How many swords is a character allowed to have before it

One

>>54459496

Two and a knife.

2.

>>54459496
>using swords instead of magic

>>54459496
Four swords is the practical limit.

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>>54459496
0, if the setting is already anime bullshit.

Otherwise, as many as the character needs.

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>>54459521

Get out of here Goro

Someone post that one screen cap of the pathfinder build for unlimited blade works.

Alk (the creator of this thread) is a faggot :^)

>>54459496
what about a character that loves to collect swords, but uses only at a time to fight with?

They especially love ornate or fancy swords which have never seen combat, and take great care to keep these weapons pristine, leaving the fighting to their more mundane and ordinary swords.

>>54459496
Three swords is 100% anime bullshit, but four swords might not be.

The important part is HOW this person is using multiple swords.

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Five

If regular swords, as many as he wants, provided that he only uses one at a time, 2 tops if they're one handed weapons.

If katanas, just one

>>54459563

This bastard...!!

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>>54459496
If they don't invoke the swords

>>54459496
Well you need a dragonslayer sword, a goblinslayer sword, an orcbane sword, an anti-magic sword, a general powerful sword, a cursed sword. Depends what you are fighting. A true swordsman is never without the correct tool for the job. Maybe you just have a vault at your house full of swords that you swap out depending on where you are going.

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Have something that's actually /tg/

>>54459496
>>54459563

Floating swords is just anime bullshit period.

I love it.

>>54459596
Dancing swords are pretty common RPG material

>>54459596
What about those enchanted sword monsters that are floating scimitars

>>54459595
>117d100 HP
Anon please

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>>54459635
Quiet, you. Have more from this series of splats.

>>54459658
>Ultimate weapons focus
>You never miss

Lolk

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>>54459674
Have three weapon fighting. Sadly you cannot be like Mr Six Swords

>>54459496

An automatic gun that shoots swords. Not enough dakka, but in sword terms, pretty high on the mark.

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>>54459581
fuck outta here gil

>>54459693
>fighting by juggling swords

I always liked the idea of playing a character who went full Unlimited Blade Works, but it's usually something a system just doesn't really accommodate in a way that I like. It also doesn't help that there's always at least one edgy anime character currently running at a given time with that exact power that I don't want people to associate with me in any way

>>54459658
>you become a sword

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>>54459581
Do you have enough weapons in stock, King of Jobbers?

>>54459695
FRANKA FRANKA FRANKA

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>>54459504
I agree

>>54459695
Punisher did that

>>54459596
I am pretty sure D&D has this too
And I love it too

>>54459496
How many swords can you afford?

>>54459496
Half your number of limbs plus seven.

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>>54459496
As many as they want.

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>>54459744
Incorrect. The answer is 0.

>>54459772
I get the feeling he's extremely embarrassed by it and wants to redo it, but I like this sort of shit so much more than anything Nasu has done more recently

>>54459496
2 is already pushing it and only acceptable because Miyamoto Musashi was a real person.

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>>54459784
but...

>>54459784
Why would you say zero when you posted one

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>>54459787
He is the bone of his sword.

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>>54459791
See, one sword involved and it's anime. 0 swords is the most you can have without it being anime.
>>54459798
But Shichika is a person

>>54459802
Based Emiya

>>54459812
>Schichika is a person

Generally a unfinished sword that is going around Japan with besr girl.

>>54459815
I can see why they didn't use it for the anime, but taking out his internal narration really hurts FSN. Mostly the build up to a sex scene followed by him outright admitting to playing dumb all this time or the bizarre sword obsession, but there's other things that are kind of lost.

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how can a skilled but normal swordsman parry and block someone with an unreasonable amount of swords?

>>54459977
By shooting them.

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>>54459977
> I answer simply: They cannot. They die. There can be no victory in that fight."
>—Sensei Hisoka, letter to Lord Konda

Seriously though, if someone capable of controlling 3+ swords at once even moreso if they do it remotely even to a distance as small as about 30cm the action economy is so far against them they cannot hope to win. They would need to have the speed to take three actions as fast as a normal person takes one. Even more if they want to counterattack. Another option is blocking or parrying multiple weapons in one movement but that's also borderline impossible. If someone slashes at you with three swords, each from a separate angle you're pretty much fucked. Alternatively get a body strong enough that even with three attacks they can't injure you

>>54459990
how can a skilled but normal marksman aim and shoot at someone with an unreasonable amount of guns?

>>54460051
By shooting them first.

>>54460051
By hiding better

>>54460032
>They would need to have the speed to take three actions as fast as a normal person takes one.

Real life combat is not like rpg with turns.

You would be surprised how fast you can do things.

>>54460051
By using some form of incendiary round.

>>54459977

Just the reach advantage from being able to control swords in the air would make a gigantic difference.

>>54459791
Shit, whats this show?

>>54460107
Katanagatari. It's good, but it's like 50% talking. You may or may not find it unbearably boring, depending on how pretentious you will find the extensive dialogues.

>>54460083
You can do things fast, but simultaneous is a bit of an issue.

