No titleHow to roll dice: "dice+2d6" without the quotes in the email field rolls 2d6. "dice+5d42+23" rolls 5d42+23. "noko+dice+2d6" rolls 2d6 without showing the roll in the email field.
In the rules department, you can look at http://www.4chan.org/rules - all global and board specific rules are in full effect. Apart from that, only two rules are important.
1. BE EXCELLENT TO EACH OTHER. 2. PARTY ON, DUDES. (AND DUDETTES)Quest threadsPlease post all quest threads on /qst/
Thread Question: What is the composition of the Imperial Navy in your games?Infinity General: First EditionInfinity 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.
Thread Question: What's your favorite pre-Human Sphere model?/hsf/ — hard sci-fi general #2A thread to talk about science fiction with more of a realistic approach and a smaller suspension of disbelief then other forms of the genre. Orbital 2100, LUNAR, the lunar war and CoaDE are encouraged and discussion is greatly appreciated.
>Thread Question: What was the funniest and/or most epic moment you had on the tabletop?No titleMoney Money Money Edition
>What is Trench Crusade? An alternate weird history 28mm/32mm tabletop skirmish game still in a pre-release playtesting phase but with the full release slated for this year. Based on the art and lore of Mike Franchina, whose illustrations you may have seen floating around on /tg/ for a several years now, and designed by Tuomas Pirinen, one of the original creators of Mordheim. It's grimdark, it's visceral, it's awesome, and it's very Blanchitsu.
>What Trench Crusade is not TC not an excuse for you to discuss IRL religion, history that didn't occur in the game, culture war shit, or discord bullshit on /tg/. Keep it on topic.
>What's the QRD on the background? The Knights Templar turned heretic and opened the Gates of Hell when they took Jerusalem during the First Crusade. Over 800 years later the war is still ongoing as technology has developed to a pseudo diesel-punk WW1 standard and a third of Humanity has sided with the Infernal Princes.
>Thread Question: How many warbands do you have?No titledo you find it more challenging to play games set in a contemporary or future urban setting compared to the more classic faux-medieval setting?
From my experiences the former is a lot more complex since it allows for such a wide variety of options and different approaches as well has having a much greater density of things to interact with. This only gets more obvious if cyberpunk or fantasy/supernatural elements are added on/hhg/ & /atg/ – Horus Heresy General & Adeptus Titanicus GeneralMagma City edition
>Thread question: What's your beef with LIgma?PDF Share ThreadIt's Da PDF Share Thread! Get ready to stuff your hard drive like a cosplay hooker at a con!
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TCG: ●Maze of the Master (March 14) ●Quarter Century Stampede (Apr 11) ●Alliance Insight (May 1)
>TQ: Do you have a favorite card that you include in your main deck no matter what? >TCAC: Come up with a Errata for a card you think is overdue for one.RIFTS PALLADIUMPalladium Games and Rifts General! /PGaRG/
The world is a broken, post-apocalyptic wasteland destroyed by the eruption of inter-dimensional portals, rifts in the fabric of space-time and ley lines which crisscross the world. Demon & alien invaders have poured out of the rifts to destroy human civilization and claim the Earth. Now the wasteland has had 300 years to partially recover, and civilization has returned to the world; but not just human civilization: alien empires, monster kingdoms, lost time travellers, lands of mutants, demonic overlords and wizards have arisen from the ashes, all trying to rebuild the world in their own image!
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 >Splicers >Nightbane >Savage Rifts
>Thread Question: Have you bought or sold slaves in any of your Palladium games?No titleWhat would be a good system to run something like Thundarr? I keep thinking RIFTS. And then giggling. There must be something (don't say G.u.r.p.s)/mtg/ - Magic: the Gathering GeneralFriends edition
>TQ What set or block do you think was peak Magic?Agree with everything I say below or you are the cancer killing traditional games.>When running a ttrpg for a new group, I immediately put them in a situation that forces the party to split for two reasons. First, it illustrates to the players that they're not going to get ass fucked as a punishment for that. Second, it helps me filter ADHD or self obsessed players who aren't interested in anything going on unless their character is present.
>Deadly encounters suck ass in any ttrpg system without a robust and deadly combat system that is both quick and crunchy. Trying to design deadly encounters in a system with inflating meat points and abstracted combat is completely fucking retarded. Challenging combats should be "yeah you beat them, but you didn't beat them fast enough.", "yeah you beat them, but they killed far too many people for your victory to matter." or "yeah, this would be an easy fight if not for the fact that you're hanging by a net ladder over a 120 ft. drop into water."
>In both ttrpgs and wargames, hyper specific characters and unit concepts are a slippery slope that leads to everything being taken for granted and normal being seen as a negative. Concepts like Echo Knight, Swarmkeeper and Soul Knife in Dnd or Desolation Squad, Inceptors or Aggressors aren't concepts that you should be able to pick like any other option. There should be a tax on the concepts or at least a prerequisite that forces someone to commit to these ideas not due to the potency of what they're picking, but because they genuinely love the concept of what they want to pick.
>When an ability in a ttrpg, wargame or tcg is "Turn off ability" or "Deny ability" instead of "Punish the usage of ability", "Delay the effect of ability" or "increase the cost of ability" then fundamentally, your game is beyond shit and the designers are retards. I'm looking at magic the gathering.
Broadly, OSR games encourage a tonal and mechanical fidelity to Dungeons & Dragons as played in the game's first decade—less emphasis on linear adventures and overarching meta-plots and a greater emphasis on player agency.
If you are new to the OSR, welcome! Ask us whatever you're curious about: we'll be happy to help you get started.
