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BadSamaritan posted:Played an InSpectres one shot yesterday- kind of a neat system with the hook of running a startup-like ghostbusters business being followed by a reality tv crew. Over the course of a 2.5 hour session we: That's a blast from the past! I remember that game from years back, and reading that it had a rather awkward system/feel split - it's supposed to feel quite silly but in practice if you play long-term, there are many more events that cost dice than that supply them, so you just get to watch a small business going down the tubes. Also, several posts above, huge points to the cult that performs human sacrifice in order to turn into anime magical girls. I don't know if it's supposed to be silly, or horrific to think that if that was actually possible I'm sure it would happen.
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I just found this on a Facebook group.quote:I am a DM, but I can pretty assuredly share the funniest check I made someone do. quote:Having to RP out occasional situations where he was naked and having characters check him out is hysterical. Mostly other players end up having to do it. Now you may ask "Why did he make his players do a penis roll?" quote:I wanted it to be random, as well as a system for rolling for attractiveness, because it should be subjective. I might give someone advantage who might logically appreciate a certain stat, but never more than that because love and sex is a bit more random.
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chitoryu12 posted:You gotta have these things, it comes up. Do you? Does it? Anyhow, InSpectres is an incredibly loving awesome name for a game, to the point I assume they came up with the name and made the game afterwards.
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# ? Jun 18, 2018 15:21 |
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Dog Kisser posted:Do you?
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# ? Jun 18, 2018 15:28 |
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Frequently Questioned Answers
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# ? Jun 18, 2018 15:31 |
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Dog Kisser posted:Do you? In better news, last night we replaced the power source of a magical ballot's paper mill (enslaved kobolds) with a much cleaner and inherently renewable energy source. Fast Zombies. Yawgmoth fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Jun 18, 2018 |
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Modules that have sex stuff in them are especially cringey. Welp, gotta fill this tavern with at least five flavors of hookers even though there are only about 20 people in this town. No don’t ask me about how the economy works or why this is the only social encounter written with any sort of effort. At least it’s an easy sign, as with players, of when to just throw the whole thing out.
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# ? Jun 18, 2018 20:38 |
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Ed Greenwood is particularly bad about thisquote:http://candlekeep.com/library/articles/sse/sse_020304-04.htm
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# ? Jun 18, 2018 22:29 |
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Tunicate posted:Ed Greenwood is particularly bad about this 1970s con culture went really loving strange places that are still (sadly) relevant today
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# ? Jun 18, 2018 22:45 |
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Dog Kisser posted:Anyhow, InSpectres is an incredibly loving awesome name for a game, to the point I assume they came up with the name and made the game afterwards. If by came up with, you mean pinched out of Judge Dredd, then yes.
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# ? Jun 18, 2018 23:13 |
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Obviously those hacks writing Judge Dread were just inspired by Spectre General. (1952 by Theodore Cogswell) (Eagerly awaiting somebody else to chime in with something from Carnacki the Ghost Finder or whatever.)
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# ? Jun 19, 2018 10:00 |
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Tunicate posted:Ed Greenwood is particularly bad about this
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# ? Jun 19, 2018 14:11 |
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luv 2 sit at a table with strangers while the DM talks himself off Like, I can’t imagine a session with more than just a *dash* of that kind of content being anything but horrible and awkward for players. I don’t think I’m a giant prude or anything but man. I was so relieved when a fairly old-school DM that I met online ended up using a very homebrew Mystra in his game and didn’t bring any of the lore (or fanfic) along for the ride. Ended up being a great DM and a great group, but I got legit nervous when he started naming NPCs.
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# ? Jun 19, 2018 14:30 |
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Tunicate posted:Ed Greenwood is particularly bad about this Yawgmoth posted:I hear Ed's a nice guy in person but holy poo poo I want to beat him with a chair until it breaks just from the way he writes and then get another chair to continue beating him because of what he writes. :}
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# ? Jun 19, 2018 14:43 |
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Yawgmoth posted:I hear Ed's a nice guy in person but holy poo poo I want to beat him with a chair until it breaks just from the way he writes and then get another chair to continue beating him because of what he writes. I met him at Gencon a couple years ago, and yeah, he was really nice, but, he's definitely the quintessential Dirty Old Man. Like, he manages to stay on the right side of the line to where it's more "endearing" (for lack of a better term) than full-on creeper, but still. Of course, I'm also a dude, so I can't begin to hazard a guess how he is around women.
