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Forge of Destiny(Xianxia Quest)

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Imagine with me a scene.
A man struggling within the mists, destroying the foul beasts summoned by the music. He bides his time and analyses the art, and there he finds it!
The controller is found, now to deal with this once and for all.

And then he is greeted by this
I rest my case.

I like swords they're just boring for this. If we were going to pick a semi traditional wuxia weapon for our battle style I'd honestly have just gone for
as it is definitely the weapon that suits our style the most and complements our flute playing

Edit: forgot my spoilers, sorry
 
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Yun said:
I encourage you to vote for what you want! Because Ling Qi after Instructor Zhou's second test had the spotlight shown on her, and refugee in audacity is a thing. Besides polearms are practical for mounted combat whereas a sword short is significantly less so.
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I like both but chain whip just fits better with Ling Qi and seems more yin.
 
[X] Bow
[X] Unarmed

Bow for SCS keepaway games. Unarmed for when we need to fight while playing without interrupting, since it's hands-free and goes with everything
 
Hey, what about claws?



Could be engineered to be mostly out of the way for flute-playing. It wouldn't be unlike a cestus, punch-dagger or the like, but would be pretty fast and compact.
 
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For those of you who wish to start doing something differently, and don't want a sword because that is too typical, vote for heavy Polearms! We can be awesome and nobody can get into our range!

The people voting for Spears, are you willing to change your vote to heavy polearms to beat out the other options?
 
Come on guys don't tell me that you wouldn't laugh your ass off if Han Jian winds up teaching Ling Qi to handle his weapon and wonder aloud about why every girl that trains with him gets to be interested in his sword (skills) :p

Vote Jian/Sword for humor!
 
A chain whip does seem cool, but so does a Heavy polearm!

The ability to dance through the mists that we have been creating and cutting down all the chaff in our way with a glaive and doing it in style is almost too good to pass up!
 
I'm pretty sure claws are an Unarmed mastery.

With regard to bows and 'doesn't use strength/is unrealistic'? Just about any weapon not made of some fantasy unobtainium or super modern alloy would be broken quickly when used by someone with super strength- even steel can bend or snap pretty easily when it hits something with too much force at an awkward angle. If anything, a bow meant for someone with super strength is more realistic because the stresses it's meant to endure are much more predictable than a melee weapon.

And, given you're making any weapon with unobtainium, bows are absolutely most likely to hit someone with superhuman speed. The mechanics involved multiply the kinetic energy a strong person can impart to make a normal arrow essentially undodgable by a normal human- (barring an 'aim dodge')- assuming the physics played out in a roughly similar fashion, that should be true for cultivators using cultivator-intended weaponry.
 
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Shadell said:
Notably, our STR sucks and building for multiple core stats is just wasting XP a lot of the time,
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Okay, I know you've x'd out this part of your post, but I've seen this argument before and although I don't really care enough to make a big deal of this, you've kind of got it backwards. There's a cap to our stats which means that unless we can ascend before we hit the cap, any further training action represents wasted xp.

We are so close to our dex cap it's not even funny (18 xp left before dot six - 2 a week, 9 weeks), within an estimated nine weeks we will stop gaining dex points. Within an estimated twenty weeks, we will have hit our throwing knives cap (40 xp left - 2 a week, 20 weeks).

If you're making a 'wasted attribute xp' argument, you should be arguing for a strength-specific weapon, honestly. =3=;
 
Also, yrsillar has noted that a Heavy polearm will not require the strength stat, as a yellow cultivator can lift normal weapons with ease. Instead it will use our damage on our highest stat, that being dex.

So all of those who don't want to get Heavy polearms because "it would require strength" fear not! It doesn't require strength and we can use our dex as its hit dice.
 
Thor's Twin said:
Also, yrsillar has noted that a Heavy polearm will not require the strength stat, as a yellow cultivator can lift normal weapons with ease. Instead it will use our damage on our highest stat, that being dex.

So all of those who don't want to get Heavy polearms because "it would require strength" fear not! It doesn't require strength and we can use our dex as its hit dice.
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But can we use it to train strength? That'd be the best of both worlds and would probably get me to change my useless shield vote. *_*
 
FixerUpper said:
But can we use it to train strength? That'd be the best of both worlds and would probably get me to change my useless shield vote.
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If we wanted to we could probably add weights to it in order to help increase our strength. I mean, Heavy polearm is more likely to increase strength than a sword or unarmed skill. It is just going to be heavier than those by a long shot.

I don't have WoG that it will or can, but I don't see why it wouldn't have a better chance at doing it than swords or unarmed.
 
Umi-san said:
do you mean legitimately associated or "they're associated in ancient china so clearly there's a link"

Like, delicate fencing swordplay might lead to more manual dexterity but honestly a knife is likely to be 9x better for fine strokes. And at least when it comes to formations, 90% of that is knowledge of characters and how they can be linked and interpreted.


Refinement of skills is never a waste. Try with one choice, refine with the other.
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Associated in Xianxia. Strongly. It's super common for swordsmen character to discover they're talented in Calligraphy and can paint with their 'sword-intent.' Character who never have picked up a sword discover skill with it after looking at the brushstrokes of a master painter. A calligraphy brush can be used as a powerful sword because the brush is metaphysically speaking a small sword.

In Desolate Era, an Eternal Emperor paints a small world using sword intent - he's explicitly bad at painting, but the connection between the sword and the brush means he can still do it. Though this example is less impressive then it sounds because Eternal Emperors are two entire ranks above Chaos Gods, and Chaos Gods can make worlds.

It's common for swordman protagonist to set aside their blade and paint to improve their skill with the sword during times of peace. Sword techniques can sometimes be calligraphy written in the air with their swords.

So no, not making it up. Like, that doesn't mean yrsillar will use it, but mastery of 'sword' and mastery of 'brush' mean the same thing in many Xianxia stories by completely separate authors.

CircleTheSkies said:
Okay, could someone who's on the bow bandwagon give a list of reasons for it? Because to be honest, it's kinda driving me crazy. Am I overlooking something that makes bows amazing in-setting? Ling Qi's seen what, two bow-users, among the mooks that attacked her and Meizhen. And they sucked.

In-setting people have fast enough reactions to dodge a projectile they see coming reasonably well, can use wind (or other elements) to deflect them and in general prevent them from causing problems. The natural counter to those is to make sure they don't see the attack coming, to my mind (or the projectile being too fast to see). Fair enough, the bow can do that... at very long range for an ambush. Which I wager will almost never happen in Ling Qi's time at the sect, and probably not all that often elsewhere. Meanwhile, something like a knife? Can suddenly come out of a sleeve or from behind the back while the eye is occupied elsewhere.

Of course, in the mist, the arrow won't be seen coming in. But then you're back to throwing knife range, leaving me scratching my head over a bow.

EDIT: And then, the practicalities of Ling Qi fighting. She starts with a bow - and then, when they get in close, switches it out (taking time) for a halberd. Where's the flute and her very useful mist?

Or she starts with the flute... and the enemy is in close, meaning the bow isn't all that hot.
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If she can start at a good range, she might have a turn or three with the bow before they close. When they close, she switches to the flute and starts being evasive. If cornered, her playing is interrupted, they have a counter, or she can't layer more buff/debuff she draws her sword.

As for why the bow? Well, Houyi is pretty much the most metal a you can get outside of something like Indian mythology.
 
overmind said:
I would like to increase our strength. How do we do it?
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Probably by doing things with objects that are heavier than we are used to. I don't know of a firm solid way to do it in a Xianxia setting, but it can't hurt to be using a Heavy Polearm. Its in the name, its going to be heavier than what we are used to.
 
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