[QUOTE=Fish_poke;47409960]At 3rd level you pick an archetype, one of the available is Brawler. So it helps spec it more towards hand-to-hand.[/QUOTE]
Which book is this Brawler archetype in?
[QUOTE=Glent;47410672]Which book is this Brawler archetype in?[/QUOTE]
My friend said it was in the PHB, but I'm not sure.
[QUOTE=Fish_poke;47413451]My friend said it was in the PHB, but I'm not sure.[/QUOTE]
Only Fighter Archetypes in PHB are Champion, Battle Master, and Eldritch Knight. None of them focus around fists at all, so I'm guessing your friend was bullshitting.
There [I]is[/I] a [url=http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/hybrid-classes/brawler]Brawler[/url] class in Pathfinder, that's a combination of Fighter and Monk, though.
[QUOTE=Rats808;47413486]Only Fighter Archetypes in PHB are Champion, Battle Master, and Eldritch Knight. None of them focus around fists at all, so I'm guessing your friend was bullshitting.
There [I]is[/I] a [url=http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/hybrid-classes/brawler]Brawler[/url] class in Pathfinder, that's a combination of Fighter and Monk, though.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, unless he has a third party book from somewhere, he's just making it up.
That said, monks are actually really viable in 5e. They get sweet Avatar-like powers, the ability to command elements and such. And they're way less MAD, you only need good Dex, Con, and Wis to be a good monk.
All hail RNGesus.
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I melted the face off of our party mage last night. It was pretty funny.
[QUOTE=omarfr;47401188]Hey so I've been recently trying to get better at figures, characters, etc... In my art. So I was wondering if anybody would like me to make either a head shot or full body portrait of their character for free. Thought it'd be a fun way to practice. I can't promise I'd be fast or be able to do a lot since I'm in school and work but if somebody wants to post a description of their character I'm totally down. I'm not the best artist but I'm hoping this will help me improve.[/QUOTE]
With quality like that you should try doing commissions. If you're just looking for a bunch of requests to do for practice, you should still consider commissioning but at a lower rate. Somebody with your talent can get a lot of dosh doing commissions, and if you put it at a lower than expected price tag you'd get a lot of interest.
I've recently taken an interest in to commissioning work and for the quality that you're able to produce I've seen expected deliveries of anywhere from a few days to a few weeks and usually costing like £35~ minimum per character. Doing stuff pro-bono is great and all, but don't do something you're good at for free, especially when there are tonnes of people that would jump on somebody with your talent.
[QUOTE=Fish_poke;47413451]My friend said it was in the PHB, but I'm not sure.[/QUOTE]
There is no Brawler archetype in the core book but there is a "Tavern Brawler" feat anybody can take. However it doesn't make unarmed combat viable for you, it just makes you better at unarmed combat (for when you have to use it, ie. you've lost your weapon or you're in a... tavern brawl.)
I guess if you really wanted to you could take the feat and play a Battle Master fighter... it would be a bit like playing a Dagger-focused battle master, since your fists would have the same damage as a dagger. A monk is much better at unarmed combat but if it's the kind of thing you want to play, you can get a feat for free as a variant human and start off with tavern brawler.
Keep in mind though that feats (and the variant human) are an optional rule so your GM might not run them.
I've recently gotten into PnP RPGs (D&D 5e, both playing and DMing), and I have a question to more experienced DMs: How do you go about sex in your game without it descending into degenerate ERP?
In the game I'm DMing, the PCs were invited to the funeral of a rich, philanthropic guy they all knew or at least met once in their lives, and the party's cleric (an anointed priest at that) decided to hit on the dead guy's spanking hot daughter the very same day she saw her dad's cold, lifeless body descend six feet under. Fortunately for me, an opposed charisma throw resulted in her slapping the shit out of the cleric. Seeing how the cleric is shaping up to be a suave motherfucker, one of these next sessions I may not be so fortunate.
So, how do you usually handle this sort of thing?
I saw one case of this handled adequately in the game where I'm playing. Our monk was challenged at a martial tournament by a female elf, who was the leader of the local mercenary chapter and also /fit/ as fuck. She beat the living shit out of the monk, all the while flirting with him and speaking in innuendos, grappled him, climbed on top of him and forced him into oral. This was consistent with the character of a strong warrior woman, for whom sex and violence are pretty much the same thing.
