The real story is that Rosenblade the pink slime is so far the MVP of the team. It has helped them getting past 2 traps. found 2 secrets and saved them in one hostile encounter already. This tiny pink ball is so far more useful then the 18 strength fighter!
Sounds like Rinaldo, the Charisma 16 Charlatan... who could not tell a convincing lie if his life depended on it!
Post by ZenPsychosis on Aug 23, 2016 22:57:11 GMT -6
Biggest sins all came from the first game of Shadow Run that I ever played. My character was an actual idealist (sin 1), who was drafted up as mostly a support character so I could learn SR's system. Specifically, he was a human with very few cyber enhancements who was the team's doctor and wheel-man (sin 2, which will become apparent as the following story unfolds).
Returning to the safehouse to pick up supplies for a run, the team (minus my character who was locking up the van, and another character who showed up late for the game) encountered a trap at the door, and a got enveloped in this huge blast of fire from the keyhole. The blast set a couple of them on fire and popped off the spare ammunition they were carrying, and then the force of it literally blew the door off the safehouse and into the line of 4 runners like a missile, knocking them all prone. Our Orc heavy got the worst of all of this, as not only did he start burning badly, but had been carrying explosive ammunition that got set off in the fire. Then enemies with flame-throwing SMGs jumped out from across the street and began shooting at all of us. I managed to disable one of the SMG guys and, I think it was at my suggestion, everyone jumped into the van, the two teammates on fire still burning, and I took off driving to get the hell away. So, we have the team's doctor driving a van away from automatic gunfire, with 4 seriously injured runners in the back, two of whom are still on fire and desperately flailing around to try and put it out. No one else has medical skills beyond being able to applying a trauma patch. One burning runner managed to put his own fire out before slipping into unconsciousness, the other, our Orc heavy, kept rolling poorly and ended up passing out from the pain and damage. The other team members finally managed to put the fire out on him and attempted to apply a trauma patch as first aid to keep the poor bastard alive until my character could pull over and start providing actual field dressings. And then the Orc botched the trauma patch roll. Not just botched it, but BOTCHED THE FUCK OUT OF IT... got to roll 9d6 with a TN of 4 for success, and the highest number rolled was a 3. (Incidentally, the player behind the Orc character laughed so hard and so long we almost needed to call him an ambulance).
None of us had ever seen a botched trauma patch roll, and our GM said that there were no rules governing it... so he played it out as a severe allergic reaction to the stuff in the patch, causing the crispy-charred unconscious Orc to go into convulsions. This lead to an almost immediate mid-driving switch of drivers so that I could jump in the back and try to save him, which could very easily have killed us all but thankfully didn't. It also got our mage in the back getting any healing magic he had ready. I immediately set to work, and failed the medical check. Used karma to reroll... failed again. Mage tried his healing spell in a last ditch effort, but the spell overwhelmed him and immediately knocked him unconscious. Queue cinematic (actually one of the better posed ones I can remember) where our Orc teammate expired and the session ended.
Character took the death pretty damn hard, but kept running, partly in an attempt to avenge the death of his "comrade." The main lesson here was to never let your doctor be your wheel-man... they're both capable of saving your life in a tense situation, but it's a hell of a conflict if those situations overlap.
This is a sin I as the DM is going to do next session. This is the second campaign which takes place in a new universe and to save time I'm reusing a lot of NPC portraits as well as making new ones. And two of the new characters are the children of the alternative universe version of a player character and a NPC that hooked up. That doesn't sounds so sinful right? That sounds pretty cute.
The sin part is that they have the ability their player character mother has. They're both part horse and no one is able to notice
I (or we, apart from the healer the whole group) fucked up once in the following setting: The party is in a village. Years ago all the children there vanished. After some investigation we discovered that they were drowned and their souls bound in these puppets. The showdown is against a hovering souleater who ignores all attacks and lifts one after another the puppets close to him, somewhat corrodes the puppets, drops them and gets the next one. After attacks didn't work, we tried to get the puppets away or in a temple - didn't help. half of the puppets are gone when the healer pipes up: "Maybe we should throw the puppets at him since he seems to first have to corrupt them." We look at her like she is crazy. The DM is silent. We look at the DM. He says "What?". After the Souleater has eaten 3/4 of the childrens soul and we used the rest du hurt it, it vanishes and the DM plays some sad music ...
Okay, so to lighten the mood: in my group we guard the story of the coolest botch. Not the deadliest, not the spectacularest, the coolest:
There is the high-lvl dwarven warrior, as usual in the center of the fight. He rolls to hit -> botch. DM: "Ok, you hit yourself." PC: "I stare my enemy in the eye and slooowly cut myself with the ax in the chest, while growling." Next attack, botched again. DM: "You lose your weapon." PC: "I throw the ax to the side, screaming in bloodlust." The enemy was intimidated and ran away. And that was the story how you can botch twice and still win.
