AD&D clone, fantasy heartbreaker about ~Viking Age Europeans (including Elves and Dwarves) returning to their long-lost homeland Thule and slowly taking it away from the forces of darkness. In other words, MYFAROG rebooted. Now with extra feminism.Can't be worse than 5E.
>>96516871Thing is ACKS isn't even a great economic simulator. You'd have more succes looking at Traveler and trying to implement it's economic system into BX instead.
>>96517911dilate
>>96518054You could just post a link to an archive or something instead of a screenshot if you want people to take what you're saying seriously.
it gotta be better than the last time, right?
>>96498419Riddled with Chud Dogwhistles.Oh well, let em have their shit. Keeps em out of mine.
Is trying to balance your D&D games a lost cause?
>>96518275maybe actually try next time shit for brains.
>>96518128I agree with you, and we both understand the usual suspects will talk shit.
>>96518289Why would I pigeonhole myself to such a narrow scope of games? Christ that’s like saying that the only worthwhile food is oatmeal or some shit.
>>96518320How’s middle school treating you champ? Has Brad been beating the shit out of you for being a virgin again?
>>96518305Honestly I remember getting into the idea of playing wargames because of stuff like 5 Parsecs From Home and Rangers of Shadowdeep, and I kind of wanted to share that with some friends if I could.
Ragtag squad edition>What this thread is for:/tg/ gets shit done again and is creating a “Battle Bible” (Ala 2nd edition) for 4th edition Warhammer 40k.>What this thread isn’t for:Alternative ideas for what 4th edition could include, such as alternating activations, new unit ports, etc. This is a Stage 4 process and so there's plenty of time for that later on.Don't engage edition warriors, trolls and rule revisionists. We're trying to keep it tight; mannered and objective focused.BATTLE PLAN:Stage 1:Finish revising and formatting the SRD. Stage 2:Compile all GW official erratas into the SRD.Stage 3: Condense all the codices into up to date SRD. - pendingStage 4: Make a Hobby Enthusiast supplement for the SRD.Stage 4: Make an Optional Rules supplement for the SRD.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
statistically speaking almost nobody was playing tabletop before the late 2000s so when I see people arguing about who was actually there playing I just see a bunch of bullshitters wasting their time jacking each other off
>>96496489It deliberately overcosts things as a balance-factor towards specialization and freedom. I believe they even tell you that in the article.
Has there been any codex/ army list work mocked up yet? Curious to see what that might look like. I will definitely be using the rules SRD to play some games soon. I have mostly used the 2e battle bible in the past, but 2e is a bit much for some, so I am looking forward to this.
>>96504233Much Appreciated. The work has been completed.workupload . com/archive/bkngr9sLVg
>>96362898You just clip the belt to the one that is already in when it's getting low
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.
>>96518306>The older grave guard sculpts do look quite appealing in all honestyYeah the metals are quite neat. Shame about the shitty plastics that followed suit.
>>96518323I see. I've only seen at my locals stuff like the tomb kings player putting little desert monoliths in them or a beastmen herdstone.
>>96518290Not buying additional models or making a cool mini diorama. Each model in a regiment exists in the gameplay in the same way it does in 40k.
So is Cathay list building just turning into Sons of Behemat with blood knights and empire canons?
>>96518306You're welcome. I'd start by getting 20 grave guards, 20 skellies or zombies (your preference), 5 blood knights, 5 wolves and/or 3 fell bats and a wight lord, a vampire and a necro on foot.That should be almost exactly 1000 points and will give you a well rounded and very good army to play the game with and see what you like and don't like.
Why did they fumble making a good licensed AtLA TTRPGame? The setting was perfect for it.
Some of the stuff in this thread, man. Yeah Avatar is about its characters, they're a big part of the appeal. But it's still a martial arts show, and when people say they want an Avatar game you fucking know they're talking about wanting to be a Kyoshi warrior, a bloodbender or being a Dai Li agent shooting rock gloves, or a chi blocker. Any other game could be about being the Comic Relief or Angsty Teen. You could just rewatch the show if you want the same characters. It's like wanting a Star Wars game and you roleplay a dysfunctional dad and siblings kissing each other, and the spaceships and lasers and aliens are an after thought.
>>96515729This already got discussed earlier in the thread. And while not knowing for sure how many episodes they had to work with certainly didn't help, there are enough problems with some of the core premises and characters that can't be explained by that, and in some cases are more baffling when knowing that they have limited episodes.Deciding that Korra would be a stubborn hothead but having her grow up in a sheltered monastery is an easy example. Just have her be from Republic City itself. She can learn elements at a young age because there's other kids in the neighborhood of all elements. She can be obsessed with pro-bending because she's in the city that came up with it. And she has more reason to care about the city's politics. That's a decision that would have gotten made before they knew how many episodes they had, and so it can't be blamed on the network.
