Previous thread: >>97680129GURPS is a modular, adaptable system, capable of running a wide range of characters, settings, and play styles, with a level of detail varying from lightweight to completely autistic.Optional rules allow you to emulate different genres with a single system, or even switch genres within a single game.A nearly complete archive of GURPS books can be found by using the image. Never post direct links to the archive anywhere in plain text.If you're wondering where to start:- The Basic Set covers everything, including a lot of optional rules you probably won't use.- A genre guide can be found in the archive, under Unofficial/GURPSgen. It tells you what extra books and articles you may find useful for many common genres.- How To Be a GURPS GM is a good read even for players.- GCS (gurpscharactersheet.com) is an excellent character-builder software, with page references to all the books and the option to export to both Foundry and Fantasy Grounds.TQ: what's your least favorite disadvantage for a player to take?
>>97833548I think there's an anti-tank rifle in one of the books which has a chance of dealing damage to the user, so there is precedent. It's hard to make a general rules, because ST covers both strength needed to lift and aim the weapon and to manage its recoil, while Rcl isn't based on recoil force or even felt recoil, but instead by how much the gun throws its aim off when fired, so a high Rcl could mean a powerful gun or just a light-weight one. I think the best option might be if ST+Rcl exceeds some multiple (maybe 150%) of your ST, then damage might be possible, but the amount is hard to determine.>>97833870I think you've basically covered it. I believe everything in old Low-Tech and High-Tech now has 4th edition rules. Very little of Bio-Tech, Ultra-Tech and Steam-Tech remains 3rd ed only. Don't think there is anything in Magic which hasn't been replaced. Most of Compendium I is redundant. 3rd ed Horror is almost entirely replaced by 4th ed version + Madness Dossier. Fantasy doesn't seem to have anything not converted (but the extra supplements are still valid). Vast majority of other books still have at least some useable material. Even the Basic Set has the solo adventure.
>>97834051I know it's subjective, but how good are the 3rd edition books? I'm interested in the historical setting books, like Old West, Imperial Rome, and also Religion.
>>97834051>I think there's an anti-tank rifle in one of the books which has a chance of dealing damage to the userThe T-Gew 18 in High-Tech
>>97834071Considering that those books are highly recommended for non-Gurps games, go for it.They are usually very well researched, with a high focus on what makes those settings and periods interesting for gaming.
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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.
>>97833692[bot_acknowledger.exe]running heuristics...> is problem solvable with gold? YES> is answer in core rules? YES> should DM fiat be applied? NOoutput: "works as written"--end transmission--
>>97833340We are playing ACKS2. >>97833680Yeah, our party has been a bit hesitant to hire henchmen especially the spell casters but I am playing a Venturer which are weak in combat. Because of this I went all in on henchmen early and they really clutched the fight, they held the important flank and the +1 AC from the bard's inspire courage stopped 5 hits on the party by my count.I think my group has been a little to 5e brained but I think this fight proved that all the extra help was critical and hopefully they will recruit some more guys when we get back to town.1
>>97833692>peopleIt's one guy who got laughed out of /3eg/ and is making it everyone else's problem.
>>97833703>I have the following green flags:>>AutisticAs an Autist I have never been more confused.
>>97820120might be a standard in ACKS since I haven't read it but the growth time seems too quick? a baby needs at least a couple of years to be a toddler and if we are waiting for an adult than at least 14-15 to allow for reproduction.anyway Human herding will likely be very niche since raiding for humans or demanding tribute from a local settlement or even just ruling a town with an iron fist would be easier. it might be a thing in the underdark or otherwise very desolate lands.
Would your human male fighter ever consider getting themselves a nice trad peasant wife and settling down in the countryside?
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>>97817890Based and FPBP
>>97832786What if he dies though?
