>>97828161
it's a light game. not as elegant as knizias, but only a bit harder to teach.
you go fast by matching a bunch of symbols together from up to three cards from your hand, plus one from a shared crowd card. there are a number of suits with abilities like cornering, healing, and attacking. whenever you take an action in a suit you advance its skill marker. depending on the crowd's whims you have opportunities to advance the skill marker double. once the skill markers start landing in the bonus zones, your speed when you take those moves gets much much stronger. it turns a game of simple hand optimization into constant tough value judgements of when to prioritize upgrades over your current position.
there's not a ton of player interaction, but the mind games around when to shield from attacks and using whips to maximum effect based on position do enough for me
very timeless vibe and plenty thematic for my tastes

Is 7th continent actually a good game or overhyped bullshit?
And are there any good exploration games at all?

>>97834401
7th Continent is massively overrated for sure, since it's a product of a time when these types of games didn't exist. 7th Citadel is a significant step forward on the core design, and the best exploration game I've played yet.

>>97833246
I mean I can pick my nose in two seconds and scratch my but in one but I didn't realize we were racing to beat each other's playing times.

TQ:
>Rank all the Knizias you've played:

>What are your favorite Old School German Style board games?

Feels good to finally go back to not being a nogames. This past month I was able to play my first game of Quar and Void Admiral
Both are fun but I have some reservations about the legs Void Admiral has due to simple list building
>>97833434
>reddit cuck game
Some people are truly mindbroken, what could this even possibly mean. Have you tried just playing a game you like?

>>97834102
Steve Jackson (UK) founded GW and Fighting Fantasy. Steve Jackson (US) runs Steve Jackson Games and made Ogre, GURPS, and Muchkin. The only confusing part is the Fighting Fantasy books written by Steve Jackson (US).

>>97834841
Honestly Trench crusade pissed me off.
Every normie midwit was pushing it because thier favorite youtuber was paid to push it.
It was litterally 40k for people to stupid to realize not every game needs to be 40k.
Also John Blanche is over rated

>>97835392
Ian Miller > John Blanche

>>97835392
>Also John Blanche is over rated
'tis poor bait at best, sir.

>>97830146
Yes, and when what 3e and on calls "sorcerer" was introduced as a channeler in Player's Option: Spells and Magic. Except that they were a Con caster instead of a Charisma one, since it was linked to a fatigue system.

>>97833209
It didn't help that Sorcerers (and other spontaneous casters) were screwed over by the metamagic system and the Wizard got bonus metamagic/item creation feats.

>>97831790
>same proficiencies,
Sorcerers got all simple weapon proficences while Wizards started with only club, dagger, light crossbow, heavy crossbow and quarterstaff. Didn't mean very much as the crossbows were pretty much the best of the simple weapons.

>>97833193
I recognize, logically, that you can be 25 and this would still be true, but that makes me feel old, so I'm going to assume you're 18 years old and be angry that you're on my lawn.

>>97833196
Genuinely curious what your native language is. In English, "mage" has zero female connotations.

>>97833916
Wizards and wise men and sages were often fortune tellers. Star readings and whatnot. Maybe even an oracle or seer.

>>97835114
Huh. That's funny. You'd think that the rotation would almost force you to adapt a bit. Me, I don't chase the meta, I just have fun with whatever they put out, even if it means I don't win much. Not trying to be snooty or anything, it just sounds like we enjoy the game differently.

>>97834922
I played a few games of Altered and I liked it for the most part, it had interesting decision trees going on. If anything maybe the problem with gameplay was just how much you had to see every turn (cards to put into the mana zone, what to keep in the reserve, lane to play your cards, bunch of tokens to manage, three stats on each card to keep track of)

It just had some really stupid concepts like the uniques or the QR codes uglying up the designs

Also didn't really like how the character design felt straight out of 2010s Tumblr

>>97835132
Well yes, rotation killed all the prior meta decks. But the same decks have been played with minor adjustments in all three sets so far - blurple, dogs, purple/Steel, and Blue/Green control being the top decks in each format.

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>>97834803
not sure how often they update this, but for the longest time it had the old Informant nerf. Thankfully it seems like the dev team has came back around on him actually being pretty important to blue as was.

