Stop buying miniatures.
>>97194560>>97194567I really hate this art style and the games it has infected. It's like the corporate memphis of fantasy board/card games.
>>97194658I've used Roll20 for this many times and glue the printed and punched tokens to wooden dowel slices and then cover them with clear rubber "bubbles". Bought all the stuff on Amazon for mere tens of dollars. Pic related.
Ill do both
>>97219267the girl with the big sword is semi translucent? why can't you see the sword behind her face?
>>97191690I would rather stop playing games altogether than to use garbage 2d "miniatures".
winter edition >Chess websites, tools, videos and books:https://rentry.org/vxdsw7k5>Calendar:- Tech Mahindra Global Chess League | December 13th - 24th- FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships | December 25th - 31st- Rilton Cup | December 27th - January 5th- Lichess Winter Marathon | December 28th- European Women's Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship | January 8th - 12th- Tata Steel | January 16th - February 1st- Speed Chess Championship Finals | February 7th - 8th- Prague International Chess Festival: Masters | February 25th - March 6th- FIDE Candidates Tournament | March 28th - April 16thComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I won 150 elo this morning and lost it all again later today. I'm either on a winning streak or losing one after the other.
>>97223677IMO Go is way harder and less forgiving than chess. Things can swing either way very fast if the best/worst move is played, just like in chess, but there aren't many openings, gambits and moves you can memorize, there are patterns, of course, but it really depends on the whole board.>or the equivalent of 1 minute bullet games.Smaller boards. 9x9 or 13x13, usually way faster games.
>>97225807>anything is possibleThis. Because sometimes they don't know how to mate or they run out of time trying.
>>97217293Finals:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg10zLSB6-Q
How screwed am I? Playing against an acquaintance from the gym and he said he was pretty good. I'm white by the way.
>Brutus' Drivehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1qb0_OLhDrDYVVpbllIREdOczg?resourcekey=0-m3LU1xaC5-PnnA0VLRfK9g>DriveAnon's Drivehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Cx7KoDkQa9qmDfJN9_CehZ0fxXEweKOu?usp=sharing>Jumpchain IRC Chathttp://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.rizon.net/?#JumpchainCYOA>Ruleshttp://pastebin.com/Gqj3iKyn>How to Jumpchainhttp://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1qb0_OLhDrDVDFBR2NpdG03S0U/viewComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97226308It would be fucking hilarious if so, but yeah if it does go EoS I think it all just goes down the drain. Although given how profitable it is I think they'll at minimum keep it running for as long as they make tons of money off it, even if just from rotating banners or something.
>>97226308I think full EoS is unlikely. The game's too lucrative, and they'd probably be more transparent if that was the case. If I had to guess, we'll either have:>smaller Singularities and sidestories until actual EoS>Foreigner Ordeal Call is actually Arc 3>completely new story arc >Servantverse
>>97226308When gacha games are shuttered usually that's it. You get nothing and the app is gone. The better ones keep an offline mode and turn it into a f2p thing, but that's not to be expected. This is the nature of live service games. Putting money in is always a temporary purchase.
>>97225955>She's also apparently a Stellaron Hunter and member of the Garden of Recollection (or at least has the same mind powers as Black Swan).Scratch that it was just a disguise apparently, she's just a Cremator or something. This event is particularly confusing.
>>97226632She did ask to join them but got told no due to her chronic backstabbing tendency.
Pic related.They're both the same price, but the joytoy one is>3x Bigger>Full articulation, you can keep adjusting pose>Painted better than 75% of models, shaded, highlighted, all with airbrush>Better sculpted, no bubbles, no mould shifts, no cleanup>Fully assembled >Better customer service. Any refunds no questions askedWith things like this out there, how do you justify GW prices? You're literally burning money.
I like that your argument isn't that GW is making money they shouldn't be, but consuming are giving them money the wrong way and they should be purchasing OP's GW product of choice.Instead of a different game.
>>97227322GW cucks are like that.
>>97227293>>3x BiggerSeems like that'd make it hard to use in a game.
>>97227293its a shame they dont have any first born tacticus figures, because id honestly buy one if they did.but unfortunately GW sucks fat cock and doesn't like fun
>>97227293Customer service might be a point, but I don't buy from GW directly. But I would not buy from Joytoy directly either. So it comes down to each individual store I buy from, but yes, support from AliExpress sellers is usually extremely good.Everything else is a negative to me. I would love if Joytoy would sell unpainted kits of their models tho. Why would I want propainted action figures if I want to wargame?
