The /btg/ is dead! Long live the /btg/!Lilith Hall editionPrevious Thread: >>97325390================================>BattleTech Introductory Guide & PDFshttps://bg.battletech.com/?page_id=400>Overview of the Major Factionshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/great-houseshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/the-clanshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/other-powersComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97345947It was Teddy II in the Dark Age. His death was one of the big things that ramped up to the civil war that killed the Nova Cats.https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Theodore_Kurita_(32nd_c.)>>97345958Hyperspace travel is fucked up. Technically, the radar burst of the ship emergence often happens BEFORE you even leave the starting system. Time is fucked in hyperspace.
>>97345958>Isn't the time you spend inside the Hyperspace per jump few seconds or something?
>>97345979I don't get it. Star Trek reference?
>>97345958Usually it's pretty much instant, although it can be detected before you drop out, and sometimes the detectable burst happens before you actually leave. You can also detect traces of a jump after the fact and guesstimate the tonnage of the jumpship close enough to know if it was one of the really small ones or so big that it had to be a warship.
>>97345991If only the Star League was so optimistic about the future.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGvkx5He4eA
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>>97345468Oh i would rework Blood Potencies rules, but I dont like that Generation which controls the powerlevel of a vampire is largely static unless you want other vampires swimming around in your head. My version of Blood Potency would be different from v5 or VtR
>>97344183Not exactly. There's a lot of infernalist adjacent factions in both.
>>97345494>Inevitable but ideally the thread would be deleted for not REALLYoh no the fucking "traditonal games" spammer is here. go figure
>>97345792>mindbroken by boogeymenYou're an idiot. It's obviously /pol/bait and could have been deleted as such.
>>97345527>but against the unraveling of their own mind & the contracts & oaths that can lock them into situations where they cannot function. Like, if you life too freely, with no attachments you will degenerate into nonsense & evaporate into madness.L A M E. What do you want, Autism Simulator: The Roleplaying Game?
Enlightenment achieved only through overprinting your value Edition Here 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 RulerComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97344509The less League is talked about here, the better.>>97345394I regret to inform you it is real and an LGS I go to had an event's finals playing once.
Lat Am Gundam Card Game Finals just happened.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN1oirHW5zE
>>97344668the Gateway stuff? it's pretty solid yeah. nisei's card designs and set balance has honestly averaged better balanced than FFGs did. not that they haven't had their share of fuckups, but people have convenient amnesia about what a powerlevel rollercoaster ANR was.
>>97343300I'll jump in as long as it's anything that's not another bland fantasy creature battle TCG. we've had 800 of those shits, and 750 was plenty.I'd stil lbe up to do the not!netrunner game where its a heist and one team is the gang/crew and the other is the mafia run casino or whatev. do the whole thing with intentionally terrible AI noir genre art.
>>97345954Flavor was the worst thing about netrunner and you want to copy that? Who tf wants to be the big conglomerate or mafia family when you can be a cool hacker? And with bad art on purpose? What's the plan here?
Imagine… Queer Worlds… #wow #whoaImagine if there were Queer Worlds…#wow
>>97345412I'm pretty sure that hypothesis was washed long ago, and the one currently in vogue is that the genetic combo that produces homosexuality in men increases fertility in women.
>>97345766Haven't heard that one. Maybe you're right. I guess the bigger point is that the "gays are unnatural!" retards don't seem to understand that evolution kept it around in human beings, so as natural as opposable thumbs. And that human society and biology is incredibly more complex than anything that can be reduced to a bumper sticker and that our specializations and differences? Helpful.
>>97345816Sure, but it's worth noting in the same context that men instinctively react to seeing two men kissing with the same revulsive affect that they react to seeing maggots crawling in meat, and that most human civilizations habitually beat male homosexuals to death when caught. So it's entirely possible that what makes the fertility adaptation valuable is that the accidental defective men it produces are simply disposed of by the rest of the population and pose no practical issue.I'm not saying this is definitively the case, mind you. Just that it's very easy to tell yourself stories about the ancestral environment that are in line with what you already liked, and you too should be very careful about that incredible complexity.
>>97334560>Go out of your way to write an entire book to remind people that in your made up imagination game, there can be gay peopleI mean I know op posted this to be a baiting fag but come on
>>97345881>it's worth noting in the same context thatSure. You're right that "natural" doesn't equal good. But "it's unnatural" is a claim that straight people use to target gays. Not a justification gays use to target straights. It's the "god hates gays" people who are claiming "natural must be right!" Lots of "natural" instincts aren't.>that most human civilizations habitually beat male homosexuals to death when caught. That's... not historical.
