>>96644324
No, the pic invents categories that affirm your preconceptions so that you don't have to think very hard and feel good while doing it. It's not helpful, because it's not appealing to anything real. It's just appealing to your biases. Which are about you, not your players. So learn social skills, instead, if you want to be effective in social situations. On which quite a lot of scientific and reproducible research has been performed.

>>96644352
There are scientific studies on levels of player investment into ttrpgs? No? Then the pic stands as the most prolific treatise on the topic

>>96644389
Your ignorance is your problem, not mine. Wanna believe that an issue of Cosmo can tell you which of the ten types of boyfriends make the best husband? Get together with your girlfriends at a sleepover, and run craig and jack through the quiz. You'll learn nothing but hey: maybe you'll come out of it with a perm.

>>96644223
I blame the spoiled self worshipping first world society we live in that causes people to have a wanton disregard for other people’s time. If you doubt it ask yourself when the last time someone showed up to a meeting with you 10 minutes early. Social, work, otherwise. I can’t name one. People will just cancel on a whim nowadays and whine about how no one wants to dm.

>>96638408
>The group has been on a ship travelling with a group of five Marines for almost a year now
They're bored as fuck with the "story" you're telling them and are only showing up because they are your friends and want to hang out. Scrap the entire thing, put them in front of a megadungeon, and stop trying to write a novel instead of PLAYING A GAME
>The paladin couldn't even point to the one his kid brother had a crush on and constantly followed around on the ship.
I really hope that kid brother isn't a fucking NPC who has a crush on another NPC lmao you seriously think your players give a shit about any of this? You can write fanfic on your own time

>>96643817
Bolt Action is a great and fun game, if you play 2nd edition. 3rd edition was completely unnecessary but for some reason they made it anyways as a GWesque cash grab and its decidedly worse than BA 2e

>>96636907 here
To the guy who suggested xenos rampant. Thanks.
I'll admit I went for it first because it has the word "xenos" in it, which is a word used a lot in 40k lore, but it's aspect of supporting many different genres of science fiction may be why I'm feeling a liking for it.
Not that I'm throwing away grimdark future also thanks for suggesting that. I need to give that a read now.

Thanks /awg/. I'm feelin' it.

>>96644291
If you don't mind explaining, what makes 3rd worse than 2nd from a gameplay perspective?
I just picked up a second edition rulebook from ebay, so I've got that nailed down, I'm just curious to know what I'm missing.

>>96644315
You're welcome anon, happy to have helped.

>>96644315

OPR is in flux one now, as the 3.5 beta is ongoing. Xenos rampant was more of a one-and-done thing. There was a faq which clarified some issues and I've heard some people play it with chit activation, which sounds interesting. I've used the 12/6 attack dice split now that I've been playing with my son, but I have mixed emotions about it. On one hand it makes the game faster and deadlier, on the other it kind of flattens the difference between elite and super heavy infantry, especially if the opponent brings a lot of heavy weapon upgrades on their units.

>>96644193
its games workshop 40k slop so no its not

>>96638795
The sweatshirts are genuinely high quality, the shirts probably are too.
>t. bought one from the last wave

>>96640640
that's the fucking point you retard.
every nerd hobby has been degraded because trying too hard to be inclusive of foids who don't actually care about the hobby
Explicitly stating "no girls allowed" is a breath of fresh air.
FUCK OFF MINDY

>>96644143
Man you are going to be pissed when the Not!Sororita or Tomboy shows up next episode.

>>96632402
>pelo
Only on SPOOKY MONTH and to do moky christmas. shame i miss his videos.
Speedoru is still around i guess,
if you count smiling friends that's 4 in total.
Sad days.

>>96644207
NTA, they've already said there won't be any sisters of battle equivalents.

>>96644330
>crypto miners

Seriously?

>>96644345
>Broooo just click my trolled links, nothing will happen just trust me bro xDDDD

>>96644345
no, the previous op did vandalize the links, but they didn't redirect to anything malicious, they just went nowhere
for the mega links they still try to go to the original source, but he changed the password part of the link. for it to be malicious he'd have had to change the address part
he told you the wrong password to get into the clubhouse, he didn't give you a false address to the clubhouse so he could mug you in a dark alley

>>96644369
And why would someone vandalize the links? And why would you trust them about not injecting some weird shit there?

