>no longer put up with

The "NO MORE X" cliché.

>>10277200
>>10277178
no way this isn't a samefag.

>>10277222
I am >>10277200 and I am definitely not the OP. OP is clearly a "NOHAVINGFUN" fag.

>>10277242
what, exactly, is fun about "oh, another zombie apocalypse"
"oh, you're a ninja. again."
"man, we totally need another SJGames Cthulhu spinoff game. maybe this time it'll be thematic dominoes!"

>>10277178
Tell me what isnt fun about being a pirate?...

>>10277335
when it's the 15th fucking pirate in a row. and has no real ambition, and amounts to building a typical fighter on a boat who talks funny. and they do the voice endlessly.

>>10277379
ouch.
What about we're all piratical ninjas saving the world from cthulu zombies?

>>10277403
nope. different flavor of the same shit.

"cthulhu zombies" are just "zombies, with a boss fight against an unpronouncable thing later on. Might as well just call it Nemesis and play Resident Evil"
"Pirate Ninjas" I refuse to dignify, as this isn't 2003.

Chaotic Stupid. LOLRANDOM!

Sit down, shut up, and calm the fuck down.

So you're telling me that being a pirate on the high seas, raiding towns and being chased by the military navel vessels isn't fun to you? Food shortages on the ships that force you to go to unexplored islands full of god knows what and having mutinies in the dead of night. Maybe you just don't know how to be a pirate properly. So many things to do on the high seas...yo-ho

Linking to the post directly above yours is generally a good sign of samefag.

Replace Pirates with Bandit
Replace Zombies with Skeletons
Replace Ninjas with Snipers
Replace Cthulhu with Godzilla

>>10277379
I think, in that situation, the problem doesn't lie with the pirates.

>>10277465
*cough*

>>10277379

That's hardly a reason to ban all pirates.

You smack a guy when he's doing an obvious Jack Sparrow impersonation but when he's just a thug on a ship? How's that bad?

>>10277465
what about if you're nowhere near the sea

See, OP is clearly simply not catering to his/her player base. Time for a custom campaign setting.

10,000 years after mankind developed a flawed immortality virus, the players are commerce raiding monks who ply their ways in a post-apocalyptic sea of the dead. All the living have settlements on inaccessible plateaus surrounded by trillions of ravening zombies. All the dead will revive after a week and regenerate fully. Funeral rights consist of a burial at sea.

The ships "sail" on top of the zombie sea by hanging meat out the back of the boat, and crowdsurfing their way forward.

THAT is what OP should be making their players act out.

>>10277633
Why allow a character that doesn't fit at all?

>>10277633
then putting pirates in your setting is your god damn problem
not the pirates themselves

>>10277702
>sea of zombies

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>>10277702
See, this is why I forgive /tg/ for being shit 99% of the time.

>>10277482

want to see more campains with godzilla tied in, lots of monsters to use in it

>>10277702
If you put this to your ear and listen, you can hear the sea........

>>10277702
>>10277702

I often ask myself why I still come to 4chan. Why I come to /tg/.

Why would I sail through a thousand gallons of human excrement?

To find this, the diamonds that glitter.

I don't put up with accents from one of my players. Every time he is allowed, he plays duke nukem, catchprases and all.

>>10277702
my god, it's beautiful...

>>10277702
Should I say... FUND IT?

>>10277723
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>>10277828
>>10277847
>>10277847
>>10277852
>>10277854
thank you. I try to please.

My gaming group has never played anything involving pirates, zombies, ninjas or cthulu.

We've been talking about running a zombie survival game just because for us it actually would be different than what we usually play. Sure there's lots of media about zombies already but that's not an issue for my group. We like roleplaying character portraits so it would be more about character development in a weird setting than "oh no zombies burst through the wall again scary scary"

I'm glad OP is not my DM. His games must be boring wankfests if the setting is more important than the PCs.

>>10277702
itsbeautiful.jpg

>>10277702

I don't know what to say

>>10277702
Oh god this is amazing.

>>10277379
If you have fun playing a character, play it as much as you want. I'd rather have someone have fun playing a pirate than hate what they play because I banned what they like for the reason they've "used it before."

>>10277702
It's like Spelljammer Of The Dead.

I've been playing Cthulhutech... everyone keeps trying to do zombies and evil cultists, why won't they stop!

And now I have to run an all flesh must be eaten one-shot.

>>10277702
Now, picture this: The sea of Death? IT HAS AN ECOSYSTEM. Undead flora and fauna that lives in it. Worms, Vultures, Giant shark-vultures that feed on the endless suplly of corpses.

