Running a Tomb of Horrors dungeon in ~30min. Place your bets now on how far they'll get before they die.
Personal wager: They'll make it to the False Acererak, kill him, then flee from the collapse illusion, never realizing they didn't actually beat the dungeon.
[QUOTE=ElTacoLad;44399064]Has anyone ever actually been hit with shurikens, much less killed by them, before?[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EvPvfVOUV8[/media]
[QUOTE=Funktastic Dog;44401452][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EvPvfVOUV8[/media][/QUOTE]
hey this is exactly how it went
[QUOTE=Antary;44401825]hey this is exactly how it went[/QUOTE]
There were about 100 more shurikens involved but yeah.
[QUOTE=Chronische;44402802]There were about 100 more shurikens involved but yeah.[/QUOTE]
So like [thumb]http://gbougheysanblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/boromir-death-three-arrows.jpg[/thumb]+[thumb]http://cdn5.movieclips.com/mgm/e/enter-the-ninja-1981/0160723_14419_MC_Tx360.jpg[/thumb]?
[QUOTE=gman003-main;44401029]Running a Tomb of Horrors dungeon in ~30min. Place your bets now on how far they'll get before they die.
Personal wager: They'll make it to the False Acererak, kill him, then flee from the collapse illusion, never realizing they didn't actually beat the dungeon.[/QUOTE]
Current death tally:
Wizard's homunculus killed instantly opening a trapped chest
One player suicided into the Sphere of Annihilation after her character was turned into a vampire, gender-flipped, and repeatedly stripped naked by warping through the silver mist arch. Currently re-rolling.
They found a decent loophole - shapeshift to earth elemental (beast form spell), then just walk through all the stone walls. Apparently nobody thought of that before, but it only helps so much. They're also using Stone to Mud a lot for the same reasons.
Stopped for food just outside the first fake Acererak's room. Will let the dead player bring in a new rogue, since it's unfair with no rogue.
Any bets placed yet?
unfortunately i'm not familiar with the dungeon so i'll just say the 3rd major milestone, whatever that might be.
I bet the rogue's going to die first.
Again.
Opening session of Rogue Trader
looted xenos farm station
it turns out that said farm was full of flying reptilian piranhas
that burst out of the vents of the bridge, ate a redshirt, and startled the trader and bookkeeper so hard they passed out, and the helmsman lost her shit and tried to run away
and one of the swarms of things is eating our psyker, and I just shot him by accident trying to dissuade said swarms, and accidentally hit him with my pistol, which happens to have poison bullets
the party seems imminently fucked
the psyker survived but is now going need surgery from the painboy, so he's probably still dead
[QUOTE=SiberysTranq;44404264]the psyker survived but is now going need surgery from the painboy, so he's probably still dead[/QUOTE]
A ship carrying tens of thousands of crewmen and the only doctor is a bloody painboy
The hell kinda Rogue Trader is the commander? :v:
[QUOTE=Dwarfy77;44392907]Every fucking Kernelsprite you people made is god damn hilarious :v:[/QUOTE]
Every sprite reminds me of this:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-sALU_hveA[/media]
[QUOTE=SiberysTranq;44405064]one who stole the ship out from under me because of a contract loophole because his accountant is actually Satan
he's also short and pretty delusional at times
basically things are complicated and the ork is a bro and also a pretty good doctor anyway
the psyker actually survived and everything[/QUOTE]
We found a planet with a really dense atmosphere that was like at least 75% oxygen(gm said 100% but after some people failing at suspension of disbelief we decided it wouldn't have been that high). The inhabitants were all humans, but their mouths and noses had grown shut and they communicated telepathically to each other.(My first thought on finding this out was THE BLACK SHIPS WILL LOVE THIS but they aren't psykers it's just a mutation.)
We told them we were going to make them part of the imperium and I, in my mind, heard them all rejoicing about 'the time has come' and shit. They took us to a large ruined temple we'd found on a scan and started playing music(IN THEIR MINDS) and singing, then a man who [I]could speak[/I] climbed up on the temple and pulled out a melta grenade. I compelled him not to pull the pin and we teleported back to our ship, then I felt the deaths of millions as the entire planet committed mass suicide.
Tomb of Horrors continuation postponed until whenever. They wasted a while going the wrong way again rather than further into the dungeon, then we hit some schedule constraints.
