Way of the 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.
>>97882564Imperial Japanese Officer - 15 SilverSynchronize Our Watches! - 8 SilverCourageous - 1 SilverDedicated Service - Army Type 18 - 4 Silver Type 13 Bayonet - 1 Silver Seiko Chronometer - 1 SilverKonoe Guard - 16 Silver Type 18 - 4 Silver Type 13 Bayoner - 1 Silver Seiko Chronometer - 1 Silver Rifle Grenade (2) - 4 SilverKonoe Guard - 16 Silver Type 18 - 4 SilverComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97879761>Merchant of the first guildSay you have 8 AwarenessA worker crits on excavation within range, gaining 5 silverYou roll Awareness, let's say it's 6, degree of 2Add 2 silver on topIf you roll a 1,while the degree would be 7, you can't add more than 5 (2x limit). >What do you mean with "adjust the critical range for all excavation tests"? Do you mean that they get a +1 to critical (if they crit at 5, now they crit at 5 and 4)?Yes. >Changing the turn order seems quite broken for just one silverFair, what if it's once per game, with no Dread reqs? >If this needs leadership, does the unit that get the trait need to have leadership?That's not how LP work. Picrel. >Do the "weapon training" and "hit and run" last only until the end of the turn?No, they are from the Cossack profile, so the idea is that the Ataman gets them too. BUT I did forget that it's very easy to boost your Hero's Accuracy, so Weapon Training is excessive. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97879761>What do you mean "gain +1 evasion against enemy awareness checks"?Hidden units trigger Awareness checks when moving past the enemy model's Awareness range and when doing the Hidden Attack. >So all tsardom auxiliaries gain +1 discipline, or only the two extra hired auxiliaries gain the discipline?All of them, it's a meme option but perhaps I'm missing something. >>97882538>Revolution and counter-revolution might be better if it has a range to the stealth buff rather than all friendly hidden units on the boardI mean... How many units with Hide can you field, realistically? >Rocketry Enthusiast would make more sense if it lowered your dread by 1 for every rocket kill rather than buffing enemy dread. You're enthusiastic for rockets rather than your opponent being more afraid of themI mostly wanted to lean into the shock and awe aspect of experimental weaponry, also it's there for Dread stacking synergy if you couple it with Przhevalsky. >My only suggestion would be to switch bizarre biologist to Madcap Mycologist to feed more into the Tsardom's fungus theming.Noted, I might have an idea for that.
>>97879313>97879761>Also, when you say "you can use this ability to immediately activate one friendly model", you mean that you use two models in one turn? I'd say it needs a silver increase, that can be quite busted.Yes, It's a watered down version of Skobelev's Seize the Initiative, here it's limited in range and to Melee and Charges. Initiative fuckery is kind of the Tsardom gimmick (Skobelev has his thing, Guards have Watchdog, Pillar of Autocracy does it with killed Elites etc., Nicholas Academy Grad is meant to be in a similar vein.) The idea was to create a kind of overwhelming effect for the army, where their bread and butter may be mid-to-bad, but if you set them up right, they can fuck you up + the elites are strong. Tsardom is like armorless Atlan. At any rate, I don't mind bumping the cost a bit.
Starting on the character section of the Atlantis page. King Perseus has been pretty well-characterized through that writing segment, but Bophades didn't have too much in the unit doc so I winged it.https://eadsttcoteg.miraheze.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_AtlantisWhen I do Strageos Hyas I'll have to address if he's an olmfucker or not since that's in the unit doc. We can only hope it's the man-type and not the steed type.
Palladium Games and Rifts General! /PGaRG/RIFTS! The science fantasy world of post-apoc cyborgs, wizards, dragons, ninjas, giant mecha, super-nazis, robot ninjas, vampires, underwater kingdoms, remnant human supertech civilizations and everything you can imagine all rolled into one setting where interdimensional RIFTS have pierced Earth's fabric and turned it into a playground for aliens and monsters!Plus other Palladium Games about superheroes, zombies, classic fantasy, supernaturals investigation and more. Talk about:>RIFTS(tm)>Heroes Unlimited>Palladium Fantasy>Beyond the Supernatural>Dead Reign>Robotech (lol)>TMNT & Other Strangeness + After the Bomb>SplicersComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97883499>while the siege of Tolkieen was going onApparently getting fooled by brilliant CS generals who crossed their territory with million-man armies to attack Tolkeen from the rear. Ie, jobbing for some retarded reason.
