>Your party meets in a bathhouse

>>48389231
>elf drops the soap

>dwarf bends over and wiggles his but seductively

>>48389289
>anal train starts on dwarf
>afterwards elf thanks dwarf for helping him pick up the soap
>dwarf didn't know there was any soap

>>48389231
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPllpzxmM5k&feature=youtu.be&t=134
2:14 if the time doesn't skip automatically

>>48389231
Not inappropriate for a game set in a fantasy equivalent of Rome.

>>48389231
Throg does not bathe due to fear of water born through childhood trauma.
Throg also will not remove armor for another two months because of religious reasons related to the time of year.
Throg suggests that a better place to meet would be library, or perhaps marketplace where Throg must go anyway to purchase aromatics to freshen up armor.

>>48389267
>>48389289
>>48389320
>stepping stools are brought in to compensate for height differences

Is this a mixed bath?

>>48389395
Is it a mixed party?

>>48389406
The half-orc is.

>>48389406
Are yours not?

>>48389422
He'll have to go to the lower life section.

>>48389375

You're in a bath house. That's how the module begins. You don't get a choice. Why did you make an aquaphobe when you KNEW you'd be near water?

>>48389422
>chaotic evil
So, he just tries to rape everyone and/or gets smited while the paladins go apeshit?

Or are they throwing him into the waste water because he's a mongrel and his parents race traitors?

>>48389423
No, we only play girls.

>>48389457
There was a typo in the text, I thought we were meeting at Beth's house.

>>48389460
Would a paladin bathe with his holy symbol?

>>48389537
You mean the thing in his ass?

>>48389480

We are. Beth's house is a bathhouse, you dolt.

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>>48389462
So like this?

>>48389600
Gayer.

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>>48389616
Like this?

>>48389460

Sorry sir, WotC here. We made a slight typo in the handbook copy you've got. It's not /pol/adin, it's paladin, with the "a".

>>48389668
It's a fucking orc.
Morality is an objective part of the setting. Orcs happen to be evil.

If you don't want to get your ass smited, get out of the fucking bath house where civilized people live.

Orcs are barely capable of not attacking even their own people. Do you really think their shit would be tolerated anywhere else?

>>48389630
That's closer, but still not capturing the full level of raging homo.

>>48389696
D&D half-orcs don't have alignment restrictions. They are like humans.

Nowadays orcs being always evil or not depends on the setting, but half-orcs not being any more evil than humans isn't a recent development.

You'd know this if you played D&D. And you were the first to bring D&D alignments into the thread so don't pin this on someone else.

>>48389696

>Usually evil
>Usually
>USUALLY

Jesus, I hope you're just shitposting. If you're talking demons, yeah, it becomes objective. But orcs are "evil" because of their culture, which is, well, fucked up. Otherwise, they have INT, SAG and CAR scores, so they can choose for themselves.
Also yes, morality becomes objective after level 5 (which is a fucking lot compared to a standard CR 1/4 Orc Warrior), when your aura starts to be found by Individuation spells.
If you followed the goddamned book, you'd see that the Paladin, detecting evil on random orcs, will usually find nothing.

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>>48389734
Doesn't get more gay than this.

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>Detect Alignment
>Curved like a scimitar it was!

>>48389839
Yeah, probably about that gay.

>>48389811
>And you were the first to bring D&D alignments into the thread so don't pin this on someone else.
You are the guy who instantly started slinging insults because his interpretation of a setting wasn't being followed.

>nowadays
I don't care about nowadays. Modern D&D is fucking dumbed down bullshit.
My Orcs are objectively evil.

>>48389871

Stupid rules. My rules of absolute and objective morality make for a far more compelling story! It totally worked with Tolkien!

>>48389892
Tolkien's Orcs are literally corrupted elves who were evil by their very nature.

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>>48389845

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>>48389871
>My orcs are objectively evil
>My orcs are
>My orcs
who cares what YOUR orcs are?

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>>48389903

Yeah. That, like, was the joke.

>>48389917
Stop being so whiny.

>>48389871
I made 2 posts, besides this one: >>48389267 and >>48389811. I never insulted you. I pointed out you were wrong.

>Modern D&D is fucking dumbed down bullshit.
Like I said, half-orcs were never any more evil than humans.

For AD&D: https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/278379-Half-Orcs-Dragon-62-by-Roger-Moore

They have been a player race since 2nd edition AD&D.