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.
>>97218754Impressive... but that guy would just be stuck in your starting zone because there is no way he can manuver through dense killteam terrain, so you would most likely lose on points
>>97221316>no way he can manoeuvre
>>97215105It’s the opposite. I don’t care that much about the lore but i likewise don’t want to play against some ballaching metafag which is the majority of people i’ve met in KT so far. To claim that you just want to “throw some dice” is absurd when metafags are the least casual players you can go against.My last game had my opponent go over the entire meta leaderboard status of the top teams and how the newest dataslate could impact the upcoming this and that other fuckin tournament. Who gives a shit. >>97216044I’ve never met the latter in my life in any game. I would find a /yourdudes/ autist pretty annoying i’m sure but i’ve yet to even meet one to make this observation. The most fun games are somewhere in the middle where it’s a good clean fun game where the rules are observed but both sides remember that we are trying to simulate dudes fighting eachother and not merely moving spreadsheets around
>>97222716>both sides remember that we are trying to simulate dudes fighting eachother and not merely moving spreadsheets aroundNot instigating anything, but what would this look like to you? And how would it impact the game or enhance the enjoyment of the battle? I ask because used to live in a place where our local spot tried to implement a sort of narrative campaign but it ended up just being limply implemented and mostly limited to a whiteboard map that got colored in depending on what faction (Chaos, Xenos, Imperium) won the most games in any given week.For me, KT has fun rules and good game design so just the act of playing is enjoyable; you could strip out the flavor of the teams and it still would be enjoyable on a mechanical level. Obviously the flavor is what adds the special spice to the game, getting to interact with the factions/setting you like and all that comes with that, but at its heart KT is still a warGAME to me.
Anyone played the new raveners ?How do they play ? are they more of a aggro team or do they just hide in their tunnel and do missions mostly ?
Wolves of the Space editionPrevious Thread:>>96781974Check out here for useful links and a catalogue of relevant miniatures retailers:https://pastebin.com/nnNqqFLnThe Rogue Trader magazine article compilation:https://gofile.io/d/yNK9bq
>>97224402Thanks a lot, anon.
>>97224402Being a monstrous creature doesn't prevent you from joining a unit, the stature rules even say that he can be picked as a target even if within 3 inches of a unit. You can hide the Avatar in a unit because he has no such rule.
>>97019770Where in the 2ed rulebook does it describe the consequences of being on fire? It's not under psychology.In 2ed you can't fire through other models in the same unit, right? I couldn't find the exception.
>>97225739>Where in the 2ed rulebook does it describe the consequences of being on fire? It's not under psychology.Special rules for flame weapons in the armory book>In 2ed you can't fire through other models in the same unit, right? I couldn't find the exception.nope, no exception, although large targets can be sighted over smaller models. In practice it rarely matters because of the severe firing arc restrictions, and because sighting any model in an opposing squad is enough. You also wind up splitting fire a LOT more in 2e than you'd think. Losing split fire entirely was actually one of the bigger complaints when the edition change rolled out. Letting you fire through models in the same squad was partly a quick-fix for that. A whole bunch of the tweaks in 4e were trying to get around people using precise unit placement and range fuckery to "snipe" exactly the models they wanted out of an enemy unit, as well as prevent the defender from playing shell games with wounds to avoid losing specific models.
For fun kitbashed myself a troll hag from one of the unreleased greenskins for OG fantasy, got her during bring out your lead.Sad 5th didn't have troll hag as a concept, or I would run her as such, for now she probably gonna be just a troll
>DM does the tired old Yin-Yang as mutually exclusive gended-coded principles of magic>acts all uppity when we figure obvious loophole to master both
>>97222366While it reads like a thinly veiled fetish thread, a bunch of cultures in history had strange or semi-mystic perceptions of the concept of hemaphrodites BECAUSE they bore the aspects/animus/energies of both masculinity and femininity.OP is still gay. But in that patrician ancient greek kind of way, where it was based and not cringe.
>>97227251If that's the retard I think it is, he gets a real boner just complaining about threads but has no actual input of his own. I once saw him rolling in his own shit over other people having creativity and him not being able to join in, so he cried about "mechanics" in every post but when a mechanics thread was made for him, he couldn't contribute and it died with no further posts.
>>97228004Time to give him a name, like /v/ does. Eric, Barry, and Cris are all taken.
>>97228044Wilbur.
>>97223050It's the Wheel of Time system. Male and Female magic is different, and they need to work together to cast the most powerful spells in the setting.