And if you're after realism, you got caught on that, and not the bit about getting a body strong enough that a fucking sword can't hurt you, or just fucking wielding three swords at once?

>>54459496
Even a single sword can be anime bullshit. The trick is to not approach your character like a weeb.
That is, don't make skinny spike-haired prettyboys swinging around gigantic slabs of sharpened metal. Katanas, releasing energy blasts and/or shockwaves by shouting really hard, or any combination of those.
If you want you character to have a single 2 meter long probably-weights-a-ton slab of steel don't make a cloud, make a guts.

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So is this a stealth fate thread or what.

>>54460115
Ill give it a go.

I considered arming up my characters with 10 swords in 40k rpgs in case I came across someone with a power weapon. God bless Quick Draw

>>54460131
>guts
>not anime bullshit too
ok boss

>>54460172
Why not just a single backup sword for the initial fuck up and a gun to actually deal with them?

>>54460083
>Real life combat is not like rpg with turns
I know. But if I send three swords to attack you simultaneously, you'd better hope you can block or parry three attacks in that time.

This is why we have bullshit discussions about "what's better, swords or guns" and "everyone knows katanas are better than greatswords", or my personal favourite "who would win, a medieval knight with a halberd, or a japonese samurai with dual katanas".

You fuckers are all Massive anime faggots, and you can't help but have that shit seep through into your interests like an ooze.

I should know, I'm posting this on a chink show forum.

>>54460208

You don't. If you can control flying swords you make them attack before they hit not try to parry. Flying sword will be faster than hand. Your brain is much faster than your hand.

>>54459496

As many as makes sense. A lot of game systems differentiate between weapons in such a way that it's possible for them to all have different effects under different circumstances, but for a character to be equally skillful in all of them. So in 5e, for example, it's not uncommon for a shield-using martial to grab a Longsword for a 1 and 2 handed slashing, a Rapier for 1 handed piercing, and a flail for 1 handed bludgeoning, with at least one of the doing magical damage, ideally 2 of them each doing a different damage type. So depending on how easy it is to get the equipment you want you may end up with 3-5 weapons just because of the system. There's some 3.PF fighter builds that go even deeper than that.

The key is why. If it makes mechanical sense for you to have a Longsword, Rapier, and Flail with a +1 Dagger for damage type coverage you're fine, that's just a valid mechanical choice. If you're dragging around 8 identical Longswords-Possibly-Re-Fluffed-as-Katanas because "it's what my character would do," "rule of cool," or "Unlimited Blade Works makes my peepee hard" your suspicion that you have fallen into anime bullshit is probably accurate.

>>54459977

Come up with a reason to be throwing/dropping/leaving them in the wound channels and keep drawing new ones. Only two hands to go around, after all. This actually isn't a bad way to use daggers in 5e for certain builds in certain fights because of how many traits the dagger has and how they interact with some abilities.

>>54459496
"anime bullshit" is precisely the kind of shit you'd expect by the time a character hits high levels though.

>>54459496
depends on the situation

>>54460592
Thank god you were here to clarify that

>>54460598
just doing my job, citizen

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>>54459496
>How many swords is a character allowed to have before it becomes anime bullshit?
As many as he wants, as long as he can't use them at the same time, and he obeys the rules of weight encumbrance.

Besides, the amount of swords a character has has nothing to dow tih anime bullshit. After all, bravery is not a function of firepower.

>>54459496

I had five weapons once on a pathfinder character.

>One hammer which was his beloved goblin-smacking hammer
>Another hammer which was his beloved glowing orc-smacking hammer
>A crossbow which was his beloved skeleton-sniping crossbow
>A pickaxe which was his beloved 'Fuck your mine dungeon bullshit' pickaxe.
>And finally a greatsword, which he carried around as a memento to a dead friend.

Honestly for a pathfinder character that's not much. I think he also had a knife somewhere.

>>54459595
da fuck am I looking at?

Unless you are a sword merchant, one

>>54459977
By wearing proper armor and defending the actual vulnerable parts. The usual anime flying sword bullshit doesn't seem to have precision to target exposed areas, they just fly around and try to hit something, which works because either anime characters don't wear proper armor, or the armor is about as effective as wet tissue. Sorry, weeaboo but you're NOT cutting through proper plate. No, not even with a katana. Especially not with a katana.

>>54459496
>How many swords is a character allowed to have before it becomes anime bullshit?
Try to imagine someone having to carry all those swords around on their person.

I'd say three or four swords, but only one or two being directly accessible. I doubt you'd hang more than two swords off your waist. Which means you'll have one or two swords on your back. Which cannot be used without taking the scabbards off your back. So the sword(s) on your back will be either replacement swords, swords for your allies that you carry around, or they'll be great swords, too big to lug around on your waist. It's not like you need a great sword to be easily available. Great swords aren't for defending yourself if you get jumped anyway.

>>54459496
Depends on the game since if you DM keeps throwing all sort of monster with very different DRs you might need 4 or 5 different weapons to hurt them.

