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 here >>98735990 As always, report and ignore any trollingPrevious thread: >>98747984Thread Question:How many players usually die per session at your table? How lethal do you make your games?
>>98798115No real reason to prevent it. It's a self-correcting problem, it's just something that takes time.Every time one of the shills tries to promote the game, praising it excessively in a way no intelligent person would fall for, it makes people learn to ignore the shills or call them out. And, in the rare case someone is fooled to the point where they decide to look into the game, then they're most likely to come back with an even greater appreciation of how much the shills are lying here.I don't think the shills truly appreciate how bad things went for them, considering how they're repeating the same patterns. They might, considering how they are very aware that it's not just a single person who thinks they're terrible people but what effectively seems like everyone they interact with, wherever they go.If these guys could promote their product in a way that didn't devolve into them waging a troll war, they would have. But, when the only thing they can do is act in the same way that got them banned elsewhere, I think they're fundamentally fucked, and all effort on their part is just dragging out the inevitable.
>>98798107That melty is insane.He might be the worst writer ever.
>>98789423A gold coin that teleports back to your pocket after a few hours is already an interesting item. I'd just leave it at that and see what the players would do with it.It's cool because it can reveal a lot about a person's character in the manner they use it.
>>98798115Kek
>He's manifesto posting againMust be a day ending in -y
>in college chess club>we just play some chess, boardgames, 40k and occasionally one shots of ttrpg systems >it was fun hanging out with my fellow nerds>but my roommate is in some other club and he is going to parties and getting women every night>kinda feel bad wasting my precious time on 40k while he is spreading his actual gene seed out to countless girlsShould I really stay in chess club or should i use my college to party like theres no tomorrow?
>>98794090Do you have a source for that?
>>98789615You can play tabletop games all your life, you probably won't be able to party and able to meet girls like you can in college afterwards.
>>98797858i get exactly the same numbers of girls now as i did in uni though
>tfw no childhood platonic nerd gf like Noelle
>>98794090>newSISSY dont know the origins of this boardKek
Elf relationships editionLast thread: >>98673107Discuss elves.Post elves.Love elves.All elf lore, games, stories, and anything else elfy is all appreciated.Thread question: What are the biggest challenges with having relationships with elves?
>>98796637Like they're the only ones who enjoy it
>>98796107Chances of promotion seem slim when nobody ever retires, no wonder so many elves work in non-elf owned businesses
>>98798868Only if you breed like retards. Also being able to liv long doesn't mean you'll be able to reach old age
>>98799254>Also being able to liv long doesn't mean you'll be able to reach old ageDamn elf office politics are cutthroat
Elf office ladies...
Magic the Gathering thread focused on universes within content. No positive of neutral posting about UB content.>how do I search for non-UB cards?On Scryfall "-is:ub"On EDHREC selecting "Universes Beyond" under Card Filters hides them.>Can I play UB cards even if I hate them?You can do whatever you want, but you shouldn't contribute to the enshittification of this game. More people taking a stance against UB means WotC are more likepy to notice the dislike for it.Proxy them if you must (ideally and in-universe characters), or wait for them to get in-universe reprints as a few already have.>TQWhat does everyone think of preedh? Or timepiece formats in general?
>>98791610You could at least get art thats not already on cards lazybones.
>>98795489All of them are from other cards minus taniwha and arcum. That's kind of the point.None of them and from the same card type, though-- well obviously artifact, but the vehicles aren't vehicles.
>>98796232Oh, and Gaddock is just an alternate rare art for Gaddock edited a bit.
>>98791610got one of super state with angel art because fuck limited edition mechanically unique cards
>>98783071>Flagbearer effects are in whiteThat's like saying that Tezzeret can now counter-spell now cos he's blue. Or changing Nissa's focus from elf to lands. I guess if WotC doesn't care, I shouldn't either.
Have you ever used/had monster PCs in your games?How did it go for you?
>>98792182like the psionic artificer variant? or a dual classer?
