>>96766795
What's really funny is that Tauren haven't even been druids for all that long compared to the Night Elves, and they're already this good at it.

>>96764302
3e has a huge amount of playable races, a busted crafting system, unlimited scaling, the biggest homebrew community in tabletop history, books upon books of content and power creep, MULTIPLE videogame adaptions, and optimized builds that literally rely on exploiting rules as written (AKA bug exploits) and they will still scream that it's not "videogamey".

>>96751001
4e?

>>96751001
I went through a WoW phase earlier this year or late last, leveled through a vanilla pserver and got all kinds of into the lore and shit. Apparently these TRPG books are fairly canon and contributive to the overall fiction. You'll find them referenced on the WoW Wikis and shit.

I looked into this pretty deeply, got the books, did sample character creation and combat:
Like a lot of folks have said it's just Warcraft paint on 3e. I was already inundated with 'why did they decide to do this?' 'why is it this way, that doesn't sound right/make sense' questions before I even prepped the first session so I dropped it.

>>96751001
I was a kid, maybe 10 or so when Wrath came out and I was huuuuge into wow. My parent's didn't get it but bought me this game for my birthday and tried to run a campaign for me to play. It didn't go so well and they didn't understand the rules or world much at all, still one of my favorite memories. I could never convince people to give a wow setting a shot by the time I had a ttrpg group in middle school but used to read that book religiously. I still incorporate WoW inspired stuff into my homebrews. Nobody will ever convince me the Silver Hand isn't tight as fuck.

>>96768285
Chaos Halflings, Clan Pestilens, Slayers.

>>96768418
Delves get a bad rap for being so dominant but they're a lot more flexible than welves. Like the woodies repeat the same game plan every game and they're so good at it you can't force them into any alternate play patterns.

Delves get some degree of differentiation with their 4 blitzers they're going to war on different turns according to playstyle and assassins / witches mix up how the turns unfold

>>96768900
That's nice but nobody plays them in exciting or flexible ways, they buy their 4 blitzers and maybe they buy a witch or a runner and then their team is complete! The fucking conversation for development is over the moment an AG4 team gets 4 blitzer pieces, because that's what 90% of coaches will build for.

>>96768835
>human linemen
>bad
you even get a free orc for the line of scrimmage, what's not to love?

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What models am I suppose to use for Giant Rats in Mordheim?

>>96769552
GBAL Black Crusade game set during the Shadow Crusade. My retard squadmates just got done being horrible at RP during downtime last weekend so we're going back into another mission to give them a break so they can sperg over 'muh peak modified bolter' I made some good solar auxilia connections with my WB apothecary though.

>>96769064
>>96769064
I believe that quote is from the lightning fighter, the derivative that was created later on from the Voss Pattern which was a Great-Crusade era design.

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>>96771055
Lathe-class light cruiser. They’ve got it tooled out to punch above its weight, it should be fun.

>>96771628
Nice.

>>96769552
my OW players are leaving their village to go link up with some kriegsmen and imperial-loyalist civilians who have been encircled and under siege from rebels for 10 years. Players are gonna lead a breakout as the rebels are committing to a huge assault from all sides and it should be a massive battle with many casualties

>>96765505
Every animated show takes a while to hit its stride. Clone Wars is the longest in this regard. Bad Batch was pretty good it the gate though.

Anyway best treatment for the Sequels is just focus on original stories using the broadest framework.

Imagine Clone Wars without Obi-Wan or Anakin.
>>96765602
Also my favorite artstyle personally. I love that flash animation look.
>>96765920
Personally I love the idea of clone wars era surplus floods the illegal markets post-war. Not unlike the post USSR collapse.

**penis lesbian butt fart**

>>96770860
Alright, who put on the TCW marathon?

>>96735511
>TQ: Tell me about your GAMES.
Playing FFG swRPG, a (slow) campaign.
We're in the mid-late Imp era, currently doing some underworld stuff.
But we appear to have a Rebel contact, and pretty much all our PCs do not like the Empire (anymore)

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>>96769747
life does that to you

>>96771242
Because the group plays BA.

>>96771257
>Why do you play BA?
>Because we play BA.
No shit. Why?

>>96771456
Iunno man, I didn't start the group and I'm not about to pester everyone into switching systems when we're already having fun.

>>96771456
>playing BA vs not playing anything

Give it a rest you autistic faggot

>>96771137
Why a cat and not a dog?

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Do it.

>>96769312
>play?

>>96766149
>Kommando Big Choppa gets 5 attacks
Oh cool so now there's actually a reason to use it over the Kl-
>loses Punishing
>Klaw gets shock
O... kay?

