Do unmarried older women have a place in adventuring parties?
If you wanted to see the new Elf and Orc just say so.
>>43609664
If they can hold their own and not be a burden, there's no reason to deny any aspiring adventurer, no matter the age or gender.
>>43609664
yes.
of course!
>>43609677
is it translated yet?
>>43609664
Sure, why not, I guess. Might even be a particularly reasonable background for an adventurer from a society where women are expected to marry young and those who grow older without doing so have a hard time finding a husband or other place in society. I think that's been a reality in some times and places in the real world.
>>43609664
Do shitty fetishposters from /a/ have a place on /tg/?
>>43609664
>not playing an old female wizard
>or even an aging sorceress
>not even an old priestess
Bonus points if you can bake cookies that work like health potions.
>>43609664
They do not carry the burden of a family with them, so they are univerally preferred. Exceptions being married pairs that adventure together of course.
>>43609664
Maybe.
>>43609664
anon you forgot the 'ara ara'
>>43609732
anon, i'm already a fetish poster
>>43609664
now that i think about it, aren't most wizards older and unmarried?
Think Carol from the Walking Dead.
I'd stat her at Str 9 (though with- 4 Str that's pretty good ), Dex 13, Con 11, Int 13, Wis 15, cha 15
>>43609742
Fry-Face is clearly retired.
Can women be stoic, or is it too masculine to be believable for women?
>>43610072
such lust for shitposting
>>43610355
If we're talking women past menopause, yes.
>>43610355
women cannot be robots
I'm not telling her to leave.
>>43610429
Swing and a miss.
>>43610355
Do you mean the common conception of what it means to be stoic, or do you mean actual Stoicism?
>>43609664
Ignoring the obvious fap bait I say, sure, why not. Doesn't matter.
>>43609718
>>43610327
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4iezJnLMsw
Doesn't look retired to me.
>>43609664
Do Christmas cakes have a place in your kitchen after December 25th?
>>43609664
Is this a pic unrelated sort of post?
>>43610521
Here's that thing about Balalaika: the first part of her life was an Only war campaign and this one is probably a GURPS campaign focusing on mafia and power-grabs/politics.
Her whole life is a fuckhuge adventure.
>>43609992
ara ara
>>43610527
If they're well mannered, not too chubby and wearing nothing but apron, they have place in my kitchen any day of the year.
>>43610429
Completely wrong.
>>43610413
Why specifically that age? Males of any age can be stoic.
>>43610476
The common concept of being stoic, to endure a hardship and never complain, or show any feeling.
>>43610527
...Are you implying you don't eat leftover cake after the relevant holiday? Why? It's still delicious cake.
>>43610583
>Why specifically that age?
You're answering your own question.
>The common concept of being stoic, to endure a hardship and never complain, or show any feeling.
Younger women tend to be... overly emotional... every once in a while
Also, Aigis best girl.
>>43610586
It's a Japanese thing. Christmas Cake is a term for any woman over 25 who isn't married yet. The joke being, no one wants a Christmas cake after the 25th, ie after Christmas.
Women who aren't married and are over 25 have a significantly harder time getting married in Japan.
>>43610390
WHOOOOOOOO?
>>43610621
>Women who aren't married and are over 25 have a significantly harder time getting married in Japan.
Especially if they're popular voice actresswith bad health.
>>43610621
Yeah, I know. I'm still not actually sure why anyone wouldn't want literal cake just because it's after Christmas.
>>43610619
I think the keyword being "show" anyone can be emotional, but still be stoic but their emotion cannot show.
>>43610659
Because it's stale.
>>43610642
I get that reference and god it is depressing.
Fucking Japanese Cold.
"For 30 years I followed the armies of this land, selling them victuals and drink, watching their games of dice and finding them girls, and nary a denar was left in my purse at the end."
"It's no kind of life, victualling the armies. You earn a bit here and a bit there as the soldiers spend their money, and then along comes one defeat and you have to start over, endebting yourself to buy a new wagon and new oxen. So I've decided to get out of the business, but army life is all I know."
>>43610642
Too soon
Does it count if my character is a separated single mother?
We had an old, well aged woman who was obese that acted as a sole diviner who traveled with the party for some time, evening out the playing field against the card carrying villain
She was p cool
>>43610435
This guy knows what's up.
>In the setting it is usual/required for the parents of the wife to give a significant amount of money to the husband
>Parents of character are either dirt poor or deceased
>character is trying to get her own money by adventuring so she can finally marry
Sounds like a cool idea for a background desu
>>43610521
She cut her teeth in the Soviet fuckup that was the invasion of Afghanistan. This is retirement for her. She doesn't have to fight or do anything actually.
Retirement is relative.
>>43610619
>Not capable of sexual pleasure
Dealbreaker.
>>43611275
You could just install that option.
