>wants civilized and fair tournament play>encourages bad sportsmanship with kill funnels, metagaming, and secret tests of character>complains that other games aren't balanced or fair enoughWhat did he mean by this?
>>98516495>that most retroclones are not based on the most Gygaxian edition of AD&D1eWhy would anyone want a flawed clone of perfection?
>>98520665>not liking Gygax means you're a FR sloppernta but you sound like an annoying faggot though
>>98520847Meh, I don't hate classic forgotten realms. However. Going to admit the fags did ruined it to the point I think it's better to makes something else or remove everything pre-2010s.Though Grayhawk was meant to be a setting for TTRPG. Forgotten Realms became more for books and games as well as TTRPG.
>>98520847I'm just pointing out that you have nothing to present.Your side's contribution is thus far, solely negative.Do you make or do anything?That is the point of the exercise.Have you ever brought anybody else joy?Short of a handful of very serious cardinal sins, there is very little that could make me condemn a man in particular for the failings common to much of mankind.Gary Gygax might even be over-credited and over-rated.But he was there in the beginning, and he made the thing.Speaking ill of the dead is easy.Normally.Who will come to your defense when you are dead?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98516992>Sorry you're too young to have been there, newfag.How cute.>Just like every fucking president for the last 30 yearsI would have forgiven you for not remembering 2012, given your age, but you don't even remember 2020. ADHD-addled zoomer confirmed. It's never too late to stop watching brainrot, but understand that permanent damage has probably already been done.>everyone i hate is a chudYeah, nah. You can stomp your feet and seethe all you like, but some of us have actually been around for a while. In fact, some of us have been playing games for that whole time. So again, don't try to gaslight me into believing your made up bullshit, and once again, it's probably time for you to go back.>and if you ask real nice, I'll tell you about some of those titles in picrel that you're not old enough to recognize>but you'll need to ask reeeeeeeeeeal nice because I don't like nogamez
Happy 810nicle Day, everyone! Been too long since we had one of these, so I decided to fix that! This is a thread for the discussion of Bionicle tabletop games, both in terms of the setting and the mechanics of it all. There are three links below, in order, Masks of Destiny, the Red Star Games site with multiple systems, including a war game one (among other things), and an in-development system called Kanohi & Cryoshell. If you’re familiar, what are the pros and cons of each one?https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kHy5h1wMyjFXOmV656zLruSphkAYpBPK?usp=share_linkhttps://www.redstargames.org/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nH2YLRWp4FHFwVcVo-lly6D0jm5c3-898rfTBDCzCgc/Thread Questions: >What was your favorite arc of Bionicle and why? And do you prefer G1 or G2, and again why? I’m a fan of the classic original Toa designs so it’s the original setting’s Mata Nui arc for me.>If you heard that they were making a Generation 3 of Bionicle, what would be your hopes for it? I’d like to see if the Generations exist in the same multiversal framework as each other, just imagine the crossover potential!
>>98515327They were mentioned on the livestream this year on 810NICLE Day YT channel among other projects made by Bionicle fans that are not Bionicle (some of them are cringe IMHO).From what the creators say, they plan to go multi-media in the future, and some parts and masks will be avialable as STL files for patrons.There is a project called World of Colony that has similar themes, but instead of robots and cyborgs
>>98517113pic related is supposedly code for STL of the mask of MC of the Afterman Chronicles first issue (I haven't checked it)
>>98483992What are your favorite Kanohi outside of the big names like the Mask of Life or Mask of Time? I’m a big fan of the Mask of Flight, because why wouldn’t you want to fly, and it’s a big advantage.
https://biomediaproject.com/bmp/play/web-games/mnog/If you trust a random flash download.>>98519145For effect: KakamaFor aesthetic: Akaku
>>98519145I like Kanohi Kualsi, because of how it looks and because teleportation is just cool. And me having Toa Iruini as a kid made me biased towards it.
Welcome to Open OSR. This thread is for open discussions of OSR-adjacent and retro games. You can talk about all OSR-adjacent games without distinction here, including 2e.There is a general for those who strictly want to talk about old-school D&D. If that is your preference, you can find that here: >>98372743Previous thread: >>98378113Thread Question:>What was the last OSR-adjacent game you ran with an IRL group?
