Once the bad guy is dead and the day is saved, do you let your

>>50477160

They retire, they always retire.

I don't see the point in them getting back on the road once they've done what they set out to do.

>>50477160
Depends what they want to do. Some want to retire and settle down, others know that they'll never be able to settle down for one reason or another and live the rest of their lives on the road

there must always be a bad guy

They retire.

Then about a year later the evil's offspring rises in power and the old veterans are forced back into action for one last mission

>>50477429
>the evil's offspring rises in power
>not passing the torch to the old heroes' successors
One job

>>50478222
>Implying by that point the veteran adventurers haven't taken too many blasts of elemental evil/magic radiation to the family jewels to have a kid.

>>50477160

Haven't really had the chance to do so, but should my Totally-Not-Guts expy somehow not die like a bitch or while more or less giving someone the finger, I'll probably have him more or less say to the gods "Fuck you, bitches, I'm still alive, and I'm gonna enjoy my retirement!", though perhaps put a bit more eloquently. Maybe have him make a school for swordsmen, maybe start up a mercenary company, or maybe some odd mix of both.

He'll probably die alone on his bed, his techniques that he passed down his only legacy (unless he did something really impressive along the way), yet he'll probably have a shit eating grin that he managed to live so long without dying horribly.

Who knows, I haven't really had the chance to play the character; maybe he'll get over his saltiness towards the gods for not helping him sooner as a kid, hell, maybe he'll actually take up a diety to worship.
tl;dr, Will most likely die like a bitch, but will probably be the head of a mercenary group should he not die.

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>>50477160

I appreciate that this gets tossed around a lot but could you guys start using the updated version?

Worked my ass of on it.

And yes, they usually retire to their buxom maidens and whathaveyou once the fucking dragon is slain or whatever.

But a GOOD party will become the new villains!

>>50477160
Depends on the campaign, my PC started as a lawful good dude traveling to see more of the world before he returned to a cushy position as a lord's advisor. But he's seen some shit and if the DM is willing to keep running it, his life goals may shift from, "go home and have a good life" to exterminating the mind flayers.

>>50477160
There is another thing to solve. Retirement is for pussies.

>>50478551
t. millennial who never performed a physically and mentally stressful role

Eh, current PC have very little to for her own, aside from her own personnal quest... Should she succeed, she'll probably settle and raise a family, but considering how her life went until then she'll probably just die before that.

>>50477160
Of the 3 campaigns I've actually completed that didn't spun off into other campaigns, one pc opened a shop, one married and settled down,
The third joined the city guard and got mired down in bureaucracy and red tape. After being used to a life where he could dynamically solve problems and go after master criminals, he became deeply and chronically depressed, and ultimately died alone, a bitter hardened alcoholic, who was once a hero.

>>50478457
I prefer the original. Your text is longer and sillier, and those massive nipples are idiotic.
Her face and hair are a slight improvement.

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When the time came to pick up the pieces, it seemed like everyone had what they wanted: The bad guy was dead, his corporation in ruins, and his plan in ashes. Fortunately, someone had the foresight to short all the stock they had in said corp, so the team got a healthy payout to boot. Enough to hang it all up and leave the shadows forever.

A year later, all the money was gone and everyone was getting back together to find the next score.

>>50478332
Successor doesn't neccessarily mean descendant. Also you don't have and raise kids in a year if you're not, like, a goblin or something.

>>50477160
>that image
does plagueofgripes ever post on /tg/? He did on /co/ at some point

>>50479410
Not sure if just a faggot but this might have been him.
>>50478457

>>50477160
>>50478457
>not fucking ashley

Gotta say that Leo made a smart choice there, even with earplugs you would probably suffer permanent hearing damage by doing so.

>>50477160
Depends on the character. Some never wanted to go on an adventure at all, others can't settle into a normal life and would rather die on the road.
For me there's been nearly a 50/50 split.

>>50478582
My grandfather always used to say that he'd die if he stopped working.
He died shortly after getting too ill to stop working.

I spent too much time as a NEET to wish it upon my characters.

>>50477160
If the players want to continue with those characters, I'll whip some new adventure up for them. If they want them retired, they'll be retired.

