Is it possible to play a Samurai without automatically being

In L5R if you don't play a samurai something has gone very wrong.

>>50697720
Depends on the setting.
Also depends on the group.

>>50697720
Sure, just, you know, don't play with faggots from 4chan.

>>50697720
Yes; playing a Samurai while not behaving like a fucking weeb.

Remember they liked horses, archery and guns. Also that Bushido was invented after they were gone

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>>50697751
How's L5R as a system?

>>50697769
This very much so.

Bushido was invented near the turn of the century by a guy who learned English from a young age, and attended university in the United Stats. If I'm not mistaken, the actual book Bushido: The Soul of Japan was originally written and published in California, in English. The guy who wrote it wasn't even a historian.

>>50697720
only if you play them as Toshiro Mifune

>>50697720
No, play an Ashigaru.

>>50697787
Great. But I'm biased. Go ask there >>50675630

>>50697720
They're most entertaining when played at maximum weeb.

>Shadowrun
>upgrade cyberlegs
>acquire brouzouf
>escape the cycles

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>>50697984
>>50698086
>Badass Weeb Paladin of Dwarf Removal

>>50697769
Also, katana are side-arms, not main weapons.

>>50697720
You can do a lot of fun stuff with them. Like some animistic monster hunter/paladin who specializes on resisting curses, poison and other status-debilitating effects and explains that by his faith and warrior-status making him immune to suffering being spiritually tainted by bloodshed.

He'd be all like
>HOLD MY BEER, IMMANA KILL ONE OF THOSE SQUIDHEADS and see if its head really tastes like squid.

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>>50698338
This kills the Squid.

>>50698437
DELET

>>50698437
Opening this image on my phone doesn't change it from the thumbnail.

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>>50697720
Watch Seven Samurai or The Last Samurai. Pick your favorite character and emulate them. You'll be a fairly well-grounded character who is not a weeb.

>>50701333

unless you pick tom cruises character.

>>50701382
I thought that went without saying.

>>50701388

you would think so wouldn't you?

Go full westaboo with him, have him rant how his nanban gun is totes the best thing ever and how filthy asiatic swords can't get through his gaijin breast plate.

>>50697751
If I was ever gonna play L5R, I'd make a Scorpion.

I have a mask fetish.

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>>50697720
I don't think you understand. If you're playing RPGs in the first place, I'm gonna assume you're a big ol' nerd, which includes weeb. You're a weeb until proven othewrise. You're also posting on an anime image board owned by a Japanese man, which doesn't exactly deduct weeb points.

>>50697720
If anyone makes fun of you for playing a samurai, just RP it out. Cut off their head and put it on a pike, just like a samurai would!

Or you could not care what some idiot thinks

>>50697720
First ask yourself if it: a) Fits the group, b) Fits the setting and c) Fits the campaign.

If you play with a group of immortal WWII veterans who were at the Pacific theater, don't. If you play on a hard sci-fi setting where the party is a group of asteroid miners, don't. If you're playing in ancient japan but the campaign is about the invasion of ryukyu and you're natives of modern Okinawa resisting the japanese invasion, don't unless you have a very good backstory and justification, or play as a Pechin which should be close enough.

>>50697720

No.

If you're playing something from Japanese culture, and you aren't Japanese, then you're a weaboo. Simple as that.

>>50697720

Only if you're asian. Otherwise no, you are automatically weeb.

>>50697720
you can't, same as to wanting martials to be as good as casters, that's weeb by nature

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>>50697720
It's too late for that.

>>50697757
What if all of my rl friends spend too much time on 4chan?

>>50697720
yea, be Japanese
otherwise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBfWKmRFTjM

>>50702301
>>50702133
>>50702038

I would point out that weaboo refers to the ones who are obnoxious faggots about it. You can like japanese media and not be a weaboo as long as your not annoying with it. If you go on and on about how great japan is and how superior it is sure, but if you are just like "i like japan" that doesn't automatically make you a weaboo.

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>>50697720
Take heads from what you kill. Act confused when people don't give you money for them.

