[QUOTE=doomkiwi;47155135]...My DM tries to DM call of cthulu.
He tried not to kill the party
Everyone but me died anyway.
I hope you guys have a good will.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=xxfalconxx;47156516]I remember that. I got eaten by wolves, one missed a jump and snapped his neck, and the other one got eaten by a grue.
then we all ragequit.[/QUOTE]
Aforementioned DM here. I would like to distribute the blame equally between the harshness of the system, shitty rolls, and player choices.
To elaborate: Falcon's corpse was eaten by wolves after he decided to confront an armed guard and his attack dog using only "karate skillz" - the dog struck the killing blow. His body was thrown off a nearby cliff.
Another player decided to try and find where Falcon had gone by climbing up onto a slanted, ice-coated rooftop where he slipped and fell three stories to his death thanks to the brutal fall damage rules. His body was found by the same guard and also thrown cliffside.
The next player managed to escape into the moonlit, wintery forest and was hunted down and torn apart by the creatures that had been abducting the missing hikers they had been looking for.
The last, Doomkiwi, managed to integrate into the cult and was presumably carted off into thralldom or aiding the efforts of the cult in unleashing a minor Old One.
The game had potential, but the system murdered my efforts in a single session. GG CoC. Would run again.
[QUOTE=Rents;47156810]To-do list for my next SR game:
Get paid for blowing up a corporate complex
Establish a secret lair in the Seattle subway system
Build myself and the decker hoverboards
Get more drones and targeting software
Modify some shotguns to take ammo belts
Fit a cannon to the drone that has an MG and the two automatic shotguns and a grenade launcher on the other so I can abuse the suppressive fire rules
Electrify our melee guy's claymore
And a bit of interior design[/QUOTE]
to-do list for [I]my[/I] next SR game:
figure out what to spend 1,000,000nY on
[QUOTE=Nitrowing;47160199]
The game had potential, but the system murdered my efforts in a single session. GG CoC. Would run again.[/QUOTE]
A good GM can make FATAL playable.
Arguably, everything would need to be Deus Ex Machina to save people, but since it's CoC, it's either that, or NOT SEND OUT SUPERNATURAL HORRORS IN THE FIRST SESSION!
so i'm going to be dming for a party for the first time next weekend. one of my friends came over a couple of days ago and we did a 2 man dnd session just so i could get a hang of DMing and so he could tell me what i need to work on and whatnot.
at one point he gets lodging. he decides to stop by a blacksmiths shop to get his weapons upgraded and i tell him he has to come back the next day to get his weapons back. he goes back to his room and goes to sleep. when he wakes up, a dwarven assassin is in his room and he has nothing but his fists to defend himself.
so what does he do? [I]he rolls a perfect 20 to throw his fucking bed at the dwarf.[/I] in a matter of seconds, he rolls off his bed, rolls under it, and just fucking tosses at this poor dwarf. he then tackles him and punches his face in while resisting every single knife stab that goes into his gut. finally he screams in the dwarfs face, punches him, and knocks him out.
edit: later, when the guards take the dwarf and bring him to jail, he goes into the prison, breaks the fucking bars in his cell, and cuts this dwarf into pieces with his brand new scimitars.
[QUOTE=DesumThePanda;47160576]so i'm going to be dming for a party for the first time next weekend. one of my friends came over a couple of days ago and we did a 2 man dnd session just so i could get a hang of DMing and so he could tell me what i need to work on and whatnot.
at one point he gets lodging. he decides to stop by a blacksmiths shop to get his weapons upgraded and i tell him he has to come back the next day to get his weapons back. he goes back to his room and goes to sleep. when he wakes up, a dwarven assassin is in his room and he has nothing but his fists to defend himself.
so what does he do? [I]he rolls a perfect 20 to throw his fucking bed at the dwarf.[/I] in a matter of seconds, he rolls off his bed, rolls under it, and just fucking tosses at this poor dwarf. he then tackles him and punches his face in while resisting every single knife stab that goes into his gut. finally he screams in the dwarfs face, punches him, and knocks him out.
edit: later, when the guards take the dwarf and bring him to jail, he goes into the prison, breaks the fucking bars in his cell, and cuts this dwarf into pieces with his brand new scimitars.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;47160450]to-do list for [I]my[/I] next SR game:
figure out what to spend 1,000,000nY on[/QUOTE]
Hookers and coke.
