What's going on in your current RPG game? Are you having as much fun as you feel like you should?
>>46747833
They just murdered the fuck out of a whole load of Eldar with Heavy Stubbers, and now they're feeling like pretty hot shit.
Playing: My Star Wars character is about to face a military tribunal for accidentally dropping an enemy warship on 200,000 people and using ship-sized weapons on ground troops
Running: About to start up a cyberpunk campaign I have too many fucking players for thanks to -someone- deciding everyone but her and her best friend were flakes and sending out the call for more. Oh well, more bullet fodder.
>>46747833
We're on our way to steal a videotape in a job that will most likely be a trap, but at least we get a stolen car out of the deal.
>>46747833
I mind-controlled a PC off a cliff because he broke my character's ultimate weapon into a hundred pieces.
He's fine, but tossing him bodily off the cliff was awfully cathartic.
They shouldn't have sent those witches down there without fighters and clerics, those teachers are insane.
>>46747833
We're playing Rise of the Runelords and it just started. We had been playing in a 5e campaign but that went crazy and the DM dropped it in favor of the AP we're now in.
>>46747833
Sucy is best girl
>>46747833
Running Curse of Strahd, the party just got done being ambushed by Strahd himself and a party crew of zombies and bats because the Wild Magic sorc accidentally summoned a Unicorn, and having a CR5 LG Celestial murder-horse running around Barovia isn't something Strahd enjoys.
>>46749299
^My man
>>46747833
Having fun i guess? But things have been slowly heading toward a disaster zone. Where do i even start...
>One of the players has been moving toward that guy territory(using his powers for stuff like vore or hormone transformations) on top of his overpowered shenanigans and constant arguements about combat and such.
>One of them enjoys sudden outbursts of LOLSORAMDUMB comments which makes the whole store just stare at us which i find uncomfortable.
>The DM takes joy in our suffering by putting up various schemes for us to get back-stabbed or betrayed and pretty much feeds off our paranoia. An improvement is that we are seeing less and less of his self-insert DMNPC which is our boss/overlord along with less of his fetish inserts. He is a cool guy and i'm enjoying the story at each turn but it's just the minor things that add up.
Maybe it's just my sudden increase in workload that i feel that way since i hardly have time for myself but i seem to be getting way too snarky which effects the general mood. Thankfully the rest of the players are rather chill and we got a good vibe with the group so things are looking up.We got a session tomorrow and the DM is bringing along a female friend. I can only hope everybody behaves and don't sperg out and behave like depraved manchildren.
>>46749506
My D&D Gm is going to run that for my group in the near future. How has it been so far? Any good? No big spoilers please.
As for myself.
>oWoD
The players have split into independent factions and the game is more akin to Risk than 'gang of murdohobos' now. It's organically developed this way after years of gameplay and their characters conflicting goals. So they're spread about the world all competing with each other to make it as big as they can. Cue lots of showboating, political rigging, some civil wars and drugs drugs drugs.
>Nechronica.
Recently started this up as an inversion of the oWoD game and it's working perfectly. In this case no Masquerade exists, be as balls out crazy as you can be. Also with all the players cuddling each other, co-operating and sharing their (futile) hopes and dreams is a nice contrast to when they're spamming assassins and shit at each other in oWoD.
>>46747833
We're the crew of a cargo ship (The Sea Slug). Last session, the captain/precog psychic had a vision of us getting torn to pieces in a surprise attack, which we were able to narrowly avoid thanks to the forewarning and a last-minute course adjustment, we played some harmless pranks on each other, and we delivered some info on some underworld types to a captain lady we rescued recently, they'd apparently kidnapped her crew and harvested their organs.
