>CE was bright pink

Nice.

>>4255435

They went to investigate, and found it in the Great Bazaar, in the middle of a bunch of fleeing people, painting a tiefling by pinning it to the floor and ramming its magic brush into its face. Meanwhile, Revolutionary-tan used her magic to disguise herself as a shorter Aribeth, hoping to make the Harmonium look bad. Harmonium-tan was angry, but they managed to avoid a fight between the -tans for now.

After trying to talk it down (and letting the slaad paint them for fun) Bleaker-tan asked why it hadn't painted itself, and it agreed that was a good idea and demanded to see a mirror.

After Bleaker-tan brought it a mirror, it set to work. Unfortunately, since it was a barmy slaad pretending to be LG, it had no idea what color it should be. After trying to paint itself several different colors at once, it exploded in a shower of paint and left behind two paintbrush-wielding slaad: One plaid, LG and obsessed with continuing its color-coding work, and one green with blue does, CN and obsessed with undoing its lawful counterpart's work by painting everything random colors.

They attacked Harmonium-tan first, arguing over what color to paint her while hitting her with their paintbrushes. After Bleaker-tan tried to save her, the slaad attacked her instead, leaving her stunned and confused in a puddle of paint with a rainbow face.

The slaad started to attack bystanders again and Doomguard-tan decided to step in with her giant quake-causing hammer. Then things got silly.

>>4255435
Please stop, you're raping the shit out of one of my favorite settings ever.

>>4255476

Doomguard-tan crushed the polka-dot slaad and several market stalls with her hammer and knocked it on its ass, still alive. She took its paintbrush and had a dramatic standoff with the plaid slaad, who declared "IN THE NAME OF RENBUU, I WILL COLOR YOU!"

Revolutionary-tan tried to use chaos magic to change its form to something more harmless, but missed and turned an entire stall into a pile of Demogorgon plushes which trapped Harmonium-tan. This angered the plaid slaad, which moved to color Revolutionary-tan instead; using the opening, Doomguard-tan smashed it with the full force of her hammer, turning the area around it into a crater.

Before it could recover, she grabbed the second paintbrush, combined them to restore the original paintbrush to its former glory, and decided to feed it to her pet ooze to destroy it. Both slaad got upset and leapt to attack while Bleaker-tan tried to grab them and stop the fighting so they could talk it out. Doomguard-tan won initiative, and slammed both the slaads and Bleaker-tan (by mistake) with a swing of the hammer.

Bleaker-tan managed to calm everyone for a while, though, and started to talk it out. Doomguard-tan went to see what Revolutionary-tan was doing and found she was using Harmonium-tan's entrapment under the plush pile to tickle her feet. The Hardhead begged to be let out. Doomguard-tan decided not to.

The slaad with the identity crisis was eventually talked into leaving for Limbo to get a new brush from Renbuu, with each half arguing with each other over who deserved it more. That's where we left off; I'm not sure if I want the slaad to come back again, either still split or restored to its former glory. Doomguard-tan is wondering what to do with the paintbrush.

Next week, I might try the Great Modron March.

>>4255488

Odd thing is, most of us really enjoy Planescape too. It took us a while to come up with -tan concepts we felt fit the setting, even.

We're aware it's a total train-wreck of an idea. This is being run for laughs and we're having a surprising amount of fun.

>>4255581
Don't try to pretend this is anything but trolling.

>>4255627

Seems silly to go to the effort of making characters and playing a game just to troll strangers like you, don't you think?

>>4255653
That's my point. You don't actually play this game. You are making this shit up.

The alternative, that there exists a group of people both interested enough in planescape, and pathetic enough to want to play a 'faction-tan' game; this is so implausible as to make the event a practical impossibility.

>>4255722

Nope. Running it on IRC and everything, people will back this up.

>pathetic

It's been pointed out several times that this isn't being taken seriously by anyone involved, so I'm not sure where you're coming from with the ad hominem.

>>4255653
OK. Would you run this game in person? Face to face?

>>4255798

The same people who run Maid-Rpg

>>4255798

Maybe. That depends entirely on who the others involved are, their temperament, personality, how they feel about Planescape, etc. I'd consider it, if it was a good group and they wouldn't be creepy about it. If it wasn't, probably not. I can't run it with the same players as I am online, we're in different countries.

So, what's your subjective opinion on my answer going to be?

