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Nervous voice; because you the readers didn't know my secret until now.

UseplanB began this AP to give me a break. I have cancer and was on Chemo two years ago. And again now. I will be done with this round of Chemo in a couple of months.
It was my first introduction into pathfinder. I love it.

My hope is to run a more open campaign using pathfinder and starting in Magnimar. I'll use this world and many of the hero's and villains. But that is still in the works. Surprise


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Since I played the cancer card let me just say, the guys have been great and many of them have a card or two that they never play. My expiration date was three years ago. I'm as heathy as anyone except for the cancer. You'd never know it.
It ( cancer) has been a blessing, I wouldn't wish it on anyone but it focused for me the importance of friends and friendships. And again thank you all for all the fun we've had during this AP. Lex


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It's nice of him to have done that for you. While I didn't have any problems nearly as horrific as cancer, I must admit it would have been nice to have a friend willing to run a campaign when I was starting to suffer burnout and was asking someone else to run something.

Good fortune with fighting off the cancer.


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Luckily for us, we have 5 GM's that run fun games for all. 6, I forgot one. Mini me has run for his "younger" friends and he would be the seventh GM. Out of 10 players, that's a lot of help.

LOL
I'm writing while on Chemo, smoking a cigar and drinking alcohol.
Life's a game and we're all heroes to someone even if we don't know it.
Work hard, play harder and love 'till it hurts.


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No one could ask for a better friend, or troupe of friends. Lint has been an inspiration throughout his trials, coming to work on chemo, miraculous recoveries after surgery, as in working weeks after major surgery. Amazing examples of confronting life as it comes!

Scarab Sages

I truly think this is the biggest case of party-pooping since Graham Chapman died. Go watch his eulogy on youtube if you don't get that.


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Lint wrote:

Luckily for us, we have 5 GM's that run fun games for all. 6, I forgot one. Mini me has run for his "younger" friends and he would be the seventh GM. Out of 10 players, that's a lot of help.

LOL
I'm writing while on Chemo, smoking a cigar and drinking alcohol.
Life's a game and we're all heroes to someone even if we don't know it.
Work hard, play harder and love 'till it hurts.

While I disagree with many of my father's decisions while fighting cancer, they were his to make. And I will always admire him for being there for his grandkids, taking them to the park with a smile on his face 2 days before he passed on. He was definitely a "live life to its fullest" kind of guy, and wasn't willing to let cancer dictate the terms of his existence.

You've got it all right, Lint. Fight the good fight, live life to its fullest, and kick Karzoug's a$$.

Heck, I'm a low-grade alcoholic, unabashed foodie, and classify as "Obese I". Yet my doctor points out, "Your blood work is great, you haven't gained a pound in 15 years, and you're obviously happy. So what's the big deal?"

I like my doctor.


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Kori'el wrote:
I truly think this is the biggest case of party-pooping since Graham Chapman died. Go watch his eulogy on youtube if you don't get that.

I'm going to politely disagree. We've never met, but I really do care for this group. You're like extended digital family to me, so I like to hear the highs and lows such as they are.

This is one of my favorite threads. It always feels warm and welcoming.

Scarab Sages

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See, Nobody, you didn't get it. Go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkxCHybM6Ek and you'll get the idea. What they did NOT say in the video linked above, is anything about "party pooping," which line was in the 20th anniversary reunion of Monty Python in a command performance at the Royal Albert Hall, where Graham (who had just died of AIDS) was accused of being the biggest party-pooper of all time.

Jokes are never as funny when you have to explain them, darnit.

Lint got it.


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Kori'el wrote:

See, Nobody, you didn't get it. Go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkxCHybM6Ek and you'll get the idea. What they did NOT say in the video linked above, is anything about "party pooping," which line was in the 20th anniversary reunion of Monty Python in a command performance at the Royal Albert Hall, where Graham (who had just died of AIDS) was accused of being the biggest party-pooper of all time.

Jokes are never as funny when you have to explain them, darnit.

Lint got it.

Oh, I'd say I understand it, but I just wanted a chance to express my appreciation for your whole group.

Citing Monty Python is just icing on the cake. I'd made my older son watch the entire series AND Holy Grail by the time he was 7.

