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What gives the idea of medieval food and feasts such an appeal?
What makes the images, the ideas, and recipies so delicious and apetizing to think of when the food was cooked a thousand years ago with even less resources, spices, and methods than we have today?
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They usually ate even worse garbage, and we're programmed to like having excess food.
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>>50129580
Because they pulled out all the stops for feasts.
It is why one looks foreward to thanksgiving, even though they could technically have turkey any time they like
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I think part of it is that your average adventurer ends up having field-rations and cheap tavern food for the majority of their meals, so to have a meal that's outright decadent in how its prepared and the size of its portions feels like much more of a luxurious reprieve.
Kind of like how being indoors is much more satisfying when you've just got out of the rain than when it's sunny outside.
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Ok, everybody roll for Pride and Prejudice
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Would Jane Austen make a good GM? Would she take the game to her magical realm?
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>>50129335
I imagine the game would be very, very, very boring.
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>>50129493
Have you read a Jane Austen novel? I'm a dude and I didn't read one nearly early enough - I think in my late teens was when I read Pride and Prejudice for the first time.
What surprised me was 1) Jane Austen isn't a superbly amazing writer in terms of pure prose 2) Austen's books are pretty fucking entertaining. The verbal sniping and parodical characters make almost all of her books a pleasant read - it does tend to be dependent on how goody two-shoes the protagonists are, so e.g. Persuasion I just want the villains to win and overthrow the protagonist's prospects but Emma, Emma is my legit waifu.
I don't know what Jane Austen's magical realm would be other than a savage critique of British upper/middle class society, but I'd probably enjoy having her as a GM.
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How many thousands of £ a year each player has in income would be a critical stat.
What are some weapon and armor misconceptions and myths that get to you?
Mine are the famous cult behind the longbow. Most of what you read is pure Anglo propaganda put forth by Yewaboos who treat it as a wonder weapon when it couldn't even pierce gambeson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CULmGfvYlso
The English clung to their bows while European warfare was adopting pike and shot. There was a debate about the efficiency of the longbow in the contemporary battlefield and all the people advocating for it were people who romanticized the weapon as an English symbol while all the advocators to abandon it were military veterans who fought in the low countries against Spain and saw the potential of the arquebus and the musket. By the end of the 16th century any man showing up to muster with a longbow was listed as an unarmed man.
Another horrible one is the one where people buy that muskets were horribly inaccurate weapons with very short range and that bows were better.
Here's scholagladiatoria take on it:
https://youtu.be/W__flifZMiA?t=502
Here he says that they're not all that inaccurate, they have longer or equal range as a warbow, they're easy to aim and operate and they're pretty devastating when they hit.
Again the most peddled narrative is that they were easier to train people with and that's it but when looking at history it spells the opposite.
First, gunners were professional troops and not peasants with guns.
Second, they were adopted by elite elements of certain armies. Like the Janassaries which were elite slave-soldiers who had strong archery traditions and access to some of the best bows. Yet they abandoned the bow in favor of the arquebus to great efficiency. The same with the Samurai who had come to favor the Teppo over the Yumi bow. Those were not rabble, they were elite warriors trained from birth.
Third most cultures that came in contact with early firearms favored them over the bow including those with archery traditions.
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That's it. I'm sick of all this "Heavy Crossbow" bullshit that's going on in the d20 system right now. Crossbows deserve much better than that. Much, much better than that.
I should know what I'm talking about. I myself commissioned a genuine crossbow in Italy for 4,500 Euro (that's about £2000) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 years now. I can even pierce slabs of solid steel with my crossbow.
European smiths spend days working on a single crossbow and test it up to two dozen times to produce the finest peasant weapon known to mankind.
Crossbows are thrice as easy to train as an English Longbow and thrice as deadly for that matter too. Anything a bodkin arrow can punch through, a crossbow bolt can punch through better, and more accurately too. I'm pretty sure a crossbow could easily pierce the lung of a Gendarme wearing full plate with a simple trigger pull.