>>4255787
The fact you don't feel shame is probably the greatest tragedy of it all.

>>4255798
Sure.
Why wouldn't he?

>>4255856
I was going for the "the fact that you can only run it successfully through the online medium points to the deep subconscious shame that you rightly feel" argument.

>>4255882
What shame?

>>4255863

Honestly, it feels a little silly sometimes, but that's because it's a PLANESCAPE game with MAGICAL GIRLS.

The reason we don't feel that bad about it is we're not taking it seriously. If we were, maybe then we should feel bad, but everything we've done with this idea has been for laughs.

>>4255882
>the fact that you can only run it successfully through the online medium
>the fact
>I'd consider it, if it was a good group

Ooops.

>>4255917
The shame of a group of middle aged men, collectively pretending to be little girls with anime inspired behavioural patterns and mannerisms?

>>4255944

The PCs are too old to be little girls. We agreed to ban that crap.

>>4255944
You don't seem to realize this is the internet. NO ONE feels shame for anything. especially if they're doing it for laughs.

Magical girls suck and so do old men who get off on pretending to be them! :D

>>4255944
Nothing shameful about that. Why would that be shameful?

>>4255950
...and yet the game is best described as 'planescape magical girls', and you have to refer to them as whatever-tan, and give us all the details of their lol-so-randum escapades.

>>4255985

And they're not little girls while doing so.

What's your point?

>>4255950
/r/ing succubus and Erin Montgomery (I think that's the other hot factol) images. I offer in return more bunny girl.

>>4256001

I think >>4255856 is Erin Montgomery.

Hold on, I'll find succubus.

>>4256013
Then the other one was Darkflame, or something like that? I only vaguely remember the names now from the Blood Wars card set I had...

I enjoyed your report on the campaign OP and look forward to a report next week.

>>4256025
You forgot to post your pseudo-avatar.

>>4256025
Oh noes, forgot the bunny.

>>4256040
I sincerely beg your forgiveness, good sir, for my failure in providing bunny fanservice.

>>4256041
Posts: X
Bunnies: X-1
There is no way for you to amend this. You will be behind forever.

>>4256064

Not if I post a bunny for him.

>>4255964
Unless I post... multiple bunnies?!

Oh god. So wrong.

Oh well. I'd still fuck Sensate-tan.

>>4256001
>>4256013
>>4256025

I assume you meant this?

>>4256025

Oh, and Darkflame is Erin. I think.

http://www.planewalker.com/encyclopedia/erin-darkflame-montgomery

Maybe planewalker will have the one you are thinking of? Do you mean Rhys?

>>4256103
BUNNY POWER!

>>4256229
I'm sure there were two hot factols... :( I can't remember them both off the top of my head, though. Sadness. Also, bunny.

>>4256274

Have a Pentar of the Doomguard.

I lol'd hard at this thread.

>>4256366

DELICIOUS PENTAR HIPS

Factol talk makes me wonder if I should include them, actually.

I might. The PCs are supposedly in senior high when they are not fighting for truth and justice in Sigil, so the factols could be teachers. Not sure if that is too Sigil Prep-y, though. (On the other hand, we already have Aribeth as Harmonium-tan...)

Also, what DOES a Doomguard do with a magical paintbrush that can paint anything?

>>4256788

Paint everything and everyone in Sigil jet black and watch them destroy themselves.

>>4256788

Paint the Harmonium pink.

>>4256990
I see a Sigil and I want to paint it black.

>>4257895

Pink!

Or sky blue. I don't know, what color would be most confusing?

I like the concept of Factols as the teaching staff.

Though, hmmm... If Pain-chan is the principal, and there's Fell's Ice Cream Store, and he's technically not someone she really likes... OH SHIT, HE'S THE BIG BAD IN DISGUISE.

And seriously, some things for everyone to remember.

A) We do have a bit of fun seeing how much people RAAAGE about it, but mostly we play for our own entertainment's sake with the actual GAME.

B) There's nothing creepy going on. OOC we make a few jokes when someone says something that could be taken as sexually suggestive, but we do that even when playing extremely be-muscled barbarians or games where we have mecha. We're just juvenile like that.

C) About playing "little girls." Bleaker-tan is 17, which I think puts her generally above the pedophilia limit. The thing is less that it's about I WISH TO BE THE LITTLE GIRL, and more that, playing her, I can roleplay a different type of personality and shit. It's a nice change.

