[Tome] The Koumei PHB Project: Races

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 5:05 pm

Zeir wrote:This may be a stupid question, but for the Arch-Golem Execution Girlfriend, on eyebeams!, does the damage become set at character level x 3 or become 3d4 per character level? Set damage doesn't let me roll dice, which is sad, but understandable because the average goes up. 3d4 per level sounds like a lot, considering most of the per level stuff is 1d6. But then again, it's only usable every other round, so yeah...

It does indeed become character level x 3.

And I'm sorry it doesn't let you roll dice. Rolling can be fun.

Rolling 10d4 and adding them up is NOT that fun and takes a while. So I changed it to be an easy calculation, in the interests of speeding the game up and reducing bookkeeping.

I think character level * 3 comes out to 'One maximized sneak attack a round'.

Zeir · Post by **Zeir** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 6:02 pm

thanks for clearing that up.
...
i was going to say something else, but my oceanography class numbed my brain too much.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 4:03 pm

Okay...
[*]Fixed the Arch-Golem Execution Girlfriend
[*]Added Yuan-Ti Backgrounds
[*]Finished the Empusa prestige classes. I know, horribly indecent, but you probably expect that of me.

Yes, I'm being slow at the moment. I watched the entirety of Koi Koi 7 (13 episodes) over the last two days, and all my new tea arrived (about a pound of it).

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 3:56 pm

[*]Added art for the Empusa.
[*]Made minor changes to things here and there
[*]Completed the Vaxt, with the exception of the Overgrown prestige class. I have no idea what I want to do with it.

Also, someone reviewed this thread and raged. It was awesome. They nearly died of rage-ulcer. That would be the crowning achievement of my life.

Oh, and it looks like general consensus from others (sup/tg/ mainly) is to go with the whole "Ancient Greece: POWERFUL! and infused with the powers of homosexuality, nudity and oiled muscles" thing for Humans. Hmm, powerful naked bloodthirsty barbarians. Are Humans the new Orks?

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 4:01 pm

Where's the rage review? I would like to see this.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 4:36 pm

I'll copy-pasta from the mirc conversation (note that he likes Pathfailure, hates Frank (and the Den by association with Frank), dislikes the Tomes and feels that all the bad points raised in "Pathfailure sucks" are incorrect, lies, or since fixed because they were only problems in beta):