>>96434415>>96434137I think the uncertainty about how many seasons they had is why they make her learn the same lesson to fucking chill over and over again, ending up with a retard who keeps reverting back to being a retard despite having learned not to be a retard at the end of the previous season.
>>96517171>Just have her be from Republic City itself.I've seen it discussed in a /co/ fanfic thread she should've been a street kid that learned on her own, she feels much more like a local.Anyways, the original Avatar had moments where they didn't know if they were gonna get more episodes. But they kept trucking along without compromising the plot. Episode 13, The Blue Spirit, was almost the series finale. I know people hate cliffhangers, but it's preferable than fucking up the story.
The game itself gives some interesting lore. Post-war there's an issue with piracy because the Fire Nation relied on using them, so you got a bunch of guys going unpaid and just running amok. There's a module involving the plans of the first FN tank during Sozin's era, and apparently primitive Chinese style handcannons were a thing once. I think that's neat. The creators did care about the setting and lore at least.
Crossbows are rad. Coolest of the fantasy ranged weapons. Why do they suck in-game though. How do we fix them?
>>96517901Would you really need that kind of accuracy in the context of a battlefield? If you miss one guy charging you, there's probably still pretty good odds you'll hit one of the guys beside him, or behind him. And with the kind of power that crossbows had, any kind of hit is doing something. And it's not just going to be one guy with a crossbow firing - there's a whole bunch. If you're up on a wall shooting down between . . . I forget the name of those little gaps specifically for it . . . you're almost shooting fish in a barrel, which is even better than shooting at a mass of enemies running straight at you.Although I suppose you could make the counter argument that a few minutes of being shown how to use a crossbow will just go completely out of my head when there's hundreds or thousands of guys running at me and shouting with pointy objects they intend to stab me with. That's a lot more dangerous than people shooting crossbows out of hunting blinds or helicopters.
>>96516951I can answer for gurps. The good ones take a while to reload, the quick ones don’t do too much damage. This doesn’t make them bad, just niche for games focused around short range skirmish combat.How do we make them better? Give more combat encounters at ranges where a 10 second reload isn’t the entire battle. Use a secondary weapon and treat the crossbow as an opener.
>>96518175>Would you really need that kind of accuracy in the context of a battlefield?Yeah because armor and shields are a thing.>B-but muh powaUnless you're taking a minute to shoot with a crank or a windlass, even chainmail armor is gonna prevent serious injury, if not stop it entirely.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPQmXB6AmJQMedieval crossbowmen were often heavily trained specialists btw.
>>96517964>The loading property unfairly relegates them to the wizard's weapon when they don't have spellsBullshit. In Basic if your PC have Str18 you can reload a heavy crossbow every turn, because you're chad who don't need a goat's leg or a crank. Also 3~3.5e it's not bad. Light is a move action so if you're not forced to move and in a good position you're better off than most starting archers (pre-lv9).
>>96518250Thanks for the video. It does soundly challenge the preconceived notion I have of crossbows being a very potent anti-armour weapon which has been reinforced by constant popular depictions as such. I'd be interested to see that kind of test repeated with the mail over a ballistic dummy like you can see guntubers like, say, Garand Thumb or Kentucky Ballistics use (I'm sure there's many more, but I'm just passingly familiar with those two). I'm somewhat skeptical as to whether chainmail produced with period accurate material and labour would perform as well as those tested - I'm going to be honest I just watched the part where they shot at the dummies and didn't go through the section where he rated them 1 to 3 on how historically accurate the pieces were, just looked at the score card at the end where a lot of them get a 0 - and maybe I should've listened because I wonder if these pieces would represent 'premium' pieces. He probably answers both questions.Anyway, thank for reading my blog. I concede I have a lot of misconceptions and this video helped dissuade me on them.
The spicier the better. I'll start to get the ball rolling: MTG, DnD and Warhammer are actually good for the hobby. They get new people started in this hobby and they keep the trend chasers contained and away from the rest of the hobby.Appealing to the normie masses is a necessary evil in order to keep what you love afloat. Even if it comes with the negative baggage of doing so.Generals are good for /tg/.
yes, obviously, left looks better than right, no one is going to disagree with that. but when playing a GAME, right is obviously going to be a funner experience for BOTH sides, just look at the utter lack of balance in the left terrain set up. the near side has to traverse a river and then fight through open fields while the far side immediately gets access to most the hard cover of buildings on the map and on top of that gets the hedgerows overlooking the open fields. its blatantly not fair and poorly set up.>but just give the attack side more units!ok then, how do you balance that? how do you know how many points to allocate to balance out the terrain advantage? double? triple? what if thats too much and now the attacker has the distinct advantage? its way too much trouble to figure out. thats why tourney tables will always provide the better gameplay experience for BOTH sides. GAMEplay. WarGAMES. These are GAMES. A good game needs to be fun for all involved. It is not fun when one side has an inherent advantage over the other. There is a reason why 40k tournaments are by and far the most popular wargaming events and playstyle over every single alternative.
