I never have any appropriate images for these kinds of threads.What are you working on right now?Any issues? Lacking inspiration? Smashing your head against a creative wall? Or just having a hard time getting all these pages done? Tell us about your projects and progress.>Resources for the aspiring developer>https://anydice.com/ (A fantastic resource for checking probabilities)>https://miro.com/ (A online whiteboard with tools to help organize yourself)>https://www.notion.so/ (Similar to the above, but in a bit cleaner format for those who work in larger teams)>https://rolz.org/ (Impromptu playtesting at its finest)>https://www.youtube.com/user/georgephillies/playlists (Game Design Lectures)
>>96758127I just realized that there's an oversight in one of the cards"Gothic Witchblade" can't be blocked if the opponent has no cards in their handthat's redundantthe defending player must pay the Rank cost of a minion in their hand to assign it as a blockerso, if that player has no cards in hand, they can't block anywaynow, it's more like an "assassin" type of creatureit can be deployed to deal direct damage to another minion, and that ability costs less the bigger the difference between the size of your hand compared to the opponentwhich ties to the hand disruption theme of the deck in general
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Any RPG brewers here? I'm designing one for fun as a little side project and I've spent a lot of time reading different games and also running them for my group in between our sessions. Right now the only thing closest to concrete I have in my head is an idea I have for the main gimmick of how combat works, but I don't know if it's even the right approach to build the other 90% of the game around that gimmick. How would you design a game from scratch?
>>96768954whats the gimmick?without knowing more its impossible to gauge.but having it centered around a single mechanic shouldnt be too bad, but how can factors such as attribute, equipment, player choice, environment and alot of other things effect it?also whats the vibe of the game? how crunchy do you want it to be?
>>96768954Much depends on the gimmick. You can say that Slugbluster is based around a single gimmick of buying story pieces, or Electric Bastionland is based on a single gimmick of a randomized hex crawl. However, it is obvious that they are based on already established viable rules like BitD action resolution, and have a lot of content to run a very specific campaign. So what I want to say is you don't necessarily need to design a complete TTRPG for friends since it is a huge project that requires a lot of time, work, and dedication. But you can take the game you like and use homebrew combat on top of it and run a campaign. It sounds more realistic and something one can accomplish. An achievable goal is the most important thing in any hobby.
Welcome to the Old School Renaissance General, the thread dedicated to TSR-era D&D, derived systems, and compatible content.Broadly, OSR games encourage a tonal and mechanical fidelity to Dungeons & Dragons as played in the game's first decade — less emphasis on linear adventures and overarching meta-plots and a greater emphasis on player agency.If you are new to the OSR, welcome! Ask us whatever you're curious about: we'll be happy to help you get started.>Troves, Resources, Blogs, etc:http://pastebin.com/9fzM6128>Need a starter dungeon? Here's a curated collection:https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/94994969/#95006768>Previous thread:>>96704041Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96768998Its more compatible than most nusr material that tends to get even further away although the various skill and feat equivalent seem less interesting to me, ymmv. ime this make it about as osr as the without number series. So enough, but borderline.
>>96768011huhthat is kinda weird
>>96769083Yeah, wow, really weird, completely true and not made up bullshit at all. Dislike of 2e just came out of nowhere. Vast hive-mind conspiracy, Protocols of the Elders of Spreadsheet Commodity Tracking behind it for sure.
>>96769083It would be if it were true;https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/text/2e%20off%20topic/end/2023-11-30/ - All mentions of 2e needing to fuck off before the banhttps://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/text/ACKS/end/2023-11-30/ - All mentions of ACKS before the banIt's a wilful attempt at deception. Same as his 'Oh, here's a profile talking about ACKS and only ACKS on reddit'Then you click the link and well would you look at that, they're also talking about:>Tome of Adventure Design>Worlds Without Number>Perilous WildsAnd, funnily enough:>ADnD has assassination tables, disease tables, prostitute tables. Those are all things that come up in play (depending on the group) and came into play during Gary’s games. ADnD also has a smidge more “superhero” play at the upper levels because of Wish, teleport, and other spells.Me oh my, they even recommend AD&D, our Fishfaggots favourite game.I suppose this means that it's secretly his reddit profile and we can start conspiracy boarding about how he's been planning this for years, ect.