D) About playing it in person. You know, honestly? I wouldn't mind, except that I'm generally just not as good a roleplayer in person, the other players aren't in the area and I kind of prefer roleplaying over IRC since it tends towards taking the game a bit more seriously(not SRS BSNS seriously, but more roleplaying, less about the rolls. I can elaborate if anyone wants.) and allowing people to be more verbose.

>>4258824

So what you're saying is the fact that it's a magical girl game has no meaning, and we should seek meaning from within.

Other than the whole "-tan" thing, I enjoyed OP's story or paintbrush slaads

Oh, and, for reference: http://pastebin.com/f76b1d07e

Bleaker-tan's character sheet.

[02:12] <Ettin> Athar-tan: Adie Dawkins
[02:12] <Ettin> Dustmen-tan: Radia Rainbow Summers
[02:12] <Ettin> Fated-tan: Andrea Ryan
[02:12] <Ettin> Guvner-tan: Samia Pythagora
[02:12] <Ettin> Indep-tan: Henrietta Winkler
[02:12] <Ettin> Harmonium-tan: Aribeth de Tylmarande
[02:13] <Ettin> Mercykiller-tan: Alexandra Enoreth
[02:13] <Ettin> Signer-tan: Rene Cartesia
[02:13] <Ettin> Sensate-tan: Chloe Cream
[02:13] <Ettin> Xaositect-tan: Katy

The non-PC-tan names. Aaaaand a log of the game!

http://pastebin.com/f574c447d

It has all of the OOC stuff cleaned out(what wasn't in a separate channel) as well as the rolls. Just trust that we occasionally rolled some dice. Judge for yourself if it was creepy.

Game had a bit of an abrupt end since one player(me) had to go to bed(it was 6 am by the time we stopped, we started late for me...) and it started a bit abruptly since it was mostly intended as a get-into-character test session.

>>4258872

Yes, exactly! Aw, you should head over to the Gatehouse and join right away!

>>4258911

What benefits do I get from joining this faction?

>>4259164
..You won't join. Not with that attitude anyway.

>>4259171

Fine! I'm going to the Fated! HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT?

>>4259164

Funny thing, I think the main benefit you get from Bleakers is that you're joining a faction that has no enemies and which is generally not composed of rampant jackasses(like, say, the Fated, or the Signers).

On the other hand, you have to pass a check to get out of bed every morning, pretty much. Fail too many in a row and you get overwhelmed by depression and need to be sent to the Gatehouse for a few weeks to recover.

/tg/.

Is there anything it can't do?

>>4259245
I wouldn't say they don't have any enemies. None of the other factions really like them and the Sensates dislike them even more because of their "meh whatever" attitude and the lawful factions like the Harmonium and the Mercykillers always think that the Bleakers are up to something.

The lack of jackasses is true though.

>>4259318

And you won't have any other factions harassing you like the Harmonium harasses the Revolutionary League, as far as I know anyway.

The depression is a bitch though.

>>4259303
No. No there is not.

GET THIS SHIT OF /TG/, YOU DAMN WEEABOS!

>>4259386

>OF /TG/
>WEEABOS

SPEAK ENGLISH

>>4259386

>>4259393

DO YOU KNOW WHAT KIND OF SKILL CHECK PENELTIES I GET WHEN I'M RAGING?

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!

>>4259420

How is Planescape weeaboo? Pike off!

>>4259364

Well, conflicts with the Fated when they harass the poor and weak too much, I imagine.

Friendship with the Godsmen due to personal choice, etc. Maybe some friendship with the Signers over that, too. Likely friendship with the Athar.

No huge fights with the Lawful Triad, though, because they mostly stay out of the Hive, and the Bleakers mostly operate in the Hive and the Lower Ward. They might pick on a Bleaker who's on an errand in the Lady's or Guildhall Ward, but that's it. Even then it'd probably just be some shoving and spitting, maybe a few days of arrest for a minor transgression, rather than killing him or something.

>>4259420

Aw, it's rage-tan! You need a pretty bow in your hair. :3

>>4259386
Funny, that face comes from Berzerk... a manga.
Still, SAGING THE SHIT OUT OF THIS WEEABOO SHITFEST STOP RUINING PLANESCAPE YOU FUCKING /jp/ FAGGOTSCUM!