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>>97338861>I think it would be cool to have an option for people that don't want to trawl through message boards for builds or have exhaustive knowledge of 20 different books to not feel like a gimp next to those people that do that stuff.If the problem is char-op, then either prebuilt characters with their whole 1 to 20 choices pre-made, or even better in my opinion a simple very limited pool of curated options so that the person can make some choices.You could even group it by themes or roles or whatever.
>>97338861I really don't understand this mindset. There are pregen characters all over the source material.Just pick a high level NPC and there is your decent build if you don't want to do it yourself.why restrict the entire group and game instead. These games are meant to last years. An intimidated newbie today, in 3 years of playing might want to start branching out.
>>97341172Oh shit, you're right. No idea how I have played this game for years upon years and that never registered with me. Thanks anon
>>97345165Its like a lot of things >wow this build is so op, how has nobody done this?*actually reads the rules*>oh nevermind
>>97299931Reading through this book, there are a lot of neat ideas to make domains individually more interesting. It's a shame they came up with some cool stuff and never thought to throw them into the pot and make bring them forward.
Douchemachine used to be the largest competition to GW. Now look at it and laugh
>>97344590Might be thinking of the other cyborg dragon faction. Adverts do list the Cryx as joining forces with the Orgoth to fuck over the mainland.
>>97344608Maybe it was for the Dragonfall event where Blighterghast ended up getting killed?
>>97344563I'm pretty sure Corvus Belli is still mostly metals no?
>>97345312They were one of the last holdouts, but have been switching to resin and plastic with mixed results for the past few years.
>>97344652Might be. I think it's mainly from how the website selling Cryx forces describes their situation as>"Stirred to rise from its deathly slumber through insidious bargains wrought by the Orgoth, a terrible new power stirs on the edge of the Iron Kingdoms."Which could either mean they dug up more Orgoth tech, or like how other people are interpreting it to men they made a bargain with the Orgoth Sea Raiders to conquer the mainland together.
previous: >>97290097Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8Survey results: https://pastebin.com/YJPZ44rqThread Question:what is your stonemaier-tier concept for a sure money board game megahit?
>>97344634I like it but then I'm addicted to that feeling you get in drafting where you're praying to god to wheel that one other thing you want and feel ecstatic when it happens and miserable when it doesn't.
>>97345441I don't think his post was implying he's an enjoyer
>>97345497oh fuck you're right, didn't see the quotation marks surrounding the word "game"what's wrong with it?
>>97345243The only expansion you'd even want outside the big box is Abbey and Mayor. The rest are either a clusterfuck, or tacked-on and out of place.
>>97343628That anon made the most innocuous board gaming statement this general has ever seen and you completely filled your diaper over it. I wouldn't play mumblety peg with you, freak.>>97345713>mfw a poor didn't have the catapult near me
>four "chaos" gods>only one actually embodies the concept of chaoswhat did they mean by this?
>>97345793>only one actually embodies the concept of chaos>still just embodies it in the most stale, predictable fashion imaginableseems pretty much not chaotic if you ask me
>>97345793Religiously, in traditional cultures/religion, "chaos" meant "the forces outside civilization." City = order. Wilderness = chaos. So anything animalistic like rage, rampant sex, gluttony--all traditionally "chaos" in things like Greek and Mesopotamian and Laventine religion (also the ocean is chaos for some reason). Just look at Gilgamesh or the Bible for stories where the good gods slay the chaos gods: yaweh versus leviathan, gilgamesh versus hambaba. Civilization good. Destablizing civilization? Chaos. Hence Enkidu (who gets away from chaos by drinking beer, eating bread and sleeping with a prostitute). Really, tzeentch embodies chaos least of all, out of them.
Of course the real answer is just Moorcock and Anderson. That's where Warhammer and D&D both get their law/chaos dichotomy from.