>>43611304
Wouldn't that require rewiring her robobrain for an entirely new kind of sensory input?
>>43611368
Did you get the basic model? If so, shame on you. Never get the basic model.
The standard has that as a modular piece, to name of the many modular pieces you could extend the functionality of your Warforged.
Buffs and debuffs are handy and lore is nice.
>>43609664
>not playing The Wall
"My adventuring hook is my PC took to the road to distract herself from Empty Nest Syndrome."
>>43609664
>Play an Elf or Half Elf
Done.
>>43611650
Also dwarves, gnomes, and other long-lived races.
>>43609664
Absolutely.
>>43609664
>adventuring with Christmas cake
Sure, why not?
Is she competent?
Or, if not particularly capable, at least pleasant company?
Either way, she's good for my party.
>>43609664
Yes, but they have to provide their own wheels.
>>43611267
Please refer to >>43610554
>>43609664
Does this answer your question?
>>43611951
I still think a political adventure after a failed invasion of Afghanistan is retirement. It was like 'nam but worse.
I bet that shit is barely enough to keep her interested.
>>43611902
Spread the glory of our savior like a badass, sister.
>>43611965
Then again, Lisa Lisa practices a brand of energy manipulation that, as a side effect, allowed her to age -very- gracefully. No one would have any idea she was 50+ unless she told them.
>>43609664
I wouldn't mind a party with a mid-30s cleric watching over her more youthful party members like they were own children. Maybe even an elf or something, who's hundreds of years old, treating even her more elderly mortal companions with maternal warmth.
Pic related comes to mind for her personality.
>>43612441
>elf milf who ara aras all the 18 y/o human shotas
Aaajhhhhhhh fuck it combines all my fetish's without the child rape I don't think my dick can handle this
>>43610678
But Christmas cakes don't go bad, that's like their chief feature.
>>43612441
>tfw Mako's mom is the hottest character on the show
I don't know how to feel about this.
>>43612695
You don't have to, because she's happily married anyway.
>>43609664
They have a place on muh dick.
>>43612695
Feels good man.
>>43611555
Threia always does things to my dick.
>>43610715
Underrated post
I'm planning on playing a 40+ nun-type psyker sometime in the future. Let's hope I can pull this off.
>>43610305
>con 11
I hope you're talking about the comic version because in the TV show she got hit by a fucking car and survived.
>>43609718
Of course it is. /tg/ translated it, and /a/ cleaned and uploaded it.
>>43610583
>The common concept of being stoic, to endure a hardship and never complain, or show any feeling.
You mean the womanly ideal for all of Europe, America, and the most populated parts of Asia going back before all languages still spoken?
What a moron you are.
>>43609664
Only if with other MILFs or shotas/traps
>>43609992
Izzat Edea Lee?
>>43610546
>not being capable of recognizing a cake
>>43609664
>wanting christmas cakes with you
Absolutely disgusting. Used goods like them wouldn't sell at a clearance sale.
>>43609664
Eh.
Only if she gets a grizzled veteran protecting his daughter from the horrors of the world to learn to love again.
>>43619310
>to learn to love again
Did she get cakekolded?
>>43619656
No, her beloved husband died
Rolled a natural 1 when trying to seduce a dragoness
MILF got a nat 20 on her attempt, the relationship she with said dragoness didn't last but a few years sadly
>>43619690
>used goods
DROPPED
>>43611975
You're entitled to your own opinion, even if it's wrong.
>>43618542
>filename
Shouldn't that just be "iop"?
>>43612182
She's still an unmarried elder woman.
>>43619656
Nah, I just think she would have never really married or loved, due to some extreme circumstance like a sudden revolution putting everyone in panic.
After helping save grizzled veteran's beloved daughter from a kidnapping that occurred during the panic (he would have stopped them if he thought she wasn't safe at the time), she helps by acting as the group medic and second gun.
Then she confesses her love for grizzled veteran as he's shot in the chest and the now badass daughter guns down the cowards that shot her dad.
Sexytimes after healing give the beloved daughter a beloved little brother to train to become the world-saving badass he is in the sequel after the scum that killed his parents leads him to recruit his sister for some more asskicking.
There would be some controversy as whether to portray the former beloved daughter as sexy after so many viewers made her their daughterfu.
Ultimately The Bomb is disarmed and the day is saved.Buy your tickets now.
>>43609734
elderly wizard who had many children with her fighter hubby when they were younger
>>43609664
>not knowing best Fire Emblem shaman
Does a pope shit in the woods?
>>43619974
>You will never taste cookies from your wizard grandma as your grandpa fighter tells you stories about his battles.
>He will never teach you the basics of swordplay and archery
>She will never teach you how to cast spells
>You will never come back with dinner you hunted using both
>You will never spend winter solstice with magical fireworks and hearing hymns to the gods
I'm fine.I don't know what I would do if my parental grandparents died.
