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What's the most french setting you can think of?
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What's the most french setting you can think of?
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>>47153961
France
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>>47153998
/thread
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>>47153961
Musketeers, crossbows, pistols, rapiers and a ambitious cleric that advices the royal seat.
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Baguette
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>>47153998
first post best post
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>>47153961
An entire continent of kingdoms who are constantly at war, but nobody has actually been killed in war in centuries because everyone keeps surrendering to each other, all while everyone you meet seems like a condescending ass with a weird accent.
>Pic related
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>>47153961
Good game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V81DlvZkxGE
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>>47154352
>le funny french only surrender maymay
Holy shit, go sit for an hour in /his/ and educate yourself, you stupid fuck.
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>>47156363
>getting triggered by lazy banter
step it up, frenchie
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All disputes are resolved by rapier fencing
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>>47156363
>educate yourself
>in /pol/2.0
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>>47157930
>banter
While he's a faggot for getting so butthrut and a retard for suggesting /pol2.0/, you are also a faggot.
Then again, this is 4chan, so everyone's a faggot and none of this comes as a surprise.
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>>47154352
French were seen as hardcore until fairly recently. I remember reading a note by a general warning his soldiers to stay back when fighting the French because if they run out of ammo they will chase you down and bayonet you.
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>>47157959

All disputes are resolved by baguette fencing.
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>>47157979
Better than /lit/2.0 tbqh senpai
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Regime diabolique
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>>47157959
They stopped doing that in the 1900s. (Last duel to the death was actually caught on film, but it sadly ended with one guy running away after realizing he really didn't care about getting cucked that much.)
>>47158081
Bayonet charges were a really big thing historically. Because armies fired in volleys if you charged while everyone was reloading they'd run away.
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>>47158081

The French government surrendering in WW2 condemned them to forever being remembered as cheese eating surrender monkeys despite their stellar record as a nation until that point and overlooking the entire badass French resistance movement.

>"lose" a single war
>instant meme status obtained
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WW1 france
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>>47157973
>>47157979
wait, what happened to /his/? i thought it was a cool place
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>>47159585
Well, 2 people just called it /pol/ 2.0. What do you think that implies happened?
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France.

Also FYI, france has always had a strong military, germany just has a stronger one.
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>>47159160

>"lose" a single war
>instant meme status obtained

One instant of inattention brings an eternity of heresy.
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A kingdom ruled by a literal Sun King with an intense love of winemaking, petty warfare between dukes and excessive amounts of perfect weather!
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>>47159160
Well, they didn't exactly win 100 Years War either.
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>>47159730
>One instant of inattention brings an eternity of heresy.

Just like America deserves to be remembered as hotheaded assholes for invading the puckered anus of so many undeserving countries in the post-USSR world?
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>>47159773
What.
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>>47159160
Their interwar evolution from winners to a blob of cherrypicking and logical fallacies is pretty incredible. I never get tired of reading about it.
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>>47156363
>Being this triggered by bants
>"MUH FRENCH HISTURI"

Frog detected
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Oubliettes & Serpents
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Arabian Nights
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>>47159730
This makes me realize, there isn't really a space marine chapter that high lites being an ohn hon hon, is there?
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>>47162006
>thinks history cares about his feels
brit detected
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>>47159862
Perfidious Albion
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>>47159853
I mean the thing there is that we keep doing it.
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>>47159160
iirc, the French Resistance in WW2 did the least compared to any other resistance movement during the war.
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>>47162062
There is a Guard Regiment though.

The Scintillan Fusiliers. Napoleonic French based, I believe. With all the fancy outfits and powdered wigs as well, they were made for FFG's Only War game.
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>>47156363
France has been getting BTFO in war since the 1300's. Napoleon is the only part of their history that they actually dominated.

and thats because he wasn't actually French
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>>47159160
>we only surrendered in 1 war
>the biggest war in human history
>lasted 6 years
>France gave up after 2 weeks
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>>47162691
And then collaborated shamelessly with the Germans, can't forget that.
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>>47162006
Those are some pretty sweet glasses.

I wonder if they come with Freedom lenses.
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>>47162715
That applies to most of continental europe tho.
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>>47153961

French as in 'the French are like this' or French as in 'the French designed this'? These are two wildly different things.
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>>47162807
The French took to it with unusual gusto and gave a very poor showing when compared to the rest of Europe.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DzsFMsIZPM

Is this what Parisians are like, /tg/?
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>>47162716
If you mean the freest country in all of Europe then you're God-damned right.

