Would your human male fighter ever consider getting themselves a nice trad peasant wife and settling down in the countryside?
>>97831467Peasant pussy is best pussy tho
>>97817852This looks like shit.
>>978200331. Go Corps and "HFY" anyways.2. Pop open a time capsule à la Fallout 4, play human anyway with the superpowers of not having intergenerational trauma, enduring room temperature without special gear, and not be sexually attracted (and able to reproduce with) your gun.> The only thing of value about that game is the resolution mechanic, and stats as HP.
>>97817852Which pairing is more kinoMF/FMUMMU/Ff
>>97835107?????
Way of the Samurai Edition>What is this?/TG/ DEVELOPED A GAMEIT IS PLAYABLE. IT HAS BEEN PLAYED.EXPEDITION is a ~1880s era, Jules Verne-inspired retro-futurist, underground blood soaked adventurescape.It is a Skirmish wargame. Two players with their own expeditions, on a hexgrid map, explore & fight each other for victory and profit.3 versions of the rules exist, 2 of which have been playtested. The main one is 2e, to be found :>https://www.mediafire.com/folder/us7vnek39dc6k/AgarthaRulesas with maps, tokens and lore resources.>TL;DR Dochttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1LxdaGoBlJRTMuziMDupG5TeeFwNDnsIW2pfaRAcFDgA>Main Lore Doc, including links to anon-written short stories and additional lore in "Recommended..." sectionComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>97832089Prophet-Bureaucrat, above Ozymandias>Uses divination to run the economy and administration of the Lemurian core territories>There are no bureaucratic mistakes, only the whims of Fate>"Famine relief was not in the plan, only the famine itself.">"A bribe? Heh, as foretold."
>>97832089He belongs right in the middle.>Believes in nothing, just wants to recroot.>Prophecy? Cultivation? Whatever gets people onboard.>All according to keikaku.
>>97833060I'll add the images later tonight.
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>>97834987>Wait what's this about Meerlinda in the V5 Sabbat, I hadn't heard that one yetin the gehenna war and i think also the sabbat bookgoratrix is now a identity used by two people one male (tremere in goratrix body) who runs the camarilla and other tremere house facing operation and a female who runs the sabbat facing operation. the books don't directly state that it's Meerlinda, but with the whole side plot of her being suspected to be alive who else should it be
>>97834963>This post is sponsored by Pentex
Which WOD character could rival Eobard Thawne in pettiness?
>>97834719Yeah, Progenitors will replace certain people with clones. It won't be your Joe Average though.
>>97834947We're sending some people to help you out, do not resist
I'll start>D&D 5E is a heroic fantasy game (I didn't say good), trying to do anything else should have you using a different system.
>>97833615Meh. Good in theory, in practice most players will get frustrated if you don't give them a specific course of action. You can and should let them deviate, but it does require an intended method to exist, at least, which requires writing from your part.
>>97825770>D&D being easy for new RPG players, and it's fucking true.
>>97825776>Basic rules are freeIf only the game was playable using thoseWhich, ironically, is true for OTHER games: all you need is their free starters. Now good fucking luck running anything DnD-adjecant with their primers. I salute your effort.DnD being "newfag friendly" is easily the biggest marketing lie of the whole hobby. But what makes it weird is that DnD-only players actually believe that sincerely (since they never tried anything else).Bonus point for that lie being started by 3.0e marketing blitz, aka the game entirely designed around being deliberately obtuse ivory tower design
>>97834753No, my players can set their own goals just fine. Stop playing with mongoloids with no drive.
>>97834753Have you tried not playing with complete morons?And more importantly - have you tried NOT treating your players like cattle?One of the most damaging things you can do to a new player is sitting them to the game and then babying them. End result - you are fostering a textbook example of trained incapacity
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>>97834748>>97834783The dickriding is crazy
My brain's melting, but I won't stop yet.
Naruto? Anyone?
>>97834913I think the canon one sucks too. Yours was worse in that it didn't even fit as a ZoanWe even got a proper ice themed Zoan in that same run to compare
>>97835113I'm not done with chart yet, so I haven't been checking in much.
What would you guys say is the most important skillset for "smart" characters in TTRPGs?>ability to make/build shit>perceptiveness>knowledge
>>97830485A smart player
>>97830485The ability to make use of what they know. That's why Doom and Tony are better than Reed, he invents technology to could change the world and leaves it in a closet. He invented a fucking belt that makes someone the near equal to the Flash, and did nothing with it. Tony might not be as smart, but at least he actually uses his brain to do things besides indulge his hobbies.
>>97833077Yeah each of these has a downsideYou can be mega perceptive but glueless about how to apply your observationsYou can know everything but be helpless to change anythingYou can make anything but you're too autistic to see a project through to its full potential
>>97833077Reed gets paid a lot by companies to not release inventions, especially ones that would basically make them redundant overnight.
