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Re: The (TBI) Brigands
« Reply #30 on: January 25, 2014, 06:41:25 pm »

Glaives and naginatas can be used to slash and stab, as can be halberds.
And they're all unbalanced to varying degrees, as well as being polearms and therefore sucking if your enemy was fairly close.
Also, aren't maginatas more Asian than European?

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They're always pretty unbalanced. Putting a big, sharp bit of metal on the end of a stick does that. Unbalancedness always makes it less wieldy.
There's always double-sided axes.
Still unbalanced.

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Should I expand on the backstory?
Maybe say who/what killed his mother. At the moment, it come off as he kill her, but could of been old age or another killer.
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If you're using a spear to block, you deserve everything that happens to you :P
And that's the point--if youhave a spear, you're kinda screwed if you need to block something.

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Maybe make it blunt/point/edge instead of accurate/damaging/median of the two?
I don't see what you mean...
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Re: The (TBI) Brigands
« Reply #31 on: January 25, 2014, 06:43:09 pm »

And that's the point--if youhave a spear, you're kinda screwed if you need to block something.

That's why you have shields. They are the premier piece of defensive equipment after all.
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Re: The (TBI) Brigands
« Reply #32 on: January 25, 2014, 06:43:52 pm »

Actually if you could critique us all I feel that'd be a good thing.
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Re: The (TBI) Brigands
« Reply #33 on: January 25, 2014, 06:44:30 pm »

And that's the point--if youhave a spear, you're kinda screwed if you need to block something.
That's why you have shields. They are the premier piece of defensive equipment after all.
If you have both a shield and a weapon you can block with, you double your defensive options. No shield is 360, after all...
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Re: The (TBI) Brigands
« Reply #34 on: January 25, 2014, 06:46:13 pm »

No head is 360 degrees as well GWG :P
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Re: The (TBI) Brigands
« Reply #35 on: January 25, 2014, 06:46:24 pm »

If you have both a shield and a weapon you can block with, you double your defensive options. No shield is 360, after all...

Actually I'm not entirely certain why you're saying that you can't block with a spear. Is it the length or something like that?
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Re: The (TBI) Brigands
« Reply #36 on: January 25, 2014, 06:47:16 pm »

You can block with it, but only once :P
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Re: The (TBI) Brigands
« Reply #37 on: January 25, 2014, 06:48:32 pm »

If you have both a shield and a weapon you can block with, you double your defensive options. No shield is 360, after all...
Actually I'm not entirely certain why you're saying that you can't block with a spear. Is it the length or something like that?
More that the haft is typically wooden. And if you are holding it in one hand, you won't really be able to hold it as strongly as a sword or something, so you're going to have trouble blocking with it in that case (unless you WANT your wrist to get badly twisted). It's also longer and less wieldy to do so with than most weapons.

No head is 360 degrees as well GWG :P
Regardless, blocking helps. Also helpful is not having to shift the way you're holding your weapon if the enemy closes.
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Re: The (TBI) Brigands
« Reply #38 on: January 25, 2014, 06:54:31 pm »

You know, it's only been 2 hours since this thread was started, and you've already started derailing it (in my opinion) to a discusion about medieval weapons. So to rerail the thread, how long until sign-ups are closed?
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Re: The (TBI) Brigands
« Reply #39 on: January 25, 2014, 07:01:06 pm »

You can block with it, but only once :P

More that the haft is typically wooden. And if you are holding it in one hand, you won't really be able to hold it as strongly as a sword or something, so you're going to have trouble blocking with it in that case (unless you WANT your wrist to get badly twisted). It's also longer and less wieldy to do so with than most weapons.

Ah, right. You can still parry with a spear though (and short spears are a thing), and I'm pretty sure that parries comprise most of the defensive moves in combat. Besides, a couple of those complaints could be lodged against axes and maces too (which I guess is another point in favour for swords).
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Re: The (TBI) Brigands
« Reply #40 on: January 25, 2014, 07:08:17 pm »

Actually, swords can break as well. You generally stick to shields if you want to block.
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Re: The (TBI) Brigands
« Reply #41 on: January 25, 2014, 07:08:59 pm »

Actually, swords can break as well. You generally stick to shields if you want to block.

Indeed. Hence why I said the shield comment earlier.
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Re: The (TBI) Brigands
« Reply #42 on: January 25, 2014, 07:10:30 pm »

You know, it's only been 2 hours since this thread was started, and you've already started derailing it (in my opinion) to a discusion about medieval weapons. So to rerail the thread, how long until sign-ups are closed?
Sometime on monday. Too late at night to come up with actually time.

