I had to do something while waiting for my friend's wedding to start, and I'd already statted up my NPCs, so here you go:
-You would never be allowed to solve an problem through open violence.
-You would have to make a will save vs whining before bringing the bad guy to justice no matter how much evidence you have.
-Characters could take mental damage from nagging wives.
-you're not allowed above 3rd level.
-no pc casters
ROMEO = Dwarf
JULIET = Elf
Now you can see why the family hate each other:)
If Shakespeare played Call of Cthulhu:
Romeo's family would secretly be a cult of Hastur. And they'd be denizens of Leng. His professions of love for Juliet would sound a bit differently ("I'll love you for several years, until the Stars Will Be Right Again and we all die a horrible, painful death and our souls will be devoured!"). Paris would defeat him, but be eaten alive in front of Romeo by a pack of Hounds of Tindalos. Juliet would turn out to be Nyarlathotep wearing a mask.
If Shakespeare played Human Occupied Landfill:
Romeo would slaughter Juliet's whole family, then his own family, then half the intergalactic church, including the Space Pope. That would all turn out to be a lucky coincidence for him, because he'd later find out that they don't want him to hang out with Juliet.
What he'll do to Juliet I don't want to relate here (this information is not suitable for children and adults under 1000 years of age), but the intergalactic police would end up killing him by blowing up the whole solar system he was in at the time. It's the only way to be sure he's really dead.
ROMEO = Dwarf
JULIET = Elf
Now you can see why the family hate each other:)
Actually, Planescape did a riff on this in one of their adventures (though I honestly can't recall which one.) A baatezu in love with a tanar'ri succubus princess, with the PCs hired as messengers to brave the Abyss to deliver a love letter from said baatezu. It was cutely amusing.
Actually, Planescape did a riff on this in one of their adventures (though I honestly can't recall which one.) A baatezu in love with a tanar'ri succubus princess, with the PCs hired as messengers to brave the Abyss to deliver a love letter from said baatezu. It was cutely amusing.ROMEO = Dwarf
JULIET = Elf
Now you can see why the family hate each other:)
I guess the contents of the letter weren't repeated in the adventure. I mean, we're talking about a succubus princess. I don't want to know what you have to write to get them to notice you.
Wait... actually, I do want to know. For scientific reasons, obviously...
I guess the contents of the letter weren't repeated in the adventure. I mean, we're talking about a succubus princess. I don't want to know what you have to write to get them to notice you.
Wait... actually, I do want to know. For scientific reasons, obviously...
IIRC, which - again- has been a while, it was the contents of one of the monologues from Romeo & Juliet. Or at least a paraphrase of them.
IIRC, which - again- has been a while, it was the contents of one of the monologues from Romeo & Juliet. Or at least a paraphrase of them.I guess the contents of the letter weren't repeated in the adventure. I mean, we're talking about a succubus princess. I don't want to know what you have to write to get them to notice you.
Wait... actually, I do want to know. For scientific reasons, obviously...
And that helped with a succubus? That relationship is bound to run into troubles. It's like Two-and-a-half-Men!
"Charlie, we need to talk."
"Okay. Do you know what I'm going to do with you, you dirty, dirty girl?"
"Not like that."
"So I'm a dirty, dirty boy?"
"I want to talk about us."
"We're dirty, dirty couple?"
*Sigh*
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(opening balcony scene):
(Juliet rolls Perception, but as you can see throughout the play she unwisely dumped wisdom):
Juliet: Romeo, o Romeo wherefore art though o Romeo?
Forsake thy Paladin vows and come forth to me.
What is in a class?
That I read on the forums that non-caster classes
Have not relevance anyway,'let thy features be forskaen for thy Juliet.
(Romeo actually manages to have the ability to make his stealth score, thanks to the nighttime scene, the lack of creatures with scent, and Juliet's dumped wisdom score. In fact, he gets so cocky he starts to speak, lowering the DC to hear him to 0, which luckily Juliet fails to roll):
Romeo: oh such a sweet succubus that calls to me,
that her Charisma prove so much higher than Rozelline's... I shall...
(his speech is cut off by randomly wandering orcs that overheard him. A fight breaks out for no good reason. After a few rounds Romeo defeats the orcs, pulls a new jeweled dagger and a few gold coins off the body, and ends up near Juliet. Contrary to his belief, Juliet did NOT have a high Charisma, she had dumped it unlike Roseline, but she had ranks in diplomacy and Roseline lacked the intelligence for that. Naturally both of them had described themselves as "beautiful").
