Besides Shadowdark, are there any other TTRPGs that have playable goblins?
>>97341430>>97344852SAVED! You're my new favorite drawfren.
>>97346093Glad you enjoyed them. I drew a few for the previous gobbo thread.
>>97341430Funny how that guy who insists goblins must be ugly is nowhere to be found.
How much would/should changing the default setting from High Medieval to Late Bronze Age change the game? For example, lowering AC across the board to simulate the lack of general armour. How much would that affect balance?
>>97351007I usually see the "without number" games suggested more for their generators than anything, what's the system like?
>>97351610Mostly plays like D&D w/ a nod to skills and pretty high lethality but not so high that players get frustrated. The generators are definitely what's best about it, but its magic/psionics system, although unnecessarily complex at first w/ shock/strain, leaves a lot of intentional room for player innovation. The biggest downside is that treasure is mostly on you as the GM. The upside is that it's all compatible with anything ever published for D&D, so not very hard to find things to borrow.Honestly aside from its magic system, it could be literally any other D&D retclone or osr or whatever the hell they're called.
>>97350982Someone said that that helmet shape would funnel arrows straight into your eyeholes.
Idk why but bronze is way more aesthetically pleasing than iron/silver/gold.
>>97350722Subtract everything in pic related from the campaign.>No "universal" religions--all religions are specific to a single race, or even to a single ethnicity within a race>No mounted warriors with stirrups>No trebuchets or catapults>No war galleys>No concreteAnd, most important of all:>No distilled liquor
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>>97351663Try. refreshing the page. That sometimes helps.
Requesting Fantasy Express and Express Additions #2-8, as well as Shadow Companion and Shadow Companion II from Firehawk Games.https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/410/firehawk-games/category/47433/fantasy-expresshttps://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/410/firehawk-games/category/45360/powered-by-open00Also looking for Libram Arte Arma and Libram Arcanis for Novus 2e from Firehawk Games.https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/433057/libram-arte-armahttps://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/405681/libram-arcanis
Requesting all the Foundry Modules for Wrath & Glory.
>>97348306Doubt any of this will help but still...GF/d/2Jl2ej
>>97349873>>97349953The SotWW side of it is up to date. The SotDL side is probably just missing what's been mentioned, the adventures posted in this thread are there.
Thread dedicated to Sci-Fi based discussion. 40k need not apply. [\spoiler]How goes your sci-fi setting, anon? I am currently running a Traveller game in a homebrew setting, and am getting lost in the sauce of stellar physics.
Been very interested in Traveller ever since I read some Sci Fi last year (mostly Asimovs Foundation and some of The Expanse)I don't know if I could do the super hard science stuff but I gotta say the appeal is there for space adventures. Might at least try running some adventure books for my friends to see if they're actually interested in the system before I try and brew an entire universe. Or at least a system or two to call my own might be easier to manage
>>97351264Traveller isn't hard sci-fi in the slightest so there's no need to worry about it.Traveller is fun, though, I've run several one shots in the past and will probably try to get a campaign off the ground this year or next, depending on how games are lookin'. Be wary of the current mongoose adventures, some of them are fairly shit.
He is basically the antichrist.
>>97349416The Emperor can't be Jesus because he has Judas.
>>97349107The Emperor is Jesus and the Imperial Ecclesiarchy is the Catholic Church.
>>97349107He's pic related if he had won instead of losing and freezing himself.
>>97349107>he Imperial Ecclesiarchy is the Catholic Churchi became an old fag , i miss the old days when people knew the esoteric knowledge of the settingthe Emperor is clearly depicted in the Old ones Tablets as the one who will create the primarchs in cooperation and an Old one (a tentacle connect to the old ones the other directly to a mysterious person to the embryo and the sphere represent planets while the triangles are the scattering) and scattered them all over the galaxyas we can see all the other races are directly linked to the Old Ones except for the embryo , there is another actor beside the old ones , likely the Emperor , notice each one of the Old ones and the mysterious actor all have different glyphs (probably the Annuncia)so the Emperor is an old one or an agent of the old ones and the creation of the primarchs is an Old ones Hail Mary project , one of the three depicted above the Necron's death mask , another project of thier's is the webway and the eldar laughing god harlequin face , the third is scratched and unrecognizable though speculated to be the Tyranids , an attempt to assimilate all organic life and reset the galaxy , depriving Chaos from their fuel
>>97349425All the Emperor did was demand people swear total allegiance to him, unquestioningly obey his every command to the letter, and refer to him as the master of mankind beloved by all. It’s totally different from being worshipped as a god!
