How does tg feel about Ravenloft? I'm about to go all-in on a Ravenloft game and I'm wondering how it stands up these days. I really like it obvs but I want to avoid any massive pitfalls I shouldn't be doing with it. First adventure will be a mystery I am going to set in Darkon, since I've run games in that Domain before. Some of the new stuff for the setting seems like it does stand out but I'm not so happy with the lore changes. Anyway, check out this cool comic book cover that's coming out for Ravenloft! This was the best pic I could find of it, sorry.
>>97878271Like and ability to cause others to orgasm with a touch? Or is this flesh golem capable of orgasming? Come to think of it, what stops flesh golem from being able to orgasm in the first place...
That is indeed a cool cover
>>97877554I feel the same about Ravenloft that I feel about any D&D product or property, that I want as little to do with it as possible.
Ravenloft is pure kino and always has been. At least it's different from your normal d&d settings and it encouraged you to fuck over the players with every unfair advantage there was. And the monsters were fun. Pretty sure the Blood Golem first appeared in Ravenloft.
>>97877554It's not for me. I had a 2e boxed set I got from a friend (I think that's how I got it, but I can't rule out the cool box art didn't seduce me), but the fear checks and such turned me off. The inability to triumph over the oppressive darkness and not being able to escape isn't the experience I want from D&D, or at all, really.
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>>97883655You baking, my good sir?
>>97883903Oh right
>>97883876Well then, have the prompt, kind anon. Using Bing:>baroque dark sci-fi oil painting, grainy brushstrokes, glorious lighting. an ornate gothic white marble rotunda with platinum filigree decorations. at its center, a vast celestial orrery of gold in a steampunk style. here and there, wizards in embroidered robes look on as polychromatic energies surge upwards from the orrery.
Redid the captcha then forgot the thread name the second time, my bad>>97883925>>97883925>>97883925
>>97883928Well, you've made a real ASS of yourself, anon. You'll be the BUTT of many jokes. Your work is in the BOTTOM tier of /slop/ threads.
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>>97882907Oh, great, another 75 percent by volume troll thread.
>>97882907>What is the worst encounter you've ran and/or participated in?The one the DM deployed to get rid of my my PC because I was acting like a cunt. In my defence, I think I was 12 at the time.
>>97882992what did you do?
(repost)something im not a massive fan of is the huge range of health you develop as you level in most versions of dnd.one health system i really enjoyed was from barbarians of lemuria where you essentially start with the health of a third level character, like between 10-12, and through progression you MIGHT get up to 16-18. This is balanced out by like all common damage sources being d6+ strength based (2d6 take lowest for small weapons, take highest for 2 handed weapons). so you are on average going to be killed by 2-4 successful common attacks. right in that sweet spot of deadly, but with a little play. I even experimented with starting hp a little lower at like 8 and that was also fun (strong man with +2 str and rolling a 6 possibly killing you outright).
We went to the moon in 1969.Why the fuck did miniatures still look like this until around 1985 or so? MTV was four years old and Back to the Future came out. And yet in miniatures terms it is practically historic.
>>97875001>Imagine praying to a literal JewWouldn't be me, senpai
>>97859069As always:>if it's no big deal, why are you insisting on it?>>97859125So we're at the "it's revenge, so it is happening but it's a good thing" stage?
>>97853025>Why the fuck did miniatures still look like this until around 1985 or so?So you could do it yourself, at home with some lead and a gas burner. This used to be a creative hobby.
>>97878747its no big deal for the christians, who are harmed in the most miniscule way of having to change a single word in their vocabulary while still implicitly being the center of the universethe christians get the best end of the stick here, since their arbitrary date is chosen over everyone elses equally arbitrary datebut it its a slight benefit for everyone else, because we can all at least pretend to have a secular dating system even if its very obviously skewed to favor christians anywayschanging the calender entirely to measure from a non-religious starting point would be the best outcome, but thats a change that everyone considers far too large for the benefit
>>97853031>So what looks like a seam could just be from the top edge of a one-piece open mold.TRIM YOUR FUCKING MOLDLINES MAGNUS FAGGOTUS MAXIMUS!
my miniature of paladin
>>97880867Looks a bit more like a blackguard mate.