>>97830485Intelligence is the ability to find the decisions that have the highest probability of achieving your goals.If all of your goals are most efficiently achieved by violence, then you're intelligent if you're good at violence.If all of your goals are most efficiently achieved by talking to people, then you're intelligent if you're good at talking to people.If your goals require multiple disciplines, then you're intelligent to the degree to which your skill distribution is optimal for those disciplines.
Daze Edition>Most recent banlist updatehttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-banned-and-restricted-february-9-2026>Most recent bracket system updatehttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-brackets-beta-update-february-9-2026>Outline article introducing the bracket systemhttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/introducing-commander-brackets-beta>Current banlisthttps://magic.wizards.com/en/banned-restricted-list#commander-banned>Gay BolasComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97833957shovelchudsters win again
>>97834191Still Yawgmoth. I love the flavor and it just has so many different win paths and I love playing all my favorite old mono black staples with secret commander builds behind him as the engine to keep it all moving.
>>97834191Urza. Been playing a monoblue deck since c14. Used to be Teferi Temporal Archmage (specifically CvT and Stasis) but I swapped to Urza just before the paradox engine ban, so I've been playing the deck for like almost 12 years, and Urza specifically for 7ish.
>>97834191https://archidekt.com/decks/16541659/parnesse:)
Bedsheet Ghost 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:Dust & Blood released for Cthulhu by Gaslighthttps://www.chaosium.com/blogout-now-for-cthulhu-by-gaslight-dust-blood/Current Book Club Topic:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I am playing old CoC starting with 2E, I play solitaire TTRPGs because everyone is a fucking retard who wants social lube and "good" times doing things for laughs rather than trying to roleplay or seriously do anything.I finished the Haunted House with relative ease, my characters didn't figure out the sunlight, but we dealt with everything without death or going insane. Which makes sense as its the tutorial.However, the 2nd scenario is very confusing. How is anyone supposed to "win" in this scenario? There is no clear way to stop the ritual. The rules are clusterfuck of a mess, which is fine as long as there is a way to win. Combat is a no go because of the Mi-Go's super high armor. The only thing I can think of is that you are supposed to run away to tell the authorities and fuck outta there and say "it's someone else's problem" which actually will result in the certain doom of the town at the hand of Ithaqua because they are doing the ritual every night with a 28% chance of success to cause a massive blizzard and snow to kill all the town, then set up a mining camp there. My characters thought that the hillbilly was key to stopping the ritual and killed him in combat, but afterwards died to all the Mi-Go's hunting them down, carrying them into the atmosphere and all meeting their death through lung explosion.Is this common in CoC? Is this how most of the scenarios and stories are?
>>97834275My main question here is how did anyone manage to beat this scenario successfully.
How does horror work in a TTRPG?
Ran The Necropolis out of Gateways of Terror for my group last night. Two players were going to miss our Horror on the Orient Express session, so I did it instead. Had a 75% casualty rate, but the last character made it out. I had to beef up the monster, however, as our Solider player nearly killed it in the first round of combat with an impale on their gun (they did 14 damage out of 17 health). I made it so their gun did half damage instead, though they still ended up bringing it down to 2 HP before they got killed. Rather disappointingly, none of them even attempted to sneak past the monster and get into the room it emerged from, so they never found its heart. Instead, it died due to the tomb caving in after the exit was dynamited by the last surviving PC. We had a good time, but it’s definitely a con scenario, and a much more combat-focused one at that. I feel like of the three scenarios in the book, it’s the one least suited to people who have never played an investigative horror game before. The lethality might put them off it if they’re not used to that kind of thing.
>>97834275>>97834278Many older scenarios are quite janky. RPG writers were used to DnD-esque adventures, and thus struggled to write proper investigative horror games, often making them much too deadly. In the case of this scenario in particular, the most obvious solution to me would be killing one of the unarmored Mi-Go (since only three of them are armored) and stealing their frost weapons. It says no roll is necessary to use these weapons and says nothing about armor resisting them, only warm clothing. Since the Mi-Go armor is only some kind of web, I would say it’s a poor insulator for keeping out a freezing mist. Alternatively, the players could damage/destroy the ritual circle, perhaps with dynamite, and also collect evidence of alien activity. This could delay the Mi-Go for a long time and in the meanwhile, as you suggested, they could get the authorities to come in force and clean things up, rather like the ending of Shadow Over Innsmouth. You could perhaps throw a Delta Green nod in there.
Zerg or Tyranids, who's cooler?
>>97833075This is the correct answer.
>>97833075Peak Lifeform.
