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I just overheard some people talk about how their DM hands out Xbox style achievements for cool stuff characters do. Also one of them just said "As a furry" and another said "as an anime fan" to start their statements. They are also apparently running a My Little Pony themed game.
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47: You hit someone with the stick.
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wellwhoopdedooo posted:e: herp, decks only have 52 cards It's a magical deck, serious wizards put a lot of effort into making new cards, so much in fact they couldn't come up with good ideas for all of them.
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Elves have a french accent, it's the law.
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There's a guy in my D&D group who's a big fantasy reader, and reads a lot of those doorstopper series where a fantasy teen discovers his destiny and navigates an insanely dense cast of vowel-hogging political figures. His character is Trogdor the Dragonborn Fighter, who is a barely contained ball of violence and murder. Does anyone else find people play completely different characters to what you'd expect?
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Jan 31, 2015 23:05
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Is there ever any crossover between WOD lines in larps? Do hunter players ever barge in and flamethrower board meetings?
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May 29, 2015 00:57
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Idea: Paranoia larp. Rent out an abandoned factory and be an rear end in a top hat for 6 hours.
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May 29, 2015 01:45
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WWWRPG really confuses me, since it's so meta. It's not just roleplaying wrestlers, it's roleplaying people playing wrestlers and doing both fake fights and narrative as well as the real backstage politics. It's loving sick but it kinda ties me in knots.
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What did you guys think the Purple Dragon was? A Dragon?
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Oct 28, 2015 00:26
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You'll need to be careful with fun magic items because often the boring +1s are part of the maths, so the goofy creativity doesn't get stopped by Dark Knights ignoring your sword and laughing off the cockring of infinite piss or whatever.
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Ran a one-shot of Monsterhearts at a meetup. I only had 2 people join up, and none of us had played Monsterhearts before, but it went really well. We came up with a school called Rivers End High in Wisconsin. We had an aloof and contemptuous Vampire, Lucia, and a thick-headed Jock Chosen called Caleb. He had a relationship with a Cheerleader, Bianca, and was being targeted by a powerful Vampire named Estragon, who was also keeping tabs on Lucia for failing to provide tribute to him. The summer vacation ended, and they came back to school. Bianca was throwing a party at her place, and invited everyone, including Lucia despite her obvious contempt for her. A preppy student named Vanessa also tried to sit next to Lucia, but was shut down with a stare and had her chair pulled out from under her, so everyone laughed at her. Caleb's friend Jared got mildly outraged and went to sit next to her. Then the new teacher came in. His name was Vladmir and he was wearing sunglasses. After school, Caleb went to Football training for the big game against the Brookdale Bears, and Bianca revealed she wanted to dump a bucket of blood on Lucia's head, like in Carrie. Caleb had no problem with this, and seemed to have no idea Lucia was a vampire despite pulling a stake out of her heart. Lucia went to Pianoforte recital, and Vladmir appeared afterwards, and revealed that Estragon would forgive her if she killed Caleb and Bianca, and accidentally revealing he had ideas of his own. On Wednesday, Caleb tried to warn Lucia about Bianca's plan by putting a note in her locker, telling her to "Come through the Back Door". He accidentally put it in Vanessa's locker. Then, Lucia checked her locker and found a provocative image of Vanessa in lingere, asking for them to meet at Willow's Peak on Thursday night. Afterwards, Lucia followed Caleb home, and charmed her way past his sister and mother to enter his room. Caleb was slow because he had to drop Bianca off, so he arrived to find Lucia in his room. She threw some cookies at him. At this point I expected things to get weird, but they had a fairly sensible conversation about Estragon and the dangers they were getting involved in. This was complicated by Julie, Caleb's sister, eavesdropping. Caleb was unable to stop her from talking, but Lucia convinced her they were going to gently caress. Julie was a fun character to run, if the sesh was going longer I'd make her a witch or something. On Thursday, Lucia went to Willow's Peak to find Vanessa waiting under a large, dead tree in a short white dress, watching the sunset. She'd clearly been having some unusual feelings about Lucia, but when she went to kiss her, Lucia put a finger to her lips, then bit her neck and drank her blood. We discussed how it felt, and decided it was a euphoric experience that left Vanessa lying on the ground, quivering in pleasure with blood dripping down her dress. Meanwhile, Caleb was at the football game, where he discovered the other team's Quarterback was out after a vampire attack. Some of the other players tried some underhanded stuff, and Caleb lead them to get revenge, but stopped it when it was about to break into a full-on fight. On Friday, Caleb went to Bianca's early to help set up the prank, but Bianca already had it sorted, thanks to the