The way I see it, subtle dickery is no less dickish than obvious dickery... Hopefully you aren't just leading the Palading to a lose-lose scenario just so you can shout "GOTCHA!" and take his class features away... :/ Don't really go for Gotcha's either. I'm looking for situations that run the line and can tip over should the paladin take a convenient route. Gotcha's are boring. I also use liberal hints from his god when he starts to cross the line. I.e. He suggested stealing for convenience once and his money pouch string broke (Abadaran).
Ok, I'm the GM, and I don't go for obvious paladin dickery. I like messing with paladins in ways that make them really wonder if they are messing up or not. Knowing this, here is the setup so far... The party cleric is on the edge of death and for story reasons he is out without major help. Que GM story shenanigans where the party is introduced to a hags coven. The hags ask for three tasks in exchange for a draught of regeneration which will restore said cleric. First task is recovering the living head of a troll. The second is fetching rare poisonous roots. The third is...? I'm having trouble coming up with a doozy of a task that is not obviously evil. No steal a unicorns horn. No switch out a baby changeling wise, etc. Everything up till now has been possibly evil but in black and white terms has been not over the line given the circumstances. Bonus Fun fact, the hags speak in rhyme. I've got 16 lines of rhyme for their main bit so far, and some 4 line bits for possible side questions.
Completely off-OP Topic, but... Wow... visited the forums for the first time in ages, and saw the VC title next to Thea's name. I already knew of it, but it really just sunk in. You guys gave a VC-ship to a rabbit. :P *Don't kill me Thea!
Situational on how experienced the player is and how long they've been active. The more stars and levels the heavier I lay down the law.
I'm pretty sure it's a misprint. If you swap the cost of the aurochs with the bison, they both seem a lot more reasonable. However, I'm still wary of player exploitation.In any case, I think the bigger problem is a combat-trained bison for 75 gp. How many level 1 characters can show up with a CR 4 encounter following their commands?Oh wow. Just looked up the bison. Trample for 2d6+12 at a DC 20 reflex for half. At level 1, as soon as the bison's initiative comes up you just trample everything and win the encounter. That is a crazy effective use of 75 GP. I'm tempted to spring this on some of my local GM's just to see what they do. >:)
In the Kalamazoo region, 14 year old Nate Merrell has been working hard towards his 1st star. Yesterday he accomplished that. Congrats Nate! To my knowledge he's the youngest "starred" GM in Michigan, and we're curious does anyone knows of a younger GM with stars?
This was my first time going to Gamicon Chi. It was by far one of the best cons I've been to. The players were fun, the other GM's were great. I got some great ideas for my own cons from it. I even got a Midnight Madness session in of #2-12 Below the Silver Tarn which apparently is a sleeper scenario of awesomeness. I was the highest voted GM at the con and was awarded a swanky Rune Giant courtesy of Todd Morgan. I got lucky and was one of the few GM's who got a piece of Tyler Walpoole art that he graciously donated to 1 GM per slot at random. I was the halfling that was literally dragged out of the "Auction" during the special by the Knee-Breakers. FYI...you can still see where my fingernails were scraped across the door as I fought not to be taken away to my doom. :) Thank you Thea for convincing me to come out. Thank you Todd Morgan, Jim Tinklenberg, Wes Nicholson, Andy Christian, Jon Dehning, Mike Lindner, and all of the various players for making it the blast that it was. I will be definitely coming out next year, and will be looking to convince as many Michigan players as I can to come as well!
She's cranky that I'm making her wear her knee immobilizer per the doctors orders. I'll otherwise be in sandpoint egging on goblins to kill pc's.
Was keeping a mental count of tables as the con went on. Assuming I haven't missed a table or something, I believe we ran 42 tables. Which would mean 100% growth from last year. We turned a couple players away due to their unwillingness to play a new character and not having a high tier in the slot. We gave out about a dozen new player cards. Lots of new fans.
Just one of the twins. An ongoing schtick for that character is to moon over a character or NPC for the entirety of a session. My pirate acts hung over for all of his sessions. My inquisitor is monosyllabic as much as I can get away with.
He was trying to lull you into complacency and then, WHAM! 39 sessions in 3 days. I suggest stealing the session sheets and shredding them before he can enter them, Eric. It's your only hope of winning now. I've finally mastered Hive mind cloning. I can run them all, and play at every slot too! :P Seriously, I wish I had that power. Minus the whole sucking up my kid thing.
I'll be there possibly running around like a chicken with it's head cut off, or finally have leveled up high enough to have gained "Not look like a chicken" class ability of the coordinator class. :P Wonder when I get the "Stern look of doom while reviewing the gaming floor" Mike Brock has. That was an impressive power.
Definitely slowing down. It's starting to become work. I'm getting yelled at by my Wife. I am always tired. I'm so stressed I'm starting to get sick. Nope, definitely time to slow down. It's the 50+ work week, the new house, the 2-year old, the dying dog, my family, behind on my paint schedule, behind on my Swallowtail. I'm finding once again that I am but one man, and I have yet to master hive mind cloning. :P |
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