>Tfw I have couple of weapons each with [Something] Bane different for each situation
Fuck, am I anime?

Not a sword, but I had a dwarf armed with so many weapons they couldn't fit into standard "attacks" section of the character sheet: shield (which is a weapon if used right), battleaxe (because zombies and general usage), warhammer (because skeletons and armored foes, even if it wasn't actually any more effective in the system), greataxe (because sometimes, strong offense is the best deffense), shortsword (because dagger isn't a proper sidearm for dwarf, and certainly not as a compensation for anything) javelins (because short dwarven legs and enemies out of reach), pike (because fuck cavalry), crossbow (because better range than javelins), dagger(s) (because dagger, and everyone needs a knife) and spiked gauntlets (because sometimes you just have to beat goblins to death with your "bare" (as far as the dwarves are concerned) hands).

Not at the same time, though. Had to buy a cart to lug all that with me. I was working on adding guns to the list, but the GM had to stop running that game thanks to RL before that happened.

>>54461040
>Dwarf
>Javelins
>Not throwing axes
You're no dwarf

>>54460051
Assuming those guns are muzzle loaders this was a strategy. He fires once, tosses aside the weapon, picks up the next fires once, tosses that one aside because it would take almost 3 minutes to reload it and 15 seconds to pick up another one, so he keeps grabbing and shooting from his chace, unless he has someone there with him to reload the guns as he fires them.

Assuming he's using western guns from the 17 and 1800's

>>54461053
>only stereotypes are allowed

>>54461053
Better range and it's easier to lug around a bag of 6 or so javelins than the same amount of throwing axes.

>>54459603
Only after Gygax steal them from that translated chinese wuxia movie he is watching.

>>54459496
two, one silver and one steel duh

>>54460174
Well Guts is somewhat believable. Somewhat. He's just a strong buff dude who wields a full blade.

Any other bullshittery that I know of comes from the magic armor he wears, and the fact that his primary weapon killed so many monsters, devils, and demons that it now counts as a magical weapon for the purposes of overcoming damage reduction.

>>54460753
pathfinder sounds like shit

>>54461112
Even in D&D 3.5 Fighter characters were encouraged to carry around a golf bag full of different weapons to deal with different resistances and immunities.

>>54459595
Anime bullshit

>>54461104
>Any other bullshittery that I know of comes from the magic armor he wears
Oh you mean the Armour that lets him ignore Initiative when it's active?

>>54461270
You mean the armour that lets him ignore being at -10 HP as long as he doesn't take it off.

>>54459496
(carry_limit - total_weight_of_other_gear) / weight_of_sword
with decimal part truncated, not rounded

>>54461290
No.
You cannot just magically stick swords at your side and back like you're made out of magical magnets. You also have to WEAR swords.
>>54460942

>Play character that can bond with up two 7 objects and summon them from whatever place they're
Technically I had 7 weapons """with""" me all the time

We always made jokes about people finding my weapons, fighting with them and suddenly the weapon going puff because I summon it and the dude dying or whatever

>>54459496
its not the number, It's the significance of the sword. Is as much emphasis placed on your blade or blades as your character? Do they have names? or is it just another +1 Flaming sword.

Anime bullshit the weapon is as important as the person using it. They are partners, brothers, and the character will express that emotional bond with their weapon and it's specaility. They will carry it thought the whole game never changing it.

Western mentality is the sword is just a tool, it can be traded out at any time for a new better weapon as soon as one comes around. It is the right person, at the Right place, at the right time that makes the difference not the weapon they carry. Even if they do get a legendary weapon it's more of an end game thing. IE you might end the game with Excalibur but you had to earn it. It wasn't passed down to your from your parents, or you pulled it from the stone at the beginning of the game. You had to fight long and hard and just before fighting the BBEG you got it.

>>54461340
>Western mentality is the sword is just a tool
BS, that's just with your average sword, famous swords or swords that belonged to famous people were treated as divine as muramasa's ones. Samurai also didn't treat their sword as divine unless they were made by a famous smith or belonged to famous people, is just modern revisionism that treats knights as pragmatic and samurai as anime cartoons

>>54461277
It's not really doing that though, sure it does hold his bones together, but it doesn't stop the rest of him from being smashed into paste.

It probably isn't an "as long as he doesn't take it off" clause either, more like "Keeps him above -10 for CON [insert timeframe here]"

>>54461373
If I were to stat the armor it would be something like "delays damage" or similar

>>54461359
See the end of my comment where I talk about famous legendary swords coming at the end of the narrative not the beginning.

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>>54459496
Two. Though he should only draw one at a time.

>>54461446
>White hair
Check
>Eyes of different color than ordinary
Check
>Cursed
Check
>Special among the specials
Check
>More than one weapon
Check
Get rid of that Anime bullshit, that's worse than Naruto

>>54459693
>>54459658
>>54459595
this is beyond autism

>>54459496
1
but I have no problems with rapier+parrying dagger and I don't see why anyone should

>>54461463
>white hair
>more than one weapon
disagree with those two
people have white hair when they grow old obv and I'm in my 20s and already greying
and iirc he has two swords because one is silver and the other is steel, for fighting monsters and normal humans, respectively

>Worrying about 'Anime Bullshit' at all
>Not letting things be over the top and goofy.
Anon please.