TQ: What is your dream party like? Do you only pick "the good feats"? What would it take to break the meta? Why am I the only one making these threads?/5eg/ Dungeons and Dragons Fifth EditionAce of Cups edition
>2024 PHB Scan (Gencon copy, not DnDshorts) https://files.catbox.moe/88h924.pdf >Cropped and rotated, but more artifacty MjAyNCBQSEIsIE5vIFRodW1icywgT0NSZWQsIEFub24ncyBCb29rbWFya3MgdHJhbnNmZXJyZWQgb3Zlci4gCgpodHRwczovL2Vhc3l1cGxvYWQuaW8vd2Fvcm9h
previous: >>95375577 >>95375577Warcraft Miniature WargameAsking around since the starcraft game news dropped, have there been any homebrew games made to represent warcraft factions on the tabletop? I've got the itch for that setting in particular after stumbling on this STL maker/tg/ Drawthread: "S3" editionSumo Slan Slamming edition
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Here is a thread to discuss trading card games other than the big three. >Build Divide >Force of Will >Final Fantasy TCG >DBZ CCG >Wixoss >Keyforge >Gundam >Legend of the 5 Rings (L5R) >Digimon >Flesh and Blood >Gate Ruler >Battle Spirits >Ashes >One Piece >The other DBZ game >Sorcery >Doomtown >Warlord >Magi Nation >Lord of the Rings >Neopets >The Condemned CCG >Grand Archive TCG >Disney Lorcana >Hubworld: Aidalon etc.
Post about card games you've played and help other anons get to know your games!
>TQ: which one of the new teams do you like bestGetting DnD/Warhammer players to try something newFirstly I don't hate DnD or Warhammer. I just want to try TTRPGs and Wargames that are different. It just feels like so many people stick with the first choice stuff that is always at the front of their respective medias like Warhammer for Wargames and DnD (I count Pathfinder as DnD) for TTRPGs.
How did you anons find players or am I going to have to accept that this pain of having trouble finding new players is what everybody who wants to try something that isn't DnD or Warhammer has to go through? If so then how did you get through it?>grasp and follow basic math principles>get unlimited free money how is this legal?QRD... is MTG played out?Haven't played this game since 4th edition... back when the mechanics of the game was pure and simple for the most part.
Now that I'm settled into my lifestyle, thinking of picking it up again. But kind of wondering is it worth it? Is the game more of a cash grab? What's the current culture like? ...and other questions.
... Basically, do people still swear by this game, loyally?... Or are they lookin' to 'unalive' themselves realizing what a waste their time has been?Orc ThreadWhy are they now a default playable race?/hwg/ ⟅Historical Wargames General⟆Campaign at the end of the World Edition
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>Thread Question: How did your last campaign end, if you ever played one?
>H&C Megatrove rebrandly /HexChit40k Subsector creation Vharos Frontier 8Welcome to the Vharos Frontier, we have filled up the map pretty good and are mostly writing lore for planets and factions we already rolled
Should we roll up some factions or just keep things bumped while anons post lore they are working on?/schreck/ - schreck.netTT: Post IC as a Vampire from VtM. Namefaggotry is encouraged. Need more info? Refer to /WoDg/
INFO: >The thread is set in V20 in the Modern Nights. The exact canon of mechanics, metaplot elements and the like is unique to each character's chronicle, and statements by others which contradict your continuity should be ignored or regarded as falsehoods or misunderstandings. After all, the night is full of falsehoods and half-remembered rumors >Each thread represents ~1 week of nights, or approx. to realtime >There is no author; we are acéphale >Nictuku will be diablerized on sight
AUTOMATED GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD #0047: Average Toreador Night Edition PREVIOUS THREAD: >>95064709/chess/ - Chess GeneralOTB spectators edition
>Calendar: - Women's World Championship Match | April 1st - 23rd - Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour: Paris | April 7th - 14th - Reykjavik Open | April 9th - 15th - FIDE Women's Grand Prix Series: India (5th leg) | April 13th - 24th - grenke Chess Open & grenke Freestyle Chess Open | April 17th - 21st - Menorca Open | April 22nd - 27th - Grand Chess Tour: Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland | April 24th - May 1st - Lichess Spring Marathon | April 26th - Sardinia World Chess Festival | April 26th - May 3rd - FIDE Women's Grand Prix Series: Austria (6th leg) | May 5th - 16th - Grand Chess Tour: Superbet Chess Classic Romania | May 5th – 17th - Sharjah Masters | May 16th – 26th - Champions Chess Tour: leg 2 | May 18th - 23rd - Norway Chess | May 26th - June 6th - Biel International Chess Festival | July 12th – 25th - Sinquefield Cup | August 16th - 29th - FIDE Grand Swiss | September 3rd - 15th - FIDE World Cup | October 31st - November 27th
Digimon Liberator: Latest web comic chapter is Episode 12 Part 2! Next chapter scheduled for April 10th Latest web novel chapter is Debug 8-2! Next set of chapters sometime in May? https://digimoncard.com/digimon_liberator/
Special Booster 2.5 is out now everywhere! Compiles BT19 and BT20
LM05 Final Elysion is out now in JP. Will be Box Purchase promos for BT21 in EN.
ST20 Protector of Light / ST21 Hero of Hope are scheduled to release April 18th.
BT21 World Convergence is scheduled to release April 25th.
EX09 Versus Monsters is scheduled to release June 26th.
BT22 Cyber Eden is scheduled to release July 19th in JP, July 25th in EN.
