This is a temp thread. Relax. Someone will make an old traditional one next time.>What is /hwg/?Any wargames that don't have their own thread and which /awg/ ( Alternative Wargames) hates or pretends to hate.>What is /h&c/?Hex and Chit or Hex and Counters. These are wargames played on a hexgrid using little square pieces with numbers on them.>Example /hwg/sLion Rampant, SAGA. DBA, DBM, and DBMM. Pillage, Barons' War, and Never Mind The Billhooks. Bolt Action. Flames of War and Team Yankee. AK-47 Republic. Spectre (and successors). Black Ops. Fistful of TOWs. Cold War Commander and Blitzkrieg Commander. Anything by Too Fat Lardies (Chain of Command) and most of the stuff by Peter Pig>Novice Troves, meant to serve as a sampler of available systems. Check out the Share Thread for up-to-date troves.https://pastebin.com/MjtsC8AXComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Im eyeing Vietnam 1965-1975 by GMT, however is this a game that you can set up, play, then put it back in the box? I know the full campaign is really long, but while I do have a place to play it, I dont think I can just leave it there for who knows how long.
Trying to pick a Bolt Action army to get into it.Not familiar with the meta.Looking at tournament results trying to piece it together. WTC 26 looks like it had a bunch of Japanese lists with a lot of suicide AT. Germany being runner up, and I keep reading about a Panzer III MG list meta.Considering probably either British or Soviets, looks like USA/Germany is half the playerbase. I'm not familiar with the meta, I was just going to grab a starter set and flesh it out from there with whatever sounds cool/fun. Anything I should avoid to prevent eye rolling at the table, EG a Panzer III list?
Does anybody know what the guy on the left is wearing? Looks like some kind of thick sleeveless vest.
>>98846422I find that Hollywood Wargaming was a fast and clean , in and out, about how good specific unit types or armies were.
>>98845862Naturally everyone paints better than me.>>98846422Generally, it's agreed, that tanks with more firepower than armor, are effective for points. Which is often Panzer IIIs.
>What is /awg/?A thread to talk about minis and games which fall between the cracks, or peoples' homebrew wargames.The >>>/tg/hwg thread doesn't entertain fantasy (for good reason) and the other threads are locked to more specific games.This thread isn't tied to a game, a publisher, or a genre. Let's just talk about fun wargames. Any scale, any company, any miniatures.>Examples of games that qualify.A Song of Ice and Fire, Argatoria, Batman Miniature Game, Carnevale, Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings,Deadzone, Dragon Rampant, Dropfleet & Dropzone Commander, Freebooter's Fate, Frostgrave, Full Spectrum Dominance,Gaslands, HeroClix, Kings of War, Lords & Legends,Maelstrom's Edge, Malifaux, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Masters of the Universe: Battleground, Moonstone,Oathmark, OnePageRules, Open Combat, RelicBlade, Rumbleslam,SAGA, Sahipkıran, Sludge, Space Weirdos, StarCraft, Stargrave, Sword Weirdos,Urban War, Void Admiral, Warcaster, Warmachine, Xenos Rampant, Xenotactics......and anything else that doesn't necessarily have a dedicated thread.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Sping and autumn knights plus an evil blue lady.
Does anyone have experience with basing Lego figures ? I'd like to put them on bases and I can was thinking of putting them on 25mm, but I'd also like to do something with the bases just like we'd decorate them for other games but am not certain how to do so. I have a 3D printer but am not opposed to buying something either. I fear it's just gonna look so bland. Does anyone also have any good suggestions for things needed for Brikwars ? pic semi-related.
>>98845768Shitposting is the only reason this board is alive.In the sense that a cadaver crawling with beetles and maggots is "Alive".
>>98846046Lady winter. You now only need lady summer.
>>98846737Damn. I didn't even think of that.
>Female DM>put femme fatales and goddesses of war in her settingWhy do they do this?
>newfag can't into greentext>thinks his opinions matterYou >>98842086 are probably right. He didn't get enough attention as a kid. Or perhaps too much. Who knows.
>>98844576Yes, you are stupid and smell of old underpants
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>>98846463Men will see a literal straw woman and think, "Wife!"
