How many players do your current game(s) have?How much is too much?What's the smallest group you've been with? What's the biggest?For me three players is the comfiest. I've ran games for two, and there was this time the table had 12 players. It was a complete shitshow but it was fun giving the GM a headache.
>>97179894>How many players do your current game(s) have?3>How much is too much?6>What's the smallest group you've been with? What's the biggest?2 and 6I find four is a good number almost all of the time, so I try for five players in a lot of my games. That way, if one person cancels, you still have four, and if two people cancel, I still feel like I can run.
>>97179894Depends on the game as for the first question. For the second, I think the best is 4 players + 1 GM, and the minimum/maximum for a good time is 3 to 5 players.
>>97179894I have two games each with 4 players. I do concur that three players is the comfiest. My smallest "group" was 1 player and my largest was 12. None of them went well.
>>97179894>How many players do your current game(s) have?4>How much is too much?6>What's the smallest group you've been with? What's the biggest?Smallest is 3 until we got a 4th. Biggest is 6, but someone dropped early on
>>97179894In between campaigns now.Too much: greatly depends on the game. The Final Girl would perhaps take ten. Generally 6 is already a big stretch.Smallest: 2. Biggest: 12, I think.
>its another discord dnd sesh is cancelled 20 mins before hand because 3 people called out episode
>>97176121>>97176218>>97177131You guys say this about any thread that isn't a general, maybe you're the problem.
>>97177131I'll put on that tinfoil hat. There so many threads spammed out that aren't even attempting to relate to the board and are just really lazy bait threads where people spam shit even more unrelated to the board.
>>97177131Spam threads makes it look like the board is moving faster than it actually is4chan will get hacked again, Hiro and Rapeape learned nothing
>>97177227>>97177131OP here all i did was push off a thread complaining about woke warhammer
Discord seems better for play by post games
Thread #006 Dark Imperial Blood 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>>97129837Previous Thread>>97024850Brief 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.
>>97174947i hope my hombre's in arizona are doing ok i can't get word with what is happening maybe aux if she is still around can help >>97169474slow is probably better as rotschreck training goes fast can have a few freak results but often ends up in tramatised wrecks that were worse than when they started doesn't stop the sabbat shovelheads and co who eat or ash anyone who fails
Women.
>>97172535>~ The Scarlet Queen of Hurts>Vamp of Vampires, Baddest Vixen Under the Sun and The Artist Formerly Known as "Red"That is one way to introduce oneself. I don't know when to expect it, but Scarlet's embrace should be imminent, given her tattoos and piercings are gone. I think she gained a few pounds of muscle.In short, she was a blood doll we rescued from the Sabbat, with a fascination for evil that she expressed in music, in what Boy Toy identified as an "avantgarde blackened death/doom metal one-woman band." I found teaching her to be far more challenging than listening to her, eventually we settled for the bare minimum overdrive when using the guitar in my classes and for somebody to else to instruct her on the drum and bass. As for singing, I won her resistance as soon as I showed her how long I can hold my lowest note. I was also charged to play as a Prince in simulated debuts, given my intimate knowledge of the Ventrue and expertise in acting.Boy Toy noticed Scarlet's near-complete collection of De Sade's writings so she gifted her his copies of Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye and Erotism: Death and Sensuality, not too long after I saw her march to his room armed with strap-on, flogger, cane and a borrowed black fox, the same coat Mother wore last time.When Mercury Lamp was assigned to teaching Scarlet manners, she gave her a present: a teddy bear covered in bandages, scars, burns and is missing an arm and eye, when you pull on its string it cries from its good eye and implores "Mommy" to stop hurting it. They immediately became friends.Another clue that the embrace could be as soon as she says is that uncle The Devil Wears Me has been working on a very striking black gown that no Harpy would touch. She told us many times she hates both "NSBM" and "RAC", but this didn't stop her from being an avid reader of his books on the Holocaust, mainly those on female Nazi party members and concentration camp guards translated from German and Polish.
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>>97168380>Is this a modern day Cupid, with gunpowder instead of arrows?No, she's just a sadist with probably, like, half a century more experience than your mom got. Also not a sexual one. I think. Not sure.>>97169474>Are we not freaked out at least a little about all of them? It is a fair thing to worry about though, shit is going bump in the night more than anyone is comfortable with these days.Oh, see, there's 'well, I am reasonably worried that one of these nights a really powerful vampire might shit itself out of a crypt and eat me'. I'm a clairvoyant, I can see shit, I had a really fun time during the Week of Nightmares, so I'm reasonably worried, you know.And then there's 'HE'S GOING TO SHOW UP ANYTIME NOW OH GOD OH FUCK', which is the level that guy operates on. The fact that he's been running around freaking out about it for well over a century, apparently, with no Nossie progenitor to speak of thus far, seems to not sabotage his utmost belief in that it will totes happen sometime soon. I'm yet to figure out if he's doing something to delay it, or he's just demented and mentally unwell. Both, maybe!
