does anyone have that animated picture of walter from SMT4 with sunglasses and a marijuana joint and fiery word art spelling “CHAOS”
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does anyone here play a tabletop rpg w/ miniatures? where do you source them?
i am thinking either get a bunch of cheap generic fantasy miniatures or have all the players draw their characters and make stiff lil standing cut-outs.
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I tried to do miniatures, but doing good gridded combat is hard. Cute stuff is cute tho. Also its very personal, so… yah
Maybe having a session where folks make/paint their characters as a physical form would be the best part. Think trying to do the physical combat would slow things down immensely but having an even rudimentary visual helps fill in blanks.
Source: an asshole with no experience who has been running an online game that frequently realizes he isn’t properly saying out loud all the details of the environments he creates.
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^^^ yeah involve your group.
You can buy models/paint at a gamestore. There are official D&D models, but they’re pretty generic D&D even when they’re “cool D&D”. Literally anything will work if you give it a solid priming coat. I think vallejo paint is the good one, but, also, you’re a newb so almost any model paint will do you. Even acrylic paint will work but you will have to thin it out and do it in layers.
I think the best thing for first time model builders is to just do what is easy/fun for you and your group. If it’s paper cutouts and cardboard stands, cool. If it’s sticks, cool. Once you get “your thing” then you can start making entire sets in that style.
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For years I just used Lego minifigs
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There’s a company that does custom D&D Lego Minifigs.
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I’m not much of an artist, but I got a lot of milage out of buying a package of cardstock-y paper at the office supply store, and drawing monsters and characters with color pencils. I just folded little 1” triangles and taped the bases. Then kept them all in a little pencil case that could easily travel with my rulebooks.
The kicker is a have a giant box of cool old lead miniatures from when I was a teenager, but I don’t want to poison myself and my players and my players’ unborn children by busting those out.
The Pathfinder folks were selling blind box style prepainted miniatures and I bought a bunch of the undead set when I knew skeletons were on the horizon. Maybe random miniatures could be the more hardcore version of DMing from those random dungeon tables in the back of the 1st edition DMG.
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Does anyone here have strong feelings one way or another about the Megaman Battle Network series? Is it worth playing any entries nowadays?
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I only had the first one growing up and loved it. I played it recently to see if it held up and yes it did. Then I tried the sequels for the first time and they felt like they were kind of thrown together, like a lot of recycled assets but also a bunch more shit tacked on half heartedly. And they seemed to put no effort to make the world/characters interesting because they assume you already know them well.
Probably the worst thing was when one of them introduced having to heal between battles using healing items. Yknow like in any rpg. But in the first game you start every battle with full health!
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Only Megaman game I’ve really played. Loved the first gen. Don’t bother with sequels.
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yeah, 3 and 6 are pretty much the best gameplay wise
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play the dab anywhere patch of 6
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Would anyone care to comment on the state of this Final Fantasy NES cart? I have cleaned it with qtips and a magic eraser + checked the pins with multimeter. Still will not boot. Other games are working on the console. My next step is to try brass cleaner.
if someone hasn’t played a Civilization game before, would VI be an all right one to try to pick up?
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VI is better than V but I find all of them other than II, IV, and AC kind of busywork-y – too much time spent in micro-optimizations and baiting the player turn by turn. Civ is as popular as it is because it gives you more busywork to engage with than other 4X games, though it wasn’t always thus
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i once tried to play Civ V and just did not get it at all and eventually gave up.
my gf is kind of interested in the series based on my descriptions of it in conversation the other day, and i’ve tried to explain that it’s pretty complicated. mostly wondering if VI is gentle enough with new players or if it just expects them to know how everything works, already.
main idea here is Civ is not for me but it might be for her haha
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I think 6 is pretty gentle and user friendly, which accounts for its popularity, but it still has lots of little interlocking systems, or as Felix calls them “busywork”, that you can lose track of if you’re the type. 4X mindset is based on a weird kind of intense detail orientation on the one hand, but a readiness to shed detail and focus on a series of short- and mid-term goals on the other hand.
I think Endless Space is probably a better beginner 4X. Fewer decisions, an almost antiseptically clean UI, clear guidance how you should focus on building per faction. But it depends on what your gf finds attractive about Civ. If it’s the graphical style and the aesthetic gloss on world history, only Civ will scratch that itch.
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my wife isn’t allowed to have alpha centauri installed because entire evenings vanish
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My first 4X games were Master of Orion and Master of Magic, so Civ always struck me as unspeakably dry in comparison. It’s the Microsoft Flight Simulator of 4X games
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