>Previous thread:>>97105453>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.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97182585I cannot resist fudging the dice when I play solo. Even when I play a medieval battle, I can't help but be slightly boased towards the side whose paint scheme I prefer and who I have determined in my head to be the good guy
>>97184130I don't tend to fudge dice but I do end up favouring one side. I've found it's simplest to just roll with it: pick your side and enjoy how they win. Maybe give the other side extra troops to blunt the advantage or whatever you need to keep it interesting.All the dedicated solo games I've seen have you play Your Guys against the Enemy anyway.
Go vote, boys. I have made 30 burner account just to make sure WGA doesn't win anything
>>97184614Unironically, I don't have beef with WGA like half the anons in this general, but they shouldn't win the "best of" in any of the categories on this survey. WGA is very generic, and generic is by definition mid and not the best. Problem is that mid generic shit has mass appeal and therefore gets a lot of votes
>>97181610For this year ?Most likely Archon studios, the quality of their starcraft plastics is awe inspiring and even if I dislike the aesthetics of their other offerings I must admit they are good.
LoL(Lucifer our Lord) edition>Previously in the Mortal Realms:>>97171940 >Official AoS website:https://www.ageofsigmar.com>Downloads, Rules Errata, Sharty on the 'log and FAQs:https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-downloads/>Toolshttps://runebrush.pa-sy.com/warscroll/>Anvil of Apotheosis hero creator:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97184529>I need a display caseOh sure anon, check out idea detolfs or thrift st->just for one miniatureSo this is a product exclusively designed for tourists with one Titus mini right. Even if i did juat want to display one miniature, who would display a single miniature in an ugly acrylic cube with all the screws showing when I could buy a small glass cloche and have it look less like tat and more like something I actually treasure
>>97184529>five acrylic sheets and some hinges Waow I'd pay 500 for that!
>>97184699fucking 500, what the fuck?This feels like on par with those stupid grading companies that would put the product in an inescapable plastic tomb with an arbitrary number on it and charge you out the ass for them to make some shit up.
>>97184254We did get them in one batch last year but yeah... No escorts bundle No rules for AoS beyond the belated SoG Chorfs
>>97184529Why is it in the box?
The Dark Kingdom of Wire Edition>Previous Thread>>97164105>Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/WiCHizn0>Mediafirehttps://mediafire.com/folder/s9esc6u7ke8k5/CofD>Mega Ihttps://mega.nz/folder/ePQ1BKhJ#RCosRCh59Ki2Mpb1M9H3Uw>Mega II (also containing fanmade games)https://mega.nz/folder/ZbQ2zLJA#DOT-3df6rS2lLet4_RmqJQ>WoD5 Megahttps://mega.nz/folder/7rQQ1LbQ#16_AiXVGo0P3_rVOJuoZyAComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97184407That and as many anons have pointed out, the SI is a formless grey blob of every hunter org ever who for some unexplained reason put aside their rivalries and worked together for the single-minded goal of exterminating all of vampirekind. Some anons have alleged that they cribbed off from Hunter: the Vigil and honestly I just don't see it. Hunter compacts and conspiracies are mind-bogglingly varied in background, ethods and methodology (there's literal dozens at the time of this writing by the way), so the decision to smush them all together in one monolithic faceless mass is baffling to me.
