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.
>>97819910I commend you on your autism, Anon.
>>97820129>Also, you might want to stat things out for sacrifice ranches as well since sentient sacrifices for divine power might be a legit harvesting technique.A baby/juvenile/adolescent human is a noncombatant, worth zero XP and therefore zero divine power. However, at adulthood it jumps to 4 divine power (even if the human is still a feral noncombatant due to being treated no better than a pig), since the heart is worth 4 GP as a magical component.
Getting kinda Dwarf Fortress in here>Hey, it seems like mermaid bones are pretty valuable....
>>97820210With choice and freedom comes the freedom to be a bad person and the choice to ride the bastard train all the way to whatthefucksville station.
>>97812893Elven spellsinger. Then maybe the dwarf pugilist
Last Thread:https://desuarchive.org/tg/thread/97697487/The 1d6Chan:https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Chyna_SecundusGiven that both the 1d6chan page and end of Thread 3 imply that the Tyranids were eliminated (if I'm wrong... admonish me)That said... this thread will be a more traditional epilogue with some planning for next thread...Now then... lets wrap up Chyna Secundus anons...>be Felinid Lt. Tom, aka "Big Daddy">I can't help but think of the absurdity of the past week>the war for this polluted grox-shit pit of a planet is over... mostly>still a couple stragglers here and there, but they won't last long>the sieges of both Hive Kong and Hive Bei'jing have been won, and the few surviving heretics routed into the wastesComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97819888*>most of the enemy seems to be gathering there
>>97819888>>97818452>>97815038>>97819136>>97818998>be Tiny Tam>i look around and grab some parchment, i hope its not expensive because i waste no time drawing what i saw >the alleys, the warehouse, the location where the sleeping storm is waiting >as i try to explain my vision to Dad, the Cardinal and lil tom a group of Cadians storm in lead by a space marine and sister of battle"that psyker is needed at the capital at once, hand her over.">oh god emperor's fluffy tail its happening!>Lt tom looks like he might draw his weapon to protect me as my heart tenses >wait...>something about the space marine is familiar>i look around as i try to figure out what i should do next when i realize my body moved on its own to stand between Lt Tom and the space marine Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97819972>it draws on for so long im starting to hurt my neck from staring at him at the angle i have to look up before he reaches down and takes it >"...fine, Sister Priscilla or whatever, take the kid back to the transport and get her to where she needs to be" >before i go i run and hug Lt tom quickly"trust me...i can handle this...and i need you to find what i saw, it might save everyone. I want to be strong and be a proper guardsman, like you taught me...i love you dad." >im sure he'd rather come with me but he's the only one i trust right now to find it>i turn and walk with the sister as we get back into the vehicle, she seems as nervous and tired as i am>honestly if she was a felinid and a mercenary id think she was my mom>well my uncle lied about everything else its worth asking"h-have you ever been to Nordica II?"
>>97818452>>97819888>>97819972>Be Priscilla, Least Fortunate Woman in the Galaxy >Fuck my life, just when I thought things were settling down on this planet, some fucking Gods-know-what appears in the sky >Spencer doesn’t seem particularly concerned, so I guess that is something >Spencer somehow guesses the psyker he is looking for will be at the big cathedral, but then somehow the psyker convinces him that he should go look for a warehouse?>I am not sure if psyker powers were involved just now, or the psyker is involved with the Sect given Spencer seems to already know her >Either way, I am not particularly thrilled to be left escorting a psyker >Many psykers are telepaths, which is not ideal given my uncertain loyalties and possible tainted nature, and that is assuming she just sticks to passive thought reading and doesn’t try to psychically puppet me, or even worse, get possessed by a daemon which ends up skullfucking me to death, and then claiming my soul in order to continue the skullfucking in the Warp>Think happy thoughts, think happy thoughts >Well, at least the thing in the sky formed only after we arrived, otherwise we probably would have crashed like so many other aircraft we saw as we searched for the psyker >The bad news is that we are driving the Centaur RSV all the way back to Hive Bei’Jing through wasteland that is still full of scattered bands of Orks, White Lightning, and Schlick roaming around in light vehicles >I manage to use my alleged Inquisitorial authority to bully a few more Cadian light vehicles into forming an escort for us, then lean back and try to relax as the Centaur RSV navigates its way through the crowded streets of Hive Kong >The psyker sits across from me Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97820278>The psyker asks me if I have ever been to Nordica >Ugh,fuck >Another person who seems to know more about me then they should >The psyker is acting sheepish and shy for now, but that is one hell of a lucky guess, which means she has either read some of my thoughts, or knows at least some things about me >I wonder if she is genuinely fishing for information, or she is just toying with me, which seems to be everyone’s favourite hobby lately >Neither of my trips to Nordica are something I want to talk about, since the first time I essentially deserted, and the second time I came dangerously close to becoming a sex toy for a daemonette >Nor can I talk about my time there without giving away the fact I am not a Sister >On the other hand, I don’t want to discomfort her if she genuinely is just a young kid asking an innocent question, or a hidden monster laying the groundwork for some mind games, so I try to muster up as much charm as I have left in me right now and try and be friendly “Yes, I have been there. How about you? You seem a little young to have joined the Winter Guard at its Founding. Are you from Carlos McConnel or did you join at a later date?”