>>97883528Palladium Games are basically a bunch of comic book geeks they didn't ever really maintain powerscalingevery new book was a chance for K Siembieda to pay some bills that were already due from past projectsI love RIFTS/Palladium and all their authors/artists but as a company Palladium Books was barely held together by the efforts of Siembieda's ex-wife>as for op, get rid of MD/SD+HP it's overly complicated
>>97883548>>as for op, get rid of MD/SD+HP it's overly complicatedSo what everything runs on the same dmg code? A man has 50 A car 2000A tank/robot 40,000Its just big numbers
>>97875743I take inspiration from a lot of mst3k episodes.
>>97883499If I were to think about it I think they effectively were doing nothing and didn't get deemed a big enough threat while the Siege of Tolkieen was going. The Xiti were found out to be non aggressive on a world or dimension until they built up their forces to a point and at that time they attack everything and don't stop until the planet is one giant hive. I forget but I think it was only after the war did dimensional explorers research this and then the CS pulled the stick out long enough to accept that knowledge.
Repentance editionDiscuss elves.Post elves.Love elves. Don't make a bunch of silly rules about elves.Don't get sad about getting rejected in a video gameThread question:How do elven punishments differ from human ones?Prev. >>97865276
>>97879700>"I'm sorry you feel that way, anon. Well, if you need anything, I'll be over here setting up the display cases for games people play, something you've never done apparently."
>>97880284>I'd imagine trying to magic police the drow would be rather difficult.She is just a secretary/bureaucrat. As far as I know she is incapable of using magic (unless the DM has something for me)
>>97882794And an adorable secretary at that. I suppose if any of the PCs died each of their seconds would be a a character with history who could step in with motivation. Although how deadly the campaign is would depend on player choices.
>>97880226>>97880283I'm not sure if your GM or you created her. If the latter, I am amused that you may have made her half-drow to keep posting here regularly lol.
tell us any stories about your LGS and it's customerbase, good or bad
>>97865891as long as you sell your inventory at a profit, anon, it doesn't matter if you sell it to one turbo autist or a hundred regular autistssure, long term, a larger number of customers is more sustainable but if the owner's spending as much as he wants to on pokemon cards and selling out of them, he's coming out ahead regardless
>>97869885>card crooksis that one on the list
Maybe the problem will take care of itself?
>>97883190Deckbuilding is just as creative as list-building in wargames, without throwing hours building and painting a unit only to realise that you don't like how it plays.
>>97884214>without throwing hours building and painting a unit only to realise that you don't like how it playsMost people I've played against think I'm weird for occasionally using half-assembled and/or unpainted armies, but I honestly don't want to put in the effort if I don't like how it plays (I can always re-use the unpainted models in other armies or cannibalise them for parts later down the line).I have YET to regret this.
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>>97853676My poor dkok have lost all 3 of their games so far. Rough start. (2 standard games against elites and a family one custom map)
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>>97881980Do you have 14 guys? Can you tell how the games went in a bit more detail?So the family game was against Vespids, the other two where against what?
>>97872032Thanks for the suggestion!Only tangential to thread topic so spoilered but, found a friend who wanted Space Marines for a long time but was scared off by the prices, so we split a Leviathan box we found at 15% off MSRP locally plus the getting started box from a rinky dink LGS, so if we did our math right both of us got basically a 70% discount on over 1000 points. Gonna sell the second nidder prime probably though, recoup a little more cost I guess. Now I just do the same for the KT box when it drops, EZPZ.
>>978842021. I do not believe you will find the box with a discount anywhere, ever.2. How does your math work?
Which cultussy is superior?
>>97883513>implying most of her hair follicles haven't been replaced with slowly-leaking pus pores
>>97876437>ahh Go fuck yourself, stupid ass
>>97874254We both know she has a dick anon. It's not worth thinking about ifs
>>97874790>>97874200Wouldn't she instead give out sex to you like a turkish ice cream vendor?
>>97874108The one you forgot.
▶Previous edition: >>97687864▶What is /gwsg/?A thread to talk about Games Workshop's specialist and spin-off games which fall between the cracks.Battlefleet Gothic, Blood Bowl, Epic, K*ll Team, Man-o-War, Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game, Mordheim,Necromunda, Shadow War: Armageddon, Titanicus, Underworlds, Warcry, Warhammer Quest, Warmaster......and any other GW system and board game are welcome.▶Helpful resources (feel free to suggest additions!):https://pastebin.com/qq9N8V0V▶TQ: What is the best Orc Specialist Game?
>>97883194Sounds like you have a lot of work ahead of you. Hope they do not lose interest because of that. One player knowing no mercy the other being bad at the game is the worst combination.
>>97883077An unfun time is playing with metagamers who pour hours into online research on how to optimize their gang.
