Last time on Song of Swords: The links are on the blinks Ple

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>wahh don't post animals being cruel
You can't stop me

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>>51985074

Here's the interview from last thread

http://gamingtrend.com/2017/02/27/realism-in-the-unreal-song-of-swords-developers-on-historical-accuracy-in-game-design/

>>51985029
>We actually got deleted

Crazy stuff senpai

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>>51985029
>no subject
>no link to the prior thread
They let anyone through the door these days

since old thread got janitored, here's the last old one
>>51961843
>>51961843

>>51985093
They're still going with that player choice thing?

>>51985074
It's bizzare, half of those guys look like the manliest fucking guys around and the other half look like complete fuckboys. Legit no middle ground.

>>51985750
It used to be that there was 'young men' and then they grow a bear and look weathered and they are 'men'.

>>51985816
That's pretty much what happens to Scotsmen when they're not fat.

Jimmy, is there even the vaguest chance of you opening more visionary pledge slots? I just got paid and now I can afford to give you more money.

>>51985914
Sorry for,
>>51985750

>>51985934
Its doubtful. They took away the $150 art add-ons, too.

>>51985934
There's still a iconic visionary male left

>>51985934
I wouldn't get my hopes up. The limited slots are probably based on their artists' workload.

>>51986239
Does anyone know who the artist(s) is(are)?

>>51986290
I think Belisle is the one who's done most of it, but it's reasonable to assume in this instance that because there's so much shit to do they're going to have to have multiple artists working concurrently if they want to get this done before 2020.

>>51986652
Just in time to shill for CD Projekt RED to make a new rpg game, based on Song.

Or Ballad.

Or Mixtape.

>>51986107
I want to get art of the my favorite SoS character (that I've played in an actual game). And unfortunately, a male iconic slot wouldn't work for her.

>>51984181
Maybe he made them himself? I'd do that. Just run off some cheap blades with whatever's cheapest. Lets you make them official game-line weapons, too. And as long as you don't promise they'll be made in an authentic way, you could easily run off two dozen of them by renting access to your local machine shop for a week. Hell, you could even offer personalized crossguards.

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>>51986863
That's insidious, I love it.

Zwei-dev behind the last thread being deleted conspiracy when?

>>51986904
Okay, this I have to hear.

How did this conspiracy work, exactly?

>>51986863
Honestly, there's nothing wrong with making swords using modern methods, you can make better blades now with modern equipment than was ever made in medieval times. And there's also nothing wrong with making blades that are only designed to be collector's items.

>>51986904
Other than the despicable behavior of shilling his own stuff in someone else's kickstarter, do we have a reason to not like this guy or his game?

>>51986954
I mean, it looks good enough, nothing wrong with it really.

>>51986954
The despicable behavior of shilling his behavior every other place.
He has a suspiciously mediocre-sounding game.
And worst of all, his kickstarter made more than twice what SoS is likely to make.

>>51986986
I heard he got banned from RPG.net for excessive shilling.

>>51986939
I don't know it was a joke.

>>51986954
Not really, his kickstarter vid has a humdrum man telling you that everything is shit and human decency is a lie which has come to bother me over the years by hay he's cashing in on the void of grimdark fantasy so whatever even if grimdark was always a 40k not Fantasy tagline.

>>51987005
With much less per backer by the looks of things though.

>>51987021
>banned from RPG.net
Not exactly a high bar though is it.

>>51987096
For a dev, it's actually kind of hard to get banned apparently.

>>51987096
He always uses Grim and Perilous. That's the Fantasy tagline. I never looked at the game much, because I already own the two editions of WFRP that are good. Never needed a new version, because it wasn't broken.

>>51985029
>Genosism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkzfcYdkS68&t=31s

>Bocanadessia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA-bGE6ZFAk

>Dace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_TbgMUx9OA

>Volkodavs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=542XpqBy4kY

>Rade Sark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnsP3X9gE5U&list=LLqjg1dSRqBPsudvzg6WvxpQ&index=2

BALLAD SPECIAL
>The Way of 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KThlYHfIVa8

>General Soltar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rsb7dT6sEM&list=LLqjg1dSRqBPsudvzg6WvxpQ&index=47

>>51986954
I don't think I'd find him so annoying if he didn't add "Grim & Perilous RPG" on the end, you can practically hear the Trademark.

Did anyone ever contact that podcast group with an example of play? Having someone run some normies through would work.

>>51987350
That's good stuff.

>>51985085
Nice gyno, fag.

New tournament rules

https://paste2.org/W6ztXUUP

>>51988207
For this tournament, can we launch Joint Thrusts at areas that are not covered by weak point armor, or does it HAVE to be covered by weak point armor?

>>51989287
For the purposes of the tourney, we will leave that up to individual fights. If both fighters allow it, I see no reason against it.

>>51989344
Are Silversteel Shields allowed?
Also, what is the Pyromancy level of the tournament grounds?

>>51989429
>>51989344
What's the Insulation level for B-dins too?

>>51989429
We don't actually have rules for silversteel shields, so no, and the Environment level will be 10.

>>51989468
With Grappling at the Sword from the grappling update, is Clinch a weapon move, or unarmed move?

>>51989577
Well technically it's neither, you just receive the Superior version from Wrestling.

>>51989610
Ignore all of that rules gibberish. I'm here to ask the important question: Will you be allowing people to surrender?

>>51989897
That is up to the fighters. However, there is no death requirement, you won't be getting rolled off the edge of a floating island.

>>51989940
Do we have the magical healing at the end of the fight like before?

>>51989977
Yes. Any wounds taken by a victor will be healed between fights.

>>51989940
This tournament just became infinitely more appealing.

Assuming melee weapons and armor were still somehow viable* in a 19th century* setting, what weapons would a western country have? Lets say they're fighting monsters.

* - I know they still were kind of a thing. I mean to the same extent they were in previous centuries.

>>51990096
Guns.

>>51990096
Polearms. Bills, halberds, fauchards, stonking great voulges.

>>51990096
It depends what the monsters are. All melee weapons in SoS were designed to fight humans.

>>51987350
>Genosism
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkzfcYdkS68&t=31s
>Not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uZczPvm4jk

>>51990363
>Genosian popess does music videos

>>51990313
The Dyne Maul would disagree.

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>>51990096
These, but carried by more people. Also expect to see the boarding axe and spontoon more widely used.

Isn't Galt supposed to be home now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MC0G-Lbuuk

>>51990903
I expect that the shield would still be around too, not having to deal with guns as much

https://gmshoe.wordpress.com/2017/03/02/qa-taylor-davis-zachary-irwin-james-lacombe-song-of-swords/

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>>51991375
>[21:07] <~Dan> Complete this sentence: If you like ________, you’ll love Song of Swords!
>[21:08] <+JimmyRome> Ooh ooh, thrilling bouts of swordplay!
>[21:08] <+JimmyRome> Or no, wait,
>[21:08] <+JimmyRome> Bleeding to death!

