Skeleton Thread

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>>52679928

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>>52679935

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>>52679949

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>>52679959

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>>52679965

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>>52679978

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>>52679988

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>>52679995

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>>52680006

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Have any of you ever made an army of skeletons trained to form a building, then once you've called the enemy leaders in for a feast in their honor or surrender/peace talks you snap your finders and the building murders your foe and any underlings of theirs you decide is better for you dead then alive.

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>>52680012

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>>52680237

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>>52680245

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>>52680251

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>>52680264

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>>52680277

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>>52680035
No. But consider that idea looted for the next time my party meets a potential implored devious and powerful enough that they won't turn on him and take him for all he's worth on principle.
(They are a bunch of cruel jerks who are also the chosen ones in a number of prophecies because some of the gods were/are mean assholes when they are drunk and thought it was funny.

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>>52679995
>Skel Ops: The Line

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>>52683399

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>>52680035
>being ermor

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>>52685210
who/what is ermor?

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>>52685945

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>>52686002

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>>52686190

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>>52686464
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>>52680251

anyone have stories of involving skeletons to share?

>>52680035
One cleric and the whole thing falls apart

>>52679920
I want to play a skeleton that wants nothing more out of (un)life than to frighten the townsfolk that live in the village next to his graveyard. When the village is threatened by some outside force, the skeleton becomes and adventurer in order to save the village he loves to terrify. No DM will let me run this character. They think I'm joking or trolling them. I truly want to play this character though, and I'd play him just as seriously as the setting requires.

>>52686494
Holy shit, this guy really likes skeletons.

>>52686702
It looks like you're living in the land of shitty DM's

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>>52687285
This guy also has a similar sketches of goblins, dwarfs and lizards.

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>>52687334

>>52685945
a nation of not-romans who fucked up real bad trying to resurrect their jesus analogue and now have more skeletons than common sense from the game dominions 4

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>>52687351

>>52687367
thanks.

>>52686702
have you or other players burned this DM with actual trolling characters before?

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>>52686190

>>52687768
what's the story behind this image?

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>>52680012
>>52680006


these are pretty awesome.
You don't see a lot of images of skeletal undead in groups behaving like sentient beings as a collection of individuals who happen to be in the same area or as a team.

As in acting like a collection of people instead of a swarm of minions or sub-sentient constructs.

please post more.

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>>52687843

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>>52687945

>>52687834
Skeleton bard with war xylophone. Decent campaign, most of party low int/wis and roleplayed as such (read: normally), pretty humerus.

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>>52688165
did italy have that flag in the napoleonic era?

>>52688196
Pretty sure those are Mexi-Skelli's mate.

>>52688623
Oh. you are right. I did not catch that.

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>>52689081

>>52680035
Put skulls on everything you own so people think it's just your fashion sense

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>>52689081
>>52679920
MOAR!

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>>52689376

>>52690364
No Jimmy Nooooo! There's monsters in that forest!

>>52690841
Jimmy looks stoned as fuck.

>>52690482
these skeletons remind me of the sabbat what with driving around town with weapons and one of them holding up a severed head.

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>>52690391

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>>52679920
What about a skeleton made of skeletons?

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>>52691085

What was that 90's toy line that had skeletons and robot-skeletons?

Pretty much started my interest in drawing spoopy shit.

>>52690907
Explains a lot.

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>>52691497
skeleton warriors!!

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>>52679920

>>52691808
The skeleton is in the midst of claiming vengeance for their adopted family that was slain by this group of cherubs.

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>>52679920

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>>52679920

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>>52685945
basically >>52687367 but that doesn't really give enough context to understand the reference

Dominions is a Grand Strategy TBS/RPG set in a fantasy world that is a sort of syncretism of almost every major mythological system and several minor ones.

The game is divided into three ages, the early, middle and late ages (EA, MA and LA), with most nations persisting through at least two in some form and magic generally dying off over the course of history while technology advances and troops become the focus.

In EA, Ermor was just generic fantasy Rome. One of the more troop-oriented nations in EA, actually. But as that poster described, they screwed the pooch between EA and MA, and in MA they are ruled by a handful of liches, and everybody is dead. Their cursed influence causes the dead to rise of their own accord, meaning over the course of time countless generations of deceased warriors rise again to fill their ranks in a giant skeleton army. In-game this is represented by skeleton troops passively spawning in every province every turn.

What's more, because they have few to no living units and don't need to pay for troops, Ermor can uniquely have an extremely powerful negative influence spreading with their priests and temples, leaking into enemy territory and destroying their crops and armies, making it easier for Ermor to expand, as well as casting spells that, for example, cause everyone in the world to age rapidly. Most nations don't have this luxury because it would hurt them too. If that weren't enough, when there are fresh dead Ermor gets even more freespawn undead.

So basically, it's an exponentially spreading cancer of skeletons. In a MA game the MO is usually for everyone to set aside their differences and purge Ermor with holy priests ASAP so that pic related doesn't happen.

