what happened this week in your session?
I cut a goblin in half.
In the Wednesday, game we did diplomatic stuff. The bard predictably got into trouble. We saved a guard from some oozes later by having my character jam a rope into the ooze. I got a +1 short sword and free food/lodging for the group because that guy was definitely going to die and was very grateful.
In the Saturday game we finished off a dilapidated castle we were searching through and covered about half of a cave we had a map for. How we didn't finish that cave in 3 hours is a mystery
My character is finally being forced to face the fact that he's dead and has been for a long time (he's basically a revenant).
He was able to ignore/deny it the first few sessions since he's in an area he's never been to before. He just assumed he'd been displaced while unconscious or something, but last game his barely-corporeal nature basically became undeniable.
Playing characters going through a BSOD is oddly fun.
>>45556071
Nothing
>no one to play with
>reads threads and contributes ideas to help others have fun
My session is tonight.
My other group's last session mostly consisted of downtime work, since they've been run non-stop since the campaign started, and now they're laying low as possible fugitives, and them taking a job request from a merchant who's daughter got kidnapped when the man was robbed.
Not terribly eventful.
I escaped the metaplane of the shedim, only to find out that my human body was destroyed. So now I'm a free spirit.
missed bad guy's face from less than 4 meters with autogun.
>>45556295
Aren't you supposed to stop existing after a few hours if your body is destroyed?
My players went after a vampire who had been preying on the local homeless population by going undercover and amassing a small army of hobos prepared to fight back.
Things were going well right up until they worked out that the vampire had been spying on them using feral cats that were under his control and from there the session degraded into an all-out hobo vs feline gorefest.
Eyeballs were lost on both sides. It wasn't pretty.
>>45556368
As I understand, shenanigannery magic was in play. Some dragon-tier ritual thing, and I think a horror is involved.
We started a Cyberpunk 2020 campaign. We had a fixer, a solo, a corporate, and a meditech.
Gary from HR decided to send our characters on a suicide mission as a decoy. We captured a rival corporate from the group sent to murder us. I didn't have any traditional interrogation skills, so I decided to fast-talk and seduce the information out of him. (GM was really into yaoi, so she couldn't say no.)
Party circumvented the planned ambush, got paid instead of dead, and went to Zenny's for pancakes. Good times.
>>45556412
Damned shenaniganery magic. Just like that necromancer we fought in a D&D game who had way too many undead at his command.
>halfling rogue and halv-elf bard is chased by lots of wolves
>they spot a big rock that could give them some space if they climbed it
>not exactly strength based characters
>rogue climbs big rock
>bard fails this
>rogue tosses rope to bard, attempting to pull him up
>fail
>bard pulls the rogue down from the rock
>bard climbs, rogue fails
>bard fails strength check to lift rogue
>and so on
For some reason this was deemed the superior strategy, and in the end they got up there and killed all the wolves, probably mainly because I had miscalculated the difficulty of the encounter.
>>45556530
Somehow that session made me think of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShfmEHP5RtI
>>45556071
Well it hasn't happened just YET but murder, transformation of beautiful women into hideous insect creatures (who may be monstergirl grade, I'll play it by ear), and futzing around with the random magical junk in a wizard's workshop are all high priorities.
>>45556071
Neither of the girls in my group would stop playing FNAF on their phones and both refused to use headphones.That guy #1 made a homebrew half demon half Angel half werewolf race that had +12 DEX and + 22 STR modifiers without a - to any stats and the GM allowed it.
The group's Wizard and Cleric created a cult to take control of the BBEG's minions.
Wizard pretended to retreat, drank a potion to appear as a priest of one of the freaky fish things we were fighting, and then threw himself at the feet of the cleric in mid combat, calling him some great reincarnated being. Eventually the minor minions fell for it, and turned on their bosses.
After that, the two did some work to further convince the minions, such as pretending to sacrifice one of their prisoners, and then actually sacrificing the non-believer among them.
Drow matriarch (player) my druid is serving receives a surprise visit from the mass murderer she's been trying to hunt for the last few sessions, nearly catching her each time except broken teleportation shenanigans prevented capture. Unfortunately due to a deal the matriarch made to a slum lord, he promised to stop the murderer if the matriarch gave him one of the murderer's underlings we had captured. Unfortunately the asshole decided to use said murderer, who has caused us no small amount of grief and killed my last character, as a messenger to say that the deal was complete.
Unable to kill the murderer, who is now being used as a tool by the slum lord to help the matriarch accomplish their goals of killing the goddess and taking over the capital, she grabs the murderer and tries to tear her fucking eye out in a fit of rage to make up for all the grief she caused. Murderer didn't know that the matriarch had trapped all the rooms in the house with one-way teleportation runes and was startled that she couldn't teleport. Unfortunately the runes were only in the bedrooms so she ran into the hall with the matriarch clinging to her back tearing her fucking eye out with her bare hands. Murderer teleports with the matriarch into the slum lord's private quarters where he proceeds to call them both children and sends the matriarch home alone as punishment.
My character is woken up by the matriarch's bodyguard (another player) who was awoken by the husband of the matriarch who fled when the murderer came into their room. Luckily the murderer had enough blood on the floor for the house's wizard to scry on the murderer and determine their location. We picked her up halfway there with a change of clothes, the matriarch running around in her lingerie, and got back home safe and sound.
tldr; cat fight
The party explored a dungeon left behind by a long-dead wizard-alchemist, and fought his ancient clockwork war machines that were still prowling the ruins. Also, the party's fighter fell down a trap door into a sewer, where he was attacked four times by a sewer troll before managing to escape.
