>>97845107
Yes but the magic system is perhaps less spicy than some would prefer (although by the same token it's more balanced).

>>97845126
*more balanced than D&D's magic

>>97845107
If your idea of "standard fantasy" is pure dungeoncrawling I'd say stick to your favourite D&DLike (not that Genesys is bad at that, it's just not playing to the strengths of the system), but otherwise it's worth a go

>>97845400
Genesys is a very well-rounded system, so it's not so much that pure dungeoncrawling "doesn't play to the game's strengths" so much as the system doesn't have any outstanding strengths or weaknesses.

I’m running a 40k genesys game based on the pdf from the OP. I’ve told my players it’s not going to be anywhere as lethal or dangerous as Dark Heresy which frankly will hopefully be more fun. Not sure if people have any recs from their own experience with it. I’ve said no psykers because they struggled with the genesys magic system before. They’re 5e players so are used to trying to solve everything with spells instead of skills.

Should be fun they’re basically black ops. Their existence will be denied by the inquisition and they have no writ etcetera. Their Inquisitor is a xanthite wanting to use demons to control tyranids so they’re going to be doing some pretty extreme missions. It won’t be easy to make tyranid demonhosts but that won’t stop their Inquisitor.

It’s nice that the dice are easy to find now. I bought 3 packs.

>>97845397
Upon reflection, “prepped” is an over generous interpretation, since despite saying he prepared a village, he didn’t actually prepare a village. He prepared a map that he stole off google search, which isn’t a sin in and of itself, but he didn’t populate it with anything. No npcs, no locations, no descriptions, nothing. It was blatantly obvious he was basically making this shit up on the spot cause he got lazy, and resorted to “because I said so” cause he backed himself into a corner and knew it.

>>97845411
Kek. Well, thats definitely a different way to do it

>>97844013
Because it's a fuckton of wasted time and effort. The best thing you can do is have a general outline for several different plausible outcomes and fill in the blanks as things progress. If you're putting excruciating detail into every little thing 99% of it is going to be completely ignored and you're going to be blindsided by something you didn't think of and had zero preparation for because you were so hyperfocused on an expectation of things going how you planned.

>>97844013
Because most GMs - particularly those that need advice - over-prepare. Likely outcomes include
>forcing the players into things you have prepared
>floundering when they do something else because they thought they had covered "everything"
>burn out and resentment because they have done a lot of "useless" work, particularly in contrast to the players

A novice's prep is mostly going to suck because they don't know what they're doing. It's likely to be a linear story, which leads to railroading, because that's their main experience of stories. Including a lot of RPG modules.

"Why shouldn't I do more work that won't improve the game and will go to waste?"

Gee it's a fucking mystery.

>>97845362
I thought it was funny. Especially those few months where even One Piece was beating it.

Does your LGS loan out decks? For poor fags

Riftbound seems extremely unbalanced but I'm not really much of a card game player

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>>97845550
It kind of is? Like, at the top level Draven is the undisputed king, even after the bans and I don't think this will change too much in set 3. Being the easiest card draw legend in the game, and being able to do it 2-3 times a turn for some stupid reason, just makes him beyond powerful.
At store level plenty of decks can compete. I've been to 3 skirmishes this month and they were all won by different legends. Draven, Fiora, and surprisingly Ahri.

For the love of fuck get rid of that Rune Recycle mechanic, just make the cards bricks instead

>>97845484
That's beautifully done even down to the sort of older style colouring. Thanks for that. That painting's by Eugene Jaworski. Wonderful metaphor.

>>97845544
I concur

>>97845544
>>97845567
>/pol/fags are ESLs now
lol

>>97845568
Point out the ESL features of both those posts and how they're not idiomatic English. Also point out how a metaphor 1e owning 5e is /pol/ not just a matter of (good) taste by preferring OSR.

Since you can't, I'll prompt your next post by asking if you have any other stupid ideas you want to share so we can laugh at them?

