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.
>>96766651>Gygax even disapproved if you did funny voices.*muffled angry disembodied voice from behind the filing cabinet*
>>96766651It's just that I'm 30 and both of these ways to play came way before my time - I had no idea there were such factional splits in "D&D society". I'm enjoying discovering literal D&D lore. I think a documentary needs to be made about this - Attenborough style.>>96766672>Ohhh, you mean like that. No, that's just goofy, nothing to do with us.Well that's what I thought for 15 years.So my conclusion - there are 3 types or DnD:>old wargaming SAW simulator sandbox DnD>goofy costume DnD>modern heroic power fantasy DnD
>>96766611>It's just in my experience, whenever people in a fandom or hobby try to dismiss somebody for muh racism, the person in question tends to be more knowledgeable and passionate about the hobby than them.You've got to keep in mind that guy wasn't "dismissing" them for being racist/misogynistic, he was explaining that was part of the identity they present and identify with, because that's genuinely how they've decided to present themselves. It's actually part of this whole stupid "culture war" business, where "trad gaming" is for straight white males and everything else is for women and minorities, and the more "traditional" your games are, the more you're definitely 100% not a homosexual. The main reason the BrOSR is a bunch of fags is the whole arguing about what the "True Old School" is. The politics business is just the unfortunate reality we live in, where politics gets dragged into everything. Feel free to ignore that part, especially on 4chan.
>>96766611>>You know those guys who keep spamming "freakshit/storyshit/storygame" nonsense about how if you don't play White Male Fighters with no personality, you're a homosexual deviant? >No, I really don't, because I'm a board tourist.FYI, that doesn't happen here. Not sure the extent to which it happens in the BrOSR, but this isn't a BrOSR board, that's twitter culture wars bullshit. He's making shit up in a desperate attempt to disrupt a constructive and respectful conversation.>>96766687>*muffled angry disembodied voice from behind the filing cabinet*I've never had the fortune of playing with Gary, but I wouldn't be surprised if he said something like that.>>96766706>It's just that I'm 30 and both of these ways to play came way before my time - I had no idea there were such factional splits in "D&D society". I'm enjoying discovering literal D&D lore. I think a documentary needs to be made about this - Attenborough style.You might enjoy Secrets of Blackmoor, then! It's a documentary covering the years that led to the creation of OD&D. Heavily focused on Arneson's contributions.
>>96766723>He's making shit up in a desperate attempt to disrupt a constructive and respectful conversation.You're lying heavily while spreading misinformation with dots of information, hoping everyone is too dumb to call you out. And, when you're called out, you sperg out about it to cry about your boogeyman. You're a piece of shit.>FYI, that doesn't happen here.What kind of bullshit lie are you even trying to pull here. How the fuck can you even try to pass off that lie?https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/text/white%20male/type/op/
What game has the best dark elves?
>>96758995>>96764701>North African Arab PenisDon't you mean Moopcock
>>96749370>Have Drow faction in my DnD homebrew>Want them somewhat familiar to new players yet being differentIs this even possible? My setting is an Age of Sail world where all the elemental and other planes of existence are forced into the Material Plane and the Drow ended up in a caldera out at sea where they hastily had their spiders shit out a ton of webbing to create a canopy of webs that block out the sun. Lolth has gone silent and they aren't sure what to do now.
>>96766545The Lolth-autism is already an unfortunate big part of the D&D-like drow idea. Makes these drow about finding their own meaning and place in this world without this goddess, including internal strife and warring factions with different viewpoints. Some may want to uphold the matriarchy, while others realize that the women are far less powerful without the bitch backing them up. Some may even be not outright evil and more willing to cooperate with other races.
>>96766569I think diplomacy and trade are going to be interesting; previously they could raid the material plane nations and scamper back to the Underdark knowing they were safe; now they are only a mere boat ride distance from their wary neighbors.
>>96766545Naturally, they should make magical submarines. Trade underground for underwater, and keep raiding the surface.Maybe instead of Lolth they discover a kraken or whatever, priesthood claim that's Lolth avatar, and they worship that, pretending Lolth is still behind them.
Let's have a positive terrain thread.Post pics of cool tables and pieces, share tips and tricks, discuss your latest projects.