>>98814499>t. Ares
Doll Edition Here is a thread to discuss trading card games other than the big three.>Build Divide>Force of Will>Final Fantasy TCG>DBZ CCG>Wixoss>Keyforge>Gundam>Legend of the 5 Rings (L5R)>Digimon>Flesh and Blood>Gate Ruler>Battle SpiritsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98846366It really depends on your deck. No legend is better than a legend that your deck doesn't make use of but generally if you can make use of the legend then it's better to have one. I ran no legend yesterday because my packs weren't great for Ekko and I went 3-0.
I can't believe there's no tutorial app for Riftbound to match you against an AI to teach new players hot to play. Even fucking Bandai games have one.
>>98846343>>you open a kit with a 15 card precon for one of the set legendsDo you get to choose your legend or is that random as well?
>store's pre-rift event is on a day i can't gofuuuuuuck
Thoughts on retrofuturism?
>>98846598More kino than actual futurism, so I'm all for it.
>>98846598I think the drinks in that picture are overpriced.
>>98846603There's something about the hyper optimistic, space age vision of the future that people had during the 50s and 60s that's so interesting to me and I don't know why.
>>98846621Well today we are just waiting to see if AI ushers in a new golden age or dark age.
Its racist because it is going back to a future without POCs and visible brown bodies.
Spellcaster Edition
>>98846178/slop/ already has two threads up.
>>98846204This is not a slop thread you fucking retard. Post art.
>>98846178
Requesting necromancers
It's Da PDF Share Thread!STEP 0:<----- That image is not a PDF, it's an image, at least for now. Check the next post for info: Remember by perusing here you aRE BRANDed.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:Please Ctrl + F this thread and all of the previous threads that have not yet been 404ed before making a request to make sure said request hasn't already been fulfilled, and to possibly find the answers to frequent and/or recent questions.STEP 3:Request, share, stay awesome!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98843814Seconded on the Wrecker's point.
Requesting:Biting Coldhttps://thebrokenempiresrpg.com/products/a-biting-cold-adventureThe Broken Empires GM Screenhttps://thebrokenempiresrpg.com/products/gm-screen
>>98846361Repent Ye Foolish Gods/d/VtAvkCWL
The 2nd edition Cypher System Bestiary has supposedly already been sent to backers. Anyone uploaded it?
Requesting Gold Teeth
Please stop using that image editionPrevious Thread: >>98783794Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8Somewhat dusty survey results: https://pastebin.com/scAkFdTvTQ:>What game destroyed your friendship the most? >What is your comfort game?>What is your dirty little secret game?
>>98845763Vagrant
>>98845913>It's a long, heavy, asymmetric wargame.No, that's pure preference, and it sounds like something I would love. People hate it because it is badly designed and the optimal play style is Catan-level degeneracy.
Reminder: if your criticism of root is about the metagaming (or mechanical lack thereof) or vagabond interaction, remember that Wehrle officially posted that he's playing root without planning and conspiring against each other, meaning the balance problems are just unapologetically shit design
So, they're printing a new edition of arkham horror, is the game worth it?
Hey anons, does anyone know if the Unmatche: The Witcher pair of games make for an enjoyable set? Or do they require other sets to really get your money's worth?
Is there something better than Roll20 yet? It's been years.
>>98846026Then get married and raise some players of your own.
>>98843935ask the wait staff if they want to play on their days off or after work. make a poster for the game and leave it at the resteraunt.>>98820596foundry is better the roll20 if the host has a good pc. I've been running a game for a year now and its been a life saver. if you can run it i reccommend it.
>>98846629>make a poster for the game and leave it at the resteraunt.Good idea.
>>98820638>Also I've had a lot of success with roll20 lfg (as a GM looking for players)Are the players any good? I say slurs a lot in my games
I want to like owlbear rodeo, but it's kind of ass
"The Four Samurai" edition>What is this?/TG/ DEVELOPED A GAMEIT IS PLAYABLE. IT HAS BEEN PLAYED.EXPEDITION is a ~1880s era, Jules Verne-inspired retro-futurist, underground blood soaked adventurescape.It is a Skirmish wargame. Two players with their own expeditions, on a hexgrid map, explore & fight each other for victory and profit.3 versions of the rules exist, 2 of which have been playtested. The main one is 2e, to be found:>https://www.mediafire.com/folder/us7vnek39dc6k/AgarthaRulesas with maps, tokens and lore resources.>TL;DR Dochttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1LxdaGoBlJRTMuziMDupG5TeeFwNDnsIW2pfaRAcFDgA>Main Lore Doc, including links to anon-written short stories and additional lore in "Recommended..." sectionComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Previous thread archived here.https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2026/98563262/
Has anyone kitbashed models for this yet?