>>45556071
>Shadowrun 3rd ed
>Friday night
>Our Decker had to leave a couple hours early to film a project so we couldn't quite get a full session in
We took a job to get payments for some junkie's cyberware that he hasn't payed off yet. Fucker disappeared about 1 month ago. We used my contact with the local law-enforcement to find his parole officer and with some crafty lies we convinced him to give us the junkie's files. We went to his apartment, and right after the one player had to leave got ambushed. Being my character this was no surprise and I promptly put down two of the ambushers while our adept ko'd the third. We took him to our safehouse and I interrogated him.i have ranks in intimidation(physical) and interrogation(torture) but I set up the scene and roleplayed it well so the DM had him spill all he knew without me having to actually torture him. I was going to mercy kill him (he had seen our faces during the ambush so he couldn't live) when the adept told me he wanted to ask some questions. whynot. jpg so as party leader an chief interrogator I let him. Cut to the player axe-kicking and shattering both the dude's kneecaps and beating him up for no reason (other than the player is clearly getting off on it) while the third player just sits there and the DM and I try to stop him. Eventually I just shot the poor bastard to put him out of his misery. I had to burn the safehouse down because of the screams and evidence so we lost that investment as well. The DM and I leave feeling kinda sick and pretty disgusted with the player. I got a bunch of Karma for my roleplaying and the DM told the player he got less for being flat out evil, which he didn't accept and took as many as I had
f-fun s-s-session rite guise?
>>45556071
A player cancelled so we ended up postponing the session.
dm'd for the first time (tde)
wanted to give my group and the old dm a slight change of pace so i gave them a crimeadventure (two murderer in a small fishing villageshould be the intro to a bigger campaign i had planned)
while investigating THAT GUY got himself captured, shat on the dungeonwarden and got himself locked up in the highest tower
now the party is split up, three players try to gather clues (I'm very thankful for that) the other three want to free that guy
originally the adventure should take max 2hrs but we played for six and still not even slight progress
>>45556071
We had a minor argument because our GM keeps trying to push an unwanted NPC romance option on one of our players despite him trying to go all noble self-sacrifice in turning away the elf lady.
>>45558520
>session has 7 players
Found the problem. I refuse to DM for more than 5 players and I won't play in a group that has more than 5 players. The games become too slow and unwieldy and the roles overlap to the point where some players don't get to do anythingUnless we're playing a one-shot rules-lite like 'Everyone is John' or something that supports larger numbers of players
>>45556071
Hey, I recognise that. Isn't that from Fall of Cthulhu? It started great and I'm not sure but like a lot of things I vaguely remembering it dropping in quality.
>>45558188
>which he didn't accept and took as many as I had
This is a simple solution. Player does not want to listen to the GM. Which means that in a perfectly plausible way, the character becomes incapacitated/unplayable next session. Kidnapped, jailed experimented on, whatever. Regardless of the player sticking around, this character will be made an example. The character comes back as a cyberzombie. Or worse.
>>45556071
The 3 players that "totally wanted to play" slept in. Again. For the third week in a row.
Looks like I'm doing a solo campaign for the guy that does show up every week.
>>45559450
The issue wasn't the Karma (our characters are all fairly broken as-is) it was that he was clearly getting off on taking the torture waaaayyyy too far. I was totally cool with intimidating the guy (I roleplayed it so well the DM didn't make me roll for it) and I knew we were going to have to kill him in the end (he tried to kill us and he had seen our faces, I'm not going to lose sleep over that). I figured if it did actually come to torture I would fade-to-black and roll my skill with our group doctor/biotech expert piggybacking off my roles to help me. We could cut to the guy giving us information and then I would just shoot him and end it quickly.
The adept is a That Guy that i've played with before. I'm not a fan of having him in the game, but the DM and the decker who had to leave early are old high-school bros who I hadn't been abel to play with for a while so I agreed. Plus we all play in the adept's house. We can't really do anything about it as much as we were pretty disgusted with it
GM cancelled for 3st week in a row.
Went to a friends house and played space flux and clue instead.
>>45558520
>tde
Do you mean The Dark Eye ?
If yes, cool man. My group from high school is still meeting every six months to finish those two campaigns we started bach then.
>>45556071
We spent 4 hours on a single combat encounter because the DM has decided that once our party (or rather at least one of us) has hit level three everything we fight should be stupidly difficult. The fuckers had 16 AC and 50 hp. There were 10 of them. The DM had to have a random NPC come save us because he could tell he dug himself in too deep to not TPK us and that we would all leave if he did because fuck you we didn't do anything wrong, we were literally jumped while walking to the next town.
The new DMPC is a cleric and we need a healslut so I'm hopeful but I could easily see this going poorly if the DM decides to use this guy to railroad us into his shitty story that none of us are interested in.
>>45559626
So, my GM knows the system REALLY well, very aware of the more broken shit. So basically, he sets it up like an arms race. If we go overboard, the things will escalate with us, like a properly reactive setting.
I suggest you, or your GM do something similar. If that player wants to bring detailed torture into the game, then bring it.
Or just ask him not to do that ever again, and if he does, GM deus ex's some shit.
My game is tonight.
In last week's game, the party - Bard, Bardbarian, Fire Mage, Druid - snuck into the enemy stockade through a broken wall in the basement, and killed the boss in charge because they caught her alone in her study. Wham bam, thank ya, ma'am. It was a decent fight.
Then a guard shows up, but he's just a merc hired by the now-deceased boss bitch, so he's all, "Yeah, fuck this, I'm outtie. Y'all don't mind if I call it quits, right?" and the party let him go; predictably, the merc just went upstairs and told everyone about the group of murderers down in the dungeon basement, so they've just begun another fight -- this time, against the full force of the stockade.
Tonight's game is gonna be a good bit of combat, maybe with a little dungeon exploration at the end.
>>45559740
yup the dark eye
I wrecked a significant chunk of a grand city I created.
We tricked the giants of jotunheim into leaving their village, stole the rooster Fjalar, left it under the care of a previous game group, then had an info share & dump meetup.
>>45559883
If you're scared of DM railroading, why not talk to the DM at the end of each session. Decide on what you (as a group) want to do next. If you guys want to look into rumors of some crypt of lichporn so you can loot it, DM can easily sprout that up and link it into whatever the fuck overplot they have going on. It's not hard to tailor shit to what the players are interested in doing, but the DM does need to know.
>>45556830
Jesus Christ, man.
Are you a masochist?
