How many princesses have you saved Veeky Forums?

The versatility of the princess rescue cliche is often underestimated. It can be used to very easily challenge the players in a variety of ways.
>Possibly tracking and scouting, in case the princess' exact whereabouts are unknown, or if there is a need to gather information about her location and circumstances
>Breaking & entering, in case she is being held in a fortified or otherwise simply hard-to-reach location
>Fightan, in case there are guards or creatures barring the way
>The princess may have some condition of which the party may or may not have been made aware of before making their rescue attempt
>Escape, either covertly or forcefully
>Haggling or reselling
I'm sure there are lots of more twists and turns to add.

At least 100

My players actually saved a princess but she turned out to be the dhampir daughter of the local Vampire King. They decided to return her anyway and he thanked the party, casually invited the two female members to be his 'blood wives', gave the leader a title and the right to start her own noble house before sending them on their way with a sack of gold each. It was the first quest they've ever had where nothing went terribly wrong.

>not killing a master vampire
>ignoring an XP pinata.

My party just saved a Princess and there was no twist whatsoever, because inane twists at the end of the Princess story are now more hackneyed than the original cliche.

Don't think they were capable of such a feat.

That's why you fight dirty.

Well, I personally saved a girl in a princess costume from some assholes when she was on her way home from a convention. Does that count?

In game? My first D&D campaign in which I wasn't the GM (because I had previously been ForeverGM), the party I was part of was sent off to rescue the kingdom's Princess from a dragon (unrelated note, but one of the other players all but gagged me when I tried to question the GM about how the hell the dragon managed to get her in the first place). I was playing the Rogue, so, unfortunately, it was the parties Cavalier who got the booty.

None. I did save king's brother once (from the king), but that's as close as it gets.

My players hate XP so I level them up every once in a while after they've hit a plot point or fought enough battles.

Uncouth canailles and sodomites, all of you.

The one time our party actually met a princess was saving a dragon from her.

No, we did not wed the dragon afterwards.

Fuck you buddy, I'd love to do a save-the-princess game, it's my GMs that are overly ambitious, pretentious clowns.

sauce?

Let's be clear - I'd fucking love to be a real life knight. I figure if my life goes to shit, I'm going to buy a suit of armor with the last of my savings and go around being knightly until the cops arrest me.

How would your party handle this situation? Assume the sword is really good and you don't get a replacement once you save her.

I'm confused. Is her soul trapped in the sword? Is it powered by her death?

One. But she was a bitch, so we just dropped her off at the castle, got our reward, and split for a nicer kingdom.

Thus began our gaming group's tradition of mercenary pragmatism, which served us quite well when we started playing Shadowrun.

Two I guess, but it just sort of happened without any real intent behind it. One was in some cold sleep bunker we found while trying to dig out our basement and the other was being kept captive at a vampire's castle we ended up cleaning out after defeating the vampire just for completeness sake.

Take the sword as your personal weapon until you find a way to disenchant it, bond with the princess so far that she falls in love with you, become king

>go to fight the vampire
>see him and the princess drinking tea and playing poker
>turns out they're old childhood freinds

2

3 if you count vampire heiresses

What are they going to arrest you for, being chivalrous?

>the vampire was a long-time friend of the family, almost since their founding
>after her parents' death the vampire took the princess in to make sure she wasn't forcefully wedded to some noble who wanted her family estate
>he goes out of his way to make his gloomy vampire castle less gloomy in her wing of it, and hires actual humans to take care of her instead of skeletons

our party's front line fighter uses pole-arms, so the sword would be kept around but not used much - probably returned to the castle alongside the princesses body

Some /u/ series about a girl who enjoys knight stuff. Not scanlated.

No, she was actually kept captive and all. Just no one really bothered to look for her intentionally. She was part of some subject nation we never paid attention to. Then her kingdom showed up to invade the castle, what with the vampire lord dead after 12,000 years, while we were trying to loot his secret treasure room. It was kind of awkward to deal with when all these people show up with righteous indignation while you are stealing valuables and clearly forgot who these rebels even are. I think all we managed before then was getting one killed in a fit of rage by the vampires due to a prank.