>>96769115That screenshot is not saying what you think it's saying.Also, there's always been mixed feelings about 2e, just like there's been mixed feelings about every game.But the brigade-style efforts to treat 2e as offtopic in this general are a very recent affair.
How do you prefer your magic, and how did you design the system for your setting?
>>96756169Okay, this is based. Like, 1000% based. Did you ever write anything up for it?
>>96617229My settings magic ended up getting so complicated it needed me to make a wiki and give it a page. In short though,in the setting theres the physical plane - and the astral plane which invisibly overlaps it. In the astral plane, ideas take the form of a sort of mist, with denser concentrations of ideas becoming thicker and even changing states of matter in some cases.Some ideas are more powerful than others, namely if they are attached to powerful entities (such as "nuclear bomb") or connect to many other ideas as a root (such as "destruction" tying to "death", "pain", "darkness", "purity", etc.) Magic of any kind is when you take ideas from the astral plane and actively use them for an effect.Spells are large strings of ideas brought together, and are usually shortened verses of a larger prayer or poem. The poetry itself makes the phrasing easier to remember (poetry is meant to be spoken after all), and also allows for more subtle explanations of ideas to be said in fewer words by relying on the reader's understanding. You could theoretically detail every elemental step involved in making a fireball, but its a lot quicker and memorable to remember a bible verse than a 20-step cooking recipe without a book.Souls are themselves collections of information (for example human, male, womanless, penniless, a10 eyes) detailing every detail about yourself. Your body creates lots of magical energy due to all the concepts in it, regardless of if youre aware of it or not. If you can awaken the chakras in your soul (through traumatic life experiences and/or personal growth), you can cast spells or temporarily remove them to use astral projection (a la jojo stands).Or you can just ingest sentient hallucinogens that temporarily awaken your chakras to make deals with powerful magical entities and have them do stuff for you
>>96756169Where did you get this idea? And how much damage did it do?
>>96696947I agree, my focus items are just amplifiers. They let the mage channel more energy with less strain on themselves.
>>96617229What are magic systems so bad that they make you want to tear your hair out because they’re so shit? get to dislike Harry Potter magic as I got older, as they make no real explanation of why magic responds to pseudo-Latin words, say that you apparently need magic to make potions despite what Snape said early on, etc.
Yu-Gi-Oh! General #582YaJo's Wild Trip EditionPrevious thread: >>96699108Most Yu-Gi-Oh! discussion encouraged. Post OC, write dumb fanfics with bad CaC in them, duel each other, have fun, etc.>Yu-Gi-Oh! Online PlayAutomated Sims:●EDOPro website: https://projectignis.github.io/download.html●EDOPro: https://discord.gg/ygopro-percy●YGO Omega: https://discord.gg/duelistsunite●Dueling Nexus: https://duelingnexus.com/●Master Duel: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1449850/YuGiOh_Master_Duel/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I seriously downplayed the importance of this card for a Witchcrafter kit until I got back onto the Witchcrafter grindset. It should be no surprise that a card that gives you instant access to your main deck bosses in response to getting ash'd is good, but just being able to put Haine on the field to insulate you from stuff like Imperm and Veiler while you're setting up is pretty freaking amazing. I can probably stand to make the Witchcrafter parts of my deck a lot more compact because of this card.
>>96768229>Glass Magic - Tears of LightChuunikino name
>>96751788>Forgot to buy the QCR blue eyes white dragon >It has doubled in price since the last time I saw itI should have been faster. This is nobody's fault but my own.
After playing Genesys across Duelingbook, nexus, and a few games in person since the week it dropped, I have to say that its a good idea, but if they opt to keep it competitive and not drop the ceiling its going to die like the main format has in numbers. There's too many decks playing on level with their advanced counterparts while you are at ends trying to fit handtraps in to keep them at bay. Ninjas, Gladiator beast, Lightsworn, and other odd decks got neutered while decks like D ruler get to fill in gaps easily with Armed dragons, Onomat have their newest, strongest wave untouched, and generaider put up boards of 5 cards easily when left uninterrupted.It's a great idea, but they need to either admit that you need 15 handtraps to play still and adjust as needed or murder the past 4 years worth of archtypes with more points and forced omissions due to space.I really hope they figure it out, as I do want Yugioh to stay around. This format brought a lot of people back to my locals casually, but its starting to wane because of obvious metas forming. That meta being the obvious haves vs have-nots.
