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Um, something very much like this happened during a 2nd edition game I was in. Goddam...
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# ¿ Feb 29, 2012 22:03 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 10:19 |
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ShadowCatboy posted:Oh this I gotta hear. Long story short, our cleric gets ganked by a beholder, after ransacking the place we decide to get back to town. Cleric's player whines and cajoles us to haul his carcass back, and the treasure too, since our DM was enough of a cockbag that anything left behind had a percentage chance of getting stolen by the local scavengers (Goblins, Kobolds, whatever), which seems rather reasonable in hindsight. Anyways, being that we're all veteran grognards of first edition, same thing happens: No one trusts anyone else to carry their share of the loot, no one is strong enough to carry the cleric AND the cleric's stuff (honestly, we wouldn't have heard the end of it if we left any of his poo poo behind) AND their share of the loot. So we chopped him up, Sin City style, complete with someone saying "Yeesh..." Halfway back to town we're down to one third HPs (remember, we lost our walking med kit) from fending off scavengers and various predators because we smell like an abattoir. We're getting pretty pissed off about the whole thing, really; mainly because the Cleric's player keeps whining about the cost of a Resurrection spell and how it had better not come out of his share, but be distributed fairly as per our group's charter (seriously, we had a group charter and everything. Made it a lot easier all around). I had the head (I was an Invoker, so lowest strength), so whenever he was being a douchenozzle I'd give it a healthy kick into the bushes. That usually shut him up. It got so bad with him complaining we jumped at the chance to leave him behind. We came across the same farmhouse and barn we passed on the way to the dungeon, I remembered the flavour text about the fine crop of vegetables so I asked the DM what veggies were there. He made an offhand remark about carrots and cucumbers, so we went up to the house and made a deal with the farmer: since he grows carrots and cucumbers, there's a good chance he pickles them. Sell us a barrel of pickling brine and a wheelbarrow. We got back to town, Rezzed the Cleric and all was well. After that we called him "Father Vlasic" from then on.
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# ¿ Feb 29, 2012 22:39 |
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Liquid_Table posted:Because of this thread I can no longer listen to political news without imagining the candidates as anything more than a bunch of nerds, scarfing Cheetos, chugging mountain dew and bitching about which version of D&D is best. Yes, thank you ShadowCatboy.
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2012 01:22 |
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Xaiter posted:I bought onthecampaigntrail.org. Does anyone have a place to host this gold? I can whip up a quick page using jQuery that'll let you play the GIFs in order using a couple of buttons and maybe a list or something. That would be Awesome!
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2012 03:05 |
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Brother Jonathan posted:I assume that you know of the famous death of Frederick Barbarossa during the Third Crusade? No, but I was aware of Admiral Nelson's death. He died at sea, and they preserved his hi9s body in a barrel of rum. DFurinhg the voyage home sailors had drilled up from below the barrel, thinking that no one would worry about the level of rum left. When the ship got back to port the barrel was empty. Everyone had drunk the rum Nelson was pickled in. That's why rum is sometimes referred to as "Nelson's blood." Edit: Please forgive me. I'm drunk and had a lovely young lady sitting in my lap for most of the night.
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2012 09:08 |
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Bobbie Wickham posted:"STOP HAVING IDEAS!" I think I just found my new FaceBook status. This. gently caress yes.
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2012 09:13 |
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Mindbleach posted:Do you need the whole body for a resurrection? I was under the impression the head was enough. It says "Some small portion." Most DMs I played with can be sticklers, so to be better safe than sorry I usually haul the whole body back. It also says "regardless of condition" so really, if someone in the party has butchering or taxidermy skills dragging along a bag of bones would do. But like I said the DM was a cockbag, so we didn't want to give him any wiggle room.
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2012 22:44 |
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Yep, this is pretty much like some parties, unfortunately. I'd like to think that most wouldn't be complete bastards, but I know better.
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# ¿ Mar 3, 2012 21:00 |
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VendaGoat posted:I've DMed this campaign before. poo poo, anyone who's slung the dice on that side of the screen has DMed that campaign. Hell, some of us have played that campaign.
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# ¿ Mar 9, 2012 02:17 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 10:19 |
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ShadowCatboy posted:Pretty much this. Santorum as the incumbent had suffered a catastrophic loss by a margin of almost 20%. Part of this was due to the whole campaign to relabel his name, though the fact that people were sick of Republicans and that he was loving insane were also factors. His entire family seemed bewildered and shocked. Not just that, but also the teen boy standing behind her, looking like an overfed deer caught in the headlights. I remember a Photoshop thread came out of that picture. It was hilarious, but I couldn't find it for longest time after it made the rounds through GBS. Anyone have a link?
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