>What is Trench Crusade?An alternate weird history 28mm/32mm tabletop skirmish game still in a pre-release playtesting phase but with the full release slated for this year. 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, it's awesome, and it's very Blanchitsu.>What Trench Crusade is notTC not an excuse for you to discuss IRL religion, history that didn't occur in the game, culture war shit, or discord bullshit on /tg/. Keep it on topic.>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_C02wErnFTQComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97345581Honestly not a bad idea, thanks anon
>>97342403a mix of Exalted Eightbound from WH40K and House Goliath Forgeborn from Necromunda should make som fine kitbashed Annointeds
>>97345490Wrote a battlereport of my battle so far if you care to read, along with lore for my warbandThe Penitents of the Free states are made up of sinners captured within the free states of Prussia. Wondering if these are actual sinners or poor fools pulled off the street is heretical. Those that still see the light of God the Almighty are strongly encouraged to seek their penitence in the no man's land on long suicidal campaigns. They will fight until death, only then will their souls be judged anew, they seek baptism through bloodshed.Battle Report 1: The Penitents marched to collect tithes from a wandering band of Infected Trench Pilgrims, and seek control of the no man's land. God had no mercy on the wretched penitents during this battle, we believe they may have lied about their true faith. Some Yeoman threw a satchel charge at their own lieutenant by accident, or heretical whispering. This decisive blow forced a complete retreat, one wounded shocktrooper perished in the cowardly withdrawal and needed replacement. The trench cleric reports “God was not with us, and we may only pray for his return”. Despite our Lieutenant suffering from the blast, they suffered no major scarring, and promptly executed the rest of our wounded. There will be more seeking penance on the path, but this battle led to a shaken morale, some wonder if there is even hope for redemption here.
>>97345931Battle Report 2: The Penitents were sent to reclaim Priceless Relics, not knowing those of the Iron Sultanite sought to capture them in the name of their religion. The battle between forces went remarkably well, God may have returned to us after all. Despite ending in a draw, the sound of distant whistles and chimes causing both sides to disengage, we left their troops with dark memories of the day they attempted to cross the true faith. We suffered minor wounds, and while we did not capture as many relics as our lord would have liked, we however learned from our mistakes and will be stronger another day. We explored the trenches and managed to claim a map that will aid further exploration attempts. Our Lieutenant and Cleric sharpened their blades and minds for the next battle.
>>97345918I don't think they're nautical enough but thanks for the idea
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>Splicers>Nightbane>Savage RiftsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97335340So TW(TM) stuff is lumpy, ornate, & has a bunch if gemstones glued to it so it looks like a weird maguffin weapon for a cheap scifi/fantasy movie made in the 80'sMilitary TW stuff looks functional & has some gold trim, tasteful gemstones in places youd expect like chest & helm, that give it a nice look, or else they're all attached on the inside where you cant see.There's a subset of "steam/diesel/oldschoolpunk" TWs who make restorations with alm the gemstones & stuff hidden behind panels like the military TW stuff.Then theres all the specialty case TW stuff that is either alien or whatever
>>97334923Yes, I think that should be easier.
>>97335177>>97335340>>97336664It's a bit fucked but you just need to use the gemstone-2-spell chart to get a feel for what is required for any particular TW device.
I was always fascinated by how this game seems to not just be unbalanced, but to actively reject the idea of balance between character options.>Alright guys, let's start the campaign. Let me see those characters.>I'm a basic bitch grunt with a rifle, a body armor and some military-related skills. I also took the Communications Technician package that trades some combat skills for techy ones like Electronic Countermeasures (Jamming) and Radio (Scramblers).>I start with one of the most powerful suits of power armor in the game. Its starting gun is a shotgun-railgun that can fire up to 5 kilometers away and does enough damage to one-shot a Jumbo Jet 7 times over. Also the book explicitly says I'm hailed as a hero and settlements will give me free ammo and repairs.>I'm a 12 ft tall birdman demigod. I can fly, I have superhuman stats across the board and more ISP and PPE than most dedicated caster classes, and I automatically know all physical, sensitivity and telephaty psychic powers and all fire warlock spells. Oh, I can also open rifts and self-resurrect.>I'm a forger, I can forge fake documents with a base 20% success chance (+5% per level) but to compensate I can't take cybernetics.
>>97344438Kevin himself said something about it being a "challenge", same with playing a character with shit like IQ 3, though, in my days, most GMs just forbid people to pick those commoner classes anyway.
A thread for discussing the Star Wars franchise and its various media and tabletop games.Exotic Cuisine editionPrevious: >>97304062Fantasy Flight Games’ X-Wing, Armada, and Legion>https://pastebin.com/9puqx1zeStar Wars Roleplaying Games (d6/d20/FFG)>https://pastebin.com/iUriRfaAOther FFG Star Wars tabletop (Imperial Assault, Destiny and the LCG)>http://pastebin.com/ZE4gn0yNComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
My players are heading to a notoriously seedy strip joint on Nar Shaddaa to make contact with a fixer for a joint smuggling and intel-grab job. I want to make the joint memorable for all the wrong reasons and give the players some opportunity to RP before their contact arrives. What i know it will have so far:>two old B2 super battle droids as door guards/bouncers>nautolan bartender speaking in jamaican jive>two mandos in full armor sitting in opposite corners and doing the "brooding edgelord" routine>shemale gungan stripperI feel i need more weird patrons for the joint so gimme your ideas for odd bar patrons.