>>43619992
Niime is literally Granny Weatherwax.
>>43619884She marries a Hollywood director at the end of part 2. It's in the epilogue.
>>43620103
The fact remains that she went on an adventure before that.
What else is a cat lady going to do?
Spinsters strike out on their own, don't need no man, but a fighter bodyguard would be helpful.
>>43610521
The voices in that clip are terrible.
>>43610715
She and Bunduk are cute together. Too bad everyone is a grunting robot in the M&B universe. I'm still waiting for the chance to translate a character I played in Warband to a tRPG one day.
>>43611965
>>43612182
Only if this happens at some point to one of the PC'S.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6rhNdQMUMeg
>>43609723
I grew up in a little hunting/fishing community and pretty much this. Every childless woman over 30 was a hunter, taxidermist, scapler, tracker, guide or "witch" while married women were office workers, shop clerks or just stay-at-home moms.
>>43609664
>That picture
You've got a fucked-up idea of what constitutes "older".
On topic: sure, why not?
>>43620582
In Japan, it's anything over 25.
>>43609664
no, john, you can't bring your mom to the game.
>>43620704
A vast untapped* resource.
Anime was indeed a mistake.
*heh
>>43609664
>Do unmarried older women have a place in adventuring parties?
Sure do. Hell, many 'innate' casters like Psykers or Sorcerers probably wouldn't settle down ever because their powers are a big part of what they are and mostly only useful for fighting.
Imagine having an Abyssal or Undead Sorcerersss wife. Few would be down for that, even fewer people who THEMSELVES lead normal lives.
>>43620704
>In Japan
>>43609664
What would she even do for the party? I wouldn't travel with one.
Yes
>>43610621
Why is Japan so shit?
>>43620806
Anime
>>43620823
Anime was a mistake
>tfw you'd be a cake if you were female
>>43620806
Shitty knock-off Chinese culture marinated in centuries of lack of contact and sprinkled with deep resentment because they got beaten at every turn once they tried taking on someone else than the koreans and unarmed chinese women. Some cultures are just built to decay into nothingness.
>>43610642
>>43610678
I don't get that reference. Could someone explain it for me?
>>43620974
A talented voice actress who was attractive, friendly and passionate about her work died recently. She was a bit older and worried about not getting married.
Japan is pretty harsh when it comes to days off work. Most people would rather tough it out than risk all the trouble that could come with it. The woman in question here was literally being carried in and out of the studio to record her voice she was that dangerously ill.
>>43620991
...holy hell.
That's dark. God Dammit Japan.
As an aside: I imagine that means that Japanese Worker's Unions are basically non-existent/powerless? Or is it purely cultural?
>>43621003
Cultural. Work is life, anon. On the other hand, Structure is life. So innovative people have hard time getting through..which explains why their last major tech innovation was the gameboy and walkman, with the rest being just refinement of western ideas.
>>43621003
Japanese culture is terrible, they slowly kill themselves rather than lose face and to actually point out problems rather than just keep your head down and toil on is considered shameful.
>>43621003
Largely cultural. Japan puts a lot of importance on working hard and not causing trouble for others. When you combine the two, you get the general expectation that you'll do overtime constantly, which means if you miss a day everyone else has to make up your already-heavy workload for the day on top of their own. Taking a sick day instead of toughing it out is often seen as being lazy.
Additionally, while you need a doctor's note to excuse absence due to illness in the US as well as in Japan, in Japan the note can't be retroactive. You need to haul your sick self to a hospital for an examination (at your expense), they give you a note, you send your boss the note, and that excuses you for one day. If you're still sick tomorrow, you need to do it again.
Isn't this also the reason girls being molested on trains was such a thing in Japan?
Being expected to stay quiet and just take it rather than make a scene by defending themselves.
>>43609664
>Having a mom type character that looks after the rest of the group
I want this
>>43621258
A worringly large chunk of prevailing Japanese culture is built around the idea "don't rock the boat." Some of the younger generation is trying to push back and say that unless the culture changes, Japan will die.
>>43621258
Basically.
And since asking people to stop being molesters would also cause a scene, they just started segregating train cars.
That particular tendency is starting to fade a little bit these days, though. While they probably won't yell or call for help, now girls usually try and push their hands away instead of just freezing up and taking it.
Progress comes in baby steps, I guess.
>>43621270
Looking at their birth rathes, this seems to be true.
>>43621029
>>43621196
>>43621258
A Korean guy who goes to my college literally told me "My country is shit and my parents are told to hate me." He then went on to talk about basically what's in these posts. Fucking chink culture, man. I think he's coming back here when he graduates, too. His English has gotten better than mine.
>>43621258
Women get molested on trains worldwide, Anon.
>>43613471
She seems like somebody who has her shit together, even though her and her family have pretty much been blacklisted by the world gouvernment.
