Last time on Song of Swords:

hey i made a legendary japanese warrior please fight me

actually i need someone to teach me how to fight because i sure as shit dont know

I would join, but I consistently roll like shit on r20. I've been killed by literal trashmobs due to my consistent jobbering. Life sucks.

>that goddess of death and cancer that we woke up when we killed Sulla.
What?

So how, as a GM, do I rules-wise go about using this system for a hardcore game about the Norman conquest of Sicily? How much does each strength point above the base represent proportionally, and thus where would I want to realistically cap it?

And the blunt penetration rule being used for maille, where can I find that?

Cap it at 10 if you want the people to hit the human peak. Otherwise 8 or 9.

From Jimmy:
>As for the difference between people in different walks of life--I'd say a soft person with a non-manual job who hasn't every really done anything physical in his life except maybe play some games as a kid or whatever (in other words the average NEET) would probably have 2-3 in his physical stats, as opposed to the average 4-5 for a medieval laborer.

Also from Jimmy:

>8 strength is stronger than any man you have ever met.
>10 strength is the strongest man you can reasonably imagine.
>13 strength is so ridiculously strong that you would assume the claims of such feats of strength are fairy tales until you actually see Björnsson throw a barrel eight meters into the air.

8 seems reasonable then, as I doubt anybody in the 11th-12th centuries would have had the simple nutrition to get to 10 as it sounds. People could get ripped back in the day, but not THAT ripped without protein shakes and science-informed nutritional diets.

Cap it at 6

>And the blunt penetration rule being used for maille, where can I find that
It should be right before all the armor tables. What you do is: when cutting damage comes at metal armor, just inflict a bludgeoning wound instead of a cutting one.

Oh, well that's simple of enough. Thanks.

That's not all of it:

>Whenever a cutting weapon inflicts damage to an area protected by Hard armor, change it to bludgeoning damage, but still resolve it against the Cutting AV of the armor. At the GM’s discretion, if the damage inflicted exceeds TOU+AV by 4 or more, it may cleave through the armor and inflict a cutting wound

Someone statted out the Dragonslayer/Dark Souls Greatsword as this:

Ultra Greatsword/Dragonslayer: Sword 2H | EL | 7(+6c) | 8(+4p) | 8(0) | Heavy Weapon, Freakishly Large, AP Swing 4, Crushing 4, Shock 4, AP 4 against supernatural defences later on in Berserk | Wt. 8

Possibly requiring STR 9 or 10 instead of 8.

How would you stat out the Crypt Blacksword from Dark Souls 2?

Very Long Length? What about ATN and damage?

You could copy the way Band of Bastards does it. It doesn't translate perfectly to SoS, but it may help.
When cutting or piercing damage hits armor, convert it to bludgeoning but still resolve it against the AVC or AVP. If the metal armor is also rigid - not mail but think of a metal helmet - then the bludgeoning wound inflicted is capped at a level 3.

Discretion is a nice note. Although the only weapons at the time that would "cleave" would be axes.

How would you stat Moonstone armor? As Orichalum but +10 Bludgeoning AV instead?

You still around?

archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/41326887/#41383834

It's the end of a dual fecht that Jimmy ran, Starting with Drosaico transporting some Ruvians to the other side of Karthack.

It starts here archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/41176815/#41209701
The Thread chain peters out after Drosaico, and Camillus' fecht starts here
archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/41326887/#41380257

In one of the fechts we ran a guy named Camillus who attacked a monastery with a bunch of Romans, killed a Silver Guard and a Paladin (the Paladin was Sulla) and then unleashed some sort of ancient sumerian plague demon that killed him and all of the Romans.

Hell of a cliffhanger.

Oh shit, I remember that. That was like 2 years ago

>King has superstitions taken straight from Veeky Forums
Riffing on the Donte face?

>see Björnsson throw a barrel eight meters into the air.
I want to see this. Is it on YouTube?

youtube.com/watch?v=WAO9SA1jcC8

That type of strength doesn't translate into being able to slice through plate armor with a sword

But it does translate to knocking people prone and/or stunning them.

A 12G slug might not penetrate a bulletproof vest, but it'll sure as hell shatter anything behind it.

perhaps SoS should model that instead of making bodybuilders into fantasy heroes

Or you could do what any intelligent person would do and translate it to the bludgeoning table. If you're not fond of that, then try the unarmed table.

>implying SoS having STR add to damage without end is intelligent
Ok kid

These arguments stopped being informative in 2015.

200% get.

AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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I really hope that the Magic Compendium and Hunter's Handbook are going to be available Print on Demand later.

TIS WEAK TO FIRE!

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I hope they include a guide to making your own monsters

She was a PaleoElf.

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Is that tiny dragon fucking someone's face? Someone with short brown hair?

>one of the draws of the setting is the bizarre supernatural nature of the monsters
>throw a fucking dragon on the cover
There should be a man surrounded by Aufhockers on the front.

It was? What the fuck is up with the chronology here?

It should be a team of men with swords looking distraught, as way up and in the distance is an actual dragon made of lightning and crystal, not a wyvern or drake

It should be that, but then instead of the team of men with swords, it should be a really, really tiny Sarah Gizka in a "come at me bro" stance.

