjoinable by anyone with a functioning brain cell? Like why would you worship Orcus, whose goal is omnicide? Why would you worship Tzeentch if he’s probably gonna screw YOU over as part of his grand plan?What makes it so bizarre to me is that, firstly, it’s not like they need to be so off-putting to be evil. Orcus is a demon of undeath, his followers want to turn their enemies into the undead. Tzeentch wants the world to be in a constant cycle of chaos, his followers are gonna be masterminding world wars.Secondly, it’s not like we don’t have plenty of examples of real-world evil cults. A lot of cults in the West don’t follow Super-Duper-Mega-Murder Satan, but are fucked-up offshoots of Christianity. Historically, goetia was practiced by people who would’ve still called themselves Christians, while committing rituals to summon and get boons from demons. Plenty of human cultures used to sacrifice humans to their gods, not to summon them to kill everyone or some shit, but to honor and/or appease them.Like to use another example from Warhammer, I think Nurgle and Khorne present more “approachable” evil cults. Nurgle is toxic positivity, and his love will take all the pain away. Khorne is wrapped up in enough language about honor to lure people in.Like to rework an evil deity, let’s pick Lamashtu. Instead of “We love ugliness and miscarriages and also you get to die in childbirth”, the cult targets vulnerable young women and lures them in with divine feminine language (“You have the power to bear and raise great beasts”), while promising the young men of monstrous races frustrated living among humans that what they’re scorned for is what makes them powerful (and also they get to have sex with pretty girls).
>>97165892What if that e-mail from the Nigerian prince was real?
>>97198269Apocalyptic just means "revealed", it refers to the hidden knowledge, not necessarily the end of the world. Similarly Armageddon just means "Battle of Megido Hill". Our current understanding of these terms is colored by both the millenialists (of the 10th century and the 20th century) and also the obsessions of the churches of the 16th and 17th centuries when the destruction of that world order gave rise to the protestant movements (and reverberated because of such). The gospel quotes Jesus as saying that "it will come like a thief in the night" and "no man can predict when", so naturally people have been very busy predicting the second coming since Christ's body assumed room temperature on the day of Passover.We read our own catastrophizing into these passages, and assign modern meaning to cryptic texts about ancient news that was important only ephemerally, and probably will forever, but Paul's hope and or fear for the end of creation was just as wrong as Marshall Applewhite's (though at least Paul knew and said that his vibes were vibes and not certain), and reading time related meanings into what Christ said directly contradicts him.
>>97200143>not necessarily the end of the world.Most scholars participating in the third quest for the historical Jesus believe that Jesus was an eschatological prophet who believed the "Kingdom of God" was coming within his own lifetime or within the lifetime of his contemporaries.[28][29][30] Simultaneously, some of these scholars tend to see Jesus's predictions as mistaken[31] although some others view it from the perspective of the conditional nature of judgement prophecy.[32][33] Dale Allison draws parallels from the history of religions and the historical Jesus showing that contingent eschatology is often used as a dissonance reduction strategy when certain expectations or prophecies fail to materialize.[34] A number of interpretations of the term "Kingdom of God" have thus appeared in its eschatological context, e.g., apocalyptic, realized or inaugurated eschatologies, yet no consensus has emerged among scholars.[35][36] The major focus for Jesus's eschatological teachings in the Gospels is the Olivet Discourse in Mark 13, where "Jesus speaks as if Peter, James, and John will personally experience the parousia."[37]
>>97160877People think american politicians are great anon. Maybe you are just too much of an enlightened centerist to understand the common man.
>>97161286The thing is that was he evil cults in most TTRPGs don’t promise good afterlives
Efficient efilist emasculation editionArchives & Other Resources: https://rentry.co/cyoagAllsync: https://cyoa.allsync.com/s/owWor64yLTngDk3Previous thread: >>97185619
>>97200805If you mean me, the anon who promised to make a cyoa out of that image, then maybe 1 week from now? Depends on how busy I'll be with Christmas.
>>97200914is it just a waifupicker or will it go beyond
>>97200951You are a low-level wizard. Waifu #1 hired you to do a job with her, waifu #2 is the enemy who prevents you from completing said job.
>>97197593>>97199685>What stops the Son from using an instant Elder Ink Time StopAethernautics 5. In the Mad Bomber quest, Rank 10 equivalent time stop was indefinite, universal(or at least planetary) time stop.
>>97200495>takes more points to be a womanlmao. foids and trannies btfo
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.
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>>97200460love the anubis.
>>97200318I do wonder what theyre gonna do for wrath demons - the only mention so far is that the head of wrath will give eternal youth to anyone who conquers the alamut fortress.In a game based around an eternal war, everyone is already quite wrath-ish.
>>97200657Hey, who doesn't. Tall, dark, handsome, megalomaniac mass murdering oil-slick looking fella.
>>97200380second heretic warband: The obsidian hounds
Skullcrusher edition>Previously in the Mortal Realms:>>97180934 >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.