>>51991309
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZPQtb6NWKM

>>51991519
Septic shock!

>>51987350
Moonlight butterfly theme is actually completely appropriate to how her song is often described.
Huh. Neat.

Did the Byzantines ever start wearing plate? If not, why not? Just seems weird to me that they existed alongside it without getting into it, but I've never seen any pictures of a Byzantine wearing even a piece of plate, let alone a full suit.

>>51985093
"As for other projects, we intend to fully support and grow Song of Swords indefinitely. That being said there is a sci-fi project Jimmy has been working on and playtesting with that we have our eyes on for the future."

>>51991786
They were mostly fighting the Turks, who didn't have weapons that really necessitated the heavy use of plate until literally just a short while before Constantinople fell.

>>51991919
But plate is lighter than the various Byzantine armors. Plus, better protection is never bad.

>>51991968
Money, infrastructure, culture.
I can't speak to specifics (different anon), but the greeks were a failing empire bankrupt of glory by the time of their fall.

>>51991968
>Plus, better protection is never bad.

People don't always fix something that's not obviously broken. Lamellar armor and mail was more than sufficient to defeat what the Turks were throwing at them for centuries, so they didn't really need to develop plate armor.

>>51992152
They didn't have to develop it themselves, they were fighting alongside or against people who already developed it. And while the Empire might not have been wealthy enough to buy plate for everyone, there were plenty of rich individuals.

>>51991375
>Bones trying to be tactful and coherent
>Jimmy just explains everything literally
>That TROS reference dodge

>>51990313
Bloodborne type enemies. From werewolves to giant monsters.

>>51992350
Polearms, guns, more guns, fucking guns, oh and explosives.
Swords for sidearms and large swords may have stayed in style among the very adept and wealthy.

>>51991968
>>51992239
There's a lot to be said for familiarity and also for existing industry. Maybe they just already had the lamellar thing down so hard they would've lost production if they had tried switching.

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>>51991282
I don't know if he's back in town, I'm hoping he doesn't find out what we did until after we've hit the last stretch goal. Then I'll be like

>>51992384
Well, I want melee weapons to still be a thing. Of course guns will still be around. But if someone wants a swordgun instead of a rifle with a bayonet (before trick weapons come around) they can do that.

>>51988207
If anyone's having trouble with Schools, here a (hopefully) helpful guide.

http://paste2.org/089j7MYm

So what's the average werewolf gonna do against your regular old pike formation? I think the longer the better with that kind of thing.

>>51992714
Depending on its Grit and how well they heal, he could shishkabob himself down a few pikes before mauling the holders.

>>51992753

That would be fucking terrifying. I need to do this for something.

>>51991564
EXTREMELY underrated post. Is this the voice of Bocanadessia?

>>51992714
Well there are Werewolves, and Bisclavrets. Werewolves are men who literally turn into wolves. Bisclavrets are men who turn into wolf-man things. The latter are high-tier brutal shit and will seriously mcfucking kill you, the former are more like oddities, normal people who their wives think are cheating on them but who are actually just sneaking out at night to into a doge somewhere far away from people.

Bisclavrets are the ones whose wounds close instantly if they are not inflicted by silver, and who all seem to thirst for human blood. Impaling one on a pike would actually be sort of effective because the wound couldn't close until it became clear, but you wouldn't really be able to kill it with pikes unless you seriously got so many spearpoints into its lungs that it just couldn't breathe anymore and then held it down until it suffocated to death as it thrashed around.

If the abomination somehow got through and into the block, it would be terrible, unless someone has a silver katzbalger on them... Many men actually do carry small knives made of silver for precisely this reason, particularly in Galli and the Kaselreich.

>>51992851
Silver Guard > Shit > Paladins

>>51992932
>counting on a small silver knife to save you once a McWolf is in the middle of your pike block

lmao

>>51992932
>and will seriously mcfucking kill you
I don't know why I laughed so loud at this.

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>>51992956
Look, it's better than trying to pull a silver piece from your purse to try jam into its eye as it picks your entire body up by the skull with one hand and pulls back the other in preparation to punch its hand through your sternum and pull your still beating heart out of your chest to feast upon and increase it's powers and longevity.

>>51992932
What about silversteel and orichalum? Poison? Mustard gas?

Are wounds cumulative or do you just pick up duplicates?

>>51993251
Cumulative. Getting hit with a level 2, doesn't mean the next level 2 to the same spot doesn't hurt

>>51993440
>>51993251
Unless you mean cumulative as R1A1 L2, R1A2 L2 now you have an L4. That's not how it works.

>>51993450
That's what I mean. If I just continue to take level 1 wounds to the same body part they don't turn into a level 5 right?

That's good, that'll make plate armor fights interesting.

And unless I'm misreading the combat rules...

If a guy in full plate is fighting a plebeian, could he just pull blue and refuse initiative, then (on second round, due to blue restrictions) ignore the enemy's declared attack and declare one of his own?

If you take a hit that does no damage your own attack isn't affected right? Wait till he spends his dice then force him to use quick defend and probably die anyway?

>>51992477
Did he already know what the goals were?

>>51992477
When the fuck do we find out what the stretch goal is?

>>51993546
Bones said Sunday.

>>51993546
It's probably the monster manual, that was implied in the Q&A just posted.

>>51987350
>there's a vedrim band
Bards of Taphonomy Bay stretch goal when?

>>51993490
Yeah. You'll have about thirty level 1 wounds. The only time they combine, is for I believe grenades and Scatter rounds from handgonnes.

>>51992932
Fucking finally Jimmy talks about bisclaravets. I've been so curious about them since I read the wiki page.

>>51993576
Like half of his songs are on the Opaque playlist, the capital of Dace was probably named after that guy. Maybe he's a friend of OI?

>>51993699
It's an Ogre Battle 64 reference. There's a character named Biske La Varet who is a werewolf. You can only get him in a Chaos playthrough which requires you to kill your dad and all of the heroes of the previous Ogre Battle games.

>>51993816
bisclavert is just the french word for werewolf, brah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisclavret

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>>51993816
I did play Ogre Battle, and I do remember killing that guy because I don't suck dick at Chaos Frame, but his name was a reference to a 12th century Normal folk tale about a nobleman who was a werewolf.

>>51993890
>Normal
Are you trying to say something there?

>>51993808
We did talk to Vedrim about getting a theme song done but the guy doesn't work for cheap. And why should he? He's immensely talented, the more power to him.