Have you heard the Primordial Truth?
>>97817686The Imperium is De-Jure any place where humans exist. During the Great Crusade, before the emergence of the Imperial Creed the Emperor essentially reconquered all (or the vast majority of) the worlds colonied by humanity in remote antiquity. When the Emperor died, large swathes of this territory were abandoned, but the people there sitll remembered the Emperor. This is why in Eisenhorn they find themselves on a completely uncharted world in the middle of nowhere and the people there still worship the Emperor, albeit in a dimly remembered way.The Ecclesiarchy is not a tool of control per-se, because half of the rebellions are led by local Cardinals or priests. Rather, it deliberately acts as a cultural lubricant to allow what ought to be millions of discrete nations to coexist under the same banner, and also as a source of common ground between conflicting factions as common to them as their shared humanity.The Merchants being robbed and the Pirates robbing them are both worshippers of the Emperor, and nobody in that scenario would see anyything strange about that.wtf is up with this new capcha
>>97807971This but unironically. Order is slavery, Chaos is freedom.
>>97807967I dunno ask /hhg/
>>97807968That'd be orks. He's just a dork and a puppet who provides the true winners with more fights.
>>97813458Lol, femstodes
I win the argument.
>>97819722Nah.
>>97817976False.
>>97819725You are surprised! -2 penalty to initiative
>>97819242Why are you here, playing the dungeon game, where you have been told there will be a lich, if you don't want to face the lich in the dungeon?
>>97819713>>97819725Lol ain't no way you got btfo by your own exampleNow does this count as railroading since there is no means for player agency to disprove you being a faggot?
Trying Too Hard Edition>Previous>>97788480>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.
Alright, who is in the Mage Files?
>>97820236the real question to ask is who ISNT in the mage files
>>97820252Obviously, the Tremere are all innocent (they were not invited at all).
>>97819357Genuinely, what the fuck, this is an insanely soulful character, I miss stupid shit like this lmao.
>>97820268Tremere and Virtual Adepts forced to not come to pedophile island because they are stinky nerds.
>Join open table night for 5E>Playing a monster expert ranger>combat starts >pull out monster manual and read the stats >DM accuses me of meta gaming This is a DM skill issue right? It’s a roleplaying GAME. Why is he upset that I’m just using all the tools of the game to be a better player
>>97818555Mod thread.
>>97818555The player character is "supposed" to have quite limited information, with the details of statblocks "supposed" to come from knowledge-related skills rather than sourced externally, though 5e doesn't have much clear framework for how good a skill roll gives what result and the bonus scaling is a horrible constraint.It's a holdover from Gygaxian adversarial DMing where the players were expected to puzzle these things out from the results of roles, to my understanding.