>>46747833
>9 sessions in and nothing has been going on since we started
>kill me now
>visit town
>town gets rekt in scripted scene with party fleeing
>level 2
>anyone we attack is a master in magic, melee, range and stealth all together
>every npc knows everything about everything
>just tells us "it's weird"/"it's a mistery"
>GM gets mad because we don't bite this non-existent plothooks
>we take initiative against 4 pricks acting as such
>condemned to death with no trial because they were guards
>nothing they did,wore or said identified them as such
>GM gets mad when we take minutes to be sure about who we are dealing with, often giving them time to escape before our intervention
>Running
The party has been escorting a child and potential divine avatar away from a nation that wants to kill them. They've made allies of convenience with a caravan of what are more or less smugglers and have been riding with them. Unfortunately, the party decided to investigate why a town's population got turned into a shoggoth equivalent, messed up royally, and led enemy knights directly back to the caravan. Back to back combat saw one party member dead, two allied npcs dead, one of two wagons in the caravan exploding as gunpowder went off, the macguffin child starting to ascend before getting longinus'd by a named enemy knight, and the surviving party and caravan licking their wounds with a now gravely wounded macguffin.
I'm torn because on one hand this is turning out a lot better than I thought it would. On the other hand, I really wasn't supposed to be running and really liked the character in the game that got axed before this.
Well,
In a pathfinder game where I am a player, my captain's hat was stolen by a mustachiod nerdowell known locally as The Grifter before he drew off pirate slavers who didn't know my party and I were the escaped group of slaves they were looking for who lit their base on fire, scuttled one ship of theirs, and fled with another along with 30 some fellow captured slaves.
In a 5E game I'm in, Curse of Strahd, after our escorted NPC Irena was absconded with by the Beefy Armed thug in the service of the Baron and Burgermeister of Vallaki, and his denial of this in front of the Baron and backed up by his crony guards, we tried to set a trap to draw him out, but that failed and we attempted a violent night raid on the manor house. It failed, we avoided PC death, but Beefy Arm fucked us what good along with 15 guards. We are in retreat and regrouping as we race through the city being hounded by guards and engaging in guerrilla tactics.
>>46747833
>RPG game
>Role Playing Game game
Triggered.
>>46750939
>Drakania.
How can we serve her? Does she take offerings in return for not being devoured?
>>46751068
Its more a matter of, and the party knows this from ancient carvings and psychic dreams, the party needs to contend with the Spess Elves having found Golarion after so long and having to deal with that AND eventually go to spess and deal with the threat of Drakania Ragnorra.
>>46751068
>>46751107
Basically they have to contend with two things that will end the world in two ways here, and have to stop both but luckily they are fighting each other.
>>46750459
Literally this.
Three games. One of them (Mage) I'm slowly becoming the Joker...maybe. Another I'm a dorfzerker and have honestly no clue what is going on. It feels mostly like a waste of time, but I'm going with the group. It's DnD 5e, and I personally dislike the system. All in all I'm not enjoying it at all. But, I'm the only one who has a problem and I don't feel like being a whiny vocal minority.
>>46751068
If you are alive, you will become a part of the infection. There is no bartering your way out of this spreading cancer.
>>46750459
>>46751276
These.
Nothing going on but it seems I'm the only one who is not enjoying it, so I just suffer in silence
We we recently got to the BBEG through DM-plot-magic-teleport because the quest book that we transitioned to was less than exciting, so we just decided to go back to our old adventuring. The fight. Went great. My character (party Hit hard McBeefsmash) entered the range of a magic orb that the BBEG was near and promptly went rather insane. He would either hurt himself, do nothing, attack allies, or act normal. Guess which ones he did the most?
Hurt himself half the time and hurt his friends the other half.
Then manages to get more crits against teammates than he had gotten in 13 lvls of playing combined. Everyone is dead. A minor got we meet every now and then appears and stops his rampage and brings people back to life because IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE THIS WAY!! We were only fighting him for a little fun before switching back and everything went horribly horribly wrong. Now poor Grung the Kind, the nicest orc barbarian ever, is left wallowing in self loathing after having murdered (albeit not permanantly) all of his friends.
But all in all, we had a great time dying!
>>46751748
Minor god*
Fucking mobile...
>>46747833
I'm currently running a pathfinder intrigue campaign and we're all having a great time
>>46747833
My Dwarf and the Tiefling were hired by some smugglers to deliver a package to a druid group. It turned out that what I assumed to be merely some illegal goods was actually a biological weapon that spawned a bunch of mushroom people that tried to infect and kill all the druids. So my dwarf may have accidentally become a terrorist.