>>51993907
Norman, Norman. The Northern part of France.

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>>51993816
>old jrpgs
Hey Jimmy, you fuck. Play this game.
https://www.emuparadise.me/Sony_Playstation_2_ISOs/Soul_Nomad_&_the_World_Eaters_(USA)/151256

I don't know if it's localised at all I sincerely hope it's not, but this is a breddy gud gaem. You'll probably enjoy the Demon Path, though I recommend not doing that off the bat

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>>51993890
You. See >>51993923

>>51993907
From Normaldy.

>>51993915
>The Northern part of France.
Ah, Belgium.

Can I use Good Form to reduce maneuvers like Half-Sword and Quickdraw to [0]?

>>51993975
Yes.

>>51993975
Yeah. Also works with Superior One-Two

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>>51993944
Ouch.

>>51993890
>>51993816
chicken and egg at work

>>51993923
>I don't know if it's localised at all I sincerely hope it's not
Of course it is. It's one of Yuri Lowenthal's best-played roles.

>>51992239
You don't really see it depicted much though on Byzantine elites.

>>51994146
There's a difference between localised and translated or dubbed

>>51994055
Is Inspector Makarov an actual character in TR who people wrote the (probably embellished) exploits of, or just a complete fabrication?

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>>51993540
The last time Dusan looked at our community he thought it was twenty people. Moreover he thought it was twenty people including me and my team, he just figured that we all had cell phones and were posting twice a thread. Part of the reason he told us not to launch without him is that he was afraid he'd have to back us to push us over the top.

Who's laughing now, Dushman? Oh how he hates it when we call him that. He owes me a Chirashi. He owes me a Chirashi every week for the rest of my life.

>>51985235
Why did we get jannied?

>>51994261
Rats forging steel in the OP

>>51994254
he still writes a better Gizka

>>51993490
If you trust in your armor, you can do that.

So the counter to that is to not attack somewhere your enemy has armor, or when that's not viable, do something that affects even people in armor: Hook, Disarm, Blind Toss, go for grappling, or maybe even those Mobility maneuvers that no one ever uses.

And then the counter to that is to not stand still and do nothing like Homer Simpson's boxing career.

So answer true as have told you,
In fencing you will find no end,
as every backhand finds its fore,
Counter by counter without end

>>51985093
>We had to balance things so that a historically depicted human knight with a sword and shield could go toe-to-toe with classic fantasy races. Or fight giant monsters and dragons
I get the idea behind it but is this really reasonable? A lot of the point behind monsters and dragons in general, especially in medieval stories, is that they represent a deus ex that normal people can never defeat. They either represent a truly insurmountable obstacle you have to either work around or outsmart, an insurmountable obstacle meant to show you that yeah there actually is always someone better, or to be worfed by St. Martha or Beowulf to show just how awesome these literally superhuman heroes are.

>>51994254
>he told us not to launch without him
>did it anyway
Jimmy, I think you might not be a very good friend.

>>51994254
>Who's laughing now, Dushman? Oh how he hates it when we call him that. He owes me a Chirashi. He owes me a Chirashi every week for the rest of my life.

Why does he owe you?

Did someone say "Ogre Battle"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p-5CgWP7Iw

>>51994305
Given how ridiculously tough even simple undead are in SoS, I think that's just marketing speak, trying to get people to understand that you can fight monsters and not just do historical fechten.

>>51994305
Beowulf didn't worf the dragon. It was the other way around.

>>51994330
>Beowulf didn't worf the dragon, it was the other way around
No, Time worfed the Beowulf. The entire point of the last fight is that even the most superhuman of men grow old and frail, but Beowulf STILL killed the dragon by punching it to death after he hit it with his sword so hard that it broke.

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>>51994242
There is a real Inspector Makarov after whom the stories are based, but according to the Vedrim bureau of justice, Sergei (he refuses a "hard" name, which would be Sergock) Makarov is basically a private detective who mostly handles divorce cases, and is only rarely called on to advise on serious crimes. According to the lore of the many plays and novelas that feature him, though, he insists that his name never be mentioned to the press or in public announcements, and is in fact involved in every high-profile case in the city and even in many abroad.

The humility of Inspector Makarov is part of his charm, he never attributes his achievements to his own brilliance, but to the excellent work of his staff and the justice system of Dace. He is just a humble public servant who would never presume to take credit for the achievements of his subordinates.

How much is fact, and how much is fiction? Who knows?

>>51994305
Just because you can go toe to toe with something doesn't mean you're going to win half the time, or even a quarter of the time. The point is that you have a chance. Fighting monsters is definitely no small endeavor, but you could build a character who could at least have a better chance of it than the average joe. As >>51994325 says, even Undead are fucking bad news bears for even high level PCs. A Dobarcuu would be a TPK for most groups. As always the key is to stack the odds in your favor before you engage.

Groups like the Unkindlies succeed because ten of them bushwhack these things at once, and four of them bring Abus Guns. It ain't the migration era anymore, the rats have forged steel.


>>51994313
>>51994314
Look, I love the guy, but he's one of those cats who is convinced that nobody on Earth can do anything right without his supervision. Someone has to prove to momma bird that the chicks can fly on their own.
Anyway the bet is of a personal nature--suffice to say, he'll be glad to have lost. He's that sort of man.

>>51994370
Well you know, maybe if he'd been here you'd be in the six digits by now.

>>51994411
Or maybe we'd be in the four digits. Who knows?

>>51994370
>Just because you can go toe to toe with something doesn't mean you're going to win half the time, or even a quarter of the time.

Thought you were going to re-describe how your dragons really are insurmountable obstacles

>>51994419
We wouldn't be in the four digits. We funded in the first 24 hours based entirely on existing fans. The lowest we could feasibly be (given what we know now) would be around $16k if Jimmy and the boys had done literally nothing to promote the kickstarter.

That said, Galt's conservative estimate would be a reasonable (though very pessimistic) lower bound before seeing how the first day went. A third of the IPs being phones is a high number but not out of the realm of possibility, anf it's not strange to imagine only half the posters fronting their money.

>>51994370
Okay Jimmy I'm actually getting a little curious
Do you actually know where the girls you post are from, or do you just grab them as reaction images? Like the girl in that image right now.

>As >>51994325 says, even Undead are fucking bad news bears for even high level PCs. A Dobarcuu would be a TPK for most groups. As always the key is to stack the odds in your favor before you engage.
No I understand that, but my point is that it shouldn't be possible in "low" fantasy for anything to touch a valkyrie-class threat.

