Welcome to the Old School Renaissance General, the thread dedicated to TSR-era D&D, derived systems, and compatible content.Broadly, OSR games encourage a tonal and mechanical fidelity to Dungeons & Dragons as played in the game's first decade — less emphasis on linear adventures and overarching meta-plots 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.>Troves, Resources, Blogs, etc:http://pastebin.com/9fzM6128>Need a starter dungeon? Here's a curated collection:https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/94994969/#95006768>Previous thread:>>96474844Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96519703>Wandering DMsI like this one because the one guy is willing to crunch numbers and analyze how the game actually works. I don't always agree with the conclusions they come to but I really never liked the>balance doesn't matter maaaan, rulings over rules bro just roll some dice and make it all up LOLschool of thought some people in the OSR have
>>96519682B/X Plate also reduces your movement rate automatically as soon as you wear metal armor so I would think it should be fine as far as mercenaries and mass combat.
>>96519738Yeah I think Dan comes to some pretty nutty conclusions, removing clerics from the game feels outright wrong, but he was able to see the light on sweep attacks and other such things over the years. Paul, the less math-inclined guy, can be pretty cool but he's a bit more of a narrativist gamer as far as I can tell. They sort of balance each other out.
>>96520008Yeah if I had to cut a class I'd honestly cut thieves before I cut clerics, but I get the reasoning
>>96518115>Got a selection in mind?NAYRT but the early Lankhmar stories (I'd say definitely the first two short story collections, and ideally everything through Lords of Quarmall) are critical, absolutely critical. It's almost impossible to overstate the influence of those stories on D&D.
Palladium Games and Rifts General! /PGaRG/The world is a broken, post-apocalyptic wasteland destroyed by the eruption of inter-dimensional portals, rifts in the fabric of space-time and ley lines which crisscross the world. Demon & alien invaders have poured out of the rifts to destroy human civilization and claim the Earth. Now the wasteland has had 300 years to partially recover, and civilization has returned to the world; but not just human civilization: alien empires, monster kingdoms, lost time travellers, lands of mutants, demonic overlords and wizards have arisen from the ashes, all trying to rebuild the world in their own image!RIFTS! The science fantasy world of post-apoc cyborgs, wizards, dragons, ninjas, giant mecha, super-nazis, robot ninjas, vampires, underwater kingdoms, remnant human supertech civilizations and everything you can imagine all rolled into one setting where interdimensional RIFTS have pierced Earth's fabric and turned it into a playground for aliens and monsters!Plus other Palladium Games about superheroes, zombies, classic fantasy, supernaturals investigation and more. Talk about:>RIFTS(tm)>Heroes Unlimited>Palladium Fantasy>Beyond the Supernatural>Dead Reign>Robotech (lol)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96486950Alright rifts bros. My party is all godlings and demigods hybrid classes except me and an anti-monster. The GM is asking if I'm feeling alright being a normal human leyline walker. Personally, I think that being a LLW means that I'm getting as powerful as them with every level but what do you guys think? Is a LLW able to scale up to high power games?
>>96511762>Juicers should be wearing bare armor, proudly showing that they are being drip fed every drug known to man and some that are unknown.Preach on, brother.
>>96518529Borgs should look ludicrously overpowered as well. MEGA-POWER!!!
>>96513985Doubtful a LLW would ever reach a Demigod's power level unless your GM gave you access to all spells and let you cheese the interpretations of some of them. You can stack some combos from rare spells that are overpowered as Dyval.
>>96518554I didn't like how they tried to push the kinda vampire skull face as the iconic combat cyborg design. Really, I dont know how the path of the cyborg goes in Rifts. Like, what's the essential books for that?>>96518567He is letting me off easy. Whether intentional or not he is letting me write in any invocation spell and not pushing the half day per level of spell training time to learn it.
>GM mentions having written the plot for the next session
>>96520050I was a member of the aforementioned party.
>>96519977it really depends on what those things are.If you had a cool item, or an NPC based on a shared friend, or a cool building you saw on a vacation, tons of things can be re used without cheapening the feeling of the world. It doesn't mean you have a single idea and keep building the tracks in fron of the players hoping they don't realize it's a railroad, you just have the things you like.
>>96520050>Why did you make that a possibility in the gamewhat do you mean?>stir the top>grab attention>focusing on a tangent>not letting other people move onhow are you making those things more or less possible in a game?
