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ITT: Post a session snack and fa/tg/uys will rate it out of 10.
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I fucking love sugar snap peas, baby carrots, and radishes at the table. Another personal favorite is frozen mango chunks if Im the one hosting.
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>>98224503
imagine the inbred who made this meme. The burnt spots on a stone oven pizza are better than any part of any other pizza.
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>>98226183
You are getting mad at Italian baiting. /ck/ usually has about a dozen threads made to do nothing but farm "How-a dare-a you insult-a my-a Grandmama with-a what-a you've-a done-a to that-a dish-a" posts.
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>>98224478
I always thought the French were the most obese in Europe??
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>>98226400
You would be wrong. Although I am curious about your reasoning.

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Infinity is a 28mm tabletop skirmish game produced by Corvus Belli, and includes the related games Aristeia, Defiance, TAG Raid, REM Racers, and Acheron's Fall. Corvus Belli also produces the fantasy games Warcrow and Warcrow Adventures.

Ideal Table edition

>Latest official update (x):
https://youtu.be/LwdmIYpERS8

>Rules and missions:
https://infinitythewiki.com/index.php
https://infinitytheuniverse.com/resources
https://infinitytheuniverse.com/games/infinity/its

>Beginner FAQs and guides:
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>>98225772
I mean you can make a really cool thematic board for Bushido if you're willing to fork out the time and effort. It's a relatively small playing area too, right? Like a 2x2 iirc.
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>>98225786
Yeah, 2x2. And it doesn't support verticality like Infinity does either. On the other hand as you can buy some terrain pieces as part of list building it's nice to bring personalized pieces to the table. I have a rice bale and idol set I use for my tengu.
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>>98226033
>game looks really cool
>check out the factions
>horse lords are cool
>it’s some limited release shit
damn
I guess I’ll wait for them to come out for real later
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>>98225040
It's more about how I discovered that my local scene is very competitive, with most expecting play in "league" system, not like having other newcomers to play against. I don't think I can handle that but wanted at least few more casual games before definitely deciding.

I posted list some time before but here it is: axZrZXN0cmVsLWNvbG9uaWFsLWZvcmNlE0tlc3RyZWwgYWx0IHRha2UgQzKBLAIBAAoBhwwBBQAChxUBAQADhnMBAwAEhxEBBAAFhxIBAwAGhwsBBwAHhwsBCQAIhwsBBAAJhwsBCgAKEwEBAAIABQGHDQEDAAKHIAEDAAOHDAEDAASHFQECAAUQAQIA

>>98225044
Alright, thanks. I try to avoid Discord however but battle report is always useful.
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>>98226239
I love the Yurei Bushido models, have thought about getting into it many times but never pulled the trigger.

>FOMO boxes
>shitty, outdated rules
>constant competitive churn, WYSIWYG culture
>40k starves better games of new players in the wargaming hobby by being the default
>they deleted the entire original space marine range to have you rebuy them all in primaris
>godawful nu lore in primaris, primarchs returning etc
>GW turned nu 40k into capeshit, where nobody ever dies, there are no stakes, where nothing ever changes, where only the super duper special snowflakes mean anything
>they purged all fan animations/projects off youtube
>they even shafted the designatied grognard containment zone with HH 3.0
>the constant softening of the edges, removing the grimdark both in nu lore and especially in the art
Modern GW has 0 respect for your time or money. Modern games workshop is irredeemable. Therefore, we need female space marines to have it crash and burn, making way for better wagrames and better settings.
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>>98169836
incredible logic OP
Let's totally do (stupid thing) because wouldn't it be funny haha.
nice bait btw.
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>>98174758
>mouldlines
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>>98172487
The most reddit opinion i've seen on the internet is quoting the tone of RT like it fucking matters to the discussion of the grimdark period.
now things did carry over, smoothed over and continued on from RT but it has no baring on the 30 some odd years of consistent tone and writing.
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Femarines wouldn't have any more impact than the last million shit things GW have done. The outragefags will move on to the next thing on the horizon and they and everyone else will keep buying
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>>98222149
Do Tau women really

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.)
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>>98218486
>and has mentioned that some players are so brazen as to outright bring cocaine to the table
Man, I forget how naive/sheltered most of /tg/ is.
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>>98218539
I don't know how cost of living is where you are, but, assuming a four hour session with the extension, you're talking about 14.50 an hour in america box, which is pretty fucking terrible.
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>>98218619
>>98218629
Yeah, I legitimately think Edna is too autistic to lie.
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>>98218629
Ok but consider any retard can pretend to be 2hu.
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>>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.

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What's the best way to get into Shadowrun in 2026?
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Still hate the shaman art
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my eyes are burning
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>>98223685
>Allergy(Insect Stings)
>is summoning insect spirits
>insect spirits
>with stingers
>as a cat shaman
Just... lol.