>>48389966
He was being more flippant than whinu

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>>48389966
FUCK YOU

>>48389868
>>48389734
>>48389616
>>48389462
wew lad

>Lots and lots of slipping

>>48389231
This is actually where my party typically meets to relax in between quests

>>48389231
I like how everyone is conveniently covering their crotches, and then there's that one guy in the upper right corner showing off his dick.

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>>48390563

>>48390563
He is so hung he made everyone else feel self-conscious.

>>48390655
No nigga that is a chode. Look closely.

>>48390761
Imagine how small everyone else must be.

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>>48389734
What about this?

>>48390799
Cute boys aren't gay, they're perfectly straight.

>>48390761
he's flacid, brodette.
It's normal.

>>48390799
>Go to bathhouse
>Men on one side
>Women and qt boys on the other
It's how my party handles it at least

>>48389369

>bathhouses can only exist in rome

>>48390910
>implying I implied that
>implying implications
My current game is literally set in a fantasy version of Rome.
Thus, making it appropriate.
Did I ever say it was NOT appropriate in other settings?

I was thinking of starting a Dark Heresy campaign that way. The PCs arrive individually after being invited to an expensive bath house by someone. They are under instructions to clean themselves before meeting the person who invited them.

They get ritually cleaned by the bathhouse attendants. Then, wearing only a towel, they are led into a room with:
- All the gear they brought with them carefully laid out. It has been thoroughly cleaned.
- One of the attendants wearing only a towel and Inquisitorial Rosette.

The Inquisitor inducts all acolytes that way. Partly for the ritual cleaning of their souls, partly to send the message that the acolytes shouldn't keep any secrets from the Inquisitor.

>Your party are all separately invited to a meeting in the sauna

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>>48389231
>your party meets in a fencing hall located on the lower back floor of a house of ill repute

>You enter the bathous, laying your weapons and armor to the side as you grab a towl, settling in a steaming pool of water, amongst the rest of the women meandering about.
>As you rest, your eyes seem to grow heavier, the women around you seem to swirl and sway in your vision, seeing nothing but curled grins marking their faces
>You wake up nearly a day later, in an old, cracked, concrete indentation in the ground
>The old walls of the bathhouse loom around, the roof gone, as the overgrown walls seem ready to fall over, forests replace the city that once nestled around the building
>Your gear is gone, the only thing you notice about your surrounding is an odd echo, barely audible, of a laughing female.

>>48389289
but seductively what? I must know what happens next

>>48389868
I fail to see the distinction. Either it's gay or it's not gay. What is the metric by which you determine degrees of gayness?

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>>48391382
B-B-B-But I was a plate-armored paladin...

>>48391382
Nice railroading, GM, you didn't even give us a chance to see through the illusion.

>>48391382
Bloody bathhouse kitsune.
Didn't even leave a towel. Oh what a merry time I'll have explaining this to my superiors. Perhaps I'll just tell them I was ambushed.

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>>48389231
>your party meets at the gambling hall

>>48390951
I'm pretty sure he misread your post. I know I did until I read it two more times. Double negatives, man.

There wasn't a lot of sex at bathhouses. It was really more for relaxing and politicking. There might have been specific bathhouse/brothels but those would be rare since most of them are state run and they're not going to degrade the reputation of the place by letting people fuck in it all the time.

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>>48389231
>Your party meets at the ferry launch

>>48391691
>Double negatives, man.
Yeah, I always wonder what "we don't need no education" was supposed to mean.

In my language double negatives are often used as just "no", but english is supposed to take it seriously.

>>48389969
>They have been a player race since 2nd edition AD&D.
2E was the one that removed them as a core player race - AD&D 1E had them in the fuckin' Player's Handbook.

There's no particular alignment restriction on them, but they've only got unlimited advancement in Assassin so there's a certain incentive to go Evil.

Also halflings and humans are the only other race that are even neutral in attitude towards them - elves and half-elves dislike the fuckers, while dwarves and gnomes start up the race war.

Looking through the Monster Manual, I guess they aren't neccessarily half-human either. Orc-goblins and orc-hobgoblins are mentioned before orc-humans, and the only big restriction seems to be that they can't crossbreed with elves. Probably because of the whole racial hatred thing those two have going between them.

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>>48389537
Yes.

>>48391777
Learn to write, faggot. Also, bathhouses are perfectly fine in Arabian settings, too.

