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.
>>97824339I like it a lot too. I love Lyonesse-like picaresque fantasy, and at this point I just couldn’t stand yet another high fantasy brain dead setting.
>>97832662>brigaded by the osrg folksLooks to me like the most obsessed people ITT are the anti-/osrg/ brigade.
>>97832782Okay. So have you ever played the black hack or black sword hack?
>>97832794No, duh, Otherwise I would have replied to your post the first time you made it.
>>97832794I like the premise and aesthetics of BSH but the system doesn't make an impression. I'd rather use any of my many editions of Stormbringer, or Through Sunken Lands. Those Xhack games don't do anything I wouldn't already do with Risus or Fudge.
He did nothing wrong.Everything that he ever did was for humanity
>>97777202>He did nothing wrong.>Everything that he ever did was for humanityHe's a massive sperg dictator. Worse than that he was absolutely horrible at his job. The average dipshit anon could do a better job than the Emperor, granted the same powers.
>>97830217>>97831943>lorelets dont understand he wanted the heresy to happen
He did nothing wrong.
>>97831943>Worse than that he was absolutely horrible at his job. The average dipshit anon could do a better job than the Emperor, granted the same powers.Anon, the Emperor is a gigantic basement dweller nerd who explicitly hates the warlord persona, he does it because when Malcador found him living in a cave basement during the Age of Strife (working on unfucking humanity's genome) it was Malcador who convinced him he would need to be a warlord and emperor to unite Terra.
A thread for discussing the Star Wars franchise and its various media and tabletop games.Spectres minis edition>Adepticon roadmaps:https://www.atomicmassgames.com/transmission/adepticon-2026-roadmap-star-wars-legion/https://www.atomicmassgames.com/transmission/adepticon-2026-roadmap-star-wars-shatterpoint/Previous: >>97615500Fantasy Flight Games’ X-Wing, Armada, and Legion>https://pastebin.com/9puqx1zeStar Wars Roleplaying Games (d6/d20/FFG)>https://pastebin.com/iUriRfaAComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I am not excited for maul: shadow lord and the more I see of it, the more it just looks like it'll be a show made for "those" TCW fans, the type of idiots who clap at a thing they recognize with nothing original actually happeningthe only thing that makes me a tiny bit hopeful is the main writer, but the premise just looks like shit, I don't even think anything significant will happen
>>97832133The Mandalorian girl seems like such a fucking Disney XD character >>97832229Based if true
>>97831598He's literally Aladdin. I mean, episode 1, Kanan literally calls him "Street Rat"
The fact the writers killed her is a crime.
>>97832855he's so aladdin, they actually got the actor from the live action aladdin remake to play him in live-action, and it's actually a really good casting
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.
>>97832804>Do you have a favorite EMDT module?Yes: Khosura is the best thing Melan ever did IMO, and among the zine-format modules Trail of the Sea Demon stands out as a fantastic city adventure, or sequence of them.
Thread #012 Degenerate 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>>97733980Previous Thread>>97621954Brief 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.
>>97831153Of what blood are you?
>>97831591>>97827132"Nothing good" my sire says:-Werewolves are holed up in the north end.-There are some Anarchs in St. Vital who oppose the Sabbat so they've been killing each-other on the south end of the city. The Baron goes by "Trelaine" and I think he's a Toreador.-Camarilla from Alberta are trying to move in downtown but they've lost a lot of people to the Sabbat and the werewolves. Some Ventrue leading them, sire didn't catch her name.-Sabbat almost everywhere else, no idea who leads them. Now that they're fighting a two-front war the sabbat needs more recruits who aren't shovelheads and they've apparently tried to recruit my sire (and by extension me) through familial clan ties. My sire has no interest in anything other than their own metamorphosis and vicissitude research however. I think their command center has moved to St. Boniface from downtown, since they got pushed out by the Cammies.
>>97832363Honestly I don't know much about Asian fashion. My family has lived in Ontario for decades. Still does. I made the mistake of checking.Egh, rambling- Like the Kimono more I think for casual wear and stuff.>>97832658That kind of complicates things. Annarchs and Sabbat fighting ove >AND I SAW THE CASTLE SHATTERED AND THE BLOOD OF HANNO SPRAYED INTO THE DIRT AS THE RED SWORD LOOMED ON HIGH->AND WITH ARMS SPREAD WIDE WITH PALMS SEEPED IN STRENGTH- AS I SAW THE SONS OF GUGNIR AND VALLO TAKE FLIGHT- >AND THERE THE VOICE ISSUED FROM THE EARTH TO WARN THE SWORD-BEARERS: OH CHILDE OV CAINE NIPHEW OV MATER IMOEN, FLEE THY BARREN TAKING, FLEE THY LOOT AND THY CONQUEST FOR THOU HAST INVOKED THE NAMELESS THINGN- >AND THE SWORD RAISED HIGH GLUTTED WITH MURDER TO SHATTER SPEAKING STONE- >AND FOUND EARTH WITH TEETH- >AND THE LAND TURNED BLACK AS THE MOON AND STARS FLED THE SKY, AS THE SWORD WAS DRIED AND RED ROTTED INTO GREEN- >AND THE HAND WHICH HELD IT TREMBLED AS MERE KINE BEFORE THE WOLF AS IT MADE TO WRENCH FLEE THE BLADE- >AND FETID METAL SPLINTERED- AND AS THEY TURNED TO FLEE THE EARTH LAUGHED- Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97832771If that's a prophecy like I assume it is I'd say the werewolves (earth with teeth?) are going to eat the sabbat (sword-bearers?)?