>>98778996In the Orc's defense, playing a full blooded orc does give you a rather sizable +4 to strength. Your mental ability scores suck and you get dazed in sunlight (Which is a nonissue past like, level 3 since one splat added what are essentially sunglasses that just turn off that weakness) They absolutely did do a lot of 'monstrous' races dirty in 3.5, either by giving them overly harsh stat penalties for LA +0, or by giving them a level adjustment when they didn't need them. The most egregious case of this in my opinion is the blue, which, despite having a statline and racial abilities that are honestly worse than a lot of PHB races, they get slapped with a +1 level adjustment just because they're goblinoids. Meanwhile in the same book, you have the "Player race" of dromites, which have scent AND blind fight AND a 1/day psi-like ability AND +3 Natural armor AND resistance 5 to fire, cold, electricity or sonic (Player's choice) AND are small (so another +1 AC bonus and +1 to hit) ALSO have a +1 level adjustment.
>>98785991Yeah, honestly in 3.x, you HAD to minmax in order to make a monster race be on par with PCs playing normal PC races.
>>98792923>like the psionic artificer variant? or a dual classer?What i was gonna mention is that dual classing those two together is probably weaker than just playing straight psion or straight artificer.
>>98747183It went fine. Had a gorgon in the group in a Mage: The Ascension game. They took the appropriate perm paradox flaws and I stipulated that they could play it, but they couldn't turn people to stone until they got the appropriate spheres that would let them pull that off. Honestly, it was pretty fun. They were a great player.
How do you ensure equal opportunity monster love interests in your game in your setting?
"Equal opportunity love interests"Romance is inherently discriminatory; HR can't make anybody love you, retard.
>>98799262you woke fags can try to cancel me all you want, but my game my setting will NEVER pander to straight people
>>98799417>Aogiri Penta
>>98799262>in your game in your setting?The bot is breaking
>>98799262Mod thread.
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>>98796645Yeah, they were basically just playing druid as ranger IIRC. I do wonder if the dual wielding stuff had been added to ranger at that point, or if they dumped it in there later to get the guy to stop playing druid that way and actually try casting spells.
>>98796933Pretty much, though Varakhut may be a better fit specifically. Or if you gate in a Solar, whichever deity is their direct superior investigates and sends another Solar to retrieve them (and, depending on the circumstances, pancake the caster).
>>98798624You could also have them accidentally poke a hole into the far realm and have the party deal with pseudonaturals/half farspawn.Or if you wanted to be really mean, have them summon a Dream Larva, Phane, or some other fun thing from the ELH
>>98798624Eh, Gate's limited to one single task taking 1 round/CL if you don't pay, and returns the Called entity directly to you upon completion of more involved tasks to collect. Quite possible for the selection criteria to end up under a "de minimis exemption" of sorts for the "normal" applications of such.As with most hyping up of Calling abuses, it's not nearly as bad as the "COULD do anything" scare-mongering makes it out to be, because most of it is well covered by explicit statements in the spells restricting their scope. I generally prefer looking at them as express delux hirelings accordingly, with issues being those of ready access to large hireling volumes.
>>98798753Still if you suddenly and without an announcement pluck an important high ranked servant or, god forbid (literally), use something as lowly as a candle of invocation to bring the solar for some literally fucking nothing task like fighting an ancient dragon, the deity has the right to be pissed off. At least with the good-aligned deities you're likely getting away with an angry>Don't you DARE ever summon our Lord's Solars ever again unless you're fighting OVERWHELMING forces of evil.
Let's have ourselves a scifi worldbuilding project.One worldbuilding detail per post, posts cannot contradict each other.Scope: Earth's solar system Limitations: No molecular assembly, no superintelligent AITimeline: Diverged prior to the Gulf of Tonkin incident Current date: 2099 AD
>>98796924There are no Men in Black. There is no Majestic 12. Aliens do not exist. There are no secret alien research facilities on Charon. There's nothing hiding in the Oort cloud. There are no sunken alien ruins on Jupiter. And certainly the proxy war between the AAF and USSR isn't a distraction for anything involving ETIs. These are all baseless conspiracies peddled by deranged asteroid jockeys.