>>97200707If I do pull the trigger and get skaventide I'll probably skip the spearhead.My plan was to get tide and the new christmas box, but fuck me man I have too many armies already I cant be diving into yet another fucking one.
>>97200669Maybe il give my locals another check to see if there's any people looking for aos games, or maybe I can finally convince one of my friends to get into tabletop so I can play with someone I actually know But for now I will continue painting rats
>>97200746Spearhead is a fantastic way to on-board people. Once you know the gameflow and your army stats, you can slam a game in about an hour.
>>97200739Tidebox + Christmas box equals about 2k points, decently discounted way to get a full army
>>97200623Spearhead is fucking sick. Aos is fun too, but it's a little messy trying to list build rn. The funny rules of aos1ed are long gone, they were only present for 6 months maybe less.
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.
Solresol is their sacred language.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solresol
>>97182030all Dogs go to Hell
All angels are harmed by one of the classical metals: gold, silver, iron, mercury, tin, copper, or lead.
All laws are written as poems, usually short-form ones like zappai.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zappai
The sun has a 50% chance of not shining on any given day.
Will our based autist do another end of year stats gathering editionPrevious thread: >>97161490Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8Survey results: https://pastebin.com/YJPZ44rqTQs:We play games because it's fun and often argue how X is fun (or not), but rarely think about what exactly is the "fun" part of playing.>What is the most fun to you? Creating or experiencing a story/narrative? Challenge and competition? Novelty? Mastering a system? Immersive theme and artwork? No wrong answers>What boardgame do you think has the most percentage of sold but unplayed copies? Hobby boardgames only, so no risk/monopoly etc.
>>97200561>having a coin flip.I would prefer to share in a draw, but I would much rather flip a coin than drag the game out longer.
I found a board game I'll never be able to play or even obtain....https://x.com/I_to_me/status/2001461176069439738
>>97200576I want to get off MR BONES wild ride
>>97200656When we were still tied at the end of round 4 enough the majority of the players agreed to draw. It wasn't a unanimous vote.
>>97200628those are custom tokens for Magic the Gathering, you can print them out yourself, someone on /mtg/ can post the images if you ask nicely.
Fair & Balanced 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.
>>97200585Tell me everything you know about everything. Point me to guides, post me YOUR guides. Where do I watch pro games?
This is not the right thread for it but damn Marvel Champions is super fucking fun. Building a deck and whooping on a villain (and getting whooped) is so satisfying. I like that you build a deck that has a unique playstyle to aid in what you want to do.
>>97200403Pay to win is a feature, not a bug wagie. Play in a sim or find people at your local that are chill fighting your proxy deck.
>>97200743Unfortunately I probably don't know as much as you'd hope. I don't really play. I used to play Duel Masters Play's (the official mobile game though it has a PC client too) but I stopped because I don't like gacha shit. It was really fun, but I don't wanna fall down that hole. If you're interested in it there are ways to play it in English if you don't know Japanese, though it's got many differences from the paper game.Nowadays I basically just follow the official Youtube channel (Duetube). They show off and talk about new releases and stuff, and also stream pro games every now and again (you can find VODs in the live section on the channel).I hope you know Japanese.https://www.youtube.com/@-dm-1351(1/2)
>>97200743>>97200926As far as what I can generally tell you about the metagame and how to git gud and make gud decks:Most decks try to win by cheating out big creatures as early as they can as their win-con, basically creating a board state that is powerful enough to tank any shield triggers when they swing (or has abilities that disable shield triggers). There are lots of mechanics that help you do this, like revolution change and invasion, or just cards with effects that simply "put" creatures without paying their costs (Heaven's Gate is a classic example). If they're not cheating out cards, they might just have lots of fast mana ramp and cost reduction to summon big creatures fast the old-fashioned way (common in nature decks I think).Cheating out big creatures is enough of a part of the meta that there's an entire category of creatures called "meta" or "anti-meta" creatures which serve as control pieces to prevent your opponent from cheating stuff out (or punishes them for doing so). The wiki has a whole page dedicated to them: https://duelmasters.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Anti-Meta_cardsPic related is a classic example of an anti-meta creature (https://duelmasters.fandom.com/wiki/Testa_Rossa,_Survival_Star). His effect shuts down almost every method of cheating out creatures because most methods of cheating out creatures simply "put" a creature instead of summoning them. It would largely shut down the turn 3 winning combo I gave as an example in the Bolshack deck. That would force the Bolshack player to use removal to get rid of Testa Rossa if they wanted their strategy to work or just cope with traditional summoning. Either way it slows their game plan down significantly.That said I think there is still a place in the meta for more weenie aggro decks that just start swinging with cheap creatures early, though they might be weak to blocker heavy decks. And then you've got bullshit combo decks that ignore board state and just win out of nowhere.(2/2)
I've been on a space kick recently and want to run a sci-fi space campaign as the GM. What are the best systems for a flexible gaming experience without the autistic complexity of something like Shadowrun? I'm looking for a system that can run "magic" (Psionics, occultists, dark gods, etc) and high-tech weaponry and ships and stuff as well as madness mechanics mutations, cybernetics, horror elements, etc. Visiting weird planets, dealing with intergalactic politics, smuggling goods, assassinations, dealing with alien cultures, learning dangerous magic and technology, etc. I also want the players help make the setting so I'd prefer a flexible system that can handle a multitude of scenarios with cool aliens and stuff. I've heard of Traveler, Starfinder, etc, I just wanna know what system(s) I should focus on learning about first. I'd rather not run it in a Star Wars DnD conversion or Feelings and Lasers. This crowd usually plays DnD or very simple games but are open to other games too. Again I've tried Shadowrun and I'd rather a system that isn't over-complicated and just has the hacking take up 90% of the screentime.