EX10 Sinister Order is scheduled to release September 19th.
BT23 Hackers Slumber has been announced. Scheduled for release October 18th
>TQ What did you think of the first year of Liberator?Anon's bitch about gamingPost things that annoy and explain why. Board, RPG, Card, doesn't matter. Just a thread for complaining about shit.
Resource generation is clumsily handled and it pisses me off. Take MtG, for example, your resource (mana) is tied to playing lands from your deck. You got a 3% chance of getting manascrewed or flooded. That means, three games out of one hundred you simply cannot play the game. That's bullshit design and it will never be fixed. Another bullshit resource generation mechanic? Worker placement. These are typically used in games where your entire turn is putting that one cock sucking meeple on a square to generate a single resource each round. That resource is necessary (often multiple from different workers in different points generating different resources) to perform an action that is necessary to play the game.
The easiest solution? Everyone gains resources equally each turn. You CAN dedicate a turn to setup more resources gain or mess with someone else's resource gain, however, in a neutral state EVERYONE can play the game without pure luck (MtG) or wasted turns (worker placement) being a factor in slapping down 80-90% of the game that people actually got around the table for.
Note, the above complaint doesn't apply to games were resource manipulation IS the main point of the game like Raccoon Tycoon for example.Alien RPGAs a total noob, where do you even begin with this?No titleWould you rather be an elf or an orc?What is wrong with AoS fans?>Warhammer, post-apocaliptic setting >Emperor of Mankind creates superhumans that feel no fear >makes sense because the technology advances and because literal horrors beyond human comprehension >NOOO SUPERHUMANS BEING SUPER IS BOOOORING >WE NEED MORE DRAMA AND EMOTIONAL BS ("muh character development", aka character assassination) They gonna ruin the Stormcasts in the same way Filoni's TCW ruined the Clonetroopers./mtgag/ - Magic the Gathering Arena generalEshki edition
How much spreadsheet is TOO much spreadsheet?No title>Pure evil is childish Isn't funny how an evil character for the sake of being evil is closer to how humans actually behaved in history, rather than le missunderstood villain that needed to do evil because of some need?
Like if you look at criminals, there are trully people that likes to be evil and do stuff like torture and murder.
Some actually batshit crazy emperors like caligula and neron actually happened.
>That sounds cool, how can I get into it? Read the 3e core book (link below). For mechanics of the old edition, play this tutorial:http://mengtzu.github.io/exalted/sakuya.html It’ll get you familiar with most of the mechanics.
>Gosh that was fun. How do I find a group? Roll20 and the Game Finder General here on /tg/. good luck
TQ: When and how do you divide between the various abilities that can 'look around' or 'look at' things, from Investigation and Awareness to Larceny or Occult? Do you prefer to use overlap, or to more strongly distinguish the use cases?No titleDoes it bother you in a game when a GM springs cross-genre shit? Like you find out the ancient ruins you're in are actually a derelict star cruiser in a fantasy game, or the "demons" you keep seeing summoned are just ugly aliens? I've never had a problem with it myself, except bait and switch stuff where you end up in a totally new genre. If I make an Estalian diestro I don't wanna be banished to Cadia and conscripted into the Imperial Guard.Character art threadHere's a dual wield with axe and sword.Nechronica ThreadI'm not the guy who usually makes these I just like the game. Are there any good play reports from Japan besides the official ones? I'd like to read them and see how they do it over there, or just if anything came out of it recently. I know the official devs have basically finished it and there's only the occasional fan class being put out but I'm just wondering if anything notable has happened recently in "the scene."No title>The Wizard has challenged you to a game of cards. If you lose, he will destroy you what game are you choosing?No titleHow do I find people to play D&D with if i'm socially anxious and autistic? Should i improve my RP skills before playing D&D? And how would I go about that if so./cyoag/ - Choose Your Own Adventure GeneralArchives & Other Resources: https://rentry.co/cyoag Allsync: https://cyoa.allsync.com/s/owWor64yLTngDk3 Previous Thread: >>95331594 Bible quote of the day for 19/03/2025
>Last Thread >>95392394Old World just mogged AOSSo it looks like the worst fear for the AOS Department and all those fucking faggots that killed Old World became a reality. Have fun with the next 3 years that your ass D&D level Lore trash game has products lined up, because Old World will take it's place/SRPGG/ - Solo RPG GeneralThis thread is dedicated to all kinds of solo games.
Thread Question: Have your solo adventures taken you to dream worlds?No title>player crashes out in VC because i told him he can't play his goblic PC char. >goblins don't even exist in my world >if they did they wouldn't be green >also we have monkeys as a race...Skitarii on a Tomb World>Be me. >Skitarii Vanguard Alpha Psi-77, IIIrd legion 00110010nd maniple. >Under the leadership of Marshal Juronious we deploy to an awakened tomb world just three systems away from our home forge world Fevexia. >No idea what this place was originally, as Necron monoliths have risen everywhere destroying everything. >Magi think this was once the capital world of whatever dynasty we're fighting. >Apparently our rival forge world woke them up on an expedition and now we have to deal with the consequences. CleaningUpEveryoneElsesMesses.servitor >Supposedly astartes reinforcements are on the way, but we don't know when they'll get here if at all. Don'tExpectBackup.holo >My squad is currently in an Arvus lighter descending through the atmosphere towards the second largest norther continent to recover the data on the initial expedition. >Meanwhile four full legions of skitarii and secutarii with titan and knight support along a couple guard regiments are keeping the main force on this continent distracted to the south. >With any luck our small hunter clade kill team can slip in without notice. >Suddenly he pilot servitor blurts out we're being pursued by a Night Scythe. Me&MyNonexistentMouth.vox/wbg/ - World Building GeneralArchitecture Edition
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!