>>97832813DO NOTDo not don't try to place it first Okay. First rule of this stuff is to never internalize it outside of cursory stuff because that is asking to be trapped in it at worse.It's not prophecy but it's something ajdacent. Like- Dejavu. Except too much all at once. With excess sensory information hanging on it. I used to be basically crippled by this stuff and the only reason I'm functional is I got a nice voice in my head that balances out all the fucking garbage and hallucinations.Something will eat something else. But we can't- shouldn't try to get too much in terms of details.
I never realized how many players suffer from aphantasia and insist on using miniatures. Are you one of them, or do you embrace the unmatchable graphics of theater of the mind?
>>97832445Problem with your theory, dumbass. I don't have aphantasia. I can picture everything fine. The problem is that when you boil it down, all of you are playing in featureless rooms with furniture and corners that you spawn and despawn at will.Either I missed the meeting where we all agreed that tabletop games are the world's shittest mental gmod server of you're all cheating.
>>97832397>Lot of assuming about motives.What did you expect from bringing it up explicitly as part of a highly emotionally charged railing against theater-of-the-mind with no alternative purpose offered? That the response would be accurate mind-reading of it being in a previously entirely unmentioned context?>But your visceral reaction to the idea that someone would actually keep track of what you're doing shows me what I need to know.No, my first post in this thread was >>97832187 in which I specifically mention the inability to maintain relative positions. The underlying point still stands, because you cited it as how you know. That statement entails that you didn't know before to full confidence, and by extension that you did not have enough confidence in your own mental model of the game-state for their divergence from it alone to result in calling out the inaccuracy.>>97832454How many tasks depend strongly on the ability to internally synthesize novel visual states? Even in outright artwork there's successful people with aphantasia, so I've some doubts about this qualifying for "retardation".
>>97832572>with no alternative purpose offered?I mean, the alternative is implicit but because you're a cheater who's upset at getting caught out, you're acting in bad faith.That or you're a moron.So in either case, I'll spell it out for you. The answer is a representational diagram. If you're playing Dungeons and Dragons specifically, this really should be a grid of 1 inch squares, since that's what the rules are based around. For other tabletop games where movement isn't as rigid and things are a bit more vague, I simple diagram consisting of a few stand in objects works, so long as everyone agrees what each object is representative of.A couple of dice that aren't being rolled and a sheet of paper for terrain makes for a quick and easy way to make sure everyone is on the same page regarding things like relative position and what the area looks like.But please, keep crashing out about it. You're really helping the argument that you're all seriously interested in the theater of the mind and aren't just cheating.
>>97832601>I mean, the alternative is implicit but because you're a cheater who's upset at getting caught out, you're acting in bad faith....The alternative PURPOSE of WHY YOU WERE TAKING NOTES, not alternative to theater of the mind. If your reading comprehension is this bad, I can only assume you to be massively inflating your own spatial reasoning competence out of a horrendous case of the Dunning-Kreuger Effect.
>>97832610Look at you, trying to weasel your way around.Can't even have a human conversation without trying to cheat, it's adorable.
I steal a lot of ideas and plot points from TV shows and books. My players are normalfags that don't consume anything that isn't current and popular, so they don't know how much I steal. The few times they actually caught on, they were fine with it.I'm just worried I am creating a bad habit. I have tons of original ideas as well, but I'm very demotivated, since a lot of adventures fell through for one reason or another and I had to come up with brand new concepts every time, so I have been stealing a lot more recently.
>>97818465Anon, I know you're illiterate, but re-read the title of the thread. Just because this isn't some pointless argument about the definition of Railroading or rules autism doesn't mean it isn't related to Traditional Games. They explicitly discuss the topic in relation to their own games in the first post.Even if we do discuss mechanics, they've all been done before. There is no such thing as an original mechanic. Everything, in some form, has been done before.
>>97817067Originality is a spook
>>97818465OP is LITERALLY talking about advice for his CAMPAIGNS as he is a GM who has to make shit on the spot for his PLAYERS, I am going to make more threads about FANTASY NOVELS just for YOU
>>97817067Yes
I don't have a creative bone in my body. Everything is a patchwork of other peoples' ideas. Hasn't let me down yet.
