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How often do you use neutral or friendly random encounters in your DnD game?
Isnt there a drawing of this picture but with a giant muscular furry girl?
now I'm curious too. someone post it
OP here
where
What's this a picture of? Id really like a descriptive explanation for it
a frame from the anime cartoon "jojo's bizarre adventure", specifically the fourth season. the image depicts joseph joestar, a stand user, holding his stand hermit purple (a stand is something like a projection of one's spirit, and can have any form and power depending on the person. joseph's stand hermit purple has the form of purple, thorn-covered vines).
joseph has just used his hermit purple to restrain an enemy stand user (out of frame) and is now making a confused face as he is seeing something weird (also out of frame)
You next line is "It's mostly used for booba, though"
the weird thing in question is the enemy stand user's boobs suddently growing, yes
His stand also lets him scry, though he only ever uses it in weird ways. Once with a bunch of dust and once by smashing a camera and having the pic that pops out be of the season's main antagonist.
Part 3 (Seasons 3 and 4) take place in the 70's by the by.
Part 3 takes place in the late 1980s.
Ah i see thank you!
No, but I know of a DIFFERENT picture of a (wild?) cheetah just chilling next to a photographer that someone redrew with the cheetah as a furry girl.
nothing wrong with that, especially if it's Serval
>furry girl
It's called kemonomimi, dad!
(joke aside, it's an anthropomorphic animal, not the other way around).
Now see, that's a DIFFERENT image then the one I was talking about, the one I was thinking of was full on anthro.
How many of these types of images exist??
I know that it's sorta a thing for some artists to take funny/interesting pics of animals and redraw them as antrho/kenomimi/monster girls so probably a good deal.
I guaranteed if you asked around on /trash/ for it they'd be able to find it right quick though.
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Probably a lot, cheetahs are pretty gregarious as big cats go.
Genetically, they aren’t even big cats. They’re small cats, just… bigger than any other. It’s fascinating.
Unlike big cats, small cats aren't a real category. Big cats are also poorly defined. It can include cheetahs and cougars and it wouldn't be wrong.
okay, I would have disliked that type of characters.
back to OP: In cities, towns etc. all the time. On well traveled roads you may find merchants, other travellers, messengers speeding past the party, armed patrols etc. Good for asking and exchanging informations, getting hints or rumors, meeting important NPCs, etc. The farther away from civilization you are, the lower the chance of such an encounter, but even in a dungeon you may find other adventurers or civilized persons (Moria still has a dwarven outpost that is resisting? A healer wants to collect some reagents for potions?) but they should be tailored to the location. Even "evil monsters" may react friendly or neutral - the vampire wants something from the players, the owlbear did just eat, the dragon is just flying above the party, a small hostile goblin group will immediately flee (they will perhaps try an ambush later), etc. Just make some reaction rolls, modify them according to the situation, and interpret them accordingly.
>On well traveled roads you may find merchants, other travellers, messengers speeding past the party
Funny, I seem to like my merchants as fat and fricking jovial
>(wild?) cheetah
These are all dogshit staged photos
Not even staged they're literally AI. Cheetahs went extinct decades ago.
I’ve seen multiple in the wild as recently as 5 years ago.
Did you snuggle them
I don't know man, wild animals can act weird, and cheetahs are really tame for wild animals.
>big cats are actually le friendly!
Wild animals are wild animals. These pics are taken with domesticated puppies raised in oogabooga shooting grounds for limp dicked boomers. I genuinely hate this idiotic reddit attitude.
>>big cats are actually le friendly!
Cheetahs aren't big cats. Big cats are Panthera, but cheetahs are Acinonyx (the only surviving member of Acinoynx, in fact). The thing that actually defines Panthera is their ability to roar due to a floating hyoid and a specially evolved larynx; cheetahs don't have that. They can't roar, just chirp and purr and meow.
So you're wrong there. Which doesn't automatically make you wrong about everything else. But coincidentally, you are.
>Wild animals are wild animals
Yeah, true, but it's a fact that wild animals aren't constant bloodthirsty killing machines or paranoid fearful runners 24/7. Believe it or not, wild animals can be calm, curious, and even weirdly affectionate with each other, even with things that are supposed to be their predators.
Sorry to burst your "nature red in tooth and claw" bubble, but sometimes animals are legitimately just chill. It doesn't mean you shouldn't be cautious and wary just in case they change their minds, but it can happen.
>>big cats are actually le friendly!
That's a cheetah which isn't even apart of the genus Panthera you low IQ mutt.
cheetahs are not tigers you moron, they're not particularly violent and territorial and don't view humans as prey. There are literally zero documented instances of cheetahs ever killing humans, you have more odds of being killed by a golden retriever than you do a cheetah.
