>>94427449
Pretty sure it’s Adam Sandler.

>>94424261

>>94424261
Best idea I’ve heard is that vampirism is a curse that can be spread like a disease. It originated with a terrible sin in the past.

When you first turn you are a goth elf. Sunlight makes you sparkle, and you have minor powers like strength, speed, and charisma.

Then it advances. Your skin turns pale, sunlight starts to burn, and you develop a kinship with creatures of the night. Humans begin to be repelled by you, unless under the suggestion of your hypnotism. If you’re a guy you get a gnarly widows peak, both genders get black and grey hair and fangs. Need for blood increases.


Then, after a while, you go full orlock. Get wild mystic powers, but at the cost of losing your humanity completely and becoming a wretched monster.

>>94424261
Depends on the game really.

>>94424261
So I prefer the original, old school, Slavic Vampires. Undead come back because an untimely and unnatural death, or through incest. Full of lust and revenge, going around drinking and raping, with the only way to stop them being steaking them, the sun weakening but not killing them, and the only way to kill them when awake, via an exorcism, while being burnt. Or if you really want to go old school, Mesopotamian blood gods. But I use that as Vampire gods, not Vampires themselves.
The only other version I even remotely liked came from a hentai series I saw probably fifteen years ago. Invading army, small Duchy. Then the lord and his Knights swore a blood oath to their sun god. Vampires are basically perpetually young, handsome people. More Elf than Vampire. Handsome, always youthful, not immortal but long lived, and pointy ears. What is it with Japan and giving Vampires pointy ears? They reproduce via sex. If they don't feed they are mortal. If they do feed (which can also be cum, it's a hentai after all), they get to be strong, night immortal, but still not weak to the sun. If they overfeed they become ugly, misshapen, hated by the others. Think Nosferatu. And they also become weak to the sun. A curse of their god. But this is also racial Vampires not curse

>>94428714
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgQRRI9goFg

>>94429615
Bad ass song

>>94428714
>>94429615
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmJIccPWnEk

https://idlethumbs.bandcamp.com/track/the-wizard

>>94422399
>implying infantry are bad in late war
lol, lmao even. That’s not remotely true, they struggle a bit in mid war but are extremely strong in late war especially Soviets and Germans armed with Fausts…

>>94427995
For late-war yeah that kind of slipped my mind since I play more mid-war but some infantry are still absolutely worthless to take but thats more just general point cost issues. But in mid-war they are near worthless since most armies barring americans lack like any meaningful infantry AT in numbers to kill even a light tank so they're nothing more than roadblocks and light tanks pack like 3-4 mg shots a piece at like 1 to 2 points per tank so they're outputting the same firepower of 2-3 infantry teams without being vulnerable to MG fire, artillery, and are unable to be pinned and theyre as cheap as infantry.

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>>94420191
The War of the Roses by Dan Jones is the best book for a complete coverage if the WOTR and all it's characters.
The War of the Roses: Medieval Art by Graham Turner is an amazing book for wargamers, full of Artwork by Graham Turner depicting historically accurate WOTR events and battles, armor and weapons, etc.

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>>94424943
That shit has now been introduced into the entire Ukrainian education system - all high school students in year 11 and 12 will play it.

An anon wrote a neat article about the whole thing here:
https://hobbygamesrecce.blogspot.com/2024/08/ukraine-2022-prepares-students-for-war.html

Looking at getting started on some Napoleonics, and I can probably get a couple of mates interested too.
The only system I'm aware of though is Pike and Shotte. I'm assuming there's other, better ones. What would you recommend?

>>94418466
can't casually cast spells if you can't stop coughing. You'd be surprised how effective a crossbow bolt that can produce a cloud of irritant dust.

>>94428380
lmfao. How are you going to find the wizard to use it?

>>94419926
I have no idea and I don't care about 'lore' but in general magic in Tolkien comes down ultimately to will. The whole book is really about temptation and will in the end I suppose because of his Catholicism. Good magic pushes things along their natural path according to their nature, bad magic corrupts it. Elven magic runs out of road because it risk moving from one category to the other, the world itself is changing and holding that back would be wrong. From a "pick from a list and roll D6" perspective this magic makes less sense, the Gandalf running from orcs should not be the Gandalf five minutes later wrestling a Balrog. But while I know he is an immortal angel or something, the point is really "You cannot pass" as the object of his will. Immolating orcs with fireballs isn't really the same order of thing. Just like Sauron isn't casting snow spells when the mountain road becomes impassable, its just an expression of his will "being bent on it".

