/tg/ - Traditional Games

>>77133219
The way I'd define sword and sorcery in a word is that it's not grim and dark, it's romantic (not the carnal sort) and dark. I don't think I recall a single environment in Conan which was dreary and dismal and squalid except obviously for Cimmeria (which we never visit) and maybe Hyperborea.

>>77133091
We have pretty consistent references to his skin being darkened/bronzed. The guy was not some pasty Scotsman by any measure, he was firmly 'black irish' look like Colin Farrel or Pierce Brosnan quick hide the fat Brythunian slave women.

>He was almost a giant in stature, muscles rippling smoothly under his skin, which the sun had burned brown. [Red nails]
>The invader was a tall man, at once strong and supple. He was dressed like a hillman, but his dark features and blazing blue eyes did not match his garb. [Black circle - clearly the dark features are a'la tall dark and handsome, not necessarily skin tone but usually does imply a healthy tanned glow, not pasty]

>Behind an ivory, gold- inlaid writing-table sat a man whose broad shoulders and sun-browned skin seemed out of place among those luxuriant surroundings. He seemed more a part of the sun and winds and high places of the outlands. His slightest movement spoke of steel-spring muscles knit to a keen brain with the co-ordination of a born fighting-man. [phoenix on the sword]

>A touch on his tunic sleeve made him turn his head, scowling at the interruption. He saw a tall, strongly made youth standing beside him. This person was as much out of place in that den as a gray wolf among mangy rats of the gutters. His cheap tunic could not conceal the hard, rangy lines of his powerful frame, the broad heavy shoulders, the massive chest, lean waist and heavy arms. His skin was brown from outland suns, his eyes blue and smoldering; a shock of tousled black hair crowned his broad forehead. From his girdle hung a sword in a worn leather scabbard. [Tower of the elephant]

>>77133367
Obviously in those cases it always mentions the sun tanned him so, but I cannot recall a single passage where he's pasty and pale. As you mentioned Momoa's innate complexion can just be passed off as a tan. I didn't see the movie but I didn't have a problem with Momoa's casting.

As for a director, if you could synthesize Ridley Scot in the era of Gladiator he'd be great, but he's lost the mojo he had in that film. I can't name a director I'd have faith in off of an existing product, but above all you'd want a director willing to listen to his art team/research team the way Ridley Scot did on Kingdom of Heaven. He went into it wanting plate clad knights vs lawrence of arabia bedouin, until they corrected him and pointed him on the right way.

You'd need someone like that for Conan, to point them towards sword and sorcery and away from game of thrones.

>>77133363
Nah none of those lyrics resonate with any of Conan's stories. The lyrics themselves seem to imply an almost paladin like chivalry and quest to best this evil priest-king. The procession of grim silent demons marching to their secret keep would best match the lizardmen who conspire against Kull, but the rest of that doesn't.

>>77133367
I would agree with Sword and Sorcery feeling romantic and dark. Various dungeons, jungles, and cities were dreary/dismal/squalid. There is a difference though between a squalid dungeon shot by a competent filmmaker and crew, and a soulless flat grey dungeon shot by a studio. Conan the Destroyer... hell, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, is more interesting to look at than the Mamoa Conan.

>>77133363
I got to share a beer with Jason tarpey once. Got his signature on my copy of Swords & Steel

>na I don't use trays bro

>Drukhari
Change my mind.

>>77107054
GW-isms are gay

>>77107093
The entire game is GW-ims.

>>77103285
>OMG BLADEGUARDS ARE SO COOL THEY ARE LIKE KNIGHT'S WITH SWORD AND SHIELD BUT IN A SCI-FI WORLD DUDE!SO COOOL!

>>77113356
Nah, he's got a based DM. Freakshit deserves to be be reminded they're freakshit at every opportunity.

>>77113425
Rent free

>>77102998
Just do what rural Asian people do when they see a white person. They don't say anything, just stare.