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A samurai is just a Knight but with all the Japanese cultural shit attached
And like wanting to be a knight you should just play a Fighter with some noble rank who is loyal to the local political figurehead

Frankly the idea of D&D and it's derivatives making separate classes out of shit that should be core mechanics of the Base PH classes or that are just shit that should be flavorful fluff on a character sheet, but that's for another thread

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>>50702535
Meant to say that shit is ridiculous

>>50702535
>>50702563
I dunno, I like the idea of a Samurai being essentially a more DEX based equivalent of a Knight, sacrificing some power and armor for speed and precision.

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>>50702846
The fact that they were horse archers sort of backs that theme.

>>50697917
A lot of romance surrounding knights in armor is Victorian invention.

And the cowboy didn't take off as a pop culture hero until well after the west was settled.

Turns out people romanticize the past.

>>50702260
You are fucked.

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>>50701333
>This
Also, Yojimbo is a pretty good way to play a mercenary type.
>>50702846
Could work, but I'd kinda rather that was some sort of "variant style" a fighter could engage in, which would also cover things like being a rapier-and-dagger sort of swordsman. Similarly, you can still flavor a big brutish fighter with a two-handed saber as a heavily armored samurai with a nodachi.

My longest played character is a samurai. And I love every minute of playing him. Personally as long as you play a character and not a caricature you're fine no matter what you play. But I also allow my players to play shit like sniper wizards, and other crazy shit. As long as they have a motivation and reason for existing beyond meta then im cool with pretty much anything.

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>>50701333
>Pick your favorite character and emulate them.
>an entire party of Kikuchiyos

>>50703156
literally nothing wrong with that

>>50697720
Yes. If you play a mounted archer who uses a spear or lance in melee, no one will have a clue what your character is supposed to be.

>>50702343
>if you are just like "i like japan" that doesn't automatically make you a weaboo.

This is wrong.

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>>50697720

>>50703597

You, are a faggot. There is indeed a difference you meming new fag, which you would know if you had been here when the term originated.

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Make them primarily use only Archery, or polearms. Going to your Katana means shits already gone south. Live by your honor code, and if anything insults it cut them down.

But I literally know nothing about Samurai outside of Total War and that shitty Last Samurai movie.

I just always found feudal knights a lot more interesting than samurai, and surprisingly I enjoy anime on occasion.

>>50704103
also I mean to reply to OP

>>50703156
>insinuating this is a bad thing

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>>50701333
Another, more modern, movie you could watch is 13 assassins.

>>50697751
I tried playing L5R once. Everyone else quickly abandoned it because it was to "hard" and the DM said "I dont even know what kind of adventure to run." At least I have every 4th edition L5R book in mint condition now.

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>>50701333
>>50705304
or go full weeb and watch samurai 7

>>50703735
^^
This person is OK with cultural appropriation.

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>>50697720
probably not, but why let that stop you?

>>50705600

Not that guy but aren't you shifting goal posts a little. i mean first it was

>REEEEEEEEEEE FILTHY DEGENERATE HOW DARE YOU LIKE JAPAN

and now it's

>REEEEEEEEEEEEE FILTHY DEGENERATE HOW DARE YOU STEAL FROM JAPAN

>>50702260
Get friends that aren't sociopaths.

>>50705304
That movie is genuinely hilarious. It's like an hour and a half long taught political thriller about the careful maneuvers and planning required to assassinate a sadistic but politically protected maniac... and then fucking 45 minutes of crazy samurai action where they literally fight a hundred dudes at the same time.

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>>50705600
Keep white culture white, my brother.

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>>50697720
Yes? Anyone who would call you a weeaboo for playing a samurai has forgotten (or is so fucking new they didn't know in the first place) what a weeaboo is.

Weeaboo:
>The katana is the ultimate weapon, it can cut through anything. Japanese culture is vastly superior to others, and I'm actually 1/100th japanese so that technically means I have the blood of samurai coursing through my veins.
Normal person:
>Samurai are kind of a cool variation of the standard knight dealy, I think I'll play one!
>Muffled Yoooo-ooooh in the distance

>>50705767
>Yooooooooooooooooooooooooo *dunk*
Fixed

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>>50697720
No. You go balls to the wall.