>>97834922
tilting at windmills here anon.
nobody's defending altered. it was stupid while it was alive and now it's dead. and it's not going to get a loving fan continuation because it sucked.

>>97835530
DLC*

>>97835526
Unironically, yes. Although I'd still rank it as one of the more cost effective hobbies considering $ per hour of enjoyment. What's a decent PC nowadays? 3k? And it will be decent for 5 years or so?

>>97835516
>>97835516
>And 5 grand is probably what I've spent on this hobby over a course of 25 years
Well to be fair then, and understand i dont say this out of disrespect or anything i just saying it as a fact, you have no spent very much on this hobby then, espeically in 25 years, that comes out to...16 dollars a month
I have over probably 3-4k in knights/titans alone.

Granted im on the upper end of the hobby spending so I wont pretend to usemyself as a metric. But i also suspect you are vastly underestimating your spending. Because your total cost would amit to buying like 3-4 paints a month.

>>97835523
It is when you compare it to other hobbies.
For example. Guitar, i have spend like....800? maybe? and thats been it for like the last 4 years
You can do stone carving for less then 600 and then just either og pick up boulders in teh wild, or fill a bucket full of cement and carve that.

Again, 40k has an expensive upfront and long term bleed cost.
>>97835529

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>>97835534
>>97835526
Depends.
For example, if you drop like 3k on a new PC and your intent is only to play older games? Yeah your gonna get WAY more value outta that then warhammer. But thats a specific flavor of entertainment.

>>97835526
It depends a lot on what games you play and how much. A gaming PC might have a big upfront cost, but the successive costs are very different if you buy an AAA game every month or if you proceed spending 5000 hours in LoL

>>97834986
Bandits shouldn't be level 2, they should be level -1.

>>97834986
The problem is a lot of stat blocks are from APs so they won't show up with generic names.

As you pointed out, Bandit is a level 2 creature. But Thorn River Bandits and Black Tear Cutthroats (from the Kingmaker AP) are level -1 and also super generic, as are Abberton Ruffians (from Extinction Curse).

This is why Nethys is a godsend sometimes. Just narrow the search for humanoids levels -1 to 1 and you're golden.

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>>97835091
Exactly.

>>97835116
What a load of bollocks

>>97834986
>Maybe My needs are just too particular and specific
what are you aiming for?

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Paizo should stop trying to be DnD's sloppy alternative and embrace an Anime artsyle. Get the Dungeon Meshi author on it. Fuck it. They'd make fucking millions being the weeb alternative to DnD's boring ass front page fantasy artstation artstyle.

>>97825641

Meant that it's pretty dumb to say there is a "universally better" armor system because every game has different aims, and you should ask yourself if that way of using armor (or anything) works within the specific framework.

>>97832349
OP said favorite, not perfect though. So the one you have the most affinity with rather than it working in every instance.

You can have a favorite very complex armor system, but acknowledge that it might not be good for a specific rules light and non simulationist kind of game. Or vis versa you like a very abstracted armor system, but it might not fit your current game of GURPS THe Armored Autist expansion. Or your favorite might be a balance of complexity and simplicity.

>>97817261
I think old fallout's DR/DT system makes the most sense. Some armours just reduce damage (eg. Nonrigid armours like mail or kevlar) and any significant hit will still injure the person behind it to some extent. Other armours can largely or outright prevent the wearer from suffering any injury (generally rigid armours like plate or ceramic inserts) up to a point.

Of course limits exist, as the example given of a hammer to the helmet, but those could be done via weapon rules and modifiers.

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>>97817261
Does anyone else have an autisticly specific go-to armor set up they prefer in games? I do.

I always liked the idea of a medium armored guy who wears a full buff leather coat and leggings as a base, has a breastplate, mail voiders to cover the shoulders and armpits while not being as heavy as a full mail shirt, Some open faced visored helmet or secrete under a brimmed hat, long gauntlets that cover the forearms, and a targe shield that is strapped to the upper arm of the off handed side to provide one side of the upper body with full protection while keeping the other side maximally mobile.

seems like a good level of protection while also not requiring too much bother to put on and take off alone. Also If I abandon the voiders and shield, it should be essentially silent for stealth as the breastplate would only be touching fabric. Basically looking like a English civil war cavalryman with extra mail around the shoulders and a small shield protecting his right upper arm.