Tomb of Horrors is a REALLY FUCKING ANNOYING dungeon. It's not really clever, it's just a lot of stumbling around trying to find the right thing to run perception checks against, constantly checking for traps, and generally not knowing where to go or what to do because it's deliberately packed with false leads and the true path is always hidden. There's just enough combat that you need someone to take care of it, but it's just a matter of who has more DPS and HP, there's nothing clever you can do. It's not even fun to run for most of it unless you deliberately enjoy watching your players not have fun, because they quickly learn not to just rush in, but it seems their response is usually to stop dead rather than proceed cautiously.
Tomb of Horrors was designed specifically to catch old school RPG players off guard. Hence why it doesn't fare so well today.
[editline]30th March 2014[/editline]
Tomb of Horrors was so important though, because people started to realize that maybe constant dungeons wasnt so much fun. So it slowly fell out of favour.
Which is why people barely use actual dungeons today. Which is a shame, because dungeons can be hella fun.
[QUOTE=Rats808;44405263]We found a planet with a really dense atmosphere that was like at least 75% oxygen(gm said 100% but after some people failing at suspension of disbelief we decided it wouldn't have been that high). The inhabitants were all humans, but their mouths and noses had grown shut and they communicated telepathically to each other.(My first thought on finding this out was THE BLACK SHIPS WILL LOVE THIS but they aren't psykers it's just a mutation.)
We told them we were going to make them part of the imperium and I, in my mind, heard them all rejoicing about 'the time has come' and shit. They took us to a large ruined temple we'd found on a scan and started playing music(IN THEIR MINDS) and singing, then a man who [I]could speak[/I] climbed up on the temple and pulled out a melta grenade. I compelled him not to pull the pin and we teleported back to our ship, then I felt the deaths of millions as the entire planet committed mass suicide.[/QUOTE]
I want to play now, haha.
[editline]31st March 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Funktastic Dog;44405588]Tomb of Horrors was designed specifically to catch old school RPG players off guard. Hence why it doesn't fare so well today.
[editline]30th March 2014[/editline]
Tomb of Horrors was so important though though, because people started to realize that maybe constant dungeons wasnt so much fun. So it slowly fell out of favour.
Which is why people barely use actual dungeons today. Which is a shame, because dungeons can be hella fun.[/QUOTE]
I've found the trick is to have an adventure around finding the dungeon, which raises players desire to actually explore, because they 'earned' the dungeon.
[QUOTE=Oliolio;44406060]I've found the trick is to have an adventure around finding the dungeon, which raises players desire to actually explore, because they 'earned' the dungeon.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, thats a good way of doing it, although just stumbling across a dungeon can be fun too.
What's shit is when youre just dungeon hopping, like you were in the old days.
[QUOTE=Funktastic Dog;44405588]Tomb of Horrors was designed specifically to catch old school RPG players off guard. Hence why it doesn't fare so well today.
[editline]30th March 2014[/editline]
Tomb of Horrors was so important though though, because people started to realize that maybe constant dungeons wasnt so much fun. So it slowly fell out of favour.
Which is why people barely use actual dungeons today. Which is a shame, because dungeons can be hella fun.[/QUOTE]
I don't like doing dungeons. It's the most railroady part of any RPG in my opinion (not always a bad thing mind you), so whenever a party either derps about too much or can't seem to get serious I stick em in a dungeon as a punishment/nudge to get on the right path.
Turns people love my dungeons. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
So, today's Magical Burst was an adventure back into lighthearted territory after our run-ins with demon dogs made out of knotted dicks and other such allotted tomfoolery.
By lighthearted, I mean beach episode!
Tops lost: 3
Ice cream cones denied: 3
Ice cream cones dropped: 1
Ice cream stands destroyed: 1
Giant crabs killed and cooked: 1
[URL="http://pastebin.com/HPY7Ci9j"]http://pastebin.com/HPY7Ci9j[/URL]
Pastebin of the above game! (I'm john)
After a while you cross a line between jokingly playing an anime girl game, and seriously playing an anime girl game.
You have crossed that line.
[QUOTE=Funktastic Dog;44407908]After a while you cross a line between jokingly playing an anime girl game, and seriously playing an anime girl game.