>>52686702
The problem I forsee with this character is you saying, "But what's my motivation for leaving the village I love to scare?" at the start of the second session. Toss in a bit that would carry him beyond saving that one village and you'd be good to go in my game.

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imma posr ,t sle;etomn

meeds [aomt
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2 of 4

>>52686702
>>52692547
I'd imagine the threat to the village would be some part of a bigger picture so saving it wouldn't be a simple matter of going to a nearby cave and knocking some goblin heads together. Like start small and get swept up into something bigger because the village still isn't safe until the cult controlling the oppressive shadow government is dealt with.

>>52692716
Sure, a GM can work with it, but you need to know the character is down for adventure if the spotlight isn't on skeleton or village for a session.
I like the idea, it just needs to be able to travel with a group of other adventurers.

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>>52692632
>>52692648

...waiting for 3 of 4

>>52692947
Sorry
Typing is shit
had my eyes dialated
can barely see
will paint them soon

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>>52693351
don't paint your eyes bro.

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>>52693351
What for? I had a rock hit my eye once and the iris filled with blood so I looked like an edgy animu boy with one grey eye and one red, had to have it dilated when they drained the blood. It's neat how hazy and rainbowy it makes everything, but I could barely eat because I couldn't see what the fuck I was doing.

>>52694892
are your eyes ok now?

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>>52695127
Yeah that was years ago. Still have 20/15 (or better, that's the highest they test for apparently).

>>52695192
excellent.

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I played a skeleton in a long-running PF campaign once. Probably my favorite character I ever played. It woke up one day in the middle of a field of corpses with a broken sword, battered armor, no memory of a life before, and a single white rose. After wandering for a couple years, getting flashbacks of being in Hell, and getting chased away by anyone who saw it, it encountered a creature who wasn't afraid of it. pic related. It was a good friend to the little girl whose family had been murdered by bandits, and she eventually struck out into the world as an adventurer, taking a level in sorcerer, and eventually finding a couple more party members to go save the world with. Through it all, the skeleton stayed with them, never speaking, often wrapped in a cloak to disguise it's nature, a dependable companion. When at last it's road came to an end, the skeleton sacrificed itself to save the rest by jumping into a portal to Hell in order to close it from the other side. As it massacred those performing the ritual and the portal snapped shut, the last dying cultist asked in a feeble voice "why do you turn against your creators?" and the skeleton smiled. he was always smiling.

>>52696632
is that a monk.
>>52696477
wow

>>52695192
I am so damn jelly. I had fantastic vision when I was a kid, and now one eye is near sighted (college life and not doing outdoors shit enough I imagine.) And my previously good eye grew a bubble in the lens so everything gets refracted to hell.

>>52696477
What did the companions name it?

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>>52698104
sweet these are new to me.

any grass skeletons

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>>52699962
what?

>>52699987
skeletons with stuff growing on them

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>>52699997
oh, growing life on my skellys? That sounds heretic as fuck

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>>52699962
I'm still searching, anon, it's hard mode

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>>52699962
what about some shrooms?

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>>52699997
growing around?

>>52697374
it was Sir Bones for a long time. A bluff check to convince a guard he was human gave him the name Pathwalker, which stuck for the rest of the campaign.

>>52698242
gets me every time
>now first of all, let me tell you why you're an asshole
I love skeletons so much. They have so much character

>>52692716
This, or perhaps the villagers figure out it was the skeleton that saved them, so they no longer fear him. Deprived of the only thing that gives his unlike purpose, the skeleton sets out to find a new village full of superstitious bump kind to terrify, and perhaps finds a greater calling along the way.

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>>52679965
My goodness, cover thy ribs, good lady!

>>52701699
Skeleton is the perfect comedic character. Gnomes and Goblins have NOTHING on skeletons.

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>>52702346

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>>52700401
Not if you know where to look. Google Jeff Soto.

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>>52702694
oh, great pic anon, thanks for the source. I'm just looking on my folders, search the request on google is pretty bored to me

>>52701121
My thought about this pic:
>Place was once fair kingdom
>It wasn't easy, but the people were happy
>Skelly used to be Royal Guard, serving the king and kingdom the best he could
>Asshole sorcerer appears and decimates the place
>Skelly fights fearsomely, but everyone is dying like flies
>The amount of death results in a powerful necromantic aura to be generated
>Skelly finally gets killed and the kingdom is destroyed, turned into a near-lifeless wasteland and left
>After some time Skelly comes to unlife via sheer willpower
>Is pissed at what happened to his home
>Walks away to find asshole sorcerer and drag him to the underworld for eternal tortures
>Even his skull says: "Foul sorcerer, prepare for retribution for the dead never forget nor forgive"

>Tsukumogami

I hate weeaboos

Skeletons/Liches/Undead/Necromancy are the Reddit of fantasy monsters

>>52704055
No, that's dwarves and orcs. Search your heart, you know it to be true.

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>>52704055
oh no, I should an hero

>>52700924
Dragon Commander's best waifu