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Haven't seen anyone talk about canadian votoms in a while. Discuss the RPG or Blitz wargame
Northerners and Earthers need not apply
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Running it on Friday, might post here about it then.
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>>98222136
At one point, I WILL GM a game in this universe.

> Northerners need not apply.

What are you gonna do, make me disappear like a southerner with mild criticism of its government? Volunteer me into the MILICIA to serve as target practice against Northerner forces?
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Offered to run a game for my group none of them are remotely interested in anything mecha.
Sad times.
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Are they planning to do something?
Like finishing story books?

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Requesting a femboy lizard wizard with a huge ass
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>>98205757
I dont know if guys here make mecha stuff or machines in general. It is supposed to be more mystical, but its basically a 10ft tall steampunk(magitech or fleshtech) mecha suit.
Imagine knight in bulky riveted brass plate armour where the inside of the joints (inner elbow, knees , armpits, etc.) Have tendon-like fleshy wires and and nerves. The head of the knight is smaller than the rest of the body as it is supposed to be used as an over-sized visor or helmet by the pilot.

To explain how they work, false muscle (the tendon-like things) are made using an mercury alloy and the nerves are actual nerves, they are connected to a small magic crystal that is connected to the pilot allowing him to feel and control the mech.

It should be relatively human proportions but the chest should be bulky and the head small. They can hold rifled artillery and gatling guns, or even large slab like melee weapons.
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>>98217705
Too late to catbox it. Hope you don't get banned.
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>>98222393
Is that what he meant by "see ya in a few days"?
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>>98223261
pretty much

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>caters to faggots more every year
>less actual gaming shit every year
>less companies even fucking bothering to show up
Is this even a game fair anymore, or just a thinly veiled excuse to extract more money from faggots while they do their fag parade?
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>>98226372
the hell even that fair?

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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:
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>ZunTsu Gameboxes:

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Ordered my Heiho box yesterday. I'll paint it with my pal when he comes for holidays. I'll just make sure to clip them off their sprues myself as the yari ashigaru tend to snap by their spears if not carefully done in a specific way.

Anyone has anything to say about the ruleset? It's tranny made but the sonae base unit sounds documented and thoughtful.
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Does anyone here like 3rd edition for Bolt Action?
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>>98226184
I don't even know what differentiates it from 2nd
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>>98226179
Cool 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!
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>>98226179
The figures themselves are the one reason I skipped this box as those ashigaru pikes are just daft.
Good luck clipping them out.

I don't want to say i'm a "Super massive fanboy" of e20, i don't suck it's dick. I know it's got its limitations, it has it's own severe problems... But at least it worked and was different enough to be interesting, while not scaring off the normies...

I don't even hate 5e, but 5e is AWFUL at Sci-Fi. Literally ANY other system would have worked better. Fuck it, i'd have taken d20 Modern.
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>>98224181
Essence d20 was more an attempt to do d20 Modern v2.0. Instead of doing a generic system as a first party release first they threw it to a 3rd party and first did licensed IP releases.
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>>98217707
retard.
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>>98223283
>Pax Cybertronia is unfinished
Huh? It's fully playable. I don't know what you're talking about. I literally reworked the sheets earlier this year I think. If anything, it's more playable than it's ever been. I just have this thing where I don't really do "finished", but unlike shit like DBU I actually keep my sheets up to date. The only system of mine I haven't unfucked yet is my fallout system but that's because it's tedious bullshit and I'm not running or playing in any games of it anytime soon so it's not high on the priority list compared to other stuff I"m working on.
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>>98217707
>5e's fine for dungeon crawling
heh
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>>98217542
I don't play any of these tings, but I can sympathize with OP, this shit would dwrive me to do terrible Glowie type-shit

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Writing General: 'psychopomps' edition

Welcome to /wg/, the thread for all /tg/ related writing. Whether you're plotting your campaign, trying to come up with a character backstory, or just trying to write some setting fluff, this is the place to post it. You don't even have a campaign, just an idea you want to develop? You're welcome here. While the rest of /tg/ is arguing over monstergirl mating and which way rivers are supposed to flow, we're here to help you turn your thoughts into an actual finished product.

As the successor to the Storythreads, we're also open to /tg/ related fanfiction (D&D, Warhammer, Battletech, whatever). In fact, if you've written any vaguely /tg/-related short stories, you can try them out here. We also have flash-fiction challenges from time to time.

There's a discord for writers here
https://discord.gg/6AwKHGF

The previous thread can still be found in the archive here
>>97133758

And finally an archive of /tg/ fiction can be found here:
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Storythread (dead link, but may be resurrected one day)
https://2d4chan.org/wiki/Storythread (page missing, wiki still up)

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>>98210905
Sometimes. In cases like FF6, it helps to set the theme of the game and give a player/reader a clue what the hell is going on.
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The River caught the morning sun and broke it into a thousand pieces. Church domes floated above the mist like little golden islands. Smoke rose from a hundred chimneys and drifted over the roofs. From the hill, the city looked almost holy.