>>97818555dirty cheat
>>97818673>It's a holdover from Gygaxian adversarial DMing where the players were expected to puzzle these things out from the results of roles, to my understanding.Very wrong
>>97818555Well, you ARE metagaming by doing that
>mimimi, humans don't have their own feature, mimimi, we have to invent somethingNecromancy right here. When was the last time you saw non-human necromancer, lich or vampire? That's right, they practically don't exist because other races are simply inferior when it comes to necromancy and those non-human undead are so pathetic that everyone forgets about their existence in 5 minutes . Except for that one orc, but even he understood that he was worthless and therefore got himself a human body to finally become a full-fledged lich. So yes, here is your feature humans - necromancy, you know that I am right, you can't run away from the truth forever.
>>97816759>>97817276Uh also Mannimarco, the main necromancer/lich of the whole franchise, is a high elf.
>>97817316Erandis Vol in Eberron is a half-dragon half-elf lich and the most powerful necromancer in the setting. Also the biggest elven nation is built around the use of positive-energy based necromancy.
>>97816513Eres hispanohablante
>>97816598>just try to find a non-human undead
>>97820029>angloparlante
Pendragon Thread!What's the deal with 6E?
>>97815138Pendragon, not Niggabegone
>>97813119Lemme crash the thread. Theres nothing wrong with playing a female knight. It happened in real life too so its not ahistorical
>>97819128Niggerbaiter
>produce indie module>send it to a few youtubers who review modules and have a decent reputation for independent thought>hey, I've seen some of this guy's videos and he has never once mentioned being paid>send free copy>get email from his agent quoting a price for a reviewWhy are they all like this?
>>97817169The youtuber has infinite avenues for new content. Your shitty module isn't special and isn't deserving of free promotion and advertising just because you mistakenly believe you are doing everyone else a favor.
>>97818206Modules are cheap and plentiful. The hobby is built around making your own shit. Someone sending you their module isn't a favor, but unpaid work to promote some faggot too poor and too stupid to know that they aren't entitled to other people's time and effort.Besides, if it's so fucking easy, just make your own youtube channel and promote your own content. Clearly you don't value the labor of others, so why not just do it yourself?
>>97816639>Lying online for the sake of (You)sPost the supposed module, so we can all laugh at your expense - either because it doesn't exist, or because it's so shite.
>>97818492What about anyone else's module of varying quality?Where is the line of quality, when the end users is capable of and expected to modify the contents? What is permissible for a module, when "the world's greatest TTRPG" can be shipped out with inconsistent parts, and defended with "just rewrite it bruh"?Do you have consistent standards, or are you just trying to demoralize homebrewers?
>>97816639Did he actually troon out?
Welcome to /2eg/, a thread dedicated to all things 2nd Edition D&D related - including settings, lore, modules, and derived systems (Alternity, Buck Rogers XXVc, For Gold and Glory, Hackmaster, Myth and Magic, and more).Since 2e draws heavily from earlier editions, older modules are welcome too. Other media derived from AD&D (such as Infinity Engine video games) also has a home here.It's what you play, not how you play it. RAW or homebrew, as long as your table is having fun, there's no wrong way to play.There's a surprisingly complete 2e fan wiki for rules stuff, it's excellent for quick reference:https://adnd2e.fandom.com/wiki/Advanced_Dungeons_%26_Dragons_2nd_Edition_Wikiad&d 2e archiveaHR0cHM6Ly93ZWIuYXJjaGl2ZS5vcmcvd2ViLzIwMjUwMjA0MTczNzUwL2h0dHBzOi8vdGhlLWV5ZS5ldS9wdWJsaWMvQm9va3MvcnBnLnJlbS51ei9EdW5nZW9ucyUyMCYlMjBEcmFnb25zL0FEJkQlMjAybmQlMjBFZGl0aW9uLw==Remember to keep things civil.Thread Question - why the 2e hate?
>>97820132Anon, it's the fifth identical post in a row you make. If you don't like the new thread, you can just ignore it.
>>97820144+1
>>97820153And it will become another troll den, filled with the same trolls who are in this thread now, and it will inevitably die because they drive people away whenever they try to discuss games seriously, because they are generally genuinely unpleasant in everything they do.This is how the previous /2eg/ died. And the previous /2eg/ as well. And the /nsrg/. The same trolls, the same bumping just to keep a thread up to help split the /osrg/.There is an opportunity to not repeat the mistake, if it was even an honest mistake. And, frankly, it's not really possible to think someone could listen to anything the trolls say and think it's a good idea, so these posts are largely just so you can't pretend you didn't know the exact thing that happened before is going to happen again.If you want to continue to play house with these trolls, have at it.
