I love PLAYING dungeon crawls, not running them.
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I love PLAYING dungeon crawls, not running them.
I LOVE running Dungeon Crawls. I've written so many over the years that they have become a specialty of mine. In fact, the first campaigns I ran back in the 70s were almost exclusively dungeon crawls in OD&D rules (+ expansions as the came out).
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Years ago our group had a campaign in which the PCs were cohorts or family members of some higher-level NPC adventurers. When the NPCs suddenly went missing our PCs had to form a party to fulfill their mission and find out what had happened to them.
I ran a campaign much like that some time ago, in my ancient dungeon, which maybe the oldest on the West Coast.
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I once spent a good deal of two consecutive combat sessions complaining I couldn't seem to roll higher than a 12 on any attack roll before realizing I was in fact using a d12 instead of a d20. So I no longer take my pain meds during game sessions.I had a DM do the exact same thing said man I haven't rolled above a 12 all night we looked. "Ah yes that would be because your rolling a D12"
He didn't have the pain med excuse however!
I also had a player do that. Though, to her credit, it was her first two gaming sessions, and she referred to both the d12 and the d20 as "the round one." This was also the same player that wanted to play a multiclass character at first level, so before the game, she build a ranger/bard hybrid by taking every number on the chart for each class and averaging them.
On another occasion, early in my own playing career, I was setting up to run a game and realized that neither of my (new) players had any dice, and I had neglected to bring my set. I looked through every junk drawer in the host's house, and found a single solitary d12, which is what we used for every roll in that session.
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While playing an MMORPG, I come up with "head canon" personalities and backgrounds for the character that shape their choices and quest priorities...
The embarrassing part is I do this with other people's online characters as well...
ME: omg that totally sounds like something (char name) would do
Player of other character: Umm wut?
ME: ... nevermind.
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My husband gave me a new dice bag for Christmas. It's a handmade felt bag in the shape of a dragon's head, complete with glass eyes. It is the coolest dice bag EVER.
Now I have to decide which character's dice get to live in it, or whether I should buy a brand new set to avoid making any of my old dice jealous.
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Since we've started playing at my home my group feels like visiting their grannies' home! I always have homemade cookies and spongecakes and I love cooking the dinner for them. I'm often like "Eat some more, come on!", "Don't you like it? Do you want me to cook something else?"
I don't know if I'm GMing my players or I'm only feeding them! xD
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Since we've started playing at my home my group feels like visiting their grannies' home! I always have homemade cookies and spongecakes and I love cooking the dinner for them. I'm often like "Eat some more, come on!", "Don't you like it? Do you want me to cook something else?"
I don't know if I'm GMing my players or I'm only feeding them! xD
I wish I gamed at your house! LOL
Since we've started playing at my home my group feels like visiting their grannies' home! I always have homemade cookies and spongecakes and I love cooking the dinner for them. I'm often like "Eat some more, come on!", "Don't you like it? Do you want me to cook something else?"
I don't know if I'm GMing my players or I'm only feeding them! xD
I know that feeling the wife and I got a bigger house this summer so I can entertain. So when the group gets together I try to at least do appetizers. Though one of the players is still going on about how good the chicken I cooked the first session was.
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Where are the traditions gone? Back in my days players brought tribute to feed the GM and keep him calm. Now I'm feeding my players. This World nowadays has gone crazy...
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Where are the traditions gone? Back in my days players brought tribute to feed the GM and keep him calm. Now I'm feeding my players. This World nowadays has gone crazy...
We have turned into adults.....mostly.
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1. I have more characters made and waiting to be played than games to play them in. It got so bad I just made a file for them and posted it online. I just have so many character builds I want to play and I enjoy making them and their crunch.
2. I am a relentless powergamer inside. I don't know if anyone notices in my group but I really care about my big numbers and will probably aim for statistical superiority whenever possible.
3. In addition to 2, whenever I see a character that is weaker than it should be I actually scream internally. I just think 'Wow, imagine how much more powerful you could be, you could take X and Y, but you chose Z! What are you doing?' It is an unhealthy obsession.
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1. I have more characters made and waiting to be played than games to play them in. It got so bad I just made a file for them and posted it online. I just have so many character builds I want to play and I enjoy making them and their crunch.
2. I am a relentless powergamer inside. I don't know if anyone notices in my group but I really care about my big numbers and will probably aim for statistical superiority whenever possible.
3. In addition to 2, whenever I see a character that is weaker than it should be I actually scream internally. I just think 'Wow, imagine how much more powerful you could be, you could take X and Y, but you chose Z! What are you doing?' It is an unhealthy obsession.
That's okay I have a player who will create a character with x in mind and then avoid any feat that makes x better, and then be upset he can't do x.