>>97845455
>Watercolor dragon
>Make it scary
Camouflage. It's huge and savage-looking, but it blends into the background so well that, until you look closely, you can't see the giant murder lizard right in front of the small troop of would-be adventurers, who are obviously completely unaware of the danger in their immediate vicinity.

>>97839598
Her third great-nephew (Rain) is supposed to be a major character, but I'm not sure when he's supposed to be introduced.
At least, I think the Welcome Rain that's mentioned as a character and seen in concept art is the same as the Rain used as an example of how a male would be addressed.

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>>97833921
the crab eating seaweed
perhaps too subtle

>>97818648
I've never heard of this comic before but I'm glad someone out there is suffering more than OOTS.

>>97807704
It only occurred to me upon reading this thread after reading what has been made of the comic. Accounting for differential in fanbase size, this series must be contending with ASOIAF for nonsense theories and meme generation caused by going on without updates.

>>97833921
>>97842914
Also, what the hell?

>>97845580
holy shit I cannot write

>>97845419
Seals are funny critters

>>97845451
Indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oSWzBkllGkE

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>>97845419
It's not about extreme dimorphism, it's about retarded dimorphism where something often not even a mammal or hominid looks very similar to specifically a human woman. Note, how even in your image the female seal still looks like a seal and not an entirely different type of animal.

>>97845579
it does still look like a seal but without context you would think its an entirely different species of seal. The female looks more like a male leopard seal than the male elephant seal

>>97843604
No, other slavs will laugh at me

>roping against a control player
I don't get it. You think someone who went out of their way to have long games of doing nothing will be upset about having their time wasted?

>One game I draw nothing but lands for 7 turns straight
>Next turn I don't draw any land after the opening hand for 5-6 turns
wtf
>Also enemy takes up the entire turn each and every phase
fucking why

>>97845553
So frustrating losing because you're stuck on 2 lands for 5 fucking turns

>>97845569
It does even out over many games. Your opponents also get bad draws. That's one nice thing about ranked constructed, since all the games are individual a few games of bad luck in a row is fine. If you play well consistently it will even out.

Whereas in draft or events where you have X amount of losses allowed, you can easily get fucked over and lose the entry fee immediately.

>>97837502
cont.d
>Nancy reveals that the guards there that she ate are now disembodied memories and consciousnesses rattling around her own brain and reveals that at least one was a child-rapist sent to the raided facility as punishment for misbehaving at a more important MJ12 facility in Puerto Rico
>mom of the PC with the disappeared dad has a mental break and goes to Alphonse's house before putting 3 slugs in his gut (he survives but is totally fucked out of field operations forever and loses control of DG at large while in the hospital)
>investigating cell goes to Puerto Rico as the PC with the disappeared dad develops full psychic abilities and reaches into a pocket-dimension containing the plane his dad disappeared on
>investigating cell raids the facility and extracts most of the other PCs
>PC with psychic powers in the pocket dimension summons the vanished plane into realspace and 9/11s it into MJ12's Puerto Rico facility while rescued PCs and the investigating cell watch from a distance
There's the Cliff's Notes
>>97834402
>>97837458
Did the mailing list ever do anything like that?

>>97833671

I ran Impossible Landscapes for a dedicated group, and we all had a great time with it. It was very funny/tense to see the dynamic between the agents who wanted to keep going down the King in Yellow rabbit hole vs. those who wanted to leave at every opportunity. As the handler, knowing they would all end up in roughly the same place was a very interesting experience to play out. Of course, their actions did have plenty of consequences. They might end up at the same destination, but what happens there and how it leads into the rest of the campaign is up to them. This was especially true for each of their characters endings. I can guarantee that no one else has ever had the same experience playing this game that we did.


I have never had a game where the players had such BS luck either. They should have died so many times. They all should have been insane 15x over. They won almost every combat with incredible ease. This is a campaign where Agents can continue to play characters even after their death. It is supposed to be a meatgrinder. But they just kept winning! It was like the King himself was protecting them, ushering them all into his palace in Carcosa.

