Thread 719137746

>RPG with a million choices for character design

>Chuds still pick le generic big guy with a sword

>>719137746 (OP)
Well duh, it's the most based option.

>>719137746 (OP)
based chuds

>>719137746 (OP)
its the most badass design.

no one wants to be the twinky elf, manlet dwarf, or nerdy wizard.
the warrior with armor is fucking badass and masculine.

that's because rpgs are a genre meant to be about a guy with a sword killing people and have been subverted by faggots playing dressup
just like how tabletops are meant to be mechanical challenges that have been subverted by transexual theater kids

>>719137746 (OP)
>short(like a woman)
>fat(like a woman)
>holds grudges(like a woman)
>likes jewelry(like a woman)
>bearded(like the man she'll never be)
Reddit's favourite fantasy race, the humble dwarf.

>>719137746 (OP)
I've seen this thread and this line many time already and no one ever listens, so why don't you people kill yourselves over it.

Full plate seems extremely impractical for adventuring. I prefer the classic "ronin look" of just having a guy wearing normal clothes and a sword.

>>719139650
Depends on the plate. You could definitely have plate tier protection in something you could walk and run normally in, and the weight wouldn't matter nearly as much as you'd think because it's distributed over your entire body.

>>719139650
>>719139708
It seems impractical because no one is brave enough to interface with the reality of a knight needing squires, baggage handlers, cooks, stable boys, etc following him around in order to make traipsing about in full plate viable. The erasure of camp followers in adventuring both in tabletop and vidya is my 9/11.

>>719139994
Imagine a fantasy rpg but all of your party members are just your support team.
>little brother squire
>jolly mentor baggage handler
>cook (love interest)
>stable boys (why not girls?)

>>719137746 (OP)
It's fun

>NOOOO YOU HAVE TO PICK THE REFORMED SUCCUBUS WHO USES THE POWER OF HER VOICE
>OR THE LATINX ELF BARD THAT ALSO DANCES TO HER OWN SALSA MUSIC
>OR OR THE WHEELCHAIR BOUND HANDI-CAPABLE STEALTH ROGUE DWARF
>OK FINE HERES YOUR KNIGHT, BUT HE FIGHTS WITH MATCHA WHISKS AND ORGANICALLY RECYCLED PLASTIC SHIELDS

>>719139650
>normal clothes
>heavy armor
These are the two best options. Leather armor looks retarded.

>>719139994
Tell me more of camp followers in TTRPGs and games in general.

Human
Male
Fighter

>>719141217
It is less common a trope in video games but in early TTRPGs it was expected you would have noncombatant NPCs following you around providing various services, either out of obligation (they were your servants or your family's servants), contracts (you are paying them to follow you into horrible wilderness to keep you fed and supplied while you delve the dungeon, typically a steady rate over shares of the haul), or greed (they are vultures that attached themselves to you in the hopes of sharing the loot, or just stealing it later). This is more or less the pattern followed by actual camp followers, which followed armies around.

Example of camp followers in tabletop:
https://coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/2017/06/osr-table-of-camp-followers.html

And in real life:
https://acoup.blog/2022/07/15/collections-logistics-how-did-they-do-it-part-i-the-problem/
(ctrl+f for the 'The Rest of the Army' heading and go from there)

>>719139994
>armor is enchanted to be weightless and secure itself to your body without help
wow that was fucking hard

>>719142012
if you're into that, sure. But that kind of handwavy utility magic feels lame to me when you could instead do something more interesting with it if you are actually going to go out of your way to deal with the logistical aspect of full plate at all. Even then, I'd rather it be something like you're a skeleton with no need to take it off, or just a messy, scraggly freak explicitly because you are doing all that without help. It makes for a more interesting character.

>>719137746 (OP)
>le generic big guy with a sword

Tell me you are some limpwristed INT bitch wizard boy without actually admitting to it. What are you..gay? pss

>>719137746 (OP)
What other people chose to play as is MY business not yours OP.

>>719142272
INT ritual casting, castle dwelling wizards are ok in my book. It's those handwaving color spray magic hobbos that don't sit well with me.