>>51994370
>Look, I love the guy, but he's one of those cats who is convinced that nobody on Earth can do anything right without his supervision. Someone has to prove to momma bird that the chicks can fly on their own.
>Anyway the bet is of a personal nature--suffice to say, he'll be glad to have lost. He's that sort of man.


He"ll likely say that with him around, you would have gained more pledges.

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>>51994411
Listen. I have people in my company whose only job it is to observe Kickstarter trends and determine possible outcomes based on their appeal, and the prior histories of the developers. I promise you, and I mean this with all sincerity--this is a fucking miracle. We have outperformed people with five or six times our industry credibility. We are climbing this ladder faster than many people would have thought humanly possible and we're doing it on a shoestring budget. I've had people Email me personally asking me who I work for, because they cannot rationalize this outcome except that Opaque Industries is the catspaw of some other publishing company.

You have to understand what goes into success in this industry. So much of it is who you know--we don't know Dickabod Crane much less anyone important. Our method is brute force, and it's working. A company's first venture is it's most dangerous and we've slugged it out of the park. Our next venture will be bigger, and the one after that, bigger still. Big picture, we're a space elevator. We have VERY big things in our future if we maintain our current trajectory.

>>51994452
Wew lad, dragons aren't child-eating monsters living in lagoons, they're extinction events. Obviously that's not something you're going to kill with a rifle. There's a lot of room in our speculative system for scale.

>>51994485
1: I pick and take where I can.

2: The reference escapes me but suffice to say, low level players aren't going to be killing ancient dragons.

>>51994524
Maybe true. And maybe that's something we can use for the final approach if he isn't two bloody weeks late getting home.

>>51994570
>1: I pick and take where I can.
It's from Helck.

>2: The reference escapes me but suffice to say, low level players aren't going to be killing ancient dragons.
It's less of a reference and more of a statement that PCs in low fantasy are going to get their shit pushed up their assholes by Brynhildr.

>>51994570
Word on the street is that Coffee bought visionary+ and is going to push Zellmurhaja, how do you feel about that?

>>51994662
Only sad that now we can't pay him to draw Zellmurhaja since he's paying us to draw Zellmurhaja.

>>51994696
It's a goddamn bizarro world in here.

>>51994696
You could use the money he paid you to draw Zellmurhaja to pay him to draw Zellmurhaja for you.

>>51994746
he'd probably do it for free anyways.
Just give the lonely finn some attention and he's happy.

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Best /SoS/ movie?

>>51994696
Is the queen of Krajina a Zell or not? This is important for waifu reasons. What does she look like? She threw a guy out of a building, is she really strong?

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>>51994811
Presumably she looks like this.

>>51994831
From what I understand those fucked helmets were like glued on, like the dragon and wings came off if you tried to yank it off so you could look pimping but not get yanked off balance.

>>51994872
probably just gold-painted paper mache anyways. You dont want heavy shit on your head.

>>51994957
Well yeah but I meant the actual attachements
Like I remember reading about knights putting fucking huge viking horns on their helmets but they were loosely glued on so even a strong gale could tear them off and you couldn't whack it to throw them off balance

>>51994872
Yeah those ornaments were made with painted paper machee and leather. They weighed next to nothing

>>51994811
Dahaka the Black. She is human, but of the sort that anyone who looks for a moment can tell is part Zellish. She is a bit under six feet tall, with long black hair and yellowish-hazel eyes. She is handsome, with strong features and deep-set eyes beneath a very strong brow, and high cheekbones. She normally wears her hair in a long thick braid with an obnoxious silk bow fastening the end. Her arms are unusually brown compared to her face, because she spends a lot of time outdoors and often rolls up her sleeves. Her knuckles have the white scars of repeated bursting, and her fingers have broken so many times that they audibly pop and crack when she moves them. Her left canine tooth was replaced with a silver replica after she lost a fight with a boy in her youth. She has a liking for torques on her neck and arms, and wears an inappropriate number of them in court. She used to wear two large silver hoops in her ears, but one of them was torn out, and the lobe of her left ear is now slightly asymmetrical to the right. She no longer wears earrings.

Her name is ostensibly for her hair, but there hasn't been a monarch of the Krajina without black hair for five generations. In truth, it is a reference to her temper. She is neither left nor right handed--she sometimes jokes that she is ambisinister--equally inept with both hands. Her favorite color is a brownish red, and she insists that drapes of the horrid color be hung everwhere. Her favorite food is roasted eel. She is very fond of bleedings, and has herself leeched from the shoulders every night before she goes to sleep.

There you go m8. There is some confusion lore-wise as to which Dahaka is which--Dahaka the Black is the current Queen, Dahaka the Strong was the first Zellish Queen of the Krajina.

>>51994974
Jimmy pls make wiki not on wikia

>>51994974
...Will we get art of this girl?

The more Jimmy talks the less likely I am to back this game.

>>51995024
Don't lie to me boy.

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>>51995024
Hold on I have a detailed speech on salmon fishing coming up.

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>>51995024
The fuck you talking about?

>>51995036
How about telling us of Kings romantic history instead?

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>>51995036
Undead that don't look like ass when?

>>51995024
Why do you say that?

>>51995036
Jimmy, what's wildlife like?

What's Vosca Bear like?

Are there any cute critters?

What would Tattered Realms Pokemon look like?

>>51994965
oh yeah i got what you meant, I just wanted to add to the conversation.

>>51995057
They don't even look like undead
I can spot a Jiangshi because of her silly hat, someone who looks like some sort of undead mage because of hood, and I'm guesing a vampire in the middle. Who are the other two?

>>51995036
I actually want this...

>>51995036
Where's the rest of the reaction folder you son of a bitch?

Also in Vis. noble it talks about doing a "landscape" what does that mean?

Like can I have a cult's hideout draw up or a ship or a church?

>>51993569
A setting companion would include monsters.

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Wake up

>>51995724
Sima Yi Master Race

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>>51995763

>>51995781
Did you just make this, or do even Brazilians know of Sima Yi's dumb ass?

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Cao Cao
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>>51994974
Is her getting sucked on the shoulders by leeches a reference to King Zahhak (AKA Dahaka) of Persian mythology? The name and the event kind of remind me of the dude.

>>51996696
/eagg/.

>>51994570
>We are climbing this ladder faster than many people would have thought humanly possible
Dumb people though. You've had constant threads for ages here on 4chan. What's it been, four years? More? That's all time that's built your brand, and your reputation for being reliable. At least in the long run, but your market cares enough about quality and is old enough that missed deadlines aren't a huge deal.

>muh trajectory
Don't forget to factor in the years of constant threads when calling yourself a space elevator. You'll get bigger than you are now, because having an actual published product that's known in several places will definitely expand the brand, but don't necessarily take the first kickstarter as concrete guarantor of rate.

tl;dr: Employ moderation in the Laser Whale kickstarter too.