Actually if you could critique us all I feel that'd be a good thing.
Will do after a good night sleep. Once went a whole night without sleep and supposedly started snapping and yelling at people(can't remember doing it).
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Re: The (TBI) Brigands
« Reply #43 on: January 26, 2014, 03:56:30 am »

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I vote we call ourselves "The Dark Precipice"
This one good.
Name: Kyle 'Breaker' (Earned after what he did to a fromer colleague attempted rape. Silly guy fell out the window... onto his everything. Twice.) Also known as 'lover boy' for his tendencies.
Gender: Male
Looks: Tanned from his roving days before becoming a brigand this man has a scar that inspires respect. One would think from his shady nature that he was a common theif. Nope, he's a mage. His eyes are brown like his hair.
Backstory: Left his home after he killed a lord's son. He stabs people asking why more than he can handle.
Class: Sorcerer
Weapon: Bow

Vote for:  The merry men.
You want former, not fromer. The second line of the backstory need a little clean up and maybe something about his roving days could be added.
Name: Borman the Mighty
Gender: Male
Looks: A scarred, muscular, long haired man in his thirties. His left eye is gone, with a big scar running across where it should be. He wears an eyepatch over his left eye.
Backstory: Borman was a son of a village woodcuttter. When he grew up, he became a mercenary, where he became famous for his strength, earning him his nickname. While still a mercenary, he was reckless in combat, receiving many scars, until he was blinded in one eye by an barbarian.  Since that day, he was more careful in combat. He was forced to become a bandit after one of his employers, a high-ranking noble attempted to use him as a scapegoat in his plan. The noble was caught eventually, but Borman knows that he can't return to a more "normal" life, as he would be swiftly executed or imprisoned due to his deeds as a bandit.
Class: Bandit
Weapon: Sword

I suggest we call ourselves "The Law Runners".
A-okay

No preference for the name.

((How pseudo-medieval is this game going to be, by the way?))
Poor wife. It good.
Name: Jorgack
Gender:Male
Looks: A strongly muscled frame of a Bandit. He has a long mohawk and a double braided beard. He is young, particularly 24.
Backstory: Jorgack was found crying in front a goblin tower. Instead of the degenerates slaying him, they raised him as their own. When old enough his Father drafted him to be in a goblin raiding party. They would travel the landscape killing, terrorizing , pillage, any settlement. When he became of age he left his home to go see the world. Jorgack didn't have much job opportunties then this.
Class:Bandit
Weapon: Sword
Best change it to orc camp since they are likely to do that(no honor in killing a baby). Goblins are more likely to eat little Jorgack.
Name: Worroca
Gender: Male
Looks: Tanned skin (Genetic tan, not sunned.), black hair, green eyes. Tends to wear a hood and bandanna to keep his face concealed.
Backstory: Worroca was a former serf on the land of a minor baron, though for him, he cares not about his former life any more. Having run off in the search of more money, Worroca ended up intertwined with several bandit groups over the course of a few years. Still youth and hearty, Worroca finds that banditry is a joy on it's own, and profitable  when the caravan has something valuable.

The recent appearance of nobility into the group have upset his plans. Worroca cafes at the thought of serving a noble, despite the fact the new one may care more about the bandits in the kingdom (Which is fine, atleast he gives a damn about the safety of the roads atleast). In his own opinion, he'd push the princess of the next bridge/cliff/roof/etc they went on...

Class: Bandit
Weapon: Sword (Since we can't get maces, knives, spears and those kinds of cheap weapons, while still having swords >.>)
A interesting character. The sheet good.
Name: Annie, nicknamed "Hands off" as in "keep you hands off me or I'll stab you"
Gender: Female
Looks: Average, she could've been called attractive without the scars and the perpetual absence of a smile. She cut her black hairs very short for combat practicality.
Backstory: Annie used to work at a tavern, but never took very kindly the "affection" of customers. One rainy day, she was tasked with dumping waste outside. The rain made her clothes cling to her skin and show off her forms, much to the delight of passing males. One of them, a guard, showed a little too much "affection" and ended up stabbed in the neck. Annie fled to escape justice and became a bandit. She doesn't trust males and is stab-happy when people get too close.
Class: Bandit
Weapon: Sword (stolen from the guard she stabbed years ago).

EDIT: GODDAMNIT, NINJA'D by two applications, now I'm seventh.
Lovey sheet.
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If I must say something else, your character's view on his magic. There are folks who will have that outlook, but in most cases, it viewed as if one's right arm been replaced by an Eldritch Abomination. Sure, the power to break natural laws at will(When it plays ball) is nice, but your shoulder now hurt because it's blood is acid, people are giving you weird looks and the arm licking it's 'lips' at you again. Once again, it fine that Weseal has that outlook, but just remember it rare and quite weird.

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The Dark Precipice 1
The merry men 1
The Law Runners 1

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Re: The (TBI) Brigands
« Reply #44 on: January 26, 2014, 04:36:41 am »

Voting on the "Law Runners".
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