SCP editionTell us about your horror settings, games, etc. Share inspirational art, prompts, etc.>List of games:Call of Cthulhu, Chill, Cold and Dark, Degenesis, Delta Green, Don't Rest Your Head, Dread, Esoterrorists/Fear Itself+Book of Unremitting Horror, Fall of Delta Green, GORE, Into The Shadows, KULT, Little Fears, Mothership RPG, Nemesis (free on Arc Dream's website), Nights Black Agents, Silent Legions (Mostly for the tables), Stalker: The SciFi RPG, Symbaroum, Ten Candles, Trail of Cthulhu, Unisystem (All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Witchcraft, Conspiracy X, etc.), Unknown Armies, The Whispering Vault, Vaesen>Inspirational stuff:Caitlin R Kiernan, Castlevania, Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, Doom Watch, Fear & Hunger, George Romero, Ghostwatch, House of Leaves, I Am In Eskew, John Carpenter, Kolchak the Nightstalker, Laird Barron, John Langan, M.R. James, Nick Cutter, Old Gods of Appalachia, Quatermass, Ramsey Campbell, Remedy Series (Alan Wake, Control), SCP Foundation, Scarfolk Council, Shaun Hutson, Silent Hill, Stand Still Stay Silent, The Evil Dead, The Magnus Archives, The Secret World, The Stone Tapes, Anatomy, Thomas Ligotti, Twin Peaks, Vault of Evil forums, toomuchhorrorfictionOther News:H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society releases "The Spark Devil"https://www.hplhs.org/sparkdevil.phpCurrent Book Club Topic:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97345114CIA-Mossad Jinns
>>97345114>Pizzagate? Qanon?They did that already and instead of running with it they just wrote "actually none of that Epstein stuff is real and its a diversion by a single DHS agent to get Fox news off his back so he can touch kids without interruption. Fuck Trump. Also the moral of the story is pedophilia is a universal inevitability." Boring as fuck, they could have taken it a step further by running with spirit cooking allegations and tying Bohemian Grove and Q to the Cult of Transcendence if they hadn't killed it.If Detwiler, Glancy, and Tynes had balls, they'd make Stokes write an expansion about trannies being funded by Conradin through 3 different levels of front-companies with help from O9A and 764 to do gigglygoonclown shit and have onionsteens trolls and raiders and kiwifarms take the same role as Phenomen-X during the conspiracy era, forcing the Program to have to cooperate with the most demented retards imaginable to hunt down online troonoid Shubby cultists or something
>>97345114>>97351311Also the Q/Pizzagate shit that people freak out about IRL still has plenty of directions it can be taken in. 2020 election fraud allegations, especially in Georgia, are still a hot fucking topic, and you know damn well that Detwiler would chimp if you told him to consider taking inspo from that senator's-daughter's-boyfriend's-car getting remote-piloted into a tree, or tupperware totes of ballots being improperly handled and pulled out from under tablecloths.There's also other possible things tying into the modern political slop that can be followed. Political streamers like Hasan and Fuentes getting protection despite breaking platform terms or getting caught by the FBI in events like J6, Keffals getting ISPs to try and shut down entire sections of the internet, that one cop that shot Ashley Babbitt having a history of negligence, the Somali fraud in Minnesota having ties to ME terror groups, etc. all have potential for getting turned into new ops with some loose connectionsChinese intrusions into the gaming market through Tencent and its subsidiaries, Sweet Baby Inc, and root-level anticheats and corporations refusing to revive cult classics or allowing massive filesize bloat could also be used for something tech-heavyWhy haven't Arc Dream done anything with Native American conspiracy shit since Owlshead and Sentinels of Twilight? Missing 411 and the new Wendigo shit everyone's been freaking out over since 2019 have only scratched the surface on possible conspiracies/occult happenings. I have a friend in the PNW who swears on his life that the Blackfoot indians left "something" haunting the mountains, plains, and woods north of Boise as revenge for the Army genociding them onto the reservations. He also swears on his life he's seen Raytheon drive a bunch of trucks into a tunnel outside the INL before walling it off without those trucks leaving out that same tunnel.
