Industrygothica's "Those Left Behind" [OOC]

[Friadoc]

Sorry for my huge delay, folks, but yesterday was an odd day.

I'll finish up today with Buurt, promise.

 

[industrygothica]

Sorry for my huge delay, folks, but yesterday was an odd day.

I'll finish up today with Buurt, promise.

If we were tracking xp, I might be tempted to give extra as a reward for a unibrow, or an affinity for watching pigeons.

 

[industrygothica]

Re: Shai's Rage

Oi. I hadn't thought of that. Since Raging is a free action, can Shai rage (giving him positive hit points temprorarily), then use the Withdraw action? I think you can still use free actions in conjunction with full round actions, right? I hate to waste his only rage on running away, but I'm really fond of the guy, and if it's rage or get squished, rage away.

This seems like a viable option the way the rules are written, though I'd imagine a creative rules-lawyer could argue otherwise. I personally don't like it for story reasons. There have been a thousand tales told of raging barbarians, and none of them were running away from a battle.

That being said, if Shai was my character, I'd be doing the same thing, whether I liked it or not... that whole "preservation of life" thing. So go for it.

 

[Friadoc]

Yeah, I know, but what's humorous is that the name came from a Tolkien Orc name generator.

 

[industrygothica]

Yeah, I know, but what's humorous is that the name came from a Tolkien Orc name generator.

I completely forgot that he was half-orc. That lends credence to the unibrow thing. And I can just picture this huge monster of a man delicately feeding the pigeons in a park somewhere, scaring the crap out of the children. Classic!

 

[Scotley]

but what about the really big kid? (*points to scottly*) that makes 4, right? as far as step kids go, i was raised by by my step-dad. we were as close as or closer then many natural father/ sons. i was even his favorite over his two natural daughters....i miss him lots...he passed away about 12 years ago. so i would encourage yuo to consider your two steps as your own, no matter how many hurtful words may have or have not abeen said.

Absolutely, I don't normally even make the 'step' designation when discussing them and certainly not when enteracting with them, but for purposes of this discussion it seemed relevant.

We had a 4th child at least in our hearts up until a couple of weeks ago. We had to put our Boxer (dog) to sleep after a battle with cancer. He was very much a member of the family.

 

[Leif]

We had a 4th child at least in our hearts up until a couple of weeks ago. We had to put our Boxer (dog) to sleep after a battle with cancer. He was very much a member of the family.

That's terrible news about the pooch! He was a cool dog, who is greatly missed! Guess it couldn't be helped, though.

 

[Scott DeWar]

Absolutely, I don't normally even make the 'step' designation when discussing them and certainly not when enteracting with them, but for purposes of this discussion it seemed relevant.

We had a 4th child at least in our hearts up until a couple of weeks ago. We had to put our Boxer (dog) to sleep after a battle with cancer. He was very much a member of the family.

*takes hat off and bows head*

sorry to hear that man.

 

[jkason]

This seems like a viable option the way the rules are written, though I'd imagine a creative rules-lawyer could argue otherwise. I personally don't like it for story reasons. There have been a thousand tales told of raging barbarians, and none of them were running away from a battle.

That being said, if Shai was my character, I'd be doing the same thing, whether I liked it or not... that whole "preservation of life" thing. So go for it.

I'm not especially keen on it, either, though I do admit I've always thought Rage was a limiting name to give the ability. I mean, a super adrenaline rush could come just as much from concern as anger, and both could wind up with the kind of single-mindedness that would explain the loss of mental concentration for things like spellcasting. And what about raging to lift a gate (Str bonus). I mean, are we really pissed off at the door, or is it that Barbarians just have some primal surge of energy that more civilized folks no longer have the ability to tap into?

So, if it's maybe more of a preternatural Flight or Fight response, obviously used mostly on the Fight end, the roleplay possibilities open up a little more. Why *would* all barbarians just have anger issues? Hulk's cool, but do we have to play all barbarians like Hulk? So if your barbarian's just always manages those last few strides (Con bump on a run), or holds the line whenever his companion is too hurt, he doesn't have to be screaming and frothing at the mouth to do it, but he's still using 'Rage.'

Sorry. Rambling. Sometimes the brain, she don't stop.

jason

 

[Scotley]

That's terrible news about the pooch! He was a cool dog, who is greatly missed! Guess it couldn't be helped, though.

Yeah, we did all we could including spending a small fortune on treatment, but he reached the point where it just didn't seem right to keep him going when his quality of life was really going down.