>>96765241The grid is made up of interlocking 8x8-inch parts.Its main selling point is its modularity and the ease with which things can be added.
>>96765311I see. I guess there are people who'd need this too. I don't often increase or decrease the sizes of my tables so that I'd have to change my boards' sizes too, so it was weird to me.
>>96765125Xps is durable enough that if you handle it with basic care it won't break. You can dent it with dice and minatures but you'd really have to drop some heavy dice or minatures on them to ruin a piece. Xps is the best option IMO it cuts easily with a knife, better with a hot knife cutter (but you'll need a vented room + face mask with filter to be safe. Everyone says its perfectly fine to breath in the fumes but I don't trust anyone on this)Non acidic glue (PVA or modge podge) and black paint+water is what I use to seal and prime my pink foam for painting. It creates a protective layer that will keep it safe in normal play situations. Water will react with the glue though so be careful with that.The terrain tutor on YouTube taught me alot when I was first getting into building. Just know your first few projects will look bad until you pick up the skills and techniques. Like everything practice makes perfect!
>>96765190Polystyrene foam, should be able to get it from your hardware store in the density and thickness appropriate to the bone size you want. >Draw out semicircle from outside top edge lengthwise. >draw out smaller semiciricle inside it, leaving space to cut>repeat for smaller and smaller ribs >cut out, cut 1/2 circles into 1/4s >sand to shape, base Some anons have used putty as the main part around wire, or as an easier way to get broken bone effects. Modge podge or other textures for bone vary.
>>96762352Maybe, but other than a pair of (not terribly good) tinsnips, I don't really have the tools for it.All in all, I think I just made it too big of a project, so I'm gonna step back from it for a bit.
Can I Play With Madness EditionPrevious: >>96759580>Most recent bracket system updatehttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-brackets-beta-update-april-22-2025>Outline article introducing the bracket systemhttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/introducing-commander-brackets-beta>Current banlisthttps://magic.wizards.com/en/banned-restricted-list#commander-banned>Former Commander website, where you can learn the basics, and read the format philosophy laid down by the rules committeehttps://mtgcommander.netComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96766246oh please, nothing that drasticgoogling frank karsten will suffice
>>96766217>>96766354Doubleposting because I think I see one easy scenario using the fact that I set up no rules about the number of opponents.>Oblivion Ring/Banishing Light is on the field, which targeted an Animate Dead (the creature it was attached to had hexproof)>Animate Dead's owner has a Worldgorger in graveyard and a OTJ dual-color desert on the field>Both opponents have Ajani's Dildomonster
Do you guys know of any good discord servers or whatever for getting spelltable matches?
>>96766467Exile the Worldgorger Dragon from GY (0 mana)
>>96766562But then the Ajani's Dildomonsters kill you on your opponents' next upkeeps
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.
>>96762388Even as a fan of the game, the regularity of poor prints is a little embarrassing.
>>96662326>TQI'm curious about what the temple of metamorphosis will have as mooks, considering their default place in universe is bookish researchers but in hell.
>>96765149Scuttlers shaped like books, of course.
isnt the entire appeal of trench crusade to kitbash your gw minis for this game?
>>96766693Not the entire appeal of the game, but kitbashing (using any minis, not just gw ones) is a big part of it and actively encouraged by the devs.
All game systems are accepted, as long as you discuss the short and hairy characters.
>>96758911Have a dorf instead.
>>96758911Here you go Urist
>>96758911
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>>96766537Damn, you have a fiancée? And you STILL wanna hang out here?!Jokes aside anon, best wishes.
>>96766434It's just Takaishi being a coward and getting helped by the Prez. Mainly to set the starting point for his character progression into someone at least moderately brave.
>>96766622Anons, does Kaoru have a crush on a FRAUD?!?Nah nah I do want to see him develop. Feel free to have them interact if you want.
>>96766659Sheesh, you photosynthesize with those? Dayum.
>>96766659I started the writefag before Kaoru had been posted, but I do want them to interact as soon as possible, she seems super fun to write.
This thread is all about solo games and campaigns. Apparently nobody bothered to make the new one.Rune Soldier edition.>Old thread >>96465762Resources: https://rentry.org/srpgghttps://infinityweavers.link/re-up/solo-rp-toolkitMore threads:https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/subject/%2Fsrpgg%2F/Thread Question(s): At what point does solo turn into novel-writing? Is that something you enjoy, don't? What can you do to prevent/promote it?
