Ever been called out for your shitty worldbuilding?
>>97825684>Here's how an actual game would workoh shit there I go forgetting that I'm actually a nogames and the fact we're playing like this doesn't countIt's improv; the classic "yes, and..." rule. Why are they asking about a blacksmith? Is it because the party just found a McGuffin in the dungeon and are hoping an NPC could tell them what it is, or give them a lead to investigate it? Maybe the DM expected them to look for someone to cast Identify on it and was planning to introduce the College of Mages this session; and when the players take a more mundane route, they get to introduce a new character and new elements to the story.Perhaps the blacksmith was forging the exploding-sword on behalf of a mage of the College - was he set up? Does the blacksmith recoil when they present the McGuffin, shouting "Get that Mage-wrought curse out of my shop!" and throw the half-worked molten ingot at them? The point isn't "holy shit this blacksmith is now the #1 most important NPC in the game"; they're just some irrelevant bozo that the DM could have made up on-the-fly, but instead decided to let the player contribute to the world. If the players latch onto this random NPC for whatever reason, the DM can always say "let's come back to this later once I've had a chance to work on him".I'm not even the DM for the group right now, so attacking me personally isn't super convincing.
>>97791970Sippy fucking bippy
>>97825771>It's improv; the classic "yes, and..." rule.Improv isn't gaming> Maybe the DM expected them to look for someone to cast Identify on it and was planning to introduce the College of Mages this session; and when the players take a more mundane route, they get to introduce a new character and new elements to the story.So just because the players did something the DM didn't expect, they now get to spawn in something that... introduces the thing the DM wanted to do anyway?? That's just railroading with extra steps. .
>>97822242Fetishes fuck over other stuff when used too much as it stops being about anything else or contrived in. And it limits options as you can't do stuff with a subject that undermine the fetish like how a vorefag has an autistic freakout when the monster gets sliced apart in the throat because they tried to swallow someone with daggers. Or how someone being mutilated to a horrific monster is going being a body horror thing that wants put out of its misery too much for people into TF to fantasize have happening to them.
>>97791970This but set to flamenco music.
Recently I found some Humanity Fuck Yeah YouTube videos that use AI voice narration on my feed. After using them as background noise while cleaning my apartment I found that that most of them are more or less the same. Humans are the only ones who know how to fight/love sex/survive/etc. How can we save the genre or reinvent it so it isn't so stale?
>>97827707>It's own HANDSThe emphasis just kills me dead.
I think this says it all, most HFY really is just narcissism/ego focused/participation trophy level fiction.
>>97831157The people who like HFY are just imagining a world where they don't get told 24/7 that they are evil for just existing.Also this is in a political clinate where measurably shit quality people are celebrated for just existing.
>>97831281I like how you types always try to ascribe some massive ideological gradiosity to HFY when it's just textual masturbation. You pretend it's a defiant rebel's shout against the overbearing misanthropic majority of sci-fi when save for the exception of Avatar, the vast majority of sci-fi is human exceptionalist wank. In fact, even Avatar is human exceptionalist wank, as it requires the world's dumbest marine to play white savior to these dipshit savages who can't even think of simple tactics like "attack the big chosen one dragon from above".The biggest irony in all this is the humanity portrayed in 90% of HFY is the most misanthropic, anti-human take on our species. If you told me HFY was some sort of antinatalist cautionary tale about how humanity needs to off itself because we'd be the evil scourge of the galaxy, I'd believe you.
>>97831662I wonder if you could do a fake-out HFY with an alien commander listing off all the traits that make humans such dangerous warriors, their drive, their power etc typical HFY stuff about how they'll never give up in war and keep coming backonly to end with a "in short, they're just like us, they're warriors, and that's why I am confident they will understand why we do this" And blows up earth
Pigheaded Edition>What is Trench Crusade?An alternate weird history 28mm/32mm tabletop skirmish game. 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, and it's very Blanchitsu.>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:https://www.trenchcrusade.com/rules/They used to be split between the website and the discord, but no more. For posterity's sake, the old mega will still be kept active even if it's unlikely to need updating: https://mega.nz/folder/70QH0BBa#Eg-blxYQKkY_C02wErnFTQ>third party sources for making trenchers:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97831257Indulge me and explain this winning strategy
>>97831273It was sarcasm, you fucking inbred dipshit.
>>97830782For a long time the general was choke-full of trolls and people who had no interest in the game beyond shit-talking it and it made most people leave.Source: I was one of them, I didn't come back to the general until a few weeks ago
>>97831402And now there's nothing but TTS "players" haunting this place, grim.
