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Guildencrantz posted:7 gods No joke, I would read the poo poo out of this if it was a 7 book series.
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Yawgmoth posted:Yeah, the "here's an awesome magic item! Oh, you like that? HAHA TOO BAD NOW IT'S GONE" thing is something that I only ever see people with huge control issues doing. It's a double dick move to say "I'm gonna give you this thing, now here's an event that will bring you into the party and integrate you somewhat with the setting that if you get involved with will permanently revoke that thing! Do you keep that thing I gave you or do you try to have fun? you can only pick one." Dude got the magic cape of camoflage and was explicitly told "If you lose track of it you will never find it". What does he do? He sets it down on the ground somewhere and fucks off. Dude couldn't even put it in his pack when he was done getting painted red. He just loving left it in a field. I don't think that the GM should gently caress players but the PC or the player himself deserved that one.
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SlimWhiskey posted:I was talking last night with a girl who used to play in a game I ran. She's since moved, and I asked if she had found a new game to play in. I'm kind of curious how best to handle this. The game is supposed to have weight limits, and currency itself has weight so that if you have literally millions of copper pieces, it presents an interesting logistical problem. Most of the games I play don't even keep track of ammo, though, let alone people's weights and such. Penalizing her for not eating lunch is kind of stupid (it should be a "don't forget to tick off a ration in your inventory!" sort of thing, not a "ha ha, you forgot to eat, stupid!" kind of thing), but I really feel like the inventory management adds an interesting dimension which usually gets ignored for convenience. How do the rest of you handle this? Do you let players just ignore weight altogether? Do you keep track of perishables/ammo/etc?
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Side Effects posted:TL;DR: A fat nerd gets so angry at kids that he has a heart attack and then uses the experience to better his life. You made the guy ragequit living.
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FredMSloniker posted:Wait, did the DM give you an artifact that randomly dicks you over and then override the randomness when it suited his fancy? (Or did you still get the mechanical benefits?) Rule of cool. It immediately foreshadowed the Kraken.  I'd allow it.
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Dareon posted:Unless it's a Wookiee and you happen to like making Wookiee noises. And really, who doesn't. I started making wookie noises to my infant yesterday, and she went wild over it. Between that and her wanting to eat nachos, I think everything is going to turn out alright 
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Asehujiko posted:I have this problem too with my Dark Heresy group, who, left to their own devices to come up with Rogue Trader characters presented me with the challenge of making a campaign for 5 near identical Arch Militants and a Senechal who only picked that class because of the Inferno Pistol and proceeded to act like he was an Arch Militant too. Any challenges I throw their way have to involve their starting skills because their spending pattern is Ballistic Skill -> Sound Constitution -> Rapid Reload/Quick Draw/etc. There's no reason they can't be dispatched to a warzone, of course. In the future there is yadda yadda
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goatface posted:Clearly they should all be playing Orks. This. This is the correct path. Suggest this to your players.
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Everything Counts posted:I still have him, of course; my son plays with him, and maybe someday I can use Eagle to tell the boy about how sometimes wishes come true--even if it's not exactly how you expect. You can tell your son a heartwarming story about how wishes come true for the truly thick and bullheaded
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AlphaDog posted:Removed Seargeant Timms' axe arm at the shoulder with a ridiculously good crit. Sergeant Timms was not worried - he's got a lot of hit points left and reattaching arms is not a huge problem for a skilled cleric. The bleeding's going to be a problem, but he can sort that out after he kills this rear end in a top hat. He shifted his huge axe to his off hand and dealt a mighty blow to the bad guy, who responded by... removing his remaining arm at the shoulder with another crit. How many Monty Python jokes did your group endure that night? e: \/\/ 
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Xaander posted:So I'm currently GMing a campaign based on space-archaeology and mystery solving, where the three-man party (Assassin, detective, scientist) works for an agency investigating alien ruins and unexplained mysteries. Considering that your scientist guy is a murderer, and the detective isn't that much better, I'd say it's more that your big bad is out for justice.
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Shady Amish Terror posted:They're PC's. And they're PC's that 'mercy-killed' (for convenience) his daughter, and for no apparent reason randomly drugged and killed his wife. It's times like these that I remember that the best description of PCs in most games is "murder hobos"
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Solomonic posted:Here it is. I googled "white dragon death star" and somehow that's not a band name yet. Well, that didn't end quite how I expected. Pretty awesome story.
