|
Carebearz posted:I did the same thing with my Half Orc Paladin, but with a greatsword and sweet rear end Smite and great weapon master against someLich. I had a half-orc vengance paladin in a 5e Curse of Strahd game that wrapped up a month or so ago. Not only was it pretty awesome to have one of two non-angsty people in the party, the whole setup made me feel like a badass. Hitting a big badass with a critical greatsword attack with attached smite for 6d6+12d8+15 damage always feels good, and blowing through all of Strahd's 100 temporary HP in one round was also super gratifying. It didn't stop him from dropping me to 3hp or less five times in three rounds, but I'll take what I can get. I'm just really enjoying half-orcs in general in murderhobo games. Who cares about things like morals or the common good when you have people to fight? Evil tends to be stronger than good, so go kick evil in the shins until it either crushes you or you become stronger. Fighting is fun! FunkMonkey posted:My players advised me to have a prepared name back to draw on because they knew if I ever hesitated to give someone's name they clearly didn't matter and could be safely ignored. When I did Monsterhearts I ran a name generator and pulled 100 male and female names for exactly this reason. Everyone got names, generally shortly before dying. bbcisdabomb fucked around with this message at 19:11 on May 5, 2017 |
#
?
May 5, 2017 19:08
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 29, 2024 14:05 |
|
|
Robindaybird posted:Just an excerpt from a friend: A brutal headbutt from Christ and it looks like he's going for the pin but OH HERE COMES JUDAS WITH A MAJOR CROSS TO BEAR. You might want to look away for this folks. Edit: "THIS ELBOW IS MY BODY, COME EAT OF ME. OOH YEAAAAAAAAAH." Buck Wildman fucked around with this message at 19:24 on May 5, 2017 |
|
#
?
May 5, 2017 19:11
|
|
|
bbcisdabomb posted:I had a half-orc vengance paladin in a 5e Curse of Strahd game that wrapped up a month or so ago. Not only was it pretty awesome to have one of two non-angsty people in the party, the whole setup made me feel like a badass. Hitting a big badass with a critical greatsword attack with attached smite for 6d6+12d8+15 damage always feels good, and blowing through all of Strahd's 100 temporary HP in one round was also super gratifying. It didn't stop him from dropping me to 3hp or less five times in three rounds, but I'll take what I can get. 100% why Vengeance Paladins are the best Paladins
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2017 19:12
|
|
|
FunkMonkey posted:A brutal headbutt from Christ and it looks like he's going for the pin but OH HERE COMES JUDAS WITH A MAJOR CROSS TO BEAR. You might want to look away for this folks. 
|
|
#
?
May 6, 2017 22:55
|
|
|
PMush Perfect posted:If Star Wars has taught us anything, it's that there is no problem that can't be solved by liberal application of the Force and explosions. Ran a star wars game a while back where the PCs ran afoul of a bunch of droid fencers, they'd capture service droids off the city streets, disable them and then memory wipe them to re-sell. The PCs took the gang down and a big part of their "loot" was a small warehouse full of fresh-brained service droids (mostly pure household droids, with a couple of higher-functioning protocol or repair droids). So the very first thing the party tech does is wire every empty cavity in the droids with explosives. In particular almost half-a-dozen mouse droids where outfitted with remote-rigged thermal detonators. They were actually so thorough at this that at one point they realized the best approach for them to deal with a group of land-bound opponents was to fly their (barely armed) ship over them and just drop mouse-droids from the cargo bay on them, detonating them in midair.
|
|
#
?
May 6, 2017 23:31
|
|
|
oriongates posted:a bunch of droid fencers
|
|
#
?
May 6, 2017 23:57
|
|
|
FunkMonkey posted:A brutal headbutt from Christ and it looks like he's going for the pin but OH HERE COMES JUDAS WITH A MAJOR CROSS TO BEAR. You might want to look away for this folks. 