You play an atheist from Earth who uses only the most euphoric logic when discussing anime with peopl or deciding what anime to wach or ranting about why Japan is obviously superior to the rest of the world. His logic is so euphoric and flawless that it captures the attention of the "God" of Logic and Reason from your campaign, who then decides to magically pull your tubby ass (and the Katana you were polishing at the time) from Earth in order to make you his Paladin to ward off the scourge of all things illogical. But you're to Euphoric too stoop to the "God"'s level, so you decide to make the best of your life in this new world by hiring yourself and your katana out as a Samurai. But Mr. "God" of Logic continues to try and court you into working for him throughout the campaign with promises of sushi pizza, physical 2d waifus, and a third season of Kill La Kill

>>50697769
>>50698230
Funny enough, I play a samurai in a freeform RP who DOES use more than a katana... Ironically his katana is legitimately his most powerful weapon, but he's got a bad case of 'boys and their toys' and he ends up carrying him:

>A bow
>A rifle
>Two pistols
>A yari spear
>A naginata
>A kanabo
>His family sword
>short sword
>Two knives
>A jitte for when he doesn't want to kill someone

And, imaginably, with this load he's either on horseback or has his horse carrying it.

>>50703004
>kikuchiyo jedi
Probably a well known fact by now, but the role of Obi Wan Kenobi was originally written with Toshiro Mifune in mind.

There seems to be no mention of why it never happened though, as Mifune was fluent in English and still in good health. He had even recently finished a role in an American movie at the time, I believe.

>>50705861
>and a third season of Kill La Kill

No fuck that. A second season of No Game No Life.

>>50706057

you speak my language anon.

>>50706064
I hope the movie is going to be good. Its probably all we are going to get ;_;

>>50706073

there's going to be a movie?

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>>50706057
>>50706064
No, >>50705861 was making a joke. You don't have to pretend like those shows were actually good.

>>50706087
Its confirmed but no date yet.It will cover book 6.

>>50706090

Kill la Kill i've never watched nor do i intend to, but No Game No Life was just the right kind of retarded.

>>50706104

Well i have something new to look forward to now. Why are we talking in spoilers?

>>50706090
Nigga No Game No Life is my crack. It has everything I love in an anime
>Interesting art direction
>Smart people doing smart things and out smarting other smart people because SMART
>Cute loli
>Neets
>Interesting world
>Teaches the theory behind the SMART

>>50706120
The normal fags must not know. They fear the loli.

>>50705593
NO No no. You missed the point

>>50706132

We are the weak. All hail the Blank

Don't you mean a WAPANESE?

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>>50697720
No, but not because it's actually weeb. fa/tg/uys may like to beat off to DEUS VULT bullshit, but none of them actually have read the Chansons de geste or Le Morte d'Arthur. fa/tg/uys are about as uncultured as we get, and most people I've played with from here expect about the literary depth of Gears of War's writing. How can you expect them to appreciate Genji Monogatari or Heike Monogatari?

>>50705635
良い味のAnon

>>50697720
Don't play with idiots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmcVhhZYEcg

>>50697757
tpbp

>>50705710
I know, it's amazing and one of my favorite movies

>>50706019
>imaginably, with this load he's either on horseback or has his horse carrying it.
That sort of equipment is acceptable if you have some sort of justification where your character is carrying it, and if you don't just magically have them appear in his hand at the start of battle.
There is a reason why swords were popular. You could just carry them by your side and then draw them at a moment's notice.

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>>50705767
>>50705778
>Yooooooooo

>>50705593
NO No no. You missed the point

>not playing a moutain ascetic duellist spellsword on a quest for the most excellent and most exotic boipussy

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>not creating an interesting character that you would enjoy playing as because you're afraid some gongard might call you a weeb

>>50697720
Depends on the group and how well you're known among them. Even people who shout weeb more than altrighters shout cuck won't assume you're a weeb if they've known you long enough to have formed different opinions.

