How do you justify a "pest race" like goblins or rat people in your setting? Why wouldn't the dominant species make a concentrated effort to eradicate them if they were a problem?
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>>97213989There are six million feral hogs in the US, they reach sexual maturity within six months, have an average of six piglets per litter, and breed three times per year. This means that the hog population can explode within a few years depending on resources and predators.Goblins are the same, they mature fast and breed a lot. A concentrated effort to eradicate them would be like punching the ocean to keep the tide back.>just put a bounty on themThen you get the cobra effect where people will breed goblins for money.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
>>97216261I think a lot of people would breed goblins for free. Some would even pay.
>>97216261>people will breed goblins for money.yeah thats why people would breed goblins...no other reason.
>>97213989>How do you justify a "pest race" like goblins or rat people in your setting?It's just a natural cycle of ecological succession.Many of the "civilized races" in settings were "pest races" in the past: small, fast breeding, adaptable/generalized, living on minimal or undesirable land, and being kept around to do do unpleasant either low-paid work if not outright enslaved. These same qualities however gave them a competitive edge over the other species once resources started to become depleted and conditions declined overall. Quite literally, the more "successful" the civilized races became the more competitive the pest races became.
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>>97216265Hell yes. Thank you! For some reason the name made me suspect something contemporary and very lame. Don't judge a book by its cover I guess. Yes, that is what I was talking about, and I will look forward to playing through this one>>97216273Like I said, I think it's really more an aesthetic thing rather than a material difference. The medium itself is not a poison. There are plenty of normal CYOAs that display the same issues, which vary by the work. What it comes down to is really that I haven't seen one I liked yet, and that I think it overcomplicates the elegant simplicity of a chimage. It seems like interactives are usually made by people who would really be better off making either a video game or a visual novel. It also annoys me that I can't skim it beforehand to find out if it's even worth playing. A couple times I've started one and had it turn into porn after like three sections
>>97216258>I would question whether most interactives (or CYOAs, period) "rely" on the artwork.I think they do, if only slightly. When you see the image, you expect it to be a "preview" of the option itself - your imagination builds around the illustrated idea. Even a simple image of, say, a waifu throwing down a fire punch would imply some sort of aura around your fist, for example. This is something equally valid for CYOAs themselves.>>97216273Keep in mind that this is a personal opinion, the lack of direction and bloat is the worst thing for me.Subpar/industrialized 'graphics' is irrelevant, but the ease of adding options (sometime a click depending on your app) inside those quickly provoke scope creep. Look at the Worm Interactive - it went on and on, adding powers and sources and restrictions and whatnot. Of course it's bad from an attention span standpoint, because the Reader probably won't bother, but the most offensive thing for me is the loss of identity.I want to play Worm, not have powers lifted from JoJo or get the Force or use spellcrafts. Remember how Entropist included things from JJK in v2? Imagine that, but going on and on with the in-unverse consistency getting thinner each time.At the end, you have a sort of giant gestalt without any real direction while your idea could be consensed and streamlined. Like a real CYOA, if you will.
>>97216304>better off making either a video gameI want to but those are HARD ;_;
>>97216315Nonsense. Spooky Starlets guy did it.
>>97216317Not very well, evidently
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>>97216209>So how was you describe Sigmar in Aos since he only appear as cameoAnon, what are you trying to say here?
>>97216236i want to know what sigmar is like his personality and how he usually act
>>97216241Likely you'll want to look into a lot of the E1 sources? Since it does explain who and what Sigmar is.
>>97216264Can you share it thank you
>>97216274I wish I could Anon, but I don't know enough. I just go into AoS. I could recommend some youtube videos but that I feel as if isn't going to scratch your itch.
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>>97215006I saw this thing listed for almost a hundred bucks. What happened, is Long Wang highly playable?
>>97215382was it painted?
>>97215550I was trying to find some good deals on small time online shops and came across one that was selling this boy for ninety, but the rest of their tags were in the 40s. I didn't get why that one was marked so high, just guessing it was because of low supply and high demand in their area.
This is a second OSRG, seperate from the main osrg thread, where you CAN talk about 2e, retroclones, and any osr content you want.This is different than the regular osrg as due to rampant trolling from a handful of bad actors, discussion is impossible.
