Girlfriend in hospital. Postponed until 22nd.
Well, I hope whoever's girlfriend it is is doing ok.
so, how did u work it out??? did ya of him??
Emergency averted. Just food poisoning. I swear I will post the results as soon as the deed is done.
sorry, i did not update for me to see till i posted that. hope she recovers well
Food poisoning, eh? I have some suspicions. Perhaps he heard about your plans and beat you to the punch? (seriously hope she is better though)
*sigh* C'mon, we're dying here!
dooooo itttttt!
-Tundra
I second the motion.
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What?! I don't recommend carrying out our suggestions in RL!
(/snark)
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*twitches in the corner* Did he do it yet? Can I see? Tell meeee...
Seriously, I so want to know how this went.
So this is "How to host a murder, Pathfinder Edition".....
just got home from my own epic adventure tonight. bummed no post yet. fingers crossed for tomorrow
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Back from game. The player did not show, and dm would not let me do it while he was gone. I hope the player does not suspect anything. I am very sorry to those awaiting. Looks like 29th will be the day. If I can get a recording, I will post a link to the file. I will skype the guy into game if I have to.
Divine Intervention anyone? It's clearly not supposed to happen, the RPG gods will not allow this blatant desecration of roleplaying ethics, standards and general good manners.
Just give him a particularly nasty cursed item.
Like a Scarab of Death.
That would be hilarious.
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I have never been so focused on results from someone else's game, lol.
I've just finished reading this thread and honestly I want to see results of this too. While usually I frown upon PvP unless necessary I believe for your sanity it may be just so based on what I've read, so I am ready to see the results as well.
So totally had a let down. I had my phone set to send me a message informing me to check this thread on the 22nd, only to find out the death has been pushed back to the 29th. I feel like someone just killed my puppy :(
Wait wait... are we starting with dead puppy jokes in this thread? Man, I got so many of those saved up for just an opportunity. ....what?
Man, now I got to wait til the 29th? Aw, alright. Standing by excitedly. ;)
Anyone else think the clue might be in the name? And that blackbloodtroll is trolling us?
lol
I'd think that if I hadn't been posting with him in other threads. Wait, you could be on to something. Maybe it is a really long extended trolling where you only realize it after its done. How devious!
That too, sounds cool. As said, the prospect of hiring assassins is difficult to the point of impossible due to travel.
It's not impossible, just expensive.
Hiring from an assassin's guild -- drop enough coin to have their agents in multiple ports of call.
Then, of course, there's magical detection and tracking.
The thing that further lowers the odds, however, is whether or not your GM will go along with it...
tonight is the night!!!
Make sure you keep part of him after you kill him. If I recall he is part turtle right? If that is so extra points for making a turtle shell shield, or helmet, or cereal bowl
This should be interesting. Dot!
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Alright, the deed is done. I successfully sneaked into his quarters, and coup de graced his character without anyone the wiser. I chose to use a mattock in the end. We were docked near a remote island at the time, to repair the ship and recently obtained ship. We were already done, and on the water, before anyone discovered the body. We ended the session after the discovery of the body.
Oh come on, how did he react? DETAILS MAN!!
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Well, it seems he believed I was trying to steal from him. Of course, that was not what was happening. Once he did realize, he had what appeared to be a dumbfounded look upon his face. This look, persisted for much longer than I anticipated. In fact, he said, and did little until the end of session. I approached him after to be sure no hard feelings were in the air. He stated that there were none, though that dumbfounded look still partially remained. He said it seemed random, I then pointed out the very numerous clues to which he blankly stared at. I found out he had another character die very recently in another game, by a BBEG, not a fellow player. I had no idea. I am guessing the double whammy was just a bit much for him. The other players really seemed to care very little, though I will not have true pc reaction until next session. I will not see him for a week, so I hope he will get over it soon, and create a more likable character.
Talk about a wake up call. I think your murdering his character worked. Though there's always the chance he comes back with a character that just happens to be good at killing your character.
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YEEEEEEEESSSS!!!! COME ON!
