Some funky theorycrafting in those tulwar videos, but can he bang?
Try these guys instead - HERE. They also did a good one on Kali.
Human Weapon was also an ok series, but I liked this pair better.
Maybe if monkey is really good the fat man will get him a wand of Aboleth's Lung with reach metamagic. Sigh if only Spell Hex worked with second level spells.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Christmas has exhausted me so I'll try to post here and there for the games that need it and will hopefully be more regular monday.
@Shifty: Those guys are fun to watch. I prefer the instructional/demonstrated stuff compared to the dramatized and edited stuff. More knowledge and less b++@+&$# that way. Some of those types of shows make me cringe inwardly. Like there was a kungfu killer top 10 documentary from Nat geo that started out innocently enough talking about pretty common soldier and duealing weapons getting into small assassin weapons but it topped it off with a ridiculous hat device that may or may not have existed that looked so impractical and stupid to use the whole time I kept wondering why the hell would you bother with that when you have perfectly serviceable head choppin swords and axes? :/
Let's not get started on locked and loaded or mail call. Ermey's fun to watch but they peddle some outright lies.
Ermey is hilarious, but yeah...
I have been around too many Dojos Dojangs and whatever other name you want to use over the years, and have seen too many fantasy nutride Martial LARPists get into technique and instructional and not show their skills in a pressure tested 'live' environment. I want to see if it works, and what it looks like when it does, otherwise my healthy skepticism triggers and I start to think I am looking at more Bullshido.
I'm pretty quick to discount drunkenmonkeycranemantis fist and all that other shenanigans - nice ideas, doesn't translate well. I also 'get' that in the controlled 'sports' environment they don't get to shine, but hey I was a bouncer in some of the worst red light areas in this country, surrounded by Asian and Islander gangs and they liked to rumble and I didn't see it all working there either - despite my ringside view. I also note we dont bother much with most of them in Defence either.
I do love a good theorycraft session, but then I also love pressure testing the ideas.
I spend too much time on my hobbies :)
Overtime you just have a mental library of things you have seen etc - back in the 80's and 90's it was hard to get GOOD info - there was a lot of voodoo witchery going on that was just pure BS because you had 'stories and eyewitness accounts' and a whole lot of big talk, now someone can go to the place, see the technique, and compare note on forums and share on Youtube.
The dudes plugging 'Combat Jeet Kune Do' in the bcak of Black Belt magazine are now all exposed for the frauds and shucksters they always have been - like these squeezers or This Mickey Mouse s*@#e - this nutwad is out of puff JUST STANDING UP! why is he mincing about in a TKD uniform.... grrr
Oh those guys just make me laugh.
My interest is more academic than anything so I look at stuff that's passed down through manuscripts or lineages and in some ways that inspires some of my freelancing. It also gives a rather broader picture of what life was like back then (almost never as bad as it's made out to be). And also to find the similarities, the overlaps and the influences between cultures (such as indian sword and sabre design influencing english designs of the same).
One of the most interesting observations I've run into is that people point out how similar german longsword styles are to kenjutsu and other japanese sword styles. The guy I was watching basically said that it mostly came down to that theirs only so many ways a guy with two arms and two legs is going to use a sharpened metal bar of about the same weight and length. It makes me wonder a lot about the way fantasy races and real weapons are portrayed in their fighting styles. Like why would dwarves ever favor a longhammer or poleaxe when they primarily deal with opponents in close quarters in narrow tunnels making phalanx tactics or the use of short handled weapons much more viable. Or why some games outright refuse let me refuse to let me deal bludgeoning or piercing damage with a sword.
It also gives me a good idea on what a game described fighting style might look like. Like, Taldan Rondelero duelists always sort of confused me with their bucklers and falcatas until I see this sikh guy basically using a buckler and a tulwar in a way that would make sense.
In that vein this african fighting style was the inspiration to one of my favorite characters.
And this kind of stuff too is neat to me since it can inspire interesting out of the box characters that have some wonderful historical context to back them up when the GM looks at you sideways.
Getting a shower then I begin the long series of updates for everyone.
Happy New Year Nobles! Miss you guys. :)
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we miss you to! Just take this little paper that tells you how much.
You were gone less than an hour in game and the good guys in the group were already plotting to kill you.
Sarenae approves
I am not even sure the monkey knows you left. He just plots to kill everyone in a general fashion.
Happy New Year Merax. The deep end of the alignment pool has not been the same since you ducked down that ally way with that roly-poly little bat faced girl.
Huh. I always thought it was fat-faced girl.
Happy new year as well. Indeed CaldaKrona has not been the same without you.
Happy New Year to one all, old and new... and special waves to Merax.
