Dark Elf Ritual EditionDiscuss elves.Post elves.Love elves.All elf lore, game, stories, and anything else that's elfy is all appreciated.Thread question: Aside from pointy ears, what physical traits do you associate or add to elves?previous thread: >>97370377
>>97458126It is what it is.My Marcille folder alone would be able to kill three threads
>>97458126so far so good picsalso im not that smart to check beforeand maybe it might even carry over to the next thread
>>97458131Shouldn't elves have noses?
>>97456457>hmmmmit'd be funny
He is basically the antichrist.
>>97457067>who couldn't even hold his empire together.NTA but the scale in time and space of the GEoM's empire makes him the most successful political leader in human history.
>>97457091Horus Heresy happened before he got on the throne anon, the Emperor's government collapsed to civil war and required a successor (Guilliman) to rebuild it afterwards during the Scouring
>>97457104Sorry, I don't read prequels, so I don't care to know who is to blame or whatever for the HH. I'm only going by rulebook lore (and outdated editions, at that).But what you're saying does not make him any less than the greatest political leader regardless, unless you think that internal strife invalidates the size and lifespan of the imperial project?Surely you wouldn't say that Alexander the Great wasn't an incredible leader simply because he failed to secure a future for his imperial project beyond his untimely death?
>>97457067Why do you persist in showing everyone how mega retarded you are? You act as if you didn't make your original claim, which has been refuted. Your brain has been touched by nurgle rot.
>>97368685>a metaphor for Rome eerily resembles a fictional empire based off RomeHuh how about that
TP4 reanimation protocols Edition▶Previous thread:>>97139724▶News:Reminder that next box is Sisters vs Raptors:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/zrjpzrms/adepta-sororitas-battle-chaos-space-marines-over-a-long-forgotten-tomb-in-kill-team-shadowhunt/▶Official Key Downloads, FAQs and Erratahttps://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/kill-team/▶Rules Scanshttps://gofile.io/d/AinK04▶Boxed Set Rules Scanshttps://gofile.io/d/NWRByw (deprecated)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97457367i'll go back and read the thread, i had no idea there was even an update recently.>>97457372>GW be like "you WILL start with space marines or the suffering will be greater"joke's on them, i happen to like space marines and only buy other people's regret purchases on ebay >>97457395>friends>my brother was making fun of me because i've been hobbying and reading 40k, but never learning to actually play. lore versus table top, i really like the lore
>>97457338>>97457364>>97457488There's a decent chance your local players will be helpful and welcoming. You might lose against them, for sure, but that doesn't mean those games will be painful.As long as your opponent isn't a bellend and both teams are reasonably enough balanced that both sides can at least try to do things, losing is just as much fun as winning.
>>97457515the wargame pool is kind of small. most seem nice and i was literally warned of only 'one guy' i need to watch out for. but honestly, the entire lgs, including tcgs, are complete tourneyfags. back when i used to monitor their discord, no one ever signs up for crusades for 40k or narrative. i could run sm scouts, and consider it culling the weak.
>>97456929No change to the size of the bubble? Wolf Scouts are still going to dominate. The devs really lost the plot on which teams are out of control this time around.
>>97458261They'll probably still be good yes, but they made some good changes to the abilities they have that could really hardcounter some teams. They'll still be up for another round of nerfs eventually but now they should just be overtuned rather than oppressive. Same with canoptek, which has been broken good for even longer.It'd be great to get slightly more frequent balance changes currently, but I do agree with the more incremental changes instead of risking overnerfing. Considering how proportional the nerfs and buffs given to teams are with their place on the balance scale, I'd hardly say they've "lost the plot" on it.
