Last time on Song of Swords: Katanas Venezuelan Revolution Ballad Lore Hints about upcoming Skills rebuild!
Song of Swords is a a tabletop RPG centered around realistic medieval fightan' with a ludicrous variety of weapons and fighting styles, centered around a dice pool system. It's currently in beta, and can be used for both fantasy and historical games. The Kickstarter was nearly 300% funded, and we're on the fast track to kicking ass baby.
Call of the Void: Ballad of the Laser Whales is a pulpy sci-fi tabletop RPG about fighting space-nazis and hunting giant whales with harpoons made out of the moon. Its combat system is more modern, based in the early 20th century, but can probably handle combat up to the present day.
MEGA folder containing current version of the game and all supplementary materials. Note that the latest version of the game is v1.9.9 but with additional supplements. mega.nz/#F!S89jTT7J!ozFi9GvzaFGHfBa59Ik2-Q
There's also a roll20 room where new players are encouraged to try the rules, test new rules, and find game breaking issues: app.roll20.net/join/346755/hRKd4w If you're looking to learn, post here in the thread.
We also play Guy Windsor's card game Audatia in the room, but now we have a much better way to play Audatia: Tabletop Simulator! The (official!) mod for Audatia is now up and running! steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=904774480
So is anyone playing with 1.3 or is 1.9.9 still mainly used?
Elijah Carter
1.3 is really good. I had to fudge the talents but the new school system is miles better than the old one.
Joshua Smith
>Nazi Sea Elves >Nazi High Elves >Cannibal Spanish Elves >Nazi Scientist Elves >Literally just Dwarves >Mandatory Religious Paladins >Hurr HFY Humans >No races that aren't just humans with different shaped ears and culture-hats
It's like TES but more generic. Why? Why would you go this route?
Charles James
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Blake Ortiz
You forgot the goblins and the star vampires.
Jose Jackson
Jimmy described SOS as "reclaiming" generic fantasy and making it cool again. It is for high fantasy what The Witcher is for the Brothers Grimm.
Matthew Adams
What shapes are dwarf ears?
Luis Morales
Goblins, but no orcs. I don't understand that at all.
Colton Nelson
What good are orcs? Orcs are shit. Pretty sure we all agreed on that way back when Galt et al were shilling the prototypes of these elves in the Unified Setting project.
Jeremiah Brown
the orcs were all eaten
Grayson James
It's semi-canonical that there were once orcs, but the humans and the pre-Ohanedin called Ishkaldin killed them all because they were pig-orcs who raped everything, and there was no reason not to join forces to exterminate them.
Also they were delicious.
Jacob Stewart
This being in like the stone age, Jimmy was joking about releasing a literal stone age SoS expansion back when Far Cry Primal was out. I don't think it ever materialized, probably because it would be mechanically boring.
Elijah Moore
I dunno, I could see some appeal, if you made more robust survival and hunting rules.
Dominic Gutierrez
I tried my hand at some of it, but it was basically bone, wood and rocks the supplement and I know nothing of those three things and how they can be made into weapons
Thomas Jackson
>bone, wood and rocks >no shark teeth and coconut fibre user
Hudson Young
Weeb poster, bring content. Either one.
Also, to the thread, what is everyone's favorite fighting style? Stepping parry dagger builds are my favorite, and the new esoteric buffed it to dreamlike standards.
Jack Sanders
I said this wasn't my forte. Fisticuffs. Nothing more satisfying than killing another the way god intended. By punching he sternum through his spine.
Joseph Long
P A N K R A T I O N
Speaking of, does SOS have wrestling maneuvers and shit?
Liam James
A toast to Ian Plumb. Remember the man who was responsible for Ballad.
As before, the last Galt fecht happened on the day he died. It cannot be coincidence.
Sebastian Butler
>"We have Valhalla too, in our religion." his voice is not joyful. There is a note of realization there. >"Perhaps we will meet there," Karl says, and gestures in farewell. >"I think we shall." Clovis says, turning away. He hides the sorrow in his voice, but not well.
Holy shit dude.
Carter Morris
Yep. At times, they've even been comically overpowered. They may still be; I haven't had time to take a proper look at 1.3.
Owen Watson
SoS is the only community that will fight to the death for its fallen foes the same as its comrades. We're with you to the end Jim
Commies and Fashies stand united behind Jimmy's retarded but beautiful vision for the future.
Landon Parker
>This video is not available in your country Thanks Merk- eh Heiko. :/
Isaiah Thomas
Schweigen, kameraden. Soon.
Eli Cox
>She wanna fascist Okay but this is true though. Nobody respects men who aren't extreme. You have literally one job guys, and that's deciding what stupid adventure we're going on this decade. At least pick something cool.