Thread questions: >What kind of architecture do the cultures of your setting use? And why did you choose those styles? >When choosing architectural styles/designing buildings, what resources and tools do you use? Especially if you want to make sure that the buildings are structurally sound. >Do you have any key things that should be remembered when designing the architecture of your setting besides keeping the environment in mind? Especially if you’re mixing aspects of two or more different cultures together. >In your worlds, what are the largest and/or most impressive buildings/structures in said worlds, and who built them?No title>old Warhammer: Shadows Over Bögenhafen, Ian Miller, Albion campaign, human peasants bleeding out in a ditch after being ambushed by Goblins >nu The Old World: ching chong units made in collaboration with Creative Assembly
Surely if The Old World is set 250 years before the End Times it should be more grounded?
>Commander website, where you can learn the rules, see the current banlist, and read the format philosophy, laid down by the rules committee https://mtgcommander.net
>Statistically see what everyone else puts in their commander decks based on what is posted to the internet https://www.edhrec.com
Got a burning question you need an answer to but doesn't fit into any particular setting or game? Don't want to make your own thread and bump it every time it hits page 10 until it gets traction? Come JAQ off with us!
>What would aliens really be like? >can liches masturbate? >how tall can halflings get? >martials or casters?
Check out here for useful links and a catalogue of relevant miniatures retailers:
>/GROG/ Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/nnNqqFLn/3dpg/ - 3D Printing GeneralThis is a general for everything 3D printed relating to /tg/ from sci-fi, fantasy, historicals, fantasy football, and more! Share your printed minis, terrain, print fails, 3d modelling, printing advice, works in progress, or anything else /tg/-related to 3D printing.
>DO: - Post pics of your prints be they fails or triumphs - Keep discussion/photos about tabletop games only - Post your resin/printer/settings for faster advice - Help your fellow anons with advice
>TRY TO: - Remember that this general is monitored by GWendolin and her lawyers - Not make a new thread until old one dies - Not encourage namefags, tripfags, fumefags and coomers - Not spoonfeed - Not war over Filament/Resin consoles - Keep your model pics naked (no paint/undercoat only) - Look after small artists/studios - Buy something from or tip an artist/studio you like - Read the last 3 threads before posting
>Last Thread: >>94966353No titleHow young is too young to go on an adventure?No titleWhy the fuck don’t they just release a kit/box sprue solely for older Mark helmets? JUST GIVE US A BUNCH OF MK7 HELMETSNo titleIs the unofficial elder scrolls RPG any good? I've been wanting to try out a TES tabletop game and since it seems to be either that or 5e I think I'll go with this one first. Do the editions matter much?Rogue or Fighter?Which one do you like more? Which one do you think is more useful during a campaign?No titleHow would you make a tabletop version of an otome (dating sim) game?
Would the PCs be the capture targets (the "romantic interests" for the main character), or would it be better if the PCs were side characters who were rewarded for causing the actual capture target characters to pair up with the protagonist?
I'm trying to keep in mind the group/cooperation dynamic, rather than a PvP scenario where the PCs are all competing for the same love interest.No title>The only army you can play in 30K, 40k and AoS.
Why aren’t YOU playing Daemons /tg/?No titleI like playing as a >human >Male (White) >Fighter Because it's fun to RP as a yokel getting surprised and excited about the fantastical elements of a setting.No titleWhat traditional game best captures the essence of Indiana Jones?/GWSG/ [Games Workshop Specialist Games]Sports Go Sports Edition
Battlefleet Gothic, Blood Bowl, Epic, Kill Team, Man-o-War, Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game, Mordheim, Necromunda, Shadow War: Armageddon, Titanicus, Underworlds, Warcry, Warhammer Quest, Warmaster ... ... and any other GW system and board game are welcome.
The previous archive links are all dead and any time someone tries to make a new one it gets taken down. If there is content you're looking for ask in the thread and someone might help you out!
>TQ Campaigns or one-shot games - which ones do you prefer?I prefer Oldhammer and Idk whyNever played the tabletop game, I love 40k lore, it's fascinating and I love the novels of it. Recently I discovered the art of the first editions and I prefer it rather than the new one, Idk why, I just find it way cooler, why?
Why art-style could make a comeback in the next edition? Also, what's all the "tacticool vs anti-tacticool"? It's the first time I heard about that expression.Goblin ThreadI like Goblins, they’re just funny little guys. They make good mooks and goofballs. Post about goblins, goblin art, and goblin related world buildingMarvel Multiverse RPGinb4 "Buy an add" Check the share threads, check NV, fucking google a pirated copy for all I care This is an in house superhero RPG for the Marvel Universe It uses a 3d6 system (called the 616 system) It has 6 stats fairly analogous to D&D Melee = Str Agility = Dex Resilience = Con Vigilance = Wis Ego = Cha Logic = Int Now take the 1st letter from each score... There is a fair amount of free content on the official site and drivethrurpg So far there are 2 rules expansions,1 for X-Men and 1 for Spider-Man, and every published work has character sheets for established marvel characters The creation rules for original characters are pretty robust and follow a this pattern; Pick origin Pick occupation Assign ability points, 5 per character rank (1-6) with a cap of 3+rank per score, you can even go up to -3 in a score for more points to spend elsewhere Pick 1 additional Trait per rank, this is in addition to whatever Traits you get from Origin and Occupation Pick 4 powers per rank, most of the themed power sets follow an unlock tree to get to the better onesPaul Sawyer RIPIt is with great sadness that I have to tell you "Fat Bloke" Paul Sawyer has passed away.