>>97215633>Anons got any ideas?My idea is that you should ask in the real /osrg/ if you want constructive answers, and sage this one.
>>97213664>>97213685>>97213763>>97213852>>97213884>>97213907>>97214029>>97214210You spent two hours samefagging and yet your shitty "info"graphic is missing the class-specific XP awards.>>97215900Why are you here?
>>97215633A lab with someone floating in a glass chamber, begging for oblivion.
>>97215773Nimow this is what im talking about. Ive already got an idea for this.>long hallway with a 4 way intersection.>path ahead has illusionary wall slam down making them think its blocked>peppers ghost boulder appears down the left hallway>right hallway the party is being funneled into has a pit trap directly next to it
>>97216301Now this*
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Anyone have a copy of Tendencies: Soul and Bone?
Anyone have City of Winter?
>>97215553Legend.
Seeking Solomon Kane, the Monolith version.
Requesting GRIT Fantasy RPG
Without thinking about it, entirely subconsciously, you are trained by Pathfinder and D&D to safeguard your players. You are taught to coddle them! And when does this subconscious teaching happen? Not in ANY dungeon master resource. It happens before your first adventure, before your very first D20 roll.It happens when you create characters.In Pathfinder, character creation takes a ridiculous amount of time. I ran it for about six years, and I saw it take well over an hour, sometimes going up to two for new players. As a GM who understood the system inside and out, I could get it done in about a half hour. Losing a character in a game with such a painstaking character creation process is absolutely devastating. As a GM, you wonder if that person will bother to make a new character, or if they will just leave, and if they do, who will go with them? Will you even have a game afterwards?And enemy statblocks are the same way. You look at these massive text blocks that include three different saving throws, the type of hit dice, types and sub-types of creature, and perhaps most hilariously unnecessary, ALL SIX STATS. Who on earth looks at all that and dares think “I’ll make some monsters of my own!” Please understand, I’m not saying nobody makes their own monsters. I’m saying that it is an undertaking to make a monster with a statblock like that. Figuring out saves, stats, and heaven forbid you want to get CR correct, good luck with testing out that garbage.
>>972158395e's release is closer to pathfinder 1e than it is to us now>>97215768He's right tho, your problem isn't modern game design, it's WotCslop.
You can tell D&D/Pathfinder sucks because not a single videogame does a straight adaptation of the combat rules.
>>97215768I didn't get in via PF or 5e so I don't have this problem. It is obvious when you talk to those players, mind you.
>>97215768All of my players were eaten by wolves, but they died in battle so that gives them a positive karma modifier on their next character reincarnation roll.
Take the Sword World pill, OP. The japs have it all figured out.
Why do lawful "good" players get upset when you remind them that all demons are objectively evil, and therefore must be purged?
>>97215740I hated Frieren because we go from a fun slice of life show to tournament arc #37474 where a bunch of cardboard cutouts show off their basic bitch superpowers
>>97214217Because that sounds like something a LE demon would tell a LG character in a scheme to eliminate/discourage a faltering fellow demon who is considering trying to ascend back to the angelic ranks into even considering seeking an alternate path.Granted, if the demon fails their ascension and slips back into evil, the LG character is still going to have to bust them (likely literally), but you have to give them a shot at redemption in the case it isn't endangering anyone, since each soul you turn away from the Great Adversary(/ies) is one less resource in his(/their) repertoire, while in most settings destroying a demon's physical body at worse puts them in timeout for later mischief: you can't kill them any more then you can kill a bad idea.Assuming your god is anything like the Abrahamic one in morals. If not, sure, go nuts to whatever their teachings are.
>>97215643Ironically, Christian-type demons are rare precisely because they're not so much a race as they are angelic criminals, which completely changes their context.
>>97214667New chapters revealed she's actually an Objective Good spirit existence above demons and even the judeo-christian god, who incarnated for a bit into the world and recently went back.
>>97214217maybe stop playing with leftists then
I hate the new captcha 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.