>>97820153He's not here to ignore things, he's here to shit them up and make sure nothing except what he wants succeeds.And he wants you to be his personal army, anything less is going to make him to this face >:( and bitch
>>97819768> You sprinkle that shit through the dungeon and then hand the situation to the players and go 'Now what?'Chiefly, infighting and arguing over loot.
Thread #012 Degenerate EditionWelcome to /schreck/ where you can rp your VTM character! For all questions concerning the World of Darkness, please consult the WoDg and CoDg thread>>97733980Previous Thread>>97621954Brief rules>We have no story teller, we are acephali>Threads are v20 based, although the night is long and full of whispers, lies, and half-truths. Decide your own canon but all will not believe you>all nicktuku will be diablerized on sight>all OOC discussion should be spoileredTHREAD QUESTIONComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
How do I POLITELY invite a Nosferatu to leave the sewer underneath my place without angering them, using another Nosferatu, or making an enemy out of the rest of their Clan?
>>97817128Like you were using that sewer
>>97817237Most of the kine walking through my place won't either, however somebody is going to reach for the surface to feed and eavesdrop at some point in time.
>>97817128fetching? probably not but i am comfy in them. that is all that matters.and ey, we do what we gotta do. >>97817391>>97817128if this is a 'reasonable' extension of a haven you gotta demarcate that shit and KEEP it. paper law don't extend far downotherwise, just ask without being weird. if it matters to your neighbours they'll ask for a favour. give it. its a lot easier to work with mutuals than bad neighbours
Do you think we ever had a chance in the first place?Like, if back in the day the first dickheads in the bronze ages haden't gotten blood fever we could live semi-normal llives.Som thinbloods over by the homelss camp got vanished and I'm feeling really mortal r-n ngL.
Why do my genasis never get any love? I feel like these guys are made to be tumblr tier OC bullshit that would at least get me something cool in 5e.
>>97813428Fish.>>97813442Burning hair.
>>97711629>What's with the appeal for them being so high compared to Genasi, lol?They have interesting mythological resonance and more compelling character hooks. Tieflings are descended from devils, are mistrusted for their ancestors, etc, etc. People complain about this stuff, but it's genuine hooks for characters.Genasi have being a fire guy. Maybe the absolute bottom-of-the-barrel stereotypes you'd expect based on being a fire guy. Fire guy doesn't have mythological resonance. There aren't ten million TV shows and books featuring fire guys. They feel like they're just there for completion's sake; if tieflings didn't exist, would they?
>>97640055You can use Gemini, Claude, or Grok, if you prefer.
>>97638600>1. Nobody cares about elementalsElementals are so shockingly conceptually vacuous it's kinda crazy. There's just... nothing there lol. A fire elemental is just made of fire. Motivations? Goals? Life cycle? It's made of fire, what more do you need to know?Just make them Pokemon.
>>97813886Sorry, was banned for 3 daysWell, he started off 1st level with some Greyhawk stuff I cooked up, eventually segued into Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil (horrible campaign btw), went through that and ended at it at level 13, we played 5 more adventures and they retired that character at 17th level in 3.x, which is pretty respectable. One of the few characters I ever saw personally retire instead of getting killed in action. I remember he took Hellfire Warlock as a prc but I modified it slightly. 3.x didn't need a lot of homebrewing iirc. I'd have to break out my actual notes for more details. I remember writing down his character level progress, which he changed a bit as we played ofc. That campaign lasted seven years but he went from 1 to 17 in a little over 3 years. Great player and he's become an excellent DM. His pacing is superb. He gathered some great magic items in that game and didn't recovered an Orb of Dragon kind (Black). He is, to date, the only character to ever recover one of those. I should dig out those notes. I think you guys would appreciate them.