Context works well in fiction, games are never good at context for all their claims. It would always risk seeming capricious even though in Middle Earth magic never seems capricious because its so embedded.

they don't

>>94419411
The single biggest group of people practicing anicent mediterranean demon summoning are the waifu gatcha players, actually.

>>94424408
Nothing came out of it either, beyond Paizo using it to shill a mid-edition "upgrade" to grift their own customers again.

>>94425374
>Isn't that OSR?
No, it's stripped-down 5e astorturfed as OSR by the author's wife's """journalist""" friends

>>94423608
Fuck if I know. I heard something about the Critical Role guys writing their own system, but I don't know how that's turning out.

>>94423723
Nearly every single faggot on this collage took a paid sponsorship from Hasbro to hype up the new D&D books. They also flapped in the wind on the OGL issue, taking the side of the outraged when it seemed like they were going to win and kill D&D, and then instantly running back to gargle WotC's nuts after they said "we're sowwy ;-;" and claimed it as a win.

Wave a dollar in their face and they'll hype up anything you tell them to.

>>94423898
1) Why make something when someone else can? Game design is hard, balancing is hard. Sure, if you don't want any proper rules, play PbtA or some other story game. Some enjoy proper rules though. And there exist 1001 fantasy RPG. Why reinvent the wheel?
2) Why reinvent the wheel indeed? These used to be called heartbreakers. Usually not good, and no one would like them except the creator(s). Maybe. Because often the creators had a fight about what it's supposed to be.
3) If you're making an RPG, go for a niche that doesn't exist or isn't over filled. Why the 1002nd fantasy RPG? People still play 3.x and AD&D. Hell, people still play BECMI. Most OSR games aren't played by anyone. Or the 100th cyberpunk one? Cyberpunk and Shadowrun exist. Why not Gladiators? That's almost unexplored. Cults? Only Mythras really. Base building? Microscope, ACKS, and Make Yu Kingdom are the only ones I can think of. Merchants? Always either tacked on and bad, or overshadowed by the other stuff, usually travel and combat. Pirates? Very few. Ninjas? Ninja crusade is too esoteric at times, Shibobigami is anime, Ninja burger is a joke, L5R is about political intrigue, not spying and assassinations, and yes, you can play one in most fantasy RPGs, but that doesn't make them ninja RPGs.

>>94428810
The model on the left is a Grave Guard or do you mean something that's blurred off to the left?

>>94417807
>pointy head = KKK
Not being underaged and/or retarded might help.

>>94429050
careful you'll make janny mad

Hey Jannies delete this post if you like Trench Crusade

>>94428832
I meant the mini on the left, thanks.

It’s Opportunity Attacks with theatre of the minds that I’m struggling with at the moment.

>>94427431
Don't; you may not need it, so don't include blindly. Or consider moving the emphasis on reactions from positioning to time, and manipulate the initiative sequence instead of a map.

What are some ways to represent injuries if instead of physically piloting the mech you are projecting your mind/soul into it? The first thing I thought of was Mikazuki from Iron Blooded Orphans where he could only move his body if he was connected to his Gundam so things like your senses only working while you are piloting or suffering phantom limb syndrome seems like a pretty obvious one

>>94427419
If you have played any non-hex-based wargame, then you might have a good idea of what it'll be like.
>>94429579
Easiest thing to do would be having the injuries that affect the mech physically affect the pilots body. Or you can start drawing comparisons to mental defects to injuries. One too many hits to the head causes concussions and amnesia or confusion. Temporary blindness for eye or sensory injuries, loss of mobility for a missing limb. Migraines for above-average usage. Shell-shock for extreme usage and trauma. Exploding head syndrome for severe head injuries, etc. All you gotta do is research on semi-serious neurological issues and you should find plenty.