>>97821296The game itself is just kind of mediocre. The blood dice are a nice enough mechanic, but the resolution mechanics around them are just so-so. Basic bitch alternating activation was also a poor choice when you're obligated to gun for maximum warband size as the campaign progresses. 40+ individual activations per round was just a slog in what should have been the most exciting games of the campaign.
How important is artwork and visual aesthetics to a tabletop game?
Important for drawing in people, not as important for player retention but still a relevant factor. Specific aesthetics can draw and repel potential players, but the art is irrelevant if your gameplay is boring/bad. This applies to myriads of other fields/businesses too in regards to logos and advertising.
Autistic rollplayers will seethe nonstop, but the cover art is the first thing you see of any system that's not a word document. (and even then, it might have a cover art)Art does a lot to set the tone, along with the way fluff is written.
>>9783158550% off a rulebook should be artwork if you want a good system
>>97831635>not as important for player retentionTrue, in that the rules and playstyle have to be consistent with the art that drew players in. Otherwise you end up with a supposedly grim post apocalyptic world and you end up with modern fallout.
>>97831585Who drew the top left?
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.
How much do each factions actually know of each other, individuals aside, does the Illuminati or technocracy know about the camarilla and sabbat and all that, what about the camarillas knowledge of them or the fae. Werewolves are so decentralized I don’t think there’s any real answer there.
>>97831204they know that they exist and the higher ups might have some telephone numbers to call each other in case they need to work together to keep up the masquarade and the general the higher up you go the more likely you are to find backdoor deals, but in general most splats know very little about each other with the former mages (tremere, nagaraja) turned vampires and the anti follower of set alliance being the exceptionno necromancer vampire or alive ever been to be labyrinth and back and most never even been down far enough to find striga the lasombra don't even know that the abyss is in the underworldthe technocratic union thought the week of nightmares was all of gehenna and the order of hermes assumed it must have been a tremere plot because those are the only powerful vampires they knowthe order of hermes didn't know that the tremere didn't use nodesfae assume that all other splats but mages are fae who forgotfae only know the difference between technomages and non technomagesComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97831287Thanks for the breakdown, I definitely prefer it to the “but this one group knows everything and that everyone else is dumb”. Though I bet there are plenty of characters that are literally that
>>97831177>So is that something you fluff, or you buy them with the suit?I'd talk it over with your ST. Decide how many background points he wants you to spend on the suit/mech and how many inactive perks it has and what each of those perks does. That's how I'd handle it, at least.A lot of the time, the suit wouldn't be anything other than a bunch of soak and probably some Dexterity penalties, but you could use it as a focus for a lot of your magic and the target of a lot of your magic as well.Though I wouldn't copy and paste it for your character, reading about the Alanson Hardsuit on page 656 of the M20 core might give you some good ideas.
>>97831577there is a lot more those are just some examples like i know the shadowlords have a camp that deals (in both meanings of the word) with vampires so they probably know more, but in turn they probably know jack shit about mages and never heard about mummies for examplein game this was somewhat enforced rules wise in 2 to 3ed/revsied by the fact that "kindred lore", "wraith lore" "werewolf lore", "mage lore" and such which represent your knowledge of another splat all costed exp like any normal knowledge ability so every exp your let's say mage spends on vampire lore is some exp they does not spend on another skill or sphere that would help him deal with his splat's usual enemies so when vampires are not currently the focus he is would be seen as falling behind while wod's 20th anni editions use the scholar of other merit that makes you better at rolling in all non combat involving the "other" of your choosing by reducing the difficulty by 2 but makes the same rolls about your usual adversaries and all other splats harder by 1
30-50 Feral Ogryns editionPrevious Heresy: >>97802085>HH 3.0 - Complete gofile - All Books:https://gofile.io/d/cnJk0N>Titanicus Compendiumshttps://gofile.io/d/qdYzem>New Edition, to a great wailing and gnashing of teeth:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/setting/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Official FAQ/Errata/Downloads:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Thread FAQ (very old, remembers Age of Terra)https://pastebin.com/iUqNrrA8Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97829989>How do you paint eyesA long fine tip brush WITH a nice belly so it can actually hold some fucking moisture and doesn't just dry out instantly.Then most importantly: a drop of retarder medium mixed with the paint. This stops it from drying too fast and gives you some time to actually work.I load up my brush, test how it's flowing / dotting on my thumbnail, then I just go for it. Brush stroke starts from the inside of the eye then to the outside, then flip the model upside down and do the other eye with the same movement. Then come back in with the skin tone to touch up any mistakes.Drop some paint on my wet palette > Dilute it > Retard it > Load brush > Test on thumb > Make Adjustments > Test again > Deep breath and just fucking do it.Dotting the eyes is exactly the same procedure except it's a quick dab instead of a horizontal movement. I don't usually dot the eyes. I personally prefer the look of just painting the eye whites.