If you had ever actually lived in areas with wild animals or interacted with nature beyond your fricking TV you'd know that not every wild animal is automatically dangerous and hostile to humans. You can go outside without Bald Eagles or Golden Eagles devouring your toddler even though it could.
Cheetahs are in the Felinae subfamily of cats that purr, not roar. Other felinae include Servals and the goddamn housecat. The most dangerous Felinae is probably Cougars which are territorial and occasionally attack humans encroaching on their turf
>that copypasta of the guys who went hunting and brought their wierd friend who wanted to bring his cat along
>it was a hunting cougar.
Even if you have a pet cougar, it's a terrible idea to bring it along with two unfamiliar people, as they're going to stress the cougar and it might attack.
nope. it apparently spent the entire hunt doing all the work, the humans just sat there whilst it ran into the woods and kept dragging back fresh kills
I don't know how legal it is to take a pet cougar off the leash outside of your property.
Why cougar would need warmsuit?
Fur problems like bald spots or wounds or infections, I assume.
Or more simply, the climate was especially harsh when the pic was taken.
Cougar lives in harsh climate
Cougars live in Yukon. There aren't many places in the world that are colder.
I've had cougars come onto me in bars if that helps
You probably wear warmer clothes than you need to survive. Why shouldn't a cougar do the same?
That's circus trained cougar, it's wearing a clawn outfit
>clawn
Does Cat-Nip work on big cats too?
Yes! Lions are very strongly affected by it.
So can you use them as anti-big cat stuff? I mean if they attack you, than throw it so they get cozy and you can escape?
I don't think it overrides the hunter instinct. But you wouldn't automatically trigger it in most cases, so the best way to act if you meet a big cat is to just walk SLOWLY in the opposite direction.
>big cat is to just walk SLOWLY in the opposite direction.
It depends a lot on the big cat in question, and on the situation, but often just walking slowly away can be really fricking bad.
Lions for example what you want is to freeze and stare them out and not move up, wait a minute or two, then back out. If they are chill and you just happen to walk by avoid locking eyes with them in the first place and just get on at a distance. Once you lock eyes with them, don't stop looking at them until you start backing out. Don't ever run. A lion will almost always fake charges multiple times before it really does, so if it comes at you you shout and wave arms and hold your ground.
Leopards are the opposite. You want to do everything to not lock eyes with it in the first place. Don't run or back out until it clearly lost interest in you. If it charges, be ready to fight for your life right away, no point in running.
>Tigers are unlikely to attack humans at all, unless triggered by prey behaviour
This is not exactly right. As far as feline predator goes they are one of the most likely to attack humans and cause casualty. Between 1950 and 2019 there's been 1047 attacks on record by tigers and 282 by lions.
Lol try throwing catnip at a cat when in its full bloodlust mode going nuts trying to get to a mice hidden under a floorboard or something. Its already on cocaine x1000 the frick is catnip gonna do to it?
They get high and you get 10 minutes to escape. Or in case of anthro females get 10 minutes of snu snu!
There's a youtube channel from some big cat reservation where they test big cats for housecat behavior and they're literally the same except for chasing lasers. They don't care about those probably for size reasons, but they will inevitably jump into cardboard boxes.
Really? Cool.
Size is basically it yeah. Smaller cats might occasionally go after smaller prey, sometimes not too much bigger than the laser, so the small moving thing triggers their hunt instincts. Lions and tigers go after larger prey, so they generally don't give too much of a shit about smaller things like that.
Yes, actually. Many of them react to catnip precisely the same way a housecat might.
Reminder that far from all cats are affected by catnip or at least not all of them care to engage with it.
>There are literally zero documented instances of cheetahs ever killing humans
Two actually, though with captive cheetahs, and a decent number of attacks. But mind that there 8,000 cheetahs altogether (Captive+Wild). Given the wild sort are generally skittish and fearful of humans, it's not really surprising that they have so few fatal interactions with humans.
Comparatively, there's at least 80,000,000 Golden Retrievers, with just two documented fatal attacks in the last thirteen years.
You could say that actually, Cheetahs are 10,000x more likely to kill someone as Golden Retrievers.
>le friendly
>the friendly
Ironic shitposting is still shitposting.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eC5-0uAU1Gc
Could be a wildlife park.
Animals who know humans act the same. Tiger and cat are same. But tiger can snap your neck if he plays with you, that's why you don't own pet tiger.
