Thoughts on the upcoming Starcraft wargame?
I get why people are arguing about the starcraft plot, but in the terms of this game the only thing I really care about is if the minis are nice and the game is fun. Blizzard writes garbage stories, fork found in kitchen. They have been writing garbage longer than they wrote quality material.Much more importantly the zerg models look good and I want to paint them
>>96647518sc1 units had a great vibe for an isometric rts on a crt monitor. Hopefully they adapt them well to little 3d guys. They'll need to change it up a little and that's always a tightrope.
>>96647759Didn't they said that all models are going to be based on SC2 with possible release of SC1 exclusive units in the future?
>>96647794Ah, that sucks, but is pretty obvious in hindsight.
>>96634463Okay here is my fanfic ideas of how to fix SC2>Amon used some Xel'Naga magic to predict terran possible arrival and arranged their misjump into Koprulu sector >Keystone was created durring Xel'Naga manipulation with the zerg as failsafe mechanism but didn't work due to Amon's intervention>Amon baited Overmind into creating Queen of Blades to later use her as psi-battery to revive itself >Hybrids are actually dreadful, but still on early stage of development and relatively primitive (like one you meet in WoL and HotS campaigns)>WoL campaign is splitted between UED remnants (first missions starts right after BW ending and serves as tutorial) who starting to search for Duran only to find abandoned complex with Duran's skin lying on the floor and Raynor's Raiders (pretty much the same, with few UED optional missions about them sending message to Earth and retreaving schematics for psi-disruptor)>HotS campaign is now splitted between Duran's first fully sentinent hybrid who starts to act to assume most of the Zerg swarm after WoL and Kerrigan who learns about Primal Zerg and how Overmind was able to NOM Xel'Naga in order to battle Amon (like TFT Scourge campaign)>Korhal gets Dalaran'd at the end of Zerg campaign by Hybrid and Amon>LoV pretty much the same, but Amon made some upgrades, so the only way to kill him for good is mutual destruction with Kerrigan>fin every zerg except primal zerg dies in the process, Stukov's ashes finally returning home, Raynor returns to the bottom of bottle at Mar Sara, Matt returns to collar and ball-gag.
I've decided to decease my internet time and blue light exposure, buy an ebook reader, and get used to finishing the day with some reading, instead of all the other things that give me insomnia.What /tg/-related books have you been reading anon, or what you think what other people should read too? I've read Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit before I knew what the hell ttrpgs even were. Same with the original Dragonlance books. I was thinking of picking up Elric of Melnibone and Original Conan the Barbarian. Already read and enjoyed Eisenhorn, most of the Slayer books with Gotrek, first 1.5 of the Black Company books. And dear god I haven't read books for fun in so long, what have I been doing?
>>96603000Based and Quadspilled.
>>96612757>Not OP, but I've done that, and the thing I learned from reading more broadly was that I really love scifi and fantasyYup. I wonder if something like Ivanhoe broadly counts as genre here though
>>96639767Everything is /tg/-related if you look hard enough.
>>96637288Hated this guy's robot waifu books even though they should be right up my alley
>>96621935>TG roleplays in 2DLmao, that I can support.
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Are inquisitorial retinue cells usually led by an interrogator, or would it be reasonable to have autonomous cells acting on their own?
>>96644387Both are reasonable enough of an optionInterrogator if you want a mini-inquisitor to give direct ordersAutonomous if you trust your players to follow your Inquisitor's directives directly without them getting sidetracked
>>96644506>without them getting sidetrackedAnd why would that ever happen?
>>96645515Never underestimate people's capacity for stupidity
This crazy pile of anime garbage is at least a better game than pathfinder. When the hell did they add bloodbowl to the game as blitzball - this game is so fully featured its not funny. Seriously considering DMing an open table for this game
>>96636775>trap bard, male engineer, female dragoon, female dark knightA nerd and his harem.
>>96640745Some Dragoons had support magic abilities in expanded-verse (Kain's Holy Dragoon, FFT/FFTA if you squint hard enough, FF Dimensions...)
>>96640787fukkin cope>>96641153and freya in ff9, and Reiz in SD3 was mostly support magic and one summon per class. Reiz is why dragoons have so much damage support in 14
>>96641153Holy Dragoon isn't Dragoon. It's to dragoon what paladin is to warrior. You wouldn't say that warriors have magic because paladins exist.