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That's okay I have a player who will create a character with x in mind and then avoid any feat that makes x better, and then be upset he can't do x.
When Kileanna and I read this, we both say at the same time the name of a player of ours!
That's okay I have a player who will create a character with x in mind and then avoid any feat that makes x better, and then be upset he can't do x.When Kileanna and I read this, we both say at the same time the name of a player of ours!
Add to that the fact that when he sees someone doing Y he picks a feat so he can do Y and then starts thinking he should be doing Z too and picks a feat for Z.
In the end he cannot do X, nor Y, nor Z. Then he blames the rules for not being efficient enough.
Where are the traditions gone? Back in my days players brought tribute to feed the GM and keep him calm. Now I'm feeding my players. This World nowadays has gone crazy...
I bought my GM* a slow cooker for Christmas so he could spend less of the session cooking for the players and more running the adventure. He was having difficulties rolling dice with oven gloves on.
*Though as he's my boyfriend this wasn't an entirely game-based decision...
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When in doubt of what kind of charector to make for a game I default to an elven ranger.
I have a dice set for each individual charector that I use exclusively for that charector except for 2 old d20's that I call my "Oh shit" dice. (they have an unhealthy obsession for rolling 18 to 20)
I keep charector sheets until level 3, after level 3 (sometimes right off the bat if i think i will like the charector a lot) I hand right everything in one of those composition notebooks. Which then get filled with little adventuring journal entries and doodles and stray thoughts the charector might come up with.
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When I was Storytelling a Mage game recently, I bought a new dice set because none of mine looked "magical" enough to me.
The new ones have sparkles and glow in the dark. :P
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When I was Storytelling a Mage game recently, I bought a new dice set because none of mine looked "magical" enough to me.
The new ones have sparkles and glow in the dark. :P
*gasp* Where did you get these wonderful toys?
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*gasp* Where did you get these wonderful toys?When I was Storytelling a Mage game recently, I bought a new dice set because none of mine looked "magical" enough to me.
The new ones have sparkles and glow in the dark. :P
They're Chessex Ghostly Glow dice. I got the pink sparkle ones, but I think they also come in orange and maybe a couple other colours.
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Chessex doesn't update it's catalog online and the one they sent me via pdf was from 2014, so I have no idea what they have to offer. If you could find a link to the Ghostly Glow ones and send it to me I'd greatly appreciate it!
EDIT: I found them! I must have them all!
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Chessex doesn't update it's catalog online and the one they sent me via pdf was from 2014, so I have no idea what they have to offer. If you could find a link to the Ghostly Glow ones and send it to me I'd greatly appreciate it!
EDIT: I found them! I must have them all!
I usually find dice on eBay or Amazon myself.
Have fun. :)
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Where are the traditions gone? Back in my days players brought tribute to feed the GM and keep him calm. Now I'm feeding my players. This World nowadays has gone crazy...I bought my GM* a slow cooker for Christmas so he could spend less of the session cooking for the players and more running the adventure. He was having difficulties rolling dice with oven gloves on.
*Though as he's my boyfriend this wasn't an entirely game-based decision...
Invest in a good pressure cooker. You can do a lot of dishes so much quicker.
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I usually wind up playin the wizard when I actually have a group, just because everyone else hates accounting and tracking spells and stuff.
Don't tell anyone.
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I don't mind playing the wizard. I'll play anything the group needs. Yeah, the bookkeeping gets a little tedious sometimes, but I just love to play.
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I usually have to cover traps and healing, because Fireball, Baleful Polymorph, and Shocking Grasp sound more fun.
Thank goodness Paizo created the Archeologist archetype for Bards (and Oracles in general).
Of course, as a kid my favorite profession was Archeologist.
Yeah, if I had it to do over again, I'd be an archaeologist or paleontologist. I was told by an anthropology professor I should've changed my major from what it was at the time in college, but like a doofus I didn't listen.
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I instead build things future Archeologists will find. Not the walls, they won't last, but I always lay the base. That's what archeologists find. :-)
And hopefully some of the patios, I'm rather proud of some of those.
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I love playing the wizard. In the ongoing campaign I play with TOZ, I'm playing a wizard. (One who took the "Oblivious" drawback, and gets a lot of mileage out of it.)
As for my embarrassing confession: I'm embarrassed that I played RPGs at all. I shouldn't be in front of this crowd. In fact, in this crowd, I'm kinda embarrassed that I'm embarrassed. It's very meta.
Once I got into high school (we're talking 1982, here), my perception of social perception was that D&D was something that yukky 6th graders did, and that older people who played that game were seriously nerdy. I mostly played with one other friend, who was also embarrassed; we used to joke that when we got together to play D&D, we'd tell everybody (including our parents) that we were doing drugs, because that would be much more socially acceptable.
