players have no purpose but to be railroaded by my hand.
>>97836477So were you going to answer my question?
>>97836477I see, so you've never actually played or run a sandbox.
>>97833549The best casting in the history of video games. David Warner was the best of all time.
>>97835650>playoidsYou don't play with your friends?
Why did domain level play fall out of style?
>>97837556Because people with shitty middle management and email jobs don't want to play administrators in their escapist adventure fantasies.
>>97840467>the american mind cannot comprehend the multi dimentional game.
>>97837556The amount of people who genuinely enjoy this kind of play is scarce and the amount who would prefer it to more regular adventuring or other character focused stories even scarcer. And half of them would probably rather play a wargame, board game or a vidya grand strategy anywayThat being said, plenty of modern games do introduce some form of mechanics for grander scale play, but usually they are simplified and somewhat handwave'y
>>97837556I'd say mainly because it feels a lot like busywork, and over time TTRPGs have shifted to be more about the player characters and their adventures to feel more like the band of heroes in stuff like The Hobbit/LOTR (because I know some of you autists will sperg if I don't mention the Hobbit), more of a fantasy epic where the party has a larger heroic goal than just being mercenaries who go around looting tombs and stabbing monsters, and are more personal than sending your entire army out to do stuff for you.Basically, domain level play robs the player characters of much of their agency. It turns them into glorified middle managers rather than adventurers. It's the same reason hirelings are largely unused despite there being rules for them even in modern D&D, because people want to be involved, not just spend money to throw bodies at a problem until it goes away.>>97837901Cool, the genre is Fantasy. Go play a historical if you care about that shit.
>>97837556>Why did domain level play fall out of style?I don't know. Every single table I've ever played the players are interested in some sort of land ownership, from tavern to castles and guilds, but there's basically no rules for this so we have to houserule every time.We're going to start a new GURPS mech campaign today (in bout 3 hours) and the GM already mentioned there's going to be some sort of base we help develop, and everyone is on-board with it.And of course it's gonna be house-rules cause not even gurps has proper rules for this kind of thing.>>97837875>>97837941>>97838329>>97838356>>97838468>>97840441>>97840467I noticed /tg/ has developed an irrational hatred for anything that isn't in the base rules of current D&D but was in the rules of older D&D for some reason.Like if you want to do something that isn't in current era D&D you get "yeah! go ahead, house rule it, here's some ideas" but if it's something that existed in previous D&D but doesn't anymore (domain stuff, detailed resource management, race as class, half-elves and half-orcs...), you just get "fuck you how dare you like this! Stop liking this right now!"
With their Primarch.The Imperial Fists know about it now.They have called for the Last Wall protocol.Fight! Fight! Fight!
>>97838715Because Peeturabo is a sperg. Also the Ad Mech are starting to bring out their really fun toys.
> Codex: Sons of Dorn> Combines IF, BT, CF and others> Rogal can be used with any of them
>>97832620Jesus we're going to have to endure this gormless ginger fatfuck gurning all over the place for months aren't we.
>>97832581>The Iron Warriors must be stopped, and the sons of Dorn will be the ones to stop them.Riveting stuff James, no expense spared.
Dorn should be in a Dreadnought of sorts would be interesting I’d argue
Would your human male fighter ever consider getting themselves a nice trad peasant wife and settling down in the countryside?
>>97839904NTA, but that doesn't sound like them looking down on humans exactly. It sounds more like they are seen as acting that way even if they aren't.
>>97817852Her eyes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viimfQi_pUw
I'm beginning to think the only way to get rid of puckee would be to pretend to be him and utterly jam up the catalogue with 80-100 puckfuck threads to cause a user chimpout.
>>97817852Kill yourself redditor
>>97819955Sorry cuckie, but I'm playing Nechronica and Princess Wing like a real man.
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.
>>97840693>clutches pearls harderWow so convincing.Are all your arguments like this?Totally ineffectual?
>>97840693Arneson is 2e now? I feel like your next claim would be to consider ACKS closer to "true D&D" than D&D itself?