I could go on and on about how much fun it was. Just give it a try, it's the masterpiece of the Arc Dream era

Just dug up something interesting. May be worth scraping if you don't like the post-kickstarter fluff. Access pre-2005 on Wayback
>semper-vigilus.tk
Btw what would be a good scenario for a game set in the 1930s meant to set up the PCs to be taken up by P4 division? I'm already considering Saturnite Chalice, and I like the opening (isolation, haunted house, ample opportunity for giving an excuse for Navy officers and employees to be doing something), but I'm not sure I like the prospects of my players being able to figure it out. The handouts may just confuse them.

>>97837458
>>97837511
Well why not do it online? D20 website and what not

>>97772396
Wild to see someone link the thread I made to revive horror general as a way to get rid of the DG threads I restarted like half a year ago lol. Honestly, I'm glad the DG general has stayed around this long, to the point of being more consistently active than a general for an entire genre of games.

>>97840821
My dog. He doesn't bite, just posts online.

>>97840821
it's weeaha, it says right there

>>97840821
it's a monkey of some kind. Probably a tamarin monkey, with what the beard and claws, drawn by a dude who'd only heard descriptions from people who'd never seen it closer than 50 meters.

>>97842081
why would it be a tamarin

>>97770236
Im an EMT with a sample size in the dozens at this point, id agree with the 50% estimate. Only people ive seen shit themselves after they die were really old or OD'd on something

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>>97841555
I know someone in here will sperg out about this suggestion, but I've had success getting RL normie friends into wargaming by starting with OPR (pic related), which is exactly what you're asking for (mini agnostic, stupidly customizable, allows fantasy and sci-fi to fight each other etc.). It's babby's first wargame for a reason.

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A jak n daxter skirmish game, maybe small wargame size.
Don't include all the main characters, I'm not looking for a dark-mode jak hero that costs 1/4th of an army.
I just think lurkers, metal heads, crimson guard, rebels, osselots (I don't know how to spell that), and even stuff from the first game like the plant zone enemies or mine guys would make for awesome minis. Plus different types of eco would make for cool resources, VP, or mechanics.
Sadly naughtydog was taken over by male feminists like Next Guymann that push out good woman writers.

>>97845260
>Warhammer with worse rules and less flavour, developed specifically for Gay Slopshop consoomers who are too afraid to try literally anything else.
Gee Billy, I wonder why some people wouldn't vibe with this shit

>>97841555
A Song of Blades and Heroes. Enough expansi9n and campaign material for everyone's tastes.

>>97833434
Warcrow is alright. Main issues are model quality on the early runs, and that it's not !fantasy Infinity. Solid game, but niche. Some slight social media marketing cringe, but they're relatively earnest about it.

>>97837800
Yep. RIP the pinups.

>>97837126
Not as good as the previous one. Setting has been fucked all to hell because they wanted to base this version on their Wierd West setting, all factions suffer from it. Mechancially ok.

>>97845496
What I hate about War crowd is the retarded pricing. No, I'm not paying over GW prices for less figures.

As a veteran breacher squad with banestrike bolters any good? I was thinking about running a squad of them but realized they have vanguard instead of line.

>>97845177
is there a way of getting them for Veteran Breachers? Veteran Tacticals have the option but even Legacies doesn't add it as a general option

>>97845393
I was using new recruit and it gave me the option for it. I guess it doesn't say that in legacies or FAQ

>>97845393
>>97845477
Alpha legion can put banestrike on anyone who can take combi weapons

>>97845508
I was doing Sons of Horus. For them it looks like Veteran Tacticals, Seeker Squad, Champions, and Command can take it.

I generally feel like >>97837078 but I make an exception for >>97840922 because the Japanese are actually fucking insane with CoC scenarios, it's like you play your own VN or RPGM

>>97837062
That looks like totally inflexible shit.

