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Wicked Them Beats posted:The solution is to play a better system or get a better GM. Echo on this. Any GM who would bring an entirely new player into their game and then willingly let them do nothing for an entire session before effectively killing their character off is a horrible GM. "Well, the dice/cards said so" is a lousy excuse.
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RPGnet I think had a review of a post-apocalypse system where character creation was completely broken. It was done entirely through random rolling and included a gigantic number of both positive and negative options, which resulted in their first two characters dying instantly during character creation and the third having muscles so atrophied that he couldn't actually move under his own power. It seemed to be impossible to reliably make a character that could even exist for more than a few seconds upon starting a game.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Hey friend? Not playing games is better than playing games that make you feel bad. To compare, I run a sort of Lovecraftian 3.5e game set in Eberron and built my own sanity system for it since the system in the SRD sucks. We talked it over as a group to make sure everyone was on board with it mechanically and flavor-wise, and the worst thing that can happen is being Panicked for 1 round. It's only rolled at the start of combat, only with poo poo that's appropriately horrible (you're not rolling sanity against zombies in a world where one country fielded entire divisions of them in the last war), and even if you roll amazingly poorly there's only a 20% chance you actually lose your action.
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At this point if you're hungry for a post-apocalyptic role playing adventure where someone took a lot of care making sure the map tracks to real-world locations, pick up Fallout: New Vegas. It's better designed than this other game, playing it doesn't involve talking to this lovely GM, and as an added bonus no matter how you design your character they will never poo poo themselves to death upon encountering a ghoul.
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Sep 27, 2018 15:23
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Firstborn posted:I'm not even sure if I want to continue with this character.
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Sep 27, 2018 15:25
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Thread needs more Tanicus to wash away bad GM funk.
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Sep 27, 2018 19:24
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That reminds me! Cobi, the mechanics of Tanicus' pantheon escape me at the moment, but is there a chance that at the end of the last campaign you could have wangled your way to putting your character's uncle in a position of supreme power within it, such that the setting would have to be renamed Stanicus
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Sep 27, 2018 19:43
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chitoryu12 posted:RPGnet I think had a review of a post-apocalypse system where character creation was completely broken. It was done entirely through random rolling and included a gigantic number of both positive and negative options, which resulted in their first two characters dying instantly during character creation and the third having muscles so atrophied that he couldn't actually move under his own power. It seemed to be impossible to reliably make a character that could even exist for more than a few seconds upon starting a game.
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Sep 27, 2018 20:36
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NGDBSS posted:Fastest Businessmidget
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Yawgmoth posted:It's really a shame this is too long to be a username.
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NGDBSS posted:By chance was this deadEarth? I remember that being an atrocious mess where the one saving grace was that the resulting characters were unintentionally hilarious. I'd have to dig around for the original blog posts reviewing it but I remember someone rolling up two dead characters, an invalid, a seasoned combatant with a sapient fungus for a cohort, and the Fastest Businessmidget in the West. It was! I actually went through the handbook to make someone: quote:I'm trying to figure out this batshit character creation system So there we go. Sex Jesus, the manic-depressive baby factory with various magic powers who's so broken that he can't ever improve.
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Sep 27, 2018 21:25
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Thanks everyone for the kind words. I dropped the game. I woke up this morning to find the Discord to be talking about how much fun they are going to have with my character's gear and car that I downloaded a 200 pg. book for it, read and built it, and edited a .PDF of the vehicle character sheet and drew a picture. I found it attached to someone else's inventory wholesale. I just told the GM my IRL game got moved to this date, and I regrettably had to leave. He told me that my character could've been shocked back to health with defibrillation, but PC no. 1 used the power source for his ipad huehuehuehue. Seemed a lot more mean spirited than I initially thought. Still, I'll never forget the tale of Heart Attack Jack. I hope they enjoy my car. I went full effort-mode.
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^^^edit: holy poo poo those guys are incredible assholes. My only hope is that they never inflict themselves on anyone else.chitoryu12 posted:It was! I actually went through the handbook to make someone:  jfc and I thought my friend's MSHRPG ripoff game was insane, with three huge D-ring binders full of homebrew (one of which was powers, and another was skills and nested chargen tables). You could roll up some stupid poo poo with it but I don't think anything was ever completely unplayable.
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Firstborn, did you have that av before you posted this story?
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chitoryu12 posted:It was! I actually went through the handbook to make someone: I think my favourite was the ninja who is completely invisible, inaudible, and intangible in the dark (and couldn’t choose not to be) and instantly burns to death in any amount of light.
