Given that anime and anime inspired cartoon styles have become pretty much the norm or at least incredibly common in most other forms of indie entertainment (TTRPGs, videogames, comics, animation, even miniature wargames). How comes it remains a relatively rare style to find in board games, an industry that operates almost entirely in the form of independent creators and small studios? How comes it still carries associations of being an art-style of games "for kids"? It was so strange when pic related came out seeing people "warning" others that even tho "it looks like a game for kids, it's actually quite difficult and heavy".
>>97829021What's wrong with that premise? You can summarise lord of the rings with the same greentext.
>>97829069Oh, nothing. Enjoy your movie.
>>97829021>ask normie>get slop for normie>made Pikachu FaceWhat is wrong with you? Also, you're most likely a pretentious faggot who only pretends not to like normie slop. Here's a test for a connoisseur, depressive plot in an abstract wrapper, unfortunately the ending is shit because fucking Gainax can't make a normal ending even if their lives depend on it. Well, at least the episodic stories are good and complete.
>>97829118>my dick joke in the year of our lord and saviour 2026Kek anon, can't get mad at you.
>>97828297To be fair UNO and Monopoly are not what I'd call "hobbyist games". They're incredibly mainstream popular products that essentially exist in their own bubble and respond to completely different markets and pressures, Hasbro would never consider publishing something like Sweet Lands because it caters to a completely different demographic than their games. Easily re-skinnable hobbyist games would be things like, idk, Love Letter I guess, tho that's a pretty simple game and it has technically gotten its fair share of licensed re-skins, none based on anime AFAIK.
Serious question: What value do slaves actually have to your average PC? Like, I've never seen any PC / group actively engage in slavery because there never seems to be any substantial reward worth the effort. It's like crafting or running a business, there's just no *point* in engaging with the mechanics because the rewards are puny.How could you make it actually appealing to players? It's not like they can load up a ship and sail off to the ivory coast.
>>97823276probably didn't run away because the alternative was far worse, since they were treated quite well, like most slaves.
>>97822602>>97823131well well well
>>97808048well?
>>97829084Three holes in the ground?
>>97825713>Unsulliedwent terribly for all parties involved including their employers; were not even particularly effective.>Mamlukshad greater political power then the greater population. famously rebel prone>Jannissarieswere paid salaries. eventually went terribly and permanently crippled their nation's military power>Aztec auxilliarieswent terribly and immediately sided with the Spanishnot really putting much confidence on the usability of the concept here. not to mention none of these can be applied in a TTRPG context; when the fuck is an adventuring party going to abduct and raise children to serve as eunuch-soldiers?
Zombie Aroden Edition>>IF YOU ARE ASKING A QUESTION, PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH GAME YOU'RE PLAYING<<Previous Thread: >>97708738/pfg/ (pathfinder 1e) link repository: https://pastebin.com/RSt0rF0T/p2g/ (pathfinder 2e) link repository: https://pastebin.com/1zySxwm3/sfg/ (starfinder) link repository: https://pastebin.com/5yp9s2U3>>CHECK THE SHARE THREAD FOR MATERIALS<<TQ: Tell us about an undead/undead adjacent (e.g., necromancer) character you have played. What choices are missing, if any?
>>97829540Laser sights in this game seem rather strong. Is there any good reason for a character to not use a laser sight in a setting that includes them?Aether engines are likewise a similarly affordable, global +1 item bonus to some important piece of equipment. In a game with Pathfinder 2e math, this counts for a lot.This has to be the funniest piece of artwork in Warden. "You can play a knight in a fantasy setting, an old-timey newsboy (or just someone in San Francisco), an anime schoolgirl, or typewriting and herb-eating Leon Kennedy."
>>97829712Kineticist explodes when it finds anything with immunities, anything with high ac, anything with passable saves, or skill checks of any variety.
I want to shoot lightning from a long spear. Is Magus the class to go if I want to actually hit enemies with both spear and zzap?