"When the pirates showed up, the fight music just happend in my head." Leon Thomas, Part 39 Dat Accent
Currently in this campaign I'm running almost all the NPCs are monsters. And one of the players are a racist elf cleric that hates monsters and the undead especally. One of the important NPCs is a vampire and he is of a kinda bratty cool kid personality. So he gave the players finger guns trying to show them he was cool. The rogue (that is a werebear by the way) being a cool charismatic guy gave finger guns back. And this convinced the cleric that finger guns= secret vampire hand symbol.
So now they think their rouge teammate is a vampire werebear. :3c
Post by LannaSeawolfe on Feb 10, 2017 20:16:39 GMT -6
I was roped into DMing a game on roll20 after our DM for a Warcraft-D&D hybrid up and vanished before our first session. Having never played D&D before, I was pretty well lost throughout it. I felt more than a bit of relief when things eventually fell apart.
I've also contemplated what the offspring of a tiefling and an aasimar would be like, post-5e, since it seems like it would be the closest thing I could get to a Draenei in the Multiverse.
Not so much a sin, but when L(A)RPing I managed to get my character killed in 3 successive adventures. Because I'm not terribly inventive when it came to names, they all had similar names (Chatana, Shatara & Xaldana*) and I decided they were all from the same family. Somebody then pointed out that they were all of different races (for pure munchkin reasons - Gnomes made good Wardens, Humans made better Fighters, Halflings made better Mages, etc.), which led to me coming up with the Retcon that they were children of a pair of clerics of the God of Luck & Chance (who they all followed, so not a huge Retcon) and had received "The Blessing of Cibli" which meant their children were all born with random races. Evidently the Luck didn't extend to keeping their children safe (or I was just a lousy player!) although the last child (Trudara, a mage) did survive and was one of the most powerful characters in the Campaign World (theoretically, he's still alive today).
* Who was female (I played her in a dress with two juggling balls taped to my chest) on the theory that Murphy's Law would keep alive a character that meant I had to keep shaving to play (it didn't work)!
Last session a PC went on his own trough the shady part of town and i rolled giving him an encounter of 2 thugs. the thugs were to teenagers armed with daggers trying to talk tough, but they keep on rolling so poorly on both intimidation and perception they became team skull grunts A and B from pokemon sun and moon. So the PC just walked passed them and when team skull tried to grab him they both crit failed and knocked into each other letting the PC walk away with no battle encounter starting.
The racist cleric vampire rogue conspiracy theory continues.
The cleric of the team that is convinced the rouge of the team is secretly a vampire was doing some hardcore praying to make up for all the lack of drow killing. (AKA the player was running late to our session) So the rest of the team went on a mini adventure an had a reunion with a fire demon they have meet earlier. Because the fire demon wanted to tag along with the group because he has a crush on the team's wizard he gave the wizard the find familiar spell so he could posses the familiar and not get to much attention in public.
Details about this fire demon. he is very very VERY depressed and tend to accentually say things that hit to close to home. So he said something to the rouge that made him have to go contemplate alone for a while.
The wizard of the team decided on getting a bat familiar that the demon then possessed making it into this edgelord red, slightly glowing with block tattoo like patterned bat. So when the wizard went back to the cleric with the rouge still moping out in the wilds alone. And the cleric saw the wizard carrying this edgy bat and instantly had her conspiracy theory about the rouge being a vampire confirmed.
Post by bunnysorceress on Apr 1, 2017 22:31:28 GMT -6
I don't play evil characters very well. I play chaotic characters pretty well.
Probably my most epic character was an elf Rogue named Gayle Greenglade. Or at least that was the name I was using at the moment as she is implied to have several aliases. She became known as an unpredictable wild card. First session she sneaks into the bad guys secret lair by ambushing a courier and pretending to be that courier. Gets inside, wins the trust of the bad guys, saps the bad guy leader, drags him out claiming he is very sick and needs a doctor, and delivers him to the good guys for interrogation.
There was a boss fight on top of a tower against a guy in heavy armor. I tied a cloth around his vision slit and then tripped him over the edge. Hilarity ensues as he falls to his death.
During a confused raging battle against some cultists Gayle grabs one of the cult robes and finds a group running around, heavily armed. She tells them that the intruders are getting away and they need to chase them down, pointing them towards the exit. Naturally they start running in that direction, never to be seen again.
There was a paladin in the group that I enjoyed teasing. After raiding an orc den I find some crude orc porn drawings. The DM said that trying to convince me to stop poking around in useless stuff but I grab that and pocket it. That night I sneak the drawings into the paladin's bag. The next day I pretend to find it and reveal the orc porn to the group. The paladin claims its not his while I am trying to be supportive. Thereafter I am trying to set him up with any orc we find.
I infiltrated a magic school along with the party wizard by pretending to be a wizard using the Use Magic Device skill.
I was playing a barbarian. Part of her thing was that when she would kill an animal or animalish monster I would butcher the animal and gather the meat, possibly even cooking it for use right there if we were camping out. Makes sense right, coming from a barbarian tribe and all. Well one time she cooked up a dire boar we had slain...and rolled a botch on my skill to cook it. So the whole party got food poisoning. This turned an encounter the next day from a sure thing to a harrowing ordeal where everyone almost died. The DM eventually takes pity on us and produces a village we can crash at until we recover.
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