<Sister_Acacia> Anyway. My awesome races thread: http://tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=51037&start=0 (Art by me, using HARMONY and a fucking mouse)
<Hawking> is that doctor spider?
<ProfessorCirno> Ace
<ProfessorCirno> Are you Koumei?
<Sister_Acacia> Yes, Doctor Spider
<Sister_Acacia> Cirno: yes, I am Koumei
 "Interested in adult play-by-post roleplaying? Elliquiy Adult Role Play (SFW until you are accepted, at which point you've been amply warned).
 "
 :|
<ProfessorCirno> Ok
<ProfessorCirno> Two things
<ProfessorCirno> 1) Your title is prince
<ProfessorCirno> I immidiately thought of Utena
<ProfessorCirno> 2)
<ProfessorCirno> Holy shit this is terrible
<ProfessorCirno> Robot girl?
<ProfessorCirno> GAR-driver?
<Sister_Acacia> Mark: they asked for members to pimp them out
<ProfessorCirno> I'm on like the second line of this
<ProfessorCirno> And I'm already :|ing harder then I can actually :|
 Son I am disappoint
<@Symmetry> ace this is a terrible post, I am sorry but it is
<Sister_Acacia> Cirno: they don't have Gender-specific ones. So I'm a Prince until I become the King... THE KING OF KINGS! (on your knees, dog)
<@Symmetry> seriously, neko-oni?
<@Symmetry> "IT IS CAN BE HUGZTIEM NAO!"?
<Vermillion> more like saketiem nao
* Hawking enjoys the doctor spider, because it's so absurd
 Hmm
<ProfessorCirno> I'm skipping a lot
<ProfessorCirno> because this is so awful
<ProfessorCirno> Ok
<ProfessorCirno> Doctor Spider
<ProfessorCirno> I'm down with that
<ProfessorCirno> Doctor Spider and me can be bros
<ProfessorCirno> I'll give you that one
<Sister_Acacia> And I can't remember when/why I made the robot-girl. But what with having already made it, I included it in the races section. It exists to largely be the choice that all weeaboos can take, so they don't then go on to be multi-tailed dogthings or catgirls
<ProfessorCirno> Ok
<ProfessorCirno> Web-slinger hero
<ProfessorCirno> Guess what
<ProfessorCirno> Doctor Spider and me are no longer bros
<ProfessorCirno> This thread has lost what cool it had
<ProfessorCirno> It's back to terrible
* Mark high fives
<Sister_Acacia> The cat thing was "There should be a large one, but ogres and shit are boring." and someone showed the giant cat ghost demon thing from Ranma 1/2, and that is still better than ogres and trolls. So I made it a lolcat thing. Because why not.
<ProfessorCirno> Ok Yuan-ti one is doing well so far
<ProfessorCirno> I'm waiting for the terrible
<ProfessorCirno> Let's see
<ProfessorCirno> Really
<ProfessorCirno> Badger badger badger reference
<ProfessorCirno> Really
<ProfessorCirno> Really
<ProfessorCirno> Really.
<ProfessorCirno> Ace I know Australia has a time difference
<ProfessorCirno> But it's not a ten year time difference
<Sister_Acacia> It is for South Ausfailia
<ProfessorCirno> Ok
<Sister_Acacia> Fuck, WWII only officially ended here a few years ago. Seriously.
<ProfessorCirno> But other then that PrC
<ProfessorCirno> I'm down with the Yuan-ti things
<ProfessorCirno> Please note
<ProfessorCirno> I'm not reading ANY mechanics
<ProfessorCirno> Haha oh wow
<ProfessorCirno> SKIPPING ALL OF THE EMPUSA
<ProfessorCirno> Seriously Ace
<ProfessorCirno> Terrible
<ProfessorCirno> Actually I take that bac
<ProfessorCirno> Back
<ProfessorCirno> I'm reading this
<ProfessorCirno> For the - no
<ProfessorCirno> Pokevolve?
<@Symmetry> the thing about that post that bothered me the most was the FUCKING NEKO-ONI
<@Symmetry> FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
<ProfessorCirno> Pokevolve Ace?
<Sister_Acacia> Is it so bad I want Succubi in my games?
<ProfessorCirno> "Sometimes they have been known to Pokevolve, other times they remain in the lowest form, gaining power through learning new skills and magical abilities. "
<ProfessorCirno> "Sometimes they have been known to Pokevolve, other times they remain in the lowest form, gaining power through learning new skills and magical abilities. "
<Sister_Acacia> Pokevolve: to suddenly change from one race to another
<ProfessorCirno> "Pokevolve"
<ProfessorCirno> Pokevolve, Ace.
<@Symmetry> ace: if you want succubi, leave them as NPCs if you MUST. And for god's sake, blackscreen it
<Maus> still sounds hawt
<ProfessorCirno> Magic lipstick
<@Symmetry> Foocubi that is
<ProfessorCirno> Ok then
<ProfessorCirno> Magic underware
<ProfessorCirno> Ok then
<Ilmuri> what are we talking about? :|
<ProfessorCirno> Wait no
<ProfessorCirno> Sorry
<ProfessorCirno> Artifact sexy underware
<ProfessorCirno> Ok then
<Maus> succubi wearing magic undies.
<Hawking> who wrote this?
<ProfessorCirno> ""Don't worry, I'll bite, but it's the fun kind <3" "
<ProfessorCirno> Pointing this out
<ProfessorCirno> Because it's like
<Maus> who wrote what?
<ProfessorCirno> The twentieth "<3" I've seen here
<Ilmuri> I thought succubi don't wear things that get in the way
<Sister_Acacia> The underwear is from Disgaea 2, basically like everything relating to the Empusa. I flat-out said my stuff assumes the entire group have some familiarity with N1 tacticals
<Hawking> this race writeup
<Maus> that's why it's magic, Ilmuri.
<ProfessorCirno> You just used pokevolve again
<Sister_Acacia> Yeah, I should remove the <3s
<ProfessorCirno> Ace you are terrile
<ProfessorCirno> Terrible*
<ProfessorCirno> My b ran away in fear
 Whatever they suggest, Ace, leave it as-is
