I want to get into pathfinder 2eR, and I really like playing wizards, but Vancian casting perplexes me to no end. Is there some sort of strategy guide? Like... How many fireballs am I supposed to prepare? Combat can come at literally any moment - how am I supposed to be prepared for the hundreds of spontaneous 'roll initiative''s?Am I just supposed to load the fuck up on panic spells and fireballs and use spell substitution to cast everything as a pseudo-ritual when needed? How the hell am I supposed to account for this shit without having 9 mega lethals in the chamber just so I'm not the most useless babyboy in the world during any surprise combat? How do I go back in time and kill Jack Vance to stop Gary Gygax from reading Dying Earth and copying the stupidest magic system available?
>>96605545Thank youOn an unrelated note does anyone have a wizard edit of JD Vance for me to print and slap on my spellbook
why do americans think about NOTHING but politics?
>>96605539>Vancian casting perplexes me to no endAs you little zoom-zooms say: Skill issue.>Am I just supposed to load the fuck up on panic spells and fireballs and use spell substitution to cast everything as a pseudo-ritual when needed?This has nothing to do with either Vance or Gygax. Vance had nothing to do with RPGs and Gygax left TSR fifteen years before spell substitution was a thing. Blame modern game designers being obtuse about magic-users not being able to "just win">How the hell am I supposed to account for this shit without having 9 mega lethals in the chamber just so I'm not the most useless babyboy in the world during any surprise combat?Welcome to playing a magic-user circa 1973. Have the fighting-men protect you, like a normal wizard.
>>96605892Making a low-hanging fruit joke while asking a question that has nothing to do with politics does not actually imply that the person in question thinks about nothing but politics, anon.
>>96605539I don't understand why people have trouble understanding Gygax's implementation of Vancian magic.I personally don't know what kind of system later editions use, but it seems perfectly normal to me that you copy the spells you want to use today into your spellbook and then if they work out, they work out. If not, the dungeon/adventure becomes more interesting.t. 1996 zillenial
Thread #001 Autumnal Equinox EditionWelcome to /schreck/ where you can rp your VTM character! For all questions concerning the World of Darkness, please consult the WoDg and CoDg thread>>96590318Brief rules>We have no story teller, we are acephali>Threads are v20 based, although the night is long and full of whispers, lies, and half-truths. Decide your own canon but all will not believe you>all nicktuku will be diablerized on sight>all OOC discussion should be spoilered let me know if I should add anything to the op post yall. And welcome back to oldfags and newfags alike!
>>96598161Drawing of our newest member Would you believe he's a camie Sombra?
>>96604397She tried to, but being my ex who got very possessive of me, the sheriff had to get involved. She got a sun tan for nearly breaching the masquerade chasing after me in a frenzy.>>96605495Mi Callíente? Oh She is doing wonderfully. We talk over the phone often, plan to visit her in the coming months. She made me a necklace out of the bones of some ghouled cartel vatos the Sword of Caine sent after her. They don't take kindly to independents it seems. By the way Mon amie, ive got 351632 reasons to be happy right now.
>>96598623Try injecting My Super Quaint Lessons on digital networks: don't cross the streams! You need to use the electricity instead of the kines wires. I'm certain you'll get what I mean.
>>96605814How much do you offer? I accept payments in money, sex or blood.
>>96598427Speak articulately around the blind. Sure we can see the dots and botches amidst the cracks but you don't need to spew silk like a spider. The rats did a hard job getting the threads respun & the walls of fire relit. Let's be good Tuna & not act like clownish. The other ones don't speak broken glass, and they have plenty of stake, doggies, houdinis & fake babies on their plates, it's the least we can do.
RETVRN Edition>Previous Thread>>96590318>Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/WiCHizn0>Mediafirehttps://mediafire.com/folder/s9esc6u7ke8k5/CofD>Mega Ihttps://mega.nz/folder/ePQ1BKhJ#RCosRCh59Ki2Mpb1M9H3Uw>Mega II (also containing fanmade games)https://mega.nz/folder/ZbQ2zLJA#DOT-3df6rS2lLet4_RmqJQ>WoD5 Megahttps://mega.nz/folder/7rQQ1LbQ#16_AiXVGo0P3_rVOJuoZyA>STV content foldersComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96606109It's kinda funny. During the commission process we were all asked for descriptions of the characters (obviously) along with 1-2 reference images. I believe she was described as dressing "modest and refined". I mean no disrespect to the artist at all when I say this, but that's how I learned that Mexicans have very different notions of modest dress compared to Americans.
