Song of Swords: Glory, Amen!

Why didn't you use Car Wars or GURPS Autoduel?

Because GURPS makes my players think they're allowed to make choices for themselves, and Car Wars is for thirty-year-old nostalgics

>I don't want my players to think they're allowed to make choices for themselves
Interesting.

Freedom is Slavery

Only on opposite day

300% success is a failure

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Refusal is consent.

Red/Red is Blue/Blue

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I can't believe we did it.

Slaves/10

Does anyone want to clue me in on why you would ever use a zweihander when you could just buy a spear?

It does a lot of cutting damage and is therefore really good at Breaking, and the only thing it's bad at is thrusting. A better question is, if you wanted a good cutting weapon, what would be better than a zweihander? Remember that 2H Sword is basically the strongest proficiency.

Uhh, in-game? Because it's a sword, which gives you lots of maneuvers Spear doesn't get. It's great for cutting, which works well with power attacks and flourishing drills. Your question is backwards, you should be asking why you'd use a spear instead of a zweihander.

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is that alunya

is there more

does ballad have rules for tank combat?

>mfw I'll have to fork out another $200 dollarydoos for the Tales from Tattered Realms book because they didn't say it was a part of any prior packages
>mfw I'll gladly do it anyway
>mfw it was all worth it in the end because now I can stab my friends in the dick and give them sepsis
And now you've learned a valuable lesson you dumb piece of shit. Time to sell your bed and/or cherry on craigslist.

No

You know the answer Nope

Soon, my child. Soon we will have our hyper realistic tank combat, as pictured.

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Any other ideas for an iconic to embody the thread? Thus far we have Zellish Guts with encyclopedic knowledge of military equipment who buys into the ideology of Rade.

An insanely rich dude that spends all his money on small but vicious dogs

Foreign prince who pursued magical arts out of boredom and lost his kingdom overnight. Basically Caliph Stork and $500 guy rolled together.

You got more tears than you'd asked for

Can we have a drawfag do an edit of the "I am a genius/Oh no!" image (that I don't have and am too lazy too google image search) with the shitty crying anime character that I'm pretty sure is from Deadman Wonderland or whatever?

So lets get back to the actual rules discussion?
Other then the more puzzle based monster how well do you anons think the more combat focused monsters would work? The test zombie and skeletons feel a bit boring.

Looks like it was Ganta from DW. Also do you mean the image with Klim Nick in it?

Rate my suit of bulletproof knight armor Veeky Forums.

pastebin.com/Fti7jVRy

The Elbow, Hands and Feet have 9/8/7 AV.

The Head, Face and Neck has 8/7/6 AV.

Hips have 6/4/3 AV.

Everywhere else has 11/10/9 AV. That's 80% of the body covered in 11/10/9 armor.

Weight is 34. If you have Armored Noble and END 7 then you"ll only have to face light encumbrance.

I feel bad for your horse.

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Zellish Guts is stupid.

We need a waifumancer. A foppish sop obsessed with all these rough women with their wild ways. He chases, always, Gizka and Eskarne, Joan and the Pontifatrix, and the Moon, too. His hunt has no end, and he can never rest, but he is glad. He knows he is on the path of virtue.

If only he could leave his mothers' villa...

JOHN
GALT

Gallian Musketeer?

I should note that, obviously, he pays the perpetually willing sort of individual vast sums of money for certain particulars. From these women. Joan's handkerchief, Gizka's discarded orange peel, and other things...
No, no, he certainly shouldn't have anything resembling martial skill. Of course this shouldn't shake his rock-solid confidence in his ability. He's read manuals. Lots of manuals.

Hips currently have 7/5/5 From the Layering of Mail, Mail, and Quilt. Lower Head is only 4/3/3.

I'd swap the Quilted Coat for a Heavy Quilted Shirt. Same Weight, you don't need the Textile on your knees and shoulders, and it makes your hips 7/5/6 with 9 AVP against non firearm missiles.

Cut the Mail Coat to a Mail Shirt, to lose 1 Weight, You've got Mail Leggings as well so you won't lose any Layer on the Legs. From there get a Mail Camail and a Quilted Coif, same amount of weight, but now your Lower Head is 6/4/5, or, if your GM allows it, a quilted Helm under the Sallet for 6/5/6 on the Lower Head.

Your mother is stupid, not Zellish Guts.

Also with the Camail you gain Layer on your Gorget as well.

Zellish Guts is for memeing newfags who probably weren't even here for Jimmy's birth.

Fucking faggots, what we really ought to make is a halberdier with a pheasant crest and a big red horse, betraying everyone he meets.

This is a meme which I do not understand.