 Their mewling sustains me
<ProfessorCirno> "They can decide where this change starts - at the waist, right below the armpits, right at the point where separate thighs begin (leaving humanoid "fun parts"), whatever"
<ProfessorCirno> :|
 Haha
<ProfessorCirno> I cannot believe you actually codified in your roles
<ProfessorCirno> Rues
<ProfessorCirno> Rules*
<ProfessorCirno> That your snake PrC can still have a vagina
<ProfessorCirno> I cannot fucking believe you codified snake vaginas
 Baawww more
 It's being realistic.
<Maus> it's being serpenty.
<Sister_Acacia> That part was actually trolling on my part. Only that, any other thing you find fucking stupid is totally there to stay.
<ProfessorCirno> Oh hey
<ProfessorCirno> Magic dance
<ProfessorCirno> Dance magic dance~
<Sister_Acacia> I actually have a standing rule of "Dragon cock, I walk - it rhymes"
<ProfessorCirno> Sparkle Canon Melody
<ProfessorCirno> Cannon*
<ProfessorCirno> I'm typing that
<ProfessorCirno> Because it is a thing
<ProfessorCirno> That you have created
<Sister_Acacia> Anyway, I'm not so great with names and those little one-line descriptions. So people get to have really bad ones
<ProfessorCirno> Oh jesus
<ProfessorCirno> I just noticed your signiture
<Sister_Acacia> fufufu
<ProfessorCirno> "Beauty queen"
<Hawking> just don't put one-line descriptions
<ProfessorCirno> This entire PrC says so much
<Hawking> if you're not good at it
<ProfessorCirno> I can't even bring up snippets about this PrC
<ProfessorCirno> Just
<Hawking> let other people fill in the blanks
<ProfessorCirno> This whole thing
<ProfessorCirno> Goddamn
<Hawking> hell, use them for ideas
<Sister_Acacia> Beauty Queen is basically from Disgaea (again)
<ProfessorCirno> Ok
<ProfessorCirno> I'll give you this
<Sister_Acacia> Also, I wish Tim was here (wow, never thought I'd say that). He'd love the amount of suffering you are feeling.
<ProfessorCirno> I haven't even read what it does
<ProfessorCirno> But Magic Tea Party is awesome
<ProfessorCirno> Alright
<ProfessorCirno> Mushroom people
<ProfessorCirno> NOTE: I WILL GO BACK AND DO THE CAT PEOPLE
<ProfessorCirno> "Humanoid Form (Ex): take on a Dryad form, always sexy "
<ProfessorCirno> AND YOU WERE DOING SO WELL
<Hawking> magic tea party can be abused
<ProfessorCirno> Wait
<ProfessorCirno> What
<ProfessorCirno> "Donkeys are aliens donkeys are aliens "
<ProfessorCirno> What does this even mean
<Hawking> I think that's filler
<Sister_Acacia> yeah, filler
<Sister_Acacia> Vaxt are not finished yet
<ProfessorCirno> Ok
<ProfessorCirno> GOING BACK
<ProfessorCirno> TO THE THINGS I SKIPPED
<ProfessorCirno> Ok
<ProfessorCirno> Raised by Humans
<ProfessorCirno> Doesn't seem to like
<ProfessorCirno> Do anything
<ProfessorCirno> Jesus no
<ProfessorCirno> I'm staring at the robot girl
 What I don't understand is
<Sister_Acacia> Backgrounds are supposed to be small
<ProfessorCirno> And my brain is saying it can't do this
 Why are you taking this so seriously?
<ProfessorCirno> Mark - if you think I'm being serious about all this
<Sister_Acacia> A background is seriously "You wrote a character background? Well done, have a biscuit"
<ProfessorCirno> You don't know me very well :B
 I don't, nor do I particularly care, but so you know the internet doesn't convey tone
<ProfessorCirno> Ok
<ProfessorCirno> Just a heads up
<ProfessorCirno> EVERYTHING about robot girls
<Nailio> Whats going on
 So what I see is indigated outrage
<Sister_Acacia> I have learned something important from this: I need to tone the stupid up in future, because if I can cause you to die of rage-ulcer, it will be awesome
<ProfessorCirno> Delete it
<ProfessorCirno> Seriously just delete it
 And it amuses me
<ProfessorCirno> This is worse then your sexy demon~ race
<ProfessorCirno> Because at least they had Magic Tea Party
<Ilmuri> >sexy demons >tea party >umineko >durp dorp
<Sascha> ProfessorCirno, will you have a mgic tea party with me
<Hawking> sexy demon race also had the SexySexy ability
 I will!
<ProfessorCirno> Ok
<Sister_Acacia> Without Robot Girls, some dickhead will always want to be a robot. And they might choose Warforged. And I have a strict "If they want to be a Warforged, spear them" rule.
<ProfessorCirno> A problem I found
 Except instead of tea, we shall have an ample amount of alcohol to sample
<ProfessorCirno> Robot Girlfriend has an ability called EYE BEAMS
<ProfessorCirno> I thought this would be totally rad
<ProfessorCirno> But all it does is increase your eyebeam damage
<ProfessorCirno> Except I can't find where Robot Girlfriends get the eye beam damage
<ProfessorCirno> This is highly unprofessional :I
<Sascha> HIGHLY
<shinichineko> ProfessorCirno: By mounting beam weapons in their eye slots
<Hawking> Laser Eyes (Su): Can be used once per two rounds, with a 30' range. Requires a Ranged Touch Attack, and deals 1d4 Light damage per hit die.
<Sister_Acacia> Did you follow the link to the page that actually has the Robot Girl stats?
<ProfessorCirno> I did not :3c
<ProfessorCirno> Ok
<Hawking> whatever the hell light damage is
<ProfessorCirno> Ok I'm cool with EYEBEAMS then
<Sascha> I want eyebeams
<ProfessorCirno> Side note
<Sister_Acacia> Like I said, the Robot Girl is something I made up ages ago, long before starting this project
<ProfessorCirno> You really love SoDs