>They added the classes from Racial Profiles Expanded: Hungry Souls as archetypes for the Blue Mage classWho the fuck is responsible for this unfiltered kino?
Are the new order and world of lone wolf books good? I kinda dropped the series after the grand master series.
You could check them out yourself:https://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books
What do you do with disengaged players? My group has a couple of games a week. When I run, they seem totally uninterested in NPCs or any plot that does not directly involve them or their backstory. If another player has a plotline happening they only put in the minimum and don't talk to any characters. The group has been on a ship travelling with a group of five Marines for almost a year now. Those marines have had arcs and stories, and the players couldn't name one. The paladin couldn't even point to the one his kid brother had a crush on and constantly followed around on the ship. As a player it's worse. The other GM has noticed much the same, saying I am the only one engaging, but I talk and roleplay with the group and do everything from revealing major secrets about big players in the story to saying we might have to kill the wizard and they don't react in any noticable way. I'm out of ideas, what can I do here?
>>96645674sure you do pumpkin, you definitely dont have shelves full of useless systems youve never played
>>96645688The only game I own which never saw play is MERCS which turned out to be OOP after I bought it from an LGS
>>96645693Only one? Be aspirational! Some day I will con a group into letting me take LoGaS off the shelf and give it a shot.
>>96644452The brother is a kid, the 'crush' is literally that NPC constantly following the marine around. If you write a character who's backstory involves him being invested in his family, I'm going to use the family. Oddly one of the most invested the players were was when another PC's daughter asked for help studies, and the party autismed over it for two hours then went with her to hand it in.>>96644741We did already have our 'one guy is a dick in RPGs' moment a while back. Asked the player to leave the games (though emphasized that he was still welcome to hang out, play videogames, and so on) he insisted that he be included in EVERY activity he wanted. Then threw a fit and left the group.As for having that talk again, did it last night. One player got a little worked up at me for making it a group conversation, but after that burnt out we did make progress and (I hope) set expectations. They insisted they are working towards being fully engaged players, but I'm not sure myself or the other GM has the energy to run zombie sessions until they figure that out.>>96645422Every campaign is pitched to the group. Mine was the Empire building one where the players start with a ruined colony and work up. The other GM's was factional warfare and investigation. Both times players seemed hyped for it. The families I use in game were specifically asked for. They've been leading from the front, so there's no shortage of stabbing things.>>96645526Haven't played anyone's wife, put the estrogen down. I declined to play one players husband and kept him in the background while having her daughter be a character. Then the parents and siblings of another. >>96645650Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96645770>As for having that talk again, did it last night. One player got a little worked up at me for making it a group conversation, but after that burnt out we did make progress and (I hope) set expectations. They insisted they are working towards being fully engaged players, but I'm not sure myself or the other GM has the energy to run zombie sessions until they figure that out.Genuinely, good for you anon. Best you can do now is do your own best and keep at it then.
Let's have a critter thread.
>>96625533Huh I don't remember the corpse birds being that huge. They're even bigger than the damn hippoDo we have any good artwork of that manta ray thing that fucked up Nanachi? I remember having trouble telling what I was looking at, even if that was kinda the point
>>96637269>The fox casually reveals itself
>>96625558do you have to post the pedophile gore show?
>>96640107Agreed. It definitely looks like something from Exalted.
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Welcome to /wbg/, the official thread for the discussion of in-progress settings for traditional games.Here is where you go to present and develop the details of your worlds such as lore, factions, magic and ecosystems. You can also post maps for your settings, as well as any relevant art (either created by you or used as inspiration for your work). Please remember that dialogue is what keeps the thread alive, so don't be afraid of giving someone feedback or post whatever relevant input you might have!Last thread: >>96080428Resources for Newfags: https://sites.google.com/view/wbgeneral/Worldbuilding links: https://pastebin.com/JNnj79S5https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/Eo+fK41FKVR7xDpbNO0a0N4k0YYxrmyrhX3VxnM14Ew/Fantasy map generator: https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generatorDiscord 1: https://discord.gg/6ZjEc7dy4TDiscord 2: https://discord.com/invite/wGjxK3YThread question:>How much (or how little) do you borrow ideas from real animals, plants, fungi, and speculative evolution? Are there any cool real world facts you have used to inspire parts of your world-building?