Imagine playing this SOCIAL activity alone.lol. That's it, not even an lmao
>>96727531Juice seemed pretty decent, I'll test that one out for a bit, thanks
>>96761554>Thread Question(s): At what point does solo turn into novel-writing? Is that something you enjoy, don't? What can you do to prevent/promote it?I never write my roleplays in a novelistic style.My logs are always more like a list of actions and effects with most of the creative stuff being held in my head.Ironsworn systems are ofc an exception but I don't think they lead to writing that would actually be good in a novel. Too much constant fucking up, you'd end up with one of those annoying stories where a protagonist can't walk between towns without it being an ordeal.And even there every 2nd/3rd line in my notes is stuff like "Action 3, Challenge 7 3 Burn momentum Weak Hit" so it's not exactly great reading.
>>96763316I like those games. But as>>96763609says, I like to have gamified stress in horror.
Anyone got experience with Space Aces? I've just skimmed through it a bit, but I liked the large amount of tables and such. But I think the character creation is way too bare and thin. Not sure if I want to mix it with something else. The d20+d6 didn't seem too bad
Do you prefer to play ugly characters? Or attractive characters?
>>96763764No preference, but average is boring. And it doesn't just apply to Dream Pod 9's Appearance stat. Had a blast playing a PF 1st edition 3 Intelligence sorcerer. Had a blast playing a wizard's that's opposed.As long as I've got a weakness that does show up from time-to-time, be it a stat, a flaw like Shadowrun's Codes of Honor (God I loved that one) and remain mechanically viable / can contribute meaningfully, I'm golden.> DPDNDWhat does Captcha means by this?
>>96763764I have no preference, it depends on my character concept for the day.
>>96763764I have no charisma and can't competently roleplay it so 90% of the time ugly or monster characters. I don't try to flirt in-character etc and leave that for other players too. I guess my characters would come across as ugly and asexual or autistic.
>>96764230Why is that a red flag? Never had an issue with making female characters before
>>96763764>Here is part of my daily quota of filler threads asking binary questions
Honestly I'm tired of muh eldritch cults and the lovecraftian mythos in horror. No one is genuinely scared or creeped out by them. People may gloat about how much of an intellectual idea cosmic horror is; being overwhelmed by the vastness of the universe and feeling powerless, blah blah blah.Satanic cabals, witch covens and pagan cults do give people the creeps. Voodoo dolls, human sacrifices, blood rituals, hidden groves with celtic ruins, secret societies, actual ghosts and demons instead of otherworldly beings who don't give a shit about mankind. Horns and blood scare people more than tentacles and ooze.
>>96764989And Lovecraft is so 20s... I don't get your point.>>96764962> Lovecraftian entities are essentially just concepts or archetypes which are fully independent from humanity; things like Void, Eternity, Abyss, or Expanse. Not a single one of them is. Where did you even get that from? What is scary about "not being at the top of the food chain" in space and hwo does that translate into gaming at the table? Witches, demons and pagan cults with minor deities are localized insidious threats as opposed to cosmic entities who most of the time mind their own business.>>96763823Good luck playing that>>96763734I did read AND play Lovecraft. I just grew tired of the reddit meme of the eldritch cult and the cosmic entities. Demons are creepier.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96765709>You all criticize the fedora atheists but playing a game with creepy demons is suddenly being a religious fanatic...Didn’t you say you were catholic? The entire premise of this thread is that you think demons are scary because you think they’re real.
>>96765709>Good luck playing thatThis applies to all horror.
>>96758959You reminded of a video from a Spanish-faggot YouTuber
>>96765709>What is scary about "not being at the top of the food chain" in space and hwo does that translate into gaming at the table? Witches, demons and pagan cults with minor deities are localized insidious threats as opposed to cosmic entities who most of the time mind their own business.Just because the deities of the Mythos don't care about humans doesn't mean humans can't run into them and be immensely harmed in their wake.Hell, one of the two starter scenarios the Call of Cthulhu rulebook gives you directly involves a Great Old One, Gla'aki, who makes an appearance at the scenario's end point and can start swatting the player characters down like bugs. And, I mean, the original "The Call of Cthulhu" story itself ends with a chase scene as sailors flee an awakening Cthulhu lest he crush them to death or feast on them as his morning snack.A problem with a lot of pastiches of Lovecraft's works is that they're afraid to use the gods or involve them, which just isn't Lovecraftian. In the original works, the gods showed up or interacted with the characters all the time. They just largely didn't care, acting out their grander, more terrible functions, and the harm they cause is simply because they're too powerful and beyond us to want to be careful about us. A wayward flick of their wrist can destroy our entire civilization and they wouldn't notice.