If you're dealing with a new group, the best option would be to find a context where Samurai would be different from how their seen and stick to it. I played one who participated in the settings equivalent of an Ikko rebellion; he didn't believe in it so much as he wanted the relative autonomy the revolution promised. It didn't work out, hence him not being in notJapan.

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>>50697720
Yes, you do it ironically.

>>50698230
Miyamoto Musashi recommends katana + wakizashi (or longsword and companion sword as my translation of book of five rings calls it.) when you're fighting indoors and/ or against multiple enemies. When you're outdoors, you should employ the spear. He hates the shit out of the naginata for some reason and he's not too big a fan of guns (I assume he prefers the higher firing rate, quiet nature, accuracy and environmental adaptability of the bow over the matchlock rifle), but he acknowledges they have some advantages.

Different times different standards. The book of five rings was written after the 100 year war/ sengoku jidai/ whatever, but I trust the buddhist piece of shit knew what he was talking about.

>>50702996
>knights
>anything but shit and fictional 100%

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>>50701740
Mantis rule, man! Go full pirate and fight people with improvised weapons at all times. Go full Jackie Chan in a ladder factory.

>>50701463
That's pretty much historically accurate, Japan had imported more guns than any other nation by the end of the Sengoku period.

>>50705600
(you)

>>50707842
>naginata for some reason
While he's a bit extreme, glaive style weapons do have a lot of disadvantages relative to the spear; in large combat, they are not made up for by the advantages. Single combat is more debatable, and ultimately a matter of personal taste.

>not too big a fan of guns

I believe his words were "In a siege, the gun is king". Less that he's not too big a fan of guns, and more that he considers them a situational weapon that shine during sieges or siege like battles.

>>50702038
>only allowef to play things from your culture or nation
>Tfw spanish
>most things are weeb
JUST

>>50707905
>Tfw spanish
Spanish cavalry around the time of recoquestia was brutal as fuck, I would play the shit out of a guy on horseback chucking javelins at people and skirmishing away.

>>50707942
>not tercio skirmishers
Lolk for being wrong. Bet ur moor as well.

>>50706048
>>50703004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DErbc7U3--A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHRIAwAOrsw
I don't know exactly what to feel about this but well...
This was the kenjutsu style that Mifune was taught btw.

>>50708123
>Thinking only the Moors used cavelry in Iberia.
>Iberian cavalry tactics involved knights approaching the enemy, throwing javelins, then withdrawing to a safe distance before commencing another assault. Once the enemy formation was sufficiently weakened, the knights charged with thrusting spears (lances did not arrive in Hispania until the 11th century).

>>50698230
Depends on the era though, late edo it's perfectly viable to only have a daisho as your standard gear.

Some military or "police" units like the battotai were full sword-units too.

>>50698230
>Also, katana are side-arms, not main weapons
In open battle and certain parts of a siege.

Indoors or with thick trees, Katana were preferred specifically because they weren't too long.

>>50708223
Really depends on Era.

>>50706048
Iirc, Mifune's accent was pretty thick, and I think the studios wanted someone "dignified" or something to shore up the film. It was one of those things where Mifune, for all his prestige from working on Kurosawa films, was still basically only someone that the art house crowd was going to be psyched for, while everyone else was going to be like "Wasn't he the guy in 'Hell in the Pacific'?"
Add to that the fact that Star Wars was already seen very much as a weird kid's movie that was probably doomed to failure, and you can see why they picked an esteemed British actor for the mentor role.
Which isn't to knock Alec Guiness, I think Obi Wan is one of the strongest parts of the series... but one does wonder what could have been...

>>50708235
It doesn't really depend on era, outside of using a slightly different sword of the same length for earlier periods. Open field weapons were largely the same, different mostly in slight (if admittedly significant) details until the full westernization of Japan. The same applies for weapons not for open field. It doesn't matter if its the 1300's or the 1800's, a samurai wouldn't even think to bring a pike style Yari into an indoor fight because that's really fucking silly. All weapons are situational, this hard division of 'main' or 'sidearm' only works in the context of specific situations.