>>96520095>how are you making those things more or less possible in a game?by... deciding to not let them happen? the GM has control over everything anon.
>>96514000planning is also useless, what you are referring to is preparation.>tripsnice
Shit's on fire yo editionPrevious thread:>>96372624>Thread Question:Do you ever use fire or smoke in your games? was it worth it? was it fun(tm)?>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.
>>96518848Kek the rules are probably written by AI too
finally started working through charles grant's seven years war rules after letting the war game sit on my shelf for years. surprised by its elegant simplicity, particularly the movement rules for heavy cavalry.any recommendations for other ~mid 20th century wargames?
>>96518848NOOOOO HOW DARE THIS PASSIONATE YOUNG MAN NOT SPEND MONEY ON SHITTY DIGITAL ARTISTS TO ILLUSTRATE HIS SOLO PASSION PROJECT!!!?? AI-seethers are so fucking cringe, I laugh
>>96513974Thanks Ill play the book though,I am mostly interested in Austria-Hungary but it's difficult finding even movies about their side.Also thats a great idea for the mechanic. I want to be super in depth autistic with the artillery since it will be an artillery based game. Like theres plenty of autistic games for Warships and tanks but not artillery, and I want it to scratch that itch, so any ideas are welcome
Looking through a bin I had out back, turns out I had some bronze age blisters all along.I don't even remember buying them. Now I'm stuck, do I base them individually and paint them or just re-sell them? Except for the chariot that thing looks sick.
Ghost Smut 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 Splatshttps://www.mediafire.com/folder/b54o6teut3fx6/Exalted_3eComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96520218>the blessed isle is immune to shadowlandsFirst I've heard of it. It would definitely make Mnemon's 1e hush hush alliance with the Mask of Winters a bit difficult to broker.
>>96520235From what I remember, there is a piece of fiction where it is shown that an abyssal is carried underwater by zombies in a coffin to the blessed isle to speak with Mnemon.
>>96520244One hell of a turnaround time on that, depending on where the coffin is sinking down.
>>96520249Who knows?I would guess from a nearby ship to make sure no one sees the abyssal arriving.
>>96520215>>96520211Well, I disagree for the same reason I don’t think random priests being able to curse the Exalted with crippling weaknesses is appropriate for the game or enjoyable for the players. You can take your folksy hoo-doo and shove it when and where it doesn’t fit the setting of EXALTED overall.
Elf superiority 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.
>>96519473I don't understand; wasn't 8th ed all about big blocks of infantry?
>Warhammer uses big blocks of infantry in 8th>dogshit>historicals use big blocks of infantry(Hail Caesar having units come in 32 for some armies like Gauls or Greeks with a minimum 4 units per division)>game works just fineMaybe GW isn't very good at rules writing and haven't been for a while.
>>96519579Layer it with orange and then brush on some red ink as our forefathers did.>>96519731That anon is being (hopefully on purpose) retarded, pay him no mind. While that Cathay army is an abomination, having two blocks of infantry in it is not the problem. If you take away the stupid giant statues, the loathsome balloon (I was right, by the way), and the bitch-dragon, it could almost fit in with other studio armies from 6th ed.Almost. Cathay was a stupid idea from the start, but you all called me names when I said that so long ago now.
>>96519781>Cathay was a stupid idea from the startCope gweilo.
>>96519781I like Cathay. The models are high quality too, just wish they released a full range rather than nothing but big centre piece models. I mean hell, they don't even have missile infantry!I think it's a good idea because it gives us a tangible way to play on the other half of the Warhammer planet, for those of us who want to. I just wish GW would make Cathay a magical version of The Empire, where it should be formations of pole arm weidling mortals supported by magical creatures and inferior tech, like a Bizarro Empire.They should have all the units from the Total Warhammer III, it infuriates me that the soldiers don't have crossbows wtf. Also where are the peasant levies?Then again, I also think they should make a Bretonnia style Nippon army where it's Samurai that are basically full anime, in that you can kit them out to be one man blenders(not as crazy as vampires used to be, but a middle ground), supported by peasants. Maybe Yokai and gunpowder too?
ITT Clichés that you like on you game>game map features a distant land based on ancient China/Asia
>>96506982I like kitchen sink settings like Mystara.Every country is its own cliche, from the good kingdom to the bad empire, the raiders from the steppes, the elf lands of mysticness, the dorf mountain kingdom, the haflings of the 5 shires and so on.And naturally the good kingdom has a thieves guild and a magic school.