>>45559981
We've talked with him about what kind of storylines we'd prefer but he's deadset on making us care about this "huge" backstory he's written for the world (we're essentially playing out Marvel's battleworld saga but in D&D). And that really wouldn't even be the problem but he keeps making the plothooks super uninviting by putting major encounters that our characters would realistically shy away from at level 2 between us and them.
We had to go to an abandoned alien structure suspended from a flying island above the Earth because it had been intermittently activating and causing damage and generally being dangerous. Traversing the island was difficult because it was a really strange ecosystem, and then finding the structure and trying to go through it was quite dangerous because of how deteriorated it was as well as some traps.
The whole thing was a trap I believe though because we made it to the "control room" to deactivate the facility, finding out something had been operating it, and when we did shut it down something triggered a release mechanism that started severing the connections keeping the structure hanging to the underside of the island. Eventually the whole structure went into free fall towards Earth and we had to quickly navigate our way out while falling before it reached the surface. We almost didn't make it.
Importantly though, one of the characters secretly possessed by a potential BBEG made use of powers she shouldn't have had to try to keep the structure from falling, and one of the other characters saw this so now I'm not the only one suspicious of what's going on and aware of the possession.
>>45559913
I think the 3rd option is probably what's going to end up happening. Either that or b/c I'm the unofficial leader of the group and they pretty much listen to me im gonna have him not present during the next interrogation we have to do
>get there early b/c GM
>the French guy is playing French hip hop about sex and singing it to me
>he doesn't know I speak French
>it'd be really cute if I didn't know the words
>shuffle my notes, make a few adjustments to NPCs, crack a beer and roll a joint to distract him
>the other players show up, they're leaving a dungeon & getting ready to fight goblins
>he's got his leg touching mine all game. It's ok bc he's cute but it's still a little creepy. Don't really notice
>rogue has noticed this and says "I really just want you to suck a dick" when I do something cruel
>leave when the games over, confess that I'm gay to the rogues girlfriend, think she's a prostitute & try to pay her to touch me
>>probably never playing D&d again
>>45556071
While walking to our usual meeting place, I met one player and her boyfriend walking the wrong way. Apparently she forgot that we had a session.
But somebody had his first RPG session and enjoyed it quite well.
Anyway, after spending way too much time on exploiting some leaked security information to obtain credits or favors for Firewall, the players decided that if a plane locks down in the midst of a venusian cloud too thick for external communications, the best thing was to hide and wait.
The nanovirus infected the pilots and the first class. When the plane landed, hell broke loose.Both characters are the only survivors, but got some derangements and are "slightly" stressed now. One character gets a new body next session because the Venusians now have a sample of his current one.
And I need to rewrite everything because I didn't expect the plane to land on Venus.
>>45559927
Cool man. In which region are you playing usually ?
>>45560267donnerbach
>>45560202
>confess that I'm gay to the rogues girlfriend, think she's a prostitute & try to pay her to touch me
...
>>45560202
...My condolences?
>>45556408
What system?
>>45556830
>FNAF
>half demon half Angel half werewolf
Why the fuck do you do this to yourself Anon???
>>45556071
The Elfbarian didn't like the gladiator's friends or their behaviour and thusly challenged one of them to a duel of honor, nothing happened because the Hervain Horrible's care not for honor and this confused the elf.
We then had to fight the oppressive force that was bureaucracy to get paid for the bounty we worked decently hard for. Took us almost an entire day, only by talking to the right man in the right circumstance at the right time to finally get paid, and now we're fighting a fiend-led could-be conspiracy that does "something".
Pretty fun.
>>45556071
Let's see.
Game 1
>the party met
>the Hunter had the Merchant give her about twice the worth of her game
>the entertainer and healer now have a weird patient-doctor relationship because she's a terrible drunk
Game 2
>the cat (cat, not catgirl) had her owner awaken to magic after her house got infested with computer fairies
>the half-god and blademaster completely trashed her house in response
Game 3
>not much, but apparently the summoner gets mortally offended when you insult her intelligence which causes her to write poems in calligraphy on the fly in order to impress the offenders (the player actually wrote the poem out, and she's pretty good at it to the surprise of everyone at the table)
All in all, a good week.
>>45556830
>half demon half Angel half werewolf race
>>45559883
>16 AC
>50HP
Okay, now I know my GM is a dickass.
>First encounter
>Completely unavoidable, mandatory
>See it coming literally nautical miles away
>boarded by pirate orks, forced to fight, outnumbered 3 to 1
>19-20 AC, Too much HP
>Any special maneuvering to gain advantage, or knock them overboard is met with heavy GM resistance.
>Finally get through orcs
>Taken the brunt of the damage, down to 4 HP
>Another super Orc, with even more HP and AC.
Thank you anon. I'm quiting my game now.
>5e, using planescape multiverse
>players must go to the city of Dis
>"planar travel is cut off from the city of Dis, it's impossible to travel there through magic teleportation, unless that magic is under the control of its ruler, Dispater"
>Druid points out that her teleportation spell lists Dis as an example location to travel to
>fuck me.
>DM magic, planar travel is cut off
>Party arrives in Dis, don't know how they're going to leave.
>Paladin gets pissy that the heat give him penalties to wearing heavy armor
>Nobody knows where to go.
>Fight off a band of Winged Devil guards after Paladin picks a fight with one for trying to bring an escaped petitioner back to work camp.
>Find a small black flower with a single petal with a rune etched into it
>Arcana check reveals some planar magic attached to it.
>Pluck a petal, turns into a flat hole that attaches itself to the nearest wall.
>Paladin sticks his head inside, sees a rectangular room full of bones with no visible exits
>Paladin walks inside.
>hole disappears
>Paladin leaves the table, complaining.
>rest of the party finds a devil to make a deal with
>retrieve a flower similar to the one before, but with 13 petals, each with a different rune.
next week we get into the tower filled puzzle rooms and the teleporting flowers
The thief and the paladin decided to marry, strictly for political purposes of course. The accumulated tsun is distorting local spacetime. Everyone almost died after we fucked around with forces beyond mortal ken. The kobold our kobold is mated to is missing half his face and might like it. We're declaring war on a neighbour soon. The entire thing's picking up steam.