>>50479486
I agree with this more or less, eve if you "retire" an adventurer, these aren't usually the kind to just sit on their asses and do nothing. The fighter or wizard might open up a school for their respective art, the warlock might become a politician. The specifics depend on your character, but their ride off into the sunset generally shouldn't feel like they're finding a comfortable way to wait for death.

>>50477160
Do you get any cool perks for being the president's son-in-law?

>>50479461
The only think I liked about Ashley, is when she's wearing the knight outfit.

>>50479461
Ashley a best
Ada a shit

>>50477160
Once the bad guy is dead and the day is saved, I start on those plans our group had to replace the monarchy with a liberal democracy and legalize same-sex marriage. You know, before we realized dealing with the lich was a little more pressing.

>>50478802
Also her panties being down. Don't forget that.

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>>50478457
Why would you post the low-res version Plague?

>>50480823
Your kids get admited into ivy league schools right away and the secret service does your laundry for you

>>50481298
That's hot.

I'd assume that the characters were actually doing things in their lives before Adventure!! happened. So they should go back to that.

>>50480979
That wasn't an improvement so I didn't mention it.

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>>50483528
>not an improvement

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Playing two characters in a Final Fantasy flavored 4e campaign.

First was a wandering Red Mage who heeded the call of his home nation's military when their king was kidnapped.

Second is a priestess/White Mage of the Church of Phoenix that went on a pilgrimage to save six other priestesses who are scattered in different locations of the world, while also doing what she can to promote peace and unity between peoples of the different faiths in the world.

The former's not the type to settle down and start a family, though it's not impossible. More than likely he would go back to wandering the world for the experience, and trying to pick up chicks from the different nations. Slight chance he might rejoin the church that raised him, but he's more of a free spirit.

The latter is more likely to start a family, but she's very duty focused, so she would more than likely return to the Church and take her place as High Priestess after her pilgrimage, though any of her other focuses would probably depend on how her current journey goes.

>>50478457
draw Plain Doll lewds, creepy farm guy

>>50484003
Doll is not for lewds!
Doll is for cute!

>>50479817
On the other hand, that kindly old farmer that lives quietly just on the edge of town seriousling up and slaughtering an orc warband with nothing but a garden hoe is extremely badass.

>>50477160
Into the action they go.
The ride never ends!

>>50484018
But, but

>even the doll, should it please you

>>50480916
Ada is one of the worst characters in the franchise, the 'romantic' subplot between her and Leon is simply awful

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>>50484063

They'll most likely retire, but they have the option of being made into the physical avatars of the godlings they're helping. The point of our campaign is to keep the BBEG from even waking up by sending shards of power that make up said godlings' power back to the Astral Plane, so if they succeed, they'll be offered the role of avatars.

Probably only one of them will go for it, because he's a fiend pact Warlock who fully sold his soul to save the party at one point and is plotting to help mold one of the godlings into a lawful neutral deity with a domain over knowledge so he can figure out how to get out of his pact.

Everyone else will go home or fulfill their silly dreams.

Let them settle down, start families if they wish, have a good life. For a couple of weeks.


And then the horrific event caused by the tertiary plot hook they missed at the beginning of the game happens but now it's too late for them to do anything about it.

>>50484767
No-one cares about that image, dumbass.

>>50477160

You never retire - profits never grow in trees and the righteous always be ready.

If you retire you're defeated.

>>50485009
Investing in farmland and letting profit grow in the ground while you sit in your shiny new estate or castle seems viable, though.

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>>50477160
Actually, my very first character made it to the end of three different campaigns; First as a young starry-eyed adventurer, second as a middle-aged warrior come out of retirement, and third as an old man who decided to pick up the sword one last time. The next time we played in that setting, I played one of his descendants.

Good times, still something my group talks about today. I could storytime if anyone wants, but it'd take a while to type up.

>>50484818
I do.

>>50477160
It depends on if the villain was their goal or led to their goal.

>>50477160
There's no rest for the best.

>>50485298

I'm interested. Storytiem it.

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>>50478457
>would you guys please use my special unique objectively worse version of a joke?

Fucking kill yourself. I can't believe this is what this site has come to: losers begging pity posts of stupid shit they've made.