>>10277702

Continue your tale , I love it

>>10278179
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>>10278179
>>10278179
>>10278179
GIANT ZOMBIE SHARKS

throw in the Ninjas as people who can walk through the zombie-sea without being eaten... unless they fail their ninja arts, in which case they're eaten almost immediately

>>10278230
Technically, that's a killer whale, but still good.

The up-side to the whole thing is that the immortality thing really does work - everyone stops aging at ~age 20 and any wound heals perfectly in a week. As long as it doesn't kill you.

>>10277431
Pirate ninjas fighting knights who are on their way to kill sand-niggers, followed by swamp niggers, followed by snow niggers, followed by wizards and a guy who could be a home-depot mascot.

>>10278230
>>10278259
MECHANIZED, EARTHWALKING zombie sharks

>>10277702

You, Sir, are among the finest of our kin and one day, should you die, will forever have a seat in gaming valhalla.

Pitfalls of these mountaintop communities:
They live in constant fear of rockfalls turning a cliff into a slope.
They build a lot of fences on their land, just in case.
No-one enters someone elses property without knocking and receiving a reply.
Metal is precious. communities that can mine it are very rich, but undermining your own plateau for metals is very dangerous, and disposing of the slag is problematic.

>>10278230
Aquaman can't even handle the things in his realm.

Fucking Lame.

What about island nations, or underground?

Or y'know, freezing temperatures, which is the killer of all undead.

- Broody, silent loners.
>No, he's not Wolverine, I swear!
Correct - Wolverine has 19 mysterious pasts.

- Sneaky rogues who lurk around the group.
>My character is perfectly within his rights to pilfer.
Correct - so is the psychotic to rip your anus into a pretzel.

- The walking gun platform.
>I need to carry this. We may need them!
Correct - if we re-enter the Vietnam war and shop only at K-Mart.

- The armored walking tank.
>Kevlar, baby! Let 'em shoot me!
Correct - with a thrown Molatov cocktail. Drink up!

- The lecherous fiend.
>Rape is cool!
You. Are. Going. To. Prison.
Remember: rape is always cool.

Beyond that, anyone who wants a tail, in a setting which either disallows them or shuns them. Seriously, wtf.

>>10278423
He rips it in two in the very next panel. He's actually testing *why* he keeps summoning undead. Last time he summoned an undead Kraken by accident.

>>10277178

None of these are clichés. Please learn what a cliché is.

The Dangers of sailing the Sea of the Dead:
I imagine the ships have a crude safety cage for the crew, but a full capsize would be instantly fatal. Only an master mariner and crew have the
skill to trim the meat "sails" that steer and propel the boat without sucking the supports out from under it. Larger vessels have emergency wheels that can be dropped at a moments notice to support the vessel in "rough seas"
Becoming "becalmed" - if you run out of meat, you've got to find some somewhere. No-one chooses to make a long voyage by choice. There is an intricate network of short-haul trade routes.

>>10278434
I think of massive gritty platforms with clean and anti-sceptic interiors, populated by eternally young persons who are scared shitless of death... because they have a look at the Afterlife every morning, and it roars and hungers for the flesh of the living....

>>10278502
>if you run out of meat, you've got to find some some
- unlucky crew member who draws the short straw.
>Sorry, Pete. We've got a hundred miles left to go and ... well, you know how it is.

Out of "meat" is a question of perspective.

>>10278423
I lol at this. Aquaman hasn't been lame for decades, but nobody will let go of Superfriends. He's been a badass with a harpoon for a hand, or hydromancer magic hand.

He's like anti-Wolverine. Wolverine can wear a pink tutu and get fucked in the ass by a hundred little boys and people would go FUCK YEAH BADASS, while Aquaman could shatter a submarine in two with his chest and beat the shit out of every man onboard so hard their heads exploded, and people would go LOL SO LAME

Hell, there was once a "what if" comic where Aquaman has had ENOUGH of everyone's shit and says "NO, I DO NOT FUCKING TALK TO FISH. I COMMAND ALL CREATURES THAT EVER CAME FROM THE SEA. IT IS NOT A FUCKING GIVE AND TAKE. I COMMAND. THEY OBEY. ALSO, LAST TIME I CHECKED, HUMANITY? STARTED OUT CRAWLING FROM THE OCEAN. IN FACT, NO, 80% OF THE PLANET, MIND CONTROLLED, STARTING NOW."

>>10278453
So no one is allowed to prepare ahead of time for life threatening combat, be introverted or be a not-nice person in your games?

Sounds kinda boring honestly. I see where you're coming from but those are huge and sweeping generalizations to ban.