Deck the boards with solos burningWhile the poles and leafsScream REE REE REETis the seasons to be follyAll AffO freaks go 'wege 'wege 'wegeOP dons his gay apparelLacerda, Knizia hand in handTroll /bgg/ threads we feel compelledFucking birds and FIRST, my (you)s sell wellWelcome to the Holiday Edition of the Board Games General!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I gifted this to my brother, as a joke. We played it once and never again. It was great fun. He hates boardgames because he is analysis paralysis incarnate.
>>97226182BattleCon is not anime, it's westerners pretending to be Street Fighter Xrd. Sakura Arms is anime, and so is Bullet.
>>97228088If it's aping anime, it's anime. Nobody gives a fuck about your weeaboo autism.
>>97227939This is Key to the Kingdom, isn't it? My dad picked it up at a car boot sale for pennies when I was a lad, but we never played it. We had some kino games from that car boot. Crossbows and Catapults, and the pirate version were particular favourites.
>anime>as a genreguess oink games count as anime then?
Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy? >A world rocked by cataclysm>landscapes filled with chaos and wonder>mage storms>An enduring mystery; what happened, and what happened in the intervening centuries?>An atmosphere of hope and renewal, as heroes rise, and mysteries are investigated.>Darkness and evil await in corners and ruins, like pools of dank water waiting for the sun>the brink of a New Age Interesting setting? What elements would you include? I'm just gonna throw zombies at them.
>>97219278>Interesting setting? What elements would you include?One is a ancient underground bunker full of cryogenically frozen subjects. Just above the bunker is a hidden library full of secrets and knowledge overseen by a host of flying drones and a hooded automaton set to guard the place until the sleepers awaken.Another is stranded 'visitors' with powerful magiks these visitors are aliens who live on the remains of a crashed ship or some ancient tower.
>>97226291Wow, are you really going to be this disingenuous to come into what is clearly a tabletop RPG setting thread, claim that worldbuilding isn't needed in those, and THEN try to list a bunch of non-RPG games? Who exactly did you think that was going to work against?Your concession has been accepted, bro. Feel free to leave whenever you like.
>>97226795>They're still games.>The reply chain is about gamesCan't tell if crippling autism or just so fucking dishonest. No, the reply chain is about tabletop RPG. You know, those games you don't play but you keep shitting yourself over others making settings for?
>>97222384>isn't that far backIrrelevant. The point was that disasters and falls in general are common enough in every age and every society that attributing all modern fantasy to the roman empire is socially and culturally retarded.Look at how you tried to defend yourself. To insist that it apes the fall of the roman empire, you don't look at the details which separate the fall of Rome from all the other collapses in history, you instead point to proximity in time to determine the influences of every fantasy writer.> In the same way the dark ages after the fall of mycynean culture absolutely qualifies as post apoc."In the same way," is used when reasoning is already given, and you are merely applying that reasoning to something else. Your first sentence, however, is not reasoning for the second. You are writing like an old fashioned, malfunctioning chatbot.>It is for the dinosaurs.And to humans in the current year based on the way you think when taken to its conclusion.
How has a wife/girlfriend joining the group affected your games?
>>97223311>JoiningWe met through a gaming group, so I guess the reverse order of things
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>>97227155I genuinely couldn't give a toss what you accept.
>>97223515funny guy
>>97223311>How has a wife/girlfriend joining the group affected your games?Do you Catan?
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.
>>97223201I mean she's been dead for 2k yearsand my depictions don't look a thing like the real one.But seriously: Clash of spears or saga?
>>97189234>Yes Well since they're out there, do you happen to have any up-to-date links to these Saga PDFs? >it's really pathetic that we don't have an update to the troves.It's definitely annoying, that's for sure.
Can you take any tank you want in the auchtung panzer campaign or should you limit it by year? Is there no point limit after you start / can freely upgrade to most expensive tank during retrofit? Also here’s my first bolt action tanks
>>97227340These pdf are in the trove
Littlewars TV is running a campaign of Unternehmen Wintergewitter, the abortive attempt of Von Manstein to relieve the Stalingrad pocket in late 1942. This seems to be a pretty popular topic recently, Donnerschlag from VUCA sims is a hex 'n chit version of this battle.In any case they have produced a stripped down version of Fistful of TOWs and also this fantastic document with linked scenarios. This is really what I'm looking for in any wargaming ruleset. I fucking hate rulebooks with dozens upon dozens of pages of army lists and special rules but NO scenarios, or just a few generic ones without force compositions. Any recommendations for similar campaign / scenario booklets? Ideally with an overarching goal and decision tree of scenarios like this one?