The /btg/ is dead! Long live the /btg/!Inner Sphere manlet editionLast Thread: >>96744410================================>BattleTech Introductory Guide & PDFshttps://bg.battletech.com/?page_id=400>Overview of the Major Factionshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/great-houseshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/the-clanshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/other-powers>Rookie GuidesComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
How do you insert Pathfinders in btech? I assume you drop them in way in advance of the raid on the far from where a garrison would patrol. But the locals are gonna know something is up. Also your Pathfinders have to cover a lot of ground to get to what they need to recon. Is there a way around this?
>>96766311This is where LAMs shine. No, really. Otherwise you can slp a Leopard or Invader in if you're careful.
>>96765894It's odd, not matter how many times I read this online it never is reflected on my table. Clan mechs are so expensive the matches are usually close, comes down to lots of firepower vs numbers advantage and lots of armor.
>>96765541Spiders. You can bring 4-5 spiders to fight a mad cat, move through its entire weapons range in two turns, and then start kicking until it falls over.
Is AMS worth having?
The coolest elf thread for cool elfthusiasts.Any system, setting, art or homebrew welcome (especially white collar related).
>>96764493>>96764497>>96764678>>96765449>>96765605>>96765961Wow you fuckers are really hellbent on destroying this place for good
>>96766056You failed to reply to the OP as well.
more cute redneck elf scribbles
>>96765449Peak elf performance. I request more imagery of Office Elves, the best race of elves.
Thread Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHbSpAgfgFM
Empire of Mu Edition>What is this?/TG/ DEVELOPED A GAMEIT IS PLAYABLE. IT HAS BEEN PLAYED.EXPEDITION is a ~1880s era, Jules Verne-inspired retro-futurist, underground blood soaked adventurescape.It is a Skirmish wargame. Two players with their own expeditions, on a hexgrid map, explore & fight each other for victory and profit.3 versions of the rules exist, 2 of which have been playtested. The main one is 2e, to be found :>https://www.mediafire.com/folder/us7vnek39dc6k/AgarthaRulesas with maps, tokens and lore resources.>TL;DR Dochttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1LxdaGoBlJRTMuziMDupG5TeeFwNDnsIW2pfaRAcFDgA>Main Lore Doc, including links to anon-written short stories and additional lore in "Recommended..." sectionComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96765952Atlan Anon, there is no nice way to say this, but I think this is bloat. I simply do not see what this adds to the game or the lore, everything about it just seems awkward and unnecesary. Especially if they're not even going to be anti-British. It's not egregious to the point where I'd heavily oppose it, it just makes me feel nothing followed by mild annoyance that it exists only to make me feel nothing.
>>96766086From all the suggestions about the the Second Oriental Crisis, I would say that the rising was indeed massive, and it affected all lands that once belonged to the Ottoman Empire, with varying degrees of intensity (Anatolia having almost all of the dead rising from their graves, while areas like Tunisia or the danubian border having little to no effect, with the threat to them being the hordes of undead moving to them). However, this event was probably planned somewhat, though probably rushed due to the events at the beginning of the crisis. And to mantain some sort of balance, whatever Murad did to rise ALL of the dead without direct necromantic intervention cannot be just used again and again. Now, if you want to resurrect the dead, you need necromancers directly working with the corpses.This way, the power of the husks is more balanced, both in numbers and in logistics.
>>96678434I'm new to this and I have questions!Is this a classless system? How crunchy is it?How does it handle battles?How high is the risk of mortality?
>>96766343The game takes place in the 19th century, a rigid class society. It's not crunchy at all, I just let my opponent do all the calculations for me. The system is very combat-heavy and lethal, half my characters die every game. Hi, I'm the resident shitposter. Serious answer: it's a skirmish wargame, not an RPG.