>>985179212e is how you imagine OD&D would play?
>>98517921>Never played od&d but this is how I imagine it would playive never played ODND, but a bet it goes a little something like the sunken catacombs!insane nogames retardation
>>98522947Beneath the Sunken Catacombs 2e, it's a D20 "OSR" system with "abundant character options." IE D&D 3e styled nonsense, which is not like OD&D.
>>98523054What kind of a fuckin' name is that for a system? That's a module name. Ridiculous.
>>98523283Yeah, the "OSR" space out there is full of dumb shit.
Gencon Eve edition ▶What is Kingdom Death?Kingdom Death is a tabletop miniature brand started by Adam Poots and operated by himself and his Team that later spun off into a miniature based board game funded by two very successful kickstarter campaigns.▶What is Kingdom Death: Monster?Monster is a Nightmare Horror cooperative boss battler/city management miniature hobby game for 1-4 players about hope in a strange world of bizarre monstrosities and perpetually darkness. Players take on the role of survivors that band together to form a settlement, fighting monsters, crafting weapons and gear, and developing their civilization to ensure survival from generation to generation.Prologue Narration: [YouTube] Kingdom Death: Monster - Prologue (https://youtu.be/FNLc8dHv0Ac)The Game is broken up into 3 phases:1. During your Hunt Phase your band of survivors traverse the world of KD in pursuit of their quarry.2. After successfully tracking your quarry you will begin the Showdown Phase, where you must fell these horrific creatures in order to acquire precious resources.3. After the battle, your survivors wander home with loot in hand to begin the Settlement Phase. Arm yourself by developing new weapons and bizarre structures to prepare for next year's hunt.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98520701RevampedGame has a Gragelope stl
>>98520708It's even better when it's dark out. I played the level 1 showdown with just UV and my phone flashlight.
>>98519595you need to give him his lungs and heart back (dlc) then you get fucked properly.rewards also increase tremendously though.
>>98521913I might have to get some fluorescent paint. Very nice.
>>98523265>I might have to get some fluorescent paintwouldnt recommend that tbqh with how fast fluorescent paints break down
Charisma should not be the primary "casting" nor "martial" stat of any class but it should always be useful and worth pumping points into, if not even focusing on entirely. It would make dumping or pumping or just keeping charisma even a rather valid choice for both a warrior or a caster. A mage for instance could use their charisma to bolster their illusion spells or to make their use of fireballs more terrifying and a martial could be a commander of other droogs or a leader of thieves and such. There is something inherently onions about just using your sheer power of rizz as a direct battery rather than using it as a supplement to your other abilities. That is why you get all of these fruity 5efag classes that use their charisma for every fucking thing. On a materialist (Philosophical) manner this is simply giving theatre kids an excuse to be nothing but rizzers who are feeble retarded fools but they are also good at dancing! Like every other 5e character. Hell, like most 3.5 characters as well.
>>98509705It's very simple: You're a disingenuous faggot who's misconstruing the point.The actual point is>In order to play a charismatic character, you must have basic social skills or knowledge about how to be charismatic.Nobody cares if your stats give you a +85 to Persuasion rolls. If you try to tell the King he should make you his heir, you're getting your head chopped off. If you try to tell the guard that you didn't steal that sword when he watched you do it, you're getting your head chopped off.This applies to most aspects of a character, btw. If the fighter tried to tell me his cheap iron sword should just cut through the bars of a dungeon cell, I'm going to tell him it breaks instead. If the rogue tries to sneak attack the guard by walking directly at him, he's going to be spotted. You are not being asked for expertise, just a level of proficiency above "Totally Incompetent".
>>98508124That may be the fault of him using the diplomacy skill rather than the bluff skill. The bluff skill has some modifiers based on what exactly you are trying to get someone to believe, which can be GM-judged reasonably (https://www.d20srd.org/srd/skills/bluff.htm), while the diplomacy skill is purely about altering hostility/obedience. He shouldn't have been using the diplomacy skill unless he was trying to alter someone's hostility/obedience to him, anything which has to do with facts or arguments would likely use bluff.
