The /btg/ is dead! Long live the /btg/!ProtoMechs Are Kino EditionPrevious: >>>>>>>>98213583>BattleTech Introductory Guide & PDFshttps://battletech.com/qsr/>Rookie Guideshttps://tinyurl com/ydtr589ehttps://pastebin.com/HZvGKuGxhttps://files.catbox.moe/l1gjfi.jpg>Sarna.net – BattleTech WikiComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98226390Oh hey, Word of Blake-anon! Haven"t seen you around this parts in ages.
CSRM6+Artemis or CSSRM6?
>>98226876Depends. CSRM6+ArtIV is lighter than a CSSRM6 by half a ton but that extra range on the streak can be handy at times.
>>98226175VK-B1 WardenSkirmisher65tNimble Jumper, Cramped Cockpit, Exposed Weapon Linkage (LRM10), Improved Cooling Jacket (Large Laser)1,3205,222,773 C-BillsGood afternoon, honored hosts. I am Elise Sorenson, representing Sorenson Industrial on Halesowen. It is my pleasure to present to you our Warden VK-B1, a refinement of our Vaktare ConstructionMech suitable for combat.With its weight of 65 tons and maximum speed of 65 kilometers per hour, you will no doubt compare the Warden to the Thunderbolt. Much like that venerable and proven design, our proposal features a Long Range Missile launcher and high-output laser as its main weapons. The launcher is mounted on an articulated bracket over the left shoulder, while the primary laser carried over its right directly integrates a Heat Sink into its design. To support these in close quarters, a Short Range Missile pack is mounted into each forearm. The left arm also integrates into this module a standard laser as a reserve weapon, mirroring an anti-infantry model in the right. A total of 17 heat sinks allow the Warden to fire its long range weapons while moving at full speed without any heat buildup, or with minimal heat gain after utilizing its three highly controllable Jump Jets. After closing in under the launcher's range, the SRM packs can replace the LRM pod without any change in heat generation. Supplying this arsenal is a two ton bay of LRMs and one ton of SRMs, which may be replaced with Inferno ammunition at no loss in reliability. 12 and a half tons of armor allow the Warden to withstand a direct hit from a high-calibre Autocannon from the front to any limb or part of its torso. The compact size of its cockpit also reduces its profile by 12% compared to other BattleMechs of its weight class, reducing the risk of pilot loss removing it from the battle. I have had the chance to operate our working prototype myself, and believe it to be a worthy companion to the Dragons many of our lances operate.
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>>98226168I didn't come up with the name for it. Once I tried to do so, it turned out there are no pages that could serve as Thalassian lexicons which would help me name the town. And for population I was thinking about something around 3000.
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>>98226410That's what I'd assumed at first, but thats barely a town. I'd figured around 5-8k what with the status of economics, administration, town guards, supporting trade routes, industry, and general army size.
Thread #016 Grand-Dad 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>>98138247>Previous Thread>>98044456Brief 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.
>>98221750Oh I had a sister here cool IOH MY STARS HE DIABLERIZED HER AND PHOTOED IT OH THE TEACHERS ARE GONNA HAVE AN EPISODE
>>98222131Small comfort I know but he WAS hunted down and diabed for it.
>>98222037Just don't leave this "Andrei" alone around your female coterie mates. Or male. Or farm animals. Or ghouls but I repeat myself. Relatives are probably fine; but not for the reasons you're thinking.
Lianhua aced the accelerated Celerity program, now our Errand Knight is coming up with all these pranks on the citizens of Castle Errand, in order to get her to learn Obfuscate - I hope - but it's nowhere near as easy for her, same with him overcoming his limitations to learn Potence. She is as strict and demanding a teacher as you'd expect from somebody who served Spider Lily for so long and survived to tell the tale, but also very attentive and surprisingly practical-oriented, disguising esoteric cultivation as strength training.>>98223078We never had any problem with Andrei, he's our best ghoul and he doesn't seem to be excessively lustful, all things considered. Maybe it was just your typical off-handed remark from somebody of his sex, age and cultural background, also he said that during a boys-only meeting - you know how unhinged Slavic men and women can be when the other sex isn't present.
>>98223597>coming up with all these pranks on the citizens of Castle Errand, in order to get her to learn Obfuscate - I hope>disguising esoteric cultivation as strength trainingAh, the weightlessness of youth.
