tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post5848375162549886137..comments2024-03-29T06:14:10.087-07:00Comments on B/X BLACKRAZOR: Thieves and AssassinsJBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-10918462947001984282015-11-17T03:26:49.476-08:002015-11-17T03:26:49.476-08:00@ Jack:
I suppose I should have said "Hollyw...@ Jack:<br /><br />I suppose I should have said "Hollywood ninja type."JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-81082331698671144212015-11-16T22:49:10.118-08:002015-11-16T22:49:10.118-08:00Hilariously, what you're describing is much cl...Hilariously, what you're describing is much closer to the traditional way the ninja operated than modern depictions of wall-walking shadow warriors. :DAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16094014880813779766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-68006677922042311902015-11-16T07:43:05.132-08:002015-11-16T07:43:05.132-08:00@ Jack:
As you'll (hopefully) see, this assas...@ Jack:<br /><br />As you'll (hopefully) see, this assassin is not the "ninja type" that comes in through the window. He's not a backdoor guy, but one that comes in through the front, arm-in-arm with his intended victim, hopefully accomplishing his objective before anyone (especially the victim) senses the danger.JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-27188611044528101942015-11-15T22:58:08.239-08:002015-11-15T22:58:08.239-08:00Daesh's agenda is to draw the West into a bloo...Daesh's agenda is to draw the West into a bloody war, to further their propaganda that there -is- a war between the West and Islam. A violent response is -exactly- what Daesh is aiming for.<br /><br />I dig this approach to the thief and subclasses. I do think there's a lot of overlap between "stealing things" and "stealing lives," vis-a-vis skill set. Stealth, climbing, infiltration -- the only "thief skills" that don't seem appropriate for an assassin would be picking pockets and maybe -- maybe -- hearing noise. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16094014880813779766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-86857665426834897632015-11-15T21:39:54.259-08:002015-11-15T21:39:54.259-08:00@ Sean:
That's really a subject for another p...@ Sean:<br /><br />That's really a subject for another post. Thanks for the idea, though!<br />: )JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-13328778029944302792015-11-15T21:39:15.611-08:002015-11-15T21:39:15.611-08:00@ Sean:
Yep, more bombing resulting in more innoc...@ Sean:<br /><br />Yep, more bombing resulting in more innocent deaths. Stupid violence on both sides.<br /><br />How quickly we forget "Freedom Fries."JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-45773318008799527012015-11-15T20:55:09.126-08:002015-11-15T20:55:09.126-08:00What are your thoughts on a return to race as clas...What are your thoughts on a return to race as class? Humans cut of from unnatural power like magic and clerical power will change settings radically.Sean Robert Meaneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16273566549106707316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-15171252904471781012015-11-15T20:52:31.824-08:002015-11-15T20:52:31.824-08:00Halfling assassin clans...Ni-ng-atto literally mea...Halfling assassin clans...Ni-ng-atto literally means 'under orders of the father'...referring to a cult leader rather than parent.<br /><br />As to the stupid that men do, I see they went and bombed a town in Syria filled with ignorant peasants held hostage by Isis rather than the suburb in a town in Belgium where the villains who did this live.<br /><br />As papasmurf would say: smurf.Sean Robert Meaneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16273566549106707316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-53267572608843324942015-11-15T16:58:57.034-08:002015-11-15T16:58:57.034-08:00So now there will be more death and destruction. Y...<i>So now there will be more death and destruction. You fucking morons.</i><br /><br />This was also my first reaction.Alexis Smolenskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-60603074272770321312015-11-15T15:43:57.385-08:002015-11-15T15:43:57.385-08:00Um...France has been around for more than a thousa...Um...France has been around for more than a thousand years, and suffered through a lot more death and destruction than Friday's attacks. Like I said: fucking morons.<br /><br />RE D&D: <br /><br />I love halfling assassin clans almost as much as halfling monks (in my old D20 campaign, I had two ancestral enemy factions of this type). It was never clear to me why AD&D didn't allow halfling assassins.<br /><br />Holmes suggests demihumans being allowed in other classes, and I'd go with that...however, I'm NOT sure I'd allow them to operate in the subclasses (so no dwarf paladins or elven illusionists for example). Got to throw a couple bones to human players in an old school system.<br />; )JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-69812060543115566352015-11-15T15:15:54.077-08:002015-11-15T15:15:54.077-08:00'All they're doing is inciting the flames ...'All they're doing is inciting the flames of war...' that's kind of the point. France is a multicultural state. It is therefore necessary to destroy it so that Muslims fleeing the oppression of Islamic states are forced to leave this multicultural state and it's freedoms.<br /><br />As to D&D if we return to a class is race D&D then Halflings with thieves abilities must mean Halflings with abilities of assassins. The idea of a three feet tall ninja ;). Ni-ng-atto is indo-iranian. It's also the basis for ninja.Sean Robert Meaneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16273566549106707316noreply@blogger.com