You have ten seconds to justify your character having easily-grabbable-in-combat

What kind of wuss pulls hair in a fight?

>>51276349
We're not as autistic as you are.

>>51276349
No rules for grappling.

Helmet, uses gun

If someone gets close enough to touch his hair one of them is already dead.

>>51276349
Fucking hairbands exist in the setting.

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Go ahead, punk.

>>51276422
I read that novel.

>>51276349
It can become spiky and stab their hands.

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>>51276349
>The idea that short hair is advantages in combat was conceived by the Romans
>The Romans repeatedly get there asses kick by Germanic tribes.

This should tell you something.

>>51276500
>I'm sure to win, for my hair is shorter!

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>>51276500
>repeatedly
>Only real Notable Roman loss was the battle of the Teutoburg forest
>Meanwhile in the Gallic wars Caesar goes over to German lands and beats the shit out of the to prove a point.

Filthy pleb.

>>51276349
No, I don't. I don't have to justify anything, ever, to idiots like you.

>>51276349
In a one-on-one fight? Yeah, might proved to be a disadvantage.

In an all-out melee in a war? Hands are too busy holding shields and weapons. Helmets covering hair, too.

Also, isn't there an animation in Witcher 3 where an enemy grabs Geralt's ponytail in a brawl and he just twists out of it?

>>51276368
Spbp

>>51276545
SAY IT WITH ME
PICTS
WERE
NEVER
CONQUERED

>>51276545
>Romeaboo detected

Romans mostly won wars against tribal people with far inferior technology and much less unified. They hugely inflated the number of enemy in every single battle they faced, and basically had all the historians writing tales that romanticize the things for the roman side. When they faced the Parthian Kingdom, Carthage, among others, they either lost badly at first and then won, or just lost badly and them left.

Roman had some success with mass deploying and training of forces and definitely a lot of merit in their organizational capabilities and logistics. But the average legionaries was a pleb with a machete and a plank.

>>51276349
He hides them under a helmet. You don't go into combat without head protection, right?

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>>51276349
My hair eat people.

>>51276349
KLINGON HONOR.

>>51276617
>hiding your glorious long flowing hair

What are you, a fag?

>>51276349
>combat
If my character is entering physical combat at all, something has gone terribly wrong.

>>51276349
Hair-grabbing is rare in most combat and only becomes a factor if it boils down to close quarters unarmed grappling, in which case shit has already gone South and not because of your long hair.

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>>51276349
Being descended from ancient metal super-vikings, having TWO ancient elven swords, /and/ being the current host to the spirit of a wolf-god.

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>>51276349

If he's trying to grab the beard, it means he's at a disadvantage because he's got a free hand. Either he's without a weapon or a shield OR he's using his weapon ineffectively if it requires two hands.

By that point, they've already lost.

>>51276709

He's dead, Jim.

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>>51276349
He's a periorokoi which looks up to spartiatai status.

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Bookworm who stays in the precinct and only ever get involved in the investigation side of things

Why does it matter?
Nobody's going to grapple you in combat, that would mean using the grappling rules.

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>>51276736
It still hurts, anon.

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>>51276349
I ain't no roundhead pleb.

It's laced with razor thread and she's got tough skin that doesn't get hurt by it. Plus hidden weaponry. If they're grabbing her hair, they're going to regret it one way or another.

Basically it's a trap for dipshits like you.

He's built to grapple, so initiating one is inviting him to turn it on them and pound their bones to gravel.

>>51276881
>pound their bones
>not their boypussy

>>51276810
>giving a shit about Chinzilla
kek

>>51276349
Congratulations, you've just locked yourself into place holding onto the character with Acromegaly. I'm sure your death was totally worth pulling on their hair.

>>51276908
If they're pretty enough, probably the latter before the former.

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>>51276969

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>>51276349
the opponent only has one hand left for protecting himself.
my character still has a thunderbolt wave spell in his left and a kopis in his right hand.

guess who just came into reach for nasty electrosecution damage

>>51276988
It's not gay if you beat them up afterwards.

You have ten seconds to justify grabbing someones hair in combat when that hand could instead be doing something actually useful.

>>51277056
It's a lewd game.

>>51277021
>It's not Gay if it's a trap/ has a feminine penis
FTFY

>>51277021
It's double gay in this case

>>51277056
Your character is an young boy and the only way he can express his crush on the opponent is by annoying them and pulling their hair.

>>51276349
>grabbing other guy's hair

full homo, just like OP

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>>51277056

>Alexander the Great shaved off his beard and encouraged all his med to do so to, so that it could not be grabbed.