>>96507901This post seems like a very specific reference that nobody else gets.
>>96507901>man who's only played World of Warcraft
>>96513688>he thinks that's the only errorgtfo
>>96513686That's the idea. I'm working on an open table hexcrawl where adventurers aim to recover lost magic and tech from a rediscovered region, either for personal power or to sell off back to civilization. The main issue I'm having with the concept is figuring out what this land's "ancient advanced technology" actually looked like and how it might have operated.
Why do traditional games seem to attract the most socially undesirable people? Not trolling, I seriously would like to get to the bottom of this. I don't get it, tabletop games are social in nature so why do they attract anti-social weirdos, you expect these types to stay at home and video game. Why are some games MUCH worse that other when it comes to players, ie. Warhammer 40k is worse than historical Wargames, compared MtG to Chess, etc. Is there an explanation for this phenomenon?
>>96519849>A few of my second cousins in Oregon were still getting sermons at their "Christian" summer camps about the evil witchcraft of Harry Potter in 2010.Based.There's a reason why every danger hair treats Harry Potter as their Bible. Or rather, used to, before Rowling did a "fascism".
>>96509996Yeah, as long as you don't have any kids around, pedos are fine. Hard to get bigots to stfu and there's plenty of minorities (woms, non-whites, queermos) who play games.
>>96520126It's just a middling quality children's series, it's neither something to be morally panicked about or something to treat as insightful.
>>96520153>It's just a middling quality children's seriesMidwit takeOf course, waving a dildo around and shouting some gay sounds in an incestous offspring of French and Latin isn't magic. But if you know how to read between the lines, there is introduction to actual occultism in HP. But mostly "White magic", so not really Satanic.
Historical Wargames is all 60+ year old men with grandchildren. Im 30 and always the youngest person playing by a large amount
I don't like tabletop RPG's anymore. The juice isn't worth the squeeze.
>>96520207You know exactly what I mean you stupid piece of shit.
>>96519666Then don't play them. Did this really require a thread?
>>96520233But they used to be fun
>>96520242Games are still fun. You aren't.
>>96520264I don't think so.
You have 16 more days to finish the mastery set sister editionPrevious: >>96430546>News & RemindersThrough the Omenpaths coming out September 23Masters details https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/through-the-omenpaths-mastery-detailsAlchemy: Edge of Eternities is outCori-Steel Cutter is unbanned in AlchemyNew Alchemy rebalances are outArena Championship 9 won by Raffaele Mazza (Izzet Cauldron, Italy, he/him)Arena Anthologies 1 & 2 now available in the storehttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/announcements-august-25-2025Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96519310Me and my draftsisters incur sexism and discrimination too much in this community. I would very much appreciate iit f you stopped being such a bigot
>feeling the slightest bit of pity for gamblerscouldn't be me
So they're really just calling the set Through the Omenpaths 1 instead of giving it an actual name?Pretty lame. They could've come up with a whole spider themed plane and called it Arachnosomething.
>>96519951Arachanous
>>96519951They're probably leaving it generic so they can reuse it in the future if other digital deals don't go through.
red bitches edition▶What is Kingdom Death?Kingdom Death is a tabletop minature brand stared by Adam Poots and operated by himself and his Team that later spun off into a miniature based bored game funded by two very successful Kickstarter campaigns.▶What is Kingdom Death: Monster?Monster is a Nightmare Horror cooperative boss battler/miniature hobby game for 1-4 players about hope in a strange world of bizarre monstrosities and perpetually darkness. Players take on the role of survivors that band together to form a settlement, fighting monsters, crafting weapons and gear, and developing their civilization to ensure survival from generation to generation.Prologue Narration: [YouTube] Kingdom Death: Monster - Prologue (https://youtu.be/FNLc8dHv0Ac)The Game is broken up into 3 phases:1. During your Hunt Phase your band of survivors traverse the world of KD in pursuit of their quarry.2. After successfully tracking your quarry you will begin the Showdown Phase, where you must fell these horrific creatures in order to acquire precious resources.3. After the battle, your survivors wander home with loot in hand to begin the Settlement Phase. Arm yourself by developing new weapons and bizarre structures to prepare for next year's hunt.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Are most of the models this fucking wonky? Both the hand and the butcher have some insane object stretching in some parts making the painting process a nightmare. Which sucks because I love this company.