>Doomguard-tan (a jaded tall schoolgirl who wants to be the little girl)

>>4259444

So much rage. Maybe you should come play with us!

I bet you'd make a great Mercykiller-tan with all that anger! Come on, it might be fun! You never know!

>>4259445

Yeah, she's very tall for her age and wishes she could be small, agile and graceful.

What's wrong with that, huh? HUH?

>>4259444
see
>>4259403

>>4259462
Shut the fuck up you cancercunt. There is a difference between enjoying japanese entertainment and being a FUCKING SHITCUNT WEEABOO.

>>4259470
see
>>4259403.

>>4259444

butthurt much?

Come on, let's all calm down.

Did anyone actually read the log of the game before commenting?

>>4259403

>>4259470

I think we found /b/-tan! :3

Why didn't you create a Planescape campaign around grafts and biomancy?

No, you wanted your retarded MOE~! kawaii shit campaign.

That's what you get for being a retarded weeaboo cunt. Shitty campaign circle jerks of other fellow /jp/goers.

>>4259487

Non-trolls don't forget their sage.

Have some Cirno.

>>4259440
Well not direct conflicts with them, no. But like I said all Planescape books point out that the Harmonium and the others (But mostly the Harmonium) always suspect that the Bleakers are up to no good with all those soup kitchens and stuff like that....but then again the Harmonium suspect EVERYONE who isn't a part of their faction.

Also, when you play your character does she make a roll each morning? After all, the constant threat of absolute depression is part of being a Bleaker.

This is the cancer killing /tg/.

>>4259494
What's the matter, pussy? Too much gore and psychological terror for you to handle?

Why don't you go back to watching Naruto?

>>4259501

>>4259497
>This is the cancer killing /tg/.
People actually playing games?

Also, all of you morons who keep bitching about 'cancer' - go back to your /b/ where someone might care about that.

>>4259487

Grimdark anime has my approval, it's about the only shit outta Japan that I can stand

>>4259506
SUPERIOR WEEABOO IS SUPERIOR

>>4259496

Nope! She's actually horribly upbeat because she's spent her entire life helping people and generally feels that most other people's failings aren't their own fault, and that everyone can be nice if they just tried and other people gave them a chance to be.

Being faced with someone who's genuinely and utterly an evil person through their own choices, though, would probably make her terribly sad.

>>4259494

Don't reply to the trolls, guys. They're just talking out of their ass. None of them read the log, none of them even read anything beyond "LOL MAGICAL GIRLS" and then assumed it was all animu shit.

>>4259440
>>4259465
>>4259467

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!

>>4259524
Dude are you really this easy to troll?

>>4259522
>Nope! She's actually horribly upbeat

FFFFF ok now you've managed to piss ME off!

>>4259538

Actually, that's one thing I never understood. WHY would the purposelessness of existence make them sad? It doesn't mean there IS no purpose, it merely means they get to CHOOSE their purpose.

What makes them sad is not their core philosophy, it's all the grim shit they see on the streets and have to deal with all day. All the indifference to other people's suffering, the willful evil and horror inflicted on others by people who think it's their RIGHT to act that way.

There's nothing to stop a Bleaker being upbeat... most of the time.

>>4259538
Actually, if a Bleaker rolls a 1 on their roll instead of being horribly depressed they end up being horribly ecstatic and cheerful.
But that's only on a 1.

>>4259553

Plus, she's 17, dude, she has time to be worn down by the harshness of reality yet.

Because the Bleakers actually had a built-in 'I go emo one in twenty days' mechanic

Oh, great people are interested in Planescape, let me see what *click* this is all abo-

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

>>4259553
Except they are called the BLEAK Cabal, not the Happy Funtimes Cabal. And they are depressed because most people who find out (or think they found out) that nothing around them makes sense or has a purpose simply fall into depression or become introverted. In the case of the Bleakers it's both. I mean, a lot of these guys break into madness even if too many people join the faction too fast.

>>4259561

>most of the time

>>4259561

Most of them are adult, and people don't join the Bleaker's right off the bat because it's the philosophy that appeals to them. They join the Bleakers when they've seen so much awful shit in the rest of their lives that... no way, no way can there be a greater meaning, a greater purpose to it all.

That they decide that there can't possibly be any greater end justifying those means. That's when they join the Bleak Cabal, usually after a lengthy stay in the Gatehouse to recover their sanity.