>>43621283
>And since asking people to stop being molesters would also cause a scene
You better get offline now, because people in the West are throwing a huge fit about being told to not molest women.
>>43609686
/thread
>>43621234
>>43621003
>>43620991
As an Asian myself, I'm usually very reactionary when people start saying these things, but in this case, it's pretty much correct, yeah. Japan and Korea are a little more screwed than, say, China, because their cultural foibles are being reinforced by their total insularity.
Whereas China, HK, Taiwan etc are more outward-looking, and more likely to synthesise useful ideas from outside in time.
Innovation is always going to lag in traditional Asian cultures, and not just the Oriental ones either. Look at India, or the various Muslim countries in SEAsia.
>>43621486
That's because their definion of "molest" doesn't require physical contact.
When people talk about Japanese train molesters, they aren't talking about somebody whose hand brushes your ass. They're talking about a full-on two-handed under the skirt grab squeeze and spread that would be at home in the first half of a porno.
>>43621568
Damn. I need to go to japan.
Seriously speaking though would my height be intimidating there? I'm 6'7" and have serious RBF in the form of an angry scowl but im a damned teddy bear. I get shit for it here in america and i'm going on a trip with a friend in 7 months.
>>43621664
Are you black?
This is an important question when Japan is involved.
>>43621669
Native american. If you play Guess That Race with me your second guess would be asian.
>>43621568
>That's because their definion of "molest" doesn't require physical contact.
That dude who got his dick out and started wanking off in the vincinity of one of our classmates on a crowded bus agrees with you there. It's not molestation without physical contact.
Though I guess we should call him a poor victim of self-molestation and hand him a bowel of cornflakes if we ever meet him again. I heard they're quite effective against the vice.
>>43621699
>bowel of cornflakes
>>43621696
Also i thought japan had blasians now.
>>43621699
That is, indeed, not molestation. It's indecent exposure, public obscenity, and possibly sexual harassment, but it is not molestation or sexual assault.
>>43621664
I suggest you practice slouching. You'll be a full head taller than a lot of people.
>>43621546
>China
>not screwed
Top fucking lel
How do you not consider a totalitarian police state, corruption everywhere, reckless industrial pollution that fucks up even their own country and gives everyone cancer, uncontrollable mass trading of contraband like rhino horn because some chink wants to rub it on his microdick, and a complete lack of morals that is even enforced by legistration not fucked up?
In how many other countries will someone just yolo and use fatally poisonous chemicals in a breast milk substitute because it's cheaper than the actual functioning alternative?
>>43609664
Same place as older, unmarried men
>>43621787
>In how many other countries will someone just yolo and use fatally poisonous chemicals in a breast milk substitute because it's cheaper than the actual functioning alternative?
I love that writer's story about how he was invited to a banquette by the owner of a restaurant he used to be a regular at. The owner was about to quit and was throwing a final one for all his loyal customers and served all the specialities they had come to enjoy one final time.
When the writer asked the owner how come the food tastes different today, the owner said that naturally it would, because this time, he actually used non-shitty, fresh cooking oil.
>>43609664
>>43609742
>>43611555
>>43611771
>>43611965
>>43612441
>>43620790
Maybe it's just me getting older, but most of the examples of 'older women' in this thread still seem fairly youthfuland hot.Unless you mean in comparison to the anime thing where the median age of competence is 15 and anyone over 21 may as well be in a nursing home.
>>43621664
I'm 6 foot 1 and I was a head taller and stared at. You'll have kids making wooshing noises and playng Attack on Titan around you.
>>43621775
Dude, he is more than 2m tall, he will be taller be one or two heads in most European nations, in Japan he will be a titan.
>>43609699
>aiming with your blind eye
She has faith, that's one thing that's certain.
>>43621915
>aiming with your eyes instead of your heart
You have forgotten the face of your father, anon.
>>43621904
2m is tall, even for the Netherlands. Let alone fucking Japan, where everyone is tiny.
I went to Bali with a bunch of friends, and schoolkids there wanted to take pictures with us. And I don't think any of us were close to 2m.
On Japanese business culture: so why is no company just... not doing this? That sort of behaviour actually harms productivity and, as someone else mentioned, slows innovation. It seems that a saner company could just out-compete work-til-you-die-corp.
>>43621787
Sure, but those are different problems. Just general corruption and mismanagement, you get those all over the place.
>>43621867
Well, >>43611771 is a half-elf in a party of humans. Teenaged humans, as it's a JRPG. She's the "older, unmarried woman" by virtue of being in her late twenties.
She's their schoolteacher and is basically chaperoning them on their quest to save the world.
>>43621940
Because Japan is all megacorps and you dont get to make decisions if you're the type of worker that actually tties to change things. You get the high up position by nepotism and cronyism.