>>98508344NTA but your strawman is actually a correct indictment of other D&D-like games which just treat combat as a pass/fail test rather than an event which occurs in the world and is modified by circumstances beyond how good at fighting your character is. 3.5 mitigates this by including a bunch of modifiers for your accuracy based on locations and other circumstances, but this is insufficient and also significantly limited by the use of a d20 additive system rather than a d100 system with both linear modifiers and nested probabilities (3.5 at least has concealment and incorporeality), and my ideal combat system would require every attack to be a called shot, although even if the attack hits, it might not necessarily hit the targeted location if the location is really small (essentially, to-hit rolls would be a 2d matrix with rows for where you aimed, columns for the die roll, and entries for where you actually hit, some of which would be empty, and which would also have rock-paper-scissors elements like Bunnies & Burrows, Arduin's brawl system, or OD&D's psionic combat system).And don't recommend GURPS like a reddit faggot, GURPS isn't actually exclusively simulationist, it is just a really detailed 3d6 narrative system which allows you to run a game in any crossover of genres, including genres that might incidentally require more detail in some areas. GURPS is the rule of cool/rule of genre savviness as a game. I think it is possible that claims of GURPS being simulationist are deliberately used to dismiss any suggestions of increased simulationism in games that actually have an implied setting and genre, even if most of the suggestions actually existed in prior editions of D&D or spinoffs of them.
>>98514565>>98514584>>98515861Embarrassing
>>98507130Charisma should not exist in any ROLEPLAYING gameThe entire game is talking with NPCs, being able to actually talk with them shouldn't be locked behind a stat or a skill or anything unless the system is flexible enough that John Fightman, Sneaky McDicks and Casterio the Caster all have ways of convincing people
how do you mix magic with science without one eating over the other.
>>98523104I’ll help you. The topic of choice here is “Does God act like a human or not act like a human?”. You are in it. One said the other is more likely. You seem to disagree.
>>98523116You seem like the type of man who watched Cygnus declare a plucked chicken to be a man and took it completely at face value with realizing he was being sarcastic.And I'm not the one talking about God being one thing or another, you are wonderfag.
>>98523124All I’m getting from this conversation is that you’re intellectually feeble. Hm.
>>98523129And I'm getting that you're a retard who wastes his time spamming 4chan with your pointless rants nobody ever asked for.
>>98522820very interesting can I ask how is magic seen culturally.
I simply do not get the appeal of tournament wargaming one bit. Why is every nuGW game's design approach centred around it too?
>>98516466Eh I was DM, it was pretty intuitive as a cast of a spell followed by a throw check.Then the Turk raider had to save against like, the strength that was listed at that power rank of glue spell or some shit, plus whatever POW you shove in maybe (this was a while back, I have played multiple systems of Runequest) in order to unblind himself, which he failed at.>>98516532Eh, it wasn't even a "mother may I" but a chained use of a handful of core mechanics.A spell, and a throw skill based off his ability with a javelin minus like twenty for "only sorta", followed by a hit chart roll (landed on head) and then the effects on the stricken tusk rider, who was enveloped and helpless.
>>98517565Tusk raider*It'd have worked as well on a Turk though.
>>98509252>Competitive plays for people who want to flex their tactical acumenAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAIf you were actually competitive then you would actually compete in something you faggot, instead you 'compete' in a thing where actual competition is impossible. 40k has long been a game of product purchase then to spice it up once everyone has purchased the correct products the outcome of the 'game' is determined by who gets first turn, that's it, that's what you're 'competing' at because you a re a zero T bitch to weak for sport and too stupid for chess
>>98515815>benthedm dot com
>>98494887Compfags are rather commonly whales because they constantly buy into new stuff
>be me, browsing YouTube for some inspiration for my Night Lords kill team >nothing fancy cause I'm a beginner, just some relatively decent paint jobs>see a cool thumbnail and click on the video>am greeted by the bloated, grinning face of a random dude who overdosed on onions and is way too high-energy>he sits on his sanitized "studio" lit by cheap Chinese purple/pink leds>lofi music on the background >yaps for like 10 minutes about I have no idea what>obligatory sponsorship segment>finally gets to painting and i'm already exhausted>it's airbrush and oil wash slop>instantly dislike the video, close YouTube and angrily ponder about quitting the hobbyI know I'm gonna make a lot of anons mad, but... why are (almost) all of YouTube "painters" like this? What makes them think I want to see another man's face for 15 minutes talking about meaningless stuff unrelated to the purpose of the video?