>>48391382
>Rip van Winkle in a bathhouse

>>48391777
Double negatives are taken seriously in so-called "proper english". Improper, or slang, english, like "we don't need no education" are generally just taken as "no".
So "we don't need no education" is equal to "we don't need education". The improper grammar and refusal of education are likely intended to be ironic.

>>48391382
>the DM wants to get punched

>>48393153
How is that wanting to get punched? Seems like an honest setup to some quest he'd planned out.

>>48389231
>Party meets in a charnel house
medicine student looking for research materials
graverobber picking parting gifts of the dead
"deceased" con artist escaping wrath of the people he tricked
and a pair of drunken hobos who though it's as good a place to sleep as any

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>>48393192

>>48393192
>missing the joke
How new.

>>48393333
I'm dense, what joke, quads man?

>half of the party are patrons of the bathhouse
>the other half are the bath prostitutes the first half hired while in the bathhouse

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>>48389231
That makes sense. Public bathing is a common fixture for well traveled cities that play host to wanderers with meager purses. It's also a wonderful place for socialization and those of common trades to share their tales.

>>48391537
Kinsey Scale, motherfucker. Edumacate yourself.

>It's a bathhouse/hot springs episode
So far I've only had one game that DOESN'T have one of these and I'm intensely thankful for that.

>>48393361
Anon's implying that the situation is the GM's magical realm.

Cause anon's a faggot.

>>48394687
They're really great. Nothing bonds a group of characters better than getting naked together and washing themselves.

>>48395497
>washing themselves
>not each other

>>48391537
There are gayness levels. You must have bad gaydar. Some gays are super subtle, while others are flaming.

>>48395518
Well in the case of Throg you might have to get forceful.

>>48395535
Is he ticklish or something?

>>48395557
>Tickling the barbarian

>>48395529
Can't I be flaming and heterosexual? I think alcohol brings out that side of some people.

>>48395584
Depends. With a high enough charisma, you could friendzone a legion of gay men who know they don't have a chance but will still do whatever you say because their feelings for you are real and tangible and shit.

>>48395628
Being Really gay or straight has nothing to do with physical appearance or charisma. It's neurological, though it often influences one's appearance.
Someone can be really gay but he looks and sounds straight.
Being closeted can cause people to act flamboyantly gay to make up for lost time.

>>48389231
>your party meets in a bathhouse
> "asshole dudebro" orcs come in after you, hitting on female PC's, implying the male PC's have small dicks, towel snapping people.... etc.
So is this a weird start to an adventure, or is it OK?

>>48395712
I was talking more about a social manipulation take on charisma. Hoped it'd be obvious from the context.

>>48395497
There's actually lots of what >>48395518 said. And plenty of drinking.

Shit's fun, yo.

>>48395712
>Someone can be really gay but he looks and sounds straight.

My buddy CJ. 6'2" shit-kickin' redneck, is a big fan of step-side trucks, shootin' deer, outsized belt buckles, and sex with men. The only thing he loves more than ridin' four wheelers in the mud is poundin' twinks in the mud. Most people don't have the first clue until he introduces his boyfriend.

Flamboyancy tends to be a sign of someone whose self-identity is gay first and then some other stuff.

>>48395765
>you and your buddies stand up to him and are humiliated in front of the hot elves
>now you have to win back your mojo by defeating him at sportsball

>he actually likes you and only bullies you because he thinks he needs to look like the alpha for you to like him

>while in the sauna, you stumble into his corpse disguised by the steam and are tasked with finding the murderer
>the victim was an asshole so just about everyone had a motive
>because of the steam to hide in just about everyone had the opportunity

You can take it in so many directions. I'd go with it.

>>48395852
Do me a favor, and kill him and yourself, you dumb faggot.

>>48395943
Wow, what did he say? His post seemed thoughtful.

>>48395984
You can go fuck off as well, fag.

>>48395984
Thought is the antithesis of hate, so of course it'd make him mad.

>>48396031
>herp de derp

Go back to your containment board, since it's clear you're just here to act queer.

You're exactly the kind of faggot that makes gay club shootings barely fortnight news.

>>48396065
I'm having trouble understanding what you're trying to say here. It's like there isn't any thought behind the post at all.

>>48396027
>>48395943
>made angry by other people's sexuality
Imagine being like this.

>>48396065
Get off 4chan and get to your local hate church

>>48396105
>>48396108
How about you go back to /lgbt/, and have fun discussing your dumb shit there.

