Well, none of ours were very good, so I'm gonna go with a guy I called the Sub Mayor, who I came up with on a whim and decided the players couldn't talk to the real mayor. The Sub Mayor was a gigantic jerk for no reason, this made my players hate him immensely, convinced he was evil and obviously behind the schemes perpetrated against this town and obviously killed the mayor. None of this was true of course, but the players wouldn't stop, they used detect evil on him and then decided to try to arrest him in the middle of the town square with no evidence. So, I decided to make him actually a devil in disguise and we had a nice big fight.
It was pretty funny the way they completely overreacted in the face of dickishness.
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I think the greatest villain was everyone's lack of experience which made combat take hours which made our sessions always end with very little plot progress.
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GM made us fight our own Character Sheets (Dark Us) after we killed an Avatar of Tiamat in order to obtain Epic Levels.
It was kind of horsecrap since almost every one of us was under 40% health, and 4 of the 6 party members died and had to be resurrected. Me (Master Thrower/Invisible Blade) and the Cleric survived mostly because I had taken the least damage in the Tiamat fight, and the GM had no idea how to play my character properly (and the Cleric was just OP).
I think the greatest villain was everyone's lack of experience which made combat take hours which made our sessions always end with very little plot progress.
This, pretty much. I can't even remember much about the plot in the group I played with in college. I ran a campaign in high school based very, very loosely on SMRPG, and thought my anti-hero/villain guy was super neato cool, but in retrospect he was a Mary Sue. >_> The players decided to fight him way before I wanted them to and despite the best hints I could muster to surrender, and got beat the hell down. We didn't last long after that as a group D:
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From: Tom Bombadil | #006 The players decided to fight him way before I wanted them to and despite the best hints I could muster to surrender, and got beat the hell down. We didn't last long after that as a group D:
This is always a huge problem
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Ness26 posted... I think the greatest villain was everyone's lack of experience which made combat take hours which made our sessions always end with very little plot progress.
For a brief, spring break campaign, our party was catapulted into a different plane. We're in the middle of a road surrounded by wheat fields, with a small city a couple miles off in the distance. On our way there, we run into a boy and his lovable pet Tyrannosaurus Rex, some cows that we had a friendly conversation with, and floating sharks that attacked us. We get to the city and the king pleads for us to find his princess daughter, who has gone missing. We track her down to a cave that is rumored to a dragon's lair. Inside, we find that the innocent dragon is being held captive by the evil princess.
Oh, and for a two day thanksgiving campaign, we played as epic level founding fathers against the British. George Washington was a fighter with a scythe who crit on like 16-20 or something ridiculous like that, could do 100+ damage per attack. Sam Adams was a drunken master who had crazy improvised weapon bonuses. Ben Franklin was a mage spitting lightning everywhere. I played Paul Revere, a ranger with like 12 move speed, a crazy jump check and penetrating shot with a +5 rifle or something like that.
We eventually abducted a boat and sailed it straight to England (with Washington in his famous pose on the front of the boat the entire way) and fought King George III. Who of course turned out to be an ancient red dragon.
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CalvinbalI | Posted 8/31/2011 8:53:07 PM | message detail | quote Oh, and for a two day thanksgiving campaign, we played as epic level founding fathers against the British. George Washington was a fighter with a scythe who crit on like 16-20 or something ridiculous like that, could do 100+ damage per attack. Sam Adams was a drunken master who had crazy improvised weapon bonuses. Ben Franklin was a mage spitting lightning everywhere. I played Paul Revere, a ranger with like 12 move speed, a crazy jump check and penetrating shot with a +5 rifle or something like that.
We eventually abducted a boat and sailed it straight to England (with Washington in his famous pose on the front of the boat the entire way) and fought King George III. Who of course turned out to be an ancient red dragon.
This is basically the best thing I've ever heard of.
Not DnD, but in Paranoia I made a clearance INDIGO luchadore to chase around the troubleshooters because they delayed his train. To this day they still shudder whenever I mention it.