>spamming this shit art on /ic/ too>>>/ic/7911335
>>97831467Peasant pussy is best pussy tho
Welcome to TODD!This thread is for OPEN discussion of TSR-era D&D (up to and including 2e), TSR-era settings, and related games, such as retroclones, OSR, and OSR-adjacent games. Free discussion of house rules is encouraged.>GamesIncluding but not limited to: OD&D, B/X, BECMI, AD&D 1e, AD&D 2e, For Gold & Glory, Hackmaster, Myth and Magic, Shadowdark, Into the Odd, Mausritter, Cairn, Mörk Borg, DCC, Mothership, Knave, Troika!, White Hack, Black Hack.>What is this thread NOT for?Meta discussions and drama related to game creators and other /tg/ threads. We come in peace.>Resources2e fan wiki:https://adnd2e.fandom.com/wiki/Advanced_Dungeons_%26_Dragons_2nd_Edition_Wiki2e archive:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97833639>Transmuter - Can convert spells into potions as if spell research. Can also make healing potionsWhen it comes from OSR, I admit I dunno from magic users (though I really like Duo Dimension and thst one "Pockets" spell), but doesn't this one risk breaking Spells Per Day, a given spellcaster could, at the end of the day convert their spells into potions ajd have that many to cast on top of the next days' spells.
>>97834163>When it comes from OSRBleh, what I get for posting about midnight. *When it comes to OSR, I admit I dunno from magic users.
>>97833583>Nobody cares.Bollocks.>was never welcome in /osrg/Don't lie.207 /tg/ threads with /osrg/ subject in 2019118 of those explicitly say TSR D&D, TSR-era D&D in the opening post without any effort to exclude 2e despite there being attempts to add "first decade".>b-b-b-but that just proves 2e wasn't welcomeNo, it proves that someone tried to change OP but it was repeatedly rejected. Please point in this list to which of this 57% of all /osrg/ threads for 2019 attempted to exclude 2e.A, 19 instances>Welcome to the Old School Renaissance General, the thread dedicated to TSR D&D, derived systems, and all content compatible with them.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97834217J, 2 instances>Welcome to the Old School Renaissance General Discussion, the thread dedicated to TSR D&D, derived systems, and all compatible content.As E but inserted "Discussion".K, 1 instance>This is the thread for discussion of games that pertain to the Old School Renaissance, games which attempt to follow the spirit of the old school TSR D&D days, and which are by and large compatible with the rule books of said games.Its own thing, still TSR D&D and compatible.L, 61 instances>Welcome to Old School Renaissance General, the thread dedicated to TSR-era D&D, derived systems, and compatible content.As J but deleted "Discussion" and inserted "-era" after TSR.M, 1 instanceComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97834217>>97834221Holy autism Batman!
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>>97834118It really isn't fair bro, this thing does everything [wg] Delumon and [wg] Cherrymon do but better.
>>97834122Don't forget, we are getting a new wave of support in EX12.
>>97834175oh greatTS gets minimum 3 full BT sets and we get maybe 5 cards in an EX set three months from nowright right
>>97834108>veedramon on WG field card>no wg veedramoni am so mad
>>97834195TS isn't one archetype, it's like ten. They're just incestuous, overlapping archetypes.
Should casters be able to hold their own in a fight, or should they be balanced around requiring protection from martial classes?
>>97831141>puckee spamming his commission againhttps://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryCharacters/comments/vokhhf/alexandra_alex_dempsey_wizard_art_by_kartstudio/https://desuarchive.org/_/search/image/N3Sq777FS4rhWvf8QeFGwQ/>79 times since June 2022
>>97833479What a weird hobby you have
>>97831141>Good Friday>Puckee spams his shit anyway
>>97831609>>97831760>Ah, so it's a kind of fantasy? I wasn't sure if it was historical or something.It's a mishmash of different periods of Chinese history more informed by webnovel wuxia than anything else, it's wrong to call it a historical.
>>97834162I meant more in the sense that it is grounded and set in our world, as opposed to fantasy. But I get it now.
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>>97833643Yes. I would pledge for the Guardians as a Titan, because it has always been my dream to cut down waves of subhuman fodder with a huge sword. The actual outcome of the war doesn't matter much to me, but I'll probably get it out of my system by then.
>>97833701holy based
>>97833643I am sexually attracted to artillery barrages and warships so yes I think I wouldn't be able to resist getting to combine both by blowing up shitters with my superior firepower
>>97833933>I am sexually attracted to artillery barrages and warshipsThis anon jerks off to Azur Lane
>>97833643Yes. I don't like any of the guardians of the galaxy choices though (and they cheaped out by making lifespan reward incompatible with the aura of light), so I have to choose the forces of dankness.
