Goldmoon
Sergeant
986 Posts
    
 | | 06/14/2005 11:12 AM |
| | recovered topic 4773 | |
"HA! Activate take 10 and you cant hit me."
"Once I start, I will not flater."
"BLOOD make the grass grow!" | |
|
Goldmoon
Sergeant
986 Posts
| | 06/14/2005 11:12 AM |
|
Does banning of magic to PC while DM can still use it freely count??
| |
"HA! Activate take 10 and you cant hit me."
"Once I start, I will not flater."
"BLOOD make the grass grow!" | |
|
madda
Sergeant
714 Posts
| | 06/14/2005 12:53 PM |
| In the current game I'm playing (City of the Spider Queen -> It's deadly hard) our DM let a monstrous spider rip off a mithral +3 full plate and turn it into wreck without even rolling a die, with no remote possibility of the dwarf or the magical armor to save. Our swarf fighter had to walk through the underdark naked and to trust spellcaster with armor spells till we got him a secondary armor.
Furthermore, our DM conceive drow as super race, hence we're never able to be not surprised even though we have scout with blindsense. They all endlessly manage to convey their plans through their hand language (which is fine) and weird of all, they share all the information about us right before they die... They know the wizard weaknesses, the number of times the barbarian raged today, etc... | |
Champion of Cockatrices.
I wish I never wished a wand of wishing. (Wishful thinking.)
Join the Eternal Campaign!
Chat about miniatures. | |
|
The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
11225 Posts
The Dark and Forbidding Lands of The Necromancer.
| | 06/14/2005 12:58 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Goldmoon
Does banning of magic to PC while DM can still use it freely count??
Yeah, that's pretty stupid. I hope you made that DM walk the walk of a thousand four siders. | |
Ghendar - Now with 51% more snark
Champion of the Spider Eater with rider.
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
How many times in life do you get to eat your own Cthulhu? - Posted By Pedro on 03/31/2008 2:29 | |
|
B
Underboss
1189 Posts
| | 06/14/2005 2:04 PM |
| | Saying that rocks fall and everyone dies [:D] | |
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.--Dylan Thomas
| |
|
The Defenestrator
AesophDarkfable
Warlord
5628 Posts
| | 06/14/2005 2:28 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by madda
In the current game I'm playing (City of the Spider Queen -> It's deadly hard) our DM let a monstrous spider rip off a mithral +3 full plate and turn it into wreck without even rolling a die, with no remote possibility of the dwarf or the magical armor to save. Our swarf fighter had to walk through the underdark naked and to trust spellcaster with armor spells till we got him a secondary armor.
Furthermore, our DM conceive drow as super race, hence we're never able to be not surprised even though we have scout with blindsense. They all endlessly manage to convey their plans through their hand language (which is fine) and weird of all, they share all the information about us right before they die... They know the wizard weaknesses, the number of times the barbarian raged today, etc...
Was that a monstrous spirder? or the planar creature that rends and rips armor? (Can't remember if its a bebilith or a retreiver)... there is a fight with one of those pretty early on in that adventure (I wont go into detail where for those that haven't been through it)
Yeah but people over powering drow suck. Arcabious can tell stories on stories about a DM who overpowers the drow insanely in stupid ways. | |
Im out- find me on Hordelings if you want to chat. | |
|
Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
10802 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 06/14/2005 2:52 PM |
| Back when I was new to playing the RPG Legend of the Five Rings, I was in a group with a Troll of a GM and some more experinced players. I didn't realy have any Idea of what my character could do(Phenoeix Fire Shugenja) so a couple of the other players pointed out some stuff in game. Mind you these are things the Character would have known, such as what metamagic feats she had and what they did.
The GM disagreed and declared we were metagaming, he then added that he won't be punishing the other players characters for this. Instead he will be penalizing mine, he explained further that this way I'll be the one to tell the other players to quit it rather than him.
