You know, I've received a reminder today, of the fact that I have the best players in the world.
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Ran M&M today with the group. They managed to turn their encounter with a giant, yellow, rampaging Dinosaurman-mutant ([I]who now goes by[/I] [B][I]Colossaur[/I][/B]) from what was supposed to be a just a plain ol' revenge-driven boss monster, into a tragic victim story after one of them accidentally made him cry. Now, instead of going after the hideous mutant who just went on a warpath in a busy metropolitan area, they decided to go after whomever was responsible for causing the mutation in the first place which led them to what was essentially 'Jurassic Park built next door to a nuclear power plant'.
Somehow, every time they manage to throw the plot off the rails, it always seems to lead to a much more interesting story than what I had originally planned.
New Fallout and Magical Burst logs.
[B]Fallout NY Reboot: Session 2: Party of Four[/B]
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[quote]Starting in the cafeteria where we left off with Sarah and Marlowe. They loot the cafeteria, getting a few Nuka Colas for their efforts. Sarah checks out the cafeteria some more while Marlowe heads into the bathrooms. Sarah fails to find anything of note, but Marlowe finds a rusty medical box. After cutting his fingers for 3 damage trying to pry it open the first time, he manages it the second time, getting a package of bandaids (or plasters if you're some smarmy brit) for his efforts.
After feeling a tickling on the back of his neck, Marlowe turns around to see a giant spider hanging from the ceiling. Marlowe and the spider engage in combat, taking forever because of poor skill and damage and armor absorbing the poor damage. Sarah pokes her head into the bathroom, sees Marlowe's predicament, and helps him with the spider. Afterwards, they go stall-to-stall in the restroom, clearing things out. In one stall sits a skeleton on the toilet. Marlowe takes a bone to use as a club. In a few others they find spiders, one sitting on a toilet full of eggs.
After both critpassing on Luck rolls, the ceiling above the spider collapses, crushing both it and the eggs.
After this, the two head out of the cafeteria. From this position, the exit is to the right, a hallway deeper into the hospital is left, and forwards leads to the parking garage, where they go next. Inside, they find someone pillaging an ambulance. This is Dez, our third party member. He's a peculiar and partially unstable man. Dez agrees to join the other two in cleaning the place out. They then proceed to loot the parked vehicles, netting a pair of jumper cables, a 5 meter coil of rope, vehicle owner's manuals, a pair of fingerless leather gloves, and a pair of shades, as well as some surgical tubing and a Microfusion Cell from the batteries of the cars.
The three head deeper into the hospital, passing by a gift shop, inside of which they hear footsteps and mumbling. They open the door to find a woman examining a skeleton, proclaiming that "so this bone goes to THAT bone, that explains a lot," while wearing a comically stock doctor's outfit. This is party member four, Doc, an Asian doctor lady who doesn't actually practice medicine but who is very lucky and claims to be a doctor anyway.
After agreeing to join up with the other three for fun and profit, the four head upstairs, and start going room-to-room. Inside the first room with any sort of conflict, they find 3 more giant spiders and a GIANT giant spider, clinging to a web that spans from floor to ceiling. They exchange blows with the spiders while Doc tries and fails multiple times to mount and ride the biggest one, before they finally finish them off, with Dez and Doc getting poisoned in the meantime.
End session.[/quote]
[B]Magical Burst: Session 32: Nerds, Birds and Embers[/B]
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[QUOTE]Monday morning.
Starting with Sarah and Ramona, they wake up in Ramona's house, after having had a movie night and building Ramona a new arm out of clockworky gears and other bits, magic, and good wishes. Ramona flies herself and Sarah to school. Ayano, meanwhile, admires the plant familiar she pried out of the last Nightmare and tamed with twinkies, then goes to school, bringing the plant with her. All three girls in some way or another hear about a missing girl in their school, Risako Hatoyama, who was captain of the chess club.