>>96766149
Didn't KT already get tweaked quite recently? All the updating is all so tiresome

>>96771833
The last balance update was in september
Normally they're quarterly, but this one they put out for the worlds tournament
It may or may not even get a public release prior to the next quarterly update

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>>96762725
If you are so miserable, change the hobby, instead of whining online to random strangers

>>96764500
>Use published adventures
Kill yourself.
A boilerplate scenario that was cobbled 30 seconds before the session starts is better than the best premade.

Player determine what their goals are. Not you. You're the referee, not the author.

>>96766066
Why would you plan ahead? You don't know where the players are going to decide to go or how they'll decide to interact with things and people.

>>96766066
Why do you think there's a "route I want"? That's counterproductive to the reason I run games.

What do you mean by "start the quest"?

>>96701979
Been playing a Labyrinthus game, overworld exploration with dungeon delving and such. Been a lot of fun, added some of my own hexcrawling mechanics and tables to the game to tweak it for me. Got a dreamchild pretty boy thief running around with a priestess of Shun-n'arig he fucked so hard she followed him out of a temple, a snakewoman farmer that jumped him in the night and a teenage wildling they saved from a tentacle monster.
Anyway, they've currently broken/bluffed their way into a dungeon controlled by Malus Servus, trying to find a treasure that was stolen by bandits then stolen by the malus when we found the bandit camp overrun.
>Find a sleeping quarters
>4 beds, 2 malus, asleep. Attitude: Neutral - move away
>Sneak past them, almost wake them. Very tense rolls.
>Open a door into a trapped corridor.
>First trap, some kind of pressure plate.
>Easy to find. Easier to disarm.
>Fuck up the roll, but not bad enough to trigger it
>Negative event happens.
>Oracle says Patrol Spells
>There is a magic trap right ahead, I'll have it triggered by something from the wandering monster list that suddenly appears
>roll 4 basic malus
>They hit the trap

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Is Fantasy Grounds a good option if I want to run a game with a small group of people? By that I mean from 1 to like 2 with me as the DM
Does it go on sale often? Also, would it be a copout if I leave the entire sex thing as theater of the mind buiss without trying to gameify it?

>>96767185
ok so demons have guns
is that better?

>>96770926
>added some of my own hexcrawling mechanics and tables to the game to tweak it for me
How did you tweaked the hexcrawl? Also I don't think you have to roll Attitude for Creatures who sleep.

>>96770970
If you want to spend money then buy Foundry, which works way better, especially if you want to play with multiple people since they don't need to buy it too, or even 1v1 since you can tweak the experience better.
>Also, would it be a copout if I leave the entire sex thing as theater of the mind buiss without trying to gameify it?
It's your choice but have you tried the gamefied systems before deciding which one to do? Also what about the other one you are gonna play with? What's their opinion.

femboy apocalypse is still probably my greentext thing to come out of here in a long while
had good energy

>>96756991
>Sorry, I realized I hadn't actually posted the link to the new Doc
It happens. Thanks BTW!

>>96756991
Any major changes to >>96570050

>>96563345
How might one get players who are unfamiliar with this interested without them just decrying it as magical realm shit?

>>96766023
I removed shield mother, and replaced it with Lawbringer.

I've also cut out some of the extra, less tonally 'appropriate' subclasses to cut down on bloat.

Still need to add the Craving roll table and/or boons&banes in. If anyone has any more ideas for those, that'd be sick.

Might do a little more flavour text editing tonight as well, but fingers are utterly fucked from MMA.

>>96756449
>>96760767
I'm dubious atm about writing whole new rules, though I do very much like the idea of 'the really big, eldritch-empowered lady is just using herself like a battering ram'.
Any ideas on what subclasses or veteran classes could/should be repurposed? I've noted them down in the legend.

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>>96769096
Probably not going to happen, unless your players already have a preg fetish. Maiesta is kind of a hard sell for most people. With Nechronica you can at least lean into the horror aspect and a unique damage system where you lose body parts instead of HP, instead of focusing on all the PCs being zombie lolis, but aside from being one of the few games that make a summoner type class work, Maiesta doesn't really have much appeal outside of being the pregnancy RPG. Your best bet is probably try finding players on the official discord.

>>96770284
https://digimoncard.com/digimon_liberator/en/character/
If you click onto the Digimon on each of these it'll show their line as it appears in Liberator. You can click on any of their icons to go to their reference book entry.

They're not all new, Vemmon's is entirely pre-existing (but was only added to the reference book because of Liberator), some only have 1-3 new Digimon. Some like Maquinamon are yet to appear in the game still.

Let's say that, hypothetically, I was retarded and refused to play the floodgate rookies in a deck with Dark Animal as a base. What other rookies would I play, besides Goblimon?