Seriously nigger? It's fucking fucking Lu Bu
Or it could be the Hegemon of Western Chu, both betray lots of people.

youtube.com/watch?v=GrigXRb54Hs

How would I know that. Like that's not particularly well-known information.

Now that the kikestarter is over, when can we expect to see hints of the magic system? I've been hoping to see those mechanics for a while, now.

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I want new fags to go and stay go.

>Lu Bu
>not particularly well-known
Nigga just because you're ignorant doesn't mean everyone else is.

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>pheasant crest
As I kid, I always thought it was cockroach antenna.

Been here since 2014 motherfucker
You either know him through translations, in which case you are a pleb, or you know him through video games, in which case you are a turbopleb.

>2014
>not 2013
Look at this newfag and laugh.

>Two thousand seventeen
>Didn't read the Romance in its native Mandarin.
Only a patrician gets to call out plebs, boy.

It is difficult when you do not have a qt Mandarin of your own.

You have been visited by the Mandarin of Classical Chinese Literature.

All your marks in the Civil Service Exams will be doubled, but only if you post "China will grow larger" in this thread.

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China will grow larger.

Civil service is for nerds.
Military service is where it's at.
CHINA WILL GROW LARGER UNTIL IT CONSUMES THE WHOLE WORLD

China will become a failed state and self-destruct like it always does.

Anyone have any ideas for stats for a pata?

Here is the size for comparison.

I've seen plenty in museums, but how often were they actually used in combat? Patas always struck me as decidely impractical and more suited to being a ceremonial item or oriental curio (hence the popularity with collectors) than for battlefield use.

+10 Fisting

I understand why you would think that but most of the weapons from India have that odd feel and they did get used. There is also a large number of patas that are very bland looking making ceremonial use less likely. Even the Muslim eventual started to use them so it seems more likely that even though they might not have been widespread they cant just be written off as a joke weapons.

Interesting, do you have any good examples of use?

Who wielded Patas and in what battlefield role?

Its pretty hard to find stuff in English but there are records of it being used in the siege of Gujarat and it being in general use during much of the mughal period. I don't have more time right now but found a number of articles of historical battle records that mention them and will check them tomorrow and post my findings.

buyers remorse edition

Only for you, mang. One of the few things I've dropped a large sum of money on and haven't been disappointed by (yet).

What are you so sad about?

I could have donated more and gotten a hardcover

Sidesword stats but make guard 8 and add tight grip to your hearts desire

Thats a pretty good start I think, thanks.

Save that money and buy version 2 of the core rules then it comes out.

Pata: 1H Sword - L - STN: 7(1+c) - TTN: 7(+1p) - DTN: 8(8*) - Tight Grip 2 - 25 sp

*Covers Hand and Forearm

Could also maybe be Heavy Backsword blade with 7(+2c) 8(+1p), and you could have rapier variant.

youtube.com/watch?v=7niTpIW7dEk

For the shorter versions, of dagger like length, maybe allow the use of some pugilist maneuvers.

That'd make sense with Katar as well.

>[Great Swords]hauing also the great crosse, was found out, to the end it should be handled one to one at an equall match, as other weapons, of which I haue intreated. But because one may with it (as a galleon among many gallies) resist many Swordes, or other weapons: Therefore in the warres, it is used to be placed neere unto the Ensigne or Auncient, for the defence thereof, because, being of it selfe hable to contend with manie, it may better sauegard the same. And it is accustomed to be carried in the Citie, aswell by night as by day, when it so chaunceth that a few are constrayned to withstand a great manie.

Should there be a Talent that requires and builds on Flourishing Drills and Requires a length of L or VL so that once FD activates you can parry either more than one opponent or just more than once per round.

Or instead of taking the Camails, you can take the 1 weight and remove the 1 weight of the Gorget and get a Bevor.

Can a wise man explain to me what each of the noble social classes are supposed to represent?

and TN 9

I don't see how you could feasibly wear both a closed sallet - a sallet with a bevor - and a second bevor

>Been here since 2014 motherfucker
And yet you're still a newfag, not knowing Lu Bu. Incredible!

Is there any chance for late pledges. I didnt know it was happening until today and i would like a physical copy of 'Veeky Forums gets shit done'.

A musket with ball does 11p+BS damage, you have 10 AVP + TOU, so you're pretty safe from bullets.

I don't mind if it's a foolish man even. Hell, it doesn't even have to be human, I just want some examples for the nobles. Like, I assume that a Minor Noble is like a knight, but what about the rest?

Minor Noble is a knight or landless noble. Landed Noble is a baron or maybe a count. High Noble is something like a Duke. Royalty is a king, and High Royalty is a big king or maybe an Emperor. They're really loose categories.