Ramona settles into Sarah's class, despite the fact that she isn't actually in that class, while Sarah, Ramona, Eri, Ally and the four nerds of the paranormal club talk before class starts. Class ends, and Ramona convinces Sarah and Ally that "the gay" is actually a contagious, terminal disease.
Ayano, in her own class, finds her seat taken by someone else, and relocates to the previously mentioned missing girl's desk, finding a little spiral notebook full of information regarding potential magical girls and youma inside the desk. The final entry is regarding a large spider-like youma (one that Saiko fought and ran from previously, not that anyone else knows about it). So as it turns out, the missing girl is actually a magical girl. Class ends, and Ayano gets a text from one of the paranormal club members asking her to save them from Ramona's bullshit.
Ayano runs into the mostly empty classroom (empty barring the previously mentioned people) and attempts to throw the potted familiar plant of hers at Ramona. She fails horribly and her toss gets less than halfway to Ramona, but Ramona manages to catch the plant. The plant, named Florana by Ayano, is not happy with Ayano's bullshit. It demands apology twinkies, to which she begrudgingly complies.
Sarah says she has business to do and leaves. Ally also leaves the class saying she's going to look for Eve (whose player wasn't around so Eve wasn't in class). Ramona runs out to join her.
This leaves Eri and Ayano alone in the same classroom with 4 NPCs. This is particularly hilarious because Eri and Ayano are both played by the same person. Eri leaves shortly after, leaving Ayano with the nerds. The five of them talk about Ayano and how she recently made a contract and became magical, then work out a way to get her to transform with her magical activating trinket (which is a Game Genie). They leave school early and go to Ayano's house and build a makeshift contraption with a Power Glove, NES cartridge slot and various other doodads. While it was under construction, Ayano hacks into the school's attendance records, sets them as present, then changes her class so she's in the same as the other nerds. Ayano plugs her Game Genie into the glove contraption while wearing it and transforms.
Ramona flies around with Ally for a while, they talk, and for the most part just fuck around. Then they go to Ramona's house and watch a movie, but not before Ramona invites Sarah via text to join them, though she doesn't see the response as she's flying when it arrives. She forgets about it, lands at home, then watches a movie with Ally, before Ramona realizes she got a response from Sarah a few hours ago saying she was "fighting for her life." Ramona freaks out and spams "ARE YOU OK?" texts to Sarah, which takes a while for her to respond to.
Sarah, meanwhile, leaves school and explores the city. Down on Tier 4, she sees Princess enter an orphanage, then heads in after her. Finding Princess working with the children, Sarah waits until she's noticed, at which point Princess excuses herself from the kids and leads Sarah outside and away from the orphanage.
They get into a heated (mostly one-sided as Sarah doesn't try to hit back) fistfight, where Princess eventually pushes herself and Sarah into an open dumpster in an alley.
All the trash receptacles in this tiered megacity are bottomless, and instead are connected to pipes which funnel the trash down to the underground of the city in a massive dump. Princess and Sarah exchange blows while grappling with each other and sliding down these tubes, during which time Sarah sends the text to Ramona about fighting for her life, until they're ejected into the giant room where all the trash is dumped.
As they're flying about 30 feet above the mounds of garbage below, Princess makes pathways of ice for them to stand on. The two of them transform and begin fighting. Eventually, massive columns of flame shoot up from under the garbage mountains below, revealing the place to be a giant incinerator as the fires begin to melt the ice platform.
Princess lands a 19-damage strike on an already wounded Sarah, sending her flying and falling into the trash and fire below. Watching this for a moment, Princess stamps a foot before chasing after Sarah's falling form, catching it before she's out of range with her whip and dragging the confused Sarah back onto the platform. She then lifts Sarah and carries her back into the tubes as the fires destroy the remainder of the platforms. Eventually, after shooting up the tubes with the help of some magic, Princess and Sarah are thrown back onto Tier 4. Princess passes out, and Sarah lifts Princess' now-unconscious form and drags her to a hospital, calling Ramona and telling her to head there.