Proudest Dad Moment: For Halloween a few years ago my wife bought him a "knight's outfit", and he promptly declared, "Hey, Dad! I'm King Arthur and you're that guy who carries stuff for him and bangs coconuts!"

So we dutifully went out on Halloween eve, Arthur and Patsy (complete with coconuts), with about 1/3 of the people we met declaring them the "best costumes EVER", and 2/3 asking, "Who are YOU supposed to be?"


Sadly, I can't watch Monty Python. Excessive idiot-ball and stupidity makes me start an internal yelling match in which I blame myself for every single thing that is wrong in the world. This is in fact why I avoid television (outside of nature and science documentaries and news) and most movies. And a growing number of books, though those are more tolerable. ^^;;


Tangent101 wrote:
Sadly, I can't watch Monty Python. Excessive idiot-ball and stupidity makes me start an internal yelling match in which I blame myself for every single thing that is wrong in the world. This is in fact why I avoid television (outside of nature and science documentaries and news) and most movies. And a growing number of books, though those are more tolerable. ^^;;

none of this makes sense to me, also you might not want to play skull and shackles with me:)

"A Banana! you expect me to fight someone with a Banana!"
"'Tis only a flesh wound, i'll be fine"
"A flesh wound? your arm is cut completely off!"
"I'll be fine, now give me my sword!"

disclaimer, its been a couple years so might not be exact quotes:)


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Silliness in-game isn't nearly a problem with me, though half of that is that I'll be GMing and can either be doubled-down laughing until things start to grey out on me (I have in the past laughed myself unconscious before; it's an interesting sensation I'll say) or implement the Three Knock Rule - if someone knocks three times on the table (or other surface) the silliness ends and we stop sidetracking. I'm not the only one who uses it in my group, and it does keep things moving.


Tangent101 wrote:
Silliness in-game isn't nearly a problem with me,

you say that, but you never met my Vanara Monk/Alchemist (vivisectionist) climbing the Throw Anything Feat Tree and smokes cigars with his tail, his arsenal is literally composed of coconuts, Rum bottles, and other fresh fruit.

i tend to break on the silly side and both my kids have bright futures in comedy so it can get really hilarious:)


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NobodysHome wrote:
Lint wrote:

Luckily for us, we have 5 GM's that run fun games for all. 6, I forgot one. Mini me has run for his "younger" friends and he would be the seventh GM. Out of 10 players, that's a lot of help.

LOL
I'm writing while on Chemo, smoking a cigar and drinking alcohol.
Life's a game and we're all heroes to someone even if we don't know it.
Work hard, play harder and love 'till it hurts.

While I disagree with many of my father's decisions while fighting cancer, they were his to make. And I will always admire him for being there for his grandkids, taking them to the park with a smile on his face 2 days before he passed on. He was definitely a "live life to its fullest" kind of guy, and wasn't willing to let cancer dictate the terms of his existence.

You've got it all right, Lint. Fight the good fight, live life to its fullest, and kick Karzoug's a$$.

Heck, I'm a low-grade alcoholic, unabashed foodie, and classify as "Obese I". Yet my doctor points out, "Your blood work is great, you haven't gained a pound in 15 years, and you're obviously happy. So what's the big deal?"

I like my doctor.

i've been trying all day to come up with something nice and hopeful to say to Lint's quote and NobodysHome comes in and totally nails it!

love and happiness, as long as you have those everything else will work itself out, hopefully for the very best:)


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Alright enough crying in the soup, its already salty! Let's go skin the face off this wizard!


Did Moxie keep a certain mask from Aldern Foxglove? oO


Sadly....no! ;)


You just seem to be getting more bloodthirsty than usual. I mean, even for a girl who went and tossed baby geebas into the ocean in a sack filled with rocks. ^^;;


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Okay...first off those rancid little poo-flingers would have grown into dog eaters and horse killers. Second I have yet to see a gobler raised to be a decent contributor to the community and not attempt to slay their adopted family and set the hamlet aflame. Third, they delight in raiding the folk who dwell within stone and earth....the hair foots and beards will testify to it....aaaand by all that is holy it is not in my blood to offer those rotten, sour, green apples anything! E-GADS but they smell of dead cat and their own filth...that "BATH" was exactly what they needed!!!

