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It's the only reasonable approach, honestly
Munchkin harder, punk
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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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- naruto rationalist romance armageddon is looking better and better damn you kishimoto explosions everywhere explosives solve everyone if in doubt surrender to the mercy of zabuza it seemed like a good idea at the time looks like a really bad case of being a jōnin my god. where does the lore end? precommitting is the winning plan screaming in kagome screw the rules i have explosives something bad might still happen sometimes you gotta sociopath stabby zabby subsection c of paragraph 9 should include we can weaponize this so hard open voting
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This is OSR. There is no such thing as munchkin. If the player makes a tactical error, the character dies. If the player is unlucky, the character dies. If the player is smart, cunning and capable, and leverages their resources to their best effect, they walk away from certain doom as victors, with a sense of true achievement, until the next adventure kills them anyway.
Cariyaga
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Enemies get a lot more rolls against the PCs over the duration of a game than you get against any one of them, and it only takes one failed roll to die. That's why you try to avoid rolls made against you at all. ...By using a railgun constructed in edo-period japan.
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I can see rational!Zabuza going through that thought process, but nobody in canon is that conscientious
Most especially including Kishimoto.
What is OSR?
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It's a good rule of thumb in real life, Blood Bowl and OSR D&D - touch the dice at your own peril.
@^ OSR means Old School Reneissance, and it's essentially a movement in tabletop RPGs to use systems reminiscent of the original D&D and AD&D in thematic terms, where the PCs are ordinary people who don't reach any superhuman heights of skill, encounters are not 'level-appropriate' but instead what you happen to run into, victory is not expected but requires both player skill and luck, parties are large with high lethality and the use of henchmen to take hits for you is one of the key aspects of remaining alive long enough to spend your loot.
For our group, it also means a homebrewed, simplified system that relies on cooperation between players and the GM to resolve conflicts in a way that makes sense, with no mechanical rules constraining what you can do beyond common sense - humans can attempt what humans might be able to do, with modifiers and difficulty based on the situation. Character creation, for obvious reasons of expediency, takes about five minutes maximum and characters gain their backstory through gameplay.
@^ OSR means Old School Reneissance, and it's essentially a movement in tabletop RPGs to use systems reminiscent of the original D&D and AD&D in thematic terms, where the PCs are ordinary people who don't reach any superhuman heights of skill, encounters are not 'level-appropriate' but instead what you happen to run into, victory is not expected but requires both player skill and luck, parties are large with high lethality and the use of henchmen to take hits for you is one of the key aspects of remaining alive long enough to spend your loot.
For our group, it also means a homebrewed, simplified system that relies on cooperation between players and the GM to resolve conflicts in a way that makes sense, with no mechanical rules constraining what you can do beyond common sense - humans can attempt what humans might be able to do, with modifiers and difficulty based on the situation. Character creation, for obvious reasons of expediency, takes about five minutes maximum and characters gain their backstory through gameplay.
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- Yes.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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- United States
We really need to get flashbang seals so we have an option for dealing with people nonlethally for Keiko. It's starting to annoy me how we don't have any options there. Until then, we can consider sealing pepper powder or something in a PMYF seal.
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Yup. I vote that after we complete this mission, we take a nice breather in Iron to get Noburi Medical Ninjutsu 10 and Hazou combined casino seals. We can work on helping Honomi if we didn't fuck shit up, and see if we can find some ice suppliers in Northern Iron.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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I mean, assuming that Akane can't make ice herself. And if she can, we can consider selling ice to a supplier under the condition that they sell cheaply to Honami; although it might be difficult to swing that by her dad. Either way, there's ways around that. Before we get started on the casino seals we should get earplugs and tinted goggles for everyone, though. Honestly, that's one hell of a force multiplier.
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A better idea would be to make the seals directionalized, like Kagome's explosive tags. Or we could make seals that, when activated, dampen sound/light, since lower visual/auditory ability might be a bad thing in a ninja fight.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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Um... well, while that might be ideal, it sounds like it'd be a LOT harder to make a directional sound/light seal. ...although that would be useful for comms seals.
Speaking of comms seals, we should suggest everyone get their ears pierced for that purpose.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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We should work out how to seal clones. Or make clone seals. Something like that so we can create an army right quick.
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- The Deep Blue Sea
That's why we gotta get high enough sealing to make golems! No moral qualms about sending those into the meatblender that is ninja combat
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Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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No experience with making wiki pages myself. I'll add an entry for @eaglejarl liking to write punching scenes, though!
e: Hm, maybe I shouldn't tease him about that while he's writing one?... ...Naaaah.
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Y'all might be interested in the conversation that @Velorien and I had last night. Paraphrased, it went like this:
EJ: They're actually planning to make a fight out of this. If they do, someone is probably going to die. Are you okay with that?
V: It'll suck, but yes.
...discussion...
EJ: Crap. I forgot about the caltrops. If they can't move around easily then they don't get the multiple combatant bonuses and this will be a TPK.
V: Well, I told them that we were being nice and letting them have full MC rules with the caltrops providing maluses.
EJ: Phew! They're lucky you're here!
EJ: They're actually planning to make a fight out of this. If they do, someone is probably going to die. Are you okay with that?
V: It'll suck, but yes.
...discussion...
EJ: Crap. I forgot about the caltrops. If they can't move around easily then they don't get the multiple combatant bonuses and this will be a TPK.
V: Well, I told them that we were being nice and letting them have full MC rules with the caltrops providing maluses.
EJ: Phew! They're lucky you're here!
Welp...
It might now be time to panic.
Edit: Let's just hope Mari rolls well for deception.
It might now be time to panic.
Edit: Let's just hope Mari rolls well for deception.
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Enlightening, but if QMs explicitly ruled no mass combat rules, we wouldn't have gone for a fight at all.
We work with what we're given, so...
One might argue that permitting mass combat was handing us enough rope to hang ourselves with
Whatever. I have a reaction image prepared already.
We work with what we're given, so...
One might argue that permitting mass combat was handing us enough rope to hang ourselves with
Whatever. I have a reaction image prepared already.
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- Europe
Is it a picture of a bunch of people enthusiastically jumping on tomatoes and turning them into fine paste?
Because that's what our unconscious civilians are going to look like after we start a ninja fight in the same room as them.
Well, I just hope this coded message turns out to be worth the trouble. Like getting the full details of the The Schlieffen Plan with enough warning to do something about it before Germany invades level of "worth the trouble".
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Akane is positioned right next to the door with instructions to engage in taijutsu against the kenjutsu expert if the genjutsu fails.
Our most youthful student is about to die.
Akane is positioned right next to the door with instructions to engage in taijutsu against the kenjutsu expert if the genjutsu fails.
Our most youthful student is about to die.
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- Europe
Don't worry, she has the pangolin-jutsu.
Except she doesn't, since she rolled Stealth 11 earlier. If she had pangonlin-jutsu she would have rolled 10 due to the penalty to her flexibility.