hy does SM armor in 40k have such retarded design flaw? The knee area is always exposed whenever a marine isn't completely stationary. Medieval smiths figured out how to design a sensible knee protection on plate armor but engineers who made this hyper advanced futuristic power suit couldn't?inb4: "warhammer is le silly satire" shut the fuck up irony-brained normalfag
>>97837707>>97837848Anyway Volcanic Doomfire and Infernal Flame Emperor deserved to be meta just like the equally old Simorgh archetype
>>97837856Salamangreat Heatleo shouldn't replace Volcanic Doomfire just like pic related didn't replace Simorgh
>>97837625It's based on concepts made in the early 80s by artists who clearly didn't study plate articulation. That's the IRL reason. There's no in universe reason, because the knee isn't a weak point in universe.
>>97837625Same reason 90% of Imperial tanks don't have suspension.
All of warhammer looks like the goofiest shit ever and I don't know why people insist it's a deep serious setting unless you're 12 and know none of the stuff it rips off
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.
>>97838354This and I've found it useful for helping me make better riddles/puzzles. I input my original vague idea/puzzle/riddle it outputs pure garbage but sometimes it generates something useful.
>>97837644No, it isn't. Not even a little bit.
>>97837598There are better ways to go about using AI this way. You went head on with zero research using the lowest common denominator tools to achieve it and you're somehow surprised you had terrible results. Instruct LLMs are terrible at creative endeavors, and AI doesn't have unlimited context memory, so you can't just keep going forever expecting full cognizance of the entirety of your campaign. You're going to have to work with back-end APIs at the very least if you want to have a remote chance at being successful at this.
>>97837618>ChatGPT is bad at being a DM because it cannot improvise, it can only reiterate that which exists.TTRPGs are reiterating the cliches of a given genre on the fly. There are plenty of reasons as to why current LLMs can't DM as well as human can, but this is not one of them.
>>97837598Another Solo ((((((Player)))))))) takes an LJUST READ A NOVEL LMAOOOO
>What is /awg/?A thread to talk about minis and games which fall between the cracks, or peoples' homebrew wargames.The >>>/tg/hwg thread doesn't entertain fantasy (for good reason) and the other threads are locked to more specific games.This thread isn't tied to a game, a publisher, or a genre, let's just talk about fun wargames. Any scale, any company, any miniatures.>Examples of games that qualify.A Song of Ice and Fire, Argatoria, Batman Miniature Game, Carnevale, Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings,Deadzone, Dragon Rampant, Dropfleet and Dropzone Commander, Freebooter's Fate, Frostgrave, Gaslands, HeroClix,Kings of War, Maelstrom's Edge, Malifaux, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Masters of the Universe: Battleground, Moonstone,Oathmark, OnePageRules, Open Combat, RelicBlade, Rumbleslam, SAGA, StarCraft, Stargrave, Sludge, Urban War, Void,Warcaster, Warmachine, Xenos Rampant, Xenotactics......and anything else that doesn't necessarily have a dedicated thread.>Examples of companies providing rules and/or miniatures for alternative wargames.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97837942I would kill for some Taunka.
>>97837126>>97837146Also curious if anyone wants to chime in.
>>97837942I'd learn to 3d model my own Tuskarr proxies if this was a real thingAlso you can do a great marketing push à la "back to the roots" with Warcraft 3 being strategy with a focus on hero characters and some nameless minions
>>97837814That is nice to hear
>>97836565A specific type magic
how after so many fucking years there's not a compilation of actually useful, compressive worldbuilding resources? there's next to 0 guides out there on how to do anything that is not the blandest dnd clone ever and not even in deep, just superficial trash. is worldbuilding a lost technology among nerds?
>>97836873Wouldn't say that. You do have to skim through a lot of dndrone thinking tough.
>>97836873Is there a translation for this game yet?
>>97836873Because you shouldn't need a rulebook to exercise your own imagination.
