40kuck and it's consequences have been a disaster for the wargaming hobby.
>>97836428>Everyone wants competitive gameswhat's wrong with casual campaign with frensstill remember Mordheim like rules for starting one from 500p around 3-4ed
>>97837484>I'm unemployed and I haven't closed my /co/ tab once since June last yearHuh. Okay, I hear what you're saying.Now I'd like to hear the case for *not* euthanizing you.
>>97836428>It's also impossible to balance battlefields when you have muh realismIt's not supposed to be fucking balanced. That's what makes tactics matter. Look at any WFB campaign, more than half involve asymmetrical setups with one player at a deployment disadvantage, which forces a different style of play to meet the situation. If you play every game on the same shitty plastic mat with 6 unpainted grey L-shaped ruins, you're winning based on whose army has the better rules, not which player is the better tactician. You are a fucking retard loser soulless slop consumer who wants to play the same endless WAACfag tourneyshit over and over instead of having a challenging and interesting narrative game.
>>97840399>Generate me an angry comment in the style of a /tg/ poster who thinks modern warhammer terrain layouts are boring and competitive is bad
>>97836118I doubt wargaming would be anything but a absurdly obscure hobby for old rich retirement dudes if it wasn't for 40k.
/bgg/ Board Games GeneralPrevious thread: >>97771950Pastebin:https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8*NEWISH* survey results:https://pastebin.com/scAkFdTv>what's your favorite abstract game?>what game from your collection would you say are you the best at?>dice or fixed values for combat resolution?
>>97839573>all this lowkey pleb garbage>but also deluxe Nawalli in the clothe bagI am perplexed. Owners gf is a proud native latina?
>>97840194It's easier to suck them off if your opponents are cute.
>>97840099>ItoFell flat for the second time now. I am unsure why, it seems like a fun little game that should invite all manner of discussions. When we tried with our own questions, it got a little more interesting but still nothing I feel like revisiting. Which is annoying, there surely is something there but I'm missing the moments of suprise. I can't help but feel like the game must be much more interesting with less competent players. Or at least players with more different attitudes. Very few moments where we had fundamental disagreements of "what the fuck why would that be at 83?" and the like, which, essentially is the soul of the game.>So cloverThe opposite experience. Always fun, always hilarious. For some reason, you effortlessly deduce that winter + lemon must obviously mean "Orange" yet collectively fail to see the most obvious connections>Hot StreakThe king of diminishing returns imo. The best game of it seems to be the first one you ever play, which is likely why it's so popular and seems acclaimed. We all know how little actual gameplay there is, but there's only so much passively watching a chaos engine unfold you can enjoy before going ehhhh that's enough. And that point comes sooner and sooner. I might just be seeing it under a wrong light because a host of reviewers and podcasters have hyped it up so much, but I think I'll only get it out for people very new to the hobby in the future. Burnt out on that one frightningly fast.
>>97835515bump
Is Pueblo a good game or does the novelty wear off too fast? It has a decent reputation but also a LOT of BGG reviews saying it's too one note.
Thread 455: Good Night Sweet PrinceBushi-Navi EN: www.en.bushi-navi.com/Deck Log:decklog.bushiroad.com/ (JP)decklog-en.bushiroad.com/ (EN)Beginner guide, decklists and other info: pastebin.com/QxKQRhrQUp to date fanmade PC online games, 3DS/Switch emulation and Mobile games: pastebin.com/7Fj8VqA2 (Cardfight and Buddyfight matchmaking server: discord.gg/6xVFD4rWeiss/Schwarz Resources: pastebin.com/sk2iSjW1BCS 2025/26 Info: https://en.bushiroad.com/events/bcs2526/DivineZ Parallactic Clash Ep 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMT0sR-h83UDivinez: Genma Awakening Arc Chapter 4: https://mangadex.org/chapter/a747dcba-406a-49d0-917d-ed905ef18f9bComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97837051I remember when episodes were able to have more than 4minutes of plot, divinez clearly cant
>>97837051od 1 was ass but at least i can give it props for being something different and od 2 was decent having had to carry over the mess of od1. Once they got to willdress and beyond its felt derivative. It couldn't be helped as they fired some of the overdress staff and reoriented the anime to being a traditional TCG anime again. Sure some things were new for Vanguard but never really felt innovative as other TCG anime had done them. And Bushi just keeps rehashing a lot of the same themes from past series like "Vanguard is actually fun" and exploring it through character's trauma except for the fact we already have a lot of characters from past series with similar arcs so most of these new characters don't feel fresh. And all of the foreshadowing for the serious plot feels half baked like they just kept adding stuff as they went on. Like a lot of divinez s2 and PC. Or they wasted time on fluff like deluxe when they know they have clearly limited episode counts. I think they've run out of ideas and this potential year and a half off bc of the remaster should be good to get some new ideas in the room.