You have crossed that line.[/QUOTE]
Who cares, as long as they can act as functioning members of society who gives a damn if they like to play anime girl RPG. The only difference between anime girl RPG and something like Deathwatch is that they're projecting onto an anime girl instead of a big mass of human manflesh with the personality of a potato.
[QUOTE=Vinh255;44407926]Who cares, as long as they can act as functioning members of society who gives a damn if they like to play anime girl RPG. The only difference between anime girl RPG and something like Deathwatch is that they're projecting onto an anime girl instead of a big mass of human manflesh with the personality of a potato.[/QUOTE]
I was just watching, then I became the ice cream nazi. But to be honest, who cares what other people play? It's a game after all.
[QUOTE=madman770;44407895][URL="http://pastebin.com/HPY7Ci9j"]http://pastebin.com/HPY7Ci9j[/URL]
Pastebin of the above game! (I'm john)[/QUOTE]
What the fuck
[QUOTE=Vinh255;44407926]Who cares, as long as they can act as functioning members of society who gives a damn if they like to play anime girl RPG. The only difference between anime girl RPG and something like Deathwatch is that they're projecting onto an anime girl instead of a big mass of human manflesh with the personality of a potato.[/QUOTE]
There's that point to be made, but there's also the point where people roleplaying spacepotatomen are serious while very obviously understanding that its ridiculous, and playing it up. (I.E. Swallowing DemonCum to gain their powers)
The problem with Magical girl burst is you have to be playing it jokey all of the time, or else you realize how weird it is that you're trying to get loli girls to be lesbians with each other on a nudist beach.
If youre having fun, go for it, but don't try and pretend you're doing it sarcastically, because you're totally not.
[editline]31st March 2014[/editline]
Honestly, if people want to play FATAL seriously be my guest... (but maybe don't post about it here).
[QUOTE=Funktastic Dog;44408094]
The problem with Magical girl burst is you have to be playing it jokey all of the time[/QUOTE]
Magical Burst is grimdark as fuck
[QUOTE=Antary;44409332]Magical Burst is grimdark as fuck[/QUOTE]
[quote]Fuck this contract: Satoya's D-cups glisten as they knock together while she jumps for the serve. The artifical sun reflects off her sweating body and you may or may not be subjected to a nosebleed
Sarah Salem: :I
Fuck this contract: You knock it to Ally
Fuck this contract: Ally glances at your tits, mentally comparing them to her favorite brand of party balloons, getting her a -4 to her roll
Titty cat: "Told mew I had it covfurred!"
Fuck this contract: Ally knocks the side of her arm into it, keeping it in the air
Some Eri That You Used to Know: "...That's gotta be against the rules..."
Fuck this contract: Someone save! Eri, Val?
Fuck this contract: You too are subjected to a -4 from the titular distraction[/quote]
So very grimdark.
[QUOTE=Funktastic Dog;44408094]There's that point to be made, but there's also the point where people roleplaying spacepotatomen are serious while very obviously understanding that its ridiculous, and playing it up. (I.E. Swallowing DemonCum to gain their powers)
The problem with Magical girl burst is you have to be playing it jokey all of the time, or else you realize how weird it is that you're trying to get loli girls to be lesbians with each other on a nudist beach.
If youre having fun, go for it, but don't try and pretend you're doing it sarcastically, because you're totally not.
[editline]31st March 2014[/editline]
Honestly, if people want to play FATAL seriously be my guest... (but maybe don't post about it here).[/QUOTE]
Why the hell are people not allowed to legitimately enjoy playing a certain kind of game unless they're being sarcastic about it
Seriously who gives a toss. It's all the same nerdy shit in the big picture. There is no difference if you're a loli with a magical stick that shoots rainbows or a mary sue who kills all day with 0 homoerotic man-tension, you shouldn't be required or expected to only do it 'ironically' while you're basically playing a complicated version of 'let's pretend'
I spent my saturday dressed as a bunnygirl irl, I don't really expect anyone to judge people here for doing it in a game
There is a big, BIG difference between
Playing a medieval rpg and killing goblins and summoning skeleton warriors than
Playing a underaged girl, waving around a stick shooting rainbows and wearing skimpy clothing, while playing beach ball and having someones clothes fall off every 10 minutes.
I'm sorry but, what the actual fuck.
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