>>96767139>I would call Tearlaments the strongest female only archetype in history if we ignore Kaleido but otherwise, which ones take the cake?Seriously? It's not as broken, but the deck is 100% girls, since robots have no gender, even the extra deck is sometimes 100% girls too, as some lists don't use dharc.>>96767380Gishky only really works with spright, but the synergy just isn't there in TCG because elf is banned.>>96768229The spell is so amazing that it's seeing use in magistus mitsurigi piles in OCG, since genni can copy the effect, but not the cost.
Breaking the siege EditionPrevious thread:>>96665172>Thread Question:What helps you choose and focus on the ongoing project? How do you decide what to work on?>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.
>>96768143>getting so mad you’re not getting (you)s you reply 3 timesheres one out of pity now go back to whatever dnd thread you crawled out of
>>96768246NTA, but you actually got me to think about this. I can't think of a single example that isn't just the government genociding peasants and farmers
Finished my rider now, supposed to be Conrad of Montferrat. Participated in the third crusade, showed considerable talent and leadership, quarreled with Richard and Philip, elected as the new king of Jerusalem and was promptly assassinated by the assassin cult on his way home from a dinner party.
>>96769009Amazing paint job, very nice. It's always funny to see random 4chan anons who paint better than the "professional" in house painters at Warlord Games, Mantic, WGA, etc.
>>96769009Too bad Vlad got him too.
Island of Blood edition>Resources:WFB: https://pastebin.com/qVGrgwwhWM: https://pastebin.com/EsDAgebaWFRP: https://pastebin.com/inbyBsR6Novels: https://pastebin.com/PFqPDr0H>TOW:https://gofile.io/d/fxFgXShttps://www.warhammer-community.com/the-old-world-downloads/>Warhammer Chronicles:https://files (dot) catbox (dot) moe/0xt777 (dot) zip>Time of Legends:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Skirmishers are generally fine on rounds right? For dryads, specifically.
>>96769056Thats usually how most are signified as that with stuff like gobbo fanatics.
>>96769052>he tRuStS the ScIeNcESure buddy and the earth is round too!
>>96769095>he thinks the earth is a square plate mate
>>96769122Please, it's clearly a triangle, God just rounded out the corners
What do you look for when buying dice? Coolness factor, edgyness, functionality? What's the coolest dice you own? The shittiest.
>>96768993>>96768997Happy you're achieving your dream anon
>buying fancy dice for make believeAnd you wonder why you can't afford a nice car & house.
>>96768468Ok hardbody you don't gotta prove nothing to us. Pay dirt your pew pew hobby and we'll pay bank for our clatter clatter hobby, we can still fight about it next dice thread.>>96768513It's all Indian remains fished out of the Ganges river by their countrymen and dubiously sold, anon, what's the problem?
>>96769069Everyone with a nice car and house are laughing as they pay several G for a single outing outfit and you still wonder why you are universally hated.
>>96769002Philistine
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.
>>96765525Does Splicers have immobile fortress armors? Like a huge forest that's one organism designed to defend a settlement inside?
>>96766573the Gardeners Nursery Suit technically qualifies.
>>96763456No new Rifters since #85.>>96764656No. Several reprints have been put out.>>96756155Yes, but most are waiting to get their hands on the TMNT & OS Redux books. >>96766573No. A living mobile fortress that would contain a colony is too slow, too obvious and would consume far too much to be viable. Both Gene-Pool & Brain-Pool, not to mention active Engineer and Librarian, are immobile upon maturity.
>>96768773Not mobile. I specifically said non mobile, & plants should be able to be powered as long as they have water & the sun right? But just one huge emplacement with a colony inside
>>96768977Then I misread your initial post. My apologies. You should check the creation rules in the Splicers main book.
