That is ultimately sweet.

Nothing funny from me, but we have a kid in our Essentials group who has yet to figure out how to create a character that works well.  This latest time, he created an assassin... using poisons... but kept running from the combat, while first me, then the other blackguard, then another character in our five person party went unconscious.  Fortunately the one with the healing potions was still up, and came to our rescue, while the assassin kept running away all over the map.

My PCs have taken up the hobby of saving innocent people and then selling them into indentured servitude.

In reply to Remi LeBeau (msg #64):

Pff. Clearly the problem isn't that the kid doesn't know how to create a character that works well. Rather, the problem is that the kid hasn't fully grasped the concept that if your character can MOVE, then they should be running towards the fighting, not away from it...

... my monk has a truly ludicrous move speed (10 squares on a grid, or 50 feet per move action), so naturally she uses this to very good effect against large groups of monsters. Particularly with a move called "Dancer on the Sea of Battle". It lets me shift my speed, attacking every enemy that I move adjacent to during that move. I once took out five monsters with it. It was awesome.

Now you make me miss my dervish.  She was a half-kitsune, half-phoenix dervish too...

I once played a character in a modern RPG.  He was under attack, was in the bathroom, and had no weapon.  All I could think of was to rip off the toilet seat and used it as an improvised weapon.

My rolls went well and I took down the opposition.  Still having no weapon, I had my character wear the toilet seat around his neck for quite awhile in case he needed a quick improvised melee weapon.

EDIT: And it came in handy too because he later found himself stuck in a pit, so he tied a rope to the toilet seat, threw it over the top of the pit and used it to anchor himself to climb up and out.
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So I play WFRP sometimes, and it's a good fun game. And one time we were roaming along, and I was playing a Halfling Pharmacist, and as my career path worked, I basically had been an apothicary before hand, so I was apt with medicines and herbs and what not, and could basically make any potion I liked.

So we came across these mutated spore plants, which kept launching their seeds at us and doing terrible terrible things to us. One would leech into us, and make us glow in the dark, until three days later where it would explode in a cloud and seed all over again... one would leech away at our life, and one would suck at our mana if we were casters.

I thought these plants were great, and with a little ingenuity, some clay, and some fortunate skill rolls I was able to turn them into weapons. I shaped the clay into balls, and harvested the spores so that they'd grow within them, so that I could use my sling to launch them at enemies like grenades.

This was awesome because in night battles, we could light the field up with the glowing one from a distance, and then knock out all the shambling enemies, with the red one. And the blue one, well that only came in handy occasionally, but boy was it nice when it did.

The other day my players obtained a throwing spear that would teleport them to the location where it landed.  They frequently used it as a way to get up cliffs by throwing it on top.  Last session the PCs were climbing the edge of a volcano.  When the Fighter accidentally threw the spear over a cliff and into the lava he teleported there and was incinerated.

It seems the best magic items always lead to a PC death.

Wait a minute... wouldn't the spear have incinerated before the fighter used it to teleport?

It causes the teleport instantaneously when it hits a liquid or solid substance.  Then the spear was submerged and destroyed along with the fighter.

As teenagers, I was running my group through a scenario where one of them was transformed to be 15 feet tall.  Unfortunately, it had no effect on mass, so he was transformed into a skinny, stick-like figure from a burly strong man.

Another player drew a "group photo" with him standing next to the rest of the group.  He was too tall, so his head and shoulders were cut off by the page.  However, this other player poked a pencil through the group drawing to show how another piece of his anatomy had grown in the transformation.  Very bad, but we about died laughing.

This one will give Grant bad memories:

The group was going to rescue a "gold dragon," and the main NPC was getting ready to leave them.  He gave them some magic items and told them to keep them, and all magic items they hold dear, inside a portable hole for the near future.  Then he left.

Well, the "gold dragon" was a golden statuette of a dragon that, when "rescued," emitted a strong anti-magic aura which took away the magic of all magic items.  They hadn't listened to the advice about putting things in the portable hole (which opens on a non-spatial dimension that would have protected them from the antimagic aura), so almost all their magic items became suddenly worthless, including the new "gifts" from the NPC.