Huh guess that idiot got worked over something completely pointless.

>>51276608

Still got the shit raped back into their stomachs.

>>51277236
But I mean, why? I'd rather someone grabbed my hand/beard rather than use that hand to defend themselves or attack me somewhere that actually matters.

>>51276349
She doesn't.

a removable wig to fool the attacker into completely wasting an action

fake swordhilt and belt pouch complete the outfit

>>51277276

>being this fucking stupid or having never been in a fight in their life

Do you know how fucked you are to have your head suddenly snap up and down while your scalp feels like it's splitting open? Do you know how easy it is to pull someone forward and topple over when their being pulled literally by the skin? If someone pulls you by the hair you are fucked. Swords will puncture your face or now exposed skull and now because you are off balanced your opponent will fuck you.

>>51277276
You are talking so much about using off-hand in combat but don't realise one deep stab to abdomen or neck will end the fight. Grabbing hands or beard/hair let opponent quickly move you into vulnerable position and strike you with a weapon.

>>51277359
>while your scalp feels like it's splitting open

Have you ever been pulled by the hair? I don't think you have. And what would make hair such a great place to pull you by as opposed to any other body part?

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>>51277157
>Young boy Heroically saves remnant of town guards from annihilation by grabbing the Evil sorceress's hair before she could land her finishing blow, allowing them enough time to recover enough take the Sorceress to the ground and knock her out
>Nobody knows that the only reason the young boy did that was that he thought the magic lady was pretty and didn't know any other way to get her attention
>He didn't even realize that the gaurdsmen were in danger, he just thought it was some elaborate game.

>>51277394
>And what would make hair such a great place to pull you by as opposed to any other body part?
It opens up your head and neck the two most vulnerable targets on your body?

>>51276349
Character wasn't created for fighting, and can put her hair in a bun. Questions?

>>51276349
He ties the hair in a knot before leaving the house.

>>51276349
>Hair
>Easy to grab
If you're able to actually grab somebody's hair, you're probably close enough to just grab some of their clothing, their face, or, I don't know, you could have made contact with their head with like, a weapon.

Unless somebody's hair was WAAAAAYYYY long it's not really a big deal. Typically people were more concerned with actually trying to kill each other with spears and bows and shit than focusing on trying to exploit hair length in combat.

>>51277394

Every time you post the collective IQ of /tg/ falls.

>>51276349
Because he's a bard who hides behind a giant tree man barbarian when combat starts.

Also Hold Person.

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>>51276349
This is now a dubs thread

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>>51276349
"I dare you to try and pull my hair."

>>51277747
Get on your hands and knees, honey

If you're in melee range you're already within their horribly deadly combat aura. Starting a grapple just means you get to spend even longer with your skin melting off.

>>51276349
You are immune to a contact poison and cover the outer layers of your hair in oils soaked in said poison. Because every perceived vulnerability is secretly an attack waiting to happen.

>>51277236
Considering long hair and beards had been popular for centuries and remained popular for centuries among warrior classes that fought in much closer hand to hand combat than Alexander's forces, probably, yes. Assuming that that even happened and isn't later apocryphal stories or something you just made up.

>>51276349
You have 10 seconds to justify having flesh that can be cut by mere steel.

>>51276349
It is the standard in his society, and he is something else than just a warrior.

Also, as has already been noted, helmets exist.

>>51276349
that's just how good they are

>>51276349
he's a white haired witch

>>51277841
It keeps my inner Mr Skelengton warm and comfy

>>51277777

>>51276349

They're an Elf.

>>51276545
Brennus conquered Rome.

>Meanwhile in the Gallic wars Caesar goes over to German lands and beats the shit out of the to prove a point.
Actually no. He fought them inside Gaul. The victory was rather costly.

>>51276349
It keeps his neck warm in the -20 Celsius arctic.

>>51277464
If your opponent is close enough to reach around your head to pull your hair or to punch you in the face, you can,just stab them while they're trying to do so, since they lack a shield.

I mean, think of it this way. Instead of reaching an empty hand forward to tug a beard in hopes of stabbing a man, I could just hold a knife and stab his face, skipping a step.

As a bonus, I could actually block with the knife.

>>51276349
The "hair" conducts high voltage electricity, shocking any enemy that grabs it.

>>51276349
They are a criminal and find more value in not looking like a rebellious young person to police and security forces than in a theoretical weakness in a fistfight.

>>51276349
Because he wears a helmet.

>>51278296
>I could actually block with the knife
You never cease to amaze me

>>51276349
It's not the most obvious of her easily grabbable features. Not by a long shot.