I hope a tiger chews your face off fricking 3rd world ESL Black personhomosexual, frick off
Did a tiger frick your mom and kill your dad or something lmao.
You have issues, my friend.
>Animals who know humans act the same. Tiger and cat are same.
This is incredibly wrong. Which is not saying that predators cannot grow to have a relationship with humans or other animals they could hunt, but its not just about "knowing humans", its about having been raised or introduced to them in a very specific and positive way and having taken a long time to build up trust. And perhaps some character traits on the side of the animal, its hard to tell.
A common house cat cannot kill a human being. Outside of unverified smothering of babies its never been heard of. They don't have the capacity for it. They know innately they don't have the capacity for it too. Their entire relationship with humans is altered by this.
Cheetos are special in that they may have already been domesticated in the past and it still remains somewhere in their psyche, so they seem to sometimes really like humans. But, more importantly, we are never really preys to them. They hunt in a super specific way and we aren't ever really in that position around them. There are 2 deaths by Cheetos on record and they have both been in captivity, one was some middle-aged german lady sneaking in the zoo pen after closing time to give them a hug, which is 100% her fault (Cheetos are friendly but skittish, there's a ritual to meeting and befriending them, you don't just walk up to one and hug it or even pet it). The other was a toddler falling into a pen. Which is sad, but toddlers would die falling into the pen of just about anything bigger than a duck.
The Champaral Tiger "knew humans", but it was sadistically obsessed with killing them. Official kill count of 436.
>The Champaral Tiger "knew humans", but it was sadistically obsessed with killing them. Official kill count of 436.
All of your examples are indians and are thus invalid.
>Cheetos are special in that they may have already been domesticated in the past and it still remains somewhere in their psyche
I hope not only that that's true, but that some day someone re-domesticates them
>Cheetos are special in that they may have already been domesticated in the past and it still remains somewhere in their psyche,
Or may be it's their lifestyle. They had to burn shitton of calories to catch prey and cannot defend if hyeanas, lions or leopards would pass near, and so social contract with humans "purr for food" is acceptable for them
>They had to burn shitton of calories to catch prey and cannot defend if hyeanas, lions or leopards would pass near, and so social contract with humans "purr for food" is acceptable for them
So what I'm hearing is Cheetahs want a sugar daddy?
>UwU Kitty go purr, please give fud Daddy
Don't they also overheat if they strain too much after a run?
It's hilarious how weak cheetas look when compared with other felines and their pantera brethren.
They even have dog like paws for frick sake.
No joke, that might be the one way they continue to exist, considering their current situation.
Basically if cheetahs didn't have that marathon mating ritual, today you would probably see them in pet stores between the fancy dogs and the ferrets. Grayhound races would instead probably have cheetahs.
They are just too difficult to get to mate under normal captivity.
Even people who are tiny and 100 pounds are twice the mass of their normal prey. And our bipedal stance makes us tower over them. Further a healthy human could probably cripple a cheetah if it did try anything, so they would evolutionary have great reason to not mess with humans.
Tigers are interesting because they aren’t mindless but rather a incredibly vindictive animal that will torture you if you slight them. They don’t just go on a rampage for the hell of it.
That's just a cat with options.
Sounds like my cat.
Tigers are unlikely to attack humans at all, unless triggered by prey behaviour. One Indian postman used to pass through the jungle on foot for decades without getting any trouble from the tigers. Then he got a bicycle and they started regularly chasing him. The reason? With his new high speed they registered him as prey running away.
>Which is sad, but toddlers would die falling into the pen of just about anything bigger than a duck.
RIP Harambe...
There's no such thing as the "Champaral Tiger". Your picture says "Champawat Tiger". The Champawat Tiger was not "sadistically" obsessed with killing humans. It had a grave jaw injury that prevented it from hunting its regular prey and forced it to switch to humans.
> Cat switches to human because its easier.
> Humans are easier to kill than fowl and poultry.
Its obsession was likely due to its injury, sure, but it didn't sneak in and wait entire days hidden in houses just to massacre the family at night, or leave victim remains on the side of the road so that villagers would organize a hunt, only to go and attack the women and childen left behind because it was simpler than stealing from the local farmer...
There are "maneaters" out there, they are just opportunistic cats, none approach that kind of kill count.
>"Black folk could be here" he thought, "I've never been in this village before. There could be Black folk anywhere." The warm African wind felt good against his fur.
Tiggers don't live in Africa.
It must have escaped from a zoo.
Oops, video ends slightly too soon.
>Outside of unverified smothering of babies
It's women.
All infanticide attributed to cats are by """mothers""".
