So me and my dad were playing schwimmen all day long. The last hand of the last game of the day, tie breaker, I deal myself 3 kings.>pff nice chance old man>turn over 3 acesIt was pretty epic.
Getting my ass kicked in Hansa Teutonica. Nothing has gone right the entire game, I have zero network and only control one city, just keep getting the things I need blocked right when I need them. Been sitting on a +3 action bonus token for a while that I got to help with something that didn't pan out. That and fully upgraded privilege and movement is about all I have going for me, but it is a 5 player game and I am in last by a mile. There is a decent race between 2 players, both with a huge network and close to connecting the red cities, but even the other 2 feel hopelessly behind as we transition from mid game to endgame, and I'm way behind them. Having been prevented from everything I've tried to do, I have a few cubes left out doing nothing. I only have 3 actions and no one considers me a threat anymore, so they're willing to bump me out and I get some more free placements. I do nothing but place cubes out. I should take Coellen, it's wide open and people are focused on keys or privilege, but I count cubes and spend one more turn placing them out. Then I do it. Move 4, complete route, move 4, bonus actions, complete route, move 4, complete route. 28 points in one turn. Before that turn, my total end score would have been 12. The top 2 players groan as loudly as the others laugh. I place more and grab a control of an isolated city in the remaining turns before the game ends.
>>96972650I have little idea what most of that means, but it sounds pretty epic.
>>96971997Oh right, jog on then ig
One time I won Monopoly by flipping the fucking board over and declaring I had one.There was some resistance, but it was a fact.
>on vacation in ireland>find tcg shop, buy cheap commander deck and few sleeves>friday night magic >a group of 3 are playing, ask if i may join>craziest game ever >all of them very well versed with selfbuild Decks >game is going freaking fast, can only understand around 70% (usually playing in my native language)>someone plays a card that makes the first spell free of costs>i copy that, so every turn two spells are free >it gets wild>one after another goes down >win Dont know how it happened exactly but it was fun
>make some calculations>realise that Warhammer is now cheaper than Magic the GatheringWhat the actual fuck?
>>96975713not him but yes, all the time
>>96975713I guarantee you that your autistic ass is misunderstanding what secondary market in this case means.
>>96969965Tabletop is weird. MtG isn't even a good card game.Warhammer at least is... uhh...Well shit all the actually good games I can name are cheap or reasonably priced.
>>96974613That's just a nurgle army
>>96975713Secondary market =/= secondhand market
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>>96973582>Trying to get to work on things again after life throws ya a curve ball to the teethSame.Work has been leaving me utterly exhausted.
Boop!
>>96975836Ooh
>>96974207>>96974214Thats really cool. But….>Cerberus Princess>Cerberus PrincessesWoild be a really cool play with your second card!
>>96974308Thats extremely cool. >ScalperThats an enemy i never want to encounter!>>96974922Nice.
>nurgle>named after mars>not red
Nurgle isn't named after Mars, he's named after the Sumerian god of war, Nurgal.
>>96975093>gets ignored this timekek
>>96975201ywnbaw
>>96975201That is all from the same one samefag spammer.
>>96975201Have you tried playing traditional games?
So is this good news or what?Implication seems to be that many game stores and "geek" shops will go out of business as they lose important source of revenue.But does that mean hobby is being purged of trend-chasing poseurs or is the business just moving online?
>>96976767Every single creative community and website ever is 99% trash and people's first projects
>>96962560It's being pushed by literally every communist and socialist in the countries that are actually relevant
>>96962560Cuba has been trying their damndest to literally abolish the institution of family and the Soviets were viciously feminist to the point where they skew the rates of women in STEM even today. "And you lynch blacks" was a common Russian retort to any critic from America. They weren't anything remotely close to conservatism, they were just progressives in a more conservative status quo.
>>96976690Fun fact: you can blame Homestuck (and by consequence, Kill 6 Billion Demons and Undertale) for this sorry state of affairs
>>96962194Oi m8 do you have a loicense for yer cope n seethe?