The Bleak Cabal is largely, in my mind, composed of people from other factions who have LOST their faith in existence, not people who never had any to begin with. They should be subject to that mechanic, yes. They've been shellshocked by reality.

But at the same time, I could imagine a core of people who join the Bleakers less for the core philosophy, more because they want to help. Because they genuinely care. They don't believe in any greater purpose to it all, and they've just decided that THEIR purpose is to help others. That's what THEY want to do, what they LIKE to do.

Eventually, they might be worn down. But for now? They're cheerful, and their cheer infects those they help. They give them a spark that they might use to improve their own lives, to take a chance, a leap, a guess. Whereas the morose and stolid assistance of the other Bleakers merely helps them continue to exist, the Happy Bleakers might actually help them exist in a better way.

>>4259569
Don't get sucked in. Just by having Magical Girls at all, they are, by definition, Doing It Wrong.

>>4259569
>most people

>>4259585
Yes, most people. And ofcourse if it's a PC that means it should totally be different than everyone else in the faction right? Fuck that!

>>4259569

Their name is as much from others as it is from themselves. The other factions mostly have philosophies based around: "YOU CAN BE AWESOME IF YOU FOLLOW THESE TEN STEPS!" or "YOU ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT SNOWFLAKE IN EXISTENCE!" or "BE A HERO. UPHOLD THE LAW. SMITE SOME SUCKAS."

Compared to that, a philosophy of: "You are not special, there are no greater destinies, the universe as a whole doesn't care, only other people do, and most of them choose not to." Is fucking grim and bleak.

>>4259592

Blanket statements don't work if you admit they're wrong.

>>4259594
You forgot "YOU MUST TRY EVERY *MOTHERFUCKING* THING ON THIS SIDE OF THE GREAT *MOTHERFUCKING* WHEEL"

>>4259569

There's a theory that The Lady maintains some sort of balance between the factions and their numbers, so Sigil doesn't break down... AGAIN.

For instance, the Indeps have HUGE numbers, but regularly catch a near-incurable, horrible disease when they enter Sigil which tends to necessitate off-Sigil treatment for a while by a specialist if they want to Not Fucking Die.

In the same way, is it unimaginable that a faction automatically swelled by the mad and hopeless occasionally has a lot of them go completely barmy and off themselves/be so insane as to be useless to the faction when they get too many members?

The Lady of Pain has her ways.

>>4259592

Who said EVERYONE else in the Faction? I suggested it was a decent subset of the Faction, like the Sinkers and Regulators are notable subsets of the Doomguard, not just one or two SPESHUL SNOWFLAKES.

>>4259525

I'm a rage elemtental, what the FUCK do you think I live on?!

>>4259623

Hugs and sunshine, Mr. Rage-y!

>>4259623
Beer?

>>4259608
I'm not really willing to believe the Lady would put a constant effort to maintain the balance between the factions. I always thought that she would just take measures only when one of the factions is obviously gaining too much power or is starting to have funny ideas about Sigil. And the Bleakers of all people don't really need someone else to smack them down because when too many people join in the top dogs in the faction just sink down so much they snap. The faction basically keeps itself down.

Look all I'm saying is I just don't think a cheery and helpful 17 year old girl would be accepted into the Bleak Cabal, even as a Namer. I'm not saying she couldn't still uphold some of their views and try to work with them on helping people, but I just think it's weird that they would accept her into their ranks.

>>4259628

Too many MR. RAGE clones.
Really bad clones, at least the first actually said things that furthered the convosation...

>>4259672
Don't argue with /jp/ goers... you might just ruin their "special" world, and that means they have to use the hugbox again...

>>4259672

Factions recruit based on your beliefs, not your personality.

Being a sad sack isn't necessarily a prereq for being a Bleaker. Anyway, maybe they think she'll wear down once she gets older.

>>4259672

Well, if you want to get into the logic of that, she could always be a kid of a pair of Bleakers. Maybe they offed themselves, she was accepted in as an orphan, or they didn't kill themselves and she's just a Bleaker because she's always been one.

How is she failing to uphold the faction's tenets by being cheerful? Go on. I'd love to hear the logic, here. Being depressed isn't a requirement of being a Bleaker, it just tends to be a result, or a cause.