>Memetic warfare is the primary means of conflict>Espionage and cloak and dagger are the go to>And into this you drop two factions of alien bullshit who everyone thinks is working for one of the other teams, one of which spends all its time spreading conspiracy theories and driving academics insane with patterns and 'truth seeking' jobs while the other is trying to get its hands on anyone infected with the first before it can spread too farVery nice
Posadism became shockingly popular after the Sino-Soviet nuclear exchange. They are perpetuating a conspiracy theory that the superpower governments are hiding all evidence of aliens and deliberately sabotage research into interstellar travel to prevent contact with the more advanced communist civilization.
>>98797916My first instinct was to call you a faggot, but that low-key makes a lot of sense
Each of the space elevators has its own air force & Guardian militia.It's a cozy very well paid posting right until it's not.
>"Hey GM can I bring my girlfriend?"
>>98798016He used it correctly. You are using the word incel wrong. You use it to mean "person i dont like (due to gender dynamics)" he uses it to mean "person who doesnt get sex from women".You are an incel or a woman.
>>98799134That's so fucking oddWas the uncle like creepy or mean mugging you? Did he even talk to you?
>>98783810>Hey GM can I bring my girlfriend?"I figured you'd been bringing her the whole time. How else are you holding your dice and pencil?
>>98799267>Was the uncle like creepy or mean mugging you? Did he even talk to you?Absolutely not. The previous times I went by GM's house and interacted with him, he was a perfectly normal person.That time, he just kept staring at me while I rolled dice and wrote on the sheet. I guess he also wanted to be somewhere else and forced himself to stay there, checking what I was doing while being bored.Still, being stared all the time was fucking uncomfortable, and I don't regret complaining at all.
>>98783810>tfw the DM is going to introduce his gf as a new party memberGiven past experiences in this regard with other GMs i'm expecting the worse. Worse part is that i can't abandon the campaign since i'm using it as an excuse for cultivating a new group for GMing my games.
parry melee attacks
Only troons enjoy Yuri.
>>98793707centurii has drawn julius caesar (male) and implied the characters are attracted to him so they're not all lesbians, you can enjoy the art now.
>>98793707Said by retards who love cock.
>>98793707I was born a male and will remain a male until I die.Eat shit, retard.
>>98708207This is how I min-max the partyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVwMCYxB-mg
Savage Worlds is generic role playing system that focuses on pulpy action. Unlike most other generic systems that try to be adaptive to several different play styles, Savage Worlds puts its action heavy focus front and center while instead being generic in the sense you can play an action heavy game in pretty much any setting.TQWhich of the SW companions do you feel give you the most bang for your buck?
I like the Fantasy and Sci Fi companions but honestly just pirate them. PEG have been kind of shitty for a while and I am still ass mad that they spent years printing Pathfinder and Rifts for SWADE instead of making the genre companions that people actually wanted. SWADE Deadlands is shit though. They absolutely butchered the setting because of current year politics and god forbid a fantastical historical setting not have modern sensibilities.
>>98797035To be fair RIFTS is pretty popular, having the south lose the Civil War was the least egregious lore change, and SPF is actually superior to regular PF and might convince people to get into SW.>>98796941Fantasy Companion is better than Savage Pathfinder if fantasy is your jam.Sci-Fi expanded an improved vehicle rules to the point I consider a must own if you are going to be having vehicle focus on any way. Horror is easy to blend into any other setting.So the weakest is Super Powers because you can't really advance it beyond a certain power level. Meaning if you start as street level, you kind of need to stay there because the step above street is pretty dramatically more powerful and it just gets worse the higher you go. This limits what you can do pretty hard with that kind of setup
I'm honestly about to make SW my default system even though I don't really love it, just because it has so much support. And better then DnD
Welcome to the Old School Renaissance General, the thread dedicated to first-decade, Gygaxian D&D, its faithful modern clones, and content created for use with them. Later editions (2e and newer) should be discussed elsewhere. Broadly, OSR games encourage a tonal and mechanical fidelity to Dungeons & Dragons played as intended by its creators from 1974 to 1983 — less emphasis on linear adventures and overarching metaplots and a greater emphasis on player agency. If you are new to the OSR, welcome! Ask us whatever you're curious about: we'll be happy to help you get started. We also have two excellent beginner guides created by Anons with feedback from the thread that you can check for help: >n00b DM's Guidehttps://pastebin.com/EVvt6P0B>n00b Player's Handbookhttps://pastebin.com/XALkXkV0 >Troves, Resources, Blogs, etc:http://pastebin.com/9fzM6128 >Need a starter dungeon? Here's a curated collection:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98791208Here. 1D10. >you are a huge >1. faggot >2. retard >3. idiot >4. looser >5. dumbdumb>6. simp>7. nigger >8. tranny >9. tourist >10. incapable of understanding even when presented with clear and simple goals Practice with the list on yourself then apply it to npcs.
