>>97888466
>The old "vgh I don't care about xyz I just want the game to be good" adage died years ago
It is still a thing very much. What changed is the discours. If you are interested about the game being good and having fitting rules, you aren't going to talk about it in the "regular" places that used to serve this point. We are basically heading toward dead internet - it's either bait, or bots, or both and it takes to be insane to stick around.
As for discussing games: there is a regular meet-up in my city on a weekly basis, that gets 30+ people (which at population of 40k is pretty impressive), talking about games and designing those. And guess what - it's completely apolitical, not to mention US-style culture war bullshit.
So in a way, the hobby went full circle - from people interested in gaming meeting up, through internet broadening the contact, back to people interested in gaming meeting up. Which sucks (the loss of net) if you ask me, but the hobby itself is doing fine.

>rightwing games
>doesn't focus on politics but on the game
Seems about right.

>>97881411
Dude.
Fuck off.
Not only am I a bigger Chud than you, but I can clearly see that the term "Barbarian" covers a far broader range of possibilities than the term "Samurai".

And any Chud worth his salt is an obsessive history wanker.

I declare you a fake Chud.

>....So are there any white pride RPGs or are they just gonna keep stealing our culture.
Yes

https://files.catbox.moe/rqijjp.pdf

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Unironically the most Right wing games are historical wargames

>>97877554
> How does tg feel about Ravenloft?
It’s ultimately a very, very bleak and cynical setting that has it baked into the fundamental core of the setting that there are no happy endings and your character will either end up dead, having accomplished nothing, or twisted into something you, the player, don’t even recognize or want anything to do with, generally accomplishing less than nothing as they’ve instead become yet another part of the overall problem.

So as I said, it’s a very depressing, very cynical setting that’s not for everyone, or most well-adjusted people. I will grant you 40k is very much the same, but 40k can get away with it because 1) it’s upfront and very open about being extremely, cartoonishly, grimdark. And 2) it supplements this with gratuitously over-the-top weapons and armor that’s gonna hit you with a near-lethal dose of testosterone. Point is, you’re neither being blindsided, and at least you’re gonna have a fun time on your character’s fall into damnation.

>>97894682

The thing a out 40K/WHF though is that the setting still celebrates and champions "the little guy."
Like unless we're playing Necromunda hivescum or something, the setting still tries to make and pastiche your characters actions, even if theyre just a lowly guardsman, as heroic and valiant (even if they may be largely irrelevant.)
Ravenlofts problem is that it really loves to rub the players face in the fact that nothing they do matters. It underlines it over and over to the point where it pushes any normal person into the "Why even bother" mindset.
Meanwhile in 40K, there's a sense that you belong to something bigger, so even if your stuff "technically doesnt matter" you can still feel like a hero, even if its just those in your immediate sphere of influence.

>>97893923
>I don't know who thought the game design of this thing was acceptable. The encounter ratings are shit, nothing seemed downright unbeatable but we either fought deadly odds or things so comically weak it killed any hope to be horrifying.
CoS is infamous for this and I dont know how its become lauded as "the best module ever in 5e."
The amount of stupid Rocks Fall You Die levels of bullshit in that campaign is backbreaking. Id never let a new player within 50 miles of that campaign with just how much the DM has to overcommunicate not to do something because otherwise the party will fucking explode.

Your point about the NPCs is also 100% on point. Theyre so fucking unlikable and shitty that it quickly pushes the party to not give a single fuck because why would you bother helping assholes who will just as quickly sell you out to Strahd? Its also infuriating how Ireena becomes an MMO style "Game Mandated Escort Mission" and you have to spend most of the campaign with her on a fucking child leash otherwise you lose.

And yeah, like you said, Strahd sucks. The old lore, though a bit campy, is actually kinda funny and more enjoyable, because he has motivations outside of being an incel (and my GM got really bitthurt everytime we openly reffered to le coll and edgy vampire as such). I like some of his possible motivationa in the old one more, they included escaping Barovia himself by body swapping with someone, making an artifact to survive sunlight, or finding and destroying the sunsword before you found it.
Way more fun than a case of Cosmic Oneitis.