Is it already dead?
>>97175474Lol
>>97176132>(that tells you not to explore or go anywhere because that's racist)What
>>97175367Beats me. I'd be interested in trying the system once our current games are done, though that could be a little while.
>>97175367People don't actually play Daggerheart, they just buy the book to feel special and to moral signal how progressive they are to their friends, who at best also only play 5e.
>>97175474>>97175715>>97175720>>97175777>>97175920They've explained this, though if you weren't sub triple digit IQ it is pretty much common sense.
t's Da PDF Share Thread!Get ready to stuff your hard drive like a cosplay hooker at a con!STEP 0:<----- That image is not a PDF, it's an image, at least for now. Check the 4plebs link below to find the PDF.PLEASE READ DA FAQ BEFORE REQUESTING OR SHARING.It will answer 99% of your questions about this thread. If you haven't read it, we will know.STEP 1:Please exhibit good manners. Threads start sliding off the board after a certain number of posts. More posts wasted on being rude means fewer posts available for sharing.STEP 2:Request, share, stay awesome!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97179709Fair enough. Thanks a lot, anon.
Humbly requesting Shadowrun Deus ex Arcana and Deadly Arts.
Requesting Star Trek Adventures Starter Set - Print and Play.Thanks!
>>97177497>>97177459Well, since people were being jerks about it (I really hate the phrase "that's a you problem") I grabbed all the stuff from both of these requests and put it on GF. Except "Beneath the Canals," whatever that is, because it wasn't in the archive index./d/HMpepH
Requesting Exodus Encyclopedia. Very grateful to have gotten the core book, but the Encyclopedia is supposed to be the monster manual and I have yet to see it out there. Thanks in advance!
>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.
>>97177667>I like the current Mantic dwarfs and undead.I also like the Dwarf and Undead armies. Hell, I own a moderate sized Elf army which I like the design of. I had been planning on buying into into the Dwarf army, but those bastards deleted all the cool metal stuff after making me wary by upping their prices to GW-tier for minis.
>>97178183Same here. Luckily there's loads of solo games that are very fun.
>>97179954I heard that Silent Death is the best starfighter focused game. Rules you can pirate the minis are still made by em4 as generic spaceships.
>>97177681There is inherent value to cheap shit in large quantities. Even if you have no need them for your project you can use them as:>npc forces in scenarios>terrain pieces. Make these streets busy ! >gift them to new players
>>97180520I already have enough minis for all of that, and I'd rather get more civvy figures for those anyway.
Yu-Gi-Oh! General #589"Kewl Bopz" EditionPrevious thread: >>97075332Most Yu-Gi-Oh! discussion encouraged. Post OC, write dumb fanfics with bad CaC in them, duel each other, have fun, etc.>Yu-Gi-Oh! Online PlayAutomated Sims:●EDOPro website: https://projectignis.github.io/download.html●EDOPro: https://discord.gg/ygopro-percy●YGO Omega: https://discord.gg/duelistsunite●Dueling Nexus: https://duelingnexus.com/●Master Duel: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1449850/YuGiOh_Master_Duel/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97178000Fapping to a Maliss card is likely one of my lowest points so far.
>>97179278Thanks! The considerate flowcharts really help because doubt I would have been able to figure that stuff out on my own. If I somehow win that mat I'll dedicate it to you.I don't know if the store allows people to modify the deck in any way. I'll have to ask.
>>97179386If you're not allowed to modify the decks, then just knowing some general info about the cards will help>Original Charmers and Familiars aren't very good, but they're at least directly supported by the Spell/Traps and can act as a Snatch Steal-like effect in the best(Best) case scenario if you have Unpossessed on the field>Familiar-Possessed suck and you should never rely on them. They were bad in 2005, they're bad in 2025.>Awakening of the Possessed are selectively useful as tech options, and are uniquely some of the only monsters that summon themselves directly from the deck by their own card effects. You'll probably get the most mileage out of Nefariouser and Rasenryu, but Greater Inari can also come in clutch.>"Channeler" Charmers are good searchers in mono-attribute decks, but since they lock you into only activating monster effects of their given attributes, their searches are really freaking bad in this multi-attribute deck. Keep them in your hand for defensive purposes.>Link Charmers are treated as both Charmers and Familiar-Possessed, and benefit from cards that support both of them. They're good for generating advantage and make it really easy to go into Accesscode Talker for a really big swing, but that line is intended for going SECOND, not if you take your turn FIRST. Don't do something stupid like summoning Accesscode on Turn 1.>King's Sarcophagus are the premium offensive power for this deck. Draw into Imsety or King's Sarcophagus and you'll almost certainly just win.
