>no display names>no player cards >large groupHow do I keep track of the characters? It’s such a weird thing to ignore. Just throw a name and picture onto the screen like every other Channel does
>>97272511there are evil gods in every religion, anon. "Gods are le bad" is religious talk.An atheist take would be something like "religion is social control"
>>97272691It's interesting that half of them think they are competent their stage acting stuff (which is not RP), but can't hide their anger/pouting when they still get an unplanned bad result despite cheating. O'Brien goes full seethe, even interrupting next turns if he doesn't get his success scene every time. Can't imagine trying to work with these control freaks, much less consider them friends.
>>97246919Looks more like a gameshow
>>97272639>why didnt I do the same thing on both accountsgee I wonder why
>>97273127>accountsretard>gee I wonder whyme too. explain
Has your character ever been in love?
>>97272454>As she opens the door and enters, she's greeted by quite the sight>Cute bard is on his back in ecstasy while I'm laying pipe>She's humiliated>Tell her that he only spent the night with her because I rejected him that night>She's eating it all up>Right as I'm about to command her to take a seat and watch the whole performance, she sits down herself>wat>Turns out she's a massive fujo>Seems a bit heartbroken about the bard not loving her, but even more turned on by me ravaging "him">Asurprisetobesurebutawelcomeone.gif>She mentions that it's more exciting than trying to fuck a corpse>Huh!?>Impress and fluster her with my prowess, to the point that she demands to be next>I was not fucking prepared for this outcome nor the fact that she tried necrophiliaComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97263412No, because I dont know how to rp being in love.
>>97272458What's bard player's reaction to this.
>>97263412Which character, puckee? Do you even know how ttrpgs work? You don't get just one.
>>97266410One of my players is a full on woman hater and one is just autistic enough to disregard women so that's half the group excluded from any kind of romance stuff. Once in a game that ended up dying I think two sessions in, I tried to offer a prostitute grateful for being freed from slavery just as a contact for the latter's character, and he still refused. The rest of my players are coomers who shouldn't do in game romance for their own good
What is the correct way to handle female priestess? Historically women weren't part of the clergy, so you don't have a lot of references to drawn from in regards to their attitude.
>>97267317Because these women didn't choose the life, they didn't always act like traditional nuns. In many cases, these noblewomen turned convents into high-society hubs. In places like Venice, the parlatorio was the heart of social life. Because it was technically a "liminal space" between the cloister and the world, nuns could speak with visitors through a grate. These spaces hosted lavish parties where nuns served expensive sweets and performed cutting-edge music. They became some of the era's most prolific composers (like Isabella Leonarda) and writers (like Arcangela Tarabotti, who wrote scathing critiques of forced monachization).Wealthy nuns often brought their own servants, ate fine foods, and wore silk versions of their habits. In cities like Venice, some convents became famous for hosting parties, musical performances, and intellectual salons where noblemen would visit the "parlor" to flirt and gossip. Many of these women were highly educated and used the convent as a space to write, compose music, or exert political influence that they wouldn't have had as wives.Because these women were noble, they often held the power in the convent. If the Abbess was from a powerful family, even the local Bishop often struggled to keep the "naughty" behavior in check. Convents were often major landowners. If the Church pushed too hard, the noble families would withhold the "spiritual dowries" that kept the institution running.
>>97266415Build for BBC
>>97267317There's an even simpler explanation sometimes. If a woman is sent to the convent and locked up there, she's removed from the line of inheritance. So now the next person in the line doesn't have to worry about her marrying and everything going to her husband.
If you can't think of a single female priesthood off the top of your head, and can't imagine how one might work, then you are probably too stupid to rpgs.
>>97262841New York City
Is Age of Sigmar good yet?
>>97271744"Game" implies any of them actually play
>>97254130>TOW gets 1(ONE) new factionakshually, they got Cathay AND renegade crowns, which is a sandbox for kitbashers
It has been 5 years 9 months and 8 days since Warhammer: The old world announced they were designing Kislev modelsin that time: >18 Rulebooks and 3 New edition boxes were launched for Necromunda>6 editions of Warhammer underworlds>7 Horus Heresy Books (and both editions of HH Table top)>2 editions of AoS (and both Cursed city and Darkwater)>2 editions of 40k>All of Kill team since the Kreig/Kommando revamp>2 editions of Blood Bowl>All of Warcry bar the first wave>17 brand new plastic Models for Warhammer: China Edition Featuring 30 year old Shitcast and metal sculpts for the non-Chinese peasant factionsAnd 0 models for KislevGet into AoS
>>97273103Not a fan of the taste of corporate testicles in my mouth so I’ll pass.