>>97341812Raped franchise for cuckold consoomers tbqh
>>97345857>shemale gungan stripperWith the Gungans being amphibians, would there be any way to tell? I mean, amphibians don't usually have external gonads.
>>97345879I figured since Gungans don't lay eggs like frogs they should have external dangly bits
>>97343023Cont.> Dac It’s largely going to be fish, shellfish, and sea plants, but how it’s prepared will depend on who’s preparing it: if it’s Mon Calamari, then it’ll likely be grilled or fried. If it’s Quarren, then it’ll probably be boiled or served raw. Yes, Quarren do sushi and Mon Calamari do fish & chips.> GunganSeafood and water plants, typically made into hardy stews or soups. During large gatherings these may be served out of bowls as big as speeders >HuttParadoxically The actual Hutt Cuisine travelers want to try is from middle and lower class Hutt communities. Hutt upperclass cuisine is really just bougie junk food. At lower social strata, Hutt cuisine tries to mix high-end spices and ingredients with filling soul food. So Hutt street food is just leagues superior to Hutt “fine dining”> KubazIt’s bugs, but it’s not like their served live or anything, they’re still cooked and seasoned well so once you get over the initial shock of “ew bugs!” It’s fine… the real problem with Kubaz cuisine is the host who will invariably be both over nosey, and simultaneously will over share.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
What’s the edgiest tabletop game of all time
>>97344326>a Wraith splatbook about the HolocaustIt was very well done, I thought. It was tasteful, even. We had a lot of fun with it.
>>97343420>be clone of evil superman>created solely to kill evil superman if he becomes a liability>grow impatient with your life's purpose taking too long>do lots of horrible shit (like eating a baby), photograph it, then send it to evil superman so he thinks he's tripping>he gives up on his reputation and besieges the white house, thus finally providing an excuse to carry out your task
>>97343357That shitty one where everything is extra horrible and all you can do is pointlessly dig as deep as possible to get away from evil sun before you die horribly.
that stupid trend of "nega dungeons">you didn't want to get hacked to pieces by thousands of tiny magic blades while ravenous super-maggots gnaw away at your flesh?>well...then you shouldn't have entered a DUNGEON lol :^)
>>97343357Isn't GURPS Banestorm supposed to be super edgy?
Yu-Gi-Oh! General #592"how the fuck is this deck still meta" EditionPrevious thread: >>97236634Most 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.
>>97345446Please don't pretend you know things, it makes it embarrassing
>>97345411>either is infinitely more difficult than anything you playI play both Tear and Snake Eye. I'm polling for overall sentiment here compared to other YGO generals.>>97345446Never played either deck award.
>>97345446>Excellent. My opponent not only whiffed on drawing into Havnis, Kelbek, and any Bystials, but they also didn't mill a single Tearlaments girl, Agido, Kelbek, Mudora, Keldo, or Neko Mane King. I can now make Abyss Dweller and auto-win the game.
>>97345754don't forget orange light can be used to negate and send an ishizu in hand to the GY
>>97343575You'll probably start seeing more people after the next banlist, anon. We are in a pretty stale format at the moment with how long Ryzeal, Maliss, Mitsurugi, and the JUSH decks have been around while barely hit....whenever that banlist arrives.
Is it better to have fully anthropomorphic beast people in your settings or just humans with like animal ears and tails?
>>97345454The Ed Greenwood amount. Be so breathtakingly horny that the appearances of furry shit is frankly not the perviest thing about your game.
>>97345855Needs a snout
>>97345714he's so based
>>97345454Trick question. Someone with an axe to grind can always throw in the accusation regardless of what they are actually bitching about.
>>97340550I don't blame them. If I was a Canadian, I'd be pissed off, too.Can't imagine much worse than being Canadian. Maybe a Somali. Maybe.
>>97340581>>97342275Feels good when my car can't take regular octane gas.
>>97339460Leaked pic from next month's White Dwarf
>>97339460Historian's note: the petrodollar did not, in fact, keep GW's prices at a reasonable level.
>>97330292Because NoVA (Fairfax, Loudon, Arlington counties) is unironically one of the wealthiest and highest IQ areas in America, with a disproportionate amount of veterans and defense contractors who absolutely fucking love tabletop.