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>>97835444
Oh yah, another small autism point I thought would be neat would be to line the outside of the collar of a high collared coat with mail, so that you could button it up past your nose to make a sort of mail bevor Like the kind of high collars Highwaymen have. pic related. or just a normal bevor.

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>>97834868
Grogs are lurking /aosg/, pissing off AoSissies with The Last World rumors.

>>97834856
>spoiler
You can still buy the big box of the Cathay models in certain markets

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Bought a bitz bag at a convention and got quite the haul, I can use this for future projects. The pestigor for example is a perfect HW wargor

>>97833787
Youre going to have trouble playing anything with that table (good luck reaching into the center). But yes, although the very restrictive movement and sight rules will lead to fairly "locked in" games

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>>97834035
If you want to tourneyfag, spam nothing but 30x Night Goblins with fanatics, a pair of doom divers, and a few tiny mobs of boys with bows to screen and play objectives. Mangler squigs, squig hoppers, and black orcs on wyverns also see play.
For more thematic armies, you can still be powerful so long as you avoid obvious traps. Spider riders suck, the Arachnorok is overcosted, and regular squig herds will do more damage to you than your opponent since everything moves so slowly. Trolls are bad, only get one if you're running a Troll Horde or you really want a Hag.
Regular mobs of boys are some of the most point efficient infantry in the game, 5 points for T4 and the Choppa rule is great. If night goblins weren't busted we'd see them everywhere.

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>>97820622
MTG player of 22 years that only plays premodern now here. Played in an 8 man Sorcery draft the other day and it's hands down the most fun I've had with a card game in years. Can't recommend it enough, man. If you have an LGS nearby with anyone that plays, join a draft and give it a shot. The grid adds a lot of depth in strategy.

>>97833316
Can concur, it's fun to play.

>>97820929
Is that Ian Miller art?
I'm sold.
I rate him over Blanche.

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>>97833338
Yea he painted a lot of cards in this recent set. the playmat for The Void is great, it's huge. Miller has been one of my favorite fantasy artists since Mirage came out, I really want to get an original piece from him before he's gone.

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>>97833517
I wonder where my copy of the Tolkien Legendarium he illustrated went from time to time.
The Barrow Wights page has my favourite drawing.
Here's a little version of it, fuck Pinterest trying to hold the full size one hostage.

>>97832210
I want to do that for Close and Violet despite not really liking Liberator or play their decks. They are just very pretty.

>>97835188
>not really liking Liberator
Wild take for a guy who plays Card Games.

>>97835399
shoto/ptero makes it really boring imo, all other characters are better

>>97835409
Winr exists so your statement is incorrect but I don't really see the issue with Shoto. His character arc from shitter to world champion was absolutely earned.
Though I will agree that Liberator has cooler side characters.

>>97835399
I hate Liberator because longstrip/webcomic is a shit format.

>>97833203
>How in the world could you come to the conclusion that modern firearms were being talked about given the context of the post chain?
Because you used the present tense instead of past tense.

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>>97827828
Dex no lower than 3 (despite being NPCs)
Riding 3 (they are NPCs), +1 point in Horses specialty
This in total gives them average of 3.5 and thus able to automatically pull most of equestrian tricks and have 50% chance for the really hard stuff.
Any important character gets either Riding or the specialty bumped a point. Any really important character gets their Dex bumped up

>>97827828
They were tougher than Spaniards and Mexicans but got btfo by Americans once they got their shit together.

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>>97834262
So this pic is very pertinent to you then.

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>>97833843
That's a Praxian warrior of the Bison tribe.
They're basically bootleg redskins who are currently on the backfoot due to the Lunar Empire invading Prax, and making an alliance with the hated Sable tribe (Sable Antelope).

Praxians are nomads, and their chief god is "Waha The Butcher", who teaches "The peaceful cut" which encourages the spirit of a hunted animal to return.

They have many tribes, which have totem animals, which most of the use as mounts.