>>10278585
Correct - no one is allowed to prepare to square off with an entire regiment of combat troops... nor be "introverted" to the point of failing to gather with the group to discuss tactics, plans and recent experiences.

>>10278545
Did it actually work?

>>10278545
I'm torn between complementing you on an enjoyable post or doing a "umad" troll just because I've never done one before and want to see what all the fuss is about.

>>10278617
He DID mind control them.

I just don't remember what happened. Elseworlds aren't bound by the STATUS QUO IS GOD rules of regular comics.

That may have BEEN the ending.

>>10278545
yourpowerisfuckinguseless.jpg

>>10278585

It's a party-based game. If your character is not interested in functioning as part of the party, he has no place in the game.

It's pretty simple, really.

>>10278545 I like you quite a lot now. This is entirely the argument I have been making for ages. Aquaman is one of the coolest characters DC have. The entire lovecraftian thing they had going on for ages was amazing.

>>10278628
Meh. Its like Meg-hate on Family Guy. Everyone goes on about how horrifically ugly she is, but she's not, especially in the scheme of the show. Just like Aquaman has... hell, have you seen Brave and the Bold? Aquaman is the best character on the show. And the purpose of the show is literally to show off as many superheroes as possible.

>>10278434
stop being sensible.

Anyway, the big islands are covered in zombies. Only deep-water islands are safe, and that's not where the game takes place. Maybe there's civilisation underground. Maybe there are Morlocks underground. No-one knows.

Zombies spend 24/7 producing greenhouse gasses?? I dunno, everywhere is subtropical nowadays. If only science had survived the apocalypse intact.

Aquaman is useless, has always been useless, and still is useless.HIS ARCHENEMY'S POWER IS THAT HE HAS A BOAT.

>>10278673
lol Black Manta
How the fuck am I supposed to take THAT seriously?

>>10278694
>>10278673
Black Manta murdered Aquaman's son.

He then later showed up during an Atlantis/United Nations meeting, and said

"YES, AQUAMAN, I HAVE A QUESTION.
....
How's the kid?"

>>10278717
Your point being? Everyone's archenemy has done something nasty to them.

My GM had a tendency to do this Ozymandias '35 minutes ago' bullshit. Started getting pretty sick of that.

>>10278673
yes, he's almost as rediculous as Daredevil from Marvel OH NO A BLIND MAN WITH THE POWER OF SIGHT!

>>10278732
Except he's not lame. He was basically evil black Iron Man with an underwater focus.

>>10278694
same way you take Lex Luthor seriously: he has high tech and henchmen and guns and very little in the way of moral compass.

>>10278748
It's like Jubilee and Robin

No stop double-derailing what is probably the single best campaign setting/thread derailment /tg/ has ever seen.

>>10278779
Jubilee had powers till Quesadilla fucked shit up.

>>10278753
"...the boy who would become Black Manta grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and loved to play by the sea. As a youth he was kidnapped and sexually abused on a ship for an unspecified amount of time. At one point he apparently saw Aquaman with his dolphin friends and tried to signal him for help but was not seen. Finally, he was forced to defend himself, killing one of his tormentors on the ship with a knife. Hating the emotionless sea (and Aquaman, whom he saw as its representative), the boy was determined to become its master."

YEAH, THAT'S NOT AT ALL STUPID.

>>10278753
>implying Iron Man isn't evil

>>10278776
Except Lex Luthor actually affects things and most people in DC have heard of him. He's also, you know, interesting.

Look at that head, fuck, I can take him about as seriously as the Daleks from Dr.Who. As in, not at all.

>>10278664
I dont think they produce greenhouse gasses, but if they were, the ozone layer would have melted long ago, bombarding with UV rays all earth.

Cancer zombies, beautiful.

>>10278832
>BAWWWWW MY SUPERPOWERED PRIMA DONNAS HAVE TO ACTUALLY ANSWER FOR THEIR ACTIONS

>>10278835
>Daleks aren't scary
Wow, someone has never watched Dr Who at all. Poor poor yank.

>>10278694
Well, considering what he did recently upon hearing that Aquaman was back from the dead, I'd at least be inclined to be reasonably polite while talking to him...

>>10278883
What did he do, put on a stupid helmet and be a dumb ass motherfucker? HE'S LAME FAGGOT

>>>>10277702
Your idea, good sir, is now saved, for futur uses. Well done.

>>10278883
He killed his fish market customers with a knife. OOH SCARY

>>10278914
LAME

>>10278929
>>10278914
>>10278898
>>10278835
>>10278815
Hmmmmm

>>10278545
Tell me more of this anti-badass theory.

>>10278848
I dunno, maybe it works. Methane is a greenhouse gas.