>>97351546Also, I don't think Arc Dream have done anything with Chinese intelligence assets. I've heard credible rumors of Canadian nationalists getting murdered by CCP agents to cover up PLA training operations on Canadian soil with Mounties hiding the bodies, and the NYPD has caught numerous Chinese psyops/cyberattacks in progress. Wumaos covering up shit on behalf of a rogue CCP agent is something just waiting to be written. If they did do something involving the "sharty is the new Phenom-X" idea, Kuz being an SVU-8 triple-agent would be literally right there for them to write inArc Dream and co are just cowards that can't let go of anti-Bush-Sr. counterculturalism and don't want to go any further down the chudspiracy rabbit hole than needed to understand Qslop boomerisms
>>97351311>>97351546>>97351593
Work in Progress, "Nobody screws with the Tank Police!" 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.
What do you think about bases shout i add something?im going for frozen planet on votann and rocky one for taus. Im thingking about adding dry field from painted fur between hills on riptide base.
>>97351445Is that a gundam shield?
>>97351472mixed with riptide "wing" bits.Does it look bad?
>>97350894Cheers! I don't think I've actually seen those eldar.>>97345216>>97346002>>97346318Cheers guys! Did get some work done on the guy today. Gotta smooth the label more, but he's getting there. Mostly the jacket and bone to finish up. Not too sure if the shirt reads properly.
>>97351326what if it stays tucked?
I think the next revival movement in a sinilar vein to the OSR is going to be 3rd edition focussed. I think that granular, complex build focussed market isnt really served by 5e or pathfinder truly, and theres empty space in the market/community.
>>97299433i think it will be streamlining high powered games in general what is next in store for NSR. Exalted and Scion are too much of a clusterfuck and the niche is ripe for grabs.it could be the prime way to get younger people into TTRPGS since their whole influence has been 18 years of superhero movies and anime.
>>97299433PF2 is really really heavily build focused, it's just that the game doesn't play like 3E at all.
>>97342157Nope just suicided. Can't stop me.
>>97348808>just suicided>still postandoubt.jpg
>>97345552It is?I was under the impression that you got your class, maxed out your main stat, and that was kind of it, with everything on top being mostly flavoring.
Dark Heresy is for Manly Men 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.
>>97346680We kinda accidentally released one in a campaign years ago, but it promptly said 'fuck this place' and flew off in to space.Oops!
>>97344527>The "Burn the Heretic, Kill the Mutant, Purge the Unclean" is the result of ten thousand years of setting brainrot.Iirc, it is a quote from the Black Templars, circa 4e codex.
>>97349937>an Ork dressed as froo-froo nobility.This sounds like something shas would doThe villains one sounds ok. You can look at some stuff in BC since I think a few of the examples are something like that?
>>97349937>The funnyEven as an orkfag I find that a bit too silly, but its still very funny, make him either a blood axe or freeboota so it can at least make a little bit of sense. Maybe think up of why a lone Ork was there on this hive world+keep in mind that he probably (unintentionally) spread spores everywhere he went, so in the long run, that hive world might get a proper ork problem down the line.Vilain one sounds simple & good, can't go wrong with it
>>97349482The context changed, because among other things, suddenly the presence of a crusade fleet to report back to is no longer a guarantee, and your willful blindness to that fact does you no credit.Modern warrants grant explicit permission to trade with xenos. 30k warrants are more desirable because their conditions are generally far more permissive, and you can reasonably assume their wording is more along the lines of "May trade freely with any such polities as seen fit".You're making a false association, because you don't have wording for any 30k warrants that includes the word 'xeno', because you don't have any wording for 30k warrants at all. Your 'implication' is baseless horseshit and you know it.
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truth time, how many of y'all goon during your game sessions? (assuming you have any at all)
Requesting a group of skeleton guards playing cards at a table. just a little sketch will do: my group will come across that as they'll explore a haunted wine cave in a castle: the skeleton will come after there but are somewhat chill about it and wants to finish their game first
>>97257944till I master this funny pov.
>>97342758art is indifferent to tech
>>97346398Nah I didn't go anywhere. I just dont engage with trolls. Im an amateur, I draw for fun. Because of that, results may vary. I could explain my drawing process but id rather keep on living rent free in his head.
