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Or you could solve ooc problems by talking ooc about them. Just saying.
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Bubblyblubber posted:I Think My GM Wants To Eat Me This is legitimate nightmare fuel. Like, I can genuinely see this working as the plot to a horror film.
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Jan 18, 2017 13:34
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It reminds me of the time my players in Dungeon World failed a Spout Lore roll on geography. This is a roll to see what they know about a particular fact; normally in DW a fail means that you learn a new fact about the world, but it's really bad news -- for example, failing a Spout Lore on a vampire's vulnerabilities might lead to learning that nothing you're carrying will permanently kill it. In this case, I decided to do something else, and asked the players to describe what they mistakenly believed to be true about the area. They came back that it was a happy, peaceful valley full of food and friendly, welcoming villagers. So when they arrived, there was indeed a pastoral paradise full of friendly, singing hobbits who invited them to join in the evening's feast. Tables laden with food, songs with "diddly" in the lyrics, all that sort of stuff. It wasn't until the sun set that the hobbits' eyelids opened sideways to reveal wide, staring bushbaby eyes and mouths full of piranha-like teeth.
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Feb 18, 2017 15:23
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I've always wanted to run the campaign where the players encounter a cave where a magical anomaly is just spitting out an endless river of copper coins, and then make them figure out how to possibly spend the cash without alerting the world to its existence.
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Feb 25, 2017 13:23
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My policy as a GM is never to shy away from giving the players more authority. Authority never comes for free, it always has strings attached, and it never fails to paint a great big bullseye on them for later.
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Apr 7, 2017 12:32
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my players posted:
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Apr 27, 2017 11:24
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I expected Death to have more hit points than that.
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They'd been fighting an awful fleshcrafting and hard-to-kill wizard, and Death (who is kind of a mercenary rear end in a top hat in this setting) showed up to offer to take his soul away -- for a price. They've encountered him a number of times, but this was the first time the Bard was there and able to make the roll to identify this old man in the battered top hat and tailcoat as Death. At which point, the Thief, who is undead and rather bitter about it, leapt out of the shadows to backstab Death. I'm not sure how he was expecting it to go down. He definitely knew that the knife he was carrying had been forged by another member of the party from magical Etherite, and he definitely knew that said member of the party had been artifically created as a weapon to strike at the gods. I don't think he'd put two and two together about what it would do, though. Anyway, it turns out that when you have the one weapon that's specifically designed to kill him, and when he doesn't see you coming, Death goes down like a chump. The party have looted his corpse, and are now starting to realise that killing Death probably isn't actually going to make anything any better.
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Apr 28, 2017 00:36
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My plan is to not overdo the 'you hosed up' aspect. The world is going to go through significant changes but it's largely human nature that will decide whether or not they're positive. But yes: things will stop dying. You can still be wounded, although with time on its side the body can now recover from pretty much any injury or disease short of actually being dismembered. Starvation is an issue still, and someone without food doesn't even get the eventual release of death, just perpetual hunger. This isn't helped by the fact that it's now much harder to kill animals for food. (Plants are still okay, thankfully, but the players live in a fishing village...) As for how they fix it, I'm going to leave that down to them, but a key ingredient will be finding someone to take over the role. Which raises some interesting questions about who you can trust with that sort of power.
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Apr 28, 2017 17:39
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So, a while back in my Dungeon World campaign the party freed a demon from its bonds. And a little later, when they found it was making a home in the ruins near their village (ruins created by one of the players, but that's another story), it made them an offer: it wanted to be able to visit their village under the same hospitality as any other guest, and promised to abide by the village's laws. That was before the players stopped Death happening, making food scarce (the village existed primarily on fish, and undead food that wriggles as you eat it is hard to get used to.) Cue the demon's servant showing up to recruit settlers for the ruins, and offering large, ripe, rich fruit from Hell's orchards to the villagers -- who are now on rationing -- as payment. Also, the work it's after is helping it capture and drive slaves from other outlying villages. The party decide they're not having any of this, and go to hunt it down in its ruins. Unfortunately, it has already swayed a group of the party's fellow villagers. Two are criminal types who want to control the village's only substantial source of food. The other two, however, plan to share what they get with the village, and consider their souls a fair price for the village's survival. The Paladin gets a serious blow in on it and nearly one-shots it, but then the demon's villager bodyguards are getting between her and it, screaming that this is the only chance for them and they won't let her god stand between them and being able to eat. The scene ends up with the demon dead, and the last surviving villager of the four in floods of tears. And this is why the Paladin's new bond with one of her fellow PCs is: "Ash has shown me that mercy is neither just not kind".