>>77102998
why isn't the npc setting/world also freak shit
come on

>>77102998
>blaming the player instead of the GM
Yup, definite no-games alright

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>>77117151
He can't, because it's not even available to those of us with preferred Hasbro stock anymore. However they are showing all the corporates hallmarks. However, anyone with a brain will know its because Magic has nearly died due to coronachan.

>>77117264
>I can't provide evidence but trust me it has all the hallmarks I can't describe
Riiiiiight.

>>77117250
Actually the exact same thing happened last time someone in my game played a flying race lmao. He flew into prepared shots by about a dozen archers and got downed and died outright. It's silly to pretend this counteracts all the advantages of flying, but I agree it's not broken in the sense it's usually talked about.

>>77117318
To be fair the guy playing the flier also isn't trying to break the game, he's got 12 AC and intentionally made sure he was within firing range of the bows. The race is homebrew the GM provided, and so he has featherfall when he falls from flight, but I still had to run over and shove one of his healing potions down his gob on my turn to keep him from dying because he crit-failed his first death save.

The entire party really is an unoptimized mess, but it's been fun considering that same character is also a drug addict and we were burning an entire field of the drug he's addicted to, so he failed his con save to resist it and was high off his ass the rest of the fight.

>>77117306
Not that I can't describe it, I just assumed you were smart enough to see them for yourself. I will not make that mistake again.

Just off the top of my head:
Removal of free content
Increased focus on premium products (this has been an issue for a while, but has gotten egregious over the last year)
Increased focus on secondary revenue streams (MTGO payed events)
Leaning on other products for adjacency-based marketing (the D&D setting guides)

This is all the same type of shit they did when they were tanking hard right before the Modern redesign. Just using D&D and MTGO instead of magazine tie-ins and new videogames.

>>77102945
Or they are either furries, cheeselords "my araocra flies up X meters high" or are faggots who need to feel like a snowflake

>>77102676
THANK YOU OP!! You discovered the best way to get rid of That Players.
>want to play freakshit/furshit?
>they are common everywhere and have no penalties while interacting with other species
Most of These Players just want to argue.

>>77104543
>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HELP ME NIGGERMAN, NOT A SINGLE ONE OF MY GOBLINS IN MY DUNGEON HAS A RANGED ATTACK, I'M GETTING CHEEEEEEESED!

>>77104612
>implying you'd be able to fly so high up in a cave with your freakshit race
Closeted furry faggot, neck yourself

>>77103932
If that’s the way you like to play. To each their own.

>>77130341
Imagine if the text boxes of all cards were that small, hahahaha

>>77130747
I could work if an automated form of play had been created from the beginning anf all the box would need to contain is a qr code for the system to scan.

>>77128808
Hey man duel devastator was great, I really enjoyed buying 2 of them just for some rarities upgrades/side grades

new bread?

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new
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>>77102555
Far Future Sandbox soft Scifi
>wide-open, there's nothing you can't do, the universe is too big
>guns are cool
>tech means things get invented, often with the players' involvement in research or securing materials
>set of genre conventions is so wide that you can make your own
>you get to have a fucking spaceship, which becomes like a character itself. Even when characters die the player still has a connection to the game through the ship.

>>77103233
What is the pic from?

>>77103291
Dirty Pair

>>77102555
Post-apocalypse fantasy with cyberpunk aesthetics and no humans and extra pickles.

>>77102555
Pulp fiction or gonzo

>>77133028
>mad I responded to the evidence of ORs faggotry and not the OR directly...
ok
>>77133080
>Even the artist, after being proven retarded for claiming something that is not, doesn't claim that retarded not thing anymore
lurk

>>77133234
Learn to type while not suffering from a stroke. You didn't prove anything other than the fact you're a massive crybaby.

I so sick of this childish discussions, it's like none of you fagots have ever used a drawthead. Just fuckin lurk, use the website, why always has to be someone calling you a retard. Adding shit on the op doesn't make it legitimate rerequesting it's bad manners, piggybacking, bumping... just fucking think.

>>77133464

Requesting for a Necromorph Mike Wazowski, but with no arms. Not necessarily exactly like Mike, just a necromorph with a big middle eye and two retarded looking legs. Feel free to be creative with it, anything's good.

tergrid seems to have hit the low for now
being under 3 eurobucks I feel getting one now before it goes up seeing it's super good and popular
do you think it will come back down again once people start cracking packs or will it stay or go up?

