>>96605539
>Vancian casting perplexes me to no end
As 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.

>>96605892
Making 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.

>>96605539
I 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

Can someone please explain to me the appeal of the bloated Vance face? I see this spammed everywhere and I don't get it. Is this a r*dditor's star of david?

>>96605539
Find out EXACTLY (from you totally real not made up imaginary DM) how many encounters you will have per day so you can stock up on spells appropriately
Also tell him it's not metagaming, a wizard would know, sense danger, sense he will have to cum fireballs X times a day.

>>96605687
Lacerda already made a Knizia-esque game called Dragon Keepers (2 games in 1 box, actually)

>>96603516
My mom loves Terraforming Mars. She's a bit of a menace when she rushes TR rating to end the game quickly.

>>96605991
I should've added "mechanically", wasn't as obvious as I initially thought

>>96603516
I can barely teach them something like Cockroach Poker, and they're not even 60. Hopefully my exposure to vidya and board games means I don't end up like that so early.

>>96605662
But you already got that!

>>96606191
>>96606306
For those who don't know the Ravnica setting, it's a demiplane-wide city ruled by twelve mage guilds:

*Selesnya - a bunch of hippie communists who specialize in holy and plant magic

*The Orzhov Syndicate is what would happen if the Catholic Church fused with an organized crime syndicate. Using both holy and necromantic magic, they've turned loansharking into an art. And if you can't pay your debts in life, they'll be happy to raise you as a lesser undead to keep working. For a "modest" fee, of course.

*House Dimir collapsed thousands of years ago. All the history books agree. Of course, House Dimir wrote those history books . . .

A collection of spies, illusionists, psychics, and detectives, no one knows more of Ravnica's secrets than House Dimir. And if you know how to contact them, it's proof that they're willing to share (or trade). Why else would you even remember they exist?

*The Cult of Rakdos is a seemingly endless rave, kept going for the pleasure of the demon lord Rakdos. Music, drugs, bum fights . . .If it's fun, or "fun", it can be found in a Rakdos district.

*The Azorious Senate is an alliance of lawyers and cops who've literally weaponized the law, basing an entire style of magic on making/interpreting the rules

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I hate CYOA's.

>>96606685
It's scattered. Dei sends fake Demon Princesses to restore it.

>>96606779
Then don't participate. You don't see european footballers in the stadiums of american football.

>>96605134
>Culture
Native prettanoi
>Faith
Native creed
>Virtues
Bulky(-15)
Immunity
Warrior(-15)
Stylish
>Flaws
Ignorant
Moron(+15)
Naive
>Artefacts

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>>96600756
>>Exandria
>"Make it gay and lame!"
Ex-, former, previously but no longer. Andros, man.
Exandria thus suggests un-manned, a eunuch or a troon.

>>96604676
>Zoomer tolkien fan thinks all literature written before the year 1900 is "gay porn"
Are you genuinely retarded?

>>96604709
Nope. I am not you.

>>96591100
Why though?

>>96604676
Don't reply to him, he's already shown his hand as a contrarian faggot that has no clue about Tolkien, he's literally worthless in this discussion.

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>>96603977

https://mega.nz/folder/UvgX3CLB#ArpJzxU-mDimTRKGZ_alXw/folder/kyximYyD

>>96538722
>TQ
I don’t play Necromunda cuz I asked in my LGS’s discord server when they play and when I told them my gang of choice (Corpse Grinder Cults, who I chose cuz they looked cool) they said I wouldn’t get any games in cuz I picked a busted faction. I just like Khorne, man

>>96606738
Use CGC models, run 'em as Khorne-corrupted Goliath. Or find a different group, because fuck them and the horse they rode in on for turning away new players for gang choice.

>>96606807
Thanks for the encouragement, although if I REALLY wanted to play ‘munda i’d probably just have to play a different gang. Not too many LGSs in my area. Enforcers seem neat I guess. Them and CGC are the only ones that really catch my eye

Bit of a silly question but can a Van Saar Prime use both a Hystrar Shield and a Meltagun(rather than the overpriced combi melta/pistol) at the same time?

>>96606305
But the lines are so prominent, though. How can a thin couple of paint coats and some varnish even that out?

>>96605765
You sure can.
Can I interest you in 6 tribunes?
Or 3 greater demons?
Or my favourite, 10 paragon legion champions with jumppacks and meltabombs + 1 legion chaplain with jumppack and then you attach them to a 10 man praetorian command squad with a master of descent from the primary detachment.

>>96606090
'REMIUM 'RODUCT 'OVE, 'EST 'INIATURES 'N THA 'HOLE WORLD!
This has been an issue since they released the mechicum AT knights. They haven't changed since then
But the first image is a mold slip not a print line issue you would think they would replace THAT

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>>96605765
Behold!

>>96603839
>>96603962

For me, Vet Breachers are probably how I'd introduce 4 lascutters to a Spartan by having them all Clown Car into a Rhino and having it just yeet them out in a fairly good radius.
Although there's nothing wrong with doing that with something AV14 yourself.

