@Dorian this site? yes. no private message functioning at all unless you're a moderator or staff member, and then that's for serious matters like messages saying "stop doing this or you're probably going to get banned"
@Dorian If it helps, remember that women are just people. There are some female typicalities in thought processes just as there are male ones, but as a general rule, >95% of what makes a man or a woman is them just being A Person.
@Dorian right; i recommend digging through art by female artists then. they tend to draw spectacular women who actually wear shirts that reach their neck and jeans and so on.
@Adeptus To our present robot overlords: Don't think that he speaks for all of us. I for one really appreciate the job you guys are doing and don't want to be terminated.
There's also that art series a while back where someone redesigned all the female heroes like Wonder Woman to have full body clothing - everything but the hands and head as necessary - just as an experiment. Do you know how we'd dig that one up?
Found a nice cute assassin girl... But she's wearing a corset that shows her nipples and her lower half is just panties and a garter belt pretty much... If it covered her chest and had a nice skirt for example it would be lovely.
Remembering that, for instance, women are not usually dressing to look appealing. Often they're not. (Sometimes they are.) Depending on your setting they're probably more often dressing to be comfortable or for utility or w/e.
Seems like every time I find something I like stylistically, it's not tasteful, or it's a piece of a very not tasteful outfit (like the armguard, or a boot, or a cloak)
Oh, thank goodness. The artist that disappeared isn't the artist I thought it was, and I had reblogged the picture I wanted to look at at some point, anyway.
In looking for it, I found a comment I made on Rarity that sums up my opinion of her pretty well:
> Sometimes it’s easy to forget how hardcore Rarity is. Then you rewatch the series debut and realize she kicked a manticore in the face and hacked off her own tail to make a sea monster fabulous.
Opaque tights solve a lot of problems. I know this from my own daily life. :v The skirt could get caught on things, but that's true of any skirt (and the longer, the worse in this case).
The only corset I've ever worn was made for someone else, so I can't speak to well-fitted ones, but I was skinnier than the person it was tailored for and I found it somewhat restricting.
The lacing on the sides can't really be anything but decorative. If they don't lace tightly, they're not restrictive. But, yeah, just cutting the corset is a valid option.
I've also actually worn laced bodices, both Ren Faire style and as accurate as we could possibly get to medieval designs, and they're pretty comfy. So a real corset not so much (unless some level of rule-of-cool is understood amongst your fashions), a fake corset fine as long as you're not concerned with historical accuracy, and bodices yes.
Premise of the party by the way: Each of us three party members will have some sort of theory about martial arts, and we are adventuring together to prove our theory.
(that's gonna be the hardest part about the character creation I think...)
Yeah, I try to look for portraits of my PCs and major NPCs. In the process I see a lot of really cool pictures that aren't right for what I'm looking for at the moment.
Bit of an interesting shift from what I'm used to. It's common in the freeform forum community but also something that can be contentious (people not properly sourcing their art, using art they didn't have permission to use, artists sometimes getting upset about that, etc.). In my own games, I rather discouraged using art one didn't either create or have express permission to use because of that.
But for personal use that isn't going to be left lying about public spaces online, I don't see anything wrong with it.
@BESW That's different, too, I think. Using a picture to represent a character is actually less common in my private games, but images sometimes do spark inspiration.
Right. That's the D&D with Central American snake-angels and Hindu cat demons?
It's fine to want to keep Western influences in your design, but D&D's cultural appropriation of... everything... makes it a poor reason to cite for the choice.
You're making a collage out of different fashions and periods, but you only want to draw on sources that are already interpreted from real-life fashions, instead of drawing inspiration from real-life fashions directly?
If I'm interpreting his comments and my own experience with free art requests correctly, the artists he's gathering examples for aren't going to take a lot of time to actually interpret those references, because they draw quickly and for free. Asking them to do anything that isn't cut and dry instruction that doesn't stray too far from the example images may be too much.
But "it's for D&D" isn't an especially helpful comment, no. As BESW pointed out, there's just too much of a cultural mishmash already present to really say anything is strictly out of bounds. "Eastern" is also really, really, really broad.