Obscure conflicts editionPrevious thread:>>97095668>Thread Question:Which obscure conflict would you like to collect miniatures for and get a game going?>Community Summary of Wargames:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11JoUpGIRDp5DZdgJ24rijKHgyY-qvvR5QnVtHIp57Tw/edit?usp=sharing>List of Historical Tactical, Strategic, and Military Drill treatises:http://pastebin.com/BfMeGd6R>ZunTsu Gameboxes:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97350901The perennial favourites:1. burned out by work, and it's much easier to self-medicate/numb myself vy doing something like playing video games or watching TV than something that involves delayed gratification and concentration.2. perfectionism and frustration. I am capable of painting to a standard similar to you, but it takes me forever to do a single model to that standard. I know that the camera sees what the eye doesn't etc, but given that I basically never play and only paint (occasionally), it's usually the painting that preoccupies me.3. No dedicated hobby space (not essential obviously, but doesn't help because the thought of having to pack everything away again often stops me from starting). Number 1 + severe, 2-decade-long depression are the worst offenders. It sucks really because you can extend this picture to every hobby/interest I have.Sorry to hear your progress is slow too, but your models look great. Got any pics of all the currently painted warband together?
>>97350506>>97350858I'm objectively correct. The most prolific pre-industrial battles are>Hannibal defeating the romans by...surrounding them>The english defeated the french by...shooting at them as they walked forward>Napoleon was defeated because...their lines were biggerThat's about it really. Pre-gunpowder warfare was just endless hordes of Spearmen smashing into each other. Boring! Technology and centuries of tactical experience made WW2 the culmination of all warfare that can never be surpassed. Anything that gets close to WW2 in scale or complexity spells the end of the world in nuclear hellfire. WW2 was the climax of human military history
>>97351443You should read more dude.
>>97351607I've been interested in Antiquity. I've read about the battles Rome fought against the Greeks during their conquest. Problem is they tend to be very boring, luring the Greeks into rocks was the most exciting thing that they did.
>>97351443gay
Thread #007 Countess 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>>97258877Previous Thread>>97131386Brief 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.
>>97347955You may be a prodigy when Disciplines are involved, but I'd like to see some results on the rest of the subjects as well. Focus on your studies.The next time I come to your room I expect you to welcome me as if you were my Tzimisce host.
Heads up: an abomination was spotted in New York
>>97351516you know what else was spotted in New York?
>>97351552be a good lad and stop spreading lies about the Eldest surviving getting diablerized, like it's borderline treason against the Sword of Caine to spread such defeatist nonsense
>>97351552Are you winning, dad?
How do you actually design sessions? I've been a Bookcel for so long that I forgot what it means to design a 4+ hour session, especially first sessions of a campaign.
>>97340689They do! They actually do. We’re all grogs at this table, and the youngest of us know what they’re getting into. Pathfinder 2e has shortcomings and they’re aware of them.
>>97339121>Pathfinder 2e, level 1Okay, far from what I tend to run so input is limited on my end sorry. My understanding of it will be entirely based on pf1st ed and that era of 5 room dungeon combat style gameplay. You've got a few tones like >Nostos, Pothos and a fairly cohesive world but need to tie that into the characters and gameplay. You might have to deal with a few contrivances to get the game going like >everyone starts knowing each other from the battle of xyz where magic was of apocalyptic or at least disastrous impact Have a world reference document that's fairly short everyone can read ahead of time, make characters together, run a short rp where they all discuss how they got to know each other as memories and ties from a previous experience. Might be able to do something where they're all travelling in a wagon to encounter 1, everyone gets to describe a feature of the world or a note about features you describe. You're going to want to be contextualizing places and history as you go without making it too much of a lore dump so might be able to off load some of that to the players by having key features and events, then asking them to locate their characters in relation to the events, or their predecessors.