Ozone depletion is a seperate issue (and Ozone is a greenhouse gas anyway.)

>>10278832Implying that a retcon about him being mindfucked for that story arc isn't inbound.

>>10278880
I'm sorry I don't find your Trash Can Aliens intimidating

AQUAMAN IS NOT INTERESTING OR BADASS IN ANY WAY.
DC HAD A LOT OF TROUBLE MAKING UNDERWATER INTERESTING, WHICH THEY FAILED AT. SHIT, AQUALAD IS BETTER THAN HIM.

>>10278605
So you railroad your players into being a team at the expense of character development and you railroad your characters into not being allowed to prepare for challenges they know they will face. Nice. I would fucking hate to be in your game.

>>10278832
Dolphins and chips war too.

>>10278880
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWiq-0rf_bA

>>10278637
Psst: Not everyone in this thread plays your shitty game. Some of us play good games with actual character interactions and like plot and conflict and stuff. We don't all just kill dragons with our +6 axe

>>10279052
Yes? and? Its a show called TV Offal, where people make fun of everything. And by somehow linking to "Gay daleks", you prove your point?

Here, watch this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBSOhODoch0&feature=related

>>10278673

Question. Do you read Aquaman comics?

If your answer is "lol no why would I read that ghey shit?" then I'll politely ask you to shut the fuck up before you make an ass of yourself.

>>10279150
Yeah, read all his old comics. He sucked then, too. His comics were boring.

>>10279017
>So you railroad your players
Stop right there, criminal scum.
>into being a team at the expense of character development
If the game is team-oriented, I defer to the other players' choices - I find fuckwits with zero creativity of little value in my games.
>and you railroad your characters into not being allowed to prepare for challenges they know they will face.
Amazingly, they've yet to run across half the necessity for one of the walking gun platform characters, in a three-year campaign. Notably, its new players in my games who start out as gunbunnies and wind up as decent RPers who find alternatives to "detonate the city" to every crisis.
>Nice. I would fucking hate to be in your game.
... you were invited? Hereby rescinded, then. Off you go.

Also: pic related.

>>10279182

Dude. Sword of Atlantis was awesome.

Hell I'd go as far to say he's the only DC character post crisis who's been consistently well written.

See this lobster? It's a special breed of lobster called an "off-topic lobster" and it does exactly as it's name suggests. This thread is now being taken over by lobsters.

>>10279182
If they were boring... why did you read them?

>>10279137

They're still shiny buttplugs with an attached toilet plunger

not
scary

>>10279201
>Sword of Atlantis
YEAH GUYS AQUAMAN SUCKED SO NOW THERE'S WIZARDS AND SHIT HOW YOU LIKE IT WAIT YOU DON'T SHIT

>>10279227
Because I was twelve and had no other comics I hadn't read repeatedly.

>>10278835
OVARIES MAN?

>>10279294
And his allies, the Crimson Tide.
They fight one week out of every four, but are exceptionally vicious.

Some would say bloody.

>>10279240
And space marines are giant suits of foam padding
and imperial guards are rednecks with flash lights
And 40k tanks are boxes with treads
If you're going to just insult things as justification for your attitude, you realize that everything can be mocked into inconsequentiality.

>>10279313
And you think we don't know this?

>>10279313

Some things are much easier to mock than others

For instance it is extremely easy to mock the idea that Daleks are scary

>>10279249

What an intellectual response! I guess your opinion is certainly vali-

PFFT I CAN'T SAY THAT WITH A STRAIGHT FACE GO BACK TO /b/ YOU FUCKER!

>>10279193
Okay. We're on the same page then I guess. From your previous post it really seemed like you were the "other" type of roleplayer who squeltches creative roleplaying in the name of having the party function as a team 24/7 even if it doesn't make sense. Also fair enough if you're railing against new character gunbunnies. I interpreted you as having a problem with (for example) an established hunter party that gets its hands on an AK and keeps it with them because they have to deal with motherfucking werewolves etc.

>no one is allowed
is still the very fucking definition of railroading though. Deal w/ it.

>>10279362
If it was so great WHY WAS IT CANCELLED SO EARLY AND HATED BY MANY FANS?

>>10279406
>an established hunter party that gets its hands on an AK
I would neither blink nor notice another AK in the group. What concerns me is people who read up on missile launchers and mortars. Y'know... perfect for vampire hunting.

>and keeps it with them because they have to deal with motherfucking werewolves etc.
If only they were limited to motherfucking werewolves. At one point, they ran across something which had werewolf claws in its shit.

>>10279462
>>Werewolf claws in its shit
Objects to people hoarding rockets and mortars...............................