Zerg, because Kerrigan is hot.
>>97833075Agreed, but beak groin is a strong contender for second place.
>>97833075Prometheus story ruined Xenomorphs
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>>97834922no altered was a stupid shit cashgrab TCG with phygital dick cheese. basically just last year's version of riftbound or cyberpunk, but using a gimmick as the hype generator instead of a B-tier IP.hubworld is a niche LCG with an original setting that probably wont even be sold in stores. there about as far apart as any two acg games could be.
>>97834289>>97834977I do find it hilarious that the rebel pilot in the background is getting the full Mike Wazowski treatment. Oh, and by the way, I'm the sole Lorcana player. Could ya tell?
>>97835098I also play lorcana, though the post-rotation meta was almost immediately stale. I didn't add a single card to my BG Control deck with the latest set.
>>97835114Huh. That's funny. You'd think that the rotation would almost force you to adapt a bit. Me, I don't chase the meta, I just have fun with whatever they put out, even if it means I don't win much. Not trying to be snooty or anything, it just sounds like we enjoy the game differently.
>>97834922I played a few games of Altered and I liked it for the most part, it had interesting decision trees going on. If anything maybe the problem with gameplay was just how much you had to see every turn (cards to put into the mana zone, what to keep in the reserve, lane to play your cards, bunch of tokens to manage, three stats on each card to keep track of)It just had some really stupid concepts like the uniques or the QR codes uglying up the designsAlso didn't really like how the character design felt straight out of 2010s Tumblr
Hey /tg/ I have a problem. One of my players is a genuine incel. He's 27 and I'm pretty sure he's never had sex. He definitely hasn't gotten laid in a while. He's not really ugly just kinda weird and awkward. I feel bad for him. But he is taking his extreme thirst out in the game. >every time his character, a human eldritch knight, comes back from our adventures he always tries to play up the angle of "we saved the town, where are the girls to suck my dick as thanks?">he constantly talks about how his character is 6 foot 2 (he's 5 foot 8 irl)>he talks out of his ass a lot about medieval times and says that peasant girls were way healthier than modern women.>says how farmers would be begging to marry their lithe 17 year old daughters to him>he talks about medieval demographics and criticizes the DMa works building (which is actually kinda shit to be fair) >you can just tell how excited he is talking about how there should be a dozen villages between these two cities on the map, like he is stopping just short of talking about how many nubile virgin farm girls are there for his fighter to fuckWe tried talking to him about it but he twisted it around to make the rest of us sound like we were fucking gay or something. Also his character is too important to the story to kick him, and running him as an NPC would suck the fun out of it since there's be a lot of the DM just roleplaying with himself while the rest of us watch. So....any advice? Its not worth ruining the game over by kicking him, and nothing is so blatant to be a clear social violation, but the dude is just oozing incel energy and I feel like I should subtly suggest to the DM something that will set his head on straight, and possibly help cure his mindset. Any ideas?
>>97834948Incels definitionally don't make the first move. You go to war with the army you have.
Have the party wizard force-fem him.
>>97835024Not a bad idea.
>>97835055It kinda works doesn't it? It's low stakes mechanically. And if the GM bends over to fix it immediately it's very easy to cry favoritism. And fixing a curse like that would take time and resources the party might not have. And every time he tries to do the shit he's doing now it'll just look stupid.
>>97833928This sounds like the most fucking mild problem I've ever heard of in a TTRPG group. I would kill to have a player where this is his most annoying trait.
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.
>>97833692It's because the ACKS discord had to go somewhere after being banned from Reddit. They chose here because it's easier to brigade and not get caught by stuff like making puppet accounts if everyone is anonymous.
>>97833664Do not fuck fiends that look like foxes
>>97834807>Right!The D&D 3e thread is over there Mr build and feats
>>97832804>TQI ran The House of Rogat Demazien ages ago when it was in the zine, I ended up modifying it for Yoon-Suin. it was a great exploration adventure, one of the better >weird shit in a wizard towersort of ones I'd run at the time. In the Shadow of the City God and Forest of Gornat look quite good and have been idling on the things-to-run pile when something close enough comes up in campaign.
>>97832175Lamentations has some rules for running investments. Pg 53-54 of Rules and Magic.