Feelings. Nothing more than feelings.
Just a heads up that I'm probably going to (continue) being a bit scarce for another week, our next baby is due in the next few days.
Congrats. Maybe he/she can join in once we get to book 5. ;p
have the flu will post when will to live returns.
ZOmbies would just nutate into cold-weather zombies
Ability to survive sub zero temperatures depends entirely on what variety of zombies you're talking about...
I like to use Frost Giants for the base.
Bueller?
sorry for absence family member died sunday will try to get back to it after the weekend.
My condolences
Sorry Tark. Take your time and do what you need to do.
Your priorities are right. You have my sympathies.
Sorry to hear that. Take all the time you need.
I'm sorry to hear that. All the best for you and your family.
Take the time you need. We will be here.
My condolences as well.
Full disclosures and posts to be made tomorrow night.
For the record I've spent the time between putting the house together and comforting the grieving playing a lot of dragon age.
Now that I've finished it without DLC's I'ma getting all the dlc's and the Slap Morrigan mod. Because g%@*@+ morrigan.
I agree on Morrigan. For a supposed expert on seduction and manipulation, she doesn't grasp the concept of help powerful noble=future favors.
I was playing a female dwarf noble sexing up the cute redhead.
I sacrificed loghain to the archdemon at the end.
So yeah, f+%# Morrigan and her dry sandy unmentionables.
Letting everyone know my boss is in town this week (surprise, surprise!) and it looks like I'll be working some pretty long days all week. I'll try to get posts in when I can, but will be tough. I apologize for the short notice I also suffered from. Please bot me in combat.
Right spells decided.
Spellcraft Dc to force-feed understanding to the rat 15+spell level
Pollux's Spellcraft +12 not counting the new headband. Taking 10.
Lvl 1
Frostbite
Ear-piercing scream
Web Bolt
Comprehend languages
Lvl 2
Burning gaze
Web
Commune with Birds. TarkXT Can we re-skin this as commune with Rats?
Touch of idiocy
Glitterdust
Lvl 3
Stinking cloud
Heroism
Dispel Magic
Remove Curse
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Good to see you back boss
The Monkey might actually be able to earn his keep here. Comprehend languages, Identify, Guidance, a self directed Fortune hex, a couple of Aid actions from the less dimensionally endowed and the monkey's brand new headband gives us pretty good odds of hitting nearly respectable DC's. Shall we try?
Sigh, why can't Vomit swarm be a potion-able spell. Have to be happy with scrolls.
"Dude your rat just horked up about a million spiders.....Can I get you to pose for this Death-Metal album cover?"
Good to see you back boss
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Sigh, why can't Vomit swarm be a potion-able spell. Have to be happy with scrolls.
"Dude your rat just horked up about a million spiders.....Can I get you to pose for this Death-Metal album cover?"
Yeh, Vomit Swarm and Rain of Frogs are so made for witches.
oooo Rain of Frogs with Agument Summoning has a dc 15 d4 con damage poison.
hmmmmmm I wonder how crazy a swarm based witch could get....
Rats no Mad Monkeys or Summon Stampede besides I think witches are better focused on hex/save DCs which does not help summoning at all.
Maybe a vermin friendly druid is in my future.
I really wanted to run a Blight Druid focused on swarms and other fun stuff in a Way of the Wicked Campaign. Unfortunately that campaign died when the DM realized that he was running way too many campaigns.
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I really wanted to run a Blight Druid focused on swarms and other fun stuff in a Way of the Wicked Campaign. Unfortunately that campaign died when the DM realized that he was running way too many campaigns.
I, too, want to run a blight druid, perhaps we can run a pair of sisters with a tribe of pyro goblins?
In other news, I see the threads are starting to come alive and I am swamped with homework. Yet I cannot help but plan the actions of spunky Lorn and paranoid Mumbar.
Cosimy(sp) just vanished from the one WotW game I was in and DM Kor up and vanished from a Day of the Dead zombie bash that was supposed to go until everyone dropped and started munching brains. :(
I am in another WotW - playing a Dhampir Summoner who is going the Path of the Vampire in that one. He is really not a nice person.
Ah! You are the judge! Shame that you will no doubt all be dying real soon like. ;)
You following that campaign, nice. I always wonder how many stalkers that campaign has.
We might all die, but who knows. We managed to take our the BBGG (big bad good guy), and his annoying monk girlfriend. Who knows what else the DM will have in store for us.
Ah! You are the judge! Shame that you will no doubt all be dying real soon like. ;)
Ah - Andrea1. Did not know you were in Tark's campaigns.
I'd like to join, but that Dm looks to be too much for me with all the 'You didn't pick up that potion? Guess who has it now!" events.