>>43621940
They did, decades ago. The old model pretty much became economically unfeasible with the slowdown that got a grip on them after the Bubble burst.
Part-time employment has been on the rise for over two decades now, it's just that living costs apparently haven't dropped.
>>43621759
Unless you're currently in full blue haired social justice mode, in that case so much as disagreeing with a woman counts as rape.
>>43621787
I didn't say China wasn't screwed. I just said it was less so than Japan and Korea in terms of how permeable it is to outside influences. Reading comprehension, much?
It's not very helpful to point at atrocities at use them as a basis for determining if a nation will survive/is capable of changing. All the stuff in there about poisoning their own people and using totalitarian methods are as true of the US, especially history, as they are in China.
The US gave its own citizens syphilis!
The US destroyed its own ecology!
The US threw hundreds of thousands of its own citizens into concentration camps!
The US incarcerates almost five times more of its own population per capita than China!
The US has practically destroyed its own indigenous population!
Notice how none of that is useful or germane?
I'm talking about relative receptivity to foreign cultural influences, comparing China and especially HK to Japan and Korea, with a side order of Malaysia/Indonesia/Brunei.
>>43622037
What does this Reddit crying have to do with anything?
>>43622070
The PRC is something like 65 years old. If it managed to commit a comparable number of atrocities as the US has in over two hundred and fifty years then it's rather impressive.
But on a more practical scale the Communist party HAS to throttle the flow of ideas into their country or people will start questioning the practicality of a command economy.
>>43621892
Cover up the back of your neck.
>>43622153
I'd argue that China as a socio-cultural entity is older than the PRC. Modern China is a pretty fascinating mishmash between pre-Communist and post-Cultural Revolution values.
The degree to which China still is a command economy isn't quite so obvious any more. These days, if I'm not mistaken, most control is exerted through regulatory mechanisms and state banks rather than having a state-appointed foreman and a commissar in every factory.
The Chinese people are more likely to be discontented with the actual stifling political climate than the state of the economy, especially if we're talking about the cosmpolitan Chinese.
What's good for them is that unlike, say, Korea or Japan, wealthy Chinese are actually incentivised to go overseas. Some of them come back with new ideas, and some don't, but if you're capable and hard-working, any PRChinese can leave and make it good elsewhere if they want, without too much stigma attached to that.
I've taught and worked with mainland Chinese who've come to the West to study or work, and I'm pretty confident that things will get better in a couple of generations.
I'm... not entirely sure the same can be said for the US or the UK.
What the fuck happened to this thread? How did we get from Hot Older Adventuring Women to the socio-economic structures of East Asia?
>>43622229
>What the fuck happened in this thread?
/tg/
>>43622229
It's the kind of discussion that Hot Older Adventuring Women get into.
How old is 'older', /tg/? To me, late 30s to 40s, but I've heard players dismiss a 30-year-old female NPC as being way too old to be bothered with.
Instead they all went to pester the 17-year-old farmgirl with the shotgun.
>>43609664
>>43609664
Sometimes more than others.
>>43621486
Isn't that because a lot of the Western population (and more coming every year) consists of people who think western women are sluts and should be given the dick whenever they show the slightest hint of interest?
>>43622166
WAY ahead of you.please god someone get this reference!
>>43622272
>How old is 'older', /tg/? To me, late 30s to 40s, but I've heard players dismiss a 30-year-old female NPC as being way too old to be bothered with.
A lot of people see a 30 yr old and just think there's too much baggage there to really build a meaningful relationship; after all, why aren't they married yet? What happened to all their former relationships? Even in the "best" case scenario (she just never settled down) you have to give the PCs good reason to think she's better than a 22 year old that has the same excuse for not being with someone.
>>43622277
Great. Now i'm crying and have a boner. Thanks.
>>43622464
But especially in modern games, 30 is hardly a suspicious age to be with few attachments. Maybe she's divorced, or whatever. Single 30somethings who don't have kids are hardly a novel thing nowadays, right?
To be honest, I'd be quite leery adventuring anywhere with a bunch of young 20somethings. They're highly unlikely to have the experience and the skills needed to actually get things done.
>>43622511
I suppose it depends. Single 30ish somethings are actually a pretty recent thing (barring wartimes). As cost of living goes up people tend to become introverts the older they get. But if we're playing as Ye Olde adventurers then any women 25+ and unmarried has something going on that prevented her marry at age 15-20.
>>43622511
In modern games I would definitely favor the 27+ year olds. Kids tend to be too idealistic and they don't break from that idealism until around 25.
your threads are getting even worse, OP
>>43622511
>Maybe she's divorced, or whatever. Single 30somethings who don't have kids are hardly a novel thing nowadays, right?
It's not, it just means the PCs are more than likely going to treat her as "just another NPC" rather than someone they could develop a relationship with. Most people just don't like older women that way, and when they do it's for a one-off "I banged a MILF/cougar" rather than the start of something lovely.