Ever wonder why medieval Europe never bothered conquering medieval Europe? That's right, they were too scared to fight the disciplined Crossbowmen and their implements of destruction. Even in the Fifteenth Century, the Vatican banned the use of crossbows against Christians because their killing power was feared and respected.
So what am I saying? Crossbows are simply the best ranged weapon that the world has ever seen, and thus, require better stats in the d20 system. Here is the stat block I propose for Crossbows:
Light Crossbow (Two-Handed Martial Weapon) 1d12 Damage 19-20 x4 Crit +2 to hit and damage Range 200ft
Heavy Crossbow (Two-Handed Exotic Weapon) 2d10 Damage 17-20 x4 Crit +5 to hit and damage Range 280ft
Now that seems a lot more representative of the cutting power of Crossbows in real life, don't you think?
tl;dr = Crossbows need to do more damage in d20, see my new stat block.
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>>50126426
>cutting power of Crossbows in real life,
Ya goofed it.
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>>50126369
>treat it as a wonder weapon when it couldn't even pierce gambeson.
You'd hope the most common armor would actually protect you from one do the most common weapons in history.
But seriously who in their right minds believes that a bow is pretty much a lightsaber? Is only real claim to fame is its being able to knock a man on his back which is still pretty useful if you are talking about a battlefield scenario.
Also breaking a man's bones is pretty fucking debilitating if you then hit him in the ribs with a spear.
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Age of shitmar
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Would it be possible that non chaos worshiping norscans exist? I remenber reading somewere that some of the tribes of the south opose, or rather ignore, the chaotic powers.
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how come they've doubled the points cost for every unit in 9th age? For what possible reason have they done this?
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Let's talk about the Primarchs, /tg/. Who are they really? Why did they do what they did? Where are they now? And most importantly, what happened to the two missing ones?
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From what I have been able to glean from this board...
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They're a group of blokes that were created by the Emperor who either fucked everything up forever, or did nothing of consequence before then either dying or disappearing...
Oh, and there was that one guy who sacrificed himself...
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>>50125192
and 2 are secret
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well that about wraps it up!
goodnight everybody!
see ya round next week!
Ever RP in a video game?
I use to play on a RP server for a freelancer mod, but the community turned particularly foul as player numbers dropped (they haven't banned the dude that writes child rape stories because they need the players).
Apart from the dodgy players, it was pretty cool because the story and politics were shaped by the contributions hundreds of players (though ultimately came down to the whims of the most influential, such as the admiral/CEO/mob boss/governor ranked players).
I had a go at an incredibly strict gmod RP server (absolutely nothing like Dark RP style servers), but the people there were extremely cliquey and were generally pretty shitty to newcomers.
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>>50123225
I roleplayed a chaotic stupid group on temple of elemental evil pc game.
They killed everyone (including animals) they ever saw on the map without even talking with them.
It was hard as fuck.
There was this kid at the start of the game that tell something to you, after some amount of time I discovered you could skip the conversation by quickly opening the map and using it to go to another place, and so I restarted my entire game just because of that.
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>>50123225
Discovery Freelancer? I used to play there too, I didn't like how forum centered the roleplay was.
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>>50124027
Get the fuck out Kazinsal
Swords are fucking useless why would anyone pick them?
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>>50121969
Most swords are just Strength Damage 3, but other than that you can add whatever you want to it and power effects are a lot cheaper when you have Easily Removable.
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>>50121969
Pole axe master race.
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Space Marine Proportion Inconsistency
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Alright /tg/, how do you like your Space Marine proportions?
Pic related is probably my favorite out of all the representations, not retard huge but still having the trademark epic proportions.
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>>50119487
Pic related, and the proportions in the Space Marine game, since they were build with minimal-model-clipping in mind.
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>>50119487
I still feel like Space Marine got the proportions down pretty good.
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>>50119487
Probably this.
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How do we fix the Necrons?
