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Obligatory Thug Attack - When your investigation phase fails pan out, this is the encounter that puts you back on track by allowing you to interrogate a prisoner or find the clue you need on a corpse.
Course, that assumes that any clues on said corpse survived the party. Tried running one of the scenarios as a one off non-pfs game. Party completely blew the investigation, in the process angering those they should have been allying with. Then they destroyed the parchment that held the clue they desperately needed by spamming burning hands, aoe fire based kineticist abilities, and an oversized warhammer (to put out the resulting blaze).
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Okay, this one probably isn't common usage. But it's a concept which I like to call I.D.I.O.T.
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Or in other words, rolling where people can see. Let's everyone share how awesome your nat 20 is, or help commiserate that -7 you somehow rolled.
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Oh Carp!: That moment when the wooden bridge is on fire, 90% of the party is standing on said bridge, your party is fighting multiple bat swarms, and then someone triggers a nasty fire trap while all but one person are in the small room after fleeing the bridge.... leaving one lone badly hurt party member to deal with both bat swarms while everyone else mostly just burn in the trap created inferno.
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It's a portmanteau of Wounded Wisp and Pig's Pouch - both conflictingly being Society foundations!
"Mid-Scenario Commercial break" is when you forget to update adblocker and Youtube advertises Gatorade between your carefully picked selection of neofolk and ambient.
"Code George I" Permission to nuke the melee, friendly fire be damned.
"The Diatribe" When your gm can't stop theirself from hyping tiers or encounters you missed. "You should have seen this on high tier! I mean, gruddamn! It was on fire and at least colossal"
"Tea ceremony" The confusion breaker. Everybody drink.
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"You guys got this": When your character has nothing useful to contribute to an encounter, and you don't feel like expending purchased resources because the rest of your party is already stomping things.Also called "I pull out the Popcorn."
Around me, the term is 'I make popcorn' due to a session long ago with a blackened hands Oracle who watched her party take apart an encounter (they were high end of the scenario compared to her lower end); when it came to be my initiative, I said "I cast burning hands and make popcorn." with appropriate hand gestures and innocent facial expression. It took us a few minutes to move on with the game...
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Doyouthinkhesaurus Rex: What the heavy armor wearing, dex tanking, melee combat monster type character shouts at the rogue after rolling a negative number on the stealth check.Otherwise known as Sir Clanks-a-Lot of the Full Plate Stealth Check.
I'd say that comment offends me. However I do seem to be rather unusual in that I can walk quietly (usually) while wearing a breastplate.
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Fresh Meat: new playersCooked meat: New players after someone drops a badly placed grease followed by a burning hands spell in the same spot
Garden Party: the results of an Entangle spell being centered on the melee
I thought the Grease spell was not flammable? Isn't there an FAQ about that?
Our party did do something like that to some nasty giant spiders once, though. We doused an area with oil, then sent bait (me, I volunteered) to lure the spiders out of hiding in the thickets. When they followed me into the oily patch, the sorcerer cast Burning Hands on the oil and the spiders.
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Nat Zero: The result of rolling your die off the table. The other PFS GM at my FLGS and I occasionally threaten to apply this rule to a player who rolls more enthusiastically than accurately.Okay, this one probably isn't common usage. But it's a concept which I like to call I.D.I.O.T.
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Around here, they just call that "Steve-ing."
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In an old gaming group I was in, we had a phenomenon we called "heater bait".
Any die which rolled off the table and ended up anywhere near the heater/air conditioner was simply gone. Even if logic would dictate it should be clearly visible since the unit was raised above the ground by an inch and you watched where it went, they were gone. We never did figure out why that was happening. But it made keeping your dice on the table far more important.
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You really think greased and burned isn't still cooked meat? Even if the spell isn't flammable (which it is, I think, in 3.5) you're still on your bum and burned alive.
in pathfinder, only mythic grease is flammable, see here
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You really think greased and burned isn't still cooked meat? Even if the spell isn't flammable (which it is, I think, in 3.5) you're still on your bum and burned alive.in pathfinder, only mythic grease is flammable, see here
Yes, but how does that change the fact that the player is prone and flash fried? Possibly with a few flames still around, and any scrolls burned. And maybe gunpowder detonated if it's not in a powder horn.
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:Garden Party: the results of an Entangle spell being centered on the meleeTentacle Party: As above but with Black Tentacles.
Yes, it's happened to me.
That must have been uncomfortable. And embarrassing.
My ninja may have been a bit of a freak, and a favorite of Zarta, but even he did not enjoy that.
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The Wounded Pig - where the society originally started!I thought it was the Wounded Wisp?
My headcannon is now that the regularly met at the wounded wisp but for some reason (probably a fire) went over to the pigs paunch for their formal declaration of chartership. The argument over where the society actually started was the real cause of the shadowlodge splitting from the ten.
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My headcannon is now that the regularly met at the wounded wisp but for some reason (probably a fire) went over to the pigs paunch for their formal declaration of chartership. The argument over where the society actually started was the real cause of the shadowlodge splitting from the ten.
I think Drendle Dreng trained you wrong as a joke...
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7 Player Adjustment: Where players and the GM roll initiative and then wait for the possibility of participating in a combat that can still last for half an hour.
Pro-tip: During your down-time, in between turns, you can notify your friends/significant other(s)/parents that you're going to be late. You can also take this time to start a hobby, read a book, make a sandwich, go for a jog, catch up on sleep, perform the full story of Moby Dick using your minis, etc...
(See Also: Party with multiple "pet classes")
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The Wounded Pig - where the society originally started!I thought it was the Wounded Wisp?My headcannon is now that the regularly met at the wounded wisp but for some reason (probably a fire) went over to the pigs paunch for their formal declaration of chartership. The argument over where the society actually started was the real cause of the shadowlodge splitting from the ten.
I expect every evergreen to include a different tavern which was "where it all started".
My headcanon is that the founders were drunk enough they're not really sure.
Venture-Captain, Netherlands
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Obligatory Thug Attack - When your investigation phase fails pan out, this is the encounter that puts you back on track by allowing you to interrogate a prisoner or find the clue you need on a corpse.Course, that assumes that any clues on said corpse survived the party. Tried running one of the scenarios as a one off non-pfs game. Party completely blew the investigation, in the process angering those they should have been allying with. Then they destroyed the parchment that held the clue they desperately needed by spamming burning hands, aoe fire based kineticist abilities, and an oversized warhammer (to put out the resulting blaze).
I've had that happen in a PFS game. Someone's dinosaur companion at the boss that had the parchment. Said parchment did not survive being swallowed whole.