Rate my HG starter lists:
North, 50TV
>Hunter
>Hunter
>Assault Hunter
>Destroyer Hunter
>Para Hunter
>Tiger Sabertooth
>Hunter Gunner

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>>94430120
>Rate my HG starter lists
Norf 7/10
Souf 8/10, 10/10 for the based Longbow Jager. For a beginner 50TV squad they both feel capable.

>>94429584
You are not a lawyer and you have no idea what that bit of law actually means.

>>94429584
It's not illegal at all to set your TOS to prohibit [things].
Go ahead, highlight your claim to this.
Here's the meat of s230.c.
>(A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, WHETHER OR NOT SUCH MATERIAL IS CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED; or
>(B) any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in paragraph (1).
I'll even make it super easy. Here's a link to s230 too, it's about 2 dozen paragraphs and you can read it entirely in about 5-10 minutes. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title47/html/USCODE-2011-title47-chap5-subchapII-partI-sec230.htm

>>94429566
I just want to post Master Duel replay dumps.

>>94430057
Then you're fine? Just don't be a retard and follow best recommended practices for youtube IE don't swear in the first 20 seconds, use metadata/keywords/"hashtags"/and more in your description, obnoxious thumbnail with minimal text in red Impact font and an arrow, and whatever else you can find in about 10 seconds of googling "what does well for the youtube algorithm in current year?" (assuming you want big numbers)

>>94430057
Lawfag from just above.
Pro tip: if you want to do this as a job for any amount of money and you're even semi-serious. READ THE FUCKING TOS AND FUTURE REVISIONS, then figure out what you're doing for taxes, to get deductions, I recommend just hiring a tax advisor if your money from YT is greater than the cost of that advisor.
This is part of the job, do the absolutely bare minimum to be up to date on the rules.
Your 2 most dangerous foes are TOS and Taxes, angering either while you don't have other income is reason to use your last dollar to buy rope.

>>94427706
>>94428793
Wait, what? Really?? They release the rules completely for free but you're expected to buy all the fucking books for their adventure league knock-off?

>>94424987
I'm mostly just annoyed because stuff like Strix Vengeance and Ferocious Gust look fun, but I'm going Winged Warrior so I do absolutely need flight.
>Flight is weird on a powerscaling idea because its insanely practical and basically like 4 different solutions tied into one
I did notice that while looking at Skill feats.
>do I need anything for Acrobatics? Well, no... I'll be able to fly and Arrest a Fall without a fail chance.
>Do I need anything from Athletics? Well, Titan Wrestler will be good but all the rest of these are for climbing and stuff.
>don't have to consider any of the Ranger's terrain features because I'll be flying
It's obviously really nice if you take options that utilize it, but I'm not really convinced it's 'all of your ancestry feats' good. I think you could easily compress them down to two; have Fledgling Flight scale up at 5th level automatically and then have the 9th level feat scale up at 13. That keeps it a commitment but you still have the budget to pick up a reaction or some ribbon effects.

desu I feel that way about a few of the racial feat chains. The Dragonblood heritage has like three or four features that are mutually exclusive even though they just aren't that stinkin' powerful.
>No, you can't have a d6 tail attack AND a breath weapon of questionable utility. Think of the balance!
I'm sure there's some very good and obscure reason as to why it's like this but good grief the feat system in PF2e can feel absolutely stifling.

>>94428852
it's for dedicated PF2E gamers
I have played several PFS games, it is not worth it because it's corporatized RAW games, no ifs, ands, or buts, and yeah it sucks

>>94429115
It's a roleplaying GAME not a ROLEPLAYING game.

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Has it genuinely been a decade since the last major published material on Numeria?

>>94404955
learning the king and rook checkmate has won me so many games. i haven't encountered a single person sub 1000 that knows the pattern. they just move around like it's a draw

I finally get it: I can't improve by only playing blitz and boolet

>>94423409
correct, you also have to stop thinking

I thought I hated chess, but it turns out I just hate studying openings and the opening stage. Fischer random chess is so much more fun than standard chess, it's unreal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eUqME96t6Q

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What's the best system for running pic related? The first three films, I don't need rules for running through walls or driving into space. Just heists and racing/modifying cars.
I like BRP if there's a good BRP book for it.