If you want to act hurt when /mlp/ or /pol/ leaks onto the other boards, you need to stop being a hypocrite and keep your faggot shit in the faggot shit containment board.

>>48396105
>>48396108
>>48396141
I bet he his enjoying his (you)s.

>>48396152
I bet you're the same two faggots who always try to spam queer shit on /tg/.

We get it, you're a cancerous tumor that we can't get rid of, no matter how often you get banned.

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He's got a point. The only good gay is a cute anime lesbian

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>>48389231
Fair enough, it's as good a place for a clandestine meeting as any.

>>48396150
Okay, let me see if I'm following your story:

>I'm a lesbian/gay/bi/trans
>I'm mad about anonymous users from other 4chan boards posting in other boards on 4chan
>I'm a faggot
>this makes me the hypocrite

Sounds like a character description and motivation all in one sentence. Let's see you roll up some stats for that and roleplay the scenario.

>>48396150
Pony shit is literally banned from all boards except /mlp/ you barneyfag. It's not a matter of "being hurt", it's a matter of "it's been decided this is such a cancerous topic posting it anywhere but the designated containment board is grounds for being permabanned"

>>48396197
Here, can I ask you to do something?
Kill yourself, you dumb faggot.
Also, you even sound like a fag, holy shit, cut out your tongue and chop off your hands before you snuff yourself.

>>48396217
Try to not bring up a cartoon about multicolored ponies right before you're going to insult someone if you want to be taken seriously. kys

>>48396217
As long as we're confusing anonymous posters for other anonymous posters here, stop being Moot and leave like you said you would already.

>>48396253
>>48396254
You two lovebirds need to stop making dates where you spend your evenings shitposting on 4chan.

Just go skydiving without parachutes or bungee-jumping without ropes. Much more romantic.

>>48396282
Suicide pacts are romantic up until you actually have to go through with them. Then she dies and you remember other people exist.

>>48390775
It's Rome, what'd you expect?

>>48396282
Go for your tendies, anon. Insulting people on 4chan is a very tiresome activity and mommy wouln't like a growing boy like you to neglect a healthy meal

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>>48389231
>...And your collective quest to find the inspiration and designs for the perfect bathhouse begins there, on that humble day

Thermae Romae: The Tabletop Adventure

>>48396108
>Imagine being like this

Okay, gimme a sec. I'm visualizing myself having strong moral convictions, and antipathy towards shallow people who lie and use other human beings as objectified sex toys.

How'd I do?

>>48396409
As well as you can be reasonably expected to

>>48390563
>only one

The artist has clearly never actually been in a public locker room. Old men flailing their dicks about casually is a milestone all young men must go through.

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>The party's minotaur is giving you this look

>>48389231
>It promptly burns down for the sake of irony.

>>48396436
>As well as you can be reasonably expected to

As long as I'm within reason.

As opposed to a never-ending identity politics acronym of pure contradiction.

>>48389231
L5R has ensured I will forever avoid bathhouses.

>>48396488
Nobody is making a political argument. If you like having pointless political discussions 24/7 head over to /pol/. In fact, I'm almost sure the only person who has so much as said "LGBT" is you.

>>48396552
Don't sully the word discussion, no exchange of ideas happened there.

>>48391179
Would having a giant dick raise suspicions of slanesh worship?

>>48396630
That depends if it's covered in purity seals or tattoos of Imperial holy script.

>>48396484
That is specifically a "Did you pee in here?" look.

>>48391179

>Bathhouse attendants take 1d10 IP after cleaning the Scum

>>48396630

Someone make this comment a /tg/ banner, I beg of you

>>48396607
Agreed.

>>48396552
But you immediately recognized the less than obtuse reference. It's always politics and it's always an agenda with you people. You have to force it on others everywhere; all the time, just like your Dad and/or cellmate did to you.

>>48396682
Forgot Uncle Touchy.

>>48396630

Of course not, a giant dick is an Emperor granted blessing given unto all virile breeding men of the Imperium. What should arouse suspicions is a tentacle or if the penis had teeth.

>>48396682
I'll grant that you saying you agreed to my post at least demonstrates an impressive level of craftiness, and better than average grasp of social manipulation.

>>48396552
Yes, you are, you dumb faggot, and pretending otherwise is just another political argument.