But I think that's what you spend your cash on anyway, so hooker with a bigger ass to do a bigger line of coke off of?
A cyberhooker with a robutt, with a smooth mirror finish for maximum coke.
1st time playing 5e starts for me on Sunday. Gonna be a tiefling warlock and try out some expeditious retreat + eldritch blast level 1 shenanigans. I just want to dart around and shoot magic. Also it's the first time our groups done any d&d edition other than 3.5 so hopefully it's...you know...balanced.
Just came back from my first D&D sesh, here's what went down after the DM was kind enough to walk me through character creation.
A human ranger, human fighter, dwarf cleric and elf druid (me) came upon a small town that had been terrorised by a dragon and kobold army the night before. After our fighter put a sign up saying 'mercs for hire here' and kept secretly inflating the price by an extra 0, the governor of the town (who we thought for the longest time had a goblet of wine glued to his left hand) eventually hired us to find out who did this, why, where they were and when they were going to strike again. Since all the town's horses were either dead or had fled, we took 5 of the governor's horses (one for emergency rations should the need arise) and went ahead. After a while, the cleric and I spotted a smoke trail. We followed it to find a camp, surrounded by boulders, with 8 kobolds ripping something apart and 4 humans arguing over how to cook a chicken, having stuck their swords and shields in the ground nearby. After shifting to rat form and scouting the camp, our ranger drew up a plan (which eventually led to a running gag where everything even remotely positive was attributed to our ranger's great leadership) and we attacked.
I shapeshifted again to a rat, skittered over to the weapons, shifted to my elf form (with a loud 'pop') and ran off with them, the fighter and ranger waiting in ambush while the cleric charmed one of the kobolds to yell 'chicken'. The first kobold to follow me was smashed in a bloody paste by the fighter. The charmed kobold then convinced his friends to jump the 4 humans for the chicken, incapacitating 3 of them while the 4th human ran for our ranger (who eventually got clobbered to death by our fighter). We then came up with another brilliant idea; I shapeshifted to a cheetah, ran into the kobolds and cast thunderwave, resulting in 5 incapped kobolds, the remaining two retreating. We gave chase, naturally. The first kobold sadly had our fighter catch up with him and kill him. The ranger shot the other one so hard his corpse flew into a cave.
After some interrogation, we learned it was a dragon cult and they had set up an ambush near. We hung the men and the fighter, after cutting off the kobold's heads and tying them together like a bola, put them in his bag. We marched off to the ambush location; a funnelled path with 2 slightly angled 100ft cliffs on either side. One had 3 spearmen, the other 6 archers. Since the distance between the cliffs would've taken some serious spearchucking to breach, we went for the archers first. A cluster of 3 got entangled by me while our cleric decided to try and push people off. First attempt failed. Second attempt failed. Third attempt failed so hard he accidentally threw himself off. First saving throw failed. Second saving throw let him grab on to an edge. 2 archers and a spearman eventually surrendered, the other two running off. I shifted to cheetah form and circled the other cliff to run into them head-on. The cleric, still clinging on for dear life, grabbed the corpse of an archer the fighter had killed and surfed it down the cliff. Inspired by this, the fighter took his shield and surfed it down the cliff to chase the two fleeing cowards (no roll needed because rule of awesome).
This will conclude next week, already can't wait.
[QUOTE=gufu;47160564]A good GM can make FATAL playable.
Arguably, everything would need to be Deus Ex Machina to save people, but since it's CoC, it's either that, or NOT SEND OUT SUPERNATURAL HORRORS IN THE FIRST SESSION![/QUOTE]
played CoC and the likes a couple times now, and the biggest rookie mistake is throwing in "woooo crazy cults!" or "check it out look at all the Old Ones" first session, or even any session.
You're either going to need to scale down the threat to the players by a huge magnitude, making what should be a huge threat laughable, or you're just gonna get a party wipe immediately.