>>97895131
>>97894524

Like, it's not even a matter of "I went into the campaign not expecting it to be a gothic horror", I brought the most gothic horror character possible, a scholarly dhampir who searched in nature and in the "highest spheres" an answer to his cursed existence and found peace in the fact that in the great scheme of things he was an acceptable, if not bizarre coincidence.

Barovia did not challenge any belief of his nor made him feel bad in the slightest about his vampiric condition, the horrors there had nothing to do with vampires, they had to do with the fact that Strahd genuinely fucking sucked, there was even hype from my character thinking there might be some absolute 5D chess from some incredibly complex and ancient being and instead it was all about some woman. For a guy who more or less underwent Lovecraft character levels of "we're minuscule specs in a dark universe", it felt so irrelevant and pathetic he just felt bad at the idea he got trapped in a planar bear trap by the saddest of undead simps.

If anything the average Barovian made him think "some people really are just sacks of blood to be consumed, and they're not even tasteful as a drink, because Strahd has zero taste and can't even keep his own cattle clean".

>>97886177
This guy usagis his yojimbo

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>>97892052
Fighters have below average saves compared to most other classes so throw some spellcasters at them. This will be their face when you also throw a 10ft up flying enemy at them. I actually cant imagine my abom vaults party making their way through the dungeon without a cleric or wizard.

1e A question for DMs, what would you say if one of your players asked to play at least two kobolds for a campaign?
Like say two at minimum, three if you try to be greedy with Leadership.
Aside from loot problems, what kind of concessions would you ask for a green card?

>>97893773
>>97893986
If you want to try it, ask about magical tattoos.

>>97895771
>Aside from loot problems, what kind of concessions would you ask for a green card?
Shared action economy between characters, and maybe shared HP pool.
Also if they want to take leadership, you should remind them that the cohort is created and controlled by the GM, not by them.

So I'm a newer GM (mainly just ran a bit of Delta Green and little Lancer) and I was looking at picking up Pathfinder 2e on Foundry and running it for a bit to give out forever GM a bit of a break. Is there anything to recommend me, like a good starter adventure or maybe just some tips? I've never really interacted with PF2e, only a bit of 1e and even then that game fell apart before that group could really start.

>>97895879
As always, the Beginner's Box is a great way to begin looking into the game. There's even a new one coming, so you have the choice between two different starting locations and campaigns.
https://2e.aonprd.com/
You can also look into the SRD itself to see what you like about the system.

is 1-drop in momir the new meta?
I've had opponents spam creatures three games in a row, going 123 and I haven't been able to keep up

>>97895704
Momir doesn't have a fucking meta. It's completely random. I've always dropped every turn possible because you're just as likely to drop a mana ramp as you are an ornithopter, and like you said if you wait you could be swamped behind useful useful weenies.

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Blue will be cooking in Strix.

Favorite BGM? I thought Tarkir's was pleasant background noise.

>>97895859
Don't play Tarkir sounds, it's full of subliminal sissy hypno to get you to buy more Aleshas

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>>97895674
I don't see any Critical injuries that low any of your Attributes, anon.

The ultimate fact of the matter is, within the RAW game balance, most enemies can't beat 14+1d10 roll consistently; Even Bosses like Pyro have a 50% chance of beating you with their base 14 attack.

Unless you make every enemy a Hardened lieutenant with a Combat number of 14, they're not very likely to hit a PC. (Which if we're honest, we were all doing that long before SOF 45 came out.)

The fact of the matter is, within the core book, the heaviest armor the players can afford at character creation is the Flak jacket, which is -4 to REF, DEX, and MOV.

For a SP which is still easily pierced by regular enemies (who all carry 4d6 and 5d6 weapons) this makes heavier armor seem like a total noob trap to anyone playing for the first time.

This simply isn't a good introduction to the heavier armor sets, because they just feel like you're taking chip damage while spinning a 1 armed bandit till you get hit with a critical injury, and play like a pussy.