>>51995124
Me too, love.

Actually, in a related note,
>>51995036
Jimmy, do people use fire in wilderness management in Costa? I imagine as a Californian you're familiar with the notion since the natives did it and still do when they can, and now all the forests are dying to beetles as a result of not having done so.

>>51997334
>Costa
le phoneposting face

>>51994570
>I've had people Email me personally asking me who I work for, because they cannot rationalize this outcome except that Opaque Industries is the catspaw of some other publishing company.

...Secretly using credibility? Lol, hows that supposed to have worked?

You secretly emailed all the a bunch of people to tell them you are secretly associated with $respectablecompany so they would back you, ~250 people took that obviously insane premise at face value and backed, and no one told anyone or mentioned this chicanery on the comments?

>>51994570
>I have people in my company
What the hell is your day job, anyway? Promotional stuff will eagrly say that Zach worked for Chaosium and Bones works on phone app stuff, but not what you do. Is it really so embarrassing?

>>51997447
He is a mig welder.

>>51997473
is...is that slang for racists eating up people and taking their money?

>>51997588
What? No he welds shit with a blowtorch. Jesus guy.

>>51997588
No, he is literally a welder. Probably getting his certifications still.

>>51997588
That was gonna be "beating". not "eating", jesus christ how horrifying.
>>51997626
Mig kinda sounds like a slur, idunno.

>>51997473
>>51997626
>>51997647
Really??

>>51997699
>Structural MIG welder. Also I'm a leopard seal.
That's what it says on his youtube.

>>51997723
>>51997699
Jimmy is one of us a working Sap with a love of Swords,Bloodshed,and Elf Waifus

>>51997588
Just because he likes Zells and Dacians doesn't mean he acts like one in real life.

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>Kickstarter
Returning after a while and look what. I missed. Good to see the dream is alive and kicking.

also, how would you rate various japanese armour?
cuirasses of do-maru and o-yoroi would be lamellar, rite?
what about the newer, sengoku ones? There was some steel armours imported from the west, but what about the domestic ones?

>>51998249
Wasn't sengoku chest armor pretty much similiar stuff to the western armor in function?

>>51998249
I believe the segmented armor under the anima section are meant to simulate japanese armors but you can just use lamellar for the early stuff as well and just use plate armor with face masks.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

>>51998795
wat

>>51999153
The post was basically "this looks cool you should check out my product". He's a shill.

>>51998795
Kickstarter, as in, the website?

Did his post get deleted by mods?

>>51999350
Indeed

Would anyone here be interested in a lewd Song of Swords game? If interested, drop your discord or skype info somewhere.

It would be a normal game for the most part, except that players and the GM would ERP on the side. Not having a lvl 5 wound equaling an orgasm or something like that.

>>51997665
>Mig kinda sounds like a slur
MiG. Not mig. Come on now.

>>52000103
Well, there's your new homebrew, in one sentence.

>Level 5 wound equals orgasm

>>52000160
>8 die thrust at groin
>11 die parry
>ok, she attains cowgirl position and has initiative

>>51997588
It's a joke. There is no such thing as structural MIG welding, it'd be like structural hot-glue. MIG uses a wire feed that is really easy to deploy but not super strong.

So while we wait to get our hands on these army decks, does anybody ahve a good system for quickly creating NPCs, or a repository of dudes people have made, (preferably of the non-murderhobo variety, which is why I'm not just pulling shit from the tournament)

I've been making my NPCs by hand via regular chargen which is mercifully not as time-consuming as some games, but still.

At the same time, there's something to be said about doing them this way. The game has a really gnarly, up-close-and-personal combat system and it feels a lot more meaningful when all the NPCs people are killing have names and you actually worked on them.

On that note, way of the samurai would be a good model for a campaign, minus the goofy shit.

Build a locale, put some competing interests in it, stat all the NPCs, and let the players do whatever they want and roll with it.

>>52000356
He is working as a mig welder though. Also maybe a butcher, I dunno if he's still doing that or not.

JIMMY, WHAT'S YOUR JOB?

>>51995036
Ey Jimmy I backed where's my anime girl picture?

>>52000521
Probably, anyone who's spent some time in a fabrication shop will have heard a joke along those lines.

>>52000704
BRING FORTH THE ANIMEGIRL ARCHIVE

>>52001121
https://mega.nz/#!vxEiECQJ!M5iXbHLq2NS9KWBhaaNYbRt7lDwcBf6qjcYrHms5ELw

>There is nothing wrong with using your butt´s offensivly

Oh Matt

>>52000704
Your picture is the one corresponding to your backer number.

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>>52001721
>It only goes up to 223

Have we heard anything about anon and his Visionary PLUS+ slot?

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>>52000704

I wonder if we could shill hard enough to get onto RPG.net's newsletter's KS Spotlight.

>>52001978
Go do that

So, couple of questions. I have been out of this general for two years and there are three pdf's in the main game folder. Which one should I get? What is the difference between 1.9.9 LATEX and 1.2. They seem to have been uploaded at the same time so I don't have a clue. Also, in what way will the kickstarter be different from what we have here allready. And what will shipping costs to the EU be? And lastly, is there a historical supplement.

>>52002081
1.9.9 LaTeX is the actual current version. 1.2 is what's on the SoS website.

>in what way will the kickstarter be different from what we have here allready.
It'll be an actually finished product, with art and layout and rules tweaks and editing.

>what will shipping costs to the EU be?
It tells you when you go to pledge for any level that includes physical items. You click on the pledge level and there's a dropdown menu that lets you select your country, with the shipping price in brackets after the country name. For instance, it costs 25 USD to ship the hardcover to New Zealand.

>>52002081
>What is the difference between 1.9.9 LATEX and 1.2.
Do not use 1.2. 1.2 is some strange garbage. Opaque says it'll be taken down from their site soon.

1.9.9 LaTeX is 1.9.9 with most - but not all - supplements.

The actual current version is:
normal v1.9.9
grappling oct '15 update
equipment update
combat initiative update

I believe LaTeX does not have the grappling update, but does have the others.

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>>52000492
>really gnarly

It's totally tubular!

>>52001816
Check again there's actually about 356 items a lot just have reused names.

He's still holding out on us though.

>inb4 mystery stretch goal

>>52001816
First come first served.

>>52002081
>Also, in what way will the kickstarter be different from what we have here allready.
Hard copy, my man.

>>52003048
>tfw 9th backer
Damn it feels good to be a gangster

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>>52001906
Thanks Super Jimmy

>>51988207
Well, here's my attempt at making a character for the tournament. First attempt at making a character in this system so I'm sure I fucked up somewhere badly, although I tried to read the rules as carefully as I could.