>>51276422
Underrated post

>>51276736
But not for nothing. For Azeroth.

>>51278346
Parrying daggers are a thing, and you can certainly block better with a knife than you can with your empty hand.

You still haven't explained why 'tug the beard' is more viable than 'stab the face'

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>>51276422
Based

>>51278410
Dude, do you know what blocking and parrying means?

>>51277306
>fake boobplate, too

>>51278296
t. someone who assumes real fights are the same as d20

>>51278457
Oh, sorry. I didn't know I was talking to an August. Let me try again.

A dagger, knife, or similarly sharpened short length of metal, has a possibility of deflecting or otherwise lessening the in page from an enemy's weapon being swung at you, provided it is the right sort of weapon and your dagger, knife, or sharp metallic tool is in the proper position to attempt such a maneuver. In this regard, it is more advantageous than having an open hand, consisting of five fingers and a palm, attempting to guard oneself from the harm inflicted by a weapon.

Satisfied? Or do I need to cite sources for blades not going through metal as well as hands?

>>51276349
He's a ranged character, if he's in melee range he's fucked, long hair or no.

>>51276545
Are these the same Romans who claimed Germania was bad territory full of not very useful resources, but then conquered Gaul, that was exactly the same Geographically?

>>51276349
Hair strands have lacerating rule.

>>51276639
>not protecting and preserving beauty
what are you, a retarded

>>51278504
That's cute.

>>51277056
Pulling them off balance, distracting them, pulling them in closer for a nastier blow, etc.

>>51276349
It's a wig.

Checkmate.

>>51276349

to be hot

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>>51276349
>justify your character having easily-grabbable-in-combat long hair.

1. Leave glorious elven hair open to being grabbed
2. Get into combat
3. Some low-bred fool wastes his time trying to feel my hair instead of doing something useful
4. He's within stabbing distance and his hands are occupied
5. Introduce my blade to his innards

>>51276367
Alexander of Macedon made the shaving of hair and beards in his armies mandatory because in the press of shield-walls that featured heavily in warfare of the time, it was easy to grab a man by the hair or beard and pull him closer to stab him with your sidearm because you had little room to maneuver your spear.

Also lice.

>>51277841
Because otherwise my character would be OP, or I'd have to give up some advantage to allow it.

>>51278519
Nope, you didn't answer my question. I enjoy your cute ramblings but let make it short. Know what would be even more advantageous? Using a longsword or other long weapon that both threatens and defends with its length and taking offhand to grapple at hands or other long accessible parts when getting very close.

>>51278590
You are cute indeed

>>51278699

>other long accessible parts

Like hair?

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>>51276422

>>51276478
>>51278369
>>51278426
>>51278838
EXPLAIN

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>>51278699
Bruh.
You know you're being an air-chair general, right?

>probably doesn't even do HEMA
>probably hasn't read a single fechtbuch
>probably can't even read an original, untranslated fechtbuch
>but combat? I know all about it.

>>51278699

Uhhh, fuck no, you don't use a longsword when you're grappling enemies with your off hand. They're far too long to be wieldy at such close quarters. You'd want something one, one and a half feet long, maximum. You'd literally be throwing away the reach advantage that longswords have over daggers and short swords in favor of far inferior close quarters control and precision.

>>51276349
Bitches are afraid to come close to 14 lvl barbarian
Bitches won't survive for long if they grab hair
Hair looks bitchin good

>>51276349
Good conductor of magical energy, can be used to channel touch spells into anyone trying to grab it.

>>51278923
how old are you?

>>51278886
I think it's Samson, an ancient jewish (I think, I mean he's old testament) legend.
He made a pact with god, that if he did not cut his hair, he would be granted massive strength.
He did all kinds of crazy shit (Like killing thousands because he was salty over a lost bet), until some whore convinced him to cut it, where upon he lost all his strength.
He was immediately captured by the jew's enemies at the time.
But he asked god for help, was given back his strength, and slaughtered all of his captors, killing himself in the process.
He's actually a pretty badass character now that I think about it.

>>51278886
Samson, dude. From the bible.

>>51279013
He might not come from a christian family.
I've met people who didn't even know who Noah was, Samson is fairly more obscure.

>>51278993
>some whore convinced him to cut it
TRIED to convince him. I think she ultimately got him drunk and cut it while he was passed out or something, been awhile since I've read the story.

>>51278910
Tell me more about blocking with a knife, couch potato expert

>>51279076
Wait, what?
I haven't been paying attention, but what retard honestly believes you can block onehanded, let alone with something as small as a knife.

