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Bassetking posted:It was a 1-clone-per-person game... ...running the game exactly as the rules were written.
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# ? May 29, 2015 23:31 |
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I can't imagine anyone who knows anything about Paranoia accepting a one-clone game, even as a one-shot that sounds like an awful idea. Did the convention game organisers not know anything about it, or just not care?
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# ? May 29, 2015 23:49 |
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I mean grammatically, the minimum number of things you get with clones is two.
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# ? May 30, 2015 01:00 |
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Bassetking posted:It also attracted the local chapter of The Cam. Or, at least, The Prince, and a whole bunch of his cotire. I really don't get this. Most of the poo poo you posted has always been against the rules of the Cam. "Touch to feed?" Officially, just touching another player required you to go out-of-character and ask them, point-blank, "Permission to touch?" Unless they said yes, then physical contact was in breach of the rules. And a cross-venue attack like that, with super-soakers no less... I honestly can't see how that would have even been possible. Either you'd encountered a very odd chapter whose Coordinator was asleep at the wheel and/or used the code of conduct as toilet paper, or my local chapter of the Cam (which were hardly sunshine and rainbows) was an exceptionally rare example of a group that enforced the organization's rules with a comparatively zealous fervor.
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# ? May 30, 2015 01:05 |
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Bassetking posted:Yup. Dude wasn't looking to run a game. Dude was looking to get to spend a whole weekend at a gaming convention, and not pay for his ticket. Falstaff posted:I really don't get this. Most of the poo poo you posted has always been against the rules of the Cam. "Touch to feed?" Officially, just touching another player required you to go out-of-character and ask them, point-blank, "Permission to touch?" Unless they said yes, then physical contact was in breach of the rules. There is no way this would happen, because larpers are obstinate spergs most of the time, and none of the Camarilla (world of darkness RP administrators who stop Larpers from going on rape / bad touch sprees) would actually let that happen.
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Turtlicious posted:There is no way this would happen, because larpers are obstinate spergs most of the time, and none of the Camarilla (world of darkness RP administrators who stop Larpers from going on rape / bad touch sprees) would actually let that happen. Yeah, but this happened at Ohio State. That makes it plausible.
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# ? May 30, 2015 02:02 |
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I'm filing this one under STDH, frankly.
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# ? May 30, 2015 04:57 |
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I want to believe the story, but I've read too many other contradicting stories where the ST would have simply said "No, that didn't happen." I think it was in one of the old threads, back when we had separate Good Experience/Catpiss threads, someone linked a video of someone talking about their VtR larp experience. To try and sum it up, guy went to one, spent the whole night getting godmodded by players who had been there longer, so he uses his character's chemistry skill to make a huge bathtub full of plastic explosives, leaves a huge stack of note cards that said "C4" in a bathroom of the Elysium, then walked outside and asked the ST to countdown from 10 before declaring that the C4 exploded and everyone died. The ST tells him that it didn't happen, of course.
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# ? May 30, 2015 06:36 |
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the_steve posted:I want to believe the story, but I've read too many other contradicting stories where the ST would have simply said "No, that didn't happen." I'm pretty sure this is the video you're talking about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3AEBnH1kAM
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# ? May 30, 2015 06:41 |
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Yeah, I have a feeling if the ST would allow these greaselords to freak out the mundies that badly (I wonder why these non-students weren't being escorted off campus) that he probably wouldn't allow for hunters to ash 'em all.
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# ? May 30, 2015 09:26 |
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Red Metal posted:I'm pretty sure this is the video you're talking about. Yep, that's the one.
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# ? May 30, 2015 11:13 |
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You can have non students on campus after normal school hours pretty drat easily. That is typically when you don't need a parking pass to park and you don't need to report to the campus police for a guest pass. Also, different gm's handle things differently! Some of them may not even always follow the rules of the organization they belong to! Seriously, debating whether a story is real or not is one of the most annoying things in a thread like this. It's plausible, so let it be.