Now to just teach myself how the hell combat works next. I understand the basics but that's about it.

https://paste2.org/4Y5ACv0D

>>52003740
Want to hop in the Roll20? I'm not the best, but I can help.

>>52004071
>>52003740
Nevermind, you were already there.

>>52004210
Eh? I'm not actually, sorry to say. Will probably have time to do so in a few hours, sorry.

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>>52003163
>tfw number three

>>52004236
Nevermind, there was someone else with a goblin in the chat.

G O B B O S

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>seventh backer
>people still managed to poach the Noble+ reward tier

>>52003740
Since goblins regenerate, I'm not sure a facial deformity is applicable to take at creation. Maybe if he was just born that way.

Someone posts something that makes SoS look good in this thread:

https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?798889-Sell-me-on-Song-of-Swords&p=20871676

>>52004660
Maybe it's maybelline
Or maybe it was napalm and that was as good as it regenerated

>>52004660
Maybe he's just ugly? We don't know how "clean" their regeneration is, do we? Maybe it still leaves big nasty scars.

>>52004470
>>52004534
REEEEEEEEEEEE

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>>52004470
>>52004534
THAT'S GOING IN THE BOOK

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>>52004884
If you're not number one you ain't no one.
I wonder who it is.

>>52004977
If you're not number one you ain't No. one.

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>>52004977
Whoever it is, they know what they have to put as their name in the credits.

>>52004660
It's a grey area, so I can change it if needed. I figured that the healing isn't clean, so the lowest level would probably apply but anything higher would probably be too extensive damage and would be healed was what I thought.

"Legio VII (The 7th Legion) is drawn primarily from Valua, one of Illegon's northern cities that served as a hub of Zellish trade activity thanks to the machinations of Admiral-Prince Draguvic.

The VIIth originally had no number, because it wasn't a Legion at all, instead an auxiliary socii unit, but over time its prestige and effectiveness became such that they were granted the unique privilege of becoming an official Legion, and were given the number VII (an abolished Legion destroyed in war against the Kamens) at their request.

The VIIth is made up almost entirely of Zells, though its upper officers are humans from Ruvia itself. They were once known for their use of weighted throwing-disks called martiodisci that they would fling with great effectiveness instead of javelins or darts. These days they have stubbornly resisted the move to firearms in favor of keeping their traditional weapons, and their skill with these weapons are legendary.

The unit has been nearly destroyed several times, as it is one of the most reliable units in the Ruvian military, and is often employed in rearguard actions to delay enemy progress whatever the cost.

They do have an unfortunate reputation for drink, however, and are never quartered inside city limits except in Valua."

An old lore dump. This is cool. Do these guys basically fling discuses into the enemy? Would that actually be effective?

>>52006087
Wheel magic.

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>>52006087

>>52006087
They might be actual discus, or they might be like chakrams. Particularly if they're fighting pikemen and such, who generally don't wear leg armor. A bunch of discus bouncing along the ground would be really nasty.

>>52006087
>Would that actually be effective?
In the hands of zells, yes.

>>52006428
>>52006135
This is the key. Zells are like fucking Bullseye when they're throwing disk-shaped things. It's an average of like +6 dice for an average Zell. Assuming they have training, the difference between a Zell soldier with one of these and a human soldier with a bow would be the difference between a mook and a murderhobo.

How does Song of Swords handle realism regarding armor? If I swing a sword at a good quality riveted maille, what happens?

>>52006694
Strength + sword damage + extra successes on your attack roll
- Toughness - 6 AVC of mail
If the STR-TOU difference is big enough, or if they get enough successes, they'll cut through.
You can cut through bulletproof plate with a kitchen knife if you get enough BS.

>>52006694
In the default system it is possible, if unlikely, to cut through mail with swords, getting more likely the larger and choppier they are, with your best bet being a nasty armor piercer like the Godenak. There's an alternate system that converts cutting damage to bludgeoning though.

>>52006854
Wound caps when?
STR TOU being replaced with something more palatable when?

>>52006694

Above is true, but practically there's not much chance if you're being conservative. If you pull aggressive/aggressive and win the initiative with a gigantic power attack he can't defend against or something you might do it.

The way the damage system works even a couple points over his mitigation can be fatal when it starts cutting his dice pool and forcing bleed tests.

There's also an optional rule for turning plate penetrations into blunt attacks so you can't just cut through plate.

If you're not doing crazy shit and you're not a murderhobo armor's pretty strong though. Grapple and daggers will get some mileage in plate vs. plate, there's rules for forcing daggers into weak points and such.

>>51989344
Do items with PP stack or do we count the highest one?

>>52003740
so what does he blind-toss?
What hand does he start with empty in order to toss with?
I don't know if you can draw a buckler, I assume he tosses then quick draws the flail?

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>>52006934

Yoroidoshi when?

>good form: dacian rush

>>52006694
This goes a bit beyond your question but here:

Mail armor has the following three armor qualities:

>Hard — Armor with this quality is more resistant to certain weapon Special Qualities (such as Draw), and triggers certain effects with others. Otherwise, it has no effect

>Mail — Armor with this quality consists of interlocking ringlets of metal, and triggers certain effects with other Special Qualities. Otherwise, it has no effect.

>Layer [X] — If worn on the same Hit Location as another armor component with equal to or higher AVC, AVP, and/or AVB, this armor increases the appropriate AV on that area (or multiple, if multiple are higher) by X. Multiple instances of Layer do not combine if multiple armors with Layer overlap. Only the highest Layer value is used. Armor that benefits from the Textile Special Quality does benefit from Layer if its new AV is higher than the AV of the armor with Layer.

Mail is always Layer 1. So it increases the AV (which absorbs damage) by 1 when used with superior armor like say, bulletproof plate.

>Burn Damage is not reduced by TOU, but it is reduced minorly by Armor. Cloth, Leather and other light armors do nothing to reduce burn damage. In fact, they might make it worse (Quilted Armor, if worn without Plate over it, increases the Burning Time of any Fire Damage by 1. Mail, Laminar, Brigandine, etc. reduces Burn Damage by 1. Plate reduces Burn Damage by 2).

>Being electrocuted is not something that happens often in a medieval setting, but it can happen. Electrical Damage is made against TOU, but it is not reduced by any sort of armor, and in fact is increased by metallic armor (mail and scale increases Electrical damage by 1, Laminar and Plate of all varieties increases it by 2).

Some weapon qualities that affect Maille:


(cont)

>>52006854
Why would the game allow you to become strong enough to rend metal when it's based on hardcore realism though? Seems like there should be a very low strength cap to enforce balance.

