Venture-Lieutenant, Indiana—Martinsville
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...The GM has a bottle of Energy drink beside him, is drawing out maps when the players approach the table, and brings out a tablelet to read the scenario from. He then informs the table at large that he didn't get any sleep last night and doesn't quite remember the scenario as it was a year ago since he ran it last.
Oh, and he is using colored tokens to represent enemies.
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RPG Superstar 2014 Top 16, RPG Superstar 2013 Top 16
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... Or that there are detect magics but no one took spellcraft (or knowledge: arcana)... You find your first bit of loot and realize no one at a 7 person table has detect magic prepared.
Happened to me last Friday
Been there. My fighter had to pick up the slack and ID the Secondary Success Condition item when the only spellcaster was a Druid with no Spellcraft. When I ran that scenario, the only spellcasters were a Paladin and a Ranger, so they missed that PP.
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...the arcane spell caster says "I didn't take any artillery spells. That's what we have fighters for." and all the fighters are concept characters with finesse weapons.
I'd would think that 13th level does make a difference... :-)
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Hey! My concept character with finesse weapon hits for 1d10+29! He's 13th level though...
Topic: ...the gm proudly declares that "this time it'll be a breeze, a holiday really."
My finesse concept character does 1d4+2d6+9, with an 18-20 crit range, assuming he's in position for a sneak attack, and he can usually get a flank pretty easily with his acrobatics skill over +20 (forget exactly off the top of my head). Not bad for level 6, and out of combat, he's a good scout, trap finder/disabler, and pretty good at diplomacy.
On topic, from last night's game: ... you show up for a social scenario, where you're forced to play up with a borderline tier group, and half the party has charisma penalties with no social skills trained. After I said I had a couple of characters in range I could bring, the GM warned us that it was a social adventure, so I brought my battle oracle with +10 diplomacy, who is usually more of a star in battle than out of it. At least we got one prestige.
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... Or that there are detect magics but no one took spellcraft (or knowledge: arcana)... You find your first bit of loot and realize no one at a 7 person table has detect magic prepared.
Happened to me last Friday
Oh, someone was trained in Spellcraft, but it was the fighter.
Detect Magic, no Spellcraft or Knowledge (Arcana); Both Spellcraft & Knowledge (Arcana) but no Detect Magic.
Which is why my Lore Warden fighter picked up a Discerning wayfinder...
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The GM pulls out their character sheet, and looks at you expectantly.
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...the person next to you turns to you, and presents ANYTHING and asks, "Does this smell funny to you?"
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Did the barbarian eat any civilians? Would that be considered an Evil act?...the gm is setting the flip-mat up with candy. "Those are civilians."
(I did this, still proud of myself; Our lady of silver.)
The players got to eat all the surviving candy civilians. The GM got tummyache from all the dead civilians.
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RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32
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The GM uses "Initiative Tents" and asks the players to write the following:
Character Name
Initiative Modifier
Fort
Reflex
Will
CMD
The Break DCs of their favorite weapons.
Haha, I was reading your post and wondering what's so bad about that, then I got to the last line. :)
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Yeah, how punked would you be if you just bought this awesome weapon, and the GM is like "I Sunder/Break it"?
"Is that a wand of Cure Moderate?" *Breaks it*
When I had an Abrikandilu succeed on a sunder attempt against the ninja's sword, he screamed so loudly that people in a neighboring store came to see what was the matter.
Once it passed the hardness, the sword suffered one point of damage.
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Yeah, how punked would you be if you just bought this awesome weapon, and the GM is like "I Sunder/Break it"?
"Is that a wand of Cure Moderate?" *Breaks it*
When I had an Abrikandilu succeed on a sunder attempt against the ninja's sword, he screamed so loudly that people in a neighboring store came to see what was the matter.
Once it passed the hardness, the sword suffered one point of damage.
I don't care what the penalties are, I would immediately ask the player to leave, and if they refused, I would leave.
There are some things I just will not put up with.
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Yeah, how punked would you be if you just bought this awesome weapon, and the GM is like "I Sunder/Break it"?
"Is that a wand of Cure Moderate?" *Breaks it*
When I had an Abrikandilu succeed on a sunder attempt against the ninja's sword, he screamed so loudly that people in a neighboring store came to see what was the matter.
Once it passed the hardness, the sword suffered one point of damage.
I don't care what the penalties are, I would immediately ask the player to leave, and if they refused, I would leave.
There are some things I just will not put up with.
Really? For a one-time event?
You wouldn't just ask him to tone it down in future?
Now there is someone I wouldn't be sure I wanted to participate with, since, like any game where there are things that cause excitement, people can get loud.
The ninja should have bought adamantium.
It's a ninja. Multiple disposable weapons are more appropriate. :)
That said, my ninja has an adamantium weapon... and an arsenal of hidden disposable ones.
-j
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Happened last night:
You know you're in trouble when you get to the table and ...
... you're facing a scenario with a deadly reputation with 2 archers, 3 pure casters, and only one front liner.
Actually, it worked out ok for us. Two of the casters had Augment Summoning and lots of summon spells (druid converting other things to Summon Nature's Ally and sorcerer with Summon Monster 1 and 2). And one of the archers was willing to stand on the front lines, quite effectively.