The Harbinger of Ferocity

Hello!

Welcome to the Roleplayer Guild, @Laifan. Fortunately for you, that genre is exceptionally popular and has a lively, active community which I am quite confident you will find some amount of conversation and opportunity with if you are even slightly persistent and rejoining the genre as you propose. Should you have any questions or comments, even concerns for whatever reason, feel free to pose them here or even in private. All the same, thank you for joining the community!

Post a random fact about yourself.

I find the color purple a wonderful natural compliment to greenery. The gardens I have attended to have had many, many purple flowers, although it is biased in favor of the subdued, cream touched purple, such as that seen in various lavenders or purple catnip. I am led to believe the contrast is what makes it one of my favorite compliments and why the image of flowers, when I imagine them, is of this kind.

D&D 5e - Hoard of the Dragon Queen

The sensation of weightlessness had been an odd experience for a youthful man who spent all his life prowling the woodland and its associated grasses with vim and vigor. Flight, rather even just gliding down, was a rare and uneasy experience. It was not natural to say the least yet it was unexpectedly effective, so much so that as soles of the hunter's boots hit the ground, and his newly fitted pieces of armor only spoke lightly to one another with a metallic jingle. Sword already drawn, well-worn gauntlets set to its grip, the shock of their sudden onset against the enemy disoriented the defenders and by the time he had rushed in to strike, one of the cultists had already been dropped to the cave floor by a flurry of misery leveled at them.

The other likely reeled at the quick slash of the blade performed by the half orc that nipped at them, only to find another combatant was upon them. A cross-body strike followed suit, powered by enormous, arguably inhuman, strength which gave the leading edge of the ornate weapon the means to threaten a viscous blow. All of Brannor, for a large man as he was, moved with a pivot and serene grace at the same time of the weapon, and that was what made the attack so destructive; it was not limited to pure force, rather it was a thing of innate and deadly skill too. He snarled after, a low, gravely sound, and pierced the darkness with his bright eyes, scanning for what the next threat might be before drawing them back to the enemy before him.

Effects

Brannor moves (up to 30ft) to attack the other cultist that is still alive, the one wounded just prior by Orchid. He attacks with his greatsword for a 24 to hit, with a 14 for slashing damage if it lands. He also takes a quick survey of the (presumably dark) cave environment for any other threats to the skirmish. Assuming an enemy provokes from him in the combat, Brannor will use his attack of opportunity to strike the first foe provoking.

@Hekazu@Ryonara@Gordian Nought@Lucius Cypher@Norschtalen

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Of all the things I would consider eating, dog is not one I find appetizing. I fail to see such an attraction to it and relegate it instead more to a concept that probably arose out of pure desperation to avoid starving in places it became culturally associated with.

Give Me Your Favorite Quote(s).

"Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and stumbles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement. And just as inferior people prefer the inferior animal which scampers excitedly because someone else wants something, so do superior people respect the superior animal which lives its own life and knows that the puerile stick-throwings of alien bipeds are none of its business and beneath its notice. The dog barks and begs and tumbles to amuse you when you crack the whip. That pleases a meekness-loving peasant who relishes a stimulus to his self importance.

The cat, on the other hand, charms you into playing for its benefit when it wishes to be amused; making you rush about the room with a paper on a string when it feels like exercise, but refusing all your attempts to make it play when it is not in the humour. That is personality and individuality and self-respect -- the calm mastery of a being whose life is its own and not yours -- and the superior person recognises and appreciates this because he too is a free soul whose position is assured, and whose only law is his own heritage and aesthetic sense."

H.P. Lovecraft

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I might never have engaged in any social clubs or groups during my period of public education, primarily out of resentment and desire to not even be remotely affiliated with the school, but I did come to learn about tabletop games via roleplaying that was done through storytelling. Roleplaying was never a new phenomena to me, rather when people started sorting out how things were done via self imposed rule sets or those borrowed from other systems, that is when I came into discovering them.

Post a random fact about yourself.

I have never played an actual game of chess or checkers. I have only ever seen a table for them with the associated pieces but have never once actually engaged in the game or even so much as watched one. Card games however, those I am not unfamiliar to and many, many hands were dealt. It became a recurring trend to not play said games with the cat and out of such boredom I learned a fair few sleights. Not a practical thing in any sense but an interesting skill to have added.

Sum up your week in roleplaying in just 3 words

Forever in limbo.

Is it overdone? Cliches, popular genres, ect.

Whilst this is a thread of opinion, I can't help but to feel your post equates to "ew, anime." Overlapping of tropes happens, regardless if you find it worthy of eye-rolling or not. I've seen standard western tropes in anime/manga just as well as you've seen eastern tropes in your tales and stories.

This would happen to be a thread about things that are "overdone, cliche, and popular genres", @Sola, and the stated issues I take with it tie in with that quite well. By any metric, genres that do not belong in other genres and are full of stereotypical, overused, stock elements in roleplaying likely goes handedly to the anime category at this time. There is nothing with possible comparison in sheer volume and pervasiveness in this manner. As such, I will continue to find it worthy of eye-rolling where it does not belong.

Post a random fact about yourself.

I abide by a Code of Conduct for myself, which is apparently an unusual thing to do if the reactions of others is any indication.