Sombrero

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

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Tell me you're joking about that, swear that you are, or I will end you using facts and mildly harsh wording.

@Jbcool

Ask your typical 'Murican/Non-UK Native to name a movie about Scottish people. Your response will either be Goldfinger or Braveheart, unfortunately. It is about as historically accurate as Inglorious Bastards *RERAILMENT* Varg Vikernes' vision of medieval Europe, but I meant that it was definitive regarding the portrayal of Scotts, not actually a definitive source of Scottish history.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

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There's also the Crusades between 1096 to 1487. They were fought with European Weapons as well and is considered to be aligned with (grossly assuming) God.

@VKAllen

Well, it was kinda sorta about pope feuds, vengeful Byzantines, and landgrabbing, but you'd have a hard time convincing any of the psychos who fought for the Christians that it was about anything other than redemption and righteous, holy vengeance. It was aligned with mobs and madness, for the most part.

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Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

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Except of its aging status.

The Japs need to get some babies goin.

@VKAllen

There's a few... Interesting rants about why this isn't happening in the comments of GaijinGoomba's video about simdates.

Guilty of this, although I am starting to look at European Armings/Hand-and-a-halves for primary weapons now. Simply put, thanks to Anime, Katanas have far more exposure than European Swords (therefore easier to find pictures of). That being said-- In real life situation I'd prefer a European Sword over a Katana.

@VKAllen

Something feels really off about this whole thing. I mean, one of the biggest katana movies on this side of the pond was Highlander, but only 9 years later, the definitive movie about actual Highlanders came out, and Braveheart wielded a Claymore. It smells a bit like the illuminati prefers European swords to me, which must mean that Katanas are better sheerly from a moral standpoint. Katana wielders obviously would have a resistance towards this obvious subliminal messaging...

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

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are you joking around or being serious? Using a viking in a fight against a samurai is unbalanced and unfair, a knight is a way better comparison.

@Weird Tales

I'm not joking one bit! Ignore any heathenous hobbits that may tell you otherwise! Japan is literally the best country in the world, politically, economically, culturally, and socially, and there is literally no evidence to refute that. The country is well known for its far-reaching and progressive, peaceful history. They have an indomitable military, unequalled toilets, and I live my life by the Bushido code, which I follow 100%.

Really, though, I am.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

I don't like it when people obsess over katanas and don't give European longswords or any other non Asian blade a shot. Seriously Asians aren't the only great warriors and it's ignorant to think so

@Weird Tales

But "science" has proven that samurai can kill vikings in all combat instances! Nevermind the fact that those tested weren't even half the weapons that either one of them used and that they pit a single elite feudal commander up against a single standard military unit! Samurai, Ninjas, and Shaolin are the best and the only Asian warriors to ever exist in history! Mongols, Chinese knights, and Korean sailors are mere Hollywood inventions that were all inferior in every way! Japan conquered all of Asia during the medieval times because they were so unequalled in war!

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

Just reading through the responses about weapons in general, would it be worth while to have an article about different types of weapons and how each one should work?

@NuttsnBolts

I don't think it really would. I mean, it would ease some frustration in the long run, but when it comes down to it, we don't really come roleplaying for realism. Besides, are there really people in our number who's used all the weapons and can provide complete, unbiased facts about their abilities history and everything? Hell, we have trouble getting complete facts into some college history courses. People should be logical, and things should be run according to the rules of their universe. They shouldn't be referred to an enormous article about the finer points of archaic weaponry. I mean, wikipedia hardly resolves disputes anymore, this too would fade with time and nitpicking.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

I love how this has gone from bitching about our RP problems to a conversation about weaponry from the late 1500s early 1600s.

@AirBender

Well, I'd like to imagine that cathartic things should (and naturally come to be) be balanced out with fun discussions or at least rants that are funny enough to make everyone genuinely feel better.

@NuttsnBolts Katanas were only really useful against Japanese armor, because they had really bad armor compared to Europeans. lol

@Mr Allen J

The armor was actually pretty good. It's not great against big, bone-breaking weapons, but for things like the arrows, medium to small blades, (I'd argue that armor was the last thing you'd want to hit with a katana, since you're probably far more likely to get stuck than you are to cut someone) and improvised farming equipment that the average samurai had to deal with back then, the protection was amazing, and it was very rugged, relatively light, and allowed for hella mobility.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

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Katanas are the most over rated sword in history. They're a thin blade used for slicing skin and fabric style armour. They cannot cut through bone or steel unless it's of a really high quality, but even then something like a Claymore would do just as much damage, if not more.

Katanas are only popular because of anime, and even then it's because they have a symbolic meaning. I bet 80% of the posters here won't even understand the honour of owning a katana and just view it as a weapon like a gun, ie: believing the weapon makes you powerful, not the skill and years of training.

@NuttsnBolts

Weren't Samurai all about the bow and arrow anyway? Since when did melee combat become the only awesome/chivalrous way to wage war? (Granted, it is awesome, but there's more than one way to build a lifestyle around graceful asskicking.) Sure, they could have sword fights at the golden hour, but who hasn't seen that? What about an honor duel at sunset mounted on horseback, charging about and shooting each other with longbows? Sounds a lot more beautiful and cool to me than Medieval Kill Bill.

Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter Guild~ IC

Since you are a droid your durability is way larget that ours! We will die in like 1-2 direct blaster hits on the chest, while you would then take some serious damage but it wouldn't mean your immediate end!

@Gravislayer

The thing is, though, we can also heal with time and/or bacta stuff, whereas a droid needs to go through the expensive process of being rebuilt. I feel like it would balance out if he could take a lot of damage since he can't heal normally. (Or cheaply, if he's having his durasteel replaced.)

Weird Roleplay Ideas You're Afraid To Pitch?

*Good Points :3*

@Shorticus

I guess so. My problem with groups, though, is the classic issue of different people wanting to go different ways, which could be solved by making more groups and threads, (There's so many things to go and do, one group with one goal wouldn't cover it very well) but... I guess this all really revolves around my deepest fears that someone will do something which would intersect someone else's stream of continuity a few events before the time they're at currently, and then I'd either have to retcon everything that happened to the players in the future, throw off the other players' plans in the past with some inexplicable obstacle, or drag both of them across the planes of spacetime so that the event could occur properly.