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>>94411282
Thanks for the recommendations. Also, what the heck are you talking about regarding the second half of the story?

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>>94422821
>Also, what the heck are you talking about regarding the second half of the story?
don't worry about it

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>>94028428
I know that there's a couple Transformers systems, which would work best for one based in the Animated universe?

What I'm looking for is extremely close to >>94204013 only I am also broadly averse to GUMSHOE.
>Mystery (about gathering data and figuring stuff out
>occult/supernatural-lite (MAYBE a vampire or an alchemist but no Cosmic-Scope super-threats or magic-competent PCs)
>Violence is a viable and fun way to solve problems (If you want to take the Jack Reacher approach to mysteries the mechanics shouldn't fight you)
>Fully modern setting (As in, I'm setting the game in our current city in our current year)

I've got a lot of experience with Blades in the Dark so I considered building a hack through that but it lacks a degree of combat crunch my players like

how is this nigger thread still going

>how is this nigger thread still going
Because I say BUMP

>>94420410
There are multiple groups at any moment shitting up multiple boards.
Whether it’s the political board, tg, biz, or g.
There is a vested financial interest in swaying public opinion.
It’s cheaper to shill products or sway opinion about products than to advertise.

>There is a vested financial interest in swaying public opinion
Let's go back to the subject of this thread since the only way to prevent those efforts that you've just described as an alternative form of advertising for Warhammer's competitors is to actually have a meaningful discussion about stealth it's a very common and popular mechanic in many similar games and it's cool to let newcomers know how and when it's used

>>94406813
>>94420410
It's wokies well-poisoning, dude. That fake discord screenshot IS the psyop.

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>>94425408
>>94425726
>Yellowstone.
The Black Hills looked like a growing town a few years ago but after the local mill closed down and remote work got culled by the Corpos, it has entered a economic downturn which can be reflected in the demographics. I'd say the Black Hills have three big 'cultural groups':
>1.) The Ranchers and associated collateral. They're 'led' (more like represented) by the big Cattle Baron who is a megalomaniac like Dutton. They're justifiably concerned by the corporatization of agriculture and the erosion of property ownership by the federal government.
>2.) The 'city folk.' Yep, this big city of... What? Maybe 50,000 people at the higher end? 60,000 at the most? Has a big divide between the Cowboys and the City slickers. Mostly lower middle class, though that number is shrinking with the mill shutting down with many struggling to find work.
>3.) West Coast transplants. Oh yeah, remote work pre-crackdown attracted these people in droves due to lower taxes and price rates. Post-crackdown? Yeah. There's a lot of unemployed people stuck with rapidly depleting savings. They clash with both the cowboys and the city slickers due to voting blue no matter who... And for competing for jobs at the local Walmart.

Minor groupings, or 'factions,' include:
>Combines: big industrial farms. These are all owned by fat cats.
>Field workers: the ranchers, combines, and numerous others employ them as serfs. There's a huge gang element here that preys on the natives. Also compete for jobs at Walmart.
>Natives: a Plain's tribe lays claim to the area, even though they've been pushed to the absolute sidelines at the reservation. Life at the Rez isn't fun but they do get money from the Indian casino which is relatively close to the town itself so they're not groveling for work at the local Walmart.
>Art snobs: bourgeoise living off of Daddy's money. Ever see those shitty art galleries sitting in a place like Truckee or Placerville? That's them.

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>>94426119
With that being said, the Hills have a few things going for it:
>1.) It's a pit stop. It's on the highway so people tend to stop here while traveling. Whether to the Black Hills National Park or truckers hauling to the combines a few hours west.
>2.) The Indian Casino. The Blackhawk (yeah, unoriginal) caters to the rising tourism industry and gives natives something.
>3.) There's a massive mall in the center of town which functions as a regional shopping hub. The Black Hill's shopping emporium is straight out of Dead Rising as a tribute to Americana and mindless consumerism. Also home to several box stores like Best Buy, Lowes, Sam's Club, and Pet Co.
>4.) A University. Cedar City, Grand Junction, and Cheyenne are all large towns that have a decent public university. Mostly these colleges cater to a Business Administration majors but they do have relatively decent science and art programs, even if they're a shadow of their former selves post-covid.
In between the crackheads, broken dreams, cartels and street gangs, normal people do live here.

