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"I'm running a campaign with demigods who can create ex nihilo" is not a minor detail. Yeah, at that point, you can kind of forget about anything normal or predictable.
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"I'm running a campaign with demigods who can create ex nihilo" is not a minor detail. Yeah, at that point, you can kind of forget about anything normal or predictable.
Sargon's wife's son
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Yeah I plan on ending the campaign probably somewhere around this year then it's on the campaign too which is after the stop the cataclysm or don't
either way we get to have the second campaign also keep in mind one of the characters is like a mixture of every single wizard class because According to him being a wizard purely just boring series 10 levels and ultimate magus 10 levels in legacy champion 3 in dragon Mystic
and two levels in sorcerer and wizard because that's a requirement for ultimate magus.
I did have to put a limit on buffs though because they kept buffing themselves where they were basically untouchable.
And there was one guy I had to kick out of the party after a few years because he decided to play I'm power gaming to a level where I'm just being an argumentative prick with the DM.
Look you can only do quicken spell energy admixture energy admixture twins spell repeating spell.
Once you get past that level when you're already doing about roughly 2000 damage around then I get kind of annoyed
I do miss the guy who had no idea how to play DND though who was in the party or was a great role player whose character sheet was never properly filled out
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Sounds a trifle Monty Haul to me. Not really criticizing, I've had those, they kind of spiral out of control after a while, though.
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Solid Saphire statues at level 27 is Monty Haul? I mean I'm surprised they just didn't cast wish to remove the dragon and it's entire bloodline and then drag their collective nutsacks on Orcus for the lolz. I mean at that level you start eyeing up gods as potential loot pinatas.
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I usually made them pay if they started pulling shit like that.
I have both had and been in campaigns that turned so Monty Haul the players started to complain it was just too boring. Oh, we're going to raid Olympus and kill Zeus again, are we? (Not a real example.)
In my major Monty Haul "let's end this shit" campaign, I just basically let all the Abyssal planes unleash all the demons and threw in a few other things from Deities & Demigods just for fun. And in another where I was a player, the DM (after consulting everyone for "is it time just to destroy this universe") had all kinds of nonsense, like Conan the Barbarian dual-wielding Stormbringer and Mournblade as the entire world was destroyed.
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Going through the new D&D Players Guide and can't say I personally like it. It just feels like D&D 5th edition with Tasha's stuff added in.
A good amount of the artwork still looks ai created despite what Hasbro said going forward.
A good amount of the artwork still looks ai created despite what Hasbro said going forward.
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I know we are aware most "celebrity GMs" are utter fucking garbage, and that women on youtube especially are overly-made up poser tourists
But I just watched a Ginny Di video where she was creaming herself after reading a book (from her publisher, but its NOT A SPONSORSHIP GUYS SHE JUST LIKES THIS BOOK THAT IS MADE BY THE PEOPLE MAKING HERS OK? SHE'S NOT GETTING ANY MONEY FOR DOING THIS ONLY HONORING THE PROMOTION AND IMAGE/LIKENESS CLAUSE IN THE CONTRACT THAT GOT HER HER ADVANCE! TOTES DIFFERNT) and said book was an overly long treatise on "Don't rail road your players, there's this thing called a sandbox". and gushing about how she'd never thought about letting the players direct the action of a campaign.
I sort of figured the bitch was worthless but holy hell how do you get to Youtube promotion & endorsement deals on your "GMing ability" and this shit is a novel concept.
But I just watched a Ginny Di video where she was creaming herself after reading a book (from her publisher, but its NOT A SPONSORSHIP GUYS SHE JUST LIKES THIS BOOK THAT IS MADE BY THE PEOPLE MAKING HERS OK? SHE'S NOT GETTING ANY MONEY FOR DOING THIS ONLY HONORING THE PROMOTION AND IMAGE/LIKENESS CLAUSE IN THE CONTRACT THAT GOT HER HER ADVANCE! TOTES DIFFERNT) and said book was an overly long treatise on "Don't rail road your players, there's this thing called a sandbox". and gushing about how she'd never thought about letting the players direct the action of a campaign.