So, how do you handle this kind of thing? I'm genuinely curious.
I should probably add that none of the people I've mentioned here are of the crazy fetishistic kind :v:
You should ask your players if they're comfortable with sex at all. If they aren't, simply don't bring it up. Don't use it at all. Don't touch it, because it's honestly awkward as fuck.
If they ARE ok with it, you can approach the situation enough where the act is implied, and then fade to black. Never act out or actually roleplay the sexual scenario.
[QUOTE=YogiTheWise;47419536]I've recently gotten into PnP RPGs (D&D 5e, both playing and DMing), and I have a question to more experienced DMs: How do you go about sex in your game without it descending into degenerate ERP?
In the game I'm DMing, the PCs were invited to the funeral of a rich, philanthropic guy they all knew or at least met once in their lives, and the party's cleric (an anointed priest at that) decided to hit on the dead guy's spanking hot daughter the very same day she saw her dad's cold, lifeless body descend six feet under. Fortunately for me, an opposed charisma throw resulted in her slapping the shit out of the cleric. Seeing how the cleric is shaping up to be a suave motherfucker, one of these next sessions I may not be so fortunate.
So, how do you usually handle this sort of thing?
I saw one case of this handled adequately in the game where I'm playing. Our monk was challenged at a martial tournament by a female elf, who was the leader of the local mercenary chapter and also /fit/ as fuck. She beat the living shit out of the monk, all the while flirting with him and speaking in innuendos, grappled him, climbed on top of him and forced him into oral. This was consistent with the character of a strong warrior woman, for whom sex and violence are pretty much the same thing.
So, how do you handle this kind of thing? I'm genuinely curious.
I should probably add that none of the people I've mentioned here are of the crazy fetishistic kind :v:[/QUOTE]
STDs with harsh dice penalties.
I'd probably just not have it my games
[QUOTE=YogiTheWise;47419536]I've recently gotten into PnP RPGs (D&D 5e, both playing and DMing), and I have a question to more experienced DMs: How do you go about sex in your game without it descending into degenerate ERP?
In the game I'm DMing, the PCs were invited to the funeral of a rich, philanthropic guy they all knew or at least met once in their lives, and the party's cleric (an anointed priest at that) decided to hit on the dead guy's spanking hot daughter the very same day she saw her dad's cold, lifeless body descend six feet under. Fortunately for me, an opposed charisma throw resulted in her slapping the shit out of the cleric. Seeing how the cleric is shaping up to be a suave motherfucker, one of these next sessions I may not be so fortunate.
So, how do you usually handle this sort of thing?
I saw one case of this handled adequately in the game where I'm playing. Our monk was challenged at a martial tournament by a female elf, who was the leader of the local mercenary chapter and also /fit/ as fuck. She beat the living shit out of the monk, all the while flirting with him and speaking in innuendos, grappled him, climbed on top of him and forced him into oral. This was consistent with the character of a strong warrior woman, for whom sex and violence are pretty much the same thing.
So, how do you handle this kind of thing? I'm genuinely curious.
I should probably add that none of the people I've mentioned here are of the crazy fetishistic kind :v:[/QUOTE]
Handle it like it's any other natural thing in the world. If you act like its uncomfortable and weird it'll only end up completely awkward for the whole party. You can do flirting, romance, and sexual stuff but I'd say never go into explicit detail with it. If it leads to actual sex just fade to black and everyone will get the point. The only time I'd see it being a problem is if you go into way too much detail for some simple banging or if it's obvious you're trying to make everyone go for a VIP ride into your magical realm.
I know I've made pretty sexual characters in games and no one really cared cause I never took it too far or made an issue of it. I know I could probably make a scantily clad chainmail bikini warrior and no one would give a shit cause they trust me enough not to be an idiot about it.
In summary, don't be an idiot creep about it. This is how I go about it in my games or my friends games as a player, at least. Hence this opinion.
[QUOTE=Oliolio;47419567]You should ask your players if they're comfortable with sex at all. If they aren't, simply don't bring it up. Don't use it at all. Don't touch it, because it's honestly awkward as fuck.
If they ARE ok with it, you can approach the situation enough where the act is implied, and then fade to black. Never act out or actually roleplay the sexual scenario.[/QUOTE]
Reinforcing the point with Olio's post.