>>96771298
What's the top end? Goblimon works great no matter what. Labramon as a 1-2 of to recycle anubismon can be helpful. Floodgates are good in the dark animal engine because it's easy to reuse them

>>96771330
Perhaps it is Leviamon, among other things that aren't nearly as good.

>>96770555
Vemmon isn't the only line to be entirely preexisting Digimon, there's also Omekamon/Omnimon X.

>>96771222
those who reply with anything other than on topic discussion are making the thread worse. Using language anything more flowery than "off topic" just wastes everyone's attention.
This. Trolls always claim they want to protect the thread from x nebulous threat when they're the ones that are ruining it.

>>96771751
Forgot my meme arrow >

Here's a 1st-level spell, intended to be roughly on par with Sleep and Charm

Transmogrify (The Artifice of Substance)
Level: 1 R: 30’ D: 1d6 turns +1/level AoE: one object or mundane unintelligent creature that can fit in a 1.5’ cube
Target becomes another object of comparable weight and size. Reverts to original form if touched by another creature, more than 30’ from caster, or if the caster wills it.

>trying to remake the b/x tables for a computer program
>realize there's no real formula to them, numbers inconsistent
like I can't just say Fighter.THACO = 19 - ((Math.Floor(level / 3) * 3)
I really don't want to have to manually write all these rows and columns, bros...

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>>96771816
>numbers inconsistent
Math pro tip: Anything set that is inconsistent over a small range can be reduced to a formula, provided you're willing to make it hideous. https://www.futilitycloset.com/2021/09/02/anscombes-quartet/
I bet with a bit of work you can come up with a formula that produces the correct output every time.

>>96771816
It's a table, just punch it in, nerdlinger.

This new combined chess championship seems interesting, though I fear that it might start supplanting the actual championship. The idea does stoke a (quite unrealistic) idea I've had for some time: a tournament where several chess-like games (either variants or even other nation's traditional versions, like shogi). Obviously the logistics of this would be nightmarish, and probably involve picking and counterpicking different games in a match (which would require players to play sets rather than single games all the time).

>>96767685
>fast time controls
>no Freestyle Chess
Totally Useless Tour

>>96767865
Honestly I think that Fischer Random has a bright future, if people are willing to embrace it. I think the main reason people hate classical is because people have done too much memorization.

Wesley vs Vincent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ka7Gxj_5qo

Checkmate felt like watching an esports event on twitch.tv in 2018. Much prefer the "classier" settings where there isn't mob of screeching apes but I did like the faster time controls.

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>>96771619
Well, fuck. Let's try that again with a less retarded airplane.

>>96771619
Fire bombers fight fires with those where I'm from. They're seaplanes with landing gear.

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>>96771199
If you look for /slop/ on 4plebs, sometime around September-October 2023, I think, I did a series of elf worlbuilding posts, presented as in-universe magazine articles. More their current situation than past history, but you might find them interesting.

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>>96771764
I'll have to look that up sometime. I arrived to /slop/ at the start of 2024, so I'd have missed that thread.

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>>96718565
This image is super cool.

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>>96760459
It definitely is. A CoC game isn't meant to be fighting otherworldly terrors all the time, it's about foiling cults of 90% man 10% fishman. You just grab the scary mythos creatures, the minor ones like Yithians, Mi-go, or Hounds of Tindalos to be whatever you want or you can make mundane creatures into other things, turn wolves into chupacabras or whatever.

>>96738706
But this thread is (allegedly) about running a "Dark Academia" game, & FPBP is right, just use CoC. You already know you want low stakes, it's up to the GM to keep them low, make guns rare, make only low damage weapons available. I don't know much about Gumshoe so I won't comment, but CoC is purpose built for playing professors or students investigating weird cults.

Overall though you said you want to run a game & I respect that you're trying to run something instead of begging for a game to play. So what I think you should do is really make what the students are studying important to the adventure. The killer wrote a note in Latin or Ancient Greek as a clue, or used a certain poison or method of killing the target only a biology student would know. It helps reinforce the setting, it makes the players feel extra special & useful because no one else in the party has that knowledge & it can help them narrow down the killer even if they don't get the clue, because now they have a rough guess of where the killer could be found searching through the university's departments or enrolled students.

>>96738706
What the fuck is dark academia? You study for exams but also your teacher is a vampire or some shit? Your car broke down and you have to walk to class, but it broke down because of a wizard? What is the difference between this and normal school?

>>96742550
Nobody has mentioned a system, how do you know the players will ever be powerful?

>>96747324
https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/145023/top-10-steampunk-games

>>96755241
So it's just school but rainy? That's supposed to be dark?