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 01:28
|
|
|
So, watermark aside, that is absolutely the Axe Cop guy.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 05:48
|
|
|
Tonight's game had the party attempting to find a way past the borg-like hordes of mecha-zombies guarding the overlord's fortress (built from the corpse of a titan.) Most opted to create a distraction and then sneak past, but not Rancor the minotaur. He grabbed an assortment of knives from his backpack and tried to convince the mecha-zombies that he was a traveling knife salesman. And also that they shouldn't try to assimilate him because then they wouldn't be able to buy knives from him at his crazy, crazy prices. It, uh. It didn't go so well for him.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 08:28
|
|
|
Falstaff posted:Tonight's game had the party attempting to find a way past the borg-like hordes of mecha-zombies guarding the overlord's fortress (built from the corpse of a titan.)
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 08:59
|
|
|
Absolutely. I wish he'd rolled better, but alas...
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 09:09
|
|
|
Falstaff posted:Tonight's game had the party attempting to find a way past the borg-like hordes of mecha-zombies guarding the overlord's fortress (built from the corpse of a titan.) I hope the player pretended his knives were Cutco knives. Everyone I know at least three people who have worked that
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 11:53
|
|
|
If he had, I would have given him a penalty on his roll. These were near-mindless borg-like mecha-zombies, but they weren't stupid.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2017 18:03
|
|
|
oriongates posted:Ran a star wars game a while back where the PCs ran afoul of a bunch of droid fencers, they'd capture service droids off the city streets, disable them and then memory wipe them to re-sell. The PCs took the gang down and a big part of their "loot" was a small warehouse full of fresh-brained service droids (mostly pure household droids, with a couple of higher-functioning protocol or repair droids). At that point, why didn't they just drop the explosives directly? Why waste the droids?
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2017 01:38
|
|
|
Volmarias posted:At that point, why didn't they just drop the explosives directly? Why waste the droids?
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2017 01:44
|
|
|
Volmarias posted:At that point, why didn't they just drop the explosives directly? Why waste the droids? Basically, it was faster to just grab a droid and hurl it overboard than grab one, open it up, take out the explosives and then hurl it out. And that's really the only reason they needed. (they basically used up all their explosives pre-emptively wiring up the droids on the apparent assumption that they might need to have an exploding droid ready to go at any moment as opposed to an explosive anything-else). oriongates fucked around with this message at 11:02 on May 9, 2017 |
|
#
?
May 9, 2017 11:00
|
|
|
It's so they could make that adorable mouse droid squeal as they plummeted to their explosive doom.
|
|
#
?
May 17, 2017 10:43
|
|
|
The level 1 cleric in the game I'm running, just decided the fastest way to get down from the top of a fort was face first. the player then proceeded to poorly explain why she decided to jump 25 feet into a pit of jackals instead of taking the stairs. of course they took exactly there hp in damage so I decided to end things there. It was just too much.
|
|
#
?
May 17, 2017 18:00
|
|
|
Last night's game, the PCs embarked on a quest to discover what was behind the strange, magical summoning that was luring their townsfolk off into the badlands (and to their subsequent doom). They track down one boy's father, deep in the grip of the siren call, who was trying to escape a pack of predatory tigeroos (tiger-kangaroo hybrids). These are epic-tier heroes, mind. They've previously achieved such feats as shattering mountains with their bare hands, sang doomsday monsters to sleep, and cured curses that were by definition incurable. They do as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Yet, in the course of the encounter: -Several PCs end up badly injured. -The father is mauled nearly to death. -One of the tigeroos ends up eating an artifact that gives it sentience and great power... -...which then escapes (to appear as a villain in a future adventure) -A fortress is leveled in the ensuing battle -In the end, they only barely manage to fight the tigeroos off. This was all during the first encounter of the adventure. It was a hilarious streak of probability-defying luck that almost stopped the adventure before it really began during what was meant to be an easy filler encounter to get things rolling. Though if nothing else, my players are looking forward to getting a rematch with the newly-awakened Neshu the Tigeroo Goddess.
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2017 23:05
|
|
|
Falstaff posted:It was a hilarious streak of probability-defying luck that almost stopped the adventure before it really began during what was meant to be an easy filler encounter to get things rolling. Yesterday during a fight with an adult red dragon, my Sorcerer literally spent the entire fight frightened by dragonfear and paralyzed by carrion crawlers because he could NOT make a save to, well, save his life. The rest of the party was getting their rear end kicked as one would when fighting an adult red dragon, and there I was getting auto-critted twice a round and worried that my level 12 Sorcerer was going to die at the hands of a CR 2 creature. To quote Skeever, "The Senators goalie made more saves today than Varis did."
