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>>52630024
she ain't sucking my cock while chained to my radiator, so she's feminazi garbage made up by tumblr waifufags who need to go back to the kitchen.

tl;dr, /tg/ can't even form a consensus on if they enjoy games, let alone picking a system, mascot, or enjoyed themes. Don't expect anything other than a vocal minority trying to shout down another vocal minority.

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"... and he that went before now came last, and that which was white and black and all direction was thrown against itself. Grown mightily indignant at the words of the Gods, Malal did turn his heart against them and flee into the chambers of space... And no man looked to Malal then, save those that serve that which they hate, who smile upon their misfortune, and who bear no love save for the damned. At such times as a warrior's heart turns to Malal, all Gods of Chaos grow fearful, and the laughter of the Outcast God fills the tomb of space..."

>>52630045
Your "tl;dr" is longer than your actual text, retard.

>>52622395

I loved Clue. I plan to fetch my old copy next time I go back to my parents' house.

My first hobby game was the usual: Catan. But it didn't really capture my attention much. I had side exposure to a number of others, but Forbidden Desert is the one that really got me into it.

Could anyone give me some recommendations/comments on the following games:

>Tragedy Looper
>Witch Hunt
>The Lords of Rock
>Legends of Draxia
>Fairy Tale
>Crisis: Tokyo
>Ars Alchimia
>Noir
>Eight Epics
>Attack on Titan DBG

I'm currently visiting the US, and I'm looking for some games to take back to Germany. These are the games that caught my eye at a FLGS near me.

>What's the mass market game from your youth that you loved the most? Still in your collection? What about the first game that got you to transition from those into hobby/niche board games?
I'd say maybe Risk or Monopoly, but I didn't like Monopoly very much and Risk was just something I played at camp.
I borrowed a copy of Catan and Bang from a cousin, and fell down the rabbit hole form there. Played Catan for about 7 hours straight with my friends, pulling a literal all nighter.

>>52622865
Tragedy Looper is my favorite game, but it mostly involves analyzing board state and looking at a spreadsheet in order to make logical deductions. It's really not a game for everyone, but I love it since on one side, it's a puzzle game that's actively working against you, and on the other, you're trying to bluff/feign/improvise a plan on the spot.

I felt like Fairy Tale really too simple and bland. It's my only drafting game outside of MtG, but most of the cards were too straightforward and lacked interesting interaction. The expert cards are a step in the right direction though, but they account for a small portion of the deck.

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>Advanced Squad Leader
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/d9x0dbxrpjg48/Advanced_Squad_Leader
>Battleground WWII
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/cb83cg7ays4l1/Battleground_WWII
>Battlegroup
https://mega.nz/#F!SolyxarJ!GUg6zWBStfznr6BvYedghQ
>Black Powder
http://www.mediafire.com/download/o5x6blwoczojmfr/Black+Powder.pdf
>Bolt Action
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/n7jmdnlv1n0ju/Bolt_Action
>By Fire And Sword
https://mega.co.nz/#!jxgCWTYD!FCp52DAqIUc-EM-TsRsWv7fB92nJ3kkzKsNcD_urI5Q
>Fleet Series
https://mega.nz/#F!i1N3xZxL!C6fQ3Z8o2U0gtk5kdXuVcQ
>Hail Caesar
https://mega.nz/#F!XsVD0KgT!twB1NWiFE3aKXK_O1EZ4pA
>Impetus
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/28i9gevqws518/Impetus
>Modelling & painting guides
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/7b5027l7oaz05/Modelling_%26_Painting_Guides
>Next War (GMT)
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/eupungrg93xgb/Next_War
>Phoenix Command RPG
https://mega.co.nz/#F!b5tgXRwa!mzelRNrKPjiT8gP7VrS-Jw
>Saga
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/alj31go19tmpm/SAGA
>Twilight 2000/2013 RPG
https://mega.co.nz/#F!C9sQhbwb!NVnD4jvUn5inOrPJIAkBhA
>Wargaming Compendium
http://www.mediafire.com/download/cghxf3475qy46aq/Wargaming+Compendium.pdf
>Warhammer Ancient battles 2.0
http://www.mediafire.com/download/uttov32riixm9b0/Warhammer+Ancient+Battles+2E.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ta7aj1erh7sap1t/Warhammer+Ancient+Battles+-+Armies+of+Antiquity+v2.pdf
>Warhammer Historical
https://mega.nz/#F!LxkElYYY!FJB5miNmlWZKMj2VfSYdxg
>Warmaster Ancients
http://www.mediafire.com/download/cifld8bl3uy2i5g/Warmaster+Ancients.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/3emyvka11bnna1b/Warmaster+Ancient+Armies.pdf

