Our party is expected to take shelter behind the """tank"""

>our party is expected to take shelter behind the """tank"""
>this is literally the character art he chose

I cannot fathom how my rogue, or the mage, or the barbarian, are supposed to buy this. I can only suspend my disbelief so far here.

It's an AGI tank.

post your/your group's character art then lad, we can't give you an answer if we can't see how they compare

>armor
>shield
Better tank than a robed guy, some naked barbarian, and a street rat.

Do not bully Fortress!

>My idea of make believe doesn't mesh with this other guy's idea of mage believe
>do I talk to him about it or make a bait thread on 3chun
>decisions decisions

I think it would be fair to have your character be skeptical until the "tank" proves her worth as a warrior in their presence, unless she has a truly overwhelmingly good reputation in the setting or something.

Real talk, the concept of a "Tank" is kind of a videogameism.

But this character at least has a shield, is armored, and has a weapon with a relatively long haft to beat people while her shield is up.

It's not exactly the most realistic design, but it's certainly a design.

Can't really expect much from the artist: They're an infamous lolicon pornographer.

What, the Etrian Odyssey artist?

Wait, shit, really? What is this artist’s name. For science. A friend’s science. He’s planning to research a lot.

I actually think he is. I seem to recall he does porn anyway. And his designs in general appear quite youngish so if you wanted to represent that as lolicon I guess you could.

Exactly this.
You've stumbled into cool character conflict. Embrace it.

Yuji Himukai. I dont know if he actually doss for real porn but some of his art is pretty suggestive, even some official EO promotional art.

You can find art from some of his VN work on sadpanda. And a bit of his doujin work, too.

Neat. I dont necessarily like his art in that way but I like his art in general.

Why am I surprised that Veeky Forums would know these things. Now, to study the works of a man infmaous for his apparent good taste.

I'd just leave the group, honestly. A person who plays as a loli isn't a person I want to play with. Same for people who think it's alright to play as a loli.

I knew his name because Im a EO fan and Ive noted both hia name and Yuzo Koshiro for their quality contributions to the world. I could probably jack off to his porn but its not something I necessarily would seek.

Fag

>All the fags in this thread saying "it has armor and a shield.
I understand user, fuck your Loli player and fuck the Loli tank lovers in this thread.

It's not that rare to see Japanese artist to begin their career drawing porn. Actually, it's quite common.

see

Except this dude drew loli sex and really only branched out into drawing lolis in Etrian Odyssey.

Pedophile, go back to where you belong

Sorry user, but if you show me that picture as your character art, it tells me two things: One, it hints at your tastes, and I prefer not to associate with pedophiles. Two: you aren't taking this seriously. Or worse, you take little anime girls seriously.

>inb4 it's just a game
It is in fact just a game, but I like to have stories with some gravity to them, and watching a grown man pretend to be a cute little girl fighting monsters tends to clash horribly with that. So I would just excuse myself from the game. Of course, if I was running it I would kick you if you insisted on playing a loli with a loli picture.

Excusing yourself I could see, but going full That GM over a game, a thing where the aim is fun, seems a bit much.

Lighten up nerd

I would't be That GM. I would just say that kind of character wouldn't fit (which they wouldn't), and that you had to pick something else. At the very least steer the character away from loli territory, find a different portrait, and paint them as something other than a blatant little girl. If you said "No, I won't," and refused to change anything, then you're getting kicked. Simple as that. You can do what you want, I don't care. Doesn't mean I have to put up with it.

I'd work with you to find a compromise so we could both be okay with it, but if you don't compromise then you're gone.

Does the art fit the tone?

If yes, no bitching.

If not, then you have bigger problems.

So it would be okay to play a loli that doesn't have a loli picture?