>>54461463
having read all of the novels I somewhat agree

>>54461511
he's got white hair because of mutation you dingus

>A hero of my country had 3 swords and several others that were way less famouns
>Attributed to had cut a mountain in half
>2 of those swords are treated as national treasures
European btw

>>54461505
Basically if it resembles a western res world fighting style.

But what about the D&D 3.5 fighter who carried a great sword, a sword and shield (For when he needs the extra AC), a warhammer (for fighting undead), an Ice axe for fighting fire immune enemies, and the whole rest of the golf bag of weapons that he makes a minion lug around so he can always have the right tool for the job when he needs it.

>>54459496
He can have as many as he wants, but if he wields more than one (excluding daggers, sword brakers and such) its BS

>>54460032
This is some retarded weeb logic. Not only could you just dodge, but these swords are still 3D objects moving at a finite speed. You don't have to block all three simultaneously, sweep them to the side and move away from them. Positioning matters more than number of swords

>>54461534
I have no problems with having multiple weapons but only using one

my knight carried a shield, a bastard sword, a shortswod (which was nicely made and had a nicely made sheath, adding that to my character's low proficiency with shorter swords it was basically decoration only) and a flail, in case of opponents with shields and/or resistant to stabbing or cutting

>>54460032
>If someone slashes at you with three swords, each from a separate angle you're pretty much fucked.
if we're talking actual combat then such slash would be impossible or have no force behind it at all

>>54461135
It was even more the case for 3rd edition before they toned down damage reduction.

>>54461522
>he's got white hair because of mutation you dingus
i wouldnt know.

>>54459496

One in each and and one clenched in his butt cheeks.

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>>54461721
>trademark says Blizzard
>looks like something straight out of Pathfinder

>>54461740
I think that's from a Warcraft Collectible Card Game.

The Pathfinder artist has been in the industry for years.

>>54461373
There's a heavy implication that Skull Knight is King Gaiseric who wore the Berserker armour for so long, he became a (physical) ghost after taking it off. Probably because he was so far in the negative HP that he ended up double dead and thus became a physical ghost. Phone.

>>54459496

Two, but one of the swords needs to be much smaller than the other.

>>54461524
Get out of here frog. We're here to want to true Knights like Arthur who is for some reason (I assume sexy reasons) an anime chick.

TL; Dr Roland was no true knight because the French can't be honorable

>>54461767
>The Pathfinder artist has been in the industry for years.
Yup, they draw for M:tG too. Makes me wonder if the person gets filthy rich being this prolific or if they get paid so bad it's the only way to keep up with life expenses.

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>>54459596
It even turned a couple of somersaults.

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>>54461791
Female King Arthur pays the bills my dude

Prototype Arthur was just a cool bro, but cool Bros don't get sweaty Otaku Yen flowing

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>>54461644
>if we're talking actual combat then such slash would be impossible or have no force behind it at all
We're talking about a lady with 40 floating sabers

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>>54461979
>Sabers

>>54461740
>>54461767
>>54461809
MOTHERFUCKING WAYNE REYNOLDS

>>54461524
Roland? I know about Durandal, but what other swords did he have? Please tell me more about swords.

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>>54461979
Are there people who genuinely like this series, or is /a/ just obfuscating their shitposting again?

Also, a good rule of thumb for practical armament is to have your number of weapons equal to no less than half and no more than twice your number of grasping limbs.

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>>54459581
Hey Gil.

>>54462029
I don't. But this girl is amazing.

>>54462072
But she's the dumbest and least consistently-written character in a series that is populated entirely by dumb, nonsensical, inconsistent characters! I guess you enjoy the design or something.

>>54462104
She's supposed to be dumb. %%Because she is literally a personification of teenager's anger.%% But yeah, you're mostly right.

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>>54462029
I liked the start, but then the MC became a whiney sack of shit and I realised he was more effeminate than the trap who pilots the giant robo when they had their chat in the mecha and the next episode was more of his shit so I decided to drop it until I could marathon it all to prevent more disappointments like that

>>54462044
Gil in Fate/strange fake and Fate/zero really puts into perspective how badly Stay Night went for him. Not only is his perfect hard-counter present twice, he's infected by the grail and has shit masters.

>>54460174
The thing with Guts is that the dragonslayer feels/appears heavy.
Most anime swormens move their swords around like they are made of styrofoam. Guts does not.

>>54459504
First post best post.
>>54459496
Short of waving one's hand and saying, "Magic" in some regard, there only ought to be one sword. A shield is far more feasible than new swords in almost any scenario, perhaps short of fighting unarmored peasants who only have a chance of over-running you, and thus, you need to kill as many as possible. A sword is designed to fight unarmored opponents to begin with, and thus, fighting with more than one is simply ridiculous in any realistic scenario. Even in the more fantasy settings, duel-wielding SWORDS is a purely ridiculous concept. The weight of swords, combined with the training required to effectively use one means that it should be wielded either one handed, or two handed. Wielding two swords is such fantasy bullshit, that outside of high fantasy, it should actively be mocked.