Your setting must be extremely generic if you think a ready made worldbuilding resource book is gonna help you. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but you answered your own question before I could. >>97838024This.
>>97836873>another autistic retard that can't be arsed to curate books AHAHAH AHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHAH HAHAHAHA
Does anyone have experience on running two systems simultaneously? I want to inject dungeon crawls with investigative mysteries and the prospect of characters going insane. I figured CoC and D&D would be a good place to start, because I want to move toward a bigger idea I had but need practice.
>>97830819I've done exactly what you're talking about in GURPS and it worked beautifully. Also, since CoC is a BRP system, you should look to something like Mythras to integrate dungeon crawling into your game.Basically, D&D doesn't belong here.>Not everything has to be D&D. It's not appropriate for many, many types if games. Broaden your horizons.
>>97830819I ran a game based on the Persona videogames a while back. I used Kids on Bikes to simulate the investigations and free time in reality, letting my players do side stuff to get temporary buffs to their D&D characters. Then once they had discovered the next target/dungeon We switched to D&D where their characters were their Personas and they ran through the dungeon. It ended up being every other week we would switch systems; a week investigating, a week dungeoning. It worked well enough, but I'm sure there's another singular system that could do it both without the need to homebrew so much. I think I would try to stick to one system in the future though. In your case, Maybe something like Arkham Horror RPG covers both the combat and investigation better than the two systems separated.
>>97830819> SimultaneouslyNo. But I have homebrewed a system that's a mix of two. And I have had a game where two different core mechanics were used alternatively.What you describe seems to be the first one. What I would do is find a core system that does what you want your heroes to do most of the time. Kill monsters, open trapped doors, etc. Make sure it needs the least alterations possible, so if you are going to go the Eldritch Horrors' way, no DnD/PF/DH for a game in the 1950s. For a game more like Darkest Dungeon, you go full steam ahead.Then, you find a game that does the mechanics you wanna tack on it the best, and do just that. IDEALLY, for the sake of consistency, you try to blend the two.So let's say you want a Darkest Dungeon game, you may want convert PF 1st to introduce CoC elements, you should use CoC horrors and Sanity, but instead of having a Sanity stat, you could alter Wisdom to serve there.What you could do is multiply a character's Wisdom Score by 5% to obtain a Sanity score that should range from 40% (nat 8) to 90% (nat 18). When a character takes Sanity damage, for each 5% hit, the character takes 1 Wisdom damage that can only be healed with downtime, exactly like the CoC rules tell you. When a character takes X hits, it can receive temporary insanity the same way. And learning Eldritch (or even just Arcane) spells erodes one's sanity.
>>97830819Are you stupid or something? You're just talking about mixing two different genres or styles of play, you're not talking about two different game systems. Unless you are literally talking about merging those two game systems in which case I think you're fucking stupid
>>97838704>you're talking about running two different systemsyeah, that's the topic of the thread
/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?
do you think he designed the whole game in mspaint?
>>97837005Nta but what I disliked was that it simply isn't race. It's a perfectly fine game I never want to play. You aren't holding a hand chock full of possibilities but have a kind of frustrating "to do" stack everyone can see. Now I'm all for chunky cardboard but drawing from the bag for some reason feels quite cumbersome here, it doesn't mix well and always feels like the pacing bottleneck, the only thing you really have to wait for. Didn't feel like rftgs great mix of strategic and tactical play but rather like just built the least bad development/planet you can from this meager pool.
>>97825383>what's your favorite abstract game?Riichi Mahjong>what game from your collection would you say are you the best at?Riichi Mahjong>dice or fixed values for combat resolution?I've not played many games with combat, but I've definitely not enjoyed dice combat much. Rolling isn't interesting to me. I'd rather do something like managing a concrete combat resource.>>97833101>>97834314These sound really cool, noting that down. Thanks anons
Am I retarded or is Coffee a bit TOO convoluted in FCM?