Colton Ross
I fucking love this image because it encapsulates everything that's happening in Europe.
Dylan Reyes
You fucking wish Gizka came to your country and took it over. It'd be fucking great.
Gizka literally vetoed women's suffrage in her own country. And she's a woman. She's like Margaret Thatcher if she had strangled the entire Argentine army with her bare hands.
William Collins
Snowboarding?
Jaxson Harris
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Nicholas Wood
In the game I'm a part of I'm going for a Rapier and Buckler/Main Gauche style. Fighting against some goblins was great since if I ever got brought down to their reach, I could just bash their heads in with the shield.
Daniel Phillips
Well, what would you like? I got a cleric/paladin archetype with a sample of religious lore from my setting attached to it.
Andrew Diaz
Spear/sword and shield is a classic for a reason, and I enjoy the versatility such can employ. The only real drawback is dealing with armor, which tends to make it a poor build against other players. and how fucking OP Hew is
We need fundamentalist eco-tribalism desu. With genocide for fun and to ensure the sanctity of our planet.
Jordan Evans
Jimmy has a woman now?
Anthony Taylor
He was also waffling about whether or not to fuck a dog in order to prevent the dog from fucking someone else. His reasoning was "we're both women". The chat's decision was that lesbianism would be justified in this case.
Aaron Perez
Yep.
Matthew Harris
Probably not gonna keep her long though, considering how the next thing he said was about how he'd rather have a boer.
Maybe he'll stay with her just long enough to earn himself a child support bill.
James Adams
>Jimmy "loves to give dome" Rome >giving up the boypussy It's some sort of lousy trick, lads.
Luke Diaz
Maybe he got his new daki?
Dominic Torres
It won't last, he'll be disillusioned with her soon I'm sure.
Adrian Anderson
>Has enough time to date >Isn't spending in on gaem REEEEEEEEEEEEE
Hunter Young
He spends all his time drinking and going to AA meetings. Presumably the latter is where he met this girl.
Christian Green
>She's like Margaret Thatcher if she had strangled the entire Argentine army with her bare hands.
Thatcher didn't have to, she just looked at them and they turned to stone.
Gabriel Brown
I heard she consumed their souls
Levi Watson
She will be the one to get all colonial on Jimmy's ass and whip him into shape.
Adrian Rivera
I remember the hardest I ever laughed in my life was when Jimmy snapped at someone over the left/right dichotomy and pointed out that the BNP wouldn't even be considered right wing in America. God politics is so retarded.
I guess a lot of Southerners in the US were from Scotland and Ireland, it's conceivable. I guess I have a weird perception of Americans, I forget that people other than New Yorkers exist.
Jaxson Allen
that feel when the scotch-irish appalachians destroyed a red coat military force that came to subjugate them before even the colonies rebelled that feel when the united colonies showed up later and subjugated the scotch-irish appalacians with military force that feel when the whiskey rebellion
Lucas Robinson
Washington was a despot!
Ryan Campbell
They say Margaret Thatcher will never truly die as long as there a4e Argentineans walking the earth. Her body sleeps, but her mind is awake, forever thirsty for South American blood.
Oliver Cruz
Most Southrons are descended from Scots and Irish. It's part of the reason for all the family feuds that continued all the way into the 1950's in more rural areas. They had a very classical highland take on family and justice.
Evan Carter
If her mind is still around, then it'll have little to do with Argentina, and a lot more to do with a mine shaft in hell.
Nathan Price
Just saw some art on the kickstarter page. Looks like we'll be getting a character that wears elf ears around the neck.
Sebastian Bailey
Zellmuraja, I presume?
Tyler Morris
I think so. It's just a preview though. Do we know if coffee threw enough money at Jimmy for that?
Adrian Watson
If not that would raise the thread iconic options.
Ryder James
I think he did, I remember him mentioning that zellmurhaja is going to become canon.
Brody Long
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Ian Ross
Talespin was a legit cool setting that went criminally underused.
Alexander Gutierrez
Perfect.
Benjamin Bailey
The words are more important than the tune. Men of Rahoo as prose goes back hundreds of years, back before the White Rahoos were re-civilized, back even before they spoke Albish.
It is important to understand the history here. The White Rahoos were essentially exiles from Albion who floated up to Rahoo on makeshift balloons to colonize it. However, upon arriving most of them abandoned their original lifestyles and religions to join the welcoming native communities, eventually integrating in such numbers that by the time "civilized" men arrived, most of the natives of the outer islands were racially indistinguishable from the newcomers--blue eyed and fair, though often with black hair and high, distinct cheekbones The idea had been planted deep in their tribal society that the blue-eyed folk had come from the sky. They were "The Children of the Sun," cast out by the gods into the Wide Rahoo to fend for themselves, and the natives had welcomed them much as one would welcome lost children--by teaching them their ways and adopting them into their tribes.