That said, I do enjoy watching and reading about duel wielding battles, I just think they're absolute garbage from a realism standpoint.

Other weapons work, but there only should be one sword.

>>54459595
What edition is this from?

>>54461511
They're both for monsters, the "one for monsters, one for humans" is a rumor made by peasants that know nothing about witchers

>>54462381
>source: anon's ass
Geralt uses silver swords because some kinds of monsters are vulnerable to silver
unless you're talking about "one is for monsters, one for motherfuckers" memery

>>54462381
>They're both for monsters, the "one for monsters, one for humans" is a rumor made by peasants that know nothing about witchers
Except it's 100% accurate. You literally hit the monsters with the silver blade, because it hurts them more, and you hit humans with the steel blade because humans have armour and silver hitting armour isn't as effective.

The humans may also be monsters to Geralt, but that's just Geralt. Plenty of witchers went around killing humans.

>>54461916
There's always Fujobucks on the table if they made both MC and Saber male.

>>54461809
Maybe they keep getting him to draw stuff because he doesn't flake and keeps on deadline?

Getting art in on time for any sort of big project must be like herding cats.

>>54459496
1.

>>54459520
>Implying the swords AREN'T magic.

>>54459525
Is that a picture of David vs. Goliath?

>>54461916
>proto arthur didn't make dosh
He made like 2m yen while his gacha was up.

>>54462641
Goliath did not wear helmet.

In D&D bane weapons are a thing, so as many as you want. Carrying a weapon for every type was always fun.

>>54462795
But that's not a helmet it's a head wrap.

>>54462801
>Mage Bane
BOOOM, done, you literally have a weapon for any relevant enemy
>Not every monster is a caster
Sure, but 99% of relevant monsters have SLA

>>54459828
Two. Best girls.

at separate times though.

>>54462044
Confirmed Vlad Tepes is a better king than the blond faggot.

>>54459504
I would be fine with more swords if they were for backup or if the character was a performer or gladiator, basically the reason why they're dual wielding is to show off

>travel around with a golf bag full of swords
>make a big show about picking the right sword for the job
>hireling caddy

I kind of want to do this now.

>>54459496
>he doesn't Golfbag
Pleb 0/10 would not delve a dungeon with

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>>54463464

Sword zombies are an untapped resource

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>>54463464
dis nigga gets it

>>54463511
This.

>>54459525
This

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>>54463511
>>54463464
>>54463556
Hence why the Purrodaemon is one of the coolest daemons in Pathfinder

>>54462331
>Wielding two swords is such fantasy bullshit, that outside of high fantasy, it should actively be mocked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyamoto_Musashi

????????

>>54463668
If your setting has players using katanas then there you have other more important problems than the dual wielding weeb.

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>>54462331

>>54461791

That part of fate lore is actually kind of interesting.

OOC, the original plot was a female MC and a male King Arthur, because duh. But the execs told him that they wanted a male MC for marketing reasons, so he better rewrite the plot.

Nasu said "But all my work! The story literally doesn't work without Excalibur in specific."

And the execs just told him to fucking do it.

So he wrote the male MC they wanted, and just made King Arthur a girl and kept the rest of the plot intact.

So we end up with, IC, a world where a girl pulled the sword from the stone and was therefore King by Right. Not Queen, King. Because Kings have powers that Queens do not, so the name of the title matters. Because Arturia had a lot of shit on her shoulders, she went out of her way to live as the King she thought her kingdom wanted and dressed as a man.

It wasn't exactly a secret that Arturia was a woman, but when the legend was put to paper hundreds of years later, King Arthur was what got written down and history remembered her as a man.

So that part was actually handled about as well as it could be. Though it did set a bad precedent for Fate that if they wanted more females in the cast they should just genderswap some male characters. But I'm of the opinion that everything beside the original Fate plots and Fate/Zero is just cheap cashgrab shit anyway.

>>54463348
>Never played a Masternof Masks woth gladiator mask to be proficient with all weapons.
>Never made a pack of heavy, kaorti, bane weapons so as to do four times normal weapon damage with orc shotputs and dwarven axes.

Why live?

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>>54462331
So what if I'm dragging around three different magic swords for different situations, or using two as part of a performance? What about if my dude is a collector? There's a difference between having swords and wielding them, and they don't all have to be wielded at once or for the sole purpose of combat.

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>>54463719
What if his game is set during the Sengoku Jidai, or something similar?
Or what if he refluffs Katanas as shashka? In terms of usability, a shasha would be actually much easier to dual wield than a katana

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>>54463810
Whoops, that's a saber, mxed up my sword pics

Here is a shashka

>>54463810
>What if his game is set during the Sengoku Jidai, or something similar?
Then its cool, but we both know his setting isn't set in the Sengoku period.