Back from my session
>Reaching the end of current arc
>Players reached their manor and had to debrief their adventures to their demonic boss
>Lots of screaming from said boss
>Setting up for the next arc
>Decided to put this game on hold so I can take off my ForeverDM hat
Off to L5R we go amig-
>learn that L5RDM will run a game only once or twice per month (I'm running weekly)
>SIX (6) PLAYERS
Getting mixed feelings.
>>45558785
>Isn't that from Fall of Cthulhu?
Close. It's from Cthulhu Tales.
>>45556071
I spent the vast majority of the session making sure the party rouge, wizard, and sorcerer didn't get dead after the first round of combat (I'm a cleric with high ac and healing spells flying out of my ass).
When I wasn't doing that I was putting out to-be forest fires started by the wizard and sorcerer who have fire bolts flying out of their asses.
Most of the session was a combat that lasted way too long, in which everyone got to 0 hp multiple times because the DM asks for an attack roll to heal and our cleric was very unlucky. Eventually a DMPC came in and saved our sorry asses.
This does not look like a good sign.
>>45561709
Your dm doesn't know how a dumb system works. Drop DM, drop system.
>>45561869
Nah. I'll just drop you.
>>45560389Nice, we met Fuldigor last session and somehow he mindraped us and now we need to leave the Eherne Schwert without dying to use the knowledge he inserted in our brain.
>>45556247
Good on ya, anon. Maybe try playing online if you haven't already.
>>45556071
Playing FATE set up in Washington D.C. in a world were fantasy stuff is real. Had to deal with some demons who were endlessly hungry for things considered sacred and were stealing stuff from a local church. We ended up turning them on to weed on the argument that it was sacred to Rastafarians.
This is what I did last session >>45556132
It was terrible.
>>45556071
Me and my shadowrunning team got stuck between a pair of tech syndicates and their powerplays for Hong Kong.
One seems to be better morally, but their talking flower member planted a metaphorical bomb in my datajack. And pissing one off would be horrible.
We are getting chased trough a post-apocalyptic setting Mad Max style while I take care of a baby.
>>45564581
Tugg, did they get you the TiVo yet?
>>45564605
I'm a very busy man.And no
We finally got out of this plane of existence that was basically monster island only to find out we're on the other side of the world, our castle and everything inside was stolen, and we're wanted criminals.
>>45556071
>Be Playing AD&D
>Gnome thief wakes up and beats the shit out of a halfling trying to get our cash.
>We catch him, intimidate him, but he steals 11 gold.
>Go to a blacksmith Contact to show us the way to the Temple of Elemental evil
>We meta-game because we forgot to take notes when he was doing story.
>We go to the Temple of Elemental Evil
>TacticalInsertionThroughWindow.jpg
>Go fight harpies, win.
>Fight ghouls that paralyze you
>Turnundead.jpg
>Gnome Thief Paralyzed
>Go to MORE Ghouls
>Whole party Paralyzed, one guy is at 0 hp
>Make Saving throw (DM edited rules a little)
>The Fucking paladin takes 10 minutes to choose whether or not to lay on hands the cleric for 6 hp
>Turnundead.jpg
>had to go, left it off from there.
>The players delved into the first half of a dungeon to kill a crime lord, and beat the magical security system.
>This was also the session they started working as a proper team, which was awesome.
>The GM was actually violently plastered the entire time because he's been on the verge of total breakdown for months now.
>The players didn't have any idea.
>>45560202
Dude wat
Wednesday game: Our monk hunted down and murdered a man from his past, to the horror of the man's companions, the half-orc settlement, and the DM (who didn't expect a level 2 monk to hit three times in one turn). I dropped the race card on the mayor, as a Dragonborn and pretty much went "Bro, the pale-skins pretty much hate us to begin with, and the only ones who know what happened are us"
Friday game: We fought an ogre as we fled the shadowlands, defended the Wall, and were introduced to Diagotsu (Who was shot at by one of our Shugenjas) and then we travelled to the Mantis islands, where our ship was pursued by an O-Umi-Bozu (Which I swore up and down was a sentient explosion, after I fucked a knowledge roll, following a Divination with Water Kami)
Sunday Game: Cancelled. Attentions seem to be waning, which is disheartening. What they wound have been doing, and will once we resume, is trying to gain entrance to New Vegas. One of the party can come and go, but the rest have neither the passport, or the funds.
>monday, prepped up PCs for a nameless land campaign
>wednesday, played the shitty post apoc homebrew of a guy. My PC and his abnormal strenght killed a sort of golem made of mutant slugs
>friday, played pf. Pretty quiet game except for when a merc almost killed all four of us and then surrendered
>sunday, GMd my dark heresy campaign, involving the team on an agri-world, humting down some fugitive grox in their spare time to earn a bit of money off hand
>>45564898
On a scale of 1-10, 1 being literally normal clothes and sticks, 10 being power armor and anti-material rifles. How well equipped are you in the Sunday game, anything above a 7 or and 8 and you can probably take the robots, or you can have someone hack into the robots themselves.
>>45565044
Uhhh, probably a high 6. They've got some good guns, including plasma, explosives, and one AMR. So fighting it out is an option, and they did think of trying to hack, via spoken backdoor-passcodes, without my mentioning, but it didn't work.
Besides, if I had to peg them on the Karma scale, they're low-neutral at the evilist.
>>45565132
Honestly, your best bet is to probably just keep the guy going in and out until you all have combat armor and good weapons. To get combat armor and plasma weapons, just rob the silver rush, usually it will have combat armor, throw a bunch of grenades in and rob the shit out of it. But being Low-Neutral your best bet is to just leave the guy by himself, or build a ladder and climb over the walls.
