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No one brought Funyons.
Only one like? That's comedy gold, people. I expect better of you.
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...the elf wizard leads the charge into the battle frontlines. You know, the one that dump-statted Constitution.
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(Different system) When the sniper with sfa armor, average body and only passing skill in assault weapons gets drafted into the assault team, while the team heavy gets promoted to sniper.
When the assault team gets bored three seconds after calling in the demolitions expert (the aforementioned sniper) and decides to make do with grenades. And doesn't warn the approaching demolitions expert.
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(Different system) When the sniper with sfa armor, average body and only passing skill in assault weapons gets drafted into the assault team, while the team heavy gets promoted to sniper.
When the assault team gets bored three seconds after calling in the demolitions expert (the aforementioned sniper) and decides to make do with grenades. And doesn't warn the approaching demolitions expert.
Hi, welcome to the Pathfinder Society forums?
Post your thing somewhere it's on-topic.
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exactly...When one of the players fights you on playing their level 3 in the confirmation then cries the whole game about not beign allowed to to play their character.Wait... what?
No - I wasn't confused by their action. I was confused because I have no idea what the crap you actually meant. (grammar/misspellings etc)
...the elf wizard leads the charge into the battle frontlines. You know, the one that dump-statted Constitution.How else are you supposed to get your touch attack spell off?
Like I'd touch them myself, they're icky.
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...the elf wizard leads the charge into the battle frontlines. You know, the one that dump-statted Constitution.How else are you supposed to get your touch attack spell off?
Spell? He wanted to show off his mad sword skillz. Let's just say the orc wasn't impressed. I'm not even sure the wizard got to pull it from his scabbard.
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The cleric has the highest strength and lowest charisma in the party...oh wait..that's me..What's the matter with that?
It is great with the looks on people's faces when you tell them that yes you channel positive energy, but no you get no channels a day. (3-3 = 0)
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It is great with the looks on people's faces when you tell them that yes you channel positive energy, but no you get no channels a day. (3-3 = 0)The cleric has the highest strength and lowest charisma in the party...oh wait..that's me..What's the matter with that?
What, you mean that that *isn't* the standard Cleric build in your area? ;-)
Channels are over-rated :-P
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...the elf wizard leads the charge into the battle frontlines. You know, the one that dump-statted Constitution.How else are you supposed to get your touch attack spell off?
That's what familiars are for. Send them to the front lines, because they have half as many HP as the wizard, so that should be plenty, right?
Coming into this thread late - just getting back into Society after more than 6 months away.
You know you're in trouble when you get to the table and ...
... the mission is to sneak discreetly into a fancy party, with 3 barbarians in the group. (happened when I played The Disappeared)
... the mission is to sneak discreetly into a fancy party, and the druid wants to bring her elephant companion. "He's just a baby - he's medium sized!" (happened one time when I GMed The Disappeared)
... you're GMing a level 1 adventure for a group of newbies who claim to be experienced gamers who know D&D 3.5, even though they've never played Pathfinder or Society, and the guy with the wizard pregen tries to tumble past the enemy barbarian. (my first kill as a PFS GM)
... you're scheduled to GM the GenCon special, and all your players have higher level characters than the tiers you were told to read and prepare in advance.
I'm sure I'll think of more later.
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That's what familiars are for. Send them to the front lines, because they have half as many HP as the wizard, so that should be plenty, right?
... the mission is to sneak discreetly into a fancy party, and the druid wants to bring her elephant companion. "He's just a baby - he's medium sized!" (happened one time when I GMed The Disappeared)
For that you can either get a carry companion scroll/spell, or some balloons and a sign that says "Free elephant rides"
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... the mission is to sneak discreetly into a fancy party, with 3 barbarians in the group. (happened when I played The Disappeared)
am not just breaker barbarian, am code-breaker barbarian!
...our wizard in that scenario plays way off and sometimes on was dragging around heavy bags with him because he was waiting for a bag of holding to show up on his chronicle sheet.
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So, pointy sticks are better than an ankylosaurus? Suspect Stampy would disagree. Will check with his ranger... :-)*tap tap taps pointy stick*Or an ankylosaurus animal companion. Best mechanical trap springer ever. Because his AC's so high nothing can hit him, and he's got the hp to survive a fall if its a pit trap. Seen this one in action.Kind of like having missile weapons, and healing, and a face PC, and ... all the things that make us "a team of diverse adventurers".Yes, but anyone can have a missile weapon and healing with minimal investment. Dealing with magical traps usually takes a level dip. (or an adamantium weapon to go around it...)
As I said, coming to the thread late, but noticed this about 500 posts in.