***Note: I somehow missed this "And? You really love cock, but I don't mention it" opportunity***

<Sascha> I need them to stare down my gf
<ProfessorCirno> HITTAN NEKO-ONI WISH ME LUCK
<ProfessorCirno> So wait
<ProfessorCirno> Nine feet tall cat people
<ProfessorCirno> Ace
<Sister_Acacia> No, giant CATS
<ProfessorCirno> Did you stat Navi :|
<Sister_Acacia> not cat-people
<ProfessorCirno> You did didn't you
<Sister_Acacia> And the Arch-Golem Execution Girlfriend is actually just the Adeptus Mechanicus Assassin (from Dungeon Crusade)
<shinichineko> > giant CATS
<Sister_Acacia> So basically it's a Skubhammer 40gay thing.
<shinichineko> *HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN*
<shinichineko> *ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US*
<Maus> >giant cats
<ProfessorCirno> Ok
<Sister_Acacia> Manufacturers and purveyors of Internets
<ProfessorCirno> I'm dissapointed with the Cat in a Hat ability
<ProfessorCirno> Because it involves zero actual hats
<ProfessorCirno> Add hats to this and you're good
<ProfessorCirno> And then you make the Fat Cat feat
<ProfessorCirno> And add not a single capitalism reference
<ProfessorCirno> Wasted potential up in here
<Maus> ^
<Sister_Acacia> Hmm, that's a good point. There should be Capitalism in Fat Cat.
<ProfessorCirno> Angry Hat artifact gets my seal of approval
<ProfessorCirno> All the hats do
<ProfessorCirno> Ok
<Sister_Acacia> Shit, I'll need to change them
<ProfessorCirno> What is Lar-haul a reference of
<ProfessorCirno> This is a reference to something I'm sure of it
<ProfessorCirno> Wow
<ProfessorCirno> Neko-oni is...dissapointingly not horrendous
<Sister_Acacia> Lar-haul > Larhaul > laraul >laaul > lawl > lol
<ProfessorCirno> Jesus that's a stretch
<ProfessorCirno> You can do better then that
<ProfessorCirno> OK ARACHNIDS
<Sister_Acacia> Would you say that the worst thing about Neko-Oni is the weeaboo name? And almost any other name would make it better?
<ProfessorCirno> Doctor Spider is a brah
<ProfessorCirno> The PrC is terrible
<ProfessorCirno> Not hah hah terrible
<ProfessorCirno> Not oh lol Cirno is suffering terrible
<ProfessorCirno> Just, well, lame
<ProfessorCirno> It's a really bad attempt at a POP CULTURE REFERENCE FOR THE NERDS~
<ProfessorCirno> I already covered Yuan-ti and how they're not terrible
<Sister_Acacia> Someone wanted an Aranea PrCl. I was out of ideas so went "Fine, Spiderman + Assassin".
<ProfessorCirno> Except for their PrC having "Oh, it's a Snaaaake!" as an ability
<ProfessorCirno> That's shameful
<ProfessorCirno> And I think that's about it
<ProfessorCirno> ARE YOU PLEASED WITH MY COVERAGE OF YOUR RACES ACE?
<Sister_Acacia> Well, it made you angry, so I am pleased

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 5:01 pm

Yeow.

He sounds like a couple of people I know and resolutely DO NOT GAME with these days.

Maybe you would take him out if you got him to read the Video Games items thread...