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# ? Jun 19, 2018 15:08 |
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quote:(why? Hoho! SO many mysteries, waved before you!) gently caress you, Greenwood. quote:I loved watching players’ faces, right at that moment. No. Seriously. gently caress you and your mythal-woven realm. Jesus Christ, even his description of a pregnant Alustriel is creepy.
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# ? Jun 19, 2018 15:22 |
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Bieeanshee posted:Jesus Christ, even his description of a pregnant Alustriel is creepy. ‘Oh it’s cool, she doesn’t get hideous pregnant she’s still totally hot in the way I like :}’ Yeah, as a woman those Creepy Old Guys (DM or player types) either get super shy and avoid their sex content or go ALL IN to share their erotic vision once a woman joins a group. It’s a toss up what you’ll get. E: Making a paladin fall offscreen/out of player control is bad enough but Kurieg that’s extremely BadSamaritan fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Jun 19, 2018 |
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I know someone posted a story a *long* time ago in the thread about a female player who missed a game and came back to find that her paladin had gotten pregnant and fallen as a result.
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# ? Jun 19, 2018 15:39 |
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If I’m ever in a game like that I will make it my mission to ruin it.
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Kurieg posted:I know someone posted a story a *long* time ago in the thread about a female player who missed a game and came back to find that her paladin had gotten pregnant and fallen as a result. Yeesh, closest my gaming has come to that was when in our weekly game (which alternates between two different games) whose character (basically an anthropomorphic otter) got tossed into the water to “scout” and found a giant crayfish monster. When she missed thenext week’s other campaign game, where we were trapped on an island by a storm god, there were jokes about tossing her character in that game into the water as a sacrifice to the storm god to keep up the tradition. Still laughing though that last week her otter-like character got jealous of my mage getting a pseudodragon familiar so she used the boon we got from the local ruler to ask for a puppy .
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# ? Jun 19, 2018 16:36 |
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Pollyanna posted:If I’m ever in a game like that I will make it my mission to ruin it. "How EVER will you find her in the BATH full of NAKED HOTTIES??" "I cast lightning bolt."
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# ? Jun 19, 2018 17:18 |
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I would've gone with disintegrate, but OK.
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# ? Jun 19, 2018 19:45 |
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Ilor posted:I would've gone with disintegrate, but OK.
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# ? Jun 19, 2018 19:58 |
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Imagining a geas to just, like, put some clothes on.
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# ? Jun 19, 2018 20:26 |
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I’m a Prude Elemental, I’m just getting into character!
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# ? Jun 19, 2018 21:26 |
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Pollyanna posted:If I’m ever in a game like that I will make it my mission to ruin it. I'd try to be a bigger psycho pervert than them
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# ? Jun 19, 2018 21:52 |
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Plutonis posted:I'd try to be a bigger psycho pervert than them That is a game bereft of winners, my friend
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# ? Jun 19, 2018 23:30 |
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This is just more proof that sex is a blight on humanity's purity.
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# ? Jun 19, 2018 23:33 |
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Pollyanna posted:If I’m ever in a game like that I will make it my mission to ruin it.
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 02:35 |
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I put on my robe and wizard hat.
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very stable genius posted:I put on my robe and Whizzard hat.
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 03:36 |
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Piss-wizarding aside, wouldn't the party just... ask for her to come out and look at their plot coupon? And not do any weird sex poo poo at all?
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Double Plus Undead posted:Piss-wizarding aside, wouldn't the party just... ask for her to come out and look at their plot coupon? And not do any weird sex poo poo at all? I've told this story before, but I did a game with all the players rotating DM duties. During the first session DMed by the world creator's creepy autistic cousin, he very obviously attempted to drug my character to be raped and announced a town-wide orgy as we were leaving on the quest.
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 04:20 |
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Double Plus Undead posted:Piss-wizarding aside, wouldn't the party just... ask for her to come out and look at their plot coupon? And not do any weird sex poo poo at all? When you get deviant behaviors like that, the person creating them is looking for confirmation that "yea we're all like this, it's totally just a thing we keep under our hats, but you all are cool dudes right?" Definitely part of the reason why I try and keep a zero tolerance policy on that behavior, as well as creeping on other people at the table.