>>50483972
Since I'm not a fan of those retarded nipples, why are you suprised I'm not a fan of her ridiculous taking-off-her-panties?
It's just dumb.

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Better not to risk it IMO

>>50478457

awesome, replacing my old black and white version

>>50485522
>not knowing plague

>>50477160
Who are those character and what's the context of this scene?

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>>50485298

You feel the need to ask?

>>50485760
Resident evil 4. Haven't actually played the game but I'm guessing Ashley schlicks herself to the protagonist, and he has no sexuality/he knows she's underage.
Yep, only in America is that girl underage.

>>50485760
>>50485811
Ashley constantly makes hints and come-ons to Leon but Leon is generic emotionless protagonist man who reacts to everything with resounding stoic silence.

>>50485811
She's also the President's daughter

>>50485617
If I was the DM there I think I'd just let her reach the ledge with Skywalk. Just seems douchy to be that hard on the rules with first time players, doubly so when they're children.

>>50485811
>>50485871
>>50485910
Okay, with these information in mind, I'm rooting for her to get what she's after. Repeatedly.

>>50485811
She's in college.

>>50485871
>Leon is generic emotionless protagonist man who reacts to everything with resounding stoic silence
No he isn't, he's a sarcastic prick with a smug streak. He just doesn't want to bang Ashley because she's his boss' daughter, his boss happens to be POTUS.

Probably go back to taking care of his graveyard. Maybe hunt undead.

>>50485298
What >>50485765 means is: WRITE STORY.
WRITE STORY NOW.

SNAKES WILL BITE YOU IF YOU DO NOT.

>>50485871
Tbf fucking ms. ballistics would probably lower his chances of boning hannigan.

>>50485570
fair enough

>>50477160
You know, that's sort of what he wants now.

He joined the Guard to fight the good fight and give some meaning to the senseless violence instead of fighting a useless fight for a sociopath leader who sees his men as tools to be thrown when worn down.

In hindsight, that was kind of shit and he'd rather settle somewhere nice and get a family, but he can't see that far into the future. Yet.

>>50479410
>does plagueofgripes ever post on /tg/?
'course he does. he even ran HUGE Quest back in the day.

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>>50477160
They can do what they like, within the possibilities of the setting. Once they do retire though, they stay retired until either they or the world are changed enough that it makes sense.

Why cheapen a thing like hanging up your gear and settling down? It also makes no sense to bring them back without a significant transformation of their role in the setting that engages them with their new mission; without this you run the danger of not overcoming motivational inertia, both IC and OOC.

I don't know, I've never been involved in a campaign that got to that point.

In a game I GMed one of the characters decided to retire as a researcher once they found a lost library, though.

>>50486582
He made a animated version of it as well!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0wqhdZn4v0

>>50480953
Nice priorities, good job.

>>50477160
My hero likely didn't live long enough to enjoy retirement, due to a large list of powerful people who wanted the crazy sorcerer murdered.

>>50485741
>caring about e-celebs

>>50487467
>not caring about artfags

>>50477160
I want my characters to retire into luxury, become a merchant or just live a beggar's life at the end of a campaign.

Alas, my DM switches systems and adventures every other week.

I play Dark Heresy. You retire when you die.
Anything else is only fit for heretics.

Games these days, treating the players like pussies... It's over when the GM wins and all of yours heads explode before getting eaten by daemons!
Now, I'm going back to Dwarf Fortress.

>>50477160
Don't let them claim credit. Have them be blamed for the problem so they have to move on.

>>50477160

What makes you think the day is saved once the bad guy is dead?

Once the bad guy is dead, they're usually busy dealing with the aftermath and all the mess that was caused bringing him down.

>>50484818
It was half the thread at the time I posted that, retard.

>>50487791
What's up with her legs?

>>50489608
I think her bottom half is snake, or something.

>>50489623
Fish.
It was from the part where Mat and Pat are discussing what type of Mer person you would want to have sex with. Top human and bottom fish, or top fish and bottom human.

>>50478582
Wut.

Most older people I've met are super pissed about forced retirement and attempt to do as much work as they can still.

>>50478802
The text in both is pretty terrible.

Also, I've never been in a finished campaign, so I wouldn't know.