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Sep 27, 2018 22:02
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Firstborn posted:Thanks everyone for the kind words. I dropped the game. I woke up this morning to find the Discord to be talking about how much fun they are going to have with my character's gear and car that I downloaded a 200 pg. book for it, read and built it, and edited a .PDF of the vehicle character sheet and drew a picture. I found it attached to someone else's inventory wholesale. I just told the GM my IRL game got moved to this date, and I regrettably had to leave. He told me that my character could've been shocked back to health with defibrillation, but PC no. 1 used the power source for his ipad huehuehuehue. Seemed a lot more mean spirited than I initially thought. Still, I'll never forget the tale of Heart Attack Jack. I hope they enjoy my car. I went full effort-mode. Lmao i would not have exited so gracefully after being so blatantly poo poo on. Please tell me these people aren't like, intimate friends.
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Malpais Legate posted:Lmao i would not have exited so gracefully after being so blatantly poo poo on. Please tell me these people aren't like, intimate friends. Deep down you know that they are
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Yawgmoth posted:^^^edit: holy poo poo those guys are incredible assholes. My only hope is that they never inflict themselves on anyone else. I heard a story of a permanently exploding grandmother. It was a little old lady who had a radiation that made her explode in a nuclear explosion, plus one that made her resurrect the next day. So she would just keep waking up and exploding every morning. Another guy in my Discord rolled a character who had the Armageddon mutation, which means: A. He dies from 1 point of damage anywhere to the body. B. He explodes in a massive burst of energy when he dies. C. He can resurrect the next day 8 times, giving him nine lives. D. He can randomly pass on one mutation to someone else by touching them. Another mutation made him an extreme glutton in every sense, with one of the traits also being that he's so disgusted at himself that he would kill himself (thus exploding in a burst of energy and resurrecting the next day) if he saw himself in a mirror.
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Phy posted:Firstborn, did you have that av before you posted this story? I did. I've had this av since the trailer, that's why it's all grainy and poo poo. Just a coincidence, I assure you. I do really like Fury Road and the Mad Max movies and stuff. My dude was more like Snake Plissken, really. Malpais Legate posted:Lmao i would not have exited so gracefully after being so blatantly poo poo on. Please tell me these people aren't like, intimate friends. Randos on Roll20. That's how I got to say "my IRL game". I didn't know any of them. Firstborn fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Sep 27, 2018 |
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Sep 27, 2018 22:55
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Playing deadEarth is bad gaming, but rolling up some characters with your friends is very good for all of these reasons.
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Lucky Guy posted:Playing deadEarth is bad gaming, but rolling up some characters with your friends is very good for all of these reasons. I said I wanted to run a game in a different system, but use deadEarth for all of the PC and NPC generation.
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Firstborn posted:Thanks everyone for the kind words. I dropped the game. I woke up this morning to find the Discord to be talking about how much fun they are going to have with my character's gear and car that I downloaded a 200 pg. book for it, read and built it, and edited a .PDF of the vehicle character sheet and drew a picture. I found it attached to someone else's inventory wholesale. I just told the GM my IRL game got moved to this date, and I regrettably had to leave. He told me that my character could've been shocked back to health with defibrillation, but PC no. 1 used the power source for his ipad huehuehuehue. Seemed a lot more mean spirited than I initially thought. Still, I'll never forget the tale of Heart Attack Jack. I hope they enjoy my car. I went full effort-mode. Not gonna lie, this reminds me of that story where two guys would invite new people to the store they were in to play, leveling up their characters and stuff just to then kill them so the second dude could have cool undead minions.
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senrath posted:Not gonna lie, this reminds me of that story where two guys would invite new people to the store they were in to play, leveling up their characters and stuff just to then kill them so the second dude could have cool undead minions. Now that is one helluva long con to play on someone. I'm both impressed and disgusted at the same time.
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I'll never understand people who use elf games to do such weird, mean-spirited poo poo. I guess their new minion needs to be part of an exploitative power trip so they can successfully jerk off to it later?
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I mean I've had two characters used as post-mortem drop tables before so it's not exactly uncommon.
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Kurieg posted:I mean I've had two characters used as post-mortem drop tables before so it's not exactly uncommon. I have as well, but there's a bit of a difference between "Man, it sucks your character died. At least we can still use his stuff." and "Thanks for the car lol".
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senrath posted:I have as well, but there's a bit of a difference between "Man, it sucks your character died. At least we can still use his stuff." and "Thanks for the car lol". I had "I intentionally shoot matt in the back so I can steal his lightsaber." and "How dare you not specialize in broadswords, your gear is worthless to me."
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Yikes. gently caress those guys.
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Firstborn posted:The GM is adversarial This is the gaming equivalent of a ticking Geiger counter. The needle gets buried when someone DESCRIBES themselves as one.
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I did have one zombie game on this forum where one of the players suddenly dropped out right before the game was supposed to start, so I rewrote the first combat encounter partially to make his former PC the first zombie.