While your friends get to reenact Hardboiled.

>>97895729
Oh I see, you have a 1 in 12 chance of getting a Dismembered leg, and losing your ability to dodge, that sucks I guess?

Still ultimately worth it.

>>97895729
I crossed my wires. Seriously Wounded will reduce your Evasion base but won't prevent you from evading. I also actually presumed that not having sufficient Move would prevent you from dodging an explosion, but actually the rules don't say that either.

Anything else that penalizes your actions will apply to your evasion check however and means that you are at higher risk of being hurt whenever you get hurt, which is a kind of downward spiral that is suboptimal for characters relying on successful checks. Even moderately improving armor can reduces that downward spiral and at certain levels of enemy skill will not even increase enemy hit percentages to terribly much.

>>97894607
they said they scrapped it because they had to focus their priorities on what's important, release wise

>>97895475
You need to actually read the rules before writing this commentary. all quickhacks alert the target automatically unless stated otherwise.

>>97895754
Lightly played at worst. Pretty nice stuff.

>>97895754
bit of wear on the bottom, could probably get away with LP

>>97895759
Can you Forage for an example or maybe Collect some Evidence to back up your claim?

>>97895202
Yeah it’s not a system designed for visiting so many planes just once, but you’d think someone on the design team would suggest changing their approach.
I think the best keyword of the last few (-UB)sets has been blight probably. It’s an interesting “cost” to tack onto normal cards to justify reducing their mana value. Incredibly powerful in -1/-1 decks of course.
Other than that I don’t even know. Warp is good, I fucking love warping in Starwinder and telling people it says I draw for each damage dealt to face and not for each creature that connected. But again, so few cards printed with it that are worth playing and we all know when we’ll next see warp in a set…

>>97895382
You can’t post it in this thread regardless. Go on, the whole fucking board is your playground, I don’t get what your obsession is with trolling here.

>>97895769
Things like forage and collect evidence arent *really* new rules though, they're just name gimmicks for stuff that can be printed without rule changes

>>97895072
NOTICE: the translation got a small update.
WAS
>(1) Reveal 1 Ritual Spell in your hand or Deck and add 1 monster [mentioned on] it from your Deck to your hand.
NOW
>(1) Reveal 1 Ritual Spell in your hand or Deck and add 1 monster [that mentions] it from your Deck to your hand.
So the monster has to mention the spell rather than it being like pre prep where the spell mentions the monster.

>Will the ban or limit pre prep?
I doubt it. I know the OCG put it to 1 in January but OCG generally loves their consistency hits over anything else.

How does Apprentice Illusion Magician's discard effect work with Diffusion Wave-Motion? Like if my opponent has three monsters out, do I get the 2000 atk boost while hitting just one of them, or does it apply against all three monsters?

>>97895468
Each attack from Diffusion Wave Motion is a separate attack and Apprentice Illusion Magician's effect only applies to a singular damage calc.

>>97895535
Awesome, thanks. I was pretty sure that's how it worked, but wanted to check.

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>>97891930
I tried to make it work too, but skeletal soldier's "also, you cannot Special Summon during the turn you activate either of this card's effects, except Insect, Plant, or Reptile monsters" means you either stick to RIP end board pieces, or you give up on what is pretty much the best ragnaraika card.

And that's not the only issue, evil seed is not searchable nor you can bridge to it with mitsurugi (plant link can do it with jasmine), but you can alleviate this issue somewhat by maxing out seed and bloom, and also running as many lonefire blossom as you want. The issue with this however is that you always want aramasa to take the normal summon (it can also be manju/lamia, depends on how much of an oldfag/monstergirl fucker you are), because it leads to the 3 ritual snakes, 3 level 4 bodies and either purification or another copy of prayers. Evil seed only leads to stag sovereign/chain coils and hunting dance.
Another issue ragnaraika has, is that in order to special summon evil seed, you need a discard. And it has to be a RIP card, it can't just be a random handtrap. If you start with bloom instead, you will need TWO discards.