Played just a couple games tonight, but Hansa in Eastern Germany was an absolute banger as always. Played Sol for the first time this year and with a new guy, the table ended with: why arent we playing this more often?We had multiple powers that interacted with card draw, making for explosive momentum gains while rushing the Sun to go 'nova.
Pigheaded Edition>What is Trench Crusade?An alternate weird history 28mm/32mm tabletop skirmish game. Based on the art and lore of Mike Franchina, whose illustrations you may have seen floating around on /tg/ for a several years now, and designed by Tuomas Pirinen, one of the original creators of Mordheim. It's grimdark, it's visceral, and it's very Blanchitsu.>What's the QRD on the background?The Knights Templar turned heretic and opened the Gates of Hell when they took Jerusalem during the First Crusade. Over 800 years later the war is still ongoing as technology has developed to a pseudo diesel-punk WW1 standard and a third of Humanity has sided with the Infernal Princes.>How do I get started?All the files are free online:https://www.trenchcrusade.com/rules/They used to be split between the website and the discord, but no more. For posterity's sake, the old mega will still be kept active even if it's unlikely to need updating: https://mega.nz/folder/70QH0BBa#Eg-blxYQKkY_C02wErnFTQ>third party sources for making trenchers:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97826244I like the bomber girl design
>>97838805>I like the bomber girl designShe's my wife and princess is my 14 ft giant dog who never hurt nobody
>>97836512They're the result of true demons mating with base animals. So they have some blood of true devils running through them, but are denied actual primacy amongst Hell's upper polities inany real capacity and seethe endlessly that they'll never be able to sit at the fathers thrones due to being mere degenerate bastards.On the upside, they can march on Earth freely without breaking the compact with Heaven due to not being pure demons so they're usually used to lead and coordinate their parents forces in creation.
>>97831699>focus fire isn't a strategyOkay
So why are they releasing plastic kits for the weird offshoot war bands?Is it cause everyone already owns the base models in resin so it would be redundant?
30-50 Feral Ogryns editionPrevious Heresy: >>97802085>HH 3.0 - Complete gofile - All Books:https://gofile.io/d/cnJk0N>Titanicus Compendiumshttps://gofile.io/d/qdYzem>New Edition, to a great wailing and gnashing of teeth:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/setting/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Official FAQ/Errata/Downloads:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Thread FAQ (very old, remembers Age of Terra)https://pastebin.com/iUqNrrA8Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97838314>straight up unmodified 40k land speedersThose are around in 30k nigger, the rules don't even specify the land speeders as proteus in any edition but 2nd
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>>97838632>'later model'implicit schizo imperial misinfovisions is basically one of the two sole primary sources concerning the horus heresy, the other being in-situ sepia graphics of models strewn across various books
>>97838632>3e-4e fluffOnly 700 Salamanders survived the Dropsite massacre then, right?
>>978388686th edition. Newer than Betrayal.
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.
i miss zines
I dream of blood cheeses and bone marrow bread
>>97835652Overall the kindred population is high per capita but still low overall. I'd say about five or six Camarilla, fifteen Anarchs and thirty Sabbat. It's pretty easy to give yourself a title like Baron or Prince here when presiding over jack shit. The killing is mostly between ghouls and shovelheads, though at least fifteen fully-fledged kindred are dead, there used to be twenty Anarchs, forty Sabbat, and ten Cammies.
>>97836708Those are numbers like from the Orange Club purges in Toronto way back when. Too small to hamper packs and gangs, but enough to put them on edge, making our job more difficult. Cammies might be a worse pain if they are in contact with Ontario and Alberta. Plus Loups from over Ontario if my intelligence is correct. Two mixed packs, not native. Other things maybe and the shit I don't want to endanger you with...Still, that is doable. If the numbers concerning 'true' Sabbat and leadership dirt are accurate. They might not even be the real danger.But I'll need to work out the finer details and start coordinating with the allies I've made. But I will keep you in the loop. And I'll avoid calling an Allthing with my cousins and running a train over all of your neighbours. >>97836102The age of micro-print is gone for now, replaced by the age of weird blogs and video channels.