He was well regarded as a former editor of White Dwarf magazine and had been working for Warlord Games until last year, when he received a terminal brain cancer diagnosis.
May he rest in peace, and be eating bacon butties and rolling dice up there.No titleI like CR's firbolgs.Worldbuilding ResourcesDo you have any worldbuilding websites, Discord servers, templates, books, etc. that you use for your own projects and would recommend to others? I know that /wbg/ used to have more links in its opening post, but apparently those are defunct now./jtrpg/ Japanese-make TTRPGsMain System: Engaging Combat Edition
Converse about JTRPGs, their translation status, or sessions / storytimes.
Games that don't count: Fabula Ultima OVA BESM Cloudbreaker Alliance Anima Valor
TQ: Have you ever wanted to madly play a JTRPG based on branding or appearance of the front cover alone?/hsg/ - Horror Settings GeneralSkeletons Edition
Tell 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, toomuchhorrorfiction
Current Book Club Topic: Book of Unremitting Horror 1e
Questions for the thread: >Have you ever unironically used an animated skeleton in one of your games? >How would you suggest effectively using a skeleton?
Questions for Horrorverse refugees: >Who is your favorite animated skeleton in fiction? >What makes skeletons such beloved monsters?
>What is this? /TG/ DEVELOPED A GAME IT IS PLAYABLE. IT HAS BEEN PLAYED. EXPEDITION is a ~1870s 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://app.mediafire.com/us7vnek39dc6k as with maps, tokens and lore resources.
>What can I do? Shitpost, meme, get comfy. Read over the docs to settle in. Familiarize yourself with rules and ask for an intro game or participate in playtests. If you are interested in designing a faction for a wargame, this is the place. Contribute if you have ideas. Give feedback on contributions if you don't.
>TQ1 : The To Do list will be posted in the next post, if you feel like claiming something to do on it, please post it so it can be marked.Do you have any crazy theories about Warhammer 40k? 2nd EdicionIt doesn't have to be based on tradition or any other source, just throw in any crazy stuff you've ever theorized just because.
Here's something I read on YouTube.
Remember the proto-primarch?
Well, what if he's actually just the prototype for Sanguinius and not for the 20, as we've always believed? What if the other 19 have their own prototypes, which we've never met?
I know it's completely absurd, because the charm of the character is that he's just a prototype for the 20 who came after him, but I thought I had to share it.Magic Items ThreadPost magic items for use in games. Even better if you describe the enemies you will give them to/the fights they will be used in or the lore behind them.
>Molar Magic short sword, +3, requires attunement (rogue) When a creature melee attack, you can use your reaction to parry, reducing the damage by up to 1d8 + dex modifier, absorbing the energy of the attack. You may then use a bonus action to deal force damage equal to the amount absorbed. You may choose between pushing the target back 10 feet, or knocking the target prone. You may not parry while the blade has stored an attack.
>Fang Magic short sword, +3, requires attunement (rogue) You may use a bonus action to destroy one magic spell within 5 ft. If a creature attempts to cast a magic spell within 5ft of you, you may use a reaction to stop it. These effects do not work on complex magic devices.
Obviously these are busted as fuck, but I think it's fair enough considering you'd have to pry them from the cold dead hands of a high level boss.No titleQuantum Ogre is the result of an incompetent Dungeon Master. Every DM should be comfortable with players missing prepared content on a whim and stop hamfisting it back to life everywhere the party turns.No titleCatalyst game labs is completely ripping off Warhammer. GW invented the gothic aesthetic in tabletop wargames. Hopefully GW sues the fucking criminals into the ground and breaks up the company completely. Battletech has picked a fight it can't win and it deserves to die for it.Post wuxia monk girlsDark SunI don't see much love here for the only legitimate d&d setting, let's talk about it. Anyone run or play in any games? 2e or otherwise? I've been having a blast running it for my formerly VTM/5e-only buds.No titleWhat would you do in this situation?No title5e house rule. Every hit roll 10 higher than the target's armor class is a critical hit. Every additional 10 above the target's armor class adds an additional damage die. This is additive with a natural roll of 20, which is always a critical hit regardless of armor class.
e.g. a roll of 20+10 against a target with AC 10 would take 1d8 damage as well as 3d8 critical damage from a longsword.
I call this rule "Hot Crits". After playing with this for over a year in two campaigns I believe this to be the only fun way to play fifth edition dungeons and dragons.No titleDo you stress the importance of bathing and hygiene on your party? The belief that everyone was filthy in medieval times has been thoroughly debunked these days, and more to the point it's common sense not to go tracking sewer shit and dungeon muck through the king's halls when you all go to claim your reward./twgg/ - TowerGirls CYOA GeneralLovely Lamia Redux Edition
Discussion of the Towergirls CYOA, RPG, Setting, or Video Games welcome here!
I am currently running a fun story game and recuperating from a failed WHFB effort. For about 3 years, I have been working on an OSR game. Trawled through blogs and NuSR, troves and dozens of systems for things that could be awesome at the table...
BUT - I have two major issues and am looking for ideas.
1) How do you organize the rules? What sections and chapters and in what order of presentation? Currently I have a mess PDF with this structure: 1. General venturing rules 1 2. Hazards and conditions 8 3. Procedures 11 4. Gear and Services 17 5. Company and Status 18 6. Magic 18 7. Playing a Character 18 8. Creating a Character 22 9. Character Sheet 23 10. Detailed Index 25
2) How do you track everything comfortably at the table? I did some crafts and made time trackers and a map thingy (A3 with moveable parts, each section showing one of multiple hex maps, zoomed from continent to region to subregion to province to area to location), but there's so much stuff to track I have no idea how to proceed.