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# ? May 30, 2015 15:50 |
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I tested out the Coyote in Monsterhearts. Somehow, we had two players last session (and canceled), but this session got Seven. Mikise "Red" Redfeather, an Osage trickster and anonymous gossip blogger; Morgan Fairchild, Vampyre and Frigid B; Nola, the Aquifer Selkie; Holly the Science Witch; Zed the Dead Skateboarder Ghoul; Tucker the Werewolf nice guy; Spencer the Ghost. The Coyote's main mechanic is giving unsolicited advice; whenever someone's in trouble or acting foolishly, the coyote is compelled to chime in and give advice, good or bad. If it ignored, the ignorer gets 1 string on the Coyote. If it goes bad, the Coyote gets 2 strings and gives experience. I also took the moves that let you take +1 to hot when you flirt transgressively. So, Morgan's sire Scott showed up to homeroom. Morgan nearly lost her poo poo (barely stopping from vamping out). Red gave Scott good advice: back off and leave class. But as it was the first day, he proceeded to the back of the room, where Zed stared a hole through him. (Yes, three moves activated due to a guy entering a room.) The cascade of teen bullshit continued: Red asked Morgan what the vamp cheerleader thought of Nola. quote:Morgan Fairchild watches Nola playing with pencils and laughs derisively. "loving freak," she says, loudly enough for Nola to hear. Red takes Nola into the bathroom to wash up (while a bunch of people shout down Morgan for being a bully) and draws a lewd picture on a paper towel...which Nola completely doesn't get. A furious Red returns her to class shortly after, telling Morgan that she's a "Frigid Ariel biyatch who should go back into her clamshell." Morg drops a "Bye Felicia", but Nola tells her "You may be attractive and have a great smile, but you're a bully." After class, Haley (who has major claws in Nola) approaches Morgan and her cronies, Brittany A and Britney B. She drops a real lovely flirt ("I...like your hair") and after Morgan shits all over her, Tucker hip-checks the vampire. Red, seeing the foolishness, demands Tucker apologize. He does...and while staring into Morgans eyes, gets hypnotized. ("Never come near me again"). Good advice brings bad results, and Red gains more power. She puts the convo and photos of the incident up on her gossip blog. quote:Red: "WATCH HIS HALL BLOWUP! NERD QUEEN CAN'T FLIRT?" The Coyote continued manipulating people (the combo of +3 hot, advice giving, and secret manipulation is really, really good in Monsterhearts). Here are the highlights: In Science, Red tripped Tucker to "accidentally" fall into her lap, then called him a perv (and wrapping him around her finger). The class is paired off chaotically to study how calories effect how food combustibility. quote:Nola: To Tucker, "I love working with bunsens. It's interesting to see everything, what's the word? Burn." quote:Red: "Just burning food, because that's what White People do." #GreatWhiteScienceTeacher Tucker invites Nola to come over to see "The Little Mermaid" (which the latter hasn't seen). She's more interested in going to see whatever Red is screening. As Nola stares at her, Red realizes she's smitten. THREE people want to talk to Red after science. Red knows about Spencer's death on a camping trip; she knows Haley has her claws in Nola (which leads to mutual animosity), and Tucker wants to talk about the lap thing. Haley keeps it simple: quote:Haley: You are really, really smart, Mikasi Redfeather. Red can't manipulate Spencer into helping her; the Ghost is too nihilistic. (Instead Spencer and Tucker meet up and, finding mutual cause in their deaths, end up having sex near the loading dock). Red flirts with Nola; Morgan steps in and, failing to get Nola's affection, pisses off her Lakota frenemy. Said Frenemy takes both Britney's into the woman's room for something that Isn't Lesbianism*. *The Coyote's Sex Move is complicated: You get XP and give 2 strings when they say it was Just For Fun, and laugh at them and gain a string if they thought it meant something. Meanwhile, Holly tries to burn one of Red's personal affects to cast a spell; she fucks it up and gets walked in on by the principal. --- After lunch and before Gym, Red texts like mad. She tells Tucker what happened with Zed and Haley**, and Tucker appreciates her and promises to take care of things. **During this time, Morgan has been so pissed off by Nola that she stormed off and became her darkest self. She'd beat the poo poo out of Zed before the Ghoul eventually fought her off. She also texts Morgan that she didn't mean to be a bitch, it's just that Morgan started it, but seriously, they should make up and go Beat-Down-Crew on Haley for starting poo poo. The two agree. In the girls locker room, Haley finally agrees to give back Nola's Selkie-Pelt...if she cancels her date with Redfeather. In the boys locker room, Tucker gets in Zed's face, with the latter having no clue why. Gym class is Dodgeball (of course). The gossip-blogging wunderkind manipulates the coach into getting what she wants: all the people she likes on one team, and the enemy on the other. Tucker keeps aiming for the head, hitting Zed (and getting DQed). He's brought back in and pegs Zed AGAIN in the nutsack, causing the latter, already at two of four harm, to fall to the ground... growl, vomitting a black ichor... And stand IMMEDIATELY back up, lunging at the terrified Tucker. PANDEMONIUM ERUPTS. End of session. Golden Bee fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Mar 8, 2016 |
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You guys might try submitting some stuff over here - http://yourdndstories.tumblr.com/
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Samizdata posted:You guys might try submitting some stuff over here - http://yourdndstories.tumblr.com/ Or better yet, don't!