Alright, I'm finally starting the Green Text thread I promised to start in this thread:https://desuarchive.org/tg/thread/97226585Also some music to set the mood:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJNz2QgSNsk>be Felinid Lt. Tom>used to be a Sergeant, but got promoted after the battle of New Yur>also get some fancy new war gear:>a fancy power-sword>a bitchin' Hot-Shot Las Pistol>actual carapace armor>Igotthedrip.vox>orders come down shortly after>turns out that we are FINALLY getting redeployed off of Nordica IIComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97455786>>97455486>>97451650>be Packmaster "Meat Shield">this it huh >surrounded and ground to meat paste by pissed off miners in a holovid liveleak video >as im praying that the Emperor really DOES never forsake the souls loyal to him the door creaks open NOTTODAYFATE>scream byself braying for everyone to get inside >as one of the grinders rips into one of the baracade stalls we put up >i watch an ogryn loses an arm then get gunned down by the genestealers on top >i remember all their names and faces>it was Oggie who got sent to our penal squad for trying on the commissars hat as a joke >fight back angry tears i hold in the pain as between this and the apparent uprising that got us inside we have more work cut out for us>i see one worker about to get executed by i guess the those loyal to the magos who runs this placeComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97455486>>97457846>>97455786>be Steve>why me?>did i not pray hard enough during my evening deactivations?>did i not apply the sacred oils to the machines correctly?>is it my secret collection of erotica-I MEAN RESEARCH?>why am i cursed to endlessly up in a nightmare that will either cost me my soul or body?>the abhumans are flooding the floor and now there appears to be a worker rebellion led by one of the Sentinel powerlifters >something about the Jade Emperor >fucking regional dialects this is why we just call him the Omnissiah >the head Magos of the floor is twitching, screaming, and arguing with himself>he's sending every servitor >i didnt have proper records of this many servitors Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97455786>>97457846>Be Sentinel powerlifter operator Wu Baoyu >As my life is about to be spent, my Executioner is rammed by one of the abhumans>In a gruff strained voice she says "under new management">As she raises up one of the managers blares over the PA""UNCLEAN TAINT AND WORKER REBELLION IS AGAINST REGULATION G-2342">As a result, the servitors are deployed>Specifically a certain model unique to Chyna Secondus known as the Sweeper model>There's also regular worker servitors in the midst but most will be the Sweeper model>I see on the feed the face of a former flame of mine>One Xue Baochai, she was once a temperamental woman but she was unashamedly passionate>I shake off the two managers holding me and grab my executioners pistol "You are to stay put managers. Until we rid the manufactorum of the rebels that defy our Jade Emperor">They seem to look at each otherComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97456595>>97455024>>97454994>>97451981>Be Ta'Shawn >tasked with the greatest of duties as to aid my Company Commander and Lord Axum'Kaleb >sadly it is not easy we have taken losses during our wrap transit and fighting an entire underhive plus a tainted hive city would be hard work for an entire chapter let alone three fourths of a battle company>we have turned the tide but it is only a matter of time until the enemy responds with overwhelming numbers so we must strike hard and fast before then >Lord Captain Axum knows this which is why he went to eliminate one of the Cult leaders personally to both send a message and inspire hope>also though he does not speak of his time before awakening something about that whiteshield speaking moved something in him >i did not speak this to him but chances are that child is already dead or worse>this is a cruel galaxy he has awoken into and i must temper his idealism with reality more often than most brothers i have served with >but we do our duty ever and always >i watch as my lord lands near hive kong>and then gets bombed with several tones of ordinance Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97440246>>97454994>be Hellblade Pilot Rubert, von Rubrum >on loan from my lady Analstasia Van Gina of the Schlick LXIXth>part of a deployment to see of the local cults are worthy of joining the Schlick >hardly in my most honorable and mustached opinion >save as livestock and fur rugs >im the only air support these heretics have had since starting this paltry rebellion>by the pleasure palace of slaanesh my squad and I are the only air support not controlled by the damned imperium >but yet i continue to shoot down their commanders, bombers, and targets>why you might ask because you are in fact a moron?>why because Lady Analstasia picked me out as the best pilot on all of Nordica II >since then i have been unbested in aerial combat >granted im currently under the command of Maria who can barely hold her gag reflex around these mutants >but sucks to be her, playing diplomat to a bunch of horny farm animals I get to be flying high in the sky shooting down targetsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Thoughts on the Hyborian Age and Robert E. Howard's worldbuilding in Conan the Barbarian?
Did you know? Technically this is the same universe as the Cthulhu mythos.
>>97458073So is Zothique and Hyperborea, but that hardly ever comes up in Cthulu Mythos books
>>97458024>thoughts Casually interesting but not deep dive material. Having enough to run a sword & sorcery game is more of a rule of cool and vibes than worldbuilding. Trying to make a sensibly cohesive in exhausting detail version would be needlessly futile. Howard didn't bother with that shit, wrote about and included what he thought was cool. Do that.
>>97458045Anon, you’re going to summon the sperg… Tech should be bronze through iron depending on the aesthetic of each race.
>>97458024It's good!
>Player or GM>Preferred System(s)>Schedule/Times Available (include timezone)>Voice or Text>Method(s) of Play (Skype, Discord, IRC, roll20, etc)>Tone/Theme Preferred>Contact Info>Other Notes
I want to play Space: 1889
>>97450668I don't like them because it always turns into beer & pretzels shit. There's no gravity or immersion to it.
Anyone find a game yet?
>>97457872Yeah I'm in the first poster's game
>>97451576The accent thing is highly subjective. I'm ESL and could perfectly understand a Scottish bloke, while the American GM couldn't.
I'm just curious if there's a significant tabletop roleplaying community in China and / or Korea. We've had some awareness of how TTRPGs are like in Japan, but I don't think we've heard much from those countries.
>>97456623To be fair, theater kid or not, both hobbies are equally gay. >One you do behind closed doors. >One you do not.
