DivineCoffeeBinge posted:

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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:

Temascos posted:

Had a fun game with my Skype group, we Fudged up some rules and played "superheroes", the following transcript was written by our DM which is fairly comprehensive.

DivineCoffeeBinge posted:

I believe that his response to learning about this was "Yeah, that's fuckin' dumb."

Something tells me we're not going to see it come up in-game.

Psalmanazar posted:

Elves have a french accent, it's the law.

Talkc posted:

I think the most dickish thing I've ever done running paranoia, was convince a troubleshooter to write a requisition form in his own blood in order to get a ball point pen, to fill out requisition forms.

ItalicSquirrels posted:

Alternatively, don't make them be just orcs. If the one society is cool with slavery, it makes sense they'd enslave others too.

AceClown posted:

For the love of god don't give them a comedy slave accent or it's gonna devolve into a blazin saddles/django quote fest which is not cool.

ItalicSquirrels posted:

Basically, the catpiss content comes down ultimately to how okay your group members are with this. If any of them are not totally on board with the idea, you may not be cat piss but you're definitely pissing into the litter box.

Cardiovorax posted:

Just do yourself a favour and drop the whole idea. You do not want to be remembered as the guy who tried to do "social commentary" by equivocating blacks and orcs.

Samizdata posted:

Played a great OD&D session with some people I have never played with before on Google Hangouts/Roll20 this weekend.

Railing Kill posted:

Conjurers: history's greatest monsters.

Guildencrantz posted:

D&D is a bad game

Robindaybird posted:

there's no way to actually kill a hill.

Splicer posted:

Rodent Centurion would be a pretty good name change

Golden Bee posted:

Achaemenid Persian

CobiWann posted:

It is the same group, down to level 1 PC's, still 5th edition rules, set 150 years after Az's defeat. We have a War Wizard, an Artificer, a Cleric, a Barbarian, a Gunslinger patterned off of Critical Role, and I'm playing a Fighter. We're starting in January and the focus is MUCH more local as opposed to the world spanning campaign of the last one.

The DM wrote a setting guide for the campaign and gave me permission to hand it out to people if they want to see it. Drop me an e-mail address in a PM and I'll e-mail back a copy.

chitoryu12 posted:

I think mine would pass muster in that case, since a big part of the setting is monsters being immune to anything except specific weakness like silver, bronze, brass, consecrated iron, salt, etc. and it makes logical sense that more silver would mean more damage.

Leraika posted:

I, too, enjoy having a story told to me that I have no meaningful contribution to for several weeks in a row.

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Altanzai! City of gold, danger and shadows! Make your fortune, lose your fortune, fall in love and get your throat slit! One guy did it all on the same day. There's a song about him.

On an unusually hot day, the air filled with the din of commerce, a young Tiefling woman performed music for watching children. A half-orc enjoyed an ice cream, watching the comings and goings of the guards at the bank carefully. And an elf searched the library for rare tomes.

Then the bank exploded.

Masked figures ran out with bulging sacks, each armed – remarkably – with black powder pistols and throwing gunpowder into the crowd indiscriminately. Jagger (the half-orc) chose this moment to make himself scarce, while Scruffy (the elf) retreated to the library. Symphony (the tiefling) threw herself on a wayward grenade to save the children around her. The guard arrested them, intending to ask them questions later (and in Scruffy's case, because he was unjustly accused of stealing books). Before they could be interrogated, they broke out, killing guards on the way, and resolved to find the thieves themselves, regaining recompense for their half hour of jail time.

Searching the city and asking around, the intrepid crew split up in disguise – Carson discovered that stolen from the bank was a safe deposit box that officially didn't exist, Symphony tracked the culprits down to a group known as "The Remnants", bitter that the war ended as it did and keen to keep fighting for the Empire, and Scruffy found the culprits fled into the sewer.

Tracking them to their lair, they killed some guards, stole their clothes and infiltrated. Meeting another group, there was a brief, awkward conversation before they realised that the second group were infiltrating as well.

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Following them to the treasure room, combat ensued, with the genuine remnants backing up the party against what appeared to be a small group of demon cultists. Symphony, however, got trapped against two real and quite angry remnants, and so pretended to be a kissagram before commencing to murder them.

The demon cultists were taken down quite quickly, but not before releasing a shadow demon from a black gem. As it sped towards the armoury, Symphony cast Thaumaturgy, convincing the men attacking her that their rage and lust had condemned them to eternal damnation.

Then the armoury exploded. Surviving unscathed, our intrepid heroes grabbed all the loot they could and ran to relative safety, plotting how to spend their kind-of ill-gotten gains.