>theater of the mind >also no battle maps (fuck ur positioning)if you cant have a simple battle map im just not gonna play ur game also no a fucking blank canvas isnt gonna work
>>98216465You don't play games.
>>98222953Why would a GM cheat? They can just make enemies immune to damage, spawn unlimited balors, drip rocks on you, etc.
>>98216465You've never played in a game.
what's the point of playing ttrpgs if it doesn't allow you to buy and paint more minis
>>98226615Fun. Minis aren't fun. Do not reply.
ITT: Post a session snack and fa/tg/uys will rate it out of 10.
>>98224478I always thought the French were the most obese in Europe??
>>98226400You would be wrong. Although I am curious about your reasoning.
most of the things in this thread are mid, subjectively speaking and others are downright subpar.
>>98200285Grab some hummus or ranch and these are a MEAL
>>98223832As a Canadian/Ukrainian its less about needing to eat and more about the demand, if you have guests to serve them or if you are a guest to bring something.I can game without a snack. But if guests or being a guest is involved I am required to have food prepared.
Why do they not care about the opinions of grognards?
>>98220999Because You'll Buy It Anyway, You Pig
>>98221868Weebs and otaku burn 400+ green boys on extremely expensive toys of obscure fucking stuff nobody born in the last 20 years has heard of.
>>98223280I posted about the state of things on twitter, how else would I know what it's like?>>98223280>>98223020Nevermind, this Anon brought twitter here:>>98223056
>>98221958>What matters is that DnD and Magic are now garbage>now
>>98226858Fair.
>caters to faggots more every year>less actual gaming shit every year>less companies even fucking bothering to show upIs this even a game fair anymore, or just a thinly veiled excuse to extract more money from faggots while they do their fag parade?
>>98226372the hell even that fair?
>>98226372>extract more money from faggots while they do their fag paradeSeems to be pretty profitable so far.
>dm flips his 30 second timer>"its your turn, anon"how do you respond?
>>98221408>Your ass is not rolling 4 attacks at multiple targets with individual damage rolls in 30 seconds. Even if you could it would be a utterly retarded, needlessly frantic pace.So roll once and apply the average damage to each target.
>>98220645>Flips it again once he start talking about lore
>>98225556I literally do not give a single fuck about the Wizard's trademarks. Game master is a lame generic term, if you can't come up with something cool, like Storyteller, I'm calling you a Dungeon Master.
>something cool>storytellerlol
>>98225556>The name was *trademarked by Wizards of the Coast* and *specifically refers to the person running a Dungeons & Dragons campaign*.Anon... You do know that trademark names often become generalized due to consumer usage right? Even if it's only informally? Band-aid, Bubble Wrap, Photoshop, all these terms are trademarked and yet in the general lexicon of the population are used interchangeably for the brand and the generic versions of these items. If you need the win this badly Anon, take it. Take it and know that at least one person in this world felt pity for you.
We have been having fun with light mechs and really BT has so many mechs, why not do them by tonnage? So of all the 40 ton mechs, which is your favorite?
>>982248452,434,063 C-bills
>>98226026Battlecobra is great
>>98225654I like how your experiences of it is essentially how it was used in lore. In any era where say pulses exist the thing is a deathtrap but in an introtech scenario? 7/11/7 is god tier and offers up a lot of harassment options.
>>98224845Officers of the DCMS I present to you the new backbone of the light 'mech corps, the Outrider. The 'mech is built around its only armament of a pair of highly accurate ER Large Lasers giving it significant firepower out to extended ranges on a light, low-cost platform. The speed of the Outrider allows it to keep pace with most medium battlemechs where they can act as low-cost snipers and harassers added onto otherwise heavier lances or work in tandem to quickly eliminate enemies with an accurate fusilade of laser fire. In order to ensure its survivability the armor is primarily focused on the frontal torso, with the minimal arms being kept as light as possible while the cockpit is kept at an efficient size, allowing the 'mech to survive even a direct hit by a gauss rifle or a barrage of missiles or smaller lasers.Overall the Outrider provides the firepower, protection, and mobility of a medium battlemech at the price and size of a light battlemech.(If the dual accurate weapon is considered OP can be swapped for dual stabilized, but the cost/rebate is balanced.)