Both arrive at the hospital soon after, Ramona displaying some hostility towards Princess for having attacked Sarah. They deposit Princess with some doctors and leave.
End session.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Nitrowing;45261745]Ran M&M today with the group. They managed to turn their encounter with a giant, yellow, rampaging Dinosaurman-mutant ([I]who now goes by[/I] [B][I]Colossaur[/I][/B]) from what was supposed to be a just a plain ol' revenge-driven boss monster, into a tragic victim story after one of them accidentally made him cry. Now, instead of going after the hideous mutant who just went on a warpath in a busy metropolitan area, they decided to go after whomever was responsible for causing the mutation in the first place which led them to what was essentially 'Jurassic Park built next door to a nuclear power plant'.
Somehow, every time they manage to throw the plot off the rails, it always seems to lead to a much more interesting story than what I had originally planned.[/QUOTE]
Your characters aren't in a comic book story, they're in a Saturday morning cartoon.
I'd like to apologise to my traveller group for the stupidest shit last week
[editline]3rd July 2014[/editline]
They were on Shadowrun Blood Dragon: The Planet trying to prevent a nefarious plot to wreck the world's economy (based on gold and pennies) and it all ended with them riding a rail rocket away from a nuclear explosion while fighting Ntombo, WARLORD OF EDUCATION while [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKpByV5764]this played.[/url]
[editline]3rd July 2014[/editline]
The nuclear explosion was caused by the nuke that they had sold Ntombo only days before. Had they not disintegrated Ntombo in the ensuing fight he had offered to have the party become administrators of his child-staffed acid mine.
[editline]3rd July 2014[/editline]
The party made a pact to never speak of it again
Who had The Touch???
YOU GOT THE SLAVES... YOU GOT THE LABOOOUR!
everyone lost interest and my warhammer fantasy game is dead before it even started
woo
[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;45284991]everyone lost interest and my warhammer fantasy game is dead before it even started
woo[/QUOTE]
It's okay, I still love you.
How did nobody post the fact that [b]D&D 5TH EDITION IS OUT[/b]?
[url=http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/basicrules]Here you go![/url]
It's also free-ish. Yeah.
[QUOTE=Mastahamma;45285011]How did nobody post the fact that [b]D&D 5TH EDITION IS OUT[/b]?
[url=http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/basicrules]Here you go![/url]
It's also free-ish. Yeah.[/QUOTE]
Oh. I guess i'll look at it at some point. Don't really have high expectations.
For the record though, horrible experiences aside, Planet 80's did pay exceptionally well
we got over 10% of our ship's mortgage paid off, along with something like 600k cash for every member of our motley gang of amoral bastards
and now we're chasing space indiana jones because he's searching for a death star and we hear those are expensive
I was thinking up some puzzles for a two player one-shot adventure and this is what I came up with.
Inside a room is a pressure plate that opens a door about 20-30 feet in front of it in a small alcove. When a person stands on the pressure plate, the door opens. However, when the door is fully open, the alcove fills up with columns of fire emitting from one wall. When the door is fully closed, the fire columns turn off. The only other thing inside the room is a large rectangular stone. The stone is about 2 feet long/wide, and 6 feet tall.
The way to solve the puzzle is by pushing the stone onto it's side and positioning it up against the wall the flames are coming out of. When someone opens the door, the other person pushes the stone so it is positioned just underneath the door so it catches it when the person steps off the pressure plate. Then they must crawl underneath the fire and door to reach the other room.
[QUOTE=Mastahamma;45285011]How did nobody post the fact that [b]D&D 5TH EDITION IS OUT[/b]?
[url=http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/basicrules]Here you go![/url]
It's also free-ish. Yeah.[/QUOTE]
Oh sweet, my group at the mall has been playing 5th Ed based on the playtest ruleset. This will be cool to have the real thing!
