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.
>>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.
>>97222025Dark Eldar Raiders, there are only a couple of pages in Armada. There were some pretty beefy errata on their points values, rules, and gear, especially in the 2010 rules review.
>>97222099It was a pretty contentious time from memory. Eldar were rightly hated for their usual cheating bullshit which in this case was free column shift. And Necrons were disliked since they had some bullshit as well where if you weren't forcing them to Brace for Impact every turn you basically lost.
>>97222107The critical part about Necrons isn't the damage immunity, although that's annoying as shit. It's their ability to auto-disengage after inflicting a few losses and win without really playing at all. Likewise the Eldar Move-shoot-move haha you can't touch me thing got them much more flak than holofields, which is why nobody really hated on the DE. Holofields are just a check that keeps people from loading up on lances and ordnance all day, every day, and generally the Eldar column shift is mostly compensated for by their tiny batteries and absurd prices. I never had serious problems dealing with Eldar, especially in a campaign.
Wasted 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.
>>97222222 waiting room
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.
>>97221996>existance of dwarfcasts and elfcastsnot a thing
I'm too lazy to check, do they still do monday reveals or have the shitty gpt grotmas articles usurped their place for now?
>>97222141yep, nothing until christmas and new year
>>97222141Not for a few weeks now. I don't think they will resume it before January.
>>97222124A spore ghost tbf so it may be exclusive to deffcap eating shamans I wish he got a model for his ethereal form of another hero made use of similar ghosts
Does anyone else feel like the Byzantine Empire is the closest thing human-kind had to an Elven civilization analogy during our actual history's middle ages? Or am I crazy?Even the part where their highly advanced culture was eventually wiped off the face of the Earth and forgotten in most normie perceptions of history.
>>97222151The displeasure and enmty the Pope fostered against the Byzantines is underrated in pop history.A Venetian or a Florentine would have died rather than recognising them as "more advanced" or even "more Roman"
i dont really know enough about the actual societal structure to give you a solid answer, but to count as a elven-esque civilization, my criteria would be>high culture>disciplined>sophisticated>refined>skilled in craftsmenship, art and scholarship>strong sense of identification and loyalty with their nation and the ruling structuresAll counting for a high elven-esque society, of course.
>>97222151>was eventually wiped off the face of the EarthElves leave to a better place.Fallen elfen empires killed by lesser races is soulless garbage.And making blunt analogies between fantasy tropes with entire real life cultures is midwit garbage. Try writing a fantasy race that only works as a fantasy race.
Work in Progress, Pink 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.
>>97217218Ty anon, here's tonights progress>>97221244>>97221397This dude is looking sweet, I love how vibrant the blue is>>97220727Those cloaks are nice, that red really pops>>97220695This paintjob is sweet as fuck anon, super clean>>97217332I guessed cuz of the glossy finish lol, all my golden HFA paints dry the same way. If it wasn't for the extreme glossiness they would be absolutely perfect
>>97216639>>97217218Thanks guys! For the scale, it's 25mm, they are Heroquest minis.I'm trying to finish the base box to gift it for christmas, but I doubt I will be able to do it, lol.
>>97222092grisly. I like it!
Finished up my second Bolt Action dude today at work. Still fairly new to mini painting but its been fun learning to dry brush and find ways to get angles to paint where its hard to reach. Poor lighting friends wwa
Has anyone bought square bases from White Dragon Miniatures and do they look like GW ones?
The Three Emperors EditionPrevious thread:>>96939608>Thread Question:Do you plan any big projects for the next year already?>Community Summary of Wargames:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11JoUpGIRDp5DZdgJ24rijKHgyY-qvvR5QnVtHIp57Tw/edit?usp=sharing>List of Historical Tactical, Strategic, and Military Drill treatises:http://pastebin.com/BfMeGd6R>ZunTsu Gameboxes:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97194831The napoleonics version of lion rampant should allow you to larp as Travis and Santa Ana. "Patriots and Rebels" I think. It's on the awg trove and probably on this general's troves too
>flames of war finally fucking balances Late-War>soviets and minor nations get meager changes>germany gets massive buffs for almost every single tank and panthers are now 7 pointsnever change flames of war
>>97218509thanks a lot! any other games you would recommend for solo play?
