Have your TTRPG sessions ever created fertile ground for a fictional universe, story, or even novel? Maybe turn your write-up into a short story. If you are worldbuilding an entire universe, why not set a story in it?
>>97787356>>97787363Based, I'mma copy these into a notepad dock and get scribblin'.
>>97788034Give me a recipe for sushi
>>97787356I always liked to imagine myself as a 20th century writer for some kind of magazineI've never written anything btw
>>97787356Fantasy & Science Fiction may be a dead magazine, so I wouldn't suggest it.
>>97787350Is that Der Coomer?
Urgh
>>97744981>Your board dieFTFY
>>97792485Uggghhh!
>>97793238Nooo
>>97744981Ugh
>>97745909Based.
>Is another "99% of the world revolve around humans" caseNice "fantasy" bro.
>>97788866The universe acting antagonistically towards the protagonist is still revolving around him. Our place in nature is naturally at the center because we are the thinking beings who perceive it. Same thing with all that yapyap about how the universe is so big and vast and blah blah. The relevance of things is only to be found in their relationship to the observer.It's okay though, I'm willing to break versimilitude in Fantasy by giving Elves and Dwarves or whatever 1%. It's interesting to imagine a universe that was not created EXCLUSIVELY for my race by God, but instead for my race primarily plus a couple of cute sidekick species.
>>97753662When humans are in the setting, they make for an easily comprehensible focal point for telling a story, because they are the most relatable to the people engaging with the material on a base level. Are you so unimaginative that you can't try to view fantasy from the perspective of those like yourself, but in a world unlike ours?
>>97765041Cope>>97769149Dilate
>>97753793>I can't understand anything that doesn't revolve around me because my life as a low IQ single child taught me that I am the center of reality.
>>97798401As opposed to your rainbow humans with pointy ears and wacky features?You're still writing humans. You're just huffing your own farts about it.
Oh shit, Wizards of the Coast is being bought by Hasbro. And this was after Wizards of the Coast bought TSR and D&D. What will happen to traditional gaming now?
>>97793637My best player is a trans woman though.
>>97793591It'll skyrocket in popularity and undergo a new golden age first in the early 2000s and then, again, around 2020. By 2026, it'll be so popular that every friend you have will be willing to sit down and at least give TTRPGs a shot. You'll be able to take your complex-ass boardgames over for game night and even wives and girlfriends will join in the fun. The future is looking bright, anon.
>>97793591Back in the day WotC was swimming in so much magic money it started buying everything that was for sale. D&D, L5R, Ars Magica they were just gobbling it all up. Our local group referred to them as "Wizzards of the Borg".
>>97793918Don't WOTC ban anyone that isn't woke in their games?
Let's not be doomsayers. TSR was run into the ground by gamers who wasted tons of money on failed side-projects like Dragon Dice. Maybe we need the perspective of non-gamers with some financial savvy to keep the hobby afloat.
i need everyone to understand that i have been a fat black woman my entire life. every single day. and for years i have walked into my local GW and looked at those shelves and thought: not yet. not for us. the skinny elves. the chiselled space marines. where was i in all of this. where were MY people. at adepticon GW looked at the fat black woman demographic - the most underserved, the most invisible, the most quietly suffering community in miniature wargaming - and said: we see you. we see your curves and your melanin and we are going to put that in resin. i have not stopped shaking. i have been sitting here in the dark refreshing the GW store page just to look at it. just to know it exists. TOWbabies will never have this. they have their little game and their little community but they will never have THIS. they will never know what it feels like to finally, after all these years, be seen.thank you gw. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
>>97789824Don't worry Miss, GW has had you represented from the start.
>>97790401>Being friendly and pleasant helpsDamn who could have predicted this
>>97789824Yes, soon i can finally find some good rule34 content.
>>97790331Fired by corporate in 2 seconds.
>>97789880>runjumpswings into the chaos warrior's pauldron >wft are you doing face at the snownigger from the chaos warrior lol
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.