>>98225099Main point of that and heat rule was to avoid kamikaze mechs and ensure that mechs would be something that could be useable in a wider battle than just a 4 v 1 skirmish where 5 turns of firing is plenty or where you can just overload your mech with heat to cripple the enemy and liquify your pilot.
I'm sure by now we can all agree this was peak 3.5
>>98226809You didn't, sorry. Your opinion is wrong and you lose.
>>98226177It was not.
>>98219860Huh. I didn't know people like that still existed.Interesting.
>>98226809No retard, the incompetent here is you for not seeing why epic magic is a problem.
>>98226850works fine at my table :)))))))
Irregular edition.Previous thread: >>98108567>Thread Question: Best way to learn a new system? Do you take your players to boot camp style scenarios?>Community Summary of Wargames: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11JoUpGIRDp5DZdgJ24rijKHgyY-qvvR5QnVtHIp57Tw/edit?usp=sharing>List of Historical Tactical, Strategic, and Military Drill treatises: http://pastebin.com/BfMeGd6R>ZunTsu Gameboxes: Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Does anyone here like 3rd edition for Bolt Action?
>>98226184I don't even know what differentiates it from 2nd
>>98226179Cool anon, I was also looking at it a bit. 950 figures is very very daunting but they do look amazing. Really great box. Keep us updated!
>>98226179The figures themselves are the one reason I skipped this box as those ashigaru pikes are just daft.Good luck clipping them out.
>>98226370I was in those same boots for a very long time but after further investigation it looks like you can avoid any damage by clipping the junction joining the pike to the sprue first and foremost. This way all the remaining tensions go somewhere else.>>98226236Cheers. My pal isn't landing before mid-July so there's nearly a whole month to read the rules, clip the minis, sort them on popsicle sticks and batch prime them myself. I just know he'll go for an odd color scheme from pink to purple but hey, if he can stick to it and paint half the box I'll be a merry man.
In the fact of its high prices, poor rules quality, FLOPS like Armageddon and Darkwater and Games Workshop's overall evilness as a company... why do pigs keep slurping from the trough? Why has no other game emerged as an alternative?
>>98225221Games workshop also actively sustain it through having retail stores that constantly onboard new people and (as ling as they are large enough) provide a location to play and source of people to play with as well as both painting and playing lessons, the entire product range doesn't go out of stock at retailers for months at a time either.
>>98225350>Games workshop also actively sustain it through having retail storesDid any other company ever even attempt something similar? I know Warlord Games has one (1) store in Nottingham, because thats where their headquarters is, but Nottingham is its own world in the wargaming world.. but besides that? Anyone? Anywhere?
>>98225986Funny you should say Warlord, they're opening a shop in Wigan just now (technically already open, just not officially; early July, I think).That said, as far as I know, noone else has given it a go.
>>98226467I think FASA tried alongside their simulator pods, but they went bankrupt lol. It's hard to understate just how big FASA and BT were in the NA market in the 80s and 90s, and how far they fell in the 2000s - which allowed Privateer and GW to swoop in during the 2000s.
>>98226515Aw shit, those pods... I'd forgotten about those. Sounded cool as hell in the magazines, but I couldn't manage a trip to London at the time, sadly (the only ones in the UK, iirc).
Magic the Gathering: No UBThe Only Thing My LGS Has in Stock is Aetherdrift EditionPreviously on...>>98127132This is a general for a version of Magic the Gathering that excludes 3rd party IPs, these cards are known as "Universes Beyond". This thread is not a duplicate of any other general, it is not a fork of any specific general. There is growing support for versions of Magic formats that exclude UB, for example Planar Standard. This general is the place for those discussionsThis general is as legitimate as D&D Old School Renaissance threads and it exists for similar reasons.Discussion of Magic the Gathering where no set or release that required 3rd party IP licensing can be mentioned. That includes Universes Beyond and Secret Lair.The ONLY Magic sets this year:>Lorwyn Eclipsed, January 23 2026>Secrets of Strixhaven, April 24 2026Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98225422because everyone knows that sorting teenagers into cliques and tribalism is best for educating young minds?
>>98225422We don’t really know anything about the personalities of any of the students for a start. But even if we did, similar people pick similar interests
>>98204670I like the design of Chromium, even thought about building it but playing a voltron deck that revolves around landing a 7 drop 1/1 just does not seem tenable in what's basically a turn 5 format.