That still doesn't tell us much about what you actually want, though. For example, that last thing you posted is inspired by Shinto priestess uniforms, more intricately embellished kimono, modern school uniforms, and general anime stylism. This meets "east and west" criteria but is entirely different.
if he has any objections I will just stick to Dr Light
I am just sorely tempted to use the cyborg dragon in conjunction with Jesse, and the absence of Stellata kinda makes Dr Light a little less desirable too
not too much, but in conjunction with the other reason it is a factor
not to even mention my normal proclivity towards this kind of thing
> Zexpyralis “The Dragon of the Future” Concept: polarized cyborg dragon Dragon: my wrath knows no bounds Cyborg: engineered for battle Banter: uproarious speaker/listener Omega:
He's got firebreath, wings, a heavy jetpack, tough scaled hide, sharp teeth and claws... and infrared vision.
no,.. his critical weaknesses include being able to be compelled for incredible slowness when he isn't flying, and the pure panic he can be compelled to throw people all around him into at the worst possible moment
also, he gives the GM a fate point just for being in a session
and he is almost totally useless in a non fight scenario, which in Fate is more of a weakness than in many other systems
the stuff he can do wouldn't fly for a D&D PC for either of the editions I have played (4E and 3.5)
@JoshuaAslanSmith The Atomic Robo iteration of Fate lets PCs take as many stunts as they like (with a few limits on how the stunts are themed), but for each stunt more than five the GM gets another Fate point for the NPC pool.
(Alternately players can choose to give their PCs new ways to be compelled, or have their stunts automatically incur complications whenever the GM likes, instead of giving the GM more Fate points.)
@doppelgreener I was talking with Troggy in the Skype room and got a hankering to try running MLWM again, now that I and my players have experience with more kinds of play similar to it. Maybe we could do that!
Like, its stated goal is for the GM to become, in the person of the Master, an avatar of the players' fears and sins, and to use the Master as a club to emotionally cudgel the players through their Minion avatars until they are focused solely on destroying the Master and achieving catharsis.
It's a Gothic horror game, but its power lies in its potent analogy for cruel addictions whether they be drug abuse, abusive relationships, or whatever else.
Narratively, the conceit is that the players are Minions to a horrifying Master--Igor to Frankenstein, Wormtongue to Saruman. They are abused by the Master as they go about their tasks, and they turn to the townsfolk for human connections.
When a Minion has enough of his humanity reaffirmed through his interaction with the townsfolk, he has the emotional fortitude to defy his Master.
The game's mechanics are Self-Loathing, Weariness, Love, Intimacy, Sincerity, Desperation, Fear, and Reason.
gothca I have zero experience with forge but between fate and dungeonworld my rpg mindset has opened a lot and I find it easier to objectively look at mechanics for all systems
Now that I and my players have a better chance of grasping what it means for a game's mechanics to be purely interested in emotional power and totally unconcerned with rational logic, I want to try again.
I'm thinking of it as the RPG engine equivalent of a Moffat script.
Well, in the sense that it's about emotional truth rather than rational truth.
It's equally comfortable described as evoking the semi-dreamlike state of a black-and-white gothic horror film.
Where the reason a scene exists is to arrive at an emotional outcome, and all elements within the scene either exist to push you toward the outcome or to determine its nature.
(In MLWM, the former is purely narrative and the latter influences the die roll: you get one roll per scene, to determine the emotional payoff.)
For example: if a Minion wishes to do violence to an NPC opponent, he rolls the Master's Fear plus his own Self-Loathing, vs the town's Reason plus the Minion's own Weariness.
If the Minion wishes to make an overture to an NPC in hopes of gaining Love, he rolls the town's Reason minus his own Self-Loathing, vs the Master's Fear minus the town's Reason.
In any scene, anyone can get more dice if they're Sincere, Desperate, or Intimate.
(Which is pure GM fiat determined by the context of the scene and how the player is framing their actions.)
This means, for example, the Master might do something nice for a Minion and then suddenly order the Minion to do something awful, in order to get an Intimate die in case the Minion tries to resist the order.
In MLWM, the Master is defined as a wretched being with a desperate Need (blood, recognition, revenge, legacy, etc) who cannot achieve that Need by himself: he is powerless to realise his own goals, and can only act through his Minions.
> [The Master] inhabits an insecure position at the crux of consuming desire and lack of self-sufficiency, and it is from this that fear and horror flow out into the game.
Hey, anyone know what the cost of a nonmagical permanent kaorti resin weapon would be? Assume 50g base cost for weapon, masterwork cost of +300g
The process of making a Kaorti resin weapon costs the Kaorti preforming it 50% of the cost in xp, so how would that translate to a market cost for selling?