God Save the Queen!
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>>47163595
>overrun by third worlders
>EU
>free

Yeah, right.
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>>47162672
Wars of Louis XIII and Louis XIV don't exist.
Try harder at least.
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>>47163595
>safe under watchful eyes
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>>47153961
Khaos 1795
French Revolution meets Chtulhu.

>>47162650
They are far too high-born for napoleonic troops, and a bit tooo fancy for musketeers IMO.
The Elysians, Death Korps and Voystroyans all have french elements, but they're based on specific conflicts rather than countries.
Sisters are the french faction, using fleur-de-lys and have Joan of Arc as their main inspiration.
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>>47154352
Nope. If there is one thinh the french are EXCELLENT at it's killing people, admittedly often themselves.

Fuck, fight, feast = FRANCE
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>>47164565
>French Revolution meets Chtulhu
sounds fun
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>>47156363
>What is WWI
>What is WWII
>What is Vietnam
>Their most fearsome and respected military force is made entirely of foreigners
> French surrendering is just a meme
>And not the truth of a once great country
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>>47165044
> WW1
> the French
> surrendering

Do you even dress yourself, anon?
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>>47165044
>What is WWI

Isn't this the war where they litteraly send thousand of poor soldiers to be slaughtered wave after wave, just so they could keep some desolated city ?

Not exactly smart or commendable but I wouldn't call that surrendering
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>>47156363
>/his/
>educating

I am sure you know your history well
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>>47165141
If I remember the numbers, one in five french under the age of 25 died in that war.
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>>47164565
The Elysians are my favorite, honestly. Hardcore pseudo-French paras in the tradition of the men at Dien Bien Phu and in Algeria. Good shit.
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>>47154352
Mad angloshit
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>>47159773
>all english possessions in France removed
They won fair and square.
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>>47164565
>and a bit tooo fancy for musketeers
Musketeers were fancy as shit

Hell, half of the Three Musketeers is about shagging wenches, gressing well and borrowing money to everyone to pay for the expenses.
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>>47153961

Flashing Blades.

It's literally "The Three Musketeers - The Setting"
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>>47162997
That high collar uniform though HNNNNNNNNGGG
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>>47165141
If you're interested in WWI I'd recommend you reading up on the battle for Verdun, because that's a meme to some extent.
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>>47165141
>Isn't this the war where they litteraly send thousand of poor soldiers to be slaughtered wave after wave, just so they could keep some desolated city ?
Verdun was pretty even in terms of losses, and the french morale was much better due to the superior troop rotation management.
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>>47156363
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>>47158081
>>47159031
Frenchfag here.

René Ribière provoked Gaston Deferre (two politicians) in duel because he said to him "Taisez-vous! Abruti." (Basically Shut up you idiot, but classy)

It was a duel to the first blood, or until one of them retracted from it (apologizing for the insult or letting go off the honor loss). René was cut, but asked for a rematch. He was cut a second time the next day and wanted to continue the duel (which is hardcore and technically legit), but the referee put a stop to it.

In Nomine Satanis/Magna Veritas is a satire on 1990s France and doesn't pull any punch, and features a fight between asshole demons and fascist angels for mankind. Its first edition has excellent sandbox modules such as "Arrête de sucer mon gros crayon" (Stop sucking my big pencil) which is about angels trying to prevent a deviant pedophile from taking over a christian tv channel full of children, or the demons well, making things worse. Most module works for both angels and demons, even though demon gameplay is mainly "let's be mean sons of bitches and make everything fucked up" but can be done very good.

COPS is a slightly cyberpunk game set in L.A. though it transpires a lot of critic sense for the french government and society (same author).

Rêves de Dragons is an almost arthurian RPG about, well, Dragons' Dreams, which are basically heroic fantasy adventures, but classy.
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>>47154352
Memes and banter aside, this would be a pretty funny region in a setting.
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>>47165567
>such as "Arrête de sucer mon gros crayon" (Stop sucking my big pencil) which is about angels trying to prevent a deviant pedophile from taking over a christian tv channel full of children
What the fuck, man?
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>>47165567
Holy shit, bless France.
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I recommend you'll learn french. They have a ton of great RPG. Try Malefices, Hurlements, C.O.P.S., the new Elric game, Bitume, Brain Soda, Pavillion Noir.
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>>47153961
>open language settings on my computer
>set language to "French"
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Privileges is a game about social struggle and terrorism in modern France.
It's pretty silly and contains lots of backstabbing, political nonsense, and stupid ideologies.
Your character is the caricature of a ranting frenchperson, it's hilarious.
>>47165567
>INS/MV
I can't believe I forgot about this one. Shame that the american edition removed most of the humor.