It appears Kakophoni is practicing in the arena, let's get an audience for the show.....
What is the most kino BBEG archetype?
>>97837994Fuck off aaron
>>97837904Yet you are the one who sucks black cocks
>>97837876bad guys? id probably say the worst are board flooding spammers who are protected by the mods to fill the catalog up with inane garbage to make the site look active for investors
>>97838957You're a weird guy, Anon.
Why DOES he care about forcing everyone to see his commissions though
sup /tg/, thought I'd try something a little different round herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifDFF7c_mSY
>>97834651>>97834654I wonder how big she is? 200lb-230lb?
>>97834656Honestly, I don't blame her crashing out - she's had to deal with a shitload of grief and responsibility over a small space of time, and she just wasted TWO Wish spells in about a minute. That's got to hurt.
>>97837879Yeah, that one felt more like a cunty move on the DM
>>97834601The idea of a book club is to encourage people to read and discuss books right? Early on you need to get people engaged with the books. After a while when they're accustomed to the activity you can retain them as you experiment with different books.You're chosen a thoroughly mediocre book. I doubt I'm ever going to read it again. You could have chosen a really good book. You could have chosen a really terrible book, like how people think they're cool for watching "the worst movie ever made". Instead, you chose a book that is below average, very dull, and not worth reading.Ward was okay with rules, settings, modules, but he's not a good fiction author. I don't know exactly how much Hong influenced things but I can say it wasn't enough for either good or bad.In terms of following the mechanics of the game, he actually made effort to follow the rules of AD&D and he tied the structure to the computer game well.And the book suffers for it.It's just a long slog from one rather uninteresting, implausible scenario to the next. Like how the villain's lair is just outside the city walls, or nearby townsfolk are safe despite the infested temple in the city.The next book is even worse. The city gets teleported underground. Despite there being no fields for crops or fodder, no streams or lakes for fishing and water, no forests for fuel or hunting, life goes on as normal while wave after wave of monsters assail the city, a city with an impossibly huge contingent of magic-users and clerics repelling the assaults.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97838767Ed Greenwood?
I always hear about the stir this caused, and recently about how bad or redeemable it is. I'm not certain about it myself because I dabbled with 3e and then got into 5e, never paid much attention to the scene during that entire era. What does /tg/ think of the system?
>>97838331Too many options and we might as well play 3e, it's better.
>>97833884>but overall the out-of-combat skill usage felt almost OSR in how abstract it was with the skill challenge minigameThat's not OSR. The opposite I would argue.
Prefered previous 4e deep discussions, this thread just feels wrong somehowhttps://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/96885732/#96885825
>>97779805>the single programmer who was making their digital tabletop system's internal gubbins murder-suicided himself and his family and they never got his code to work without him.Excuse me?
>>97778542It came out when WoW was just this titanic, all-consuming entity in any remotely nerd-related hobby. At that time it seemed like it would never be stopped, that everything would just be chasing WoWbux for all eternity. So then here comes this new edition, super gamefied, and seems to be leaning towards MMO mechanics. Even it's artstyle felt too WoW-like for many people. Lots of people were therefore poorly disposed to the game before it even came out.
Urgh
>>97744981>You die:(
>>97744981>>97744992Medieval drawings are so silly
>>97838296breh
>>97753021=\
>>97838296>>97838363
You know what'd be a great April Fools' joke, if this board wasn't absolute dogshit for a day.
>>97834128Noticed you haven't made any good threads or posted links to the videos of content stolen from your posts.
>>97829091>known redditorI get that the necrobumper is obnoxious as fuck, but this is /tg/. Half or more of the users here have been also using Reddit for over a decade. Most users care more about the content than where it comes from, and there are lots of hobby subreddits.INB4 I'm a newfag redditor. I've been here for 15 years.
