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Dysfunctional Nuts
Anonymous
BK2bC
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No.51841
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Can the party avoid tearing each-other's throat out? Can they successfully complete the dungeon and rid Port Barry of the giant glass octahedron that sits motionless a short way off the docks? Will GM have an aneurysm from it all?

Welcome back to the Nuts RP thread, where new faggots (players) are always welcome and previous faggots interact based increasingly loosely on D&D 3.5e core rules.

This thread begins with Thez completing a marvelous and unplanned concert now that she can cast "Dancing lights!" again, and a large crowd has formed around the square, where both Infernius and Trump appear to be intending to address the crowd, Thez having vacated the impromptu stage with several bouquets of flowers and adoring cheers from the crowd.
She has obscene skill pertaining to "Perform"
1780 replies and 200 files omitted.
Mrs. Sentry
PHGLm
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No.53136
53139 53142
>>53134
>why be involved in the situation at all if there's no clear benefit to your being there?
You don't choose to be involved in situations. Situations just happen.
I like complex, dramatic circumstances (that don't occur through metafaggotry), where there may be good or bad consequences on either side of the issue.
>what is the point of the characters being there if they can't do anything that makes a difference, because no outcome is good?
It's not a proper tragedy if you don't learn something from it in the aftermath. Your decisions when circumstances are hazy define your views and values as a character. Anyone can make a decision when circumstances are clear, but when situations become convoluted, that's where the real character-development occurs.
>Trumpaladin has definitely sat out battles when morality is gray
You have that Phylactery of Faithfulness: you won't fall without realizing it.
>Smite
It's not the damage, it's the concept: I wanna own the role as long as I have it (might just toss the levels if I see a better development plan, so that's a bit gray)
Poisons, Smiting, Sneak attacks: overall I built a character capable of doing bad things to good people, if they get in the way of what she's aiming for when necessary.
>alignment being a good way to guess whether or not someone is likely to keep or violate the NAP
Alignment is not a sure-kill method to know if a character will always be on your side. Good characters have conflicts of interest too.
Anonymous
C6gcl
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No.53137
53138 53139
>>53125
Also id like to go to space.
Mrs. Sentry
PHGLm
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No.53138
53141
>>53137
Finish-off the Earth Jews first. Better not to leave the job unfinished.
Anonymous
GTyOx
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No.53139
53141 53143
>>53136
>Damage doesn't matter
Well it fucking does to me when the entire mechanic is centered around combat and my character is nerfed in it, because the entire class is designed around facing evil opponents.

And if your whole issue is role play, well damn it, I'm roleplaying a Crusader. So yeah, evil enemies are better

>if they get in the way of what she's aiming for when necessary
What the hell is your character aiming for? Aside from being your tool to gain more items and powers for combat you don't actually have an interest in?

>Not a proper Tragedy
Tragedy is fun to read and watch. Why the hell would you want to live or play it?

>You don't choose to be involved in situations. Situations just happen
The reason I can't chose what happens to me in life is because the only alternative to being flung around by circumstance is Suicide. A game is about taking power over your character and circumstance

>>53137
Why is space so much more interesting to you than the hordes of villains on the same planet? Do you think a different planet might be less boring to you? If you're bored by this planet, why would a different one be less boring to you?
Anonymous
BK2bC
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No.53140
53145
>>53128
Yes, vandereim would also have been kill. Uatchit would not have died, but the figurine would have been destroyed, along with the new and untested goat figurines.
>>53131
Relax, I'm looking to include ideas; the excluding of ideas will come later.
>>53134
Noted

Anonymous
C6gcl
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No.53141
>>53139
>>53138
Niggers did you not read this ?>>53135

Anonymous
GTyOx
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No.53142
>>53136
>you won't fall without realizing it
No, the problem is why the hell am I doing this in the first place. A motivation to actually act, not a fear of being nerfed more. Not that falling matters as much if enemies are not evil aligned, because most of the powers pertain to evil foes anyways
Mrs. Sentry
PHGLm
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No.53143
>>53139
>when the entire mechanic is centered around combat and my character is nerfed in it
M8, you don't always have to be the one killing. My character fights best off of the battlefield anyway: I wanna murder enemies behind the scenes, when their pants are down.
Mrs. Sentry
PHGLm
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No.53145
53146 53153 53155
>>53140
I'd like more opportunities to steal things from NPCs.
Anonymous
dESWr
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No.53146
53147 53153
>>53145
You want to be a nigger is what you want. There is nothing worth taking from low level NPCs
Mrs. Sentry
PHGLm
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No.53147
53149
>>53146
I want to steal things because that's what my character is good at. If I'm going to be a thief, I want to get the chance to steal things.
>There is nothing worth taking from low level NPCs
That's why I hope to find some higher-level NPCs with deep pockets, or vaults to rob.
Anonymous
BK2bC
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No.53148
https://youtu.be/IgoamzKpWxg
For consideration
Anonymous
usAbN
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No.53149
53150 53152
>>53147
Exactly. You wish to be a nigger. Just killing and sealing from low level NPCs because... Well, there is no reason. It's not taking the world or the campaign seriously at all, because you think you can just go around destroying parts of it with impunity. I've played with people who do this, and it pisses me off to no end
Mrs. Sentry
PHGLm
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No.53150
53151
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>>53149
I'm playing a NE thief: I'll steal anything I can get away with, and murder anyone I need to do it.
Anonymous
usAbN
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No.53151
53154
>>53150
There's no deep need for you to play as nigger. People who do that are asshole players who show a contempt for the world
Anonymous
BK2bC
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No.53152
>>53149
Could you like,... not for just one second?
Anonymous
BK2bC
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No.53153
53156 53159
>>53127
>exploration
>>53130
>MLP
>>53135
>crush the jew
nice pali
>>53145
>jacking shit

