How do you prefer your magic, and how did you design the system for your setting?
>>96969323All magic being a sort of hermeticism gives these things almost free.1. It's as immediate and powerful as chemical reaction in a bomb. All of the world's magic is just really suped up and "convenient" chemistry.2. The material and preparation makes one have to think what they create, and more mystical elements like using the essence of soul of things as ingredients really easily opens things for ontologically evil magics.3. No beams here, but a lot of smoke.4. Everything being mostly just material processes gives everything very mundane counters, or tells.5. See the aforementioned usage of souls. Everyone who knows this magic can do these things, they just won't because that's wrong. Unless...
>>96617229Dragon Quest had the right of it.Just have some spells, some resource like mana, and that's it.There's no need to complicate this shit.
>>96975164But how is the spell acquisition, according to this uncomplicated principle?
>>96976370Judging by how low effort that bait is, I'd wager he'll respond something like "you just get it when you level up".Very diegetic framing.Not.
>>96977358I'm genuinely wondering what is the best dead simple way to do it. Mana and casting is obvious; spells cost some mana, you pay and the cast happens. Mana recharges at moderate pace.But what are the limits in spell selection? Considering different spell costs.
Soldiers table editionEp 6 Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDHX5wZsB4cDispatch One-Shot feat. Game Master Jasmine Bhullar and Erin Yvette: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=METTzGKzmxUCampaign 4 info: https://critrole.com/campaign4/Critmas 2025 sale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I7nf6Iwawo
>>96976848best couple
Any of you got a link to the Jester and Fjord’s wedding one-shot? Wanna see if we're going to get a scene of Fjord rolling a strength check to see if he can tear open that tiefling puss.. Cross fingers it's a nat 1 and Jester is not amused as to how weak his is in bed.
They put Thjazi in the ground yet or is he still sitting on that table?
Now that the three tables have finally been established, can ep6 finally be JUST the soldiers table? Last week's episode was so disappointing to only have the advertised soldiers table only show up half-way in the actual episode..
>>96976981It's been 72 hours and the funeral is still going. The corpse is starting to rot and stink, but everyone's still whispering as if they're scared they'll wake him
What are the essentials of a sword and sorcery setting? What sets it apart from other fantasy genres in setting and tone?
>>96972586>the words used to describe something aren't meant to describe itCongratulations, you have just outlined one of the biggest problems with discourse surrounding genres as a whole.But, as always, this will just be deflected with pretentiousness and appeals to authority, or "semantics reee".
>>96944273Just follow this step by step guidehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XUu3_pLPUE
>>96977424It's not a problem at all, it's just the normal way that language works. The same way "lady killer" does not generally refer to someone that kills ladies.
>>96977424ESL problemos
>>96944273Barbarians are a must.
Previously on bgg: >>96918000This general encompasses all board game genres - Eurogames, Ameritrash, Ameritreasure, Fillers, Party, Abstracts, Wargames, and especially the game that one anon is autistic about at this very moment.Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8Survey results: https://pastebin.com/YJPZ44rqTQ:>What did you play this week?>Which games are your coziest?>What's your preferred amount, and thoughts, of randomness in a game? From abstract to push you luck/roll to move style
>>96976225over 3. shit can get too fluffy but ultimately there is no such thing as too heavy.
>>96971460The hilarity is that they changed Perception’s art for no fucking reason and made it so much worse.
>>96973211Try Arkhambuild
>>96974892>Perception was great Seeker card and now it's Asian AND can go in any deck.Anon…
>>96977889Ah, didn't know it was something that was changed. Par for the course.>>96977900This actually looks like something that could bear the name.
what is your favorite monster /tg/?I love minotaurs
>>96961658I love all kinds of monsters, bestial dragons, Grifons, oozes/spore zombies, but I really like summons, the idea of having to sumon and controling your own monsters is awesome, so my prefered kind of monster is the familiar (ones from my country called Minairons exactly).
I'm fond of rats.
