Instead of orcs. Rabbits.
>>96833101What game?
>>96833187Any game with orcs. Those orcs are now rabbits.
>>96833187
It certainly has historical precedent.
Stop that, it's silly.
>>96833310What’s with all this shit? Why were medieval artists obsessed with killer snails and killer rabbits?
>>96833515You've never gotten bored enough that you started doodling weird shit in the margins of your notebooks, anon? Because sitting in a chair from dawn until dusk hand-copying Latin treatises sounds like it would lend itself to that kind of behavior very easily.
>>96833187The one you play. You do play games right? You're not trying to police /tg/ - Random With Dice while not actually playing games, are you?
>>96833841Hm. You make a good point. I shouldn’t shame bored people.
>>96833515Memes and shitposting. The same kind of people you're talking with here existed back then, and had big chances to end up as monks.
>>96833914Bahahaha
>>96833310Wait, is that a giant orange rabbit cock? Huh?
>>96833914Un fucking real. Humans are such a disappointment.
>>96833515The fellas illustrating and transcribing books also kept gardens. And the two biggest menaces to any vegatable garden was rabbits, and snails.
Way ahead of you, mate.
>>96833101
>>96833187Well that looks like a anime
>>96833101>big snu-snu still possibleI'm ok with this.
>>96834972lol
>>96833854I do. I don't. I'm just asking a simple question. Why does it make you so angry?
>>96835863>8 hours later>U MadYou're not fooling anyone gamelet.
>>96835990Sorry for not being online 24/7 I was too busy playing traditional games.
>>96835993You’re not fooling anyone.
>>96835993kek
>>96835993What games?
>>96835993Tell us about it anon
>>96833187>What game?Shadow of the Weird Wizard has orcs but they also have playable rabbit-people, the Haren. They're anarcho-primitivists.
>>96833914I've always wondered what percentage of monks were just autistic, nerdy dudes who didn't have an even shot in medieval society. Not that they weren't devout or anything, I'm sure they took faith seriously, but I suspect that similar to how nunneries were "fuckup woman containment zone", an isolated monastery would store the same man who becomes a comic book collector or IT guy in a couple hundred years.
>>96833214>>96833854>>96835990>>96837156Aaah, no answer because no games...
>>96833961It's the belt, you fucking furry
>>96837384I gave you an answer, the Haren from Weird Wizard. I ran the first bits of “Rage of the Goblin King.”
I actually did something like this in a game.Instead of goblins, the land was being attacked by fey-descended creatures who resembled short humanoid rabbit-ish creatures. They lived in burrows and had a matriarchal structure, with each warhost having a large foul tempered queen. They were pretty desructive and regarded as pests until their burrow got large enough, after which they would form armies and sack towns.I described them like they were fur-covered goblins but in truth I could only picture them as Max from Sam & Max.
>>96833101My druid PC actually got their arm ripped off by a rabbit demon a few months ago. They've since grown a magical wooden arm. We were never able to completely eradicate the demon infestation, a few lesser demon rabbits got away and our DM implied that while we stopped the growth for a year or two, the problem will just come back, maybe even worse. The only time our party wasn't able to outright defeat the monster/completely fulfill our contract.
>>96837369That was literally what the clergy was for. Oh sure, there were no doubt some truly pious types who wanted to go into the service of God. Even today people sign take theology classes, get a Masters of Divinity, enter Seminary, and go through all the steps because they want to be a priest. But back then it was also a viable, non-embarrassing career for middling noble children who weren't in line to inherit anything and showed no talent in the military or elsewhere for that matter. Hans from Frozen? Thirteenth of thirteen sons? He wouldn't have been out trying marry some random princess. He would have had a Roman collar around his neck.
>>96833101Rabbits are more of a goblin analog than an orc analog.>>96834946IT is. It's Arifureta.
Small critters look especially unsettling also when they are drawn large and looking intense.
>>96839400Regular European hares look unsettling crackheads without any modifications.