>>53146
Would Trump have the same objections if it involved stealing from ppl who stole from the party first?

Mrs. Sentry
PHGLm
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No.53154
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>>53151
My character is a psychopathic killer on some days, and a boorish thug on others. She's usually more interested in the acts she commits rather than the goals they help her attain, and her goals tend to be short-term wants.
tl;dr: bad character does bad things because she's bad.
usAbN
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No.53155
53157
>>53145
Yes, it's why I hate your character, and the fact that character is the only one you want to play is one of many reasons I don't like you
\r
Mrs. Sentry
PHGLm
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No.53156
53159
>>53153
I guess stealing from characters who stole from you is still stealing, but it doesn't really feel as malevolent.
Mrs. Sentry
PHGLm
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No.53157
53159
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>>53155
>Tracy isn't a psychopath
How would you play her?
Anonymous
BK2bC
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No.53158
53160
No response from Trump forthcoming, I can state with relative certainty that I can accommodate both Trump and Tracy, as well as Infernius, and Torcuil (him less immediately, but more fully over time), and Thez for that matter with one of several plans/ventures that I've otherwise shelved because of what was habbening at the time.
Anonymous
GTyOx
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No.53159
53160 53161 53162 53164
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>>53156
>stealing from characters who stole from you is still stealing
Heroes never steal anon. It's called civil asset forfeiture

>>53153
>Would Trump have the same objections if it involved stealing from ppl who stole from the party first?
You mean like the Drow or the Court City people? Hell no. Fuck those guys

>>53135
I definitely wouldn't word it this way, but that's basically the same as my goal here

>>53157
I probably wouldn't play Tracy in a heroic campaign. This "kill people who are weaker than you and non-threatening, and take the tiny amount of money you don't need" thing is fine for a Grand Theft Auto:Sword Coast campaign, and that's a valid kind of campaign to run. But I definitely don't want to play that campaign, and it also it's the way this campaign has developed thus far, especially after the most recent changes.

But to play Tracy as an anti-hero, I'd make her the queen or protector of /mlp/ against shitposters, yesturdy, moot, glimmerniggers, aerolite, and rivals like Ponychan
Anonymous
LJZcR
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No.53160
>>53158
>Torcuil (him less immediately, but more fully over time)
Yay, I'm sick of sitting around port barry waiting for threats to come to us
>>53159
>TIL my charm potions where "civil asset forfeiture"-ed
Anonymous
BK2bC
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No.53161
>>53159
>Fuck those guys
Huzzah!
Mrs. Sentry
PHGLm
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No.53162
53163
>>53159
>civil asset forfeiture
Meh. Stealing is stealing to me.
Anonymous
GTyOx
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No.53163
53165 53166
>>53162
Anon, I'm not sure you understand how good and evil work. Good people do not steal. My character is good. So if he takes a possession of another with out that person's consent and with the intent to permanently deprive, clearly he must be doing something other than stealing.

Just as arresting is not kidnapping, taxation is not a protection racket, the death penalty is not murder, the draft is not slavery, and campaign donations are not bribes, neither can the proper authorities ever steal
Anonymous
C6gcl
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No.53164
>>53159
Why are you afraid to speak the truth?
Mrs. Sentry
PHGLm
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No.53165
53166 53167
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>>53163
>if he takes a possession of another with out that person's consent and with the intent to permanently deprive, clearly he must be doing something other than stealing
Wat?
Anonymous
LJZcR
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No.53166
53167 53168 53173
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>>53163
What? So good is authoritarians and evil is anarchists viewpoints?
>>53165
Pic related I hope
Anonymous
GTyOx
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No.53167
53170
>>53165
I was just repeating the legal definition of larceny as defined in the model penal code yes, I made an A in first-year criminal law

Larceny is the 1. trespassery (non-consensual) 2. taking 3. of property 4. belonging to another 5. with the intent to permanently deprive

So I was being ironic, because just because I fully intend to play a black and white character, doesn't mean I don't intend to be ironic about it