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>>77109074
She's fun for our format, but I expect she's too expensive mana wise to do much elsewhere. I doubt she'll ever go that high.

>>77108002
No that's a Delta Inquinato

>>77107942
Yes of course that works. Protection stops destruction.

>>77102984
Fuck, that reminds me of something that happened to my group

>Party is chasing down a thief
>Thief as soon as he's out of sight try to use a scroll of invisibility
>The scroll misfires
>DM rolls random effect
>"You see a cloud of smoke, and then you see the thief again."
>"His skin is completely blue"
>Silence
>"Why are you blue"
>"Because..."
>"Because I am an Efreeti".
>Threateningly: "Do you still want to fight me?"

We actually believed him that time and let him go. It was only afterwards that we discovered it was completely a spur of the moment improvisation. Worst/Best bluff we hever witnessed.

>>77102113
we've been able to kill creatures just as big and even bigger since the stone age.
Also they weren't that fast. Biomechanical studies show they likely moved between 5-20 kmh, the same speed as humans, so unless somehow we can't see them coming we can easily escape them especially if you consider that due to their size they will have a harder time turning and accelerating due to momentum.
Any medieval setting woul make short work of them, for a medieval fantasy setting they won't even be an issue.

>>77115462
>t-rex took the neck pill

>>77110965
>This holds true for a good number of DnD settings and most fantasy literature I've read. I mean hell there are plenty of settings where the average human is unused to the sight of a dwarf or an elf
What D&D settings are you reading because even a casual perusal of most D&D materials throughout the years suggest that people interact with non humans all the time. "Goodness it's an elf" hasn't been a thing in D&D for literal decades.

>>77110846
>who you know for a fact have evil otherworldly beings in their family tree?
Because you would also be aware of the fact that wouldn't change how that person is morally. People always go "people would kill tieflings on sight" but their first time some dude tries to kill a tiefling baby and gets his cheeks clapped for infanticide by Good Outsiders, that would pretty much stop. Logically speaking anyone in a D&D setting that doesn't think every fucking goat they encounter is LITERALLY BAPHOMET would also be aware that tieflings are just humans with horns and funny skin.

>>77101957
Give full disclosure of the webway project and of the existence of Chaos to the Primarchs. I tell them that through my totally not god-like psyker powers I have received a vision of the future, and tell them of the events of and leading to the Horus Heresy.

I tell my sons, all of them that I still love them, and that part of the blame for the downfall rested on me for being a terrible father. I tell Lorgar that the fate of Kor Phaeron was up to him, and that he needed to either find a way to save him before its too late, or put him down if he cannot. I tell him that Erebus is too far gone as he was a closeted Chaos worshipper even before he was an Astartes and that he must be stopped before he spreads the taint to any of his brothers. I tell Angron that his Butcher's Nails are doing him far more harm than any good they could possibly do for the Imperium, and are making him vulnerable to Khornate influence. I tell him that the future implantation of the nails into any persons must be forbidden, and research into their potential safe removal must become a priority for his own good and for that of mankind.

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>>77106557
Isn´t the Emperor Religion good on the long run?

Like SO MUCH FORCE AGAINST CHAOS steers in part because of the religious faith of the Empire. All the saints, all the religious orders, the inquisitors, the basic people that manage to hold off chaos because of faith and such.

The "ban on religion" was because it would "feed chaos", but the Emperor was wrong and raw emotion does it regardless. The correct aproach is using that force for good.

>>77129222
>If it is a recessive gene they need to outbreed for a few generations to boost the numbers before selective culling and inbreeding again.
>This would take time as humans aren't like chickens for example.
Yes but we're still working in millennia here, immortal Perpetuals and all that.

>>77130453
>The "ban on religion" was because it would "feed chaos", but the Emperor was wrong and raw emotion does it regardless. The correct approach is using that force for good.
Indeed, hence harnessing Lorgar zealotry as a weapon against the Ruinous powers from the start.
I'd even give Fem-Lorgar/Pandora a special box to shove any Warp Entity she'd think could be beneficial to Pax Imperia into.