In most of my games, players handle everything on their sheet and I handle the story and NPC notes with the narrative dictating when things happen.In OSR gaming, I feel there's more to track (light, condition durations, monsters active in area, travel calculations, pursuit track, town action timing, POI status and more).
GURPS is a modular, adaptable system, capable of running a wide range of characters, settings, and play styles, with a level of detail varying from lightweight to completely autistic. Optional rules allow you to emulate different genres with a single system, or even switch genres within a single game.
A nearly complete archive of GURPS books can be found by those who pay attention to file extensions. Never post direct links to the archive anywhere.
If you're wondering where to start: - The Basic Set covers everything, including a lot of optional rules you probably won't use. - A genre guide can be found in the archive, under Unofficial/GURPSgen. It tells you what extra books and articles you may find useful for many common genres. - How To Be a GURPS GM is a good read even for players. - GCS (gurpscharactersheet.com) is an excellent character-builder software, with page references to all the books and the option to export to both Foundry and Fantasy Grounds.
>TQ: What are your favorite supplementary books?No title‘THE YEAR OF CHAOS!’ They said.PARANOIAHAPPY DAYCYCLE CITIZENS OF ALPHA COMPLEX.
I THIS THREAD, YOU ARE TO REPORT ON ANY TREASONOUS ACTIVITY SPOTTED WITHIN SECTOR TTG.
FAILURE TO DESCRIBE TREASONOUS ACTIVITY IS TREASON.
FAILURE TO POST IN THE THREAD IS TREASON.No titleSo why do people hate this system? I’m running a game right now and it’s fun, my players are enjoying it and love the combat!/40kg/ - Warhammer 40k GeneralBiggus Dickus Edition
Previous thread: >>95328215 Thread Question: Without getting into cheese, what's your favorite familiar?No titleIt’s been two months since I started my current campaign. It’s mostly returning players from older campaigns, but one of these returning players also decided to bring his girlfriend. She’s a decent player, but the two of them keep bringing their relationship stress into the game, and it actually got out of hand.
On a completely separate matter, in the last campaign I ran, a different guy who played a barbarian got obsessed with keeping track of kills, and it became a big deal among the players. They really got competitive, up to a point where they actually started sabotaging each other in order to get the high score, and a lot of drama was developing over what I initially thought was just harmless fun. When it looked like the party conflict might turn into player conflict, I asked everyone whether they were still having fun and whether or not they wanted to relax the body count business, and they agreed that they probably needed to tone it down.
The barbarian player, who I thought might be really upset about this, ended up surprising me by just outright apologizing. He had known for a while that things were getting out of hand, but the “KILL KILL KILL” mentality of his character was just hard to put aside. In the end, no one really brought it up until the end of the campaign, when I checked through my notes, and after a bit of crunching discovered that there had been a three-way tie in regards to body count, with only the barbarian lagging behind. When I decided to share this with the group, there was a lot of playful mockery towards the barbarian’s player, who took it in stride but promised he wouldn’t let that record stand./wg/ - Writing General (and Storythread)Writing General: '10 year anniversary' edition.
Welcome 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.
Would it cost me my soul to the chaos gods, would it keep my soul safe but give me some nasty STD, or am I physically and spiritually safe but would have to deal with her ex (an Ultramarine)?No titleI have a great idea for a campaign! Basically I just take the setup of Yojimbo, a town that's being terrorized by rival gangs who essentially own the town and townsfolk who wants someone to come and set the town free. The idea is that I map out a town, come up with the NPCs that live there, the factions and their motivations and then I unleash the players in the town and let them go wild and see what they do. I'm thinking either a Sengoku/Bakumatsu era samurai game like Yojimbo or possibly even a western game (if you know you know) but what would be the best system for this? I would like something with quick but still somewhat tactical combat that ideally doesn't turn into miniature wargaming grind that still is largely kinda cinematic and larger than life. Ideally not a narrative system that gives the players more influence on the narrative than they should, I want them to simply play their characters in the world. Anyone answering with GURPS will be ignored.No titleWhat if the viltrum empire was a 40k faction?No title>Bitch of a lich, where the fuck did he go? >Hey! Hey you! >You see any paladins blow through here just now? Some holy fucks just smote up the bonedega on Vecna Jr. Blvd. and we're looking to skin the fuckers alive.CATHAYSecondaries and the worst kind of fanboys who hate their settings having mystery just memed GW into releasing this army/mcyoag/ Multiplayer Choose Your Own Adventure GeneralArchives & Other Resources: https://rentry.co/cyoag AllSync: https://cyoa.allsync.com/s/owWor64yLTngDk3 Multiplayer Compilations: https://rentry.org/MCYOA_Comp_Comp In Case of Emergency, Break Glass: https://rentry.org/mcyoagCanary Threadslave Rentry: https://rentry.org/ThreadKeeping2 Backup Rentry: https://rentry.org/ThreadKeeping3 Festival of Life Edition Previous Thread: >>95358972Foodcore FantasySo we all know that "adventurers eating food" is one of the most memed symptoms of the degradation of pop-culture fantasy. How are we supposed to square this with the board's constant unironic shilling of Dungeon Meshi?Lewd RPG GeneralPrevious Thread: >>95227997
For: Creation and discussion of Lewd RPGs; including Solo Rpgs, Homebrews, and Greentexts about your game sessions (specify the system you are using)
>DON'T post or ask for "Looking For Group" or "Looking for Players". >DON'T sperg about Hentai logic, Hentai Artists or NTR. Take your meds. >NO Shota/loli crap. Go to /trash/
>What's a Solo RPG? 1: YouTube (Season 1 of Me, Myself & Die! gives a good explanation) 2: Ask in the Solo RPG General: >>95155824 3: Solo is a good way to test out systems and to avoid problems such s "Schedule Conflict" or "Playing with Weirdos"
>/ccg/ sets http://pastebin.com/hsVAbnMj (/ccg/ collab set in development) Previous >>95183580 TQ: What official mechanics of recent sets have inspired you?No title40K is a setting with no sympathetic characters that is convinced it has them.AdepticonAnyone ever been to Adepticon?