>>97216141The problem with UBs above all else is that WotC has forgotten that one of the key aspects of trading card games is rarity. Somehow they forgot this despite inventing it.For as long as Magic has existed there have been alters, and while most were cringe shit like a totally unrelated image painted over a card, there were also neat alters because there was a level of effort and also exclusivity. Alters were rare.Then WotC basically started selling more and more "official alters." Some are OK like the borderless shit, people have been doing that for a while. Alternate art, great, it's just more options. Something like UB could have just stayed as alternate art, released occasionally, and it might have even been a treat. Yeah I don't want Spock in my game but maybe I'll see it once in 1000 games and it's just an alternate art for Snapcaster Mage or whatever.Flash forward to today and every other set is UB with hideous art used for all-new giga-meta cards. There is no God.
>>97216141UB as WotC intend is a fucking disgrace not a single thing about it is good or will be good for the game and never has been.Future is already fucked up.
>>97214908I think ante could be done with a digital card game pretty easily but it's probably not worth designing when the market for digital TCGs is fucked as is
>>97216195>I don't really care about art on the card>UNLESS it's licensed
>>97216182GREAT ASS!
Post amazing terrain, amazing tables, and good looking games Rules: no slop!
>>97193526Man the redditors really hated this post. Weird how they keep coming to this cat website just to get mad.
>>97215846Keep coping catcuck
A hand drawn/painted hex map for the Battle of Antietam
>>97216253Down to individual historical farm plots noted in the board
>>97215959>doesn't deny being a redditor>still posting on the cat website>still angry for no discernible reasonCurious!
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So these guys (stealth suits, if you can't see them)Pretty interesting against a marine team. When the enemy can move + dash + shove a heavy plasma incinerator in your face, stealth becomes a lot less safe. Ended up not controlling much on the objectives, which combined with an equal score on tac op, kill op, and primary meant a final score of 10-15.Definitely not a conclusive game in regards to how balanced they are, I made plenty of mistakes, but the stealth was a lot less oppressive than me or my opponent expected.What I want to see now is how they perform against a 2APL team. Losing that extra dash to reach enemies, and not having the same super reliable kill shots that a team like deathwatch has, might make these sneakers a much less fun team to face. I need to see it to confirm it though.
>>97189648Yeah, pls do
>>97208327what a suprise....autistic lore fag complaning again that nobody takes "le epic setting" as serious as he doesrelax man some guys just want to chill and throw some dice.......
>>97215105>relax man some guys just want to chill and throw some dice.......I think that's his point.Who would you rather play against:>I bought canoptek because they're the strongest team in the meta right now>Here are my Necrons, they're apparently the strongest team but I'll go easy on you! Oh you like the colour scheme? Thanks, it took me a while between helping homeless veterans and fostering abandoned grizzly bears. They're actually from my own dynasty, but I've not found a name for them yet
>>97139763I too bought a few hudnred dollars worth of plastic I probably should not have bought.
What is it about? Why is it interesting? Should I care about it?
>>97179274Nigga, anything cool from Forgotten Realms is Greyhawk in originVecna, the demihuman gods, The Underdark, paladins, beholders, mindflayers, owlbears.All appeared in Gary Gygax's world before they were appropriated for FR.
>>97204266>Jesus, they really gayified Greyhawk here.Would you say it's Gaywoke now?
>>97204266Oh a few of these adventures will be at the greater Philadelphia expo, I was actually there last year for a Trump town hall.Maybe I'll go, in spite of Gayified Greyhawk.
Anyone interested in Greyhawk should check out Joe Bloch/GreyhawkGrognard's vidsHe knows Greyhawk like the back of his hand. He's written a lot of material on DMsGuild for Greyhawk as well.
>>97213386Thanks for the recommend, Anon.
Men who make/roleplay female characters, why do you? Why do you think it bothers /tg/ so much?>inb4 I don't because I'm not a faggut, hurr durr
>>97215004Met many, mostly obvious fetish plays. Go post any ad as a GM and see what kind of characters/applicants you get. It's disturbingly common.I also played with one for a while, and was friends with him for years outside of the game too. He played his ideal waifu, fit into the fantasy setting we were playing. It was acceptable solely because he had no off-putting fetish things (basically he was just vanilla). It was still undeniably his waifu and he got constantly teased about it without ever denying it. I have yet to meet or see a single female character (actually played not just theoretical) that didn't fall into this category. If I did, I'd be open to changing my mind. But the pattern has been unerring thus far in my some ~12 years of playing TTRPGs.
