Palladium Games and Rifts General! /PGaRG/The world is a broken, post-apocalyptic wasteland destroyed by the eruption of inter-dimensional portals, rifts in the fabric of space-time and ley lines which crisscross the world. Demon & alien invaders have poured out of the rifts to destroy human civilization and claim the Earth. Now the wasteland has had 300 years to partially recover, and civilization has returned to the world; but not just human civilization: alien empires, monster kingdoms, lost time travellers, lands of mutants, demonic overlords and wizards have arisen from the ashes, all trying to rebuild the world in their own image!RIFTS! The science fantasy world of post-apoc cyborgs, wizards, dragons, ninjas, giant mecha, super-nazis, robot ninjas, vampires, underwater kingdoms, remnant human supertech civilizations and everything you can imagine all rolled into one setting where interdimensional RIFTS have pierced Earth's fabric and turned it into a playground for aliens and monsters!Plus other Palladium Games about superheroes, zombies, classic fantasy, supernaturals investigation and more. Talk about:>RIFTS(tm)>Heroes Unlimited>Palladium Fantasy>Beyond the Supernatural>Dead Reign>Robotech (lol)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
What would be a better name for them than Republicans? I really don't want to get into [current year] politics with my group every time they're brought up. >Restorationists - too nerdy>Redeemers - too Christian>Revivers - sounds like a healer group>Old Americans - sounds derogatoryI'm scratching my head here.
>>96642659Old Patriots/PatriotsDemandEagles/Eagle Guard/Eagle... something
>>96642872>American EaglesNow that sounds truly patriotic, retro, and formidable!
>>96566961Shonner was right about everything
>>96642659>Revivers - sounds like a healer groupI don't know, I think that's a good one. It's better than The Holdouts or Former American/Latin Alliance Society (FALAS).
I've really been enjoying reading through Runequest, so I don't understand why it seems so underrated in modern gaming.There doesn't really seem to be much interest in the current edition compared to early ones.I was hoping that there could be more excitement over its potential.Especially with the changes coming.
>>96634928>I see nothing desirable whatsoever in keeping up with a setting where nothing you do in game could ever matter at all because the mary sue is already destined to ruin the setting in short order.So just decide that he doesn't? If you're the GM then you could have Argrath die off screen in session one and continue however you want.
>>96639329I already do. I'm saying i'm getting pissed with their focus on it and I feel actively disinclined to buy their stuff due to it.
>>96640268Really, what focus on it? Outside of King of Satar they don't really have any official writing on the future of the game after the game start. Just up to about a year after 1625 with the death of Kallyr and the uncertain future of Dragon Pass it brings. Barely any of their RQ:G stuff even alludes to it. Just that Argrath is an up and coming major power player after the Prax rebellion.
>>96642878We saved Kallyr in our game. There’s an official adventure where you go kill cursed ZZ revenant and take a piece of Ernalda’s mirror which grants one use divine intervention, no roll, no POW loss, no question asked.
>>96634796a few hundred years is a long time still a lot of stuff to build up with still not the longest time for a generational game
red bitches edition▶What is Kingdom Death?Kingdom Death is a tabletop minature 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: [YouTube] Kingdom Death: Monster - Prologue (https://youtu.be/FNLc8dHv0Ac)The 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.
>>96641127the problem is that when I pitched that to my old group, the DM went "umm no we do it my old fashioned way where everyone sits there bored as we go turn by turn"and then when I DM'd, that same person went "umm no this is too much for me to understand please do it the lame way instead"I don't run with that group anymore.
>>96639706Plastic kits are good, especially the later ones. But I'm going to disagree with the other anon about photoresin. While the details are magnificent, it's absurdly fragile. You might think well that's just the trade off for the convenience of resin printing at such high levels of details. Resins have come a long way and there exists far more flexible materials. But no matter how careful you are something is likely to snap like a thin piece of hair or a sword either in your hands or in transit which happened to my first run Sci-fi Pervical. My Lantern Armor Aya broke in 5 places and 1 of them was from the rest was during the painting. I've had better luck with deathgrey stuff, but at 39usd I better get my moneys worth of miniature tits and ass. If the resin kit comes with a "beta" card, you can just wait for it to come into the plastic eventually. The detail won't be as crisp and you might end up buying a more expensive kit because it might come with a painters scale model, but it'll save you from all the breakage issues. Maybe it's just my bad luck. And even despite all the bullshit with Aya, that model is still my fav in my painted collection enough to also buy the plastic kit to paint at some pointtl;dr excellent details. fragile material
>>96641366D&D is full of limp dick faggots like that, thats why I stop playing, can't get a decent group for shit on this day and age.
