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.
>>96486950I've only briefly played Palladium games, and the system struck me as clunky as hell, but something about the insanity of Rifts has always been appealing to me. Unfortunately it's hard to really convey this in an appealing way to the uninitiated.How do you do it?
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>>96481397@ get fuct/3tVugethat's what i got
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>GW dropping support for school clubsThat's a fucking low blow that, probably one of the things they got right and did more of because there wasn't much of it back 20 years ago.Their games are more and more for consoomer messes in their 30s and 40s. How is any kid playing 40k with their pocket money?
>>96489197Not surprised, it is too expensive for kids now, and the more detailed models are definitely made for experienced painters not dumb kids.I tried to set up a Warhammer school club in 2014 and it was a non starter because of the expense vs the area it was in, and the cost has only gotten worse.I came back to 40k after a 10 year absence and I'm finding the cost more than expected, and painting them takes longer and is kind of stressful.
>all these replies ponderously explaining why it makes sense and was inevitableit says FOR THEIR AGE GROUP in the picture, you armchair economiststhe program remains completely active for children aged 12+>>96492007 even spelled it out for youand >>96492014 provided a fucking linkbut no, continue to explain why cancelling the entire program was the obvious sensible move
>>96490268>Warhammer is going the way of the Pokemon CardWould actually love to see it
>>96492190Suicide bombers don't think they're redeeming their sins, they think they're getting a shortcut to heaven with endless pussy while Hamas cuts their family a check.
>>96492190Can you imagine the media fury if a future suicide bomber was found to have fielded an army of these as a child.
The most irrelevant faction in 40K.
>>96484962Mike Brooks is a troon?
>>96491020no, he just fetishizes them so he forces them into every book he writes. In Lion: Son of the Forest, one of the techpriest characters was an actual, literal xir
>>96490337that's what happens when you put Gav Thorpe, notorious elf hater, in charge of all lore related to your space elves>every single Eldar novel and short story he wrote was about them being incompetent, reckless, short-sighted retards and nothing like their codex portrays them
>>96445137I like them in theory. The idea of this technocratic society ran an anicent AI that's starting to breakdown is really cool and fits into 40k well enough. Problem is they just look like little space marines right now. I think the best way to solve that would be to field more men of iron. Gives them a bit more of an identity and also more creativity for what you could do with the robots. Also since they're all weird clones of each other and their master is starting to fail they should look more deformed and weird, like the cloning system is making them imperfect
>>96472220>The only relevant factions of 40k are SM, CSMFTFY
Which game is currently in a worse state?
>>96492582This. The best option is to just not participate, no matter what your political views are
>>96492570All woke goes broke eventually. Give it time.
>>96492605No anon, you must play competitively. 40k is no longer your casual hobby.
>>96492622You have no power here L Ruin! Begone Club-Shirt-Wearing-Tournament-Player! Back I say!Like I said, both games are fine if you tune down the competitive side and just goofy off. I used to play Warmachine / Warmahordes in MK2 and MK3 and the game wasn't fun after a point due to how cutthroat it was. The terrain there was even worse! My group all has wives, I dont have kids yet so I'll host and have some friends over to game on my tables and shoot the shit. It's a lot of fun. I'm also becoming far more anti social since I'm not going to the FLGS or showing up at events. Conventions are still great, I highly recommend. Just don't go to Adepticon only for the tournaments. Remember the hobby is mostly sitting in a room painting.
>>96466285Warhammer continues to thrive and mutate. Some of them are bad, others are good. Sometimes you get Astartes, other times you get Femstodes. This is the sign of a healthy franchise, because people are trying things and invested in it.Magic is much worse. It’s cannibalizing other IPs to feed off their popularity. Lord of the Rings having Black Aragorn is masking the true sin which was having Lord of the Rings at all. Being the cloaca from which all franchises can enter is not admirable, it makes you sleazy. The last few attempts at an “original” setting have failed, that cowboy world was pathetic.