>>96644404
>why would someone vandalize the links?
either he's a troll having a laugh or he works for paradox and is trying to take down our easy access to their pirated content
>why would you trust them about not injecting some weird shit there?
because I'm technologically literate and can see what he did and I know that he couldn't have done anything malicious?
to use everyone's favorite, food analogies, since my secret club analogy from the last post didn't stick with you, imagine you're at the store and you're buying a box of whatever food. you notice someone has taken a sharpie and written "penis" on it. there's no sign that anything else has been done to it, it's still sealed airtight. you're assuming that the person who wrote penis on the box also opened the box up and put some rat poison in there, even though it's still wrapped in plastic and clearly hasn't been opened up.

>>96642203
Redditors do from what I've seen on their forums. I can't help but imagine a nu-male looking guy sitting in front of a crying child, forcing them to play while explaining the multiple factions while another kid cheerfully chews on the pieces.

>>96641441
Have you tried Kemet? That sounds right up your alley.

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>>96632852
>GoA2
I've found it's much better at the 6 player + category. We played a 10 player game at the last con I attended, and it was incredibly satisfying on the 2 lane map. I would also be cognizant of everyone's experience levels with MOBAs and choose teams accordingly. I've played it maybe 6-7 times now, and I always try to self balance the teams ahead of time to keep things close.

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>AP Hell: The Game
I swear Five Tribes was designed to induce the most arresting kind of AP limbo. It features enough complexity and clarity to make you think that the best possible turn is within your grasp, that if you think just a little bit longer about it, you will get there. But you will never get there. You're trapped. You are trapped staring at meeple vomit.

>>96644283
why do people even get AP? it's a completely self-induced phenomenon. just play the game lol it's not that serious.

>>96643860
its not even cool just retarded and forced

>>96643678
Traditional games?

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>>96643838

>>96643898
I honestly pity you for being too far up your ass to enjoy things.

>>96644189
>dude, you're a pretentious fuckwit if you're not like me, and enjoy the same exact thing cynically shat out over and over with no creativity or divergence

>>96644104
Oh also as a fun note. If you add gold necklace and chains to a prompt you will have a decent chance at making the character black. Wonder why that is.

>>96644157
There's a joke in my country that goes like that:
>What's the difference between a black man and a tire?
>When you put chains on a tire, it won't start rapping.

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>Emogoatposting

>>96637436
>SPQR has, apparently, been discontinued
I see no problem here. No DLC slop was every released for SPQR, all you need is the core book which you can find online for free.

Konflict 47 looks so fucking gay now

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>>96643682
>>>/tg/awg

>>96643723
No, you gotta keep him.

>>96643682
It looks awful, does it even play with Bolt action rules anymore?

>>96528583
Bump for interest.

Not much to report on this end, just sculpting and sanding and sculpting again on various Mu things.

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>>96632162
Post game analysis from the Austrian side.
> I feel like I lost the game at the list building step, because the Expedition I had didn't have much else in mind but the Hund Bomb, and the parts I used didn't entirely support each other. The Peasants were meant to force the enemy to move forward and get into positions upon which I could either throw a single Hund supported by its Geb, or if the target was juicy enough, spawn the whole mob of doggos. It may have been useful against an artillery list, properly screened, but in this case Atlan anon doesn't need to feel shy about engaging me, hund or no hund, he had enough numerical superiority to keep pressure despite the attrition.
> The Captain was meant as the one melee option to pick on stragglers, perhaps flank around, but as usual, committing your Leader to melee is, well... most often really dumb.
> Tyrolean Hunds seems a bit overcosted at 5, I think 1,2,3 for the doggos could be fine.
> Hunds should roll for Ethnicity. Why? Because its dumb and I want to.
> Inat! should specify that it never turns anything into a Critical result (its kind of already implied by the fact Criticals are supposed to be natural rolls but adding the mention wouldn't hurt).
> Gebs are definitely strong, but basing a whole list on them at 150 is probably a mistake. At least, It'll probably work a lot better replacing the Captain with the CEAIC Financier and the peasants with the Violinist so you can get a bit more Silver toward recruitment.
I should be available for games this week starting Wednesday evenings, then Friday Saturday Sunday again.
> Pic unrelated. Gorgs are always on my mind.

