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>>391425

>>391415

Don't you dare even think about ever justifying that god awful Nu40k Girlyman bullshit lore. Pretend it never happened, and that the status-quo is still maintained.

>>358320

1. Hey, this is pretty cool!

Into:

2. I immediately regret all my decisions.

Such is the natural progression of AnCap.

>>330145

I don't get it. Players refuse to fight in RPG? Are their characters pacifists or just pussies? Also they have weapons, but they didn't think they have to use them? Are they retarded? Am I missing something?

>>423061

This common in the system; it's the O&T delusion. I've ran it a few times and almost every char gen the player chooses the strangest weapons. I explicitly tell them that theyll come across guys with MGs, shotties, and long rifles but they choose shit like "SA low calibre hand gun and hatchet" or a .45 (which isn't strange, but he did get the saltiest after he was shanked to death). After they inevitably die, they either lose it or sulk and don't want to play the system again. I presumed they would jump for hand cannons and meme guns, like a minigun, auto-shotguns, or the CS kike pistol. Spoiled for choice?

The shottie is incredibly OP. With a few easy and unobtuse perks you can fire 5 5d6 shots in a single round with a negligible penalty.

>>422927

>People bitch for years that GW never moves the story forward

>GW moves the story forward and people scream “That isn’t what we wanted, you should have maintained the status quo!”

There really is no pleasing some people.

>>422031

>Tome of battle: 9 euphemisms for my dick

More DMs should use this book.

>>422037

OGL Vitality/Wounds makes it directly equal to Constitution, which tends to be a lot higher. The general method I've seen from what's described there is having it equal to a standard HD, and optionally advancing by +1 per level.

But if you want to talk chronology, I can think of at least one D&D derivative from the 70s - BM&G - that already used a two-split system like that back then, so it doesn't really mean much.

>>423071

Got a PDF?

>>409598

So,at the cost of 3 capped stats (which can be circumvented by magic), females get:

>One extra spell per day for every spell or 4 extra skill points

>A bonus to hit and damage on turn 1

And the only pickle is -3 Charisma adjustment which is really easily overcome

I don't see it as a downside, do you?

>>423105

It's on the trove

There are old good CLUE files (Shadowrun): https://web.archive.org/web/20061206051637/archive.dumpshock.com/CLUE/index.php3

>>419416

These actually got me into trying Shadowrun out, thanks to this now I can pop these out as 6th world news segments.

>Vampire: The Dark Ages

>A Ravnos PC is hunting for blood

>He notices a homeless guy sleeping in a ruined building

>Sneaks up on him, maybe even grabs the guy

>The homeless guy confronts the Ravnos: "What are you doing, vampire?"

>The player just sits there dumbfounded

>The homeless guy was a werewolf

>The Ravnos just stands there

>The werewolf continues to beat the vampire to a pulp or claw him to death

I was the Storyteller. I gave the Ravnos plenty of time to do something. I wanted him to escape, but he just sat there. I described the werewolf's actions slowly. I was waiting for him to react, but the player did nothing. He wasn't known for his Wits score.

I once blew up a planet challenging Kanye West to a Swag-Off.

Most of the rest of them are because my GM is a douche.

>>422902

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/dark-earth-french-rpg-collateral-victim-of-the-market.27028/

There's some sad news in France today, for the RPG scene.

>We had a very good post-apocalytic RPG called Dark Earth.

The game used to have two editions, the first one being co-produced by Multisim (tabletop RPG publisher) and Kallisto (CRPG publisher), because a computer game was issued at the same time as the RPG, with the same background (and some people belonged to both companies, like Frederic Weil, former Multisim president).

>Kallisto, like lots of high-tech company, used to be a very successful company in the 1998-1999 period (the president of Kallisto, Nicolas Gaume, was everywhere in the media, and was regularilly invited by officials, including French president François Miterrand), but had major commercial setbacks in 2000 (plus, they somewhat forged their acounting, ouch).

>Since then, Kallisto has been agonizing, and Multisim completely severed the links between the two companies (and they recently stopped the Dark Earth line, seeing bad news coming).

Last week, an announcement was made (but not on the Multisim official site ...) : all intellectual properties of Kallisto are forbidden to be sold, and this includes both Dark Earth rulebooks (but not the supplements, for some mysterious reason).

