Personally, I plan to buy Bestiary 3 after Christmas, and then I will flip to the kangaroo stats, memorize them, and make a KANGAROO CAVALIER. Why? The role of cool demands it.
My homebrew setting has a catfolk like race, but not all are catlike. Some are, some aren't. They are crated by grafting animal parts on to humans to give them enhanced senses and such. Combining catfolk and Frankenstein? Yup. Rule of cool.
How have you guys invoked the Rule of Cool?
One of my players was a nixie barbarian with a dire duck mount and she used a giant axe she took from evil Paul Bunyan....so that would probably be how I envoked the rule of cool haha
One of my players was a nixie barbarian with a dire duck mount and she used a giant axe she took from evil Paul Bunyan
And that's... cool?
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One of my players was a nixie barbarian with a dire duck mount and she used a giant axe she took from evil Paul BunyanAnd that's... cool?
It's cool if the people in the room think it's cool. Somethings don't translate well.
Marv, King of Orcish barbaque and alchemist. The outhouses in his establishment have methane collectors for bomb production.
One of my players was a nixie barbarian with a dire duck mount and she used a giant axe she took from evil Paul BunyanAnd that's... cool?
If the idea of a small aquatic fairy flying around on a large duck and hefting an axe that ways twice what she does doesn't at least give you a small chuckle at the sheer ridiculousness of it than I am glad I don't play in your game.
A player of mine, cleric of Cayden Cailean, was fighting a group of skeletons... The group was low on health, out of channeling power, and armed with rapiers (mainly). Not so good Vs skellys... At which point, the cleric draws his holy symbol (a tankard) and uses it (as an improvised weapon) to bludgeon the skeletons to death. Did I apply the -4 for an improvised weapon? Hell no - was just too cool and fun. The player now has a holy symbol with a number of dents in that make for a good story in the bars. Good times!
A player of mine, cleric of Cayden Cailean, was fighting a group of skeletons... The group was low on health, out of channeling power, and armed with rapiers (mainly). Not so good Vs skellys... At which point, the cleric draws his holy symbol (a tankard) and uses it (as an improvised weapon) to bludgeon the skeletons to death. Did I apply the -4 for an improvised weapon? Hell no - was just too cool and fun. The player now has a holy symbol with a number of dents in that make for a good story in the bars. Good times!
Now THIS is cool.
I once had a cleric of Dionysus (a maenad) who as her holy symbol had a large goblet that doubled as a light mace.
Yes, I know the proper holy symbol would be a thyrsus, but the goblet was cool, and better in keeping for a wild drunken woman.
She also had sacramental wine instead of holy water and hosed down the undead with blessed champagne.
Rule of cool does not apply equally to all groups. To some, your rule of cool might be 'random vacuousness'. Rule of cool is not something to be applied mindlessly. Know yourself, know your group, and act accordingly.
Rule of cool does not apply equally to all groups. To some, your rule of cool might be 'random vacuousness'. Rule of cool is not something to be applied mindlessly. Know yourself, know your group, and act accordingly.
Kangaroo cavalry is cool. It's kangaroo cavalry.
Rule of cool does not apply equally to all groups. To some, your rule of cool might be 'random vacuousness'. Rule of cool is not something to be applied mindlessly. Know yourself, know your group, and act accordingly.Kangaroo cavalry is cool. It's kangaroo cavalry.
I refer you again to my post.
My Monk tried to literally get the drop on the leader of a bandit party by jumping down from a roof before trying to start a grapple. The DM decided that I landed on him and had me roll 2d6 for the damage the bandit took. I got enough to knock the poor sot out in one blow.
That monk has since been renamed Randy Savage
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I refer you again to my post.Rule of cool does not apply equally to all groups. To some, your rule of cool might be 'random vacuousness'. Rule of cool is not something to be applied mindlessly. Know yourself, know your group, and act accordingly.Kangaroo cavalry is cool. It's kangaroo cavalry.
I refer you again to the words kangaroo cavalry.
I'm thinking of running a human sorcerer who was raised by halflings, and now travels with his adoptive family. They're his Uncle Owen, Aunt Beru, cousin Luke, and the gnome craftsman that travels with them, Uncle Tom. His caravan is known as Mr. Wizard's Magical Paradise. He would adventure in a top hat, carrying a cane. His name? Elvis. Yes, I was planning on running a character that was nothing but an inside joke referencing Willy Wonka, Star Wars, and Elvis. Nobody else got it, so I'm sticking with my RAGEFALCHIONPOUNCE barbarian(can't be too awesome, can we?)
I have only DMed Pathfinder games, so I haven't been able to invoke rule of cool too much. I've had it nearly exercised on a few occasions.