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Firstborn posted:Thanks everyone for the kind words. I dropped the game. I woke up this morning to find the Discord to be talking about how much fun they are going to have with my character's gear and car that I downloaded a 200 pg. book for it, read and built it, and edited a .PDF of the vehicle character sheet and drew a picture. I found it attached to someone else's inventory wholesale. I just told the GM my IRL game got moved to this date, and I regrettably had to leave. He told me that my character could've been shocked back to health with defibrillation, but PC no. 1 used the power source for his ipad huehuehuehue. Seemed a lot more mean spirited than I initially thought. Still, I'll never forget the tale of Heart Attack Jack. I hope they enjoy my car. I went full effort-mode. Thank you for reminding us all that no gaming is better than bad gaming, and it's also to your credit that you didn't throw massive amounts of shade at everyone else in the game that was richly deserved.
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Fruity20 posted:has there ever been a moment where you didn't realize you were playing the game wrong? I was GMing a PT boat chase up the East River of New York in my alternate 1955 game recently and suddenly realized over halfway through that I had forgotten the size modifier for the two boats, which would have caused almost all of the missed shots fired in that chase to have hit instead and probably caused huge casualties on either side depending on how the dice landed.
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Firstborn posted:Thanks everyone for the kind words. I dropped the game. I woke up this morning to find the Discord to be talking about how much fun they are going to have with my character's gear and car that I downloaded a 200 pg. book for it, read and built it, and edited a .PDF of the vehicle character sheet and drew a picture. I found it attached to someone else's inventory wholesale. I just told the GM my IRL game got moved to this date, and I regrettably had to leave. He told me that my character could've been shocked back to health with defibrillation, but PC no. 1 used the power source for his ipad huehuehuehue. Seemed a lot more mean spirited than I initially thought. Still, I'll never forget the tale of Heart Attack Jack. I hope they enjoy my car. I went full effort-mode.
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Splicer posted:Send the GM a PM "reminding" him you spent max points on booby traps. Nah, there'd be no point. "Oh yeah, I boobytrapped the car." "Yeah, those all failed and/or the party knew about them and deactivated them."
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Our group pissed off a lich enough for him to unleash a loving Power Word: Kill on our paladin, after which our barbarian killed him with a crit. Holy poo poo.
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Jade Rider posted:Our group pissed off a lich quote:enough for him to unleash a loving Power Word: Kill on our paladin, quote:after which our barbarian killed him with a crit. Holy poo poo. still, 
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Jade Rider posted:Our group pissed off a lich enough for him to unleash a loving Power Word: Kill on our paladin, after which our barbarian killed him with a crit. Holy poo poo. AbjChamp: "We need your necklace to stop the end of the world. You can give it to us or we can pluck it out of the mess he-" *nods to kensai* "-makes out of your corpse. We aren't picky." Lich: "I have a better idea: I kill you all and have some very fine replacements for the minions you ruined in getting here!" Initiative is rolled, we all beat the lich. AbjChamp: I move up to melee and then benign transposition with [kensai]. FoP: I give [kensai] Corpse Strike and then Time Hop the lich's armor. Kensai: I use Decisive Strike and power attack for full. *rolls attack* oh hey, that's a crit. All told, between all the crit mods I had I had a total of a x7 crit multiplier and did about 1200 damage in one go. We left a note saying "thanks for the necklace, don't come hunting for us because we'll just do this again and uppercutting you so hard you bounce off the ceiling twice is way less fun the second time."
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Aniodia posted:Power Word Kill is no loving joke. Out of curiosity, looking it up in my Rules Cyclopedia, back in the day they at least had the courtesy of not only allowing a save (albeit at -4, and only if you were a magic-user or a creature that could use magic-user spells), and it was 60 HP or less dies, 61-100 hp is stunned 1d4 rounds, and 101+ hp was unaffected. Nowadays, there's no save, and anything 100 hp or less just straight dies. Crazy to think that the newer editions have gotten more lethal with it. Newer editions are friendlier with PWK because you're operating on a different scale. In 5e D&D, a wizard with like 14 con will have over 100 HP at level 20. In rules cyclopedia D&D, a wizard with 14 con will have like 40 HP, tops, at level 20. A level 20 fighter in RC D&D with 18 Con (which is not a given) will have somewhere just over 100 HP, but nobody else will, because you stop getting dice and con bonus at level 9. After that it's a flat 1, 2, or 3 HP per level. The save for wizards was there because otherwise every wizard fight devolves into "Who casts Power Word Kill first?"
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Crossposting this from the r/relationships thread, a classic tale of gatekeeping assholes:NEWB playing for the first time..... had the Worst experience. posted:Rant ahead:
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