Wait, is there another season after this? Feels like it.
>>97837051Og Vanguard is a story about a femboy who tries to be good at card game to make his senpai notice him and for some reason he falls into card game drugs because his senpai doesn't have the communication skills to talk properly with him.
We can still save this season, ignore masanori and gab and have 12 minutes of yuyu fucking mirei and 12 minutes of akina fucking hikari
What's the appeal of evil women?
>>97834485>a joke i used to tell was that i looked like i sold drugs to kids but didn,t because kids didn't have the cashI'd fuck Anon.
>>97838763You don't have to. You never have to. You *get* to. Elf bussy is prime.
>>97815266Trauma and the thanatos.
>>97838796Helping someone is noble but not all want to be helped, they want to live in their hell. Reminder that you cannot swim for someone who wants to drown, they will pull you down and drown you as well.
>>97815266They are openly monstrous and don't try to hide it and thus are inadvertently extremely honest. They also are often very traditionally feminine and embrace the darker aspects of femininity (by modern moral standards) like open displays of lust, seduction, but also things like submissiveness (once they decided to love someone and want to make them happy)>>97815505Evil women are dominant, mean and abrasive only to strangers, but submissive to their master/their lover, at least in spirit. It's "good" women, who act like a therapist/HR officer to their boyfriend and force them to conform to modern moral standards.
Big Guns Edition>Previous>>97814612>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>5e Megahttps://mega.nz/folder/7rQQ1LbQ#16_AiXVGo0P3_rVOJuoZyA>STV content foldersComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97840427>You're telling me if they use a spell that's too powerful they explode? What's so good about that?
>>97840491>what do you mean you can troll them in a fight by making sure there's at least one normal guy staying way back with a pair of binoculars?
>>97840491>Nuclear bombs are considered mundaneScience(tm) literally can't stop winning
>>97840501>tfw no magic version of a nuclear bomb made by having a newly-awakened Hermetic cast Inferno Maximus in the middle of a city resulting in a paradox backlash so bad it sends his body 10 years into the future and the city 1000 miles into space.
>>97840506And that goes straight to my "Creative uses for threats to reality" file.
>create a system>it's good>but have a huge ego and expect the system to become popular through word of mouth>do 0 PR for the system>do Pikachu face when the system tanksLiterally the story of every new indie system in the last 20 years. What's wrong with people in this industry? Does this industry only attract retards or what? It seems that way because only DND has created an official online service, while the rest believe that Internet is something secondary in the 21st century.
>>97829958Yeah, d&d is basically a zombie brand, now, after the ogl shit everyone was either fired or quit. They also didn't do anything for the 50th anniversary, and their "2024" edition wasn't fully released until 2025.
>>97830473>They also didn't do anything for the 50th anniversaryI recall them doing WORSE than nothing by releasing a book about its history that shat on the franchise's origins for being racist in the literal first page.
OP is a faggot as usual, but this is a genuine question: where the fuck is an indie RPG creator supposed to advertise at all?
>>97838501Podcasts. Tons of people listen to stuff like the one shot podcast and they seem pretty willing to signal boost smaller creators. It also helps if you do your own media thing (podcast, YouTube, etc.).
Faggots on here like to act as if knowing how to advertise and build up a community is somehow "gaming the system". It's why they screech and cry about Shadowdark, despite it having two incredibly successful Kickstarters along with a healthy community. It helps that they keep a tight grip on not letting the retards in said community get out of hand with political bullshit, too.And another anon was right, this thread stinks of street-shitters.