Things weren't all fun and games. While they were welcoming to these foreign orphans, the various tribes were extremely warlike, and the influx of people from this foreign source created a scarcity of resources. The tribes fought and warred amongst one another, and eventually their new members were forced to kill each other as well, creating many feuds and vendettas that persist to this day. Men of Rahoo was originally a song developed by one tribe, the Abenke'haka. The song was later translated into Albish and adapted over the ages to suit the times, but many references to the old tribal way of warfare remain (cutting peoples' ears off to keep count, disfiguring the faces of corpses so that they would not be recognizable in the afterlife, etc)
Most often, the "song" is meant to be a sort of call and reply, with the leader of the group shouting one line, and the rest of his men shouting the answer back.
>Battle Hymn of the Republic Holy shit, literally the most based song ever written. No parody could even come close to the bloodthirst of the original.
I HAVE READ FIERY GOSPEL WRIT IN BURNISHED ROWS OF STEEL AS THOU DEAL WITH MY CONTEMNERS SO WITH THEE MY GRACE SHALL DEAL LET THE HERO BORN OF WOMAN CRUSH THE SERPENT WITH HIS HEEL HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON
Camden Hughes
The thing I remember loving about it was that it was a kids show unafraid to show guns as GUNS and to use the word "kill".
Luis Carter
Bump
Luke Sullivan
Bucklers are OP right now but my favorite will always be 2h sword.
Jaxon Edwards
Makes you really want to go out and shoot a rebellious Dixie boy.
Brody Wilson
Blood on the Risers though.
Christopher Butler
>Makes you really want to go out and shoot a rebellious Dixie boy even more Fixed that for you.
Dylan Sanchez
They're Americans, if the USA did the same Metis/Mestizo thing that their neighbors did. Sort of the Roanoke story writ large, and with a few more generations of separation in there.
And a bit more war because I guess there was no European plague spreading through the outer islands and reducing populations well below resource thresholds.
Kayden Anderson
>Makes you really want to go out and shoot a rebellious Dixie boy full of semen Fixed that for you.
Kevin Campbell
This, it's Anglo-America if they had been integrating with the natives for a few generations before the big wave showed up to conquer them.
Ironically their shtick seems to be that they're really racist, but that might be a sort of overcompensation for the fact that they're all buffalo nickels themselves.
Chase Taylor
>buffalo nickels Explain to this non-american what that means.
Brody Anderson
A few decades ago the US government printed a bunch of nickels (about a 5 cent Euro piece, called "nickel" because that's the metal it's plated in) with one side having a very, very stereotypical Native American in profile and the other side having a buffalo.
They stopped minting these eventually and today nickels are popular collector's items, but for a while in the South it was a semi-affectionate racial slur to refer to people with NA blood as "buffalo nickels" or just "nickels," because they had the distinctive facial features of the natives. The entire US White relationship to natives is strange, when I was in Idaho I saw a redneck and a native guy get into a shouting match at a pub once and they literally just stopped speaking English, the white guy just started calling the dude insults from some other native tribe and the native just started saying Andrew Jackson and Chivington over and over.
Fun country.
Carson Parker
Something about imagining Jimmy going out with some slag from England is funnier than I can articulate. Imagine the dinner convo.
>Chav: Corbyn's socialist policies are a bit extreme but I just can't support a cunt like Theresa May. >Jimmy: Mosley wasn't extreme enough.
Adam Torres
>>Jimmy: Mosley wasn't extreme enough. It's fucking hilarious because Jimmy really did follow up by talking about how to successfully play extremism chicken with politics.
Christopher Campbell
We still have nickels actually, just with a different design. They're not very common because they're worth fuck all (actually closer to three cent euro I think) and Americans hate using coins in general anyway.
I've never heard a more ruthless and effective critique of a politician than Jimmy slaughtering Theresa May last night.
>Fox hunting? Why not just bring the slave trade back while you're at it, people like foxes more than blacks, you'll lose fewer votes overall.
Austin Bell
He makes a pretty good case for accelerationism when he isn't talking about waifus.
Dylan Johnson
They're fucking common in the midwest, brah.
Nathaniel Brown
Well yeah, but when was the last time you paid for something in coins that wasn't a laundromat? I haven't handled a dollar bill in five years, I'm all digital now. Coins are antiquated.
Aiden Richardson
Eerily accurate, but last time I mostly tried to explain Kipling to her. It was a laborious process.