Now then...(DEEP BREATH)

As to my more aggressive demeanor I can posit two reasons that I can think of. The first a reference to my previous remark to motivate the troupe, the second is more accurate to the current situation at hand.

The first has to do with a campaign from more than a decade ago in which the GM, who sadly resides far afield now, decided to have his villain, whose face a motivated party member had removed and stretched on the front of his shield, revisit the troupe and exact his vengeance. The running gag until the next session was...."How mad could a faceless wizard get?!?!"

More likely is....I have noticed myself increasingly testy as we progress in this endeavor. To be precise ever since we left the rune forge. Though I must say I do enjoy the relaxation of my down time more when we aren't in pursuit of all our do-goodery!


Now I really want to have Sentry and Moxie meet. The goblin-hating gnome, and the goblin who thinks he's a gnome and hates goblins even worse. ;)


Xandu's Journal Entry:
As we reached the upper level a barrage of boulders landed among the troupe. I warned and pushed several would be victims of said rocks out of harms way. It seemed like the giants hated Rikert and Sheldor most, well up until the a tree sized spear almost impaled me to a wall. Then from nowhere this woman shows up looks at Davok and I with not a care.

When she spotted Kori'el her eyes foced. With a golden sword in hand she walked past me and went right for Kori'el. The sword was a blrur in her hands. She dispatched image after image from Kori'el's defense. I moved several of us further from combat so we could regroup.

Sheldor had taken it apon himself to focus on the huge black giant that had tried to splatter me with his spear. Sheldor did wonders against such a foe but it cost him dearly as the huge giant ordered the rest of the giants to kill him. That's when I had to focus on keeping him alive.

Kori'el was fighting the swordmaster. Rikert and everyone else was focusing on the giants and some on the swordmaster too. After a breath of life and healing Sheldor for the third time, I called upon Desna to help me end the woman that was trying to kill Kori'el. Desna answered my prayer but at the last second the woman moved out of the way of my ransuer.

I heard Moxie scream Karzog's name but was unsure of her wereabouts.That's when the black giant and the swordmaster fell. The remaining giants asked for quarter in a puzzled way. Moxie was hacking the scalp off the huge black giant with a vengeance.

All was sereal as Rikert reached for the golden sword. Everyone yelled at him not to touch it. Kori'el tensed and squared off with Rikert. I thought the worst was about to happen, then Rikert stopped his approach. A sigh of relief came from more than one of the troupe. Moxie, bloodied from her triumphant deed, raised the scalp into the air cursing Karzog and rallied the troupe to move on. It was time for Karzog to die!


And for the record, it was a wizard and a couple of his minions faces that I sewed together to cover my newly found shield. Who knew a faceless wizard could get so mad at such a great prank but he did. Ah the good old days. hehe


The shield's spirit (evil doesn't always mean BAD) and I became good friends and allies.


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Tangent101 wrote:
Now I really want to have Sentry and Moxie meet. The goblin-hating gnome, and the goblin who thinks he's a gnome and hates goblins even worse. ;)

Errrrr....ummmmmm....yaaaa....I'm comfy warm fuzzy and all atickle...NO! Girls Month will have to suffice, at least until the blood ceases to boil, and even then....I donno know????

Scarab Sages

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...True Strike, and another disarm; this time it is PERFECT, she is completely open and unprepared but Calypso doesn't make contact with her golden blade, she seems to have some sort of displacement effect. My follow ups hit, but the damage is minor and now I'm REALLY ANGRY. As she is amusing herself cutting up my images, I cast Piercing Vampiric Touch and attack again. My attack strikes home, but my spell fails to affect her. AARRRRGGGHH! Calypso is a black blur, hitting her easily (all I really have to do is touch her at this point, Accurate Strike FTW! Backed up by Prescient Defense, Koriel's AC is 52 at this time, still with multiple images), but I am becoming frustrated with her defenses against my spells. Still, I can tell that I am wearing her down; she is about to fall when Friederich hits her with some of his bombs and she drops. The big giant in charge also falls at about this time, and the remaining giants suddenly shake their heads and surrender. "Where is Karzoug?"


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Rikert Krupt – Paladin of Iomedae

The fight with the endless stream of giants continued as we all used every available resource to our advantage. (spells, potions, natural abilities, weapon abilities)

It still was a close thing as the woman in the golden armor slashed through the party members closest to her while the giants handed out a tremendous pounding to the rest of us. It was all I could do just to keep myself in the fight. I used all but one of Iomedae's healing touches on myself in addition to full healing spells and other buffs the party provided.