Then I remembered the woman who'd walked into the shallows last spring.

She'd held the baby under the water with both hands.

Nobody stopped her.

Not even me.

The gulls had been louder than the crying.

Well.

That ruined the view.

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>>98193688
Sorry anon, I didn't mean to ignore you for a week I've just been a bit busy. I'm reluctant to post any of my contact details but when I've got a spare moment I'll make a throwaway email to use; or if you're happy to post your email or discord we could do it that way.

Honestly, though, I'm not sure what more I could tell you that couldn't be accomplished by posting in the thread; my skills as an editor are not that deep.

>>98209099
Good to see you as always, anon. I'll try and take a look at that story as soon as possible.
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>"I am Flameo, the Everburning. Pyromancer extraordinaire!"
>"We're fighting a troll? I'll use Ray of Frost because metagaming is wrong. I'm a good roleplayer!"
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Flameo, hotman.
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>>98225876
Who are you quoting?
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>>98225876
... ok?
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>>98226290
Flameo, the Everburning
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>>98225876
Your OP has already been summarized

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I had to end my most recent 4e D&D campaign because I couldn't make the players work together properly. There were 6 PCs that fell into 3 groups: 2 Min/Maxers, 2 RPers and 2 Jokers. They all wanted something different out of the game and it was impossible to make them all happy. Some of them were consistently trying to bypass mechanics and problem solve there way around everything then the more mechanically inclined players would force their hand by initiating combat. Also one of the jokers were consistently throwing shit fits when the dice didnt match what he thought would be funny. There was constant bickering.

TQ: Any advice on either how to deal with this better or could you recommend a system that is better for large parties of diverse players all getting along?
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>>98223220
Well first off
>don’t play D&D
For another, you need to start the campaign by removing player expectations.
Min/maxing is based in a power fantasy; they want a character who is an MC

Jokers are disinterested in the game/setting so their character was never made in sincere interest and will quickly wear out.

RP players are arguable the best of the lot depending on their competency and social skills. But they need time to play out RP that others don’t care about.


I would recommend
1-choosing a system with better character creation and fewer stats to exploit for a power fantasy (never 3.5/pf or any later edition or D&D)
2-giving out pre-gen character sheets at the beginning of the game with a single paragraph summary of the character’s history and personality
3-running your game more like horror/survival in dungeons and more like a traditional fantasy rpg otherwise
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Almost every game I see advertised these days is oversized. 3-4 PCs is like the sweet spot if your players actually put in a lot and have a lot of agency. 6 players is really, really pushing it.
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>>98223314
>the key is to overwhelm yourself giving the toddlers new activities to interest them every session
That would work for 4/6 at best and is unsustainable. The real issue is a “joker” is diagnosed typically as someone who doesn’t enjoy the game as played and is looking for amusement elsewhere.

I was 100% that guy until I got to run a few one shots myself and learned how obnoxious it is to run a game with somebody deliberately refusing to play semi-seriously.
The only solution for people who don’t take the game seriously is to force them to grow as players.


All that being said, you should rotate one-shot or short campaign games between the players with no repeats to develop some self awareness around everyone’s play style.

I’d recommend knave or cairn for the RP people to run, as it will kneecap the minmaxers and play to their narrative strength.

I’d recommend an OD&D clone, Call of Cthulhu, or Delta Green for the minmaxers to run as it will hopefully engage the jokers with a legitimate threat they can’t fuck around with, as well as forcing the GM to think of situations that can’t be beaten to death or out rolled with optimization, and the RP people will have fun.

For jokers; crash pandas or another one page rpg: something simple and easy to run that will leave them time to engage the game itself and enjoy actually participating, while hopefully getting their impulse to be absurd out.

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>>98224673
That's a lot of words to tell him to just play Paranoia.
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>>98223220
Prowlers and Paragons.

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Organized Crime Edition

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Hello
I am a newfag
should I get into warhammer 40k? is there a vidya game that plays like the ttg so I can try it out first?
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>>98222467
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Has anyone ever gotten an invading Orc army to go away by telling the planet in the system next to them would offer a better fight?
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>>98222599
Usually to be able to do that a rogue trader or someone else plans with the second in command to be able to kill his boss and lead the waaagh somewhere else
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>>98222599
no because that's memeshit

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Is it true all the women in the Magistracy of Canopus dress like this? They told me Battletech was a sensible game for mature adults.
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>>98225689
It's just some guy who escaped the general. At least it's not another puckee thread.
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>>98225689
>what's with all the threads on traditional games lately?
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>>98225737
Found a model sniffer!
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>>98225744
>sniffer
Lmao. Tongue is s hobby tool
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>>98225323
Officially, yes


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