>>96643089The Nazis are almost completely wiped of resources due to the eastern front. The USAF is bigger, stronger, better trained, and fighting an enemy that has to ration every scrap of metal and every liter of gas.It's not a fair fight at all. It's a clash between an armored giant and a starved but rabid dog.
>>96519423It's sad, and jannies enabled it.
>>96643483if the americans didnt join the theater in europe the nazis would have taken down russia plain and simple. especially if they hadnt provided them with so much support through food, ammunition and war equipment as you mentioned in your original post.i should also note that around 70% of the german forces in europe was focused on the eastern front along with the best generals and most of the veteran and better equipped units and only around 30% on the western front and the allies still struggled a lot. The us was by no means the superior force against anyone but japan. The russians literally won the war for the allies.This level of delusions you harbor is not doing you justice. The americans joined the western europe theater precisely because they understood the severity of the situation and this is also the reason they provided as much aid as possible to the soviets. Don't invalidate your nations history (i assume you are american) on power fantasies
>>96542246No, but unfortunately, in most fantasyslop, magic does often end up replacing technology just because 'muh magic in fantasy'. even a tiny amount of contemporary tech will have plebs crying that its not "real fantasy".
>>96639095It depends on what dragons are in your friend's world? Are they fully sentient creatures with their own culture and history? Are they animals? Are they divine, demonic, or somewhere in between? Then, you have to go from there, for example: what would a dragon that lives exclusively in rivers look like? Maybe alligators are too obvious for you; you could take inspiration from river dolphins and give them that disgusting pink skin they have, or model their scales after something like an arowana.
>Alright guys, what're your characters?>NG Aasimar Wizard>NG Dwarf Fighter>NG Human Fighter>NG Human Ranger>NG Elf Ranger>TN Halfling Rogue>TN Halfling Rogue>TN Halfling Rogue>LN Halfling RogueWhat is this party?
Lawful Magic-UserLawful Fighting-ManLawful Fighting-ManLawful DwarfLawful ElfLawful HobbitLawful HobbitLawful HobbitLawful Hobbit>>96643356>I haven't forgottenProbably because your newfag ass never knew.>>96643680Brainrot shitwit.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96644254There’s a weird version of oldfag’s remorse (that often newfags copy) where any sort of older silly fun is pointless and cringe but new forms of silly fun are awesome and definitely won’t look outdated. There’s definitely a layer of difference between LOLRANDUM CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER and a silly webcomic
>>96631902>What is this party?Too big to properly GM for.
>>96644562Why do you think they split?
>>96642844Okay, I lost it at "Son of Groin." This shit is still funny.
I am buying my first 40k full set, but I've already bought the starter paint set a while ago with Nuln oil and Leadbelcher so I have no problem painting the smurfs. What paints should I buy for my nids?Could be Citadel, Could be army painter, I personally dont give a shit.
>>96627643>I am buying my first 40k full setMy condolences, I hope you recover soon.
>>96627643Apple Barrel Paints for $0.50 a color for base coat. Citadel washes for shading; a black wash and brown wash will do for most minis, but if you may want a red, pink, or some weird shit specifically for your nids. Rustoleum for primer; white will be fine for most minis, but you can save yourself a lot of time by getting whatever ivory color is on most of your nids and using that as part of your base coat.If Apple Barrel paint wasn't good enough, then you wouldn't be on here asking for advice. Learn to paint. Then go spend more money on your fancy inks, mediums, and contrast paints.
>>96627643AK interactive are great general purpose acrylic paints.ArmyPainter for their washes and speedpaint medium mixed with their washes for something to make those who use enamels and oils a reason to reconsider. >mixture of AP wash and speedpaint medium in action:>https://youtu.be/ju-QfgG2guE?t=442
>>96639910>>96640088I was the first guy. I admit, this guy's wash and wash+speed medium looks really nice. Fuck the citadel wash.
>>96640088I wanna try this for vehicles now. Might be counting like 30 drops wash and 30 drops speedpaint medium.And I might need one of those hobby model dishes like pic related.