>>96643440
Kill yer gargoyle and the poofter

>>96638800
>under thrall of a blood bond
I don't feel very thrally, if that means anything. She's just a hot older woman with more to offer than the regular sort of hot older woman. I'm not a fan of being told practically nothing while being sent to fetch shit that may or may not be giving me shadow cancer, or doing other dumb, dangerous errands like that, but it's still an okay deal. Immortality's kind of a good thing. This way I don't have to worry about ever losing what gives me any sort of value, at least. I don't get much beyond the whole immortality package, sure, but I don't really give much, so it's fair, sort of?
>There is a very likely chance that your Sire will soon grow bored of you and cast you aside without a second thought
Yeah, I know how being superficial arm-candy tends to go. I'm fine with it, I'm not under some delusion that she's deeply and innocently in love with me, and I'm not that with her. And I'm vaguely guessing her 'soon' is 'a few decades on the low end', which is kind of a lot.
It's not great, but I can live with it, you know? Or unlive? Whatever the fuck. And if it'll be sooner than a few decades, I guess I'll have to figure out something.
>draw your own conclusions.
If I do that I might walk away from this convinced that I am obligated to worship Satan since all the cool vamps saying weird shit do it. Using my own head sounds risky.
Really though, what's with the snake thing? Offer me your side of the snake thing story, the guy with the dated Conan reference has something going for his side.
>>96639541
Switching to using an actual screen name because I guess I am getting all my So You're Dead And Cigarettes Spook You 101 info from here, might as well.
>How many "siblings" do you have, if you don't mind me asking?
I honestly have no clue. A lot are out of town, either doing stuff or just off, doing their thing, apparently. My Sire (this is so gay) doesn't really mention ones who aren't around that much. I personally met six.
>cont'd

>>96643726
I won't go into too much detail unless somebody cares, that seems like oversharing. But of that six, four are like me, picked because we're appealing. The other two look like her a lot, and while I don't really know for sure, I think she might've made them into vamps in part to get to use their civillian identities. I guess it's hard to pretend to be the same art professor for more than like twenty-five years without people asking why you do not age. I had to do some jobs with them, so while we don't really hang too close, I got to chat a few up. They mostly don't seem too interested in me, which I guess means I'm not special and there's a bunch of us. Or I am just boring, which is fair.

No clue how old any of them are. It's kind of fucked up, hearing a five-foot-two-inches, nineteen-looking goblin wearing literally every shitty emo fashion piece item I've seen, down to mismatched fishnet gloves and whatever those dumb little star stickers are called, tell me she had some intense fucking opinions on Dreyfus back in the day. I told her I don't know who or what a Dreyfus was, so she spent fifteen minutes autistically detailing 120-year-old political drama she picked up from the newspapers and gossiped about with her cohort of exactly as psychotic teenage socialite women. I'm at this point just praying only she got made into a vamp and the others died of old age, because I don't think I can handle more than one of her.

From what she and my Sire said, I'd guess I have like fifteen 'siblings' total? Maybe more? It's a really vague guess. She's really old, and she implied a bunch that she kept herself sane by playing at being human a lot. Given how she is about pretty things, so I'd guess the real number has to be way more, but I don't get the logistics of it, if that's the case.
>>96640087
>They grab anyone they can, the homeless, nighttime joggers. One time I heard a group of them went into a micky-d's at 3AM and did the whole restaurant.
What the fuck.

>>96643894
Can confirm. Graduate of Shovelhead U, Magna Cum Laude. Not quite valedictorian though, sorry to say.

I was a moderately athletic college student that got lured into a mass embrace under the false promise of pussy. To be alive again. Might've been under a charm looking back at it. Turns out the "shovel party" was a lot more literal than the girl in my Russian Lit class said it was. She was a ghoul of the guy organizing it. They hit me over the head with a shovel, which by the way doesn't knock you out quite like it does in the movies, and then I was drained dry, embraced, and thrown into a shallow grave. They made me dig myself out. The worst part was sputtering like an idiot in front of the big vampires, because we don't breathe automatically anymore. I was so heated someone had to point it out to me. They kept me real hungry for a few nights, always on the edge of frenzy. Then I and about... thirty other sad sacks were sent at the Camarilla's big boys as the vanguard. Of my mass embrace, I was one of two that survived the year.

