"After all these years, they still search" 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.
>>98628146What does the atlantis book need?
>>98632192I meant their chart:>>98630525
>>98630525Max Nobility, Max Tradition>Doux Alcibiades-Last heir of the pre-revolution monarchy-30 years in and out of universe since his debut-No mentions sinceJoke on how the Atlantean counterrevolution is less developed than either the anit-Titking Atlan rogues and the Libertalians. Also how on it's been decades since he last showed up in setting without any explanation. The original jak was making the Hoken face but this feels more unique.
>>98630525Also, for the Olm-Wives, replacing "often misinterpreted" with "Not that kind of wife, despite all the fanart" might be funnier.
>>98633948I like the understatement.
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)>Phase World>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.
>>98625119>Whats your favorite race or R.C.C.?I'm so much against demigod characters that I am focused on human only. If I had to choose, I would choose... dolphins.>>98625119
>>98621558Legit, phaseworld intimidates me. Like, there is a lot of ship combat right? The ships are huge eith big crew numbers, how do you guys handle that? Does the party command a ship? Are they just running around the ships as battles happen?I ask because eventually the splicer community will make Space Splicers and I'll probably have to have some idea how to do that.
>>98630440Space Splicers sounds cool
>>98631415So far its been ships with giant human like teeth to bite targets and harpoon they would launch, the goal of theirs being to get in close so host armor troops can board and wreck shit inside and carey the theme that Splicers prefer to get in melee.
>>98633491Needs a boarding party ovipositer
Move Your Dead Bones EditionPrevious: >>98624274>Newshttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-banned-and-restricted-february-9-2026https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-brackets-beta-update-february-9-2026>Current Banlisthttps://magic.wizards.com/en/banned-restricted-list#commander-banned>Bracket Informationhttps://files.catbox.moe/4tbvzw.pnghttps://files.catbox.moe/r62yfy.pngComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98629624When you can loop a dungeon once per turn is game over for the rest of the table. Love that bald wizard.
>>98629624>Friend plays this>Entombs the same three creatures right before he is going to complete to dungeon>Exile his graveyard>He scoops immediately.Literally every time.
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>>98634878>why no abdel loop imoI play Sefris because I want to do dungeon stuff. Not Abel loops. If I wanted to do Abel loops I'd play Abel. It's the dungeon juggling that I enjoy the most about her and I wanted to stick with that as close as I could.
>>98634484>printed as nekusar reprint in diablo bonus sheet
>Hey we're a game company>Here is our game it's LGBTQ+ furry faggotry tranny pronoun DEI palooza>OMG This is probably Hello Kitty Adventure Island with plastic swords>It's literally the most complicated, crunchy, tactical RPG ever made>Well I bet the lore is just coffee shop fanfics>It's dark brutal, and you could write several encylopedias about it>Well uhh I bet the manly hetrosexual grognards over at OSR I doing all of that but way bigger>OSR: This our fighter class, it has options like....attack...and well that's it. Also we have fewer stats than a Super Nintendo RPG>How's your lore and world>OSR: That's for queers. We just have mazes with orcs them. They were put there by the Orc God named Rape-Eye. That's really dark isn't it?.....time to play the furfag game I guess....
>>98617642>thinks playing with minxmaxing rollplayers is the system's problem
>>98614925Or you could do some of the worldbuilding yourself instead of asking for it to be handed to you on a silver platter. Works for either system.
>>98619717The real problem here is that the GM has to come up with an effect on the spot that:1. Isn't too powerful2. Is still strong enough to be worth using over a regular attack3. Isn't abusable by being repeatedly used4. Is consistent with similar actions that were used beforeThat's why an action like that should come with some extra rules or guidance.
>>98631828The world building of professional devs is going to be far better on average than the world building of random guys. And even if they were of comparable quality (they aren't) the world building of the devs expands on itself. Because it's all canon things can expand on each other and form a web. The world building of random guys disappears the moment you switch table.
>>98631901Yeah this is why we have rules in the first place.If GM's making solutions on the spot was workable we wouldn't even have rules about attributes, hit chance, damage rolls, and class abilities. The rule book would simply be blank and the player would simply describe what they want to do and the GM would invent the math and rules right there on the spot like a genie.GM inventing rules is for corner cases.