What's that cloth circlet on top of the helmet called? It's stylish as fuck

Even funnier
>Most of the castle is dark, gloomy, dusty, cobwebbed, etc., except for the inevitable baroque ballrooms and the like
>Her wing is cartoonish vampireland with cuddly bats, skeletons, etc.
>I mean, it is a vampire castle, have to keep up appearances

>Encase barely-alive princess in preservatory crystal
>Craft it into an invincible shield
>Wield the pair as a legendary weapon
>Get distracted by economics
>Save the world
>Sodomise a dragon to show it who's boss
>Wonder what the hell I was doing with this plot thread

>the skull wall decorations are cartoonish and fun
>the dark tapestries have pictures of moonlit glades and other beautiful natural things instead of bloody battles
>the pictures are of cheery and happy people
>the fruit bats are cuddly and prone to cute squeaks

>the blood flowing from the fountain is punch
>the grimoures are full of childrens stories
>she pretends to be a vampire too
>the servants oblige her

Better question: how many times has a Princess saved YOU?

once, resolved the scenario fairly handily

>The party sneaks through twenty miles of twisted wolf infested wilderness
>The party climbs over a high stone wall with several dessicated corpses hanging from the parapets
>The party sneaks through a hedgemaze filled with clacking skeleton servitors and more goddamn wolves
>The party finally sneaks in through a dusty window and finds a cheery little deathday party set up, cake on the table, 'Happy 101st Deathday' banners, party favors, etc.

>the fearsome lord of the dead is sitting at a comically small table with a paper crown on
>the princess and skeletons in party hats are cheering him on as he blows the candles out
>the awkward silence as he realises someone sees this
>the looks of horror in his eyes

It's called a... Fuck, I always forget!

laurel?

>laurel
Nah, that's made of plant. This is made of cloth.

Nope.

We are incredibly incompetent when it comes to escort missions and our operator is convinced that we go out of our way to botch jobs that require the protection of VIPs.

We don't. We're just really bad at them.

>We are incredibly incompetent when it comes to escort missions
Reminds me of that Shadowrun player who fired a rocket launcher at a hijacked bus full of children.

Twice.

First the princess managed to score us a pardon for a crime we were blamed for while being mostly innocent (we did technically set fire to the manor of a noble, but it was completely the result of several really, REALLY bad rolls), in exchange for helping her uncover a conspiracy against her father.

Second was when we managed to catch the conspirators red-handed and prevent regicide, but they had us cornered and surrounded. Princess showed up with the Royal Guard when it took too long for us to report back to her.

One high elven princess, so far, but we debated killing her just so she would shut up the entire trip home.

Got to the palace of her father, learned she was exiled, get dragged into a fight over the throne, killed have the court and are now running from Drow slavers that were running shit from the shadows to get a good slave haul.

Fucking sucks.

TLDR: don't save princesses, not worth the hassle.

I dont know if this counts

Miss a session and have DM npc my character. Shenanigans ensue and my character and the princess pull a princess and pauper routine letting the princess adventure for the session.

Apparently someone drugged and kidnapped me and the rest of the session was about rescuing me. Which they didnt managed to do in the one session i missed. But, i got to be the princess for half of the next session so i geuss that was nice.

I think the best part was the DMs text after the session " so yea, you got date raped"

>Not scanlated

Well, it did stop the bus. That was what was the job, wasn't it?

>Not Scanlated

I think that mitigating the loss of lives should be considered a tacit secondary objective, especially since keeping the body count low was something they wanted to do.

Shoujo Kishidan x Knight's Tale

It's in Spanish on Youtube.

youtube.com/watch?v=EH1qYeLuFyE

None because my DMs hate anything that gets even remotely close to magical realm. Hell if its even within 3 miles of magical realm its a no go.

We saved one (twice, though the second was our fault, so I'm not sure it counts) and she's bro-tier with the party. King is cool dude, too.

Saved a whole kingdom, not sure if there were any princesses, but there was at least one prince.

Blew up the capital of a kingdom, but it was a magocracy, so probably doesn't count.

Blew up an entire other kingdom, never met the nobility. Might have a few negatives, there.

Saved a guy who turned out to be a prince of the kingdom we first saved. After shenanigans (including said saving) we later learned that kingdom doesn't exist anymore, so I'm not sure if he counts either.

Negative 4, but only because our party accidentally made a dungeon full of 7 of the little shits prematurely collapse before we ever found them.

Never did find out why that evil wizard collected them in the first place; you'd think we'd have found out after rescuing three of them previously from him but nooo, had to be the stoic, non-monologuey type of evil wizard.

All swords are powered by death.

Nah, I'm pretty sure most swords aren't powered at all. Some might be powered by electricity or something. And I suppose you could argue that swords are typically powered by mechanical force. But really, I don't think it can be rightly said that all or even most swords are powered by death.

The bus was about to flee into a tunnel.

He could have just shot the tunnel mouth and collapsed it.

One.
She was carried away by a dragon. When we tracked the beast down it was a pseudo dragon, apparently the princess was watching her figure a little too hard and weighed fucking nothing.

I ran a game where the kidnapped princess was the King who hired the parties phylactery. I allowed the players to cleanse her without killing her because of how determined they all were. She was a major recurring npc that the honorable knight wound up marrying.

like,, maybe 5, or 6 right now. my dude

Chihiro is too pure for this world.

