GURPS Fantasy-Tech 2: Weapons of Fantasy

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Phil Masters

Actually, the option is carefully built into the relevant section in DF7.

Whips are, but the two power-ups and diabolical whips aren't...

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by scc

A most unusual Holy Warrior of Love and Fertility build there.

Originally Posted by Phil Masters

Actually, the option is carefully built into the relevant section in DF7.

I think people are deceived by the euphemisms. They picture the deity of Love and Fertility as a sweet teenage girl surrounded by fluffy bunnies or something. The God of Rape and Slave Breeding has essentially the same domain, probably comes closer to half the real world gods of this sort, and likely regards this S&M stuff as playful silliness.

[Phantasm]

Originally Posted by malloyd

I think people are deceived by the euphemisms. They picture the deity of Love and Fertility as a sweet teenage girl surrounded by fluffy bunnies or something. The God of Rape and Slave Breeding has essentially the same domain, probably comes closer to half the real world gods of this sort, and likely regards this S&M stuff as playful silliness.

Kore (daughter of Zeus and Demeter) is the fluffy bunny teenager. Demeter was more motherly (and more of an agriculture/harvest goddess anyway). And let's not get into fertility goddesses who are also war goddesses (Ishtar, Freyja, that Aztec gal...).

[apoc527]

You know what else this is great for? My current Dark*Matter conspiracy/Monster Hunters" game! Mwahahahaha!

Edit: Okay, the diabolical whips alone are worth the $5. A 7-foot long, barbed diabolical whip "cracked" by a Strong Demon does hellish damage (heh): 5d+10 cr. LOL.

I also kind of love the idea of a fine, quicksilver all-metal great axe: sw+4 cut base damage, +1 for fine, x1.5 for quicksilver = sw+7 cut. The ST 21 barbarian with such a weapon does 4d+6 cut. How fun is that??

[Bruno]

Originally Posted by Phantasm

And let's not get into fertility goddesses who are also war goddesses (Ishtar, Freyja, that Aztec gal...).

Kali. Destroyer of evil forces, divine mother of the universe.

Sekhmet, the lioness. Warrior goddess, protector of women giving birth

[apoc527]

Wait wait wait...

What's better than Fantasy-Tech giant swords and double-wide blades? ULTRA Tech giant swords and double-wide blades.

Let's see, ST 30 for the Wide Sword is really no problem for power armor. Let's make that a superfine vibrowire wide sword...

sw+8 cut base --> sw+2d+8(10) cut @ ST 30 = 7d+10(10) cut.

That'll get through DR 300...

[Phil Masters]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Whips are, but the two power-ups and diabolical whips aren't...

Granted.

Originally Posted by malloyd

I think people are deceived by the euphemisms. They picture the deity of Love and Fertility as a sweet teenage girl surrounded by fluffy bunnies or something. The God of Rape and Slave Breeding has essentially the same domain, probably comes closer to half the real world gods of this sort, and likely regards this S&M stuff as playful silliness.

The relevant section in DF7 is supposed to make that sort of point clear, if people have read it. Though I was thinking more of "vice" than "sexual violence". The Goddess of Negotiable Affection has a pretty substantial worshipper base, after all.

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by Phil Masters

The relevant section in DF7 is supposed to make that sort of point clear, if people have read it. Though I was thinking more of "vice" than "sexual violence". The Goddess of Negotiable Affection has a pretty substantial worshipper base, after all.

It's often a useful exercise to play with your pantheon a bit. Flip the gods alignments, flip their genders, randomize their parentages and marriages, imagine what they are like as the sole major god of a great empire, or when their only remaining worshippers are a handful of people fleeing a world ending disaster, or how they would go about joining the pantheon of some culture on the other side of the world - because those are the kinds of things that *happen* to the myths of real world gods and it can generate some useful ideas for quirky little myths and subcults.

[scc]

Originally Posted by Phil Masters

The relevant section in DF7 is supposed to make that sort of point clear, if people have read it. Though I was thinking more of "vice" than "sexual violence". The Goddess of Negotiable Affection has a pretty substantial worshipper base, after all.

Which part of it but? The bit on page 19 would suggest that whips are more likely to be wielded by those who work for evil love gods (Whips aren't exactly associated with healthy relationships after all).

And using a whip means you'd have to wear icky leather armor, and why would who want to wear that when my Armor of the Chaste Maiden and Armor of the Celibate Maiden is on offer?

[evileeyore]

Originally Posted by Phil Masters

The Goddess of Negotiable Affection has a pretty substantial worshipper base, after all.

But are they really worshiping? Or just giving (and getting) lip service? ;)