help of her dad's boyfriend, Estragon. This left plenty of time for them to hook up before the party. The first guest to arrive was Vanessa, still wearing the bloodstained dress from Friday and looking a little pale. She wanted to see Lucia again, and went to fix her make-up in the upstairs bathroom. Lucia arrived soon, but she'd realised that there'd be a trap from Vanessa mentioning the note she got, so she entered through an upstairs window and got a metalhead acquaintance to dress in her style. Bianca pulled the trigger before realising it wasn't her, and Caleb dived to save him in an attempt to look like a hero. Lucia watched from the top of the stairs and laughed, which attracted Vanessa. She was panicking, because she'd been feeling cold after Lucia bit her and her reflection wasn't in the mirror, but Lucia told her to sit, and she was too enthralled to resist, leaving her upstairs kneeling down and smiling. Lucia then had a chat with guests at the party about how much of a bitch Bianca was, and she ran crying upstairs to talk to her dad, but met with Estragon instead, who had nearly killed her father. He convinced her to try to kill Lucia in her despair, but Caleb intervened, dragging her into her room. He managed to take a stake from her, but she convinced him to let her go. Bianca confronted Lucia, but was unable to harm her and had a serious breakdown. Caleb and Lucia went to confront Estragon, but first Lucia ordered Vanessa to leave with Caleb's more chivalrous friend Jared, who could be relied upon to not do anything rash. The pair went to confront Estragon, who complimented Lucia on her behavior towards Bianca and Vanessa. Caleb tried to stake him, but Estragon crushed it in his hand and dislocated his arm with ease. He went to bite Caleb, but Lucia went to feed first, but then suddenly attacked the Vampire instead, staking him in the heart. Estragon tried to turn into a Bat and fly away, but Lucia attacked with some shards of glass from the window. She failed and was nearly dragged out the window, but Caleb managed to take her place and fell 2 stories. He'd taken enough damage to die, but he elected to become his darkest self: A self-obsessed hunter who had to hunt the biggest thing he could on his own. He picked up some shards of glass and slashed up Estragon, who managed to flee, mangled and ashamed. As Caleb stood alone in victory, the partygoers came outside to watch the scene, and see him collapse from his wounds. Lucia was dangerously wounded and alone with Bianca's Dad, near-dead from blood loss after Estragon's feeding. I encouraged her to drink his blood and finish him off, even saying she'd get away with it, but she refused. As a conclusion to the story, I had a short scene with Caleb in the hospital meeting with Jared, who was suffering from some deep wounds to his neck. Overall the game was a blast to run. I was pretty worried it wouldn't work with only 2 players, and neither of them went into angsty territory, but it went really well overall, considering it was my first time running it. I had to push the relationship stuff more than I expected to, but they went for it with glee. I'm just annoyed the guy planning to bring a transgender werewolf couldn't make it. Wrestlepig fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Dec 5, 2016 |
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Nobody batted an eye at the manipulative bdsmy lesbian teen vampire relationship from my Monsterhearts story. Maybe it's just a context thing.
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Savidudeosoo posted:I don't know anything about WH Fantasy but I loving love that frog king thing. That's a Slaad. They're basically filling the place of a bunch of ancient god-kings of the lizardmen that hosed off, and they're following the plans set for them to the letter, which has often disastrous consequences, like when they reversed continental drift because it messed with their old maps. They're also really loving powerful wizards, to the point of the most powerful of them dying and still hanging around in his mummified body through sheer will. Lizardmen are cool as hell in general. Put Lizardmen in your games 2017
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unseenlibrarian posted:There's a reason my Edge of the Empire "Everyone is a band member or roadie for a touring Cantina Band" game never got off the ground. (Everyone found out about Jizz wailing and suddenly all eligible players were like 12.) Jizz killed our eote game as well. Surprisingly common problem.
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It's strange that the best characters were the actual evil ones: Ammon Jerro and Bishop were a lot more interesting than the other characters on offer.
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The best WWWRPG character I saw was a Heel Jobber acting as an old-timey vaudeville antagonist, who did poo poo like pull giant bombs labelled BOMB from under the stage. He became the champion somehow.
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There was a guy on a podcast I was listening to (I think it was the RPPR about rpgs as therapy tools) where they had a goofy old guy as their waiter at a soup kitchen, who was then killed by the villian. Every single time the group was entirely on board with getting revenge.
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Volmarias posted:At that point, why didn't they just drop the explosives directly? Why waste the droids?
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Kwyndig posted:No I think in this case you're paying for the experience. What is with D&D and prostitutes anyway? Seems like you can't swing a dead cat in a game without hitting one. How else can I put in female characters, jeez
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To be fair if a god dies it was doing a really lovely job at omnipotence.