Trench editionPrevious Heresy: >>96747573>Legacies:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>HH 3.0 - Complete gofile - All Books:https://gofile.io/d/cnJk0N>New Edition, to a great wailing and gnashing of teeth:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/setting/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Official FAQ/Errata/Downloads:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Thread FAQ (very old, remembers Age of Terra)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96768738every time I even saw photos of someone's Fulmentarus they were in AL armiesone dude literally had 30 of them, and I know I saw those pictures in /hhg/
>>96768481anybody else think it's weird that the melta lance is the only melta weapon that doesn't have the Melta (X) rule? it's a good gun, it'll fuck shit up with D4 and S9/10, but it's the only one and I think it's intentional because it has native Armourbanestrange
>>96768602I hate to say it but Iron Hands
>>96769025Huh, seems to be a carryover from second, guess it's just a thing for that weapon.
>>96769049We do get two different faction terminator units
Trench Crusade General - /trench/Let's Make A Warband Generator Edition>What is Trench Crusade?An alternate weird history 28mm/32mm tabletop skirmish game still in a pre-release playtesting phase but with the full release slated for this year. Based on the art and lore of Mike Franchina, whose illustrations you may have seen floating around on /tg/ for a several years now, and designed by Tuomas Pirinen, one of the original creators of Mordheim. It's grimdark, it's visceral, it's awesome, and it's very Blanchitsu.>What Trench Crusade is notTC not an excuse for you to discuss IRL religion, history that didn't occur in the game, culture war shit, or discord bullshit on /tg/. Keep it on topic.>What's the QRD on the background?The Knights Templar turned heretic and opened the Gates of Hell when they took Jerusalem during the First Crusade. Over 800 years later the war is still ongoing as technology has developed to a pseudo diesel-punk WW1 standard and a third of Humanity has sided with the Infernal Princes.>How do I get started?All the files are free online, but are split between the website and the discord. They have all been collected here for your convenience:https://mega.nz/folder/70QH0BBa#Eg-blxYQKkY_C02wErnFTQComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96766693>isnt the entire appeal of trench crusade to kitbash your minis for this game?Not all, but it's a lot. It means that most armies will not resemble each other, and it's kinda a treat to see.
>>96766693getting to customise your warband with its own quirks and features is a big part i reckon
>>96766693>GW minisYou lost the plot here. Giving them your money to play other games is extra sad ngl.
>>96768384clearly they mean Gross Weird minis.
>>96766693My buddy has a resin printer that my whole play group uses. Apparently Telegram has a lot of free models available.He joined a Krieg model group and was surprised to see that everyone in it was an actual Nazi. I’m not really sure why he found that shocking.
Sexy Hooker Edition>Previous Thread>>96694677>what is curseborne?Curseborne is the newest Onyx Path Publishing TTRPG on dark urban fantasy genre. It's about being unapologetic monsters in a world where being monstrous is the least of your worries. In Curseborne, you play as Accursed, descendants of monstrous Lineages lurking in a modern world that closely resembles our own. You rebel against the ancient feuds between these entwined families, as well as against the web of curses that bind you, while fending off inhuman antagonists seeking to claim — or reclaim — your power.>early access download (it's a zip, and the folder is in alphabetical order so go search for it)gofile <dot> io/d/O6yTIy>player's guide drafts/manuscriptsIt's in newvola for now>official websitehttps://www.curseborne.com/>OPP forumhttps://forum.theonyxpath.com/forum/main-category/curseborneComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96756103Thanks! I was hoping they wouldn't come off as OP. I like the idea of rings that could be functional enough as brass knuckles & also the idea of rings being a symbol of dominance & lordship so they grant you influence over those you punch. Especially spirits & ghosts & other ephemeral entities. Just punch the ghost til it submits to your will!The other one was more me wanting to do a pun on Hermes Wings & Wingtips the classy shoe style. I wanted to say they made you fly but im not sure if there was any distinctive rules for flying yet
What's the best Lineage/Family for a l8minality spelunker/streamer? Like, they wear a gopro camera, maybe uses a drone, they go I to liminalities, sharing their experience with the world online, probably will have the Fame Edge.