>>98225932>basically a turn 5 format.Words cannot express how much I fucking hate that WotC has let even the lower brackets get pushed to about 6 turns.I swear to god it's because of influencers. They need to cut a video to a length their audience will watch, and then splice in all the fucking talking heads and "banter" in between, so they only end up playing like 5 fucking turns.The early game is the most boring fucking part and I hate how normalized it's becoming to "just shuffle up and play [the same fucking first 4 turns as last time] again!"
>>98225473There is a litany of American media about this very topic.Kind of insane how visible the psychological scarring caused by the US school system is. They are obsessed with high school and college. The only other country in the world that produces as much media set in high school is Japan.
I spoke to a paid DM. They have a very interesting (and sobering) story to share.There is this person I once played D&D 4e with, long ago. By chance, I stumbled across him online and caught up. This person has been wanting to vent for a while about his side hustle as a paid 5e DM, and, for whatever reason, thought I would be a good listener.At some point, I asked if I could share his story online, publicly. He agreed (citing that he highly doubts that anyone involved checks RPG-related Discord servers, subreddits, and such), under the condition that there would be no identifying information, no direct quotes aside from small phrases, no direct price tags, nobody trying to contact him, and so on. I have already run my posts by him.I have no way of verifying if any of this is true. He could be fabricating everything. In turn, you have no way of verifying my own side. I suppose that is just how things go. I am sharing this story simply because I find it interesting.• The DM has been doing this for nearly a decade, usually thrice a week, ~6 hours a session, in-person. He started off charging (X) USD per hour (for the whole group, not for each player), but gradually increased his price to ~3(X). The DM is aware that this is very high, but he gets away with it by relentlessly networking across a certain area in the U.S. where upper-middle-class 20- to 30-somethings are common. One current group, consisting of nobodies in the right-wing grifter sphere (who still manage to cough up money anyway), the DM charges ~5(X); he tells them that they are getting a premium experience, even when the DM is doing nothing particularly different.• His clients are almost all white or white-passing, upper-middle-class, 20- to 30-something men. The DM freely admits that there is selection bias. This is probably the only demographic willing to pay such high prices for someone to run a game for them. Sometimes, someone brings a girlfriend, who may or may not play.(Continued.)
>>98226270> you're talking about 14.50 an hour in america box, which is pretty fucking terrible.In the US maybe. At the time the minimum wage was 3.5€ an hour and the most common entry level jobs paid around 5-5.5€ an hour. Add to this that I was also registered as unemployed and got me some neetbux and it really wasn't that bad.
>>98218358>One current group, consisting of nobodies in the right-wing grifter sphereThis is the part that sounds weirdest to me only because I have never once in the last 10 years seen or met an RPG/D&D-focused ""community"" irl or online that wasn't hard-left identity-politics monoculture.>He agreed (citing that he highly doubts that anyone involved checks RPG-related Discord servers, subreddits, and such)... although maybe this is the key to escaping that smotheringly ubiquitous stereotype of people. Does leave me wondering how he does find his clientele though.Everything else listed here is a grim depiction, but I believe it. I remember playing 5e with exactly the type of person described here and being blown away by how vapid she turned out to be (I had initially thought these behaviors were a joke and she was only pretending to be retarded). These people are allowed to vote and operate heavy machinery.
>>98225856No, not really.
>>98225868Well? How is it a grift? I just watched a right wing video and I have the same amount of money as before.
>>98226246Just the opppsite.
How do you incentivize player characters wearing bikini armor in a system with bounded accuracy like 5e, where full plate is the be-all end-all of protection?
>>98218015Marketing. Looking drab leaves you ignored, dressing fly gets you boticed by potential clientele.
>>98221691>>98224581a hit dog will holler
>>98224427>AExactly. Which is why the players create interesting characters rather than isekai protagonists. >BHire a munchkin IRL to do anything. Oh wait, they don't exist. Almost as if souls have better things to do than min-maxx.
>>98226627Lewdness made you holler
>>98226629>APlayers create whatever they want inside the framework of the game. "Interesting" is completely and utterly subjective.>B>hyper-competent people don't exist>Olympic level athletes don't exist>No one wins championships ever>In fact championships don't even exist because souls have better things to do other than min-maxx>people that put themselves on life or death situations on the regular wouldn't do everything in their power to maximize their chances for survival. They obviously have better things to do.I don't usually do this, I try do to be kind and always give people the benefit of the doubt. But you really are an unapologetic idiot.
