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Roctavian posted:My players and I aren't always well-matched: I love intrigue and backstories, they love stealing everything that isn't nailed down, then breaking everything else. Make up some disconnected clues based on random words pulled from the dictionary. Pick the most entertaining of the explanations they come up with, pretend that was it all along, reward them with magics.
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Colon V posted:I just imagined an adventuring party consisting of Redd Foxx (tank), George Carlin (melee DPS), Bob Saget (ranged DPS), Gilbert Gottfried (debuff), and Rodney Dangerfield (healer) as an adventuring party, using different styles of insult fighting to humiliate and ruin monsters without ever lifting a finger.
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Feb 24, 2012 11:15
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Fighting-Fefnir posted:That rule was enacted after I started stealing people's pants by convincing the the wearers their combat prowess would improve without them. 
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AlphaDog posted:I knew a player like this. The solution, in the end, was to stop inviting him to game night. I hope it works out better for you though. The fun for that guy was being a contrarian rear end in a top hat in a setting where he felt that people weren't allowed to call him on it ("but it's in character for me to constantly attempt to betray everyone, steal from them, murder them in their sleep, sell them into slavery, whatever, but not in character for them to retaliate"). Which there's nothing innately wrong with, it's just completely unsuited to a social game.
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Mar 7, 2012 11:47
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Liesmith posted:Actually it owns. You get to constantly tell him that the world doesn't work like that. Oh, you made an electrical generator? that's nice, but unfortunately electricity is what happens when storms get lonely for the earth so your generator doesn't actually power anything, it just bums out clouds. way to go jerk This is me fully supporting your approach by the way.
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Mar 7, 2012 15:27
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Liesmith posted:yes you can! but you are gonna get hosed up by air, water, and storm elementals
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Mar 7, 2012 15:34
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Whybird posted:Not to mention angry protestors holding placards reading "END CLOUD CRUELTY NOW".
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Mar 8, 2012 13:00
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Clanpot Shake posted:Flying through the sky (realm of the air elementals) in transportation fueled by elemental slaves sounds like an exceedingly bad idea.
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Mar 8, 2012 17:51
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Error 404 posted:Welcome to the elemental plane of skeletons. Also: 
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Mar 9, 2012 12:25
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I refuse to believe Steve is real(I do actually believe you but you get what I'm saying). He sounds like something from a comic book or a parody. I insist upon a physical description to complete the image.
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Mar 9, 2012 14:05
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:*The Lightsaber Launcher - we found a bunch of dead Jedi corpses with lightsabers. We took the lightsabers. No one will let me build a crossbow that fires them. Boo. Step 2) Slave your lightsabers to a single remote control device. Step 3) Weld your lightsabers base-down to that flying target thing from ROTJ, or a droid, or just weld the bases together whatever. Step 4) Direct/throw whirling arm-severing terror death device at nearest bad guys, activate lightsabers. Laugh and laugh and laugh.
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AlphaDog posted:A metal plate with a handle and with 20 lightsabers welded so they're sticking out of the front. Tollymain posted:This, but arranged in a circle and attached to a rotary device. Place against wall, activate, and voiila! Instant doorway!
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w00tmonger posted:In my head, I see them wanting to dick around, fight the moon It's Free!(tm) The Earth is a radioactive wasteland after the atomic wars of the 1990's! You live on Mars! Jupiter is full of communists! Aliens live on Planet X! You have a robot butler! You might be a robot butler! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3468979&pagenumber=24&perpage=40#post401186867 Here's a wall of text by me talking it up in the D&D5 thread. Ignore the next five pages of slayer chat they're pretty awful on both sides. Splicer fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Mar 13, 2012 |
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AlphaDog posted:My personal canon is that the Empire are really just the laser sword copyright police.
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Volmarias posted:Is it bad that this was my first thought as well?
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Mar 14, 2012 14:33
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Chance II posted:I tell the party that they are members of Abe Lincoln's Paranormal Secret Service, run by the President after staging his assassination at Ford's Theater months earlier to combat an insidious threat growing within the United States.
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Clanpot Shake posted:The joke was that rape is a class skill for dwarves.
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AgentF posted:It does sound like a game with a few holes that the GM didn't spend too much time thinking about, and then LaTeX becoming that guy and pestering the GM with a barrage of senseless questions before attacking a pivotal plot NPC on a flimsy premise.
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Mar 16, 2012 00:35
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areyoucontagious posted:the townie grabbed my gun's barrel, put it to his head, and said I didn't have the balls.  Edit: "Implying that if you don't you have no balls!"
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Mar 16, 2012 15:26
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Would someone mind summarising what all that means? The part of my brain that was able to read 3.x statblocks seems to have atrophied.
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masam posted:I will have to mention this to him after a while because he DID send away for a microwave, not a giant robot. I'll wait until he's invested into the cause and we've been fighting together for a while. Then just off handedly mention. "oh hey, i did some research and asked a couple lawyers I know. Apparently they can't hold you accountable and it's considered a free gift under certain business laws, so you never HAD to pay them to begin with! never even had to join up and fight in a war and kill people! just needed to contact a lawyer! how bout that?" and then i walk off as both the player and character snap.