You're not supposed to say that out loud. It's post-partum depression and SIDS. There is no correlation STOP NOTICING PATTERNS.
You realize that if your theory were true, there would be former medical/police people who would admit to it? Nothing stays secret, especially if it's supposedly a big secret shared by thousands of people.
>You realize that if your theory were true, there would be former medical/police people who would admit to it?
Counter to this : where is the admission of everyone who has never actually heard of a cat smothering a baby case and are just parroting memes? Because, again, since recording have been a thing there isn't a single one of an actual smothering of baby by cats. We know dolphins were drowning swimmers back in 16XX (I forget the exact date) because its on record, verified by witnesses, but with the second most common pet we only have hearsay of its infanticides?
Its very likely SIDS or probably in some cases dark shit like shaken baby syndrome or depression leading to murder. Pretty sure even a 2-weeks old has the innate reflexes to move away in its sleep if its breathing gets completely obstructed. Kittens and pups pile on 12 at a time from the moment they are born and are comfy as frick for hours but apparently managing to survive that event is too much work for mega-big brains hairless monkeys?
I thought this too. A Cheetah, even if raised by humans than released back into the wild, is like a wild cat, they dont like to be hugged.
Cheetah have been domesticated by humans since antiquity, anon. They're quite docile towards humans, even by wild animal standards, they're nothing like other big cats.
We need to push even further, total cheetah domestication.
Agreed.
+1.
Cheetahs underperform in their natural environment. Mogged by Lion prides and even hyenas.
The best future that exists for their species is becoming docile pets for mankind.
More like pipeline of life
Tamed, but not domesticated. They're too difficult to breed and keep fed for them to really catch and hold as one our domestic beasties. But they are extremely unusual among wild animals and especially large predators in that they're usually docile towards humans and often inquisitive.
That being said, I would not want my throat that close to a wild cheetah's face.
I think it's more because we don't run full sprint away from them and thus don't trigger their hunt instinct.
Probably plays a significant part. Cheetahs are extremely hyperspecialized as pursuit predators, and the fact that humans don't really act like their typical prey animals probably makes them much less willing to try and take one down. Most big cats rely heavily enough on stalking behaviors that they might take a swing at a human if they think they aren't being watched.
>Cheetahs
>big cats
lol
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Cougars/Mountain Lions aren't technically big cats either, they're just the biggest of the small cats
>Cougar noises are just some dude saying "Rawr"
Anthropodenialism is cringe as frick.
Here you go, lads.
>barafur
>AI slop
Not at all what any non-thirdie human wanted.
https://e621.net/posts/4315783?q=cheetah+camera
Maybe not the exact one, but the closest I found.
That’s the exact one I was thinking of at least
Degenerates
>neutral or friendly random encounters
There seems to be plenty of creatures in the MM that fit this criteria
are you the same anon thats spamming the image all over the board? or is there a secret organization or dryad appreciators i need to join?
Yes, he's a known redditor who posts his commissioned art weekly
It's a pretty nice elf girl.
Table: Attitude
6: Hostile
6: Unfriendly
3: Indifferent
2: Friendly
1: Serviable
So one third is hostile, one third will be hostile unless the party actively demonstrate they're not a threat and comply. One third is neutral or friendly.
What system?
none, that's just my table
You wouldn't a big cat...
This guy would
>Your druid gf is in the mood
I might
>might
Why stand atop the wall?
Just say as it is.
I would.
I mean if she gives you the eyes you can't really deny her
What a pretty kitty. Whenever I make settings I always make sure to include cheetahs as regular hunting animals alongside hounds. I think they're cool.
Probably since Cheeetahs are pure glass cannons and fear other predators, they really love humans. They dont hunt them, mostly give them food for free and even pat the head. Thats heaven for an animal who gets mobbed in the african savanne!
why dont they let us keep cheetahs when they so clearly desire human companionship?
That's cute and all, but I'll remind you that their tongues are like sandpaper.
Having a cheetah, even a domesticated one, groom you for a prolonged period is risky. If your skin is abraded to the point that they taste blood their predation instincts may trigger.
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>making out with your shy cheeto gf and all of a sudden she turns yandere
please stop, I can't get more erect than this
You are definitely a degenerate
haha
I'm more likely than not to use them, because the time spent on combat that will feel relatively meaningless compared to plot combat can bog things down.