Desired scans :
Rank and File supplements
Harpoon 3 & 4 supplements
Force on Force supplements
Hind Commander
At Close Quarters
War and Conquest

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9th April in military history:

537 – Siege of Rome: Byzantine general Belisarius receives reinforcements and starts raids against the Gothic camps.
1241 – Battle of Liegnitz: Mongols defeat the Polish-German army.
1288 – Mongol invasions of Vietnam: Yuan forces are defeated by Trần forces in the Battle of Bach Dang.
1388 – Despite being outnumbered 16:1, forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy defeat the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Näfels.
1609 – 80 Years' War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp initiating twelve years of truce.
1782 – American Revolution: Battle of the Saintes begins.
1865 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, effectively ending the war.
1914 – Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
1916 – World War I: Battle of Verdun: German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
1917 – World War I: Battle of Arras: The battle begins with Canadian Corps executing an assault on Vimy Ridge.
1918 – World War I: Battle of the Lys: The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by German forces.
1940 – World War II: Operation Weserübung: Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
1942 – World War II: US forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula. The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon; RN aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and RAN destroyer HMAS Vampire are sunk off the island's east coast.
1945 – World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk by the RAF.
1945 – World War II: Battle of Königsberg ends.
1948 – Jorge Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá and a further ten years of violence in Colombia known as La violencia.
1981 – The US Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.
2003 – Invasion of Iraq: Baghdad falls to American forces.

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It is 152 years since the American Civil War effectively ended with Lee's surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia. The event has become an important part of the war's mythology. Dressed in an immaculate uniform, Lee waited for Grant. Grant arrived at the courthouse in a mud-spattered uniform—a private's sack coat with trousers tucked into muddy boots, no sidearms, and with only his tarnished shoulder straps showing his rank. It was the first time the two men had seen each other face-to-face in almost two decades. Suddenly overcome with sadness, Grant found it hard to get to the point of the meeting and instead the two generals briefly discussed their only previous encounter, during the Mexican-American War. Lee brought the attention back to the issue at hand, and Grant offered the same terms he had before.

The terms were as generous as Lee could hope for; his men would not be imprisoned or prosecuted for treason. Officers were allowed to keep their sidearms. Grant also allowed the defeated men to take home their horses and mules to carry out the spring planting and provided Lee with a supply of food rations for his starving army; Lee said it would have a very happy effect among the men and do much toward reconciling the country. The terms of the surrender were recorded in a document hand written by Grant's adjutant Ely S. Parker. Lee, upon discovering Parker to be a Seneca Indian, remarked "It is good to have one real American here." Parker replied, "Sir, we are all Americans." As Lee left the house and rode away, Grant's men began cheering in celebration, but Grant ordered an immediate stop. "I at once sent word, however, to have it stopped," he said. "The Confederates were now our countrymen, and we did not want to exult over their downfall."

http://www.mediafire.com/download/psspvt7ht7srgs7/Osprey+-+CAM+279+-+Appomattox+1865.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/lz0v4ljw1656z46/S%26T+093+-+American+Civil+War.pdf

What would be the social implications of typing halfling and human reproduction together?

Basically halflings are a kind of human, and you won't know if a child of a human or a halfing is either or until they grow up or stop growing.

>>52596868
I mean, it depends on how Halflings and Humans get on. I'd imagine for some it's a lot like waiting to see if your kid inherited some sort of horrific genetic illness.

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Setting up something for a Hexcrawl, going for a Darkest Dungeon/Darklands kind of dark ages feel with a mostly unexplored, very dangerous wilderness where all the things your grandma warned you about are real.

I'm hoping for some feedback on geography, since realistic terrain isn't something I've studied a ton.

Map is 12 miles per hex, 7 miles on a side. Each hex will have one or two major features keyed to start and others will be filled in (It's not like there's only one thing worth doing every hundred+ square miles)

So the terrain here is basically a slowly descending valley into the floodplain the river system follows. The western coast is mostly rocky cliffs except where the river system lets out, which descends to sea level and forms a wetland that gets woodier as you head north. The town is at the edge of the wetland in a cultivated area, and a few miles up on the higher land is the lord's manor, where Darkest Dungeon things happened.