>>97837096
As if that were the only reason. Why do chess boards exist? Are you not able to just remember where everything is, anon? Weak. Why are there even any maps of Earth??? Are you not able to just know geography??? Weak!

How about you stop making excuses for your laziness. You have to actually do work to make the game, anon. If you're not doing that work, it isn't a game. We're not here to just listen to you jack off. We're not here to play Mother May I, we're here to play an RPG. A game that takes place in a specific place, with a specific environment, and with specific rules for how to affect other things based on your distance from and position relative to them. A picture actually is worth a thousand words and we're only here for six hours or so, and that means we can't spend weeks describing a scene just because you lack the skill or discipline to make the fucking scene.

Tabletop games take place at a table for a reason. Put something on the table or don't fucking show up because there's a hundred other people who applied to sit in that chair at this table. Put in the work to be worth having a seat.

That's the bare basic fucking minimum. It's not an extraordinary measure, it's just the basic fundamental minimum to be able to sit at this table. We haven't even discussed yet what would be "going above and beyond". We can leave that for later after we're sure you've mastered this basic minimum. You may now begin to prove that you are worth a seat.

>>97837078
>how dare other people do things differently at their table!
Go fuck yourself.

I used to look up games in Japanese and there used to be neat campaign and character art, but now some of them are using AI
sad

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The ultimate arbite.

>>97844676
If by that you mean protagonists doing things that would make the average chaos marine ask said protagonists "What the fuck is wrong with you?" Then yes, I agree.

>>97843962
>overpowered madness of 40k
40k is mostly regular humans with weapons not much better than a Colt 1911 (stub gun) or M2 Browning (heavy stubber). Those are rubbish, but not so rubbish as to be useless.

:skull: stop trying to insert everything into warhammer

Between Hail Caesar and Warmaster Ancients, which is the better system for 1vs1 games?

>>97841070
They are roughly the same game with different goals. Warmaster is more of a game, while Hail Ceasar is much more of a method by which to push toy soldiers around.

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I just asked a chat bot to help me find the most optimal way of placing minis in the unit to make it look varied with no patterns repeating among models placement. It worked well but I feel dirty now.

>>97818564
Why's Pillage a meme? I got the book, it looks fine. Better than SPQR at least.

>>97843302
I just took a car to reach my destination a lot faster than using the horse cart.. but now I feel dirty.

Are you retarded anon?

>>97841030
Can LLMs keep context between sessions? I've been trying to use Gemini to help with a custom campaign I'm making and it's terrible at remembering context between sessions (including "rules" you laid out in previous sessions).
Having it run my campaign as DM to test it would be helpful, but building the right prompts will probably take a while.

>>97844627
No, that isn't how they work.

>>97844627
Over the last few years, they have significantly improved context memory, but there's still a fatal flaw in all LLMs where the longer a conversation goes, the more it has to re-read the entire thing before generating a reply, which clogs up its context, which makes it incoherent all over again.

Then a lot of them got worse because they turned on a feature where it tries to keep your entire conversation history, every chat, every question, in active memory at all times so it can "personalize" outputs to your profile, meaning it is overflowing its context memory and token limits even faster for even worse outputs. Even if you turn that feature off, it doesn't seem to fix the problem at all.

>>97843503
The "entertainment purposes" line is genuinely hysterical in context. Every business rushed to inject AI into everything, even demanding employees use it, and then Microsoft sneaks in a little clause in their fine print that says
>you seriously should not use this shit for anything important, or any business, or anything you genuinely care about or intended to seriously act on.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-says-copilot-is-for-entertainment-purposes-only-not-serious-use-firm-pushing-ai-hard-to-consumers-tells-users-not-to-rely-on-it-for-important-advice

>>97844627
Have it make a 'continuity list' which has all the events, characters, and rules that you set for that session and then plug that in as a google doc for your next chat