The posted scenario earlier seems like much less of the system failing, and much more of no one really knowing how to handle playing within the system. It's a game that's gonna punish you if you fuck around, and that's not a flaw. If you want to run something Lovecraftian without all of the "you go nuts immediately", you either need to go for a VERY deliberate, drawn out Twin Peaks style game in which theres little to no mention of anything supernatural, and maybe only morsels of a hint, or you need to not run CoC at the end of the day :v:
IMO, Twin Peaks style CoC game would work out perfectly. Especially if you make the best of "Clean on the outside, corrupted in the Core" Town life. That and if you make the forces in play way too beyond comprehension of the players, akin to Black Lodge.
[video=vimeo;39114507]http://vimeo.com/39114507[/video]
Anyone seen this?
I'm having a go at filling in a character sheet by myself and I almost have it down, except saving throws and skill proficiencies. As a fighter, which saving throws do I mark as proficient? All saving throws modifiers are ability modifier + possible proficiency bonus, right? Same goes for skills? Ability modifier + proficiency bonus?
Also, passive wisdom (perception), how does calculating that work? Wisdom score + proficiency bonus + possible perception proficiency?
[editline]19th February 2015[/editline]
Can somebody take a gander at this and see if everything seems correct?
[URL]https://www.dropbox.com/s/kw0vdazhl2zeeow/sessie 2.pdf?dl=0[/URL]
[QUOTE=Nitrowing;47160199]Aforementioned DM here. I would like to distribute the blame equally between the harshness of the system, shitty rolls, and player choices.
To elaborate: Falcon's corpse was eaten by wolves after he decided to confront an armed guard and his attack dog using only "karate skillz" - the dog struck the killing blow. His body was thrown off a nearby cliff.
Another player decided to try and find where Falcon had gone by climbing up onto a slanted, ice-coated rooftop where he slipped and fell three stories to his death thanks to the brutal fall damage rules. His body was found by the same guard and also thrown cliffside.
The next player managed to escape into the moonlit, wintery forest and was hunted down and torn apart by the creatures that had been abducting the missing hikers they had been looking for.
The last, Doomkiwi, managed to integrate into the cult and was presumably carted off into thralldom or aiding the efforts of the cult in unleashing a minor Old One.
The game had potential, but the system murdered my efforts in a single session. GG CoC. Would run again.[/QUOTE]
Hey, I got away. I ran away in the woods as well but I had a fucking pistol and flares. I was the only one NOT integrated into the cult since I used slight of hand and snorted cocaine I had on me instead of the evil spores.
I won Admiral, don't deny it!
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;47170073]I'm having a go at filling in a character sheet by myself and I almost have it down, except saving throws and skill proficiencies. As a fighter, which saving throws do I mark as proficient? All saving throws modifiers are ability modifier + possible proficiency bonus, right? Same goes for skills? Ability modifier + proficiency bonus?
Also, passive wisdom (perception), how does calculating that work? Wisdom score + proficiency bonus + possible perception proficiency?
[editline]19th February 2015[/editline]
Can somebody take a gander at this and see if everything seems correct?
[URL]https://www.dropbox.com/s/kw0vdazhl2zeeow/sessie 2.pdf?dl=0[/URL][/QUOTE]
Half of it isn't filled out and I had no idea what edition this is for.
[QUOTE=Rents;47170362]Half of it isn't filled out and I had no idea what edition this is for.[/QUOTE]
It's a very basic 5e sheet for Encounters, it's built for 1-2 hour standalone sessions so not really much use to fill out everything.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;47170073]I'm having a go at filling in a character sheet by myself and I almost have it down, except saving throws and skill proficiencies. As a fighter, which saving throws do I mark as proficient? All saving throws modifiers are ability modifier + possible proficiency bonus, right? Same goes for skills? Ability modifier + proficiency bonus?
Also, passive wisdom (perception), how does calculating that work? Wisdom score + proficiency bonus + possible perception proficiency?
[editline]19th February 2015[/editline]
Can somebody take a gander at this and see if everything seems correct?