My very first character died within three rounds of existing, as I had a PC-Killer DM. My next character was gifted with a rod of wonder. His first combat? Round one: Shrunk. Round 1.5: Tossed in a pickle jar in another character's backpack. Rounds 2-4: Strength checks to get the rod of wonder out of a pickled egg. Round 5: Hurricane inside the jar, shooting me out of the jar, hundreds of feet into the air. Round 6: Turned myself purple. Round 7: Turned myself ethereal. Round 8: Dropped a maximized fireball that killed everything on the ground below me. Except the enemy, who happened to be a demon immune to fire. DM retconned it to say I knocked everyone in the party out, and killed the demon.
d20 modern game a few nights ago, jumped a motorcycle off a ramp over a convertible and failed the drive check, used a reflex save to bail out. I looked at my GM and said "If I crit this reflex save, I want to land sitting in the driver's seat unharmed." I rolled...a 19.
Not at mine, either.
Kelsey, did you ever play Vampire? If so, did you play a 'fishmalk'?
I do play Vampire, but I've never played a Malkavian outside the last video game. I try to be serious in my RPGs, but kangaroo cavalry is too awesome to pass up. I just can't do it.
Kangaroo cavalry is not cool at my table.
Saying that is not cool at my table.
;P
Bah! Get over at my table this instant so I can kill your character!
Bah! Get over at my table this instant so I can kill your character!
Now, now. In character solutions to out of character problems never work.
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Bah! Get over at my table this instant so I can kill your character!
It won't do anything. TOZ has already proven he has character to spare.
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I was running a goblin campaign, and my party came across a young horse mired in torso-deep mud and vines. Rather than ignoring it or going out to their own potential drowning demise, they decided they were going to cut down a tree and just squish the poor horse >D
As the DM, I was rolling on the floor laughing, and as a reward for their creativity, I invoked the rule of cool and gave them that the tree would land on the horse on a 2-7 on a d8, and still awarded them XP for an encounter with a young templated horse.
Bah! Get over at my table this instant so I can kill your character!Now, now. In character solutions to out of character problems never work.
Fine. I'll drop him to level one. Levels are an out-of-character mechanic, after all. That's how it works, right?
Fine. I'll drop him to level one. Levels are an out-of-character mechanic, after all. That's how it works, right?Bah! Get over at my table this instant so I can kill your character!Now, now. In character solutions to out of character problems never work.
Ah, but that reduces the character's skills a great deal, and is therefore an in character solution.
Ah, but that reduces the character's skills a great deal, and is therefore an in character solution.Fine. I'll drop him to level one. Levels are an out-of-character mechanic, after all. That's how it works, right?Bah! Get over at my table this instant so I can kill your character!Now, now. In character solutions to out of character problems never work.
Kill the player?
Kill the player?Ah, but that reduces the character's skills a great deal, and is therefore an in character solution.Fine. I'll drop him to level one. Levels are an out-of-character mechanic, after all. That's how it works, right?Bah! Get over at my table this instant so I can kill your character!Now, now. In character solutions to out of character problems never work.
Hm...do I still have to get him to my table?
Kill the player?Ah, but that reduces the character's skills a great deal, and is therefore an in character solution.Fine. I'll drop him to level one. Levels are an out-of-character mechanic, after all. That's how it works, right?Bah! Get over at my table this instant so I can kill your character!Now, now. In character solutions to out of character problems never work.
You do realize that TOZ is military, right? I'd give him the edge in a fight.
You do realize that TOZ is military, right? I'd give him the edge in a fight.
With a person? Probably. But there would be more entertaining battles to watch.
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If it makes you feel any better with my health I'm likely to lose a fight with a house cat (a distinct possibility if my two ever decide to get along and end my reign as master of the apartment).
You do realize that TOZ is military, right? I'd give him the edge in a fight.Kill the player?Ah, but that reduces the character's skills a great deal, and is therefore an in character solution.Fine. I'll drop him to level one. Levels are an out-of-character mechanic, after all. That's how it works, right?Bah! Get over at my table this instant so I can kill your character!Now, now. In character solutions to out of character problems never work.
And I'm entering a fair fight because of the surprise lobotomy? I'm going to befriend some obscure religious cult and get them to strap a time bomb to his Pathfinder Core Rulebook.
Sadly, my combatives training has been lacking. I prefer to look my enemy in the eye through a high powered rifle scope.
That's why I'd give you the edge. You'd just shoot the guy.
I suppose I'll posting something vaguely on-topic for once.
In my 3.5/PF material game, Wild Wasteland (a Fallout game with a long list of houserules to facilitate such a setting) I have a player whose character is a kick-boxing kangaroo. He just took down the ghoul of Ted Nugent who had strapped a bomb collar to his neck and hunted him down in a wicked awesome parody of "The Most Dangerous Game".
How does a kangaroo mount a horse?
How does a kangaroo mount a horse?
With much difficulty *is shot*
By jumping of course.
Sadly, my combatives training has been lacking. I prefer to look my enemy in the eye through a high powered rifle scope.
What kind of fool wants a fair fight, anyway?
Someone get RavingDork on this forum, PLEASE.
Ogre fighter who had 26 strength, grapple feats, and spiked armor. He earned the nickname "The Cheese Grater", because he would rip peple to shreds and then use their corpses as clubs/throwing weapons.
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How does a kangaroo mount a horse?
It starts by buying it a drink.