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Jun 22, 2017 12:51
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Yawgmoth posted:This is one of the two major reasons I hate training times, by the by. If your plot is engaging, you don't want to be putting it on hold repeatedly; if your plot can withstand being interrupted multiple times like that, why is it your plot? I don't know, I can see how if you're looking to run an epic game spanning decades where the plot takes a long time to unfold, that kind of thing could work. In your standard save-the-world fantasy plot it totally wouldn't.
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Nov 11, 2017 09:54
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Nah, if you're really gonna splash out you gotta go for a full-fledged hedge dungeon, with multiple floors and secret passages and wandering topiary.
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Feb 27, 2019 18:42
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Hey, let's not forget the most  moment of the thing: the secret weapon from the past which the evil wizard discovers, allowing him to begin his conquest of Earth, is Nazi propaganda.Like, he shows his evil orcish minions footage of Hitler and it gives them superpowers.
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Jul 22, 2019 07:27
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senrath posted:Yes. Also, there was this:  Ralph Bakshi is a master of subtle imagery.
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Jul 22, 2019 21:04
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Agrikk posted:One of the grosser things I can imagine with these spells is to transform a horizontal section of a building wall into flesh. I mean how gross is a cylinder of an “inert fleshy substance” anyway? Sure I've told this story before, but in a Dungeon World game the party came across a big bag of unlabelled, almost-used-up wands. The rule was that when they waved one at a problem and hoped it was something useful, on a 10+ it was a type of wand that was directly helpful to their situation, on a 6- it was directly harmful or created a new problem, and on a 7-9 it helped their situation but created a new problem in the process. When they tried the Bag Of Wands to help them get past a passage which had collapsed and filled with rubble and got a 7-9, it turned out to be a wand of Stone to Flesh: the passage was now packed tight with butchered joints of meat, but they were at least a bit easier than squeeze past than boulders. All fine, until they met a vampire lord on the other side who cast Mass Raise Dead and their exit route turned out to be filled with twitching, lurching animal carcasses.
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Jan 19, 2020 19:05
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Adepts can't quite chase godhood, but they can do some pretty world-shaking things with a major charge, and adepts hunting one down are liable to try and pull off similarly ridiculous stunts - my favourite is the idea of a videomancer holding a TV studio hostage and forcing them to turn his fanfic into a canon episode for ultimate arcane power.
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May 18, 2020 15:08
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quote:If you're kicked out of godhood, you descend to earth. And you're now very, very pissed off. I think there's a thing where you descend via the House of Renunciation, which is a set of weird pocket dimensions which exist to turn visitors' personalities into the opposite of who they used to be. So the former Messenger is now a step beyond Arkane's ideology of "the medium is the message" and is probably embracing some philosophy of "ignorance is bliss, let's smash all information everywhere and enter a new dark age"
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May 19, 2020 11:55
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I've lifted the "This is not a place of honour" text for old tombs in RPGs before and it's always been a good idea. (I think the last time was that the world had been built by the gods with sites that would ask the first person to enter a philosophical question and then make them an archmage, and the collected archmagi had figured out that the world had been created to settle a dispute between gods and would be erased once all the votes were in.)
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May 21, 2020 09:59
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Kavak posted:Speaking of adorable idiots, what is the line between leading your players by the nose and reminding them of obvious poo poo? Because it's one thing to not tell the Ordo Xenos about the myths of "Sky eggs" of the local tribesmen and another to forget that a shrouded vessel shot your lighter down. I mean I am not a fast GM and this was two weeks ago but I need to know what calls for an Intelligence roll and what calls for just telling them. Always remind them of obvious poo poo. Your players have a week of lives and jobs and not being ground into a paste by hellworld in between sessions, they can be forgiven for forgetting plot from elfgames.
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Jun 29, 2020 07:20
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Can we also add Terry Pratchett quotes? Dude was a good writer but I already know this, I don't need my players to remind me every ten minutes.
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Sep 11, 2020 22:08
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I think that's a problem with the kind of Jedi the players are playing. Yoda exists to be the stuffy superior to Luke who puts tension between him and the action, not the main character; a player wanting to be Yoda and not Luke is like playing D&D and wanting to be the merchant who sends the players off on their quest. E: though admittedly, that's not just a problem with the players but also with any RPG system that punishes, not rewards, players who disobey the Jedi code and go have adventures anyway.
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Nov 16, 2020 16:09
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hyphz posted:On the easy difficulty levels, PCs get a hidden bonus to hit that escalates with each consecutive miss, and aliens get a hidden penalty that escalated with each consecutive hit. I've often thought the best way to make probabilities feel fairer is instead of dice, to give players a hand of cards (that they can look at in between draws). Instead of rolling, they blindly draw a card and discard it from their hand, and when they've discarded all of them they pick their hand back up again.
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:If you wanted to discuss, say, Motörhead in Infernal, would you have to pronounce it with an umlaut on every letter except the o that originally had an umlaut? That o gets a second umlaut above the existing one.
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