What's it like? Is it worth five days?
Is it just wargaming or wider /tg/ stuff?
Seems like in the last couple of years you get all the wargaming hobby influencers flying there from all over the world. Sounds like a furrycon where they're all meeting up to Collab and fuck each other
I'm British and I've been to several wargames shows, basically there's like 30-70 companies of various sizes with stalls, a second hand Bring and Buy sale, then a varying amount of Display Games and Participation games depending on how dedicated to those it is, other than the oblivious fat geeks swinging their backpacks around in the throng around stalls, they're quite a genteel affair.No title>Be me, the DM >Be into spec-evo and paleo autism >Use dire-seal as a encounter while player are traversing colder, non-arctic,region filled with river and wetlands >Players keep complaining that it makes no sense to have seals around or having them act as water wolfs >A few year go by >tfw IRL paleontology vindicates my autismanime duel subsystemsis there any ruleset where players can have 1 on 1 duels that feel anime-ish?
I want something with more choice and dynamism than just making contested rolls, something that makes the fight feel more jojos/hxh, or like a small chess match with twists and turns.from a lore perspectivewhy do 40k fans always compare their setting with other sci fi's, claiming it would always win? i'm asking because it seems to have become a trend, like "would X survive in the imperium?" etc./mtg/ - Magic: the Gathering GeneralFuck your Moxen Edition
>TQ Favorite card that fucks with artifacts?The Worst Artist ever to work for Games WorkshopI think the worst artist that ever did art for Warhammer (Fantasy, 40k, and Age of Sigmar) is Jon Sullivan. I haven't found ONE SINGLE ARTWORK of his with all these three features:
• It doesn't look unfinished • The details and the background look good • The perspective and the motion make sense
What's more, his stuff doesn't look like Warhammer - and sometimes there are elements that look like they belong and others that look like they don't at all.
He worked for a long time, ever since a long time ago, but for some reason even his oldest work looks like it has AI elements, there's a lot of swirly confused nonsense.
>What is /awg/? A thread to talk about minis and games which fall between the cracks, or peoples' homebrew wargames. The >>>/tg/hwg thread doesn't entertain fantasy (for good reason) and the other threads are locked to more specific games. This thread isn't tied to a game, a publisher, or a genre, let's just talk about fun wargames. Any scale, any company, any miniatures.
>Examples of games that qualify. A Song of Ice and Fire, Argatoria, Batman Miniature Game, Carnevale, Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings, Deadzone, Shrek: War in the Swamp, Dropfleet and Dropzone Commander, Freebooter's Fate, Frostgrave, Gaslands, Judge Dredd, HeroClix, Kings of War, Maelstrom's Edge, Malifaux, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Masters of the Universe: Battleground, Moonstone, Oathmark, OnePageRules, RelicBlade, Rumbleslam, Stargrave, Sludge, Warcaster, Warmachine, Xenotactics... ...and anything else that doesn't necessarily have a dedicated thread.
>Examples of companies providing rules for alternative wargames. Atomic Mass Games, Black Site Studios, CMON, Mantic, OnePageRules, Osprey, Para Bellum, TTCombat, Warlord Games... ...and many other publishers.
>TQ What's your favorite army style? E.g. hordes, elite, ranged, vehicle-heavy. I'm partial to hordes.No titleEnough asking how GW justifies its larcenous price increases. How do YOU justify putting up with it?Kill herA brief anecdote I would like to share. I call it "When you accidentally kill your girl instead of kissing her."
The year is 2007. The medium is IRC text chat. The game is D&D 3.5 mid-level gestalt.
Two of the PCs in the party just so happen to be boyfriend and girlfriend in-game. I do not recall their races or classes, but the female PC was wearing either a mithral breastplate or full plate.
The party reaches an inn. The players describe their PCs settling down for the night. The player of the boyfriend PC says something to the effect of: "[The boyfriend PC] takes [the girlfriend PC] by the waist, sets her down on the bed, removes her breastplate, and kills her."
For a minute or so, there is only silence. Then, everyone else in the group, including the DM and the girlfriend PC's player, expresses utter bewilderment in the out-of-character chat channel. After a few minutes of total bedlam, the boyfriend PC's player returns and says something akin to: "Oh, sorry. Just got back. I meant to type 'kisses.'"
So for the move Defense Stance, the move description is:
>Action : Standard >Duration : Concentration >Effect : Any close attacks made against the character have trouble (disadvantage) until they are successfully attacked in this combat
So my question is, I'd I cast it in round 1 and don't get hit, can I use my standard attack again for melee/ranged in round 2 or will that break the concentration?/osrg/ - Old School Renaissance GeneralWelcome to the Old School Renaissance General, the thread dedicated to TSR-era D&D, derived systems, and compatible content.