In the Godtime, the Praxians and their beasts were one, but when Chaos entered the world just before the end of the Godtime, the land began to die, and the Praxians had to draw lots with the animals, to see who would be the eatsers, and who would be the eaten.
Because they have thumbs/are smart, humans won all the contests, except for one; the cunning Morocanth (Giant Anteater) are intelligent non-humans who herd non-sapient humans called "Gerns", mostly using them like retrievers, occasionally to pull carts, and once in a while, to eat.
They have no thumbs, so Morocanth are less Dexterous than Humans or Gerns, resulting in a malus to most forms of complex object manipulation, like crafting or using most hand-weapons, but some Morocanth know a ritual to steal a human's thumbs.

They are considered untrustworthy, as the human legend says the Morocanth cheated in the game of the eaters and the eaten, gerns however are not considered human by praxians, and are eaten occasionally by human Praxian tribes, usually after a raid on a Morocanth tribe yields many captured Gerns.

Gerns are considered inferior to traditional livestock by humans, as though having a "Beast rune" where their "Man rune" should be allows them to live by grazing, they aren't as useful to humans, who fund their thumbs unremarkable, and that they grow too slowly for a meat beast, cannot be ridden, and have poor carrying capacity.

>>97834230
except course for the part where the human extinction is entirely self-induced
the Na'vi were entirely willing to share their resources, literally all they asked for was to

1 don't burn down their God
2 don't burn down their homes

if the humans had stuck to those 2 rules they would had been fine, it was just pure corporate greed that caused the events of the movie

>>97832116
why would you want to be a slave to an alien race?

>>97834251
Just and unjust are subjective. Human survival isn't.

>>but the corporation was lying!!!!!
No they weren't.

>>97834950
Don't care. I would happily oversee the genocide of every last single otherkin bait Navi if it means that the human species continues to survive. And I see no reason to respect their "god" or their homes when continued human survival is on the line.

>>97821566
HFY is intrinsically gay because you're fighting imaginary enemies and making them unable to match humans in something humans consider mundane.
>Wow humans have epic endurance
Why are these aliens a bunch of asthmatic dweebs?

>Wow humans are so ruthless and determined and willing to sacrifice their lives
Why are these aliens all such pussies?

>Wow humans are so tough, they can drink and eat poison and have tough immune systems
Why are these aliens such sickly nerds who are allergic to everything?

>>97823368
I actually kind of liked the nature of predators because humanity's strengths weren't intrinsic
>Why was the federation shit at war? They were so pathologically afraid of predators as a concept that they bred and culturally indoctrinated out all ideas of aggression from their culture.
>Why were the Auxur so bad at war compared to humans? They spent their entire recent history just constantly beating down on a federation of pussies and got sloppy

There is a bit of HFY cringe with the "le persistence hunters" thing and humanity just walking off massive fucking losses like it's nothing and continually rebuilding fleets from nowhere but the core concept is pretty decent.

I believe in Masanori. There will be another cour. This can't be the end.

>>97832765
Yeah, I have no idea what the writers are thinking now and if they can even resolve whatever they just set up in a single episode

Or Masanori will be responsible for the next Vanguard era post DivineZ.

>>97833909
The question is what can he do. He either hijacks the Mirazh card and becomes the final boss of the next D season/era or he somehow keeps all the Fantomes alive.
The latter would require doubling the population or making a second Earth

>>97835010
>The latter would require doubling the population
not really the fantome mist is expanding as stated in ep1, at best you are just making kaga duplicate

>>97835113
quality or quantity?

>>97835118
>Yours was worse in that it didn't even fit as a Zoan
Nta. The canon one that does the same thing is a zoan, so that was proved wrong.

>>97835309
The canon one didn't try to pass a location instead of a creature for a Zoan fruit

>>97835329
You do know there are a bunch of animals that are named after the places they live in right?

>>97835358
I think what anon is trying to say is that the fruit was named after a lake from Dante's inferno, and was framed as a mythical zoan that gave ice demon powers (ice generation and control like a paramecia, plus vaguely described demon powers) even though there's no such demon named like that, just a lake

He could have just gone the Yamato route and take an actual mythical ice creature imo. Plus this is all leaving aside whatever is going on with Imu in canon

>>97783095
AI generated spam image, but still funny

>>97783159
This is cute and there should be more of it. I'm going to commission some.

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>>97829901
>Babies can be born with hair.
BULLSHIT! HAIR IS A TOOL OF THE FASCIST IMPERIUM!

>>97807871
That show was the best.

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>289 replies
>ctrl+f "Macha"
>0 results
For shame /tg/.