Digital Princess EditionDiscussion of the Towergirls CYOA, RPG, Setting, or Video Games welcome here!Everyone is welcome.FAQhttps://pastebin.com/vv4xQuwDCharts:Main Gens: https://e-hentai.org/g/2556775/f1669e072b/Imgchest backups(not sorted): https://imgchest.com/p/na7ko9dky8dhttps://imgchest.com/p/pg73rmbv7rnLegacy Charts: https://imgur.com/a/IRtoHXhSide Quests: https://imgur.com/a/7euVXRTComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98536999Pretty sure all the stuff that doesn't use his typical thick line style is AI.
>>98619377If there isn't, there should be.
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>>98627073>>98627341Thats really good. Never saw this Goblin meme outfit!
>>98627040We all wish to wun a lottery and make a Towergirl project!
Know No Defeat Edition>Community Links:https://www.warhammer-community.com/https://www.unitcrunch.comhttps://www.newrecruit.euhttps://wahapedia.ruhttps://40k.gallery/>paint stuff:https://eavy-archive.com/https://armycrafter.com/https://paintpad.app/https://files.catbox.moe/82w72p.pdfComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98634847I didn't report you for shit, I haven't reported anyone in like a week
>>98633283I would be surprised if we didn't see an updated tactical squad or even an upgrade pack for intercessors within this edition.
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>>98635113You will be surprised then
>>98635002>we'd domesticate itFix'd
What ttrpg Youtubers do you like in this post-WoTC era? I know D&D will forever be the most popular among Reddit midwits, but I really think it has permanently fucked up its popularity akin to Star Wars. Yeah, it had such immense good will that the creeps who now inhabit it like a skinsuit will keep it alive like a puppet for a long time, but it is slowly and surely dying.
This is a hipster deep cut but I found this guy interested in sort of a pitiable way> reasonably good takes, combo of OSR and more into 'story' than I prefer, but well thought-out> ultra-autistic. Not in the common new sense, but legit "I am weird" autistic> house-husband with a kid who unintentionally would make some truly hilarious comments> as I type this I realize the think I found interesting is he combined deep autism with Spoony-esque manic depression. I don't know if that's even medically plausible but he definitely exhibited both behaviors. Some vids he would come on full of energy expressed in a cringe-but-funny autistic way. Other vids were depressive "nobody watches me."> At the end he did an SJW turn, made a few half-hearted comments about the chuds and, most comically, dyed his bald fringe green presumably to signal to the groomers. I actually felt bad for him.
>>98632889>Years ago people always mentioned Bandit's Keep in these threadHe had good vids but I had to stop watching him -- seriously -- due to his habit of ending EVERY FUCKING SENTENCE with "right?" I've noticed a ton of middle-aged, niche Gen X Youtubers doing this, including RPGPundit as well. Go watch a couple of Bandit Keep's vids and see what I mean.
Black Lodge Games, they are chill even if they have dumb chud opinions.KamSandwich, covers a lot of board games and occasional ttrpg. Very entertaining content.Derik/Knights of Last Call. I enjoy his deepdives on games, has similar tastes in games to me.
Runehammer/Drunken and Dragons had some of the best practical, useable vids when he started. Great stuff if you care about good gameplay rather than storyfag railroading.Sadly that was when gaming was a hobby rather than a full time job for him. He's example #500 of 'clearly a rational, therefore conservative guy by nature who's put on the cloak of leftism' due to his envy over not having a $1mm kickstarter. He had one vid maybe a year ago where he openly bitches about it "I've been doing this for years man and seen all these other guys hit it big". He dances around Shadowdark being one of these since he 1) actually did art for the game, 2) would never ever even tangentially criticize a woman. He probably had a stroke when Professor DM just had his $1.3m kickstarter since he ALSO did art for that game,lol.
>>98632851>poorly produced 10-minutes AI-slop for a 2 minute topic (Tenkar) both mentioned in this threadYou're an utter retard if you think Tenkar's scripts or topics are AI. Maybe you don't understand AI thumbnails aren't the same thing.
Prev >>98606055▶ Thread Task: Japanese takes on westoid fantasy, most famously Yoshitaka Amano and his contemporaries like Tomomi Kobayashi (picrel). In other words make it look kind of anime. Just keep it /tg/.▶Generatorshttps://chatgpt.com/https://gemini.google/overview/image-generation/https://perchance.org/ai-text-to-image-generatorhttps://www.comfy.org/cloudhttps://bing.com/images/create/https://civitai.com/https://novelai.nethttps://labs.google/fx/tools/flowCurious about local genning? Check out /g/'s stable diffusion OP or ask one of our friendly locals.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98633175As someone who only posts in these threads occasionally, I can say that I've come to think you've become just as recognizable as any OC poster. The only difference is they at least try to interact with the thread instead of whining about what they think should be posted.Keep yelling into the wind anon.