>>50697720
I played a badger samurai one time.

I Just didntact like a furry or a weeb!

>>50708291
Battles in late periods closer to Sekigahara, you would see more focus on guns and so on close engagements you would see more swords as they can function better in close combat then a rifle you also had things like the sword police and other such organizations.

>>50708373
Late period Sengoku was effectively Pike&Shot. Not perfectly, but effectively. In that open field context, swords would have been a sidearm weapon; you can have a greater effect with a wall of pikes charging into a group of arquebusers than swordsmen, simply because its harder for the arquebusers to defend. Though I will grant that, as far as melee weapons go, arquebusers likely relied pretty heavily on the katana.

Also; there were probably no rifles in the Sengoku Jidai. Outside of a handful of novelty weapons too valuable to see heavy use, almost every firearm in that period was was smoothbore.

>>50697720
Primarily, focus.

Focus focus focus.

Samurai are historical. There's sources on them, dozens if not hundreds if not thousands. Read these sources. Read them carefully and take in their details.

Now shape a character that is a person who incorporates those details which make him a Samurai. Disregard Hollywood or Weebanimation wherever they contradict those sources or where it's obvious they just cranked up certain aspects to up the pathos. Bam, you got yourself a Samurai who isn't weeb.

You, however, will be called a weeb, regardless, because Japanese culture in the west is carried primarily by delusional high-schoolers and american edutainment, so whenever you play with people not on equal footing such as yourself, they will associate you with people wearing Naruto headbands and polishing their Katana thrice a day.

So your best bet is to play a character where being a Samurai is basically irrelevant and where it's more important what kind of person they are. This should be your general approach for any character, by the way.

>>50708458
Pretty sure the imported arms were rifles, also late period stuff should be rifled.

>>50708499
Very late period, to an extent. Imperial forces during the meiji revolution and much more so in the post revolution uprisings. However, while rifling was contemporary with the Sengoku, it was not common in Europe let alone with exported firearms.

See, the problem with blackpowder is that it would mess with the inside of the firearm, far more so than modern smokeless powder. This would mess with the rifling, though good care of the weapon could mitigate it enough if you kept a spare around for use in long engagements. Also, the majority of muzzle loaders had some give on how large their barrels were so that the gun could be loaded more quickly or with ammunition of improvised quality. This would have made rifling effectively useless.

Breechloaders were the only effective rifled blackpowder weapons, and Japan didn't have any breech loaders except the aforementioned novelty weapons.

>>50708123
>tercio skirmishers

"Yep, we'll wait here for a long time until somebody walks RIGHT PAST US."

Much excite.

>>50697720

Not anymore than playing a viking berserker makes you a norseboo

Just remember that in actual war, the gun, bow and polearm were go to traditional weapons of war for the Samurai, not the sword.

The Honorable Bushido type Samurai came into being long after the warring states. Those Samurai are very ill suited for war and most were little more than body guards or sword bearing bureaucrats.

Samurais were also VERY proud people, just like knights and believed heavily in a class based society. They dont take insults lightly, especially from people they deem lowly.

>>50701740
>not making a based Sparrow bushi
Confirmed for shit-tier taste.

>>50702979
>>50702846
>implying that 5E Dex-based, Archery fighting style Battlemasters aren't already a better samurai than the recent samurai UA

The tools were already fucking there.

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>>50697720
>Implying being a weeb is a bad thing

>>50697720
I'm running a mad max inspire post-apocalyptic game set in a cluster of small towns dominated by "clans" of heavily tattooed nutjob samurai descended from yakuza survivalists that fight with katana and sparkplug musket on carback, leaping onto enemy cars at max speed for boarding battles Japanese sengoku era style. The players are the retainers of a young lord, sworn to serve as his shotgunners and jumpers, boarding and slaying in his name.

So I dunno, you tell me.

>>50708945
Being unhealthily obsessed with Japan or how superior Nippon kawaii definitely is bad

Nothin wrong with liking Japanese stuff though. I personally don't like Anime but everybody has preferences

'cept DBZ, that is objectively good and nobody best disagree

>>50709102
I would, literally, kill to join.