>>47166992
>Hurlements
This one is excellent. Gipsy werewolves in low middle-ages France, what's not to love?

I'd recommend Z-Corps (Zombie apocalypse in openD6) and Shadows of Esteren (celtic medieval fantastic setting, with a relatively advanced tech) too.
Esteren alsogot nice very music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfOWss5uhYk&list=PLksz9CsyHn9zZ-7HbdDNJNLLtNx4uA1PI
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>success in mass murder and destruction
>good way to rate the greatness of a country
holy shit what the fuck you guys
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Lanfeust de Troy is like a crossover between D&D and Astérix
gritty humor and colorful, child-like aesthetic
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>>47165252
Yeah, but it's the fancy of provincial elite, the bravado of young noblemen; the Scintillian seems more like macaronis, IMO
They also get the Extremely Abundant Ressources traits that means that they can pilfer the warehouses of the Administratum as much as they want to, while musketeers had to pay for their equipment.

They could be inspired by the Gardes-Francaises, though. But it's a pretty obscure corps for non-specialists, so would people at FFG really know of it?

>>47167322
>gritty humor
You mean constant fart jokes?
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>>47159730
At least fucking quote it right you turbo faggot.

"A moment of laxity spawns a lifetime of heresy."
FTFY
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>>47167641
> constant fart jokes
No just humor based on healthy life principle such as drinking and fucking like it was the last day you lived
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>>47167262
Peacemongering has only really been a thing after WW1 and so far the most significant thing it got us was WW2. Go figure.
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>>47167641
>You mean constant fart jokes?
That's covered in child-like aesthetic.
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>>47162847
Ya. I too remember that the FFA was merely an illusion.
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Montaigne
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>>47168183
Incal did this and wasn't so low brow. Tao Bang has a teenager going on a quest to finding mermaid prostitutes to revitalize a brothel and it wasn't so low brow. The Fires of Askell, also by Arleston, had way finer humor (and that says a lot about his recent productions) despite containing much more sex, violence and debauchery.
"Risky" subjects or aesthetics are no excuses for lazy humor. The first three issues of Lanfeust of Troy are decent, the rest of Troy and and early Trolls is tolerable, Lanfeust of the Stars and Odyssey is milking-the-cash-cow garbage without an ounce of novelty.
On the other hand, the Song of Excalibur is actually very good.

/rant, anon is going back to /co/.
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>>47156363
>Mouth violated by farmers and women from the laziest place of the universe after a severe delusion and general shitness of state
>While the drunkest just destroy your anal-pussy
>Literally have your epicalest general 6evah DAH BEEESSSTTTT brother's bullied into abdication and exile
You're a joke.
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Realistically?
Copy spain, but make everyone extremely fucking smug and sissified.
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>>47156363

Gotta throw them triggers m8.

Never not a good day with a proper trigger, I'll tell you what.

A setting where they mix up "military" leaders, for example Napoleon with Hitler, would be interesting.
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The kingdom's soccer team is terribly mediocre
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>>47153961
Warhammer 40k
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>>47162062
Space Marines don't work with historical armies. They're better when they're semi-ridiculous and based around a strong theme.

One of the reason IG are more interesting.
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>>47168183
Ha. Get that weakass Cyrenaic shit out of here. Stoics for life!
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>>47171017
Good lived stoicism and Epicurean ataraxia are nearly indistinguishable.
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>>47170486
It's not even a trigger, there are people out there who honestly and unironically believe this shit.
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>>47171195
Indeed, but I was referring to Aristippus. His views focused more on maximizing pleasure, rather than limiting displeasure through a simple life as Epicurus did.
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>>47153961
I can't figure out what the fuck is going on to the catcher in this image
is this an OFF thing?
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>>47164565
>French Revolution meets Cthulhu
Because, y'know, the Terror wasn't madness enough, I guess. Jesus Christ.
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>>47159773
Honestly, if you look at it from an outsider's point of view, it looks like nobody won.
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Surprised nobody's mentioned Wakfu/Dofus' Monde de Douze yet. It's already the setting for an MMORPG so I'm sure you could adapt it for tabletop play.
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>>47165567
>>47166992
>>47167223
There's also the Archipels campaign and setting for DnD. I don't know the general oppinion about it, but personally I really like it. Well, I'd like it better if I could be a player for once. I'm stuck DMing it but it's a highly heroic adventure and I'm more at ease with lethal stuff like Traveller or DH.
Also Wastburg. I bought it recently and it looks quite nice, even if I'm usually wary of games that pretend to "put the story before the rules".
Then there's a really cool german-french supplement for Shadowrun called SOX, which is about Luxembourg after it has been abandonned following a nuclear catastrophe.
And a whole bunch of others I can't think of right now. The french RPG scene is pretty good.