What's a good way to paint Iron Hands without an airbrush?I've painted a few using a slapchop method, but I've never been 100% happy with them.Any tips on how to improve?
beginning to write my own set of rules to try out and wanting to make it fit the fluff. am I right in thinking that a bolter really should only be killing a marine with a lucky shot? and should never be penetrating terminator armour?
>>97831451>No airbrushThis method is fucking magic for black armour:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUM1ShfnrD0If you want to go a bit further add some metallic paint chipping on the edges and some brown or rust coloured oil paints (or acrylic washes if that's your thing). You could also try purple & green oils if you like that version of the Iron Hands scheme.
>>97831645I tried this for a couple of my DA but they came out a little too blue. I kind of like it and it works well as a base but I kept overthinking the weathering.
Is there ANY miniature wargame that isn't insanely expensive? I'm talking about things you can buy in a box and play immediately, not "print your own minis" bullshit or things where you're forced to use proxies cause official models don't exist.
>>97810757Battletech
>>97810757Okay mini PRINTING is bad, but what about mini arts-and-crafting?TONKS or BANGARANG / SKIRM!!! in the Gutterlands perhaps?Nothing's cheaper than gluing together chopped up trash.
>>97829792army men actually come out pretty good when you sand the mold lines and paint them too, even the dirt cheap dollar store ones.
>>97831474>https://brikwars.com/rules/2010/cover.htmFixed that for you.Have a stat card generator as well:https://westnordost.de/statcard/>>97831524>in fact they're not even in the art anymore because they sent the creator a cease and desist apparently they trademarked the shape or some shitIt was an Image infringement thing, Mike's trademark style ironically is now property of the Lego Group, hence he had to Mega Blok/Roblox it up as seen here: >>97821241(This only became an issue when Mike published a hardcover version for sale, because again, his original style is Lego Property.)Of the Cloaans, only Mega and Best-Lock will actually have minifig accessories, and one of the reasons I prefer 2010 is that Construction Points allow you to stat up things that are NOT Minifigures.
>>97811190>a dice-less wargameneat.
It's Da PDF Share Thread!STEP 0:<----- That image is not a PDF, it's an image, at least for now. Check the 4plebs link below to find the PDF.PLEASE READ DA FAQ BEFORE REQUESTING OR SHARING.It will answer 99% of your questions about this thread. If you haven't read it, we will know.STEP 1:Please exhibit good manners. Threads start sliding off the board after a certain number of posts. More posts wasted on being rude means fewer posts available for sharing.STEP 2:Request, share, stay awesome!Previous thread:>>97757836Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Requesting Hide, Stone, and Bone please and thanks.
>>97830498You know we're still going to get a bunch of "OSR is down!! Oh Noooo!" posts right?
>>97830436>d100 Dungeong0f1le /d/IgQ4tK
Kindly requesting GOOD quality pdfs of MERP. Many of the versions I've found are borderline unreadable (shit scans, smeared text, etc). Thanks!
>>97830808Yeah, I was thinking of posting one of my own as a goof. It wasn't worth the minute and and Capcha though. Anyway it's back up.
Easy Flowcharts Edition>RPG Rulebookshttps://rentry.org/40kRPGLinks>Homebrew Collection (Feb 2025)https://rentry.org/40RPGHB>WANG/Imperium Maledictum Newshttps://cubicle7games.com/blog/warhammer-40k>Bestiary, armoury, weapon quality and NPC databasehttp://www.40krpgtools.com/>Dark Heresy 2e Character Creator:https://apps.ajott.io/dh2chargen/>General 40kRPG Encyclopediahttps://www.scholaprogenium.com/>Offline Combined Armory (v6.48.161023)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97827983>Can they regrow teeth?They can't regrow lost limbs, so I don't think they can do so with teeth either. At least I don't recall any mention that they can>Can they heal radiation sickness?Both melanchromic organ and their power armour makes them way more resistant to radiation than a normal human, but extreme amounts of it can still make them sick and potentially kill them. However, unless it's very severe, they can probably heal from it fine, especially since Imperium probably has much better treatment options available than we do in M2.