>>51279013
>the bible.
never read it

he's in the qu'ran, though

>using knives in combat

FUCKING RETARDS
Any non-mace user is literally asking to be killed.

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>getting so ass-blasted by shitposters that you start shitposting yourself about how terrible knives are

>>51279076

It's incredibly easy to block with a knife thanks to it being such a short lever, genius. Pray tell, how do you plan on blocking any sort of attack from a guy you have grabbed by the beard with a longsword, which is 3-4 feet long? How do you plan to maneuver that around when you're struggling with another human being?

>>51279031
Fair enough, I suppose.

>>51279112
They're derived from the same source materials, so they have a lot of the same (or at least similar) characters and stories.

>>51279111
Block, no. Redirect and parry, most certainly. You can do that with an empty hand if you know what the fuck you are doing .

Protip:
Most people do not know what the fuck they are doing.

>>51279111
See >>51279145

>>51279126
You would think that.

Some of us are good with knives.

>>51279145
Yeah, but you'll be doing it onehanded.
I may not be a medieval warrior, but when I was a kid me and my friends would fight with wood sticks for shits and giggles.
Blocking one handed, especially if what you had was short, was always a good way to get bruises.

>>51279160
>They're derived from the same source materials, so they have a lot of the same (or at least similar) characters and stories.
Yeah Muhammad was very Chinese in his approach to copyrights.

>>51279178
You know throwing knives were never actually a thing outside the American west and Japanese theater, right?

>>51276349
vanity. gee, that sure was hard.

>>51279190
Wait, what do you mean christianity?
No no no, this is called Islam!
Instead of only priests diddling kids, anyone can do it, and rather than the church attendance blowing up, the people do!

>>51279183
>fighting with wood sticks

I did this as well. This is like saying that training with airsoft/paintball guns can turn you into a tier-1 operator.

It can't.
Namely, where are the cross-guards and weighed pommels on your sticks? Carving a piece of wood to look like a sword does not a sword make.

>>51279183

You'd be doing it one-handed with a longsword regardless, and because it's a long lever and the center of weight is much further away from your hand, it's much harder to control one-handed, especially given how long it is and how little space there is between you and the other guy. There is absolutely no advantage to using a longsword while grappling or being grappled by someone.

>>51279218
Those are Trademarks, anon, but point taken. Muhammad was very Chinese in his overall approach to intellectual property.

>>51276422
Would smite Philistines with/10

>>51279218
And we call the guy upstairs Allah instead of God/Yahweh, and he uses the Royal We when speaking about himself! Totally different!

>>51279183
See >>51279162

>Protip:
>Most people do not know what the fuck they are doing.

And see >>51279231
If you're not training with real metal, armor, and someone who actually knows what the fuck they're doing, you're not doing to learn anything your typical peasant didn't know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Muret
Accounting for the usual inflated numbers, the point should still be very clear that Someone Who Knows What the Fuck they are Doing versus Someone Who Knows Nothing is pretty marked.

>>51279046
>>some whore ... TRIED to convince him
>>she ultimately got him drunk and did it while he was passed out
Yeah, that happens in biblical stories. A Lot.

>>51279178
Knives are a bad idea in any situation except for really close quarters.
INB4 knife throwing, that's a skill that takes a long time to master, and even then relies on how far you can throw it, and relies on you not needing said knife anytime soon.
>>51279231
It's the closest you can get to understanding medieval melee, without getting authentic medieval weaponry and stabbing other people.
And trust me, you want something longer, and with a little weight to block. Not a longsword, god no, that's retarded, but bigger than a knife.
>>51279251
I agree with you whole-heartedly, a short sword/long knife would be much better.

>>51276349
You have ten seconds to justify your character not having a helm.

>>51279335
He's speed based, so he wears exclusively light armor.
Why tank damage, when you can avoid getting hit at all?

>>51279335
Rule of Cool.

Friendly reminder that historical roleplayers actually just want to include rape and wholesale slaughter into their games because "that's how it was back then"

>>51279317
COUGH, Lot's daughters, COUGH

>>51276349
Professional armies of antiquity shaved for the purpose of avoiding lice, reduce enemy grabbing beards or hair, and to promote uniformity.

Modern armies primarily shave for the purpose of creating a seal for gas masks. Facial hair would prevent a proper seal.

>>51278993
>you forgot to mention that he killed thousands WITH ONLY A FUCKING JAWBONE

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>>51279352
I love this response.

>wear no/light amor
>get hit once
>die

Even the Greek Peltasts, dedicated skirmishers, wore helmets when they could.
Image related. One good throw and you're fucking dead kiddo.