[QUOTE=slayer20;45294253]I was thinking up some puzzles for a two player one-shot adventure and this is what I came up with.
Inside a room is a pressure plate that opens a door about 20-30 feet in front of it in a small alcove. When a person stands on the pressure plate, the door opens. However, when the door is fully open, the alcove fills up with columns of fire emitting from one wall. When the door is fully closed, the fire columns turn off. The only other thing inside the room is a large rectangular stone. The stone is about 2 feet long/wide, and 6 feet tall.
The way to solve the puzzle is by pushing the stone onto it's side and positioning it up against the wall the flames are coming out of. When someone opens the door, the other person pushes the stone so it is positioned just underneath the door so it catches it when the person steps off the pressure plate. Then they must crawl underneath the fire and door to reach the other room.[/QUOTE]
They're going to try to put the stone on the pressure plate, and just brave the fire somehow. Probably by running to the door (Or using clever trickery like sticks and twine or rope to set the stone onto the plate while they're already in the alcove) and sidle up against where the door opens so they can slip through before the door is fully opened and the fire starts.
If you don't want that to be an option you could do something like widen the stone so it won't fit on the pressure plate, or make it out of some really light stone so it isn't enough to depress the plate.
[QUOTE=DarkMonkey;45294627]They're going to try to put the stone on the pressure plate, and just brave the fire somehow. Probably by running to the door (Or using clever trickery like sticks and twine or rope to set the stone onto the plate while they're already in the alcove) and sidle up against where the door opens so they can slip through before the door is fully opened and the fire starts.
If you don't want that to be an option you could do something like widen the stone so it won't fit on the pressure plate, or make it out of some really light stone so it isn't enough to depress the plate.[/QUOTE]
If they want to run through the wall of fire, that's all on them :v:
But sliding the stone onto the plate using rope is actually really smart. I like that idea.
[QUOTE=Mastahamma;45285011]How did nobody post the fact that [b]D&D 5TH EDITION IS OUT[/b]?
[url=http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/basicrules]Here you go![/url]
It's also free-ish. Yeah.[/QUOTE]
Lies
This is just a demo, and the actual Player's Handbook isn't released yet. I'll wait for that before judging.
so I nearly killed the entire party in traveller tonight
the BBEG (who had just appeared, and we didn't realize was the BBEG) was escaping, along with a planet-killing doomsday weapon the size of a toothbrush. We were chasing him through the jungle (after having admittedly giving him the weapon because he had two of our NPC crew hostage), our cyborg leader and my pet alien wolf going directly after him and his men, my character in back launching missiles at them, using our commander's sensor drone as a targeting aide, while the rest of the crew was warming up our dropship. Despite our efforts, we couldn't stop them getting to their ship, which was cloaked in a nearby clearing. The two AA missiles I had did nothing to it, and it took off. Really fucking pissed off IC and OOC, I hopped in our dropship's turret, and launched a wave of missiles at them as they fled and we were taking off
Of course, my multi-warhead missiles flubbed completely both in separating (only 3 of a potential 18 missiles hit) and in damage (all of those that hit rolled 1's and 2's for damage). The enemy ship turned around. I loaded nukes into our tubes because I was in kind of a blind rage at the moment.
Turns out they had a spinal energy cannon. Which fucked us up. And knocked out our engines, our powerplant, and irradiated us. During takeoff. Our pilot completely failed to correct in time, and went into a spin and slammed into the ground, totally fucked up, hanging off the edge of a cliff. One of our party members is knocked out, the other has broken arm and leg, I've cracked several ribs, one of the NPC's broke both his legs, and the other impaled himself on a piece of engine shrapnel. I managed to save the last (despite him being technically dead) with the application of one of my extremely expensive trauma packs, and then a good first-aid roll. Our cyborg commander was, of course, unharmed
So, our dropship is now shot down, most of our party is out of action, we're trapped in a hostile jungle filled with rampaging natives because we accidentally made them think their god had returned (their god is a sun god, whom in ancient times smote the earth with fire, we may or make not have orbital striked them several times with lasers) and the only person left on our main ship can't actually fly it.