>>54462029

Re:Creators is actually pretty good. Its The Last Action Hero as an anime.

The thing to remember is that when the viewpoint character tells you in the first 2 minutes of the first episode that he isn't the protagonist, he is just the narrator? Believe him. The story isn't about him, he was just this one guy who saw it all go down and knew the context.

Simple plot synopsis is that the sword touhou posted previously is yanking people out of games and anime (because her creator liked games and anime) knowing that doing so bad for the health of our universe and with the goal of throwing so much impossible bullshit into our world that our reality BSODs. As revenge for some tragic shit that went down with her creator.

The rest of the show is genre-mashing fight scenes between characters that play on very different sets of rules, and the relationship between the writers and the stories they create. Imagine the horror when a character that is essential fem-guts finds out that her rapedemon infested world where she is narrowly holding back the total extinction of the human race at the hands of monsters, the world where all of her friends have died brutal deaths, was created by someone as ENTERTAINMENT.

So you have an idealogical split between the creations aware of their situation. The ones that just want to go back home/keep the situation from getting worse, and the ones that want to throw their creators up against a wall with a gun to their head and tell them "This is how you are going to write me my happy ending, motherfucker."

>>54459812
>A blade of grass will do
0 sword style is painfully common in chink works where it is regarded as the pinnacle of swordsmanship.

>>54463719
Really? Fuck off.
>>54463726
Two swords can be advantageous over single sword + empty hand or two handed wielding. Other than that it's indeed impractical, but not "completely surreal and so stupid it never ever happened and you are sucha dummie you are expelled from my hyper realist game!".
Now kill yourself.

>>54463902
>Two swords can be advantageous over single sword
Those are rapiers, anon. Stop believing in your animes as actual historical events.

>>54459496
One main, one spare and a dagger.

>>54463949

Ladies and gentleman, I have just been informed that we have a new record for the furthest a goalpost has ever been moved for in a single post.

>>54459596
Flying sword are staple tabletop fantasy and xuanhuan/xianxia tropes.

>>54462463
>>54462462
>missing the point

>>54463973
If you are too dumb to understand why being a rapier is important for the use of dualwield then there is no point talking to you. Bye! (and no I'm not leaving, but our reply chain is)

>>54464015

If I run into a guy that can dual wield flamberges, I'm not going to be the one to tell him that only rapiers are allowed to do that.

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>>54464103
>dual wield flamberges
Zweihander was here, Flamberge a shit.

>>54463789
No, never did, I did though a 12th level monk who without help or magic items dealt 80 damage per hit and could make 20 hits per turn. He One Round Kill 3 mariliths

>>54462641
Nigga David had a sling, and they fought on a battlefield.

I'm an atheist (*tips fedora*) but you should at least know so much. The bible is a very important piece of pop literature.

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>>54459496
None, for that is chinese mythology bullshit. Anime and rpg just ripped that off.

Three. The main reason for three is a matter of varying materials to more properly suit situations. Two is feasible, but you always want a spare cheapy for the weaker mobs that could potentially take or damage your good weapons.

>>54464481
So one sword to test new enemies' body armor
one sword to waste on weak mooks
and lastly, your primary sword that you almost never use?

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>>54462331
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1R-xZy-Gb4
>Dual-wielding with swords was done historically - context is the key

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2aCr5YfYKE

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

http://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Giacomo_di_Grassi
>There are also used now adays, aswell in the schools, as in the lists, two Swords or Rapiers, admitted, and approved both of Princes, and of the professors of this art, for honorable and knightly weapons, albeit they be not used in the wars. Wherefore I shall not vary from my purpose, if I reason also of these, as far as is agreeable to true art. To him that would handle these weapons, it is necessary that he can aswell manage the left hand as the right, which thing shall be (if not necessary) yet most profitable in every other kind of weapon. But in these principally he is to resolve himself, that he can do no good, without that kind of nimbleness and dexterity. For seeing they are two weapons, and yet of one self same kind, they ought equally and indifferently to be handled, the one performing that which the other does, and every of them being apt aswell to strike as defend. And therefore a man ought to accustom his body, arms and hands aswell to strike as defend. And he which is not much practiced and exercised therein, ought not to make profession of this Art: for he shall find himself to be utterly deceived.

https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_p8OnsLhUQBMC

http://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Achille_Marozzo

http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/lord/collection.html

http://www.schoolofthesword.com/Twos%20Company%20PartIII.pdf
http://www.schoolofthesword.com/Twos%20Company%20PartIV.pdf

>>54464506
Nah, more like this:
One say, adamantine sword for harder enemies with DR
One relatively low-tier nothing fancy cold iron or silver sword for weak mobs, the odd fey or two, and/or werewolves
And one regular sword that you use as a primary

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>>54460135
Yes.

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There's a fucking 3.5 template where you're a blessed creature with multiple arms.

There's a deity with multiple arms that was a war deity but got downgraded in 3.5

Marilliths.

Grafts.

>>54464251
Is Dual Wielding Dragonslayers allowed?