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From: neoneaper | Posted: 8/31/2011 11:29:54 PM | #005 carrion crawler in some kobold underground poop room
Ha ha! Neon never made it out of the Basic set. ;)
I'd have to go back through my notes, but I think the last campaign I made they all fought a lich at the end (this was after about 6+ years of campaigning, so everyone was fairly powerful).
There was also one memorable game we had where the party was transporting some really valuable magical item and had to deliver it by ship to some wizard. I had the ship attacked by another wizard who was trying to steal it with the help of some pirates and he also had a water elemental under his control. That battle was particularly epic with the magic item changing hands between friend and foe like something out of an Indiana Jones flick. Good times.
Makes me want to pull all my stuff out of storage. ^_^
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From: Paratroopa1 | #052 CalvinbalI | Posted 8/31/2011 8:53:07 PM | message detail | quote Oh, and for a two day thanksgiving campaign, we played as epic level founding fathers against the British. George Washington was a fighter with a scythe who crit on like 16-20 or something ridiculous like that, could do 100+ damage per attack. Sam Adams was a drunken master who had crazy improvised weapon bonuses. Ben Franklin was a mage spitting lightning everywhere. I played Paul Revere, a ranger with like 12 move speed, a crazy jump check and penetrating shot with a +5 rifle or something like that.
We eventually abducted a boat and sailed it straight to England (with Washington in his famous pose on the front of the boat the entire way) and fought King George III. Who of course turned out to be an ancient red dragon.
This is basically the best thing I've ever heard of.
That was basically my reaction. Amazing.
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Oh and in our first campaign, one we actually took seriously, one of our party members decided to prestige in frenzied berserker. In our penultimate battle of the campaign, he kills the big bad villain who was summoning an aspect of Tiamat, turns against us since he's frenzied, cleaves and kills a party-member, and thanks to his ridiculous cleave feats is able to five foot step and cleave my character to death as well. So he ****ed up our party more ine round than the actual villain did the entire fight.
At this point, the Tiamat aspect enters our plane, a druid party member manages to rescue our two bodies, the monk in our party is pissed at the barbarian and punches him unconscious and the party flees leaving the barbarian behind to be eaten by Tiamat.
And then there was that one time when a fighter party-member's mind got dominated, he attacked my character who had full health, rolled three natural twenties in a row, and my character's body was sliced in two, vertically. So yeah, I have a history of being ****ed up by party members. I tend to play ranged characters these days...
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From: Paratroopa1 | #012 CalvinbalI | Posted 8/31/2011 8:53:07 PM | message detail | quote Oh, and for a two day thanksgiving campaign, we played as epic level founding fathers against the British. George Washington was a fighter with a scythe who crit on like 16-20 or something ridiculous like that, could do 100+ damage per attack. Sam Adams was a drunken master who had crazy improvised weapon bonuses. Ben Franklin was a mage spitting lightning everywhere. I played Paul Revere, a ranger with like 12 move speed, a crazy jump check and penetrating shot with a +5 rifle or something like that.
We eventually abducted a boat and sailed it straight to England (with Washington in his famous pose on the front of the boat the entire way) and fought King George III. Who of course turned out to be an ancient red dragon.
This is basically the best thing I've ever heard of.
Jmast7 posted... From: neoneaper | Posted: 8/31/2011 11:29:54 PM | #005 carrion crawler in some kobold underground poop room Ha ha! Neon never made it out of the Basic set. ;)
I'd have to go back through my notes, but I think the last campaign I made they all fought a lich at the end (this was after about 6+ years of campaigning, so everyone was fairly powerful).
There was also one memorable game we had where the party was transporting some really valuable magical item and had to deliver it by ship to some wizard. I had the ship attacked by another wizard who was trying to steal it with the help of some pirates and he also had a water elemental under his control. That battle was particularly epic with the magic item changing hands between friend and foe like something out of an Indiana Jones flick. Good times.
Makes me want to pull all my stuff out of storage. ^_^
I haven't played since second edition so whatever Basic Set is I dunno
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The box says "Online Gameplay not rated by ESRB", I should be able to trade my phallic named Wobbufetts to a bunch of 8 year olds. - MarvelousGerbil
I would love to again, but being in college doesnt really lend itself to that sort of thing...
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