Speaking of non-rogue trap-finders, I just had to mention one table I GMed, where one of the players had a wand of Summon Monster 1. That's right - a wand that takes a full round to cast and the monster only lasts 1 round. I thought it was the biggest waste of 2 prestige or 750 gp I had ever seen, but the guy kept summoning ponies and sending them walking through the sewers ahead of the rest of the party to search for traps. The scary part is - it worked! Multiple times in the same scenario, the pony either set off a trap or got ambushed by the bad guys before the party got attacked. Because the ponies were going to disappear after a round anyway, nobody cared what happened to them.
Of course, this led to discussion about where summoned critters come from, and whether the ponies who were waiting to be summoned from the ether were watching the non-stop parade of corpses coming back from previous summons. That was a fun table.
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More responses to stuff people have said, now that I'm caught up on the thread.
There are under 18s at the table, and your character swears like a sailor
I've got worse. I GMed The Disappeared back before faction missions became optional, and the Silver Crusade faction mission in that one is... let's just call it PG-13. I had an 8 year old girl in the Silver Crusade show up at my table.
Luckily, we re-arranged tables, since there were multiple tables doing the same adventure, to put all the low tier PCs at one and the high tier PCs at the other, and she ended up at a table with an adult Silver Crusader who could take care of the faction mission without showing it to her.
The Life Oracle who worships Pharasma tells the table that he will not heal dying PCs because they have "begun their journey to Pharasma".I've considered making a cleric of Groetus that channels negative energy and doesn't heal the dying because the world is going to end anyway and their existences are meaningless.
I have a friend with a cleric of Pharasma who has said she doesn't want to be raised if she dies, because she's looking forward to meeting Pharasma. She has raised other party members, though.
... the mission is to sneak discreetly into a fancy party, and the druid wants to bring her elephant companion. "He's just a baby - he's medium sized!" (happened one time when I GMed The Disappeared)For that you can either get a carry companion scroll/spell, or some balloons and a sign that says "Free elephant rides"
use Prestidigitation to color him pink. The party is in full swing when they arrive, so NO ONE will admit to seeing a pink elephant walk thru the room...
Actually, they really did decorate the elephant with streamers and stuff, and walked him through the room pretending to be part of the entertainment. As the GM, I had to bow to the "rule of cool" and let them get away with it, as long as their bluff rolls were high enough.
Just thought of another one that actually happened...
You know you're in trouble when you get to the table and ...
... one of the players has a closed laptop in front of him and tells you "My character is on my laptop." When you (as the GM) ask to see it, he says, "My laptop's broken, so it won't boot up right now."
Here's your sign. And your pregen.
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You know you're in trouble when you get to the table and ...
...one of the players is explaining to the GM, in complete seriousness, why his plan of burning down a building full of innocent people (to kill three bad guys) would not constitute an act of evil. The "discussion" continues long enough that you realize the player genuinely believes it.
The topper? The player is a church youth group leader in real life.
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You know you're in trouble when you get to the table and ...
...one of the players is explaining to the GM, in complete seriousness, why his plan of burning down a building full of innocent people (to kill three bad guys) would not constitute an act of evil. The "discussion" continues long enough that you realize the player genuinely believes it.
The topper? The player is a church youth group leader in real life.
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...you sit back down after getting food during the middle of the midnight-to-noon session and the guy playing the character the session revolves around "passes out" on his part of the table.
No, he wasn't tired, he used the break to smoke pot.
And again.The DM is using a stuffed animal mini for the demon because that makes it "to scale"We did this a while ago.
Where did you get a Patamon?
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Where did you get a Patamon?And again.The DM is using a stuffed animal mini for the demon because that makes it "to scale"We did this a while ago.
My roommate bought one years ago. She brought it along to use as a prop.
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Does that constitute PVP?This happened to me this weekend
When you politely disagree with a new player that PFS should not allow their own home rules and they say they "declare war" on you.
I think he was trying to aggressively intimidate me into agreeing with him, but he was combative on the rules the entire game. Right when he said that though I knew the game would be trouble.
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All things that happened this weekend at a convention playing pfs:
When you sit down at a table and the gm says: "Oh, you're playing a life oracle, if you heal people then the enemies will start coup-de-gras attacks"
When you sit down at a table and the gm uses a string of profanity towards a player whom he's never met to introduce himself.
When you sit down at a table to play a Season Special and discover that the best tank in the group is the witch's bunny rabbit familiar. (This one worked out for the best, as the ranged inquisitor grabbed a shield and did a good job!)
When you play a social scenario and a player says "I'm going to the bar, i don't talk to anyone and will just drink until this silliness is over"