I really hope Raise Dead are gonna make a revised version of Bitume.
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>>47170893
Nah, not enough surrendering or long bread. 40k is a mix between the worst aspects of Germany and Russia during WWII, with a dash of America in the form of a shattered dream of a better future.
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>>47153961
>Brown frenchies
>Big hips
>Uniforms
>Surrendering
>Unrestricted warfare
Hijabs and yoga pants for that extra slice of heresy
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>>47172387
Want to play with my dog, anon?
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>>47172718
Adamai is a salty faggot
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>>47153961
hmm. I give up.
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>>47159730
This is the gayest thing I've ever seen
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>>47173774
>brown girls with big hips

Well, I'm off to /aco/
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>>47172330
It is from OFF.
Pitcher is the player character, batter is a merchant, catcher is a generic enemy, umpire is one of the bosses.
It's a neat little game, tou should play it.
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>>47172330
Yeah. The catcher misses the ball, and his race doesn't, uh... they don't really respond to stress or failure too well.
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>>47165381
>morale higher due to rotations
I thought I read somere that the German stormtroopers were wreaking psychological assessmenthavoc during night raids on the French since their formal inception
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>>47159616
/his/ in my very rare ventures there, it seemed treats /pol/ like it's a cancer worse than a larger than average period of /b/ tards migration before the proper acclimation
Care is advised when you advocate others opinions without catching facts for yourself.
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>>47153998
France isn't very French anymore, anon.
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>>47174509
anon pls
France is still very much french. Posting a pic of a bunch of muslims praying in the street doesn't change anything.
Source: a french anon.
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>>47174545
You sure about that?
Look at the NT
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>>47153961
OFF is a pretty cool little number, yeah.
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>>47174545
France is still very much french.
Paris not so much.
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>>47175875
What about Marseille?
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>>47174249
I did play it, I just didn't really recognize the characters at first. Are you sure the batter is Stephan, though? He doesn't wear a mask like that, he wears one of those germ-mask things.
>>47174286
Oh, from the first world! I remember those guys. Poor bastards. I didn't know they actually died like that, but I do remember that they were all really nervous all the time.
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>>47162672
>France has been getting BTFO in war since the 1300's
The English always forget they lost the 100 Years War.
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>>47162847
I still love rereading how Vichy run France sent more Jews to the Nazis in occupied France than they were expecting/could handle, and were told to tone it down.

Shame I can't remember if they reduced the numbers or not.

Silly Marshal Petain did nothing wrong.
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>>47168355
REMEMBER BIR HAKEIM.
MUH GRAIN OF SAND THAT LED TO EL ALAMEIN.

Honestly, WWII France was still recovering from WWI, we didn't have Hitler to rebuild our spirit, and we also suffered from a population decline following one of the greatest slaughterfests in history.

Doesn't excuse what we did, but not everyone simply surrendered, and it doesn't mean we suck at fighting, it means Germans are shitty neighbors.
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>>47176161
Aren't they super polite and cooperative these days?
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>>47176181
And really really good at welcoming with open arms whoever wants in?
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>>47176181
You know they're just waiting to Anschluss 90% of continental Europe again.
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>>47176181
Guilt tripping people isn't nice.
>>47176215
Pretty sure all over yurope the gates are closing really fast and the majority is going to be stuck in Greece, the damage is already done though.
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>>47176161
>we didn't have Hitler to rebuild our spirit
If I recall my history classes right, since 1940 you actually did.
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>>47176257
>since 1940

Then it is a little late, no? Hitler had a solid chunk of time to rebuild before frolicking off to war,
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>>47165567
I just realised it's the first time I've ever seen "In Nomine Satanis/Magna Veritas" on /tg/, I knew something was missing.
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>>47165044
>WWI
The war where the French wore red pants and blue jackets because that's what they always did before. Where they mobilized taxicabs to Paris. Meanwhile the Brits almost called it quits, but decided that it would look bad.
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>>47176046
To be fair, that's because 'The Hundred Years War' was actually something like seven different wars, and the English and their allies won five of them.
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>>47176161

Ironically it's only because the french are good at war that the whole "France surrenders" joke gets any mileage.

