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Published: 2013-03-06 06:41:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 1936; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 12
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R.P.G. (Ransack People's Gold) is the tale of four D&D/Star Wars/RPG players and their DM, who wishes he were a player. These intrepid players are, from left to right:Kenneth, the over-achieving, yet under appreciated DM.
Adam, the guy who has a theater background but needs a girlfriend.
Barry, the munchkin power-gamer with a bad case of arrested development.
Josh, the straight-laced guy who just wants to play the game.
Kassi, Josh's homicidally-minded younger cousin, whom he regrets inviting.
This one is not even hyperbole. I literally had players spend most of the night making endless Monty Python jokes at the table. My Star Wars Saga Edition group was the worst when it came to this and when we switched to 4th Edition D&D I actually had to start a Karma pool to keep them off Monty Python. Their response was to switch to Princess Bride quotes for the rest of that first night. Unfortunately, we nerds have a lot of very quotable movies that we all know too many lines from. Usually it is fun but sometimes you do want to pull out your hair.
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Or it might be too much awesome for one character to contain! I do know what you mean about homicidal munchkins. I got into an argument in organized play about whether it was more fun for the table if the module is full of broken encounters or the party full of broken builds and I told him my favorite methods of killing in video games are: chasing down infantry in a tank or, sniping personnel with anti-material weapons, and tossing cooked grenades into small enclosed areas.
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This is MY GROUP you're talking about. That is what they do. just replace that with The Big Bang Theory...
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We gamers are so easily distracted.
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I have to keep a NERF gun to keep them all quiet.
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And sometimes monsters eat the characters and leave us alone...
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As they say, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. However, the party is in the mouth of the Beholder."
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XD. The hardest monster we ever fought was probably an ettin. They're lucky I never gave them the psionic ettin...
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What level was the group?
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We're too lazy to get past level 6 (Also there are a lot of rules that confuse me when I'm DM-ing)
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My groups are generally made of altaholic munchkins so we don't get much further. The first time I cracked 7th level was in in year two of Living Forgotten Realms for 4th Ed, and I have been playing D&D since the 80's.
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We're pretty much human and elven rangers or clerics. I have to make characters for everyone, and we always give up on a campaign around level 3.
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With all divine casters I'd probably give up pretty quickly too. Most of my characters fall into the categories of: the badass, the con man, or the crazy but I try to put interesting twists on each character. Playing the same character (mechanically) makes me bored. This is why I will have a con who is an Aasimar Summoner after doing one that is a Half-Elf Rogue or a Tiefling Warlock.
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Oh my God. I think we're the same person! And when we play 4e, everyone is a different level (I was 1 and everyone else was 15-30), and we didn't have anyone who could heal, so I HAD TO BE A BARD.
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I used to jump on the "cleric grenade" all the time. I would have fun finding ways to make other classes into healers (i.e. hybrids with cleric and another class that had a build that has healing etc), just so I could avoid playing the same build again. I had at least two of every leader class by the time I stopped playing Living Forgotten Realms, and maybe five leader hybrids.
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Sorry, but I have NO idea what you are talking about, I haven't played 4e in around 8 months.
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Basically, I got stuck babysitting glass cannon strikers so often I not only made every build of leader class but also making hybrid classes and turning non healer classes into healers.
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I can't really relate, but every so often my players BEG for certain items (I let one of them hold onto the Player's Handbook until we needed it, so he flipped through it in-between turns. He later begged for a repeating crossbow). And, sometimes they don't get the rules (In a WOTC Star Wars RPG, I told a player that he had proficiency in Simple and pistol weapons. He wrote "Simple pistols")
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I play with a lot of people who only play one type of character and refuse to play the less fun but absolutely necessary classes so I get stuck playing said classes.
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Ah, I always like to play a different class every time I make a new character.
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I don't like to reuse builds. Finding a new way to build basically the same character is more of a challenge and it often leads to interesting permutations of a character.
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*nod* I ALWAYS change class and race, no matter what when I make a new character, and try to give them a different in-combat role. Like play a shaman (Kingdoms of Kalamar variant), and I'm our main healer, and I can turn into a hare, so I also eat knights alive!
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I don't get how some people can enjoy playing the same vanilla fighter every time with no variation in personality or mechanics.
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Oh my god, I had a friend who always played a Dragonborn fighter or warlord, and always had a greatsword, no matter what!
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I'm in two games right now with a guy who always plays a Half-Elf two-weapon Ranger named Julius.
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Yeah, my friend always plays an elf named Legolas...no matter what class.
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My sister tells me that now it will be Dwarves named Kili.
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...She can't play anymore.
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She's playing a male barbarian right now. He's a puppy boy. She has a thing for bishies. I know three other girls who usually play males and one normally plays dwarves, but not pretty dwarves.
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I've only ever met one girl who plays, and she used a pre-made wizard at encounters. But, I have a female friend who does want to play.
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My observation is that girls who don't have boyfriends/husbands who are bigger gamers are less likely to play female characters.
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Ah. That makes sense, I think. But I make a lot of female characters...Mostly because my friends hate me for doing so!
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I know a DM who really hates people crossplaying. I make sure to do it almost every time he is at my table. Though, to be fair, it is way more awkward for him when he has to play female NPCs and I have male PCs hit on them.
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Haha....Yeah, that is me playing a bard with an 18 charisma
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I had one of those. Being half elf they endlessly mocked his masculinity. That is until his proclivity to "recreate" with anything made it uncomfortable for them to bring up.
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The mocked the bard as a "5" and he gave them an "11".
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Thanks. What can I say, I play with a lot of different groups but we gamers are all a lot more alike than we sometimes realize.
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The terrible thing is that I, the GM, am the one most guilty of this. I didn't make them groan until my spirit-ridden Azlu (giant spider spirit stuffed in a human skin) responded to their surrender by quoting Men in Black's Edgar, "You want me to put my hands...on my head?" Queue boss fight.
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I am definitely an offender. When it comes to bad puns I'm enemy number pun at my table. But there is a point where you just need to finish stuff a fight/puzzle and you can't leave out on the table or the dog/cat/roomates/parents/etc will lose your minis.
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I wish they would at least all say, "get on with it" when the story starts to get mired in other quotes.
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I run into very few tables that do not have this problem.
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Basically, there are two kinds of Karma: Good and Bad. If you do heroic things, help the group, come up with great ideas, roleplay something well, add an interesting bit to the world, etc. You get a point of good Karma which you can spend to add a +1 to any d20 roll after the effect is known but before that turn ends. If you violate your alignment, be a total jerk, break the table rules, etc you put a point of bad Karma in the pool. The DM can then pull a point of bad Karma at any time to add a +2 to a bad guy's roll or subtract a -2 from a player's roll after the effect is know but before the turn ends. I generally try to screw over the players who earn the bad karma but sometimes they punish the rest of the party doing collateral damage.
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You're being played. Critical fumble for anyone who mis-quotes. That'll keep them quiet.
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Everyone having smart phones tends to weaken that threat.
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