What are the funniest wargame mechanics you've ever encountered?
>>97239200Less than unintended, the white scars player had several options at the time. Khan would have let him outflank on a side edge, ruining the conga line plan. Any tank could have tank shocked the kroot when they entered, forcing them to move and making the unit contract to maintain coherency and opening a way for the rest of the force. A rhino could have saved the game.He did neither of these things. The moral is Dawn if War deployment and null deployment are bad.
>>97238072The famous match in which a powergaming autist is out gamed.
>>97236410gorkamorka perma injury and doc tablescan get your leg blown off, go to the doc and he turns your dudes legs into a rocket powered monowheelor maybe just leaves him with 1 leg
>>97243344So Wheels can't deploy from the other side of the table?
In Chan of Command your commander can become a drunkard if you lose enough battles
maps and mapmaking. more specifically, there's something that's been bothering me for a while now. There are endless skirmish-scale settlement-scale and topographic-scale square grid mapmaking tools online, and that's great. There's plenty of topography-scale hexgrid mapmakers too, presumably because of D&D's ancient use of hexgrids for overland travel. and that's great too. There arent many hexmakers ive found for settlement scale maps, but i've had some luck torturing them out of the battletech mapmaker in the megamek software, or other videogames that generously offer to print the outputbutfor the life of me i cannot find a decent skirmish-scale hexgrid mapmaker. i must have tried a dozen programs by now, but the ones that offer hexgrids are either borderline unuseable or just put a hexagonal overlay over a square grid. it's ridiculous that after decades of computer tools for TTRPGS the best i've found is GIMP where i have to draw the damn things by hand. Not to mention the endless enshitification of google makes it harder and harder to find niche programs to match what i need.what are you anons using to create your maps?do you know of any decent skirmish-scale hexmappers (that are free, or at least worth the price)?what do you think of maps in general, do you even use them?i'll share any spare maps i have within the size limit to get the ball rolling
just in case you ever want to print a map and play on paper, since you can cut this one up without obviously revealing the seams between roomsi promise they wont all be phandelver
Here's one of mine, made in DungeonPainter (a primitive free version of something available on steam). The structure is the inside of a pyramid with dead-ends placed strategically to lure would-be thieves into traps, packs of skeletons or both. my personal favourite was the flammable oil room. it's okay as a program, but the hexgrid is virtually unworkable.
Surprise Edition>2024 PHB Scanhttps://files.catbox.moe/g8oo9h.pdf>Cropped and rotated, but more artifactyMjAyNCBQSEIsIE5vIFRodW1icywgT0NSZWQsIEFub24ncyBCb29rbWFya3MgdHJhbnNmZXJyZWQgb3Zlci4gCgpodHRwczovL2Vhc3l1cGxvYWQuaW8vd2Fvcm9h>2024 DMGhttps://files.catbox.moe/fd04pq.pdf>2024 Monster Manualhttps://files.catbox.moe/atd38s.pdf (D&D beyond version)https://pomf2.lain.la/f/1en5qwum.pdf (scan)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97238923It is clearly Master Blaster.
This is Gwyn Oresong, a Gold Dwarf archaeologist and Netheril researcher. She is currently studying the Netherese influence in the region south of the Neverwinter Woods. She is also Gundren Rockseeker's ex-wife. Which of these pieces of art is the best choice?
>>97215814Tried to play Wilds Beyond the Witchlight with sibling but they almost fell asleep during the first chapter
I think I'll play as a bard in the next campaign (either that or I'll swap my barbarian for one). In each game, I give my characters a very poetic and ornate voice, which I think would fit a bard perfectly. It could be quite fun.
If they want "civilized" orcs, why not just bought Scro back?
Another Infernals edition 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.
>>97243681>>97243685That makes sense on both parts. I just wish they'd put more thought into SOME kind of coherent theming for instead of Lore instead of just going "oh well, sufficiently smart people are indistinguishable from wizards and miracle workers anyway" and given Occultists something to do other than bother spirits. Like bother Behemoths. Or I don't know, infuse magical powers into animals, do something with demesnes/geomancy, make thaumaturgy relevant. Infernal, Sidereal and to a lesser extent Occult won bigly because the writers weren't afraid to think outside the box for them. Even if Infernal Occult's case it was 80% copying from old Yozi Charms and then turning around and going "they're not Yozi Charms anymore ;^)" . I'm not saying you have to go out of your way to be esoteric for every Exalt ability necessarily, but that Occult in particular needs to be a lot more versatile and Lore a little more focused for everyone else.I guess most people having relatively unimaginative War charmlines is the cherry on top. Again, W for Infernals/Sidereals.