I've played in a few more games with him since, never with him as a GM always a player. During those games I noticed him using out-of character knowledge, as well as metagaming himself.[:(!] | |
Pathetic Earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void - without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe - anything at all - you would have hidden from it in terror. | |
|
madda
Sergeant
714 Posts
| | 06/15/2005 7:39 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by AesophDarkfable
Was that a monstrous spirder? or the planar creature that rends and rips armor? (Can't remember if its a bebilith or a retreiver)... there is a fight with one of those pretty early on in that adventure (I wont go into detail where for those that haven't been through it)
Yeah but people over powering drow suck. Arcabious can tell stories on stories about a DM who overpowers the drow insanely in stupid ways.
Indeed, it was a bebilith. I was too lazy to look up the monster name and too eager to share the rage for the DM.
My bad...
| |
Champion of Cockatrices.
I wish I never wished a wand of wishing. (Wishful thinking.)
Join the Eternal Campaign!
Chat about miniatures. | |
|
Vash
Underboss
1995 Posts
| | 06/15/2005 9:31 AM |
| Would a level 5/6 party visitting a town that has been terrorized by some unknown force, and when the we go to investigate the DM drops a Nightwalker in front of us.... count as something stupid...
bye bye my Elven Monk... [:(] | |
Champion of the Alhoon and my called shot for Unhallowed
Blood War Called Shot: Phoenix
Trade withe me! | |
|
Captain Harlock
Sergeant
450 Posts
| | 06/15/2005 10:38 AM |
| Well, there was the DM who pitted 5 first level characters (including his own) against 3 ogres. Funny enough, it was his character that killed each of the ogres.
Dan Cooper | |
Dan Cooper
For there is surely nothing so beautiful than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly half a ton of angry pot roast.
You will all go directly to your respective vahallas, Go directly, do not pass go do not collect two hundred dollars
| |
|
Satsujin Kingyo
Underboss
1247 Posts
| | 06/15/2005 1:33 PM |
| | I've had a Dm say I could'nt be an evil char. | |
Drumsticks can also be chicken. -Tardy Turtle | |
|
Hero of the Force
Siddartha of Suburbia
Underboss
2277 Posts
| | 06/15/2005 2:02 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by madda
quote:
Originally posted by AesophDarkfable
Was that a monstrous spirder? or the planar creature that rends and rips armor? (Can't remember if its a bebilith or a retreiver)... there is a fight with one of those pretty early on in that adventure (I wont go into detail where for those that haven't been through it)
Yeah but people over powering drow suck. Arcabious can tell stories on stories about a DM who overpowers the drow insanely in stupid ways.
Indeed, it was a bebilith. I was too lazy to look up the monster name and too eager to share the rage for the DM.
My bad...
I feel his pain though. I was victim of a Bebilith just last week. And as an Admantine laced warforged with three extra feats in DR, having my flesh ripped off kinda sucked. But hey, now I have a movement rate of 30 so it all works out in the end...doesn't it?
My DM won't be as bad as yours though, and I'm sure I'll be repaired soon. My DM would never torture his players needlessly.[)]
Sssshhhh! He could be reading this right now. | |
"We can't stop here...This Is Bat country!"
| |
|
Count Dooku
Commander
4636 Posts
New York
| | 06/15/2005 2:35 PM |
| quote:
I've had a Dm say I could'nt be an evil char.
Thats not really unresonable.
A D&D party should be heroes or villians....a mix NEVER works right.
Ive allowed it and it always turns to 50% of the session going down the drain because of bickering and eventually bloodshed.