Finished Lucy, moving on to Allister. Ezra and Zachary will be painted by the other players after tomorrow session. We are going to try and add dung beetle knight when it comes in.
>>96641366>old fashioned waythat's really the thing, B/X *is* the old-fashioned way. Individual initiative is an AD&D innovation.
What is the best aesthetic for a human male fighter?
>>96645329>>96645336>Orcs pretending to be humans.Sad.>>96646091Stop projecting you gameless orc.
>>96644574>My face? Generic.>My armor? Maille.>My weapons? Sword and board.>My tactics? Full attack every round.>My plot hooks? None.>My relatives? All dead.>My hobbies? Brooding and gear maintenance.>My party? I don't feel about them in any particular way.Yeah, it's Gaming time.
>>96644574anachronistic
>>96644574>draw a girl>call it a human male fighter
>>96644574You have the whole "For Honor" game for it.For Japanese vibes I also like Sekiro and Onimusha outlooks.Prince of Persia trilogy for fantasy Middle East.The Witcher for two-handers.
How would you fix Angron's lore?
>>96646753His Primarch book
>>96616460The problem with Angron is that Khorne is too one note. Have him act with some actual honor or respect. Maybe have Khorne be the least ‘chaotic’ chaos god, their faction honest in its dealings. Have Angron empower weak humans or their worlds, or aid in starting rebellions against the Imperium. Let him ‘save’ vulnerable worlds only for the inquisition to wipe them out anyway.
>>96616460Instead of just yoinking him away from his buddies to die, have the Emperor and co arrive above Nuceria too late to save anyone worth saving other than Angron, and judge the planet itself to be beyond hope of redemption. Angron just wants to die with the rest of his brothers and sisters in a final blaze of glory; the Emperor wants to save his son and rescues him via teleporter (he does not deploy Custodes or Marines to the surface because it'd just be a waste of life- or at least ammunition- just to kill a few scumbags in person when Angron can be rescued "cleanly" much more easily for literally no downside).I'd also make Big E much less cold towards Angron, actively trying to reach out to his son. Perhaps he eventually decides he is a lost cause, but not out of callousness; the realization he cannot save Angron causes him unimaginable grief and pain, the kind that would destroy a lesser man- the fact he has to try and keep going makes him appear heartless to others, when the truth is he cannot afford to be seen as weak when in private, he weeps for his mutilated son..On Angron's part, there is a rational part of him that understands the Emperor's decision to save him was the right one (or at least done out of good intent), that loves him as a father and wants to keep living so his comrades' deaths were not in vain. Unfortunately the Nails are slowly destroying his brain, and the literal permanent neurological damage combined with the trauma of his life on Nuceria and the grief of his fellow rebels' deaths mean he gradually loses the rational side of himself, until eventually it just doesn't exist anymore; not that he's just a snarling animal, but rather that the part of him that loved his father has been convinced by the Nails it never existed, and his heart has become a vessel for bottomless hatred- of the Emperor, of mankind, and of himself.TLDR: Keep the self loathing and brain damage but with actual tragedy instead of Big E being rarted and evil.
>>96616472FpbpAlso>>96616476
>>96645000>truths I don't like are bait!
The Great Hunger Edition>What is Trench Crusade?An alternate weird history 28mm/32mm tabletop skirmish game still in a pre-release playtesting phase but with the full release slated for this year. Based on the art and lore of Mike Franchina, whose illustrations you may have seen floating around on /tg/ for a several years now, and designed by Tuomas Pirinen, one of the original creators of Mordheim. It's grimdark, it's visceral, it's awesome, and it's very Blanchitsu.>What Trench Crusade is notTC not an excuse for you to discuss IRL religion, history that didn't occur in the game, culture war shit, or discord bullshit on /tg/. Keep it on topic.>What's the QRD on the background?The Knights Templar turned heretic and opened the Gates of Hell when they took Jerusalem during the First Crusade. Over 800 years later the war is still ongoing as technology has developed to a pseudo diesel-punk WW1 standard and a third of Humanity has sided with the Infernal Princes.>How do I get started?All the files are free online, but are split between the website and the discord. They have all been collected here for your convenience:https://mega.nz/folder/70QH0BBa#Eg-blxYQKkY_C02wErnFTQComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96647317>>96635718Tinglit Coin Armor is fucking rad and scary.>>96635745I'd go all-in on 1920s decadence (suits, tommy guns, barely-disguised alcohol trade under the guise of giving out red wine) given that the first US Megachurch was born in 1923; you can also go further back and go on the Spiritual Revival in the 1800s that brought about the Mormons
>>96648151>anarcho-primitivist machine armour
>>96648011To be fair, once you already have a 'normal guy' faction there really isn't any point in adding more.