>>97273103Why would we do that? AoS is in the worst place it has ever been, arguably worse than 1st edition if you actually care about playing the game.
SCP editionTell us about your horror settings, games, etc. Share inspirational art, prompts, etc.>List of games:Call of Cthulhu, Chill, Cold and Dark, Degenesis, Delta Green, Don't Rest Your Head, Dread, Esoterrorists/Fear Itself+Book of Unremitting Horror, Fall of Delta Green, GORE, Into The Shadows, KULT, Little Fears, Mothership RPG, Nemesis (free on Arc Dream's website), Nights Black Agents, Silent Legions (Mostly for the tables), Stalker: The SciFi RPG, Symbaroum, Ten Candles, Trail of Cthulhu, Unisystem (All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Witchcraft, Conspiracy X, etc.), Unknown Armies, The Whispering Vault, Vaesen>Inspirational stuff:Caitlin R Kiernan, Castlevania, Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, Doom Watch, Fear & Hunger, George Romero, Ghostwatch, House of Leaves, I Am In Eskew, John Carpenter, Kolchak the Nightstalker, Laird Barron, John Langan, M.R. James, Nick Cutter, Old Gods of Appalachia, Quatermass, Ramsey Campbell, Remedy Series (Alan Wake, Control), SCP Foundation, Scarfolk Council, Shaun Hutson, Silent Hill, Stand Still Stay Silent, The Evil Dead, The Magnus Archives, The Secret World, The Stone Tapes, Anatomy, Thomas Ligotti, Twin Peaks, Vault of Evil forums, toomuchhorrorfictionOther News:H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society releases "The Spark Devil"https://www.hplhs.org/sparkdevil.phpCurrent Book Club Topic:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97268725>>97268620Him strikes me as Unknown Armies movie.Like, the central conflict seems to involve what basically an Avatar, maybe even a Godwalker.
I’m working on a horror scenario, care to help out with suggestions?The Premise: the player characters are all "test subjects" (probably former military, ex-cops, criminals, lone drifters and such) that were kidnapped or otherwise imprisoned by a sinister conspiracy of unknown nature or goals. They participate in "experiments" to "stress test" the conspiracy's "projects." Present day real world setting, on the surface.Any ideas for monsters, unnatural tech, twists, set pieces, testing grounds and scares?
>>97269260What movies/tv series are these from?
>>97271158The Newton Boys (1998)Sahara (2005)True Detective S1 (2014)
>>97268747It has a few recognizable names in it so I'm somewhat surprised I hadn't heard of it before.>>97268836So Singh's more of a style over substance type? I should ask, who is everyone here's favorite horror director?>>97270325Never looked too much into Unknown Armies but it looks like a good vehicle for adapting certain stories. Definitely something to look into more.
I would like to talk about the Chronicles of Darkness game line Deviant: The Renegades, or more specifically, one major upcoming supplement. Deviant was released in late 2021, and has had three additional sourcebooks since then. A new supplement, Black Vans, has been in playtesting for a while, and is currently being previewed.I am not being paid or sponsored to promote this book in any way. I am just very fascinated by it, and indeed, I already ran a mini-campaign using the playtest material.Deviant is, by default, a game about playing angsty, scarred superheroes who either fight world-manipulating conspiracies or work for them. Black Vans is a toolkit full of variant rules, quick NPC creation, variant character types, and variant genres. These variants range from the minor to the dramatic, completely overhauling what were once non-negotiable, foundational themes and mechanics. Maybe your character is not angsty or scarred at all, perhaps they are a """""regular human""""" like John Wick or Batman, or the campaign might have nothing to do with world-manipulating conspiracies.These variant genres include cyberpunk, high fantasy, post-apocalypse, space opera, and superhero emergence.This is a beefy supplement. For example, one chapter alone dedicates 38,000+ words to playing other monsters of the Chronicles of Darkness: Beasts, changelings, demons, Sin-Eaters, hunters (entirely separate from the variant rules for """natural""" superpowers), mages, mummies, Prometheans, vampires, and werewolves. No additional supplements beyond Deviant are necessary; the rules are self-contained, allowing the group to play a monster mash of an urban fantasy setting without needing a daunting 7+ books. And yes, they are supposed to be balanced against one another, so a vampire in the same group as a full-fledged mage is probably some older Kindred.(Continued.)
>>97264163Just Shallow Graves. All said, it is significantly more comprehensive a book than The Devoted Companion and The Clades Companion.Eric Zawadzki's Patreon currently has the full pre-release text of Black Vans up for subscribers, too.