>>4259641

I'm pretty sure that between Faces of Sigil, Guide to Sigil and the Factol's Manifesto, it's pretty obvious that The Lady is interfering, even if she tends to do it subtly and only communicates with the Factols.

Anyway, one thing I've always never understood is how, exactly, the Mercykillers work.

I mean, after reading the Manifesto, they're described as the punishment part of Sigil. They only hunt and attack people who have been Judged as lawbreakers by the Guvners and execute people who have been captured by the Harmonium. They are not their own sort of police force.

Now! Does this mean that a proper Mercykiller only fights in self defense when there are no criminals around judged by the Guvners or such? Or is that an ideal case, and generally if the other parts of the Triad aren't around, they operate as Judge, Police and Executioner on their own?

And, for that matter, what the hell do they do outside of Sigil? Far as I can tell, they have no judgement of Evil on their OWN, they only obey the Guvners' judgements. Do they obey the local laws? Do they uphold Sigil's laws outside of Sigil? How, exactly, does it work?

>>4259700

Actually this is a pretty civil argument by all standards. Please don't ruin that. I'd like to give thanks to the other half of the argument for being nice about it even if they perceive me as shitting on something they like.

>>4259718
Thinking she might wear down probably could work as an argument.

And yeah, most Factions just want you to pass their tests and you're in. But the Bleakers don't have any actual tests. You just hang around them for long enough at at some point they decide if you can be considered a Bleaker or not.

>>4259692
You sure did add to the conversation...

>>4259735
Never wrote that. Anywhere. All I'm saying is the whole concept of Bleaker-tan sounds kind of weird. That's all.

>>4259739

I think the Bleakers generally accept anyone who's willing to lend a hand and isn't a complete doofus at it. There's always plenty of work that needs doing, people that need helping.

As long as you don't walk around espousing a diametrically opposed philosophy to theirs, or otherwise being annoying/disruptive, I think they're generally willing to be friends.

At worst, a few of them might want to chuck rocks at the Fated, but then again, most Fated wouldn't hang out with Bleakers unless it was to try and shove them around.

"Bleak Cabal? Now here's a faction I can get excited about. Sign me up!"
"Sorry, not with that attitude."
"Okay then, screw it."
"Welcome aboard, brother!"
"All right!"
"You're out."

>>4259724
From what I recall they say they serve the "True Law" which pretty much means that if they HAVE to break another law to achieve something they an always say that they are just serving a higher authority. I never did figure out the Mercykillers too, to be honest.

>>4259724
Why do you know so much about Planescape yet rape it so much?

You are almost as bad as self-insert-furries.

>>4259760
Well most bodies would like to chuck rocks at the Fated. They aren't exactly popular outside of their own faction either.

>>4259767
>>4259483

>>4259753

Oh, I realize she sounded weird, but, well, I love the Bleakers. They're one of the factions I can really empathize with(or is it sympathize? I always mix the two up and generally consider them synonyms, oh well!).

But the thing is, I'm really, really bad at playing depressive characters. Even calm characters are a stretch for me, I have trouble playing characters who don't have a lot of energy to them.

Lots of the other Faction-tans could have energy... but they tend to be dicks, and man, even in games and stuff, I suck at being a dick to people. I can do it as a means to an end or something, but just being a dick to be a dick or because I'm selfish, like the Fated or something... I really can't do that.

So it was less the way the original concept was, more just the way it ended up after I'd turned her around in my head a few times.

And apologies for putting words into your mouth! That just seemed to be the general vibe of things!

>>4258905

What system is that character sheet in?

Not all Bleakers are absolutely devote followers of the faction's philosophy. That's why factions have the so called "Namers" - people who agree with the views of said faction but doesn't really feel like devoting their entire existence to helping push that philosophy forward.

>>4259795
Then you shouldn't play a Bleaker


- disciple of the If-You-Can't-RP-It-Don't-RP-It school

>>4259767

I used to GM, and still GM, 2nd edition AD&D, Planescape and Dark Sun have always been my favourite settings. I've read pretty much every Planescape setting book and MM. Loved Planescape: Torment, too.

But, see, the thing is, it's because I love it so much and know it so well that I can do this. I know it's just for fun, I'm not suggesting that any of the stuff we're doing is canon, I'm not taking it seriously, I'm not trying to stat the Lady of Pain or something retarded like that. I'm just having fun.