Welcome to /wbg/, the official thread for the discussion of in-progress settings for traditional games.Here is where you go to present and develop the details of your worlds such as lore, factions, magic and ecosystems. You can also post maps for your settings, as well as any relevant art (either created by you or used as inspiration for your work). Please remember that dialogue is what keeps the thread alive, so don't be afraid of giving someone feedback or post whatever relevant input you might have!Last thread: >>97665641Resources for Newfags: https://sites.google.com/view/wbgeneral/Worldbuilding links: pastee.dev/p/sp2Mdb5Ihttps://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/Eo+fK41FKVR7xDpbNO0a0N4k0YYxrmyrhX3VxnM14Ew/Fantasy map generator: https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator/wbi/: https://discord.gg/6ZjEc7dy4TWorldbuilding Hub: https://discord.com/invite/wGjxK3YThe Writer's Forge: https://discord.com/invite/CUxHxWqTira: https://discord.com/invite/f52W6KgDawn of Victory: https://discord.gg/hUAynC3wConlangerama: https://discord.com/invite/ceKjZBr2jCComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97832523one pet peeve about country roads with grass in the middle. This is entirely anachronistic and a product of modernity. The center of the road was always the most well tread part of the road both by beasts of burden, horses pulling carriages and by people walking there.The nature would always encroach on the world from the sides and slowly diminish it if it was under less use than what it was originally constructed for.If you have ever walked a mountain path you will know what i am talking about.Btw mediterranean fantasy is pure kino and much superior to the generic northern european fantasy
>>97834348>great britain society only works if you go for dark fantasyThousands of books in dozens of other genera begs to differ.
Would hunting outpace agriculture for the source of calory intake if large prey like the American bison were more endemic, and most of the continent not easily colonized by human settlers?I'm working on making a setting where the reason everyone, even women, knows how to use weapons in combat is because their land is geographically just supernaturally* good for grazing, which led to ginormous animals proliferating there.
>>97815762Nice summary, thanks.>>97786637Dunno if it counts as "lesser known" if only because I'm working with it and am generally a basic bitch. Also the fact that it's basically most of the best-known pantheons (Groman, Norse, Hindu) reduced to primordial soup.This guy's PIE-coded "Concavia" stuff is pretty neat btw. I particularly like how dark spirits are modelled after funky-headed cave paintings.https://kemono.cr/patreon/user/63597877>>97790637Thanks for the West and Dumezil recommendations though desu I've been playing so fast and loose that bringing things back in line with authentic myth might dampen some of the magic at this point.
>>97835117For instance I accidentally stumbled into the Striker and Many-Headed Serpent's rivalry with some of the usual roles reversed: A key aspect of the world is that it's a tautological time loop. One of the titans-aspirant will eventually consume their peers and then the whole world retroactively becoming the Ymir / Pangu primordial being who dies and decomposes into creation (which just so happens to contain the hungry hungry humans who will / already have eaten their way to retroactive godhood).The Serpent is less a manifestation of Chaos than alternate Order based on such alien principles as to be incomprehensible to us. What if something other than humanity dominates all and so cemented itself as the foundation of all? The Serpent is both "scaly-nasty-water-thing" of visceral revulsion and the interlinking chains of impartial cause and effect which drag our worldview away from naïve anthropocentrism and into a nihilistic wasteland where people are nothing special (or worse yet throughput for whatever else IS).The Striker on the other hand is "fertile" disorder. Their tool-weapon is both the Ur-flint, an aching wisdom tooth knocked loose by stone (as well as that percussive surgical instrument) and an idea itself extracted from the skull in pursuit of peace and quiet. Peals of thunder are as much swearing at having dropped something on his foot as vast oaks or fearsome foes falling before his wrath. Most of the "firsts" he's responsible for are accidents refined by others but the very fact he has no clue what he's up to is what makes him a wellspring of creation and especially anathema to those creations which limit alternative creativity.
Urgh
>>97820091ne
>>97745580Well yeah, you're not going to poop someone ELSE'S pants
apology for bad englishwhere were u wen character diei was at table drinking soda when gm call out"Your character is kil""no"
I would actually prefer this /b/-tier spam like this over the disingenuous spam that sucked the life out of this board. It's more honest.
>>97835060It's also just a bit of fun.
TOOOOOOOT Edition>Previously, in the Mortal Realms>>97828345>Official AoS website:https://www.ageofsigmar.com>Downloads, Rules Errata, and FAQs:https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-downloads/>Toolshttps://runebrush.pa-sy.com/warscroll/>Anvil of Apotheosis hero creator:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97834916I wouldn't be opposed to archaon's underlings trying to usurp him, sounds fun>>97834935I mean he kind of already has unique models and rules *as* a subfaction within S2D currently. But no I don't expect him to become his own faction if that's what you're asking.>inb4 the autarchy belongs to belakor
>>97834884Damn nigger who cares, its still gonna be complete shit.
>>97834884Da fuck? Archaon is the glue of this setting how they will make him dissapear? Also what they will repear and say "yeah, was a draw but we both needed a vacation"?
>>97834935Belakor deserves his time in the sun after being shit on (specially by lizards lol) so much time.
>>97834732They won't be what you want, anon. Don't get too excited.