You're going for a "I'M NOT A FREAK! LOOK HOW NORMAL I AM" casual propaganda angle, but instead it just ends up with you spamming your gay shit whenever you can because you're obsessed with forcing your political agenda.

Just fuck off back to /lgbt/. Or, if you like, /pol/. Either's good for your shit.

>>48396682
2 people mentioned they were gay and you exploded. Take your pills

>>48396732
This is what happens when a very dumb or socially inept person wrongly assumes he has special insight into other people.

>>48396734
Telling faggots to go kill themselves is just par for the course. If anything, you getting so upset makes it seem that you might be right up on the ledge and just need a little push.

So forego the ceremony and jump already. Either that, or learn how to keep your political agenda under containment.

>>48396755
And you're what happens when a boy doesn't receive any love from his father.
Or, perhaps in your case, it was a bit too much "love".

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Well, this thread's gone downhill. Let's post some fantasy male bathhouse inspiration.

>>48396801
I'm not even gay. I expected you'd at least eventually think up more creative insults. The thread's already shitted up and even the shitflinging itself is pretty low-quality so I'll leave. Do the board a favor and put on a trip

>>48396845
>I'm not even gay.
You're definitely a faggot.

As fun as it is watching this cockweasel spin words around to get responses, I kind of liked this thread.

He doesn't actually believe any of the things he's saying, and I say that as someone who did once believe that crap and knows how it goes. He's saying all the right words, but they don't follow a consistent structure like real beliefs do. In fact, they're intentionally presented as self-contradictory specifically so you'll come up with a response immediately.

Lets get back to talking about the potential plot developments and social dynamics of starting an adventure in a bath house.

>>48396863

Since you're typically unarmed and unarmored in a bath-house, it'd probably make an alright place to introduce a probable antagonist without them getting immediately stabbed.

That, and if the PCs try to start too much shit it turns out at least a few of the attendants are monks.

...Could you make a monk order based around a bath-house? Like instead of making wine you make people really fucking relaxed?

>>48389231
Not a bad place to meet, frankly. No armor, no weapons, social environment.

If you're a random adventurer, meeting other random skilled people to do dangerous possibly illegal things, you can do a lot worse than a bathhouse.

This goes for pretty much every tabletop. Shadowrun especially.

>>48395943
That's pretty inappropriate, anon

>>48396920

Actually, you just reminded me of this exact scene in the Witcher 3. Worked really well there, and you got to watch Geralt fight in a towel.

>>48396863
>Players start running a small bathhouse
>On the second day, the son of the local orc tribe's chieftain comes in demanding a happy ending
>If you decline and tell him this isn't that kind of establishment, he wrecks the place
>If you go through with it, his father shows up a few days later and blames you for his son's
"cultured tastes", which is a weakness in the eyes of the tribe, and wants to wreck the place.

>>48396905
>Could you make a monk order based around a bath-house? Like instead of making wine you make people really fucking relaxed?

Makes sense to me. After training sessions, the monks bathe together to remind themselves that they aren't enemies, and also to get rid of that post-brawl funk. If it's open to the rest of the public, this could also extend those feelings to outsiders instead of just being inclusive.

>>48396944

How exactly would the father find this information out

>>48396944
Please kill yourself.

>>48396954
Being open to the public reminds them to always be humble. Bathing together to remind them that combat and hate don't need to be related.

Even studying massage to get a better understanding of the human body. Chemistry is learned through crafting soaps and aromas. Physics, carpentry, masonry, etc learned by doing.

I like this.

I've played with two groups, both of whom had bathhouse episodes. Latter group's bard decided hard liquor and soaking in hot water was a good idea

It wasn't

>>48396785
FYI, faggots only typically kill themselves after middle age. And quietly too. Anyone within their circle who hasn't abandoned them would just make them a political martyr. And by then they're tired of it all. At that point in their lives no one loves them (by their definition of love, anyway) and family is long-dead and/or very distant. So it'll happen. Just not as soon as you'd like. Ask me how I know this. :)

>>48396905
>>48396954
>>48396997
Consider this idea stolen

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>>48396997

Me too. I actually wouldn't mind using the concept as a PC, at some point. Only trouble is I can't come up with a good reason why one would leave to become an adventurer.

>>48397087
The PC has a difference in ideology, and sets out to found a new bath house?

>>48397087
Vision Quest? Penance for some transgression? Has to track down a specific herb for the Master?