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Railing Kill posted:the DM didn't know the supplement. I had to find and skim that splat because of just how broken it sounds, and either you don't remember it right or that little douche lied his rear end off and got away with it. Neither the class, a prestige class or anything else I could find in that book give any CHA bonuses. Shadow Elves aren't in the book but if he made one old enough it could have +8 CHA for -6 physical traits, and a +4 level adjustment. There's also a hard rule about transformation of only 20lbs per level, and spell duration of a minute per level, so only 320lbs of water to beer for 16min at lvl 20. Even without those restrictions if you misread the rules to scale it up to what he did the roll would still be at least 45. Don't get me wrong it's still pretty unbalanced, and I'd never run it because it's a pain in the rear end to figure out the rolls, but he never should have been able to do any of that.
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Dr. MonkeyThunder posted:I had to find and skim that splat because of just how broken it sounds, and either you don't remember it right or that little douche lied his rear end off and got away with it. Neither the class, a prestige class or anything else I could find in that book give any CHA bonuses. Shadow Elves aren't in the book but if he made one old enough it could have +8 CHA for -6 physical traits, and a +4 level adjustment. There's also a hard rule about transformation of only 20lbs per level, and spell duration of a minute per level, so only 320lbs of water to beer for 16min at lvl 20. Even without those restrictions if you misread the rules to scale it up to what he did the roll would still be at least 45. The Shadow Elf might not have been from the Chaos Magic supplement. I just paired them together in my mind because that character was the only time I had seen either of them used. He did min/max the poo poo out of the Shadow Elf, though. The DM gave him carte blanche to do whatever he wanted, so he made her super old to get the CHA bump, and probably utilized other goofy crap from some other supplement. And I have no doubt he was lying about Chaos Magic, just based on the kind of player he was. He was protective of the book and tried to hide the fact that he didn't want anyone else to read it, even out of innocent interest. Smaug, our group's other min/maxer but who wasn't a sociopath, was genuinely interested but could barely get a couple minutes to peruse it because Munchkin was so weird about it. The DM wasn't confident enough in the supplement to call him on its misuse, and he wasn't confrontational enough to ask to read it after he was brow-beaten into allowing it, and after he felt bad about us PKing his other character. It wasn't my game to run, and therefore it wasn't my responsibility to reign in a player (beyond what I had already done to kill his other dumb character). Basically, Munchkin was a manipulative sociopath, and if I had it to do all over again, I would have found the supplement myself and rules lawyered the poo poo out of him until he stopped cheating, quit using that dumb character, or quit the group altogether. Edit: But I am genuinely thankful to have my suspicions confirmed. I never bothered to look it up myself because I wanted to purge it from my memory as soon after the game as possible. Railing Kill fucked around with this message at 13:18 on Jun 1, 2015 |
# ? Jun 1, 2015 13:08 |
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The only shadow elf I can dig up is from Mystara, and never got a 3.5 version. He was bullshitting hard.
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# ? Jun 1, 2015 14:09 |
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Never met that kind of munchkin that didnt lie at every moment to make their character even more broken.
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# ? Jun 1, 2015 19:09 |
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TyrsHTML posted:Never met that kind of munchkin that didnt lie at every moment to make their character even more broken. Exactly. Both Smaug and I were onto him. I usually run D&D rather than play as a character, so I can usually smell that kind of bullshit. Smaug is a min/maxer himself, but he doesn't cheat or use it to gently caress with other players. He's not a munchkin. He's just a rules nerd that likes making broken characters. But this is why GMs need to be assertive and shouldn't be afraid to be the bad guy sometimes. My figuring is: most players will get over it if you tell them "no" or call them on something, and the ones that don't get over it probably aren't worth playing with. My wife ("J") and I were talking about this after I posted the story and she remembers Munchkin transforming the town's well water into ale, not necessarily all the town's water. That makes more sense, and puts it closer to the parameters of chaos magic, but it's dumb and probably still outside of the parameters of chaos magic. I have no doubt he cheated, but he probably did so in a way that stretched rather than broke rules. That way, if the DM ever did call him on something, he could just say, "I misread it " or whatever. Munchkins are assholes.
