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I just want to play in a murder hobo campaign with wargame and light roleplay. I miss burning down towns as a teenager and playing cat and mouse until the entire group is killed or hung by paladins or peasants. So many people want to play mat mercer shit when I'd like to play a pyromaniac sorcerer with a shitty german accent or a goblin necromancer trying to make a bone mech to get over his Napoleón complex with the dm planning to kill our shitty characters in a fun way.
 
AnOminous said:
Oddly, that's kind of how I did it, even though I did base it generally on Christianity. Orcs, goblins, kobolds, and that kind of throwaways were just evil animated. You could always kill them (torture was still off the table except as a form of execution by the secular authorities).

They did also sometimes put down a peasant rebellion.
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The tutorial adventure for Pendragon has a situation to explain things like this to players. The PCs encounter a bunch of bandits, who will surrender if they get the chance. If the players accept the surrender and take the bandits to the duke's court, he just hangs the bandits and everyone thinks the PCs are silly for wasting time like that instead of just killing the bandits.
 
Henri Barbusse said:
The tutorial adventure for Pendragon has a situation to explain things like this to players. The PCs encounter a bunch of bandits, who will surrender if they get the chance. If the players accept the surrender and take the bandits to the duke's court, he just hangs the bandits and everyone thinks the PCs are silly for wasting time like that instead of just killing the bandits.
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God Greg Stafford was a legend
 
Thinking in some next game I play in playing some foul mouthed ex convict, any ideas on how to go with him? Probably thinking this person like a proper convict will be all the ists a man can be but love music and humor.
 
Kyria the Great said:
Thinking in some next game I play in playing some foul mouthed ex convict, any ideas on how to go with him? Probably thinking this person like a proper convict will be all the ists a man can be but love music and humor.
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I still want to play as a paladin who's sole reason he's in the party is that he is the parole officer for the rogue.
 
anti SJW said:
I still want to play as a paladin who's sole reason he's in the party is that he is the parole officer for the rogue.
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Whenever I played my "guest playing an absolute asshole NPC" there would always be a paladin whose job was to make sure the rest of the party didn't kill me.
 
killed yet another player character. this one was weird. I made him meet his pet (a bear) from his backstory, even with the same description he gave me. He wanted to kill it. I asked him if we're on the same page in case he forgot his backstory. Yes, he know it is his lost bear and he really wanted to try killing it with murderous intent.
He died.
To this day, I still don't know what he was thinking.
 
Aib Ld said:
killed yet another player character. this one was weird. I made him meet his pet (a bear) from his backstory, even with the same description he gave me. He wanted to kill it. I asked him if we're on the same page in case he forgot his backstory. Yes, he know it is his lost bear and he really wanted to try killing it with murderous intent.
He died.
To this day, I still don't know what he was thinking.
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Players like that want to flex power over other characters without considering consistency or realism or anything like that or how it effects the character concept. A big example is ultra-violent characters who make their anger and the trauma they leave behind ect the central focus of their character's whole personality like sure your backstory might include a lot of dead people and wounded but it's ridiculous to think the character is going on a killing spree everywhere they go for little to no reason especially without massive consequences.

For comparison in the real world many serial killers often take long breaks atleast to avoid being caught and maintain some sort of double life where their killings are not attached to their faces, addresses and real names.
 
Paradox Mystic said:
A big example is ultra-violent characters who make their anger and the trauma they leave behind ect the central focus of their character's whole personality like sure your backstory might include a lot of dead people and wounded but it's ridiculous to think the character is going on a killing spree everywhere they go for little to no reason especially without massive consequences.
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I'd generally not allow this in conventional campaigns like AD&D because you really couldn't do the kind of adventures I'd run if you were a pariah attacked on sight in every town you went to. I'd have the occasional outlaw chaotic evil PC, but usually their crimes were limited to a specific region and the paladin in charge would keep them in check.