>>96606166It did your group a favor I can tell you. The character is sexy in a way that many fan arts of VTM don't get it. Is a sweet spot hard to achieve. You believe she is a manipulator, but at the same time a social climber. The body is healthy enough to don't be a skeleton, and is attractive without showing off.
>>96606166>very different notions of modest dress compared to Americans.America had a similar definition back when it still had actual fashion sense. The fuck happened in the early 2000's that made everyone collectively forget how to dress themselves at the same time?
>>96606255>The fuck happened in the early 2000'sI blame the GodMachine.
>>96606166>>96606211>>96606255>>96606266>Four dubs in a rowThe God-Machine approves these messages.
Strength debuffs based on gender are problematic because women can be just as strong as men if not stronger
OP is trolling, just hide and report.
>>96605636Vegetable's primary meaning is any plant, as in "animal, vegetable, or mineral," more than its secondary meaning of "miscellaneous edible plant that's not a fruit, grain, herb, or spice"
>>96605611thats not true at all. i saw a girl do 20 pullups once
Show me a biological woman who can dead lift 1000 kg.
>>96605636Holy fuck you're an idiot. Wheat is still vegetable matter, fucktard. >>96605667Then maybe you should just put in 18s for all of your ability scores since you just don't seem to give a fuck
n5MILE 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:[YouTube] [Infinity Universe] Studio Update - Gen Con 2025 Seminar >Rules and missions:https://infinitythewiki.com/index.phphttps://infinitytheuniverse.com/resourceshttps://infinitytheuniverse.com/games/infinity/its>Beginner FAQs and guides:https://pastebin.com/x06JG55U https://pastebin.com/xtQzRcq5Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96602503Yeah that's not surprising. Having more orders is an advantage, there's no arguing against that, but a lot of people like to exaggerate that advantage until it's some sort of unbreakable law that Only 15-Unit Lists Are Worth Building. Actually, a lot of Infinity advice swirling around the internet is like that, inflating small factors into the only thing that matters. "Oh don't take that unit, it has -1 BS compared to a similar unit, and that small difference makes it absolutely useless." "This gun is a trap option, it has two less damage, don't even bother shooting it." "ARM 3? Made of tissue paper, dies to a stiff breeze."Ultimately, a lot of the advice isn't exactly wrong though! Even though a lot of it gets overstated, there are kernels of good advice there: having orders is good, shooty units should shoot good, pick guns that are effective, don't rely on ARM3 units to tank shots, etc. Rather than follow such advice blindly OR discard it wholly, it can be useful to think of it like this: what are you gaining by not taking this advice, or to put it another way, is what you're gaining worth the price you're paying? If you make a 13- or 14-unit list, are you doing this because the units you get to include are worth losing an order or two and this is a conscious decision you've made, or are you just being careless with your listbuilding? Is this gunner's neat gimmick really worth the relative -1 BS to you, or did you just grab it without thinking?
>>96599832In Caledonia i always used between 16 and 18 models, never went beyond 20, even playing 400 points
>>96602503It's more like "if you don't know what you are doing, maximizing orders is usually a good thung to start with". Some guy might start with an action pack and wonder why his 10 guys don't win him games, and in that situation bringing more bodies and orders is the logical first step.
>>96602341This one. F youhttps://youtu.be/qWtjUM8D9c4?feature=shared
But the problem I see with "must have 15 guys" approach is how second group is still limited to 5 orders. Since it's mostly also composed of defensive units (like some remote you park at spot and let it scare off people), someone who would activate at last turn to touch objective or be entirely situational, they don't need much orders anyway. In the end, it's still about main group of 10 people.
Summon the clans, inform the guilds, and pop the casks, it's dwarf time.
what's the best and most complete dwarf language?
>>96606216I made one up in highschool with the concepts of "proper letters" that could only be used at the start of a sentence, a more base tone required to speak it, and the formal language being easier to write but harder to speak and the common language being easy to speak and hard to write. But I wrote it in a notebook and that was over a decade ago. It no longer exists.So whatever the hell they speak in Fantasy.