>>96833101*goblins
>>96839584They're the same monster, stop letting D&D lie to you.
>>96839584Gobbits*
>>96839400Okay that’s actually terrifying Also fuck that crow just watching it happen
>>96839591are goblins the child orcs?or is it a pygmy subrace of orc, like how hobbits are technically just a kind of men?
>>96839709That is a part of the D&D lie. Orcs exist within the same range of heights as humans.
>>96839852I don't like the idea of 6ft goblins. Doesn't really feel gobliny anymore.
>>96839439They really do look like grasshoppers
>>96834972Bunny GoogolWith the goog-goog-googl-y eyesBunny GoogolHad a wife 4 times his size
>>96833515>>96833841>>96833914>>96834037Serious answer, IIRC the snails were because they called this group of people they were at war with snails as slurs so they drew them as snails like propaganda posters. IDK about the rabbits but it could be something similar.
Aren’t rabbits like the most delicate and pathetic creatures in the wild? They can break their backs just from running too hard? They can get a heart attack from being spooked too hard?
>>96833101I counter with: instead of elves, rabbits.Elves put everything into dexterity because they're too weak to fight, so they flee as fast as they can. Replace orcs with badgers, and now we have something to talk about.
While technically furry, Redwall did this sort of thing really well and is genuinely pretty well-written. Hares become brits, squirrels become scots, badgers become wise giants, moles become dwarves, and things like owls and snakes become large fantastical monsters. Id highly recommend giving the series a read if your looking for low fantasy, medieval conflicts in definitely not england but everyone is an animal instead of a nationality
>>96833101Would that mean my garden would be ravaged by orcs and my kingdom by bunnies? I guess my only option is to join the order of the coyote. No matter how many times they think they wipe us out, we spring back up.
>>96842700My pet mouse was named Martin.
>>96842735>Orcs are obsessive agriculturalists, but nothing they plant can be eaten by humans/they're considered weeds>Fucking Orcs have been though again, they planted goblinweed in with my wheat, the crop is ruined and now the barn is being overtaken by it
>>96833101>Minding your own business looting some ancient dungeon>See this in the darknessWhat do?
>>96842798Smack the DM across the face for a Monty Python reference that broke the dramatic tension of the scene.
>>96842798>What do?Thriller.
>>96843068>Dungeon looting>TensionIn what universe? That shit is always comfy
>>96842798“IT’S A VICIOUS KILLER”
>>96842798https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U49R3Gqx8lw&pp=ygUSc3ViYXJ1IGJ1bm55IGRlYXRo
>>96840081>look like grasshoppers>hop through grass>"bugs" bunnyThey're up to something here, I know it.
>>96842798 I-I-I watched him for fifteen minutes, sitting in a room, staring at a wall; not seeing the wall, looking past the wall; looking at this moment, inhumanly patient, waiting for some secret, silent alarm to trigger him off. Death has come to your little dungeon, Wizard. Now, you can either ignore it, or you can help me to stop it.
>>96833187Games not necessary./tg/ is for fantasy discussion general too.Lurk more.
>>96842768I like that. They're green because the green thumb took them over. Rather than spiky armor and a taste for flesh, they're wearing those granny sun hats and the farmer Paladino's have to chase them off with brooms. Clifford scale dogs roam the fields
>>96843848Poor Subaru ;_;
The fat ugly bastard comes in bunny form too, better hide your girl
>>96833101"Can you run? I think not. I think not."
Cute buns :)
>>96833101Rabbits will never escape the monty python memes.
>>96840071Call them orc or hobgoblins at that height, but they're still goblins. The idea that the various words for goblin are all different things is an advent of D&D. Hell, even kobold, which came into English through German still has its roots in the same Greek word we get goblin from.
>>96840071>I don't like the idea of 6ft goblins. Doesn't really feel gobliny anymore.What if they're creepy, lanky fuckers while Orcs are Neanderthal-esq swolemanlets? Does that work?Creeping, sidling, crawling, lanky things that slip into any gap they can and lurk right behind you while you're shitposting, waiting for the chance to strike.