>>719137746 (OP)
STR + INT

I ALWAYS play dwarf if available

KnightChads are literally carrying gaming

>dev: we put a wide variety of body types and customization options so you can be exactly who you want to be!
>*pick white male like*
>dev: NOOOOOOO NOT LIKE THAT AAAAAAAAA

>>719137746 (OP)
I'll only ever play as human and in few rare instances a dwarf. Depends on my mood for a playthrough. Knight, Berserker, sometimes Ranger.

>>719137746 (OP)
No a real chud would pick another generic modded whore

>>719137746 (OP)
>Race?
Doesn't matter
>Sex?
Never had it
>Hybrid Theory?
Put on repeat
>Either heaviest armor possible or occult robes
>Face fully covered
Yep. It's gaming time.

>>719137746 (OP)
It's a fantasy adventure. Why not play as a knight? Wizards are mentors, archers are allies, necromancers are villains. The knights are the heroes. It's highly likely the game will at some point ask me to slay a dragon and I want to prepare appropriately.

>>719137746 (OP)
I prefer to play as a spellblade, if there's such a class available. Enchanting or overcharging weapons is my shit

>>719143693
What are thieves?

>>719144170
They're the robinhood who help us in our final showdown against the main villian

>>719137927
Yeah subverted in like 1978

Whenever possible I play as a wizard. Problem is that a lot of the time robes don't look as cool as they should.
Don't play wizards in soulslikes because the combat system isn't interesting that way. You need to be able to plan long ahead to have a wizard class be good because otherwise it's just like using a gun.

I love playing non-humans, ideally not even humanoid at every opportunity, like ayys, felines, dragons/lizards, elementals/golems, machines, etc. Or I play humans exclusively, if there's no other option. Don't care about elves, dwarves, hobbits, gnomes, fairies, undead, demons or angels. What do you call this sort of preference?

>>719147284
Oh, I should also mention besides this, it's always
>heavy armour
>big sword, sword & board, polearm or a battle axe or warhammer if I'm feeling fancy

>>719137746 (OP)
For me its paladin, my first choise in RPG, also orc race if possible for that combo

>>719147284
Neglected by your mother if I got my science right.

>>719137746 (OP)
No. I pick generic big guy with a Halberd.

Sword chuds are fucking retarded. When people started wearing PLATE ARMOR in the medieval you think people used le zweihander against them? nope they were using POLEARMS. Halberods, Lucerne, very LONG weapons that symbolize their LONG DICKS and they were CRUSHING the plate wearing knights.
If you use a sword you're playing an UNREALISTIC and UNIMMERSIVE game you need to USE A HALBERD OR LUCERNE NOW

>>719147284
>What do you call this sort of preference?
e621

>>719137746 (OP)
>sexy female (race irrelevant)
>spellcaster
Oh yeah, its gaming time

>>719147479
But I'm the plate armor wearing chudcel why would I use a weapon designed around countering me

>>719137746 (OP)
>RPG with a million choices for character design
>nothing good except for big guy with a sword
"It's something different" isn't good enough to make me pick it

>>719147552
>female tiefling sorcerer
>gold dragon bloodline
now it's gaming time for real

>clicks on create character
>clicks out in 5 seconds
Alright I'm done guys let's play

>>719147565
>implying the game has no plate wearing knight enemies

also the bosses often have different kinds of protective armor even if it's not plate. for example some bosses in games are made out of rock. what do you think a sword is gonna do to a FUCKING HUGE ROCK? nothing it'll just break.

>>719137746 (OP)
Melee is just the most fun and cool.
Melee weapons are fascinating. Heavy armor is fascinating. Melee fighters get to fight up close and personal and crush their enemies with the might of their own muscles. Looting weapons and armor is fun. Melee fighting has a much richer history than magic, starting from animals with claws and fangs, to cavemen with clubs and spears, then metallurgy brought us axes, polearms and maces and those have been refined with more advanced steel types, shapes and martial arts over the centuries.
In almost any action game, melee is always the most fun and high adrenaline playstyle. Especially, if it's a shooter game where melee weapons kill enemies in a single blow.
Just simply flinging spells isn't the same.
Also, thieves/rogues/assassins are retarded in most games because they do not actually use stealth and trickery but are instead shitty melee fighters with leather armor and fucking daggers.
Carry capacity from strength is a really nice bonus.

speak for yourself, nigga. im white as snow and play as tribal summoner/warlock type characters every time i can

>>719148058
also just primitive tribal guys in general

>>719147284
>>719147356
Based as fuck. I'm the same way, right down to the preference for heavy armor and a polearm/hammer/axe.