>>96519497>insane object stretching?
>>96519587Some of the butchers lanterns are crazy stretched out. Im trying to get a good pic of it but cant seem to. But it's the same on the saw and some of the Hands belt tassels.
>>96520006I have never seen that and thats not suppose to be that way, you got a bad cast.I would contact customer service and ask for a new one.since you were so kind as to red circle it, I did the same.
>>96520269Well that does make me feel a bit better, knowing it's just a mishap. Now that im looking at other models, seems I got a dud box. But I got this years ago and just started using it, so no refunds.
Realistically speaking point buy isn't as fun as rolling the dice
>>96520258Wrong
>>96520258Rolling dice for character creation is fine as long as you have a system that actually supports it, rather than designers including it as a sacred cow without considering what the range of stats/characters that will result.
Netrunner 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.>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/>RED free-DLC and extra contenthttps://rtalsoriangames.com/downloads/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96509882 it Would probably make the game too easy. cyberpunk is balanced around the heavy variance and critfail frequency of the d10
>>96509179>Are you currently in a game (any edition), and what are you/the players up to? Replace with solo play/schizo fantasies as needed.I'm patiently waiting for the solo play book for RED to drop. I've got ideas.
>>96516284A separate TQ related to this: how many people in RED games are actually playing games in the Time of the Red? As far as I can tell most games I've seen don't actually take place in the time period, whether due to concerns about the general tone of the setting or a preference for the cyberpunk world they saw in 2077 and Edgerunners.
have any of you played an exotic/ used them in your games? Asking cause I looked at the specs of the LagoForm® sculpt and feel like a Shotgun Totting Bunny girl Wannabe Solo would be a fun encounter/fight to throw at my players or for a Newbie-Runner to saddle the crew with running cause she's a corpo playing runner and her parents hired them to basically baby sit/ dissuade her from trying to be a merc. And to be clear, they'd be an anime style rabbit person and not a full furry exotic. But thinking about it made me curious how much use Exotics actually get in gameplay
>>96520072The campaign I'm waiting on is set in 2020, but I actually do find RED's time period pretty interesting. The beginnings of some of 2077s gangs and the groundwork for the various conspiracies that have been laid are ripe pickings for storytelling. I'd be interested in seeing the years leading up to the Unification War too, when Rosalind Meyers was probably laying the groundwork and setting up research projects at Militech before moving into the politico field to deploy her new toys officially.
I like Warhammer Fantasy ogresPost ogresTalk about ogres
>>96517445>looks at the Ogre at the bottom right>"By Taal, that Ogre is eating me mates but by Ranald, ain't he Dapper?"
Page of Pentacles Edition>"New" Apocalyptic Subclasses UA: https://media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/ua/apocalyptic-subclasses/KKvJvHGmsJiNaafX/UA2025-ApocalypticSubclasses.pdf>Survey: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8435327/D-D-UA-2025-Apocalyptic-Subclasses>2024 PHB Scan (No more fingers edition)https://files.catbox.moe/g8oo9h.pdf>Cropped and rotated, but more artifactyMjAyNCBQSEIsIE5vIFRodW1icywgT0NSZWQsIEFub24ncyBCb29rbWFya3MgdHJhbnNmZXJyZWQgb3Zlci4gCgpodHRwczovL2Vhc3l1cGxvYWQuaW8vd2Fvcm9h>2024 DMGhttps://files.catbox.moe/fd04pq.pdf>2024 Monster ManualComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96520084>cringeNo? If you want to wade into melee as a druid, more power to you. You're optimizing something suboptimal. That's the best way to play dnd. Just go have fun.
>>96520084flavor wise that seems really gay
>>96520132The issue is it could get more optimized. 14 Dex, a shield & Warden from Primal Order will get this character's AC to 19. The Wizard Initiate background feat can give this character shield. It seems wicked ham fisted to me.>>96520187That's my fear
>>96520084>Is this build cringe?>optimizing the combat efficiency a character by picking abilities that are ill-fitting to its theme in a roleplaying game controlled by a human that adapts the difficulty on the fly anyway and in which combat is just one of the 3 pillarsidk you tell me
>>96520251What's the theme of his pc, anon?