The worst part is we were actually hired to deliver two packages, and the second one, which is much bigger than the first, is to be delivered to a sacred tree in a nearby elven city which is suffering from an infestation of similar mushroom monsters. Also the rest of the party is unaware of the job, the packages, and their connection to the weird mushroom people that attacked the nice druids we were staying with.
>>46747833
The pic is spot-on really.Having a blast.
Our psychic, for some reason he hasn't revealed to us, bought what amounted to an unarmed, podless tachikoma on a loan. My combat hacker and our rusky engineer retrofitted laser pistols into "her" claws and tested them by tossing tools into the air for her to shoot.
We did this in the cargo bay.
Our pilot was royally pissed, mostly with my hacker, given that it was her idea.
We hook up with H.R. Giger twins in space and accept a job as a security detail so they can go down to the local planet and poach an egg from a society of psychic, intelligent, primitive bird people.
I'm having fun so far.We've had our ups and downs, nearly died a few times, and a few of us were forced to abandon a space shuttle to risk uncertain death by attempting re-entry in power armor that only one of us was actually trained to pilot.
Guy playing the pilot, friend of mine, gets a little grumpy, though. Probably my fault for constantly forgetting what his character actually does beyond safely crash our ship.
Recently we'd been distracted by some alien mucking around with surveillance of our town and possibly our characters, but it seems we've dealt with that problem for now and can focus on the real issue at hand which is one of the party having been possessed by a potential BBEG and slowly becoming more unhinged. She's even displayed supernatural powers which is out of place for us humans, and has finally caught the attention of the non-human characters. I believe tensions will come to a head now quite soon.
I'm having a good deal of fun with it, much more than I feel I should or thought I would have, given the setting of the game and my misgivings about it.
>>46747833
My guardsman just discovered that one of the party was a psyker, via the psyker floating five meters in the air and identifying a headless man. Biggest problem is that somone said that the psyker was a "witch", so shot him and left the group of heretics/acolytes.
In terms of fun, having a whale of a time. Character development ho!
>>46747833
> DM of 3.5 game
> Player starts trashing my game
> "THIS DOESNT MAKE SENSE! WHY CANT I STEAL EVERYTHING IN LESS THAN 5 SECONDS AND GO KILL THE BBG!" "THAT ROLL WAS BAD! IT DIDNT COUNT" "THIS ADVENTURE SUCKS! YOU SUCK ANON" "IM GOING TO MAKE THIS GAME IMPOSIBLE FOR YOU"
> Keeps going, starting to loose my patience
> Told him to calm down, rest of the party doesnt say anything because they think this is normal banter for us
> "SERIOUSLY, THIS IS BORING AND DOESNT MAKE SENCE! YOU SUCK ANON"
> Fucking lost it, rage quite, and told everyone that the game was over
> Left the building
Im 23 and I know that I acted like I child, but I couldnt play with my friend being this kind of asshole. The rest of the party were cool to play with, they didnt deserve these.
I dont know what Im going to do to be honest.
>>46753694
Bury the asshole out in the woods somewhere and restart the group without him.
>>46747833
>Are you having as much fun as you feel like you should?
My allies are hampering this by throwing shitfits every time they get threatened by anything in combat.
>Druid shapeshifts and charges an enemy, where our tank and healer can't reach him
>Gets salty when the wolves flank him, and knock him down.
>Boss encounter of the dungeon ambushes us, and then beats us on the initiative, because none of us roll more than 10
>Rogue gets chunked for most of its health due to bad luck
>Cue 30 min of "waaaah this boss is unbalanced how are we supposed to fight this a bloo bloo bloo"
>Within the first round, the rogue is back up above half health, and away to safety, and the party is in position to fight the enemy seriously.
Why do people throw a bitchfit as soon as the combat isn't 100% in favor of the players? What causes this shit? Is it prior games with poor balancing? Narrative-driven systems? It's so frustrating, because if it's as easy as they want it to be, the entire party might as well play damage dealers, since tanks and healers are useless then.
>>46753730
You dont know how much I would like to... The problem is that this bastard is my best friend.
This is my first campain as DM, and besides stories on /tg/, i've never saw people going so mad when the game didnt went where they wanted
>>46754237
Rage quit is understandable, though it is childish.