>>50490264
Same here. Mostly because state pension does not keep up with the inflation, so it's either working past retirement age or living on a pittance.

>>50478457
Why are you desperate for attention you fucking weirdo? Mid-life crisis much?
Calm down because nobody cares.

>>50477160
Magda was raised by farmers.
Magda never left green brook.
Magda was a hardy woman. Square shouldered, broad, healthy. She would have been a good fighter.
Magda was a farmer.

Every day she tilled the field with her ox.
She hated the field. She hated the ox. She hated tilling. She hated her life. She hated the lord she paid tithes too. She hated the church that preached farming was the only thing she should do.

Magdas neighbor, however liked her ox. Liked her field. Liked her till. Liked her land.

So magdas neighbor called her a witch.

Magda wasn't a pretty woman and dumber women could have guessed where she would have ended up.

Found guilty, pelted with filth, hung, then in a gibbot.

But Magda was a hardy woman. She was square shouldered, broad, healthy. And so late one night she broke apart her plow and made a metal shield to go with the old, weathered axe she used to fell branches, let her ox go free, shooed away her chickens and set off on the road.

It's been 13 years and so many lands. She's been Magda the green, Magda the lost, Magda the Pirate, Magda the queens guard. But Magda never stuck to one place for very long.

Undead, dragons, elven godkings, forgotten monsters, foul demons, metal men, savage orcs and many more have brought her close to death, but in the end she and her band of warriors have always triumphed. Hell, somewhere out there she has a daughter, left with the priestesses of urd. She'd be a young woman now..So very far away. Magda thought about her often. But Magda can't go back now.

Magda will stop when she dies.

>>50478802
The long text makes it better because she's building up how much she wants to get fucked

Then Leon calls her a fag

>>50490631
Magda should fucking kill herself, and so should her player.

>>50485741
Was plague the original artist? I feel like this image has been around for at least 5 years but maybe I'm wrong.

>>50477160
>start families
I always play female characters that end up getting enough trauma to their midsections to put them in "no babies for you" territory.
So when they retire they open up a library, an orphanage or a brothel depending on their race&class.

>>50490672
Why? That sounds like a cool character to me.

>>50479461
Ashley is great with her childish innocence, her big dumbo ears and her massive tits.

>>50490714
>shallow platitudes sound cool to me

>>50479461
>even with earplugs you would probably suffer permanent hearing damage by doing so.
but Anon, that's the best part

>>50490735
Seconding this, noisy girls are best girls.

>>50477160
Well, my primary character tends to be of the 'My whole life is one long attempt to avoid boredom' type, so usually after one adventure is finished he recovers, maybe has some time to wind down... and then gets bored again and goes looking for something 'fun' to do.

>>50490727
I'll admit it's not an especially original concept, but I don't see how it's so objectionable that a person should kill themselves over it.

>>50490672
ebin

>>50478582
Okay, I've seen the 't.' thing often enough but I honestly have no idea what it's an abbreviation for in this context. I give up trying to ferret out the meaning in my alcohol haze. Someone wanna enlighten me?

>>50478822
I always liked the endings 2D Gave his characters and I'm rattled as hell he never showed up to give his next game's storytime

>>50484230
>all volunteers

Nice

>>50479817
I had a Monk type character who TRIED to open a dojo (Comically his love interest forbade female students) before being dragged off into another adventure.

>>50490210
Top human bottom fish, of course. You can play with her boobs and have conversations with her.

>>50485170
That doesn't sound like 'retirement' either, unless you're not doing any of the farm work yourself.

>>50491329
Hiring/lording over people to work the land for you is what I had in mind, yeah. From what I understand this has been common historically for wealthy people, and seems a good way to convert your pile of dragon-hoard gold into a license to mostly sit on your ass.

>>50487592
I know that feeling, I was part of a short, unfinished campaign set in an mythological Greece setting. My character was a son of Aphrodite and an escaped Helot slave of Sparta at that... his initial goal was 'Amass enough wealth to NEVER have to worry about being a slave again."

>>50478457
Gotta say dude, I like the original better.
Brevity is the yadda yadda and all.

>>50490264
That's my grandfather, basically. He still lives a fairly active life. Or at least... more active than mine is. I just go to work and sleep between shifts.