>>52007130
>>52006694
>Thin Blade — When making a Coup de Grace or Joint Thrust attack, this weapon’s Thrust TN is decreased by 1. In addition, against mail armor this weapon gains AP Thrust 3. If the weapon has an AP Thrust quality, this replaces that value, it does not add to it.

>Narrow — This weapon gains AP 4 against armor with the Mail special quality.

>Hard Armor without the Mail quality halves Scatter damage.

>AP Swing [X] — Armor Piercing Swing [X]. When making a Swinging attack against a Hit Location with Hard armor protection, this weapon Inflicts X additional damage against any Armor, up to the AV of the Armor.

> AP Thrust [X] — Armor Piercing Thrust [X]. When making a Thrusting attack against a Hit Location with Hard armor protection, this weapon Inflicts X additional damage against any Armor, up to the AV of the Armor.

>Crushing [X] — When this weapon successfully hits with a Swing attack on a Hit Location with any sort of Hard armor protection, reduce all AVs of the armor on that Hit Location by X. This is done after damage is resolved for this attack, and only affects future attacks. Only the highest AV armor on that location is reduced by Crushing. If that armor is reduced to AV 0 in all areas, then Crushing begins to affect lesser Hard armors beneath it.

>Draw [X] — When making a Swinging attack that would inflict cutting damage with this weapon, inflict X additional cutting damage if you roll 3 or more BS. This special rule does not come into play if the target benefits from any sort of Hard armor on the Hit Location being hit.

>>52007140
It's complicated but it comes down to strength caps being a not-so-great bandaid.

>>52006959
stacks

>>52007140
It's realistic that if you hit armor super fucking hard you'd go through it, though.

>>52006934
>Wound caps when?
as soon as Jimmy feels like copying BoB
>STR TOU being replaced with something more palatable when?
Never, apparently.

>>52007140
>Why would the game allow you to become strong enough to rend metal when it's based on hardcore realism though?
Because it isn't. It's still fantasy.

>>52007199
2e, then.

>>52007140
>when it's based on hardcore realism
It's still a fantasy game. I mean, you have elves who can shoot lasers from their eyes and people made of rats, ridiculously strong people being able to cut through armour isn't that bad.

>>52007140
At that point though you're talking about like... Literally the strongest human beings alive. There are guys who can crush steel pans in their hands, or bend solid steel bars, it doesn't seem like much of a stretch that if you gave them an weapon they'd be able to cleave through a helmet. I don't think we have the testing on that.

>>52007329
>At that point though you're talking about like... Literally the strongest human beings alive.
6 strength, 3c zweihander, going against 4 toughness, 6 mail, he only needs 2 bs to cut you through the mail.

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>>52007175
Not at all. Maille can even stand up to lance strikes and, with padding underneath, only resulting in minor injuries like severe bruising. I was asking as I am curious if this RPG would mechanically accurately represent High Medieval combat, which is often a lengthy smash fest. We know from period literature that knights fighting each other with swords basically had useless weapons, with anecdotes speaking about how swords would be blunted to nothing or even get bent out of shape while maille links were shattered one by one and go pinging off.

Somebody eventually cries uncle or collapses from copious bruising. Lethal wounds however are uncommon as a combination of chivalry and lack of armor-penetrating weapons at the time like picks made the high era the best time to be a knight as mortality rates go.

Typically the way you kill somebody in armor isn't by smashing through it anyway, but by getting them on the ground and shanking them to death. The exception being polearms like bills.

>>52007439
>Maille can even stand up to lance strikes
Whats your source on it doing so regularly?

>>52007140
>>52007209
>>52007260
Holy shit thats the worst answer to give. You realize this game is also for historical games right?

Let me answer for you: Strength caps were very controversial and this issue only really applies to edge cases like a kitchen knife.

There is sort of a point about the fantasy thing. You can have superhuman-strong characters if you're not playing a normal human. But it can still happen with enough BS.

A small knife is -1p to thrust. This assumes a small knife really is as shitty as a kitchen knife, but lets go with it. If you have STR 6 (6-1=5 base damage) and your opponent has AV7 and TOU4 (11 soak)....

You'd need 11 bonus successes to get a Level 5 wound.

That means you need to use 21 Combat Pool/dice in your attack if you want a 50% chance of pulling it off. 10-14 is what an "average" combat character would have, with only the most powerful endgame characters having around 30 Combat Pool.

The absolute peak for a human is 10 STR (9 base dmg). That's 13 dice which is still very significant.

>>52007439
>Not at all

Oh I'm sure there's a point at which it's technically possible, but it shouldn't be at any level achievable by non-magical means.

The game still needs some work in this department; solutions to this issue are ongoing.

>>52007439
>knights fighting each other with swords basically had useless weapons, with anecdotes speaking about how swords would be blunted to nothing
Are you sure you're not mixing up "period" with "victorian"?

>Somebody eventually cries uncle or collapses from copious bruising.
This sounds more like a 15th or even 16th century fight than the age of mail.

>>52007456
>Holy shit thats the worst answer to give.
>There is sort of a point about the fantasy thing.
It's the worst answer to give but it's also correct. How about that.

>>52007401

That's mail though. A guy in full plate (8+1 for layer) would take a level 1 wound at 5BS, which is a long shot against an equal opponent who's defending himself.

I'm probably gonna be playing exclusively historical games with this, so I don't expect to see a lot of crazy shit. If I do, I'll houserule it.

>>52002494
It's radical, dude. But seriously, are there any repositories or places where I can find character sheets for various generic shit, or am I gonna be making them myself?

>>52007576
>That's mail though

Yeah but a zweihander shouldn't be able to penetrate mail with a decent swing by a man of somewhat above average strength.

>>52007538
Don't just take one line and ignore the rest. It's wrong because the person still isn't talking about superhuman elves.

It's wrong because a historical campaign isn't going to account for characters with 13 STR since humans can't have that much. This is meant to be a historical and fantasy RPG with realistic combat.

>>52007439

If you play a lower power campaign and use your DM powers to mitigate weird corner cases and shit, and you use the blunt-penetration rule, yes, you can get some pretty realistic medieval armored combat.

>Maille can even stand up to lance strikes and, with padding underneath, only resulting in minor injuries like severe bruising

In other words, a reasonable result if you're using the blunt penetration rule.

All this discussion is making me wonder if I'm confused about something though.

BS on an attack is your total successes minus the enemy's successes on his defense attempt right? Like if I roll 8 dice and succeed 6, and his parry is 8 dice and succeeds 4 I only get two BS?

