Tabletop Roleplaying Games (D&D, Pathfinder, CoC, ETC.)

[BlueArmedDevil]

I had a Ranger tame a mimic once, named it snappy. Ate most of the towns thief's guild, good times....

Anyways I'm putting out feelers for a discord run Mage: the ascension or Awakening game.

 

[Dunsparce]

In one campaign I was in we had an ally in the form of an Awakened Gelatinous Cube Rogue, named Stabby Six-Faces. He wasn't very good at being a Rogue, but he was an excellent Gelatinous Cube.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

I was never anyone's ally in my groups back in the day. I was the boomstick and gave little shit about the damage I caused. It's what kept my character alive for 30 years now.

 

[Techpriest]

I had a Ranger tame a mimic once, named it snappy. Ate most of the towns thief's guild, good times....

Anyways I'm putting out feelers for a discord run Mage: the ascension or Awakening game.

I'd love to play either. Do you need Awakening 2e?

 

[Sable]

I had a Ranger tame a mimic once, named it snappy. Ate most of the towns thief's guild, good times....

Anyways I'm putting out feelers for a discord run Mage: the ascension or Awakening game.

I've never played either, but I may be interested. Dunno much about them though.

 

[Sable]

Sorry for double posting here, but some friends and I are making characters for a Deadlands game.

None of us (inclusing the Marshall) have played before, but the setting seems great. I got BOTH jokers in character creation though.

I bring this up here because I started as the Mad Scientist, and wondered if anyone had any cool ideas for my starting Blueprint. I'd have started with a gatling rifle/shotgun/pistol (whichever) but the ammo for that is more than the base starting money for just one clip, so I'd be stuck. I've got some other fun ideas to fall back on, but you guys seem wonderfully creative.

I'm not even the only mad scientist either, there are at least two.

 

[Hummingbird]

Sorry for double posting here, but some friends and I are making characters for a Deadlands game.

None of us (inclusing the Marshall) have played before, but the setting seems great. I got BOTH jokers in character creation though.

I bring this up here because I started as the Mad Scientist, and wondered if anyone had any cool ideas for my starting Blueprint. I'd have started with a gatling rifle/shotgun/pistol (whichever) but the ammo for that is more than the base starting money for just one clip, so I'd be stuck. I've got some other fun ideas to fall back on, but you guys seem wonderfully creative.

I'm not even the only mad scientist either, there are at least two.

Cool, you three can have a catty little rivalry against each other. Maybe start with a smaller kind of weapon like a gatling slingshot and work your way up there.

 

[Sable]

That actually sounds interesting. We were considering collaberating and being weird science cultists, but that works too. Eventually I intend to make a railgun that uses ghostrock to spin a coil super fast, but I think that's a little out of what's allowed for the starting gizmo.

Bear in mind though, a lot of towns don't like Gatling weapons because of their propensity to murderfy bystanders during shootouts.

 

[American Lollinator Mace]

Back in high school my best friend (at the time...) and I got into games club, which ran 3e D&D campaigns. Normally, said best friend was of perfectly normal intellect, but when she gamed her IQ dropped about fifty points.
Our party had cleaned out a fortress occupied by orcs to free some humans that were going to be used as slaves or food or whatever. We were wandering around looking for treasure and such, and we came to a be-runed door with the equivalent of a sticky note stuck to it that read, "Do not read these runes out loud, you morons!"
My best friend (who was playing a sorceress) immediately went, "Hey, I can read this arcane sigil thingies! Floggy broon skeldo pronk dern blench!"
Our party was promptly teleported into the lair of a great wyrm red dragon. It was not happy to see us. After we had all been slaughtered, we gave our sorceress the dirtiest looks imaginable.

 

[Wraith]

"Floggy broon skeldo pronk dern blench!"

How did you know that was my incantation to summon infinite Frogger machines?!

Our party was promptly teleported into the lair of a great wyrm red dragon. It was not happy to see us. After we had all been slaughtered, we gave our sorceress the dirtiest looks imaginable.

This is why you should have a printout of a goatse for each player. You screw up the game, you got a face full of goatses from your party members.


On my end, I'm the rare Battletech player. I am used to "BATTLETECH!" moments where a bad die roll causes a critical hit that makes your mech into a fireball through an ammo crit, or you trip on pavement and go sliding into the nearest water source where your damaged right torso floods.
MegaMek is a great fan made computer introduction to the game, but it's sometimes evil. I swear it's possessed.

 

[AnOminous]

I was usually a GM, but when I was a PC, I was an absolute piece of shit. I would invariably create completely insufferable PCs who would deliberately annoy everyone. I would also act as a GM's foil, who would do things like betray the party to the enemy, or hoard information I knew that was advantageous to me, but detrimental to the party as a whole.