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Railing Kill posted:Holy poo poo. Welp. So basically he was role playing as Magic Man from adventure time? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z3ZAIIgAaA (Warning: This is a little disturbing for a kid's show). I feel bad, but as an outsider who didn't have to go through this, I chuckled at this story, just from the absurdity of it.
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# ? Jun 1, 2015 20:50 |
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Foolster41 posted:So basically he was role playing as Magic Man from adventure time?
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# ? Jun 1, 2015 23:21 |
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Railing Kill posted:Exactly. Both Smaug and I were onto him. I usually run D&D rather than play as a character, so I can usually smell that kind of bullshit. Smaug is a min/maxer himself, but he doesn't cheat or use it to gently caress with other players. He's not a munchkin. He's just a rules nerd that likes making broken characters. But this is why GMs need to be assertive and shouldn't be afraid to be the bad guy sometimes. My figuring is: most players will get over it if you tell them "no" or call them on something, and the ones that don't get over it probably aren't worth playing with. How long did Munchkin play this character for? Why didn't the DM just ask to borrow the splat? Seriously, if he refused, then the DM should have told him to re-roll. It really annoys me when reading this thread the amount of bullshit DM's seem to put up with not to ruin one person's fun whilst at the same time ruining everyone else's. And when I read some of these games run for years at a time, it makes me want to puke.
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# ? Jun 2, 2015 03:35 |
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Railing Kill posted:The shadow elves might not have been from the Chaos Magic supplement. I just paired them together in my mind because that character was the only time I had seen either of them used. He did min/max the poo poo out of the Shadow Elf, though. The DM gave him carte blanche to do whatever he wanted, so he made her super old to get the CHA bump, and probably utilized other goofy crap from some other supplement. And I have no doubt he was lying about Chaos Magic, just based on the kind of player he was. He was protective of the book and tried to hide the fact that he didn't want anyone else to read it, even out of innocent interest. Smaug, our group's other min/maxer but who wasn't a sociopath, was genuinely interested but could barely get a couple minutes to peruse it because Munchkin was so weird about it. The DM wasn't confident enough in the supplement to call him on its misuse, and he wasn't confrontational enough to ask to read it after he was brow-beaten into allowing it, and after he felt bad about us PKing his other character. It wasn't my game to run, and therefore it wasn't my responsibility to reign in a player (beyond what I had already done to kill his other dumb character). Basically, Munchkin was a manipulative sociopath, and if I had it to do all over again, I would have found the supplement myself and rules lawyered the poo poo out of him until he stopped cheating, quit using that dumb character, or quit the group altogether. You're welcome, but just to reassure you that he was not fudging the rolls but strait up cheating I dove back into the bullshit. The most generous possible interpretation of the DC for mind controlling all those kids into killing cats is 35 ...+1/child. At least 40 kids? DC 75+. goatface posted:The only shadow elf I can dig up is from Mystara, and never got a 3.5 version. He was bullshitting hard. I just used the DnD wiki, and it has a warning that it might be unbalanced due to inappropriate LA. While I was double checking I noticed something else, shadow elves start with -4 Str. With another -6 Str for venerable age, if he didn't put more than 10 into Str he wouldn't be able to move.