We keep seeing dwarf and elf threads but where are the comfy halfling threads?
>>96973253Pretty weird way to talk about Indonesians.
>>96973253Not the other guy but you're right, Homo floriensis was small & had the ability to use fire, stone tools.
>>96877615>>96882374Hin is the Endonym in Forgotten Realms and Mystara. (Ed Greenwood made FR and also did the BECMI Mystara Halfling book)
>>96876650>>96951955Good luck with that.
>>96976109holy shit. Did you just draw this? I love the cockatrice mount.
Do you have a game that can only be played in winter?
>>96975466Yup. D&D 3.5e. It's very cool
So I recently got roped into running a Stargate RPG for my group. We decided to go with the 2003 version as opposed to the modern Phoenix Base version with the !NotNox who are fine with killing people.Sadly this system was killed off with a splatbook finished but unpublished. So I'm taking a wild swing here, but does anyone here happen to have the Season 3 Splatbook? There are also a number of fanworks (maps, tools, etc) that I found via the waybackmachine, but a lot of the homebrew and even errata seems totally lost to me. From the dead ruins of the Alderac forums, it seems people had even made a map of the entire Cheyenne Mountain complex.So, /tg/, do you have any old Stargate RPG materials to share? Any campaign stories or house rules or pieces of advice? Should my group just switch to the new version? And does anyone have any ideas for Goa'uld vehicles? One of the cancelled games apparently had a hover tank but thats all I can find.
>>96974241Yeah but fat asses like Nerus were, thankfully, apparently rare.
>>96858406I think there are a few issues at play. One is that as System Lords were popping off, the ones filling the vacuum were other System Lords. They keep what they kill, but also move in and absorb territories from anyone defeated by any means. It becomes a land grab. Ba'al did this when Anubis supposedly died over Earth with the first use of the Antarctica chair claiming the Kull warriors before any other System Lords managed to. Turns out he was also Anubis' butt buddy so that's probably how. Also ultimately the one aspect most exploited against the Goa'uld was their arrogance. Other Goa'uld could fall, they nevertheless felt THEY would survive. Because of this they constantly underestimate their enemies, especially normal humans. Even when Ba'al was using a normal voice and acting suave and charming it was clear he was also underestimating the Tau'ri, especially females. And, ultimately, it helps to remember that some of the biggest blows against the System Lords didn't come from the Tau'ri directly. First Anubis began consolidating power and killing rivals, and his downfall left the others on their back foot except for Ba'al, which signaled his rise as we saw it. Even worse was the plague of Replicators which focused on Goa'uld worlds in particular as the largest source of high tech worlds and fleets. When the Jaffa claimed the ships cleansed of Replicators, creating the Free Jaffa Nation. This undercut the largest support base of the System Lords as they drained off their Jaffa armies. One of the reasons Ba'al later tried to create his own independent Stargate network, creating an area of space with only him as the man in charge.
>>96883149Curiously, or maybe not depending on how you feel about it, the sarcophagus is apparently the main reason the goa'ulds are assholes. They likely are naturally jerks, especially how they'd view their hosts as lesser beings but the reason the tok'ra specifically hate to use it is that it "devours their goodness" which Daniel admitted he felt when he was addicted to the sarcophagus.Egeria rejecting the ways of the goa'uld is still significant, I don't want to take from that, but ultimately the reason why no other Goa'uld was able to do the same was the damn sarcophagus. The closest I can think of is the chick that fell in love with Jonas Quinn. Not sure if it's because she's possibly young and lower ranking so she's not been exposed to the sarcophagus enough, or it's...the power of love.Personally I hate that last one. So damn cliche.
>>96974439Baal explicitly was said to avoid the sarcophagus as much as possible, instead swapping hosts, because he recognised something was flawed in its design. Might be why he was so genial compared with some of them, and didn't seem quite as convinced of his godhood (or at least he wore it much more lightly than the ones who really believed they were gods). Yu didn't quite seem as obsessed with godhood as some of them either.