Knight Panther 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/downloads/warhammer-the-old-world/>Warhammer Chronicles:https://files (dot) catbox (dot) moe/0xt777 (dot) zip>Time of Legends:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I got a spare warpfire dragon head so I think I'm going to build a dragonhide banner with it, bsb is already generic on Thundertusk. Should it be for Leadbelchers, Maneaters, or Ironguts? LGS plays renegade pack so Leadbelchers aren't complete ass.
Went to my local gw today, they had a limited(?) release of some older models. I picked up this one, it seems pretty neat. Anyone else score something good?
>>97820139Lmao good bait
>>97820139I got a foot fungus after playing barefoot in my LGS last month.
>>97820161That's why you should always wear the communal sandals offered
Palladium Games and Rifts General! /PGaRG/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)>TMNT & Other Strangeness + After the Bomb>SplicersComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97813073There were a lot of great Rifts artists but my favorites were always Long and Perez. And the amazing covers by Zeleznik, of course, but that goes without saying.
>>97778911Thank you. I really appreciate it. I did not see this until now.
>>97814099De nada! Any time. I was going to post the random tables when I had time to format them.
Splicers fans, what's up with host armor?In a lot of the book it seems synonymous with Dreadguard, but for some reason Roughnecks and Outriders have it. Why? Especially Outriders, why do they get giant warbeasts AND host armor when packmasters and archangels don't? It feels like they just slapped it on them late in the setting's development to justify the giant host armor creation sectionAlso, how exactly is humanity organized? There are nobles mentioned, but they're ruled by warlords selected through duels, so how does that work? Finally, what is a true Gene-Pool, the stare of a gene-pool beyond Engineer and Librarian?
>>97816979Splicers!The key point is the Bio-E they get assigned. Deeadguards get the most, then roughnecks, then outsiders. The Bio-E means more mods or enhancements, on top of that dreadguards get some metabolism and can upgrade ro a dreadnaught. I think Outriders get host armors because almost all warmounts are saddle mounted. Not just an exposed cockpit but that you are on top of the thing. In my campaign when the Machine was controlling troops they would target the warmount rider.
So what are you working on?>Why should I homebrew?/tg/ products are fairly unique in that it's actually pretty simple to make them these days, with a plethora of products to assist in making and playtesting your game. Making your own games helps understand why games are made the way they are, as well as being fun to do.>What you should postIdeas for games, games you're currently making, updates to your own games in broad strokes, and any homebrewing for existing products that don't get much attention. Discussion about the above is welcome. Post good, be good, and look over others products, they care if someone looks more than anything.Had to remake the thread>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)
>>97819410freaky, but not unprecedented...
>>97819846Hell yeah. Dude knows, whats up. I figure if I keep giving this mutt estrogen and eventually I'll have a set of g-cups to bat around.
Doing all of this.
>>97818983Working on a crunchy tactics martial arts system. Combat uses a independent tick based declare/resolve mechanic where the tick cost is how long before it resolves rather than a cooldown after.Having a weapon changes the tick cost of attacks. Previously different weapon size had different costs with small weapons (like daggers) having 0 change. I am considering a universal "if weapon, cost +1" mechanic which will be cleaner but will lose "realism" for lack of a better word.Is this a level of crunch worth giving up if I cant balance it correctly anyway?
>>97818983>So what are you working on?A homebrew setting that I can EASILY explain to players who literally showed up to the table that very night (so I can run this at conventions). The rules I have already blatantly stolen from a published setting (and will credit them as much).It's basically cyberpunk, but instead of being street criminals, the players are mercenaries who can get into military conflicts that may involve tanks, airstrikes, and artillery (but of course much lower powered conflicts and heists as well). Inspirations include GI JOE and the Metal Gear Solid series.I need something I can fit onto one page of a handout I can literally just hand to a new player who bumbles up to my table at a convention and is looking for a near-future game that resembles cyberpunk.The fastest one-paragraph explanation I can think of is something like "The world is a dystopian shithole where the gap between the rich and the poor is a fucking Grand Canyon but it's become so divided and balkanized that law enforcement is only for those with money - everybody else is subject to the laws of the Wild West. That's where you come in, and you get paid for it."