>>96834063160 years of War and still goinghttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=778Da7NCF6s&pp=ygUYcmFiYml0cyBhdXN0cmFsaWEgcGxhZ3Vl
Bnnuys
They also eat people
>>96850120>Orc and goblin aren't just different names for the same creatureYou are gross and wrong.
>>96833101I like it
>>96833854>Random With DiceYou don't even need the other boards.
>>96840071Greenskins are greenskins.
>>96843068>Smack the DM across the face for a Monty Python referenceKids these days. No respect for tradition.
>>96856279Even in the "olden days" there were agreements and compacts in group to not bring up Monty Python at the table. Largely because it could easily cause references to spiral out of control and lose all sense of tone.
>>96833101Mutant was like this in the 80's: Rubbits are the only ones having no trouble replenishing their numbers in the postapocalyptic wasteland, so they've established fascist/expansionist city state societies and constantly send out patrols to raid/enslave other settlements.
>>96833914>screenshot about ancient shitposting>it's already decades old
That’s no ordinary rabbit
>>96833961A giant orange strap-on belt, clearly
>>96839584>>96839709Earlier editions considered orcs as "goblinoids", same as hobgoblins and bugbears. Which is the correct take.
I do not believe LOTR would be improved with this change.
>>96833101Very cute.>>96833187Your anus.
>>96833187Can you fuck off for once
ok, I have and now my players are making fun of me for ripping off Warhammer fantasy beastmen, what now?
>>96833214y tho
>>96833101sure
>>96833515I read something about how rabbits (being perceived as harmless fluffy critters) were used to showcase cowardice in medieval works, because only a coward would flee from a rabbit.
>>96842798Run immediately, trip party members if I have to.
Rabbits are such pathetic creatures They die of fright so easily and they can break their backs just from running away too hard
Bump
>>96868525Because
>>96869798If you only eat rabbit, like completely only rabbit that you hunt, you will starve. Rabbits don't have enough nutrients for any living creature, no matter how many you eat.>Pathetic
>>96833101No.
>>96869798So, actual warrior rabbits the PCs get to fight feel no fear and never run away? Badass.
>>96877465Most combatative NPCs are like that.
>>96877731Back in my day most everyone had a Morale rating!
>>96878428Never let your mobs fight to the death every time. Beasts will always run when near death, sentient creatures will beg for their lives (as long as they ain't orcs).
>>96845499Nogames cope.
>>96833854>You do play games right?Not any with orcs, retard
>>96880350We don't sign out posts here on 4channel dot org. Please spend some time lurking before you start posting.
>>96833187atomicrops, the enemies in that game are largely bundits, mutant bunnies who have organized to kill you.
>>96868939
>>96833914>In one bar, a picture depicts two men playing dice.>One shouts "Six!" while his opponent holds up two fingers and says, "No, that's not a three, it's a two"I don't get it.
>>96881519>Scenes three and four form a two-frame narrative, where two real men – with wiry bodies and short-cropped hair and beards – get into trouble over gambling. In scene three they are playing dice (figure 5). The man on the left holds the dice-cup in his right hand and says: ‘I won’ (exsi). His companion asserts: ‘It’s not three; it’s two’ (non | tria duas | est). This disagreement turns ugly in the following scene, where the two men, now standing, come to blows (figure 6). The man on the left grabs his dice-partner, who holds a fist up to his face. They exchange insults. The man on the left says ‘You no-name. It was three for me. I was the winner’ (noxsi | a me | tria | eco | fui). The other responds, ‘Look here, cocksucker. I was the winner’ (orte fellator | eco fui). The innkeeper wants none of this. He tells them ‘Go outside and fight it out’ (itis | foras | rixsatis).
>>96833187Brancalonia introduced rabbitmen landsknechts that behave like old school orcs in the Empire Whacks Back sourcebook. You can even play as one.
>>96833101<3
>>96833101Instead of angels. Rabbits.
bnuuy?