>>98845900Yes, although I paint at a geological timescale so most remain unfinished.A couple others have Agarthan figures too, and if you have any colonials/ancients/renaissance stuff lying around you're pretty much good to go already.
>>98845900Of course, although its not the primary focus, and given we all live in different countries its very much just as a pass time. Here's my full Atlan warband, I have a French one that still needs painting, and am ordering the bases to finally get further on my Mu one as we speak.
>>98846724Left to right, front to back> Spring Gunner> Baron Phosphorus> Immortal> Hospitalier or the 2nd weird named Atlan Hero> Warmaster > His pet titanium-infused SiegesaurSorry for the crappy picture quality.
Amateur Game Design and Homebrew ThreadWelcome to the thread for homebrew discussion on /tg/, Organizing Edition! It's an effort to get people to have classic homebrew discussions and assist the board in general when it comes to their game design endeavors.>Why should I homebrew?/tg/ products are fairly unique in that it's actually pretty simple to make them these days, with a plethora of products to assist in making and playtesting your game. Making your own games helps understand why games are made the way they are, as well as being fun to do.>What you should postIdeas for games, games you're currently making, updates to your own games in broad strokes, and any homebrewing for existing products that don't get much attention. Discussion about the above is welcome. Post good, be good, and look over others products, they care if someone looks more than anything.>Resources for the aspiring developer>https://anydice.com/ (A fantastic resource for checking probabilities)>https://miro.com/ (A online whiteboard with tools to help organize yourself)>https://www.notion.so/ (Similar to the above, but in a bit cleaner format for those who work in larger teams)>https://rolz.org/ (Impromptu playtesting at its finest)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>98836693Looking around for platforms since I can't code but it seems they are all made for AI scraping
>>98800330>>98827688I've updated the win condition of the gamegive me a second to cobble up an explanationalso, bump
>>98845471Each player starts with up to 12 dice of five different colors: white, red, green, blue, and black.Each color represents an attribute:>white - Focus>red - Brawn>green - Agility>blue - Awareness>black - PresenceDice are distributed across several zones:>Supply: Dice not yet in play. Represents your attributes and remaining stamina.>Reserve: Available dice used to activate abilities and fight.>Chamber: Exhausted dice used during clashes.>Broken Dice: Dice lost to injuries.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I have been working on a setting for the past two years now. Parts of it are even older. I couldn't decide on a system forever, but finally settled on using Cthulhu Eternal (basically an open source Delta Green) as the chassis, as it covers almost everything I need. The whole thing is sort of my passion project; the game and setting I have always wanted to play.Current problem: All the art I have for it is AI generated. What initially started as aesthetic placeholders to use when pitching the game to people became art I genuinely think looks good and has the tone I am going for. No 6 fingered weirdness; it all has a consistent watercolor and ink style I wanted.Hiring artists is expensive. People do not want to Kickstart projects from no-namers. People do not take RPGs with AI generated art seriously and at worst vehemently reject and boycott it.Wat do? Settle on releasing an art-free version? Take out a small loan? I genuinely believe in the quality of my game and don't want to see it DOA because of this issue.