It's just a stigma associated with older age, it's the belief that she hasn't found the "right one" because she hasn't been looking, and was spending her youth having fun, only to realize she's getting older and the boys of her youth are still interested in the youth, so she looks for a guy to "settle" with and provide her a financial/emotional security blanket.
>To be honest, I'd be quite leery adventuring anywhere with a bunch of young 20somethings.
People just grew up faster back then.
>>43622565
>It's just a stigma associated with older age, it's the belief that she hasn't found the "right one" because she hasn't been looking, and was spending her youth having fun, only to realize she's getting older and the boys of her youth are still interested in the youth, so she looks for a guy to "settle" with and provide her a financial/emotional security blanket.
Adding to this, people are generally wary of divorced women because, surprise surprise, they're actually prone to divorce again in the future. People want a partner that's dependable, and a woman that broke her marriage vows to be with the "man she loves forever" just doesn't seem that dependable. After all, how sincere can her declarations to the PC when she did the same to some schmuck 10 years ago?
There's also the "plenty of fish" argument; why should a PC "sully" themselves with an older woman that has baggage (or "experience" as some might fluff it as) when there are women the town over almost half her age and twice as lovely?
The only exception to the "PCs don't want 30+ yr olds" is when the woman has power, but even then most PCs see it as a political or economic marriage, rather than the player actually thinking the woman is a good partner (hence why they often get paramours/mistresses after the fact.)
>>43622610
>a woman that broke her marriage vows to be with the "man she loves forever"
People wonder why this is, but 90% of "romance" movies are exactly this. One or both partners are in a relationship, then break it off for their "true love," sometimes even cheating on the old love before breaking up with them.
And it's presented as a good thing, even the cheating. It's like wtf.
>>43622547
You guys are weird because you are being offered the understanding that every single thing we do as a species, from what rotten things we grow to like to eat, up to the way we deal with each other, is an invention of a convention, and yet you shy away from this when it comes to a rpg setting, thinking that there is some kind of natural element to our history beyond "we're lonely beings, stuck between mindlessness and mindfulness, we make shit up to facilitate our own survival and mistake our fantasies soon for how things are supposed to be."
Shit, it's right there in front of you, every damn rule in every damn house for every damn game produced by every damn writer: we all make shit up!
Do unmarried older women have a place in adventuring parties?
If you want. That is it. The Satanists were right all along.
It's your own world, you can have whatever the fuck you want in it.
Last I checked the word dragon was used for bad rulers who harm their subjects and exploit everyone because they see themselves fit for ruling, no scales, no flame breath.
If you guys were writing slashfic, your characters would never fuck, because something broken inside you tells you that it would be unrealistic.
>>43622565
>it just means the PCs are more than likely going to treat her as "just another NPC" rather than someone they could develop a relationship with.
Something tells me you and the people you play with have a bit left to hitting thirty.
>>43622671
A bit of yes and no, but I don't see how that's relevant to the points I was making.
>>43609664
As the party jizzpot, maybe. Christmas Cakes aren't for loving, after all
>>43622462
The Futurama movies were about when Futurama stopped being good
>>43622624
I know it sounds bas but its because romance movies are for women. Its a weird A=B=A and so on. They were raised on those movies and grew up with them. Its what they're expecting and it feeds directly into the "raised to be a princess" motiff they have as well. Its all sort of designed to fit together. Hell it even raised the pricing of their clothing. sadly it does teach the value that upgrading is a thing and who cares if you break the old one its crap compared to the new model.
>>43622561
>>43622633
I was saying if its a "realistic" setting and she's not married at 30 thats a big red flag. if i'm playing a fantasy game that doesn't aim for realism then its all good. i suppose an arguement could be made that if magic exists why does she LOOK 30.
>>43622788
They died but rabid fans played frankenstein.
>>43622869
The last season ended on q nice note, too, what with the Holophoner Opera and all
>>43609664
Most adventurers are unmarried middle-aged men, so why not?
>>43622671
>I have to settle for the women who are still single in their 30s, everyone else who doesn't just don't know what they're missing!
>>43622907
Because they're men. men do manly man stuff like arm wrassle dragons and unkidnap princesses then bang em. Being married just means you got an anchor around your neck.
>>43622858
>realistic
>realism
Hm, yes, history isn't annecdotal and doesn't only reference events the author found appealing and in line with his or her "this is how it ought to be", no lip service, nope, none of *that* kind of realism, no exaggerations or lies at all.
Listen, you seem to be fine with being mentally stuck in your narrow definition of what constitutes realism, but you are missing out on the Greater Fun, to play outside of presentist folly.
>>43622950
If you read anything other than "realism" you'd see i said if the games not a stickler for realism then i don't care how old she is for adventuring. I did however question why she wouldn't magic herself back to a younger age if not for covenience purposes rather than aesthetics.