And it's all my fault
so... remember me posting about a Fallout PnP rebalance I was doing? and then that I finished it and was going to put it in a nice .pdf and all?
[url="https://www.mediafire.com/?n720byd7x52h9qb"]yep[/url]
Anyone want to play a sandbox styled space explorer game? I have a system called 'Stars Without Number' and it's sort of lite on rules and definite on a couple of points, so we could play a game similar to FTL. So far I have the 'free' edition which offers three classes, the Expert being the skill-monkey in any way you want, Warrior being what he sounds like, can also be developed in just about any way, and the Psion with like different paths of psychic abilities (three unique ones being biokinesis, predistigation and teleportation).
It's a bit like D&D, but just a bit.
Also no I'm not talking about being the GM here, sorry.
[QUOTE=GlebGuy;45298890]Anyone want to play a sandbox styled space explorer game? I have a system called 'Stars Without Number' and it's sort of lite on rules and definite on a couple of points, so we could play a game similar to FTL. So far I have the 'free' edition which offers three classes, the Expert being the skill-monkey in any way you want, Warrior being what he sounds like, can also be developed in just about any way, and the Psion with like different paths of psychic abilities (three unique ones being biokinesis, predistigation and teleportation).
It's a bit like D&D, but just a bit.
Also no I'm not talking about being the GM here, sorry.[/QUOTE]
Do you have a GM?
[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;45298907]Do you have a GM?[/QUOTE]
Sorry, no. I've been looking for one for a couple of days now.
Edit: Also the game encourages homebrew material, like custom alien races.
Idk about "Who wants to play this great game it's like this blah blah blah and no I won't GM it you'll have to do that"
Yeah, if you want something to happen, DM it.
[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;45298998]Idk about "Who wants to play this great game it's like this blah blah blah and no I won't GM it you'll have to do that"[/QUOTE]
I know how dickish that sounds and I'm sorry for saying that, and I know how this sounds as well - but I have no enjoyment in GMing.
[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;45298998]Idk about "Who wants to play this great game it's like this blah blah blah and no I won't GM it you'll have to do that"[/QUOTE]
i did that last time when he wanted to play star wars saga.
yeah that didn't go so well.
[QUOTE=GlebGuy;45299037]I know how dickish that sounds and I'm sorry for saying that, and I know how this sounds as well - but I have no enjoyment in GMing.[/QUOTE]
A well-known adage comes to mind involving beggars and choosers
[QUOTE=lintz;45299116]i did that last time when he wanted to play star wars saga.
yeah that didn't go so well.[/QUOTE]
You were rail-roading through the whole thing, everyone thought we would be playing sandbox instead of a linear campaign.
[QUOTE=GlebGuy;45299194]You were rail-roading through the whole thing, everyone thought we would be playing sandbox instead of a linear campaign.[/QUOTE]
Even a vast desert has currents. Sandbox sounds like hard work for both player and GM.
[editline]5th July 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;45299166]A well-known adage comes to mind involving beggars and choosers[/QUOTE]
"You can afford to be choosey when searching for beggers to enslave"?
[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;45299209]Even a vast desert has currents. Sandbox sounds like hard work for both player and GM.
[editline]5th July 2014[/editline]
"You can afford to be choosey when searching for beggers to enslave"?[/QUOTE]
I'm not forcing anyone, I'm only asking around and I'm not going to call any names. If someone doesn't want to join by realizing how difficult the whole thing will be, then fine with me. I can't judge another person.
And I am not begging, I'm trying to be polite and I realize how hard it is to find someone interested in this, but that doesn't mean I'll just give up on everything.
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