>>97179605And for the (non-Link Charmer) extra deck monsters,>Charmers of the Grand CircleI mentioned before that it's a fairly nice boss monster in the context of this deck, and with the context that you're playing mirrors. In the best case scenario, it puts 5 monsters on your field and lets you do whatever you want, or lets you remove a bunch of cards from your opponent's field. *Easiest* way to get them out is using Link Charmers, which will only net you 2 of it's effects but will still go a long way.>SeleneSelene *can* be a nice card to keep on the field in other, more resilient Spellcaster decks, but like I've previously mentioned a couple of times, the intent is to go into Accesscode Talker. Perks for her is that she can revive a monster on quick effect speed, but I don't really think there's a good target for doing that besides maybe Imsety>Accesscode TalkerHe's a big guy that gets bigger when you use a Link Monster with a big Link Rating as material (Selene). He also does the DAD thing where he can banish link monsters from the GY to non-targeting destroy cards on the field. He is a modern day trump card.>Zombie VampireIt's really funny to me that they included him in this deck. You Xyz Summon him (overlay the card on top of 2 Level 8 monsters), he mills from both decks and you get to summon a monster from among those milled cards. Very in-flavor for a Charmer structure deck.>Silhouhatte Rabbit/AzaruneComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97179605>but that line is intended for going SECOND, not if you take your turn FIRST. Don't do something stupid like summoning Accesscode on Turn 1.In a tournament where it's just the raw decks, do you even want to go first? There's not really all too many cards that enable interaction compared to the number of cards that enable going second, and the Structure as a whole is pretty bricky, so getting both the draw for turn and battle phase just seems a bit better.
Why was XP for gold largely abandoned as a way to reward players?
>>97180208If an archer has been slinging arrows every round in several battles where he doesn't have the opportunity to recover any (if the targets are some sort of fiery beasts or he's been firing from a moving vessel, for example), then it might be interesting for the DM to say something like "Your quiver is starting to feel quite light, and you were made aware earlier that you haven't been able to recover your arrows. I'm going to roll 4d4, and that's how many arrows you have left in your quiver when you next check."Or, they can just completely ignore that detail, just like they're ignoring that the fighter's unmagical sword was used on several gargoyles and it didn't even suffer a single nick. It really just depends on what kind of game the DM is trying to run, but ultimately the goal should be to present challenges and not just inconveniences, and generally an archer having to ration their arrows is an annoying inconvenience that the character would have tried to remedy ahead of time. If they know they're going to be on a ship, for example, they might opt to carry twice or more arrows than they would ordinarily.Players are not their characters, and vice versa, and characters are thinking of a lot of things that the players might not be immediately aware of. While it's good to call attention to these sorts of details as early on as possible, if every character but one steps out into sub-freezing temperatures without a heavy coat or cloak because the one player didn't write it on their character sheet, it really makes less sense for that character to just travel under-equipped than for the player to dock a few silver and write in "kick-ass cloak" as if his character had bought it as soon as he was aware of such rare and esoteric knowledge as "The air in this region can be cold."Remembering to pack mundane things is not really that interesting, and hardly a skill. Woe the group that prides themselves on that.
>>97180325Nope.
>>97180331If the players and DM trust each other, yes. If everyone is fair about it, yes.A player trying to pull a Bill&Ted where they just happen to be carrying a set of ogre-sized manacles upon encountering a BDSM-loving ogre is a step too far, but a reasonable "Since my character has been writing love letters every night, he would have a bottle of ink that I forgot to put on my character sheet. Is it okay if I squeeze that into my bag?" is hardly the place to draw a hard line of "NO, YOU'VE BEEN WRITING THOSE LETTERS IN EITHER YOUR BLOOD OR SHIT, YOUR CHOICE."
>>97180408Nope.
>>97180408Bill&Ted?
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.
>Woodpecker methodDoes it work? What is your personal experience with it? I am thinking about making it my new year's resolution to level up my chess power. Pic to get your attention.