Repeat after me: MAKE. YOUR. POTIONS. IN. PILL. FORME!Pills are ancient, they predate Egypt! We made pills better in medieval Europe by putting them inside purified nontoxic silver to boost power, we don't do that anymore because it's too expensive.Whole reason why we take pills and don't drink medicine is because any medicine is just 0.1% active ingredients, putting it inside a pill is more efficient, making it a drink is wasteful.Realistically in DND, if potions were real, they'd kill adventurers, all over the Adventures Guild you'd see newspapers like:>SSS-rank barbarian killed in the Dungeon because drinking healpot takes too long!>LVL 99 thief killed in the Dungeon because he choked on manapot... it went down the wrong hole!>The Hero killed in the Dungeon because he tripped down stairs and broke all pots!Potions? Not even once! Pills are the right way.
>>97839878That or a lingering effect that applies the healing after the damage is done, but it sure starts being more complicated than it needs to be, on the fluff side.
>>97835768it's satanic game, ofc it will be potions witches brewed>Realistically in DNDI have personal grudge all these works instantenously, no digest time
>>97835768Traditional games?
>>97835768>nontoxic silver
>>97836335So maybe rectal suppositories?They were known to ancient Egyptians and they are absorbed faster than pills.
>What is /awg/?A thread to talk about minis and games which fall between the cracks, or peoples' homebrew wargames.The >>>/tg/hwg thread doesn't entertain fantasy (for good reason) and the other threads are locked to more specific games.This thread isn't tied to a game, a publisher, or a genre, let's just talk about fun wargames. Any scale, any company, any miniatures.>Examples of games that qualify.A Song of Ice and Fire, Argatoria, Batman Miniature Game, Carnevale, Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings,Deadzone, Dragon Rampant, Dropfleet and Dropzone Commander, Freebooter's Fate, Frostgrave, Gaslands, HeroClix,Kings of War, Maelstrom's Edge, Malifaux, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Masters of the Universe: Battleground, Moonstone,Oathmark, OnePageRules, Open Combat, RelicBlade, Rumbleslam, SAGA, StarCraft, Stargrave, Sludge, Urban War, Void,Warcaster, Warmachine, Xenos Rampant, Xenotactics......and anything else that doesn't necessarily have a dedicated thread.>Examples of companies providing rules and/or miniatures for alternative wargames.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97839531>Blizzard make Warcraft out of a failed licensing deal for WarhammerYou can keep pushing that shit, but it ain't gonna make it true.
>>97839543If it wasn't the result of an attempt to salvage a licenced product that fell through, then it was a clear pastiche; Warcraft one was thematically darker than it's successors, and came out around the time Warhammer was hitting it's stride internationally; besides that a lot of the visual parallels are obvious; the pauldroncore and simian musclebound orcs being two key elements of that look.
>>97837877Unless you're talking about a 26 mile run, "Marathon" isn't close to being a household name.
Is Wraith Engine once again mandatory for Dark Host? I resisted getting one for all of mk.3 because I hate huge bases and resin models.
>>97839555Warcarft is cooler than Warhammer.
Zerg or Tyranids, who's cooler?
>>97839918>Nids have legsSo have various Zergs species.
>>97832936I have to ask, are you stupid?Do you think the people who sought the fantasy license were like, "We're going to be really strict about our duties, NO ONE is to be aware of any other Games Workshop products than the ones we're pursuing. Do not even THINK about them!!"And then just by sheer chance the three Starcraft armies are direct ripoffs of three 40K armies.Your a stupid man!!!
>>97833075The Xenomorph is the weakest of the aliens. It needs a host to reproduce. IoM has no problems with wiping out hosted populations. IoM LasGuns can easily kill a Xenomorph. "OH NO, their acid blood is TOO DANGEROUS!" It isn't if you're dealing with alien monsters that can tank Lasers, Bolters, and those over-the-top bullets the SC humans are using. Not to mention, BOTH Nids and Zergs have ranged weapons that can SHRED Metal. Both make a point of taking in DNA from other races. BOTH CAN FLY IN SPACE. It's honestly funny how UNDERPOWER Xenoomorphs are.
Both are generic and look dumb.Lictors are cool because they actually sort of look vaguely Lovecraftian, I wish the rest of the Tyranids got the memo
>>97839993Starcraft and warcraft is still more popular then 40k. :p.
What kinds of things do you serve your players when they attend game night?
