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Rip John Blanche. Some of my earliest memories of warhammer and wargaming in general were his illustrations in the WHFB 6e core book. That Varghulf from the vampire counts section is seared into my brain for good. A genuinely irreplaceable, unique talent
First game of a Draconis Reach campaign tonight! I’ll try to post a battle report afterwards, very excited to get back into BT Classic!
The List - The Varangian Guard Mercenary Company (3151), Command Reinforced Lance
- Cpt. Corbin Beckett, callsign “Blackguard” (4/4, 1 Edge, No Abilities, Neanderthal NTL-UG)
- Lt. Molly Joensuu, callsign “Whiskey”, (4/5, 2 Edge, Ability: Jumping Jack, Starslayer STY-3C)
- Francis Foley, callsign “Cactus”, (4/5, 1 Edge, Ability: Speed Demon, Ostsol OTL-8M)
- Jun Tau, callsign “Trilobite”, (4/5, 1 Edge, Ability: Assassin, Firefly FFL-5A)
- Unnamed Tank Crew/ “The Jobbers”, (4/5, No Edge or Abilities, Maxim Heavy Hover Transport (Escort))
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I think that dungeon crawling is to TTRPGs what shooters are to video games. It's a structure that has been around since almost the beginning of the medium, that persists because it fundamentally works, and it fits well with the affordances and limitations of the medium. And like shooters, its ubiquity leads to a certain amount of backlash, some of it warranted, and a lot of it less so.
Looking at it from that perspective, people who denigrate dungeons as not being real roleplaying or storytelling feel a lot like the gaming nerds of the mid 2000s, sneering at bros who play Gears of War and Halo, and insisting that they play real games.
Except that those nerds were, at least somewhat, responding to the state of the video games industry as it actually existed. And, notably, they were actually playing the non-shooter games that existed.
By contrast, the dungeons-aren't-roleplay 5e players feel like if those gamer nerds were on their "all shooters are brainless pablum" bullshit now, in a world where some of the most praised narrative games of all time are shooters, and where shooter mechanics have been used to make wildly inventive puzzle games, horror games, speedrunning games, roleplaying games, etc.
And instead of playing any of those amazing shooter games, or even any of the fantastic non-shooter games, they were insisting that real gamers who care about narrative make Halo machinima.
there are many people who like to walk into a ttrpg having invented a blorbo in their mind and have the ttrpg to give them the tools to realize that blorbo and all the best to them i am so thoroughly not one of those people. give me a playbook that prescribes a very specific narrative role. give me a pregen character i have to play as. give me a dozen big stupid tables to roll up a guy on. give me some god damn lifepaths !
cast me as though in a play and then allow me the tools to make the role my own!
I love games that let me make a blorbo, the most blorbo-friendly in my experience being games like Chronicles of Darkness/Vampire: The Masquerade/anything by White Wolf Publishing really, but the problem with blorbo-based chargen is that some people really play only one kind of blorbo, and the game allows them to make that same blorbo over and over, so you end up with no variety whatsoever. And I know this is easily solved by “play with other people,” but really, when your only choice for TTRPG mates is strangers online, it doesn’t work that way. But on the other hand, playbook/narrative-style games like PbtA can feel too deterministic sometimes. Honestly, the sweet spot is something in between: a life-path-style chargen with a portion of the character being built manually, à la The Witcher
also blorbism tends to result in characters who are partially or wholly disconnected from the setting, making roleplay miserably difficult and stilited
This is very true. This usually happens when someone has a blorbo they've been obsessed with for a while and saw the game as an opportunity to plug them in with no regard for plot or context
y'know this is basically how the player characters react in mw5 clans upon seeing this mech
Eisenfaust by Safe_Flamingo_9215
We are also working on the Very Hunched Back, featuring a double-size AC/40, but right now every time it fires the 'mech does a backflip.