None, I just started.

It's a crime that this hasn't been scanslated yet, it looks like a blast so far. /u/ has all the raws I think.

I'm like 90% certain that swords are powered by your arm.

Do they have them posted right now?

yuki.la/u/2053454
google search gave me this thread, look for the mediafire links

You can find the scans on Twitter from the manga's page... author is a total knight-medieval armour fag

Assault, threats of assault, wearing a mask, vagrancy, etc. There's a surprising number of things that are illegal.

On the other hand, there's no sense in resisting arrest. A knight should submit to rightful authority, and when you get out of the slammer, you just put the armor on again and keep going. Jail time is just another trial on the path of knightly derring do.

Vigilantism, more than likely. That's assuming that I don't die because modern bullets can pierce medieval plate.

>A knight should submit to rightful authority
The laws of GAWD are greater than the laws of man.

It's a good thing we don't use modern bullets. We use postmodern bullets; they hurt people, not feelings. Only problem with them is ideas are bulletproof.

>assaulting or killing defenders of the people because they inconvenience you

They're probably protestant or antichrists anyway.

Line the back of the plate with Kevlar.

Kevlar only does so much.

One actually, but the quest was a one-shot homebrew adaptation of FF1 up until you fight Garland

We saved a mayor's daughter once, but she also got turned into a wererat in the process...

I am working on turning myself into a princess IRL to save myself from crippling depression, if that counts.

On the topic of modern knights, just how good could we get weapons and armour with the height of modern technology? A lot of what I see people do is period-accurate recreating, and modern tooling and materials considered 'cheating', or the other extreme where people are getting sports gear to use as armour when going to riots and shit.

Have there been material developments enough to significantly affect the weight and durability of plate armour and swords?

I havent save any female damsels~

>3 princess
>2 prince
>1 queen
>1 sultana
>1 doge
>Lost track of how many mayors

Though some of my group have led royalty astray so I'm always trying to make up for it.

Well...what more can you really do? You can strengthen the steel, but there's not really better materials to use. I remember there being some testing done with titanium armor, but it's too strong and flexible - it bends and blows go right through it without harming the titanium.

Then again, part of the problem is those weapons are out of date - no one is working to make a better sword anymore, just one that is most like older types. If gun development had stopped in the early 19th century, I would be arguing that you can't move beyond percussion caps.

...None, actually.
Not even in games, since I never owned anything by nintendo. The closest I could have come was Jazz Jackrabbit, but that was only shareware.

I've saved the duchess / my sister in MW4 Vengeance, but that's the closest to.

In tabletop? I'm usually the GM, and I like to run low-level games, so players rarely run into local planetary barons and baronesses. Other folks haven't really included princesses as NPCs to be rescued since games were gender balanced. The closest there has been to a damsel in distress in any P&P I've played has been a really smarmy elven princess PC played by a not-at-all-convincing tranny.

> How many princesses have you saved?

You are no saviour - your talents lie elsewhere.

Thousands of innocent people died due to your decisions - sometimes, you even murdered them yourself, in cold blood! And for what? For the sake of a single woman that isn't even capable of taking care of herself.
You want to feel like a knight in shining armor, a hero. You are no hero. You are nothing but a murderhobo, hiding behind the meaningless words about lofty ideals and claiming that the ends justify the means, that the suffering of a single woman is worth more than lives of thousands of innocent people.

Somebody has to pay the price for your crimes. Who's it gonna be? Are you going to blame the others - blame the "cruel reality" and how you "did what you had to"? Or are you going to admit your shortcomings to yourself and stop lying to yourself, that you are a "hero" when the truth is that you are nothing but a cold-blooded murderer driven by personal reasons?

Well then, do you feel like a hero yet?

I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on dragon castle territories, and I have over 300 confirmed rescues

I saved 2. First became my wife, second was my daughter. Wouldn't have it any other way

Your group sounds like cancer.

well modern day steel is insanely better than medieval steel and can be forged in pretty much any shape we can dream of
its seriously amazing just how better we got at making steel, even the supposedly near mythical types of the medieval era like the much famed damascus steel don't measure up to even low grade mass produced modern steel.

None, but I did accidentally rescue a necromantic witch form a town mob just last night.
Not my proudest moment

thousands.

Its actually his job description and fetish. It's the only way he can get off other than defeating harmless villainesess.

He is a prince of the most powerful kingdom in the world and a momma's boy (the queen and reigning monarch)

kind of?

The princess was infected with a 'radiant' ancient parasite that is basically a doomsday device, that is why she was kidnapped in the first place

the world was destroyed later by the way. in a way it was kind of our fault; The DM almost left subtle hints here and there. What a shame

>saving them
>not capturing them yourself and selling them for ransom

This that game 2hu was bitching about?