Right fucknuts, another homebrew expansion for you to sperg over, this time it's the Minotaurs. Got some good weapons, upgrades, Arkonak Terminator armour, some wierd centurion pattern and the skylance gunship because You will never stop me making vehicles, enjoyhttps://ferrus-manus (dot) itch (dot) io/wargear-vault-minotaursCover art by Kanonbal2
The duties of the Ordo Hereticus seem like such a mixed bag. Chaos cults and corruption, mutation, rogue psykers, normal corruption of Imperial functionaries. Why are they wearing so many hats?
>>97831623No one has the authority to tell them something isn't their business
>>97831623>named Ordo Hereticus>handles heresyyou gotta wonder
Gearhead thread but for /tg/Part of why I like to play ttrpg's is the analog aspect. I prefer to keep all digital things out of the experience. No laptops, ipads, phones at the table. Well, an exception can be made for googling something quick, but other than that, keep that shit in your pocket.I like to do my gm prep, world building, drawing maps, in notebooks. npc and character sheets etc.on paper.I really like MUJI stationery. Their notebooks are really nice, and their pens and pencils are amazing.I recently found some hex paper notebooks on amazon. That was really nice to use to draw some hex maps.Do you have any neat stationery or other analog "gear" that you really like? Could you share some of your cool items or showcase your note taking system or maps or whatever?
>>97809050I have come to preach the gospel of postcard paper!You can buy a hundred of them for some change. They're slightly thicker and less floppy than regular paper, and of a manageable size.I use whole-size for player abilities, half-sized for equipment, and quarter size for items and consumables.Players can just lay out everything they have at their disposal, flip equipment upside down when it's stowed, and toss consumables onto the table when they want to use them.They also make for good rooms in a point-crawl dungeon, and notes for dungeon specific information, which can all be stored together in a punched punched pocket.
>>97830938>I still keep a MS Surface behind the screen to quickly look up rules though...There's nothing wrong w/ doing both. Handwriting and actual books genuinely help your brain learn and engage better than screens. But screens are convenient and sometimes convenience is more important. It's good that you've got a mix, at all.
>>97831001>Index Card RPG intensifies
I have nothing to add to the discussion, merely enjoying the pics. I do have some personal observations from playing several sessions of paper-only Ironsworn. >I don't usually go back to read notes/journals of previous sessions even when playing digitally. Having both in physical papers didn't change that. >If anything, re-reading past sessions didn't feel that great since it looked like a bunch of notes (am i back in college??) >I'm not an artist, so the notes and journals are kinda bland to glance at too. A minimal level of artistry might be required for all-paper play, at least for me. >my handwriting is decent, but not being able to search my notes felt incredibly limiting >Persistent frustration and annoyance from not being able to write down imaginations and thoughts quickly to paper in detail - either had to sacrifice time to write detailed account by hand or sacrifice detail by summarizing what I envisioned. >keeping a different binder for re-orderable set of notes on worldbuilding elements became a necessity, but it added to the physical clutter (MORE binders, sire?) In the end, I abandoned the paper-only play. I REALLY want it to work for me but it just isn't clicking. I believe my main hurdles were from not knowing how to draw, which impacted my desire to read my old sessions even when played outside the papers-only medium.
>>97830295>t. latinx
Work in Progress, "No Foolin'!" Edition>Full-on /WIP/ OP Links Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/BE42AEcD>WIP Tutorial Images Megahttps://mega.nz/#F!TvQFCaLb!w8WZKCcOsTRasxrI0JWezw>Saint Duncan's "Six Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Painting"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufP8ka3KGno>Saint Duncan also explains thinning your paintshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxWgsqSf74s>Paint thinning 102Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Anyone that can give some tips on primers?I used GW's Wraithbone spray and really liked how it made skeletons look combined with skeleton horde but i'd prefer to have a primer that I can use with a cheapo airbrush instead of a rattlecan. Are there any good white airbrush primers you can recommend?
>>97831139>Anyone that can give some tips on primers?Boy CAN I! I've been waiting years for people here to ask about primers.>Are there any good white airbrush primers you can recommend?No.
>>97831139>Are there any good white airbrush primers you can recommend?Vallejo's Mecha Color white is pretty solid
>>97831139I can't shill Mr Surfacer enough but it's a lacquer
>>97831334Heh, yeah that's sort of the feeling I get from when people talk about whites.>>97831391Cool, thanks i'll check it out.>>97831422Yeah probably skipping that. I don't trust myself to deal with them properly, unlike with the regular VOCs, and don't want to end up inadvertently harming myself or others.