I suggest you speak to him privately and calmly explaining that
1. It's your first experience DMing, you are far from perfect
2. He needs to chill and at least say:"ok, i want to see where this is going" before yelling
3. (optional) he is a cunt
>>46755056
rephrasing, one should never yell, it's disgraceful.
>>46747833
We're bounty hunters. currently capturing and delivering this slave trafficker to whoever created the contract for him.
Not really having fun though. I made a new character for this session and the GM failed to inform me that if I had a new character, I would be substantially weaker due to the rest of the group having these damage enhancing items obtained from the last session.
So now, even though my character is a sniper/medic who is built to deal high damage, he does substantially less damage than even the characters not meant for combat roles. Not to mention the DM's made the checks at least twice as difficult for no reason. I just feel useless. I don't want to be stronger than everyone else, I just want to play the character I built.
The party kicked a ton of ass on the way to a bandit hideout, particularly the Druid.
The druid called a wolf to help fight a bridge troll just before the troll kicked the bucket, and the wolf ended up cooking marshmallows with her cubs over the troll's charred remains and made magic smores. Later, the druid had to pay a fat ugly skunk a bag of coin to spray its gunk all over a ballista guarding the bandits' cave, making sure no one wanted to get near it to use it when the party attacked. The druid later on flew up to a boulder overlooking the cave entrance, transformed into a bear, and pushed the boulder down a natural ramp onto a formation of guards and got a 7-10 split. The druid-bear then ran down the same ramp and bodyslammed one of the guard outposts, causing the outpost to crash down into the ground. A strange man in black and white garb appeared out of nowhere, slammed his hand down to the ground while counting to three, and a bell went off while an incorporeal crowd cheered in the distance.
That was just in the second session. She already has a kill count of around 11, compared to the barbarian-that's-always-covered-in-blood's 3, and the paladin's 1. I still got to get better at DM'ing, but the party seems to be having fun so far.
My players just formed a band, learned the police are being blackmailed by a cult, and got their principal brutally mutilated and his family tortured to death.This was supposed to be a light and happy session.
We're prepping to go to he'll to grab the soul of a ninja(my old pc) that one of our pc's killed because they became a evil lyconthrope so the prepubescent and over weight dwarf who befriended the ninja decided he wanted to get the ninja back so he plans to put their soul in a warforge. So yeah it's a blast
>>46755056
You are right...
I´ll try to talk to my friend and bring some manners on the table.
Thanks anon
>>46747833
Going into the 4th of 5 story arcs of my GMs campaign. I'm having fun, Best Bud is having fun with his new fetish mount (that totally isn't going to get killed), wizard is going power crazy like usual, anti-paladin/Hellknight is unnaturally quiet but he's still enjoying the campaign.
I record all of our roll20 session on OBS and edit them into compilations just for our own enjoyment. I've learned a lot about video editing and I mostly do it to see them laugh. It's a samurai Jack situation where a portal mishap occurred mid-campaign that flung the party into the future where BBEG is now basically a god and we have to find a way back with the help of a few NPCs who had connections to the NPCs we knew in the past.
>>46757500
Fuck me, that was one hell of a run-on sentence
>>46747833
The ranger and I are trying to get Fido in his fucking cage before the full moon hits. None of the settlers have silvered or magical weapons, so him going full AWOO AND TEAR will probably annul the paycheck we're expecting from the Guild once these settlers have the village up and running.
I mean, I COULD conceivably argue that our job was to protect them from "Elves and Giants, period" as stipulated in the contract, but that'd probably cost us a part of that reward still, and I need it for drugs and whor- I mean, spell components.
Also, Fido going bonkers could be a "me" problem, and I don't like dealing with "me" problems.
We're on the run from a player character after stealing her baby and her car. Our half of the party is trying to get clear of her region of control and make it to a supposed safe place, while her half is trying to hunt us down.
Will be a pretty gruesome fate for our half if she catches us, and I'm not too keen on having to make a new character, but the game is pretty fun.
>>46756456
There's this point, friend, where you have to ask yourself the question; what have the other players been doing?
The druid seems to have been playing creatively to their strengths and you've rewarded that as such. Have the other players been trying to been as creative? Can you encourage that?
