Song of Swords: Foolish Fops and their Finery!

>>50287193
>Pearl Goblins
Reposting for posterity.

WITHERING WILDS WEDNESDAY

Alandi is a large country. Larger than its simple geography would suggest. Its endless plains and swamps give it a feeling of enormity, and the lack of permanent settlements, except for the capital and a few farming villages, add to that.

But on the borders of the country, in the great swamp called Valershk, there is a township that has reported the appearance of strange goblins.

These goblins, they say, are blind albino mutants who emerge from the swamp periodically, gibbering and frothing at the mouth. They usually die within a few hours if ignored, but they rarely last that long.

It has been found that in the gullets of the beasts, in a leathery sac that occupies the place where vocal chords would normally reside, are pearls which swirl with strange colors, like glass spheres filled with dye.

These pearls are very rare--after all each goblin only has one--and are sold by the townsfolk to merchants at great expense. Hunters often wait in the swamps with food and drink, watching for the arrival of these albinos, to kill them and take their precious spheres.

The Kasonic Order's Black Sun Chapter has attempted to send agents to investigate this phenomenon, but the King of Alandi has resolutely refused them: His people are entitled to their land by ancient writ, and he will not even permit his own nobles to interfere in this township's business, however valuable it may be.

Agents have been hired by various governments to try and infiltrate the town covertly, perhaps as hunters willing to pay for a chance to kill one of the goblins themselves and claim the stone, or as scholars wishing to observe the creatures for posterity. But what sort of fool would venture into the cursed swamps of Alandi to participate in this blasphemous ritual hunt? The goblins have supposedly been appearing more frequently. What if multiple appear? Shouldn't be too much of a problem with all of the hunters.

>>50287491
Metal. I wonder what the pearl is for.

>>50288336
To make necklaces with. Duh.

Hello, fellow groin-puncturers. I haveth a question for thy; How does shieldbash really work? In the example of shieldbashing it mentions halving parrying succeces of anyone trying to parry it, but I vant find that rule anywhere else! Pls halp.

>>50288826
Halving successes also happens in trying to do things like block bullets, I think. It's a pretty unfrequently used rule. Your opponent just declares a defense as normal, if it's a parry it's less effective, and whoever wins resolves their maneuver be it the shield block or defense. It isn't different from anything else.

>>50288826
And because my autism is too strong, - eth is a third person suffix that doesn't conjugate with have anyway, and thou/thy/thine is second person singular. You is second person plural. "I have a question for you" is actually more accurate to medieval syntax.

I have
You hast
He hath

>>50291206
Sorry, thou hast not you hast. I fucked myself up.

>>50291145
Is the halving successes still in this version of the rules?

>>50288826
At present the rulebook is a slapdash and haphazard collection of three years of tweaks and changes. I'm not sure the examples are fully caught up.

>>50291422
>>50288826
Just the book and I was right. Now parries have +1 TN not reduced successes.

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>>50293049
Those stocks have always looked unholy uncomfortable.

>>50293071
Yeah, I was wondering about that exact thing while posting.

I think they absolutely had to use the forket to shoot these

>>50291422
I like to think of SoS development as a slinky in literary form.

>>50291472
Hello, original question guy here.

That seems a bit, weak? I dunno how i feel about a shortsword stopping shield bashes that easily...
Unless shields count as heavy weapons. That would make them great again.

>>50294210
Update: They don't.

Is it really that easy to parry a shield? I know that parrying is directing the weapon away from you and not blocking it, but still...

>>50294257
As someone who likes to shield people, no they are not easy to parry. About the only way I see it happening would be more of a beat where you'd strike the edge of the shield and knock it to the side, and then you'll probably still have to deal with the guy shoulder charging you.

Even with this scenario it'll only really be feasible with a two hander vs a center grip punch shield. Forearm strapped shields are much harder to move in General.

>>50294896
It is, however, usually easier to void a shield bash though. Which is why running over people in tight formations is fun, they have nowhere to go.

>>50288336
It's an egg of something terrible that uses poor albino goblins as a part of it's reproductive cycle. It counted on humans harvesting and spreading it's eggs to satisfy their greed.
Soon they'll all hatch together and the Time of Woes will begin.

What did the High Elves worship, before Ruvia brought the light of Genosus to the west?