[QUOTE=YogiTheWise;47419536]I've recently gotten into PnP RPGs (D&D 5e, both playing and DMing), and I have a question to more experienced DMs: How do you go about sex in your game without it descending into degenerate ERP?
In the game I'm DMing, the PCs were invited to the funeral of a rich, philanthropic guy they all knew or at least met once in their lives, and the party's cleric (an anointed priest at that) decided to hit on the dead guy's spanking hot daughter the very same day she saw her dad's cold, lifeless body descend six feet under. Fortunately for me, an opposed charisma throw resulted in her slapping the shit out of the cleric. Seeing how the cleric is shaping up to be a suave motherfucker, one of these next sessions I may not be so fortunate.
So, how do you usually handle this sort of thing?
I saw one case of this handled adequately in the game where I'm playing. Our monk was challenged at a martial tournament by a female elf, who was the leader of the local mercenary chapter and also /fit/ as fuck. She beat the living shit out of the monk, all the while flirting with him and speaking in innuendos, grappled him, climbed on top of him and forced him into oral. This was consistent with the character of a strong warrior woman, for whom sex and violence are pretty much the same thing.
So, how do you handle this kind of thing? I'm genuinely curious.
I should probably add that none of the people I've mentioned here are of the crazy fetishistic kind :v:[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't call rape an "adequate" way to handle a situation.
[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;47419573]STDs with harsh dice penalties.[/QUOTE]
"For the next 1d4 days, all combat rounds must begin with a DC 10 will save, or the character will spend the round itching his genitals."
[QUOTE=YogiTheWise;47419536]I've recently gotten into PnP RPGs (D&D 5e, both playing and DMing), and I have a question to more experienced DMs: How do you go about sex in your game without it descending into degenerate ERP?
In the game I'm DMing, the PCs were invited to the funeral of a rich, philanthropic guy they all knew or at least met once in their lives, and the party's cleric (an anointed priest at that) decided to hit on the dead guy's spanking hot daughter the very same day she saw her dad's cold, lifeless body descend six feet under. Fortunately for me, an opposed charisma throw resulted in her slapping the shit out of the cleric. Seeing how the cleric is shaping up to be a suave motherfucker, one of these next sessions I may not be so fortunate.
So, how do you usually handle this sort of thing?
I saw one case of this handled adequately in the game where I'm playing. Our monk was challenged at a martial tournament by a female elf, who was the leader of the local mercenary chapter and also /fit/ as fuck. She beat the living shit out of the monk, all the while flirting with him and speaking in innuendos, grappled him, climbed on top of him and forced him into oral. This was consistent with the character of a strong warrior woman, for whom sex and violence are pretty much the same thing.
So, how do you handle this kind of thing? I'm genuinely curious.
I should probably add that none of the people I've mentioned here are of the crazy fetishistic kind :v:[/QUOTE]
Fade to black, re-cap in the morning/later on when all the other PC's have done their thing. Unless something interesting happens during their fun-time, there's no reason to have every other player have to sit around and listen to how two people do the do.
That's my take on it anyway.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;47419929]I wouldn't call rape an "adequate" way to handle a situation.[/QUOTE]
no it's clearly fine shut up
monks love that shit 100% they're totally not usually celibate or anything
I would just go "And then they fucked *scene transition*", if you don't want it getting awkward or creepy.
[editline]30th March 2015[/editline]
Basically the more detail you give it the further into your/the player's magical realm everyone is being dragged.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;47419929]I wouldn't call rape an "adequate" way to handle a situation.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, raping one of your PCs is not a good idea. I don't care about her "warrior woman" backstory, that's pretty messed.
Hitting on NPCs is actually really tame compared to the "adequate situation" you described.
[editline]30th March 2015[/editline]
Also you used the same excuse as "that guys". "This was consistent with her character" is the same as "it's what my character would do."
My DnD 5.0 group just had the so far most hilarious/tragic death.
Our dwarf fighter was tankin' about 8 Kobolds throwing stones at him. No biggie, due to a magic armor, a shield and good stats, his ac is ridicously high.
One of them scores a crit.
We're using a d100 crit table. He is allowed to roll it himself, calls out a 100, which is instant death.
He rolls a 100.