>>986332091. I'm not the only person saying these things, no matter how much you try to lyingly conflate us. I'm not, for example, the guy that satirizes WoWfag. 2. Even if it was just me, it's impossible to avoid being recognizable by my position, so you're not making any sort of point here. The difference is, my criticisms would stop if your self-centered, attention-hungry behavior stopped, because the purpose of my criticism isn't to gain attention for myself.
>>98633232>the purpose of my criticism isn't to gain attention for myself....Yes. Yes it is.
>>98633232>2. Even if it was just me, it's impossible to avoid being recognizable by my position, so you're not making any sort of point here.lmao this is an insane cope and admission. Its not even a functional sentence.
>>98633271Explain how I can criticize without drawing attention to myself. >>98633285Yes it is, and you're the least coherent person in these threads, so you're throwing stones in glass houses.
Archives & Other Resources: https://rentry.co/cyoagAllsync: https://cyoa.allsync.com/s/owWor64yLTngDk3Previous thread: 98618605 Thread Topic: What CYOA would you actually choose if you had to go through it?
>>98633265Boon>YayThe country of whoever reads this>Oh You RascalIndia, and India again, just to be sure.>HarooI'd gladly become a fairy elf so I may move to the woods and live a life of whimsy>YummyYuru Yuri>Twu wub>MotherloadIn case the forest life isn't for me. Or maybe a big mansion in the woods? I would build the ultimate NEET paradise.DrawbackComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98634654>>98634654>>98634654>>98634654>>98634654On with ye
>>98634244Yea lot's of revisionism. More people seemingly agree with me about OR for example but I know that is because the excitement has died down but the haters remain. Whatever cyoa it is, it really is suffocating when one dominates for more than a couple days that you don't care about. But I have also hated when people try to shut down discussion for something I do like. I don't know if we get anymore serious thread buster CYOAs I think it would be a good idea if it temporarily got another thread while it burns through it's energy.
>>98634244It is weird to think that this is a place where everyone knows eachother but no one knows anyone else
>>98633822Conspiracy anon
>beat the kickstarter goal by over 50x alreadyHoly shit
When is GW sueing?
>>98625987I saw quite a lot of seething about it but it was mostly the trailer poking fun about mentally ill girls and manchildren and first two episodes when it became clear they a) weren't hating on warhammer fans and b) dared to make jokes about racist memes even ironically with hatemong.
>>98631294Never, it's not copyright infringement to make fun of them.
>>98631294What would they sue over?
>>98616644>Because Trench Crusade told half its fanbase (the chuds, so the richer half) to fuckThere were so many backers that got banned from the discord, many without even making a single post.
Thread #001 Augmented EditionWelcome to /spys/ where you can rp your MTA character! For all questions concerning the World of Darkness, please consult the WoDg and CoDg thread>>98521608Brief rules>Threads are M20 based, although the night is long and full of whispers, lies, and half-truths. Decide your own canon but all will not believe you>all OOC discussion should be spoilered>this thread is intended for Mage the Ascension characters>this C-Sector can be accessed through mundane means or via the Digital Web>Spy's Demise is neutral groundTHREAD QUESTION>How have you altered yourself? Surely if you're a self-respecting Awakened, then you've changed yourself in some shape or form, to differentiate yourself from the Sleepers.
>>98629010Calling your left hand Control is an interesting move. >>98631275Sounds like someone is mad they didn't get invited to join the winning side :)
>>98631473Tell me what happens when you win.
>>98631674The dream of static reality is complete. Order is brought to the universe (Predictability brings safety), all that is will be discovered and cataloged (Knowledge must be absolute or chaos will envelop all). Tehnology will elevate mankind to the point where crime, poverty, war, disease won't exist anymore. That also includes reality crime, reality deviance won't even exist as a concept, other non-human deviants will be brought to extinction and be erased from history. We will create a world where humanity is free from things that should not exist. A world where mankind rules the universe through science and technology, no longer held back by silly superstitions and deviants. That's what will happen once we the last Timetable is completed. I'm on the frontlines every day and making sure that future happens. I know I probably won't live long enough to see our dream become reality and that's ok. I fight so that others can have a better future, a future where no innocent person will be a victim of superstitionists, madmen, nephandi, blood-drinking parasite, entities from other dimension and their little pets and whatever else it out there.