Most of the rest of the region is rocky, misty moorland, with dense forests in the north and south where the mountains and foothills rise. I'm imagining it being pretty gloomy and rainy, Witcher-esque. Should the trees be evergreen or deciduous you think?

So what about the geography here could I improve to make it more natural? How could I wrangle some more terrain diversity? Given the shape of the land is there anywhere I could realistically stick some dry terrain or badlands for the PCs to explore? I'm imagining most of this being ugly gray rainy from the ocean winds but if I can squeeze out more diversity that'd be nice.

Thanks, famalam.

I'm a Forever DM so I can't contribute much, but if the dungeons take too long to clear just draw smaller ones, not designing dungeons is lazy DMing.

Btw, nothing wrong with intrigue plots, they make the adventure more interesting.

>>52682780
True, but I'd bet good money that any GM too lazy to make a dungeon isn't going to be writing grade-A intrigue plots either. He's probably winging it entirely, meaning the twists in the plot are asspulls with no foreshadowing.

inb4 some fag comes in screeching about how there's no middle ground between autistic CRPG railroading and half-assed no-prep fumblings. Decent GMs do prepwork and improv; both are necessary to some extent and every GM has their own happy balance between the two.

>>52682859
I see. Noticing tons of plot holes in the adventure is most frustrating thing for me as a player, DMs should really get their ideas straight before announcing they're running a game. And in my experience, the less a DM needs to improvise, the better the adventure will be.

>>52681901
whoops you guys, i accidentally rolled on the wrong encounter table and there's a neutronium golem bearing down on you. at least this is more exciting!

>>52681918
It's OK anon, someday you'll actually get to play a game with other people instead of just shitposting on /tg/

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>>52681901

Playing on Roll20 is a redflag

>>52681431
See, what makes this post truly funny is that we're led to believe that we should get super-duper mad about this campaign pitch, but then you hit the real punchline in the last line.

>>52681343
No because I'm autistic by birth, not as an hobby

>>52681343

No I shift positions and that's it.

Do you go around saying everything twice?

>>52681449
>>52681464

It's called tap, you have to tap it.

>>52681174
>Suddenly blatant /pol/shit shows up on multiple boards I'm browsing

kill yourself anytime you spammy fuckers

Even if her post is probably bullshit (and some parts are confirmed bullshit, like the lawsuit stuff), the fact that it seems true is proof enough that gaming has a white male terrorism problem

>>52681174
>Things That Never Happened: The Post

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Friendly reminder that beta casters should leave damage dealing to the martials

As a Crossbow fighter PC am I even allowed to target specific parts of an opponent's body?
>I want to shoot his calf, use action surge then shoot his other calf to stop him from getting any closer to me
My homebrew states that at lvl7 I can target specific parts of an opponent's body to shoot at but can I do it earlier, just with disadvantage?

>>52679786
Man, new threads have been popping up pretty quickly lately, huh?

THE SALT

>>52679840
MUST FLOW

>>52679470
Your pic needs to be interspliced with a picture of someone going "And?" and him replying "Exactly!"

>>52679470
I hate to say it, but...
GURPS?

GURPS has problem with its defensive mechanics like parry, dodge and block, but its skill system is solid, its magic system is bonkers, and its original Vehicles sourcebook was pure hell, but you will learn a lot, if not occidentally, then incidently.

>>52679578
Give me a quick rundown of basics? It was one system that I never tried, but I have a skill list pdf in front of me.

>>52679347
HAET WILDERNESS ADVENTURES

>>52679367
Whats wrong with going innawoods!?

Dragons 2 greentext when?

Is that shopped? God I hop so because that looks like what someone who's never seen a human looks like when he's forced to imitate a human.

>>52679163
>>52679211
>Varg means "wolf" in Old Norse
>Varg is actually a wolf skinwalker/shapeshifter who has taken human form to avenge the destruction of his eternal hunting grounds by Christians and immigrants

>>52679163
I'm considering trying it. The challenge will be getting my group to go along with it.

INSUFFICIENT CONTEXT.

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>>52679096
If the compromise is obviously impossible, the mathematicl model has likely made one or more incorrect assumptions. What happens is recognizing these assumptions, discarding or modifying them, basing a new model on the new assumptions and testing whether this new model reproduces experimental data and if it's possible predictions are reproduced by future measurements.
In short, science happens.

I inquire about false noses and dwarf manservants