>new tcg is the biggest funded tabletop kickstarter at $15+ mil and growingWill it succeed?
>>97830549>I just spent 300 dollars on all this PRODUCT>...on second thought, I don't feel obligated to play it or otherwise get my money's worth out of it lol
>>97830573>they will naturally be disinclined to buy a new productincorrect, that's a myth
>>97831038First mistake is thinking 300 dollars is a buy in price to play a game. You're acting a collector, own it.
>>97826573>V's face isn't censored like in the game
>>97826573That depends, did the people buy it because they are interested in playing it as a game, or are people buying it because they hope to be able to resell it somewhere down the line>>97827082Ah.
Yu-Gi-Oh! General #601"The new face of Handtraps" EditionPrevious thread: >>97788606Most Yu-Gi-Oh! discussion encouraged. Post OC, write dumb fanfics with bad CaC in them, duel each other, have fun, etc.>Yu-Gi-Oh! Online PlayAutomated Sims:●EDOPro website: https://projectignis.github.io/download.html●EDOPro: https://discord.gg/ygopro-percy●YGO Omega: https://discord.gg/duelistsunite●Dueling Nexus: https://duelingnexus.com/●Master Duel: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1449850/YuGiOh_Master_Duel/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97831252White binder is maliss' strongest card and she's banned in TCG. Still, be it TCG, OCG or MD, the deck is nothing without march hare and backup secretary.
>>97831432Five days ago, it had 2 different top 8s a 200 person regional:https://ygoprodeck.com/deck/ignister-maliss-703661https://ygoprodeck.com/deck/orcust-maliss-703651Pure version is certainly dead, but it can be mixed with other strategies as a supplementary engine and do some good work, especially at more standard regionals or locals.
>>97831530Yes, i never said the deck was bad, but this man >>97827607 wants to play it without its two best cards.
>>97831432>>97831547I can get 2 or 3 backup secretary, I was asking if it could be played without march hare (maybe only 1)
>>97831571It could work with just backup secretary and a shit ton of bystials, but don't be surprised if you get stomped even in friendlies at your locals.
>first time dming technocracy>first time dming Mage20>first time dming (true story)>game set in covid, friend suddenly sees all the lights in the wikimedia server room suddenly "blink", then appear as though they are all focussed on him (& partners location)>probably thinks its a hidden mage, nephandi or demon he'll fight next session>will actually to be a post kantian/Georges Bataille horror that is trying to show humans the "outside", breaking not only conscensus but noumenaanyway how do you ambush your players with your autistic hobbies?
>game set in covidIf the clotshot isn't a nephandi/progenitor plot to render sleepers incapable of awakening you're doing it wrong.
I feel like that time I sat near this schizo alchoholic woman who was just rambling with another dude. All her words made sense, but not the order they were put into.
>>97831533covid as the setting as an excuse as to why iteration x doesnt just build a new facility for wikipedia staff and glass the old facility with the reality deviation. plus its a period that allows technocracy both be stretched thin and flex their muscles as the mightest. will definetly be revisting it again in the future when this Bataille story ends, but youre idea is too obvious while still being on the right track. viva aaron good>>97831560preciate it
>>97831526i cant be bothered to learn prior mage systems rn. will give awakening and Asc-1st editions fair shakes latter in the year. still getting my bearings as mage dm and dm in general
>>97831503Typically I am rolling dice behind a screen for no reason, and then I drop a bunch of monsters I had planned for the session on them no matter what.
"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.
>>97830688When I make a thread it's done correctly. Sorry you're a huge fuck-up that can't follow simple instruction. You know when the thread stops bumping it's time to speak up and request a bake, right? Not holding your breath until it sinks to page 10. You don't even have to bake right away, just say something. It's literally that simple.
>>97831220You had nearly 12h to make a thread as it sailed over pages 6-10 overnight, when I woke up I made the last post and then realized the thread was dead so I made this general.>offtopic shitstirring stolen valor fuckfabbieCan't and won't name the card in the OP or even bother to correct his mistakes even once.
>>97829875do you recommend the game? how do you find people to play it?
>>97831270>Can't and won't name the card in the OP or even bother to correct his mistakes even once.I'm sorry but what even is your point here?
>>97831302>can't even identify a card game by its artGo post to elf thread you fucking poser. Or complain to someone who gives a fuck.
