>>96490612
There's not much more you can do for belph on top of what it already has, all you can add is a way to get rid of level 6-7 bodies and a clutch final attack.
Still loses hard to on deletions, but the added consistency makes it more bearable.

>>96491487
Man I attended two release events, bought a heap of singles (including playsets of both SECs) and still choose it over BT22 for my participation packs at locals so have probably spent more than that.
But DM is a lot of fun

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Belphemon option

Wish Release came out this month, I'm excited to play it in my Chronicle deck.

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>>96487337
>3d printing will one day become the standard. And may even phase out hard plastic as the tech gets better.
Currently it's just not the case as the material is way too fucking breakable even on the most flexible or tough resins. You ship it, you'll get breakages, no matter how much you try against or how sturdy the model is. Much of the problem has to do with couriers being morons as well, of course.

The other problem is scalability. Making 10000 cast/injection plastic minis is much more affordable and scaleable than making 10000 3d printed minis, which requires much more human hands and input along that way. It's a much less automated process as every single models requires a significant amount of post processing work from print. It's why 3D printing is currently not a thing in the retail market and probably won't be until the process requires considerably less post processing steps from built plate to packaging.

>>96491913
I halfway agree because I feel like the lore/canon is like a guideline or suggestion, and people who sperg out over a minor detail being wrong are annoying as fuck
Would love to run Dark Heresy because I like the system but my prospective players are all giant lore spergs so maybe not

>>96487457
>We are normies. None of us is special.
Do not think this as a 4chan browser. You unironically think differently if you use this website over any of the mainstream social medias regardless of the reason.

>>96488817
>comic made by /v/tards who don't realize the tl;dr is "Marketing did it"
Yeah good point

99% of all shitskins do not want to play fantasy games, regardless of how many brownoids companies clumsily shoehorn into the artwork of their games. If you’re a white guilt redditor, just take solace in knowing that you gave nogs a big warm gay welcome into your hobby but they just weren’t interested. Accept that trad games are a white culture thing, along with all the fantasy they depict, and move on

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>>96489730
>Forgotten Realms was the official default setting and they never made a book for it.
They did and it FUCKING SUCKED

>>96489746
The sword coast isn't the whole setting. And the fact that they did one corner of Faerun and fucked it up and then never did another just reinforces the point.

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>>96489511
>They are literal virgin babies. Literally all the powergamers I know are actual fucking virgins in their mid-20s. Whereas all the people I play OSR with save for one are married or in serious relationships
You're talking like a woman, fagmeister.

>>96486930
It was fine for what it was. I played it for a while, but it didn't have staying power and I don't think it was supposed to. Great for beer and snacks games where you are just looking to kill some monsters and chill with yours buds in a system you can be sure everyone knows.

>Want to DM for my friends
>Don't know where to start, don't know 5e so good, would get overwhelmed
>Pick up a 5e-lite-NuSR-mix
>Take out all the NuSR things
>The logistics system is gutted, the core gameplay loop is removed in favour of milestone levelling
>It's now group improvisation with a skeletal, nay, vestigial, retro combat system
WoTC should release 5e-Lite, I think.

>>96492385
They have brought in players with no long term hold. Wait until 2028 or 2029 and ask again about their popularity then

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>>96492385
I think its marketing. They've been doing a lot of aggressive marketing lately: Reddit, TikTok, YouTube, fake influencers making the game look super social. I believe that because of theis there are a lot of first time players coming, looking for that exaggerated social aspect they've seen from influencers or because of whatever UB set is their own interest. FNM where I'm at has been either packed or dead, pretty much alternating and when it's packed its usually new players trying it out, often disappointed.

TL;DR
there are more people trying magic than ever before, but it's become so thematically inconsistent and different from the portrayal made by influencers that it's probably going to die.

>>96492385
Its probably at an all time high for scalpers and people who do pack openings on youtube, but all time low for people who like to play the game

>>96488336
Yea. I know the old monster manual and a cool tidbit
>Gaze of Stone. Basilisks are ponderous for hunting creatures, but they needn't chase prey. Meeting a basilisk's supernatural gaze can be enough to affect a rapid transformation, transforming a victim into porous stone. Basilisks, with their strong jaws, are able to consume the stone. The stone returns to organic form in the basilisk's gullet.
>Some alchemists are said to know how to process the basilisk's gullet and the fluids contained within. [Properly handled, the gullet produces an oil that can return petrified creatures to flesh and life.] Unfortunately for such a victim, any parts lost in stone form remain absent if the creature revives. Revivification using the oil is impossible if a vital part of the petrified creature, such as its head, is detached.


