Do you prefer ridiculous stereotypical barbarians or accurate

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>>54014359
Ridiculous and stereotypical all the way.

>>54014359
Can always go with both. It's a big world.

>>54014359
Yes.

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>>54014359
I WANNA RIP OFF YOUR NAILS AND GOUGE YOUR EYES WITH THEM. I'M GOING TO USE YOUR TEETH TO SCRAPE YOUR URETHRA OF ALL IT'S DICK MEAT.
I'M GONNA FUCKING KILL MYSELF TO KICK YOUR ASS IN HELL

>>54014359
>Implying there is a consistent trend for realistic barbarians, when it literally is a term for outsiders

>>54014359
Both.

>>54014359
I'm running a Rome inspired setting, so they call literally everything in the provinces and beyond the borders "barbarians", from the civilized and highly accomplished Eastern lands to the slavering Orc hordes.

I like them like:

>The Brittle-lands, where mirror trees grow from the crushed-shell soil and humans are the most durable substance around. Barbarians from the Brittle-lands have trouble with the idea of "a" weapon because everything they grew up with broke after one use. They are startlingly innovative fighters and never stop looking over their shoulder. Anyone born in the Brittle-lands will be sworn to one of the two kings there, Ordswye or Aserlye each of whom is possessed by a rogue dwarven machine god

>Angelurra, an island known for fishing, giants, knights and stone magic. The barbarians of Angelurra come from the clannish and primitive north, they are giant-blooded and stand about 8 feet tall, and they will never forget how to build a boat. The youngest daughter inherits on the coasts and in the mountains of Angelurra and it's common for unneeded sons to turn barbarian and sell their axe. The best of these are members of the Red-and-Black Lodge and are capable of terrible, rageful battle transformations.

>The Blue People know their place is the summit of the world and the only important thing in it: all the rest of creation is being slowly eaten by her, by their mountain. They call her The Mother Who Feeds. They raid outwards, and bring back great treasures to throw worthlessly into her valleys and ravines. Each year they all join together to scale her bare-handed, and an awful potion of madness can be made from the blood of the ones who fall. When they're wounded they harden their scars and flesh with gemstones, which is what they're named for.

But I agree with >>54014403 >>54014405 >>54014600

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I liked ridiculous stereotypical fantasy when I was younger but now I prefer realistic, historical and real life-like.

I also love how real life armors and weapons look, while stylized and fantastic armors make me cringe, especially if they're worn in a historical or low fantasy context.

>>54014673
The best in that slight in-between that Dark Souls-type stuff hits IMO. More luxurious and stylish than real life (for ordinary soldiers in real life, anyway) but still plausible as armor. With some outliers for truly ridiculous stuff as well.

Historically accurate. Even Conan wore clothes and proper armor.

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>>54014721
Unironically my favorite fantasy armor

>>54014359
Ridiculous for fantasy, accurate for historical or "realistic" settings. Basically it depends on how likely it is that the guy is an orc.

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>>54014721
Is this what you mean?

>>54014359
Isn't the historical depiction of Celts in that picture from a period after they got romanised?

>>54014908
I mean, I like Kekai Kotaki's knights a whole a bunch so I'm quite happy to say I like that.

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>>54014359

Accurate.

>>54014359
Despite how paradoxical it may sound I want to say the accurate barbarians can hardly be called barbarians at all. They were barbarians in a relative sense, in a particular cultural and historical context. It's just a label. But the stereotypical or archetypical barbarians, those are barbaric as it gets.

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>>54014933
Neato. His knights are top tier in my opinion.

>>54014533
>okay the scroll says there are barbarians in the cave next to us
Go in
>they're a tonne of samurai engaging in an orgy slaanesh would be proud of
>>54014625
But barbarian means non Greek or non Latin speaking

>>54014974
Is that dagger accurate? Im curious because it looks like ceremonial skewopmorphism, that is to say that it has embellishments from a ton of other swords taken to the extreme.

>>54015061
Just greek, the Romans called uncultured foreigners pagans.

>>54015168
The Romans were pagans.

>>54015205
No, Rome was a Christian state.

>>54015168
They used barbarian quite a lot.

>>54015270
Not for a long time.

>>54015168
Desire to school shoot intensifies
Pagan would become a perjorative once the majority of the empire was Christian

>>54015270
For a literal fraction of it's history.

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>>54015363
>For a literal fraction of it's history.
Get a load of this G*rman

>>54014359
Both. Accurate barbarians make good material for "normal" people, while ridiculously stereotypical barbarians are better for weird stuff; cults that worship chaotic gods of war and blood, marauding hordes of orcs, etc.

Also, >>54014403 .

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>>54014359
Ridiculous all the way.

Accurate barbarians are too depressing.

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Definitely ridiculous and stereotypical.


Barbarians are best portrayed as simple, violent problem-solvers with a great bod.

>>54015377
While since I'm not a boy-fucking Greek, I recognize that Rome fell 476 years after the birth of Christ when Odoacer deposed the Emperor and formed the Kingdom of Italy.

>>54015270
>>54015205
>>54015168
Pagan was the Latin equivalent of Redneck.

>>54015615
But also the Christian equivalent of, well, pagan.

>>54014439
I VILL DRINK FROM YOUR SKAALL

>>54015733
Only because Christianity spread in the cities.

>>54015927
Still 100% correct to say the Romans were all pagan at some point.

Accurate. Got too old to appreciate silly point daedric shit style armor stuff

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>>54014403
This. Some accurate barbarians could look quite ridiculous.

>Quisque Barbarus ab alio appellatur