>>97214962What do you mean a fetish waifu? I get wanting to make a pretty female character, does it go beyond that?
>>97215717I've specifically seen lolibaba and furry stuff that was unmistakably fetish related. I didn't play with those people though; the ones I have played with (like mentioned) were just playing their idealized version of a woman but with super powers/magic/whatever matches the setting.
>>97139776I look for character art references to give me ideas for concepts. People make interesting-looking pictures of women often because they look good. So I play female characters to use those visuals.
>>97214962Not every time. My first campaign, the DM and I accidentally made each other's fetish waifus and just couldn't understand why the other found it hot.
Hey /tg/ I'm playtesting an initiative system that's been tried before in other systems and is detailed nicely on "Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet"The system uses Meyer (and Kieth Farrell's modern adaptation) of "Vor, Nach, Gleich, Indes" as steps in a fight.Basically, the player with the initiative chooses an action ("Vor"). The enemy chooses a reponse ("Nach"). The dice are rolled to determine an outcome ("Gleich") and the movement into the next state ("Indes").Practically it looks like: Player A chooses a bind. Player B chooses to parry. Both players resolve a dice roll. The resolution will determine who has initiative for the next system.Very fencing-like, and makes initiative more of a "push-pull" based on success rather than a "you-go, I-go" traditional style.I believe systems like TRoS and their derivatives (like Song of Swords) use a similar sort of initiative style.My questions for the thread:1. While this system works pretty well for individual combats, it struggles when there are multiple combatants. It also falls into the same trap of "you go, I go" which is; in a real fight, you're probably waiting for an opening (e.g. an enemy attacking an ally) to take advantage of in order to strike. I wonder if anyone has creative solutions to this problem?2. Are there initiative systems that you find work well? Anyone forego initiative entirely in favor of fully narrative initiative (e.g. Daggerheart)?
>>97209105Victory in RPGs is usually happenstance. Dice. >>97210317The design is balanced. The people are biased. Those things are not correlated.
>>97210178>>97210170>nawwative inithiative ith twash
>>97197145I too, fence longsword, more from the Lichtenauer school though (meyer is fun as hell though i just love to stab)As a 1 v 1 duel you could get an interesting system working. The "you go, i go" style works fine if there's a way to steal an extra go in there or take the Vor. I had an idea for a card game where the 2 players are constantly discarding some cards at the end of their turn, keeping a few in hand they like and then drawing fresh ones at the start of the turn to say 7 or something like that.There's cards for advancing, for retreating for dodging, There's cards specifically for counters to certain thrusts or cuts. There's stance cards that'll give you a bonus if your opponent has an opening that's weakEventually someone plays a card with a VOR on it to start the rally,Like an Over cut from left shoulder, They other player then needs to play a card that will deflect that or dodge or counter it, whatever. They could just play a parry card, and follow it up with a Riposte, or if they didn't have a riposte they just have a parry.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97207595>>97210956>>97202682IMO, balance is an overrated and shitty game design conceit to begin with and irrelevant to having fun.What actually CAN be important is for players to believe the game is fair, in which case the only barrier for narrative systems is the GMs skill to cater towards the sensibilities of fairness that the group holds. In short, if you can't run narrative systems well, you have a skill issue.
>>97211497Thanks for entertaining the idea!! Really interesting stuff here.>The "you go, i go" style works fine if there's a way to steal an extra go in there or take the Vor.Absolutely. As I have it, the way to take the initiative is to, essentially, win the opposed roll. This might represent finding a strong position bind, a parry to set up the next strike, etc.The card idea is really intriguing. The biggest issue I have is running into a Song of Swords-esqe "really long list of moves" with various maneuvers that counter others. This rewards "player" (as opposed to character) system mastery. That being said, I was hoping to parse things down a bit to one, two or maybe a few different choices for each combatant.Could you tell me what you mean by a Silvers system?
Finishing a tabletop role-playing campaign and giving it an ending is a good feeling.
>>97215817Too bad you'll never experience it.
>>97215817based>>97215955cringe
>>97215817I wish I knew the feeling.I can't even get a game.
>>97215955But I did earlier this year?Marge moment.
>>97215817Storytime for us, OP