Mind you, i'm not saying that ragnaraika is bad, it's actually a good engine in traptrix because that deck tends to die if their normal summon gets negated, so tossing a random traptrix to special summon seed and get 2 extra interactions out of it is a fair trade. It's also a great starter in plant link, a 60 card pile that has been fine tuned to get the most out of DRNM and set up a nearly unbreakable board. Mitsurugi has better things to do with all the bodies it shits out.

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>>97893587
Technocracy Plant
>>97894191
Real Chorister hours

>>97893518
Pretty much.

>>97894693
Besides having fuck all to say, not really.

When making NPCs (VTM) how often should I follow the stereotypes vs subverting the stereotypes?

>>97895837
2-3 stereotypes to 1 subversion if you absolutely must have a ratio. And obviously play with the idea beyond boiler plate examples of their clan/age.

If you have more exceptions than rules, then the rule ceases to exist. Those baselines are important to maintain the tone, and you can do a lot of interesting things while still falling well within the "typical" range of a clan's behavior.

When filling out city positions I always ask myself if I actually have a good reason to deviate from the default or not, just to make sure I'm not going against the norm for its own sake. "Is the Prince a Ventrue? If not, why? Is the Sheriff a Brujah or Gangrel? If not, why?" that kind of stuff.

>>97895707
Too bad that chargen is boring. Who the fuck cares about siblings?
(can be done, surprsingly enough Sword World's optional one is interesting)

>>97895664
I started doing that and I am happy with the result.

>>97895728
Honestly sounds like a player problem. Usually when I submit a backstory, I treat it as sacred.

>>97895354
Short and funny and silly. I have never given a shit about people's long tedious backstories.

>>97895354
There's the other side of the equation - when a character has loved ones or next of kin back home oftentimes GM will kill them for cheap revenge plot hook...
Best give yourself enstranged wife or cruel step-mother, so when any misfortune striker her you can just shrug it off because the bitch deserved it..

>>97895802

Yeah, it's kinda bullshit, especially because the PC often didn't interact with them during the game.
I would at least suggest to give hints before the deed, to make the PCs do something.

>>97890548
>Many such cases anon, many such cases
Most people on /tg/ don't actually read their RPG books, though. If they did, maybe they'd be able to form coherent opinions about the games they insist they play. If they did, this place would suck marginally less.

>>97891609
I don't care about the quality of adult pretend books. I care about waging the culture war and dunking on my political enemies. It only matters whether something is based or woke.

>>97889349
lmao
all it means is variable amounts of cleaning work if you do.

Anyway it's not hard.
The only thing i'd tell myself from back before I started is that anything that looks too brittle is going to be and anything spear-like that's not chunky is going to break using just regular abs-like resin.
Oh yeah, and that pet food mats are a god-send to work on.

>>97889349
Did you also buy all your safety equipment? Babystep your way into using the thing by taking time to set up a proper work area and ventilation system. Silicone mats, gloves, paper towels, respirator, etc.

Once you do that, nearly every printer I've worked with comes pre-loaded with simple demo models out of the box, so you'd just need to turn it on, follow the instructions, add your resin, and fire off a print. Calibration can be a pain in the ass for some older machines, but default settings will generally work for most resins and most files. Worst fuck-up you can actually do with a resin printer is accidentally starting a new print before you completely cleaned off the build plate and then crunching some resin against the bottom of the resin tank and screen. As long as you don't do that by keeping your build plate clean and making sure there's no stray bits floating in the resin, you'll be fine.

>>97891706
So it really is simpleton proof?
>>97891748
That sounds pretty good actually.
I'll check the basement for any safety equipment before I go buying more.

>>97883469
>progressive scoring
This is one of the biggest cancers in modern wargaming, I'm trying to fight a battle not play fucking sportsball. You either achieve the objective by the end or you don't. No general ever "scored" his troops on how long they stood on the hill or bridge he wanted captured, all that matters was if you were still standing on it when the battle was over.