>>97179645you're not meant to play bullet games if you're below 1500-2000 rapid and have well trained pattern recognition
900 elo but I was a little proud of this game. I'm white.
>>97180052It's a waste of time. Do puzzles instead.
>>97180216Isn't the woodpecker method just doing puzzles over and over?
big haul edition▶What is Kingdom Death?Kingdom Death is a tabletop miniature brand stared by Adam Poots and operated by himself and his Team that later spun off into a miniature based bored game funded by two very successful Kickstarter campaigns.▶What is Kingdom Death: Monster?Monster is a Nightmare Horror cooperative boss battler/miniature hobby game for 1-4 players about hope in a strange world of bizarre monstrosities and perpetually darkness. Players take on the role of survivors that band together to form a settlement, fighting monsters, crafting weapons and gear, and developing their civilization to ensure survival from generation to generation.Prologue Narration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNLc8dHv0AcThe Game is broken up into 3 phases:1. During your Hunt Phase your band of survivors traverse the world of KD in pursuit of their quarry.2. After successfully tracking your quarry you will begin the Showdown Phase, where you must fell these horrific creatures in order to acquire precious resources.3. After the battle, your survivors wander home with loot in hand to begin the Settlement Phase. Arm yourself by developing new weapons and bizarre structures to prepare for next year's hunt.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97176292What in the absolute fuck did you do to your floor anon?
>>97177540That's from a kickstarter update, Poots took that photo. And yeah there's bent vinyl flooring underneath it, it's like he had a roll of it and put it under the plastic so it would look better, but it ran into something at the end of it? I don't know, it's weird, but that comes with the territory I suppose.
>>97179582>And yeah there's bent vinyl flooring underneath itthere's no bent vinyl flooring on that photo, it's a part of the image that was either stretched intentionally (for whatever reason) or an artifact
>>97179833he probably just needed more area to write on so he stretched the upper part
>>97176924That's the fun part, we're poised to win it. We've hit exceptional luck at a certain point and amassed a cast of unkillable champions with sick gear. But we haven't played that campaign in what I can only guess is 8 years.
Felt cute, decided to run through another retro licensed choose-your-own-adventure. But first...ATTENTION MODS - THIS IS NOT A QUEST THREAD, BUT A GAMEBOOK STORYTIMEOkay, now that that's out of the way, let's begin...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6dNULgQe48
>>97180109I mean, obviously you can't mix Chaos Emeralds with plastics, but still...
>>97180301>Yeah, great, whatever. Just give us a cool spaceship already.OR>Yeah, great, just get rid of them already - they're all evil and leaking non-canonicity everywhereOR>Yeah, great, are you SURE there isn't a teleporter anywhere?
>>97180374https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TYJyCCO8Dc
>>97180418
>Let's get the little fucker!OR>Put on our spacesuits first
How is there a vampire in Lorwyn Edition>Banshttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-november-10-2025>NewsThe 2025 Magic Con and Pro Tour Schedule:https://www.magic.gg/news/the-2025-magiccon-and-pro-tour-schedule>Metagame Mentor: The Winners and Losers from Standard's 2025 Rotationhttps://www.magic.gg/news/metagame-mentor-the-winners-and-losers-from-standards-2025-rotation>Spoilershttp://www.magicspoiler.com/https://mythicspoiler.com/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Don’t worry, I’m sure Gavin means to print powerful white cards into Standard NEXT decade for real this time
>>97180441based UB bringing Magic back to its roots
>>97180365> How long until premodern is used to sell expensive Illustration rares of old staples.Or proxies become widely excepted and you can have a white weenie yinglet deck that runs crusade.
>>97180468>>97180365forgot image
>>97180444>Symbiote>Pilot>Kangaroo>Robot>Spacecraft>Planet
>maximum focus on battles and fighting in small teams>fighting is about reducing each other's invisible HP pools>when characters get downed they can just get up and go back to fighting>every character is a collection of magic powers, whole combat and player expression is about taking turns using their list of cool movesfor how shitty DnD is at replicating fantasy adventures, is it secretly a perfect system to run Battle Shonen type stories? Are there any good Homebrews that do that? Have you ever tried it?
>>97179301Nta but you didn't rebuke his point in the least. I literally can't understand why 5e advocates can get the "observing the rules as they're presented" notion through their thick skull. 5e relies a lot to DM fiat arbitration because the codebooks don't offer a comprehensive framework to work with and that's a fact, at least try to argue your case by saying you can get some extended guidelines/rules in third part supplements, it's a leagues more reasonable argument than "hurr durr, yur dm a shit!".