Now that the Covenant have landed on the Green Hills colony and made their presence known, we've been forced to go to ground in a network of ONI controlled boltholes out in the countryside. Unfortunately, two of our three ODST squads were trapped in the city; we're working on a long term plan to reconnect with them, starting with a trip to a nearby town with a CB radio station that we might be able to contact them on without the Covenant noticing. After destroying an isolated Covenant Wraith tank, we engaged a group of Jackals at a university we stopped by to scrub the navigation data stored there. ONI agent Dae was shot in the gut with a carbine, getting injured, and we had to head to a hospital to get him patched up after our AI, Raziel, wiped the university's entire computer system, including the medical computers in the clinic. That's where we left off for the night.
>>45565197
I should mention that I'm GMing this one. I'm also the only one who's actually played the game. So don't worry, I know exactly what the party's options are. All I've got to do is swing some hooks, and have them hope their rolls work in their favour.
Up until now, they've been motivated to reach Vegas as fast as possible, because one of the character's npc friends was believed to be dying (actually Ghoulification) and they were waiting in the Old Mormon Fort for the PC to get back with the caps for the Platinum Chip.
I had to railroad them into helping Primm, and in Goodsprings, well, Benny always has a plan.
So now they're Chipless, but they know where the chip is.
>>45565410
I've been trying to get my Group to Try a Fallout version of D&D. This sounds fun, and I understand they need to get to New Vegas ASAP because they think its where the "Best Stuff" is. And assuming the Chip is within the walls of the Strip, It would be one hell of a ride.
>>45556071
Players dicked around doing random shit rather than following any of the plot hooks I dangled in front of their faces.
I leave hints about the local ruling class being corrupt.
They catch wind of revolutionaries fermenting revolt.
I talk about how there's spooky shit out in the woods.
The innkeeper mentions about how the neighboring kingdom has a goblin problem.
The party's mentor figure all but spells out that they could go on a quest for a magical weapon.
They fucked around spying on a random no-name NPC and went shopping.It was still a fun session and they told me how much they enjoyed it when we wrapped up.
Death Knight kill team invaded realms of minor tribal demigods whos worship ceased thousands of years ago and tried to kill them to steal their divince essences for their god. They ate shit but somehow pulled through through sheer dumb luck and natural 20s anyway.
Almost got stomach fucked by a dark eldar.
>>45556071
Campaign 1:
>Have the inquisition hunting us throughout Not-France, so we decided to dip out of the country for a bit and travel south to Orkish tribal kingdoms.
>Pretty uneventful, make it to a small camp-like village in the middle of the Steppes and travel around inside looking for resupplies.
>Find a mystic shaman that can tell our futures, says my character is going to die a horrible death. Everyone else in my party gets good fortunes like "You'll meet a lot of women" or "You'll see great wealth in your future."
>Also DM makes it a point to explain how all the alcohol in town tastes like "The inside of a barn"
>Suddenly raiders
>We kill them all and I Ghoul touch the leader so we can turn him into the local authorities or whatever
>Session ended with the village cheering our names
Campaign 2:
>Playing Kingmaker
>Get to the part whereYou need to decide between helping the mites and the Kobolds
>Since we found the mites naturally we slaughter them all, save the one kobold prisoner and help him return home.
>Apparently partake in a kobold political coup
>Have my GM get really mad by vomiting a spider swarm on the enemy spellcaster (Who was apparently supposed to kick our asses). He got really unlucky and was nauseated for most the fight.
>>45556071
The same thing that's happened for the past 25 weeks.Hoping the GM turns up to at least let us know he hasn't been killed by the shithole that is Venezuela.
>>45560682
nWoD. Animalism is one hell of a vampire discipline.
>>45556071
nothing, because half the party didn't show.
>>45556071
Female rouge contracted vampirism.
>Tfw party leader is a vampire hunter and doesn't know I'm a vampire
>Tfw he's also the cook and is constantly upswing garlic in the food
I'm fucked aren't I?
>>45568070
I'm just surprised that make-up powder has a gender and can contract vampirism. It doesn't even have a cardiovascular system.
>>45568141
Kek
Mobilefaging rogue*
>>45556071
>Chaos Champion rammed a ship into another ship and crit.
>Warband leader killed a pirate captain with his bare hands.
>Stealth character(s) lit 60-odd people on fire and stole enough explosives to sink a ship.
Could've gone worse, I suppose.
>>45556071
Nothingbecause I don't have a group
>>45556071
>1st session today
>as a warlock, my patron has me hunt some vigilantes that are trying to summon and kill my patron(stupid ass idea)
>we track them down thanks to this chill bartender
>get the drop on them
>rogue kills the leader before they notice
>I appear and cast dissonant whispers on the enemy whose turn is next, giving us more time to act
>one enemy trips and falls on his sword
>bard also trips, is uninjured
>one enemy is beaten to a bloody pulp by the monk
>that enemy's lover charges into a tree in a blind rage
>that enemy is cut down
>one enemy charges at me loudly and misses, and I crush his arm and cast eldritch blast
>more shit happens
>we find out the last vigilante in the city is a recruiter near the king's castle
>it was the bartender
>convince him we want to join
>when his guard is down the monk chokes him out
>wizard finds out about our deeds and is impressed, asks us to get this spellbook that was stolen from him in the king's castle
>I forge a king's summons using parchment and ink, despite the fact that the king's summons is an engraved ring
>they buy it
>once in, the rogue begins looking for the book while the fighter(a goliath) distracts the guards with an arm wrestling contest
>loses to a guard
>an 8 year old kid challenges him
>he loses again
>turns out to be the king's son, who thanks the fighter for losing "on purpose"
>he asks why we're here
>show him the forged summons
>he buys it (dm always said I rolled too high for my own good)
>convince him to make us his personal adventuring team
And that's how I went from a petty warlock to a servant of the king in 2 days.
>>45556071
I gained the power of causing people to shit themselves when I heal them. My friend got shit stuck in his chastity belt, good times
It got cancelled for the fourth week
>Party mate swapped with another party member from a unrelated previous campaign.
>We stole a lot of expensive shit from one guy's mansion
>Used this expensive shit to create a communal money pool and travel east towards a empire where assassins weren't trying to murder the royal blooded bastard rogue or kill the wizard.