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2017 12:15
|
|
|
Falstaff posted:Last night's game, the PCs embarked on a quest to discover what was behind the strange, magical summoning that was luring their townsfolk off into the badlands (and to their subsequent doom). They track down one boy's father, deep in the grip of the siren call, who was trying to escape a pack of predatory tigeroos (tiger-kangaroo hybrids). This reminds me of when a string of critical fumbles, critical hits, and just plain failures led a character in one of my old 3.0 D&D games to get treed by three wolves. Not dire wolves, not celestial wolves or whatever. Just vanilla wolves. The character was level five or six. And was a ranger. He never lived that down. CobiWann posted:Yesterday during a fight with an adult red dragon, my Sorcerer literally spent the entire fight frightened by dragonfear and paralyzed by carrion crawlers because he could NOT make a save to, well, save his life. The rest of the party was getting their rear end kicked as one would when fighting an adult red dragon, and there I was getting auto-critted twice a round and worried that my level 12 Sorcerer was going to die at the hands of a CR 2 creature. As both a Pens fan and as a DM, I heartily approve of this post.
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2017 12:43
|
|
|
CobiWann posted:Yesterday during a fight with an adult red dragon, my Sorcerer literally spent the entire fight frightened by dragonfear and paralyzed by carrion crawlers because he could NOT make a save to, well, save his life. The rest of the party was getting their rear end kicked as one would when fighting an adult red dragon, and there I was getting auto-critted twice a round and worried that my level 12 Sorcerer was going to die at the hands of a CR 2 creature.
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2017 12:55
|
|
|
Continuing the trend of mathematical improbability, I have never rolled so many 1s for damage in my life as I did last night. On one attack, I did 6 damage on 4d6. Which was really lucky for my players since they decided to attack a city of drow in the volcano lair of the dragon ruler, who recently ascended to godhood (aka 1 level in Dragon Ascendant). They decided to abandon the attack since they were still getting beaten down by the sheer number of drow defenders and the dragon basically only missing on a 1.
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2017 14:17
|
|
|
Yawgmoth posted:Continuing the trend of mathematical improbability, I have never rolled so many 1s for damage in my life as I did last night. On one attack, I did 6 damage on 4d6. Which was really lucky for my players since they decided to attack a city of drow in the volcano lair of the dragon ruler, who recently ascended to godhood (aka 1 level in Dragon Ascendant). They decided to abandon the attack since they were still getting beaten down by the sheer number of drow defenders and the dragon basically only missing on a 1.
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2017 14:28
|
|
|
PMush Perfect posted:Were you trying to spook them or kill them? We were absolutely going to get killed if we didn't pull out. Yawg has a way with encounter design that lets the players realize they're in over their heads organically, without him having to explicitly tell us that it's too strong for us.
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2017 14:34
|
|
|
Railing Kill posted:As both a Pens fan... 
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2017 14:55
|
|
|
I was playing in an Alternity Dark*Matter game (think X-Files) many years ago, where our combat character had a flaw where a critical failure on an attack roll would cause him to take a wound level, representing a never fully healed war wound that acted up occasionally. The party got ambushed on the road, he took cover behind the van, and critically failed three firearm attacks in a row, causing him to pass out without actually being attacked during the whole fight. e: lol, just realized I posted this story in this very thread like 3 years ago Lucky Guy fucked around with this message at 20:47 on May 22, 2017 |
|
#
?
May 22, 2017 20:43
|
|
|
PMush Perfect posted:Were you trying to spook them or kill them? I can't wait for next week, when they try to defend a incredibly desecrated and horror-riddled ziggurat from three drow tribes at once. I expect there will be some planning involved on the hike there.