I dont allow evil PCs in my game either anymore. | |
Champion of the Skulk
Vindicated Champion of the Twig Blight | |
|
IanB
Commander
3112 Posts
| | 06/15/2005 3:29 PM |
| | I once got killed... over the phone. | |
Anson on WotC boards | |
|
adept
Warrior
336 Posts
| | 06/15/2005 3:36 PM |
| making the lord of the 9th a shopkeeper in disguise and steaing a different PC's soul for a frostbrand. We were only 7th lv...
the DM forced our party to go and try to reclaim it... | |
| |
|
Vimes
Warrior
259 Posts
| | 06/15/2005 4:08 PM |
| | Our DM once made us fight a summoned Gelatinous cube, a small army of Sauhguin and a Saughuin druid.. while part of the party was polymorphed into things that could breath underwater. Two Saughuin, two alligators, and an aquatic elf. But of course.. first to die.. the mage with the wand of polymorph. And to make it even worse for us... the mages body was being dragged off by the Saughuin. And we were stuck with a Cube in front of us. | |
http://www.maxminis.com/hwlist.asp?user=vimes
Succesful Trades: Camp0243 x2,Master Elminster,GeG,W33zrfan,Eldarion(in person),Pale Rider x16 (in person), ArchmagusXar x2,pan,griffrat,Kithmaker, Kyrin x2,Ckissee,raland x2,rav950,brez,simage,ivid5,cavedweller,Count Dooku x2,qillan_dvra x2,Quiet Gargoyle, berus316,bassman2972,Krush, Noghri,The_Duke
Pending Trade:jacksonm,shadroth | |
|
rocksalt
Warrior
194 Posts
| | 06/15/2005 4:27 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Count Dooku
quote:
I've had a Dm say I could'nt be an evil char.
Thats not really unresonable.
A D&D party should be heroes or villians....a mix NEVER works right.
Ive allowed it and it always turns to 50% of the session going down the drain because of bickering and eventually bloodshed.
I dont allow evil PCs in my game either anymore.
I agree Count. I don't allow it anymore either. My players don't have a problem with it at all. When we were younger, it was cool to play evil characters and for me to run an evil campaign. But, now that we are all older and have to deal with the real evils of the world (mortgages, children, 9 to 5 job) [:)] I think we all just want to play heroes. | |
| |
|
Zeb
Underboss
2027 Posts
| | 06/15/2005 5:00 PM |
| My gnome rogue/illusionist was once given 5 levels of Paladin for backstabbing a demon. The whole evening was insane...
Our group promptly replaced the DM, and my gnome promptly began cutting purses and ridding himself of those "cursed" things...Paladins, BLAH!. [B)] | |
Email Offers | Trade History
Champion of the Frost Giant Jarl
"Pray that you meet death standing on your feet, rather than on your knees." | |
|
Zeb
Underboss
2027 Posts
| | 06/15/2005 5:03 PM |
| | Double post | |
Email Offers | Trade History
Champion of the Frost Giant Jarl
"Pray that you meet death standing on your feet, rather than on your knees." | |
|
Count Dooku
Commander
4636 Posts
New York
| | 06/15/2005 6:19 PM |
| Because of a misunderstanding in a tavern we were attacked by the city guard.
The wizard in the party didnt want to kill a good aligned guard so he fired a magic missle at the guys sword hoping it would disarm him or spook him enough to drop his weapon.
The DM asked the PC to roll a d20....umm theres no need to roll for magic missle.
A natural 20 was rolled so the DM declared it was critical and the city guards head exploded from the missle.
That was our 1st and last session with the DM who claimed to be an experianced player. | |
Champion of the Skulk
Vindicated Champion of the Twig Blight | |
|
Count Dooku
Commander
4636 Posts
New York
| | 06/15/2005 6:26 PM |
| We were in a town where everyone in it was sleeping because of an enchantment/curse.
The fighter in the party entered the first house and in the bedroom was a yung boy about 12 years old. He said he wanted to shake him to see if he would awaken.
The DM asked him to roll a strength check. The roll was pretty high so the DM decreed that th efighter doent know his own strength and the boys neck breks and he dies from being shaken to hard.
The Lawful Good PC was devestated and roleplayed greif. We had to waste a raise dead scroll to bring the kid back to life.
After the session the "greif striken" player turned into the very annoyed player for having such a dumb DM.