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BlackIronHeart posted:I had a pretty great GM experience tonight! I'm running a 7th Sea game and the group has gradually shifted over to becoming a Social Justice brigade, doing their best to right the wrongs of corrupt nobility. They're in not-quite-Revolution-era alterna-France and really not appreciating what the Sun King is doing to his country and people. There was some intrigue in previous sessions that necessitated a clandestine meet with a new contact but they left it up to their new acquaintance to decide when and where. Where should swashbucklers meet someone when anonymity is necessary? A night at the opera, of course! Bonus points if your next play is "The King In Yellow" and your campaign suddenly converts from 7th Sea to Call of Cthulhu.
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Captain_Indigo posted:My weapon is my wit! I hope you gave him some sort of bonus for that, for being clever as poo poo.
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The frog people have no understanding of the word, they look to one another in confusion, then insist that you surrender your wit immediately.
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Colon V posted:Now I'm imagining them as less-dysfunctional Batman and the Joker. (Let's not have a 'Batman's alignment' argument, please.) He's not the alignment that we want, but perhaps he's the alignment that we deserve.
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The Deleter posted:My group just threw the gigantic, highly opulent couch ... across an underground river, the party bard reclining on it all the way ... and the bard delivering such harsh burns that surrounding enemies combusted to ash Your bard sounds amazing. Your group sounds amazing.
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saberwulf posted:I'm the bard in this campaign, and it's completely amazing. The best I've ever played, hands down. It's just been a perfect example that good players can make any setting work in almost any system. I am seriously jealous of you guys and your group.
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LordZoric posted:Hahahaha really? I am not at all surprised. Despite lots of talk from the GM about publishing our campaigns as a novel someday, most of the plots have usually turned out to be copied almost plot-point by plot-point from some comic he's read. I'm curious, which parts of it did he rip off? Yeah you need to  asap, and if he's just as lovely a player as a GM, then you really ought to just not game with him, period. It sounds like your only purpose is to be NPCs in his story, and he really doesn't give a poo poo if you have fun.
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Contest Winner posted:We found out last week that, as it turns out, the secret messages were him telling the GM that he was sending presents home to his wife. That reveal actually made my day
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Captain Bravo posted:When I shanghai'd their portal back to thrust them into a new adventure, he got kind of mad at me. Not because of the adventure, he loves things to kill and things to steal. No, he got a little miffed because by screwing with their portal I prevented him from taking his wife a new dress he had woven out of a mysterious cloth they had found. Surprisingly enough, his training as a tailer comes up almost more often than his rogue background. Was he playing Garak?
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I'm not sure what the problem is. They cleared out the dungeon, even if they didn't do it by being murder hobos.
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Flavivirus posted:Ah yes, Continuity. One of their best adventures, and always a blast to run. Mine ended with an octomorph propelled by an improvised jet pack fending zombies away from the self-destruct button while the remaining two people fought each other tooth and nail for a space in the escape pod. Good times So, what happens if you turn on the radios?
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Went to Hell posted:This is where you settle the PCs as farmhands on an idyllic farm, introduce them to their coworkers - who are all friendly, likeable people - and establish the farm as something worth protecting. Let them roll their farming skills for a couple weeks to a month, and pay them accordingly. Then you send in the band of orc marauders to burn down the farm and menace the PC's new friends. Seems an evil wizard has amassed an army of monsters and is now marching on the peaceful kingdom's capital. The heroes can either stay and defend the farm until it is overrun or abandoned, or they can travel to another farm, which will also come under attack from the ever-encroaching orc army. The attacks will keep happening, unless some brave heroes go forth and quell the invasion. Have them roll for every week for the skill check. And roll for thieves. And for famine. And for war. And for disease. And for....
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SpaceYeti posted:The next one is one of my favorite traps ever, and I try to work one into ever campaign, if not every "dungeon". I call it the "Rock on a rope" trap. Basically, a stick or something is propped against the backside of a door, holding up a rock, or brick, or hammer, or whatever, which is attached to a rope or chain or whatever which is attached to the door frame. Opening the door moves the stick or whatever and causes the rock or whatever to swing towards whoever opened the door. It's a cheap trap, and one easy to avoid or notice beforehand, but good old Bob didn't even bother looking for a trap. He just swung the door open and got a face full of rock. This is also extra funny because he had a pretty good reflex defense. It's almost as though my dice like to punish characters who are good at certain things, but he could have also avoided the trap by looking for it, like most traps he fell for. Let me guess; your group now compulsively checks for traps in every possible encounter, including benign ones, throws kobolds down a hallway, and generally takes an hour to do things that should take a minute. quote:Another time the group was in a dungeon that had undead in it. They made their way to a room with two hallways in the back corners. The hallways gently sloped downward. I'm not sure why, but the players decided there was a trap in the hallways. I can't imagine why.  quote:Incidentally, they were correct. Perhaps they knew me.  I get the feeling that you're going to reply with "This post had explosive runes! You take 10 damage!"