>>97840743lol
>>97840743>Arneson is 2e now?No, considering XP for gold a "mild houserule" is literally "AD&D" 2e's approach to it.>I feel like your next claim would be to consider ACKS closer to "true D&D" than D&D itself?Kill yourself, fishfag.
>>97840799>anything I don't like is 2e>anyone who doesn't share my delusions is fishfag
I heard ChatGPT was a decent enough solo DM experience and I decided to try it>generic human fighter whose job was to guard a princess but failed>first session starts alright, fought some water soaked zombies and found the princess>couple of more sessions in there's a global level system which dictates which reality is true and uses human anchors in case it can't stabilize a location>another couple of sessions in I am now arguing logics with ChatGPT because I got some superpower which lets me create point and relationships between them>end up this first arc building a system where synthetical ancors replace human anchors and it took me a while to cover all edge cases>this is at level 4>explicitly say I do not want to deal with this stuff anymore>ChatGPT: "You're totally right!" ;^)>next arc is about a network of reality bending doors in which couriers must transport fragments of reality from door to door to keep the reality in check>the only way I could disrupt this was by PLACING FUCKING STEPPING STONES IN AN IRREGULAR BUT NON-OBVIOUS WAY>my fucking god>write explicity multiple times in the source of the project to not have any other reality bending stuff and all that happened earlier was an exception>ChatGPT: "You're absolutely right!" ;^)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97837598Try playing good games that you can run solo.
>>97840438The last arc which I ended just 12 hours ago was about trying to take over what's essentially an army of abducting robots by arguing with the second in command I was a higher rank than his through contradictions and processable but unsolvable directives.At least the proposal to the princess went well.
>>97837598AI is better used as a supplement for solo RPing, primarily for narrating while (you) guide the game along along with creative input, dice rolling, and proper rules management. You have to specifically tell it the things you roll up and interpret like "the goblin got a crit on me and fucked me up" or "NPC X told me off after I tried to intimidate him" so it doesn't make you into a god that everyone loves who can cut down an army at level 1. And like other posters have said, you need to use something like Sillytavern to use lorebooks that summarize previous events to keep your context under control and to prevent it from forgetting what happened in the past.
>>97838477>it couldnt do human reasoningIrrelevant, a good number of anons can't as well
>>97838354If I find myself reaching for any AI for brainstorming, I have to first remind myself that whatever I'm going to get out of these fancy autocomplete machines is going to suck, but that by grappling with the machine and forcing myself to try and think of the best way to articulate my intent that I will naturally start coming to better conclusions because the whole process is more like Rubber Duck Debugging than actually brainstorming with a useful AI tool.
Long time MtG player (17 years?) and with what's happening to the game rn, i don't really have much interest in any of the new sets. Sorcery looks like it could maybe scratch that itch. The art is fantastic and reminds me of legacy MtG art. Anybody here play?I watched a few overview vids, but I'm curious how the actual gameplay goes. For someone who plays mostly EDH, are there any similarities? Is it usually a 2 player match?How long are the matches usually?Is it as much of a money pit as MtG?Convinced a few of my MtG friends to give it a shot based off of the art alone. Just need an idea of what I'm up against in terms of learning curve.
>>97820622Atleast in our city sorcery has been steadily gaining new players, with most being ex-mtg players or completely new to tcg hobby. It's either been the art or gameplay drawing people in. Ppl seem to enjoy the boardgame feel of the game with site placement and cards really affecting the realm unlike in some other games. Someone in the latest sealed event pulled this badboy and gotta say that flavour texts are so damn good in this game,
>>97835460this and a bunch of other Ian images appeared in the Tolkien bestiary too. I also always loved the wights picture. awesome that they got him involved for this, his shit is so unique.