>>96648183>anarcho-primitivist mechanized heavy infantry or communicant
>>96647861Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H96XcNWKZVgBy a Reverend, too!
Why did Dungeons and Dragons styled tabletop roleplaying take until the 1970s to invent? I know they had tabletop wargames before that as far back as the 17th century, but what was so hard about making the next step to personalized characters going on adventures with stats? Die, paper, pens/pencils, figures, etc are all cheap to manufacture. Minor nobility or even knights would have access to all they needed, they could even store stats on a chiseled piece of rock, stack counters as a record, or use an abacus if they were really broke. They had wargaming with figurines way back stretching centuries, but they lacked the imagination to take it a step further with a full adventure?Is it really an egg of Columbus situation where it's so intuitively obvious when discovered, but hard to actually discover? Or was it just sheer bad luck in that it remained undiscovered for so long?
>>96640093found the storyshitter kek
>>96640322We've had board games, and parlour games, and improv storytelling, and theater of varying complexity. Kids playing games of pretend and having certain characters they wanted to act as is a somewhat old concept too. However, I don't think there's ever been anything recorded that feels like a definitive, concrete example of a sort of proto-roleplaying game. Murder Mystery dinner games come close, but it still feels like the actual structure and concept of a group of people gathering regularly to collectively play or be guided through an adventure or a narrative premise, or something like that, didn't truly exist until wargames became a thing, and then got closer once Braunstein hit a very small scene.
>>96627640MF!I literally only now have noticed the dragon has one retarded horn despite have seen this art for decades
Maybe there were some that did exist but got buried in the sands of time. There could've been some in ancient India, for all we know.
>>96627721We've had roleplaying for ages. Medieval tournaments were hosted with Arthurian themes, with entrants costuming themselves and taking on the character of various Arthurian knights, as one example.
2026 lineup editionPrevious: >>96598474>News & RemindersThrough the Omenpaths is outArena Anthologies 1 & 2 now available in the storeComplete one of three activities by September 30 to get Fleem cosmetics; see announcements for detailshttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/announcements-september-22-2025>Useful Linkshttps://pastebin.com/QFA0hqaA>TQWhich 2026 set are you most excited for?
>>96647701>>96645850>>96645483you need this to make mayhem
>>96648267
is there anything happening in standard i saw there was a new mono blue deck with the wolf land guy
>>96648354me in left
i've been drafting all day and i haven't seen any of the spiderman flip cards
>+++ADMINISTRATUM PASS KEY ACCEPTED+++>Loading message...Welcome back, revered clerk of the Administratum.Your efforts in compiling the information on [Vokaris Sector] and its eight subsectors have been received with satisfaction, and thus you are encouraged to continue your holy assignment to collect information about this sector in our grand Imperium.A brief reminder that as data comes in via the servitors around you, you will have to compile it and make this sector whole again.May the God Emperor continue to guide you clerk Anon.Hello there, Anons of /tg/. If anyone is still interested in this fun project, here is the whole sector - updated with the discovered planets so far - where we can continue to create together, using the planet generator found on 1d6chan.>https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Planet_generatorThe previous thread:>>96616211
Rolled 5, 9, 8, 10 = 32 (4d10)>>96647951
Rolled 1, 11, 11, 3, 5, 12 = 43 (6d20)>>96648058
>>96648058>>96648064>The planet has lots of recent ruins from a recently genocided minor xenos race, some of the xenos still live in remote areaswhich may explain why it is a cemetery world, I guess no one realizes there is still xenos on the planet otherwise they would at least have a militia>The planet has particularly vicious wildlife or imported verminbut apparently not dangerous enough to bother having any sort of armed forces>no genetic quirks>The Emperor is depicted as a sun god, suns everywhere and an obsession with stained glass and natural light>Many of the planet’s inhabitants are fanatical about a particular recreational sport>Most people live underground or in large structures with no windowsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96648117We didn't get any of the funnier results, but it did help add some nuance.We should do these rolls for the other planets, and also do the defense and adeptus rolls we skipped on certain planets.Also maybe redo some of the population rolls like >>96642468 suggested.