That sounds fucking fun.

>>50697720
The trick is playing the Samurai as a Samurai in character but not from his looks.
Be Honourable and Loyal. Have some Pgilosophy about your Blade and Killing (preferably a one which does not like the act of it), bear in mind that you too will die etc.
But Use a normal weapon like a Longsword or a Scimitar.
And above all else, be a person. Have flaws, for example don't be abstinent or straght to the bone. Samurai weren't either...

>>50697720
I want to say no. Your concern is weeb assumption so you play with people who both know what it means and are more likely to call it

>>50697787
Complicated but cool

>>50697787
It's very good.

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>>50697720

>>50706090
>thinks Kill La Kill is bad

I'm not surprised your parents don't let you outside. They want to hide their shame from the world.

>ITT
>a bunch of weeaboos denying they're weeaboos
The fuck m8s?
Get back to giving me your lunch money, faggots.

>>50702979
Is it wise to give LSD to your horse?

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>>50697720
Yes. Don't use the samurai aesthetic (unless that's what you're there for). Consider the Man With No Name. He was a wandering duder with martial skill and a desire to help those he ran into. He'd occasionally hire himself out (or at least pretend to) to various lords of land and act in their benefits at the time. He was effectively a Ronin without the aesthetic.

If you want to play a samurai, play a character with all the traits that you consider important to being a samurai. Again, unless you're there for the aesthetic. And while I agree it's a gorgeous aesthetic, you'll probably be accused of being a weeb no matter what you do. Skin-deep admiration is always the largest trait of anything-aboos.

>>50701398
I dunno, an American cowboy in Meiji era Japan just trying to get by and not understanding a single goddamn thing about these celestials and their weird ass culture sounds fun. Just don't fall in love with the honorabru samurai ways.

>>50705767
>>50705778
>>50707266
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1wcuoxs4mU

>>50712862
Laughed. Saved.

>>50712524
To be fair a massive amount of westerns are basically ripped right out of samurai movies. Not saying it's a bad thing, just that there is perhaps a reason your comparison is so apt.

>>50712524
>>50712965
Great, now I want to play a western samurai.

>>50712965
I was aware of it, and it's why I chose that particular comparison. The Man With No Name is literally just a Western Sanjuro. And Sanjuro is probably one of the best-written samurai in literature or film.

>>50697720
Only if you play it as weeb.
Weeb is superificial knowledge of Japanese culture and then thinking everything about said culture is superior to all others rather then acknowledgement that it's just another culture like any other with ups and downs.

>>50697720
Just not be a weeb.
It's not hard.

>>50709173
I'm unhealthy obsessed with Japan on how superior bodies have their porn actresses though.

>>50707842
Musashi fought as a footman in the Sengoku Jidai.

He disliked naginata for the same reason that the yari took over, that a thrust of the spear is faster and more powerful than a slash with a glaive and with an edge on it you can do most of the cuts anyway.

The gun works if you've got time to reload, which you can't count on. He stresses that you should use whatever weapon has the longest range.

Dual wielding is primarily used when you have to face multiple opponents. You don't do it indoors like you said, instead you use your shortest sword so you've got room to attack and you try and force your opponents into taking a position that restricts their mobility, or trip them over a chair or whatever.

You might want to reread the book Anon.

>>50712862
>San kuro ningen

>>50708663
>Not anymore than playing a viking berserker makes you a norseboo

But it does.

Don't play characters outside your own ethnic group (when the game is based on IRL ethnic groups). Play Mouse Guard or Gamma World? Doesn't matter. Play a character outside of your own culture and ethnic group makes you a _____boo by definition, because if you weren't obsessed with them you would want to play the character in the first place.

>>50713512
The fuck did you just call my mother?

>>50709798
>Have some Pgilosophy about your Blade and Killing (preferably a one which does not like the act of it)
That does not sound like any of the books that I have read written by Samurai.