>I don't know how this is going to be enforced, but it really sucks. I think I'll rush to my FLGS, as soon as possible, to grab the last copy before it is trashed ...

>It's a good thing that no CRPG was made about Nephilim, Agone and others ...

It's history as of circa 2002. There was never an English translation and its production was seized by the French Government from the author, which has most likely been sold off in some bulk intellectual property rights deal to god knows who. The only way you'll find anything on it is if you can purchase it from a French collePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>422902

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rzLcDQNG3g

Your best bet would be to get your hands on the PC game and absorb as much information from that as you can, and then home brew the characters and whatever you want using a universal system like GURPS, FATE, Mutant and Masterminds, D20, D6, BRP, Role Master, OSR, or what have you.

Dont.

>it seemed simpler to get into than most games at that scale

No its not. Rulebooks are awful and quite outdated by modern standards.

>Other than that, anyone have any advice introducing younger players to wargaming? They're 13 and 14, if it makes any difference.

Do they have money for minis? If not than play via tabletop sim. Warhammer40k 8ed is super easy to learn compared to mordheim.

If you really want to play something on small scale with actual minis than play bloodbowl. Its basically chess with dice.

I cant say about necromunda or killteam but I am sure they should be fine as starter.

>>422826

That's a shame to hear. I'm buying them minis, but buying three full 40k armies is a little beyond my means at the moment.

I didn't know that Necromunda was still around. Maybe we'll give that a shot as well. I'd still like to at least try Wyrdwars, though. The discrete grid-based systems of Necro, Blood Bowl, etc aren't really my thing.

The thing that attracts me to Wyrdwars (and Necromunda, if it comes down to it) is the progression of your forces, their growth over a campaign. Is there another game that does that well?

>>422832

> is the progression of your forces, their growth over a campaign. Is there another game that does that well?

Bloodbowl. Technically warhammer40k 8e in big campaigns, but its too different. Bloodbowl is basically exactly same system of leveling.

>>411299

Context, you dumb cunt. You posted some retarded shit without explaining anything and dropped a roll20 link, like anyone here actually likes that shitpit.

>>407749

But one of them lives in Ponyville and works at the Friendship School. She founded it.

>>411309

Either read it or don't, or pick a topic. Nobody's putting a gun to your head.

>>422825

Turns out HTML looks ugly when converted to PDF formatting. I'll just link to the GDocs instead and anyone interested can save the pages as HTML documents.

Core rules: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1PPyX9Bie69_NtO4qrLd3Ak3K02wflxIe5Lc9sgJIA64

Multiclasses: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UanjEwZV_rKT_zh-8zQTBIoVQacrGEZK0aMaRKu6zlU/pub?output=html

Improved spellcasting: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=12rJJXEoUIFKbDbgi-51282zkiBwJXF9-WiHHwxts4PY

Monster manual: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1AQOuKK4hBmsNRKG-gwqZ_eATqF-AP5P3j1pGLPjM7Ao

I've read an extended review of it, it sounded like Sex & Drugs & Domestic Terrorism: The RPG with superpowers thrown in the mix. I kinda liked the feel of it, and I lament that there aren't any more RPGs that take place in the current day.

But alas, like with every small indie RPG, convincing a roomful of people to actually try it out is an impossibility.

>>423844

Chilchack is the purest anime girl.

>>421775

>I'm not sure how many dice rolls are too much for your idea to avoid being combatesque. You'd probably enjoy freeform erp.

It's not about dice rolls, but about the idea of replacing physical combat with HP and strength mods, with social combat with Morale and Charisma mods. It's a different flavor of the same thing, except you're not killing your opponent. Combat is combat, and the thread is about non-combat.

>>422207

This feels like it's trying too hard to be funny, the last sheet does not.

>>422384

As of right now, it's also really really heavy on the vagina and gender shit. Not only unfunny, but boring.

Generally speaking, enchantment means adding magical properties to an item. Illusion means illusion, pretty straughtforward. Artifice is a more broad term and could encompass enchantment but generally leans more towards crafting items than enchanting existing ones, though the crafting process could include adding magical properties.

DnD of course uses the terma differently, but DnD is trash so we won't worry about that.

