What would you want out of the inevitable Return to Theros?
More doom blade.
>>48297982
Almost a copy of Theros except for three changes
>All rares cost 1 less
>All mythics cost 2 less
>No returning planeswalkers
We'll call it... "We fixed Theros"
>>48297982
>Ajani goes full edgelord, leads the lion barbarians to sack the poleis for serving the gods
>Elspeth and Xenagos have to buddy comedy their way out of the Underworld to come back to life
>Garruk is there for some reason
Greetings one and all! We are the Emperor's most Pathetic Marines, each given a single gift before we departed for our new Chapter Space Hulk-Monastary. Our current Chapter Master is Heavy Bolter Guy.
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For those who wish to join in our patheticness, take up a gift!
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>>48291073
Glorious work Brother
>>48291073
It's perfect.
>>48291163
Thank you fellow Captain!
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>>48235152
Personally, I don't read or post much anymore because /gdg/ doesn't seem to talk about singular mechanics much. I'd like to have smaller themes than slinging whole pdfs around.
I think the general is more of a brainstorming box, I just remake it because i really enjoy the different ideas not related to anything in particular.
My current goal is to design a hex based modern combat skirmish type game, and was wondering what type of targeting anons use for a hex based map,as in scale LoS etc.
Its the evolution of my current square grid skirmish game that has yet to be completed but is at least playable. The hex version introduces more actions, weapons as well as environment interactions/buffs.
So? Why can't normal imperial guard use theses.
>>48313363
A better question is why can't i use theses? as 40k guard.
>>48313387
I'm more of a fan of rapiers, they fit my style of fighting as mass inf.
>>48313403
I beat you wish you had stood in bed?
After the new controversy what Pokemon started, after the release of Pokemon Go, I asked myself again, has Warhammer (both, Fantasy and 40K) ever been in the crossfire of a christian group like B.A.D.D.?
I (surprisingly) haven't found there anything so far...
(Picture more or less unrelated)
>>48310894
D&D featured pagan religions prominently, 40k on the other hand showcases a protagonist religion which is a space age version of Christianity. Would you really be worried if you got home and your son was painting up some black templars? Of course not.
>but what about chaos
I remeber when my pastor found out about 40k, and he was going to warn parents about the chaos factions. I showed him the 3.5ed chaos book and he was so furious at how underpowered it was he decided it was fine.
Googling "moral panic" with Warhammer gives surprisingly little relevant results, nearly everything's related to the big D&D scare. I did see one anecdote of someone being allowed to keep their Chaos books, because it wasn't D&D, which was wat everyone was worried about.
I do wonder what a Warhammer 40K moral outrage would look like. There would be a sense of irony to it, given the Imperium's emphasis on religious fanaticism, blind faith and willful ignorance
>>48311220
>Chaos wears a man purse
Truly inhuman savages.
GAMES WORKSHOP HAS STOPPED SELLING HARDCOVERS.
Why?
A thread died for this.
>>48310621
Back when I played wh40k (1990s), everything was in softcover. I like it better, it takes up less space.
>>48310621
It costs them less money and people will still buy their crap anyways
Can a Cure Disease spell fix autism?
If it can, there is hope for OP and this board.
>>48309568
No, autism is a spectrum so you need to cast color spray and hope one of the status effects counters it.
>>48309568
Is it a disease or is it evolution?
Checkmate, clerics.
Daily reminder that all Constructed formats are by definition pay-to-win.
I have to buy at least 60 cards so I can play a legal deck? Oh my, what monsters of WotC not letting me play my 0 card deck and just insta winning every tournament. Fuck off.
>>48309032
Is it weird that I kind of like the concept of deck building games that play like CCGs but just sell whole sets? Never played one though.
I fucking hate how whenever I play magic I literally need to stick to kitchen table just because I know I'm running jank that will get dumpstered at any sort of public forum but hate having to do aftermarket shit or buy a shitload of boosters every set.
I think the last straw was some guy who ran that 1/1 for W that becomes a 6/6 flying lifelinker if you have more than 30 life then rushed to remove everyone he didn't know personally from the game. Very aggravating.
>>48309531
Isn't that what LCGs are?
Tell me /tg/, what is the craziest thing you've eaten in a game?
>>48308611
The DM's poor excuse of a plot.
A skeleton with 500 arms. The skeleton was normal sized, as were the arms.
Is flipping pogs considered a traditional game?
>>48308518
Yes
>>48308518
Yes, but there's not much to talk about beyond hoping they make a comeback.
>>48308518
I think you mean "Milk Bottle Caps"...?