"I always win my games, and if not, then I change the rules." - Uwe RosenbergPrevious: >>96588677Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8Survey results: https://pastebin.com/YJPZ44rqThis general encompasses all board game genres - Eurogames, Ameritrash, Ameritreasure, Fillers, Party, Abstracts, Wargames, and especially the game that one anon is autistic about at this very moment.TQs:- What is your favorite 2 player only game?- What is your favorite heavy game? (weight of 4+)- What's your board game hot take?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96601932Lmao just admit you're retarded
>>96604252NTA but while >>96604252 is ESL they're right. Saying that cooperative games are only for insecure people is asinine and reeks of insecurity itself. >coops gain little to nothing from being played by more than one playerIf coops really aren't your thing that's fine, but I disagree with this. It's fun working together to overcome a challenge. That itself is valuable to me.Meanwhile, solo board games don't do anything for me because I find the experience lonely in comparison. I'd rather play a video game at that rate.
Magical Athlete is so kino that i'm going to back Final Tian
>>96605687Lacerda already made a Knizia-esque game called Dragon Keepers (2 games in 1 box, actually)
>>96603516My mom loves Terraforming Mars. She's a bit of a menace when she rushes TR rating to end the game quickly.
It's Da PDF Share Thread!Get ready to stuff your hard drive like a cosplay hooker at a con!STEP 0:<----- That image is not a PDF, it's an image, at least for now. Check the 4plebs link below to find the PDF.PLEASE READ DA FAQ BEFORE REQUESTING OR SHARING.It will answer 99% of your questions about this thread. If you haven't read it, we will know.STEP 1:Please exhibit good manners. Threads start sliding off the board after a certain number of posts. More posts wasted on being rude means fewer posts available for sharing.STEP 2:Request, share, stay awesome!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96605752Those look to be the earlier official PDF releases, cleaner than old pirate scans but still reconstituted from their own scans because Palladium books that old never existed in digital form to begin with. The few books in question were completely remastered for the Titan Robotics Kickstarter in 2023, and will have that date on the interior copyright page. Some of them are in the current Bundle of Holding, maybe I'll finally pick them up and pass them along myself, I just figured they'd turn up sooner or later. Anyone who has them on their DTRPG library already could freely download the updated ones.
>>96600303Thanks, my guy!
Requesting:The Things We Leave Behind - An Anthology of Modern Day Call of Cthulhu ScenariosLooked in the current mega and didn't find it.
>>96595802req; Dungeon Drop 1 (2022) by Chris Bissette
>>96606006Is in /greatcthulhudreams
No internet, no phones, essentially no surveillance cameras.Now it's just ridiculous. Does the game even try to pretend it would be possible in 2025? I really like Sandy Petersen and Call of Cthulhu, for example, but I've seen a couple of extreme cope videos where he does the "you don't get it, 2020 technology gives an even GREATER advantage to the Elder Ones vs 1920!"
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>>96586249it aint plausible foh dis foo'
>>96588940Dude, the big players were already bought off looooong before the internet happened. You know all the people and corpos you're not allowed to talk about without getting labeled antisemetic, because they bribed the right people? The world of darkness is that with vampires, only the vampires are smart enough to not to deliberately reveal themselves by bragging in front of a camera.
>>96600048>AnecdotalThere was a study in some country measuring bug density by the amount of insect splatters on license plates Numbers had concluded that bugs were indeed less
>>96586249Vampires created GenAI so they could still claim everything about them is fake even in the era of easy recordings.
Mission EditionHere is a thread to discuss trading card games other than the big three.>Build Divide>Force of Will>Final Fantasy TCG>DBZ CCG>Wixoss>Keyforge>Gundam>Legend of the 5 Rings (L5R)>Digimon>Flesh and Blood>Gate Ruler>Battle SpiritsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
So I'm kinda curious and would like to try it out. What's the best way to get into FAB? An armory deck featuring a character I like?
>>96605454Armory decks are good entry points and recent ones have been decent with reprints and power. Avoid the Maxx deck because it sucks and the Aurora one was only CC legal for something like 53 days. But the others Jarl-onward are decent starting points. New set has Pleiades armory deck who is like a heavy metal bard. Older ones are hard to find and only Kayo and Dash IO's are worth it from that group. The current store play promo packs are reprinting the cards from those anyway.There is also smash palace which is like mtg's planechase and pretty fun as a small thing. Blitz longboxes for the last couple sets too which can function as tutorial battleboxes and are playable with smash palace though probably not your local armory.
>>96606142I was actually considering Maxx, but I also like Ira and Pleiades.
>>96606142>>96606160I ended up with Pleiades cause she sounded really cool and fun.
Would you rather be a Space Marine or a Stormcast Eternal /tg/?
>>96593721Straight up death is core ego death. Wtf. There is no down side to be a sigmarine.
