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Or you can mulch them all you want, but it doesn't matter. It will never matter. The Powers That Be do not want them dead, since that ends the game.
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I like the attitude my main GM has to Ravenloft: the party isn't stuck in the Darklord's domain, the Darklord is stuck with the party. After all, Darklords are (or should be) there partly as a punishment for their evil, and a party of adventurers bent on throwing a wrench in their plans doesn't make things any easier for the Darklord. The party is part of their torment.
And, of course, there's always the "if you don't do things just right, the Darklord comes back" and the "if you don't do things just right, you become the next Darklord" angles. Two classics for horror settings.
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The Ravenloft book for 5e is like all the other 5e splats, in that you find the stuff that's useable and yank it out before chucking the rest or applying it to older, better releases from previous editions. As it is, I'm still not going to run it until the two newest players in my group have finally worked out all the dumb joke characters out of their system. Until then, the closest we're going to get is the hexblade I played in the other DM's campaign whose patron was the dark powers whose entire shtick was hunting down sundry outsiders and banishing them into his patron's toybox to torment the various dark lords with.
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"for now, what we are calling for is voluntary recognition from paizo management"
for someone who likes to talk about power dynamics they don't seem to understand why a union works the way it works
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Unions that form in the hip and woke industries are almost always fake and gay. They aren't there to protect the employees, they exist to play into their "workers of the world" LARP."for now, what we are calling for is voluntary recognition from paizo management"
for someone who likes to talk about power dynamics they don't seem to understand why a union works the way it works
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Has any videogames/tabletop industry union ever caught on and gotten anything done besides damage the company itself?
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None to my knowledge. I think the fundamental disconnect is that they don't realize just how utterly replaceable they are. The most basic element of unions and their bargaining power is the threat of a strike, which can only hurt the business if they cannot easily replace the striking workers. The gaming industry is severely saturated with unemployed people waiting their turn to live the dream of working for a gaming company, and I don't imagine it's terribly difficult for someone to learn how to do what they do. I would be willing to wager that any of these companies could easily fire and replace almost any number of striking workers.
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So for reason this dude calledc critcrab show up who does these werid dnd horror stories shit and....do people actually belive this shit? Most of the stuff he reads seems to dubious or just sounds outright fake
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Darklord this Darklord that, my party almost got TPK’d by a Rug Of Smothering in Strahd’s Castle.
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Dammit, that's why you poke everything with a 10 foot pole to see what happens. Yes, even your fellow PCs. Especially your fellow PC's. Need to tell when one of them has been replaced with a doppleganger.
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Ravenloft hitting up the Dark Lords are a problem of the modules.
I've ran multi-year campaigns that never came close to the Dark Lords and were great fun.
A heavy rule of Ravenloft should be: Reoccurring villains should be the result of consequences of the player's own actions.
Ravenloft battles against major foes should take place in collapsing towers, on crumbling bridges as a flood approaches during a major storm, on top of a manor in the moors as it burns. The foe should get down to single digit or <20 HP and stagger/fall into the mist/water/fire to vanish, only to return months of real time later held together by dark magic, scotch tape, and hatred.
Even a fucking 2HD ghoul should be terrifying.
If you run Ravenloft, remember this simple rule:
The PC's NEVER get to choose the battlefield, never get to set the terms, and their plans will never work correctly, and the monsters will NEVER attack them unless they are separated.
I've ran multi-year campaigns that never came close to the Dark Lords and were great fun.
A heavy rule of Ravenloft should be: Reoccurring villains should be the result of consequences of the player's own actions.
Ravenloft battles against major foes should take place in collapsing towers, on crumbling bridges as a flood approaches during a major storm, on top of a manor in the moors as it burns. The foe should get down to single digit or <20 HP and stagger/fall into the mist/water/fire to vanish, only to return months of real time later held together by dark magic, scotch tape, and hatred.
Even a fucking 2HD ghoul should be terrifying.
If you run Ravenloft, remember this simple rule:
The PC's NEVER get to choose the battlefield, never get to set the terms, and their plans will never work correctly, and the monsters will NEVER attack them unless they are separated.
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The worst part was they couldn’t even kill it. They single remaining conscious member drug the other two into a different room and proceeded to barricade the door and wait until the rug left. I’m legitimately considering having the rug be a recurring ‘character’ now.
Edit: They are a party of three level three PCs. The Rug Of Smothering is a CR two.
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Jesus, that's just evil. But I love it.