>>97264163According to Eric Zawadzki, Black Vans is coming out on the 1st of January. Thus, you can pick up both Shallow Graves and Black Vans soon enough.
>>97269345Well damn alright, I just might
>>97264048Why are they bad?
>>97273102The two ones I checked out felt very bare bones in pretty much every way, specially the one that got into how different splats might interact with Deviants. From what I hear, this new one is much meatier in that aspect
Shit GM Thread, because while you players are awful, there are some really shit GMs out there too.>GM advertises game as a destroyed world by demons and whatever and people trying to live through or retake the world>sounds good, throw my application in and get in>trying to make a character from a destroyed noble house destroyed from said demons>no info or lore or anything so just make one background that can fit in>ask GM if it's okay and if I can fill it in with finer details>he just says nah you're good>is there a map?>he just gives me some random borders map that looks like it was generated from some website>yeah choose a region where your noble house was from I'm still working on the details>his username is some pretentious TheLoreMaster btw>whatever as long as he can provide a good story as the game goes on>me and other players make our characters>he then tells us to create a shared backstoryComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97270131ThisFucking players
>>97272860>Westmarch>One GMthat's not a westmarch. The point of the format is to have one GM running games for infinite players, leaving the out of game coordination to them. What you're thinking of is, like, a shitty Living Greyhawk?
>>97272003Mine was running a game you probably have never heard about, and I hadn't to that day either
>>97270915>cr'isms into his game such as rule of cool, story arcs, and characters having big personal plot arcsAll of these things existed and were widely discussed on 4chan long before CR, zoomer.
>>97272929>misses the point of the story to focus on jargonSweet, cool, didn’t ask. Thanks for the updoot.
Starting Anew Editionaaah happy new year sub-edition>Previous>>97258877>Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/WiCHizn0>Mediafirehttps://mediafire.com/folder/s9esc6u7ke8k5/CofD>Mega Ihttps://mega.nz/folder/ePQ1BKhJ#RCosRCh59Ki2Mpb1M9H3Uw>Mega II (also containing fanmade games)https://mega.nz/folder/ZbQ2zLJA#DOT-3df6rS2lLet4_RmqJQ>WoD5 Megahttps://mega.nz/folder/7rQQ1LbQ#16_AiXVGo0P3_rVOJuoZyA>STV content foldersComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97272880Though I agree a Kinfolk has it better overall, I'd still think for the most part a ghoul has it better in some ways. Even Blood-bonded ghouls still have families and often have jobs or hobbies, though it all takes a backseat to their master they still have to maintain the masquerade unless they get unlucky with a retarded vamp. Half of the time Kinfolk seem to be lucky to see their children, though conversely often enough Kinfolk don't actually need to interact with Garou at all if they're lucky. At the same time, most septs let you leave as a Kinfolk if you marry out of the nation unless you're unlucky to get one with population issues or Garou-brained conservative values.Despite that, I'd say Revenant families > Kinfolk if you're willing to deal with being a Tzimisce's eventual butler/childe or a strict upbringing.
>>97272923Based, good luck anon.
>>97272687>mind-fucked into abandoning much of my previous identity so that I can adore and orbit a self-interested vampire and serve as their eager slaveThat sounds kind of hot
>>97272998You seem like a person who would enjoy Metamorphosis.
Hey, /tg/. I'm working on a concept for a thaumaturgist blood sorcerer. The biggest problem with this is that hermetic sorcery is big on True Names as a way to cut down on necessary reagents. When you have the True Name for something like unicorn horn, for example, you don't have to go look it up again.You can just commit it to a sigil and codify it as a pattern to invoke for further sorcery and it's as though you always had it there.The problem here is there's no bonafide system in Thaumaturgy for mechanics to acquire True Names (this is for the V:tM system, not Mage, which could more easily spitball it.I've been pondering a custom path of thaumaturgy for such a thing, but I'm not 100% on it. I'm thinking perhaps that the Path involved should be either Spirit Thaumaturgy, or perhaps Dur-An-Ki's Path of Suliman's Laws (Spirit Manipulation) and treating levels of that path as the levels of Rites that can be made to take the True Names of more potent and powerful spirits?What do you think, /tg/? How would you make mechanics for a vampire blood sorcerer of hermetic thaumaturgy, (but not necessarily TREMERE) to take and catalogue True Names?
Trench Raiding With The Lads 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:https://www.trenchcrusade.com/rules/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97271058I'm not going to sugarcoat it, vanilla IS together with Fidai are two of the worst warbands from a power perspective. So you're going to struggle against pretty everything unless your opponents are leaning heavily into vibes/rule of cool with their warbands. Even then those types of units in HL/Prussians are likely to outperform most of your stuff anyway.