>Got attacked by flesh eating birds on the way to a town to re-supply.
>After re supplying we went into a uncharted tundra to get to the eastern kingdom faster.
>Get attacked by a single ice giant and barely manage to kill it after it killed one of the 2 horses pulling the wagon.
>Fall down into a ravine and have to carry all the crap we need to survive on the horse and our backs (Rations for us and the horse, money, oil, and a pint of ale in addition to our backpack gear).
>Kill some ice lizards that can polymorph into adult white dragons (killed them before they transformed thank god).
>Session ended there.
>>45569941
Btw the system was AD&D.
We took down one of the four evil guys, who is essentially a consciousness bound to a suit of armor. It's like it was programmed to guard this door we have to go through.
>inb4 fma
He's suddenly full health again, and fighting us.
We get him down to 0 again, and my character rushes over to use a spell that permanently dominates something if it has a soul and it's at 0 hp.
>whatsoul.jpg
It doesn't work, and as I look back at my party who is currently standing in the door way telling me to come on, hurry up, i'm an idiot, etc. the big guy stands up again, grabs me by the collar, and holds a blade to my throat.
Two party members try to save me, but the rest hold them back.
I tell one member that he's in charge now and that they should continue with the mission.
I get stabbed straight through the back with the magic sword which dominates me à la the husks from Mass Effect.
I am now mindless, and I have to follow the big guy as he leaves the room, letting my party continue.
Little does my party know that I planned all of this.
At least I get to roll a paladin now.
>after nine years in development, it was worth the wait
>read: after forever GM got burned out on ideas and his D&D 3.5 "chime in whenever you've got time" game was shelved for our old fighter to start a new 5e campaign, we've had a single session in about two months due to schedule clashes and that the game is too early for us to play not-altogether
>got the introductions more or less finished during first sesh, skip right to the next area so shit can get done
>apparently-deserted campsite still has fresh embers, obvious suspicion is obvious
>damsel_in_distress_scream.mp3
>monk, fighter, and sorc go towards the sound, because we're investigating disappearances in the area and this might be a witness
>young miss is surrounded on one side by wolves and a "much larger" wolf
>place ourselves between her and enemies after acing initiative
>wolves basically pass their turn, reinforcements appear behind us because shitty perception
>monk One Meme Man'd a wolf, then flurry of blows another away
>fighter glaives a third wolf ezpz
>sorc lightning bolts the big one, making it run
>backup wolves not so good on the idea of attacking us anymore
>fighter wants the sorc to finish off the big one as it's running
>we let it live, scare off the last ones
Now to wait for our schedules to magically align once more so we can interrogate the lady we rescued.
I uh rolled 5 fail-crits in a row my night wasn't very fun.
>>45556071
>There is a base on the moon and its primary function is to mine cheese
>Delicious, special cheese, found under the surface of the moon, and sold as a delicacy
>Comms from the base go dark, the party is sent up in a rocket to find out what happened
>They step out and find that the base was attacked by werewolves under the command of a powerful outsider
>Being on the moon makes the werewolves almost impervious to attack
>After battling through the moon base the party makes contact with an astronaut who caused this
>Apparently after being stranded in deep space he made a deal with some kind of entity for unfathomable power
>A fight ensues to stop him from using a powerful laser weapon and firing it at the planet
>The party is assaulted by werewolves the entire fight
>In the end, the astronaut is defeated and the laser weapon is deactivated
This was supposed to be Pathfinder.
One of the player characters managed to one-shot a boss enemy because he rolled a twenty.
>>45556071
My character got possessed by his ancestor, got both his legs and an arm chopped off, de-possessed, then flopped to the thing that chopped him up, managed to pull himself on top of it with his teeth and one hand then punch it to death.
Then he got a sweet set of enchanted armor limbs.
The five of us finally track down the guy that's been stealing and selling government secrets.
We storm the place expecting a massive gun fight but all the mercs there were there just representing clients of his. They threw a few flash-bangs before fleeing.
He had locked himself into a room so he'd have a chance to talk to us whilst we waste time getting to him.
He tells us about the cloning project. Mocking us over being mindless puppets.
We break open the room and he straight away surrenders.
On being handcuffed he slipped a piece of paper with both an IP address and a building address written on it into Chief Inspector Anion's shirt.
He was placed into the waiting police car and taken away while we headed back to our office to debrief.
Anion stashed the note before we headed in to debrief.
On finishing debrief, we are informed the car the activist was sideswiped by a drunk driver and both him and the officer driving died on the scene.
Anion finds a note hidden among her personal effects of an IP and a building address that she has never seen before.
>>45556071
>Gnolls attack
>Find evidence of collaboration w/ local merchant/smugglers
>Fail to secure information from merchant
>Report suspicions to local authorities
>Make plans to burn merchant to death in his bed for being a right cunt
I performed a belly suplex on a mindflayer.
>>45556071
My party stole a diplomats briefcase.
My party was doing odd ball illegal jobs for a local trade mogul.
My party is enabling the trade mogul ex-assassin to climb the ladders and seize the political power from the current mad patriarch.
>>45556071
Nothing, cause a player got "Personal problems"
It's not that I don't trust him but a quick heads up would be nice.
DM got sick and cancelled the day before.
Now I just have to get through this week without getting sick myself, then we can play.
>>45556071
A lot of combat to powerlevel my party from 3 to 4, plenty of spooky shit between combat though.
Was a good time.
Found out the guy who should have remembered what I was ripping off from my last campaign doesn't remember it at all so I can steal the idea wholesaleWhich involves making his love interest a shapeshifter which will be all kinds of weird when it happens because I know that's his fetish.
>>45556071
Our Session was just yesterday as a matter of fact, it turned out that one of the PCs is used to be queen Merela in his past life, also our GM had us confront our characters from an old Pathfinder campaign that we used to run and we even found the deck of many things.