Previous thread: >>97111514GURPS is a modular, adaptable system, capable of running a wide range of characters, settings, and play styles, with a level of detail varying from lightweight to completely autistic.Optional rules allow you to emulate different genres with a single system, or even switch genres within a single game.A nearly complete archive of GURPS books can be found by using the image. Never post direct links to the archive anywhere in plain text.If you're wondering where to start:- The Basic Set covers everything, including a lot of optional rules you probably won't use.- A genre guide can be found in the archive, under Unofficial/GURPSgen. It tells you what extra books and articles you may find useful for many common genres.- How To Be a GURPS GM is a good read even for players.- GCS (gurpscharactersheet.com) is an excellent character-builder software, with page references to all the books and the option to export to both Foundry and Fantasy Grounds.Thread question: How often do you use an official GURPS setting? Which are your favorites?
>>97227226>>97227232Theater of the mind is more difficult to handle, because you have to make sure your descriptions are good enough that everybody has the same understanding. You don't have to do hex counting, but you should at least have rough sketch maps of "you're here, they're here, the treeline is over here".
>>97215703>Thread question: How often do you use an official GURPS setting? Which are your favorites?Never once and I'm not sure I even like any of them.
>>97224608The ocean cryptid rapes the small dog when it barks...
>>97225384>What are some guidelines for creating fun gunfights?I don't know about guidelines but light time pressure, reasons for the PC's to think twice about just fleeing, and a sense that anything could be lurking around the next corner are good ideas.
>>97226052This reminds me of the old game boy advance Pokemon games.>>97227226>I am wondering if i can do it using the theater of the mindWhy? Any map is better than no map, even a quick MS paint drawing full of rectangles and squiggles
>>97228047hot
>>97227975NO.GIRLS.ALLOWED.
>>97228043If Emps can make female Custodes, why aren't the Sisters of Silence given Custode augments so they can better assist the banana men?
>>97227975I'm fine with female space marines as long as they look and act exactly like the males and are referred to as brother.
>>97227975
The /btg/ is dead! Long live the /btg/!Can't show POV of being taken bondsman by a Clan Jade Falcon Aerospace Phenotype on this board.Previous Thread: >>97195724================================>BattleTech Introductory Guide & PDFshttps://bg.battletech.com/?page_id=400>Overview of the Major Factionshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/great-houseshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/the-clanshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/other-powersComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I was thinking about getting some Black Wolves, but man, they kind of suck. I feel like I should just get the Leonidases
>>97227899If my aunt had wheels, she'd be a bicycle.
>>97227918I think the Leonidas is a great all-rounder with its stealth armor, but for flexibility to take on other BA and larger targets you really only have the option of the David.Black Wolves are tough though for BA, with reactive making them resistant to the normal infantry counters, and the ERSPL or LBX gives them damage enough to keep mechs worried. The JJ is really just to get them a TMM, but it can also get them down from vantages if you had time to set them up on buildings or cliffs.I bought minis for both for my mercenary company since I was planning on using them to babysit conventional infantry; there's pros and cons for either.
>>97224296>>97224309Not really no, an IS Regiment is at least twice that number, arguably three times.
>>97222448Mechs can still jump with BA riding on them but vehicles cannot. Look at the phrasing of the rule, Mechs and Vehicles are two distinct categories of units.
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
>>97226728Trolling, this thread should be called ACKSg. Jannies, please delete.
>>97227817>too tied down to one regionI have no clue what you mean here?>>97227844>not sure why you're against themJust being topically flippant lol. I agree that kuo have a lot of potential what with their psychic generation BS >>97227858>Free edition >Any osr content you want Y r u so mad
>>97227911This is not an /osrg/ and it should not be called /osrg/. That's trolling.
>>97227911The Kuo-Toa making "gods" with their belief can have interesting potential. I imagine an evil group capturing Kuo-Toa young and raising them in cults designed to create many minor evil gods for a part in a grand master plan. The plan might even be "Fuck up this kingdom and then we will loot it blind, maybe claim a throne".
>>97227931youre right, this is not /osrg/, this is OSRG.this is not a /2eg/ or /todd/ or /acksg/ this is an OSRG. If you dont like it, you can go back to /osrg/ and talk about "first decade" dnd like ravenloft and pharaoh.