Which is good to know. If someone gets petrified, and you don't have a cure on hand, maybe someone with a decent survival skill can harvest the oil of a slain basilisk for a cure.

And as I said, there are rules for what to roll as a study action, but not what the roll would provide

>>96489939
I'll take a look at these. Thank you.

>>96488487
I think it's good to know that it doesn't have any other abilities, like magic resistance, like a crag cat.

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>>96491596
>>96491608
Thanks for the info, guys. I personally think that the 30-40% of tables not using 2024 content is still really weird and kind of unhelpful, but I at least understand the reasons and apprehensions. Hopefully they sort something out. Even as a Paizodrone, I wouldn't want 5e24 to flop, at least not for insane levels of self-sabotage with 5e14's own dominance being in the way. I think that's honestly kind of a scary thought.

>>96491927
>I wouldn't want 5e24 to flop
Why? If it flops maybe they'll have to make something decent. I like 5e that's why I'm here but I love variety too. If more people try games other than 5e I'm all for it. I despise pathfinder though. The people who play it are too retarded to play something non d20, but too pretentious to just play 5e.

>>96491644
Yes, but not instagram pretty, which is what you posted.

>>96487695
>>96489563
>>96491442
>>96491927
The biggest factor really is that, over the ten years between 2014 and 2024, the playerbase had identified a lot of the issues and come up with a variety of fixes and homebrew material. A fixed and updated 5e was kind of already available, with multiple places to discuss which materials to use. And the best part was that it was modular and could be adjusted to suit your playgroup's preferred level of power and complexity.

When WotC announced a revision, there was a lot of expectation that we'd see something along the lines of what we'd been seeing amateurs come up with. Instead, we got mostly-pointless word shuffling, needless standardization that broke some class fantasies, a few spells being completely rewritten solely to overwrite their broken 2014 counterparts, and a half-assed weapon system that was clearly hurriedly copied from BG3. There were some good ideas in there, but the useful material per page ratio wasn't worth making the jump for groups that had already instituted more comprehensive and meaningful revisions. While some brewers, like our local Bullshit Anon, have implemented some of the 5.5 changes in their work, they're typically treated more like a list of possible changes than as a base edition to build on.

>>96490963
No he found a job doing AI slop ads so now he doesn't do /tg/ videos anymore just stupid 3 hour gym podcasts.
Only good thing about it is that it inspired me to start lifting again cause I can't stand the idea that manlet faggot is stronger than me.

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>>96482586
>be another history student looking for a job after getting his degree
>like playing TTRPGs and worldbuilding and so on and to endlessly discuss it with friends anyway
>2025 has to be the worst year for employment in this field so far
Should I just do it, anons? I actually had some ideas for videos now and then.

>>96482586
>Making money by regurgitating
is there anything other than parasitism on the internet these days? every single person online is a grifter who grifts other grifters until at the very end of the grift chain there's some dude who just gets cucked

>>96487514
I'd unironically listen to that while painting.
Especially if it was genuinely funny and taking the piss against loretubers.

>>96492179
Just give it a shot, bro.

>>96492466
Why is kindred a type and not a super type?

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>>96491640
>TQ
I don't care personally, but my friends utterly despise black because I've run Sheoldred with The One Ring a few times.
>have vamp, imperial, and demonic in the deck
>immediately go fishing for the ring
>start the card draw machine
>everyone gets forced to draw a ton and die

>>96492476
because someoftentimes thy dont make fuckall sense

>>96491852
it used to be.

>>96491653
Maha has a hard time touching artifacts in a meaningful way. Also +1/+1 counters and anthems absolutely fuck the bird up.

>>96490542
This looks awesome so far! And yeah just small patches of trailing scales (and her wings when she gets to the right level to manifest them). I don't think the ability gives other dragon traits (unfortunately). She has bright purple eyes and pointed, but not super long since she's a half-elf, ears. Maybe they could poke out from her hair just a bit? For her chest, maybe a c cup? Bigger than the average full-elf due to her human blood, at least. Anyway as long as she's not a super-hentai elf with her boobs bigger than her head it should be fine lol. For muscularity maybe a bit of tone on her arms and legs since her top leaves her arms pretty bare. She'd probably have visible back muscles but only when she brings her wings out. She's not really like ripped or anything. Despite CON being her second best score she is still a squishy caster with like an 8 in STR lol.

