Stat him tg.
Size/Type:Large Magical Beast
Hit Dice:5d10+25 (52 hp)
Initiative:+1
Speed:30 ft. (6 squares)
Armor Class:15 (-1 size, +1 Dex, +5 natural), touch 10, flat-footed 14
Base Attack/Grapple:+5/+14
Attack:Claw +9 melee (1d6+5)
Full Attack:2 claws +9 melee (1d6+5) and bite +4 melee (1d8+2)
Space/Reach:10 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks:Improved grab
Special Qualities:Scent
Saves: Fort +9, Ref +5, Will +2
Abilities:Str 21, Dex 12, Con 21, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 10
Skills:Listen +8, Spot +8
Feats:Alertness, Track
Environment:Temperate forests
Organization:Solitary, pair, or pack (3-8)
Challenge Rating:4
Treasure:None
Alignment:Always neutral
Advancement:6-8 HD (Large); 9-15 HD (Huge)
>>43516159
Not far enough in the series or anything explained about diddly with his semblance to really stat.
However, Aura protection is ridiculous
(Like 8000000 pascals hitting a guy, and while beaten severely, not actually liquefied.)
Fighter in a party of optimized casters.
>>43516159
Didn't he friend-zone the redhead?
>>43516218
Do we even know if EVERYONE gets a semblance?
>>43516270
He wore a dress to a formal party for her. I think they might be an item now.
>>43516285
Doesn't seem so.
>>43516304
I need proof. He did say they were Arkos when he divided up pairs for formations...
-3 strength
>>43516304
NO! Arkos will fail and Awkward Kitty will become canon!
>>43516242
more like a core fighter in a party of gishes and weeaboo fighting magic users.
He still sucks, but he can get better with just a prestige class or two or the right feats.
Also, his player seems to be the party strategist, as well as the best role player.
>>43516545
So he is the real mc?
>>43516714
Probably more of an Aragorn type.
He winds up being the one who gets to be the big leader guy, and who gets all the huge epic battles and shit, but with the story remaining focused mainly on his "less important" friends doing the smaller scale stuff of vital importance.
I tried to watch RWBY once.
8 minutes into chapter 1, I concluded that I had seen enough RWBY for a lifetime.
Animu: The Clichening - CGI Edition.
>>43516714
He's pretty much the co-MC by this point.
He is the Hero Remnant deserves not the one it needs... wait...
>>43516810
>implying Ozpin gives a fuck about your "rules"
Dude's like Dumbledore. If he finds your adventures amusing, you can get away with murder.
>>43516159
Sauce? What Chinese cartoon?
>>43516940
http://roosterteeth.com/show/rwby
>>43516810
They were probably gonna kick him out before
>dat last name
>dat swag aura
then Ozpin just has to say "fuck it, it amuses me."
>>43516159
Class: Criminal
Power: To endanger others by his criminality.
>>43517326
>Class: Criminal
Criminally what?
>>43517326
Is he a smooth one though?
>>43517364
>Jaune
>smooth
>>43517404
Fair cop
>>43516440
GTFO, /co/. We don't need your ridiculous shipping here.
>>43516159
Trying to do it properly, 5e D&D: probably a level 3-ish fighter (Purple Dragon Knight?) with some feat that gives him a magical thingy, which will have to be Magic Initiate until we get proper psionics rules.
>>43517351
Fraud to lie his way into an institution of higher education probably take the spot from someone else more worthy of it.
His incompetence puts his own, his team's and public lives at risk.
>>43518228
A: I doubt him getting in kicked anyone else from admission, it shouldn't work like that.
B: Applicants are thinned by a literal life or death exam that would kill someone not competent enough to survive. If he made it through that, and he did, then he's worthy as anyone else.
C: His own and his team's I can get. But the Public is not supposed to rely on hunters in TRAINING for anything, certainly not their safety. Hell, hunters don't usually operate in civilian areas anyway. And if he's still incompetent by graduation time, then he's not going to graduate to a position where the public will rely on him.