>>96764575Nephelim are liminal cartographers, so those guys more than likely.
>>96755029NTA, but why not?
>>96744183Okay, what are your hopes for the future of Curseborne? I asked in the last thread near the end and two suggestions were module books and books for each Lineage, what about you? I’d like more Families and/or Lineages based on Greek mythology, like picrel.
Dueking Edition Here 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.
>>96766629you forgot the other big offender, wing zero being so far ahead of the power scaling that slamming him once can swing the game instantly to you so hard that its a top meta deck just to stall until you can play himcard is like 5 sets ahead of the power creep
>>96766898if it's half as good as legends of runeterra it's gonna be great
>>96768711Yugioh and Digimon, the best card games.
>>96768711I usually try to only focus on one at a time, but I started with Magic, and I currently play Lorcana. I think during high school was when I played the most tcgs, and at that time it was Magic, Decipher's Star Wars, Magi-Nation, Pokemon, and the Highlander TCG.
>>96768711I pick and choose, right now its Digimon and Riftbound.
Has anyone actually played this shit? All I ever see is people saying that it looks good, but nobody ever says whether or not it actually is good. Have any of you ever you ever run a campaign with it?
>>96756449So that’s what that means. Okay, that actually sounds like something worth considering. Maybe for Rage Bearers?
>>96756991>Sorry, I realized I hadn't actually posted the link to the new DocIt happens. Thanks BTW!
>>96756991Any major changes to >>96570050
>>96563345How might one get players who are unfamiliar with this interested without them just decrying it as magical realm shit?
>>96766023I removed shield mother, and replaced it with Lawbringer.I've also cut out some of the extra, less tonally 'appropriate' subclasses to cut down on bloat.Still need to add the Craving roll table and/or boons&banes in. If anyone has any more ideas for those, that'd be sick.Might do a little more flavour text editing tonight as well, but fingers are utterly fucked from MMA.>>96756449>>96760767I'm dubious atm about writing whole new rules, though I do very much like the idea of 'the really big, eldritch-empowered lady is just using herself like a battering ram'. Any ideas on what subclasses or veteran classes could/should be repurposed? I've noted them down in the legend.>>96739251Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
You ever wonder why there's so much 'church bad' stuff? Like you'd think that given how fantasy deities demonstrably exist and do indeed grant supernatural powers, there would be less basic-ass iconoclasm.
>>96766179Source? The satanic panic is pretty well known by all my peers. Are you 't talking to gen alpha or the latter cohort of zoomers? Or did you just meet a genuine retard? I mean I know there's a good reason gamers used to be considered left leaning before gamergate.>t. elder zoomer
>>96768339>Go in thread>Ignore entire thread>Reply to very last post in the thread with zero context.Do you not know how a message board works?
>>96763085>satanic panic was never a thingShouldn't you be in school right now lil guy? People in their 30's/40's remember this. It's too early to tell the big lie.
>>96755849What are some settings that actual do a good job of depicting religions then?
>>96763085People were having their lives ruined because of pearl-clutching soccer moms thought 2 year-olds claiming their school flushed them down the toilet was credible testimony. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trialhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial
>▶ Thread Task: The kind of tired sleep won't fix>Previously on /slop/: >>96732519 >▶ It's been confirmed images are not saved on Microsoft's servers forever, only for 50 days. Make sure to save your images.>▶ Generators>https://bing.com/images/create/>https://sora.chatgpt.com/>https://huggingface.co/spaces/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell>https://huggingface.co/spaces/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev>https://fluxpro.art/>https://replicate.com/black-forest-labs/flux-dev>https://huggingface.co/spaces/multimodalart/stable-cascade>https://huggingface.co/spaces/google/sdxl>https://clipdrop.co/stable-diffusion>https://www.mage.space/>https://gemini.google/overview/image-generation/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96768725>>96768797How good has local shit gotten? Does it parse descriptions as well as the bing one used to do? I remember it used to have the issue of just tossing the shit you mentioned into the image in random ways.
>>96768569The subtle ass cheek is great. Shame it's a character for diddler
>>96768443>>96768569>>96768725
>>96769020>Not the Yamcha poseOne job...