It was pretty awesome how I cold-cocked the baddy into a lava pit with my critical hit.

You mean his clone.  :)  But yeah, that battle didn't turn out like I expected it to.

It's funny how the battles I think will be really hard sometimes turn out to be over quickly, and sometimes the ones I think will end easily become difficult.  That's the fun of these games, I think--the unexpected.

Aside from his use of meteors, yes, that fight was rather easy.



On a somewhat related topic, my brother used to run a campaign for me and a couple close friends, where one of the main villain's henchman had a permanent Heart of Stone cast on himself. For those of you who don't know what that spell is, basically it removes your heart from your body and makes you invincible, so long as your real heart (the one you can put wherever you want) is intact. So whenever we ran into him, he would typically lop off an arm, turn it into a tentacle monster (or some such creature), and run away, or pelt us with magic.

We finally defeated him when my rogue character entered into his hideout and grabbed his heart. The next time we ran into him (and he somehow hadn't noticed we had stolen his heart), he went to cast a Lightning Bolt at us, and my rogue pulled the heart out and took the shot straight on, laughing as the wizard killed himself, unintentionally of course.



He had to use anti-frizz spray for weeks. ;)

The hard to kill baddie had a different effect when I ran a tabletop game:

The idea was that they had to use a whistle to keep the bad guy, which was a giant creature--very formidable--at bay.  Then they had to find a summoning word in the room to summon a creature that would kill it or drag it off defeated.

Well, they didn't get the whistle clues and just started fighting it.  Hours of roleplay later...after I kept reminding them of their items, including a whistle...I had an NPC tell them to try the whistle.  Well, that just made them blow the whistle and attack the monster, which was essentially immortal, for an hour or so more.

They had to say the summoning word backwards to work, but they just went on fighting instead of trying to summon anything.  Finally, since it was getting dark outside, I gave them another clue....and they got it!  Talk about using up all their healing...they had mutations which helped them heal too, so the battle could have gone on a long time.  I think a couple of them died, but I don't recall.  That was 1987.

Or at least, they THINK the villain was killed off... heh heh

One of my fav games was a Cthulhu run.

We were all doing pretty well, but then on the ending scene of 'Ride the Demon Train' everyone was slowly weeded out (the cutpurse, the cop, the cowboy gunslinger) except a young athletic guy and my Nun who wielded a Bible and a ruler.

The athlete fails the risky jump to the front locomotive and gets CRUNCHED.  The Nun makes the leap (?!?!) but then the GM says that the creature in the locomotive is shoveling red hot coals from a burning hot engine.  "Do you look...?"

I say, "Yes."

Everyone else (now out of the game, ie dead) shouts -- "No!"

And then the GM describes how the Nun gets her mind launched out into the infinite unknowable chaotic void.

All the other players say, "In Cthulhu, if the GM asks if you want to look -- say No!"

That game had so much hilarity, coupled with exciting action...!

Does anyone here play new World of Darkness?  If so, could you please help me with which books would help to run a game with a variety of playable monsters.

Playable monsters are found in each line. Unfortunately they're all specific: werewolf, vampire etc.

A variety of non-playable monsters are found in the hunter line, but they're not suited for players.


If you want THE most variety, go with werewolf as they have some alternate paths that let you be were-bears, were-ravens etc. giving you a nice vareity.

In my recent RPoL game (as Grant may remember):  The wizard's player didn't realize that the squares were 5 feet, not 10 feet squares.  He backed up against the wall and cast lightning bolt.

It had its intended effect.  It hit the enemy and then bounced off the far wall and hit the enemy again.  Two strikes!  But given the room was only half the size he thought, it then hit the wizard, the wall immediately behind the wizard, bounced off the wall, and hit the wizard again.  He barely survived his own lightning bolt.

I have not played in RPoL games other than this one in about a decade, but I'd love to hear your tales.

Birdie, you may also like this thread to discuss your Warriors game. (bump)
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So basically to talk about it here? (Drat that question thread)

I think that's the purpose.  I'm not actually sure since this was created after I'd left for my long vacation.

Cool. Has anyone else on here read the Warriors books? They're geared more towards preteens in reading level, but the world is so well laid out that it makes a good RP setting.