>>96514109Maybe I need a spergier group. Is Card Ranker translated yet? Maybe I can call the YGO crowd.
>>96514142Actually I inadvertently lied when I said there has never been any drama, but it was minor and happened so long ago I almost forgot it happenedI was still a teenager like most of the rest of us back then lmao, now mid-30s, since then, nothing.
>>96487291The industry has completely stagnated since the normie invasion, it's just been 5e and pbta hacks for the last decade. It's like when they got into video games in the late 00s and everyone stopped making games besides multiplayer shooters and cinematic experiences because those were all the normies wanted.
>>96514116You are playing the wrong game buddy
What is your character's life philosophy?
>>96514993Vulgar Neo-Platonism. All reality is but a dream of the Godhead and everything in it, including the gods most worship, is a figment of that greater being's imagination. Most who realize this hidden truth fall to madness or cease to exist, but some few retain not only their self as a separate entity from God but also achieve a degree of action independent from the course laid out for them in the dream. Nothing they do ultimately matters but they choose to strive towards the creation of a world in which none suffer and all have the opportunity to attain the same enlightenment that they have.
>ooh, shiny!
Barbo: A hopeless romantic that who believes in the power of forgiveness and righteousness but when you boil it all down, he'll say something like "it's wrong to kill people!"Græinn: He would describe himself as an awakened psychic (in Gnostic terms) that's attempting to become pneumatic. In terms of personal philosophy, he's a radical individualist. For society, he'd say it would depend on the capabilities of the society and the niche that it finds itself in; he's seen far too many examples of different political philosophies both working and not, that it would take a better philosopher than him to truly describe it.One character is a L11 Stalker (Judge archetype) or an alter ego of L9 Cleric, L2 Exalted. Started out human but I rolled the one number on a d100 resurrection roll to become a Kitsune.The other character is an L4 Oracle, L4 Highlord, L5 Cerebremancer-but-homebrewed with a homebrewed bugman race. We're playing with background skills, so he has points in Artistry (Philosophy). Yes, I did use it to pen a philosophical treatise that our party handed off to a ruler to have her use a subject of refutation to justify her political rise to power and consolidation of several neighboring states.
>>96514993>Cyberpunk SoloLife is short, death is certain, suffering is inescapable. The world's never gonna give you a break, so you gotta get what's yours, no matter how little of it there is. If you gotta go out, go out doing what you love.
>doesn’t actually like doing bad things>does them anyway
High Adventure Edition>RPG Rulebookshttps://rentry.org/40kRPGLinks>Homebrew Collection (Feb 2025)https://rentry.org/40RPGHB>WANG/Imperium Maledictum Newshttps://cubicle7games.com/blog/warhammer-40k>Bestiary, armoury, weapon quality and NPC databasehttp://www.40krpgtools.com/>Dark Heresy 2e Character Creator:https://apps.ajott.io/dh2chargen/>General 40kRPG Encyclopediahttps://www.scholaprogenium.com/>Offline Combined Armory (v6.48.161023)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96517252Huh, that's odd. I remember it throwing our GM off too, so much that he made his own hive world career table to enable hiver desk wallahs in the game.
>>96517130I asked that question a while ago and anons had various ideas on why it's that way sorry anons but i forgot
>>96515783Fool, it's not a bad idea, clearly you're built different from all the ones who failed before you, you'll get all the good shit and eventually daemon ascension, totally. You have to get that chaos champion mindset.
>>96507925Persequitors are a neat idea and I want to add them to a dirty war on a higher-tech backwater world for my players to buy. But you didn't seem to list the total weight? Is it just the warhead weight or should I make these like a 50lb early Cold War thing lugged around like a Sagger missile?
>>96518256Oops, I re-read it. 5kg plus the warhead. I think I'll go for the heavier weight thoughbeit, like mini analog cruise missiles for armsmen to put on mules through jungles and curse when the vacuum tubes get bumped.
Work in Progress "Rise From Your Grave!" 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.