>>51279408
Nigga, I've rolled health so badly for my current character.
He has 8 total hp.
I keep rolling 1-2s for my health rolls everytime I level, and have a -1 CON, which makes them one lower, meaning I have never gained more than 1 hp a level.
I can't afford to get hit, so I must avoid getting hit at all.
Thankfully, my speed is so obscene, and my character is so small, that I had an AC of 19 at level 1.

>>51279463
>playing systems where armor is check-based rather than providing soak

I'm giving you shit but you're okay. Try to play more systems though.

>>51279499
It's my first campaign, with the only group of people in my small town who game

>>51279576
Grats lad. Have fun.

>>51279593
I'l try to keep Bob Fast alive, so that he can fulfill his goal of figuring out what species he is.

>>51278623
> Grab his hair.
> Wig
> You just lost your turn's action

>>51276349
A wig's like this thread: A bait. Congratz on the reply count tho.

>>51279031
Oh please, the name Samson is synonymous with strength.

>>51276349
A E S T H E T I C S

>>51276349
Because he does not trust the barber. Not at all.

>>51279463
I'd strongly recommend:

> Not playing DnD / Pathfinder
> Not rolling stuff that will cripple you if rolled poorly. Use average.
> If forced to roll HP, go point-buy on stats so that you can balance out your strengths and weaknesses.
> If you're forced to roll stats, at least place decent scores in your Constitution and Wisdom.

Now I assume the DM is absolutely unwilling to negotiate.

> If your stats are locked, commit suicide, obviously or not, so you get to roll a character that is not thrash. Also, buy them expensive equipment that can be sold easily so that your suicides bring a bit of coin to the party. Acid, Alchemist fire, Low level potions...
> By then, the constant stream of new characters joining / characters dying will unbalance the game, and the DM might be brought to see your point.

Also:

> DM yourself. Works best.

>>51279889
IT's already been going on, but I'll remember your advice for the future.
But as of right now, my character is fairly useless.
He's not the most damaging (Glass Cannon Minotaur) , the most tough (Cleric), the stealthiest (Half demon critter thing), the best at magic (I mean, this is a given), literally all he has is speed.
His base land speed is 3 times the next fastest character, and that's not counting an ability that let's him go 5 times his base speed.
He's just fast as fuck.
That's all the little nigga's got.

>>51276349
It functions as a handle for when he's giving head to his husband.

>>51276349
Rapiers are longer than arm's reach.
Way too many of the world's best bred and trained men fought each other with luscious long ponytails and high heels. Wearing padded cloth rather than clunky plates and tanking shrapnel that would kill them years later from infection of poisoning after a lifetime of splitting fools open with his sabre and shooting the fuck out of mongrels with his rifle.

If you cannot have this kind of glory on your setting and have to worry about what Alexander did or what realistic 11th century armor looked like, you're playing the wrong era of history.

>>51276349
Hair grabs back.

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>>51276349
She's H-HAYAI

>>51276349
We've gone into combat a grand total of four times in a campaign that has been run weekly for four and a half years.

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>>51276349
If someone can reach me hair-pulling is the least of my concerns.

>>51276349
I weave barbed wire into my hair and beard.

Not as a counter-measure or anything, just to enhance my post-apoc raider look.

>>51276349
I'm playing a wizard with Abrupt Jaunt.

>>51276422
Would kill Phillistines with/10

>>51276349
It's a religious thing, like Samson in the Bible.

>>51276349
"Fashion souls" trumps all other considerations.

>>51276545
>trying to argue with germanic/anglo subhumans

funfact: did you know spain won the same war where they lost their invincible armada?

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>>51278961
About 70

>>51276545
Sacked 4 times or was it 5?

>>51279957
Protip: Get yourself a crossbow/sling/lots of javelins. Range spam, get melee guys to chase you. Run like hell. Don't trip

But yeah, that sounds pretty painfull, having to play a character like that.

>>51276349
Samson-like hair-based powers.

>>51276545
I thought Caesar invented the name "Germans" because he couldn't conquer them but still wanted to be the dude who beat the Gauls.

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>>51276349
He's wearing a helmet because he's not an idiot who enjoys risking brain damage just so people can see his face.

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>>51276500
>The Romans repeatedly get there asses kick by Germanic tribes.

Lewl, germaniboo fanfic.

The only notable success against Rome at it's height by Germani tribes was Teutoberg, swiftly followed by Germanicus kicking seven shades of shite out of the tribes to the point where they never raised an army against Rome for the following two centuries.

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>>51277747
Ok.

>>51281019
Helmets are great for fighting in formation, but any time there's a possibility of being attacked from behind you're better off removing it and relying on your unencumbered senses.