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 13:28 |
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Look, all I'm saying is my 18 in Charisma directly translates to what I have "under the hood..."
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 13:54 |
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the_steve posted:JFC, we need a massive infusion of Tanicus or Funhavers, or literally anything else STAT. Falstaff posted:I think Funhavers would work best. Need some sunshine to disinfect the thread. I'm catching up on the last two months or so of this thread and I just saw these. I'm genuinely really sorry to let you down, guys... Funhhavers is currently on indefinite hiatus while I try to sort out some of my crippling depression. It turns out I was the Grimdark all along
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I played in a charity D&D event last Saturday, raising money for a local hospital (Seattle Childrens), and it was a pretty fun night. How it worked was, you bought in $5 worth of raffle tickets, and you could buy more at $1 each, which also gave you each a free re-roll of your dice. The donated prizes were pretty cool: (E: In the dice bags were penny arcade pins) Each player got a random character (though you can use a reroll, or select an already revealed character). A player who said before hand he was going to be a bard, got the bard. :P Each card was just a class, no race or gender given, though there was a picture. I chose to go with what was on the card, a female elf monk. We had 3 tables, each with 5 players and GM. The players at our table were mostly typical cliches, the loud lecherous bard, the thickheaded warrior, the reserved priest and one more I forget. The plot was we were at a party, and the PCs are trying to convince nobles to donate, hired by the hospital director. Each 100gp we convince a noble to donate (the max was 1,000gp for each noble) was a point. At the end of the night, the top 3 in points got first, second and third choice of the prizes. Then the rest was raffled. The director made a point of forbidding us from drinking, but a few players got the stink eye from her when they went to the bar to get drinks for the NPCs. We had a card describing the different people and then got a shot at convincing a person. One was a woman wrangingling 4 (or 5?) children. I heard from the other table something about using "animal handling". My first choice was a couple, and I chose to go for a "cute" approach. (or "full kuwai" as the GM put it). "Hiya, my names's Mae, what's yours? You know, as a monk, I was an orphan, so I know what it's like to be a child with nothing. It would help *ever* so much if you donated. " (It said something about monks being orphans as flavor text on my card, so I ran with that, and got a good sized donation. The next person I tried was a dwarf who was putting stuff in a mug of beer and tasting it, and not looking the results. 'Hi! I bet you I can do a sweet back-flip!" (+4 athletics, and hoping to do a bar bet with the probibly drunk Dwarf considering how many sips he's taken). Didn't really work. After that some sort of monsters teleported in and we had to fight them. I did pretty well, punching on to death in a single hit (I think I rolled like 4 nat 20s). But then the director got kidnapped and we chased them to an abandoned part of the hospital. This section we rolled for a set of skills we could use divided into physical, mental or charm I think. I wriggled into a hole and we fought the final boss ("first table to defeat it gets 1 point for each player"). Just as the GM was saying he was dead, another table announced he was dead. Rats. In the end, I won a nice reprint of the AD&D player's handbook (Complete with mispellings intact I was told), which looks like it might be worth quite a bit, and I'm going to try to sell, or trade for store credit, since I don't really have a lot of interest in AD&D. And that night we raised something like $400 for Seattle Children's Hospital. Foolster41 fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Jun 21, 2018 |
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Jenny Angel posted:I'm catching up on the last two months or so of this thread and I just saw these. I'm genuinely really sorry to let you down, guys... Funhhavers is currently on indefinite hiatus while I try to sort out some of my crippling depression. It turns out I was the Grimdark all along Don't apologize! You're not the Grimdark, you're a bloke who is currently on a downswing, which means soon you'll be on a upswing. Look at it like this...big white words on a black screen - THE FUNHAVERS WILL RETURN!
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Foolster41 posted:I played in a charity D&D event last Saturday, raising money for a local hospital (Seattle Childrens), and it was a pretty fun night. That sounds like a lot of fun, and a great way to raise some money.
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quote:In the end, I won a nice reprint of the AD&D player's handbook (Complete with mispellings intact I was told), which looks like it might be worth quite a bit, and I'm going to try to sell, or trade for store credit, since I don't really have a lot of interest in AD&D. If I weren't so skint, I would ask you to sell it to me and give it to myself for my birthday. I've never seen that cover before and it really caught my eye.
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