>>96647951Did you add the -6 to the d100 rolls due to the planet being at a low imperial tech level?
>hating matt ward>hating logarWhats a better midwit filter?
>>96638987assassins fill a different role. stealth maries are reconnaissance
>>96634165Realizing the Pontius youtuber is not here for lore, but motivated by bitterness and just wants a fight.
>>96636474Better than any "official canon" shit about RG.
>>96635393Conversely, there would not have been a cool 40K setting without Lorgar and he did kill 200K Ultrasmurfs in the opening of a battle.
>>96636792A guy who wrote some ridiculously masturbatory lore for Ultramarines and Grey Knights, to go with retarded broken rules for the latter in order to drive sales.
Artifacts and Evocations Edition>What is Exalted?An epic high-flying role-playing game about reborn god-heroes in a world that turned on them.Start here:http://theonyxpath.com/category/worlds/exalted/>That sounds cool, how can I get into it?Read the 3e core book (link below). For mechanics of the old edition, play this tutorial:http://mengtzu.github.io/exalted/sakuya.htmlIt’ll get you familiar with most of the mechanics.>Gosh that was fun. How do I find a group?Roll20 and the Game Finder General here on /tg/. good luck>Resources for Third Edition>3E Core and SplatsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96636261>>96602009The Ranks of Exalted Sorcerous & Necromantic Might as Per Our Current Understanding>A Mortal Could Do This Tier>Foxbinder1st Circle Sorcery>Dowsing in the Wishing Well TierDragon-blooded1st Circle Sorcery default, can instead learn 1st NecromancyLiminal1st Circle Necromancy default, can instead learn 1st SorceryDream-souled1st Circle Sorcery default, can instead learn 1st Necromancy if Ideal is sufficiently bleak>1-Way Teleport TierThousand Venoms Mistress/March LordComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96647791I am specifically referring to the possibility that 3e expanded the number of CONFIRMED powers of the swords, not implying the Hidden Judges didn’t exist until then.
>>96647089>And we know that anything that does around Exigents, doesn't actually meet their expectationsWe do? How? The fuck were they even thinking with those initial goals?
>>96636261>>96602009>>96648359>left a tier blankit's the Puppeteer Exigent, jesus christ(cont...)>Robe & Wizard Hat TierChosen of Masks (Faces) Exigent1st Circle Sorcery; can learn charms to learn 2nd Sorcery/Necromancy as appropriate greater mask (vague as to if both are possible but probably not)>Running Clean or Filthy TierAlchemical2nd Circle Sorcery; charms require permanent install; apostates can learn 1st Necromancy & either/or 2nd sorcery/necromancy, again permanent installs>All & Nothing TierBleak Warden ExigentEither/or 2nd Sorcery/Necromancy (may be bad wording)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96648359>>96648494>>96605043>>96605051>>96619907>>96620018>>96602009if there's a meaningful difference in the final version of miracles i'll update these then. but if not, i'll probably hold off until more splats come out
What is the best aesthetic for a female Druid?
>>96648196She's horned... But also monke.How strange.
>>96648196Traditional games?
>>96648196Barefoot, long messy hair, feathers all over, forgive me for using AOS art but it gets the point all over
>>96648196I’m glad they put some eye candy in that film. Even if they cut Drizzt for bullshit reasons.
>>96648360Looks like a Chinese dude with a long beard.
So, now you need to decide. Do you close your eyes to what you've seen and go back to sleep? Or do you come with this psycho burnout and do the impossible against the unbelievable and keep the future at bay for another day? What's it going to be? In or out?Yeah? You dumb shit.>Thread Question:What was your Cell's introduction to The Program/The Conspiracy? Did you use a pre-written scenario, or make your own thing?>Previous thread:>>96285079>Unofficial Resources:https://delta-green.neocities.org
>>96640825Saturnine Chalice maybe
>>96640629Chroma run locally with a prompt like: 'a still from a video of a mass of rotting flesh and limbs and organs crawling in front of a dark gas station at night. Motion blur' and the use image to video with klingai with the same prompt minus the part about it being a still. Pretty simple. Other good tricks are 'cctv footage', 'ring doorbell footage', 'camera flash' or 'illuminated by a flashlight'.You could probably do the video part locally with WAN, but personally my PC shits the bed when it tries to load the text encoder on the CPU. I'm sure there's a better way of doing that.