The /btg/ is dead! Long live the /btg/!Jim Jams for my Beemer EditionLast Thread: >>96468405================================>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-powers>Rookie GuidesComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96491971>Breakthrough type scenario-Both sides make a force of 9k BV, 5-8 units (3/4 pilots)-Then the mapsheets are rolled (Wide River and Lake Valley)-Defender deploys within 3 hexes of the middle on their home mapsheet-Attacker enters from their home edge on turn 1-Both sides get 50 SP for crippling/destroying a 'mech-Both sides get 50 SP for destroying the opposing commander 'mech-Attacker gets [Tonnage] SP for every 'mech within 8 hexes of the defender home edge on turn 8-Defender gets 150 SP for crippling/destroying at least 50% of the Attackers force.Game ends on turn 8. This particular scenario ended 300 - 220 in favor of the Defender. Defender Crippled Mercury and Destroyed Sentinel and Catapult. Attacker destroyed Scorpion and Quickdraw, and ended up with Wolverine and Thunderbolt in the objective area.The Wolverine and Thunderbolt had fairly little issue, as once they got past the assault 'mechs, they couldn't give much chase (which was intended scenario design).
>>96492062*within 3 hexes of the middle of the mapsheets, not within the middle of their own mapsheet.Also, writing asymmetrical scenarios for PvP-style gameplay is hard.>CaptchaDDDDWIs this dubs but in Captcha form
>>96492062Feels like a starting location problem rather than a river crossing problem. Did you also mean the River Valley map sheet? There's no Lake Valley one
>>96491359I've toyed with the idea of doing up a generic sheet i can print out to track this stuff when it comes to writing out Batreps later. Like a turn by turn thing per mech where there's a line for movement type, what it shot at, any special notes, etc. Combined with taking pictures at the end of movement phase and I'd have close to a play by play.
Are there any mechs with "bee" in the name other than the firebee? Looking for more for a themed silly mech arena team for my players to fight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfvKvy1t0pU
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/.
>>96487291Lore shouldn't have to be completely concise or even consistent to appease the autists. People don't agree about the significance of stuff that's going on today(which recent president is responsible for the impending Great Recession II etc) and tons of websites from the 90's/00's are gone forever. So imagine how much disagreement and lost information there'd be about stuff that happened centuries or millennia ago.
>>96492545I'd honestly want more of them to get into it just to keep them off crime
>>96487396>a huge proportion of RPG players would be better off playing board games. They either don't want the freedom to interact with the game world however they want that a GM provides, or just want a loosely structured storytelling framework.God damn, this is so true. People will often balk and screech at you when you point this or something similar out, too, and accuse you of being a "storyshitter" or a theater kid or some other description that's meant to be insulting. I don't say any of this with ego, I truly don't have emotions about some anonymous person saying something like this to me on the internet. I wholeheartedly believe you are correct, and that they would be better of playing board games. Maybe something like Gloomhaven or HeroQuest. I don't even dislike those games, either, that's not a put-down, it's not me saying "heh, I'm the patrician RPG player, and you're the plebeian board gamer." I also like board games. I just know a lot of people approach RPGs like board games, and as a result, end up playing what turns out to be a pretty mediocre game for most involved.
>>96492794Classic RPGs have a skirmish game origin generally, so are pretty combat heavy to this day.
>>96492806The issue is not with combat, but an entire approach to how RPGs are played. Thinking and acting strictly within predefined rules, for example.It's why Dungeon Crawl Classics has the "Mighty Deed." It's bigger than the rule itself. Combined with the dice chain and the frequent encouragement for the GM to interpret things dynamically, it opens people up to an entirely different way of playing the game if all they've over known is grid-based tactics games with a layer of roleplaying over top of them.
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?
>>96490501yes, this is the end game of being groomed by /pol/, and it's bad for being able to exist and function in the world. thanks for demonstrating.
>>96491728>Send me back 20 years in time and I have the tools to become an absolute Gigachad.You have them right now, but you won't.I don't know where this idea comes from, that the issue that keeps you from self-actualization is lack of knowledge on some secret to success. You're fat because you're lazy, you don't have friends because you're too socially anxious to talk to people, and you're poor because you're too dumb and/or lazy to get a college degree in a well-compensated field.
>>96486188No idea.Most people I meet who do the hobby I don't really connect with, I tend to play with friends and family.A lot of the guys I have met in the hobby are just too ill mannered for me to ever have in my house for a game. And I would probably not play a game with someone I would not have over. Stinky, weird, too political, impolite, ultra competitive, disrespectful of my property or family, you will not get a second chance. Ever.
>>96490501>Modern Western Society is a bit like Holy Roman Empire.Reminder that Voltaire was a militant Atheist and the gut worm of kings. The existence of a large, strictly Christian territory without any assholes large enough for him to take residence in naturally horrified him.