There are games were the murderhobo thing makes sense. Like Stormbringer. This is a game where it can easily go grimderp at the drop of a hat and that shit is boring and emo. So we played the "literally every character is an over the top sword & sorcery villain" thing for laughs. I never really had a campaign with that game, because nearly every adventure ended with a Battle Royale of everyone betraying each other to steal whatever the MacGuffin was. So we rarely got enough survivors for another scenario with the same batch of deranged assholes.

In one case it was an actual awesome weapon, so they stuck together long enough to use it to kill the guy who hired them to retrieve it and rob him, too, before getting on to the usual "let's all kill each other" phase.
 
Henri Barbusse said:
The tutorial adventure for Pendragon has a situation to explain things like this to players. The PCs encounter a bunch of bandits, who will surrender if they get the chance. If the players accept the surrender and take the bandits to the duke's court, he just hangs the bandits and everyone thinks the PCs are silly for wasting time like that instead of just killing the bandits.
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man I've always wanted to play Pendragon so bad it seems so fucking kino.
 
Idk where else to put this Forgotten Realms lore rant so here we go.

Helm did nothing wrong. Ao was already getting pissed at the dieties and their screw-mortals-seek-power shenanigans before the Tablets were even stolen. Mystra should've read her pussy pass more closely. Helm did nothing wrong. Anyone who insists that Helm did something wrong is a giant pussy simp bitchboi who needs to remember to find his own nuts the next time he sees a woman getting consequences for her own dumb decisions.
 
VF-1J Armored Valkyrie said:
Idk where else to put this Forgotten Realms lore rant so here we go.

Helm did nothing wrong. Ao was already getting pissed at the dieties and their screw-mortals-seek-power shenanigans before the Tablets were even stolen. Mystra should've read her pussy pass more closely. Helm did nothing wrong. Anyone who insists that Helm did something wrong is a giant pussy simp bitchboi who needs to remember to find his own nuts the next time he sees a woman getting consequences for her own dumb decisions.
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This is one of the many reasons why the Immortals of Mystara regard the gods of Faerun as parasitic morons.
 
I realize that I didn't post the final Dice Scum episode on World of Synnibarr. Quite the exploration in geography as we read about what is on and in Synnibarr itself.


We also have tonight's review of Comrades: the Revolutionary RPG. A game where you can roleplay as fascist revolutionaries! Not what the developer intended with this PbtA LARP.

 
Gentlemen, I am once again putting out the call. I snagged a player from this thread many moons ago, and it worked out great. I am going to be running another PF1e game starting in the new year. It will be set in the same semi-homebrew setting as the other campaigns I have mentioned in this thread. It will primarily be about fighting demon cults and delving the setting's equivalent of the Underdark. We're shooting for Tuesdays at 7pm CST. If you're interested and/or have any questions, you can DM me or just ask them here and I'll do my best to answer them.
 
New game shop opened near me. Mostly warhammer and miniatures games but has some RPG stuff. (Good for me due to the other shop going all in on gayness. They also sell reaper bones, so can see them first hand.)

They have one product they have a lot of is "epic encounters". Is a box of minis, a double sided map/mat, and an adventure to go with them. Prices range from £30 to £85. The minis look cool, but as much as I want them I doubt I'd get to use them. How are the adventures? The few video reviews I saw of them are like ads from YouTubers I never heard of. Anyone have any opinions of these?
 
Judge Dredd said:
They have one product they have a lot of is "epic encounters". Is a box of minis, a double sided map/mat, and an adventure to go with them. Prices range from £30 to £85. The minis look cool, but as much as I want them I doubt I'd get to use them. How are the adventures? The few video reviews I saw of them are like ads from YouTubers I never heard of. Anyone have any opinions of these?
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The maps are 17x23 and the adventures are little booklets, although the ones I got had maps that were a little too dark. The horde boxes have a solid mix of minis in them and the bosses are really chunky for how cheap they are. I didn't use the adventures and got my money's worth out of the minis, but it looks like there's some decent stuff in them.
 
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