>>97243724>I believe Chejop Kejak also exalted on his death bed from old age, but I'm less confident that I'm right about that one, as it was secondhand information and I can't recall who told me.That one's false, he was a young man during the First Age when Saturn laid her hand upon his head and prophesiced he would usher in the end of two ages.
>>97244129>That one's false, he was a young man during the First Age when Saturn laid her hand upon his head and prophesiced he would usher in the end of two agesOh, just to confirm, is this from 1e?
>>97218678What is your favorite Infernals Charm in 3e versus your least favorite, and why?
>>97244139I'll admit that I'm not sure. I read it in a 2e book.
do you use character portraits in your game?how do you get them? do you use any websites\generators? do you use AI? how do you prompt it?
>>97242878Anon, I pointed out that ai art looking boring and unmemorable is imo far worse than any of it looking ugly, since I get that ugly is in the eye of the beholder anyways.
>>97230620>do you use character portraits in your game?I find visual aids help my players and myself visualize things better. Also we use Roll20 so I like to represent people with tokens when I can.>how do you get them? do you use any websites\generators?I get like 90% of my character art from here, though the character art threads have been poor quality - if high quantity - this year.>do you use AI? how do you prompt it?I try to avoid using AI images if possible, partially on principle and partly because they mostly look like shit.
>>97242058Muh climate change is absolutely right though, AI's wasting immense amounts of natural resources to achieve exactly fuck all. That said I still slop from time to time, most things I either crudely draw myself or just describe but there are e.g. certain playable humanoid types I make slop of to demonstrate
>>97230620>do you use character portraits in your game?Only for important NPCs if I'm GM.>howI draw them>aiI don't mind others using it, but we're table where 3/5 are artists. Everyone's characters get drawn.
>>97242898So is "boring" and "unmemorable", though...
Why are you still using plastic terrain?
>>97243696Because cardboard is shit for that purpose. It's too light, moves around whenever you think too hard in its direction, and gets damaged too easily.>but muh technique board!Why do you not use terrain handmade from wood then?
>>97243915>Ive made jetbike hulls with nothing but scisors, plasticard and fireOI DIS LAD'S MAKIN BIKES JUST AS GORK N MORK INTENDED
>>97243946The old jetbike kits were made from real original models. The GW guys could get smooth blended curves from hobby supplies, so why shouldnt i?
I don't, I use my imagination and paper with written words on it to describe the thing.
>>97243933the AESTHETIC is superior.>MY mountains actually look like REAL mountains!no they don't. they look like a block of foam you attacked with a hot wire cutter.
>Be me.>Lord General of the Nordican 1225th/ defacto governor of Nordica II.>For the last few years we've been abandoned by the wider Imperium to an ice world that very much resembles our home.>In that time we've constructed the city of New Yur.>A sprawling metropolis surrounded by a network of trenches visible from orbit dug by the kriegers and valhallans.>We've also made more or less peace with the orks we were originally sent here to fight, and even made alliances with the ruinous powers, but those truces only last for one day a year.>A day that is fast approaching.>Candlemass brings peace, but also war to Nordica II every year without fail.>This year however the orks have decided to convert the former colloseum constructed by khorne worshipers in the ruins of a space hulk that crashed here into an arena for a sport they're apparently calling "Blood Bowl.">I will be attending the first of these games on Candlemass day, which is set to pit greenskins against some surviving khorne worshipers they've captured.>Emperor willing this will be the beginning of true peace to our world.>But knowing Candlemass that seams unlikely and I'll be waiting the whole time for some new threat to emerge.