>>97271317U mad?
>>97270898In ideal circumstances, your sniper is ignoring armour about 1/3rd of the time. This is wildly unreliable. Remember, New Antioch is a CQC faction, so the bulk of your faction's damage is going to be done in a 1-2 round period - if you need AP, then a 1 in 3 chance of ignoring armour is just not available enough.Instead, you should give the sniper priest an auto rifle or SMG so they can stack blood reliably and kill soft targets quickly. Or you do the based thing and give the priest either 2 pistols and grenades or an autopistol and a pistol, which lets your priest be one of New Antioch's best melee units (since pistols act as clubs that use ranged +dice).Sniper rifles are for models with middling shooting stats. Going from +4d to +5d on a sniper priest is a joke. Going from +0d to +1d and getting double the short range bracket on a rifle Yeoman is legitimately good.
>>97271734I know they are at the bottom, found that out when I got btfo'd the first campaign by game 8 out of 11.My primary issue was that I didn't have enough gunz and modelz to force injuries early on when a jezzail with alch. ammo was at peak performance. I lost the first 2 games badly; in one, both my bull and alchemist were OoA before even INJURING an enemy model. By then, I was so far behind, and other armies so far ahead, that catch up was improbable, and I was forced to use lions and absurd weight of fire to win objectives and force draws. I haven't gotten so fucked over since... well, it's been a long time since I felt genuinely hapless.My new plan is to maximize my weight of fire advantage early while planning for later acquisitions. I am hoping for 2-3 glorious curbstomps to accrue ducats/glory to hopefully stay one step ahead of the others, and when they do catch up, break even by dint of early success.
>>97272621Funny thing is the best way to play IS is to build tall with House of Wisdom, take your lumps with a mediocre early campaign. And then pull ahead with the flexibility of weapon stealing and the Homunculi that you can add to as the campaign progresses and are super cheap to revive if they die.
Have you ever roleplayed a female character?
yes when I gm, never when im a player. ive even play exclusively women in mmos, but i never think of myself as "roleplaying" in those games.when im a gm, i do it to the best of my ability to build a world for my players.as a player, i have no desire to play anything but a man. i don't really know how to explain it outside of "it feels weird" despite doing it all the time as a gm.
>play male PC>ends up being a pretty basic wild card character>play female PC>actually ends up as a proper characterWhy is this? Is it because it's easier to just self insert and disregard the on-paper character when it's a dude, while the foreign perspective of a female forces me to actually engage with the character concept?
>>97270739could bewe all have different ticks for focus fixation and inspection
>>97270739Why are you responding to an obvious bot OP?
>>97272906cause clankas make us horny
Thread #007 Countess 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>>97258877Previous Thread>>97131386Brief 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.
>>97270221>Thread question>ParisNo, we all agree we fear Ventrue Princes the most, we only disagree on whose city.>>97226559>Can it be learned? That resistance to the bond? Induced?>>97227609>have heard about blood bond resistance, even if mostly through third- and fourth-hand studies and that relative I mentioned who is all about the fucking vitae ranting on and on about the bonds. Scarlet pestered me about this topic, I thought I'd share my discoveries:- this resistance to blood bond is supernatural;- it cannot be learned;- it is not inherited by all childer of a sire who has it;- it is not "mental", it doesn't necessitate a particular strong will, or True Faith;- it has nothing to do with "true love", whatever may Scarlet mean by that;Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Quick post. I'm doing expert commentary at the Brujah Primogen's fighting tournament.One of the Bridgeport neo-nazis fell and broke his arm on his way to the ring.The crowd is going insane, the paramedics are all black, I'm going to be history's first final death by laughter.
>>97271530Uuuuhh is this a thing? Can all sires turn childer to dust with a gesture? Asking for a friend.
>>97273021Most sires are not masters of fleshcrafting, but there are other equally deadly and painful disciplines a Cainite could use to extinguish their unruly progeny. So... 50/50? 70/30?Heck my sire wouldn't even have to kill me to make existence an unliving hell, I could get turned into a pair of conscious boots if I do something unwise. I do not plan to do anything unwise, but they're a centuries old alien, so who knows if I even have that capacity in their eyes.