Do you think there should be a licensing process to be allowed to run a game? When I was younger I seriously thought this because I had played with a bunch of random truly terrible GMs I found online before I found a decent group to play with. I've been thinking about it again and while I know it's unpractical because it's nearly unenforceable I can't help but feel there are too many incompetent GMs that drive players away from the hobby. My main issue is GMs who play fast and loose with the rules without informing the players ahead of time what rules their house ruling. If I knew you would not let me spend my gold on magic items the way the game is intended to be played because you want them to be rare in your setting why didn't you tell me this before I joined the game. If you are going to fudge rolls so that combat lasts longer then the 1-2 turns it'll take for us to kill your BBEG before I joined the game. Why didn't you tell us you were going to insert your fetishes into the game before I joined it?Under all of those circumstances and more I would not have joined your game and consider the 4-5 session it took to come up you wasting all of my free time.And naysayers who are going to claim "just play with your friends and it will work" I'm telling you right now I have over 20 years experience playing TTRPGs and playing with your friends doesn't help at all because it's still going to be a group of people with disparate wants out of the game. If anything playing with friends is worse than playing with randos because when you quit a campaign with randos it doesn't impact your relationship moving forward. I'm sure this thread will be ignored by the majority of posters but I just had to vent about this.
>>98846558Is it? I've seen people bail on games they weren't feeling, there were no hard feelings because we're not emotionally stunted contrarian subhumans like 99.99999% of 4chan.
>>98846493>Fuck off, britcuck.Licenses are very much a German thing.
>>98846573>Protecting their precious story is something bad GMs are notorious for. I've had this happen once and I did ditch the campaign after giving them a rant over it. This was back before it was easy to find games online, I was in the basement having a rant over how his boss encounter was BS because they "passed" every save that would have inflicted a status effect or insta-killed his stupid character. That just isn't playing the game, it telling a story with a fixed outcome.
>>98846645>That just isn't playing the game, it telling a story with a fixed outcome.Same feeling. I've seen this happen a few times in the last decade. I have no idea why so many players are tolerant of it.
>Why didn't you tell us you were going to insert your fetishes into the game before I joined it?Because then you'd leave just like you said and the entire point was to involve the captive audience in the fetish without their consent.
How would you balance a blobber character like pic related in a campaign?
Is anyone else seeing this thread or am I hallucinating?
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How could you even play a character that is a box with legs? Or is that thing some kind of spell?
What are some alternative aesthetic for halflings without changing their nature much?It seems a little weird to have a race of small humans when there are actual small humans in our world (midgets). They should have something else. Should they be furries? tailed? demonic?
>>98828724>The midgets are the actual race with a specific name (Nelwyn) and they prefer to stay away from problems and Daikini (humans)Kino time
>>98843700i just want to grind em all up into smurf juice like gargamel.
>>98843736You think smurfs would smear the blood of the lamb on their door so the cat azriel wouldn't come for their first born like in the bible?
>>98831046>working classev&oe hobbits are petty-bourgeois
>>98829083So Palicoes?
Welcome to Open OSR. This is a seperate thread is for open discussions of OSR, OSR-adjacent and retro games. You can talk about all OSR (Pre Wotc D&D, & retroclones) & OSR-adjacent (Mork Borg, Shadowcity etc) games without distinction here.There is a general for those who only want to talk about "first decade" D&D. If that is your preference, you can find that elsewhere.As always, report and ignore any trollingPrevious thread:>>98812951Thread Question: What Classes do you like to allow outside of the standard 4?What are your favorite Traps to use in a dungeon?
i think it's pretty obvious that you are supposed to discard non functioning characters. maybe hand them to the dm to use them as hirelings or something.though it is not stated somewhere in the 1e as far as i remember.
>>98840736>one quarter of the game isn't a small sweet spotConsidering there's rules for going well beyond 20th level and the game turns into a hot mess past 15, it's pretty small.Though, for some reason AD&D has rules up to level 32 and then later expanded up to 100 while BECMI had rules for what happens beyond 36, when 99% of characters never got past 10.
>>98844887people didnt go past 15 in 3rd edition either and they certainly didnt go past 20 as always the high levels are both half baked and so far off that people dont ever get thereand that is true for both adnd and modern editions
How do you feel about this bit of advice from the Expert book?
>>98834858>What are your favorite Traps to use in a dungeon?I like old traps very close to the entrance that are broken and busted and completely fail, but suggest that there might be really vicious traps further in.A pit trap where the trap door is all rusted and needs to be kicked open, and at the bottom is a skeleton pierced through with needle-thin spikes emerging from the walls but most have failed to reset and return to their starting positions. A guillotine blade that drops down from the ceiling but it's so rusted and warped it gets stuck just high enough to put a nick into the top of the wizard's hat. A tripwire coated in cobwebs that fails to trigger any mechanism.