>>97240610>Be Lord Noctis Carrigen>The world continues to burn>Kriegers continue to burn>Im laughing my head off as it seems the kriegers have succumb to Khorne and start fighting back harder then before >One knocks me off my bike so I roll onto my feet"BRING IT IMPERIAL PIG">We clash my Saber connecting with the Krieger's shovel >Unfortunately for him my weapon is a chaos relic at this point>No matter how strong he smacks he'll never break it >I slash a few times sending him back>I parry a overhead slash from him>He staggers slightly as I deliver the killing blows>Clean decapitation >A bloody fountain spews forth from his neck stump as my sword drinks its fillComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>Be me>Colonel Farragut of the Imperial Post>Working on Candlemas, the one day in the year they never let us have off>Doing my job delivering the post>Candlemas presents>They were supposed to arrive 2000 years ago, but someone at the depot arranged it so they're still arriving on candlemas day>That's the administratum for you>Already taken several swigs of Valhallan tanna and I'm pretty sure I'm over the alcohol limit for driving shuttle craft by several pints. points.>Doesn't really matter, nobody bothers checking us, especially on candlemas day>Today's delivery is to some backwater icehole called Nordica II>Technically it's marked as uncontrolled but rules are rules >The Imperial Post always delivers even when the delivery was scheduled 2000 years ago>take another swig of tanna>At least there aren't any valhallans on the planet>Check the cargo manifest Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97240531>Be the Hot Krampus, Lesser Daemon of Slaanesh, Disguised as the Krieger Colonel >The Felinid Commisar walks into my office with her aid, while her guards stay outside >Six minutes of small talk begins now >Then I start getting telepathic messages informing me that a Chaos Warband is raiding the planet >How the hell do people not notice a fleet approach on a planet, which usually takes at least days from the nearest Mandeville point?>How the hell do they also miss the deployment of landing craft until just seconds before they arrive?>The attackers seem to be Khornates, but I suspect at least one over of the Great Four is aiding them >Good thing all the Krieger murder squads have already entered the city and are on the verge of hitting their first targets. I made it very clear to them that their missions take priority no matter what else happens on the planet, this raid from outer space will only help the planned slaughter by delaying any sort of Imperial response >I realize I have missed the first few things Kate said, and at any moment the air raid sirens will sound >Time to act quick >The air raid siren goes off and Kate and her aid get up to investigate >I use their distraction to draw my laspistol and fire it at the handle for the door, melting its components and trapping everyone inside “Are you aware, ‘Commissar’, that internal investigations a group made up of every Commissar on the planet other than yourself and Junior Commissar Tammy have come to the conclusion that at least 10% of your regiment is tainted?”>It is funny because the 10% part is true Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97241712>Be tank lieutenant Abdul of the Tallarn 454th armored.>Secretly be Abby but crossdressing because my regiment doesn’t allow female officers. >3 fucking years straight on an ice world!>No fucking response at all from the Imperium.>Im in a bar watching some kind of weird game on TV.>Cant even fucking tell what’s going on anymore, I think the commentators have also given up on trying to keep track of the score.>Stumble outside for some fresh air annd maybe to puke a bit only to see a bunch of buff women wearing scrolls and ribbons in this weather hauling crates around.HolyEmperorLookAtThoseGuns.vox>I hold back my puke and saunter up to one to ask what they’re doing?>They tell me they’ve got crates of hot chocolate rations for Candlemas they’re guarding and are trying to find an Astropath.>Wait, today is Candlemas day?>I tell them I can help them out with providing armored support.IMayBeDrunkButICanStillDrive.coaster>I stumbled back into the bar to find my crew and anyone else here who wants to save Candlemas.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97243424>>97243299>>97242544>be Spencer>of the Alpha Legion>a CHAOS space marine legion >a traitor >10k years ago my brothers tore the galaxy in two>few decades or whatever my current brothers helped tear the galaxy in two LITTERALLY >ive killed thousands, no tens of thousands if you count the shit i helped do on happy ending with my former squad its in the hundred of thousands >so I DONT feel guilty for leaving the kid behind>and honestly having Priscilla on my back is the same feeling>how do you tell humans apartsigh.dominus>the greatest lies the Alpha Legion are the ones we tell ourselves Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Deck the boards with solos burningWhile the poles and leafsScream REE REE REETis the seasons to be follyAll AffO freaks go 'wege 'wege 'wegeOP dons his gay apparelLacerda, Knizia hand in handTroll /bgg/ threads we feel compelledFucking birds and FIRST, my (you)s sell wellWelcome to the Holiday Edition of the Board Games General!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97243878If it's just banter, go with it and make fun of them tooIf it's them being both bad losers and winners, my condolences, that's kinda shitty
>$150 CAD+ 5% off — Code: BD-2025-OVER-150-5OFF$250 CAD+ 7% off$350 CAD+ 10% off — Code: BD-2025-OVER-350-10OFF>150$ 5% off>250$ 7% off>350$ 10% offSorry bosco but what the fuck man. Ive been shopping at boardgamebliss since the garage days. Their competitor has a blanket 10% everything today. The sales tax is 13% on its own. And its always junk, pure junk on sale. I hate 401 for being slimy scumbags in management and the culturr there but at least they still do actual sales
>>97244056(Sorry anons screwed up the formatting trying to make the post on my tiny monitor, I thought I deleted the first rows)
Lost Ruins of Arnak should've been a Robinson Crusoe expansion.Why are the Robinson Crusoe expansions not straight additions to the game? They're all meme scenarios and "campaigns".