>>96486188I think if you're a high-functioning nerd, you have a mask on at work etc that's pretty exhausting to maintain. You need to pencil in a certain amount of time with other nerds because the normies will crush you with their banality. A guy at my work ribs me about using a word he didn't know months ago like it's the funniest thing he'd ever experienced. So you have a certain amount of time when you can be yourself and chat about history or Asian horror movies or whatever and while you enjoy the game, you're aware it's a vector for socializing. And then you have low-functioning nerds who are NEETs etc but have realized they have social needs(the more hardcore autists won't get past playing vidya on their own) and want to be around the high-functioning nerds. The autism brain goes all in on Warhammer or whatever and they play extremely competitively because it's probably the one thing they're good at. I think the most successful games are the ones that have allowed these two groups to work in harmony. Like how old 40K tournaments had painting/sportsmanship prizes or how RPGs have a mix of combat and roleplaying/acting.
You know the drill, post you terrain collection, WIP terrain, or terrain inspiration!!!!
>>96478948>Low IQ people should be sterilizedEh, it's not like you're ever gonna breed anyway.
>>96478958Needs a circus poster.>>96478368Neat, looks like a bunch of beehives with termite flavor. What are they farming from the termites, exactly?
>>96487896Thats really high fantasy comfy dude, nice work>>96482642very nice>>96486295I bought a recast warhound for this exact idea for a table. I'll procrastinate it for another year or more. >>96486364Big flex, very nice. You know what you're doing.>>96486491Marvel? Thats a mighty building
>>96485012I agree. We have to keep in mind that everything about 40k, the lore, the rules, the culture, etc is designed only to promote the purchase and use of the current range of figures. As it's difficult to make rules that cover the current figure range, with it's nine foot tall space marines, dreadnoughts, winged demons and tyranids, vehicles and huge 'heros' balancing on tactical rock piles, GW just doesnt bother with decent rules for fighting inside buildings. This may be why most 40k players just don't bother either and mostly stick with the occasional solid terrain display pieces and L shaped cardboard.
>>96485173They would look ok with a bit of paint. Maybe glue them to lollypop sticks and add random bits of foliage and earth piled up against them (using wood filler), add random extra rows to each long one to break up the straight lines a bit? Walls tend to be built straight, with nature making them more 'organic' over time.
Missing Links Edition>>IF YOU ARE ASKING A QUESTION, PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH GAME YOU'RE PLAYING<<Previous Thread: >>96366675/pfg/ (pathfinder 1e) link repository: https://pastebin.com/RSt0rF0T/p2g/ (pathfinder 2e) link repository: https://pastebin.com/1zySxwm3/sfg/ (starfinder) link repository: https://pastebin.com/5yp9s2U3>>CHECK THE SHARE THREAD FOR MISSING MATERIALS<<TQ: What 3PP content do you regularly use? Which one is your favourite?Should there be better links in the OP next time?Should someone bother making new and better pastebins?
>>96464318>There isn't even a dedicated PF2 threadIs the game that bad? I was thinking of giving it a try.
>>96492037It's better to cover all of Paizo's games because they're still worth talking about and this way, it is possible to talk about them.I think PF2E is very fun, personally.
>>96491983shit u rite
2eHow useful is having an imprecise scent in play? Trying to pick out an ancestry feat for a lvl 13 Nagaji and was curious if Serpent's Tongue would be good.
>>96492700Honestly, depends on how much roleplay the GM allows or enforces around it. In combat it is not particulary useful.
what causes this mentality? is it retardation?
>>96492634digganob may have been satire of wigger culture though
>>96492634that's just americans being retarded and filtering all throught their narrow race politics.No brit or euro ever had any problem understanding what orks are about. Tolkien orcs were an early 20th century version of the same, and GW just updated them for the 80s and space
>>96465624I don't get why you sharty niggers hyper focus on this one assault against the english language when it's a much more multifaceted attack
>>96492770Why are you so racist though?
>>96492773Why not?
Karapurry Edition. Infinity is a 28mm tabletop skirmish game produced by Corvus Belli, and includes the related games Aristeia, Defiance, TAG Raid, REM Racers, and Acheron's Fall. Corvus Belli also produces the fantasy games Warcrow and Warcrow Adventures.>Latest official update:https://youtu.be/26Fqm9pMMeo>Rules and missions:https://infinitythewiki.com/index.phphttps://infinitytheuniverse.com/resourceshttps://infinitytheuniverse.com/games/infinity/its>Beginner FAQs and guides:https://pastebin.com/x06JG55Uhttps://pastebin.com/xtQzRcq5Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96492192>like every yearOne would thing they'd set up an automatic reminder or something.