Our near impenetrable dwarf, gets a stone to the face, from a god damn Kobold, which makes his face explode.
And then I decided fuck this and made my Halfling get the hell out of that place. :v:
Had our first attempt at Shadowrun in a year and a half. Starting slow with the Quick-Start Rules and the included pregen characters so we could focus on getting the basics of the systems down. The session I ran was the 5e version of Food Fight.
Somehow, my characters turned Food Fight, which seems to be designed to inevitably devolve into a unavoidable mass gunfight with mafiosos in a McDonald's, into a nearly completely successful heist. The Face smoothly got the info on where the client's kidnapped daughter was being held and lured security out the front, while the troll, dressed up like a gang member to divert suspicion from the client, snuck in the back to grab the girl while the decker sat in the van on overwatch.
Only glitches came in when 1. the troll player decided to linger too long to plant more gang-related evidence, 2. the troll player gave the girl his armor jacket and sent her ahead to the back door, 3. the decker failed a sneak check to make it to the backdoor and got seen on camera by the security guy.
Cut to the girl getting grabbed again by the goon sent to check out decker's activities by the back door, the troll getting gunned down without his armor jacket, and the decker and the face having to deal with the McDonald's full of angry mafia goons without their Street Samurai.
Still, everyone lived, even the troll, the girl was saved, and next week we're making our own characters and trying the other sample session.
So last night my rogue trader crew bought not one, but two new transports. Outright. No layaway or debts or whatever, just a big lump sum and one really good acquisition test
Which now brings their fleet up to one raider, one frigate, one star galleon, a fast transport, and a factory ship
And they're going to start setting up a colony next session, which ought to be something
[QUOTE=YogiTheWise;47419536]Our monk was challenged at a martial tournament by a female elf, who was the leader of the local mercenary chapter and also /fit/ as fuck. She beat the living shit out of the monk, all the while flirting with him and speaking in innuendos, grappled him, climbed on top of him and forced him into oral. This was consistent with the character of a strong warrior woman, for whom sex and violence are pretty much the same thing.[/QUOTE]
These scenarios always feel so try-hard and tasteless to me, like someone read too much manga and thinks that shit makes for good roleplay.
Also no self respecting martial arts tournament would allow forced sexual activity in the ring, it has no relevance to martial arts; the opponent is already defeated by that point and the contest is over. Unless it was an illegal fight club, I'd hope she was punished and expelled for dishonorable actions.
It's not even that it's try-hard writing, it's that it's fucking gross and uncomfortable.
If I was eating out with a group of friends and one of them pulled out their phone and started showing us their weird bdsm fantasies then any good time that anyone else was having would be pretty much just lost right there.
[QUOTE=cdr248;47424950]It's not even that it's try-hard writing, it's that it's fucking gross and uncomfortable.
If I was eating out with a group of friends and one of them pulled out their phone and started showing us their weird bdsm fantasies then any good time that anyone else was having would be pretty much just lost right there.[/QUOTE]
What if someone's fetish WAS tabletop roleplaying? And every time they played they were just constantly juicing.
I remember when my DM tried to force weird sex shit on us.
We all went out to Wendy's and left him behind.
[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;47425197]What if someone's fetish WAS tabletop roleplaying? And every time they played they were just constantly juicing.[/QUOTE]
You're fairly unique Disco...
At least I hope so.
IMHO, the way sex is done in a particular game has to be done entirely around the party composition. It should be entirely avoided if the party is a bunch of people who hardly know each other, and equally, if it's just two/Whatever (swinger D&D is a go) people who are in relationship, let em ERP.
Of course, averting everything by trying to look like you are about to bring everyone to your magical lands of naked elf ladies, only to have them rip off their own skin to reveal that your half-naked heroes are about to be ripped apart by a bunch of bone (hurr) golems. Again, DM has to be able to do it just right, balancing between keeping people in uneasy state and without having them go "fuck it, I am done!".
[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;47425197]What if someone's fetish WAS tabletop roleplaying? And every time they played they were just constantly juicing.[/QUOTE]
Just because I have a fetish for tile patterns doesn't mean I'm constantly jerking it every time I'm in the kitchen.
Same concept for tabletop.
It seems there is a bit of a misunderstanding.
The DM [i]implied[/i] that she did that to the monk, leaving much to our imagination. I have worded myself poorly.
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