>>97244023If your son can take banter, go with it and make fun of them tooIf your son can't take banter, my condolences, that's kinda shitty
Holiday Special EditionPrevious Thread: >>96962908 The thread to talk about Super Heroes/Villains/Spies/Agents/Rogues be it in spandex or not.Popular Choices for Games:>Mutants & MastermindsCurrently the most played one, uses a d20 resolution for everything, has powers building and rules for tactical combat.>Marvel TSR/ FASERIPClassic Supers game from the 80s, still has a lot of fans and various retro-clones. Uses a d100 with an universal resolution table to decide the degree of success, has random character generation and abstract rules for powers and combat.>Masks (PbtA)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97241180What supers settings have the best takes on Santa and why do you think so?
>>97241180>tfw someone made a supe I wanted to make
>Admire superhero for a long time.>Make one superhero setting up.>It's more akin to 90s X-Men and Infamous series.>If you don't live in quarantine zone or work for the government you can get labeled as a bioterrorist if you use your powers.Why am I like this?
>>97241180Shroud from Dispatch gave me the idea to have a villain who gives his villains cybernetic implants, especially ones that enhance their existing powers, in my supers setting. What supers system does such implants/augmentations best Abby why? Also, what kinds of implants make sense for different kinds of powers without just directly copying the characters in the game? For a speedster for example, I can see increasing their senses so they can better react to things at super-speed, for example, what do you think?
Christmas is over, but I still have one more Sonic gamebook to round out the year!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=cC8x7s7o5AM
>>97244103Quick, somebody roll 1d6+5!
Rolled 5 + 5 (1d6 + 5)>>97244123>>97244123Can do!
>>97244140LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOO FAST
>>97244140>>97244144Quick, somebody roll 1d6+3!
Rolled 3 + 3 (1d6 + 3)>>97244155
Christmas edition>Previously in the Mortal Realms:>>97225164 >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.
>>97244072>spoilerLike the 40k chaos knight dude?
>>97243816James didn't surprise release Abholons so it's ruined
>>97244117That oneShe can't really tell the two games apart unfortunately, she probably assumed that "big sci-fi robot dude" could realistically belong to the same setting as "big fucking sci-fi cannons manned by rats"
>>97244153lel iktf. Just under a decade ago I offhandedly told my mom I kinda liked some warhammer stuff, and next christmas she gave me a bunch of 40k death guard boxes. I don't like 40k, I don't like nurgle, I don't like marines, but despite all that those specific models of mine are probably my favourite ones I own now.Good times. Merry christmas anon.
>>97244170Basically what happens to me every time, it really helps that I mostly paint for fun so different ranges and models are great to test stuff out or break out of my usual schemes; I am just happy to have someone who listens to me and goes out of her comfort zone to make me happyMerry Christmas to you too, anon, all the best.
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.PREVIOUS THREAD>>97206318
>>97242249>boogeyman
>>97242249>>97242305Ignore them. They will get bored and go back to their containment thread.
>>97234192>C&C is everything 5 x and 3.x shouldve been.The second half of that sentence is funny in that C&C was 3.0 lite with not a lot of 3.5 influence. D&D 3.x can't have been more C&C like because rule bloat was a TSR thing since the days of AD&D 1e through 2e. It survived due to continuity of development by people working at the bloatiest stage of 2e who already felt they were debloating D&D. If TSR had kept going 4e might never have happened like it did, due to the vidya aspect being inspired by corporate, but there's practically no chance there would have been a leaner rule set like C&C did to 3.x.
>>97237527No, he's actually after the Mentzer Basic set since it is one of the best introductory tutorial style rule books that has ever been written for a rpg.>>97237503>It's "classic D&D" in the latter-day railroady adventure sense.It's nearly identical to Moldvay Basic, especially in its first printing so if you were right that just means Moldvay is railroady.>>97237454I don't know how that's organized but the product code was TSR 1011. It's from 1983. It might be called >Mentzer Basic>BECMI Basic>D&D 1983>Red box D&D>Basic Rules Set 1which was the official name in 1983Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97243729>because rule bloat was a TSR thing since the days of AD&D 1e through 2eRule bloat was a thing even in OD&D, with even Gygax lamenting how the game had become bloated beyond its original 3-booklet form, and Basic being devised as a way to slim it down.