>>97880867>paladin >non-humanKek
>>97880867Looks nice anon.
>>97880867That looks pretty fucking cool anon. What game are you playing?
>>97883665He looks like a human with bad skin though. Maybe some weird fantasy human subrace.
Long time MtG player (17 years?) and with what's happening to the game rn, i don't really have much interest in any of the new sets. Sorcery looks like it could maybe scratch that itch. The art is fantastic and reminds me of legacy MtG art. Anybody here play?I watched a few overview vids, but I'm curious how the actual gameplay goes. For someone who plays mostly EDH, are there any similarities? Is it usually a 2 player match?How long are the matches usually?Is it as much of a money pit as MtG?Convinced a few of my MtG friends to give it a shot based off of the art alone. Just need an idea of what I'm up against in terms of learning curve.
>>97838563Good for you and your game
>>97838563this call back turn into an entire mechanic is fantastic.
>>97820622Introduced some new players yesterday, we all had a great time. I bought everything, beta, gothic and the playmat.Is there any advice on how to expand the precon decks?It's also so hard to restrain myself from buying every booster box as well...
>>97875554>Is there any advice on how to expand the precon decks?Fill out the playsets of cards that are missing, take out some of the shitty ordinaries, stuff like Undesirables is trash, I just put in Wyverns in their place.
nobody expects the page 10 thread bump
What is the most kino BBEG archetype?
>>97876824Might as well finish that class' 1st level.
>>97877834>>97877863Nice. I'll have to give these a perusal when I have a moment.
>>97837876>puckee spamming his commission againhttps://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1csag1l/art_comm_vandervax_the_vengeful_lich_bbeg_by_alex/https://desuarchive.org/_/search/image/R3ZGLpr6llIB-YZIuybu_A/>32 times since May 2024>>97874476>puckee spamming his commission againhttps://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryCharacters/comments/1ije3o4/celira_darkflame_evil_sorceress_by_kartstudio/https://desuarchive.org/_/search/image/GDZmUhxqu54xZ2D05FkNRQ/>56 times since November 2023>>97874944>puckee spamming his commission againhttps://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1f7fyl0/artcomm_orc_by_pedro_silva/https://desuarchive.org/_/search/image/tsy_l8sbr_q-AwGFvIghuw/>47 times since September 2024Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97837904fag
>>97837876I like liches
What sorts of animals would do best in a world where being preyed upon by monsters was a serious threat? I think pigs and rats would do ok.
>>97877495I think you should kill yourself
>>97877630Monsters tend to be mindlessly aggressive
>>97880078Puckee's threads should be deleted on sight and the poster should be permabanned. The problem isn't that we have to see them, it's that this dreck is allowed to clog up the board for weeks, and whenever a thread falls off the catalog before it can be bumped, he makes 3 more the next day. It's spam. It should go.
>>97883595You're an autist
>>97883827Better to be an autist than a subhuman faggot, like you, who wastes his time failing to argue on behalf of some disruptive no-life retard spamming a Vietnamese Shadow Puppetry forum.
ITT: the most stylish way you/your party has ever defeated a villain
>>97882809mmmmfgh.,...
>>97882525Rolled critical hit and maximum number of successes in a 4d6 roll, followed by 5 on d6 damage roll, while throwing a sword. This turned into 22 damage in total, in a system scaled at 10 HP.Bonus points for the GM asking me twice if I'm absolutely sure I want to throw the sword, as my character only had 1/5 in throwing.
>>97882809I remember you talking about it on /tg/ before.
Tricked an Angel into falling and becoming a Demon, then shot it with a bullet carved from a piece of the true cross that we'd gotten our hands on earlier in the campaign.