>>50296347
They might've always worshipped the sun. Then again, they sound like huge lazy bastards.

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>>50297055
you take that back you slut

Hey kid, wanna talk social combat?

>>50299453
[Speech 32/35] How about you talk about what the game was meant to do - physical combat?

>>50299535
Spears are fun, armor is great. What else do you expect to hear?

>>50299535
Did you get that list of new stances I sent you?

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>>50299800
>Secret secrets are no fun, secret secrets hurt someone
Share em with the thread why don't you?

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>>50299594
SCYTHIANS!

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>>50302321
SASSANIDS

>>50304850
Truly the Ben Foster of ancient empires.

>>50287193
So, /sos/, what would the armor of Napoleonic Cuirassiers be classified as?
And what would you stat the pickelhaube as?

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>>50309045
"Not bulletproof"

>>50309496
Post that one from Waterloo, with the canonball sized hole.

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>>50309045
>>50309576
>>50309496

>>50309045
Laser whales has that shorty steel armour which provides a pretty good approx relative to regular guns.
I.e., it doesn't do shit.

>>50311310
>>50309593
>>50309576
>>50309496
All nice and dandy, but what about statting for when folks are being stabbed and bashed?

>>50309758
I wanna be impaled by her bayonet on the field of battle

>>50311403
Just a regular old cuirass I think.

>>50311403
For that it's probably use regular plate stats. That's my guess.

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>>50313109
>Using bayonet on a lever action rifle

>>50317103
What's wrong with that?

>>50317203
Nothing much, I just don't like the aesthetics.

I also couldn't think of a better bump

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>>50317286
Post attractive girls next time

>>50317392
Too much Zell. Pls no fish.

>>50317103
she's cavalry. She has no bayonet.

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>>50317392
I tried.

Also how would you rate a late 17th century caracena armour? as scale/lammelar?

>>50317882
Yep, lamellar armor. Good protection against cuts and sabers but more looks than general utility.

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Also:
>Your Hetman is a Cutie 3.14.
Wat do /SoS/ ?

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How do you guys go about statting NPCs for your games? Do you have a simplified character creation or go through the whole nine yards?

>>50322670
I've never had the luck to play in or run any TRoS derived game. But I think I'd either prebuild a bunch, and do small adjustments to them when needed. Like, have one or two generic Bandit stats, and adjust them to get a bunch of slightly different individuals.
Or I'd just make what feels appropriate.

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>>50287193
I can't be the only one that thought of this when I saw the thumbnail.

>>50322670
I usually just track important stats and skill numbers unless it's a combatant.

>>50319628
Get some head, man.

Dacian iron miners and steel workers unionizing and attempting to seize the means of production?

>>50327147
In other news, Dacian iron miners and steel workers massacred by the Gizka company.

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>>50326047
Which one though?

>>50327497
Or just the local city governments. The mines seem to be owned by the government.

>>50327147
They already live in a dictatorship of the proletariat, and it sucks.

>>50328751
It's going to drive me insane if I don't figure out where this is from.

>>50330428
google image search it and you will find out in literally three seconds

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>>50330822
That's the first thing I tried, all I got was your post history.

>>50327147
I'm actually surprised that the political commentary in Dace has essentially glazed over Proto-Socialism in favor of what appears to be fascism vs monarchism vs lolbertarianism.

>>50330968
Well, in the literal sense if all of the mines and such are state-owned, then they are technically living in a Socialist state. I imagine it isn't that simple though, Racoco's family is rich because they own a bunch of stuff, so private enterprise is clearly legal. Perhaps the natural resources are state property, but manufacturing and such is left to the private sector.

>>50330428
It's Baron Ashura from Mazinger Z.

>>50331239
Thanks m8.

>>50317392
When did Echidna become the archtypal zell girl, she's a wood elf.

>>50333828
Hell if I know

>>50333828
Probably because the turtle pauldrons invoke an image of the sea, and dose titties.

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I'm looking to GM an SoS campaign in a couple of weeks. any anons feel like running me through it on roll20?

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>>50323550
I think you might've been.

>>50336811
Can't tonight, sorry.

>>50336811
I would but it's a monday night.

>>50339876
>>50340623
any time this week or weekend is fine desu