>>97456594>There are Touhou adventures for Call of Cthulhu. There are courtly space opera adventures. Neither has anything to do with cosmic horror, or even horror in general.Hmm I checked the video, and looks more like a theater or detective game with "Call of Cthulhu" tittle stamped on it.
>>97456878Years ago, I saw a Japanese VTuber group streaming a Call of Cthulhu game. They were playing as super-spies tracking down some super-terrorist trying to blow up the world: no supernatural elements whatsoever, aside from the overall wackiness of the super-spy genre.So yes, Call of Cthulhu over there tends to be mutated into "virtually anything that includes drama or investigation at some point (and sometimes, not even then)," which is a very broad umbrella.
>>97456987Kinda proof that d&d isn't the problem, it's humanity that keeps trying to fit square pegs in round holesCute clock btw
>Call of Cthulhu is basically D&D(5e) in asiaIt's like visit parallel universes
Stars Without Number, Worlds Without Number, Cities Without Number, Ashes Without Number. Have you played these? Are they fun? How did one guy raise a gorillion dollars on Kickstarter to publish multiple games that are just houseruled B/X?
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Setting Sans Numeral is the only family of systems that I run these days.I like how skill checks workI like that every step of character creation is laid out in the very first chapterI like that player characters can actually die to gunfireI like that the focuses and classes are distilled down to a pure liquor that isn't tied to any particular canonI don't like the GM tools and never use them, which makes me a weirdo apparently
>>97452608really good sandboxing tools but i'm not playing anything that doesn't have a universal mechanic
>>97458273Do you ever mix and match the systems? How well does it work?
>>97452608AWn games I spectated always DMed by a gay americna. Like all the 6 games I saw on discord. why
Big Fight Edition>Previously, in the Mortal Realms>>97446562>Official AoS website:https://www.ageofsigmar.com>Downloads, Rules Errata, and FAQs:https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-downloads/>Toolshttps://runebrush.pa-sy.com/warscroll/>Anvil of Apotheosis hero creator:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97457148I should never have looked at this because my own Rathalos inspired Saurus will never be anywhere close to this beauty.
>>97458152someone will always be a better painter than you, and someone will always be a worse painter than youmy minis kinda suck ass but god dammit they're my own boys and i love themrathalos is cool as shit and you should be proud of your lizardboys too
>>97458180You're not wrong. Its just one of those "Damn." moments.
>CoS win rate down to 28% after nerfs to the busted units I always like being vindicated like this when I play a high win rate army without their busted shit and don't do well.
>>97457951I feel so bad for Idoneth players. Like KO got a similar number of kits right next to them but at least we got two new actual UNITS out of it. Idoneth must be the most character lopsided army in the game that this point.
Games Wokeslop spent years building deep epic lore only to shit all over it overnight with Age of Shitmar yayAnyway, I’m good friends with a prominent writer of Warhammer novels he even wrote books om Gotrek and Felix saga. According to him a lot of writers within the Warhammer universe genuinely think AoS is bad. The general feeling is that GW higher-ups have no clue how to properly utilize the franchise and most important they dont respect it hence the constant retconsI also asked him about the return of Warhammer Fantasy. He said it’s a step in the right direction but many fans are still angry and the damage that was done cant really be undone at this point as many moved on to other games/settings out of gw
after they fucked up with fantasy now its time to introduce transmarines to 40k oh its coming
>>97450882>I read the books, matea secondary and an Australian, impressive
its called age of shitmar bc its shit
>>97456468idd
The useless cucklets of gw have no clue what they are doign do they? Did anyone watch the latest faq? they made the dwarfs even more useless now and shit all over slayer lore lawl can you believe this shit?
Welcome to the Old School Renaissance General, the thread dedicated to first-decade, Gygaxian D&D, its faithful modern clones, and content created for use with them. Later editions (2e and newer) should be discussed elsewhere.Broadly, OSR games encourage a tonal and mechanical fidelity to Dungeons & Dragons played as intended by its creators from 1974 to 1983 — less emphasis on linear adventures and overarching metaplots 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. We also have two excellent beginner guides created by Anons with feedback from the thread that you can check for help:>n00b DM's Guidehttps://pastebin.com/EVvt6P0B>n00b Player's Handbookhttps://pastebin.com/XALkXkV0>Troves, Resources, Blogs, etc:http://pastebin.com/9fzM6128Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97457943Eat shit, retard
Everyone forgot about sages. Finding and hiring sages short term until you get one worth employing long term and dealing with the upfront cost of setting that up so you can ask specific or exact questions is not cheap. Not an uncommon thing to forget because I suspect most gameplay involves the DM being a lot more generous with information than the AD&D dmg would outline, but if you're concerned about what to do with all that coin, nerds are expensive, picky and might not even be the right kind of nerd. A devious DM could even have sages of less than Good alignment lie about their areas of expertise in an attempt to gain funding and grants.