>>46747833
Played a one-off civilian chefpic related, and made what was essentially a player-controlled superhero, and the girlfriend he was on a date with, extremely angry. They ended up melting the restaurant counter and fleeing. An incredibly relieving experience for me, though.
Game is fun, on and off.If you're reading this, BLUE, I'm gonna get you again later... And there may be cake involved.
Place your bets.
5E. A decently rounded level 7 party decked out in sick loot versus a level 20 Fighter with absurdly high stats, similarly sweet gear, and proficiency in all saves.
I'll storytime when it goes down this weekend.
>>46758075
Level 7s probably got their shit pushed in
Oh noes!
>>46758082
In the party's defense, they get home field advantage andprep time.
I'm considering gimping him, but I want to see how they handle him first.
>>46758075
>proficiency in all saves
>absurdly high stats
>awesome gear for his level
Your party is gonna get fucked up pretty hardcore, anon. Also, how in the fuck did that Fighter get proficiency in ALL saves? Did he blow half his Feats on Resilient or some bullshit like that?
>>46747833
>RPG game
The same thing that's going on in my current PIN number and ATM machine, I imagine.
>>46753694
Should've just told him to get the fuck out.
>>46758170
He did.
Deal with the devil for a power boost because he needs someone dead that the party is very interested in keeping alive.
Not awesome gear for his level, awesome gear for the party's.
Armor and shield +1, a +2 oversized weapon (disadvantage on rolls for more damage), and plate.
He'll be vulnerable to the Paladin ' smites and other radiant damage. It will also be only him- I expect the action economy to tip the scale.
Apparently the party is composed of sadists, because they really enjoyed the last time they almost got TPKed. That's why I pulled this guy out in the first place.
I have an out in case they start getting stomped to the max, as well as an excuse to cut his health in half from the fighting he's already been doing.
I just want them to work for the win, and they enjoy beating tough odds.
>>46758387
Ah, I see. That sounds like it's going to be a pretty fun boss fight. Is he a Battle Master, Champion, or Eldritch Knight?
>>46758509
Battle Master, for the reason that if I feel the party somehow gets the advantage too fast he can get it back, and for the sake of intimidation that he gets 'final boss tricks'.
>>46747833
Infighting. Lots and lots of infighting.
>>46758580
What's your party composition like?
Running a module. My players are gonna start investigating some cults real soon because there's at least one cult that venerates fire nearabouts and the warlock's patron wants that shit stomped out. They don't know that there are several cults yet, though. DMing is a lot more fun than I expected it to be, in all honesty, and a lot easier. It's still pretty stressful though.
Lotte is best girl.
In Fantasy-group: Yeah. But I'll definitely get a new alt-character for the next adventure. Playing stupid characters is fun but it's frustrating not really being able to partake in problem solving/PLANS
In Post-apoc-group: Fun things are happening, but I accidentally created the worst sort of character to partake in it. Considering just straight up asking my GM to retire and make a new character.
We're playing some Out of the Abyss. First game for the DM and the 4 PCs.
We tried to stop a demonic summoning ritual, failed, and were set adrift on the dark lake. Recently we made it to a Dark Dwarf city and are trying to chase the bad guy of the quest through the ghetto.
>>46758859
Late-ass reply, but a vengeance paladin, war cleric, illusionist wizard, and hunter ranger with colossus slayer.
>>46757696
Damn, that's some good advice. I'll need to think about that.
The ill equipped and under informed scout group(party) sent to the border (without reinforcements) are finally starting an assault of the enemy's (fortified and forewarned) position.
The enemy has a wyvern.
They have an 18 ST fighter with regeneration.
I think they'll be okay.
I hope they will be okay.
>>46747833
Our party bumbled through an ancient ruin, woke up an ancient undead horse that spat lasers at us, and barely managed to kill it by throwing every resource the party had at it.
meanwhile the dungeon we were in thawed from it's magical frost into effectively Runescape's God Wars Dungeon (while we were, continuing the comparison, around the same level of a random scrub who'd just killed Dad and wandered into the place unwitting).
We are currently running for our lives from giant snakes with half the party fine because tanks and dodgemonsters, and the other half broken down a couple wounds from death.
I'm having a great time.