>>97882525Blew his greatsword out of his hands with a pinpoint precise magnesium fuse shot with a 75mm howitzer, which also sets it on fire.Our guy then picks it up, duels back and forth with the guy who'd picked up our guy's sword, and then with the help of another guy pulling an anime 'lend me your strength to this blow, brother', cuts his head off with it.
players have no purpose but to be railroaded by my hand.
>>97876350>Story is created by the gameplay and nothing else.The post said that the plot was waiting for them.Git gud faget
>>97876539Nope.
>>97877903Fine. Technically you don't have to get good. Feel free to stay as inept as you are.
>>97849859Snacks was banned. I was there, 10,000 years ago.
>>97883695Snacks were promised to us 3,000 years ago.
Is there actually any reason female wizards wouldn’t be as powerful as male wizards? Magic is usually about study, talent, or raw arcane affinity right? Not like you bench press a fireball into existence. But then you look at some settings and it’s “ancient archmages, all dudes” and you gotta wonder if that’s lore or just bias baked into the world.Are there systems where gender actually affects spellcasting power? Like if two casters had identical training, intelligence, and casting ability, is there any reason one would be weaker? Curious how you guys handle it in your worlds.
>>97870151>puckee spamming his commission againhttps://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1dqgwj1/art_comm_amalia_fenn_wizardess_by_dennis_fr%C3%B6hlich/https://desuarchive.org/_/search/image/KEjif-wGDBPKQYY8Q0-LSg/>41 times since June 2024>>97874478>puckee spamming his commission againhttps://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/x6ywyc/king_philip_v_of_caduvia_campaign_npc_commission/https://desuarchive.org/_/search/image/LyShG8cuLH6vuHGGEoIsdg/>59 times since September 2022
>>97870151I can't think of any.
>>97872405It looks fine
>>97871216Yes. Human brains are sex-typed. They display functional and structural differences and notably some of these differences are associated with skills used in chess and favour men. There are functional differences between the general population and high level chess players indicating that these structural differences are note the sole contributor to men being better at chess.A significant portion of men performing better at higher levels in chess is what is to be expected in a field where more men participate (in bigger samples you expect to get greater extremes), conversely a significant portion of men's superior performance in chess is not accounted for by the simple factor of their greater participation.
>>97883653*not the sole contributor
What's some fucked-up stuff that happens (or is currently happening) in your world? I'm looking for the darkest, dirtiest, most depraved lore you have. The kind of thing where reading it back makes even YOU want to vomit at what you've created.Preferably something your party is currently or has in the past personally dealt with and witnessed, but I'll also hear GMs just holding something in their back pocket.
>>97882622>What's some fucked-up stuff that happens (or is currently happening) in your world?The Magedoms of Centralia have always been degenerate, but after many of the moderating city states broke away to be independent during their last civil war, the states that remained and formed The United Magedoms, have went full Wiemar republic levels of degenerate. Public nudity and sexual acts. Prostitution in every form and flavor with nothing off the table.Recreational drugs both mundane and exotic with the predictable negative effects on the users and society. Hedonism is the norm. But all that is background noise. The actual fucked up thing in that society is that agency isn't respected unless one has enough class and power to make it be respected. So for example one citystate's "solution" to the "goblin problem", which is to say their proclivity to breed like rabbits, was to "copper" all female goblins unless they purchased a very expensive breeding permit. So they proceeded to round up every single female goblin in the city and forcibly install a IUD in them as a means of forced population control. Also crime and punishment is based exclusively on fines and payment of restitution. So the rich can do whatever they please including murder, torture, etc. as long as their money holds out and they can pay the fines. Meanwhile if a poor person farts too loudly they could end up a penitent slave for years to pay off the fine. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97882622In the kingdom of bloodskull, hand-holding and shy glances are considered a normal part of courtship. The dark lord is even rumored to speak with familiarity to women outside his immediate family.
>>97882910I said fucked-up stuff not the kind of thing that would make Satan shiver Jesus Christ Anon what the Hell is wrong with you
>>97883203How do you even open your notes without shuddering
>>97883101Gross. Awful. Repugnant. Vile. I love it. Thanks Anon.