Two were guides on why it's important to be alert but relaxed so you're always in peak condition to kill people and the other was all like 'Fucking kids don't even execute prisoners to practice swordplay anymore'.

>>50713558
Are you one of those retards that calls people weeaboos if they are interested/know about Japanese history?

>>50713704

It's not retarded to call a thing by its name.

>>50713738
You are retarded if you call something it is not and use buzzwords that you don't know the real meaning of. In short, you are an idiot.

>>50697720
Easily, just have a reason WHY your character is a samurai or equivlent.
For example: A Pathfinder character that I made once was a Tiefling samurai (made to look like an Oni) who was deathly loyal to the lord that saved her from the streets and treated her as an almost surrogate daughter. when she expressed a desire to repay him for his kindness, he helped train her to be a samurai in his service. after a coup left him dead and his heir missing, she was drugged and put aboard a cargo ship in order to keep her safe since she was one of a small number of people who had actually seen the heir prior to him being taken by another vassal, and thus one of a small number who could identify him. After some 47 ronin tier bullshit, most of the lord's living vassals where in hiding or had fled the nation. whole reason she had been sent from her homeland was PRECISELY because she didn't know anyone. Fewer enemies and lots of potential allies if she worked them right.
interesting characters with backgrounds that can be built off of are superior to "lol samurai cause I can"

>>50714260
Basically, you can be anything in any setting, so long as you can justify the hows and whys.

>>50714473
pretty much.

>>50706057
>>50706064
>>50706124
>>50710837
How's samurai life treating you so far?

>>50713558
>Don't play anything outside your ethnic group
Welp guess I'm only playing humans from now on

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>>50697720

Just don't go meme tier "muh Bushido" "muh Katana" "Muh nippon steel founded 1000's of times cuts MBTs" and actually play them as either polearm+bow horse riders or as crack-shots with guns. Samurais are the Japanese equivalent to Knights (look at how pathfinder does it, it's pretty good)

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>>50713558
>Don't play characters outside your own ethnic group
Fuck you bitch, I don't want to be a bard or a druid.

>>50717529
>john wayne's teeth, hey-ah, hey-ah!

>>50717538
Wrong continent.

>>50717569
Worth a shot.

>>50717595
No worries. To be fair, the Irish haven't historically done much better than the NA so its understandable that we would get confused.

Is Sake the only Japanese form of alcohol or did they have liquors and beers and such over there back in the day too?

>>50717789
Sake is a specific type of rice wine; other forms were used including something which would be culturally comparable to beer if Sake is considered wine. Though, in general, any domestically produced Japanese alcohol was rice based; if it wasn't, it was imported. There just wasn't a good enough reason to switch out of rice production.

>>50717905
Didn't they make like, plum wine and shit there? Or was that exclusively imported from China?

>>50717950
Oh, no, you're right. I forgot about Umeshu. I think because, iirc, it wasn't historically consumed in enough quantities to get anything beyond a buzz if that; it was a social drink but you never drank much at once.

There are probably other small things like that I missed as well. Though sheer production numbers means that rice based alcohol effectively dwarfed the alternatives.

>>50718073
>>50717905
>>50717789
You are also forgetting shochu for some reason. And beer since 1624. And no, umeshu is something you find in damn near every household because it's easy as piss to make and generally good shit to drink. You just steep plums in shochu and sugar for several months.

>>50710307
Which is why we're talking and narrowing down the issue so we can come up with a solution.
Stop posting this fucking meme response.

>>50720424
... why not just drink the shochu instead, that sounds easier.

>>50720424
Well then I'm just gonna stop talking because apparently I don't know half the shit I thought I did.

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>>50713405
Just replying that you're right, I was posting with deficient knowledge. I just wanted to be cool.

>>50697720
Sure. Be confirmed to be a weeb

>>50708279
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/toshiro-mifune-turned-down-star-845721

Apparently he refused it because he didn't expect it to be good.

>>50705304
>>50705710
>>50706614
I just want to pop in here and agree that this movie is fucking great.