Cute, I spotted an Infinity mini in the background of this Peep Show episode.
>>96492442Yep, that's the Alguacil sniper with the cat mascot.
What do people typically do for demo games? 3v3 line troops? Do you do a follow-up game where you include a model with special rules? Do you leave out extra rules like fireteams and lieutenants? Need to get a scene kickstarted in my area so I’ve gotta work out how to do this
>>96492640Haven't played in a long while, but the bigbox mini-campaigns seemed pretty popular wrt pulling newbies. You get pretty much get from basic bitch mechanics to a taste of ITS, the rest is big game stuff like link teams, combat groups and such.
>>96490995Why not? It's always neat to see cool masks, helmets, armour and what-not.
>>96488593Yeah, because a scifi/fantasy setting can't have the trchnology to have a cool helmet that protects from bio-hazard menaces. You're a retard.>>96488729>>96489013Look ugly and retarded af.
>>96481877>>96489006>>96489057>>96490833Sources from picrels?
>>96492706You don't recognize Metal Gear Solid?
>>96492725Not so much, I played it along time ago.
>Previous thread:>>96387312>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, Dropfleet and Dropzone Commander, Freebooter's Fate, Frostgrave, Gaslands, Judge Dredd, HeroClix,Kings of War, Maelstrom's Edge, Malifaux, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Masters of the Universe: Battleground, Moonstone,Oathmark, OnePageRules, RelicBlade, Rumbleslam, Stargrave, Sludge, Urban War, Void, Warcaster, Warmachine, Xenotactics......and anything else that doesn't necessarily have a dedicated thread.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96491702puddle bases make painting and basing on multibases significantly easier. perhaps you're a skirmishlet
>>96488536Oathmark. It's very generic but in a good way, and you can mix and match units from other factions to get what you want. It's designed to be model agnostic, though as pointed out it is darkage themed.I've never played Dragon Rampant, but it's getting a 2e release shortly, but Billhooks Fantasia is a straight up awful 'game'. It's exceedingly bad and does not do fantasy.>>96488989Just ignore billhooks sperg, he's also known as perryfaggot in the /hwg/ threads. He's a troll that doesn't play games.>>96489309Lolno, liar.>>96489297Like hammers. Their a lot faster than infantry and get a ton of bonuses on the charge. My main opponent adopted cav heavy armies from the getgo as he realised how good they are, and I have a really hard time countering them without preparation.Combat is never locked in oathmark, the lower is pushed back, so cav can charge, throw the foe back, then next turn go in again.
Got some Haloclix for pennies at the local front yard neighbourhood sale. For use as generic sci-fi miniatures.The Spartans (which I left) are probably ideal size for Flashpoint and are probably cheaper.
>>96492672Thats nice. But one is a Marvel Skrull. But i guess you knew that and you wanted to point out that you bought them for your sci-fi story.
>>96492732Indeed, he's a nice hard plastic and has some nice cables on him and stuff. He'll make a good mook with a machine gun for Stargrave
Civil War EditionPrevious thread:>>96277062>Thread Question:Which civil wars have you gamed? how did they go? What were the challenges?>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.
>>96486809The Men Who Would be Kings has a solo mode that works just like this. >>96486704So far I have heard of people using a lighter or hot water then the blade but honestly got ok results from using sanding sticks and a knife.
I've just made this game (based on oldhammer) to promote wargaming in my country where the hobby is almost non-existent. I've originally put it out in my native language, and now it's available in English for free.I hope it may be of use to someone. I just wanted give back to the community.https://hexhunt.itch.io/sahipkiran2
>>96486704This is what I'm loving about 3D printingI just pull the supports off and my model is usually ready to paintMeanwhile I spent hours snipping and then cleaning every mold line off my box of Perry AustriansThis is ignoring all the failed supports, failed prints, messy chemicals, etc of course
>>96486198Looks fun but if we are entering the weird war territory, is it the best ruleset around?>>96486207Skill issue. Having a second tabletop player around all day every day is a blessing.>>96486314I have a big set of Kromlech Poland 1939 scenery, should be enough to fill even a 4x4 table.
>>96491811Based Primarch. After checking the rules quickly I have a few questions.What is the purpose of the conflict matrix in the Sword&Shield variant? Is it just a tool for keeping the games somewhat historically accurate or does it have any other purpose?Do you plan to create any fantasy supplement in the future?Any way to support you? Do you plan to sell your rules through Wargame Vault perhaps?