>>97221074Think I've already given you enough recommendations for a few dozen hours of play but oh well. For solo make sure to stay away from Card-Driven games. And again chit pull is your friend, after Reds you could play more Ted Raicer games like The Dark Sands. Ambon Burning Sun might be another good one, with the invasion mechanic you're not controlling enormous unwieldy forces which you struggle to forget which counters have moved, it's self-contained beach heads.Non-hex games I've recently enjoyed are Operation Bollebank and Habsburg Eclipse, which are dedicated solo only.I see that you are in a terrible timezone so I'm not going to offer any multiplayer with you but maybe someone else in this thread or in /bgg/ might.
>>97222158i'm not that interested in boardgaming multiplayer desu, but thanks for all the suggestions
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.
>>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.
>>97222039tbf Red does try it's hand at more narrative style gameplay. Rockerboy and Media have very wishy washy abilities open to interpretation.Also Red does try to limit crunch by making the combat and character building very simple.
>its a rouge player with full hp all encounter doesn't attempt to tank for 1 round to save the caster episode
>>97211865Rogues don't have any ability to prevent enemies from walking past them freely and killing whoever the fuck they want, never mind all the monsters with teleportation, burrowing, flight, ranged attacks, spell like abilities, spells, etc
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>all these nogames incels justifying a player not properly contributing to drawing aggro
>>97220024>>97216505Moron.
>>97211929>. ive had this imagie save for 4 yearsembarassing
>>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.
>>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?
>>97222047That's what I just realised. They aren't actually completed at all but for some reason I convinced myself that they are.
Ok real talk. Do you think design choices like this were what ultimately killed AoS? Or were there other factors at play?
>>97222086But the Cause is to make money
>>97217497>being the confluence of Chinese gatcha games and world of warcraftJoke's on you, my Chinese gacha games have far superior aesthetics to WHF, AoS, or 40K. Better writing and worldbuilding too, AND the females are still allowed to be attractive.
>>97222118This. Fgo and Nasu fucking mog gw as a whole.
>>97144970It seems okay as a generic skirmish system. I have Dark Elves, Chaos and Goblin armies so it irritates me that those three all somehow ended up in separate factions. MESBG seems better to be honest, I'll probably use that instead, as someone has already ported the Fantasy armies to it.
>>97222125Fgo isn't a Chinese Gatcha game though it's just a Japanese Gatcha Game
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.
>>97219214I think the biggest issue with the game retaining players is how harsh the transition from thinking you've almost won games into realizing that getting your opponent to 1 hp while he has 5 cards wasn't close at all.
>>97221306Unfortunately so. That only bothers me because some have really good art that I wish were in paper. Mechanics are whatever because DMP is technically a different game with different rules.That said, they have brought over some DMP exclusive cards to paper with the DMPCD products (last one in 2023)https://duelmasters.fandom.com/wiki/DMPCD-03_DueMaPlay%27s_Collaboration_Deck:_The_Fierce_Dragon_Hero_and_the_Original_Wicked_Eye
>>97219387contact distributors. it seems like in europe, italy is the hub for getting the trading cards straight from distro for the low lol . Card sales in america are so interwoven with baseball cards, a uniquely american thing, that I wonder how pokemon cards and such are sold in other europe.
>>97221501>That said, they have brought over some DMP exclusive cards to paperI saw that, it's mixed feelings mostly just depending on the card. I don't mind for the vast majority but it usually boils down to like one or two I hyper fixate on. Gives a good opportunity to try shit out without harming the mainline product.
Why is it so common for fantasy rpgs that try to do the "Deep Lore" stuff to always default to Gnosticism or H.P. Lovecraft in a trench coat?