>>97893926
nta but one of the other problems with 3.0 was the huge loss of options and customization, and the overall writing of the ruleset seem to have some odd choices, like the challenge system, now not only legions, in general, lost some special rules but they were replaced with challenge stuff same with most special characters (half the special rules from primarch and named character are challenge related)

>>97895116
Challenges are a good mechanic in theory imo, the writers of 3.0 just got completely lost in the fucking sauce and overcomplicated the shit out of it for very little real gain.

>>97895050
Eh, I dont think turn based scoring is the root of the problem. My friends and I have been playing with homebrew missions that include some with turn-based scoring for like years now and its great. The real issue is more that 40k rulebook missions have just always been utter trash. In 4th and 5th I think every mission is just the same "move your units on to the objective at the very last turn and you win lol". 6th edition only had one single good mission, the relic. The rest were trash.
>all that matters is if you were standing on it when the battle is over
If it helps you theme the mission, its easy to explain away as some sort of time critical thing like a data uplink, or AA emplacements, where by the end of the battle its too late. I actually think its the opposite, where holding objectives at the end of the last turn is harder to theme. It needs you to make up some event that brings about the end of the fight, and unless that involves annihilation of the enemy forces as part of the theme its a little hard to rationalize why everyone just stopped fighting.

But, I think even worse is when you combine progressive scoring with fixed turn length. Being able to calculate that you have lost by the half way point is super lame. A combination of random game length and both sorts of missions is best.

>>97895746
I've found a good way to run progressive scoring objectives is to give each objective a set points value which 'drains' as points are granted to a player. So whichever player holds it each turn earns 10% of its VP value and whoever hols it at the end of the game gets what's left. It encourages fights early to take as much from the objectives as you can but also rewards the player holding one the end of the game with big vp boosts to help prevent foregone conclusions.

Rolled 7 (1d8)

you DO roll for dick size, boob size, butt size, and height, right?

>>97895439
>dick size, boob size,
at the same time?

>>97895451
only if you roll high on fatness

>>97895421
So did I. The character's first cyberware was Mr Studd.

>>97895415
Your male PCs suck small dicks.

>>97890700
What should we be talking about on this board?

>>97890597
they cool

My favorite half ork is Kaptin Bluddflagg(the other half is also ork).

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>>97890597
Highly unusual. Most of our traps reduce them to thirds at minimum.

>>97890597
My thoughts are that you should kill yourself and never make another thread.

>>97890311
>make a summary file of everything that has taken place so far, as google doc or something that includes all major plot points, characters, developments, and your own house rules to plug into a fresh chat
Yah, to me that just sounds like a bit of a slog and I would get anal about trying to get across what I need to just right. But does sound manageable for someone less neurotic than I. That reminds me of some of the AI dungeon stuff I use to fiddle around with during covid. Which also overwhelmed me.
>>97875564
>Parts of the book are laid out like ass, and it's really annoying to flip, for example,
I agree. I like the system itself, But I remember Crawford games in general are layed out unintuitively. Like, also in scarlet heros, the spells I think were layed out alphabeticly first instead of by level, like, wtf? who is going to remember that the poison cone spell is called "Ganglions feted wind" or something more than they remember it was a level 2 spell.

>>97892190
The dude who made Kal-Arath is currently making a space RPG, it got like 700% funding on Kickstarter.

>>97894760
>Kal-Arath
it's all right.

Sites fucked huh?

Any tips on journaling for solo adventures? My handwriting is terrible as well, any pointers on how to improve other than "write more"???

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>>97890017
Okay now were up to date. Scene 10 is included again partially because of the highlighted edit, and partially because i forgot it extended to the next page.

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All fatties must die

>>97881092
>modern society sees people working more hours for money worth less than ever
>older generations don't even care to know what a dollar really is

>>97881539
>tranny open carry
Haha I'm in danger

*FLGS

>>97878536

They're about to do it in the US, too. The Trump administration is suing private companies for the records of people who've posted negative stuff about ICE online.