Or it could be some political thing. Gotta go do something else the Kingdom will come down on the Order.

Could even be a traditional thing. All members of the Order need to have an adventure to learn practical knowledge. Can't learn everything from wet stone, as the Master says.

>>48389375

Throg doesn't have to remove his armor if he doesn't want to. Throg doesn't have to actually participate in the bathing; it's just a meeting point, after all.

>>48391382

>You enter the bathous, laying your weapons and armor

No, fuck you. You don't decide what I do. I enter the bath house in my armor, because it needs a good cleaning too!

>>48397112
>>48397120

These are all actually pretty good ideas. I especially like the one about the herb, thinking he's searching for some extremely rare herbal component to a really kickass, nirvana-inducing massage oil.

>>48397195
My question is, what kind of techniques would this Order use? Also, what would it be called?

Order of the Bath is stupid. Calm Steam Monks?

>>48397174

Great. Next the necromancer is going to want to bring his skeleton in.

>>48396388
I'd play it

>>48397234
Pressure points for sure, lots of fast disabling strikes. Improved balance on slippery surfaces, or better ability to set a foe off balance and keep them that way?

For non-combat techniques, they could have a bonus to diplomacy if they have enough time to prepare a special scented oil, with effects like making the person more agreeable, or causing a group to become more hostile and agitated, strengthening fear effects, or even causing a drug-like euphoria in everyone around them. All secrets learned from studying the effects scents have on people, or from whatever mojo they snuck in there.

>>48397391
Maybe fighting in water and or in limited viability situations?

>>48397435
A monk with bonuses in water would be pretty scary.

That becomes impractical anywhere without water, though. If the monks ever expected to leave the bath house, they'd have other techniques that could be used anywhere but could still be practiced in a bath house setting. In addition to the water fighting, of course.

>>48397471
>enemies attack the bath house
>Monks light them on fire with massage oil, drown others in the baths themselves, paralyze people with pressure point attacks
>No one else ever attacks the Monks again.

>>48397521
>flammable massage oil
Oil floats. In theory, they could set the baths themselves on fire, so the enemies burn while drowning in it.

>>48397537
Christ. Good thing these Monks are service based, because that sounds fucking horrific.

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>that player that asks the DM if they can roll for dick size
>The DM allows this and forces everyone to roll

>>48397558
Might've been a bit over the line, yes.

All joking aside, that does bring an interesting theme to mind: fire on one hand, water on the other, together they make steam. Bath house? Mastery of the art would be using them in tandem, to restore the body to balance or as self defense in extreme cases.

>>48397602
And it comes full circle, back to balance. Without both there can be no civilization.

>>48397521
>Enemies of the Bathhouse
>Another Rival bathhouse run by kobolds
>A series of Elven run massage parlors that are a front for drug smuggling
>A church run spa that thinks the monk bathhouse is heretical for whatever reason
>Lizardfolk who think you're making fun of their sacred swamp pit breeding grounds and it's all just a misunderstanding.
>A powerful but inept wizard that really wants the secret recipe of your soaps for his reagents and will stop at nothing at getting them

>>48391537
>>48395529
Like a friend said to me once
>I like men as much as I like to BE a Man

>>48395584
The only people that took the initiative to flirt with me my whole life were gay men although one of them asked how much I would charge to fuck his ass three minutes after talking to me.

Does that count?

>>48397609
Water to irrigate the farms, to grow crops and feed the cattle.

Fire to cook the food, and warm the home.

>>48389231

> your part meets at the sexual reassignment clinic

>>48389231
I immediately stab the first faggot that introduces himself by describing his genitals.

>>48397631
Apparently there is no cure for you. Please kill yourself.

>>48397698
Okay.

>>48396388
A teleporting bathhouse would be a great way to have characters shift between systems.
Since they're not wearing anything and all.

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>Your party is enjoying a nice hot bath after a day of hard work
>All is well
>The half-orc in your group is fidgeting around uncomfortably
>He bellows
>HUUUUUURRRRRR
>Suddenly you see a brown, misty cloud of shit form around him eventually stewing the entire bath
>The smell is beyond horrendous

What do you do?

>>48389231
This happened to me recently.
It was fine at first but, you know, one thing led to another and now two of us are dead.

>>48399952
This is why you don't run in the bath houses anon.
Didn't you see the sign?

>>48399785
I shit as well, as hard as I can causing a wave of filth to splash the half-orc in the mouth.