>what if we make looking like 90s generic fantasy art our selling point
>>97840990>art is so bad nowadays generic fantasy art from the 90s is a legitimate selling point
>>97820809I'm already sold on the art, no need for you to reason why it's so great
Which D&D canon setting do you like most? Which one would you like to try out? >Blackmoor? More like, Blackwhore!>Greyhawk? More like, Gayhawk! >Mystara? More like, Fagstara!>The Conan universe? More like, the colonoscophy universe! >Dragonlance? Not worth giving a chance!\>Forgotten Realms? More like, forgettable realms!>Spelljammer? More like, go-to-Hell jammer!>Dark sun? More like, No Fun!>Al-Qadim? More like, All-Cocks-In-Him!>Planescape? I'd rather plan an escape!>Eberron? I like it, the creator is a creep though>Ravnica? More like, Ravnigga!>Exandria? More like, Retardia!>Theros? More like, Lameos!
>>97837478Sounds like Baker is stuck in the 3e days when CR for powerful entities went up above 30 while in 5e CR 30 is the highest CR although to be fair, I remember the 5e 2014 Tarrasque being theoretically able to be whittled down and defeated by a bunch of flying archers with magic bows which is pretty dumb.
>>97836914>>97837478Part of the problem was that Argonnessen was intended to be one of the "Epic level" zones of Eberron during 3.X. Remember Eberron was supposed to be a setting that could hold a version of "everything" in D&D with in it which included the Epic stuff. This idea was lost in the 3e -> 4e and 4e -> 5e transitions.>Khorvaire - low to medium level adventures>Xen'drik - medium to high level adventures>Argonnessen - high to epic level adventures>Sarlona - low to high level adventures (psionic focused)>Khyber - medium to high level adventures>Deep Khyber - high to epic level adventuresIt was designed with an MMO expansion pack design loosely based on Everquest's expansion packs.
>>97805205>not gaycock Ngmi
>>97805445>The Forgotten Realms is the best D&D setting.thread ended here
Brancalonia! Shame I'll never play it, but I'll read their books and imaginejust imagine
>create a system>it's good>but have a huge ego and expect the system to become popular through word of mouth>do 0 PR for the system>do Pikachu face when the system tanksLiterally the story of every new indie system in the last 20 years. What's wrong with people in this industry? Does this industry only attract retards or what? It seems that way because only DND has created an official online service, while the rest believe that Internet is something secondary in the 21st century.
>>97830473>They also didn't do anything for the 50th anniversaryI recall them doing WORSE than nothing by releasing a book about its history that shat on the franchise's origins for being racist in the literal first page.
OP is a faggot as usual, but this is a genuine question: where the fuck is an indie RPG creator supposed to advertise at all?
>>97838501Podcasts. Tons of people listen to stuff like the one shot podcast and they seem pretty willing to signal boost smaller creators. It also helps if you do your own media thing (podcast, YouTube, etc.).
Faggots on here like to act as if knowing how to advertise and build up a community is somehow "gaming the system". It's why they screech and cry about Shadowdark, despite it having two incredibly successful Kickstarters along with a healthy community. It helps that they keep a tight grip on not letting the retards in said community get out of hand with political bullshit, too.And another anon was right, this thread stinks of street-shitters.
>>97840520Shadowdark literally paid a bunch of popular youtubers to promote it, which led to those successful kickstarters, which were then, in turn, promoted by Kickstarter itself.No one denies Shadowdark was successful at shilling itself. Just that it doesn't deserve the success and reputation it got, because it's an extremely below average game.
Hotseat multiplayer is a traditional game right? What faction and hero are you starting with and why?
>>97838449I wasn't talking about OP, he's just a garden variety faggot.
>>97834115Fpbp
>>97839406second
>>97834149>>97834151Stop being a gatekeeping gamechud. Video games can be traditional games if they identify as such. Get with the times.