Broadly, OSR games encourage a tonal and mechanical fidelity to Dungeons & Dragons as played in the game's first decade—less emphasis on linear adventures and overarching meta-plots and a greater emphasis on player agency.
If you are new to the OSR, welcome! Ask us whatever you're curious about: we'll be happy to help you get started.
>Thread Question - three days, no thread edition: What interesting turns of play, in your experience, resulted from getting lost? Wilderness or dungeon. Or from a wandering monster?No titleDoes your character buy weapons and armor from the local blacksmith?/edhg/ - EDH/Commander General - AIIIEEEEE EditionPrevious: >>95396727
>Commander website, where you can learn the rules, see the current banlist, and read the format philosophy, laid down by the rules committee https://mtgcommander.net
>Statistically see what everyone else puts in their commander decks based on what is posted to the internet https://www.edhrec.com
>Thread question: Is the big gun world going to be claimed by anyone? >Alt TQ: Have you ever converted a unit that doesn't exist at all? something that's not even a proxy for another unit?Wild Life Wednesday /WLW/Thread to post about biomes, ecotipes, ecologies, monsters and aliens, the weird and the comforting normal! Interesting tidbits, cool stuff and your own extremely welcomed! You want to contriboot but or bump? Just use a cool beast you like and post here! Insect edition.No titleWould D&D be improved if it had the DPS/tank/healer trichotomy?No titleSo are Frostgrave and Stargrave just dead? My admittedly shitty LGS had no one playing it and I never see anyone talking about either.How to min/max this?Not caring about politics and stuff like that. I'm genuinely intrigued by how a LVL 1 char can min/max this. I'm very curious, cause this thing is OP Let's assume that the DM allows you to have it, even if you're not a cripple. Even a cripple with the wheelchair would do. What would you do to min/max it? Starting at LVL1. How would you play it as a monk, fighter, mage, etc.Universal TTRPG SystemsWhat's your favorite "jack of all settings" TTRPG system? It is okay to shill one that isn't shown in pic related.No titleWhat are your honest thoughts on interracial romance in fantasy settings?"Nerds" ruined the hobby not Normies.Since the time when traditional games was a niche hobby, there's always been the people that carried the hobby and the people who relied on said people.
These two groups had to perform a balancing act. The first group had to know where allowances and concessions should be made and the second had to know what constrictions they shouldn't try to resist.
When the hobby started to draw more eyes to it, it was the second group of what I would called NPC nerds that saw it as a good thing initially. This is for 2 reasons. First, because it meant that their hobby was now more socially acceptable. Second, because it meant they could find games easier and therefore push for more stuff that was previously something they knew not to push for.
Meanwhile the first group were disadvantaged by normies entering the hobby, as it meant trying to explain the wider consequences of what seems like minor allowances. Usually, to a person that not only doesn't respect the hobby, but has probably been taught by tertiary media that what they're asking for is par for the course.
The second group and the normies, meanwhile, were teaming up to get what they want. Normie wants to play as a half angel half demon and npc nerd wants to play as an 8 year old goblin girl from some anime and they work together to make anyone who objects to such characters look unreasonable.
The second group never contributed shit to the hobby. They just turned up and had the brains to actually understand half the rules. Enough to make a character and play. Yet they made up the majority of people playing.
They were the type of people who joined in because no other group accepted them. They didn't choose the hobby, it was the hobby or nothing. Despite being there from the beginning, the hobby never really belonged to them.
Being in the hobby for a long time doesn't mean shit. There's been worthless people in the hobby since the beginning, and they made up the majority since day one.Lo-Power / Hi-Class{Playing-2-Win} < {Playing-4-Fun}
Most systems seem to punish the max-minner by rewarding the min-maxxer; this thread seeks to awright this "problem" without simply reversing it, helping players escape traumatically-restrictive character-design and enjoy embracing more interesting & lively roles & means of play. Games (at least the recreational ones) are supposed to be fun, aren't they?
Childhood is building shallow but powerful characters; adulthood is building deeply flawed characters.
This thread is for the discussion of dabbing on min-maxxing fools by building your play around flavor & fun.
>pic related from recent edhg thread >thread challenge: build mono white edh deck with pic related as commander
Here's an example of such fun-is-its-own-form-of-winning play from about a decade ago: >play shadowrun >shark totem physical adept elf biker gang character hates goblinoids >on a run >tasked with guarding kidnapped target >in back of armored van with kidnapped target >being chased by trolls >asian driver remotely closes and locks windows >this prevents me from shooting trolls >get angry and manually open back hatch >shoot at trolls >trolls shoot back >submachinegun fire rakes through open hatch >have no trouble doing the neutron dance dodging bullets thanks to magical physical adept speed and combat sense >high value kidnapped target not so lucky as his head explodes like a ripe melon >asian player of asian driver character is like wtf >rest of group appreciates my in-character fidelity to my played role >although target is dead >mission is not complete failure >because target was not as important >as the bioengineered virus he was infected with
Let's hear some of your stories of high-fidelity role-playing, and discuss the whole "not-min-maxxing" way of chargen & play. How do you design a system to -- if not reward -- at least encourage such play over min-maxxing?
>inb4 much deserved praise for the incomparable John LithgowHorus Heresy lorebeards help me outIn Flight of the Eisenstein, why does Nathaniel Garro yell "7 AM!" before caving the Daemon's head in with a rock?? I get it that the Death Guard has a thing with 7s. Garro's even the 7th company captain. But 7 AM? Is that when James Swallow starts daydrinking?