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Foolster41 posted:So basically he was role playing as Magic Man from adventure time? Pretty much. This gets at what's great about Adventure Time. Anyone whose played D&D knows the Magic Man. There's enough of these players running around to give Chaotic Neutral and Malkavians a bad reputation by their misuse of them. Everything the Magic Man does is something that Munchkin could have done, or actually did do. Toes posted:How long did Munchkin play this character for? Why didn't the DM just ask to borrow the splat? Seriously, if he refused, then the DM should have told him to re-roll. Munchkin played his shadow elf for, I dunno, seven or eight sessions. Two of those were productive, and by that I mean we got more than ten minutes of plot resolved. The rest were complete wastes of time. The DM never checked his work, and wasn't aggressive enough about it. The times that Smaug asked to read the chaos magic book out of genuine interest, Munchkin just contrived some excuse why he needed the book in front of him at that moment. It was pretty obvious to me that he was full of poo poo, but I didn't want to be both the new guy in the group who didn't know anyone else as much and also the narc. I kept my mouth poo poo, and that was a mistake. But I agree: the DM in this game, and DMs in general, ought to be more active in dealing with troublesome players. At the risk of sounding , I have ways to deal with obnoxious, disruptive, or antisocial players. But I don't have any special talent that the DM of this game didn't. I've just been running games for over fifteen years. The DM of our game had run only one game before that one, and it shows. He was a great storyteller (literally, not in the goofy White Wolf use of the term), but he just wasn't as skilled at the management part of being a DM. These days, the most I have to do to manage my current group is keep people on task occasionally, because I've been playing long enough that I have developed a strong, cooperative group of regular players. The easiest way to manage lovely players and munchkins is to not have them at the table in the first place. But I'm in my 30's. When I was nineteen like the DM in my stories, I probably didn't have the luxury of having such a good group as I do now, and I would have taken whatever players I could get too. So maybe games like this are a rite of passage for DMs. Railing Kill fucked around with this message at 13:06 on Jun 2, 2015 |
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Dr. MonkeyThunder posted:I just used the DnD wiki, and it has a warning that it might be unbalanced due to inappropriate LA. While I was double checking I noticed something else, shadow elves start with -4 Str. With another -6 Str for venerable age, if he didn't put more than 10 into Str he wouldn't be able to move. This: http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Elves,_Shadow_%283.5e_Race%29 ? I'm pretty drat sure that's someone's homebrew marysue bullshit.
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goatface posted:This: http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Elves,_Shadow_%283.5e_Race%29 ? I'm pretty drat sure that's someone's homebrew marysue bullshit.
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goatface posted:This: http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Elves,_Shadow_%283.5e_Race%29 ? I'm pretty drat sure that's someone's homebrew marysue bullshit.
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NGDBSS posted:What's particularly funny is that the author of that seems to not quite understand how feet and inches relate. Thus male shadow elves are 5' + 2d6 inches tall, while female shadow elves are No you see I want the males in my imagination to be runty and weaker than me but women, whom I secretly idolize and worship from afar, are tall willowy goddesses and
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# ? Jun 2, 2015 16:16 |
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Well it's not that far out of line with what you see in nature, where in some species the female is far, far larger than the male. But in primates it generally skews the other way and isn't normally as pronounced. Would be cool if you really wanted to emphasize how weird and different a species is from humans by giving them radical sexual dimorphism. But I really don't expect that was the intent here.
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# ? Jun 2, 2015 16:39 |
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Serf posted:
It's probably a typo.
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# ? Jun 2, 2015 16:48 |
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Yawgmoth posted:the dandy is pretty close to 100% terrible marysue homebrew bullshit. If you really want to laugh/suffer, go read the flaws and traits sections. It's almost impressive how bad some of that poo poo is. quote:A Shadow Elf is very timid and shy towards outsiders in general, often seeking refuge in any form of shadow to avoid talking to outsiders. quote:Favored Class: Bard
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# ? Jun 2, 2015 17:02 |
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brb making all my favorite lead singers from high school as shadow elf bards
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# ? Jun 2, 2015 17:21 |
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Don't forget that they get sneak attack as a rogue of their level while standing in shadow, get +2 to attack and damage with bows, and can just magically coat arrows with poison and/or make them into any kind of elemental burst arrow just by touching them. The also lose 2 str/con/dex whenever they're in any illumination brighter than shadowy. So have fun always being down 1hp per hit die.
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# ? Jun 2, 2015 17:37 |
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Railing Kill posted:Munchkin played his shadow elf for, I dunno, seven or eight sessions. Two of those were productive, and by that I mean we got more than ten minutes of plot resolved. The rest were complete wastes of time. The DM never checked his work, and wasn't aggressive enough about it. The times that Smaug asked to read the chaos magic book out of genuine interest, Munchkin just contrived some excuse why he needed the book in front of him at that moment. It was pretty obvious to me that he was full of poo poo, but I didn't want to be both the new guy in the group who didn't know anyone else as much and also the narc. I kept my mouth poo poo, and that was a mistake. Oh, right. I was under the impression your DM was a bit older and wasn't so new. That's understandable then. No handbook ever tells you how you shouldn't have to put up with assholes, whether they're players or DMs.