This was the DM we played with for years. He was usually great. I have no idea what was his issue that day. | |
Champion of the Skulk
Vindicated Champion of the Twig Blight | |
|
dagonet
Sergeant
442 Posts
| | 06/15/2005 11:35 PM |
|
My group at one point had a GM who was keen on the fantasy works of Steve Brust. So pretty much every enemy we encountered was armed with a Morganti weapon. What's a Morganti weapon, you ask? Simple: if it sheds so much as a single drop of your blood (1 hit point in damage), it removes and devours your soul. Instant-kill, no possibility of resurrection. Fairly long-standing characters were dropping like flies. . . [:(!][:(!][:(!]
Cheers,
Dagonet | |
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
Champion of Kyuss and his Servants of Squishy Doom | |
|
Goldmoon
Sergeant
986 Posts
| | 06/16/2005 1:49 AM |
|
My party was been ambushed by Orcs swarming out of the woods, led by a NPC Orc bandit leader.
My party fighter and me(Ranger) fought our way throught fodders orcs to reach that bandit leader, luck was with us..... rolling 20s... crit that smelly pig-face to ground.
But DM declared he is very badly wounded and escaped from the battle[:0], my fighter friend was really angry as we wasted lots of healing spells and items, gave chase.
The best part, an orc archer appeared above a rise and range disarmed him while he had to stop to pick up his weapon that orc leader escaped[:0][B)]
| |
"HA! Activate take 10 and you cant hit me."
"Once I start, I will not flater."
"BLOOD make the grass grow!" | |
|
Knight of Argenis
Corim Danex
Warlord
6621 Posts
West Valley City, Utah
| | 06/16/2005 2:00 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Goldmoon
My party was been ambushed by Orcs swarming out of the woods, led by a NPC Orc bandit leader....
But DM declared he is very badly wounded and escaped from the battle[:0], my fighter friend was really angry as we wasted lots of healing spells and items, gave chase.
The best part, an orc archer appeared above a rise and range disarmed him while he had to stop to pick up his weapon that orc leader escaped[:0][B)]
I think it's really silly when "bad guys" who are supposed to carry on a later role in the story get these amazing skills just so the DM can keep them alive. Hey, if the guy is not supposed to have a chance at getting killed, the DM should just keep him away from the party. If the characters are trying that hard to keep up with someone to knock them out or kill them, the odds are they should actually have a chance at doing so. If the named monster dies, then the DM should just spend some time reworking the story after the session instead of turning the guy into Supermonster who runs away like Flash Gordon. | |
"Look to God and live." Alma 37:47
Vindicated Champ of Hippogriff (Arcadian Hippogriff) and Uncommon Horse | |
|
glauron
Underboss
1379 Posts
Sydney, Australia
| | 06/16/2005 4:59 AM |
| quote:
I feel his pain though. I was victim of a Bebilith just last week. And as an Admantine laced warforged with three extra feats in DR, having my flesh ripped off kinda sucked. But hey, now I have a movement rate of 30 so it all works out in the end...doesn't it?
My DM won't be as bad as yours though, and I'm sure I'll be repaired soon. My DM would never torture his players needlessly.[)]
Sssshhhh! He could be reading this right now.
Bwahahahaha. Maybe not your DM Sid, but me, hehehehe. I have one uppity warforged who thinks he's indestructible - adamantine armor, adamantine bastard sword +2, byeshk warhammer +1, small steel shield +2. Now his ass will be grass thanks to a guest appearance by a Bebilith. Hehehe. Next week he might be posting about a bastard DM [:D] | |
I have always been here. | |
|
Goldmoon
Sergeant
986 Posts
| | 06/16/2005 5:27 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Corim Danex
Hey, if the guy is not supposed to have a chance at getting killed, the DM should just keep him away from the party. If the characters are trying that hard to keep up with someone to knock them out or kill them, the odds are they should actually have a chance at doing so. If the named monster dies, then the DM should just spend some time reworking the story after the session instead of turning the guy into Supermonster who runs away like Flash Gordon.
My DM isnt that bad other than banning of usage of magic.