Sheldor took the worst of it as the giants targeted him in retribution for his magnetic spell that kept the Rune Giant out of the first rounds of the fight. There is a good chance that the battle may have gone differently if he had been able to wade into the combat along with all of the other giants at once.

It was a true team effort to survive this time. Xandu came to the rescue of the fallen time and time again, and several of the others used individual healing spells to keep their comrades in the fight.

(I figured up the damage after the battle and my personal amount absorbed was 779 points. I received two complete "heal" spells, multiple smaller healing bursts, and used all but one of my personal "lay on hands" paladin ability on myself ... somewhere around 80+d6 of personal healing.)

Friggen' ouch!


That sounds painful!

I must admit... I'd be fascinated to see how you all would do in Reign of Winter. Though it would be... quite the feat to revamp the game for a group of eight! I know that I finally put my foot down, eliminated one of the two GMPCs, was going to eliminate the second until the player RPing her girlfriend said "I'll control her in combat!" and told another player that she'd have to select either to continue running her original character, or the NPC guide whom she was having a lot of fun RPing as. (She chose the NPC. Seems RPing a non-social introvert is difficult, even if she was increasingly deadly in ranged combat!)

Okay. I really would be curious as to how Moxie or Moxie's cousin would react to Irrisen! ;) I figure Moxie's player would have a blast in that game! :)


As a student of general history and especially military history, I can see how it could be fun. If paizo took care, as I have experienced in RoTRL, I think I could wrap my head around it and enjoy it just as much as I have in this AP. Sometimes though it is a mix of too much reality with fantasy and mixing genres/timelines must be done gently to keep me focused. I like to compartmentalize my genres a bit to rigidly I think. But I would surely give it the old college try! :)


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They took some care, especially in Book 5. And it seems they did research into the legends concerning Baba Yaga and used those old stories in crafting later character-development as you learn of Baba Yaga's past.


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its really good, my daughter's best friend's mom is russian and even she is amazed at how well they nailed both baba yaga and book 5 :)

Scarab Sages

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The giants are useless, they do not know where or even who Karzoug is. While I'm interrogating them, there seems to be some sort of commotion around the body of the woman who gave me so much trouble. Calypso is screaming at me about the evil sword, and how it shouldn't be touched. Others are saying much the same, but the paladin seems determined to pick it up anyway. Calypso says that would be bad, that he would certainly be dominated by the intelligence in the weapon, that it is of a different order than that of a Black Blade. With a light heart and a small smile, I salute the paladin, and fall into 'en-garde.' "Go ahead and pick it up. I want to know how this turns out," I say. The paladin looks confused, and stops his motion to pick up the golden sword. Others then use magic to move it into a portable hole.

We move on down the corridor the big giant came from, with the orc and the gnome woman out front being sneaky. There is a sound of a bowshot, and I charge around the corner; they have disarmed a magical trap the hard way; I tell them not to break the next one, I wish to examine it.

We come to a large storage room, and spread out a bit. A voice berates us in Thassalonian, and several of us are caught in a fireball; Karzoug is attacking from our left, though it seems obvious that this is another of his traps. I move closer to engage and investigate it, but the gnome woman shoots and destroys it. "What part of 'don't destroy the next one' did you not understand?" I'm not really angry, it was hurting us after all.

We find a portal/gate arrangement, but decide to continue exploring before investigating it. At the far end of the warehouse, a demon emerges from a pagoda and rips into me; I don't have time for defensive spells...

I'm awake again, about thirty feet away, as the paladin finishes the demon. There is an awful lot of blood (most of it mine, apparently) splashing an empty-handed statue of Karzoug across from the pagoda entrance. The pagoda and contents are empty and uninteresting, but there is a doorway covered by a force wall to the left. The orc says that the force wall continues within the wall to either side of the door; I let the others know that I can drop it when they are ready. They take their places and I cast disintegrate...

...and then I'm picking myself up from the floor and the cleric heals me again. Someone has opened the door, and more giants (and a giant of a Lamia) wait within...