Recently I found some Humanity Fuck Yeah YouTube videos that use AI voice narration on my feed. After using them as background noise while cleaning my apartment I found that that most of them are more or less the same. Humans are the only ones who know how to fight/love sex/survive/etc. How can we save the genre or reinvent it so it isn't so stale?
>>97831706He's exactly like me.I'd blow up earth too.
>Cringe HFYKilling all the aliens because you're a pussy that can't stand the thought of having to compare yourself to anyone else>Based HFYJoining the alien empire and proving your personal worth and the worth of the human species by helping aliens
>>97829421He literally invented Planes and Tactics threads thoughI played that shit for years after
>>97831157narcissism is good btw
>>97821566It's a sign of the disease of the soul that possesses the modern day that media became so disgustingly anti-human that it spawned a counterslop revolution of similarly wretched pro-humanity. The entire dialectic must change before we can be trusted to produce aspirational content again.
>produce indie module>send it to a few youtubers who review modules and have a decent reputation for independent thought>hey, I've seen some of this guy's videos and he has never once mentioned being paid>send free copy>get email from his agent quoting a price for a reviewWhy are they all like this?
>>97832496he's a troon, the picture is proof that he's a retarded commiethey are the same thing, the philosophy of human extinction
>>97832705He's a man in his late 40s with a Thyroid problem. Get better proof.
>>97832745I already said we don't believe you saying it again doesn't work
>>97832769>WePost proof, faggot.
>>97817193you just realized?
Not only is Yelmalio proven to get his ass beaten constantly in his own stinkin myths, he is portrayed as a proven enemy of the Storm Tribe afterwards. Why the hell would Sartarites bear to have them in their midst as potential destabilizing elements when his worshippers sell themselves to the highest bidder when the Occupation begins ?GLORANTHA Thread
>>97832773Still dont get why Jeff has such a hate boner for Elmal. Let people enjoy their cult of the loyal thane rather than Yelmalio if they choose so.
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>>97832742>>97832744Oh yeah, here we fuckin go. Green getting more speed than a crack addict.
>>97832742It should be illegal to make Deramon as good as BT24 and 25 and have neither of them be [WG]
>>97832742>not Sirenmonwhat is going on
>>97832819I had the same thought. It's entirely possible Sirenmon will be in yellow like her original.
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>>97832206Previous thread.. >>97758366
Requesting Down Among the Dead for PirateborgAlso paid pirateborg VTT integration if anyone has it
>>97828633>>97828256/d/yjNN4V
Has Lex Arcana: The Fall emerged?
>>97832758nop
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kill yourself
>>97830265>he's fucking silverLMAO
>anything to just insult peopleyeah how come i aren't mythic in just 5 games?fucking kill yourself you absolute fucking waste of air
>>97831004Get his ass
>>97831004Git gud.
Who are the major antagonists of your setting/campaign? I’m talking BBEG types, to put it simply, and their immediate subordinates. What goes into a villain that is narratively compelling?
>>97821235nahif they want to do that, then its fair the npcs do it back
>>97821235no, players really do that shit because of irony>ask henchman of bbeg a question>henchman answers>barely gets 3 words out before a player kills him because interruption is cool xD>they now dont know the answer to a question set up by bbeg's security to reach him>get mad
>>97820789There’s two ways to handle this situation:1) create situations where the BBEG can either monologue, or just have a talk with the PCs without being in the same area as the PCs. Now the “I attack the guy mid-sentence” choice isn’t even on the table.Or2) make their next BBEG even more annoying and cringey than the PCs. and I do mean take all the players annoying behavior and crank it up to 11 for this guy.Now this is not a substitute for fucking talking to your players and communicating with them about how some of their antics are making the game not fun to run. But something like this can be used to underline the point by showing them how it looks from the other side.
>>97821214>trashWhat would 'you' do intead then?
The major antagonist is the party's patron/boss, so they're the immediate subordinates. They haven't figured out that they are working for the person who basically rules the world through agents like them and keeps it stagnant for her own personal safety.
Reject all AI from TTRPGS! If a player uses AI to make a character portrait of their PC - BOOT THEM FROM THE GAME!If a player uses AI to make a character biography - BOOT THEM FROM THE GAME! If a GM uses AI to write an adventure for a session - QUIT THE GAME! If a GM uses AI to generate a picture of where the PCs are - QUIT THE GAME!If a GM uses AI to generate a battle map - QUIT THE GAME!REJECT AI FROM TTRPG!REJECT AI FROM TTRPG!REJECT AI FROM TTRPG!
>>97831037no it's not, it harms his feelings
>>97831037You have to commission your creativity? You can't write your own adventure?
>>97818057Nah. A.I. is a tool. Wouldn't ban photoshop because the person didn't draw. But I will put my foot down for bad A.I. usage.> Wonky inconsistent stats.> Cursed art.> Contradictory descriptions.But pic-related? 0 problem.
>>97832308Why does he have five legs?
>>97832776The fifth is for the ladies.