Well, it wasnt supposed to be that way, that NPC orc suppose to run away when his HP drop to half.... but we got lucky and roll 20s.It was so sudden so he had to come up with ways keep the NPC alive.[:D]
| |
"HA! Activate take 10 and you cant hit me."
"Once I start, I will not flater."
"BLOOD make the grass grow!" | |
|
Count Dooku
Commander
4636 Posts
New York
| | 06/16/2005 6:56 AM |
| I'm guilty of this.
I was a GM in a Star Wars campaign and I had this Imperial Admiral who was supposed to me the main villian throughout the adventure I wrote.
Well the PCs got reeally lucky and shot him dead. To add insult to injury they used some granades to kill or stun all the stormtrooper bodyguards to give them enough time to run up to his body and plug him full of blaster Aayla Secura style.
As an inexperianced GM I didnt know what to do so I had him come back as a cyborg...Years later my players still think back and laugh at me :( | |
Champion of the Skulk
Vindicated Champion of the Twig Blight | |
|
Hero of the Force
Siddartha of Suburbia
Underboss
2277 Posts
| | 06/16/2005 7:21 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by rocksalt
quote:
Originally posted by Count Dooku
quote:
I've had a Dm say I could'nt be an evil char.
Thats not really unresonable.
A D&D party should be heroes or villians....a mix NEVER works right.
Ive allowed it and it always turns to 50% of the session going down the drain because of bickering and eventually bloodshed.
I dont allow evil PCs in my game either anymore.
I agree Count. I don't allow it anymore either. My players don't have a problem with it at all. When we were younger, it was cool to play evil characters and for me to run an evil campaign. But, now that we are all older and have to deal with the real evils of the world (mortgages, children, 9 to 5 job) [:)] I think we all just want to play heroes.
This is pretty much exactly the way it is for our group, you just grow up and hopefully no longer want to kill the good guys. Although as a high school teacher I often hope that my hero encounters a bunch of teenage drow on a raiding party to kill surface elves and cover their buildings in graffiti, so I can "deal" with them. [:D] | |
"We can't stop here...This Is Bat country!"
| |
|
The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
11225 Posts
The Dark and Forbidding Lands of The Necromancer.
| | 06/16/2005 7:23 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Siddartha of Suburbia
[quote]This is pretty much exactly the way it is for our group, you just grow up and hopefully no longer want to kill the good guys. Although as a high school teacher I often hope that my hero encounters a bunch of teenage drow on a raiding party to kill surface elves and cover their buildings in graffiti, so I can "deal" with them. [:D]
I feel your pain, Sidd. I've spent some time in high schools as a sub.
There were days that if I acted on my thoughts, I would be in jail right now. | |
Ghendar - Now with 51% more snark
Champion of the Spider Eater with rider.
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
How many times in life do you get to eat your own Cthulhu? - Posted By Pedro on 03/31/2008 2:29 | |
|
Hero of the Force
Siddartha of Suburbia
Underboss
2277 Posts
| | 06/16/2005 7:25 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by glauron
quote:
I feel his pain though. I was victim of a Bebilith just last week. And as an Admantine laced warforged with three extra feats in DR, having my flesh ripped off kinda sucked. But hey, now I have a movement rate of 30 so it all works out in the end...doesn't it?
My DM won't be as bad as yours though, and I'm sure I'll be repaired soon. My DM would never torture his players needlessly.[)]
Sssshhhh! He could be reading this right now.
Bwahahahaha. Maybe not your DM Sid, but me, hehehehe. I have one uppity warforged who thinks he's indestructible - adamantine armor, adamantine bastard sword +2, byeshk warhammer +1, small steel shield +2. Now his ass will be grass thanks to a guest appearance by a Bebilith. Hehehe. Next week he might be posting about a bastard DM [:D]
Happy to be of service, I don't mind suffering, but I do believe that it is universal, so I like to help spread it around. [:P] | |
"We can't stop here...This Is Bat country!"
| |
|