In my Chinese cartoons, unmarried older women come in two flavors
>Sexy, seductive and flirtatious
>Competent yet insecure about their age, fearing their "expiration date"
In real life, they come in two flavors as well
>Used goods
>Crazy cat lady
And people wonder why waifus are so popular.
>>43622986
>And people wonder why waifus are so popular.
>mfw even in Chinese cartoons the older women rarely become anything more than eye candy or "practice" for the protagonist.
![sensei-lock-on-5380573[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/NUOc4j4.jpg "sensei-lock-on-5380573[1].jpg")
>>43623003
This is why you should select your Chinese Cartoons and Philippino Funny Papers with care.
>>43621867
>>43611965 is 50, just so you know.
>>43609742 is 34.
Oh Yeah! Let's not forget about the best girl Miria! She's over 90 years old.Immortality rocks.
>>43622462
I got you
>>43619878
#rude
>>43623641
Iop heads aren't renowned so much for their contents as they are for their durability. This is known.
>>43623207
Sauce on this? It looks cute and image search gives nothing
>>43623756
Your search skill are shit, literally first result on google
btw the manga is Lock-on sensei
>all these opinions about women
I know /tg/ likes to theory craft about games they can't play, but damn.
>>43622277
Yes defiling the ashes is a great honor, now hand me that dragon shit.
>>43609664
only if there is a shota in the party
![sensei-lock-on-5355395[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/bjJjWw3.jpg "sensei-lock-on-5355395[1].jpg")
>>43623822
>btw the manga is Lock-on sensei
Close but no cigar: it's Sensei Lock-On.
>>43623756
It's cute as fuck. The plot is practically absent, but in part that's its charm. There's no drama, no big revelations, just cute and comfy feels.
>>43623849
I would like to draw attention to the sickness of this burn.
>>43624187
Yeah, I've started reading it.
Pretty sure I have diabetes now... oh well
>>43623324
She could as well be married.
they usually make the best party member
>>43623207
>Become a teacher
>Groom your own boytoy
>JustAsPlanned
>>43624335
She didn't, though. It turns out that she's just popular like that with her students -- and nobody else. And one student just happened to be really persistent.
>>43622229
It's /tg/. Every thread is a wild card that can go anywhere in topic and quality
>>43624335
Teachers shouldn't do it with their students, it's pretty much guaranteed jailtime, also you won't have time to properly groom one kid with two dozen others around.
Now as a private tutor, that totally works, and I ought to know.
>>43624299
>Not mentioning you get a younger version of her with just one letter changed in the name.
>>43623849
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_burn_centers_in_the_United_States
>>43622266
>>43624389
>her daughter doesn't have a nose scar and isn't a Milf
its just not the same
>>43619884
She is a widow.
And she remarried.
>>43624388
>it's pretty much guaranteed jailtime
Not if you're female. And if the student you're taking advantage of is female courts will even forbid their family from filing for a restraining order.
>>43622198
its irrelevent how progressive their social mobility is when they are on shit geography which they have seriously messed up environmentally, and when they will in the coming decades have a massive self induced labor problem which they literally cannot avoid due to one child policy.
When half your country is an unusable shit desert which you are expanding through destructive environmental practices you are facing a future crisis. You can complain about the US doing the same, except if you look at when we did it, it was more than 50 years ago, before anyone knew any better, the chinese are doing this shit now.
>>43625133
Didn't they raise the policy to 2 children but under certain conditions and only for a certain amount?
>>43625471
They dropped 1 child policy recently. For one because their industry is growing so fast cities wouldn't have enough workers in the next 2 or 3 decades. The second reason is that rural areas weren't sticking to it anyway, people just didn't register the other children.
>>43624970
That is different, though. It's hard to throw someone in jail if rape is obviously out of the question.
>>43624251
>>43624463
>>43624286
No, she's just Isaac's partner and lover.
It took them 70 years to realize that they're immortal, it should be another millennia before they marry.
>>43624607
Then it's correct to say that she WAS a widow, since she remarried.
And, as I have stated already: she had an adventure before she got married. That means she was an honest-to-god adventurer before the campaign ended.
Do you understand my point?
>>43623207
The art kinda reminds me of Tonari no Seki-kun.
>>43625594
Oh no, people enjoyed a harmless joke and said so! Better put them back in their place!
>inb4 SAMEFAG
>>43625732
>No, she's just Isaac's partner and lover.
And do you think that would change once they have a paper saying they're partners and lovers as they have been for more time than most people have been alive?
>>43625779
No?
So what? If there's one thing that CK2 taught me, it's that lovers!=spouse. Lovers=bad, spouse=good
>>43625525
>The second reason is that rural areas weren't sticking to it anyway, people just didn't register the other children.