This is pretty cool anon! Thanks for your interest in Val. I can't wait to see what you do with her :)

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>>96345871
just realized i forgot to share this here. hope you're still around anon

>>96492086
anyways. gimme more characters to draw, you know the drill. horror. gore. sexy girls or monsters or armored characters/robots, i want to practice metallics

>>96492089
I'd like to request
Alarmingly underweight researcher wearing hover-suit prototype, high-tech metallic full body harness that glows faintly, she's hovering inches above ground, picture of perfect mental health - shaved head, bags under eyes, sickly pale, burn marks/track marks/scars on her arms.
She's either naked besides the harness or is some minimalistic underwer (in either case, straps of the harness conveniently do the necessary to maintain basic decency).
Her expression is absolutely triumphant after radical dieting and some serious tinkering she managed to get just enough lifting force to get off the ground, validating tremendous effort she put into the project, didn't even need to cut any toes - which she absolutely would do if that made the diffirence getting the liftoff.
Hell, if you can be bothered doing a background, throw pair of industrial bolt cutters in the corner and whiteboard scribbles estimating weight of toes.

>>96492086
Backwards hand.

I compiled a list of skills sorted by default and learned that the Piloting skill is based on DX but defaults to IQ-6. Curious.

>>96491287
I'd say yes.
Significant new rules:
Injury Tolerance (independent body parts) - reprinted from Powers
Panic Attacks disadvantage
Some new improvised weapons
Alternative fright check mechanics
Corruption (the big, important one)
Other content:
Two decent settings (!PotC and WotW2)
Excellent advice on running horror games and making things scary (which can apply in other genres)
Decent templates and meta-traits

>>96491780
torrenting then buying if I like it.
>>96492024
I plan on doing that.
>>96492451
Thanks!

>>96492379
If they are just hallucinations induced by the equipment, then that's just a flaw in the device, same as how NODs can give temporary disadvantages like Tunnel Vision and No Depth Perception. You don't need to make it buildable with the advantage / disadvantage system because it's just gear.
If they are real entities, then they have some kind of Invisibility (or maybe high levels of Chameleon or Obscure) which doesn't work against this extremely specific technology. A web search says that the red night-vision made heat visible, so it seems like some kind of Infravision. I guess the demons could just have Invisibility in the visible spectrum and not IR, although that raises the question of why they only appeared in this specific instance. Maybe they realised they were being observed and improved their invisibility spells or something?

>>96492489
>>96492406
"Advanced" but faulty prototype equipment causing long term hallucinations sounds very funny for a group to deal with

>>96490047
The initiative system is great (up til 3e)
Didn't they change it later?

>>96491295
And this is healthy for the system how exactly?

>>96492212
It's not supposed to be, in every hobby you just need a lightning rod for all the cunts who absolutely need to feel superior to the others
In D&D and the like it's "system mastery", while in well adjusted groups you can get away with having fun too

>>96492212
cry about it bitch

>>96492419
Curious how people don't want to play with you. It must be everyone else's fault.

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>>96492333
Oh wow, no one gives a fuck. Andor is not Star Wars and will do nothing for Star Wars. It is a one and done pointless ugly slop for normalfags who don't even like Star Wars. Why are you so dumb? Just how fucked in the head do you have to be to defend anything Disney?

>>96492369
negative nancy

>>96492369
The OT is possibly the shittiest movies to have ever graced Hollywood. George's only worthwhile thought was making a universe for better writers.

>>96491431
Surplus battledroids have been used multiple times by criminal elements. And I could easily imagine some warships getting smuggled out. If a legal pretense is needed, maybe a corrupt Imperial officer sold 'scrapping rights' to a contractor and 'forgot' to ensure that fully dismantled them.

>>96492369
You mean two and done.

>>96488450
I mean, I believe it’s about a third of Americans own firearms, but many will shoot it once or even never.


your point is mostly right. you can teach someone to shoot a gun safely in a few hours, teach them to shoot okay in a few days, teach to shoot competently in a few weeks, and teach them to be warriors in a few months.

a lot of the “elite”ness is a representation of how much money an organization is willing to put into the individual. training is very expensive.

>>96482859
>Where does the idea that the Imperial Guard are elite come from?