>>77130098
>Anggron
I am always amazed by people who consistently get canon spellings wrong but a medium that is dealt with almost entirely in print

>>77101957
>Appoint Sanguinius Warmaster like Horus thought he should have been
>Explain to Lorgar why he needs to cut the shit with this religion bullshit and give him one more chance before I just have Russ cull him
>Forcibly remove the Butchers Nails from Angron or, failing that, put the dog out of his misery
>Let Magnus, and only Magnus, in on the Webway secret considering it's going to be his job to sit on the Throne to control the damn thing
>Let Perturbao rebuild the worlds he takes after wading through shit, give him a decent taste of his dream while he does the grunt work at the very least
There, I've just dealt with all the major problem children

>>77103537
Once you reach true OSR nirvana you realize that nothing B/X added was really necessary. All you need is to set a chance and roll a die.

>>77103723
forgot to add that removing d6 as the universal Hit Die and adding variable weapon damage was the single worst decision in all of D&D

>>77101655
The gold standard for OSR. If you aren't compatible with B/X GTFO. Your game isn't OSR.

>>77103360
I actually own a collected volume of the lbbs and a collected volume of the first supplements, they are available on lulu. Probably never gonna use em, they are cool as historical documents tho.

>>77101655
Great game, would fuck, 10/10.

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>>77131357

I really like Saltmarsh as a starter town, the actual starting adventure is pretty enjoyable too but the rest of them seem meh or just bad to run/play.

>>77124749
just be a tavern keep and just chuckle with your motley bunch of bouncers. not rocking the boat.

>>77124749
Running in a tight nit gang is comfy

Horrible thread. No input, nothing brought to the table yourself, just one single line of text and an image you wanted to post.
Kill yourself.

>>77101612
this d e s u

>>77105734
This is essential. A glaze is basically a really runny wash, if you don't wipe most of the brush off you'll fuck up your mini

>>77105143
Orion, Tyrion or Malerion?

>>77105711
Tempest Eye was incredible for a brief period of time before they updated KO.

40 Arkanauts buffed by Hawk-eyed (+1 wound), Hurricanum (+1 hit), and a Khemist (+1 attack)
First turn you shoot 24 Skyhooks at 3+/2+/-2/D3 (with +1 hit against HERO/MONSTER) and spend a command point to reroll hit1

Then you swap to buffing pistols when they got closer and unleash 12 Skyhooks and 84 pistol shots at 3+/3+.

Back then the only shooting armies were Stormcast so you could easily roll over the melee-focused meta

Too bad they yeeted all the fun from arkanauts with the KO 2.0 book

>>77103922
Osiarch bowman

>>77105510
Behemat is trying to reincarnate as one of them, so sooner or later one will match him

>>77101495
beastmen are based chads

>>77101479
Beastmen so I can get waifus like these

>>77101549
True as that is, I'm still of the mind Skaven win simply by virtue of how fucking nuts their stuff can be.

Return To Tradition Beastmen are cool, but Nuclear Holocaust Rats are just that much cooler imo.

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>>77101817
Skaven are all men, you're gay.

>Nigger goats
>Jew rats
>Mexican dinosaurs
Lizardmen by a mile.

>>77101312
Do you still have the PDF? I was looking to grab it in the last thread but I didn't. Is there a website or something too? This seems like a really cool game so I want to take time to deep dive it at some point.

Also thank you for thread 2.

>>77101312
Oh god you made another one.
I'll give you credit for being dedicated.

As a side note, the To-Do List is Comment Enabled, so if you have ideas or weird concepts you'd like to see explored. Feel free to post about them.

As for my idea about government mode.
My primary idea would be an almost single-player experience with a player taking control of the government, trying and failing to contain and deal with exterior threats to the national sphere.
It's early, very early, but it's partially inspired by another game I wrote not too long ago.

>>77102439
There's no dedicated website for Hearts of Darkness outside my personal site where I keep everything.