>>96887506bnue
>>96887506>>96889009bnunies
>>96834972kek
>>96833101kyute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_caJjIRC-Q
>>96858280Trying to separate Orcs from Goblins feels weird, especially when WotC isn't trying to make a list of subraces for Orcs right nowAll they have as far as I know is the Orog and the Orog are just the obligatory Underdark variant that some races get
There's this artwork of what someone THOUGHT bilbo looked like. It wound up looking like a Mouse tailed Rabbit. So perhaps instead of Orcs, Rabbits for Hobbits.
>>96904394Didn't Orogs use to be half-ogre orcs?>>96904443You know, that almost works, particularly in 3e with the luck bonus to saves and OD&D with the thieving skills. I think in 3e halflings also get a bonus to Jump?
>>96903191MODS
>>96847318How dare you slander the boss.
>>96904828>Didn't Orogs use to be half-ogre orcs?Yep, what they are changes per edition but funnily enough they were half-ogre's for 2 editions
>>96871749o
And they breed like rabbits
>>96912218
>stupid lolrandom thread being kept up this longThis board's really dying, huh.
>>96913521You hate fun
>>96913521You're right, we need another hundred "why warhammer/dnd/(insert game here) is dead" threads right away
>>96833101What’s that from
>>96833101I feel like an oldhead in that no one has mentioned blood-c yet
>>96918703anime
>>96833214How about the other way around?
>>96919478No
>>96912218What else could you expect them to be like, soccer referees?
>>96918703>>96919364>>96839018
>>96918786I was going to but can't find my screenshots, sankyuu for posting it.
What’s with the Japanese and their love for rabbits
>>96869217>Imagine thinking that was the only one
>>96925423>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare_of_Inaba
>>96925717Look at the BONES
>>96925740>Implying you're going to have time to look
Rodents deliver truly painful bites
>>96929384That they do.
>>96938672Cute bunny.
>>96868939I hope the myos are doing okay for themselves in the outskirts
>>96940219I think it's ugly.
>>96833187D&D
>>96942611I think you're ugly
>>96842700the animated series was great, and kind of traumatic for a kid, as all great shows are>Azzzzzmodeeuuuuussssss>AZZZZZZmoDEIIIIIUUUuuuusssssSSSSS>*the sounds of bones popping out of their sockets*
>>96947337bun
>>96947337Marshmallow
>>96833187Danmachi
>>96840206>>96833515>>96833841>>96834037>>96869210The answer is, as it very often is with ancient history, "we don't know". We can put forth a bunch of theories, but essentially there's no all-fitting solution. We can only look at the art this era produced and try to interpret how the people who made this kind of art saw the world, and what the snail and the knight might have represented to them.Sauces for general interpretations:>https://nicholasrossis.me/2019/04/07/what-did-knights-have-against-snails/ >https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231221-the-mystery-of-the-medieval-fighting-snailsSauce for the snail as Longobard interpretation:>The Snail in Gothic Marginal Warfare>Lilian M. C. Randall>Speculum, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Jul., 1962), pp. 358-367>https://www.jstor.org/stable/2852357Contribution from The University of Chicago Press
>>96874232Rabbits also need to eat their own shit, because they can't digest what they graze in one go.>Pathetic
>>96953113weird
>>96954107It really is. That's the medieval mind for you.
>>96833187Your asshole
>>96959988Come on, anon. We all know his silly ass got no game.
>>96953404Plant matter is like that. When food was scarce in some WW2 sieges, they had to pick chunks of corn and such out of their crap and eat them because there was no other food (luckily for them, and I'm not actually being sarcastic there).
>>96833187Uplifts:heirs of the future
>>96960398Entering his ass is my kind of game
>>96833101Yeah. I read that doujinshi.
>>96965670Sicko
>>96833515Future historiologists will puzzle over pre-FTL depictions of cartoon frogs with things on their heads on archived image boards. Maybe these frogs were spiritual totem animals and the things on their heads are offerings to gods.