>>97198309I'm guessing you meant Stars Without Number.
>>97198455Traveller has sanity mechanics in the Companion, but they are bad, because sanity mechanics in general are bad.
>>97198206>medium complexity >scifi kitchen sink, bolt on options for various things like psionics, mechs, etc. >faction turns for players to engage with in making the setting >basically everything you need in one book Take a look at Stars Without Number. Even if you don't like the mechanics the world building and tables are useful for everything else.
Scum&Villainy and Stars Without Number.I use both. S&V for the actual rules and SwN for setting creation (because the "original" S&V setting is too tropey, even though I use some of its factions or rescheme them.
>>97198206The Dai Dark setting do looks fun to run.>>97198491Fucking Shimada Death.
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>>97196208>It's a generic 1984 fascist governmentIt is the Empire GL describes in interviews from teh 80s, no idea what kind of fanfiction you constructed in your head that makes you believe something else.>the fantastical elements the Empire has in the OT Those all died with the prequels and teh TCW cartoons.>the director behind Andor (and the ones behind Rogue One) are unimaginative hacks who hate fantasy and funI bet you loved Jar Jar and clap every time you see an Ewok. But really, both R1 and Andor are the highest quality, film-making wise, we've seen in SW. Mando S1 and S2, and maybe Solo, were good, too..But the rest was abysmal.>Actual SW fans won't enjoy a show that degrades SW's space opera for nothingIt sheds light on a new aspect of the Imperial Era. But maybe you should go and watch something with more lightsabers. I hear Acolyte has lots of that.
>>97199610Hating Andor is something the zoomies here do, just ignore it.
>>97193989We noticed you from across the cantina...
>>97196208>of the fantastical elements the Empire has in the OT... darth vader, the emperor and the red guard dudes? Like, a dozen guys in an entire galaxy spanning empire? Magic death knights missing from a spy series? Weird.
>>97198143>>97198146I didn't say you needed high IQ. I said you needed more than basic room temperature IQ, which both of you seem to lack.
Why was XP for gold largely abandoned as a way to reward players?
>>97184742>players want actual stories and not just dungeon grindsDo they?
>>97184742>actual stories and not just dungeon grindsTranny behavior. Stories are for women. Men concern themselves with conquest and acquisition, not made up bullshit.
>>97200016Why would I take time out of my week to plan a session with friends if the same can be achieved with a multiplayer strategy game?Or why would I bother 4-5 other people and not just play Dwarf Fortress?
>>97200761Why indeed?
>>97200826That's what I'm asking, dumb fucking nigger.If your granular experience can be replicated in a program with better granularity, why would anyone bother with asking less efficient humans to do it? The reason is that the players provide a story, which you dismiss as womanly
I'm going to be an uncle soon, what are some good games to introduce a young niece or nephew to TRPGs? Preferably something simple and easy for young minds to understand, and which can be enjoyed with a single player and their DM.
>>97200714It'll be a few years anon. For now encourage playing with legos or army men and making up stories. They're not going to have consistent enough focus to do much gaming for a bit. Then start with simple board games like Hive.
>>97200714You've got years before they can do anything close, but Tricube Tales is free and was designed for the guy to play with his kids.
Are there any mech games where the mechs are a sideshow to other vehicles? I like the idea of blowing up mechs with superior conventional vehicles but basically every mech setting ever made exists to justify the opposite of that happening.
>>97181850You have an autistic hateboner for mecha. As so you should either make your own system, or better yet-hang yourself.
>>97181850I did have a vague idea for a story, the last tank battalion of a fallen nation in an era where gundam type mechas have taken over, attempting to survive and prove their mettle. Would probably take a real tread head to make anything of it though.
>>97196332Not entirely. Even 'gears are cheapo" aside, they have striders for their "yeah we want a mech that owns anything" purposes.
>>97200693No, striders are just less effective tanks that are better in the extreme terrain of terra nova
>>97200862That sounds like a reason why they're better. "Less effective" is a pointless statement in a battlefield where not having any legs makes you the less effective one. A tank is a crap weapon on waterworld. It's not valuable to sit around theorizing "well if it wasn't waterworld, tanks would beat up the navy!", because it is.