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2017 21:45
|
|
|
So let me step back a little on my last post because i was mentally exhausted when i wrote it. I'm running a campaign with 6 players and for the most part things are going good. the players are a team of assassins taking out criminals, bandits,and corrupt nobles and everyone has buy in. the thing isis that there's one player who... well... okay so there character is a cleric of the trickery domain, a servant of tiamat, okay so far. but it was once the game started that things started to get... weird. the players first decided to split up to case a business there first target was hiding, maintain a low profile, etc. what does her character consider maintaining a low profile? Ordering all of the raw meat in the establishment. So that's character quirk number 1. eating raw meat. now the players learned the building is owned by a tiefling mobster. things get weird when while everyone else is plotting on how to get the target out of the building, our special player decides to crush on the mob lady. but whatever it works. but then after killing her lieutenant. she goes back to the scene of the murder to ask mob lady out on a date to which she, the mobster, politely declined. so next week. this is where things begin to escalate. we are doubling down on the raw meat thing. to the point that she refuses to purchase rations. but now that's old news because her character has taken to saying the word "pleasurable" as her catchphrase. now, none of this has me as concerned as her desire to actively be the least stealthy member of the party. while half the party is luring the target to an ambush she decides to instead, just stand in the open. I don't let it set back the rest of the groups plan. Then she decides to declare to all of the players at the table that she wants to have sex with the Dragonborn. there's a pause of bewilderment, because seriously where the gently caress did that come from, and i make the mistake of leaving it to the dice. well the dice lead to the highest rolls of the night, i have the dragonborn ask for her hand in marriage because this is like a joke right? no. she says and i quote "No, sex first". mercifully another player offers just to shoot the drat dragonborn and end this awkward hell, but that leads to the two players turning against each other at which point I invoke the "This never happend" rule and jump back to the fight before. Once the fight is over they discover the target was hauling child slaves. our special player asked to keep the cutiest one to which everyone answered "No." Then there was the boobie-lady Incident, weird but unremarkable, but we I now know her characters cupsize though. And finally there was the jumping off of a fort. just jumping down from 40 feet up. she spent half the next session unconscious because no other character had a healing potion. they could have left her dead but begrudgingly they all worked together to save the unconscious dragonborn cleric packed with rotting meat from a pack of wild jackals. How did her character repay the others? By abandoning the team mid encounter to loot the fort then go to sleep. I'm sure that at least 3 of the players are done with her poo poo and two are mildly concerned about her mental health. Personally i don't know what to do. I know at least a couple people i'd rather be playing with but i don't know. Interesting side note. the only npc's she's wanted to bone where the ones I drew. I don't know what to do with that information either.
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2017 23:16
|
|
|
You already know what you need to do. Whatever issues she's having, keeping her in your D&D game is not the way to treat them.
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2017 23:27
|
|
|
OmanyteJackson posted:Bad gaming stuff 
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2017 23:27
|
|
|
Holy poo poo, that chick has issues, and probably thinks she's being HILARIOUS.
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2017 23:33
|
|
|
Also:  WARNING! As tempting as it may be, do not stick your dick in the crazy.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2017 00:58
|
|
|
Nurture your special snowflake and keep us informed. It's for 
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2017 01:33
|
|
|
OmanyteJackson posted:I'm sure that at least 3 of the players are done with her poo poo and two are mildly concerned about her mental health. Personally i don't know what to do.  Seriously, you have 5 players without her? That's heavy by one when I run games. She's dead weight in character and a loving nightmare out of character. There is absolutely no reason for you to let this person stick around.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2017 02:32
|
|
|
With someone like that, you have two options: You ask her to not come back, or keep her and end up with 2-3 players quitting down the line because they can't stand it
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2017 02:51
|
|
|
Robindaybird posted:With someone like that, you have two options: You ask her to not come back, or keep her and end up with 2-3 players quitting down the line because they can't stand it Seconding this. Sever.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2017 02:52
|
|
|
If you want to be nice, you can pull herself aside and warn her to play nice and stop disrupting the game and tell her that's her one and final chance, otherwise she's gone. But I suspect if she's that disruptive and unconcern about being cooperative that such a warning won't make her shape up and may cause her to flounce.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2017 03:06
|
|
|
OmanyteJackson posted:Then there was the boobie-lady Incident, weird but unremarkable, but we I now know her characters cupsize though. Pretty sure we all know what she's hinting at. And is that really JUST her characters cupsize? Cartoon posted:Nurture your special snowflake and keep us informed. It's for This because this thread needs more cringe stories and you're sitting across from a veritable goldmine.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2017 03:10
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 29, 2024 14:05 |
|
|
Nerds are really really bad at pruning awful/crazy people out of their social or gaming circles.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2017 03:31
|
|