>>97208974>why is mysterious, obscure and esoteric lore inspired by mysterious, obscure and esoteric lore??
>>97216545>Buddhism is Gnosticism, just for East Asia.That's quite a shallow understanding of Buddhism>>97216570I agree. Glorantha has quite an interesting take. Too bad Chaosium is running Runequest into the ground with their schizoid indecisiveness on where to take the game.
>>97216420Simulation theory was implied in both Star Ocean 1 and 2. The problem with 3 was that they tried to turn it into a mid-game twist and that made a mess of the game's story.
>>97214013>Plants are what is wrong with everything in the world. We must return to Photosynthesis.
Familiarity is important.
what do you think of the wordbuilding and lore of vermis?
>>97214202It's a nice coffee table book.If you are a "coffee table book" person.And it might get your friends curious enough to rope them into some sort of game, as the visual representation is attractive.
>>97214218>this is an acid slug>it's a slug>it spits acid
What does /tg/ think of other Hollow Press products?Manosinistra and Pilgrims of the Murkdome seems pretty interesting in their settings as ttrpg
>>97222116I mean they publish Blanches art books
>>97221345alternatively>before you enter the city of sludge a dude gives you an anti-sludge potion>you make take the anti sludge potion to negate the effects of sludge for a single night
Have you tried Space Gits? It's an unusual skirmish game by Mike Hutchinson (made Gaslands). It seems to be the ultimate casual skirmish that you play while chugging beer.A lot of mechanics are dexterity based, for example instead of losing health or wounds, your fighters add D6's to their dice tower, which has to be moved alongside them (and when it drops over, they drop down). Shooting is also quirky - you roll dice equal to the number of shots and then trace lines between a shooter and each die to see if you hit the target. Landed shots use die's result, so a single roll is made to-hit and to-wound, which I think is neat.I'm going to try it this thursday. My only two complaints so far is that close combat seems bland (its basically rock-paper-scissors) and it's really easy to deny it by spamming shove. My other complaint is that the rulebook's art is atrocious vomit.Everything else checks out though, it even seem to have a basic campaign system.
There's like five gorillion quirky skirmish games and like 3 decent and played agnostic wargames so I just don't care. I don't wanna play star krump or sludge fight or city punch or robot nipple twisters or whatever else if it's just another 7 niggas fight another 7 niggas on a 2x2 board.
Another Infernals edition 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.
>>97218804No Inspire action is pretty meh for Social Influence. Teamwork is also way too strong, I'd cap it somehow.Other than that, I have a way better time with it than 3e because it actually feels playable and doesn't try and obfuscate the differences between Exalt types by breaking them up into hundreds of fiddly literal who charms.
>>97219954IMO they named too many of the Eight generals. Also they did that thing with Ipithymia that they did with the Lover and made her sexless.At that point, just make a different character so that people who liked her can feel free to port her forward without much hassle.
>>97221979For whatever reason I didn't mind what the changes to Ipithymia nearly as much as I did those to Lover. In part it's probably because I always found loli genderbent UCS sex street pretty silly, and in part because Ipithymia, unlike Lover, at least gets a pretty interesting new deal to replace what was removed. It's true that just having the new Ipithymia be a new character with a new name would've been better, though.
>>97221979>At that point, just make a different character so that people who liked her can feel free to port her forward without much hassle.You could say the same thing for 3e in general though. Just make a different game.
>>97222115Nah, 3E as a whole, for all its flaws, is definitely Exalted and obviously written by people who care a whole lot about Exalted. The worst parts about 3E, setting aside the mechanical issues of the core, aren't ones where the writers seem like they'd want to write something else but ones where they half-ass things due to obviously being embarrassed of something from the past editions but simultaneously too fond of that something to really let go and change things. I mean things like Raksi being sort of a cannibal monster still but kind of not, or Lilith, or Lover, or, to a lesser extent, Ipithymia.