D: He's undergoing additional training, he hasn't dropped out yet, and he's proven himself to be a valid tactician, hence his position as team leader.
-3 dex -2 cha, flour power.
>>43518305
>Why would I bring a flower?
Doesn't he have the strongest aura of all the characters?
>>43518574
At least when it comes to the shielding function?
All signs point to yes.
Probably somehow related to his Semblance, but details on it are sparse thus far.
>>43518574
Pyrrha mentions he has a strong Aura when she awakens it, but no one ever calls it the strongest.
>>43516545
>his player seems to be the party strategist
More like 'The GM said that he would be the strategist, but he's not actually good enough at the game to be anything more than humoured by the other players.'
You see episode 2 of this season? He's got the leadership skills of a slice of wet bread.
>>43518790
In his defense his team doesn't seem to actually listen to him in strategy meetings.
>>43518790
They reference previous strategy meetings where the rest of the team weren't listening. It's not his fault the rest of JNPR are murderhobos.
>>43518807
>>43518815
Still, only finding out that no one listened at all during your training sessions when you're in the middle of a fight is pretty poor leadership. Did they never have a training session where they used the dumb names?
>>43518815
>It's not his fault the rest of JNPR are murderhobos.
Not to mention TERRIBLY cheese.
>HEY HEY GM?
>Hmm?
>Can I take the Android Prestige class?
>...do you have a concept to support that?
>Ohmmm... SURE! I'LL BE LIKE TOTALLY SOCIALLY UNAWARE!
>Like you are now?
>What?
>Nevermind, sure. Do it
And so it was. The Karate guy's player is probably kinda new but k
>>43518866
Penny isn't in JNPR.
>>43518866
>The Karate guy's player is probably kinda new but k
He's a new player, taking over for a veteran player who is used to playing the cleric and not standing in the spotlight RP-wise. The old player left, and they asked the new guy to use that character for continuity.;_;
>>43518893
The new player is the veteran player's brother.
>>43516159
don't know/don't care
>>43516159
I don't get how that show has fans
its animated for the nintendo ds, and its characters are awful. Its what happens when you give a weeb 10$ and say "make me proud"
>>43518893
>>43518956
I find this story about a bunch of guys playing in a weebish setting inspired by fairy tales far more interesting than the actual show.
>>43519024
It's because it surprisingly doesn't use %50 of its run time doing "oh so lewd" things like a majority of anime does.
>>43519288
Adding on to this, it's characters actually have character instead of overused-stereotype#1037.
>>43519288
I'd say visual fanservicy really wouldn't work with the low graphical power, and the freed time is spent with different chlichees.
So following your argument it's just a different kind of bad, where people aren't all that annoyed with due to lack of overexposure.
>>43519336
Pardon me, did you just use "non-cliche" as a defense for RWBY? Because I suffered through quite a bit of that show and let me tell you, those characters were pretty fucking cliche.
This is babby's first "anime", nothing more.
Also, only a coward kills from a distance.
>>43519372
At least it doesn't try to produce card games or porn.
>>43519365
>I'd say visual fanservicy really wouldn't work with the low graphical power
Bullshit. There's plenty of more poorly animated shows with more fanservice, and /aco/ shows the number of people jerking it to RWBY models.
>>43519445
I was more talkng about the low.poly models and blocky animations, but maybe that's just me having worked with 3D software.
People can jerk off to anything, but that was probably not what the creators of the show wanted to achieve. The low model quality made casual fanservice not efficient enough, so the creators decided not to use any or something like that.
>>43519570
>Fanservice
Why do anime makers do this? If i wanted to see scantily clad women doing magic and shit I'd go to a porn website, not cartoons.
>>43519604
It's what moves units.
>>43519570
They're working with an old as hell program.Because it's what Monty used.