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 5:05 pm

Well done. :applause:

Vebyast · Post by **Vebyast** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 5:20 pm

CatharzGodfoot wrote:Well done. :applause:

Agreed. This is masterful.

Rejakor · Post by **Rejakor** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 5:53 pm

People like that make me angry. Very, very angry. Why is fun bad? Why are well-done references bad? Why is good writing bad? Why are non-traditional good ideas bad? Why are you so determined to make everyone else miserable, you cocksucking piece of trash?

My tolerance for that kind of thinking is slowly decreasing as my ability to notice it increases. Help.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 6:31 pm

Rejakor wrote:People like that make me angry. Very, very angry. Why is fun bad? Why are well-done references bad? Why is good writing bad? Why are non-traditional good ideas bad? Why are you so determined to make everyone else miserable, you cocksucking piece of trash?

My tolerance for that kind of thinking is slowly decreasing as my ability to notice it increases. Help.

more over, why is putting sex into the game bad? do these people not like sex? why would someone not like sex?

Nachtigallerator · Post by **Nachtigallerator** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 7:17 pm

Prak_Anima wrote:more over, why is putting sex into the game bad? do these people not like sex? why would someone not like sex?

I'm guessing here, but christianity has had an anti-physical, flesh-denying streak from Augustinus onward, so it is really no surprise to find these urges just about anywhere.

By the way, I'll try and make up a background for Vaxt, although I'm treading on foreign ground there. Please give me feedback on this one.

House Plant
Prereq: Vaxt
For whatever reason, you used to be kept in someone's private or office quarters as a decoration for quite some time before you decided that this was a kinda boring way to grow old. Perhaps you were raised that way, or abducted from a happy little Vaxt colony before you got awesome enough to flee. Shaking the earth from your roots, you ran away, and are now stumbling around killing people for other people. It's amazing.
You have considerable experience not moving, giving you +4 to Hide checks as long as you don't move. People consider you unusually decorative while in plant form, and if you manage a disguise check to appear as inanimate plant* you can be certain to be moved to a sunny spot and watered regulary as long as there are people around at all.
Also, your previous owner might feel a little creeped out by the idea that you were watching him and listening all the time, and you can count on meeting him, his Robot Girl killer commando, and his enemies one way or another.

*I'm not even sure this is possible. But it totally should be, even for non-Vaxt.

With best regards, and nervously waiting for criticism,
Nachtigallerator

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 7:19 pm

To be fair, Symmetry has no interest in sex as he had to sell his testicles to pay for some top-of-the-line cancer he wanted. Or possibly he lost them to cancer. It's not my area.

But yeah. Sup/tg/ has more shitheads and people on my /ignore list than this place does. That's including people who don't really exist here any more.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 7:22 pm

That is fantastic. I shall include it.

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 9:34 pm

Koumei wrote:But yeah. Sup/tg/ has more shitheads and people on my /ignore list than this place does.

I think they prefer to be called "ca/tg/irls".

Starmaker · Post by **Starmaker** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 7:06 am

Prak_Anima wrote:more over, why is putting sex into the game bad? do these people not like sex? why would someone not like sex?

I don't like sex. For the same reason I don't like semolina or those pants that end below the knee but above the ankle: Yuck. But it's not a reason to HAET mentions of sex in an RPG manual as long as there isn't an anal circumference stat.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 7:56 am

Added a Yuan-Ti picture. This shit is hard using just a mouse, but Harmony can really help make up for it. Yet I can't draw a Battle Sister to save my life.

Also added the Vaxt background.

And yeah, a lot of them do prefer TRADITIONAL (Bored of the Rings) SERIOSE gaming or something. Which is dumb, especially considering Cirno is named after a Touhou character. Sure, lolrandum annoys me, but taking a haphazard bunch of things and making information and features and stuff about them isn't lolrandum, playing "I am Malkavian, lol Ima' fish!" is.

Note that some people there are quite cool - generally, the ones in the "inappropriate content" channel, which has just about become "a place to go in order to escape all the derp in the mainchat", and occasionally contains NSFW links.

As for my views on sex in games, well, I made the Empusa there, I have that link to Elliquiy in my sig, and I once made a... specialty... supplement for D&D, sort of Tome style, when I was bored, once x.x

Yeah. It's something I'm not only fine with, but encourage in broad terms. Broad meaning "But not specifically any fetish I don't like, which certainly includes dragons". Because either "legitimising" it with stats and numbers or saying "It will be played out" adds that level of emphasis that means characters tend to actually have objectives and interests pertinent to getting laid, and (and I have no idea why, I may have just had a good streak of lucky cases) this somehow seems to result in the characters being played better and seeming more real.