If that's the case then a lot of these damage calculations are assuming the guy isn't defending himself

>>52007576
>That's mail though.
Yeah, because >>52006694 was talking about swinging a sword at mail

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>>52007455
Well for one there's 13th century tournaments, which used blunted lances against maille. Poems like Frauendienst. Obviously these lances were likely weaker, but mentions of shit like hitting the neck is passed off as common with no horrific injuries sustained at all. Obviously the lances were likely weaker than war-ones, but you've still got a solid wood lance with a metal tip slamming into your neck at twenty miles per hour with the mass of a mounted rider and just shaking that hit off without permanent injury or horrid bruising.

Then we have accounts, such as this one from the reconquest from a Muslim warrior who struck a frank with his lance in a battle. Nothing happened.

>He bent sideways so much that his head reached his stirrup, his shield and lance fell off his hand, and his helmet off his head...he then resumed his position, erect in the saddle. Having had linked mail under his tunic, my lance did not wound him.98

However the quality of maille also varies wildly, and thus the poor do not have as good of armor, or maybe an armorer cheated them. So it sometimes fails in the same vein of events.

>...the horseman who struck Philip the knight, for verily the Franks have all been astounded on account of that blow which pierced two layers of links [back and front] in the knight's coat of mail and did not kill him.101

This guy got impaled completely by a lance, so he probably was wearing something shitty. Maille really ought to come in tiers of quality, munition and such, but expensive suits worn by the upper class should be some incredibly good shit that's not really in danger from swords, spears, or even one-handed axes. Mauls, large axes, and picks are how you get through maille. William Marshal makes reference of how a guisarme hooked his leg and tore his cuisse like fabric (which is an interesting thing to note, because of its structure maille behaves most like a fabric than other metal armors).

>>52007713
>BS on an attack is your total successes minus the enemy's successes on his defense attempt right? Like if I roll 8 dice and succeed 6, and his parry is 8 dice and succeeds 4 I only get two BS?

Yes.

With AVP4 and TOU4 you have 8 damage soak. STR10 and -1p is 9 base damage. So you need four bonus successes, which requires at least 7 dice.

>If that's the case then a lot of these damage calculations are assuming the guy isn't defending himself

That's a bit more complicated to figure out, but yes.

>>52007742
>blunted
Having a big round ball instead of a sharp tip makes a pretty big fucking difference in your ability to pierce things. That won't even pierce butted mail.

>>52007753

What I'm getting at is a lot of these things are even less likely than the calculations suggest. Unless you're hitting him with your full dice pool vs nothing, you're probably not going to kill him through a mail coat.

And if you're hitting him with your full dice pool vs nothing you're probably pulling red/red, which is just as likely to bite you in the ass.

>>52007783
It however is still a heavy object being shoved into the throat of the enemy yet deals no damage to speak of.

>>52007798
That's not because of the mail. Mail isn't rigid.

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>>52007843

>>52007597
Look 6 isn't somewhat above average strength. 6 is the strongest dude you knew in high school. That dude that smashes cans on his forehead after benching. 8 Strength is that dude in the olympics that holds all the records. 10 strength is a fantasy character.

4 being average was from when at 18 PCP with 3 in every slot you could buy exactly 4 in every stat

Marketing suggestion: Someone who can speak with a bit of authority on it should make a thread about the tournament on /r/RPG. As long as the kickstarter isn't mentioned in the thread, it won't break their rule on not having more than one thread per kickstarter, especially if whoever makes it isn't (and avoids appearing to be) one of the Opaque boys, but it'll still draw attention to the product and people who go looking for more info will find the kickstarter.

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>>51990903
>boarding axe

What would that count as? Hand Axe?

What about the spontoon?

>>51990903
Counts as Hussar Saber right?

Which should I use if I'm running for a group of newbs? Ballad or SoS? Since they're new I want to keep the amount of house rules or flipping between Ballad and SoS to a minimum. Firearms would be mid to late 19th century, maybe pushing to early 20th century.

I want melee to matter (SoS) but I like Ballad's way of doing Toughness. Luck is also neat.

I'm the same guy who was asking about good melee weapons for a 19th century game involving monster hunting.

>>52008280
Ballad, just use SoS's melee combat. It's easy as shit to do.

>>52008280
Just add Luck to SoS and houserule TOU = 4. Give luck at notable points in the story instead of character creation.

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>>52008031
Probably, I think a Spontoon would basically be a half-pike, and probably.

>>52008570
2H Half-Pike right?

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>>52008611
I think so.

>>52008611
No, there's just the one Half-Pike but it uses either profile. Look at Hand-Off.

>>52009246
Has the projection improved or worsened?

>>52009278
Improved. This is the first time it's been above 26000. It'll keep drifting upward for a bit, likely. That big donation day violated the pattern a bit, the math needs time to catch up.

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>>51985029
What's the first campaign you're going to run when you get the book /tg/?

I'm feeling something Bronze Age or Migration Period.

>>52010863
Mass Effect.

>>52010863
Steel Ball Run across vosca with steel legged landborne zellislava that goes GASHUNK!

when is this tournament anyway

What do we know about the minor religions of Vosca? Have the big three (Sartur counts as big three) totally eradicated them, or can you still find odd pockets of strange local deities?

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>>52007893
>>52007886
>>52007864
>>52007843
Aw shit, is that some Chrétien de Troyes I see?

>>52011769
Sartur belongs to some old mythos that still has some gods that are revered, even when it seems that Sartur is the only one that answers these days.

>>52010863
Nothing because I don't have friends.

>>52011769
We know nothing at all about the old pagan gods of the North, besides that they existed but don't really answer prayers anymore, and nothing at all about the religions of Tujanca. Nor do we know the religions of non-Zell elves, though I believe the implication is that they have belief systems not centered on deities.

You've forgotten the Chaos gods, though. They're a bigger deal than Sartur.

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Shilling super hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWMYO94RYFg

>>52012552
Link the comment you're shilling with, not just the video.

https://twitter.com/ali_erkin/status/838049428623740930

Fucking finally

>>52013317
>While we missed our 2016 target, we are confident we'll be able to get the game out in some form this year
It's fucking nothing anon

>>52000492
I just assign them a CP number, then their stats are depending on that. Assuming 4 is the human average, then a seasoned soldier with 12 cp would perhaps have more strength, agility and wit.

Then you just pick some armor and weapons from the books, maybe some talents but you'll reach the point where you know talents instinctively and you can improvise easily.

It is one of the reasons why I like SoS. Bullshitting and improvising your encounters is a pretty solid science in here.

>>52010863
Running three campaigns as we speak. Get on my level.

>>52011769
Genosus threw the old gods out of helicopters and Dessia is apparently even less cool with paganism.