>>43519604
Sex sells, you got that in every visual medium.
Japan just took the thing to a whole new level when their target group shiftet to anti-social otakus and waifus became a thing.
>>43519652
Like, it's an appeal to tradition? If they just want to stay coherent with the first episodes of the series, that's fine by me, but fuck appeal to tradition.
If the show generates decent income, they should invest some of it to make the future product better.
>>43519729
My best guess is they're going to upgrade but they already had some stuff done and in the wake of Monty dying they didn't have the resources to upgrade.
>>43519752
Yeah, you can really tell they didn't have another main backup guy to replace him so they had to build off of what he already did when he passed.
>Watching a show with such garbage animation
Really?
>>43519898
It's literally made of Waifus, what's not to love?
>>43519898
>Watching a show because you like it regardless of the opinions of random people on the Internet.
Wow I didn't know this was bad.
>>43519921
How DARE you anon?!?!?
>>43519921
>>43519904
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F6U3wBlAYE
>>43516836
Actually he ended in up in serious trouble for being like that.
>>43520954
So did Dumbledore. Like either of them give a fuck.
>>43516159
Poorly drawn/10
>>43519424
>or porn
Please tell me you're joking.
>>43516159
Can anyone out-dance him?
>>43523048
Bitch please, that is how he got in Beacon.
>>43519024
I enjoy RWBY because it's a sea of corny cliche shit and it weirdly has charm.
Plus, sometimes I just rewatch the food fight in ep 1 of season 2 because it's the best thing in the show. I'd never call RWBY good, though.Yang and Nora best girls
>>43523084
This might be the most convincing theory I've heard yet
>>43516159
Level 1 shitpost.
>>43516159
>>43525187
Pyrrha (or whatever her name is) isn't Achilles.
>>43525451
Let me just leave this here.
>Achilles disguised himself as a red-haired girl named Pyrrha in order to avoid having to fight in the Trojan War.
>>43525510
Looks like I'm the clueless dumbass then.
>>43525510
Achilles wasn't magneto though.
>>43525613
>Achillies didn't let people KNOW he was Magneto
FTFY
>>43525510
>>43525451
>>43525187
That would make Nora Thor, then, right?
So who's Ren meant to be?
>>43525650
Mulan if I'm remembering correctly.
>>43525650
>>43525668
The whole Juniper team is folkloric crossdressers.
>>43525645
Ehhh, everything at the time was bronze anyway, so it hardly would have mattered.
>>43525729
And RWBY is fairy tales
Ruby is Red Riding Hood
Weiss is Snow White
Blake (and Adam) are Beauty and the Beast
Yang is Goldilocks
Most of the teams have a similar them to their members.
>>43525883
I thought weiss was the frost queen from narnia.
>>43525883
The team with the second rate bullies are all religious ranks or something like that.
>>43525899
>Weiss Schnee
>White Snow
>>43525899
I guess she might be, but my source said Snow White.
>>43525916
>The team with the second rate bullies are all religious ranks or something like that.
And the one that keeps picking one Jaune is named after the Cardinal Bishop of Winchester, who oversawJoan of Arc's trial and execution.
>>43525916
>The team with the second rate bullies are all religious ranks or something like that.
That's because their crew head is based off of the bishop that executed Joan of Arc, who Jaune is based off of.
Kinda a flimsy association, but hey.
>>43525729
Wait, who's Jaune then? Mulan, Achilles, and Thor? When did Thor do that?
>>43516759
Yeah, i was hyped for awesome action that was japanime inspired. what we got was another highschool anime.
>>43525956
>Jaune Arc
I just realized.
I feel like such an idiot now.
>>43525956
Thor crossdressed in one of his stories to pretend to be some giant's wife shortly before kicking his ass. Juane is Joan of Arc.
>>43525956
Jaune is Joan of Arc.
Thor had to cross dress one time to get his hammer back, I'm forget the details though.
