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[mewarmo990]

Back tracking to DND. Below 0 Hp and they start bleeding to death until they get equal to -their constitution. Never played 4th ed and I never really want to.

It has its merits, namely the combat rules were really well developed compared to other editions. If you like tactical RPGs (I do), 4e played like that during combat.

What people hated (especially longtime players) was the shift in focus away from role-playing in published materials. I mean, that doesn't really change anything but it leaves everything up to the DM and players, so new players aren't going to know that. Also the published materials really really omitted a lot of setting detail that was in previous editions, some of the sourcebooks were just a waste of money.

Also the Essentials line was released later on which felt a lot like 3.5e (except unnecessary) nickle and diming to people. In reality they were not, they just added more character options in a way that was easy to understand for newbies.

I started playing a short time before Essentials came out so I was able to get a good perspective on before and after.

What were the original Japanese words for the whole murder/massacre thing? All I remember was hearing "satsujin" come up, which might be massacre, hence the "satsujinki -> murderous monster/demon" thing.

Not sure if you're referring to a specific line in something, but

殺人 Satsujin is a kango way of writing murder

殺人鬼 Satsujinki = heinous murderer, basically. Serial killer, really horrifying murders, that sort of thing. Hannibal Lecter would be satsujinki.

Nasu did a wordplay on the latter to work part of Shiki's name in.

[Arashi_Leonhart]

Then how were murder/massacre distinguished from each other, if they were at all?

You mean in Rakkyo? Uh, murder is satsujin. Massacre is satsuriku.

My Japanese teacher thought it was very disturbing that I knew these words because of anime.

[ItsaRandomUsername]

You mean in Rakkyo? Uh, murder is satsujin. Massacre is satsuriku.

My Japanese teacher thought it was very disturbing that I knew these words because of anime.

More likely just thought you were chuu2.

[Arashi_Leonhart]

Pretty sure she doesn't know what that is. But no, it was more like, "How do you know that word?" "Anime and manga." "What exactly are you watching?"

[You]

Should have said newspapers. Then you would have got a gold star.

[Mcjon01]

Saying you watch newspapers is more likely to get you a sad look and a fast pass to the "special" class.

[You]

I heard they give out more gold stars in special class than normal classes though, so it's totally worth it.

[Kirby]

So if 殺人 is just "kill person", 殺戮 looks like it's just "kill kill".

huh

[You]

I always thought of it as double the kill or lots of kill = massacre.

[mewarmo990]

In Chinese the second character has more of a violent, slaughter/massacre connotation.

[jywu]

If Karna's armor reduces damage to 1/10th of its original value, and Gay Bulge deals damage equal to target's hit points, doesn't it mean that Karna can tank Cu's Gay Bulge?

[Christemo]

If Karna's armor reduces damage to 1/10th of its original value, and Gay Bulge deals damage equal to target's hit points, doesn't it mean that Karna can tank Cu's Gay Bulge?

Whooooooo boy, people have argued about this a lot.

As a half-rabid Karna fan, I'm gonna say no. Gae Bolg does the 100% damage + spearstab by decimating people's insides with iron thorns, and rad as Karna is, I doubt he can survive that. Unless it literally stops/destroys enough of those thorns to only do 10% of his health in damage, he's fucked.

[Arashi_Leonhart]

who are you and what have you done with christemo

[Christemo]

who are you and what have you done with christemo

As Leo and Bridge devolved into memeposting, I rose above them.

[Tobias]

Whooooooo boy, people have argued about this a lot.

As a half-rabid Karna fan, I'm gonna say no. Gae Bolg does the 100% damage + spearstab by decimating people's insides with iron thorns, and rad as Karna is, I doubt he can survive that. Unless it literally stops/destroys enough of those thorns to only do 10% of his health in damage, he's fucked.

So what you are really saying is it depends on whether or not it happens to be the day of the week nasu actually remembers about the thorns part.

[Christemo]

So what you are really saying is it depends on whether or not it happens to be the day of the week nasu actually remembers about the thorns part.

Literally yes.

[AmADo VII]

what about reducing damage using Agni?

[Christemo]

If he can burn thorns made of iron fast enough and not completely run out of prana, sure.

[LoyaltL]

If Karna's armor reduces damage to 1/10th of its original value, and Gay Bulge deals damage equal to target's hit points, doesn't it mean that Karna can tank Cu's Gay Bulge?

I don't think this is answerable until we know what the heck 10% of a Conceptual attack means.
If it's the thorns thing, then he should be able to survive 10% of them from what we've already seen him do in Apocrypha.

who are you and what have you done with christemo

He became one with the general public.

[Break]

Depends on wether it just conceptually lowers the damage, or actually hinders the weapon like an armor; if its the latter, GB would probably get stopped before actually piercing the heart, and while it would still be a fierce chest wound, as long as GB does not pierce the heart, barby thorny overkill does not activate.