Interesting

That kinda gets my transgression boner going a lot harder than loli art desu

>Being so reddit that you cannot imagine playing as/with the little girl

Normiecore soyboys like you need to fuck off Veeky Forums forever

Depends on the concept and on how you roleplay. I don't give a fuck if you see your character as a loli in your head, so long as you keep it in your fucking head. If you pitch your character to me as a young child, that's getting changed. If you pitch it to me as somebody stuck in the body of a little girl, that's getting changed. If you pitch it to me as a pretty, youthful gnome, I could not care less. Just don't act like a fucking creep.

Clearly the answer is everyone who wants to play a little girl playing as a halfling/gnome.

>come to pedo site
>complain about pedos

>I would't be That GM
>describes what That GM will do

>DMing for new group, campaign is standard dark fantasy shit loosely based off the Black Company universe
>ask players to get out their character sheets and give a short description of how they intend to play their character
>Warrior and Rogue are standard gruff men, poor mercs looking for work
>Wizard player pulls out his sheet
>loli character art, clear as day cropped from a hentai doujin
>slip phone out of pocket under the table and dial 911, put phone on speaker
>Wizard player starts describing his characters heavily sexually charged backstory, tries to act like its all above the board because as one of the Taken he's actually not a little girl but hundreds of years old, the usual pedophile excuses
>other players are visibly uncomfortable but I play it cool and continue through the rest of the groups introductions
>cops burst in as we're wrapping up, players jump up confused
>ask them to take their seats, calmly explain to the cops that the wizard is the sex offender they were called about
>thank them for their prompt response as they handcuff him and lead him out the door
>"No, thank you Mister Hansen for your efforts in making this neighborhood safer for everyone"
What have you done to make your FLGS a safer place today?

by not thinking up of retarded baitposts that don't deserve a (You(

>fully armored character from an dungeon crawler videogame
>too ridiculous for a fucking tabletop game

>What have you done to make your FLGS a safer place today?
Petition to have everyone over the age of 30 banned from the store and instill a policy where we force you to leave if it's obvious that you aren't bathing.

Also, minors must be accompanied by a parent/guardian over the age of 18.

What if the character is a full grown adult continuously making skill checks to convince everyone that they are the little girl?

You've never played Etrian Odyssey have you? Even gods struggle to break through the defenses of the tanks in that series.

He illustrated two VNs with loli content and did some doujins. You'd be hard pressed to find a Japanese artist who hasn't done porn. Even Takehito Harada has done official art of Etna in artistic nude, and that's literally the only ero image I can think of done by him.

>Does the art fit the tone?
The art of EO doesn't fit the tone of EO. It looks bright and cheerful and suddenly you're getting ripped in half by vicious terrible monsters, devoured by flying fish, and tentacle raped by eldritch gods. It has somewhat graphic descriptions of violence that if rendered would make the game M-rated no problem.

user, please. You call this a tank?
Now THIS is a tank. I know, he looks small (fist-sized, to be precise), but believe me, there is no else I would rather take cover behind.

>Takehito Harada
He's a cool dude.
I remember seeing that he did lewd sketches of girl Laharl years before that became a thing.

...

Still not really anything exceptional in Japan.

Picture all the other characters as lolis too. Problem solved.

She's three meters tall though...

I didn't know the puritan patrol was out

>people actually responding to this as if it were a real situation

Any group worth their salt would have bullied the player of such a character until buttfucking ensued.

Not post complaints on Veeky Forums.

I feel like the contrast is just a part of the intended tone.

>its another nerd who thinks his version of weird is any less than another nerds
The amount of elitism in nerd culture is frustrating. You think the average person sees a mlp, dnd, whatever and thinks ones more weird or nerdy than the other? Wrong. Your all losers role-playing kids shit on a Friday night as adults.

>the mage.., are supposed to buy this.

BY GOLLY, I CAN REARRANGE THE VERY FABRIC OF THE UNIVERSE AS A WHIM, BUT THIS SMALL CHILD COULDN'T POSSIBLY HAVE SOME SORT OF ENCHANTMENT THAT WOULD PERMIT THIS.

I SHALL WRITE TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF WIZARDS IMMEDIATELY, THIS WILL NOT STAND

Realism != internal consistency.