http://falsemachine.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/who-will-stop-worlds-most-evil-dog.html
(an adventure for level 1 players)
I'm imagiing a small black dog that constantly foils the PC's
steals babies and runs off with them
breaks into houses and bites the noses off old women
extremely racist
an evil genius
sets up traps
lures you into bad situations
leads you into dens of criminals
hides in the bog and lures you in to drown
sometimes spasms and attacks own tail
steals burning torches and sets churches on fire
kind of wheezes and yowls insanely instead of barking
stampedes cows
jumps on horses and rides them, guiding them by biting
sends carts running out of control
steals rare and valuable things and leaves them in the PC's packs without them knowing
ends up setting a gigantic fire and escaping on the keel of an upturned boat that goes down the river
shits in the font
digs up fresh graves (it never seems to sleep) and runs off with wedding rings
drops pigeon corpses into the well, poisoning it
eventually ends up leading a pack of wolves through town
hides in the toilet, waiting for you
steals money and throws it in the river
steals magic items and throws them in the well
runs along rooftops, has learn how to use ladders and climb trees
confuses the lock-manager by killing the crowing cock that wakes them up, then imitating the sound at the wrong time, so they end up flooding the town
keeps the doctor awake all night by yowling outside his window
can scream like a cat
pisses in your bed, poops in your shoes
it will only poop in human shoes (this is its one weakness)
takes drugs when it can (another weakness) and drinks to a shameful degree (it never becomes incapacitated)
gestures with its eyebrows
can smell fear
thinks you're kind of a pussy
pushes old men under water wheels
thows dead cats in between the windmills grinding-wheels, ruining the corn
when the mill-wheels are taken out for washing, it removes the chocks and sents one rolling through town, smashing through walls
it uses this to break into the bank (it wants the money, which it will throw in the river)
people think an old man is master of the dog but he is terrified of it
you get sucked into its all-encompassing plan
it rules crime in this town, the thieves guild are all terrified of it
attacks pregnant women
spooks the shire-horses pulling the canal-boats through town and makes them pull the boats to one side so they block the canal and capsize
the mayor hired an assasin from the captial to kill it, the dog ate him an now wears his bloodstained cloak, the assassins guild refuses to believe this has happened and has sent another assasin to kill the mayor
the local wizard tried to remove the curse upon the dog, but there was no curse and the dog stole his spell book and dropped it in the well
the dog intends to blow up the brewery somehow
the local cultists tried summoning a demon to destroy the dog but the dog licked away part of their magic circle and the demon escaped and ate them
the demon is a little scared of the dog
at a wedding the dog jumped into the wedding cake and no-one could get it out
a widow of a colonel who retired in town has called up the guard but the dog has outwitted them at every turn
it seems to be everywhere
no-one will send help to the town as no-one will belive that its just a dog doing this and the townspeople are too scared to admit the truth
a small faction on the town council is considering putting the dog in charge, since it does what it wants anyway
people think maybe the PC's will help, but some think they are doomed and others, who still can't quite accept that its just a dog, think the real villain will eventually reveal themselves and that this might be the PC's
Learn to greentext.
I'd probably just skip town.
Evil dogs are too hardcore for me.
>All rodents are now helpful little cleaners
How does this affect your setting, /tg/?
>>48307587
The rodents either lose this new behavior, or die out in favor of other competing creatures that do not engage in such wasteful behavior.
Our party gets chased out of town for clearing the tavern cellar of rats.
>>48307587
It's cleaner.
So, we all know that half-somethings and part-whatevers have been a thing in Dungeons & Dragons pretty much since it stopped being Chainmail Fantasy Wargame. The half-elf and half-orc are considered racial staples, to the point that one of the biggest riots of 4e was that half-orcs weren't in the first PHB.
But, I'm curious... does anyone actually ever make note of the fact that, to get your mixed-breed races, you've got to have interspecies couples in the first place?
Have you ever used it in plot-points - say, safeguard the human prince and the she-orc chieftain's daughter from "old guard" who want to stop the wedding so the peace treaty will be nullified?
Or even just flavor for NPCs and the world around them?
Do you always stick to the traditional human/x paradigm if you use the idea? Or do other races get involved?
Finally, how far can you take interspecies romance as a background element before it becomes magical realm? If I have, say, the male sphinx variants going extinct because gynosphinxes realised human men made better, daughter-producing mates than the reclusive asexual androsphinxes, or harpies becoming generally not evil because the harpies who chose to leave their baby-daddies alive tended to have more kids, who thus picked up that pair-bonding was better than one night stand + cannibalism, is that magical realmism?
Generally I just say races aren't fertile with eachother unless a half-race is specifically mentioned as part of the setting (see Half-Elves and such).
Interspecies romances still exist of course, but an elf and a dwarf aren't having any children unless adoption is involved.
DM tends to stick to what's in the books. Only time I can recall it being an important part of the plot, was when a kobold character I had was married to a human.
All the time, OP.
In my current campaign, I'm waiting for the player characters to explore the nearby forest enough that they run into a couple that lives in the woods, an orcess herbalist who one day rescued and healed a human surgeon after he'd become lost in the woods; they fell in love while he was convalescing and married and now they're the local wound-healing power-couple. (The surgeon is also an obsessive reader of elvish history and knows about some elvish ruins in the woods that he would love to explore and loot, if only some tough adventurer types would offer to assist with that…)
In my previous campaign, a major plot-point revolved around a terribly ill-fated romance between a dwarf prince (a younger son; his brother was king) and an elf adventuress. They ran off together, but got hunted down the bigoted high priestess of the dwarf-kingdom and "ladyhawk'd"—placed under a curse that made them different people and different times, and never themselves together. The dwarf-king (childless and with no heir), meanwhile, had to keep his brother's daughter's elvish blood a secret, lest she become a target of the wicked high-priestess and ineligible to inherit the dwarvish throne.
In that same campaign, a PC thief married a gorgon priestess after helping to rescue her sister from an evil cult; and a PC fighter in the same party might've wound up together with a centauress knight if the knight hand't unceremoniously bought it on dungeon level four near the end of the campaign…
Did you ever wanted to make a card game?
No, but I have wanted to use correct grammar in my OP
>>48307513
Fuck, so I just let the thread die and make another one?
Not seriously, but I have been thinking of ways to improve on the nearly-perfect systemDuel Mastersuses.
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Hey everyone,
Some friends of mine from high school ended up making a card game and it actually looks pretty nice. It seems to be a play on Love Letter except the points matter and affect the game?
Thought I would share because it looks kind of nifty.
If interested I can try and get the Print N Play version off of him for you guys?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewcorbett/shibboleth
>>48307135
>except the points matter
But card values already matter in Love Letter.
>>48307144
i mean like the points cause different endings and narrative things to happen
>>48307164
...what the hell are you talking about?
Why would you need anything more than "Player 1/2/3/4 wins" for a 2-minute card game?
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