>>98510549>whyguerilla marketing/access journalism is the answer
>>98510549post link to video
Courtesy bump
>be me, browsingis the reddit format of greentext stories>be browsingis the 4chinz formatwe know you're you, Anon, no need to specify who you are
>>98520303>be me>see a newfriend making things up ITT>don't bully him
Has anyone actually used Mini Six to run a game? I've seen people talk about it in other threads and it has me curious about the strengths and weakness of the system. I love the idea of having a good generic system that I can use for many different settings. My playgroup is a bit picky about learning new systems, especially non-d20 systems, so personal experience might help in selling the system. For those with experience with the system what kind of game did you run/play and how long did it last? What did you think of character building/Advancement? Did you like it? Feel free to talk about any OpenD6 stuff even though I'm specifically asking about Mini Six.
>>98362471Link is dead
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>>98521068Updooted, thanks
>>98520850Tell them it was always their fault, and rolling the dice just helped them realise it.
>>98522296Why does this sound like a villain's pre-death line in a 90s action flick?
Previous thread >>98373677
>>98413762Revert them back to Magic-Users with level titles.
what if spells were your friends but it kind of hurt them when you cast them?
>>98519688This is all Wizards really needed. It's about the flavor. Not the damage per turn. If I'm going to be using a sling or crossbow 90% of the time, just give me a power that's the same damage I can spam each turn to take the edge off.
> Remove all noncasters> Make new classes to replace them that are casters> Martials just wanted to be Superman with a sword> They'll never be happy as melee casters> Wizards just wanted to lord their superiority over everyone> They'll never be happy now that others are as strong as they areI fixed it. Now no one gets to be happy.
>>98413762I like this wizardHe looks stumped
Who Called In The Fleet? Edition>List Builder & Ruleshttps://sc.starcraft-tmg.com/>Tacticahttps://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/StarCraft:_Tabletop_Miniatures_Game/Tactics>Print-and0Play Cards and Instructionshttps://starcraft-tmg.com/downloads>Shipping/Release FAQhttps://archon-studio.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=da8aa21735a0c6a2565062d9e&id=be3c6fb16c&e=704bbf5f62>How-to-PlayComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98516926A Protoss most based
>>98516926The biggest Edgelord in history. But he owns it and is a legit king
Any plans to make classic miniatures? More in line with the Starcraft 1 aesthetic I mean
>>98518289>>98516926>EdgelordI was going to accuse you both of being Zoomers but I don't think they even use that term anymore :(
>>98522630Edging and Edgelord means something very different to us.
how do you world build tg?
>>98517626I just assumed it was literally "me" as in a random guy who liked to imagine his fursona in Furry Game of Thrones and not an actual published setting
Start with a fetish. Build a world as needed for that fetish to be as common and/or central as I want.
>>98517589I use bulshitting and ass-pulling.
>>98517589The best way.>Add whatever I think is cool>Add my fetish(es)>Steal shit from my favorite media
>>98521817I mean, not MODERN Warhammer, which is Warcraft tier written by people who want to destroy history, not study it or make fun of it.
For discussion of D&D 3.0e, 3.5e and D20 OGL> Toolshttps://srd.dndtools.orghttps://dndtools.one/https://d20srd.orghttps://www.realmshelps.net/> Indices> 3.5https://archive.burne99.com/archive/4/http://web.archive.org/web/20080617022745/http://www.crystalkeep.com/d20/index.php> 3.0http://web.archive.org/web/20060330114049/http://www.crystalkeep.com:80/d20/rules3.0.php> 3e/3.5 Book PDFsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98519681So he just launches a 2d6 brick at someone then needs to wander over and pick it up? Does he just have a backpack full of the things?