Admitting to watching RWBY should be an instant ban. Have some fucking shame and taste. This is weeaboo shit for retarded children.
>>43525613
No, but the way she applies her Semblance essentially replicates Achilles' whole "impossible to defeat" thing.
>>43525985
Who wants to bet Nora goes on a date with some dude only to throw him through a window because he makes a comment about how her team sucks and how she should totally join up with his team.
It would check off a bunch of ticks for the 'cliche high school plot' quota.
>>43525916
>>43525948
>>43525951
They're all Birds. Thrush, Lark and Dove are the other three.
>>43526021
>Have some fucking shame
pic related.
>>43526051
I'll pass on betting because I am a major poorfag.
>>43526058
Cardinal is both a religious rank and a type of bird, their team name plays into that.
>>43526021
You'd recommend timeless classics like Naruto, I assume?
>>43526021
see pic
>>43526036
All Pyrrah needs is her "Achillies mopes in his tent" arc.
>>43526111
Yes, actually, Naruto is better than RWBY from characterizations to aesthetics and even fucking storytelling. Also the soundtrack is a guilty pleasure.
>>43526111
I'm surprised. I thought it'd be on your list of favourites, given the taste you've displayed so far. Over RWBY, though? Any day. But personally I'd have to go with Ashita no Joe. Not much fantasy, mind you, but then again I've never cared for roleplay in the vein of RWBY.
>>43526240
>>43526267
The only thing that really impresses me about RWBY is the sheer scale.
I mean, most people make a comic or something on the internet, wait for it to get a few fans, let it die down, get the writing out of their system.
But he went full hog and started up a web series with paid actors to showcase his... original content, I guess?
I wouldn't be surprised if it started out as Final Fantasy fan-fiction or something.
And it has a fanbase now.
I mean, even if it's awful literature in terms of implementation,you have to at least admire the size of the damn thing.
How many man-hours were put into the implication of the series.Also, the fans make decent porn.
>>43526438
That should be implementation, but I'm having one of my Lebowski moments.
>>43526438
that's true
>I don't use barbie-nude character models because I don't want people to make porn
>internet giggling
>>43526240
>characterization
Literally just "__ didn't love me!", "I must take my vengeance on __!" and "I wish is was as strong and brave as __. I swear I will be one day!"
>>43526510
I've come to the conclusion if I ever write something in an original setting, someone, somewhere, is going to make porn of it, and I'm okay with that.
>>43526575
You're missing "I'm here to be _."
>RWBY
>Ruby: "I wish I was as strong and brave as Uncle Qrow. I swear I will be one day!"
>Weiss: 'My father didn't love me!"
>Blake: "I must take my vengeance on filthy racists!"
>Yang: "I'm here to be sexy."
>JNPR
>Jaune: "I wish I was as strong and brave as my ascendants. I swear I will be one day!"
>Nora: "I'm here to be peppy."
>Pyrrha: "The people I worked with didn't love me."
>Ren: "I'm here to be emo."
>>43516159
Big eyes small mouth
>>43526267
Well, RWBY's fights are at least entertaining to watch.
Naruto sorta gave up on the idea a fight had to be fun to watch sometime around the timeskip, brought it back briefly when Might Guy did things, and then immediately stopped talking about it when Might Guy stopped doing things.
For the most part fights just turned into big energy blobs and emo teens staring people to death. The people that still fought with their fists in that sea of bullshit were the rare bright spots. At least I felt some impact watching RWBY and its weird (but explained) bloodless bloodbaths.
>>43526715
>The people that still fought with their fists in that sea of bullshit were the rare bright spots.
Remember when fist-ninja fought sand-ninja? That was some hardcore shit and coincidently one of the few things a remember about Naruto.