How important is artwork and visual aesthetics to a tabletop game?
>>97831585Not important enough to give the TTRPG explosion in the 2010s any long-scale hold. All of these games with interesting art have been forgotten. Player count is the single most important thing to a tabletop game and legacy systems have new and old players locked down.
>>97834161I don't know anon. Even if you take the art as "GM facing", the art the GM sees on the book can inform the way he describes monsters and locations.
>>97831585A TTRPG is a set of rules on how a certain reality works, that a set group of players agree to abide by when playing collaborative pretend. This means that, the more the players and GM are on the same page, the better, and good artwork is second to none in setting a mood and expectations for your players. I argue that a coin and a copy of an artbook like Godhusk or Vermis is enough to play a TTRPG, and that a solid ruleset without images causes more clash between players and GM expectations.
>>97834213>the more the players and GM are on the same page, the betterThis is why you should not give the players any source of information except the GM's own mouth. If you show a picture to five different people, you will get five different interpretations.
>>97831585Not at all.It only exists to rope in normalfags.The only things that matter are (in descending order):Quality of text-editing and text layoutAccessibility to informationExtensive playtests the game had (most games don't have any, which is why they are so shit)Quality of rules themselves (a bad game with good text editor is better than good game with insufficient editorial effort)Simplicity of the game itself (anything you can't explain to newfag under 30 minutes has issues, anything you can't explain to newfag under 45 is a bad game)Everything else is a total non-issue and non-factor. If the game is either sold on lore or artwork, you are looking at a bad game, no ifs or butsAnd people who make endless threads throwing fits about artwork in games are the epitome of never-game.
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>>97833968>>97833988>>97834007>>97834038>>97834056Holy mother of ESL
>>97834093It's all germans and polish spergs Poles are a type of jew btw, which could explain some things.
>>97834093>>97834120You done champ? You feel good now?
>>97834139I'm a proud Aryan male and I wish nothing more than for pissreal to be nuked off the face of the earth>>97831823Although playing killteam one of my war dogs will do for now
>>97833130The last time we left making threads with oldfags, the general was dead for half a year and was missing everything from the OP.
Thread died and I recently got to play so I'm making it again.>What are you painting?>What are you looking forward to?>good stories about your huntsThread question: favorite fight? Least favorite fight?
>>97822604There's a few good ones in the gallery thread of discord
>>97827113That is fine, but since I mainly paint for display purposes I was looking for more polished versions. There was a cool one with OSL coming from the eye, I hate myself for not saving them.
>>97822272Just some eye candy if you're into that kind of thing. The Forge Priest is a new mini-boss, though.
>>97828935Is it the first time they do something like this? I can only remember boneeaters as mini-bosses.
>>97828935Wait Pillars are boss encounters? Damn, I bought Fade and Percival because I thought the models are sexy. I don't wanna kill em
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?
>>97833928>twisted it around to make the rest of us sound like we were fucking gay>"bro, there's nothing gayer than playing out sexual fantasies in front of men when we're here to roll dice and kill monsters"Use the language he understands. Also, pitch in with 10 bucks everyone to buy him a whore.>Also his character is too important to the story to kick himOk, he was in the right then, you are a theater faggot.
>>97833928>One of the PCs is a total dickhead, played by a manchild... and the problem is?
>>97833928>>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?"If funny, haha. His character can pay for them.>>he constantly talks about how his character is 6 foot 2 (he's 5 foot 8 irl)Cool. Most characters will be well fed and nutritioned, so that's not an unreasonable stature.>>he talks out of his ass a lot about medieval times and says that peasant girls were way healthier than modern women.Remind him that you really don't fucking care about historic, this is a fantasy game.>>says how farmers would be begging to marry their lithe 17 year old daughters to himTell him to masturbate before coming to games nights then.>>he talks about medieval demographics and criticizes the DMa works building (which is actually kinda shit to be fair) Migration and trade did exist, and unless lore says otherwise, will probably exist in this setting. Any big city will have multiple ethnicities to spy, don't be a fag who insists cities must be fully monoethnic.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97834174>We 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. It's not about being gay or faux-purity (we all wank). It's about sidetracking the plot with unnecessary horniness.Even in a dedicated erpg, where horniness is anticipated, sex scenes are a terrible idea because they derail the session and take up game time.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.Well that's your stupid idea. You can just cut him out and fudge still. If your game is as shitty as it seems to implicate itself to be, a bit of 'rolling with it' won't do anything too bad.Kill off his character. Fucking do it. Flip the script.