>>97795950so glad the deadboys roast those fuckers whenever they get the chancesome dbee asshole was shooting one of those naruni plasma guns around in the burbs the other day, roasted a pile of people before the deadheads wasted him
>>97796573The CS are and always have been the heroes of humanity
>>97794733They do not subscribe to socialist government systems like the tau nor any of that life being priceless, thats for certain.
>>97779910The best artist of all time in my view. Shameful we don't have more work from him.Long is Rifts!
>>97798035yeah long and breaux are my two favorites, the phase world art is the best for like the first 3 books of phase world im entranced i love who ever is this squigily line also whats the artist name...i can decifier that shit
Not asking which videogames you enjoyed most. I want to talk about the ruleset itself: how well the combat system, skill framework, class/build depth, and underlying math translate into a good cRPG.
>>97796971I'd say 4th edition D&D is probably the backbone of the greatest cRPG that never was, for how many of its disliked design features were in service to the proto-VTT project that got canceled. 3.5 could have been used for a solid rival to The Elder Scrolls in the hands of a dev willing to trudge through implementing all that worldsim, jank very much included.
>>97796971Its a bad question- a crpg can handle way more math than any ttrpg, and it will have to for things like physics simulation regardless. Not to mention NPC behavior, environment design, an economy... you'll spend most of your time just writing new math under the existing mathThe real thing you need is worldbuilding, NPCs, economics, crafting, trade and dungeoneering systems. But no edition of D&D is good at that, so...
Literally doesn't matter. The best D&D cRPGs use AD&D 2e despite the system.
>>97797312>But no edition of D&D is good at that, so......No edition of D&D is good at dungeoneering? That sounds like an extraordinary claim, given how it entails literally no core rulebook writer has ever done their job even close to properly, and how there was a whole thing about going back to how older editions handled the subject.
When you play a bard, what vibe do you go for?
>>97797080Nice>>97797038I try to buck the quippy Marvel shit by playing an officer whose inspiration takes the form of barking orders and who has a natural aura of leadership explaining his knack for interpersonal relations - like a Patton type. That's a pretty standard subversion by now, though, so sometimes I'll run it as a mousy, fringe bookworm type - like Velma.
>>97797656>And I never fucking consult the lore with the GM. It's both his job and fault he put a giant target on his back that says "Abuse my game, for which I'm not prepared"I like your style
I'm currently playing a very vain bard who is basically adventuring as a traveling musician to grow his fanbase and ultimately get a record deal and become the David Bowie of the campaign setting. He plays nice but it's all being coy and placating for selfish reasons, he believes he's above the "riffraff" but needs to interact with commoners in order to get more popular. Of course, the rest of the party is fully aware of this and loves knocking him down a peg if he gets too big for his britches. It's very fun to play the extravagant rock performance stuff, but it's equally fun when I make shitty rolls and fall flat on my face, as if the universe is telling him to stop being such a bitch. Can do really cool shit, but can also be the butt of the joke just as often.
>>97797038A divorced and depressed juggler whose wife threw him out for juggling.
>>97797038The world's great hypeman
Warp Tourism Edition>Community Links:https://www.warhammer-community.com/https://www.unitcrunch.comhttps://www.newrecruit.euhttps://wahapedia.ruhttps://40k.gallery/>3rd Party Models Pastebin:https://pastebin.com/Q33bkBUh>Pre 10th Torrent:Info hash: d91d8b9daa9c5dc9105fc0ec09812cbc17a752b5Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97800513How bad could it b->gets put in the jar
>>97800500Getting called into the boss' office is never good.
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>>978005032nd edition codex states that the world spirit is a "complex psychic energy grid" connected to the outside world by psychically interactive standing stones which anchor psychic power into the planet. Considering the fact that maiden worlds are specifically plants terraformed by ancient Eldar, it stands to reason that this "energy grid" could be there by design and not some natural phenomenon.
>>97800532You know page 8 is not a good reason to make a new thread.Previous thread took over 12h to go from page 8 to page 10.
What's everyone's favourite regiment? For me, it's Savlar Chem Dogs and penal legions in general.