>>98632753Do you know what 'Utopia' actually means? "No-Place." Because you would simply create a new type of hell in your pursuit. A world without crime? A world without freedom to ever lay a hand upon another, to never err, to never fail. A world without poverty? A world without choice where all is allotted with barest thought, and taken with even less. A world without disease? Only the agony of the slowest rot and twisting of age whence all that was is crushed into ever newer more horrible shapes, and the living flesh of all ancestors crushes the newly born. It would not be humanity ruling the universe through science and technology. You would crucify humanity on a padded cross and call it safety, and you would keep pushing. Like a computer that understands only the idea of the command, naught else. And that will shove tubes to feed men down their throats, and it will shove needles into their brains to free them from pain and thoughts, and it will bind them. Until they are unrecognizable. Flesh unable to hurt, or be hurt, feckless and ignorant. Perpetual masses.You would have only made a world where men are tortured softly. By their 'keepers.' Forever. Until the foundations you have blinded yourself too crumble, and new cancers draw from the spaces you refused to see. Things 'acceptable' to that world will grow, and they will take the shapes that you annihilated. It has happened once. It will happen again. And like the Traditions before you, you will make your unmaking.Unless. Unless you learn the lesson of the Wheel Rim Road. That there shall be no ending. Not if the great Serpent devours reality, and not if you bind it in glass until it shatters. As was made, so shall it be unmade, and made again.
>>98631473Listen I don't criticize your >ritual onaholeSo please don't mention my MJ inspired 'control glove' line of bespoke gloves here. It's rude.
As a DM how do you get around it when one of your players plays an edgy loner character who doesn't interact with the group.
>>98629956kill yourself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd9OhYroLN0
>>98630003Horny edgelord bard spell charming and fucking man, woman and child, given the chance.
>>98632441God that sounds toxic and cringe af
>>98628161I let them. I don't need to do anything. Adventuring (or mercenary work, or scavenging, or whatever word the setting uses to disguise being a drifter) is inherently dangerous. If you play a solo character, then you will almost certainly not have all the tools needed for survival, and you will eventually end up in situations you cannot survive on your own. I do not design encounters to be "balanced" or survivable or anything like it. Things are as they should reasonably be. If a patrol of orcs "reasonably" are a dozen, then that's what they'll be when the RPs stumble into them. A group of PCs will be able to handle that, or at least have some method to slow down the enemy so the PCs can escape. A longer has nearly zero chance of survival on their own. So it's a self correcting problem. Stick with the group, and your survival chances go up. Fuck off on your own, and end up a corpse.
So they got rid of racial abilities and half-races? Why?
>>98631349The 5E schizo is not going to reply to you lmao. He already is ass blasted and making his typical off topic shit with politics
>>98623903Because they hate you, and me, and any of their actual playerbase.>>98623916It's both. Half-elves have been one of the most popular races forever, despite being kinda mushy lorewise. But it was absolutely done as a culture war attack. Remember, RESPONDING to a culture war attack is always good. Calling people out for defending themselves is always bad. The guys with the power are the ones waging the culture war against us; it's always morally correct to call them out for it.>>98623961Orcs are a disgusting beast-race that hates goodness and order. 90% of half-orcs are functionally just orcs, and only the top 10% can operate in human society. This was the stated assumption about the race before, and it wasn't so much lore as it was what orcs were. Similar with elves and dwarves, really. By changing this- especially by uplifting orcs to be just Mexicans with tusks for some reason- they are totally fucking up orcs and ALSO implying that if you run the orcs as described you're some kind of bad person. It's just trash.
>>98631546(continued)>>98623966Based, this makes shitbirds cope, seethe, and dilate.>>98625155Based. Always point this out. Never let them get away with the pretense that pushing back against a massively powerful political op that has captured institutions and is so petty that they have to infest fucking tabletop gaming is somehow bad. >>98625212I'm so glad posters like you post, anon.