>>94426168
Just to have a little fun, I'm not sure if this is power leveling, but my area has this weird gamble den that sounds like a Chuckee Cheese ripoff. Charlie Cheddas is best described as this weird, grimy dump frequented by sex offenders and car thieves. The 'games' are these arcadey machines where you try to catch fish or yokai by spam pressing a button. What's interesting is that gambling is illegal in my area but they found a loophole by having you cash in at a third party website or what now thus allowing them to get past state vice laws.

But what if there was something more to a run down pizza place haphazardly converted into a casino... What if there was something ominous to the funky, downright surreal machines...

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>>94426203
Here's pic related. It's kind of unnerving to see convicted child molesters playing alongside bikers and known thieves.

>>94422591
What system would you run this setting in?

>>94424250
If you don't want to multiclass, then a Sorcerer who takes both the Battle Sorcerer (Unearthed Arcana) + Stalwart Sorcerer (Complete Mage) ACFs has average BAB, proficiency in two martial weapons, Weapon Focus as a bonus feat, casting in light armor, and effectively a d14 Hit Die.
With Wings of Cover being one of the best tanking abilities in the game.

And then there was Arcane Swordsage, which was half-written and no DM ever allowed because treating spells as maneuvers is nuts.

>>94424276
If the skills are the biggest detractor, it's not hard to do some combining. Listen and Spot into Perception, Tumble and Use Rope into Acrobatics, etc.

3.5 has never been much of a skill based game anyways. Most of the feats and option that enhance skill use just make them combat viable

>>94377051
>Mean while both 4e and 5e individually have surpassed it in options and classes. 5e nearly doubles the amount of races and subraces, and way more books
>5e
>The game with a single digit number of books and like <20 races, <50 if you count setting specifics
>more books than 3e (literally hundreds of books)
>more races than 3e (literally hundreds of 1HD LA0 races thousands and thousands of playable races not even getting into templates)

>>94380531
>The funny part is, I think that, since al the fiddly bits actually get me more engaged with the game, I've been improving as a roleplayer since I began playing
Obviously. It's the only(?) game with any sense of versimilitude because there actually are rules for how things work instead of having your friend try to spitball about real world physics in a game that obviously pays no heed to real world physics like you did in AD&D.

>>94377393
You can climb into people's assholes (and it's RAI, you can grapple people 2 size categories smaller then you, why would someone who is squeezing into a tight space for a diminuitive creature not be able to be carred along?) but the bullshit about using enlarge person to burst through them with a strength check wouldn't do anything. First of all, even if we pretend it worked, bursting through creatures digestive systems violently in D&D is well, well, well established in the rules. It doesn't do any additional damage besides what is inflicted by the attack. Secondly, people aren't leather. RAW, you can't really destroy corpses (specifics notwithstanding ofc) because they don't actually stop following creature rules so they can go to -NAN hitpoints and still not ever be 'destroyed'.

>>94397920
Wish and the word isn't really a solution since
A) the technology has improved so much since then it isn't funny that's like putting a 1980 chess supercomputer against a modern machine
B) It's assuming a level 20 character with full WBL, whereas modern solutions kick in much, much, much earlier. The whole point of the omniscifier was to come online at an earlier level than the (at-the-time) current punpun build, and that's been bashed down to level 1 in the default setting thanks to pazuzu.

You're clearly a faggot because 3.5 being a solved game is what brings so much joy to playing it. There's never the whole "oh I should play optimally or I'm throwing" vs. "oh I shouldn't disrupt the group's powerlevel" problem in 3.5 because the gentleman's agreement prohibits the former.

>>94417274
Are you illiterate?

>>94423211
>the raws are in either JP
Well, yes, usually raws are...

>>94423471
well, found the russian ones:

M3G@ folder/8VsinTDC#VzUYII18pyBEXrOcKdgp-A

>>94424416
Can confirm on the share thread.

>>94303704
If I think Fabula Ultima is mediocre and very half baked is ryuutama worth my time? Most of my beef was with char gen and combat.

>>94430160
Can be, it's also pretty to look at, and Char Gen is pretty simple, also combat is a lot more fun in relative terms.