>>96976516>>96974439According to the RPG over time it starts infusing you with Naquadah as part of how it sends you crazy, and the Goa'uld queens were unable to prevent the naquadah from transmitting to their spawn. It also, with Unas hosts, is much quicker and more permanent in the insanity it brings, probably because it was adapted down from the Ancient tech that was SUPPOSED to work on advanced human physiology and Goa'uld are only able to get it to a mostly stable level after they start using human hosts, even if the humans are more primitive and prone to side effects than the Ancients were.
The latest D&D starter set proves Wizards of the Coast has still got it. They actually went about making a lite west marches style board game that expands into the core ruleset when you've finished. Thoughts?
>>96973640This should be the whole game. Now it's just a character build and narcissism simulator.
>>96973731>a world so old dozens of empires have come and gone only leaving their dungeons>a world so magical hyper intelligent, giant, flying apex predators are common yet somehow haven't taken over/hunted everything to extinction>safe, repeatable, reliable teleportation magic exists>"I draw the line at black women. I am very smart."Fuck off, nogaems.
>>96974998[This is what simulationists actually believe.]
>>96973640Nothing about this is West marches, you're just repeating buzzwords you heard once without understanding what they mean.
>>96976357Yeah, see the other stuff is cool but black woman are ugly and I don't want to look at them.
Why did the OSR go from being all about OD&D to being all about B/X? Was it a shift of demographics from 70s grognards to 80s grognards?
>>96962707OSR was always only ever a containment larp for aggrieved psuedointellectual faggots who think blaming everything on newer players would allow them to content-farm their way into relevancy without any integrity or creative talent whatsoever. Woke is a problem for ttrpgs in the way a house being on fire is a problem for the house and the OSR is for people who think acknowledging the fire gives them license to dictate how the house is going to be redecorated to fit their seething, meaningless specifications citing a history these games never had after the fire is put out. >OHHH DAKKADAKKA JUST TWEETED AGAIN SO BASED
>>96975258>content farm>in the 2000s pre-social mediaTop kek>anon starts talking about Twitter dramaYou have to go back.
>>96962707OSR has always been BX and BX clones first.
>>96962707>>96965279I hate how Lans Hamilton ended up and I hope Lans Tartare sucks a fat dog dick in hell for it.
>>96970471As optional a plugin as are dice and players :)
Pic unrelated./tg/ newfag here with a question.Do you guys ever feel like you're getting too old for ttrpgs? I can't shake the feeling that it's gay and pointless, even if the stories are really interesting and it's fun to hang out with my bros.Maybe it's just 5e. I'm gonna try out DMing for Pathfinder and Call of Cthulu, but if they don't work out then I'm gonna have to retire.
>>96970888>Do you guys ever feel like you're getting too old for ttrpgs?Sort of yes, but I always realize I don't care about the sort of normalfag stuff you're supposed to care about when you get older and end up doing ttrpgs again
>>96970888>it's gay and pointlessNearly every hobby is gay and pointless unless it's exercise.The "point" of TTRPGs is entertainment and socializing. It's less gay and pointless than watching tv or scrolling on your phone.Also stop playing dnd. There's hundreds of systems and very few of them are more gay than that marvel-tier slopfest.CoC, GURPS, SotDL, Gumshoe and it's myriad forms, Fantasy Age, etc. etc.
>>96974076>But you're deluding yourself if you think everything is just as fun as an adult compared to when you were a teenager.Find a better group if you aren't having fun. Call me reddit but my group is incapable of playing things too serious
>>96972363>I felt burned out of wfrp and then reverted back to the shitty d6 system I first played, had fun again.I feel like I have less patience for complex simulationist systems now that I'm older myself
>>96970888I'm 40 and the youngest guy in my group. Also the ForeverDM. At my age the main problem is finding time to play, we're lucky to play once or twice a month, yet we still do (which is a miracle). My advice? Change games, try new things, look for something with low or even zero prep. Kingdom by Ben Robbins has been my go-to game for when we're between more serious campaigns and I don't feel like running anything. Hope this helps buddy.>>96976094Ironically enough over the past decades I've grown to like crunchier systems. I don't trust my improv skills as much as I did in my 20s or early 30s and I appreciate having a solid framework to fall back on.