My pcs were all separated for a year after some shit went down. I had planned this thing where people would roll die for pseudo results to make the baseline for stories in between. I even tried to incentivize them by telling them I'd have it impact their character. Only one came up with a story, the others just explained gear they wanted. I wanted to start the session in a quiet place everyone would be able to discuss where they had been for a year but most just talked about what they got. By the time the one who actually did something was going to talk about it, everyone was disinterested and basically forced him to skip over it. The rest of the session involved two pcs beating on each other due to sour grapes from the previous session. I felt pretty amateur for letting things get so stale afterwards.
>>45556071
I was useless as usual
Managed to attack an orc twice, missed the first time and only wounded it the second (the rest of the group were one shoting them), then after combat tried to heal the only wounded party member, due to constantly rolling ones blew through 2/3rds of my spells in cures to only healed them for 4 damage total
>>45563364
I was thinking about starting a couple of games with people online, not sure if i can get enough people seriously wanting to try the multiple game ideas i have (ghostbustersxhellboy, one piece, a game based on monsters wrecking shit)
>>45556071
>My players went trudging through the Artic circle to get a artefact of unknown power.
>They prepared badly so started to freeze and starve to death.
>The shaman of the party prayed for a spirit to come and help them.
>He rolled so well that he the Old Man of the Mountain, the spirit of Wind, Frost, Survival and Cannibalism was attracted.
>He blessed some of the party
>Some of the party panicked thinking that they were transforming into wendigos.
>One of the party swore at the Old Man
>The Old Man of the Mountain was unable to harm him due to a special amulet that the PC wore
>Instead summoned a frost demon to murderate them
>They fended that off and entered the grave of a king.
>Found the artefact but were interrupted by the fanatic daughter of one of the PC's turning up
>Give artefact to her when she promises to end the Ice age
>"AT LAAASSTT".jpeg
>She teleports the entire party into the heart of a star.
>Inside Star is chained primordial elder god of fire that she intends to set free.
It was a good session and on a great cliffhanger
My game setting has the monstrous races living in civilized settlements trying to make peace with the other races. The players are in an organization called the DMI (department of monster incidents) basically monster cops.
In our last game a ratfolk settlement was attacked and most if the rats slain, the PCs found the survivors and took them into town to give them aid and possible housing.
Jump forward a month and crime I on the rise and people are blaming the rats and when the ratfolk leader is found dead in an ally with a DMI issued sword
Jammed into his chest shit kicks off
Cont?
>>45556071
Two people in a group in a group of six threw a ton of salt about a CR2 encounter while we were level 6.
One of said players also insisted ability checks couldn't go past 10 for difficulty.
>>45556071
Nothing. GM is busy until March. :(
Half elf bard-turned-warlock under orders from Mephistopheles is tricked into killing his own mother, dwarf bard's last living friend dies saving him from hobgoblins, full elf bought a nug, tiefling got the equivalent of phaser.
https://09cd64678bddc0198cca7fef0df8ce7b359fff2d.googledrive.com/host/0B3Z9sXPTD9rpN2owNGdVWmdFWXM/spy.html
>>45560202
This sounds like a french short film
>>45560202
I don't really understand the route that this story took.
>>45576765
>inside the heart of a star
>>45556071
Well, an injured goblin attempted to escape being murdered by two people flanking him by vaulting over a large, flaming table. The goblin successfully launched over the table, but lit on fire in the process and died on impact on the other side of the table as an ablaze, twitching heap of roasted goblin
MFW
>>45577642
I apologise for nothing; its a weird fiction game and reality doesn't match entirely to current scientific rationale. The players have already fought a sentient color, seen things that their minds literally cannot describe and crossed millions of light years.
In my game, stars aren't always nuclear spheres of atomic fusion so its possible to go inside one.
>>45578155
>stars aren't always nuclear spheres of atomic fusion so its possible to go inside one.
Then why call it a star?
>>45578095
i didnt know goblins were so flammable.
>>45578186
Because it fulfils all other narrative and thematic functions of a star?
It's visible in the night sky just about anywhere in the land, it emits light, its very far away, etc. And to Pliocene man those would qualify it as a star.
>>45556071
We kept our ship from being stolen by smugglers. We also had the guards reward us with twice the amount of money that the tobacco they where trying to smuggle was worth. We also got to keep half of the tobacco, though only one of our partymembers smoke.
Earlier our camp was raided by some wolves. This got our elf really paranoid since wild animals aren't supposed to attack her. In any case we killed and looted the wolves. In their stomachs I found a circlet, a scepter and a golden hair clip with jewels on it. Random loot tables can be fun. Next we need to find a place to sell all this stuff and become rich.
>>45574913
This sounds awesome.
> potential enemies that flee when fighting is pointless
> villain surrenders
> political intrigue with the 'accident'
> plot hooks to follow with the notes
>>45578200
We're pretty new to tabletop, inexperienced GM as well, didn't know how to penalize goblin for throwing himself through fire, decided to leave it to chance to see if his little hooded robe lit up while soaring through flame. GM decided that if he rolled a 15 or higher, he wouldn't light up, goblin rolled an 8.I'm sure in pathfinder there is a way to see if an entity would catch fire, but due to the group having fun and being in the moment, GM decided *not* to search in core rulebook for 10 minutes and instead to just spitball a roll. We had a lot of fun. Rest in peace, GimGim the goblin
>>45578274
So you could technically be in a satellite is what you're saying.
Took a standard job of getting a saint to heal a nobelmans kid by touch after church refused.
>minstrel plays death metal in curvy Lobby to create a distraction
>fail at breaking into the church
>fall on top of guard in front of priest
>get caught hiding unconscious guard
>break back into the church
>get fondled by creepy abbot
>burn his child porn
>find the Saint, it's an abomination
>lasso Saint because it blinds you if you get too close.
>wake up Father Grabby hands, whole scene goes to shit
>Use Father Grabbyhands as unconscious improvised weapon
>fumble throw get a face full of fear boner as I miss the toss.
>end up yanking Saint onto dead kid (didn't know he was dead)
>kids healed, Saint dies, everyone is losing their shit
>cheese it
>knock out old mans teeth to keep him from calling guard
>drop the kid off, tears and smiles, grab the loot and bail town
No Conseqeunces
>
>>45556071
My character spent all of the shoot out running around trying to get in a good position to shoot from.