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Rikert Krupt – Paladin of Iomedae

The battle with the Rune giant and the others had left me exhausted and nearly out of spells and healing abilities. Still, we decided to move on farther into tower.

We went in the direction where the Rune giant had appeared from in hope that it would lead us to the other leaders and possibly Karzoug himself. The first location of note that we found was a large, curved area that featured many large, stone rooms sized to hold the Rune giant or something of similar size. They all had stone doors, but seemed to be empty.

It was here that Karzoug appeared again and attacked with spells. Once again, it was some type of projected image of the Runelord and not him in the flesh. The first attack from the party that hit him made the image disappear.

We found little else of value in the area and moved on into another room that contained another huge statue of Karzoug, and a stone building that seemed to be a shrine of some type. A few of the party members moved up to enter the shrine and immediately were attacked by a large demon that nearly shredded Kori'el to start the combat. I moved up and engaged the demon with help from a few of the others while Xandu magically moved Kori-el to safety. The demon fell to our combined efforts within a few rounds or combat. We patched up the wounded as best as possible and moved to investigate a wall shielded with a magical curtain of energy that resisted most of our efforts to reach the doorway seen behind the barrier. It took some time while our spell casters put their heads together to determine a way to bring down the energy barrier.

Upon entry into the room behind the shielded doorway, we once again were attacked by several giants and another lamia who was nearly as tall as the giants. I moved up to close the distance with them, but was struck by a series of blows and spells that knocked me to the ground as I blacked out from the damage. A healing burst of energy from Xandu brought me back almost instantly, and I rolled back to safety just out of reach of a clashing wall of magical blades that suddenly appeared between us and the giants...


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It should also be noted that today is exactly two days short of two years since Useplanb first created this thread.

934 posts and many stories and adventures later!

Scarab Sages

Kori'el Shalani, RIP, DRT.


Kori'el wrote:
Kori'el Shalani, RIP, DRT.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Details, you guys!

Darned spoilery magus!

Scarab Sages

Encounter outside the golden dome, Lamia cast Destruction, Kori'el failed the save twice. No True Resurrection, Wishes, or Miracles available, so I get to sit out the battle with the BBEG (which is ongoing, btw). Bit of an anti-climax if you ask me.


Kori'el wrote:
Encounter outside the golden dome, Lamia cast Destruction, Kori'el failed the save twice. No True Resurrection, Wishes, or Miracles available, so I get to sit out the battle with the BBEG (which is ongoing, btw). Bit of an anti-climax if you ask me.

Ugh, yeah. That Destruction is a nightmare. I removed my gnome sorcerer with it, but they still had their one scroll of True Resurrection lying around from way back when, so they managed to bring him back for the big fight. Without that scroll, it's a plain, "Yeah, you're not in the fight any more," encounter.


We have several Raise Dead and Resurrection spells and materials available, just not the True Resurrection needed to fix Destruction.

This has the potential to go poorly!!! ;-)

(Kori'el DRT. Davok has been turned into a snake by a polymorph spell. etc.)


Hey now...not all is lost just yet, it just means we have to work harder, faster and smarter!


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Moxie wrote:

Hey now...not all is lost just yet, it just means we have to work harder, faster and smarter!

I rarely share tidbits from my work life, but this is just too much!

We were handed a test environment on Monday, and they said, "OK, test all the bugs you reported, then test all the labs you've written against this environment."

We spent two full days on this testing, and were within a few hours of done when we got a second notice, "OK. Here's your new environment. Please finish testing on this one."

Our person-in-charge valiantly defended us, saying, "Er, it's not that simple. You can't just cut off mid-test and move to a new machine."

There was some behind-the-scenes discussion to decide the best course of action.

At which point we were given the directive, "OK. Finish up all your testing on the old environment. Then re-do it all on the new environment so we can make sure they're the same."

Utterly convincing me that my job is now utterly meaningless...


I'm not sure if your group is fighting Special K yet or if that's coming up in the next game. But I know this. I'd have placed a scroll of True Resurrection as part of the treasure, or handwaved a regular resurrection as working in this case, so that all my players could be in that final game. (Indeed, the latter would work nicely in that you'd still have the negative levels as a result of being brought back, thus allowing for a weakening of the character slightly as a result of the special favor.) Because it is anticlimatic to have to sit out the final fight. :/

Grand Lodge

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Well, I don't pull punches. So, as terrible as this is, it happens.