>>51280998
There was a distinction between the Gauls (Celtic) and the Germanics though (even though the Rhine is an arbitrary border and some Transrhenian tribes conformed more to the Celtic model and some Cisrhenian tribes more to the Germanic model).

Gauls were generally deemed half-civilized, as they had high quality forging skills (the Roman gladius was actually based on the model of the Gauls, after they stomped the early-Roman hoplites into the dirt multiple times), had a complex coin-based economy and a Greek-based writing system (probably due to extensive Greek influence from the trade colony Marsillia (modern day Marseille, a North-African settlement colony)). They were, by the Romans, deemed semi-civilized (as opposed to the entirely uncivilized Germanics).

In the border regions it gets pretty iffy, but there was a distinction between Gauls and Germanics (what doesn't help is that the Germanics were so uncivilized they never wrote anything down, so all we know about them is from Roman accounts. Theoretically it's entirely possible the Germanics wuz kangz 'n shiet but the Romans never bothered to report that, though the fact that the Germanics never bothered with writing shit down makes that dubious).

>>51281154
t.Someone who has never actually worn a helmet before.

>>51276349
Extra padding while wearing a helm, and with a helm, it can't be easilly-grabable-in-combat

Also because it's a fucking fantasy game, and no one's going to give you a disadvantage vs. being grappled for having long hair unless you're an outrageous faggot.

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>>51281019
I kind of get not wearing a helmet as a Hollywood/vidya staple, because we all want to know who the main characters are, but what I don't understand is why they rarely (if ever) use the medieval solution to this problem. Kings and nobles had elaborate armor and decorated helmets to make sure they were protected while at the same time ensuring that everyone (friend and foe) knew who they were. Combine a certain crest on a shield with a certain pattern on a tabbard and a certain shape on a helmet, and you know exactly who you're dealing with (and whether it's smart to run away like a sissy or stand and fight like a soon-to-be-dead sissy).

As far as fiction goes, the only example where this was actually done I can think of is that one King Arthur cartoon where Arthur and his Knights are a bunch of American Football players sent back in time (one of the earliest isekai anime was American?).

>>51276422
Checkmate, philistine

>>51276722
Or he just uses one one-handed weapon and no shield, as people sometimes do.

>>51278699
If you're grappling, don't use a longsword, it gives the foe too much handle to grab. Use an arming sword, or if you intend to use it with 2 hands at some point, a hand-and-a-half sword.

>>51279667
Antelope?

>>51276349
He has swords in his braids, any nigga that tries to grab his hair is gonna lose a few fingers

Sword-hair is also his primary combat style.

>>51281242
For anyone wondering how those crests functioned, they were paper-mache or leather or something else light but easy to make shapes with. They fell off when hit hard enough, making that into an instant tournament sport. The last guy whose crest was still standing won.

>>51276349
I'm pretty sure long hair is the least of that guy's concerns in combat
>stares at 2 longswords
>stares at them being held on his back
>stares at the lack of a helmet
>stares at his meh-tier armor

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>>51276349

There are no mechanics for grabbing hair in combat.

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>>51276349
Who is going to grab me when I'm using a bow, and riding a horse?

>>51276349
Dwarven warriors are sworn to never shave their beards.

He is proficent in stabbing fuckers in the crook of the elbow, and uses his hair as bait to trick foes into exposing those juicy underarms.

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>>51281069
Gonna need a sauce there, captain.

>>51281690
Can't help you, saved it from /tg/.

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little access to proper grooming facilities besides a sword which is not enough to cut hair in a neat and not dangerous manner.

>>51281154
>relying on your unencumbered senses.

Helmets don't have to ruin your hearing/sight.

Helmet always > No helmet in combat.

If you're wearing any armour at all, you should be wearing a helmet.

Losing a limb is potentially (provided you have morphine and tourniquets) less debilitating than taking a blow to the head, both short term and long term.

>>51281690
muju's intermezzo for Luth's storytime
Don't think you'll find it on his dA though, the rest should be somewhere in 4chan archives.

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>>51281760
>little access to proper grooming facilities besides a sword
>Implying that's an excuse

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>>51281808
look around December 2015

>>51276349
it looks cool.

>>51277236
>literal faggot wanted his men to look more effeminate for, uh, tactical purposes
stop the presses

>>51281819
I hope that kid cuts his jugular

>>51282046
That's probably just a decorative sword with dull blade and the kid isn't actually shaving but just wiping the foam of his face.

>>51276422
...I don't get it

>>51276349
I roll my hair up inside my helmet for extra padding on top of my cotton liner like people in real history.