It should be some dudes caught out in an eclipse, some schwarzvald beasties around them (aufhockers are a good choice, but I'm partial to rottreiters) while a dark watcher looms overhead.

>reach 24000
>reveal new stretch goal
>only one new stretch goal, so after it's met there's nothing to look forward to, and if you're not particularly interested in this one, then you've got nothing already
Jimmy, tell Bones (since apparently you personally have no involvement in this) to get their shit together.

Also tell them that if they have goals but just can't get the budget stuff worked out yet, at the very least you could put up "anthology of stories by Jimmy Rome (and select contractors) set in the Tattered Realms" since you can do that yourself on a shoestring budget if it comes to it, and the worst possible failure there is missing deadlines.

And the book is "over twenty" monsters, which is a pretty low number, so if nothing else they could add a stretch goal to make it bigger.

Fuck, I see it too. Facehugger dragons when?

They already have too much to do in a year already they don't need to be adding more stuff. That's how you get things that take 5 years to come out

Podcast of people playing Song of Swords. Give it a listen.

wanderinggamer.wixsite.com/wanderinggamer/single-post/2017/03/01/At-a-Glance---Song-of-Swords

There's an easy solution to that. When Bones makes the post announcing it, he can include the following text:

“The majority of the stretch goals unlocked past this point will NOT be ready by the estimated delivery date of February 2018. In fact, some things may not even be started by then! We simply don't have the manpower to get more done in one year. Don't worry though, we remain committed to getting the core material (and the first set of stretch goals) done by our original deadline, and additional content will get to you as soon as possible!"

Incidentally I give Opaque Industries full legal right to use that text in its totality or any derivation thereof without any specific citation or remuneration. You can have that bit or marketing for free.

>nearly three hours
I mean I wanna listen but fuck

>“The majority of the stretch goals unlocked past this point will NOT be ready by the estimated delivery date of February 2018.
Oh God no, that's fucking terrible. Don't do that. Just get it all done by February as was promised.

They didn't promise to get any of the stretch goals unlocked at over $25000 done by February, and in fact doing so, in addition to all the stuff that's already unlocked, would be pretty fucking close to impossible. I mean hell, it's going to be tough just with the stuff that's already unlocked.

Though you're right, maybe the big about how everything unlocked so far is going to be ready by the announced date as planned, to prevent people from seeing it negatively.

>Any personality stuff?
>He has wavy brown hair and uh, he's tall
Their goal didn't sound like a token when they were talking about the system but she does now.

>all that failing to pierce armor
I feel like the DM didn't have a good grip on how armor works.

First time using the system I'd wager.

I spoke to the guy mere hours before they played and talked him through a few points. I'm impressed they were able to do it straight out of the book so easily given the current stage of development.

Christ they're doing so much wrong. It gives me coniptions...

Well, they're clearly experts.

I really look forward to having one of my players gored by a FUCKING BOAR going out Baratheon style.

As I recall, in Dzicke Pola, the Boar monster entry is almost unilaterally more dangerous than the Peasant one.

Rulebook states that boars are also smarter than Polish peasants

Boars are intelligent.

Sounds about right.

But they're having fun.

That's one of the things they are doing wrong

I'm almost two hours in. They go "oh we were doing this wrong" several times throughout it. So presumably they'd git gud under continued play.

Vaguely Ballad-related, here's people under an AnCap flag fighting people under a soviet flag.

youtube.com/watch?v=enIIfAZC210

We 1930s Spain soon.

Does that guy have a fucking shield
How long until people start bringing spears and swords to this shit?

Probably going to go straight to guns.

Surprisingly boars have a rally top notch education system.
Its the standard I expect my players to conform to, are you as smart as or smarter than a boar.

>implying things won't stay within the context of factional elections
We Dace soon.

I am fond of pigs.

Fucking hilarious

Stat 'em lads

utilikilt/10

whatthe fuck is he using as a weapon?

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I think he meant the shield guy who keeps hitting people in the head, who dropped his weapon (a PVC pipe?) at one point.

I think it's wood. PVC is shit for weapons.

>implying Berkleyites have enough high-level weapons tech to know that
A lot of their weapons are just the hafts of signs or flags that got repurposed.

Stat her lads

anti-Veeky Forums out of 10, seriously bitch needs to learn how to dress.

>that hamplanet on the left
[entering a state of berserkergang]

I look forward to the gun fights

In the land of the Pig the Butcher is King

It looks like standard antifa gear aside from the color choices.

Who's dumber, the whale with her rag up or the aposematic with no glasses? Who's going to be fucked worse when the pepper spray comes out?

What the fuck are those shields?

Spain now is honestly not that different. The anarchists and the fascists are the two biggest street gangs around, and the communists aren't far behind. But normal people don't get involved in that kind of fight and instead are overwhelmingly either socialist or populist and so don't need to fight since they already control the government. And you'll notice that "normal people" aren't the main demographics in these situations either, I'm pretty sure it's not going to end up as a civil war any time soon, much as I'd like to eat popcorn.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifascist_Circle

Unless you mean the construction in which case I'm pretty sure they're just plywood with some kind of grip bolted to the back. The rivets around the edge are likely aesthetic.

Jesus fucking christ they even have an emblem to go on their shit?

Typically iconography is invented in a movement way before it gets violent.