>>96603868
I read that DH2 is the only system of the three that doesn't use actual money. I'm not sure how I feel about that. What do you think DH2 does well?

>>96603868
Expanding on that, 1e has entire pages of tables for your character to buy advances from and going outside that requires them to either spec into an alternate career rank that has it or ask to buy it (usually at an inflated price). 2e has an aptitude system where anybody can buy anything (except for psychic stuff unless if you have the psyker aptitude), it is just a matter if how expensive it is. I personally like the way 2e does character building since it allows far more variety even if everybody picks the same homeworld and background due to the role they can select in character gen.

>>96603894
Correct,

Dh2 has Influence
You get a number requisitions and you have to roll under your influence so it works like other stats

DH1 has money, careers have various incomes and every item has a price

In my eyes DH2 rules contain the needed fixes (tho I happen to be playing with 100+ pages of houserules) but DH1 jank has its charm too

>>96603954
Not that anon but I'll play Devil's Advocate and say the chargen freedom, to me, is a downside. I don't really like the modularity that second edition offers, and I find it more flavorful for a character to fit a specific niche. I also don't like how less dangerous second edition is than first edition. New acolytes are meant to be bumbling fucking retards, in my opinion. That said, neither edition is perfect.

Can anyone recommend some reading on the beatification process? Obviously going supersaiyan and incinerating a daemon counts, but there's also saints like Rybel Gorth, who kept a hundred minds safe in the warp. Who makes the final decision? That sort of thing. I'm thinking of having a player find out he was declared a Saint without realising it.

>>96606064
It was poorly handled in general, with a couple of especially weird project managers.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/05/world-of-darkness-the-inside-story-mmo-ccp-white-wolf

>Most of the sources spoken to for this piece identified the same problematic CCP manager, who had little vision for what the finished game would look like.

>“Not once could he answer any question about moment-to-moment gameplay or areas of focus,” says one source. “Instead, he preferred to deliver buzzword-laden rambles… It was not uncommon for him to communicate in onomatopoeia.

>"I once saw him looking over the shoulder of a programmer at some bit of User Interface the poor guy had hacked together. He straightened up, put fingers to lips and said, ‘No, this isn't it at all. Make it more... psssshhhh’ He hissed on his fucking fingertips, like the air coming out of a bicycle tire, and then just walked away.”

>>96606629
>>"I once saw him looking over the shoulder of a programmer at some bit of User Interface the poor guy had hacked together. He straightened up, put fingers to lips and said, ‘No, this isn't it at all. Make it more... psssshhhh’ He hissed on his fucking fingertips, like the air coming out of a bicycle tire, and then just walked away.”
Truly a modern da Vinci.

>>96606629
>identified the same problematic CCP manager
A name would be nice.

>>96606629
oh that's where this is from! friend in my group has been using
>Make it more... psssshhhh
as a meme for years now and i was always slightly confused

>>96603644
What is everyone's experience with running WoD one-shots?
As in, self-contained scenarios that can be played entirely in a single, few hours long session or 2 sessions at most, preferably with some of the players being new to the game. Can be with premade characters, but doesn't have to.

I'm asking because based on my experience I feel like most WoD games are really designed with a longer campaign play in mind, where you can really get into your character shoes, experience them struggling with their unnatural existence and everyday life in it, explore their place within whatever power struggles and intrigues they're entangled in etc.
I'm just kinda having a hard time coming up with scenarios that are short, self-contained things you can just quickly jump in and out of in this setting that would feel satisfying, unless it;s with PCs that were already estabilished in former games. But maybe it's just a me issue, so I wanted to ask whether you ran those, how did they looked like, what they were about, whether they were good and what are your general thoughts on the matter. Getting a regular group for a campaign can sometimes be tricky after all.

We mostly play oWoD Vampire and Hunter

What conversions would you guys be cool with before they get too sci-fi/silly? I'm thinking of using spare PanO Knights and Fusiliers for New Antioch and make a Fusilier a Sniper Priest, but would that be too sci-fi?

>>96605607
Most of the vibe-check is paint and silhouette so it depends, you can always cut away or fill all the greebles with milliput

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Ran a guy through a few learning games this afternoon, just some 700p basic matches with Great War.
I took a war wolf with generic heretics, felt bad, swapped deployments after he remade his list and took my usual mammon but without a war wolf.
He took the plague basic variant, then swapped to the variant where you can give zombies guns.
The entire warbands basically getting gas masks for free was quite a rain on my parade. As are the 2 attendants on a machine gun rot knight.
Anyway it was fun and he was happy he managed to beat out the heretics by 100 points in the second game.

Next time we play he’ll be going to 900 8 glory and we will see the horrors unleashed


What’s the deal with the big rulebook 1.0 btw. When are we expecting it?

>>96605607
I think the knight heads and bodies would look okay for new antioch if you took off the antennae, as would the fusilier bodies and legs. The main issue imo is the all the tech lines and lights in the armour not meshing well with the smooth, broad plates that Antioch likes to use, though to be fair the lights can easily get repainted as rivets.