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>>50117111
Tell them to stop being lazy fucks and get the hell out of bed.
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>>50117111Advance the Setting.
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Fire Matt Ward.
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What are most aesthetically pleasing races among those in standard D&D setting?
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>muh magical realms
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>>50115292
Kobolds. It's Common Knowledge.
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Is there anything cuter than kitsune?
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How would you feel about a setting where people decided to cut corners in terms of technological advancement and, instead of bringing machines to the intelligence of people, started 3D-printing organic brains with mostly human DNA (but genetically modified to improve performance) to precise specifications, running most of their electronics on such tailored brains?
Say, they could have, instead of massive traditional servers, enormous building-sized computer-interfaced brains requiring trucks of sugar and water as well as elaborate cooling to work, and which can literally die in case of their life sustaining systems failing.
Or they could have portable electronics such as phones with small biochips which sometimes need to be fed sustenance pills to avoid starvation.There were actually multiple experiments in this direction IRL already, so this might as well be a prediction of the future, given that Moore's Law is RIP in Peace.
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And no, this wouldn't be magical realm - sentience and sapience both require specific brain structures, which would be absent in tailored-to-specifications brains, unless the designers deliberately wanted that as a feature.
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Oh well, I guess noone gives a shit.
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>>50113792
The best thing that happened to modern this year after Nahiri
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>>50114128
The last three sets have had something playable in modern. Think something in Kaladesh will start getting played?
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Cathartic reunion ???
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>At last, the secrets of the Emperor's project beneath the Palace will be revealed, and you'll get a closer look at the Emperor Himself than ever before.
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>While Horus’ rebellion burns across the galaxy, a very different kind of war rages beneath the Imperial Palace. The ‘Ten Thousand’ Custodian Guard, along with the Sisters of Silence and the Mechanicum forces of Fabricator General Kane, fight to control the nexus points of the ancient eldar webway that lie closest to Terra, infested by daemonic entities after Magnus the Red’s intrusion. But with traitor legionaries and corrupted Battle Titans now counted among the forces of Chaos, the noose around the Throneworld is tightening, and none but the Emperor Himself can hope to prevail.
Any new HH book is coming out in a few days and none of you guys are talking about it? We cannot have that, can we? Finally we will have a novel focused on the Emprah. What secrets and revelations we will see in the novel? Who is hyped?!
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The ‘Ten Thousand’ Custodian Guard, along with the Sisters of Silence and the Mechanicum forces of Fabricator General Kane...
Kane?
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>>50111500
>Finally we will have a novel focused on the Emprah
Not sure if this is a good thing
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All folklore suddenly becomes real.
Fae woods out of nowhere, Wild Hunt come galloping down the main street, Wendigo prowling the forests, and Ifrits all around the equator.
Your only mercy is that gods are exempt, so Zeus won't be raping your sister/wife/mother as any kind of creature, nobody gets closure on christianity, and Loki won't be shitting up just about everything.
What the fuck do you do, guys? Especially if pic related is in your neighborhood park.
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>>50110068
Die, most likely. Try and adjust as best I can otherwise, without making any kind of major impact due to a lack of any kind of applicable skills and knowledge. I'm too native to the old world; the skills needed to truly excel in the new one won't be found in anyone who isn't born to it.
Best-case scenario is that I become a completely average citizen of the new world.
And anyone in this thread who claims anything different about themselves is a bold-faced liar.
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>>50110068
Exotic. Brothels.
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>>50110068
>All folklore suddenly becomes real.
I don't think you understand how much "folklore" there is.
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Why are so few girls into trading card games?
Is it the community, or is it the games themselves?
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>>50106712
I came across the same problem when I was getting my degree in astronomy. It's the tedium and math that tags along with the game.
That or the neckbeards.
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>>50106712
protip: it's the girls.
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>>50106712
Plenty of girls are into MtG and the like. They just don't leave the house, because it means getting off Tumblr, and raises the possibility of encountering an untagged trigger.