It's not like anyone bothers making fun of Italy for their repeated massive failures in WW2 - they know they suck and it wouldn't really get any reaction.
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>>47153961
What's all this war and revolution shit? No wonder you're all shitty DMs.

The most french setting is the Exposition Universelle in 1889. It's literally the most universally recognized emblem of Paris and the country.
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>>47153961
It bothers me greatly how OFF is still obscure while Undertale exploded in popularity
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>>47179587
I'd rather things I like not be beset by the kind of people that make up Undertale's fandom nowadays.
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>>47178727
That's like claiming that the US won the Indian Wars in an Alt-Universe where they were pushed to Cuba by the Americans.
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>>47179587
Because OFF is old and Undertale is new.

>>47178979
>It's literally the most universally recognized emblem of Paris and the country.
Pretty sure that's just the Eiffel Tower, not the whole 1889 fair.
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>>47179587
I've tried playing off but it refused to run on my computer.
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>>47180397
It's RM2K, isn't it? Probably missing the RTP.
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>>47179587
It's too french for mainstream, Undermeme was designed for msinstream
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>>47180327
Sure, except for the bits about America, the Indian War, Cuba, or an alternate universe.
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>"Arrête de sucer mon gros crayon" (Stop sucking my big pencil) which is about angels trying to prevent a deviant pedophile from taking over a christian tv channel full of children, or the demons well, making things worse. Most module works for both angels and demons, even though demon gameplay is mainly "let's be mean sons of bitches and make everything fucked up" but can be done very good
Now I want to learn about French culture and history even more. God bless you.
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>>47175959
Sounds like you only played the first 20 minutes friend. You should finish it, it gets pretty fucking wild.
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>>47182334
The 4th edition is available for free in French.
For example here:
https://www.xxiemeciel.com/ins_ebookv4_01.php
Beware, it's French enough to reference lifting up a Concorde as a example of hight strength feat.
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>>47162691
Don't forget at that time France had the best equipped, trained, and prepared army in all of Europe and they got BTFO because they couldn't think past trench warfare, and how badly they wanted to juggle German balls in their mouths.
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>>47182849
However, it should be noted that despite being short the invasion of France was still a hard fought battle: German losses were high.
The German army was still more equipped and trained. For example the French aviation had to fought five time their number and still managed to shot down twice their losses.

French soldiers actually fought quite hard, but too many French officers and politicians didn't want to go on the offensive because they didn't wanted Germany to be defeated for political reasons, when they weren't fascist themselves.
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>>47182809
You know, I never realized how French that exemple is until now. It's pretty damn french.

I've got an RPG edited by Ankama. It's called City Hall and is inspired by a french manga or something. Honestly I think the comic looks like shit, but the game has a pretty great premise. I'm too lazy to go grab it, but if I remember correctly it's about how around the 17th century, everything that was written on paper became real. Chaos ensued, then a first world war that lasted for something like a hundred years. Then writers became forbidden and most of the paper that was still in circulation was burned.
The game takes place in the UK, around 1860. The players are agents serving the Nostromo, the British secret-service charged with prosecuting illegal writers. They also have writers of their own. Most major countries have their own anti-writer service.
The use of that writing-magic has permitted several technlogical breakthrough, and gramophones are widespread and have mostly replaced paper. There are also a few primitive computers, and something ressembling internet is in the work.
Writers are not necessarily evil, and there are several underground groups trying to make literature a legitimate art again.