I do plan on fixing up the PDF to make it better than the nightmare that is a Google Docs PDF, probably after I finish up the last PDF Conversion.

As usual, I am here for questions.

>>77103086
Thanks for the orientation. Reading now.

>>77103086
What does +/- 1 mean for training die from traits? e.g. psychopath, elderly, etc.

>>77129787
>you also see a gerudo crying in the bar that 9ft isn't too tall
Dont forget the husband seeking class and one of the girl being outright excited enough to commit crimes in order to get a man, or that you get to play matchmaker and see a Gerudo bride marry a construction worker, man they really fleshed them out in that game

>>77130053
>A better idea is an all female species which reproduces by converting members of other species (male and female) into more of themselves.
Damn Space Harpies!

>>77129787
They were warned that any man born to their people would bring ruin. Ganondorfs mom tried to hide him in the desert so they wouldn't kill him and went to twinrova to protect him.

They, being desert witch cunts with an eye for prophecy, took him in and raised him to adulthood (while quitely dispatching his mother). Then he return to the Gerudo as a super powerful warlock built like a brick shithouse and entralled his people before the events of OoT.

It would almost be tragic if he wasnt such a bastard.

>>77101282
in my setting, orcs can only interbreed with other species. Female orcs can only interbreed with men of other species, male orcs can only interbreed with women of other species.
It is like this because it is my fetish.

>>77131068
My only problem with the Gerudo is the fact that Link needs to crossdress to be in Gerudo town after you defeat the desert beast. I really wish you could just wear the Voe Desert Armor after that, because I am not a fan of forced crossdressing and the joke gets old quick.

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New thread >>77131242

>>77101140
Get in line

>>77101244
They don't even like each other.

>>77101224
thats no better

>>77101140
so do the rest of us, you don't see us going on about it

>>77101352
I legit attempted to figure out for a few seconds which was just slightly worse, but then realized after you cross a certain threshold there are somethings that defy magnitude of badness and are just all the worst possible.

>>77130817
The dwarf arc started seven years ago

>>77128220
fuck the rules, that was hilarious

>>77103562
Three quaterlings?

>>77131340
That's not true.
It can't be.

>>77133412
March of 2014, which is also when the comic started using the newer artstyle

>>77101165
The idea of compartmentalizing damage to specific parts of the body and exploding dice with unique critical effects is based.

>>77100944
Both Warhammers

>>77100944
Hard question to answer.
Best setting to play in? I would go Hiperborea for gritty, Athas for more high level games.
Best setting I would like to live in? Tought call, but perhaps Glorantha.
The setting I Feel the more comfortable feeling for? Middle Earth.
The Setting I stole more from? Dominions 5/Conquest of Elysium.
And I could go one.

>>77100944
3e forgotten realms
theres plenty I dont like about it but it somehow just has that soul for me

>>77104398
>Setting i stole more from :Dominions 5
my fellow melanin-enriched individual

Looks like you're gonna have to learn to cut and reposition your models anons!

Seems an overreaction. The head and arms are posable and there's options for holsters and scabbards. So compared to marines of old it's just the torso and legs that are joined.

>>77116933
yeah but these days you have sooo much options and no amount of yelling is going to change their minds. GW models today are extremely well detailed and for them tere is way more money for them in the current path the are taking now.

but at the end of the day is your hobbying if you dont like what GW is doing look elsewhere. Frostgrave wizards box sounds like something exactly up your alley, There is so much options with 3d printing and other miniature companies the hobbying part you seem to enjoy is probably cheaper then one box of monopose GW minis. This is like complaininjg that todays music is shit and it was only good before but you didnt actually put effort in finding todas music that you like.

>>77100836
True.
Otherwise GW woudn't have made it through the first 10 years when everything was monopose.

>>77122213

Fun fact: Games Workshop didn't make miniatures for the first 4 years of their existence. They hand-made Chess and Backgammon sets and sold boardgames, before becoming the UK importers of a new game called Dungeons & Dragons in 1978. They worked up the money to start Citadel Miniatures in 1979.