>>53166
It's a little more complex then that, but basically yes
Anonymous
BK2bC
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No.53168
53169 53172
>>53166
Thats a bit of a broad generalization. It would be more accurate to say that Authority (as in competence) is good. I don't contest that there are exceptions - especially in real-world implementation - but that's the principle.
Anonymous
GTyOx
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No.53169
53171 53173
>>53168
Well, the definition of "authority" is "power we are willing to obey and don't want to rebel against," so yeah it's kind of tautological that authority is good power
Mrs. Sentry
PHGLm
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No.53170
>>53167
>was being ironic
Oh, okay then...
Anonymous
BK2bC
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No.53171
53175
>>53169
I make that distinction on personal grounds, as I inhabit many social, professional, and economic hierarchies that are predicated in some cases on (as I say, "legitimate") authority, and in other cases on cronyism, nepotism, and a variety of other categories that technically and literally stand in opposition to a true competence hierarchy.
Anonymous
LJZcR
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No.53172
53176
>>53168
No no no, I meant it as the view points.
Example: Taxation
Heavy authoritarion: Taxation is okay and not theft
Anarchist: Taxation is 100% theft

Anyway, Torc asks Death an intresting question.
"Hey Death, can you keep people from reviving if you wanted too?"
Mrs. Sentry
PHGLm
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No.53173
53174 53175
>>53166
This.
I interpret the spectrum of Good to be "helping people" and evil to be "hurting people". At the same time, Law would be "following/respecting authority", and chaos would be "defying authority".
Just because you appeal to a higher authority than yourself doesn't change the moral nature of your action. Even if your action isn't ebil, being lawful doesn't make it good.
>>53169
>authority is good power
I disagree. Authority isn't necessarily a power you're "willing" to obey. Authority can be held by extremely evil people. Even if the king is a kike, he's still king, and thus has authority under the laws of that land.
Just because you don't agree with an authority doesn't make it any less legitimate either. Likewise, being good doesn't give you legitimate authority to do as you please, because laws are still laws, even if they're evil, twisted, disgusting laws. It's fine to break laws in the name of good, but you're still breaking the law, regardless of how noble your intentions are.
Anonymous
LJZcR
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No.53174
53176
>>53173
Hey, thats how I interpret it too.
Lawful: I will not break the rules
Chaotic: I will break the rules if I want

Good: I will save the puppy
Netrual: I will not go out of my way to save the puppy
Evil: I will make sure the puppy isn't saved
Anonymous
GTyOx
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No.53175
53176 53178
>>53171
I live in nothing but hierarchies it feels like. I have a very hobbesian view about authority. That is, it flows from power, and not the other way around. It's almost always in your interest to obey, because if someone has power, that means they have the power to hurt you if you displease them, but also to give you what you want if you please them.

>>53173
Eh. I never said I agreed with the Lockean view of authority.

>Authority isn't necessarily a power you're "willing" to obey
Well obviously it's a power that someone is willing to obey, otherwise the king couldn't have power. So if your point is that authority can be authority to some but not to others, I think you're over looking that
Anonymous
BK2bC
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No.53176
53179
>>53172
You're asking me to specify a generalized concept that spans a multitude of ideologies and mythologies. If you insist on it, I'm going to favor the depicted dynamic of Piers Anthony's "On a Pale Horse".
>>53174
I disagree with that categorization. Give me a minute to articulate
>>53175
Well yeah, that's Law (of Power) #1 - Never Outshine the Master
Anonymous
BK2bC
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No.53177
I would divide the ideas as follows:
Good - I will save the puppy, because its the right thing to do
Neutral - I may save the puppy, depending on the circumstances
Evil - I will save the puppy if it is in my best interest, or I will let it die, likewise
Mrs. Sentry
PHGLm
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No.53178
53180
>>53175
>obviously it's a power that someone is willing to obey
Or the person making those rules could just be very, very powerful: powerful enough to oppress the public.
Mrs. Sentry
PHGLm
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No.53179
53181
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>>53176
>Piers Anthony's "On a Pale Horse".
[keks in pale horse]
Anonymous
GTyOx
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No.53180
53182
>>53178
Individuals never have that much power out of their own talents outside of Fantasy literature. Humans are far more equal than that. They always rely on hundreds of thousands or millions of other human beings willing to execute their will
Anonymous
BK2bC
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No.53181
53183 53184 53186
>>53179
Right, that.
"No, who can and cannot be revived is outside my purview. Legitimately, my role and capacity is as something of a manifold, weighing and measuring the soul and making determinations as to which outer plane the soul retires to," Death says to Torcuil.
Mrs. Sentry
PHGLm
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No.53182
53185
>>53180
>outside of Fantasy literature
This is fantasy though.
>They always rely on hundreds of thousands or millions of other human beings willing to execute their will
Yeah, but those individuals could just as easily be motivated by their own self-interests and have little respect for the system itself.
Mrs. Sentry
PHGLm
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No.53183
>>53181
Would Torc have been perma-killed if he failed to beat the wraith?
Anonymous
C6gcl
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No.53184
>>53181
I liek steampunk.
GTyOx
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No.53185
>>53182
>just as easily be motivated by their own self-interests and have little respect for the system itself
Still counts as others doing thy bidding

>This is fantasy
I was talking about outside of this RPG, but even here, there's pretty clearly several groups with aligned interests giving the big bad a hell of a lot more power than he could have on his own
\r
Anonymous
LJZcR
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No.53186
53187
>>53181
"Ah, thanks for answering."
Torc debates asking Death if she wants to get dinner or something
and his faggot bolts for an hour or so