>>54463949
>Those are rapiers, anon
And does that magically make them not swords? Fuck off

>>54463866
its still shit though.

>>54463866
He clearly isn't the narrator as Exposition girl talks for 5 fucking episodes straight.
Could you imagine how much stuff could have been put in those 2 and a half hours of just slow camera shots during v/o(75% of that v/o is speculation or just fucking wrong anyway)? Re: Creators was a failed abortion and the only thing it had going for it was the redhead waifu with 30 minutes of screentime altogether and the sharktooth girl whose entire character is based around lol randumb chaotic evil.
Watch better anime please, maybe something with some semblance of a logical plot as opposed to "okay its been 2 episodes of talk lets make a few minutes of action with a commercial break right before the obvious plot twist because we have no viewers, and then have more v/o to explain whats REALLY happening(not for real though, we will add in another twist later)"
Its like watching the Big Bang Theory without a laugh track, just a bunch of one dimensional characters akwardly sitting around and talking for 30 minutes until something happens that requires about a minute of action.

>>54464251
>not dual wielding knechtmessers
Hoist more, pleb

>>54464849

> the questgiving NPC from a video game talks in block exposition

Gee, you don't fucking say

Sounds like you have too much ADD to follow a show that isn't fights every five minutes. There is a new Naruto series, maybe thats more your speed?

>>54464896
r u casul?

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>>54464679

3.5 is anime as all hell tho

>>54461721
Normally I would say one sword is the maximum, but a character like this with extreme autism that has all of his weapons memorized and each is for a highly specific purpose would be pretty cool

>>54464534
So it was mostly a somekind of duel/master only thing? and never used in the battlefield because it was extremely difficult

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>>54459496

After two. But when you hit six digits it's so anime bullshit it's mythic, and not anime bullshit at all.

>If it was torn from the living earth
>Then worked by the hands of man
>That man would kill man
>It is There
>It is His

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>>54465341
Pretty much. Here, I made a more comprehensive text:
https://pastebin.com/RZifh6nu
>Real Life European Dual Sword Wielding

>TL;DR: It was done historically. It had the following disadvantages:

>You need at the very least three times more training than with a single sword, because you have to learn to use it with your right hand, then learn with your left, to finally learn to use both without one disturbing the movements of the other.

>Di Grassi warns that this style should be used only at tourneys and duels, never wars. That's because dual handling demands too much concentration for one to focus on the kind of cooperative coordination that makes the difference between a bunch of warriors and an army.

>Last but not least, it should be used against enemies with few to no armor. The reason is that a single sword used with both hands brings you the necessary power and precision to find weak points and target joints, be it a plate harness or a gambeson.

>The adavantages were:

>Everything the right hand does, the left does as well, as both have equal reach. The "secondary" weapon is up for you to decide, and it may be the other one second later. The average swordsman already has some trouble fighting left-handed warriors, but he's going to have a hard time trying to guess which hand is feinting and which hand is actually attacking, for you can do both at the same time with either!

>Because dual wield is so hard to accomplish, users of this style are sure to enjoy fame at tourneys, impressing the public and competitors alike.

>>54460753
>piercing weapon
>for skelly sniping

>>54465468
That is really cool anon. thanks.

Is this from some kind of hema general or something like that

>>54460107
>>54460115
Keep in mind that fight isn't actually in the anime, just the preview.

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Anime bullshit eh? Roll call for "using your jaw to hold one". Really badass dude though

8 exactly

Did it really take this long for a book of nine swords joke

>>54466129

Whats book of nine swords?

>>54464005
>not elaborating the point for the retards

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>>54466197
Splatbook that turned fighters into COOL ANIME TOUGHBOYS

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>>54459496
its not about the number of swords, is the technique

>>54459496
Wielding and using? One with some minor exceptions (not real combat scenarios like dueling, special weapons designed to be a support in off-hand etc). I am cutting my players some slack in games that have a clear dual-wielding option, like D&D, but I personally don't like it.

If just having in equipment, let him have as many as he like. But don't come to me bitching that you can't take them out fast enough or that they encumber you too much.

Acceptable, sane number of swords owned (in travel, not hanging in home) would be something around one to three. The question is: why do you need more than one sword? Why not a mace or warhammer? What's so special about that second or third sword that it's justified?

I always carry three swords anon. One of steel for killing men, One of silver for killing monsters, and one of flesh for plowing women.

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>>54459496
How many guns is a character allowed to have before it becomes Russian bullshit?

>>54466532
kek

>>54466553
Four - three are German Mp-40 you took because your gun was shit and last one is Posh because army gave you it and you can't throw it away (even if it's useless)

Based on real practice in WW2

>>54466659
PPSh*

>>54459977

Sword and board. High enough AC gg no re

>>54465897
Don't forget him having Levels in Monk, he can do at least one move that would require all three swords without any of them.

Also he can probably bite through bone.

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>>54465687
No, I researched it for my setting.

I research way too many things for the setting:
https://pastebin.com/u/Curupira
This is only a taste. I don't think /tg/ is interested in pastebins about 12th century optical and vision theories or speculative architecture blogs.