>>98631548(continued)>>98625583Tieflings are implied to be only fractionally descended these days. Cambions are human parent and fiend parent though, but because they have wings and a cool laser beam they normally aren't playable.>>98626214I mean you can just say no to "can I create a new race out of nothing", and one sentence was good enough to say no otherwise. The existence of certain half-races never implied that everyone could crossbreed, after all.>>98629380ASIs were moved to backgrounds for political reasons. It's not a "better mechanical option".
>>98625405Learn to read, moron.
why this thing has so many rabid loyal drones who take any criticism as a personal insult? are they being paid by wotc to defend it? there's no other reason to defend such a piece of shit system
>>98631338In my memory, at least two threads with proper criticism of D&D by the book were deleted by mods. One time, the OP was something like your paid post.
>>98631352Saving throws in D&D 5e work like skills, but unlike previous editions, all of them level up with the class, making STs work in a really stupid way in the late game when only two of your saving throws against deadlier and deadlier effects gain any kind of bonus. Oh, and imaginary bajillion totally useless skills to evade effects are a non-entity, existing only in your prompt and never appearing in any kind of discourse about TTRPGs. Which you'd know if you played games.
>>98631338>If you're going to criticize it, do so properlyCorporats literally wanting you to use a manual to tongue the anus of their favorite corporation.
>>98632348>>98632374>Still illiterateNo wonder this board is full of nogames, you faggots can't even read a rulebook.
>>986323683.X D&D shifting to Fort/Will/Ref massively hurt the usefulness of Saving Throws. Prior to that, characters started with a 20% to 55% chance of avoiding effects gradually growing towards a 95% to 80% chance of avoiding effects. Since saving Throws are now tuned towards always being a rough 50% chance of success based on relative levels SoD and SoS effects tend to be on the more powerful side.
Are there any games nowadays that interact with subcultures outside of the tabletop scene itself to the same extent that e.g. Vampire: the Masquerade or Cyberpunk 2020 did back in the day? (could be any number of other examples, these are just the ones that pop in my head from my days of smoking in the mall parking lot as a teenager)
>>98632709I feel that's just because the culture war is a profitable media environment which any "new thing" can be fed into as either pro- or anti-. It's a function of news as entertainment and 24/7 entertainment to me. It's absolutely nuts to go read Neil Postman talk about how nuance and real debate was leaving public discourse because of TV in the 90s and think about how much worse off we are today.And algorithmically shit is crazy, look at the A/B testing tiktok was doing that has them being sued over that teen that killed himself. People are wired in this weird way where they perceive any private/noninteractive action on an app as wholly private, and any interaction with another user as a facsimile for IRL interaction, when in actual fact everything is this kind of halfworld where they're under observation constantly.You would need a total rebuild of the media environment to get back to a position of sanity. But people certainly don't want that, they majority want more and coarser grotesquerie.
>>98632750My point wasn't even to say that the CW ruins everything (I think it might disingenous, as people saying that.... almost eveytime have a side they side with, so they agree that there needs to be a war of sort). I do agree that it's basically everything right now, that was my point. Like... the new thing is almost always the new internet shitstorm anyway, or is connected to it.I mean, look at, I don't fucking know, the Odyssey, which people clearly watched and talked about. Like half of that discourse was about the melanin of some actors.
>>98632627Every grocery store, fast food place, etc. in my area has “now hiring” signs and starts at $15/hr. I guarantee you if you call your nearest grocery store and ask them if they’re hiring and ask what they start at they’ll tell you the same thing. Just because you’re too lazy to get a job doesn’t mean they aren’t out there. Zoomies don’t want to work unless it’s streaming themselves playing video games for $100/hr.
>>98632991Just because they have the signs out doesn't mean they're actually hiring, and 90% of the time if you actually go into them to see if that's true they'll just direct you to their website where they can reject you without having to look at your face.
>>98632991as someone who recently escaped that income bracket, there are 4 types of people who are working those jobs; the old ones trying to supplement their Social Security Checks or can't retire due to no savings, mostly part-timersthe middle aged ones who are playing the corporate game and trying to wrangle a life from this, mostly in managementthe ones of all ages who can't or won't do better, the depressed, the ones who live paycheck to paycheck to survive, the majority and the ones who were unaware that they would be required to do actual work, often don't last long. It also doesn't help that roughly 40% of all advertised job postings aren't real, some are legal requirements and some are data harvesting. And there's the fact that they are cutting staff and increasing workload to the remaing staff. What once was the job of 3 people is now the job of 1. Burnout and turnover is at an all time high. But that's cheaper than hiring new staff.