>>96518038Generally speaking if nothing gets in the way of painting something else you're better off assembling first and painting second. If something will be clearly visible in the end but a complete arse to paint once everything's been assembled then you paint that first and glue it on later. Sometimes people like keeping things like heads separate for painting even if it can be easily reached on the model. And in between there's an unending number of sorta-halfway cases that you'll just have to decide for yourself what's the easiest.
>>96514350So just keep stacking up layers of static grass or leaf flock into little piles?
>>96514913You can get it from Warpfire minis. I just started buying from there and it'll probably be my go-to for the foreseeable future. No vallejo, but most of the other good paint brands.
>>96518038build first those sistsers models are a real hassle to put together. the only thing I'd recommend is not attaching the bases because getting under the cloaks and skirts is tricky with a big 32mm base in the way.
>>96518269Yeah plus you don't sprinkle grass, you either use an applicator or grab big tufts and stick them tight onto the glue. What I do for leaves is drop a bunch of them on the glue and gently push them flat with a small spatula. But yeah a couple layers look way better than one.
Helsmiths Edition>Previously, in the Mortal Realms>>96502924>Official AoS website:https://www.ageofsigmar.com>Downloads, Rules Errata and FAQs:https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-downloads/>Toolswarhammer-community.com/2017/09/26/make-your-own-free-city-the-easy-way-sep26gw-homepage-post-4/https://runebrush.pa-sy.com/warscroll/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96517350Because they raped a seed of hope instead of completely destroying it? I’m not sure what you’re talking about
>>96517871>why is the realty warping worshippers of a Cthulhu being not orderBecause it’s your ends that matter not your means and their means are just as chaos as anyone so I don’t understand this feigned confusion
>>96517633You can get there much faster if you put in some effort. Try new techniques, challenge yourself and you'll be great in no time.
>>96512520>TQDepends if you count Orruk Warclans as one faction. If so then about 4k. If not, then 3.2k of Idoneth
>>96516972Be sure to respect his pronouns.
These seem to be the most popular ways of doing armor in games. Which do you prefer and why? What are good alternatives you've seen?
>>96517721Whatever irrelevant system that is
I accept your concession.
>>96515791Dr is obviously superior, and works better when separating active and passive defenses.
Hardly.
>>96515908Wait, wasn't that girl a bunny or am I confusing something?
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>>96517023I think they had that in Lower Decks but way smaller.
Ticonderoga, standing by!
>>96517512That was the Kiith class warbird, and yes!
>>96518296Ark Royal-class (Or Ranger-class in Beta Canon.) is one of my favorite designs.
>>96518309Looks like a turd. Develop better taste.
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.
>>96505631>>96505841>>96506244Maybe a homebrew item like >Lexicon: may imprint one of your tactics and use it as a consumable that refreshes each turn/showdown/event/whatever the fuckTakes up a gear slot for the freedom to take a tactic you learned previously. Though an on demand version might cause huge problems with the AI just unable to function correctly. Agreed it's a neat idea that needs some more work.
>>96506288>>96506799how would you homebrew tactics?just choose the one you want at will? then I would always use the same handful of ones.make my own tactics? then I might as well change the entire game and redesign everything in the name of "homebrew">>96511219this is just trading problems for new ones, like I said: good idea poor execution.
>>96512009maybe you make your own decision then
Sorry, can't let you die just yet
>>96512009Thinking on it, I think I would have it that you would draw a single tactics card when you get a knight badge. The card stays tied to that specific badge, so you always have that tactic available with that badges. More knight enemies, more knight badges, more tactics available. It's still randomized, but locked in for the campaign instead of random every single fight, and if you get a tactic that's bad for the monster you want to hunt, you just don't bring the badge.
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.
>>96518142>you can have a pretty great existence down there from what I understand.Being there literally slowly kills you
>>96518095Only Moorcock, the rest is about adventurers.The story that gave rise to the genre, "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save For Sacnoth" by Dunsany, is about a prince getting a dragon-sword to kill a satanic space wizard.
>>96518176you can't kill a ghost silly. they're ghosts. There are literally undead cities and people trade in the things they're family gave them when they buried them. I'm not sure what happens when you pray and offer sacrifices for your ancestors but I bet that makes their lives easier too. I have to read that part again.Also there is no better place to fuck a ghost then in the underworld.
>>96518222>You will die if you go there>But it's a good place to go and fuck a ghostThe place is inherently evil dude
>>96518299>ghost pussy>all the riches your ancestors give you and even more so.>ghost pussy>giant cities where you can have anything you want and get to chill forever so long as people worship their ancestors.>you can fuck a ghostif you want we can read the 3e abyssal book together and talk about all the rad and awesome shit we could have when we die or which specific ghosts we want to fuck but all this underworld is evil junk is useless.