One of my favorite moments after betraying the party to the enemy and stealing from them was when I taunted the paladin of the group into just flat-out murdering me in a rage.

As a GM, I was fairly sadistic, too, although rolling behind the screen, I would quite often cheat in favor of characters who made the right decision but just got a shit roll. If it didn't advance the story, I'd just lie about it.

 

[American Lollinator Mace]

Here's another one from the annals of high school games club!
At some point our party (not the same one from my previous post) was bedding down for the night and making impromptu shrines to pray to the various gods--like the god of travelers, or magic, or roguery, whatever--our PCs worshiped.
Most of our little shrines were a bit haphazard, but they at least made sense. I was playing a rogue, and my shrine to Olidammara (the god of thieves) was one of my results of successful pickpocketing topped with a small piece of metal shaped into Olidammara's symbol. Simple, but serviceable.
Well, our wizard decided his shrine to Boccob (the god of magic) would be a rock and a stick. That was it. A rock and a stick. This pissed off Boccob so greatly that he actually walked out from behind a tree disguised as a grandfatherly old man--our DM actually told everyone that this old guy was Boccob--and asked our wizard why his shrine was so utterly crap. Our wizard responded--I'm quoting verbatim--"If I say it's a shrine, it's a shrine."
Big mistake. Boccob quite literally turns the twit into a toad. Not an intelligent toad, or a talking toad, either. He turned him into a bog standard stupid amphibian. If I remember right he eventually got eaten by a heron after hopping into a marsh. Funniest thing we ran into for a long while.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Back in high school my best friend (at the time...) and I got into games club, which ran 3e D&D campaigns. Normally, said best friend was of perfectly normal intellect, but when she gamed her IQ dropped about fifty points.
Our party had cleaned out a fortress occupied by orcs to free some humans that were going to be used as slaves or food or whatever. We were wandering around looking for treasure and such, and we came to a be-runed door with the equivalent of a sticky note stuck to it that read, "Do not read these runes out loud, you morons!"
My best friend (who was playing a sorceress) immediately went, "Hey, I can read this arcane sigil thingies! Floggy broon skeldo pronk dern blench!"
Our party was promptly teleported into the lair of a great wyrm red dragon. It was not happy to see us. After we had all been slaughtered, we gave our sorceress the dirtiest looks imaginable.

I played with a few females like that. Last one wanted to "rape" everything thing in sight and I was like "The fuck?"

Also, that still doesn't beat me TPKing an old 3.5 group with flour.

 

[AnOminous]

I was usually a GM, but when I was a PC, I was an absolute piece of shit. I would invariably create completely insufferable PCs who would deliberately annoy everyone. I would also act as a GM's foil, who would do things like betray the party to the enemy, or hoard information I knew that was advantageous to me, but detrimental to the party as a whole.

One of my favorite moments after betraying the party to the enemy and stealing from them was when I taunted the paladin of the group into just flat-out murdering me in a rage.

As a GM, I was fairly sadistic, too, although rolling behind the screen, I would quite often cheat in favor of characters who made the right decision but just got a shit roll. If it didn't advance the story, I'd just lie about it.

Lol @ the Dislike fags, they were certainly on the wrong end of betrayals just like mine.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Lol @ the Dislike fags, they were certainly on the wrong end of betrayals just like mine.

Does using a child as a contagion bomb count as betrayal? How about feats and special abilities that allow me to damage everything that isn't an animal or a plant?

 

[Sable]

Does using a child as a contagion bomb count as betrayal? How about feats and special abilities that allow me to damage everything that isn't an animal or a plant?

You've betrayed a nameless NPC, it's not normally the same. Well, unless the game is RP heavy and that's a PC's child or for some reason one of the PC's is a child.

Is sewing up a contagion bomb inside the Paladin betrayal if he's immune to all the diseases that will spread when it explodes?

 

[Adamska]

Probably since Paladins are ordained by their god to protect those who need it. I know I'd cold-cock the person who did that to me in response that's for sure.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

I usually don't follow the parties plans, mostly because they'll get me kill. I look for what I can do at any given level to succeed while my party probably dies. (You'd be amazed what kind of damage create water can do)

 

[Sable]

There's a difference between not following what the rest of the party's doing (because they're retarded sometimes) and outright betraying them.

You know what else is fun? Aqueous orb and anything that makes them verbalize or open their mouths. It's basically the Rover sentry from The Prisoner.

The guy that taught me that one would make a really terrifying GM.

 

[AnOminous]

There's a difference between not following what the rest of the party's doing (because they're exceptional sometimes) and outright betraying them.

I had to be removed from that role because it became too obvious when one of my PCs showed up that betrayal was nearly inevitable. Since we were friends, we would generally laugh about whenever someone finally killed me. I was really proud of the paladin one, though, because the character was actually psychologically traumatized by going that far against his ethics.