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So the PaizoWorkers tweet mentions "conditions we're forced to work under." The hell does that mean, what conditions? They certainly weren't slogging it 12 hours a day in a coal mine. They made silly little make-believe games with the only skill requirement being basic writing ability, even learning to code wasn't necessary. Quite frankly any amount of money to do that is generous on behalf of Paizo.
Does this union threaten any semblance of meritocracy left at Paizo? Will the quality get even lower? Or will the "union" realize how little bargaining power they have becoming a union in name only, and things continue as normal.
Does this union threaten any semblance of meritocracy left at Paizo? Will the quality get even lower? Or will the "union" realize how little bargaining power they have becoming a union in name only, and things continue as normal.
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What baffles me is that it’s not even a difficult encounter. The rug only has 33HP 10ft. of speed.
Now granted I’ll give them some slack because they were asleep when the attack started and the bard, aka the first victim was in a different room entirely from the rest of the party. So the bard had pushed a couch up against the door as a precaution before he went to bed, thinking that nothing could get through. So the rug slipped under the door wrapped around him as he slept, effectively beginning to smother him. I think it did like 13 damage. So anyways the bard rolls initiative, pulls himself out of the rug and tries to run prompting opportunity attack which succeeds in wrapping him up again and knocking him out. By this time the other two, the Cleric and Ranger arrive and the cleric decides to cast Guiding Bolt at the rug dealing both it and the bard damage. Bard has one failed death save. The Ranger pulls the bard out of the rug and runs to the next room with him while the rug attacks the cleric. Cleric takes damage, escapes in her turn and tries to run only to meet the same fate as the bard, falling unconscious as the rug chokes the life out of her. The Ranger then pulls her out like he did for the bard and drags her back to the room as well where he barricades the door top to bottom in a panic. The rug can’t get in and after a few minutes of trying it slinks off leaving the party defeated and ashamed.
Bard nearly died by the way, he had two failed death saves and managed to pull himself together no thanks to the Ranger who refused to even try a Medicine check.
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Your party deserves whatever happens to them if they're that foolish.
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"we are forced with work with people that disagree with our opinion that has no merit on the product"
or in other words
"we are unprofessional fuckwits who can't even do a monkeys job, please fell sorry for us"
it's worse when you remember that the industry itself already outsources a lot of stuff via contracts and license deals, the rest is boring support/management jobs unless you're lucky and one of the few inhouse writers/artists (if they even have any at this point). 80-90% can literally be replaced by anyone.
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Oh jesus christ I don't even know where to start with this horseshit. "Voluntary Recognition" - so they never actually had a real union vote, just a bunch of wokies sat down and wanted to cram more tranny shit & Modern Political Sensibilities into their modules. They probably haven't even found their parent union, this is just a bunch of butt-hurt children complaining they didn't get a bigger allowance despite doing most of their chores.
TMI: I started ground work on unionization at a workplace because management was shit and depressing salaries for our department while raising people who didn't need them. We had a union we would fall under, and had talks with a member who basically told us not to bother - you get a raise, but all you end up with after union dues is the same or less take home. We already had good benes, so we wouldn't get an improvement there. one of our complaints was short-staffing and union would not fix that in the least. The only upside to the union was if you were Ukrainian you might be able to get elected president and figure out ways to redirect those union dues to places that would kick some back to you.
We still started the process because fuck the man, but eventually I discovered a better way to a raise which was to leave and get a better job, and then convince my coworkers to do the same.
Plot twist: Everyone has been replaced by dopplegangers. Actually everyone is two dopplegangers deep, and the cleric on their 3rd
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I actually did something similar to one of my players about a year ago.
Long story short, the character, a rogue saw a high ranking government official kill a man and it was later discovered that she had seen this happen and as such she was kidnapped, a simulacrum was made of her which the politician who was a powerful wizard, used Modify Memory on since the entirety of its memories technically were only of that day since she was only just created despite having a lifetime of memories. The enciting memory was erased and the simulacrum was then True Polymorphed into a real person, now indistinguishable from the original and with no idea that she wasn’t the original. Meanwhile, the real rogue is killed and shortly thereafter the campaign begins, the party joining up without the slightest clue that the rogue is a sleeper agent for the BBEG.
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Was that genderswapped curse of Strahd talked about here before? I don't care about DnD but I opened the pdf on a whim.
The author wants 20 bucks to rewrite a pre-existing module and swap the genders, and some other things around.
Someone on /tg/ uploaded it. If someone wants a reupload I can provide.
The author wants 20 bucks to rewrite a pre-existing module and swap the genders, and some other things around.
Someone on /tg/ uploaded it. If someone wants a reupload I can provide.