>>97839274that's weird, you shouldn't leave a host's place a mess
>>97838311What elf worldbuilding?
>>97838311I usually provide snacks and drinks and at the end of the game I serve any sort of mealTaco bowls, ragu, casseroles, chili, penne alla vodka, pestoRagu is the favorite of my players, but it takes 6h to cook
>>97838311Nothing because one of my players is the hostAnd he doesn't even have COASTERS
>>97838311Spezi, Radler, sometimes my sister makes us cocktails or cooks/bakes an appetizer or cake for us.
players have no purpose but to be railroaded by my hand.
>>97836477>PlayoidsDon't be like that.Don't be like them.
>>97835650Gamers run the opposite way because designers broke trust by hiding shit off in places that don't advance the plot.
>>97836477So were you going to answer my question?
>>97836477I see, so you've never actually played or run a sandbox.
>>97833549The best casting in the history of video games. David Warner was the best of all time.
"What the fuck?! 'You guys' let the thread die with no link to the new thread" 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.
>>97839852I think they're just textless variants like Magic sometimes does.
>>97839855That's just a tad too much money for me to spend. I know you could probably make that money back very easily by selling a couple promos to collectors but as of right now I can't afford it. >>97839860That's a shame, I have no interest in what're basically proxies lol.
>>97839296Game shop profit margins are too slim to be picky about what you sell. Also, the guy at the counter isn't the one making the decisions.
>>97839566Copying DM is not a bad thing to do, though and there's reason to do it.>>97839550It solves the board stall issue that NtG suffers from.
>>97839752depends on who you are. as a game, it looks pretty fucking boring. but sales numbers are big so if you're a flipper it might be a win for you.
sup /tg/, thought I'd try something a little different round herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifDFF7c_mSY
Is Anton doomed? And what of Shal?Find out tomorrow!
>>97840288Thank you OP.
>>97835286Because they're not on my face.>>97836989Hey let's be real now, a lot of modern fantasy is uniquely worse. I'm totally guilty of being a snob.
>>97840288Can't wait for more swole Shal.
>>97840178i m liking it so far. i loled hard when she turned into female he-man. this lass is retarded in a good way. about the read the second part.
Does your character show kindness to the unfortunate?
>>97838373you'd shit your pants and drop eye contact if I stared you down for even a second
>>97826067Absolutely. They are one of the best sources of intelligence in a city. Few groups are best at surveillance than a guy who stay in the streets all day long.
>>97839649id have you hiding under your taxi looking for a cop car, RIGHT?
>>97828000Wasn't the last one 19 times since 2022? Is puckee getting faster?
>>97826658
Supers Swimsuit EditionPrevious Thread: >>97355136The thread to talk about Super Heroes/Villains/Spies/Agents/Rogues be it in spandex or not.Popular Choices for Games:>Mutants & MastermindsCurrently the most played one, uses a d20 resolution for everything, has powers building and rules for tactical combat.>Marvel TSR/ FASERIPClassic Supers game from the 80s, still has a lot of fans and various retro-clones. Uses a d100 with an universal resolution table to decide the degree of success, has random character generation and abstract rules for powers and combat.>Masks (PbtA)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97829270>I don't get it, what did you think the phrase meant? What could "intensive" mean in this context that makes sense?I don't know. I think >>97830701 might have the right of it and it's that I never paid enough attention to the individual words or really thought about what I was saying.I do know why I said>Jesus fuck, I maybe actually be retarded.Instead of>Jesus fuck, I MIGHT actually be retarded.I was drunk.
>>97832996but what did you think you were communicating? ignoring the spelling entirely, what did you think the phrase means?>>97830701how are you speaking without thinking? that doesn't make any sense. you pick a meaning to communicate, and you form sentences that will communicate it. how else could you use language?either I'm being trolled or both of you are some kind of skinwalkers
should villains all be related in appearance to the hero for a unified look?or should villains deliberately look offbeat for a varied look?
>>97838025Unless it's a central point that the hero and villain both share a theme/motif, it doesn't matter. Captain Cold looks nothing similar to the Flash.
>>97838287I bring this up because I was going to use a legally-distinct version of the ringer named hoop-lah, who creates hoops of pure energy and then throws them with considerable force