>>97172082No. But you're retarded enough to think it is, so godspeed.>>97172415Tenra Basho Zero. Its combat it's literally based on the idea that characters are more powerful the more damage they choose to take.
>>97179953This is less of a D&D problem and more of /tg/ problem, because this place is overrun with people who barely know the hobby by way of podcasts and livestreams, and even then only through funny clips. They don't pull from their own experience and instead roughly estimate that if funny e-celeb man who did the epic funny thing that one time can do X, Y, or Z because their GM allowed it, then the correct way to play is to just do whatever you want and play however you want and fuck the rules (because they've never read a fucking rulebook in their lives) because it's all just pretend dice shit anyways. It never occurs to them what a profoundly retarded line of reasoning this is.
>>97172082Honestly, if you want anything that's chuuni af, you want either FATE or MURPG's diceless system.
>>97179953>>97180036You're confused. I'm advocating rulings over rules and calling modern DMs and RPG games shit.
The Three Emperors EditionPrevious thread:>>96939608>Thread Question:Do you plan any big projects for the next year already?>Community Summary of Wargames:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11JoUpGIRDp5DZdgJ24rijKHgyY-qvvR5QnVtHIp57Tw/edit?usp=sharing>List of Historical Tactical, Strategic, and Military Drill treatises:http://pastebin.com/BfMeGd6R>ZunTsu Gameboxes:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97177126I'm visually impaired, so maybe that's why I couldn't find Checkpoint Charlie in the Rick Roll trove.It's a useful trove, and far from a rick-roll in the sense of just containing a Rick Astley video
>>97177645To be fair, I added Checkpoint Charlie in Team Yankee folder after your request.
>>97177126Cheers Anon, it’s been a while since I’ve been around and wasn’t sure what it was.
>>97170633>Ptolemy armies had Hello Kitty characters on there shields, Chococat being the most popularforgive the slop but I wanted to see what the models would look like
>try my hand at homebrewing my own modern combat skirmish game grabbing ideas from a lot of systems I like >end up sort of just remaking Fistful of Lead
>WOD: "Yes you can play a child character, go ahead, here are the rules for them.">SW: "Yes you can play a child character, go ahead, here are the rules for them.">GURPS: "Yes you can play a child character, go ahead, here are the rules for them.">D&D: "[AUTISTIC SCREECHING]">BRP: "Yes you can play a child character, go ahead, here are the rules for them."Why are D&D players the outlier?
>>97176609There are five advanced editions, and in the olden days the Original and Basic editions. What kind of gameplay are you looking for in an RPG?
>>97153772I strongly suspect that WoD and a lot of WoD tables would not be okay with a child character being subjected to the average events of a WoD campaign. Similarly to D&D, it's a combination of the game having expectations for characters that a child will struggle to fulfill, and people just being uncomfortable with the potential for bad things to happen to children.
>>97175611that's true. A lot of couples were having their first kid by that age.The idea that adulthood starts at 18 is a fairly modern (and arbitrary) one. We could just as easily say it starts at 14 or 25, and those would at least have biological reasoning behind them.
>oh noo, a magical mishap turned your sorceress into a little girl!
>>97179974that should arguably be the best of both worlds, no?If she's mentally a grown woman, then you're not a predator preying on innocents. She's an adult with needs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c817nOaMw1YBut also, still physically a nubile loli.Honestly surprised it's not in horny media more, seems like it'd be a whole major genre of degeneracy. I guess because most pedos WANT to hurt kids, that's part of the allure to them, taking advantage and corrupting and destroying innocence. It's not statutory *rape* anymore if they can give an eager adult consent.>muh 1000 year elf/vampirethat's not the same, because they're still in all respects a child, they're just incredibly long lived. They don't have experience or emotional and intellectual maturity. That's still molesting an innocent, just a very old one. Same for aging down that mentally ages down. Mesugaki gilf in a loli body passes Harkness test it's just kinky as fuck, de-aging a gilf to an exact replica of when she was 11 does not.>kenderI have never in my life seen Kender porn so widespread it definitely is not, and also they're touched in the head to basically be the Lost Boys of Neverland. I know they start pairing up around age 60 out of 100, but if I would never trust one with even so much responsibility as watching a houseplant, that kind of applies to being responsible with themself. I'm gonna count them as mentally deficient for the purposes of willing legal consent unless someone convinces me otherwise.