>>98747196This. I thought it was pretty obvious that, once you became powerful enough to have set up fortresses, castles, and armies, you zoom back out and start playing wargames proper.>My Fighting Man is now Lvl 15, has conquered this corner of the map, has followers 1000 strong, and a well supplied castle. What do I do now?!Sounds like its time to lay down a hexmap and plan where you army needs to defend against/invade next. You can zoom back in to personally deal with some lich or warlord, but otherwise, it's wargame time.
>>98786906I had AI make a dungeon turn timer that I run in firefox. It also tracks light sources and stuff
>>98796163Kill yourself
>>98797765fuck you
Post spaceships. Maybe brainstorm settings.
No Allegiance But To Self Edition >List Builder & Ruleshttps://sc.starcraft-tmg.com/>Tacticahttps://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/StarCraft:_Tabletop_Miniatures_Game/Tactics>Print-and-Play Cards, Rulebook and Building Instructionshttps://starcraft-tmg.com/downloads>How-to-Playhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDBsIPVIOHw&t=3s>Art of War Battle ReportComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I WILL be Dominionmaxxing when Mengsk comes out
>>98797087>I WILL be Dominionmaxxing when Mengsk comes out
One thing doesn't sit well with me with the whole SC 2 story.if Overmind created Queen of Blades in rebel against Amon wishes, how exactly it also fell in line with Amon plan to res itself by using Kerrigan psi-potential?
>>98799257>Amon plan to res itself by using Kerrigan psi-potential?That was more just using the tools available at the time, not an eons long plan>>98796536What Brood War units are in Tassies fleet?
>>98799306>What Brood War units are in Tassies fleet?None in-game but there's stuff that makes sense in a Tass-themed army. Dark Templar being present means I can take Dark Archons and Corsairs, for example
A thread for discussing the Star Wars franchise and its various media and tabletop games.inb4 Pellaeonfag edition.>Adepticon roadmaps:https://www.atomicmassgames.com/transmission/adepticon-2026-roadmap-star-wars-legion/https://www.atomicmassgames.com/transmission/adepticon-2026-roadmap-star-wars-shatterpoint/>Surprise Rocket B2 on 9/11https://store.asmodee.com/products/star-wars-legion-b2-super-rocket-battle-droidsPrevious: >>98675973Fantasy Flight Games’ X-Wing, Armada, and Legion>https://pastebin.com/9puqx1zeComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
do you think since mandos are all about honor and domination instead of secret BDSM clubs they have hidden cuddle clubs where they get pampered
>>98796877In the time of The Mandalorian the show, probably not. Back in the day? I imagine they'd have like Battle Spas, where the galaxy's toughest masseuses defeat the knots in your back with cunning, grace and overwhelming firepower.
>>98796877Absolutely, I've been to several. Would recommend the experience, there's nothing quite like a woman calling you a good boy in Mando'a as she gives you a thighjob under the covers
when the fuck is that gauntlet starfighter model they showed off with the mando launch box coming out
>>98798971Q1 2027, so anytime from January to March.I expected them to get released near the end of March in time for Adepticon, but it seems Adepticon 2027 will be closer to early-mid April.