I sort of figured the bitch was worthless but holy hell how do you get to Youtube promotion & endorsement deals on your "GMing ability" and this shit is a novel concept.
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What? What dose she mean by this? I really want to see one of her sessions now sounds like a great example on what not to do
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Odd how the Rogue has the Soulknife as a subclass. Doesn't really feel like a Soulknife either other than forming a single soulknife
And yes, the dungeon wheelchair is in the book. You get to see artwork of a team protecting the cripple in chapter 5 Feats.
And yes, the dungeon wheelchair is in the book. You get to see artwork of a team protecting the cripple in chapter 5 Feats.
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The setting I use has obscure historical records or out of the way ruins where the players will learn what happened to the Yuan-Ti/Naga equivalents when they got too big for the metaphorical britches.
This is known as the Age of the Snake. The snake race known as Shissar, slithered upon Kunark. The Iksar had yet to unite. Our people had yet to learn the Black Arts and the ways of Fist and Tail.
Divided, the Iksar were enslaved by the snakes. In the centuries before the Green, the Iksar were slaves of the Shissar. They ruled from the ancient city of Chelsith which rests deep within the land now known as The Overthere. From here would sprout much evil. The Iksar were tortured like Frogs and suffered at the hands of the Shissar. The Iksar who showed genius were to help the snakes in their dark rites. These few were the seeds of rebellion. The Iksar began to plot a revolt, but a greater force would strike first.
The Shissar were an arrogant race. The power bestowed by the gods was not enough. They made pacts with other gods and demigods. They found the rifts of time and space and used them to gather magic items once held by the guardians of the planes. The Shissar's disloyalty and blasphemous pride would bring the wrath of the gods upon them. No power could stop the force to come. A green cloud formed in the skies above Kunark. The cloud began to descend upon the land.
From its green core, the face of death began to form. It was of no god they knew of. It opened its giant maw and spoke in tongues unknown. From the mouth of death rushed forth a green mist.
The Shissar shamans began to cast spells in hopes of shielding their city and the necromancers began to assault the mist with great weapons. All were futile. The mist rushed forth. The first snakes to be swallowed by the mist had their scales and flesh rot and fall from their bones.
Horrid screams of suffering could be heard from within the mist. A river of flesh and blood flowed. The Iksar stood and gazed upon the gristle that was once the Shissar. With the Green Death came the liberation of the Iksar.
The season is now 0 A.G, After Green.
Divided, the Iksar were enslaved by the snakes. In the centuries before the Green, the Iksar were slaves of the Shissar. They ruled from the ancient city of Chelsith which rests deep within the land now known as The Overthere. From here would sprout much evil. The Iksar were tortured like Frogs and suffered at the hands of the Shissar. The Iksar who showed genius were to help the snakes in their dark rites. These few were the seeds of rebellion. The Iksar began to plot a revolt, but a greater force would strike first.
The Shissar were an arrogant race. The power bestowed by the gods was not enough. They made pacts with other gods and demigods. They found the rifts of time and space and used them to gather magic items once held by the guardians of the planes. The Shissar's disloyalty and blasphemous pride would bring the wrath of the gods upon them. No power could stop the force to come. A green cloud formed in the skies above Kunark. The cloud began to descend upon the land.
From its green core, the face of death began to form. It was of no god they knew of. It opened its giant maw and spoke in tongues unknown. From the mouth of death rushed forth a green mist.
The Shissar shamans began to cast spells in hopes of shielding their city and the necromancers began to assault the mist with great weapons. All were futile. The mist rushed forth. The first snakes to be swallowed by the mist had their scales and flesh rot and fall from their bones.
Horrid screams of suffering could be heard from within the mist. A river of flesh and blood flowed. The Iksar stood and gazed upon the gristle that was once the Shissar. With the Green Death came the liberation of the Iksar.