>>96592838A stormie
>>96592838Space Marines are boring but Stormcast are a fag faction for people with zero taste
>>96593183Great Crusade Era they’d bother trying to turn adults into Space Marines if your were BFF with a Primarch (if was usually successful)
stormcastthe odds of scoring an elf chick are higher
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>>96605700>I direct you to how it was originally brought up:>Points to post that was 12 hours agoAnd this helps your point that discussion wasn't changed to something else a long time ago how exactly?
>>96602292This is just a brain dead response. "[CLASS A] gets a bag of tricks & can also do [CLASS B]'s job very easily""Uh yeah but have you considered [CLASS B] could beg for assistance from [CLASS A]?"Like what the hell kind of logic is that?The simple fix is easy in concept but harder to implement without just rewriting a new edition. Magic Items should be equalivant to spells /spell levels.A fighter gets winged boots, while the wizard gets flying spells, the fighter gets a bag of tricks while the wizard get summoning spells, the difference being that wizard spells are more temporary but interchangeable while magic items are more concrete. How do we prevent a wizard from getting both? Make spells as rare & equivalently expensive as magic items. Do that & everything evens out.While the fighter is seeking a powerful magic sword, the wizard will be seeking out an arcane tome, if he wants magic sword himself then it's gonna cost him. Spells are far too ubiquitous & powerfully niche. They have way too wide a range of effects & abilities. Spells need to be cleaned up & replaced by powerful, meaningful spells that work more with your wizard level than the "spell level" if anything, spell levels need to mostly go away. I'd be okay with some general purpose catagories like "petty magic, lesser spells, Greater spells, legendary spells" or whatever. But getting rid of spell bloat is a must.
>>96605732>"[CLASS A] gets a bag of tricks & can also do [CLASS B]'s job very easily"*for a limited amount of time per day, and then they become a commonerYour solution also sounds incredibly boring. It's literally the "Make every class the same with slightly different fluff" that made early 4e complete garbage.
>>96605725Topics don't drop off. The posts are not even archived. And most importantly, I was asleep and so simply responding to posts since I last checked the thread.>>96605732>This is just a brain dead response. "[CLASS A] gets a bag of tricks & can also do [CLASS B]'s job very easily">"Uh yeah but have you considered [CLASS B] could beg for assistance from [CLASS A]?"As D&D is a system designed for party interdependency, having gaps that you need another member for is actually worthwhile. The problem isn't that Wizards can do everything without a Fighter, because it's still drastically more slot-economical to deliver a Fighter instead of pure spell answers, it's that the Fighter has almost no ability to contribute outside this and so very easily gets stuck in a rut of repetitive and reactive behavior in anything else.>A fighter gets winged boots, while the wizard gets flying spells, the fighter gets a bag of tricks while the wizard get summoning spells, the difference being that wizard spells are more temporary but interchangeable while magic items are more concrete. How do we prevent a wizard from getting both? Make spells as rare & equivalently expensive as magic items. Do that & everything evens out.No, it just means that the Wizard now has an easy way to get permanent versions of their divergent buffs in exchange for the now-redundant ability to cast it hard, and cripples crafters who'd diagetically supply desired items for more niche strategies to the Fighter as you've inflated the few-time input cost. If you want to make spell access a constraint, you can turn down the freebies, make the Spellcraft check an actual problem, then shift spells out of the core Divine lists into topical Domains confining Clerics and Druids so that taking over the Fighter's role requires they refuse an entire category of other problem-solving.
Continued for running out of space>>96605732>Spells are far too ubiquitous & powerfully niche. They have way too wide a range of effects & abilities.Not a problem if you constrain access to prevent cherry-picking an arsenal of silver bullets from them as is the actual problem. Then you just prune the all-solving hammers and spells you can't fit into the access restrictions.>Spells need to be cleaned up & replaced by powerful, meaningful spells that work more with your wizard level than the "spell level" if anything, spell levels need to mostly go away.The slot economy separating degrees of effect even within one area of problem-solving is pretty fundamental and CL scaling already exists. You'd be better served starting with Psionics and compacting topics into Augmentation of the minimum effect set than overhauling a Vancian baseline.>>96605791>It's literally the "Make every class the same with slightly different fluff" that made early 4e complete garbage.Not quite, there's still fungibility differences of item slots versus spell slots, not that the anon seems to have the slightest clue what that does to the attempted balancing.