This has made my day! And inspired me to go kill all my fellow PC's this week!
I gotta say, if the PCs are killing each other and the campaign doesn't specifically encourage such activity, it's a good time for the group to sit down over a pizza and talk out of character to make sure everyone is having fun.
Which isn't to say anyone was out of line with this killing. Just that it's a good warning sign for a check-in.
Looking forward to it BBT
Having played through one of the most vicious campaigns in history (215 player character deaths, at least 40% of which were caused by other PCs, almost none actively encouraged by the GMs), my first reaction to the entire thread was, "Meh, one more dead PC. What's the big deal?"
However, it really does depend on the group. For example, our new group has an extremely annoying character we'd probably have kicked out of the group by now if we played strictly 'in character', but we gather just as much for the social event as for the game, and if we killed off or banned the player's character, we know he would stop participating, and he'd likely convince his wife to stop coming as well. (He takes slights against his character WAAAAAY too personally). So we let him stay in the group, and gripe about him and try to derail his plans behind his back.
But it sounds like you did everything right and then some:
(1) You played in character, according to your alignment. This wasn't some 'random assassination because it would be funny at the moment' moment. (Yeah, around 35% of our PC deaths in the vicious campaign were solely for entertainment value).
(2) You checked with the GM as to whether this would be OK with him.
(3) You posted to this board, and started a long discussion with many people far less vicious about whether it was OK, and the overwhelming response was that it was.
I'm sure the player didn't appreciate losing two characters in rapid succession, but you did talk to him afterwards, and if he wants more detail, you can give it to him. (Or even point him to this thread; as far as I can tell you didn't insult the player, just his character).
Anyway, congratulations on a job well done, and the only thing to watch out for is if other players start rolling with the idea. In our infamous campaign, our first 20-30 deaths were campaign-related. Then came the first fumble that killed a PC. Then the first non-fumble. We quickly had 12 PC-on-PC deaths in a row, at which point we (the GMs) had to choose whether to quash it or let it roll. We let it roll, to catastrophic results. But everyone had fun, and knew that the moment they got a shiny magic item or annoyed another PC, their days were numbered. On the other hand, we had many new players join over the years, only to be so appalled at the other PCs' behavior that they quit after only a session or two.
Thus my one piece of advice (and it's more to the GM than you) is: Watch out for "feature creep". Once killing PCs is OK in a group, some groups go nuts with it. The GM needs to make sure that doesn't happen, because it can completely derail a campaign.
"Whether or not it be funny" is the #1 reason for PC killing in a goblin campaign. ;P
Actually, the assassin idea sounds good.Perhaps even just the threat of assassins may be enough. In one game my group had, the LE Sorcerer put ~5-10% or so of his income into as assassin fund. He would literally hand over ~5-10% of his income to an assassin guild, that would come to is call should he need some work done for him, or to avenge him if and when he fell (to party members or other enemies). He called it his "gardening fund", talked about them as if they were farm hands, and often dropped a phrase about having to "prune the weeds" or similar play on words, as an intimidation to other party members.
This is an epic idea! I will be stealing it if you don't mind.
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery after all!
I gotta say, if the PCs are killing each other and the campaign doesn't specifically encourage such activity, it's a good time for the group to sit down over a pizza and talk out of character to make sure everyone is having fun.
Which isn't to say anyone was out of line with this killing. Just that it's a good warning sign for a check-in.
It really depends (as you hinted at about the campaign encouraging it). Campaigns that are evil aligned adventures tend to have PC vs PC activity. I have had campaigns where the players set down and set the ground rules. If everyone understands and are ok with such things it can actually add a very exciting component to the game. Constantly having to watch over ones shoulder can be fun.
Also for someone like me (who has a million characters he would like to try out and play) its not a big deal if a character dies... I always have another character idea banging around in my head lol.
Looking forward to it BBT. I have to say that the response wasn't quiet as satisfying for me as I thought it might be. In fact, it kinda seemed like a non-reaction. Maybe that means it really hit home though.
It's because the Turtle failed his save against Stunning Fist