Fucked up that 10 AC/2s weigh more than an entire hunchback. If and of you ever develop a Time Machine it’s imperative that you go yell at the FASA people for their crimes against autocannons
The state of TTRPGs if it was video games
“Oh I wanna play a Half-life video game; instead of playing Half-life 1, Blue Shift, Opposing Force, Half-life 2, Episode 1, Episode 2, Portal, Portal 2, E:0, or E:02, I’ll just download 10,000 mods for Skyrim until all the draugr are replaced with Combine soldiers.”
dude they have this thing called a rulebook
I watched so many lets plays. None of them installed mario on my computer.
so here we are
It’s also not a hard to find or expensive game. Their official website links you here were you can download the original Cyberpunk 2020 rulebook and many additional resources for about 10 bucks a piece.
But the caveat is that you would need to look up one (1) thing and we all know that’s not possible.
whether they're Good Media™ or whatever aside, I think mainstream liveplay ttrpg shows have been a fucking disaster for the hobby. it's hard to imagine anything that could have fucked the expectations:results differential for people more than having celebrities do college improv with dice (and an entire media production team behind them) and telling a generation of new players that's what tabletop gaming is like
liveplay ttrpg shows are not 'professional gaming', that's the whole problem I'm talking about. they're entertainment products which make format, content and form choices that would be nonsensical or obstructive at an ordinary table. it's not just "oh if only 'hobbyist' gaming groups (🤮) could pay for all that kit and lighting and professional writers and voice actors".
liveplay production involves story meetings aimed at making the narrative maximally entertaining to a watching audience (not the players, who are also professionals who are there to entertain that audience!). It involves editing (trimming out downtime, uninteresting mistakes, technical issues, moments where the vibe is wrong or there's friction in the room). it involves a room full of production crew watching every move the GM and players make, sensitive to wastage of their time and effort if things don't go to plan. and not for nothing, it involves an entire team of people who need to keep game publishers happy by playing and displaying their products correctly and certainly never criticising them or openly adapting around their shortcomings for the sake of the group's enjoyment.
I've played at tables where we've been lucky enough to have fun props and miniatures and printed maps and sound systems and even a bit of lighting, and where everyone in the group was a seasoned player with writing and performance backgrounds, and the experience was still full of normal natural constructive frictions that are largely if not completely absent from entertainment liveplay shows. player disagreement is normal. stopping mid flow to argue about a rule and look it up and help each other with system technicalities is normal. the music just not working today is normal. the party choosing a direction the GM didn't prepare for and having to adjust their in-character choices a little and tolerate some hastily cobbled together fluff to meet them halfway is so normal it's a running joke. someone finding a scene a little too much and asking for a break or redirection is normal. someone saying something a little ill judged in the moment and having to walk it back with as much grace as possible is normal. storylines not going to plan and petering out without major dramatic resolution, or npcs being ignored and cast off with a shrug is normal. all this shit and more is normal because a normal table is structured around the organic decision-making of a bunch of players who are primarily in it for their own fun and sense of transport, not for an invisible imaginary fandom slash consumer market. which are all the things that make ttrpg play inherently a pretty bad vehicle for storytelling, incidentally!
someone else in the tags expressed their frustration at these shows 'professionalising' the hobby, and while I do recognise and sympathise with the feeling that these shows normalise a level of polish and commercial buy-in that's destructive to the diy culture of tabletop gaming, I still have to push back on the idea that these shows are representative of 'professionalised gaming'. they're not. they're sports anime.
This is an oil painting I made last year called Hobbyshop
When I was about 9 I would go to a hobbyshop to get lessons in painting warhammer, this painting is loosely based on that period of time
The guy who taught me was an older English man with a moustache, which I thought was an interesting sort of guy to be so in to warhammer
I remember the other guy who ran the shop always pottering about, fiddling with things. I like trying to paint fingers doing delicate little actions like this, although I haven't really figured out how to do it -
here's a much better example by Sorolla. Very nice hands.
The kid in this painting ended up glowering which I didn't really intend, but I like it because I think kids sometimes look a bit moody without meaning to. I was and am like that anyway.
People do interesting things with their feet when they're sitting and I think that's fun to try and paint as well. I thought I could say a lot about a kid with a rather inscrutable facial expression through the way he places his feet. So there you are.
The scientology speedruns were already funny but I thought they were joking when they said they were mapping the building. I absolutely lost it when I saw the actual map.
The dungeon-crawling spirit frfr