>>97841040I'm ok with that, because it's always been the case here, you fucking "ironic" newfag
Fractal edition>Banshttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-march-23-2026>NewsThe Pro Tour and Magic Spotlight Series in 2026:https://www.magic.gg/news/the-pro-tour-and-magic-spotlight-series-in-2026Metagame Mentor: The Final Four Standard Regional Championships of Early 2026:https://www.magic.gg/news/metagame-mentor-the-final-four-standard-regional-championships-of-early-2026>Spoilershttp://www.magicspoiler.com/https://mythicspoiler.com/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97840115>sucking effect is for black mana onlyIf you play these cards, you are the throat goat
>>97840679It's a crime that Sheoldred died while Urabrask lived
>>97840679Professor Dellian Fel is the Davriel Cane of our time.
>>97840436I prefer Weird Griffon Tower
This swamp does not look snow-covered at all.
How should Wizards fix and improve Birthright rules, so it wouldn't be a total ass to GM?
>>97836316Not AI generated, but it has all the hallmarks of AI upscaling.
>>97836175Why is it ass to gm?
>>97841017Because it really delves deep into the different aspects of running your demesne - trade deals, resource yields, spying missions, military advances, the state of the peasantry, the machinations of minor nobles and guild heads, all that stuff - and expects you to take appropriate actions for every active regent in the game on every realm turn. So you're basically playing a twelve-man Civ map and filling in for eleven of the players.
>>97836630ACKS has far worse rules. Birthright understood the basic idea that you can simplify complex concepts. ACKS makes even simple things take forever to resolve, and never in a fun or interesting manner. It might be the worst system for anything it sets out to try to do.
>>97836175>>97836316>>97836630Why does this feel so forced and unnatural.>>97841087Only someone who acted like a braindead autistic rules-slave (who isn't even actually following the rules) seeking to make problems for themselves would intepret the game that way.Also, it's completely ignoring the Center of Action concept, which basically means to focus on three NPC factions close to the center of action to be active each domain turn, something that typically happens once every three sessions. And, if the center of action moves and a faction that was inactive for awhile becomes active, then it takes a few turns in a row to update itself.Birthright is less a strategy game and more of a broad simulation, and you can be quite flexible with it and are expected to be.
/bgg/ Board Games GeneralPrevious thread: >>97771950Pastebin:https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8*NEWISH* survey results:https://pastebin.com/scAkFdTv>what's your favorite abstract game?>what game from your collection would you say are you the best at?>dice or fixed values for combat resolution?
>>97840855Thanks anon! I tried looking for this yesterday and my old links were all broken and I couldn't figure out if they had another url. Appreciated.
>>97840868you got itAnna's Archive's wikipedia page always has the current url
>>97840529>Hot Streak>The best game of it seems to be the first one you ever playnah it's the game where people yell the loudestonly pull it out every now and then for 1 game, no more
>>97841047In my experience these two overlapped 90%As said I imagine it's best in a super casual context like a larger family gathering where people slowly gather around the game and there's a kind of casino table excitement vibe going on
>>97840844I cam get you medina for ca. €55, the estates is gonna be harder
Whatever you may think of the idea of martial characters in D&D or any other fantasy rpg basically doing sword magic, it is at least a lot more fun from a gameplay perspective than just going "I make an attack roll" every round.
>>97840158>Fake binary choice threadKill yourself, faggot
>>97840353And now what?
>>97840910Keep seething, nogames.
>>97840158Have you tried not playing Dndogshit?
>>97840996Cope
A Midsummer Night's Dream EditionPreviously on /slop/: >>97789009▶ Thread Task: William Shakespeare.▶ Generatorshttps://bing.com/images/create/https://sora.chatgpt.com/https://gemini.google/overview/image-generation/https://perchance.org/ai-text-to-image-generatorhttps://civitai.com/Curious about local genning? Check out /g/'s stable diffusion OP or ask one of our friendly locals.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97819348>Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?>Thou art more lovely and more temperate
>>97840953>>97840734
>>97837201With AI slop art it got way easier to make cool looking illustrations to use on improvised paper minis.Back in my days in the previous century I would draw the figures by hand, place the paper on the window in order to see through and trace the silhouette and draw the back as well, then cut it and glue it to a small base, usually a trash plastic lid, and use it to play. Simpler times.But I like that we can prompt more complex stuff and print it.
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