But if someone was to make a setting in which a young girl could be the tank, you'd call it unrealistic.
You sure as hell wouldn't play it, just because of that, which makes it obvious that you're making an argument to defend an opinion that you're not interested or perhaps even scared of revising.
If you feel inordinately repelled, shameful or angry at the idea of yourself playing a game like that even if it's internally consistent, you probably have a problem, and it's related to feeling uncomfortable around children or childishness for some reason.

Party Shield, Guard Mastery, Rampart, Iron Wall...
Nothing goes through.

Loli is pretty looked-down upon, even there. It's legal, and you can make and distribute mangas full of it, but it is still looked down upon.

>playing with weebs
>playing with randos from r20
>playing D&D
>playing combat-oriented game with mmo-like combat roles

I guess you brought it on yourself

>muh tank
This is tabletop, not an mmo. Something tells me you don't play tabletop.

>I want to play as a heroic little girl, who through a series of events involving a trickster spirit, was granted the strength and resilience of a grown man, and after her family was kidnapped by a roaming band of savages, she sets out to earn gold for herself, not just to survive, but to build up funds to try and find her family.
>Get the fuck out of here you child fucker
Not everything is a fetish you twat.

Which isn't much, since not working yourself to death or not drinking beer with your boss is looked down upon. Hell, playing video games is looked down upon.

Are you telling me that my Invulnerable Rager Barbarian with DR16/- at level 10 isn't a tank?

>I want to play as a little girl
>not fetish
Sure, user and I just happen to want to play a 7 foot tall aasimar buffgirl who was """""cursed""""" with a cruel and crippling addition to having her ass eaten by smaller women. Your shit is a fetish

Can take a beating, but can't defend anyone else for shit...
Yeah, definitely not a tank.

Tell that to Stand Still, my 20 foot reach, and my 5 attacks of opportunity per round faggot.

Y'all niggas need Jesus

By that logic, any character concept that isn't a white human male fighter between the ages of 25 and 35 is a fetish.

This is Veeky Forums, EVERYTHING is fetish

Then why complain about people playing fetishes!

Not that user but if you referred to her as a loli I would kick you out immediately.

Gay

Because people on here have an unhealthy obsession with things they hate and fuck you if you're not mentally damaged or 14 years old like they are.

Why ya gotta be such a nancy, user

No, it's because I don't want to play with pedophiles?

>Playing as a young girl makes you a pedo.
I swear, everyday words seem to lose more meaning

Is this a young giantess?

I wouldn't care if someone wanted to play a tank fluffed as a little girl, and I wouldn't care if the player was masturbating to his PC, but calling it a loli tells me that he won't be able to reign in his power level and that will get annoying.

She looks tough tho.

And? Lots of people do lewds for ages and then branch into normal stuff in Japan.

I don't want to play with gurofags, then.
That Human Fighter is staying at the door.
You have absurd double standards about anything even remotely sexual, and that means you're thinking about it in a sexual way more than anyone else.
Relax.
Not everything someone likes that you don't has to be damning.

Are people really pretending like putting forth a picture of a loli doesn't HEAVILY imply that you're a pedophile? You're putting forth a fetishized image of a small child made to appeal to people sexually attracted to small children as the character you want to play as. Pretty sure everyone saying things like "It makes for a good dynamic!" or "It's just playing as a kid," haven't ever actually been in a situation like this. Or they have, and they're just as bad as the people they're trying to defend.

You are making assumptions.
First, pinpoint all the strawmen, spurious assumptions and generalizations you've made in that post, and then we can hope to be able to talk to you.

>I don't want to play with gurofags, then.
Then literally every character is staying at the door unless it's a magical girl game where you fight evil with the power of friendship and make monsters go "poof!" with little pink heart blasts. But I guess that's right up your alley, if you see nothing wrong with lolis.

The fact that your game has a "tank" makes no fucking sense in and of itself. Why would anything, intelligent or otherwise, simply bunch up on the thing in the front when there's easy picking just standing behind it?