It's like a good friend that you can call a cocksucker when you greet him, and everyone has a laugh, rather than it degenerating into a fistfight. I ONLY HURT PLANESCAPE BECAUSE I LOVE IT.

>>4259764

Yeah, if they serve some sort of non-manmade law, then it's completely unelaborated on. If they serve the Guvners' law, then they're useless outside of Sigil and basically just an evil version of the Harmonium. If they serve their own, personal laws then how the hell are they even vaguely coherent as a faction?

>>4259816
>If-You-Can't-RP-It-Don't-RP-It

He didn't. He came up with a concept for a Bleaker which still kind of works, because not all Bleakers are manic-depressives.

What are you, RACIST?

>>4259825
If you can't play a girl, don't play a girl.

If you can't play a depressed person, don't play a depressed person.

How difficult is that?

>>4259806

BESM 3rd ed. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UGZMLAQ3

It's good for more than just anime, really. From a quick look at it, it seems like it would be both awesome and simple to use for some sort of superhero action, mecha action or high-magic high fantasy stuff. Sci-fi, too.

>>4259811

Exactly, Namers are basically the people each faction has who are reminiscent of those people who just send their favourite political party a check every now and then, but don't actually go do any work for the party.

>>4259816

Oh, but I AM playing a Bleaker, just not YOUR concept of a Bleaker. And I do try to challenge myself sometimes with more or less dickish or calm characters, but for this game I wanted to indulge myself and play something I enjoyed AND something I knew I could do well.

>>4259829
I think that they just serve whatever laws exist in...wherever they are. In Sigil they serve the Guvner's laws. If you have Mercykillers in a town where, for example, people are not allowed to drink alcohol (what kind of a twisted sick person would do that?) then they would enforce that law just as strictly as any other.

>>4259839

Which is why I'm not playing a depressed person!

I should also like to think that I can roleplay a girl or a woman pretty well. Not that I do it often, but sometimes it's a nice change from things, y'know? Some character concepts just seem to fit female aesthetics better than male aesthetics, make of that what you will.

>>4259856

Like prostitutes and Eskimos!

>>4259849

That would make sense, but again, there are places without formal law. Frontier outposts, anarchic states, forbidding swamps. What do they do there?

Plus, again, if they just follow the Guvners' laws then they're essentially a bad Harmonium knockoff produced in Acheron. There's gotta be more depth to them, honestly, there has to be.

>>4259865

My next character will be a prostitute eskimo with a heart of gold who dual-wields walruses(walrii?).

>>4259871
>What do they do there?
Simple - Nothing. You just don't find Mercykillers in those places, since those places won't have laws or sometimes even concepts of justice.

>>4259856
That's like saying you play a Barbarian that can read.

Or a cleric that refuses to use spells. Or a Sensate that doesn't want to feel things. Or a dwarf that doesn't want a beard.

Bleakers that are happy sound rediculous.

>>4260074

Why is sadness inherent to the concept of a Bleaker? Go on, explain how the lack of a greater purpose, a guiding meaning to life, necessarily means you're depressed.

Just because the universe has not set one in stone, does not mean you cannot make one for yourself. This is core to the concept of being a Bleaker, personal choice.

That, and the fact that sometimes the universe is just cruel and vindictive to people without them deserving it. That people who are down on their luck are not down on their luck because they deserve to be(The Fated), or because they're not working hard enough to be better(The Godsmen) or because it's just or fair(The Mercykillers). Sometimes the universe just shits on someone for no good reason... so why not help them get back on their feet again?

>>4260043

Unless they're doing some sort of bountyhunting stuff, I suppose. But again, that's the IDEAL Mercykiller, LN, only responds to the local laws and punishes those who would break them. Most Mercykillers are, in fact, probably LG or LE, and have their own concepts of justice, etc. and believe that it's vital to mete out punishment and restitution to the deserving, that the most important thing is not to stand by and watch, but to make sure that justice is done, one way or another. Once guilt is proven, of course.

WHY

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DIE

This thread needs more diterlizzi art

>>4260504

Because it's IN YOUR MIIIIIND.

>>4255488

It isn't rape, it's necrophilia.

>>4260988

Not quite, there's still a decent amount of people who play 2nd edition, and I'd wager that Planescape is probably one of the most popular, if not THE most popular, setting among them.

3rd and 4th ed have never replicated Planescape or Dark Sun properly.