Orcs
I like otyughs
>>96962085Minotaur heifers belong to human BVLLS
Uncommon Capital Ships EditionPrevious >>96871204A thread for discussing the Star Wars franchise and its various media and tabletop games.Fantasy Flight Games’ X-Wing, Armada, and Legion>https://pastebin.com/9puqx1zeStar Wars Roleplaying Games (d6/d20/FFG)>https://pastebin.com/iUriRfaAOther FFG Star Wars tabletop (Imperial Assault, Destiny and the LCG)>http://pastebin.com/ZE4gn0yNComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96977764>canon New RepublicKinda pointless, they all die in TFA. Or despawn between TFA and TLJ because fuck continuity, worldbuilding and a coherent universe.
>>96977787Once you have totally taken the TTRPG AU pill then the failed exploits of disney turn into a giant toybox with some cool stuff to steal. I prefer their idea, though stolen from George, of a New Republic that fights secretive warlords on the fringes. The idea of a large, cohesive Imperial Remnant never made sense to me. Their aesthetics are also cooler and give way to an era unlike the previous two for gaming
>>96977838>The idea of a large, cohesive Imperial Remnant never made sense to me.It wasn't really a thing for most of the time until most of the Warlords were eliminated, though.Just compare the Pentastar Alignment to Imperial Remnants proper which was all that was left after many conflicts.
>>96977838Oh Ido that all the time, but I still stay away from the sequel timeframe.Looking at that era just leads me to the usual 'well fuck that could have been good if they weren't completely retarded' train of thoughts.
>>96963739>TQVictory I Class Star Destroyer
What’s the coolest magic system in a game you’ve ever come across
>>96967959It's my system for playing in Tamriel
>>96965910It was. Glintstone sorcery is so charming.
>>96972471It’s just crystallized space jizz …..
I like the beyond the wall one, nothing extremely weird or complex, there are basically cantrips (you fail, you can't do more) spells (tipical vancian ones) and rituals (more elaborate spells). if you multi class, you can't get all 3 etc.
>>96967959most retarded post in the board right now
Ornate Spirit Edition>Previous Thread>>96744183>what is curseborne?Curseborne is the newest Onyx Path Publishing TTRPG on dark urban fantasy genre. It's about being unapologetic monsters in a world where being monstrous is the least of your worries. In Curseborne, you play as Accursed, descendants of monstrous Lineages lurking in a modern world that closely resembles our own. You rebel against the ancient feuds between these entwined families, as well as against the web of curses that bind you, while fending off inhuman antagonists seeking to claim — or reclaim — your power.>early access download (it's a zip, and the folder is in alphabetical order so go search for it)gofile <dot> io/d/O6yTIy>player's guide drafts/manuscriptsIt's in newvola for now>official websitehttps://www.curseborne.com/>OPP forumhttps://forum.theonyxpath.com/forum/main-category/curseborneComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96962433>narrativelyLess netaplot stuff so it's mostly what stories are tied to your specific Family/Lineage or what you want to run. >mechanicallyDoes a lot of good things, but it does some worse. Personally, they aren't that similar outside of aesthetic similarities that I can accurately do a 1:1 comparison.
>>96962433I like how they introduce most of the options in one book to begin with.
>>96968323Same here, in Exalted they had the Core book be mainly Solars, then the rest have their own books. I’ve been waiting for some for years.
>>96971330Infernals, right? I've been waiting for so long too.
>>96962433I haven’t really checked out the other games yet.
What's your character's excuse for NOT marrying the saved farm girl and settle down?
>>96962063Whats your excuse for not making a good thread?
>>96976798Confirmation bias, anon. You don't find a lot of wikipedia articles on princesses that died in childbirth 500 years ago. They are not the ones that get remembered.
>>96977582Fucking brain fart. Survivor bias, not confirmation.
>>96962063That's not worth XP
>>96969292At some point you will realize that their (unpaid) job is to make the board worse, not better
Instead of orcs. Rabbits.
>>96833515Future historiologists will puzzle over pre-FTL depictions of cartoon frogs with things on their heads on archived image boards. Maybe these frogs were spiritual totem animals and the things on their heads are offerings to gods.
>>96970517I believe this
Fuck bunnies
>>96977644Get off the internet, you fluffy horny little thing
>>96977644Would.
How petty and cruel are the gods in your games?
>>96950825He's also bald>>96960799Alright that wasn't bad
>>96969550God just need to build the wall and make Hell pay for it. Also why not try to purify the Hell then?