I AM FUCKING INVINCIBLE HAHAHAHAHADidn't quite beat Jesus's resurrection time, but being alive at all is a good enough result for me!>>97273021Oh, nah, not at all. It's more a general 'can a vampire do that to somebody' thing, next to no special allowance for if the target's your childe. My Sire could do that to people, if he tried and prepared for it. He usually went for boiling people's blood, or striking them with lightning, which I've taken up, as it's objectively the most impressive. Same night he got torn apart, but like thirty minutes before that, he made a werewolf's bones grow spurs and spikes until it was this skewered mess of fur, flesh, organs, and very angry, growling, somehow just barely alive skeleton with innards falling out. The wolf obviously didn't live very long after, but it was a sight. Not sure how he did it, exactly. I'll be putting effort into figuring it out.From what I've backread while listening to a woman who likes fishnets too much cackle at me and my overall misfortune, your Sire can probably just skewer you in a blink of an eye, so she kinda-technically qualifies under 'dust with a gesture'.
It's Da PDF Share Thread!Get ready to stuff your hard drive like Santa's Magic Sack!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.
>>97272977>>Kings of War 4th editionThank you very much kind anon. Much appreciated in 2025
I need everything d20/3.5 by Bombshell studios. Even a link to some archive would be a godsend. Thanks in advance.
>>97254608What kind of link is this?
>>97273046>Do You Fear What I Fear/d/rLDIY8apologies, got ahead of myself apparently.
>>97273160No need to apolgize, thank you so much.
In your game, do you treat bows as strength- or dexterity-based weapons?
>>97272083>Why would a laser now require a specific draw strength?Could be like a child-proof lock (or supersoldier exclusive), or a type of weapon that doesn't store ammo but instead converts the energy input into energy output and the stronger you are the better it is.
>>97272302It's an explanation. Just seems pretty redundant when you could just have a battery in the thing and not have to worry about any of that, but maybe it's a last resort kind of weapon.
>>97225182It's Puckee. Fuck him and fuck you.
>>97248573If you want Puckee's inane threads to choke out discussion, sure.
>>97255757How do people still use luddite as an insult in current year +9, they've been right like every time lately, tech just keeps making the world gayer and lamer.
Welcome to the New School Revolution General, the thread dedicated to games derived from the OSR movement.>What is NSR?>NSR is a subcategory of the OSR, it mostly follows the same play style but experiments further with the mechanics and settings.>Broadly NSR games have a gm, a living world, are rules light, deadly and focus on emergent narrative, interaction and exploration.>What is this thread NOT for?Meta discussions or drama of the games and its creators aka shadowboxing with twitter, reddit and the OSRG (frens with osrbros)>stay on topic>gamesShadowdark, into the odd, mausritter, cairn, mörk borg (and its hacks), dungeon crawl classics, mothership, knave, troika!, whitehack, blackhack, old school essentials (we know this is just a retroclone), etc. >links, resources, more games!, etc:https://pastebin.com/0W8WmbCk (BROKEN we're working on it) Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97252554Honestly Mork Borg is pretty fun as long as you take it as intended, i.e. not seriously. Cairn is absolute dogshit for attention-starved redditors though.
>>97264070why? i only recently started reading up on osr and nsr stuff and cairn gets talked about pretty often
>>97267726Cairn's fine, he's just being hyperbolic. Its main sin is lacking a distinct 'identity'. I prefer Errant as an evolved version of Cairn btw
>>97252194around 40 something I think>>97251424>and that's why there is 50 pages of classes.what games are you thinking of?Cairn 2e and Bastionland have a lot of "classes" but it's more like backgrounds than a class.
>>97267726It's called bait.Cairn is just ItO with an extra rule for longer term damage, but 2e added some pretty nice procedures. People who skipped on B/X can use those to still have a mechanically engaging and consistent exploration system, it's debatable if they are the best but they are there and they've been throughly playtested.
>gain traction from GW losing community goodwill>immediately start killing your own community goodwill before you even have a product fully outWhat is this business strategy called?
Battletech fans are 100x worse
>>97272652>The community around me just dwindled up because of how obnoxious and crazy a few people got over defending the game or assuming the worst about anyoneAnon, the ONLY place I have seen any of this is on this website and subreddits based on e-celebs.I don't take anything that is said that isn't about the game as anything worth noting, because it's all whinging internet talk.I have 4 local dudes with 6 armies between us, some printed and some kitbashed, we are building terrain and have already completed an entire campaign.If people you don't know on the internet can make you not want to play a game, I would broach to say you never really liked it, and that's alright. I just don't really get it.
>>97266372Fellow chuds why should I not partake in this game? Aesthetically it allows for crusaders?
This is janny's pet topic holy shit. He'll ban you for any reason in the TC general and in any other TC thread too unless you treat the game like it's SERIOUS BUSINESS.
>>97272481>why are TC players so defensive?unless youre the manlet responsible for making it, i dont see why you would be defensive. more to the point this thread was obviously intended to shit on the game, if that bothers you why would you even read it?