I want to run a serie of one-shots following different countries' services through the events of the 19th and 20th centuries. Like a session set during the '30, where there would be an NPC or player Robert E. Howard working for the American service, and the team has to stop a maddened Lovecraft before he can gather enough paper and power to create a gate which will open the way for the Outer Gods.
Or in the early 2000, finding who the fuck snatches british kids to an artificial dimension and teach them "magic" before releasing them.
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>>47182998
I actually like City hall enough to have them signed by he authors, but objectively it's not that good. My main grief is how the paper magic is mostly used to make robot/monster fight instead of taking more subtle approach. Especially since most writers are supposed to be great intellects. It get better though.
Seeing people being horrified and absolutely terrified at the sight of a simple sheet of paper was funny though.
I guess /tg/ would hate the serie.
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>>47183226
Forgot my pic.
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>>47183226
I really don't like the art style, and the game rules are quite unimaginative (although they work fine), but the setting as presented in the RPG is absolutely awesome.
When reading it I got the feel that the game was more about paranormal investigation than papercut fights.
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Probably something inspired by Delicatessen, the most french movie ever.
For those who haven't seen it, it's a movie set in post-apocalyptic paris, where nothing grows anymore and dried vegetables and grains are scarce, due of them serving the role of currency. This, of course drives people to find.. other means of getting food.

Go watch it, it's morbid and superb.
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>>47183429
> Un film de Jeunet
Somehow, I had guess that much.
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>>47179587
Dude, I played both, and I'm pretty sure OFF was destined for obscurity. It doesn't seem to have an official translation anywhere, unless the one I played was an official translation in which case it was a bit buggy anyway. The battle system, frankly, was kinda crap: the right move for any situation was to set it on "auto-battle" because that was the only way to ensure you were attacking at highest efficiency which meant that winning battles was mostly a question of waiting for your health to drop, exiting auto-battle, and healing. Ditto for status effects, I suppose. Boss battles were extra-long sequences of waiting. It's true that OFF didn't have the same obnoxious random encounters that Undertale did, but at least the battles you HAD to do in Undertale were not, for the most part, literally tedious.

I liked OFF, don't get me wrong. But I don't understand why people seem to hail it on here as such a masterpiece.

I'm honestly kind of baffled as to why these games get brought up together so much in the first place, to be honest. I guess they're both independent, weird RPGs, but after that the similarities more or less drop off. So I guess what I'm asking here is, why are you making that comparison in the first place, and why should Undertale's success equate with a success for OFF?
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>>47182391
I did finish it. I played both endings. Why, does something happen to Stephan that I'm not remembering?
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>>47183429
I watched that one in high school. Shit was bizarre.
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>>47182334
Frenchfag from yesterday, I've played in a lot of Magna Veritas games with an old gaming group, I could entertain you with a few recollections of highlights (not a full storytime or anything tho, I got lots of work).

>>47182809
XXIemeciel doesn't have CROC's permission, just so you know. But you ain't gonna buy a french book that isn't in store and ship to america, I can understand that.

1st Ed. has the best modules, 2nd Ed. has the best system. 3e is pretty bad. 4e & 5e are different in tone, I think they're too serious and not caustic enough since I loved the dark humor of the first ones, but I heard they're still pretty good.

Also we have this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l44WKAtZLjI

All the dubs are by the official (and famous for french people) dubbers, who are also great actors. The whole movie is chokefull of parodies and has a cult following here. Lots of fart jokes, but also good shit. And the fart jokes are cult too.
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>>47183939
If you have time mind sharing one of those recollections?
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>>47184018
Writing in advance so I just post it in one bulk then I go read study things.
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>>47183429
>the most french movie ever
>not Irreversible
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>>47184056
Basically I was dropped in the game at my gaming club because there wasn't any other game going at the moment (we usually had two, sometimes three games running at the same time), and we were playing angels.
I got to play an NPC, a servant of Novalis, the Archangel of Flowers. He's a dirty hippy that can make all the anger and pain go away by throwing flowers at people and is very chill about this whole "war for mankind" thing. He just wanna hang out in nature, grow his own home grown and such.

I don't remember his name, but a thing that I still remember to this day is that his skills were "Faire pousser des chèvres" and "Elever de l'herbe"
I don't know if the joke translates well : Grow Goats +2, Herd Grass +3

The team also had an Angel of Daniel -archangel of stone and boneheads-, one of Christophe -archangel of kids, think the super nice, brotherly figure social worker-, a suit that was our contact in the city where the action happened who served Janus, archangel of winds, which has exactly the same appearence, description and powers as Valefor, demon-prince of thieves, and an old lady that went into dreams (I think her archangel is Blandine or something like that).

We had to check out why a teenage pop idol was suddenly associated with cocaine and sex traffic, especially since she was a big fan of the church and went on christian channel. Turned out she was still innocent, but was slowly turning into Paris Hilton due to the influence of an Andrealphus Demon, which are servants of the demon-prince of sex (basically the masters of social interaction, with Malphas who is the prince-demon of trolling).