>>97183127I'd say it is still terrible in theory because it's still sticking all of the unique and interesting hunters into one bland, homogenizing conglomerate. >>97183568In Requiem at least, it's really easy to remove touchstones, so I don't get what the fuss is about. It's just a +2 to resisting breaking points until your humanity dips below 6. You don't even need them to be an NPC, it could be an object of significant importance to your character. You can easily excise that from the game with zero issue. I swear I think people get V5's touchstones confused with Requiem's. >>97183944Shit, you just hit the nail on the head as to why the SI sucks. It's Quantum Werewolves again. Only instead of "just stay out of the sticks" it's "hey just don't use technology in this game set in the 21st century". Which is just so much lamer fundamentally. and quantum werewolves still sucked conceptually too. >>97184407God, that IAO shit was retarded. The Hunters are too dumb to notice their boss is now a vampire, but without her, they're smart enough to kill everyone in Seattle? ChatGPT wrote that game, you can't convince me otherwise. >>97184447Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97184465>Truth. Some Vigil compacts are so different in approach and philosophy that they can end up in direct conflict with each other.Case in point, let's talk vampires since that's what sparked the discussion.>Taskforce: Valkyrie wants to do the usual glownigger thing of keeping the status quo and the normies blind and deaf>Cheiron wants to harvest vampires to print money selling combat performance enhancers to NATO>Malleus Malleficarium wants them immolated with extreme prejudice except the few that get smuggled to the Vatican so their leader can continue living>The Lucifuge wants to police them and curb their worst excesses as well as stamp out the ones that consort with Strix or denizens of Hell>The Cainite Heresy wants to enact TVD right here and now, fuck the consequencesThat's just a handful of hunter groups, and only one isn't from core.
>>97184407Oh so it's even lamer than I thought. Still gonna check it out, if nothing else I can use bits from it for color in Vigil and/or Mage.
What are some of the cooler Paths/Roads that are still Conscious/Self Control? Is it worth trading your virtues for a different Path/Road?
was the satanic panic real? did people actually think their kids were summoning demons over elfgames?
>>97184722Look at the hysteria today over everything being "bigoted and problematic", the moral guardian psychos just switched who they vote for
>>97184744And on the flip side, over everything being "woke and degenerate"
Why was XP for gold largely abandoned as a way to reward players?
>>97167056His players don't just exist in his head though.
>>97178186I’ve been running AD&D myself and my experience could not be more different. If you’re strict about the money sinks your players are broke ass bums all the time. I’ll be showering them with money but levelling up and identifying items is so ridiculously expensive. I wanted to play this game to see if people here are just talking out of their ass about it and they are but at this point I think every table is so different that no facts can be agreed upon so discussion is almost impossible.
>>97161391Because the people who replaced it were a bunch of preachy Mormons who wanted you to instead be rewarded for following the rails and acting Wholesome and Christian in line.Not even bullshitting, Dragonlance is basically a Mormon fapfiction and the stated goal of the Hickman manifesto was 'Get those retards to ingest our too-shit-to-publish-on-its-own-terms fantasy lit'It's not that games didn't have overarching stories before Hickman, it's that post-Hickman the game became about the story, as proven by the number of people cranking the hog in this very thread over "hurr durr, your characters are boring and we need a big story to keep things interesting"No.Your metaplot is boring and the characters are the ones the game should be about, they should be inherently interesting people and if they're not then ask your players why their characters aren't interested in adventuring off their own bat, you frustrated failed novelist.
>>97161553>went out of popularity about 40 years agoYes, OP knows this. It's why he asked, WHY?
>>97184311Maybe because the answer is obvious (players want actual stories and not just dungeon grinds) and the OP was just an argument starter?
Fair & Balanced EditionHere is a thread to discuss trading card games other than the big three.>Build Divide>Force of Will>Final Fantasy TCG>DBZ CCG>Wixoss>Keyforge>Gundam>Legend of the 5 Rings (L5R)>Digimon>Flesh and Blood>Gate Ruler>Battle SpiritsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97184207I love me some Arkham Horror LCG
>>97184344I recently got into it as a board game noob. It's pretty addictive. I'm thinking of getting myself a physical version
>>97182761>>97183723>>97184207>>97184617You're posting in a schizo general. Please work harder to foster an atmosphere of outrage and suspicion.Simple enjoyment is strictly forbidden.
>>97184617Yea it's my favorite co-op card game. Probably have played each campaign about 4 times at least.