Ended in a hostage situation with the gang boss and the politicians daughter.
I am planning on just telling him to go ahead and shoot her. Because if he does, either
>We tell the politician his daughter died before we got there and we get paid anyways
>Politician gets pissed and doesn't pay us, in which case I follow my suspicion that he was doing dealings with the gang and get him thrown in prison anyways.
And the DnD 5e session got canceled because one players power was out so no roll20. God damn it, I'm trying to get the story moving faster but I can't if our sessions are every other week. But whatever.
>>45578427
Your GM is doing it right. Random calls like that are what keep the game moving and fun. If you limit mechanics to just what the rules offer, things get rather dull, never mind the time it takes to look them up.
>>45578513
To be clear, depending on other distractions I'll be following that lead regardless.
>>45556071
We began our 5e Adventurers League-style game (The DM decided on it to give players the option to drop in/out whenever).
It was pretty standard fare for the most part, and since the DM was new he decided that we'd play a few modules before adding his own stuff. But there were a couple highlights:
>before the game starts, some players roll to determine dick size
>party sent to find a lost boy leaves behind the two melee-focused characters, and almost get their shit kicked in
>the two melee characters are helping a goat give birth but a bunch of demon-goats pop out
>the finesse fighter lost a hand after being ganged up on by the goats and failing all her death saves
Later...
>DM throws 2 duergar at us when we're 2 people short and the cleric is one of them
>one of the duergar one-hit-kills the wizard (as in permakills)
He's done a pretty good job so far balancing for 6-7 people though. Especially considering the players:
>human bard, played by a complete newbie to RPGs so he doesn't know jack shit about how to play a bard
>human rogue, doesn't stand out a lot
>human finesse fighter who is only concerned about gold and getting her hand back
>human cleric (death domain and total edgelord) played by powergamer
>forest gnome necromancer
>human monk, played by guy who's new to 5e so he didn't know what death saves were. As a result, he freaked out when he ran out of hit points.
>warforged paladin, played by myself. The only real tank in the group and is the other really altruistic guy apart from the monk.
Still had a fun time, though. Even if the DM needs to work on immersion, he's at least good at balancing. Can't wait for the next one.
>>45578450
Maybe I guess, depends on your definition.
>>45578519
I'll relay the information to him , thanks for the info!
>>45564898
>Sunday Game: Cancelled. Attentions seem to be waning, which is disheartening. What they wound have been doing, and will once we resume, is trying to gain entrance to New Vegas.
Fallout? Why would you set it somewhere everyone knows, why not your hometown?
>>45566858
so like... fucked in the belly button?
>>45564945
>>wednesday, played the shitty post apoc homebrew of a guy. My PC and his abnormal strenght killed a sort of golem made of mutant slug
Sounds like a hunter from Halo or General Grevious from that animated Clone Wars show.
>>45556071
We killed an Ice Troll, some soldiers and a water elemental... not alot of actual roleplaying that session..
Started our star wars RP. My noble is starting to go from fanatical freedom fighter to lovable drug lord, our tech specialist captain got shot, the wookie jedi got shot a lot, and our robot solider killed over 20 droids and took down 4 fighters wit his ion blaster. Overall a pretty good first day.
>>45556071
The party rogue tried to look like a badass interrogating a captive by holding a knife against his throat and threatening him. The captive just cut his own throat with the knife. That was a good session.
The evil dragon that stole my party's souls and my monk serves under, ordered me to convince the leaders of the merc group i work for to meet with him. He promised me he would not harm them. When outside of the city for the meeting, he ambushed us.
As a reward for completing this "mission", he gave me a cursed belt of physical might, and answered a question for me. I asked him to scry on two ex party members. An investigator possessed by an neutral spirit/god, and syn summ possesses by an evil god/spirit. The investigator is still residing in the residence of harpies she sacrificed herself to save us from. The summoner is residing in a temple of an extinct civilization to the west. My character wants to save them, but the party slayer believes that doing so will lead to our deaths.
Our party currently consists of a stoic lg merman paladin, barbarian archer that collects body parts, cowardly good dragonborn kobold dragon herald bard, some alignment slayer that kills first and asks questions later, stoic bounty hunter brawler, my hotheaded dragonborn ln gestalt monk/fighter, and dmpc level 1 crossbowen we saved.
Later that night, with the help of two churches, we defended the city slums from wights that turn their victims into wights. The undead army was repelled and retreated. The brawler and slayer tracked the undead army across the desert to the city to the west.
And my character was exiled from the mercenary group by the 3rd in charge.
I angrily challenged the dragonborn fighter to a duel in the gladiator pits, only to realize that he's gonna kick my sorry wooden ass.
I'm a warforged cabinet btw.
We traveled to a plane of existence full of eldritch monsters and home to the "gods before gods" (basically great old ones). We fought some Beholder-kin and it was pretty fun.
Also the level 75 NPC with us just stood by and watched the whole time. The party is on a mission to escort the guy across the continent when he could EASILY do it himself. Honestly, we're just slowing him down.HE'S FUCKING LEVEL 75. HE'S LITERALLY 15 TIMES OUR LEVEL.
As a player: shopping montages & then breaking a dungeon crawl with almost no encounters and then killing a Hydra in 2 rounds thanks to a crit fail deck that left it sickened and unable to take action for five rounds.
As a GM: my players spent an hour trying to sell mundane loot with RP that dragged on forever so I made it entertaining and worthwhile. They left the city to a frontier town on the way to the next plot worth investigating and during a festival encountered a young foreign child who had been turned into a Dhampr from human against her will and would have eventually become a vampire by some kind of crone with vampire children with a traveling planar forest that sits in the first world...
They spent 2.5 hours daughteru ing the girl and playing gift giving oneupmanship during the festival until night came and vampire kids showed up in a score to take back the runaway. We ended on their surprise round of murderating one between half the party of attackers getting around it's DR and destroying it in magical and Martial flurry.