Balance anon, balance
All the time. I never, ever design a dungeon, quest, land to explore or anything without neutral and/or friendly encounters too. Genuinely baffles me that so many people has this binary design philosphy where the game is either "fight to death" or a non-combat situation, no inbetweens. That is very videogame to me, literally JRPG tier where you're walking around and suddenly the screen does a weird VFX spiral into a combat scene. Give the inhabitants of dungeons or forest a reason to stay or leave, not every bandit is a cold blooded murder, some just try to get by, some just joined the band because their village got fricked, maybe the creatures inside the abandoned ruins are just animals living there, part of the ecosystem. No need to ifght to death if we can find a middle ground of "I don't frick with you, you don't frick with me". Third parties are the shit for dungeons and big areas, because they offer this more organic approach where you might have an ally or more enemies depending on how you act.
We even have something we call "pseudo - combat" where we'll use turns and initiative order during tense situations to have a clear view on where everyone stands, what are they doing and how would combat unfold or stop at any given time.
I've noticed our group has had less neutral or friendly encounters recently, possibly because two of members keep ending up exposing themselves to NPCs, and one of those two actively murders, robs, or gropes NPCs.
I don't play D&D but I have friendly random encounters about as frequently as outright hostile ones. Most are neutral, and can go either way depending on the players' actions.
Cheetahs unrionically have autism. Every successful hunt they drain more energy being stressed about keeping their kill, than the speed and power it took to get it.
All the time. They live in a world don't they?
Rarely. I have psycho murder hobo players who are dumb as rocks when it comes to RP. No matter how plainly I set up the encounter for them, they always kill.
Get new players. Your current ones are garbage.
love this graphic, I share this with my table when I DM because I play with a bunch of horned up rapscallions who have even gone so far as to introduce a "horny roll" (without my consent) to determine how turned on their characters are by my descriptions of various npcs
The frick are you describing?
Furries and trannies I assume.
>The domesticated Chicken has a higher Kill Count than the North American Mountain Lion.
Dumbass.
53,000 people die the world over from improperly cooked chickens containing diseases, parasites, or poisons every year. Conversely there have been only 27 fatal mountain lion attacks in North America in the past 100 years.
So what Anon told you was true, from a certain point of view.
>53,000 people die the world over from improperly cooked chickens containing diseases, parasites, or poisons every year.
Ok but you get that the point of the discussion was a predator's ability to establish relationships with humans, right? An animal's potential as a vector for deadly disease or parasite has absolutely no fricking impact whatsoever here. A house cat does not think of itself in relation to you in terms of "this is something I can kill if I really need to" (contrary to the meme). A Cheetoh can, but not clearly, it doesn't know how to attack us, they do that thing where they jump on your back and try to bite your hair off. If you grab a long stick you've basically won. You are only ever in danger if you get swarmed, which doesn't happen if you don't approach a pack uninvited.
A tiger can frick you up without even trying. You have to establish a bond with them, make sure their need are satisfied so they don't get the idea of turning on you, and basically walk in a landmine field the whole time you are around them. Unless you raised it to forget it like dogs, its aware that it can frick you up.
/trash/, /d/, /tg/ and Ganker are all sides of the same d4
No matter if big or small, a cat is always a cat.
except that it's actually small housecats who are the most psychotic and would literally be more dangerous than a lion or tiger if it were as big
Really, the biggest issue with big cats as pets is even if you managed to get it 100% tamed and unwilling to attack and kill a human, it can still easily injure, or even kill, you just playing by complete accident. Plus you never know when it's instincts might kick in, like if you fall over and something happens and the tiger tries to pick you up to drag you away to safety and ends up snapping your neck by accident.
They were bred to massacre as many pest animals as possible rather than merely kill for food, so that makes sense
This is wrong. Housecats are, according to research, exact psychological copies of lions.
>dire chicken
What the actual frick is that absolute unit
I include them, but I make the hostile encounters harder to make up for the increased frequency of encounters that can reasonably be talk-no-jutsu'd. I have to hit those 6-8 daily encounter numbers of resource drain somehow.
Cheetahs were probably pets of an ancient civilization.
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>a tiger lady will never mangle your pelvis
I suffer
Is the big cat lady immune to this ?
Hahaha yes! The horny gun!
plot twist: it's filled with a mixture of meth, aphrodisiacs and steroids
crawl backwards to me!
on one leg!
with your arms crossed!
do it now or you're fricked!
Pretty often.
>sasan amir
wtf he looks just like a white millenial.
I'm confused as to why you are confused.
He thinks that white people, insofar that 'white people' even exist once you leave America, are a monolithic clone of the local culture in a 1 kilometre radius from him.
The only way a wild animal would act like this is if humans have been feeding it.
If you go to a national park and feed the animals, making them lose their fear of humans and creating a dependency relationship, you are a huge butthole.
all cats deserve pets
All creatures have good reason to fear human hands.