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I am haunted by a demon from the past WRT RPG'sIt’s your guy mutating all the time in Bioshock? Must do crazy things to a persons mind, mutating.
Oh, and Mario never does anything right because he is high on ‘magic’ mushrooms. (view post) |
12/13/2009 | |
I am haunted by a demon from the past WRT RPG'sIn video games I just chalk it up to “my guy is dumb, crazy, or does not think about stuff all the time.” Lets face it, its not like every decision I have ever made was for perfectly rational reasons. In a RPG type setting I try to make up good reasons, however. (view post) |
12/13/2009 | |
I am haunted by a demon from the past WRT RPG'sYou can rationalize anything.
Just give your character the same motivation as you: To become as powerful as possible. Happens, just look at a famous charter like Raistlin Majere. He was motivated by one thing, power. If you want to power game, just write a story about a guy that wants to power game. (you can even break the 4th wall a little. If your guy figures out he becomes more powerful every-time he kills something, “XP,” then he WOULD go around killing everything if he is only motivated by ‘power.’ I remember one time someone found an exploit in the game to give himself infinite charisma, doing a sequence of ridiculous things. When asked “Why would your guy do that?” He just shrugged an said, “If such an exploit exists, then it means someone in the world could have figured it out, and used it to gain infinite power. My guy could have found it by researching infinite power. OR, my guy knows enough about hows stuff works that he figured it out on his own. Power is power.” )
If you want to play a half angel red-dragon, just write a story where it happens. Hell, I remember reading a story about a group of goblins that was captured and given a drug like ritalin and were trained to be monks as part of an experiment. At the end, they ran out of the ritalin (it was made from a rare plant) but ONE goblin had trained his mind enough that he did not need it anymore and kept the “diamond mind” of a monk. He convinced his trainer to let him go when they went to kill all of the other goblins. He did not want to go back to all of the other crazy goblins. Hell, I have been able to write a story justifying a Neutral Good fighter that worshiped Vecna. Its your imagination, the only limits are the ones you give yourself.
tl;dr: “RPG’s for hoarding and grinding or back-story and motivation?” is a false dichotomy. (view post) |
12/13/2009 | |
D&D Adventure IdeasWell, since is all in the delivery, there is not way we can judge. Your game is your own, whether it be level 1 guys with no magic, or level 40 with all the items in the world, its your game and your make it what you want. Just remember to think ahead and try to avoid “take backs.” If you make a ruling or give out an ability/item, you have to stick by it, so think ahead.
I do also want to remind you of one thing, something I, myself, sometimes forget when I run a game. You have to work WITH the players to have fun. The game is about fun, your fun, their fun, everyone’s fun. It can be hard because everyone has their own idea of what ‘fun’ means, but your running the game, and it falls on you to make that ‘fun’ happen whatever it maybe. (view post) |
12/13/2009 | |
Jalapeno Bootyhole's third birthday!Happy B-Day! (view post) |
12/13/2009 | |
D&D Adventure IdeasI just normally pick the treasure. Its rather important to the balance of the game what they get. The orcs might have ‘pocket money’ and what not. The boss might have a magic item or two. You should use the tables as a guide, but give them what YOU want them to have. I once rolled treasure in front of them, but that is more like a “bonus level” thing, not every day. (view post) |
12/11/2009 | |
D&D Adventure IdeasChawin Posted: One of my games started with the low leave group of avengers coming upon a VERY young blue dragon getting money from a town. They, of course, charged in a killed the dragon…
Turns out the dragon’s very old mother was using the town to baby sit her son. (blue dragons are lawful evil so she thought he might have fun playing ‘tyrant’ for a bit) Anyway, the long adventurer then was the party trying to stay one step ahead of the blue dragon that wanted them all dead. Her enemies would help them and she went crazy with the death of her son.
I like having the players first game set up the end game, but an experienced group would not fall for something as simple as “there is a baby dragon yelling at townsfolk in front of you, what do you do?”
Also, I do think running a pre-made adventurer is a very good idea. Gives you a feel for the game and your group. Whenever I start a new roleplaying system I like at least READING a pre-made to get a sense of the ‘world’ an a feel for the game setting itself. Also, what KIND of people are playing your game is very important. The 4th ed dungeon masters guide has a very good section identifying kinds of players. Its worth a read, took me years of playing to get all of the info they just HAVE in that section. Great for new DMs. (view post) |
12/11/2009 | |
D&D Adventure Ideas4th ed or 3.5 or 3 or 2nd or D&D?
I liked 3.5 the best, but 4th is pretty good to. I ran two year long 3.5 games. (4th level – 16th level vs the cult of the dragon; and 6th level – 23level. That was a plane hopping game.)
I also ran an one shot all day 40th level adventurer… that was kinda nutz. (group of epic monsters decided they wanted to wipe out all humans everywhere. Before any of the humans became powerful enough to challenge them. The monsters were headed by a prismatic dragon)
MC Banhammer Posted: lol, their books are WAY to big. Additionally, me and my buddies played a game and ended up hacking ourselves to bits right quick. The game is stacked against the players, and since it takes several hours to make a character (which, BTW, I do feel is the best part of Hackmaster) its sorta a big let down to have them all die to a pack of bears or something. (view post) |
12/11/2009 | |
Web Spidersspongebob-scout Posted:
Would it not be in item buildr first if its in ep3? (view post) |
12/10/2009 | |
CONTEST: Post here for a chance at 150 BPLog in to see images! (view post) |
12/08/2009 | |
Dad's Credit Card- WOW!Drakodan Posted:
And then it jumped up to +10, and none of the other items moved. Crazy. (view post) |
12/08/2009 | |
Mod Volunteering ThreadChawin Posted: |
12/08/2009 | |
Dad's Credit Card- WOW!Man, all these last minute votes LOVE Dad’s Credit Card! It jumped like 13 points in 3 hours!
They don’t seem to be voting on anything else though. Huh, really weird, I guess they just like Dad’s Credit Card, and don’t care about the rest. Log in to see images! (view post) |
12/08/2009 | |
Take a screenshot of your desktopChawin Posted:
Thanks, is that better? (yes, I’m new to this… ) (view post) |
12/07/2009 | |
Take a screenshot of your desktopLog in to see images! (view post) |
12/07/2009 | |
I Have Desided to Sell My Art CollectionNVM someone bet me to it. (view post) |
12/07/2009 | |
Should have been an Emo: A fool and his Flezz...Well, I’m defiantly holding on to my 100 Power Stars. I was thinking about holding on to my piercing, but I can’t use it anyway. (view post) |
12/06/2009 | |
Should have been an Emo: A fool and his Flezz...Does anyone know if Ep 3 will devalue Flezz? Like will the average price for something in it be in the millions? How much did Ep2 change the prices from Ep1? (view post) |
12/05/2009 | |
I am truly leaving this placeChawin Posted:
If we didn’t, it wouldn’t be funny. (view post) |
12/04/2009 | |
How do I change my avatar picture?AlexIce Posted:
You also get a free Avatar change when you… do something. I forget if its buying Ep2 or hitting a certain level. (view post) |
12/04/2009 |