I refuse to believe Halo Flashpoint is even a 10th as successful as Mantic claims. In terms of online, easy to find metrics it has:3100 people as part of its sub(P)reddit.2100 or so people as part of Facebook Groups.No one discussing it on Twitter gets many likes/comments/retweets.No one big or well known talks about/plays it on Youtube.Yet it's one of the fastest growing and more popular tabletop games to come out recently?I don't buy it.I don't hate the system, but I am baffled by Mantic's ability to get away with lying about how successful this game is.
>>97243089Infinity
>>97236626You’re underestimating the GW dominance. It doesn’t take a lot to make the top 10. Its also a perfect game alot of people are buying Flashpoint that are not tabletop gamers or buying it to paint alone or just have the box. Halo collectors are actually quite a big market especially since Star Wars died. Its a phenomenally good game I haven’t touched it since last January but I fucking loved it and if I take a notion to play a minis game i’ll be digging it out. If the retards had dropped a strong Covie box alongside the Spartan edition it would be huge in my area we had real traction on release but we did one tournament in January and despite it being really good it just died largely because the Elite players got smoked. Yes they’re strong in objective games but you needed two sword elites to match the Spartan meta and I for one couldn’t afford two Spartan editions to do that. The Banished box was a huge dud that didn’t sell locally or I suspect very well in general but that no dount that was 343 pressure to push infinite. It’s a great game and i’m looking forward to get back into it when theres Grunts, Jackals and Hunters. Pic related my nail varnish drowned Chief.
>>97238770If GC had dropped before Fleet Battles it would have done gangbusters. Instead it dropped around Halo 5 when Halo fans were dropping the series for other things and then like a year later Spartan Games was gone. Fleet Battles was cool but it was appealing to a tiny demographic.
>>97238770It's very slowly evolving away from multiplayer and into a more general Halo universe skirmish game with the last two releases being Brutes and ODSTs, and apparently they've got Grunts and suchlike in the pipeline as well. I get the impression that they wanted to make a general Halo game from the start, but having it based on the multiplayer made it both an easier sell from the licensing standpoint (direct tie-in with the current video game) and a smaller initial investment for making the game what with all players using the same pool of miniatures.Remains to be seen if they make any dramatic changes away from the multiplayer arena setup in terms of gameplay for future expansions, we'll just have to wait and see.
>>97243089Gundam Assemble has way more motion in my LGS than Halo Midpoint
Go To Church Edition>RPG Rulebookshttps://rentry.org/40kRPGLinks>Homebrew Collection (Feb 2025)https://rentry.org/40RPGHB>WANG/Imperium Maledictum Newshttps://cubicle7games.com/blog/warhammer-40k>Bestiary, armoury, weapon quality and NPC databasehttp://www.40krpgtools.com/>Dark Heresy 2e Character Creator:https://apps.ajott.io/dh2chargen/>General 40kRPG Encyclopediahttps://www.scholaprogenium.com/>Offline Combined Armory (v6.48.161023)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97243452IM is... workable. A pal pulled me into a game recently, some of its stuff is streamlined from the FFG stuff in a good way (namely how stats work), some of it's streamlined in a shit way that I hate.Wang is the skunge you find growing inside a rusty disposal. I think maybe three guys in all of time have ever played and liked it.My heart will always belong to Rogue Trader. God, those were the days.
>>97240082My bad then, but like every thread there was the usual bait "now that the dust has settled..." question. As far as how is it? Dangerously mediocre. It works, but it's very generic and shallow
>>97243472>My heart will always belong to Rogue TraderThat's your bias then, so of course you think IM is subpar. Personally I think RT sucks ass, and Shadowrun was my very first RPG so I know and welcome crunch. It just has so many systems that don't work well, so much asinine bloat, niche shit to remember like gear that gives bonuses only on the first turn of combat, and I always hated how restrictive the old FFG class system is. In any case, most folk here are like you, so that's why this general is doomed to a slow demise. There will never be a RT 2e.
I remember an anon saying his Rogue Trader flagship is half plated in auramite.How do you even get auramite? Its there a source you can buy off the Imperium or can you only scavenge it off custodes armour?
Rolling multiple dice to manifest psychic powers is more fun than just making a d100 check.I don't care about streamlining and QoL improvements, DH2e made psykers less fun.
What'd you get for Christmas /tg/? Picrel was under my tree :)
>>97241808Is that an anime body pillow?
>>97240999Elegant dice for my elegant dice box.>>97243147Neat.
A goofy Flumph figure. I actually kinda like it a lot, it's not something I would have bought for myself but it looks so stupid I can't not smile when I see it.
>>97244065That is Anon's bf.
>>97244094What the fuck, decorative dice that are actually readable? What sorcery is this?