>>97184659Which one do you recommend aside from Dunwich and Carcosa?>>97184646idk, I usually post in /vg/
Like, the feel of gritty black-and-white screen-printed books. Simple and pulpy with that semi-woodcut-looking art.Cairn? Shadowdark? Who wins here on aesthetic grounds
https://soundcloud.com/basilisktower/dungeon_synth_castle_of_the_blhttps://soundcloud.com/basilisktower/descent-into-underhollow-dungeon-synthI love OSR and Dungeon Synth, I wrote some of my own, I would love to know what /tg/ thinks, especially if you are a fan of the genre, and have any advice or feedback on how to make it.
>>97180455But what does the aesthetic constitute of?
>>97176462Explain in detail how you translate the "feel" of a musical genre into gameplay. Maybe then we can help.
>>97176851>I don't care about the game rules.Fuck off to pinterest then.
>>97183256These are great, anon. I like the counterpart of deep dark basso with the lighter, airy bells and cymbals. Very enjoyable, thanks!
Post franchises you think should be or should have gotten tabletop RPGs or war games.Considering how wild the 90's was, I'm legitimately surprised this of all things didn't get one, frankly.
>>97174958Myth Adventures had a boardgame by Mayfair along with Xanth but never had a tabletop RPG, despite the books using Phil Foglio for cover art and Phil doing a comic based on the novels in the early 80s.Dimension-hopping comedy fantasy seems very much like something late 80s RPG companies would try to make work.
Macross Wargame. There's apparently an RPG but I have no idea what's in it or if it's good or not. I was thinking more along the lines of Battletech but with unnerfed LAMs.
>>97175000You don't even know what sci-fi is.
>>97182813There's a skirmish wagame.
>>97183422I remember this being a kickstarter shit show mixed with standard Kevin Siembieda problems, making it at least 5 times as fucked as kickstarters can be. Did anyone actually get their miniatures and play the damn game?
Whi built the dungeon?
It's a fantasy setting so you can rest assured the world has gone through its share of apocalypses, Ragnaröks, and raptures.People built strongholds to survive them, often not surviving despite the effort.This also explains why they are full of treasures and traps. Attempts to hold the darkness at bay.Outside of that people still build tombs, prisons, etc.
>>97184581an ogre and it's mamalisten to the sneaky roguewhoo rolled a 1 and...>>97183325>>97183794
>>97183114Heh
>>97182523Dungeons are in fact part of the life cycle of the humble mimic. A dungeon can be separated into discrete sections, which are called Tiles due to an antiquated form of dungeon mapping. Each of these Tiles is in fact an elder mimic in the final stage of its lifecycle. Mimics prefer dwelling in caves or other areas protected from direct sunlight. A dungeon often begins with a simple cave and a chest(mimic) hidden in a nook, luring in treasure seekers. Once the mimic has absorbed enough nutrients it will embed itself within the earth or stone, similar to weaving a cocoon, the mimic will metamorphosize itself, and the surrounding stone, into a larger edifice, to provide a more tantalizing presentation for its bait. How mimics gain their aesthetic sense is unknown at this time.The mimic will then bud, producing more mimics. Which in turn mature becoming a new edifice, and in doing so form a symbiotic bond with the pre-existing Tiles. Becoming a vast interconnected single organism. Which is how dungeons are born.
>>97184679At first these dungeons will attract wandering creatures through some form of pheromone, like a pitcher plant. Providing protection to its core aspect, and passive sustenance from the detritus and remains from these creatures. However once a dungeon has advanced enough, its ability to mimic other lifeforms matures and the dungeon is able to produce false creatures under its direct influence. Most notable is the "Dungeon Boss". Kept within the deepest part of the dungeon, it is the final guardian for the aforementioned core aspect. This dungeon core, is the central repository for the dungeon's awareness and magic. Should the Boss be defeated the dungeon, as a defensive posture, will regurgitate a large quantity of valuable materials to distract the potential threat. Dungeons can feed on the ambient energy of magical items, which will often be found in this treasured ambergris alongside precious metals like gold and silver which are believed to be indigestible material. Some dungeons at this point will seemingly collapse, but this is a deception. The Dungeon as a final defensive posture recedes into the Earth and enters into a period of hibernation. Only to re-emerge decades later, when the threat and even knowledge of its existence has long passed.
