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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: The (TBI) Brigands
« on: January 25, 2014, 06:48:32 pm »
Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on January 25, 2014, 06:46:24 pm
Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 25, 2014, 06:44:30 pm
If you have both a shield and a weapon you can block with, you double your defensive options. No shield is 360, after all...
Actually I'm not entirely certain why you're saying that you can't block with a spear. Is it the length or something like that?
More that the haft is typically wooden. And if you are holding it in one hand, you won't really be able to hold it as strongly as a sword or something, so you're going to have trouble blocking with it in that case (unless you WANT your wrist to get badly twisted). It's also longer and less wieldy to do so with than most weapons.

Quote from: Taricus on January 25, 2014, 06:46:13 pm
No head is 360 degrees as well GWG :P
Regardless, blocking helps. Also helpful is not having to shift the way you're holding your weapon if the enemy closes.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: The (TBI) Brigands
« on: January 25, 2014, 06:44:30 pm »
Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on January 25, 2014, 06:43:09 pm
Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 25, 2014, 06:41:25 pm
And that's the point--if youhave a spear, you're kinda screwed if you need to block something.
That's why you have shields. They are the premier piece of defensive equipment after all.
If you have both a shield and a weapon you can block with, you double your defensive options. No shield is 360, after all...

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: GM Hall of Fame
« on: January 25, 2014, 06:43:31 pm »
I'll go with freeform and piecewise, due to their slew of excellent games, as well as their artistic skills and creativity respectively.

scapheap, as well, since he made one of the longest-running and busiest games I have ever seen on Bay12.
Also IAmAnElfCollaborator, because he is currently running that game.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: The (TBI) Brigands
« on: January 25, 2014, 06:41:25 pm »
Quote from: darkpaladin109 on January 25, 2014, 06:25:30 pm
Glaives and naginatas can be used to slash and stab, as can be halberds.
And they're all unbalanced to varying degrees, as well as being polearms and therefore sucking if your enemy was fairly close.
Also, aren't maginatas more Asian than European?

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Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 25, 2014, 06:20:01 pm
They're always pretty unbalanced. Putting a big, sharp bit of metal on the end of a stick does that. Unbalancedness always makes it less wieldy.
There's always double-sided axes.
Still unbalanced.

Quote from: scapheap on January 25, 2014, 06:29:05 pm
Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 25, 2014, 06:15:34 pm
Spoiler: Weseal (click to show/hide)
Should I expand on the backstory?
Maybe say who/what killed his mother. At the moment, it come off as he kill her, but could of been old age or another killer.
Aye-aye. Any other suggestions on gaps?

Quote from: Taricus on January 25, 2014, 06:37:40 pm
If you're using a spear to block, you deserve everything that happens to you :P
And that's the point--if youhave a spear, you're kinda screwed if you need to block something.

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Maybe make it blunt/point/edge instead of accurate/damaging/median of the two?
I don't see what you mean...

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: The (TBI) Brigands
« on: January 25, 2014, 06:20:01 pm »
They're always pretty unbalanced. Putting a big, sharp bit of metal on the end of a stick does that. Unbalancedness always makes it less wieldy.

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Roll To Dodge / Re: Heroes and Legends-An RTD with Shenanigans (turn 15: now with less mystery)
« on: January 25, 2014, 06:18:53 pm »
Quote from: kj1225 on January 25, 2014, 05:43:03 pm
Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 25, 2014, 05:42:18 pm
I am the best interspecies dad ever!

Make sure we have enough food for a while. Keep an eye out for baddies.
Better than my interspecies dad. Can you adopt me?
I don't know about you IC...or OOC.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: [IC] [ALPHA 1.0] Nuclear Throne - game 1, turn 4
« on: January 25, 2014, 06:18:13 pm »
Continue advancing and shooting!

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: The (TBI) Brigands
« on: January 25, 2014, 06:15:34 pm »
Spoiler: Weseal (click to show/hide)
Should I expand on the backstory?

Quote from: kaian-a-coel on January 25, 2014, 05:57:45 pm
I don't understand gaming trends of swords being the "average" weapon, when in reality they were top-tier super-expensive stuff. Good swords that is.
People see them as the "standard" medieval weapon, and they're the most common weapon in fantasy. Hence, they're the basis everything else is based off of. Plus, from a layman's point of view, it looks like they can do a bit of what just about any other weapon can.

Quote from: Taricus on January 25, 2014, 06:11:55 pm
Axes, if you put a spike ontop of the haft. Or just use spears.
Axes are unwieldy no matter what you put on the top.
Spears have more reach than most other weapons and can't slash, unlike most weapons. They also suck at bludgeoning.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: The (TBI) Brigands
« on: January 25, 2014, 05:44:35 pm »
Quote from: kaian-a-coel on January 25, 2014, 05:40:52 pm
EDIT: GODDAMNIT, NINJA'D by two applications, now I'm seventh.
Not FCFS, so you've got a chance.

Will post a sheet soon.

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Roll To Dodge / Re: Heroes and Legends-An RTD with Shenanigans (turn 15: now with less mystery)
« on: January 25, 2014, 05:42:18 pm »
I am the best interspecies dad ever!

Make sure we have enough food for a while. Keep an eye out for baddies.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: X-COM Only War: War Room/Barracks (Anyone can post)
« on: January 25, 2014, 05:39:39 pm »
Great! We're online now. I'll PM you the Roll20 link. Tell them I'd be there if the page was loading, okay?

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Rise of the Magic Girls v2 OOC: Oh mah gawd, the angst!
« on: January 25, 2014, 05:38:36 pm »
Quote from: Empiricist on January 25, 2014, 04:53:09 pm
((Should we have a restriction so that only mind-based abilities work in the server and other people's minds? Otherwise it wouldn't make much sense that someone could affect the server with a physical effect.))
On one hand, that makes sense.
On the other hand...well, in the mind, the mind makes it real. So theoretically (if the server/host mind didn't object somehow, and if you convinced yourself well enough) you could do or be just about anything in the mentalverse.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: X-COM Only War: War Room/Barracks (Anyone can post)
« on: January 25, 2014, 05:14:21 pm »
Amusingly, I was distracted by actual XCOM, which is why I was a bit late.

That, and the fact that my internet's acting up. By not acting.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: X-COM Only War: War Room/Barracks (Anyone can post)
« on: January 25, 2014, 04:20:05 pm »
Didn't we just go over this?

No, not for another ~40 minutes. If everyone shows up on time.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Rise of the Magic Girls v2 IC Thread: Golems, Layars and Love Letters
« on: January 25, 2014, 04:19:33 pm »
Quote from: RangerCado on January 25, 2014, 04:05:04 pm
"M-m-maybe a study area...? W-w-w-with all th-the books and l-l-l-languages available...?"
"I was thinking of something like that..." Will begins assembling the server.

Quote from: kj1225 on January 25, 2014, 04:05:31 pm
"Okay. Could you quickly load the map I gave you so we can just mess about in it? I may have put something in for Neferis."
"...Al-right." Will carries the servers back to a room he turned into his workshop.

<Ready, Kyle. Do your worst.> He goes back to assembling the new server.

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