What are some warning signs experienced parties should begin to pick up on right away?
>GM starts dropping subtle hints that the NPC the party trusts might not be what they seem
>>44479223
>GM starts dropping subtle hints that the party will soon be entering his magical realm
>>44479223
Ah but you have to take into account the experience of the DM as well. After they've done the ol' "trusted figure actually shouldn't be trusted" a couple times they naturally move on to "hints about not being what they seem actually a red herring"
>>44479275
do I get to lube up?
>>44479223
>GM starts dropping pants
>>44479223
The GM asks "Are you sure?" Or something like that.
>GM calls his campaign a sandbox
We all know this just means giving the illusion of options.
>>44479223
DMPC show's up.
The church that has a very catholic sounding theology is suddenly the bad guy.
>>44479223
>GM includes an ordinary-looking little girl to whom one or more of the following statements apply:
>Is older than she looks
>Is more mature than she looks
>Is able to berate the PCs in an articulate manner
>Remembers no personal details like her own name or basic facts about her upbringing
>Latches immediately onto a PC as a protector or parental figure
>Stronger, smarter, more powerful, or more influential than she looks
>GM tries to tempt the Paladin to fall by offering him sex from a fair maiden
>He manages to come to his senses when she smiles at him and assumes the hideous visage of Daisey Ridley
>hear dice rolling
>hear maniacal laughter from behind the DM screen
>dude, are you okay over there?
>oh yeah, I'm fine, it's nothing.
>Ineedanadult.jpg
It depends on what I'm playing.
>D&D, pathfinder
Expect every single person to be powerful/ a deity and or dragon in disguise.
>Netrunner
Someone in your party is working for the corp. No if and or buts. That's just the way it is. And the most trusted npc the gm gives you? Their informant.
>Warhammer
The gm says you're going into warp travel; All hands to battle stations. You're in port and its supposed to just be a calm exchange for some goods. Battle stations. Nothing has happened for a few minutes and the crew are talking about what to do? Battle stations.
>>44479223
>GM refuses to tell you anything about the game
>He also tells you not to minmax
>So you make a scout and he says it's perfect
>Then you realize you're in Eberron and that every enemy ever is either a construct, an undead or an undead construct, all of them with at least DR 5/-
Awesome game, should have left at the first session instead of giving him a chance and wait till the 10th.
>>44482709
I forgot to say, he told me to not metagame so my character, for some reason, must be blind or something, didn't know his attacks dealt literally 0 damage everytime, so I was there spending ammo like a retard too instead of using my actions to at least aid better combatants.
>>44479275
kinda new here, but what exactly does the term magical realm mean? it appears to mean fetish time, but i'm not sure
>Enter Room
>"Okay, everybody roll on Perception."
>"...okay, now roll Dexterity."
>>44483148
You'd be right.
>>44483326
pic surprisingly relevant
>>44479223
I wanna paint Daisy's pearly whites with my spunk!
>>44484034
>pic surprisingly relevant
It's not really surprising, considering that the phrase "magical realm" comes from that particular comic.
>>44483248
>"Okay everybody, roll Perception."
>"...Hmm..."
>"None of you see anything unusual."
I have personally used:
>>44482014
>>44482514
>>44482571
>>44483248
>>44485113
and my favorite is
>you walk past the gate of the city, vacant and unguarded, within the guardhouse you see steaming hot food sitting fresh on rough wooden platters
>>44483148
>>44484034
Your magical realm is the imaginary world that is the domain of your strangest sexual fantasies. One common bad habit for GMs is to allow their magical realm to bleed over onto the setting of the game they are trying to run. If the players knowingly or unknowingly put up with or participate in this, they are said to be "entering [the GM's] magical realm". The term can also be used as a verb to refer to the habit itself ("magical realming").
It was coined by KC Green of Gunshow Comics in that (>>44483326) comic right there.
Some semantic drift has happened since then, as the term is now sometimes used to refer to a player expressing their fetish through a character, rather than through a GM expressing it through the world. Others, however, maintain that by definition, a player cannot magical realm, because the practice of magical realming is defined by an abuse of GM authority. There's also some debate as to whether or not the players' consent to, participation in, or enjoyment of the GM's fantasy excludes a situation from the definition of "magical realm"; and further debate as to whether or not this is badwrongfun.
It's a made-up internet word. Don't fret over it, just observe how people use it and proceed from there.