I kinda hope gw offers something more narrative focused with spearhead
>>978831033 champs is possible but you need to play really sweaty with less geared char, or less credit for medical escort. Now everyone in your gang is valueable because the margin to break the champ/non-champ balance is tight. The traditional 2 champs start is a lot more relaxing and you can afford to sacrifice more gangers to bad rolls.
>>97884296Looking just how the board is designed... i do not believe so.
NATO intervention editionPrevious thread:>>97576097>Thread Question: What have you been working on recently?>Community Summary of Wargames: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11JoUpGIRDp5DZdgJ24rijKHgyY-qvvR5QnVtHIp57Tw/edit?usp=sharing>List of Historical Tactical, Strategic, and Military Drill treatises: http://pastebin.com/BfMeGd6R>ZunTsu Gameboxes: Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97873771These Anons >>97873976 >>97879511 have it right.>>97872266>Historical are thriving, you just don't notice it behind the unwashed masses playing Warhammer at the LGS. I wish it was an universal truth but the reality is the spread is extremely uneven. My city is 250k pop and there is only 1 (one) LGS with no historical game played since 2022. The closest active historical wargaming group I know about is over 100km away. There are places where Bolt Action is as popular as 40k and whole countries where historical scene is almost non-existent.
>>97873771Discord trannies, spam, and the fact that nothing 4chan has to offer is still unique to 4chan.
Don't know if Tom still frequents here, I haven't been here in years but... I'm building a little Falklands set for "Missile Threat". Potentially inspired by the news. I like my missiles made out of laces. Will let folk know if the game is any good in a week or two
>>97880244Low quality conversation and argumentative spergs is why I stopped.
How well does Bolt Acrion work at 1/72? Or is there a better WW2 rule set(s)?
>dude why does that fantasy race have such extreme sexual dimorphism... sooo unrealistic
>>97845419Who are you quoting?
>>97875906>puckee spamming his commission againhttps://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryMonsters/comments/1nrmufb/nessine_the_dryad_by_dennis_fr%C3%B6hlich/https://desuarchive.org/_/search/image/itJqGSYLllzCvopMW6Bg5Q/>35 times since December 2023
>Humanoid gooner qu that mutilates whole biospheres into humanoid tiddy monsters>>97875257Someone at a university I went to got paid money to do residential art depicting marlin changing into a female clown fish in an alt. narrative exploring that concept.
>>97847458>>97852459This is literally a plot point in Book of the New Sun
>>97884018Elaborate
Do your players tend to show kindness to the disadvantaged in the games you run? Even when there's no benefit (no one else really cares, no reward in game or meta currency, etc.)
>>97875677>puckee spamming his commission againhttps://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1l4rkhq/artcomm_luckless_len_fantasy_medieval_beggar_npc/https://desuarchive.org/_/search/image/LfTktpJsd5AE7-XYgVmWtQ/>22 times since April 2025
>>97875741This isn't /pol/, we don't care if you're Jewish.
>puckee thread
>>97875677No, they only play baddies.
>>97880297I'm a white and middle aged male. I'm hated just as much if not more so. No one has declared war on jews that I know of. Me, I'm KOS.
Why did Eberron die?
>>97859596Its always annoyed me that people who have played maybe ten minutes of baldurs gate, or are only familiar with d&d, accuse FR of being "just standard fantasy." FR has all kinds of weird, cool shit all over the place.
>>97883950>>97883957Second party is a good description of how WotC did most campaign settings during the 3e period. Many of the writers who wrote WotC's various splats in 3e also had works published by other companies such as Green Ronin.>>97884132That is mostly because of the focus on the Dalelands and Sword Coast which were the "standard fantasy lands."
>>97884162I dunno, maybe it's different now, but a big magical metropolis like Waterdeep wasn't what I thought of when I thought of standard fantasy. I still think most people's idea of fantasy is more along the lines of the LotR movies and GoT.
>>97842479Funnily enough, both 4th Ed and Savage Worlds do Eberron better than 3.x
>>97884227Keith Baker said 4e doesn't fit Eberron.
What is the best classic normalfag board game?
>>97883311brown>>97874876>ctrl + f>1 mention, in passingcheckers and it's not even close, wtf is wrong with you guys
>>97881517They're set in Zarahemla
>>97883342Black
>>97874940I actually agree with this.
>>97874940Successfully Rage Baited Two Very Low IQ Anons Award
What is the best way to go about intentionally deceiving your players for story/narrative purposes? What are some good plot twists basically?
>>97882830Nah, it was and still is arthouse wank, on par with the reverse phoenix
>>97882841your tax dollars at work people
>>97883520Didn't remind me before I burn something down.