I got to become "True Sabbat" after I presented the severed head of some unfortunate Camarilla neonate to the Bishop. Most Sabbat these nights got the same start I did, but some nepo-babies (that's what the mortals are saying now, right?) get made True Sabbat immediately. I despise them on general principle. The trick is to find a Nomad Pack. It's more dangerous than being a city pack, but immensely worth it. City packs have to kowtow to elders. Nomads come and go as they please, I have never had to drink the bath blood and I never will. When I found a group of nomads that'd take me, I made sure to kill the bitch who tricked me into the mass embrace on my way out. She was just a mortal after all. I'd be happy to answer any questions about the Sabbat you have without the used car salesman routine most of my sectmates like to put on for even slightly overworked enemy licks.

Oh, and seconding the "never trust Setites" thing.

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Tremere cuckold (the one known as the Chicago Cuck, you know which one) tried to argue with me so I just said
>lmao whatever you say cuck
and instead of replying both he and his loyal gargoyle went on their phones and started typing.
Are they calling in reinforcements? Should I be worried?

>>96643308
Smaller than the last one, it seems. Maybe all the big planets in this sector are gas giants or something. Or it was a very dust-poor region of space to begin with.

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>>96643308
22.000km circumference

>Axial Tilt 1d100

Lots of small worlds now, if the last planet also ends up being small I might just rename the sub-sector to like the "Solpearl", or the "Bauble Region" sub-sector, something of those lines if you Anons also think it would fit better

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>>96644204
Forgot to mention that I added the cemetery world. Let me know if you want anything changed as well.

Rolled 3 (1d100)

>>96644204
Im going to offer this idea: Perhaps this (so far fairly poor and weak sector) has lost its original Capitol to exterminatus or enemy incursion, and is suffering the aftereffects of having to do without one of its original strongpoints.

>>96644359
None, so no tilt

>Length of Day 1d100-10

>>96639021
Does Tekumel even have a metaplot?

>>96634928
>I see nothing desirable whatsoever in keeping up with a setting where nothing you do in game could ever matter at all because the mary sue is already destined to ruin the setting in short order.
So just decide that he doesn't? If you're the GM then you could have Argrath die off screen in session one and continue however you want.

>>96639329
I already do. I'm saying i'm getting pissed with their focus on it and I feel actively disinclined to buy their stuff due to it.

>>96640268
Really, what focus on it? Outside of King of Satar they don't really have any official writing on the future of the game after the game start. Just up to about a year after 1625 with the death of Kallyr and the uncertain future of Dragon Pass it brings.

Barely any of their RQ:G stuff even alludes to it. Just that Argrath is an up and coming major power player after the Prax rebellion.

>>96642878
We saved Kallyr in our game. There’s an official adventure where you go kill cursed ZZ revenant and take a piece of Ernalda’s mirror which grants one use divine intervention, no roll, no POW loss, no question asked.

Are inquisitorial retinue cells usually led by an interrogator, or would it be reasonable to have autonomous cells acting on their own?

>>96626254
As long as i don't end up there during a Grave War, in the southern badlands where everything was fucked in an ancient war, or in the greenskin empire i should be fine. Things would be real bad otherwise.

My setting is ruled by magical women who are hostile to men, so no.

>>96641871
What's the system?

>>96626254
Do I isekai in with all the knowledge of the person who invented the setting? Or am I just rolling the dice and going in blind?

>>96643980
Femdom settings rock

>>96626260
This is much better. Does a lot better job selling this, nice.

>>96552480
Any tips for using these please?

>>96479550
Hey OP, got any other projects in the works?

>>96633054
That's good to hear.

>>96635940
For using VS Code and Make? Not really, VS Code is just a text editor, I have no fancy setup. And Make is a standard Linux util for building (I use it from Windows, but it is the same).

>>96639156
Well I also have a regular job, so I've got my trying not to get fired project in the works.

>>96640143
I feel you. I swear my job just seems to drain me.