>>51282166
C'mon, man it's a classic fantasy story!

>>51276608
lol you don't raise the strongest empire in antiquity by fucking around and losing, you have no idea what you're talking about.

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>>51276422

>>51276422
Nice

>>51276374
It's not that the system lacks rules. It's that they're slow and complicated, and not even the DM understands them without resorting to a flowchart.

>>51276349
other people usually wear helmets
everyone else, anyone who tried to pull their hair lost the arm pulling

>>51279031
I was raised in. Christian family and I never heard anything about him using a jawbone

>>51276349

D&D makes grappling a nightmare that no sane being would be willing to indulge.

Also, Babylon and Assyria did just fine with their bearded dudes.

>>51277236
More like he shaved his beard because that was what Egyptian pharaohs did and he was a massive Egyptaboo and wanted to be a God-king just like them after conquering it.

His men copied him because people always copy famous people, and they didn't get much more famous at the time

>>51277359
If your close enough to pull my hair, your close enough to get a blade in your guts. And having your hair pulled is not as painful as you seem to think

>>51279317
I see what you did there... Some peope just have noah idea what's actually in the Bible

>>51282705
Unless you're facing a werewolf w/o silver weapons and you need to hold him down while anouther PC puts silver pieces on his head an bashes them into his skull one after anouther.

>>51279367
The only professional army in antiquity was the Romans, and depending on which period you're talking about, they did grow beards. During the time of Scipio clean-shaven was in, because that's what Scipio did and the Legions usually followed the fashions of their generals and Emperors. Under later, bearded Emperors like Hadrian, the legionaries started wearing beards again

>>51283085
No other army was paid during antiquity? Really?

>>51280525
Define won. Given that Spain's main aim of the war was to return England to Catholicism and put someone more amenable to the True Faith on the throne I'd say they failed pretty badly

>>51276349
Literally cuts that shit short and shaves on the regular to stay sharp

>>51276422

> Based subtle references, theological Anon.

>>51282166
you need to start looking into human history's older fantasy and fiction

>>51282405
>Exalted.jpg

>>51276349
I am a paladin, I fight backed by pure. FUCKING. Charisma. Sure, that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with physical beauty, but praise the Gods is long hair and charisma exactly what a servant of Zarus needs.

>>51283158
There's quite a lot of that to sift through to get one reference

A dwarf never shaves his beard!

>>51276349
It's traditional in the characters culture to have long hair. Combat effectiveness be damned.

>>51283130
I'm sure they got a share of any loot or slaves taken, but no, they weren't paid a wage just for being soldiers like the Romans were.

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>>51279793
And for good reason.

>>51283229
I'd argue that that's being paid on commission. There are many jobs that do not pay a wage.

>>51276349
His power is intangibility. He wants you to try for the hair so he can turn it intangible then deck you in the face.

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>>51282166
Well, we're going to have to go back a bit for this one.

So there's this guy named "God," and he got bored one day and said, "you know what? I've got like five or six empty universes in my garage, and like 500 jars of complex irony in my cupboard..."

>>51283130
Being paid wasn't the issue, it was whether or not the soldiers' sole profession was soldiery. Most soldiers in antiquity were only soldiers when they had to be, they were land-owners, farmers etc, who served in times of war because they were the ones who could afford equipment. The Romans were like that until the Marian Reforms made soldiery its own profession with state-issued equipment and the like.

Of course the Romans weren't the only ones like this, Macedon had a professional soldier class, as did Epirus and Carthage's soldiery was made up of mercenaries who are, by definition, professional soldiers.

This actually came up during the writing of the US Constitution, where the founding fathers decided that there was no difference between a standing army and a mercenary band, and so wrote quite intensely against the idea of forming a standing army aside from officers, for fear that its existence would encourage its use.

>>51276349

He wears a hat to cover it.

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>>51276349
He's a wizard and he thinks it looks cool.

>>51276608
hahaa
Rome
>beat Carthaginians twice who were essentially carried by Hannibal
>every military victory gained by hannible was simply ignored by rome
>muh couldn't beat hannible, they didn't need to while he was fucking about in rome they sacked carthage
twice
>then Scipio Africanus came in and beat Hannibal silly

>average legionaries was a pleb with a machete and a plank
technically not wrong, however you are forgetting that roman legionaries were career soldiers who you know were actually trained and diciplined with roman doctrine focusing on skilled individual warriors that fought as units.

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>>51276422
Took me a second.

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>>51276349
>grabbing geralt of rivia's hair

Unless you've got a nice rack you're gonna lose that hand boyo

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>>51276422
Motherfucker...