Also, having a girlfriend on the other side of the Imperium planet and lacking the social ability needed to pick up, I need to get my sex somewhere. But it's not something required in my games, it just improves enjoyment and is something I think is in general a good thing.

With the exception of Little Fears (a game I don't like no matter how it's played, whereas /tg/ love it for SERIOSE GAMES potential) and Cybergen. I am totally okay for it never cropping up in either of those.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 10:35 am

An extra Feat has been added for Humans.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 11:17 am

I genuinely don't even understand that dude's complaints. Most of them aren't even mechanical, t's just him ranting on about how he doesn't like the writing style. When he does make a mechanical point, it is almost invariably wrong. "Raised by Humans" for example, is pretty frickin sweet. Slap that shit on a deep halfling flask rogue, and it's good times all the time.

-Username17

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 1:25 pm

Congrats

Gymnos Defence is the first actual RPG mechanic I have ever seen that would actually encourage a rational player to have Beowulf fight Grendel the way it happened in the original legend.

PhaedrusXY · Post by **PhaedrusXY** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 1:47 pm

Starmaker wrote:
Prak_Anima wrote:more over, why is putting sex into the game bad? do these people not like sex? why would someone not like sex?
I don't like sex.

You're doing it wrong.

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 2:21 pm

Prak_Anima wrote:, why is putting sex into the game bad? do these people not like sex? why would someone not like sex?

"liking sex" is totally different than "wanting to encourage the people I game with to roleplay their sexual desires and preferences in depth

Maybe I'm just repressed and alcoholic myself, but lemme walk you through the orientations / preferences amongst my current game groups:

Gay and flaming
Opportunistic Bi
Polyamourus
Hetero occult ritualist (yes that counts as a sex preference)
Frustrated, presumably hetero but nobody is entire sure
Married, two kids
Divorced, now involved as a third (fourth, fifth, I dunno) in the above "polyamourus's" relationship
Re-married, and now raising two of "divorced" kids
Hetero mysoginist engaged to post-op FTM tranny
Omnisexual, pre-op MTF tranny

As you can probably gather, these folks have some very different ideas about sex and a number of them have severe emotional baggage and/or passionate political ideologies tied up in this part of their identities.

Now sometimes, tabletop roleplaying can be a way to broaden one's horizons safely on this sort of thing, and sometimes tabletop roleplaying can be a theraputic way to work through related baggage, but frequently tabletop roleplaying about sex is just a squicky mess with a potential for socially explosive situations and is best avoided in favor of just hacking some orkz.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 2:29 pm

Josh wrote:Hetero occult ritualist (yes that counts as a sex preference)

Yes. Yes it does.

-Username17

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 2:54 pm

Josh: I should have clarified something: I do believe in the whole "right time and place for things". I mean, Elliquiy is the only place where I don't black-screen things, and in games there, you're seriously agreeing ahead of time what it is you want - it becomes another pre-game matter like "What stat generation do we use?"

However I will tend to sexy things up in general with Ikkitousen-style combat and the like.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 3:37 pm

Josh_Kablack wrote:
Prak_Anima wrote:, why is putting sex into the game bad? do these people not like sex? why would someone not like sex?
"liking sex" is totally different than "wanting to encourage the people I game with to roleplay their sexual desires and preferences in depth

Maybe I'm just repressed and alcoholic myself, but lemme walk you through the orientations / preferences amongst my current game groups:

Gay and flaming
Opportunistic Bi
Polyamourus
Hetero occult ritualist (yes that counts as a sex preference)
Frustrated, presumably hetero but nobody is entire sure
Married, two kids
Divorced, now involved as a third (fourth, fifth, I dunno) in the above "polyamourus's" relationship
Re-married, and now raising two of "divorced" kids
Hetero mysoginist engaged to post-op FTM tranny
Omnisexual, pre-op MTF tranny

As you can probably gather, these folks have some very different ideas about sex and a number of them have severe emotional baggage and/or passionate political ideologies tied up in this part of their identities.

Now sometimes, tabletop roleplaying can be a way to broaden one's horizons safely on this sort of thing, and sometimes tabletop roleplaying can be a theraputic way to work through related baggage, but frequently tabletop roleplaying about sex is just a squicky mess with a potential for socially explosive situations and is best avoided in favor of just hacking some orkz.

I totally understand, I was really just being facetious. Though I do agree with Koumei, on many of her points.