>>96640663>>96640688>>96640721>FBI is well known for using "sting ops" to tricking losers into shooting their schools, veteran groups into doing """domestic terrorism""", and creeps into trading CP.But glowies skulking around Renfair with swords and period accurate beige shorts and tactical sunglasses to trick wannabe alchemist into felony drug charges is too much.
>next OP is taking place in OhioI'm gonna shit a brick if we investigate attic goblins in Akron.
I've got an idea for a plot hook and I'd like to know if there's already something similar I could steal from, and if not, I'd like to hear your ideas on what to do with it:>a mysterious dead body is found>15 days later another corpse shows up, seemingly a twin of the recently found guy>10 days later a third corpse comes up in the same region, the story of triplet John Does starts making the rounds in the local newspapers>players are called in 8 days later when a DG friendly luckily stumbles upon a fourth exact same corpse before anybody else
Battlefield Assets EditionPrevious thread:>>96631953>Legacies:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>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)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96648304I can paint white, this is an unfinished WE project I did like 2 years ago or something where I was practicing airbrushing. Never did weather the models, but the paintjob is quite clean.
>>96647979>bench 350>play WB, SoH, WE and UMguess those can combine>>96648304anon, airbrushing removed the skill wall to paint white long long ago.
>>96648273>>plasma pistol: 12" FP1 S6/7 AP5/4 D1/1, improves to AP4/3>>plasma blaster: 18" FP2 S6/6 AP5/4 D1/1, improves to AP4/3(?)>>plasma gun: 24" FP2 S6/7 AP4/4 D1/1, improves to AP3/2>>twin plasma gun: 24" FP2 S6/7 AP4/3 D1/1, improves to AP3/2>>plasma cannon: 36" FP1 S6/7 AP4/3 D1/1, improves to AP3/2>>gravis plasma cannon: 36" FP1 S7/8 AP4/3 D1/2, improves to AP3/2>>plasma bombard: 24" FP1 S6/7 AP4/4 D1/1, improves to AP3/2>>heavy plasma bombard: 36" FP1 S7/8 AP4/3 D1/2, improves to AP3/2>>executioner plasma destroyer: 36" FP1 S8/9 AP4/3 D1/2, improves to AP3/2>>hellfire plasma cannonade: 36" FP6/1 S6/7 AP4/3 D1/2, improves to AP3/2>>omega plasma array: 36" FP6/1 S7/8 AP4/3 D2/2, improves to AP3/2All of these should be Drain (X) where (X) is the number of Game Turns they take to recharge after being fired, during which they may not be used as part of a Shooting Attack including as part of a Reaction.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96648387no thanks, I think it's pretty settled plasma has safe and dangerous, and moreover I despise bookkeeping on weapons in games over like a dozen modelseven if I can handle my army and keeping tabs, there's no guarantee my opponent can on his, and games where you have to constantly remind your opponent what they can/can't do- and worst of all, if they misremember something of your army and suddenly feel cheated over itI like one use gear and abilities, but big games with lots going on is a nightmare to track with reloadsunless it's like a historical and that coordination is a core mechanic of the game, then it's really fun
>>96647498Well, what's really fucked, is that guy can't take his helmet off, because the planet has a virus that rots you so fast as if you fell into a vat of acid. So, he's dead either way from a painful death, but I suppose being cooked to death from your power armor reactor is slightly faster.
and not just some rules-lite onepage systemsAn entire book-wroth of a ttrpg I only know about Basic Fantasy Roleplay
>>96646301Piracy is retarded when there are so many free games that are just better than everything you can pay for.
White Lies 3e for spy stuff, based on White Box.https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/164226/white-lies
Mazes & Minotaurs is great and there is a lot of material beyond the core books in the Minotaur Quarterly.
>>96646301piracy is extra steps compared to just clicking a download button on drivethrou/itch/official websitebut there is more to that thoughcommercial games often are a victim of business decisions that interfere with design decisions
Streamlined Rolemaster clone. Requires also free Lightmaster chart book too.