I was always deathly afraid that people who weren't also themselves gamers would find out, and would make fun of me. Once I was an adult, I was afraid that I'd get accused of "having too much time" or be thought to be odd and strange and something to look down at.
RPGs are a bit more mainstream now, and I'm less in the closet. Still, it's not something I openly advertise to folks who aren't in on it.
(Aside: the stigma still exists. A woman in my local PFS group is a middle manager sort at some big US corporation or another. She eventually decided not to be in the closet about it. Her boss said to her that she must play with a bunch of really strange and sad people.... That's the stereotype. Of course, she got to tell them that she played with a PhD physicist who'd been to the Nobel Prize ceremony, a computer technician who owns his own company, an engineer who works for RAND....)
Come join the rest of us. Wave your Geek Flag high!
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I have been proudly carrying mine since Playing pokemon cards at lunch in junior high and MtG in highschool.
Granted, I don't go around proclaiming I play RPGs. I live in a very conservative region where there is still the Satanism stigma flying around in some areas, even after all these years. But if someone asks what my hobbies are I tell them without hesitation. I'm not ashamed of my hobby, it's just that it's a not a non-enthusiast's business.
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Granted, I don't go around proclaiming I play RPGs. I live in a very conservative region where there is still the Satanism stigma flying around in some areas, even after all these years. But if someone asks what my hobbies are I tell them without hesitation. I'm not ashamed of my hobby, it's just that it's a not a non-enthusiast's business.
Hey Arkansas is getting better my southern baptist preacher actually was okay with us playing 3.0 at his house back in highschool.
A few years ago the youth pastor at a local conservative church asked me to run a regular PF game for a few kids. It lasted about a year before he transferred away and the chief pastor nixed further games.
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I love playing the wizard.
Don't get me wrong, I ALSO love playing the Wizard. I'll make a Diviner that will make someone's head spin in a hot minute, if our martial front is covered.
I just... y'know. I have that rep.
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I first met my girlfriend in a rpg I was GMing... 14 years ago. We are now living together. And still roleplaying, of course!
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I first met my girlfriend in a rpg I was GMing... 14 years ago. We are now living together. And still roleplaying, of course!
We've grown together as both players/GMs and as a couple so it is a great experience.
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And now I can't stop thinking about what kind of games do you play...
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When I had space to paint miniatures, I often painted multiple minis for each character. Every time a new mini was released that would be 'perfect' for my character I would paint it. Then a few months or a year later, another mini that was even more 'perfect' would come out, and I'd have to paint that one.
I pretty much only play halflings or bards. Or both. Mostly both. Don't know why, they're just awesome.
I play Humans exclusively. If I had my druthers, there would only be Humans as the sole player race. I still stick to the core races and some homebrew ones and refuse to allow the anthropomorphic races.
I have a weakness for crazy, over the top settings and characters. For example, Rifts and Warhammer 40k are my favorite settings ever.
I refuse to play humans or anything resembling humans for the most part. The more bizarre a race is, the more interested I am in playing one. Except Catfolk and Kitsune, cause furries frighten me.
I hate magic but love psionics, which of course makes me a heretic at most D&D tables. I just find the image of a character wiggling his/her fingers and spouting gibberish to cast spells ridiculous. And don't get me started on the bat guano. Psionics are more reserved, no hand gestures and no gibberish. And no batcrap.
Just my confessions.
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I hate magic but love psionics, which of course makes me a heretic at most D&D tables. I just find the image of a character wiggling his/her fingers and spouting gibberish to cast spells ridiculous. And don't get me started on the bat guano. Psionics are more reserved, no hand gestures and no gibberish. And no batcrap.Just my confessions.
So, I take it then that you find ordinary magic to be...bat-crap crazy?
I'll see myself out. :)
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I hate heavy armor characters. Who wanders around in full plate every day. Of all the characters I've played going all the way back to 1st edition, only one has worn full plate.
I love playing odd characters. Race doesn't matter, but odd builds and gish characters are my great love. I spent a year in play figuring out how to play a eldritch knight without taking a BAB1 class, then abandoned the build half way though the game to take up the evangelist prestige class because it made my character weirder. Currently sorcerer (elemental fire) 6 / oracle (metal) 4 / evangelist 2.
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My husband gave me a new dice bag for Christmas, and although I have lots of dice I am sorely tempted to buy some new ones so this dice bag can have its own special set.
I am hand-writing spells into a blank book for one of my characters. Fortunately I do not need to eat a spider to write spider climb in this spellbook.
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I guess this qualifies as embarrassing... Drow are my favorite D&D race. I've read a probably excessive amount of sourcebooks and novels about them, and I secretly feel a little bit hurt when people say things like "drow players just want to make Drizzt ripoffs".