>>54464428 is also made by me. Speaking of which, that could be a pastebin, heh?

>>54466553
There is no number, because you can discard a gun and use another without needing to spend the time reloading or unjamming.

>>54463726
Good luck using it against an armored, shield wielding footman. Or in crowd of 10 such footmen. Or in any, real combat situation and not mirrored dueling matches.

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>>54466785
True.

>>54466296

COOL ANIME CODZILLA

>>54465682
Pathfinder has blunt arrows/bolts to deal bludgeoning damage.

>>54461340
>IE you might end the game with Excalibur but you had to earn it. It wasn't passed down to your from your parents, or you pulled it from the stone at the beginning of the game
But King Arthur literally got a magic sword from a stone, and Excalibur was given to him for no reason.

>>54462019
I think Joyeuse and Curtana were the names of them

>>54467117
He's just talking out his ass.

>>54467160
Joyeuse belonged to Charlemagne. Technically so did Durundal, but if you have a legit holy sword from the Heavens you give it to your best swordsman.

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If its a character's deal to have a ton of Swords, they should have a ton of swords.

Had seen a player who tried to persuade his GM about his character could wield 5 swords. Two for his hands, one for mouth, one for anus and one for... urethra...

The GM simple stared at him until the player decided to seriously created an character who dual wield sword instead.

>>54461767
>>54461740
>>54461721
>54461721

>the illustration comes straight for a card that allowed you to have any number of weapons

>>54459496
>have
After reaching a dozen it becomes silly
>wield
As many as he could swing at full force, with varying maluses for balance

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>>54462001
exactly

>>54468000
Literally nothing wrong with belts

>>54461916
I like cool bro male Arthur more.

>>54459635
>117d100HP
>Average 11700

Someone can't math.

>>54468149
>roll 117 1s

>>54468149
If that's the immortal's handbook I'm pretty sure there's some rule about divine shit having maximized hit dice

>>54468201
>Hey, let's plan for something that's nearly impossible without weighted dice

Fuck off.

>>54462463
Both swords are for monsters because not every monster is vulnerable to silver, which is when he switches to steel.

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>>54462331
>>54466852
Yeah, because clearly the only real combat situations are in the battlefield and dual wielding never happened there.

>>54469275
only used in duels

>>54459695
FWOCKA FWOCKA FWOCKA

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>>54469311
“Governor Lin has enlisted about 3,000 recruits, who are being drilled daily near Canton in the military exercise of the bow, the spear and the double sword. The latter weapon is peculiar to China. Each soldier is armed with two short and straight swords, one in each hand, which being knocked against each other, produce a clangour [sic], which, it is thought, will midate [sic] the enemy.” P. 327

The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China and Australia. May-August, 1840. London: Wm. H. Allen and Co.

(In a discussion of the “Chamber for the superintendent of stores and the examination of military candidates.):

“Chinese bows are famous for carrying to a great distance; their match-locks are wretched fire-arms; and upon their cannon they have not yet improved, since they were taught by the Europeans. Swords, spears, halberts, and partisans, are likewise in use in the army. Two swords in one scabbard, which enable the warrior to fight with the left and right hands, are given to various divisions. They carry rattan shields, made of wicker work, and in several detachments they receive armour to protect their whole body. The officers, in the day of battle, are always thus accoutered. Of their military engines we can say very little, they having, during a long peace, fallen into disuse.” P. 446.

Karl Friedrich A. Gützlaff. China opened; or, A display of the topography, history… etc. of the Chinese Empire. London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1838.

>>54469529
>Each soldier is armed with two short and straight swords
lol

can't stop a zweihander with that

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>>54465810
You are full of shit that fight is the highlight of the series and you cannot fucking tell me otherwise. Every step was perfect, and yeah it's over the top but it's fun things being fun in what could've been a somber, sad tone for the scenario or a downright curbstompping waste of time.

>>54461916
>>54463743
Damn it /tg/ I came here to troll frogs not to learn.
My shit posting has been proven to be weak to the need to correct ignorance. Good show.

>>54463522
Why the fuck is this nigga named after a Wu Tang meme?

>>54466745
>Curupira
Huehuehuebrbr?

>>54459496
At least two. A warrior's proper dress includes his spare magic sword. Plus other weapons like maces (aka tin openers), lances, halberd, etc (polearms best carried by pack mule/horse or bag of holding)

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>>54471325
Issaí.

>>54459496
Depends, do you mean how many they are able to equip and use at one time like in your pic, or just how many they carry around. If it's the former I would say two max, preferably a sword with a dagger in the off-hand. You might be able to stretch to three if they are small and you were creative, but that'd be a stretch.

If it's just different swords for different occasions I would say between 1-5, with five consisting of a one-handed sword, a two-handed or hand-and-a-half, a dagger, and up to two specialist blades (rapier/epee, mail breaker, ceremonial, whatever). Unless you were planning on keeping tons of uniquely enchanted weapons, any more than five would be superfluous