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Horus go on Cum Town
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Adventurer's league generally sucks, especially with the GM being a dick. See if you can find a cooler group.
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8-bit theatre is definitely way worse than 13 year old me thought but the scene where red mage confronts his hubris is incredible.
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As long as you learn a lesson it's ok.
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Tunicate posted:The rules for any contest with cain is 'you lose' He finished life Millenia before you even started, you can’t beat him
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The gm in a Dresden files fate game gave a voice for a vampire that was so amusing the cop player arrested me when I stabbed him. It was a rockabilly/Italian mobstery thing
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The Lord of Hats posted:Ran my first game of Blades in the Dark yesterday! a first session in BITD that doesn't burn the building down is a rare thing. This gang is on the track to success.
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We were all new to the system, so it started out kind of stiff, but as things went along people loosened up a lot, and we had a great time.
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I ran a Pirate-themed one-shot of World of Dungeons that was the best session I've had for ages. I went really heavy on getting the players to come up with cool details for things, and they ran with it really well. The commander of the ship was Captain Charles Krillbeard. He was loyal to his crew and an adept combatant. He had a kraken's eyeball petrified on his desk for luck, and was planning to get the rest of the kraken one day. Hades was a warlock who deserted the Imperial Navy and was heavily addicted to Quicksilver for it's magical properties, turning his eyes and veins silver. He had a magical gun made from an enchanted treasure chest with a water spirit bound to it, and a Fear spirit under far less control. The last player was Riptide, the ship's doctor, cook and cleric of the Mother of the Deep, goddess of sea creatures. He was incredibly devout, and was blessed with eyes that blinked sideways and a floating blowfish familiar that shot needles at people. He communed with the god by drinking shark blood, which the rest of the crew didn't know. I started with them running from the mansion of Imperial Admiral Ephraim, with a stolen treasure map. I asked them for a few more questions, and discovered that Hades stole all of the admiral's medals, and Riptide had desecrated an altar. They were running to their ship, called the Thirstquencher, decorated with a glass bottom and a mermaid with a stein. They swashbuckled past the guards and got away before the horde of chasing marines behind them could catch up. Once they got to safety, they discovered that the map was from the greatest pirate who ever lived, Big Hat Byron. There was a spot marked X, right in the middle of the Calm Waters, one of the many places where Riptide's goddess has died before being reborn. On the path marked was some angry looking fish, in a place where a lot of sea-mother's artifacts were found drifting around. The crew thought this was a suicide mission and threatened a mutiny, led by No-Eyes Jack with his two eyepatches. Hades started acting tough to keep them in line, huffing on quicksilver fumes to get his fear spirit manifested. It worked but got him in addict mode and had to be restrained by other crew. Krillbeard went to get Riptide, who was in the kitchen surrounded by butchered fish, drinking shark blood to commune with his god. She manifested as a giant eye watching through the glass bottom of the boat, that crusted the glass with salt. She told him to guide the others and seek the treasure as a test. Captain Krillbeard only saw him surrounded by butchered fish with his eyes all blue and with blood covering his mouth, and dragged him up to deal with Hades. The doc shot him in the back with a paralyzing needle before Hades could get more than a huff in, and he fell unconscious. Hades had a nightmare of an empty ship on a bloody sea,guided by a human figure composed of flowing quicksilver. He watched as Riptide was dragged underwater and torn apart while captain Krillbeard vomited piles of treasure until his skin started getting shredded. The figure told him be properly afraid for what is to come, and then ended the dream. Hades woke up to a fairly ordinary day, with Riptide preparing some sushi for lunch and the crew all hoisting mainsails or whatever. He told the captain about his dream, while Riptide heard singing in the ancient tongue of the deep. He translates it and it's an excerpt from Under the Sea. When it stops there's a scream from the mid deck as a crewmate, known as Potato Cake with FISH/CHIP knuckle tats, was dragged off the side. Krillbeard dragged him up but his leg had been sliced off cleanly. Riptide cauterized the wound and sang a prayer as a magical aid. As he did, voices from underwater joined in. When he stopped, a half-fish, half woman with flowing red hair with a trident in one hand, a crab claw as her other, wearing a fishnet covered in shells, bones and surface paraphernalia. A swarm of fish-people started crawling up the sides of the ship, but were stopped by good rolls for an organized crew and Hades's Fear Spirit, making the ship look like it caught fire. All the mermaids fled aside from their half-octopus captain, who tried to duel the captain but got mobbed by the crew and captured. He talked to Riptide in the tongue