>>97829866>ImmunitiesYou have Extract Element>High ACYou have Impulses>Passable SavesYou have Blasts>Skill ChecksYeah but this applies to pretty much any caster or light armor class in the gameYou know you supposed to use ALL your available options as a Kineticist. And if something has all of that at once, the problem is the monster, not you.>>97829996Magus is a bit more literal in terms of "hitting enemies with a spear and zzap". But yes, you go to that.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder2e/comments/1sbiv99/i_extensively_playtested_the_daredevil_its_an/Some comprehensive pushback against the daredevil as a class, in contrast to this "the daredevil is a completly amazing martial controller!" post:https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder2e/comments/1s3dgxi/mathfinders_after_action_report_daredevil_and/
I have found most systems for armor and defense unsatisfying.I find pure damage negation doesn't represent that armor doesn't just reflect but also reduces a lot of damage too, a hammer to the helmet won't just plink off its going to have some significant concussive effect, if less than against an unhelmeted head. But on the other end, armor as pure static damage reduction often doesn't illustrate the other end, that many attacks SHOULD simply be negated, a knife thrown at a breastplate won't just deal less damage, it will ping off harmlessly.And Barbarians of Lemuria, Specifically the Mythic version, I believe addresses both those concerns for me.This is done by a. health and damage being kept rather conservative and relatively equal, not becoming exponential as levels go up and b. armor being a die you roll for damage reduction rather than a static number. The range of damage that armor protects just so happens to align with the damage most weapons can do. damage being 1-6 + strength and armor protecting 0-5 damage. meaning that a low roll on most attacks and a high roll on most armor saves will have the armor totally negate attacks, while a high attack roll and a low armor roll will totally bypass armor, and a medium attack roll and a medium armor roll will deal reduced damage.This is all modified by the fact that 2 handed weapons you roll 2d6 and pick the highest damage, medium weapons you roll straight 1d6 and light weapons you roll 2d6 pick the lowest. And armor ranged from light reducing d6-3 damage (0-3 damage), medium reducing d6-2 damage (0-4 damage), and heavy reducing d6-1 damage (0-5 damage). This means a dagger has the potential to deal as much damage as a great axe if situation permits (like dagger to the eye slit), but is less likely too, and that light armor could fully protect you from a glancing blow like heavy armor, but is also less likely too.
>>97817261What worldvuilding setting?
>>97817261Honestly Shadowrun's was fine. Can reduce or negate attacks, or it determined how easy it was to reduce or negate an attack back before SR4.
>>97819819... what?
I don't want to roll five to know what a hit does to some guy inside the armor.
>>97829011Yes you do. I have never seen a person not love it when they roll a wound chart.
How high would you rank the riding skill of the average Comanche Warrior in your system of choice? Explain your answer.
>>97827828I'd run them in Runequest with the stat blocks of Praxian braves, just minus most of the magic and riding a regular horse rather than something mental like an ostrich or buffalo.Actually, I'd specifically take their stat-block from the Ostrich riders, who are a rather savage Praxian tribe, and would make a fine analogue.The Comanche were a great race of horse-lords.They came late to those ways, but I sincerely regard them as the Mongols of the Western plains.
>>97827828Is horse does man ride in horse man warrior riding in your game setting system? Please respond.
>>97828651>how absurdity good they were with bows, horse riding, and wilderness survival.And shooting, as well. It's the one thing that annoys me about the 90's "magical Indian" trope; Indigenous Americans were insanely good sharp shooters, and by the end of the Comanches period of domination in the west, it was a pretty big part of their culture.
>>97829631What is often forgotten is that by their last days as independent nations, native warriors of tribes like the Comanche and Lakota were armed with the most contemporary weapons at the time and had fought in the ACW giving them the experience to be pound-for-pound better fighters than their typical European counterparts. Their bowmen were one thing, but their riflemen were often the decisive part of an engagement.
>>97830155It's insane how long the military standard was firing volleys.
30-50 Feral Ogryns editionPrevious Heresy: >>97802085>HH 3.0 - Complete gofile - All Books:https://gofile.io/d/cnJk0N>Titanicus Compendiumshttps://gofile.io/d/qdYzem>New Edition, to a great wailing and gnashing of teeth:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/setting/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Official FAQ/Errata/Downloads:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Thread FAQ (very old, remembers Age of Terra)https://pastebin.com/iUqNrrA8Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97828333One of my tacmarines in the squad im painting right now.On another note, how the fuck do you guys do eyes? My hands might be too retarded for this
>>97824969I meant how do you receive them? Is it linked to your purchases or is it random-ish
>>97829989bifocalsor just a pair of reading glasses
>>97829404>not doing a power lance phalanx
>>97830350That very much WAS a consideration. But I went with axes because it felt more appropriate for NL, who seem more the "brutish" type to me. (also the mechanical reasons given).