>>97751436I still like Krieg, they've always been my favorite of the stock Guard guys. I lke Mordians because the uniforms are cooler and I'm not going to have to worry about them ever getting ruined because they look too cool for GW to ever give them their own line.
>>97773257Oh, English Civil War reference, I recognize that helmet from the Osprey book.
>>97751247>What's everyone's favourite regiment?Idk ask /40kg/.
>>97773249>Lucky 13', all wear tall hats>Take severe losses in battle of "low corridor"Watch out for those low ceilings, lads
Love me some ValhallanI refuse to start another Guard army till they get back in the rangeMight take a long while still
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>>97792273Well it's kinda the whole point of the season. I only wonder what the whole point of Masanori's taboo speech was, there's not enough time to show any consequences for his actions
>>97792812Post jk Tokoha swimsuit
>>97795170Masanori in general is a character who would benefit from 52 episode long seasons. Now he doesn't get to scheme properly because there's no time for that.Like the raid on Ryuzu's headquarters that happened back in G. There was planning, betrayals (Am/Ace), action and everything had time for itself. Good days.
Someone on Vanguardian said that he's tired of the Naoslop when it comes to Bushi shilling products. Thoughts?
Post some stories about your games or campaigns. I'll start:>Be me>Sister wants to play a science fiction game, preferably in the vein of space exploration >Decide to run OSR, specifically Broodmother Skyfortress, but it's reskinned as a science fiction game>"Evil company" (!notWeyland-Yutani) subcontracts the PCs to send some shipping container to an offworld colony; they aren't allowed to know what's inside. They bring along an artificial intelligence named C.L.I.E.N.T. that guides the PCs through an Android it operates called C.L.I.O.>When there is a crash, a shipping container reveals a biohazard, some sort of alien lifeform or organism that was hidden inside a cryogenic vessel; there is a nearby alien that has had its chest cavity blown through...>It turns out that the biohazard is an egg and something familiar comes out of it>Sister asks: "Is this what I think it is?">Egg hatches and a facehugger comes out; it tries to attack the PCs... meanwhile, the chestburster is hiding behind some containers>Simultaneously, the chestburster and facehugger attack the PCs, but sister is able to kill them off; it turns out that an alien species of elephant-centaurs have tried to enslave the Xenomorphs as a military asset but were contaminated by these lifeforms when their colony ship (the Skyfortress) was compromised >Sister gets told by C.L.I.O. that the "evil company" will pay her all the credits she wants if they are able to track down the colony ship and bring back more specimens in cryogenic cubes; she travels to the alien colony ship (where the aliens are big elephant-centaurs), which has been overtaken by the Xenomorphs; there are lairs and hatcheries everywhere, and sister has to fight off all the facehuggers, Xenomorph-elephant-centaurs, and chestbursters
>>97797450>Sister is given mecha exosuit by C.L.I.O. and easily kills all the Xenomorphs in the trophy room (where the aliens have kept specimens like trophies), and she finds a space jockey fossil-monolith where a dozen eggs hatch; she takes care of all of the hatchlings, while taking the remains as specimens>Sister goes into the depths of the colony ship and takes out the biggest xenorphs, then finds the hive queen and gets ready to go into battle...>...until C.L.I.O. says "IT IS A PERFECT SPECIMEN AND WE WILL NOT LET YOU HARM IT!" then betrays the PCs and tries to feed her to the alien queen to study how it behaves, and sends a signal back to the home world to tell "evil company" to bring a vessel with a cryogenic chamber on it>Sister blows up C.L.I.O. and the rest of the exosuits that are being controlled by C.L.I.E.N.T., then slays the hive queen by burning all her eggs and throwing a bomb at her head, then she sets charges all throughout the colony ship to make sure that the "evil company" never abuses it for bioweaponry
>>97797451kino. mech suit stats?
>>97797565I just used these Mecha rules but converted it to OSR (it's run on 5e)https://drive.proton.me/urls/6JRZXBPM2G#oJmK4sxu0nWJ
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>>97797450>C.L.I.E.N.T.Computer Living Intelligence, Extremely Naughty Though?>C.L.I.O.Cyborg Licks It Orally?You've taken the time to use proper caps and full stopswhile telling us your good story, please seal the deal with whatever backronym the writer made up for those. More importantly though, did you and sister have a good time?