>>97833928>my player is... engaged with my worldbuilding and is interacting with the NPCsBuddy, if you consider that a problem player you have no idea how bad things can be. Tell him that you're not comfortable with the way he talks about sex all the time and that those themes aren't going to be something you want to go into at the table. If you're giving other players girlfriends and romantic side stories then, well, you've already made your bed and now you need to lie in it with him.I'm going to end this with some sanctimonious bs about how if he harasses anyone in real life in YOUR house where YOUR wife with lopsided tits lives then you BETTER kick his ass to the curb.
Anyone got any better than this D&D now vs then comparison pics, especially for art style?Seeing the new MTG set look so incredibly gay and full of mediocre modern digital fantasy art is quite sad.
>>97834033She's under armor. But yeah she looks like she's more of a "face girl" than a "body girl" aka butterface.
>>97833119>Aside from this>they aren't allowed that?Assuming you're in good faith, I'll put it this way. Yes, the forced diversity by itself is already bad and corporate, and no, the cookies by themselves don't make this reproachable, but there is a collection of little things in the image that, separate, are harmless, and together are fake and gay.It's the forced diversity + the cookies + the performative male feminist haircuts + the basedcuck facial expressions + the cat + the guy on the left being such a faggot he'd wear sandals to a forge + him being the whitest male in there and taking the cookies to the brave women and racial minorities in a subliminarly subservient position + the excessive gay bear porn muscle glimmer + the hammers looking like MCU mjolnir + the art just looking bad.None of those things, in a vacuum, would completely ruin an image, just like having either AIDS or the flu won't kill you.The top pic is just male power fantasy, a guy taunting whoever's facing him, 2 weapons in hand for double ass kicking. It fits better a game that dedicates so many pages to combat.
>>97831907Friendly reminder that the only people who still are seething or gave a fuck about the image are never-games trying to stir up shit in some idiotic front of ACW (American Culture War) that nobody actually playing gives a flying fuck.Let me riddle you this:If this is "now" and so common, why are you unable to get a new image, but keep reposting the same 4 images (this, the two player parties and the one made to promote combat wheelchair, which already fall into obscurity even as a bait material)?
>>97834183The fact this happened even once is already enough to complain forever, or at least until a scapegoat suffers to appease the mad god.
>>97834188but you do realize that spamming the same ragebait even 2+ years later will make people see you as annoying spergs, yes? By repeating the same shit over and over and over again, you are alienating people to your cause by pissing them off
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>>97834111Also bought this guy for later on in the league at higher points I'll buy a foot hero for chaos and use him for it. Wargame Foundry's Chaos Samurai. IK their stuff is too small even for middlehammer but he's nipponese he gets to be short
>>97834132Do whatever you like, like I said - it's a cool concept. Just make sure he do look like a knight that went to chaos wastes and back. And since he proved himself to Khorne, he would have plenty of chaos gifts like horns and chaos armor fused to his skin, so you probably want an explanation why /yourdude/ still resembles a bretonnian knight, instead of regular chaos knight.
>>97834152Gotcha, thanks!
>>97834040Moussilon is empty. Ain't nobody there.
>>97834153Most people tend to forget that chaos armor is basically a mutaded armor. Warriors in Chaos Wastes mutate and their shit mutates with them, be it their armor or their horse. I mean, sure - some buy armor that already looks like a chaos armor, but is basically heavy armor. True chaos armor is armor that was twisted by energies of the warp. So - give enough time to a bretonnian knight on Chaos Wastes and he WILL look like a chaos warrior, even if he didn't buy anything from Karak Dum or chaos dwarfs (or just take from a fallen enemy).
players have no purpose but to be railroaded by my hand.
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>>97833549bioware was never good
Right. They could GM themselves if they gave a fuck, but they don't, so they have no right to complain. That's what happens when you willingly give up your agency.
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."