Romeo succeeds at the bluff check, claiming that he has no name and loves her. The plotting continues...
That was lovely. Makes me want to create D&D riffs for Shakespeare's other plays.
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That's the wholesome energy of a good thread!
Warms the soul, lubes the mind.
If Romeo and Juliet were written by Pathfinder Shakespeare, when Mercutio says "A plague on both your houses", it'd be time to roll some Fort saves.
If Julius Caesar were written by Pathfinder Shakespeare, you'd have to roll Sense Motive to pick out Cassius' lean and hungry look.
If Macbeth were written by Pathfinder Shakespeare, Macbeth would have the game's most exotic DR line in the special defenses section of his stat block.
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(sitting at table: Julius Ceaser's player Bob, his wife's player Jack, and Brutus' player Jeff. Bob has been a jerk for weeks, and Brutus has said if he doesn't stop it he's planning to set up to kill him. The GM sympathizes, and doesn't want the campaign ended, so has decided to warn them).
GM: Your party is moving through a crowded square. All eyes fall on the emporer's party as they move through...
Bob: Any chance I can pick pockets?
GM: No, you're the Empire, remember? All eyes are on you. (Bob grumbles). Anyway, as you're walking down, an old Oracle lady screeches at you "Beware Caeser! Beware the Ides of March!"
Jack: Ides of March... Can I make a knowledge check on that?
GM: Sure, I'll take knowledge: local. (the GM looks around at the shaking heads; naturally nobody had knowledge skills). All right, roll raw Int. (waits and looks, pointing at Jack, who rolled highest). You recognize that represents the 5th of March, the day of the big council meeting.
Jeff: (glaring at GM): I'm going to try to move in on the Oracle
GM: you can't, she straights into the crowd
Jeff: She can't stealth; she's out in the open, and it's daytime.
GM: fine, she casts teleport and disappears.
Jeff: Teleport isn't on the Oracle spell list.
GM: *sighing* she pulled a scroll out and read it! Get over it, let's move on.
Jack: I'm going to cast divination, asking about the council meeting.
GM: you see an image of rains of blood.
Jack (looking at Bob): We should skip. That sounds like too high a CR.
Jeff: Are you kidding? Rain of blood? That sounds like serious XP. Let's leave this loser behind and go level up.
Bob: hmmm, sounds good... But do you really think we can win?
Jeff: Relax, I've got your back....
That was lovely. Makes me want to create D&D riffs for Shakespeare's other plays.
Macbeth and The Tempest were done years ago as adventures in Dungeon magazine. I think "Dark Thane Macbeth" was in Dungeon 54. "Spirits of the Tempest" was in Dungeon 52.
"Double, double Toil and trouble! Cause this broth to boil and bubble!"
<Fails UMD check>
"S**t! You try it Martha...maybe thats why theres 3 of us...<grumble>"
I played that module at a Convention.
Juliet's family sent us looking for Romeo because she vanished.
We wisely decided to take him alive and talk.
We ditched the offered rewards and helped them escape town.
There were lots of fights with mercenaries hired by both families.
Less than full gold, but full XP.
Most of the backstory was revealed by gather information and meeting contacts.
You've never read Hamlet Act V, have you?
-You would never be allowed to solve an problem through open violence.
You mean where Hamlet manages to walk right into a trap, let his mother get poisoned, gets stabbed by a poisoned blade and THEN does what he should have done right after the first 10 minutes of act one and confronts Claudius?
Yes I've read it. My assumption was that the PC's were the the protagonists, who apparently have to wait until they AND their mother have been killed by the villian to actually DO something. Never mind the fact that your own father has come back from the grave to point out his killer, and its not some stupid parlor trick with writing on the walls or spelling out "murder" in the alphabet soup... twenty freaking people SEE the ghost. He's standing RIGHT THERE and paged you for a meeting at midnight to tell you who killed him....but the DM will railroad you through 4 more acts so you can't just hack the usurpers head off.
The problem is that Hamlet isn't and never was an adventure story. It's about the travails of a tragic figure who like many of Shakespeare's characters is cursed with a fatal flaw. In Hamlet's case, it's indecision.
I can only stand so much of a character holding on to the idiot ball, and Hamlet is shackled to one that reads "Kilimanjaro"