>that giant blood explosion
>raw as fuck blood covered berserker samurai rage

>>50702996
>2076
>people romanticize ISIS
>kek

>>50723055
>fucking allahu ackboos

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>>50723055
>mfw this joke already exists

>>50724047
doesnt those nazi dating games exist today?

>>50721965
Because one is a sweet, tart fruit wine by taste while the other is fifty proof distilled liquor. Though shochu also comes is all the varieties of the rainbow. The sweet potato is fucking rad, I've always wanted but never been able to find the chestnut, the milk is top comfy, the barley is basically whiskey, and the rice will make you want to kill yourself. I'll drink it, but that shit is just unpleasant. Awamori's a bit better, but still. There's no reason not to toss some plums and sugar is a jug of that shit, let it sit in the dark, and come back delicious.

>>50722089
Acceptance is the first step. Also, Japanese whiskey is fucking amazing -- and I say that as someone living a short drive from Jack Daniels' distillery -- and I'd put it well in a league of its own. Irrelevant for the conversation, however, as that was a 20th century creation.

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>>50724062
Would this count?

>>50723055
You know most westerner who joined ISIS was because they romanticized it.

>>50697720
By playing a dwarf weeaboo
Like an actual dwarf, you'll pretty much never find a weeb version of these and by going over the top with it in character it becomes funny, no one's gonna take him seriously

Honour systems are only valid if you have a GM that doesn't coddle you.

Also; GURPS.

>>50723055
FOR THE SAKE OF ALLAH

>>50724047
In all fairness, most Pirates weren't that bad, relative to their time. Like, yeah there was rape and pillaging, but that was literally just part of being a sailor. Military ships, fishing vessels, all of it. Rape and pillaging just went with the job.

SOME pirates were particularly cruel and violent, but most really weren't. In fact, conditions on pirate ships were often better than on a military vessel, which is why people BECAME pirates in the first place. Not for the money, but it was a safer, more comfortable way to practice their trade.

As for the Romans, like, in all fairness too, there's a real mix there. Like, yeah people hold up the Roman republic as this amazingly efficient and advanced society, but we also talk about Ceasar and Nero and whatnot as these tyrants.

>>50698113
Eye, right

>>50697720
It sort of depends on the setting for one thing.

If you are playing in classic Japan then being a samurai of some sort seems pretty probable for a hero.

>>50709173
DBZ is shit, might as well go watch naruto

>>50724493
I'm so fucking sick of Japan's pedo bullshit.

And the fact they are too scared to actually get a girlfriend, it should not take a month just to hold her hand you faggots.

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>>50728256
but anon, little girls make everything better.

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>>50712862
>>50707266
>>50705778
>>50705767

I played a samurai and then the GM got mad when I tried to ride my horse into the dungeon.

...what the fuck did he expect?

>>50712965
A lot of Samurai movies were inspired by westerns though.

>>50728125
hell the captains of British naval vessels were know to be complete and utter assholes who thought that their subordinates were a bunch of cowards, deserters, thieves, and other degenerates, and treated them accordingly. didn't matter if you were trying to better your life in the military or were a loyalist who joined for patriotism, you were treated like shit. There are even stories about how some captains would refuse to let their sailors learn to swim in order to prevent them from deserting when they were near land. As you can guess, treatment by officers in the navy led to lots of desertions, which led to the officers being even big jackasses and so on. Most pirate captains were the "face" of the group and only led until they fucked up, died, left, or someone better was found and those that acted like one of the officers above likely wouldn't have a ship or crew for very much longer. The real power lied in the bosun and quartermaster. you fucked up by letting your weapon rust or trying to harm a crewmate? to the bosun with you. slacking with your duties? guess who isn't getting shit from the guy in charge of making sure everyone has what they need.

Generally speaking: pirate/privateer<State navies in sofar as how you were treated.

>>50729936
watch hanzo the razor
you'll enjoy it

>>50702846
All attacks should be based on DEX, and all damage on STR. Your system is shit if it doesn't work that way, unless one of those (or both) doesn't exist.

>>50697720
Yes, there is one way I know of. Simply be born Japanese like me.