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Doomsayer posted:
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Jan 22, 2014 19:36
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Jon Joe posted:Make sure that when time traveling does happen, you travel through time stealing famous hats.
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Jan 25, 2014 21:09
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Green Intern posted:Are you suggesting that they steal a hat at different points in its own timeline? They'd end up stealing it from themselves eventually. Or make it cease to exist.
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Jan 25, 2014 23:04
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FredMSloniker posted:You just put the phrase 'mood cock ring' in my head.
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Jan 30, 2014 22:23
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Patience posted:I just didn't want to kill a baby in game.
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Feb 8, 2014 20:38
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Doc Dee posted:only to find that we were supposed to lose to him, with everything (literally) being taken by the orc's pirates.
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Mendrian posted:Also the random group assignment thing is weird. If I were in that club - and in college, I basically was - I would be pretty miffed if my friends were playing in a rad swashbuckling game next door while I was stuck reliving the Princess Bride or something. e:  Bieeardo!
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kannonfodder posted:Out of 6 encounters that the party did that night, the Warpriest managed to get knocked unconscious and be within moments of death 4 times before one of them finally did him in. I don't actually understand how he managed to gently caress things up so badly. kannonfodder posted:Then, during the goblin's next turn, I had him roll to randomly determine if he would finish off the priest, or go for a new target. He attacks the priest one last time, bringing him within 2 hp of death, while having 3 bleed damage. The party then kills the King just in time to watch the Warpriest finally take his last breath.
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crowtribe posted:I think one of the highlights was when we had a short break - I removed the blue ink and tip from a blue pen, and put it into a black pen body, and used a black whiteboard marker to colour the tip black to disguise it further, in cahoots with most of the table, to try and get the too-smart-for-his-own-good Hygiene Officer back. It backfired somehow when he caught on and secretly swapped it with the Happiness Officer's legitimate black pen. I spotted the Happiness Officer writing on his requisition form in blue and he hadn't noticed yet, so started calling for Friend Computer to witness his Treason... until the Happiness Officer promptly realised his mistake and ATE the entire sheet of paper to destroy the evidence.  I wish more sessions turned out like this.
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Slantedfloors posted:- Completely indelible Space-Porn
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Yawgmoth posted:This is pretty much my understanding of 90% of L5R's setting, really. If you play at all sensibly, you will end up with an Honor rank of <3 in a session or two. Apparently half the fun is trying to figure out how to do anything functional at all without losing honor for it.
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Ratoslov posted:Scorpion fiance Kulebri posted:Scorpion fiancée
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Immortal Foil String Theory "Astonishing True Tales of Times Yet to Come" sounds pretty good.
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the_steve posted:Not gonna lie, the bit with Ace trying to tightrope walk over the soldiers does sound pretty awesome.
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God Of Paradise posted:Last game? I did do the sensible raven thing already. It was ignored, completely dismissed. We are traveling. I tell the DM that I send my familiar 70 feet into the air to scout for us, and alert us to upcoming danger. He ignores it completely and bam, we were ambushed by wolves and snakes on our way to a mission where wolves and snakes are irrelevant. God Of Paradise posted:It should also be noted that I created a pure face-man bluff character. No offensive spells or intention to take offensive spells, just trickery. So for me to be useful, I must use ingenuity to overcome obstacles, diplomacy, misdirection and trickery. It's just in my character. e: Eh, that was needlessly harsh. Basically you're reacting to the GM railroading by setting up your own competing railroad. Don't do that. Have a sit down with the GM and a couple of players and have a nice chat about why railroads are bad. Splicer fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Jun 7, 2014 |
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Deltasquid posted:Gotta say that was a pretty elegant solution to your problem. Still, charming/mind controlling players is a poo poo move by DM's.
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chitoryu12 posted:I don't recall how it all occurred, but it ended with us flying low over the water and suddenly being attacked by amphibious fishman things that leaped from the water to board us. Alex described that the water was filled with bloodsharks, which would voraciously attack and instantly devour anyone who fell into the water. I think there was a kraken-type thing attacking us as well. But no. Dragons out of nowhere neonchameleon posted:I've had good results with it a few times. You need the right player and either a social situation or an escort mission - but all you do is tell them "They've Charmed you and you can't tell anyone else. Treat it how you think you ought to." The three times I've done this have all worked out very well. (Two players rolled with it and supported the NPC, one ending up dead, and the third knew they were charmed and was helping the NPC and dropping little or sometimes flamboyant clues all over the place until the other players worked it out). Mind control in my experience works well as long as all it does is give the player different priorities, not actually take agency away from them. Also the player has to be a good sport about it obviously. Splicer fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Jun 7, 2014 |
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Might be worth letting him know that if you guys throw him a serious curveball it's OK for him to take a minute to work out how to deal with it.
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