This is a general for everything 3D printed relating to /tg/ from sci-fi, fantasy, historicals, fantasy football, and more! Share your printed minis, terrain, print fails, 3d modelling, printing advice, works in progress, or anything else /tg/-related to 3D printing.>DO:- Post pics of your prints be they fails or triumphs- Keep discussion/photos about tabletop games only- Post your resin/printer/settings for faster advice- Help your fellow anons with advice>TRY TO:- Remember that this general is monitored by GWendolin and her lawyers- Not make a new thread until old one dies- Not encourage namefags, tripfags, fumefags and coomers- Not spoonfeed- Not war over Filament/Resin consoles- Keep your model pics naked (no paint/undercoat only)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96603897not any of the previous anons, but i usually just toss models into either meshmixer or the windows 3d builder and run a make solid, or self boolean, which turns any sealed void into a solid.it doesn't always work, but and the mesh mixer one can sometimes fuck up sharp corners, but i find it easier than trying to drill for tiny recesses at random.
>>96603316I can't say, I have seen either the griffon or salamander model on 3D cult.
>>96603316Sadly. All, I could find on 3Dcults are theses and they are recreations and not scans.https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/salamander-like-vehicle-wh40k?srsltid=AfmBOoompQ0B60Jr2NMSK6Tt8UYebn04q0x0EBnRuwU8e2gCJk8P8ErFhttps://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/griffon-like-vehicle-wh40kGriffon is very clearly an attempt.
>>96605445Can't say i have seen this on telegram.
>>96605456>>96605456That's a 2003 or earlier model, no wonder 3d printers wouldn't have it.Like half of the most wanted stuff from forge world is like 1999s material that 3D printers just never got scans of, I have some of the stuff from 1998.I'm going to sell it soon but, it will be extremely upmarked given the extreme rarity of what i have.Here's some of the guard stuff from 2003-2000 used in conversions.
Ooh he's a bad one when he's got his arms on edition.Previous Thread:>>96408299Check out here for useful links and a catalogue of relevant miniatures retailers:https://pastebin.com/nnNqqFLn
>>96604687Is this a diorama or a drawing? That'd help narrow it down. I have a vague recollection of the kind of thing you mean.>>96604858You know I don't think there is. in the Painting Space Marines guide that came in a white dwarf there was ultramarines, salamanders, blood angels and space wolves to give an array of schemes. And I've skimmed various blanchitsu articles form the time, some even featuring the crimson fists, but they don't really give much of a guide of any kind. But then the crimson fist scheme is so damn basic, it's like at best: a dark blue, mid blue, and light blue (or could be achieved by mixing from the mid blue), black, white, red, silver, bit of yellow in for the badges (and over white to undercoat for the red given how much of a pain the yellow and red paints were of the time to get bright colours with, not a problem now), and if you want to improve much of any of it get mixing paints because there's not that many to work with in the range in '87.But don't be afraid to go advanced on techniques, use ink washes, or throw in using fineliner pens (especially for that really fine chequerboard) and other mixed media stuff as that's what Blanche would do.
>>96601294Please paint him up and use him anyways. He'd look great in a unit of classic metal knights.
Once again sharing the RT magazine article compilation. https://gofile.io/d/yNK9bqWorking on a version two with a few new articles I've found and a cleanup of the formatting. Gonna be a while though, kids, school, and other stuff come first.
>>96604687Yep I remember it. It was only in the USA White Dwarf, around the middle to end of third I'd say.It was a two-tier game, with a 40k board with as you say, a Macrocannon built into a cliff, which was also shooting at I believe a concurrent Battlefleet Gothic game.I'm British and I only know of it because a friend brought that exact issue back from the USA to our local GW and showed us it.The various languages and regional versions of White Dwarf have had varying independence over the years, everything from their own articles to simply being translated. It would be nice to actually have a proper archive.
>>96605490Sorry for being late and all- the one I'm thinking of was a drawing- a cutaway, side-on drawing of the 'facility' with a numbered map for the rooms and everything. Not for playability or anything, just to tell you what room was what.>>96606187This is the first I'm hearing of an actual gameboard using the idea- for 40k at least, I know a couple historicals have involved the Longue-sur-Mer batteries, but it certainly sounds fascinating!Honestly, now I think on it, it wouldn't surprise me at all if the coastal guns were an inspiration for the macrocannon, in the same vein as 3rd Armageddon's being Operation Barbarossa.
Let's have a creature thread
>>96600938>What's your stance on posting your own stuff?I like to see what other people come up with> I've designed some creatures for different planets in my homebrew science fiction setting.post them
Some stuff I drew
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>>96603671>>96603678I like these.
>>96603671>>96603678These are great. Especially the reverse centaur and Bug Gladiator. The pot man having glasses and socks is somehow VERY OFFPUTTING.