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Minutia posted:You Wake Up With A Boner On the one hand, these are excellent stories. On the other hand, this is kind of like watching "Hoarders" thinking that it's going to be fun like other trashy reality shows, until you realize that the show is about people with real mental illnesses that aren't getting treated who aren't just mugging for the camera. Basically I'm saying that your DM stores Cat Pee and I'm glad that you've moved on to a new group.
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OmniDesol posted:Extremely well, all things considered. We had just taken out the principal source of the zombie infestation in Barovia (which is the lead-in quest to the whole Castle Ravenloft thing) and had come across Ireena Kolyana, the NPC that Count Strahd is trying to enslave/make his thrall/marry, and noticed that she had vampire bite marks, but that she had not yet turned. Our original plan was to just hide her inside our warrior, a giant rock person, to protect her from becoming a full vampire. However, we later came upon a blacksmith, who had managed to survive the whole zombie thing by wearing a Pendant of Good Health. The gears started turning, and the following conversation went a little like this: Wouldn't this just make Count Strahd super angry at your party for basically cock-blocking him?
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Minutia posted:Yuuuup. Sever.
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Minutia posted:That's hilarious, because the person playing the half-orc bard was actually the sweetest person in the group, who earnestly wanted to solve the adventure in the nicest possible manner (by using a lot of diplomacy checks and also dismantling the anthrocentric wizard-supremacist capitalist hegemony). I don't know that Paranoia would be her game (isn't it pretty cutthroat?), but it does sound like a game for groups that are good at derailing plots. Do you have any good stories about it? Search through this thread, and if you have archives search through the Best Experiences thread that this one came from. The stories about paranoia sound magical and make me want to find a group to play it with. 
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EVIR Gibson posted:most of the time, Friend Computer doesn't know a drat thing This is obviously a test; friend computer wouldn't give us that kind of propaganda unless he wanted us to read it, and if he wanted us to read it that implies that he's against friend computer, that is, himself. Since this is a fallacy, it's clear that he only wanted to see how we would react. Since we trust in friend computer, we know not to take anything in that document seriously, and thus we will ignore the self-termination suggestion.
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the_steve posted:He had once told me, in private, that he had kicked around the idea of having her get gang-raped by The theme of this thread seems to be "don't let your daughters date GMs"
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Commoners posted:Magical Ted Kaczynski OK, that's a pretty neat gimmick... quote:They eventually started using forest animals to deliver these things to people prior to fighting, so they'd take a message from a monkey, begin reading it, and then blow up fantastically before starting the fight. ... and that made me laugh out loud. It sounds like an adventure that had the potential to be some sort of horrible grognardy "save vs arbitrary death" experience that turned out to be pretty awesome and fun. Commoners posted:It's written right there. Snap his neck. Then stand up, leave, and never talk to the people again. Do it in game too. That's actually a decent way to do it, although they'll probably just retcon that poo poo and the guy can continue having his little creepy fantasy.
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moosecow333 posted:We only play about four sessions before I managed to convince the group to abandon the game. Despite its short game time it left a very bitter taste in my mouth but it did teach me a number of important Do's and Don'ts for when I took up the DMing title. Four?! At least fantasy manor looked fabulous... Do you have ANY idea what the DM was actually going for? Was this some passive aggressive way of punishing you?
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Night10194 posted:The session ended in them baptizing a central processing unit in the name of the God Emperor and converting the ship-AI into a steadfast ally. The Explorator is apoplectic they ended up essentially making an alliance with an Abominable Intelligence, because I'm not sure he understands this is Rogue Trader, not Dark Heresy, and they're supposed to be doing this kind of crazy poo poo. Aren't sentient AIs massively heretical at this point in time? Shouldn't a sister of battle know this?
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Octagon N posted:My bardbarian sings a rich and deep baritone note as he plunges his sword into the beholders eye, it dies midair, and he finds himself riding its plunging corpse down some 80 feet into the chasm below. Several d10 later he stands up still above half HP, surveys the 20-foot-radius of beholder gore around him, picks up the beholder crown he finds/the DM grants, places it firmly on his head, and is pleased. Yeah, it's not like would want to disallow that 
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Camoes posted:Well, one time in Warhammer Fantasy RPG, my group accepted a quest to kill a dwarf diplomat who was going to deliver a proposal of peace to the elves (keep in mind we were quite new to this sort of game). I... what?  Did player one think that the guards were going to be grossed out and leave?
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Traditional Games > Get yourself a real DM and test the measure of your nuts and or ovaries - Catpiss megathread
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