Zilchus help your wallet if you have a seemingly casual question to ask your sage while you're out in the field and its something they know just enough about to respond >sounds familiar, let me take 2000-20000gp to get back to you on that...
>>97458188Oh excuse me, you're in the field. >4000-40000gp and 2-20 days >with a day off every 4th day mind you... Fucking sages man.
>>97457943>t associate This is why you'll always be small time kid. fwiw there could be a lot of interesting gameplay from a very successful thief who was trying to keep it simple. If they're just amassing wealth it has to be stored somewhere so putting money into protecting it has costs like building a vault, what to do with the people who built it so they don't reveal the secrets, upkeep and building new traps and devious methods to keep out the other thieves who have caught wind of your treasures (who may very well have better support and organization given you have decided to let them do the paperwork and organized crime side) etc.etc.etc. If you're dead set on not caring about that sort of game there have been various attempts at >the player characters spend all their money at the end of every adventure sort of picaresque but I suspect it closes off more than it opens up after everyone hears>you party really hard again and here's a dungeon with no context in the world for the umpteenth time. Pawn style boardgame play is an option but then thieves seem easy to delegate to a vestigial character who rolls for traps, dies and is replaced fairly frequently.
Would your current campaign make a compelling tv show?
>>97455093No, and that's completely fine.I play games because I enjoy games, not so I can create compelling non-interactive media.
It would be better than most contemporary star wars stories at least
>>97458085That isn't a high bar, hasn't been since 2015.
>>97455093your thread is still up>>97451291
>>97458283theres a chance he's just one of the shitters that piggyback off of other threads/posts in those threads.
What's an alternative to the World of Darkness, Chronicles of Darkness and Curseborne that isn't cringe as fuck?
>>97452680Edgy is cringe. The trick is to not care about what people you don't care about you, think of you. There's no end to that dance, its just public shaming. Easiest way to skip that shit is to not be ashamed.
>>97453992>it's youHow Are You Gentlemen?
>>97452680>not cringe AFWorld of Darkness>alternativeCurseborne, Monster of the Week, Urban Shadows>BothMake up your damn mind, you can't get both even if you make it yourself. Fantasy + Conspiracy bullshit WILL be cringe at some point, even if your writers jerked off before hitting publish
>>97452680Fuck W20 has some good art>>97453260Dresden Files has a TTRPG? I'm not a fan of the setting though relatively.
>>97457203The Dresden Files Rpg came out 16 years ago, my dude. It uses an earlier version of Fate, which might be a turn off, but I believe you could use it for any kind of urban fantasy with some tweaking.
Back From The Dead Edition Previous Thread: >>97241180The 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.
>>97448950I dunno just being able to go to the underworld to get them back, the fact they can get them back at all kind of cheapens the concept of dying and the underworld where anyone can just go to get their friend/teammate back and do it everytime someone dies.
>>97448999well it depends on the fiction I guess, if it's established there are demons and spirits able to make it into the world there must be a way to go where they are toobut I mean like it's a full on campaign if it's that important to bring someone back you could go in there and fight satan or some shitthe plus side is since superheroes do the legacy thing if someone dies you can pretty much just make the same character again and have it make sense
Masks questionSo when it comes to scenes, is it right to just make situations where not every player is even involved? For example we have a data module that needs to be analyzed but we don't want the soldier character to be privy to that information so he can claim plausible deniability to his higher-ups about what we found So during the analyzation and the whole black market tech scene trying to follow leads does he just not get to play?
>>97414831>>97419038>>97421325I also like the main Champions setting though my favorite has to be Aaron Allston's Strike Force.
I've been ramming my head against the wall for days now, so I figured I would ask here.I want to run a game in the general style of X Statix, e.g. mostly fighting normal humans with guns, sometimes fighting a weaker super villain, death is a very real threat, powers are usually fairly weak being closer in nature to MHA than Marvel. But I can't really find anything that fits the bill without requiring my players to obtain a doctorate for the character creator, or without immediately trying to make them Superman-esque demigods.I'm unwilling to do Masks (I love PbtA but this ain't it), because it can't do any of the things I want to do, so please refrain from suggesting that. Right now I'm looking at Savage Worlds Super as the closest to what I am looking for, but does anyone here have a better suggestion? Bonus points if its actually supported by Roll20. Bonus bonus points if you think a group of mouth breathing 5e players could pick it up without too much trouble.
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>>97457923>I kinda wanna do MHBWSame broski, but it looks like nothing's starting until the OCs drop
>>97458168you can just post the buildsif it dies it dies, it's not like you'll be banned from posting them again in the future
>>97458187Port police here, actually he will be banned