The big guys started the hunt in a nightclub, and since my character had the flaw : kid (he got incarnated into an inconvenient 14 yo body) and lazy, I used the opportunity to go hang out in a park under the pretense of "looking for clues".
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>>47184155
I also rolled a perception check with a huge penalty and rolled 111, which is Divine Intervention, so basically God showed me the way and I noticed a shady guy that was connected to our case. I pretended to be a potential buyer for his product and the Christophe angel caught him.

I don't remember much, but I know I saved the day when we were in a barber shop full of old ladies (talking to a contact) when three armed thugs went in, sent my the demons to fuck us up. I reacted fast and hugged them while throwing pollen everywhere. A few minutes later, we were all sitting down in a friendship circle, smoking weed and doing group therapy so that I could understand "why you guys have such anger inside you".
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>>47184117
>irreversible
>movie
only in the vaguest sense of the word

it was shit anyways
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>>47153961
Paris during the french revolution.
read some dickens for inspiration.
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>>47184267
Or, you know, Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.
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>>47184174
>everywhere. A few minutes later, we were all sitting down in a friendship circle, smoking weed and doing group therapy so that I could understand "why you guys have such anger inside you".
Kek. Nice one, Anon.
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>>47180362
Gee, I wonder when the eiffel tower was made and for what event?
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>>47184287
You're thinking of the June Rebellion.
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>>47185163
Didn't Napoleon steal it from Rome?
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>>47153961
A post apocalyptic environment where the defining element is a fallen Eiffel Tower swarming with rot bugs and zombies (Generalized undead baddies for a D&D setting).

The Loot:
Cigarettes (90%)
Baguettes (50%)
Bullets [OR] Weapons (40%)
Health Packs (40%)
Exceptional Master Crafted Two Handed Weapon (5%)
Exceptional Master Crafted One Handed Weapon (5%)
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>>47184213
You shut your whore mouth
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So what's the deal with the snails?
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>>47187290
They are so fucking good
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>>47187486
Are they?
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>>47188529
They are just so good
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Did french dudes ever actually dress like this at some point?
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>>47176215
my fucking sides
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>>47190658
Not all at the same time. Though if the scarf was red, you may see something close in Bayonne.
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned Le Donjon de Naheulbeuk.
Then again, I don't think any of the material ever got translated. Which is kind of a shame.
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eye divine cybermancy
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>>47191281
decent game, too buggy
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>>47153961
That one country in Berserk that's France, I don't remember which one that is though
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French anons, what do you think of the game Bloodlust?

Also, minorly related, how about this new Elric game?
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Does the "The French always surrender" meme specifically come out of the Iraq War, or does it predate that? I feel like it must be older but I'm hardpressed to think of any French "surrenders" besides some who-gives-a-fuck African colonies.
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>>47194959
Yes it comes from here and the WW2
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>>47194036
What's Bloodlust ?
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>>47195804
When you go down on a girl that's on her period
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>>47174509
>poor nigger uses cardboard instead of proper carpet
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>>47194959
Yeah it refers to WW2 obviously but you only started hearing it after the french refused to support the invasion of Iraq. Suddenly they stopped being good allies, and it was important to recall embarrassing moments in french history.
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>>47194959
It came from WWII English propaganda. They hopped to use France as a buffer zone so when when the French got beaten way too quick it was easier to pretend the French didn't really put a fight than to admit they were in the deepest shit.
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>>47174142
You don't own a mirror?
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>>47194959
It comes originally from WWII, although we probably wouldn't still be getting so much mileage out of it if De Gaulle hadn't fucking snubbed the Allies when we retook Paris for him after he threw a tantrum. Cultural memories run deep.
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>>47188529
frenchfag here. There are meh in fact, but can be good with a good sauce. It tastes like some seafood, but without sauce it's just bland and a bit gross.
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>>47190658
I have about the same pull-over, and I wear a scarf in winter if it gets too cold. That's about it.

I fucking love marinières
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>>47194959
It gained traction during this event, because americans are really prone to fall for propaganda.
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>>47194036
I've heard both good and bad things about it, but never tried it myself. I'd like to, but I don't really want to spend 50€ on something I'm not sure I'll enjoy.
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>>47188529
They are a tasty joke that went very far.
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