>>43526715
I dropped Naruto around the time Tsunade was introduced, so I don't really know much about it. It was already unreadable trash at that point, far as I'm concerned. It was however very good, if not great, up until the second Chuunin exam trial, where it swiftly started going downhill. The mini-tournament preliminary had some good fights, but it had nothing to do with anything ninja-related. After the Sound Ninja wrapped in bandages was killed off-screen by Gaara, it was basically nothing but shit, save Hokage vs. Orochimaru, and to some degree Shikamaru vs. Temari.
>>43526715
The biggest problem with RWBY is that the plot and characterizations were all over the fucking place. We're two seasons in, and don't even have a CLUE what the plan of the villains is, and there's been 0 threat to the heroes in every encounter with them, so there's no investment in the story. Almost every fight has had the good guys curb-stomp the villains, and the villains have made no measurable advancements of their evil plot that we don't even know what it is, so it's starting to be hard to care.
The worst part is that we know that Rooster teeth can do villains well. Remember when Wyoming showed up and was able to just casually murder Tex, who had been up till that point, the invincible badass that all others fear? Or how terrifying and unstoppable Maine/the Meta was? That was a good set of Villains. The bad guys in RWBY are somewhat.... lacking by comparison.
>>43526972
That's probably because Burnie is a far better writer than Miles and Kerry
>>43526972
I'm guessing we'll probably get some serious threat towards the end of this season.
Tournament arcs pretty much ALWAYS get interrupted by the villains, after all.
If I had to put money on which major characters are going to get their ass beat in order to put the villains over, it'd be Ren (Monty was his original voice, it'd make sense from a practical standpoint to off him) and/or Pyrrha (whose entire character SCREAMS of being set up to take a fall in order to establish a villain as a credible threat).
>>43516285
Everyone that has trained in Aura use gets a Semblance. Problem is that this is horribly horribly explained and requires you to have read/listen to basically everything related to the series AND STILL make some inferences based on the writers/creator's usual style to figure shit out.
To say that Basic Concepts in RWBY are poorly-explained is like saying that Kubo is only okay at drawing backgrounds.
>>43527954
>Problem is that this is horribly horribly explained and requires you to have read/listen to basically everything related to the series
Is there a list of all those sources for someone who came late to the series?
>>43527171
Miles did pretty well on the Chorus trilogy, at least for the most part IMO
I enjoy RWBY unironically.
>>43528098
No. You have to look for every Q&A, every BD Commentary, every interview, and every single little twitter comment to even begin to comprehend this show's backroom stuff.
>>43526438
>started out as Final Fantasy fan-fiction
We're talking about the man famous for the Dead Fantasy series here.
So basically yes.
>>43526715
>RWBY's fights are at least entertaining to watch.
How? Literally HOW? It's all overly floaty and nothing has any weight to it. Blows land and then... nothing. Every hit looks like a no sell or causes some over-the-top playacting of damage.
I am honestly confused as to how anyone would pick, of all things, the all-style-no-substance fights that don't even manage to really be stylish as the big point of watching RWBY.
And before anyone wants to put words in my mouth, I'm not defending that DBZ-wannabe Naruto. It is in fact possible to find both things awful.
>>43528596
Not him, but...
They're novel. Probably in part due to the mediocre animation. Oum was just so over-the-top in his choreography, doing things you'd never see in any other medium.
Plus for some people, it probably has nostalgic value. Dead Fantasy and Haloid were huge when they were new, at least among certain demographics.
>>43523220
You misspelled Yang and Ruby. Especially Ruby.
>>43529049
>Ruby
>as good as Nora
>>43516159
Theres a guy in my group that won't fucking shut up about this show and everytime we enter combat he blasts "I burn" at full volume on his Ipad.
>>43516159
+1 the only male character in this show aside from Torchwick, Ozpin, and that other guy on the B Team that never talks who isn't an annoying cunt.
>>43523220
>>43529049
>>43529504
best girl best weapon
>>43530332
There are two kinds of people in the world.
One group sees those weapons, thinks "Gunarmed Strikes", and has a blast watching the ridiculous fight that ensues.