>>97337129Yeah, he's kinda missing the point. I've found the best way to organize sessions is kind of a hybrid of node-based dungeon design and script design for a show.You figure out the start to the episode/session, where the characters are and their environment and (if necessary) what instigating event you need to stage to kick off play. That can be anything as simple as rumors of a dungeon in a D&D game to having a man burst into a bar with a gun. Even wild narrative-focused games still want your episodic hook, so if a PC wakes up on the White House lawn buck naked with a cell phone and a revolver, that's where you're coming from.You then map out a timeline of events and places that come from this starting point. Major beats, landmarks, characters and items are the name of the game here. You can always go back in and fill up detail, but you want to basically sketch out these spaces with room for more. One of these nodes is your climax, where you think players are going to go and where you want to put the most effort, for a lot of games this is going to be the big combat encounter, so you want to have as much to work with there as possible (if you only draw one battlemap, this is the one to draw).Then you go back through, reorganize these nodes and add extras; either as random encounter interruptions or as alternate paths. In play you don't need to use all of these, if the players don't go to the bar you made, you don't have to force them to go, you can use the bar later in another session, or maybe they'll even double back. Ultimately you need to be flexible, and if the PCs don't go to your big planned finale? Play it by ear. If you've played enough games with them you should have a pile of notes you can improvise with. Everything is reusable, and if the players haven't seen it it's new to them, so it doesn't matter if the ship map you made for fighting the undead pirate king in a hidden grotto doesn't get used today, it will be used tomorrow.
>>97336156Detail out important NPCs, looks, personality, one or two underlying goals or secrets that might be interesting to hint at or be potential plot hooks. Ideally these can all interrelate or be at odds with each other.If we're in a dungeon, pre made descriptions for rooms. Statting out and setting up encounters, traps and especially trapped encounters. Try and make things more interesting than D10 goblins in a bare room. Time crunch, or side goals for party or monsters are key.Multiple plot hooks, but not necessarily detailed solutions for them. A few that lead back to the "main" plot that moves the campaign as a whole forward, but lots of random shit the players might find interesting with multiple ways they can be introduced. These can be side plots or tied back in as they unfold and how I feel. Everything from cheating spouses to ancient artifacts and secret entrances to fabulous vaults.Cities/towns get a few paragraphs of detail. What they're known for, what the people are generally like, interesting features. These things are often not just dumped on the party, but kept for me to inform my improv.A stack of premade random NPCs I can pick through if the party asks about anyone I havent' made specifically. Names are important and hitting up FNG for a name mid session is jarring, even if its just a blacksmith or whatever.And thats about it. Takes a few hours from scratch, and is probably more than many can get away with, but having details that may not be relevant to the party but help me get into "character" of the world is really helpful for me personally.
Don't write a plot, write situations. Figure out npc motivations so you can react flexibly to player decisions.Judging from my dungeon crawling sessions, players can probably chew through 10-20 situation prompts in a 2-4 hour sessionSo what you can do is, determine the locale. Write up 10-20 situations. Let the players and situations interact with each other. i.e. if players make a loud noise in room 13, determine how that affects the situation in adjacent rooms. Let enemies act naturally, don't make shit fight to the death for no reason. So if something successfully flees, it alters the situations as it flees or it even uses knowledge of nearby situations as a bargaining chip for survival.
We have all experienced the coming and going so GMs, Players and games; and then left holding the bag too start all over again at Square One. If and when you have to start over from scratch how and where (online) would you start I'll look for groups and games?There has been numerous reasons that would force someone to start all over again be it scheduling, life, work, people changing.
>>97349305I've had a to move interstate a few times for work so I've got used to finding new groups. In my experience heading to the local uni and seeing if they've got an rpg club is the best option, followed by searching some variation of 'tabletop rpgs in [city]' on facebook or re**it. I've never had much luck from going with flgs.>where (online)No thanks. In-person or bust.
>>97349886Only if you include an ugly bastard of every ethnicity and gender.
>>97349305I've been looking around for role playing groups for about seven years now. Nothing.
>>97349305Just use the lfg reddit. It's fine. Takes a few false starts to build a table from, but so does anywhere.
>>97350705>an ugly bastard of every ethnicity and genderDont worry anon, you're invited
Is it better to have fully anthropomorphic beast people in your settings or just humans with like animal ears and tails?
>>97350929I think the issue is deeper than that, although the slight change there helps, the way they were made to move and act combined with the scale of the world clearly was meant for them being more so either literal cats, or very slightly cartoony cats, and even if they were full furries it would look wrong.
>>97350929You don't even need an "anime" style to make it work, just any non-realistic style at all improves it vastly.
>>97348181I’m not so paranoid as to think that every depiction of an animal person is furry. None of the examples here scream furry, they’re simply beast folk that wouldn’t look out of place in any fantasy setting. You are seeing furries where they don’t exist my friend
>>97350808Also the human face is literally just copy-pasted onto the CGI head.That adds a few more notches into the uncanny valley.
>>97343147>Women are basically pets you're not allowed to discipline in western culture.skill issue