>>97883881I encourage you to burn shit down my guy .What's another 200 mil to the ghouls.
>>97884040Lol. True. I'm too old for federal prison though.
Well tg, it looks like we haven't had a thread like this in a while, or maybe I just missed the last one, but I found my old character sheet from a campaign that ended so incredibly anticlimactically so I figured I'd take some time talking about it. Share your experiences here, vent. Let it all out.It's my first time playing Pathfinder 1e in the late 2010s. The GM is the little brother of one of our usual group members, said member is becoming a massive that guy. In truth he was always like that as we came to know him longer, just he was HIDING it really well up to this point. His younger brother is running an all Evil campaign. The Goal? Destabilize the nation of Cheliax for a Demon cult, I belive it was in service to Lemashtu but it has been almost a decade since the game so I could be wrong. We aren't cult members, just evil mercenaries.The characters in this endeavor? A Half-Giant monk who is trying to run a mercenary company and have troops with guns, a cursed Medusa lady wizard, a neutral Cleric played like a simp, a hyper minmaxed synthesist Summoner played by the that guy, and finally me. I was playing a Teifling Eldritch Scion Magus from Thuvia. I and the GM came up with a backstory for this character to say he was an old sultan whose city state and family was destroyed by Cheliax troops trying to find the Youth Elixir's formula. This led to my character despising all of Cheliax, and most of humanity in general.1/2
Alright I got one. It's not like anything bad, but just really bizarre.> 2014, sophomore year.> Saturday so no school, and we're playing the 5e starter set with school friends.> Playing with some old school friends. > We are taking a break for food since it's hour 4 of the session.> Friend pulls out half a block of cheese out of his jacket pocket, and just bites into it right as I'm ordering pizza.> Ask him why he's suddenly just eating a block of pepper jack.> Dude just looks me in the eyes and says "I didn't know if were gonna break for food, and wanted to make sure I had a snack."Motherfucker could have at least put it in the fridge, like who just eats pocket cheese?
>>97883809I typed that like shit, and fucked up the structure while retyping it all. Just kill me now.
>>97883809Just really what now
>>97883906Peak autism at its most blatant.
Aight I got one, the thing that made me start vetting possible groups SIGNIFICANTLY more in depth.> Be me, first session with a group at the local game store.> Heard they had an opening, so I figured why not?> Roll up a Human paladin.> Be not me; Goblin rogue, Tiefling Warlock/Rogue multiclass with some op homebrew archtypes, Kenku Bard, and Dragonborn Sorcerer.> First session, and the Tiefling Warlock immediately hates my character.> Player is a woman, and the others don't seem bothered by the Tiefling hating my paladin.> Watching her for any shenanigans.> Tiefling player tries to have her Tiefling kill my paladin in his sleep.> Had to do a full PVP encounter in my Paladin undies, aka no fucking armor, because the party didn't help me at all.> Get killed because I'm not wearing armor, and hadn't done a full rest to regain my spell slots yet.> Left the table after that.I found out later that the group were all doing erp together in some discord server. Whole group just worshiped the only woman in the party. She wasn't even good looking either, she looked like Miss Piggy in a brown wig. Pic is my face as my paladin is getting murdered by some bullshit life drain warlock invocation, and getting free sneak attacks.
Well anons he is risen (according to the Orthodox types anyway), so it's time to confess your table top sins. Let it out, admit your wrongs, and be judged.We're you a that guy, did you do some coomer shit, did you ruin a game? Let out anons, we understand.
>>97882382I'm an autist and not the good kind of autist.I also regret paying loads of money for miniatures to practice on before painting Warhammer stuff to paint my warhammer stuff right.That was stupid.Don't make the same mistake I did lads. If you want to paint specific miniatures don't sweat the small stuff and get practice minis to prepare. Just paint the models you want to paint.
A player in my game tried to fuck with a door mechanism. I'd been running a lot of osr-style games and my osretarded brain said he should lose some fingers in the mechanism. This was a 3.5 game so these sorts of lethal dm rulings were not popular. My players were so upset that the campaign ended.
A sin I don't feel fully bad about...One time when I was running a fairly linear dungeoncrawlMy little brother failed to spot a trap less than 5 minutes into the game. I rolled 4d6 damage, the damage was enough to kill his 1st level character outright. I fudged the numbers and he took a medium hit. (It was a CR1 trap)I learned form this to never place a trap that would kill a character if I don't want the character to die. It doesn't matter how low the search dc is.
>>97882382Forgive me father, I actually play games.
>>97882382Anon, get better timing next time. But yk I used to cheat back when I played d&d, I don't really regret it though, don't think it was wrong either, but I haven't done it again since