The other thinks "if she could use weapons like those without breaking her arms she's strong enough she shouldn't need them."
These people are communists. BORING Communists.
>>43530439
Well said anon. Shotgun gauntlets are cool as fuck.
>>43530480
I don't believe you, skeleton.
>>43530480
>>43530439
I don't know what to believe in anymore.
>>43530439
>gunarmed strikes
>>43516440
>shipping Jaune with any member of RWBY
No.
>>43530480
I have never been more conflicted! Shotgun Fists ARE cool, yet it's a skeleton admitting it which is the most likely candidate to be hit by this!
>>43530610
Hey, do you want to be taken out by Jo Schmo with a fucking shovel, or die as a fist that is also a shotgun crashes into you and goes off as an anime girl does her stuff?
>>43530439
There's a third that thinks "my god that animation is awful and the design is fucking shit".
>>43530332
>best girl
>>43530747
not sure if you're agreeing or not
>>43531098
>>43528596
>It's all overly floaty and nothing has any weight to it.
I've never understood what was meant by this. What is an example of weighty or heavy combat?
>>43531532
Generally weighty combat is that each blow has force that can be felt as a viewer. Basically imagine when a charecter has to block a blow they actually feel the force behind the block and it shows instead of the DBZ esque rapid hits that have the weight of gentle slaps. Its mostly an aparence thing.
>>43531532
Have you ever watched a fight scene in a movie where one guy gets hit, and you just have to go "Ooooh" or cringe or squirm just a little? That's what a weighty fight looks like. It's a unique combination of the actual hit, sound effects, and recoil that makes it look real enough to have impact, but not so over the top that it becomes ridiculous.
Shit, did any of that make sense?
>>43531625
But what's an example of weighty combat then?
>>43531672
Almost all of the brawls in Fight Club
>>43531661
It makes sense and that's kind of what I figured it was, but I can't recall any instance in RWBY that I felt the opposite of what you said. For that matter, in DBZ itself I can recall several instances of what would be considered good solid hits and that's not counting energy blasts.
>>43531776
I'll give that a look later.
>>43531814
Just watch a lot of action movies and get a feel for the choreography.
If you're looking for an example of a "weightless and floaty" thing, look at the Matrix trilogy. Lots of flashy moves, very little impact.
I'm pretty sure the reason attacks don't look like they do a lot of damage is because they don't. From what I've gathered Aura means that defensive power is higher than attack power for the most part
Why do people keep talking about porn for this when it's mostly one off pictures and writefaggotry. Does the latter actually constitutes something of interest ?
And why did miwa shirou, the guy who made DOGS of all thing, get picked to adapt aomething so thoroughly softcore compared to what he usually does.
>>43526972
A think to keep in mind about the slow pace: if the series had full length episodes (20 minutes), we'd only be about 16 episodes in. It's still pretty slow, but not quite as slow as saying "2 seasons".
>>43531661
Whole point of rwby is to be OVER THE FUCKING TOP.
>>43536805
Because they offered him enough money for him to say yes.
>>43516380
Well, he does fight as well as who he is historically based on.
Well thanks to this thread I decided to check this series out.
Guess its got another fan.
>>43539054
>>43538955
>Well, he does fight as well as who he is historically based on.
He's based on somebody?
>>43539807
>Looks up his full name
>Its Jaune Arc
Disregard my previous post, im retarded
>>43537031
I am not judging them by the standards of a normal TV series, but in comparison to their other work, RvB, and that manages to have complete arcs while also contributing to the overarching mythos in a single season of shorts.
>>43539869
Everyone on his team is a genderbent version of a historical/mythological figure who crossdressed at one point in their story. We discussed it already up thread
>>43539054
See you in /RWBYg/
>>43542482
I visited that once.
It was cancerous, even by the standard of general threads. Now I wait for people on other boards I visit to make off-topic RWBY threads.