Thallax editionPrevious Heresy: >>97766508>HH 3.0 - Complete gofile - All Books:https://gofile.io/d/cnJk0N>Titanicus Compendiumshttps://gofile.io/d/qdYzem>New Edition, to a great wailing and gnashing of teeth:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/setting/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Official FAQ/Errata/Downloads:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Thread FAQ (very old, remembers Age of Terra)https://pastebin.com/iUqNrrA8Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>9780042720 points is not super expensive for a weapon that can one-shot a land raider at 12" with one single penetrating hit anon.
>>97800464The issue is that (on average) it wont. The melta is very specialized and unreliable, which makes it being more expensive than some other options a hard pill to swallow imo. You CAN deal 8 damage and kill a land raider, but you could also miss, or fail to pen (doing nothing), or be out of melta range. Not to mention that having to get into melta range essentially makes it a suicide weapon, if you can use it, chances are your predator dies next turn.
>>97800478We are talking about a unit that costs less than half the points of that land raider. It would be somewhat of a balance issue if it could reliably kill a unit more than twice its point value, which is transporting another unit also more than twice the point value of a melta predator. I just bring two, if one doesn't succeed the second one usually does.
>>97800502>We are talking about a unit that costs less than half the points of that land raiderSure, but its also a unit thats only really good at once single thing and isnt actually all that good at that thing even when it manages to get into the position to do it (which isnt trivial, 12" isnt guaranteed)
Maybe im too harsh on the neutron laser. It isnt insane damage (although consistent D3 isnt BAD), but the big thing is the suppression. You dont take it to kill tanks, you take it because putting suppressed on that kratos is actually pretty valuable. I still dont think its as good as the other predator weapon options, but im coming around to "it has some value".
new sculpts ed pooryanksInfinity is a 28mm tabletop skirmish game produced by Corvus Belli, and includes the related games Aristeia, Defiance, TAG Raid, REM Racers, and Acheron's Fall. Corvus Belli also produces the fantasy games Warcrow and Warcrow Adventures.>Latest official update:25 years announcement keep on eye on every month's 25th>Rules and missions:https://infinitythewiki.com/index.phphttps://infinitytheuniverse.com/resourceshttps://infinitytheuniverse.com/games/infinity/its>Beginner FAQs and guides:https://pastebin.com/x06JG55U https://pastebin.com/xtQzRcq5 https://pastebin.com/xUBR7QFU Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97790091Isn't subsectorials just fireteams?
>>97791615It's more about themes between units. Sin-Eaters are Observancy unit even when they don't link with anything.
>>97790948Who's more careful with their human "recruits", CA or Tohaa?
>>97794546Does Tohaa even recruit humans now that their mercenary company is bust?
>>97789545What's the meta with Sartroids? You could give one to Dr. Worm.
The evil cabal that owns DnD is putting YOU, yes YOU in charge of redesigning the class system for their next edition. You have total freedom, what changes do you make?Hard Mode: Make it so it's still 12 classes total, because 12 is a very good number that is pleasing to my brain.
>>97791591It was Cleric subclass in the 1975 Blackmoor book, though.
>>97751524>Barbarian>Ranger>Fighter>Rogue>Monk>Paladin>Musclemancer>Warlock>Druid>Wizard>Cleric>Bard
>>97771650One take on Clerics I've seen is making their divine abilities passive or context-based. No spells or spell slots, instead your God has a list of blessings based on their Domains and a set of Commandments that grant greater abilities when conditions align so the Cleric is in direct alignment with their God's goals.
>>97797317hmfeel like I'd want a table for how to measure the limits for that for most thingsCould be really funny though>elf cleric of Shevarash>god of hating drow>offensive spells against drow can be cast at will
>>97751141Personally I'd get rid of sorcerer and warlock and replace them with pugilist and gunslinger.