You can use illusions to trick a zombie but you cannot use enchantment to charm him.

>>421761

What about esp/telepathy is that enchantment divination illusion

>>422572

Telepathy is considered Evocation or just Psionics.

>>422572

depends on what you are doing, mind control is enchantment, mind reading and esp are typically divination; or just psionics for both. You could say that enchantment is controlling or subverting the will, illusion is controlling or deceiving the senses, and divination is magically obtaining information.

>>422302

>I just wish that lazy cuckold of translator would finally get of his ass and do the stuff he's been paid for years ago.

Was it Tenra the gunslinger or tenra proper where the faggot just dropped and said

>nope, too problematic too much misoginy? [unsolicited opinions on israel?!]

>>422302

That cover reminds me of Kabaneri Of The Iron Fortress~ zombie apocalypse feudal Japan.

As someone who's trying to slap together their own Asian-inspired setting, how much research do I need to do before I stop feeling like some out of touch asshole who regurgitates what he reads? My feudal Japan area is too feudal Japan.

>>422329

Do as much research as you want, what'S important is how much of that research makes into the game. You shouldn't expect your players to act like Japanese history experts, reenacting the lifes of feudal Japanese when the game is supposed to be more of a Japan based high fantasy game.

>>422235

> Any recommendations for really good ones?

your preference ? usually people pick some battle or era they are interested in and go from there - all these map/counter games are similar - lots of rules lots of pieces

>How are the solitaire ones?

ok for me the challenge is trying to play the game with all the rules

>>422256

I’ve only experimented with the two previously mentioned so far but I’d like to try some Pike and Shot/Black Powder era stuff. Maybe some of the Cold War games.

Tabletop sim has a pretty active community and works well enough to play card games in. It has a stream workshop page, so someone may have already made a mod for whatever game you want to play.

>>422190

I'd say it's better than "well enough" at this point, honestly. A few years back it was rough around the edges, but you can peek at cards now, hands function much better, RAM limitations on textures are finally gone and you can add single cards if you absolutely need to, and options for tokens, markers, and maps have greatly improved.

>>422082

terrible because it auto losses to nekusar

>>422152

>pw deck Chandra has better art than uncounterable Chandra

I really wish their arts were switched, but +1 shock is pretty nice. Too bad it wasn’t bolt instead.

>>422225

I wish they had reprinted Nekusar instead of Kess in mh1. He’d be a lot more fun to build with and prison Nekusar could be pretty interesting.

Wow! 5 months since we were here. A lot has changed for me during that time. In particular, with winter around the corner, I can't attend FNMs any more, and the release of a new format, Pioneer. Seems pretty cool.

In the last 5 months, I've been dabbling in trying to buy and sell cards for profit. While I don't really look at /r/mtgfinance (on the grounds of it being Reddit; if I absolutely need to, I might skim it), I do follow Rudy / AlphaInvestments on YT. I've tried speculating on a few cards, such as Field of the Dead (8x$10 foil), Alpine Moon (24x$1-$2 each), and a few others; right now, those have more than doubled in value, I just need to unload them to a buyer. I've taken advantage of FB buy/sell/trade groups to avoid EBay fees, and I've even registered as a small business via Canada Post to save on shipping fees... I just need to make the effort.

Mostly, I've been buying up local collections and buylisting the bulk to other stores, while holding onto the non bulk cards for myself (eg Karn, shocks, etc). Because shipping presents a huge amount of overhead, my plan was to either sell them as sets (eg $40 cards, as tracked shipment for $10) or trade them up locally (which is difficult because we're a small town) into higher value cards (eg bulk standard -> shocks -> $30-$40 singles), which I would then sell.

This seems kinda blogposty, but that's how I've been approaching the game right now. Oh, and I've been trying to "invest" in sealed boxes as per Rudy. Right now I have a Throne of Eldraine, Guilds of Ravnica, and Oath of the Gatewatch box, plus 2 Core 2020 fat packs. I plan to get one box per set as they come out, and as money allows, 1-3 boxes per year of older stuff that has proven itself.

I feel that the economy is in a bubble though, and I found the Reserve List prices tanking to be an interesting indicator of what might happen to the rest of the game for like, 5-7 years

>last post 2 months ago

is this site officially dunzo?