From two places.
First, it comes from the fact that generally speaking, across the entire Imperium, there are only two "professional" armies of regular humans; Planetary Defence Forces and the Imperial Guard. Generally the PDF are given only the bare minimum of equipment and training and will probably only ever see actual combat if one of two things happen; if their planet is attacked, or if they're conscripted into the Guard.
Part of most planets tithes include soldiers for the Imperial Guard, and the first place they start taking them from is the PDF.
A Guardsmen who has been in the guard for 2 years and seen combat is much more experienced, and hence "elite" then a PDF trooper who has been in the PDF for a decade and seen no combat.

Secondly, because you, like the people who say the Guard are elite, are cherry picking your examples.
When the people who say the Guard are elite, they almost always talking about particular Guard regiments, or Guardsmen from a particular world, like Cadia (who are often portrayed as being the best of the stock-standard Guard), or Catachans, or other more prominent Guard regiments/planets .
Where as you, you are talking about the Guardsmen from backwater planets that are less well know and fall more into the 'Random conscript grabbed to fill the tithe quota. Basically like this anon >>96491358 said.

>>96489581
>>96490737
>>96490826
The Pacific Island Japs were legitimately fucking crazy. Sure, you could get some of them to surrender, but you have to keep in mind that
>strip down to your underwear, take this knife, crawl on your belly through jungle/sharp coral rock for 3 miles that way, then do your best to stab at least one person before you are killed
was a completely normal order to get, and it was executed on a nightly basis. They were hardcore as fuck. US Marines regarded them as essentially demonic in nature.

>>96483296
>posts the one SoF operating famous for going wrong
Okay, now let's talk about the operations going on literally every fucking week that you never even get to hear about.

Besides, it's not that SF are special for Matt-Damoning their way into Nuke killstreaks. They're special because of their extreme endurance, will to push on, and capacity to remain composed under critical circumstances, which is what their selection and training screens them for.

>>96487202
>Flak armor is about as tough as the Tau’s combat armor
Tau combat armour is carapace and pulse rifles are better than bolters. Their standard grunts are better equipped than Imperial elites like Scions.

>and the Imperium has bigger, better robots and tanks than the Tau
Which are very rare, in terms of the average stuff the Tau make vs the average stuff the Imperium makes the Tau stuff not only blows it out of the water in every way, but is also fully understood and replaceable without any issue.

>and they’re biologically stronger and faster and smarter than the Tau are.

Stronger and faster, sure. Smarter? There's more than enough reason to believe the opposite considering virtually every Imperium vs Tau engagement is the Fire Caste explicitly outsmarting the Imperium to even the playing field.

I have a strong suspicion you're just baiting though.

>>96469800
>Fluff
Gay.
>Mechanics
Borked
Any other questions?

>>96470252
DnD is super party focused so adding mechanical interparty interaction without actually raising the pvp flag seems like a very coherent idea.

Combat and balance issues are deeply rooted in the game and also in player preferences that fixing those is going to be an impossible task. Do you want combat as a sideshow, babby's first tactical game, full on minichess or a mudshit wargame?

I DMed it and I'm preparing a short campaign. It's a very nice system that actually breaks up the slow combat, but you NEED a good group with that one faggot hoarding the spotlight. It's very nice that the DM can react with negative consequences and even double turn in combat if he so wishes. Everyone on the table enjoyed that in combat I made actual boss fights with different creatures, tanking, debugging and buffing, and one big asshole in the back line who can resurrect fallen mobs by marking a stress. It's great only for established tables. If you try to run it with complete strangers, you are playing russian roulette with a shotgun.

>>96492472
Without* that one faggot

Shadow of the Weird Wizard does it better.

>>96491583
So it's D&D + a board game? they already made that, it was called 4e

Well, at least we know for sure for once that this isn't a shill, I don't think a shill would be so fuck awful at attempting to start a thread about something. What a fuckin maroon.

>>96489938
>5 fucking dice types
No

>>96474614
>Screenshot that you’ve actually bought it and aren’t just shilling, it’s late pledging so I know you could have
>actually tell us why you like it or have a brain of enthusiasm that doesn’t sound like an AI reading the game found
Those two things would at least show us you aren’t shilling

>>96491813
the fact that he's so bad at selling it is what shows he's not shilling.

>>96491214
ima fuck it

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Irenicus was so manly they turned him into human.

>>96487520
>redditor with a reddit image
Opinion disregarded.

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>>96491214
you love to see it