>>50491661
Grandma worked until the age of 80 as a farmhand. Retired only after breaking couple bones in work accident.

>>50491564
Alright then, that makes more sense. I saw it as 'get a nice plot of land and start straining your muscles tilling the land instead of killing ugly things'.

He's spent the entire adventure dueling anyone who was foolish to face him.
After beating them, he leaves a scar on their cheek and an invitation to meet him for a rematch when they've mastered swordsmanship.
He's hoping that when the day comes he'll be able to duel every single one of his "children" at once and die by their hands.

>>50490942
signed by

>>50490680
Yep, it's his doodle. Probably drawn in a /co/ request thread or something, he likes (liked?) to hang around there.

>>50491964
Well, I definitely would not have made that connection. Thanks, anon.

>>50491056
But where do you put your dick in?

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>>50492608
You don't, silly.

You swim in a pool of water, she releases her eggs, and you fertilize them.

>>50490387
You sure showed him

>>50477160
Depends.
In one of my old republic games I'm playing a Sith that follows the cose the to the letter, because that's his best way to gain individual power. So he doesn't fry innocent people, because he doesn't make him stronger. He doesn't even use his lightsaber against unworthy opponents. He will never retire, because there will be always new challenges, and more power to gain.

>>50480916
Fuck you, Helena is best girl and partner for Leon.

>>50478457
Brevity is the soul of wit, my friend.

>>50492608
Her vagina.

Has America's sex education really fallen this far?

>>50494449
More to the point, Mermaids have mammary glands and umbilical scars.
Both are clear signs they are mammals and likely give live birth.
Their genitals may be hidden by a seemingly seamless cleft or, in case of scales, a few may overlap to hide them.
This is why you would engage in foreplay first rather then just plunging straight in.
That'll likely just get you drowned.

>>50477160
They are too broken to live without action, so they get back into it until they find the peace they didn't have the luck to find ealier. But at least this time they get to choose.

My various characters have had different retirements.
My Barbarian died, was reunited with her sister and they both now are gardeners for Hel-expy death goddess.

My Sorceress returned home and went straight back to the church where she was raised. Occasionaly she goes to visit the rest of the party.

Alchemist simply accepted she'd never find her way home and retired in the kingdom the party helped create.
She was arrested for treason within a year and is now a prisoner, albiet she is allowed free reign of the palace grounds due to her hero status aming the people.

Monk/Cleric returned to his home town, married the girl he cushed on in his youth and built a temple with his own two hands.
A few Oxen helped.

Ninja was appointed to be the guard and if needed, executioner, of the captured BBEG and they returned to Not! Japan.
They spent the rest of their life fucking like rabbits.

My Cyberpunk Police Officer is in an ongoing campaign but assuming everything works out, she'll stay in the force.

>>50477160
My Magical Girl became the queen of a fledgling nation and between reading romance novels and dealing with royal affairs, she does a lot of leading by example and so is quite busy on public works and dealing with military actions.
She's also technically in a cold war with Magic Utopia Earth so she very well could go right back to fighting her former Magical Girl friends, but as most hostilities are limited to being a bitch towards each other at formal events held between the nations, that's unlikely to happen.

>>50492608
Mermaids would have vaginas like dolphins

>>50477160
>having a bbeg

>>50485522
i assume they were both made by the same person
the original one is better though

>>50494935
>not having one

>>50487467

>not knowing plague was a /tg/ regular drawfag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0wqhdZn4v0

I'm just leaving this here...

>>50492044
It's from Finnish, I believe. I asked the same thing not too long ago.

>>50477160
Our Apocalypse World Campaign ended up with my Chopper who was essentially a mid level baddie in his own right toppling the dominant force within the stronghold and changing class to hardholder to rule it with an iron fist as the new warboss. It was a pretty satisfying ending, Shame one of the party had to be exiled

>>50497994

Yup, it's finnish. Shorthand for "toivottaa", which roughly translates as "regards". Probably started on one of the newer finnish Lauta-brand chanclones...

t: Finnfag.

>>50484767
Remember when /tg/ was clever?

>>50501815
No, but I remember when you pretended to be an oldfag