[URL]https://www.dropbox.com/s/kw0vdazhl2zeeow/sessie 2.pdf?dl=0[/URL][/QUOTE]
Looks fine, except you are missing your poison resistance
[img]http://i.imgur.com/wnII1p7.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=doomkiwi;47170200]Hey, I got away. I ran away in the woods as well but I had a fucking pistol and flares. I was the only one NOT integrated into the cult since I used slight of hand and snorted cocaine I had on me instead of the evil spores.
I won Admiral, don't deny it![/QUOTE]
Drugs, incendiaries, guns and running the fuck away? If this ain't winning CoC I don't know what is
My group is getting ready to start a 5th edition campaign. I want to roll a Druid but haven't actually rolled a character without the aid of the DND Character Builder before. I don't know where the numbers come from or how to find out which race compliment which class.
Is there a good tutorial any one here would recommend?
[QUOTE=IceWarrior98;47172449]My group is getting ready to start a 5th edition campaign. I want to roll a Druid but haven't actually rolled a character without the aid of the DND Character Builder before. I don't know where the numbers come from or how to find out which race compliment which class.
Is there a good tutorial any one here would recommend?[/QUOTE]
Just look through the character creation chapter, it explains it in order. It's basically already a tutorial.
[QUOTE=IceWarrior98;47172449]My group is getting ready to start a 5th edition campaign. I want to roll a Druid but haven't actually rolled a character without the aid of the DND Character Builder before. I don't know where the numbers come from or how to find out which race compliment which class.
Is there a good tutorial any one here would recommend?[/QUOTE]
Well the player's handbook explains all the stats and maths, and if you're looking for character ideas I'd say read the book as well, they give a bit of background on how the classes and races typically act.
Good thing our DM has all the books then. He already said he was going to help us all roll our characters but I wanted to get mine set up so it doesn't take as long to set up.
[QUOTE=IceWarrior98;47172676]Good thing our DM has all the books then. He already said he was going to help us all roll our characters but I wanted to get mine set up so it doesn't take as long to set up.[/QUOTE]
[url="http://media.wizards.com/2014/downloads/dnd/PlayerDnDBasicRules_v0.2.pdf"]D&D Basic[/url] has the basic character creation rules, but not all the races or classes.
However, you will need to know from your DM whether you are using the stat array, rolling for stats or using point buy.
[QUOTE=M.Ciaster;47171094]Drugs, incendiaries, guns and running the fuck away? If this ain't winning CoC I don't know what is[/QUOTE]
The only reason I had that gun was because my character was terrified of bears. Not demons from another realm, bears, because we'd be in the fucking woods. No minmaxing, bears are deadly enough for protection. I also carried bear spray. No bear was getting me.
Should probably mention that my character was a movie star attempting to become governor of the great state of california. That might sound like he was an Ahnold ripoff, but I played him as being from New Joisey and he couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag. Disguise out the wazoo and wasn't stupid. He was there for community service and publicity stunts.
Hey guys, for my group, I rolled a bard.
Was that a good call? We've all already hit level 3, and I hear it gets interesting by than.
So my call of cthulhu game has kept going well
My party encountered the monster, and by 'encountered' I mean half-glimpses in the corner of their vision and the barest outline when one of them unloaded a flamethrower at it
this is really the most fun I've had GMing in a while, since I barely need to worry about the rules and can just focus on telling a story with the players
[QUOTE=PrivRyan;47175119]Hey guys, for my group, I rolled a bard.
Was that a good call? We've all already hit level 3, and I hear it gets interesting by than.[/QUOTE]
Depends on the edition. In 5e they are FANTASTIC, in prior editions... eh.
Bard is very much seen as the ultimate support class - you don't excel in any particular field (except for social situations) but you can function as a support in just about everything else. They can buff the party, they get a lot of skillpoints and some casting ability and even healing ability if you consider they're one of the few arcane spellcasting classes that get Cure wounds.
But you're mostly going to function as the party face unless you have someone else like a Sorcerer or Paladin that's more adept at that sort of stuff.
[QUOTE=SiberysTranq;47175416]
My party encountered the monster, and by 'encountered' I mean half-glimpses in the corner of their vision and the barest outline when one of them unloaded a flamethrower at it[/QUOTE]
Which also brings a point that CoC Vietnam-set game would be awesome.
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