>>51281370
He's a Quickling (Game's homebrew)
He was raised by humans, since I figured that'd make roleplaying him easier, and trying to figure out your species is as good a reason as any to go adventuring.

>>51276349
style

>>51278564

>"what are you, a retarded"
>a retarded

Not even the Anon you're talking to but tough luck on your grammatical error. Now the other Anon automatically wins.

>>51276349

I dunno, I guess I never thought about it? It's up in a bun on her art, so I guess she just prefers it that way? Besides, if something gets close enough to grab her hair she's probably a goner anyways.

bard

>>51282166
I'm the Bible an Israelite dude named Samson, who got his strength from his long hair, killed an army of Philippines using the jawbone of an ass.

>>51284871
or unless you have a pitchfork

>>51276349

His hair is the source of his true power

>>51276349
Being grabbed by the skin of your bald head would be worst. Especially if the thing grabbing you has talon-like nails

>>51276349
Helmet, man-bun.

>>51286748
Beat me to it

>>51286678
Thank you

>>51276585
Because their land was useless. It was quite simply economocally unsound to conquer them.

It's one of the few things he refuses to abandon from the time before he took to fighting and adventuring.

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>>51276349
You have ten seconds to justify your character having an easily-grabbable-in-combat long dick.

>>51276349
The genera I play in is called fantasy. It has giant fire breathing lizards the size of buildings with a wingspan that couldn't support something half it's size, floating balls that are almost nothing but eye, mouth and eye stalks and stranger things besides. It's not meant to be realistic.

>>51288060
He's a bard.

He's already welded into a framework where the medium-long hair is basically ungrabbable due to being covered.

Now that I consider it, he's probably unaware of his hair length...

thanks OP, you helped me consider details

>>51276349
The hair grabs back

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>>51276349
>Grapple-based str-heavy character

>>51276349
My assassin spreads a nasty poison ungulant on his hair to which he has become immune. His hair is not only slick and hard to grab in this way but when one does, they risk poisoning via skin contact. This way he can also touch his blades gently on his hair as a means of poisoning them as well. No need for dipping or other slow variations of blade greasing.

>>51288060
>trying to grab your opponent's weapon mid battle

enjoy losing your hand

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>>51276349
You should be smart enough stranger to recognize that being able to grope my hair is not what you should worry about right now!

>>51276349
It keeps his head and neck warm in the winter.

Faggot.

>>51276349
Hide razorblades in my hair.

>>51289665
My dwarf hides a mechanical fist for would be beard tuggers.

>>51276349
I wear a turban.

>>51289693
Nice.

>>51277056
Control the head, control the body.

>>51276349
my guy's retarded

>>51276349
It's my fetish.

>>51276748
[Insert copypasta about bad fanservice armour here]

Because having a pistol pressed to one's gut and emptied into it usually is a great way to dissuade anyone attempting such a thing.

>>51276500
WE

>>51281570
It would actually be a good idea then, grab/pull your hair pulling you off the horse and all.

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>>51276349
She made it to EVO top 8. She's viable, goddammit.

>>51279178
Knife fighting is dumb

The thing about knife fights is that the loser dies in the gutter while the winner dies in the hospital.

>>51276349
If you can grab a Witchers hair you'd have been better off swinging a sword instead

>>51279408
>allowing yourself to become just another dude in a helmet

it's like you have no idea how to be cool

>>51276349

Their superpowers are directly tied to hair length. anything shorter than down to the iliac crest and their power beings to decrease.

>>51288060

It's not easily grab able, they wear special underwear to manage it.

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Will half shaved do?

The other half is where she keeps her money rings.

>>51294377
>sidecut
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEI like it

>>51276349
He is 10 inches tall, most enemies would just try to grab his body anyway.

>>51276349
He likes having his hair pulled

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>>51292674
Have you ever ridden a horse?
Or been close to one?
A medium size horse's back is taller than a car.
Hell it's like sitting on top of a Jeep.
You'd be lucky to grab someones waist if they were on horse back.

>>51294377
...they need a DP like that.

>>51276846
< Holy fuck. That hair is so edgy I used a less-than by mistake.

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>>51276349

>Combat

Princesses don't engage in combat, you fucking peasant.

>>51276736
Good riddance. Shit character

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>>51276349
You'll never get that close.

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>>51297669
Git gud.

>>51276349
I cast spells from a distance while the commoners take the hits.

>>51276349

The hair is detachable so that someone trying to grab it unbalances themselves and falls over.

>>51290587
This

>>51276349
He's a bard and thinks it looks good.