Welcome to TODD!This thread is for OPEN discussion of TSR-era D&D (up to and including 2e), TSR-era settings, and related games, such as retroclones, OSR, and OSR-adjacent games. Free discussion of house rules is encouraged.>GamesIncluding but not limited to: OD&D, B/X, BECMI, AD&D 1e, AD&D 2e, For Gold & Glory, Hackmaster, Myth and Magic, Shadowdark, Into the Odd, Mausritter, Cairn, Mörk Borg, DCC, Mothership, Knave, Troika!, White Hack, Black Hack.>What is this thread NOT for?Meta discussions and drama related to game creators and other /tg/ threads. We come in peace.>Resources2e fan wiki:https://adnd2e.fandom.com/wiki/Advanced_Dungeons_%26_Dragons_2nd_Edition_Wiki2e archive:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97830157you must seriously be bent in the head to 1. not know that announcing reports has been bannable for a long time2. associate this ignorance with fishfag>Suggesting that someone use a site feature is not in fact a bannable offense FYIexplain how this is true when its explicitly against the rules?
>>97830171Since there's someone here to explain meta rules and drama, what the fuck is up with this fishfag guy? And the entire brigade of people who spend more time posting about what is and isn't OSR than actually talking about OSR? Especially in the thread that's less narrow than the actual OSR thread.
>>97830343/osrg/ outlawed all 2e as off topic, hence the rebirth of /todd/. Anyone who was against this is accused of being an ACKS fanboy who got laughed out of /3eg/ and is purportedly why 2e isn't allowed in /osrg/ anymore.
>Announcing reports is a bannable offense thoYeah except that's not what he was doing retard-kun, he wasn't declaring his own report, but saying people should report you for your absolutely feral hog tier behaviour.It's the difference between me saying I'm going to fuck your wife and high fiving you as I walk out the room after she had the only pleasant night since you married.
>>97830343They use that fishfag term as an excuse. Hell I have seen them call no less than 5 different posters fishfag.Osrg just has a small group of weirdos who think for some strange reason 2e isn't OSR and have a holy crusade about it. They brigade every 2e thread.
Absolute Unit edition>Resources:WFB: https://pastebin.com/qVGrgwwhWM: https://pastebin.com/EsDAgebaWFRP: https://pastebin.com/inbyBsR6Novels: https://pastebin.com/PFqPDr0H>TOW:https://gofile.io/d/fxFgXShttps://www.warhammer-community.com/downloads/warhammer-the-old-world/>Warhammer Chronicles:https://files (dot) catbox (dot) moe/0xt777 (dot) zip>Time of Legends:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97830321Not really--I mean the mystical aspect is often neglected but what we have is really nice--The Lady (except in ET), Morgiana le Fay, the Damsels are cool. The failure is the whole peasantry BS of 6e, and if you tone it down, Bretonnia stops being the joke of every butt.
>>97830340butt of every joke* lmao
>>97830340Shit taste detected
>>97830340The peasants and Bretonnia as a whole are closer to their 5th edition noblebright rendition in tow than their 6th edition grimslop.
>>97830434And somehow it’s still awful.
>Join open table night for 5E>Playing a monster expert ranger>combat starts >pull out monster manual and read the stats >DM accuses me of meta gaming This is a DM skill issue right? It’s a roleplaying GAME. Why is he upset that I’m just using all the tools of the game to be a better player
>>97820328All monsters have a label that floats above their head listing their type, level and faction anon.
>>97818555It’s an OOC resource being used to know stuff your character wouldn’t necessarily know. If he was smarter, he might ask you to roll a Knowledge check as a free action, and give information based on how well you roll.
>>97818555>Join open table night for 5EI stand up, turn 360 degrees and walk away
>>97818555monster manual is for dms. you are a player therefore you are cheating.
>>97820718>metagaming means the higher level of a game where you strategize against the other playersNo it doesn't.
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>>97829755Thanks Anon!
>>97830210Curious. Re-up in progress... g0f1le /d/MF2hyB
>>97827933Thanks for the Grimwild stuff!
Requesting some solo games as /SoloGames has been down. Little to no availability in other proves.Four Against Darkness (books, cards)d100 DungeonKer Nethalas2d6 DungeonThank you all.
O-S-Rchive will go down for updates this afternoon (US). I'm working on it in between other things so no ETA.
Work in Progress, "No Foolin'!" Edition>Full-on /WIP/ OP Links Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/BE42AEcD>WIP Tutorial Images Megahttps://mega.nz/#F!TvQFCaLb!w8WZKCcOsTRasxrI0JWezw>Saint Duncan's "Six Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Painting"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufP8ka3KGno>Saint Duncan also explains thinning your paintshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxWgsqSf74s>Paint thinning 102Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97829993Oh I'm aware of that and they absolutely fit, doesn't make them any less goofy though
>>97829426>I think it looks good>>97829496>I like the red you have.>>97829571>I like itAm I being gaslighted?
