Finally had our first in-person session last night. It was great actually getting people around a table and rolling real dice. Just need to get back in the facespace DMing groove again. 7 years of Roll20 has spoiled me from having everything a simple click away and it doing the math for me.
Inara: I think she looks adorable. Mal: Yeah, but I never said it.
'Shindig'
Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
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Kalshane - Apr 14, 2019 6:53:21 am PDT #25479 of 26133
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Gudanov - Apr 15, 2019 5:23:02 am PDT #25480 of 26133
Coding and Sleeping
Sounds like fun.
Kalshane - Apr 15, 2019 1:01:25 pm PDT #25481 of 26133
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
My players instantly loved one of the NPCs I introduced (a dim-witted but good-hearted Dragonborn war priest) to the point one of them was contemplating buying and painting a mini for him since I didn't have one.
So of course he got killed by the orcs they were fighting 15 minutes later.
Kalshane - Apr 15, 2019 4:52:00 pm PDT #25482 of 26133
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
They're discussing if there's a way they can get him resurrected (they're only 3rd level and magic only recently came back into the world after a prior catastrophe so there's not exactly a bunch of high-level clerics around.) I smell another adventure.
I love it when players come up with story hooks on their own.
Kalshane - May 08, 2019 10:51:10 am PDT #25483 of 26133
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Whoops. Apparently Bethesda released a Skyrim-based RPG adventure that was a literal copy and paste hackjob of an official D&D adventure. [link]
Tom Scola - May 10, 2019 4:20:30 am PDT #25484 of 26133
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Kalshane - May 10, 2019 5:40:11 am PDT #25485 of 26133
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
It's fantastic that someone can make a career of that. I could never do it. I'm already self-conscious enough about not sucking when I'm running a game for my friends. Getting paid to run a game for strangers would be way too nerve-wracking.
Kalshane - Jun 21, 2019 10:30:50 am PDT #25486 of 26133
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Fun gaming anecdote. Our previous session the Warlock was using Spiderclimb to snipe monsters from the walls and ceilings without getting attacked in return. "This is the best! Why would I ever not use this?" Last session she was pulling the same trick from a 50' high ceiling, then gets blasted by a spell, fails her concentration check and falls, taking 20 something damage and landing prone next to a hungry ghoul. "Oh, that's why."
DavidS - Jun 27, 2019 12:46:46 pm PDT #25487 of 26133
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Buffistas will be happy to hear that Emmett has taken up D&D.
I felt compelled to ask him what his character is and he allowed as how they are running three campaigns in rotation.
So he's a...
Dwarf Barbarian (extra strong)
Half Elf Ranger (with some especially doofy norm name like...Josh)
Bard (named Poke Mudflap. I suggested that any bard with a name like that would sound like Tom Waits and he said he was going to start playing him like that.)
billytea - Jun 27, 2019 3:00:06 pm PDT #25488 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
A Tom Waits-styled bard would be awesome, and just about the most perfect D&D expression of the Smay brand I can think of.
Back in 3rd Ed, an a setting called Kalamar (IIRC), my regular gaming group once decided to run a party entirely composed of wood elves. Wood elves were widely regarded as being the cheesiest subrace in the game (cheese becoming slang for overpowered stuff for some reason), because compared to regular elves they got a Strength bonus (really good for many classes) versus an Intelligence penalty (only really damaging to wizards and some rogues).
We decided to lean into that, declaring ourselves all to be of the Fiercecheese clan, with names like Gouda and Provolone. My character, a spectacularly stupid ranger, was named V. B. Fiercecheese. (V. B. stood for Venezuelan Beaver.)