of the deep, and told him he should make an offering to show respect and earn safe passage, and suggested a second leg as a gift for the Princess, so that she could take them and walk on land. Riptide went to take Potato Cake's other leg, but the Captain intervened and offered his own. He got a peg-leg in exchange, as any true pirate should have. After the sunset, the princess appeared, standing on the brow, and thanked the ship for offering fealty and their submission. She beckoned over Riptide and pulled him close by his neck, and Hades fired a warning shot, refusing to submit. The Princess didn't mind, because she was afraid of the spirit in his gun. She then slashed her nails across Riptides throat, gifting him deep gashes that turned quickly into gills, and dived off the side. It was smooth sailing past that, even into the Calm Waters, but as they arrived at the marked spot, they found a whirlpool. Krillbeard stared into the center with his spyglass and saw the gleaming of gold. In a decision I still don't understand, Riptide dived in and somehow nailed a constitution check, and was pulled to the bottom. The remaining people on the ship decided to sail straight into it. The ship was spun around, but smashed through the hole in the centre and landed with a resounding thud. When they got their lights on, they saw that they were in a cavern of carved coral, with massive piles of treasure as if doubloons were sand on a beach. Riptide drank some sharkblood from a vial, and was told by his Goddess that a trial was coming for him, and he should prove himself worthy. Captain Krillbeard was drawn to a treasure chest on top of a great pile, while Hades observed some of the crew in a manic frenzy, shoveling gold into their mouths. When Krillbeard got to the chest, he found a skeleton with a giant hat and coins in its eye sockets, clawing desperately onto the chest. Krillbeard took the hat and went to open it with the skeleton's femur, but when he did the skull started chattering and screaming "THAT"S MINE! THIEF! PRETENDER!" and started animating itself, covering itself in coins that formed shifting shapes. He started sprinting back to the ship, marshaling whatever people in the crew could respond as more skeletons of dead pirates with coins for eyes emerged from under gold. Riptide was clawed badly, but managed to escape to the boat and helped guard the deck while Krillbeard went for the cannons. Hades stood and examined the skeletal figure at the chest, and realized they were animated by an incredibly powerful manifestation of Greed and Lust for Treasure. As a warlock, he was capable of commanding spirits, so he compelled the spirit to stop attacking the crew while Krillbeard opened fire with the ship's cannons and Riptide held a quick prayer to the Mother of The Deep. The Cannons hit the treasure chest, sending clothes and personal effects flying around. I was planning a quick bit of backstory for Bighat Byron but the players didn't really care. another barrage smashed apart the manifested coins, which flew across and littered the treasure hoard. Each character was now incredibly rich beyond their wildest dreams. Since World of Dungeons does that Old-School coins are XP, they'd all immediately jump to crazy high levels if there would be another session. I asked each of them what they'd do with their piles of wealth. Both Hades became king of his own pirate empire, Krillbeard made a fleet to hunt the blinded kraken, while Riptide invested in his cult, and spent his days as a messianic preacher, wandering the seas. I ended by telling them that the Greed spirit was not dead, and much of the treasure was cursed to be fought and suffered over, but each of them had proven their mastery over it, and would merely watch the hoard cause strife for decades to come. I learnt four things from running it. 1. Encourage your players to be as ridiculous and cool as possible. Ask questions and hunt for details, and let them have cool answers. Flavor and reflavor stuff as much as you can. 2. It's insanely badass to have people crawl up the side of a ship 3. Pirates are an inherently good genre for roleplaying games. A bunch of weirdos with a shared goal, piles of flavor, a reputation for audacity and a love for treasure and adventure. Can't go wrong. 4. Try to have a bit of downtime where players can explore their characters a bit. Often people get caught up in the plot, but having the PCs flesh out their personalities a bit helps later when it's all put under pressure. Wrestlepig fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Feb 5, 2019 |
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thanks for the compliments, it was a real fun game to run. World of Dungeons is very good for really quickly whipping up a game, and has plenty of space to flesh stuff out so I ended up with a lot of flavor. I've been playing around with designing a pirate game, so I'm going to be stealing a lot of that stuff for later.
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Great read and art Reene. I love burning wheel stories, they always end up as fiasco style messes.
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WWWRPG owns, I had a one shot that ended with the boss getting screwed and the championship belt going to a jobber heel with a Top-hat evil vaudeville robber baron gimmick.
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CobiWann posted:According to my DM, there's is no such superhero as Girl-On Girl. The cool thing about playing online is when you make a villain in masks that can summon dnd monsters with a magic book called Monster Manuel your players can’t punch you
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