>Everyone • PLEASE BUMP THE THREAD IF IT REACHES PAGE 10! >Requesters: • Provide good, detailed references (pictures are better than verbal descriptions), so the artists know what you're looking for. • If you have a WIP quote the Anchor Post, and attach the WIP so your Drawfag can find you. • Do not reply to other deliveries with a request that the artist fill your request next. This is called 'piggybacking'. • Do not make multiple requests in the same thread and do not serially request multiple characters after a delivery. Suggesting several concepts for artists to choose from counts as making multiple requests. • If you're unsatisfied with your completed request, please wait at least one week before you re-request. If someone follows this rule, don't waste posts by complaining about it. • No furries allowed. • Stay on topic. >Drawfags and Drawfags-to-be: • Drop your tumblrs/websites/commission/etc information, but if you're dropping your commission info, please consider filling a request beforehand instead of just advertising. • Please keep AI deliveries to the /slop/ threads. This is a thread for human-made art.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
What the hell, you telling me I can just doodle lines on top of each other repeatedly and make art with a lot of character; with nothing but a pen and a piece of paper?
A request for a graverobbing, young and dumb knave. I am very liberal with whatever artstyle you prefer, bonus points for a holy symbol around his neck but not needed.>>97183458kino
>>97183458soulful
>>97183987Quick sketch. Fucked up the belt and the scan is not the best. Will retry later and hopefully my sketch can inspire more talented anons
>>97184671Wow forgot pic
starting a new campaign saturday. what good stuff should we cover at session 0?
>>97184058>Nigger you're fixating on the identical characters argument like it's some sort of gotchaYou sure you read the correct posts?I'm just pointing out that your way of handling this stuff - people making their characters separately - is less efficient than them making them together. The only possible gain from doing it on your own is when you are making mid-level character in a modern DnD or adjacent game and you absolutely must consult 15 different rulebooks, which takes fuckload of time. Otherwise, making characters together allows you to get the entire group on the same page about the campaign, while also not leaving them with homework to do.
>>97184071Meh, i don't think it's necessarily advantageous, especially if the chargen isn't particularly articulated. I see the point of it when introducing new rulesystem or when playing something with a lot of moving parts so there may be the need for a more directed approach. Most of the problems that in-presence session 0 supposedly solves can be avoided with better specificy in the coordination phase.
>>97184084>You can sit with people and make characters together>Or you can wrangle a whole lot of strings and corrections, while also hoping for the best>Both of those take the same effort, trust me!You do you, I guess. Facing a choice between "guaranteed zero issues" and "brace for whatever happens", I'd rather pick zero issues.One additional advantage of making characters together is that meme, one-off and joke characters get easily squashed. Not even in terms of "GM forbade it", people simply don't dare proposing those.It's just less headache this way
>>97182452>tell us what you are planning for the campaign.Rape.
>>97183924?? That's what a session 0 is. You meet up for the first time and inform the players about the campaign, and they agree on what characters they each plan on bringing and potentially how they fit together as a group (if you've not already specified it).
Friend or Foe Edition>Previous Thread: >>97151459>HH 3.0 - Complete gofile - All Books:https://gofile.io/d/cnJk0N>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/iUqNrrA8https://pastebin.com/8riDmnhS>30k TACTICA & TIPSComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97172787one thing i really, really dislike in the new ed is the price of melee weapons being the same for everyone. and the option price in general is fucked up for marinesa power sword on an inductii and a veteran breacher should not be the same cost
>>97183509thank you i needed this today
>>97183998Pic unrelated I assume
>>97180416never thought i'd miss the old tactical kit but here we are
>>97184653I've really never understood this opinion. You're not paying the same price, for both of them, because a veteran breacher costs twice as much as an inductii and is in a far less accessible slot. The problem isn't that a power weapon isn't worth 10 points on an inductii it's that it isn't worth 10 points period.