As I have found out, there should be a way to bring her back, but . . . I have to ask the players some questions next week. If they in fact do still have something then I will happily retcon her absence against Karzoug.

I can barely keep track of "a" characters gear, much less an entire party.

I have only added an item to the game once in the campaign to get past the certain death of a scenario. If I remember right it was a 5k diamond for the character death in the dam.

That said, they have a metric boat load of cash, and have had the capabilities of buying one but instead separated out the loot equally and went shopping on their own. Xandu has forsaken a lot of personal wealth for the party by having diamonds on hand for Raise Dead and what not.

But like I said, I can barely remember one character much less an entire party. So knowing what they can recover from is way outside my knowledge base.

It sucks, but its gaming and dice are involved. No one was specifically targeted, there was no maliciousness behind the GM screen. Its just dumb luck.

Same luck that prevented me from finishing the Second Darkness game I played in. Died early in the fight to two bad dice rolls in a row. It happens. (And yes I do understand that I am referring to a final boss fight in this instance.) Was I pissed? Yes. But at the dice.


I know that feeling. I've been trying to increase the autonomy of my players. Gave them cheat sheets with their pertinent data (ie: ranged and melee to-hit, feat modifications, saving throws...) and ran into the problem that at least one of my players has problems with basic addition. Sometimes it takes less time to actually click through the fields on Hero Labs on a sluggish computer than for her to do it all. :/ (She's a smart lady, mind you, and a dear friend. But some people just have problems with basic math.)

You have, what, eight players' worth of gear and the like? And they're 17th level at this point, or close to it.

If it sounded like I was criticizing, it was not meant to be as such. I just play fast and loose with rules when I feel it's not fun for the players. (Heck, I don't even do save-or-die spells anymore - instead it's two hit points away from death and someone has to stabilize you or you die. And no waking up after being healed.)

I hope things get less hectic for you soon, useplanb. I look forward to, and hope you can provide, write-ups of the encounters. :)


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the hardest part of GMing: being the bad guy, and i'm not talking about moving pawns around either:)
now try telling a 10 year old girl her character just died, i swear you'd have thought i grounded her for a week or something lol thank god we're playing Jade Regent (i found our characters for it, finally! only a year since the Epic Flea Massacre and I'm finally getting the house in complete order! do not let your dog get fleas!)

Scarab Sages

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Meh, it happens. I don't hold it against Useplanb, or even my dice. I'm currently having fun running the initiative chart, and reminding the other players that they can't do certain stuff :D


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Yep, if you're pulling punches as a GM, you're making the game less exciting for your players. Sometimes the punches connect...

But Captain Yesterday, dude, you killed a 10-year-old girl's PC?

Ruthless! :-P


I pull my punches all the time. My players know I do not like killing characters, especially as for the longest time I had a "no resurrection" policy (the setting didn't allow for it as the God of Healing and Life was dead and the (not-evil) Goddess of Death was now in charge of the healing sphere). Also, that's what NPCs are for. I have no qualms killing my own GMPCs. ^^

That said, they don't find the game less exciting. I've had players who took no damage at all and yet were on the edge of their seats freaking out because they were facing down Black Magga and trying to kill her before her weight broke the dam (for instance).

My gaming philosophy is different, I admit. I'm also stingy with treasure. ^^ And part of me cringes with the amount of treasure the group is finding in Runelords (and yet it's not nearly as much treasure as the second half of the campaign). Reign of Winter isn't quite as bad as the characters are two levels higher, and I've compensated the enemies levels and hit dice... but not their treasure. Then again, that game too is only in the second book so....


NobodysHome wrote:

Yep, if you're pulling punches as a GM, you're making the game less exciting for your players. Sometimes the punches connect...

But Captain Yesterday, dude, you killed a 10-year-old girl's PC?

Ruthless! :-P

a few times:-P

when your only group is your wife and kids occasionally one of the kids gets it, i keep it to a minimum and try not to make a habit of it and try to make sure there are ways they can come back if they want, i'm not disintegrating a fifth level dwarven fighter with a 14th level Lich like my brother did to me for my first (of many) PC deaths


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Good man Cap! teach 'em early, smart too, keepin mama happy...cuz if she ain't happy, OOF!

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