>>97833990My point is that you can't fight spam and necrobumping with quality threads, just like it doesn't matter if you sing beautifully or not if you're surrounded by hollering baboons. The end result is still monkey noises.I'll still make a thread I want if I have a good idea, because there's at least six to dozen other people worth talking to here, I just won't delude myself the board's quality will be better for it.
>>97835233That was just a metonymy, not "reddit bad". I'm aware lots of people here use the other site.
>>97835567My point is you don't have to fight it you dumb fuck. Make the threads you want. Make the things you want, don't get hung up on the shit you hate. It'll make the whole board better, which you seem to care about but have no idea how to actually make the board about traditional games any better. Hint, its play and post about those.
▶Previous edition: >>97687864▶What is /gwsg/?A thread to talk about Games Workshop's specialist and spin-off games which fall between the cracks.Battlefleet Gothic, Blood Bowl, Epic, K*ll Team, Man-o-War, Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game, Mordheim,Necromunda, Shadow War: Armageddon, Titanicus, Underworlds, Warcry, Warhammer Quest, Warmaster......and any other GW system and board game are welcome.▶Helpful resources (feel free to suggest additions!):https://pastebin.com/qq9N8V0V▶TQ: What is the best Orc Specialist Game?
>>97837513Ask in the AoS thread. I'm 99% certain I've seen them posted in there before.>>97835653How does it and Dreadfleet play? Is it pretty much the same game? Have a hankering for some piracy>>97834331I would recommend either. Part of the fun is just throwing shit together and trying to make it work.>>97828593Depends on how you do it. We always have a ,id campaign everyone event with a special scenario. Everyone is out of recovery and no lasting injuries. Generally there is a flat X amount of creds for attending and the winner gets a bonus special weapon or dramatis personae etc
In blood bowl, what’s more fun for league: Orcs or Black Orcs?
>>97837884>How does it and Dreadfleet play? Is it pretty much the same game? Have a hankering for some piracyOh nonono. There's a lot more cards and tokens involved, so much so that you need another table depending on the fleet size. But the games are so much more varied, even if you play with a small fleet. It is really an enjoyable game once it gets going though, with tons of terrain, monsters and land-based scenarios. I really wish that Man o' War got the fan revival treatment of some other games, it could really use some tinkering with.
I love Warcry but always find the campaign shallow compared to Necromunda.Friend introduced me to Wyrdcryhttps://jomblrverse.itch.io/wyrdcryHas anyone played it? To me, it does look like it keeps Warcry'a smooth gameplay but with a bit of extra character at the back end.
>>97837884>DreadfleetDreadfleet sucks, the game is a narrative scenario by scenario reenactment of the story with fixed team. The ships are not equal : 1 main character ship for each side. 3/5 ships on the Dreadfleet side had no sails, which mean they ignored the wind mechanic. 1/5 ships on Grand Alliance teams had no sails.Games are decided mostly by cards drawn more than strategic planning. There're 2 type of card draw : damage card and fate card. Ships have hull and crew, and having either of these reduced to 0 by damage card is game over, aside from the normal stat loss damage card, there're also a bunch of quirky damage cards like : your ship is on fire again and again every turn (fire : draw a bunch of damage card, can be removed in repair phase instead of restoring stat), your ship take damage again and again every turn, your ship take huge a mount of damage, your ship just died (capsized), and other quirky status damage card that are either minor inconvenient or extremely annoying.And then there're fate card : fate card made some wacky shits happen, but also determine wind strength and move it around, these affected ship with sails, pushing them and boost their movement, or stall it into a crawl. The force pushing can lead to your ship : run off the map (dead), run into monster/terrain/ships. Fate card also give upgrade! Upgrade that sometime you can't use, and sometimes you can, but it's an upgrade for the opponent. Sometime monsters appeared and attack you, and sometimes your entire team got damage.Aside from the shitty rule everything is amazing though, from the sweet cloth mat, to the artworks, to the models. I had one unused copy of it.