Even if it was the size of an adult, how the fuck are you going to keep 3 people covered by standing behind him? Shit makes no fucking sense already.

I don't understand your complaint.

What strawmen? Are you really saying that the loli made the artist who is confirmed to do loli porn ISN'T a fetishized image made to appeal to people sexually attracted to small children? Are you that naive?

It just sounds like something dumb to get hung up over. Yeah, it’s a loli. Big whoop. Just because someone sees that image and automatically thinks mating_press ahegao nakadashi doesn’t mean that’ll ever come up during a session.

Notwithstanding the obvious disconnect between pedophiles and drawings. If you honestly believe that well you probably think I’m some deranged serial killer what with all the murdering my characters have done over the years.

I want /a/ to leave. Or at least stay in its fucking containment general.

>Notwithstanding the obvious disconnect between pedophiles and drawings.
t. pedophile.

If you're sexually attracted to an image of a small child, drawn or not, you're a pedophile. Why don't you go ahead and source me on this "obvious disconnect"?

>If you honestly believe that well you probably think I’m some deranged serial killer what with all the murdering my characters have done over the years.
Nice false equivalency.

>You're putting forth a fetishized image of a small child made to appeal to people sexually attracted to small children as the character you want to play as.
Is there something you want to tell us user? Because nothing about OP's picture is inherently sexual in nature.

Hell, she's more modestly dressed than most female characters in fantasy.

That's be like saying having a picture of a child on your phone automatically means you are a paedophile. That's just simply not true.

If your first thought on seeing anything resembling a child is "sex", then it is probably you who is the closet paedophile. Normal people don't think of sex when we see children.

And more importantly, the pic OP posted doesn't suggest anything sexual at all no matter how you look at it. You'd have to inject fetish ideas for that to happen.

>re you really saying that the loli made the artist who is confirmed to do loli porn ISN'T a fetishized image made to appeal to people sexually attracted to small children?
Considering she's modestly dressed, decked out in armor, and standing in a neutral pose, I think that you're honestly just looking for either something to complain about or trying desperately to hide something about your own sexual orientation by being violently opposed to the shit that you consider attractive.

>Why don't you go ahead and source me on this "obvious disconnect"?
One is a drawing of a person who, as far as our reality goes, does not exist. The other is an actual child.

It should be obvious.

That's not /a/. Only Veeky Forums and /v/.

>y-you're the one making it sexual! you're the pedo!
No, I'm not. I also said "fetishized", not "sexualized". A regular image of a child is innocuous (although it becomes very much not innocuous if you don't have a relation to them). A picture of a loli is not, because it's well known how pedophiles on the internet are sexually attracted to them. It's literally a fetish. I don't need to be attributing sexuality to an image to know that others do so, and to know that basically the sole purpose of lolis is for them to be fetishized. This is one of the weakest arguments internet pedophiles bring out, literally nothing more than a "N-no u,". Want to try again?

>no source
Hmmmm. If it looks like a duck, etc. You're still sexually attracted to the form of a small child, user. That's concerning.

>false equivalency

You seem to be stating that a desire to fuck [fictional thing] equates to wanting to fuck the counterpart irl. Well, more often than not I have desired to kill/murder [fictional things] in my games. Worse, I’ve actually carried out these horrid deeds in roleplaying scenarios. Truly, I must be worse than hitler.

>A picture of a loli is not, because it's well known how pedophiles on the internet are sexually attracted to them
Paedophiles are attracted to actual children, not drawings of cartoon girls.

You're the one claiming that a picture of a girl standing in a neutral pose in armor is sexual somehow.

Most non-pedos also don't go through this much effort just to claim how much they can't stand pictures of girls either.

Just saying.

>pedoshit
>weebshit
>mmofag terminology
Wew lad. I'd bounce them, but not before congratulating them on blowing all three of their strikes in the character pitch alone

It's still incredibly degenerate