I am making my own medieval fantasy game. These are some of my goals:>Emphatize slice of life scenes and allow for maximum worthless roleplay >De-emphasize combat, specifically meaningless combats with 1d6 goblins constantly. Combat is Nice but many combat scenes are there just fillers for the fighters to use their feats. Combat is better when it makes sense to the situation and the plot, gratuitous grinding has tired me forever i think>Spell hunting. Basically the wizards must get into dungeon-like places to catch more spells. This is a good way to fluff dungeons around them and to drive the party organically into themThe most challenging point is this last one:>Make normal persons investing skill points into mundane professions balanced against investing them in combat or MagicCont.
>>96642847There is a solid chance he will then make it a solo game, just so he can play with his organ
>>96642900Considering I have other games I enjoy, I don't think I will, but thanks for the suggestion anon
>>96641976You want Ryuutama?
>>96641976Ryutama, Golden sky stories, Burning wheel, and any skill based game has got you covered
>>96642006>I can't really go into goblin infested dungeons with a sword and a fireball and get almost killed everydayGet a switchblade, and molotov and go, crack den hunting. Really anon, the skill issue is yours. You can really fuck yourself up like you fuck up your characters. Go try it. I fucking dare you. >>96642070I tied "hero points" to downtime stuff, so you only get them back when you invest into your special interests.Another (and cooler) way you could do this is tie the magic system directly to their skills, like a cobbler who can make special shoes that allow various effects like speed/flight/invisibility/stealth etc., or a songstress who can enchant people with her voice, or a gambler who can predict the future with his games of chance, or whatever. Of course that still leaves combat, but if you're gonna expect EVERYONE in the game to be fighting at some point then just decouple it from the customization options.
We had a thread earlier discussing how Delta Green would do in the universe of WoD and it made me curious; how would the Ordo Veritatis do if they were the ones transported and tasked with eliminating all Vampires? Assuming that they have all their government contacts and resources without needing to fight every other threat in the WoD, could they actually wipe out every vampire?
>>96638141>can't kill them because anonymousBrother it's a horror ttrpg, there's so many agents dying left right and center in each of the adventures>can't kill them because they get recruited randomly all over the worldSo? You kill the ones after you, not the ones investigating some random shit in Tibet or whatever.>would have to destroy humanity itself to wipe them outYeah man, because, fucking, Cthulhu, would have a HUGE problem doing something like that...
>>96638141The OV is in the same tier as Delta Green, as in they are hopelessly outmatched and just barely holding on, but, because the setting needs to, y'know, make sense, they are given juuuust enough to not completely die.In the case of Delta Green, that comes naturally from the fact the Mythos barely pays any attention to humanity and works in (mostly) predictable ways, so when something does happen it's usually not "full scale mi-go invasion with 10 million continent bursting warships" and more akin to "crazy cult of 60 or so people try to birth the spawn of Shub-Niggurath". With OV, since the setting is so metaphysical, the way they balance it out is by making the OV itself metaphysical too, by making it a weird brain virus people have, like humanity's in-built immune system against OD fuckery.In both cases however, if the situation gets too out of hand ONE time, it's over, so don't act like it's anywhere close to an HFY setting.It just so happens that the OV would be a very competent foe to the Camarilla, is all, because of the advantages they have and the disadvantages Vamps have as a whole.
>>96638549>>96638688These. The OV may be larger and more powerful than most horror organizations, but their cosmology is so utterly fucked that it doesn't even matter. It only takes on successful Esoterror plot to shred the Membrane completely and then we're all fucked. They don't have the power to stop this, because Esoterrorism is as much a metaphysical set of ideas the OV are and behind the scenes, older and more terrible cults do shit that's just as Membrane eroding. Factor in them having ZERO means of stopping or countering the Ocean Game, and you have a pretty horrible state of affairs that the OV simply can't resolve.They do great in other settings because most other settings aren't teetering right on the cusp of absolute annihilation from a feather getting blown on too harshly. But that's purely because they can actually make use of their resources instead of desperately putting everything into stopping every single random fire the world over before it swallow the world whole.
>>96638620>Yeah man, because, fucking, Cthulhu, would have a HUGE problem doing something like that...Or anything from Kingdom Death. Or Xas Irkalla.