I think folks in the countryside were allowed to have two after a while. But all the same, they tended to sterilize women who had more than their family's allotted number of children.
>>43625779
>>damage control procedure initiated.
>>43625779
>inb4
>after
>>43625830
They also killed of girls and bought slaves as their brides because some villages had no women.
>>43625776
It's been awhile since you read Tonari no Seki-kun.
>>43625819
>Lovers=bad, spouse=good
How so?
>>43625888
Because bastards, Jealous vassals/rulers, illegitimate children with claims, angry kids, angry wife
Lovers are a hassle.
>>43625948
And how do you think any of this is going to affect this particular couple?
>>43615181
can you please post it? I will give you all of my internets
>>43620745
Actually considering the travel times in 40k, there's no real reason not to have some kids.
If you don't have time to raise them? That's what the schola progeniums are for. Rogue Traders on the other hand will probably raise their favorites right alongside them on the ships, which is how you get entire dynasties of murderhobo crime lords taking over the sector.
>>43621234
That, and the cost of living that of course naturally follows the amount of work people are doing (it's fucking high, and you're not being paid your overtime, but the bills sure feel like you should be) is quite literally killing the country, too. Not just death by overwork, but also the aging problem.
No one has time to date, marry and have kids, let alone RAISE kids if they have them, so more and more of the population is basically doing nothing but fucking working till they drop or retire - whichever comes first.
This is part of why they focus so heavily on school in dramas and anime: In most people it's basically the last time you were actually a sentient being rather than an overworked exhausted cog that's just barely not yet breaking.
>>43625870
I miss that series bad. Why stop translating, why...
>>43621915
She's Catholic, Anon. Hitting isn't important, the act of shooting is.
>>43624187
I'll be damned if I don't have the warm fuzzies right now.
Sweet, angry, lord Cthulhu, this is fantastic!
Thanks Anon.
I hate you so goddamn much right now, but with love.
>>43609664
But, seriously? I see no problem in that.
Old ladies nor Birthday Cake should be any kinda problem to have in any given adventuring party. If'n they wanted to, they could also throw in the old Kikuko Inoue spice of eternally claiming to be 17 years old!
>>43625525
it doesnt matter the damage is done, you have a demographic shift as the population which only had one child ages out of the workforce they will not be able to have full replacement by the significantly smaller generation which was the one child hence economic problems, and you cannot fix it, yeah you can smooth it out afterwards by having more kids, but since you cant age people faster, your still going to end up with a top heavy population demographic at some point which will lead to a work crisis. This is further exacerbated due to cultural practices leading to female infantcide which has also stacked the population heavily onto the male side creating all sorts of problems.
>>43621867
Japan is absurdly fascinated with youth, which is why most important characters of note are in their teens.
Famous example: in Final Fantasy 12, Balthier (the dashing rogue with Viera companion Fran) was supposed to be the main character of the story. However, executive meddling or focus testing decided that at22years of age, he was too old to be the main character, and that's why Vaan was created and crowbarred into the game as the new main character and audience stand-in.
>>43626485
They will just work their elderly to death.
>>43626505
Worse, look at Nier. A grizzled warrior going through hell to save his daughter? Better change him to a pretty teenager, that surely won't alter the story and character dynamics at all!
>>43625870
You are not wrong anon.
>>43626505
>22
>too old
Now I feel ancient, and I'm not even in my thirties yet.
>>43626505
I thought the blond knight guy was the original viewpoint character. (Balthier is, was and remains the main character)
>>43626550
Nier was changed for western audiences, not the other way around. It's the americans and europeans with the weird fixation on grizzled warrior types.
>>43626550
To explain: there are two different version of Nier (the main character) that changes depending on which console you're playing. If you're playing the XBOX 360 version, you play as father Nier, who is tall, grizzled and has a rough voice. If you place the PS3 version, you get brother Nier, who is youthful looking and has a softer voice.Father Nier is canon.
>>43626584
Just know that you wouldn't hawk it as a jRPG protagonist.
Early thirties here. Best I can hope for these days is to be the protagonist's dad, or an obstructive adult the youthful heroes have to get around.
>>43626485
I honestly don't think the damage is that bad, Chinese economy might get couple hiccups but won't collapse.
Not to mention that authoritarian government can respond to any crisis rather swiftly and reallocate resources as necessary.
>>43625858
>They also killed off girls
It's called a "later term abortion" in US lingo, Anon.
>there are people who dont like Christmas cake
I am in awe. That blows my mind.
>>43626681
I like the loli aesthetic, but most girls I've actually dated are 8+ years older than me.
>>43626699
Hey, at least women in their 30s will give you kids, which as far as I'm concerned is the selling point of getting married in the first place.
>>43626699
That's a pretty odd confluence of tastes, but good on you for not actually creeping on little girls.