>>96766254That's about as fair as we'd get, I feel.
"Dice are cool." - (Me)Previous: >>96735655This 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 are your favorite dice games?- What do you think about "luck" in games?- What are some underrated gems (in any genre)? Bonus:- Post your favorite die.
>>96763794why would that be a controversial opinion?>>96765422not the anon you replied to, but:>game where you can optionally do one thing (spend a key), then must do one out of 2 actions (buy card or get flipped card)>game where you have to manage a hand of cards and have to choose one among 4 distinct actions (buy, play a technique, make a stack, discard) and some things give you more actions>the first game "takes longer to explain" than the second oneI know that 9 out of 10 users that say "overcomplicated mess" are either complete, unironic retards or unfunny people who take the explanation, no matter how curt or plain it is, as a confirmation that it is indeed an "overcomplicated mess", but come on
>>96765529okay yeah you're right it just doesn't click right with me as a tableau builder
>>96765491>>96765477It's kind of weird. My gut reaction is that this is chaep and faggy, but honestly I get it and it really doesn't matter if it fits
anyone here play Maquis? I've been wanted to get it for some time but been put off thinking it's a one-time puzzle that has no replayability once you solve it. Is my perception correct? Is Resist! a better option if i want a solo game based on similar themes?
>>96750144Grand Austria Hotel with the Allez Waltz expansion gets pretty heavy. There's asymmetric player powers and alternate shared boards. It's also great base or base + skeleton key module at 4 players.
Academy editionResources for Newfags: https://sites.google.com/view/wbgeneral/Worldbuilding links: https://pastebin.com/JNnj79S5https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/Eo+fK41FKVR7xDpbNO0a0N4k0YYxrmyrhX3VxnM14Ew/Fantasy map generator: https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generatorLast thread: >>96515130Thread question:>Do you only focus on kings and saints, or you create a variety of great people for your settings?Thread prompt:>Tell us about any great painters / composers / writers in your setting. Do you have descriptions of their great works? Or even, for madlads, examples?
>the top god of the setting is a deity of light>worshipped in three manifestations - the Sun, the lightning bolt, and candlelight.>feel content until I realize that the trinity can be summed up as the Lightning, the Sun and the Holy Fire, and it sounds like a bad punny pastiche of christianity>English has no synonyms for the SunFuck. What do?
>>96765317Shift it around a bit so that the manifestations align with more meaningful day-to-day symbols/phenomena, maybe even divide the God into three faces or aspects.Replace the Sun with the Dawn>Represents the victory of light over darkness and the eternal nature of the Father of Light, who returns every day to bask his Children in holy lightReplace the Lightning Bolt with the Storm>Even though Storms bring darkness to the sky, they themselves are full of light - for the Father's divine judgement is indeed fearsome. By bearing witness to this power the Children understand the depths of our Father's might - and through ritual and libations we pray keep his fury at bay.Replace the Candlelight with the Hearth>Do not presume that the fires of men are our own creation; we owe everything to the Father of Light. Though his grace, we are given the gift of Light and warmth unto ourselves.Or something like that, this is just what came to my mind.
>>96757752Yes, exactly. That is, unless his own future sight didn't tip him off beforehand.Any battles between time controllers becomes really confusing to talk about because both are changing reality by forestalling each other's moves. It only makes sense if you assume different timelines.
>>96766241Let's say a wizard lives in a tower, upper floor. He sleeps there every night. Let's say for simplicity he teleports there.One night I travel back in time before the wizard move in and demolish the tower.Will he fall to his death in the present I traveled from, or he will do so when he first time teleported into the non-existent top floor?
I always run into problem of "what they do day in and day out" especially for warrior and long-lived races. Let alone long-lived warrior races.Take Giants, for instance. They are these mighty sages, who created Dwarfs in ages past. They don't farm, don't hunt, don't really build anymore (Dwarfs serve their needs, basically). They ponder the orb, guide the dwarfs (but not rule) and fight great evils. But that leaves them with zero hobbies or activities. They don't even have to train, due to their nature.And then there are Sky Giants, who don't even eat, and don't hang out around Dwarves most of the time.Of course I could just leave their activities a mystery, but I want to know for myself!