"Sorry The Library's Closed On Sunday" editionPrevious: >>97876733>Most recent banlist updatehttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-banned-and-restricted-february-9-2026>Most recent bracket system updatehttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-brackets-beta-update-february-9-2026>Outline article introducing the bracket systemhttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/introducing-commander-brackets-beta>Current banlisthttps://magic.wizards.com/en/banned-restricted-list#commander-bannedComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>97883825Heard you the first time. I said sometimes, you blind retard
so when are we getting Premodern Masters?
>>97884679Not sure if this will breathe life into the format or smother it in the crib
>>97883580ironing
Now that the dust has settled, can we all agree on the what the best designed modern Space Marine is? I think it's pretty obvious.
>>97862222Good, stay gone. You offer nothing to our community anyways.
>>97841996yes. the BA tactical. And I say this as a DA player.
>>97842014>took GW a decade to maybe release upscaled MK. 7how?
>>97880978Then you need to go back and read through the judgement again because in fact it's the exact opposite. Ainsworth certainly argued that because he made the moulds he owned them while Disney argued that because they were created with their IP they did, and the court certainly agreed that Ainsworth owned the moulds, but the important part is the reasoning the court used to assign ownership; not because Ainsworth made them, but because Disney's claim the Stormtrooper design was copyrighted IP and so any possible expression of that IP was controllable by them was invalid, since in the court's view the Stormtrooper design was not created as an independent and purely creative work of art but as part of a production for a practical purpose - costuming and toy production - and so Design Rights was the applicable IP law not Copyright, and the Design Rights had long since lapsed.In fact if Copyright did apply then anyone using a mould to make an exact duplicate *would* be in breach because Copyright protects a specific expression of a concept. That's why GW ran into issues in the past over third party products derived from their artwork that GW had not yet turned into models themselves: the Copyright was for the work of art, the Trademark could cover some terms and iconography, but fundamentally just drawing a picture doesn't give you the right under Copyright to control anything other than reproductions of *that picture*. cont....
>>97883569>>97880978cont...So essentially GW can own the Copyright on a specific bit of art of a Space Marine meaning you can't copy the specific artwork, they can own the Copyright on the specific physical expression of the concept of a Space Marine that is an actual physical kit they produced meaning you can't recast their actual physical models, and they can own the Design Rights to the overall concept of a "Space Marine" as expressed in concept art and the final production kit brought to market meaning they have a *phased, time limited* right to control all expressions of that concept, but once the thresholds are passed they are obligated first to license use of the concept at a fair rate to anyone who asks and at the second threshold lose their exclusive control of the concept. After that point they still own the copyrights on specific bits of art, specific kits they produce, and any trademarks they've registered, but they cannot stop someone else from making their own, say, Third Gen Void Marine that looks exactly like a MK3 Space Marine so long as that kit is an original work(ie, not just a scan of GW sprues or whatever).That's the argument I believe Lucasfilm vs Ainsworth opens up in UK courts, and why GW have been so keen to redesign a bunch of stuff even in the nostalgiagame where you'd think they'd want to appeal to people who like old designs: it would reset their Design Rights control every time they produce a new meaningfully different variant(ie, not Intercessor Stacy in a New Hat, but Intercessor vs Tactical Marine or nuMK3 vs FW MK3). Of course we'll likely never see my assertion tested because nobody's going to be insane enough to risk millions to challenge GW in court when they can just sell their shit from countries that don't care about IP law.
Tell me what your character DOES, and I will ask (YOU) to roll a skill check IF a check needs to be made. The next guy who asks for a skill check to search a room or wipe their ass, I guarantee you will fail it, no matter what you roll.
>>97878997Players 9 times out of 10 don't.
>wipe their assWhat's the skill check for wiping your ass?
>>97883198DC 10 sleight of hand check, failure by less than five means you got poop on your fingers and failure by more than five means you don't realize that you got shit on your fingers until you go to open the door and smear shit on the knob
>>97883198Dexterity (perception)
>>97855398this girl was drawn strangely sexy