How prepped is your party usually on average when delving into a dungeon? Do you just wing it or go super preppedness?
>>96972337Why don't you fucking say so?
>>96968457Why do you keep spamming this garbage AI art, anyway? Do you want compliments? You're not going to get them. It's shit. That you have money to spend commissioning it is proof that God has a sense of humor.
>>96970484>>96972113Probably ai-generated and touched up in photoshop to make it less obvious.
>>96975169look up Dennis Frohlich
>>96976025Guy is probably as annoyed by Pucklfuck as we are, if not more. Thus the sloppa touch ups. Not like that idiot would notice.
If you created an Amazon setting, what would it be like? By Amazon setting, I don't mean a single society among many where women are primarily the fighters, I mean a setting where every society is this way.
>>96967010True, but it would explain a few things.
>>96831036What you describe is not world building, it's fetishism. Maybe you should undergo a period of honest psychoanalisis, or nigredo, or whatever you want to call "asking yourself why you feel and think the way you do" to better understand yourself.
>>96968452The Amazons of Greek mythology were believed to be based on the Scythans, a steppe nomad tribe to the east of the Greeks who had women fighting alongside the men. I wonder how the women and men were ever seperated in that origin.
>>96819960There's an Amazon faction for Expedition : Agartha Descent.
>>96938496I'm going to post this in every Amazon thread I see from now on
You ever played in one-shots before? I like BRP as a system, so I've run 'The Dark Crusader' and 'Power in the Blood' from the Horror on the Orient Express campaign as one-off 'historical' modules.
>>96975461BRP? more like BRRRRAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPP.ya know?
>>96975461All the time. Our group plays one-shots for systems we want to try out, like 3.5E, or Night Shift, or All Flesh Must Be Eaten.
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>>96972140Just stick to Warhammer you gayrod. Why are you looking for a historical game when you already have a game you like and have the opportunity to play? Retard alert
I'm building a 1/56th scale HRE army set in the War of the League of Cambrai. It is my understanding that by this time, the crossbow had largely been supplanted by the arquebus as an infantry weapon, however the crossbow was still being used by cavalry likely because it is very difficult to use a matchlock firearm from the back of a horse, and wheellock firearms had yet to gain widespread adoption. I have two questions.1. Is the above statement correct?2. Are these models from Warlord games an accurate representation of "crossbow cavalry" of the time period? I've heard mixed things about the historical accuracy of Warlord's models.If anyone has any sources they could share with me that would be greatly appreciated, the Italian Wars are my autistic special interest right now.Cheers!
>>96973558Do not buy those AWFUL Warlord ones, I was genuinely shocked when those were released. Buy the Perry light cavalry box, it has options to make them mounted crossbowmen and they are both more accurate for early Italian wars and look better
>>96973902Yeah I'm not sure what it is, cause I'm not an expert in 16th century armaments but something about them looks off. I'll check out the Perry sculpts, thanks.
>>96968575So people really hate points imbalance. Instead, I've created a list of Advantages, and I use my judgement to decide who gets one. They're stuff like choosing the scenario type, picking your deployment zone instead of rolling, etc that you can use to tilt the game in your favor within the limits of a standard game, plus some optional stuff from the book like prepatory bombardment. In tonight's game the Italians chose to take minefields as their Advantage. British won anyway due to the Semovente failing an order check and bailing. I toyed with rewarding people for matching the A&A map in terms of platoon types, but several players are new and don't have a deep enough bench to really work with that.