All gods are dicks if they see themselves as gods lol
>>96950925Offer void if Samson
>>96950726You'd think it would be easier just to grow him some hair
I think I now understand how to design a game to be basically unsolvable by computers.Basically imagine the game is two players competing to sell more T-shirts.One player goal is to sell more red T-shirts and the other is blue T-shirts.But the game has 3 systems that interact using probabilistic gameplay loops like gathering the raw materials, then crafting the materials, then paying taxes and then like selling the T-shirts to npcs.But at the same time, both players have to like exchange items in these loops to get materials and items you need but also exchange them for items and materials you have.Eventually all items and materials are important for a clear strategy in the rules, but that strategy has a clear counter strategy, like RPS layers of counter strategies arranged in a graph of triangular relationships.
>>96975711Asperger's.
>>96965563Not really tho, we already consider a number of games of skill with a random component, like poker, solved.
>>96964500Sounds a bit like catan
>>96964500>>96965563Randomness does absolutely nothing regarding solvability of a game. You still make a decision tree as normal and simply weigh the values with the associated probabilities. It's trivial to anyone who knows probability theory.
>>96976457Poker isn't that random and skill makes much more of a difference.Computers struggle with the Pokemon video games for example.
Welcome to /wbg/, the official thread for the discussion of in-progress settings for traditional games.Here is where you go to present and develop the details of your worlds such as lore, factions, magic and ecosystems. You can also post maps for your settings, as well as any relevant art (either created by you or used as inspiration for your work). Please remember that dialogue is what keeps the thread alive, so don't be afraid of giving someone feedback or post whatever relevant input you might have!Last thread: >>/96743359Resources for Newfags: https://sites.google.com/view/wbgeneral/Worldbuilding links: https://pastebin.com/JNnj79S5https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/Eo+fK41FKVR7xDpbNO0a0N4k0YYxrmyrhX3VxnM14Ew/Fantasy map generator: https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator/wbi/: https://discord.gg/6ZjEc7dy4TWorldbuilding Hub: https://discord.com/invite/wGjxK3YThe Writer's Forge: https://discord.com/invite/CUxHxWqTira: https://discord.com/invite/f52W6KgDawn of Victory: https://discord.gg/hUAynC3wComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Hmm, consdering the world is flat(-ish), do I really want the Sun to do weird flying maneuvers to maintain day and night, sunrise and sunset?I could have it be destroyed every evening and made anew every morning, but that would make entities of required power level too active, plus while getting rid of dawn and dusk would be interesting, its not what I want for this setting.Idea of the Sun going into the underworld to keep darkness there from devouring the world is fun and all, but why would God just not create a second sun in underworld?How would YOU make solar cycle work on a flat world?
>>96977197maybe look at the flat earth retards, I think they have a model for it. The sun just flies in a circle above the earth, and for some reason it only illuminates a small spot like a cosmic flashlight instead of the entire flat world at once as a sun would.
>>96977220I have looked at that, but that's too retarded and outlandish even for a completely magical setting where physics work different.
>>96977197First I would ask why the world needs to be flat.
>>96977859f̶o̶r̶ r̶e̶a̶l̶i̶s̶m̶Metaphysical reasons. That's how reality works in the setting.Technically its slightly dome-shaped, there is some curvature, but its still mostly flat.
Anybody wanna show off their armies?Individual models get a lot of love, and rightly so, but how about a thread to show a cohesive vision of the whole gang of mydudes?I’ll post mine, I like AOS.
>>96974745Some models, but I was more mentioning how GW makes the Lumineth look like.
>>96964834I'll jump in on some detail too. Gloomspite guy, 32, in the hobby since 2005. actually I only started gitz when I needed some goblins for an all-dwarf rpg that fell apart immediately. the goblins, trolls, and squigs infected me. I collected and painted most of that in 2 months of nothing but painting after work daily in early 2023. Since then the only updates I had was adding the basic goblins you see in the core (160), and a couple extra pieces. I've got several other finished armies of similar size and more that aren't.
>>96962259pretty centurions
The Boss is a converted Catachan.
>>96977498nice stuff lad
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>Seraph "Fantome" will be the leader of the Amazoness tribeMake it happen, Bushiroad.
New masques
>>96977382I didn't think they'd actually keep doing Masques