>>719148496
Always pump up endurance/vitality/constitution for max tanking with strength to follow. I also like creating these fighter chars with relatively high wisdom/intelligence with social skills to boot for those Conan "what's best in life" moments. I also tend to have dexterity/agility be the general the "dump stat" to have this RP clumsy persona and have it reflect mechanically

>>719137746 (OP)
Actually I pick the paladin big guy with a sword.

>>719137746 (OP)
I prefer fighter/wizards that buff themselves with magic but not enough games do it in a satisfying way.

>>719137746 (OP)
RPG has party members? I pick fighter.
RPG has you go solo? I pick rogue.

On your second playthrough of any RPG it is best to pick the class that fills the role of the most annoying party member.

>>719137746 (OP)
Das rite. Da fuck Merlin gon' do?

>>719147656
Actually, I feel like rolling a dwarf for my 2nd run.

>>719137746 (OP)
>Chuds still pick le generic big guy with a sword
I'm old enough now to have seen how the average player of DnD has changed over time.
It's to the point where the "generic" human male fighter is no longer generic by sheer virtue of being rarely chosen by anyone. Everyone always has to be some kind of "unique" special race with severe main character syndrome in the most generic backstory ever of trauma and hidden power and great willpower, defying gods or demons, etc. etc. Every single one.
I've been in groups were every single person has chosen some form of edge lord tiefling.

But really, I just like the simple guy in Armor with a Sword. It's an age old heroes story that is so common for a reason. It's a classic.

I like to play a wizard but always when I use Teleport spell to instantly travel hundreds of kilometers, I hear knights and other fighters snicker:
>he cannot afford a steed....
What do I say without sounding mad?

>>719137746 (OP)
It's more fun picking generic fighter man when there are others options.

>Chuds still pick le generic big guy with a sword
What can I say? I like the idea of a guy who's got nothing but grit and determination fighting above his weight class. No special snow flake powers, no gods empowering him, just a guy who keeps getting back up over and over again.
That is the coolest shit ever.
Plus, I just like the aesthetics of Knights, Warriors, Vikings, etc. It's cool. Not even just from a looks perspective. The ideas behind them, honor, virtue, no fear in the face of death, a warriors death even. Always the hypest moments in any movie where the basic simply Warrior faces down death heroically.
Boromir as an easy example is remembered fondly for good reason. They're just cool.

>>719151185
>he doesn't know it but the source of his strength is in fact from a god, the god just decides to keep himself hidden
lol
lmao

>>719137906
dwarf mogs

>>719151356
No.

>>719151382
The Dwarf is cool. And a total bro. But Laios is cooler.

>>719151403
I guess there's just no way to know :)

>>719140590
where's your boots knigger

>>719151356
be your own god
your body is your temple
your will your gospel

>>719151653
>blesses you from beyond the veil
you're welcome, mortal :)

>>719137746 (OP)
>big guy
Most of the customizable player characters are manlets or average sized
The only series that comes to mind that allows making a big guy is Dragon's Dogma.

>>719137746 (OP)
...AND a cool cape

>>719139994
A knight and his ragtag lance would make a great RPG team. You got the knight as the tank, the light horseman and the archer for offence, and the squire for support or something.

>>719137746 (OP)
I sometimes switch it up with maces and axes.

>>719151727
>kills god anyway
Heh, sayonara

>>719151981
Why's that hooded dude in the back throwing gang symbols while the super model poses?

>>719152332
He's using the Arx Fatalis magic system and the chick knows she's just eye candy anyway. The perfect party.

>>719152446
>Arx Fatalis magic system
kek based

>>719151981
Man this game was such dogshit but I like it anyway.

Human Male Fighter / Righteous Good? Check.
Most Evil Woman, Undead or Monster Wife? Check.

The only thing I won't play are gross Western anthro races

>>719151356
not every game is a faggy DnD game

>>719137746 (OP)
The strong believer is worth more than the weak believer. That's a double entendre