>>96606451
>The entire warbands basically getting gas masks for free was quite a rain on my parade.
Yep normally it balances out as you end up playing multiple unique factions and people over the course of your campaign. But back to back it can hurt.
What were you running in generic heretics that you had enough gas for that to be impactful to your gameplan?

>What’s the deal with the big rulebook 1.0 btw. When are we expecting it?
Soon TM. Rumors say by the end of the year. Nice board anon

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>>96600421
I would have wanted to add as well...
>the Indoornesse
but Melan, while being admittedly a very gifted module designer, is a bit of a FOE in that he only gives distances in terms of time and not of space, so it's impossible to say.
>The Caverns of Thracia's Level 3
but as far as I can see there's no indication of how large the Palace Gardens are, nor any explanation of what defines their borders: Cavern walls? Or something more magical, mystical, eldritch, and arcane?

>>96600536
To be fair, Melan *only* does this with the Indoornesse AFAIK, so it porbably has less to do with him being a FOE and more to do with it being a liminal magical space which doesn't obey normal rules of physics (most obvious in the case of the castle within, of course).

>>96600609
Fair enough.

>6. Make a magic item
Blissbringer

This rune-inscribed pacifier is made of bronze, with the part that's supposed to go in someone's mouth covered in soft leather. When a wielder holds it and pronounces the name* of someone within line of sight, that person must make a save vs. spells/WIL/Int or the pacifier zooms out to them and plops itself in their mouth. That person is then unable to speak, drink potions, or do anything else with their mouth for 1d4 turns. Aside from spells that dispel magic, it is possible to remove the pacifier through brute force, but doing this does 2d8 points of damage to the victim as flesh is torn.

* Referee's discretion as to whether nicknames would work; I would rule that nicknames made up on the spot definitely would not, but if it was a long-standing nickname that the person responded to, it probably would.

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Down a player since one of our number left for college, but the rest of the gang got together to resume the campaign this week. Lantern year 22.

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I sadly don't really get to play KDM much, but finally got this resin guy painted up for a skirmish warband.

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>>96606605
Ran out of steam a bit near the end, but I think he looks eye catching enough.

>>96606605
>>96606608
that's really good, care to share your method for the armor ? will you coat it in gloss to make it look like porcelain ?

>>96606722
Cheers. White primer, glaze with very diluted pinks, purples etc for the shading, then lots of layered highlights with thinned white. Took a while compared to every other colour.

>>96599198
You would think, but it does make sense:
- Y/N surviving the fall isn't going to be a character design consideration.
- The character is spirited to a random place rather than character designed for that place. You might be able to glean info on the environment otherwise.
-You can use the same generated character and try again.
The main issue is just...why make them fall if not doing so is a precondition to play on. Just float them down. Can they get buried underground too?

>>96598744
>The GM must have been doing something right, because the server attracted plenty of players
It isn't really hard to attract plenty of people who are desperate for a game online.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/1no8sdt/your_new_pc_spawns_in_the_sky_and_splatters_onto/

>>96605177
wow. What a lazy piece of shit redditor.

>>96605177
>OP doesn't respond to a single commenter on reddit too

>>96606379
I don't know. Introducing the chance to brick on a black EX3 rookie from one line and this champion of the other seems like a bad idea.

>>96606379
Niche uses really. Raid Greymon could be used to hit floodgates but BT17 already did that while keeping the rookie's name and already nobody runs that.
Jamming Garurumon might be useful if they ever lose their bullshit option that replays any rookies they launch at security.

I think Date is the best Omni support this set.

>>96606399
I will never understand how digica players think about consistency and bricking. It's irrational in a way I didn't think was possible. You can literally force feed the most brain dead top-tier deck in existence to them, complete with rolling waves of support any other deck would drool over, and they'll go "EW NO WHAT IF PUTTING THIS INCREDIBLE CARD IN MY DECK MADE ME BRICK WITH THESE THREE SHITTY BLACK ROOKIES I PLAY???"

>>96606548
When you get this much support your main concerns shift more towards consistency of effects rather than abundance or even power levels.

>>96606692
Bro the card is raw consistency.

> Cleaning up the house
> Put off minipainting for half a year
> Feel like priming some up
> Can't find the bag
Real fucking cool

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>>96606258
This one. I fingerlicking love how anon did this cloth.

>>96606339
I feel like anon was trying to do a shimmering cloak with the lighting pattern but it is coloured too flatly. It needs more highlighting and contrasting black, but I do agree that the concept is really good

What's the best way to magnetizing vehicles for transport if they don't use bases? Assuming things like tanks that are mostly flat, shoving rectangular ones at the bottom of the interior?

>>96606770
Put the tank on a decorative base, and then magnetize that.

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>>96605445
Can't say i have seen this on telegram.

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>>96605456
>>96605456
That'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.

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>>96605456
>>96606226
found this in the pack that has been mentioned way too many times lately

>>96606226
What kind of scanners do scanfags use anyway? I have a bunch of armourcast shit in my collection.

>>96606732
google openscan