The season is now 0 A.G, After Green.
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The class archetype system might have been well-intentioned, but it was ultimately a mistake. Even those turbo-autistic Japanese RPGs that feature CRPG-like job progression (level to 10, choose between 2-3 prestige classes to level from that point on) often round it out by allowing customization and large-scale multiclassing.
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Archtypes in Pathfinder were done well. This is just making prestige classes into classes in some classes while making other classes found elsewhere into subclasses. Like Arcane Trickster is a subclass now. Assassin doesn't even feel like an assassin until level 17 so I don't know why that's a subclass other than getting death attack. I can't even see myself playing a Wizard in the game for now as there's so few spell options per level.
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Ginny D is like the TTRPG Nostalgia Critic with her cringe skits. Only replace the endearing Autism with thotty attention seeking.
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She's already written her storybook, the players are just there to voice the characters.
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Is Critical Role finito or still trucking on like zombie Simpsons? I haven't noticed the usual suspects or my friend group talking about it so unsure if they just burned out on it or not.
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I believe trucking on like Zombie simpsons. No big drama on their reddit or other news I can see.
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Judging from my friend who used to be real into it but checked out not long after they started their latest campaign, it's in zombie mode now. I'm not clear on the details because the less I know about CR, the better, but the impression I got from what he said was that the writing has taken a turn for the worse, and no amount of wacky shenanigans and obviously faked dice rolls can make up for it. The 5e trendchasers have moved on to other things, but Matt hasn't realized that yet. It'll probably keep chugging along on inertia, but it's past its prime.
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I haven't heard much because I think everybody's moved on to a new one called Legends of Avantaris. I constantly get sent animated clips of that one.
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I'm not a fag, coomer, or retard so I don't follow that astroturfed shit but I think they sort of ran their course when the animated series came out.
The other issue is the humans are the same but after season two they retired the characters. Well, some of the same humans. The core cast has swapped out some people over the seasons and new cast doesn't have the same rapport as the original cast. So the characters people got attached to are gone, some of the humans they were attached to are gone, the cast isn't as good, and they got closure on the characters they liked.
The new characters also apparently have a lot of "Quirky gimmicks" to make them more memorable (and make it easier for their D-list VA's to differentiate who they are, because apparently they play multiple characters at times) aka OH MY FUCKING GOD PLEASE STOP TRYING TO DO A SOUTHERN ACCENT YOU MONGS*. ITS NOT CUTE TO KEEP ENDING EVERYTHING WITH "SNARF" FOR 3 HOURS.
And I guess they moved from live streaming to pre-recorded sessions so there's not even the parasocial element anymore; its just another show now and when its just another show, people realize its not very good.
*chambers round* Always has been
It'll probably coast on paypigs for the next decade.
*I don't know if this is a specific issue adn don't care to find out, but you get the sentiment.
The other issue is the humans are the same but after season two they retired the characters. Well, some of the same humans. The core cast has swapped out some people over the seasons and new cast doesn't have the same rapport as the original cast. So the characters people got attached to are gone, some of the humans they were attached to are gone, the cast isn't as good, and they got closure on the characters they liked.
The new characters also apparently have a lot of "Quirky gimmicks" to make them more memorable (and make it easier for their D-list VA's to differentiate who they are, because apparently they play multiple characters at times) aka OH MY FUCKING GOD PLEASE STOP TRYING TO DO A SOUTHERN ACCENT YOU MONGS*. ITS NOT CUTE TO KEEP ENDING EVERYTHING WITH "SNARF" FOR 3 HOURS.
And I guess they moved from live streaming to pre-recorded sessions so there's not even the parasocial element anymore; its just another show now and when its just another show, people realize its not very good.
*chambers round* Always has been
It'll probably coast on paypigs for the next decade.
*I don't know if this is a specific issue adn don't care to find out, but you get the sentiment.