>>96638688>In both cases however, if the situation gets too out of hand ONE time, it's over, so don't act like it's anywhere close to an HFY setting.Heck, the Empty One is already an apocalypse scenario. The only reason everyone isn't already dead is because the ritual to incarnate it is nigh-impossible to bring about.
I have never played Warhammer. I have never read anything Warhammer.But I would like to let you know I like the Astra Militarum.
For me, it's pic related
>>96641967The pic you posted is the Imperial Guard. Pic related is the "Astra militarum"
>>96642758This.
>>96641967>I like the Astra Militarum.>star military why not use use guard?it's shorterIt's more cool sounding.
>>96641967This should have been a comment in a general, retard.
Vampire EditionTell us about your horror settings, games, etc. Share inspirational art, prompts, etc.>List of games:Call of Cthulhu, Chill, Cold and Dark, Degenesis, Delta Green, Don't Rest Your Head, Dread, Esoterrorists/Fear Itself+Book of Unremitting Horror, Fall of Delta Green, GORE, Into The Shadows, KULT, Little Fears, Mothership RPG, Nemesis (free on Arc Dream's website), Nights Black Agents, Silent Legions (Mostly for the tables), Stalker: The SciFi RPG, Symbaroum, Ten Candles, Trail of Cthulhu, Unisystem (All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Witchcraft, Conspiracy X, etc.), Unknown Armies, The Whispering Vault, Vaesen>Inspirational stuff:Caitlin R Kiernan, Castlevania, Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, Doom Watch, Fear & Hunger, George Romero, Ghostwatch, House of Leaves, I Am In Eskew, John Carpenter, Kolchak the Nightstalker, Laird Barron, John Langan, M.R. James, Nick Cutter, Old Gods of Appalachia, Quatermass, Ramsey Campbell, Remedy Series (Alan Wake, Control), SCP Foundation, Scarfolk Council, Shaun Hutson, Silent Hill, Stand Still Stay Silent, The Evil Dead, The Magnus Archives, The Secret World, The Stone Tapes, Anatomy, Thomas Ligotti, Twin Peaks, Vault of Evil forums, toomuchhorrorfictionOther News:"The Sutra of Pale Leaves: Carcosa Manifest" coming later this yearhttps://www.chaosium.com/blogcoming-in-2025-for-call-of-cthulhu-the-sutra-of-pale-leaves-carcosa-manifest/Current Book Club Topic:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96635335Sounds like it went really well. Happy for you and your table anon.
>>96640392yeah session ended on a cliffhanger after they managed to fend off the last mega swarm wave of rats spending their last flamer fuel as the party entered cryosleep with the rat sickness uncertain if the condition would be treated or not it was a harrowingly stressful session for the players and they seemed to enjoy it
Honest opinion: do these seem like they’d work for CoC monsters?Or do they seem too… “goofy”Because I happened to make the minis a while ago for Frostgrave, but now I’m wondering if they couldn’t work as some kind of original monster for a Call of Cthulhu game. But part of me also wonders if they are a tad too silly-looking to really match the tone.(15mm mini included in picture for scale)
I want to get better at writing horror. Can you give me any tips?Story:https://novels2.com/novel/infierno-a-series-of-horror-stories-87998/ed-at-colonus-2657212Audiobook:https://voca.ro/14IQOfcH3wyl
>>96643780They'd work fine. A lot of monster minis look equally silly until you see what they do in-game.
Been thinking of painting up a small force of SoB and didn't see a thread so post your thoughts on them, questions, lore and in particular your battling sisters! Especially if you got some OC minor orders. Bonus points for using colors other than white, black, red, gold and gunmetal.
>>96641210Cool, planning on making a witch hunter with retinue too?
>>96639427>>96637037both the new and old repentia are shit for different reasons. too much clothing on the both of them; repentia should be naked and hideous. covered in burn scars, self-flagellation and convenient purity seals. wearing at the most a hood
>>96640734Only anons guide to brown butts.
>worship a warp entity >in fact completely devoted to it to the point that they only fight, train to fight or pray>able to draw power from the emperor that is manifested in realspace as supernatural abilities>one of their most powerful members is literally immortalare the sisters de facto like a chaos cult?