Visions EditionA thread for discussing the Star Wars franchise and its various media and tabletop games.Fantasy Flight Games’ X-Wing, Armada, and Legion>https://pastebin.com/9puqx1zeStar Wars Roleplaying Games (d6/d20/FFG)>https://pastebin.com/iUriRfaAOther FFG Star Wars tabletop (Imperial Assault, Destiny and the LCG)>http://pastebin.com/ZE4gn0yNOld links>https://pastebin.com/yUVx32wBComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97181786Go for it, just don't pay for it. Being able to complain accurately is basically the only reason I watched TRoS - I went in knowing it was going to be bad, but I still underestimated just how retarded it would be.
>>97182017Call me to heaven, Allah does. Destroy the infidels, I shall.
Reminder to tease and excite your twi'lek but only grant her release once per year. A flustered twi'lek is a pliant twi'lek.
Saun Dann...
>>97183576This is extremely dangerous for your Twi'lek's well-being. Twi'leks require at least one proper lewding every three days.
winter edition >Chess websites, tools, videos and books:https://rentry.org/vxdsw7k5>Calendar:- Tech Mahindra Global Chess League | December 13th - 24th- FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships | December 25th - 31st- Rilton Cup | December 27th - January 5th- Lichess Winter Marathon | December 28th- European Women's Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship | January 8th - 12th- Tata Steel | January 16th - February 1st- Speed Chess Championship Finals | February 7th - 8th- Prague International Chess Festival: Masters | February 25th - March 6th- FIDE Candidates Tournament | March 28th - April 16thComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97181824most chess players are midwits tho
>>97181824>more or less solvedWe solved only endgames with up to 7 pieces. We are years away to solve a board with 8 pieces, and centuries for one with 9 pieces. Mind you, there are 32 in total!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame_tablebase
>>97177462Day 2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyWplwyM0cs
>>97181824Then hire him yourself, my dude. Pay him a good enough salary for him to quit chess and work on your cure for cancer project.
relevant for the chess peoplehttps://youtube.com/shorts/sdlqAKtozkw
Previous Thread: >>97002412For: Creation and discussion of Lewd RPGs; including Solo Rpgs, Homebrews, and Greentexts about your game sessions (specify the system you are using)>DON'T post or ask for "Looking For Group" or "Looking for Players".>DON'T sperg about Hentai logic, Hentai Artists or NTR. Take your meds.>NO Shota/loli crap. Go to /trash/>What's a Solo RPG?1: YouTube (Season 1 of Me, Myself & Die! gives a good explanation)2: Ask in the Solo RPG General: >>970620423: Solo is a good way to test out systems and to avoid problems such s "Schedule Conflict" or "Playing with Weirdos">Solo RPG Toolkit (NPC Generator, Mythic GM Emulator, etc.)https://infinityweavers.link/re-up/solo-rp-toolkitComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97176872YOU WILL PLAY MY CARD GAME WHERE EACH CARD IS ACTUALLY A MINIATURE BOOK CONTAINING 500 PAGES, JUST LIKE A MINI BIBLE.AND YOU WILL STOP COMPLAINING THAT IT'S TOO REDUNDANT.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/l4Qtw1Mg4wA
>>97096644I won this kit at a xmas raffle, it has a lot of stuff. I've only played 5e a couple of times. Any advice in how to play it solo and lewd-fy it?
Rolled 18 (1d20)>>97099629rollin'
>>97182638Preddy gud.
>>97172195>>97162127Anyone going to work on this? Are (You) going to work on this?