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# ? Jun 2, 2015 18:20 |
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GrumpyDoctor posted:"A Shadow Elf is very timid and shy towards outsiders in general, often seeking refuge in any form of shadow to avoid talking to outsiders." Jesus tapdancing Christ. Toes posted:Oh, right. I was under the impression your DM was a bit older and wasn't so new. That's understandable then. No handbook ever tells you how you shouldn't have to put up with assholes, whether they're players or DMs. I've read a few core rulebooks that have some tips for dealing with "difficult groups." They're usually diplomatic by avoiding saying, "some players are dickheads and you should throw them out." Instead, they offer legitimately good advice about managing different personalities, play styles, player motives, and conflicts. If it's written well, it's divorced from the characters and setting altogether and would fit right into some sort of corporate HR dispute resolution manual. I don't mean that to sound as bad as it does, because it's helpful and realistic to approach a game group as Actual Human Beings On Earth before you get into dealing with their make believe personae. But it's easier said than done to just throw an rear end in a top hat out of a game. They are usually tied to at least one other player at the table, and you're likely to hurt more than just the rear end in a top hat's feelings if you get into it with them. Most people aren't spoiling for a fight naturally, so conflict resolution is a rare skill that is difficult to acquire. Almost no one I knew at age 20 had the skill enough to handle a player like Munchkin. What I haven't seen in a game sourcebook is the most important rule to managing player conflicts: don't let them start in the first place. Be diplomatic and discreet when you put your group together, and use good judgment. It's way easier to make up some excuse to not let a lovely player into the game in the first place then to kick them out once they're in. Munchkins are like, I dunno, fleas that way. Once they're in your house, you have to either put up with them or set off a big bomb that will make everyone cry. Or you could "use Frontline on one of your animals" by designating one of the players to kill the rear end in a top hat's characters over and over until they leave IRL. *~ Metaphors ~*
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# ? Jun 2, 2015 20:26 |
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Railing Kill posted:Or you could "use Frontline on one of your animals" by designating one of the players to kill the rear end in a top hat's characters over and over until they leave IRL. But they never say anything about how to deal with a DM who finds killing PCs wholesale an entertainment, but is one of the only around, so you are stuck with him.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 03:37 |
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Samizdata posted:But they never say anything about how to deal with a DM who finds killing PCs wholesale an entertainment, but is one of the only around, so you are stuck with him. Just become a DM. Unless your fellow players get off on that sort of poo poo, then most are at least willing to give you a shot. If you're not into making worlds and dungeons, just run a module, and who knows, maybe someone will put their hand up for DM duty down the road. Railing Kill posted:What I haven't seen in a game sourcebook is the most important rule to managing player conflicts: don't let them start in the first place. Be diplomatic and discreet when you put your group together, and use good judgment. It's way easier to make up some excuse to not let a lovely player into the game in the first place then to kick them out once they're in. Munchkins are like, I dunno, fleas that way. Once they're in your house, you have to either put up with them or set off a big bomb that will make everyone cry. That's really it, isn't it? I've seen so many games turn to poo poo because the DM wanted to make everyone happy so greenlit any splat book without even knowing what's inside. I used to be guilty of that, since I'd feel bad when someone would buy something and wouldn't be able to use it if I said no, but now I at least try do a bit of research first before I okay splat content.
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Samizdata posted:But they never say anything about how to deal with a DM who finds killing PCs wholesale an entertainment, but is one of the only around, so you are stuck with him. Step 1) Get everyone together and ask him/her nicely to stop killing PCs so haphazardly, as it's hard for everyone else to enjoy the game that way. If the problem isn't resolved... Strep 2) Stop the game the moment the next PC death happens, issue an ultimatum. E.G. "Cut it out or I'm done." If the problem isn't resolved... Step 3) Take up DMing! If that isn't your cup of tea... Step 4) Ask any other players if they want to try DMing! And if all else fails... Step 5) Not gaming is better than bad gaming. play online with goons
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bathroomrage posted:play online with goons This, I now have a 16 Strong Skype channel from which I game twice a week. All goons and all great people. Find a goon group - find some other random fools who can meet up once a week at a set time and game.
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