>>97827764True metallic metal - a reflective additive is added to the paint to make it look metallic, usually mica flakes or powdered aluminum. Non metallic metal - no reflective additive added, the metallic effect is from use of contrast and color to give the illusion of metal.
>>97828514Mix them up in the unit, maybe do some with the darker green base coat and add in yellow for brighter highlights. Orks are fun like that.
>>97829415With oil paints you should have two rinse cups. One that you use for rinsing between colors and one (with less spirits in it) that you use as a final rinse when you're done with the brush. Ideally you should get maybe a little tinting in the second cup instead of making the spirits look cloudy. When switching between similar colors (dark transparents to dark transparents for example) I really don't even rinse much, just wipe the brush on some paper towels a few times until most of the color comes off then go into the next one.
What would you guys say is the most important skillset for "smart" characters in TTRPGs?>ability to make/build shit>perceptiveness>knowledge
What kind of countryside shops are in your settings worldbuilding? Does your character ever go shopping in locations such as these?
>>97818403How did this impact ypur last game session?
Bumb
>>97821302It didn't impact the last session.
>>97826229How does your character do sessions in your setting?
>>97828080I'm the DM.
>produce indie module>send it to a few youtubers who review modules and have a decent reputation for independent thought>hey, I've seen some of this guy's videos and he has never once mentioned being paid>send free copy>get email from his agent quoting a price for a reviewWhy are they all like this?
>>97827921God and the Hostess company conspired to give him tits, 'cause he a bitch.
>>97827921Guy's got a thyroid illness, can cause tit growth in males.
>>97816658It's illegal to review a product you were paid to review, without disclosing this. It's a form of fraud. The fact that TTRPGs and tiny YouTube channels are generally beneath the FTC's notice (especially with the current admin's pro-crime stance) doesn't change this.If the person had previously posted reviews without disclosing his material connection to the producer, then it is totally reasonable to believe he reviews things for free.
>>97817169yeah, this is how the internet previously worked and how it should work.imagine if a teenager got a real job off the back of their Newgrounds cartoons or MySpace band page. that'd be awesome! how come making internet content wasn't 'work' 20 years ago, but it is now...? people looked like beggars just for having a PayPal Donate button.
>>97827929I don't think cowardly diet nazis are capable of telling anyone anything, you bootlicking little bitch.
>create a system>it's good>but have a huge ego and expect the system to become popular through word of mouth>do 0 PR for the system>do Pikachu face when the system tanksLiterally the story of every new indie system in the last 20 years. What's wrong with people in this industry? Does this industry only attract retards or what? It seems that way because only DND has created an official online service, while the rest believe that Internet is something secondary in the 21st century.
>>97827818Did they rip ideas from white wolf, or were they both ripping ideas from other shit (mainly Anne Rice.) I like WoD but it's mostly derivative as fuck.
>>97827818D&D did it even worse. They had Critical Role and Stranger Things and the Coof lockdowns make the whole world suddenly pay attention to D&D and what did they do? Released a gimmicky collection of faux-retro Stranger Things adventures nearly a decade after the first season premiered, long after their time to shine had ended, and just before the release of the worst season of the show.
>>97829337Your timeline is incredibly goofy, buddy. The original Stranger Things starter set came out in 2019, the second thing they put out in 2025. The real bag dropping occured with the whole OGL fiasco in 2023 and the incredibly stupid launch of 5.5. Releasing a set of adventures """""based on""""" the final season of an incredibly anticipated show that has a tangential connection to your brand actually makes sense. It wasn't until after the season came out that everyone hated it, after all.
>>97829598I thought there was another one, but only kept finding the hellfire club thing. Still, that's 3 years after the first season, and then 7 more after that, while they were actively releasing the new not-a-new-edition version of D&D, no less.Also forgot about Baldur's Gate 3, which was so massively successful that it made people who exclusively play 5e stop and think>wait, why the fuck is the RPG this vidya is based on such much fucking worse than the vidya?You'd expect them to do some brand synergy, right? Like a campaign setting guide for Faerun like they intended to do towards the launch of 5e? Or maybe a tabletop-ified version of the BG3 adventure with maps and NPC statblocks, and so on. Nope. They made some minis for their dead on arrival VTT service. And then did nothing as BG3 gobbled up all the awards and told everyone how much they hate working with Hasbro and WotC upper management.
>>97829958Yeah, d&d is basically a zombie brand, now, after the ogl shit everyone was either fired or quit. They also didn't do anything for the 50th anniversary, and their "2024" edition wasn't fully released until 2025.