>>96970517I believe this
Fuck bunnies
>>96977644Get off the internet, you fluffy horny little thing
>>96977644Would.
>>96977959lol
>>96833101Can't, already replaced Dwarfs with Badgers since they are the same thing>small>angry>like to digThey even get drunk
An Anon awhile back posted about how he brainstormed ideas to make goblins more interesting. He settled on them being the descendants of a pack of raccoons that had figured out how to make fire some generations ago, and they've been steadily uplifting and developing stone age technology ever since. I thought it was a really cool idea.
>>96833841I could only wish. They made the most horrorizing monsters ever
>>96984370Hope they make miniature creatures out of medieval pilgrim badges.
>>96833914loool
>>96977644Fuckbunnies
>>96833914>Su Dongpo was a talented and famous author and poet during the Song Dynasty. He had a friend who was a high accomplished monk named Master Fo Yin. One time, while he was in Huangzhou, Su Dongpo had a burst of inspiration and wrote the following poem:>I bow to the Buddha,>Whose light of wisdom,>Shines on us all.>Sitting on my golden lotus,>Even the eight winds,>Cannot move me at all.>After writing it, Su Dongpo felt quite pleased. Not only did he praise the Buddha poetically, he also subtly hinted at his own transcendence, saying that the “eight winds” cannot move him. Su Dongpo then sealed the poem in an envelope and had a messenger send it to Master Foyin across the river at Jinshan Temple. He believed Master Foyin would surely praise his poem greatly.>However, when Master Foyin read the poem, he wrote “Fart” at the bottom of it and sent it back with the messenger. When Su Dongpo saw the word “Fart,” he immediately became furious and shouted, “How outrageous!” He stormed off to Jinshan Temple to confront Master Foyin, but when he arrived, he found that Master Foyin had already ordered that no guests would be seen today. Su Dongpo, even angrier, ignored this and was about to push open the door when he saw a note on the door, which read:>"The eight winds cannot move you, yet one fart blew you across the river?"
>>96833187Fuck off
>>96944333wow rude
>>96833224Didn't expect that reference but yeah, it fits.
>>96843089
I like buns :)
>>96992003Saem
>>96833187Chrrrp
>>96838045Frozen is set in the mid-late 1800s at the earliest. One of Hans Christian Andersen's books shows up.
>>96993805You don’t realize how dangerous these things are until it’s far too late.
>This threadOk
>>96985467ancient Chinese wisdom
>>96833101how about no
>>96845034The only reason i looked at this thread was to see if someone posted Anya. Thank you.
>>96833101Instead of spam, actual threads with content. -1 post.
>>96833101>>lgbt
>>96833101Engineered by mad wizardry, yes.
>>97010416based wizards with no sense of right and wrong
>>96833101ok
>>96833101>>96833187>>96833214>>96833310>>96834928So how does that work? Do groups of rabbits go around raiding villages and raping people?
>>97018589Yes.
>>96994092wdym it's just a bunnyhey look at this cute worm I found
>>97010416Ah, yes, that's fine as long as you're not the moron that made super murder rabbits and then they eat him.
>>96842700Based. Love these books
All the world will be your enemy, Prince With a Thousand Enemies. And if they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you.
The Pooka from Odin Sphere are relevant to this thread. It's a fun curse.
>>97020052I like their little grabby hands
>>96833101Rabbits eat their own shit.
>>97023842Hedgehogs eat their own shit and regurgitate it into a lather which they spread onto their skin for sexual powers.
>>97024636They also wear poop for boots
>>97026108Just like dogs during mud season.
>>96841495my dog once killed a rabbit merely by licking itI've also seen one dying from hailand another one died because the salad he ate was wet
>>97023209Not a fan of that version in the game, but paying through Odin Sphere made me start looking up if D&D never used "medieval scripture rabbits" as a race of monsters. Imagine my annoyance when I only found it as a 5e thing.
>>96841495So, rabbits should be kobolds.