>>10279406
>no one is allowed to prepare to square off with an entire regiment of combat troops..
Sidebar: my point stands, and I do not accept it as "railroading". Players do not merit access to chainguns on helicopters or "favors" from the local Marine base consisting of napalm drops on American cities, to cite two examples of gun bunny fu.
Deal with it.

>>10279462
Theremite grenades are the bane of my group's vampire games. I feel you mate. That doesn't mean I ban them or anything though. They're just difficult to aquire and exceedingly dangerous to use or be around.

In my defence I think you can see why I might have interpreted your previous posts the wrong way given some of your phrasing but it's over now. I got no beef with you man.

>>10279259
So you thought his comics were boring, thats why you bought them 8 years ago (assuming you are only 18 for maximum benefit of the doubt), because you could not purchase any other comics.

>>10279542
All good. brofist.jpg for being cool. I snapped, you snapped back - we're good now. Cool?

>>10279500

Didn't the original one say that they would find things but not be allowed to keep them?

>>10279500
Agreed. I guess I wasn't thinking on quite the same level as you were. For example I thought you meant that AK from earlier was a big deal when I said it.

>>10279557
brofist.jpg

we cool

>>10279542
Thermite? that hardly has any blast radius it burns far to fast, Phosphorus is a different story.

>>10279547
I didn't buy them. They were given to me.

This thread is bad and you should all feel bad.

>>10279557
More importantly though, what do you think of Aquaman?

>>10279313
>>Space Marines
>>Giant suits of foam padding

>>10279572
...what?

>>10279583
The word went around about my games having a high body count, with the majority being NPCs but with PC death being an ever-present opportunity for the dumb and unwary. As a rule, the average player in my game has, at one point or another, picked up a weapon or two they're unfamiliar with and done what comes naturally: used it until it went click, then either discarded it or absorbed it into the growing pool of hardware. From there, it is traditionally either learned by one or more PCs or discarded as unnecessary weight. They've gotten their hands on a flamethrower once, a box of grenades (now empty) and a LAW rocket (which was fumbled when it was used, to hilarious effect; blew up their own boat. Srsly.)

They're packing legal heat, such as revolvers and shotguns; my CoC games are not based on sheer damage but sheer determination. One PC, in a fit of pique that he'd run out of ammo, clubbed a BBEG to death with an empty Thompson SMG.

Also: the thing which ate werewolves? They used a ritual spell to kack it. Kind of sucked, because I was hoping for a climatic showdown. Pfft.

>>10279639
I read a different line of comics; Walking Dead, Punisher, Crossed, Preacher, The Boys, Transmetropolitan.

I liek Aquamans. Ehs a pretty cool guy who summons fishes and doesnt afriad of anything.

..except a foe based out of the desert.

>>10279721
Except a foe that, you know, isn't swimming.

I know I'm late, but I just have to say: You can never have enough pirates in my opinion!

>>10279721
>>10279745

Aquaman can exist at depths beyond which the human body can take.

It's cannon that he is at least in the same class as Superman and Martian Manhunter in strength.

>>10279542
Haha thermite grenades? They're anti-materiel charges. useless for any sort of combat, even vs vampires. They'd just bounce off and produce smoke (and a small pool of molten iron in the corner.)

You should just houserule them "no, they don't work like that" for realism's sake.

Here's some army jackasses playing with a thermite grenade.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiRJj2oRWnM

My least favourite cliche is the one where people think that all cliches are bad and should be avoided.

Every fucking piece of work you could possibly produce will call on something cliched. If it doesn't it will be a boring, samey, supposedly artsy piece of shit.

>>10280071
Sure. If its in the water. Hey faggot, get it through your head. AQUAMAN IS LAME

>>10280071
Superman can do anything better than him.

>>10280267
I think we can just nip this entire argument in the bud right now by agreeing that all comic book characters (though DC is way worse) are mary sue idealizations of principals that do not relate in any way to the common person.

tl:dr- Comics suck, go back to /co/

>>10280102
It would also burn a hole through the floor.

>>10280342
and they totally snowjobbed the pirate-monks-on-a- sea-of-corpses thing, the biggest pile of awesome I've seen on here for weeks.

>>10280152
>Has not watched The Brave and The Bold.

>>10280102
>>10280462
just checked the explosives list of nWoD, nothing about thermite in the core or V:tR books. looks like it was a purely houseruled weapon in the first place.

>>10280465
Then keep going with it. Give it its own thread.

>>10280680
I may well do that tomorrow. Looks like the fa/tg/uy who was doing it gave up and wandered away. he hasn't posted for 2 hours.