>>98510830>a beholder controls a criminal empire from his lair in the city sewersHey, I’ve seen this one before
If you read more than one Nether Scroll, like two Fundamentals, do you get the +30 to your Arcane from both, or just one with the only bonus for reading multiple being the one from the whole set of 10?
>>98521436Is the bonus typed? If it doesn't mention a type, then it's untyped and would stack with other untyped bonuses.
>>98521436Bad reading bro.The inherent gain from reading A Nether Scroll is +1 to an arcane spellcasting class of your choice.>Any character studying one immediately gains one level in an arcane spellcasting class of her choice. (That is, her experience point total is set to the midpoint for her new level.)Reading All Ten Scrolls of a chapter gives the bonuses listed in the Arcanus Fundare, Magicus Creare, Maior Creare, and Planus Mechanus sections.e.g.>Read 1 Arcanus Fundare scroll>Gain 1 arcane spellcaster level>Read 5 Arcanus Fundare scrolls>Gain 5 arcane spellcaster levels>Read all 10 Arcanus Fundare scrolls>Gain 10 arcane spellcaster levels, +30 inherent Spellcraft bonus, and +1 to arcane spell DCs
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>>98483910>we're reaching HxH levels of expositionYou know, if we're going to bring that up, can I just say I have nothing but respect for that guy just waking up one morning, realising that he's married to the woman who made Sailor fucking Moon, he's the guy who wrote YuYu Hakusho, he's basically Manga Royalty and he can make his manga as ridiculously dense as he fucking likes and he will never ever get cancelled.Like, in every major arc he introduces an INCREDIBLY dense set of rules for his setting, then tosses all of that out of the window and starts on the next storyline with it's own equally dense ruleset. He can kill off his main character (more or less) and still get an entire cruise line succession war arc and the only thing that's going to stop him is his wrists fucking exploding.The fact that his actually lasted as long as they did under all that is fucking amazing. How he managed to outlast the Berzerk AND Hajime No Ippo guys is a fucking mystery.
>>98485994Honestly one of the better thogs I've seen in a while. Good job.
>>98522145You can find some here: https://thogonomicon.com/Otherwise it's just archive scouring for past threads.
>>98522367To be fair, he constantly goes on hiatus due to health problems, and he probably would have had the current arc wrapped up enough if he were younger and less frail in health. Though the fact he’s still doing manga as opposed to retiring and living off his wife’s royalties on all the sailor moon reboots is still worth respecting as an artist.
>>98522849Oh yeah, I have nothing but respect for the guy. Still there are ways around it. Kishimoto for instance has had his interns, sorry "assistants" do everything for him for over 20 years now for instance. Oda I'm not so sure about, his art's gone through at least two major shifts over time, which could either mean he's finding new art styles which are easier for him to do, or he's going through assistants. In anycase, the guy's clearly bored out of his mind now and is just trying to wrap one-piece up. It's gonna be interesting how much of a trainwreck he'll be allowed to turn it into, and if they even let him actually finish it.As Kubo Tite... who the fuck cares?
Writing General: 'dragons' editionWelcome 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 herehttps://discord.gg/6AwKHGFThe previous thread can still be found in the archive here>>97699640And 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)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98517767The fuck are bunch of wolf creatures doing in dwarf ruins. There is nothing to eat for them there.
>>98521251Well, same for the dwarves. And that hugeass dragon, which presumably has quite the dietary necessities
>>98521251They eat the giant rats, which eat the giant cockroaches, which eat the poop of the giant bats, which leave the caverns to hunt every night thereby bringing fresh nutrients into the cavern ecosystem.Alternatively, they just eat adventurers.>>98522315That has always been my biggest gripe with dwarves as a fantasy race, because they're always portrayed as this super-isolationist people and yet their entire mountain-fastness way of life wouldn't be possible without extensive trade networks to allow them to sell their minerals and gemstones in exchange for agricultural produce grown by other races.
