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2019-06-15, 08:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
It's a play on 'penal' system - basically a part of the criminal justice system revolving around corrections and administering things like parole. Basically, making sure that penalties are administered correctly. (I might be slightly off on this, I'm not particularly well versed in the judicial system.)
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2019-06-15, 09:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-15, 09:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2019-06-15, 09:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-15, 11:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-16, 06:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Today was my first time as a DM that my players went off-script. I feel like I've passed some kind of baptism by fire.
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2019-06-16, 06:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Last edited by Insane Jeenyus; 2019-06-16 at 06:18 AM.
Has any one seen my jar of anti-protons or my cyclotron of positrons?
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2019-06-16, 06:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Nah, that's just an average session. The trial by fire is when the players start to be more evil than the campaign villain.
SpoilerMy players once tried to resurrect a dragon in modern day London to help them take down a politician they all hated. The plan seemed to be to threaten to burn the city down unless he resigned*.
Only one party member even had a lead on what was going to be the actual result of the ritual (the next human to die within several miles of the Thames gets turned into a spirit of the river and given a serpentine form. This results in a flood a couple of hours after the ritual is completed, followed by the party suddenly being on The New Inquisition's **** list, an incredibly powerful monster being very interested in them, and the Dipsomancer's bar suffering serious damage). Unfortunately the game fell apart before we got that far.
* To be fair, he did have the ability to control the minds of those under thirty.
On that note, Unknown Armies draws out the worst in GMs. Then again the players decided to rob multiple museums without bothering to hide their faces (although that was them actually being on-script for once, multiple plot coupons were historical artefacts).
There was also the time I was playing Unknown Armies, and we traumatised an Urbanomancer by sticking him in a cell and putting mud in the lock. Players aren't the most moral bunch of you remove the protagonist centered morality.
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2019-06-16, 06:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
We came to wreck everything, and ruin your life.....God sent us.
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2019-06-16, 07:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-16, 07:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-16, 07:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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2019-06-16, 07:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-16, 08:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Second game. The first one was too linear with too few interactions to actually go off-script. But now they had to find a way to convince someone to do something.
[QUOTE=Anonymouswizard;23977550]Nah, that's just an average session. The trial by fire is when the players start to be more evil than the campaign villain./QUOTE]
Right now they’re helping a slaver weaken the guys they steal human work from.Forum Wisdom
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2019-06-16, 08:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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2019-06-16, 10:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Last edited by Fyraltari; 2019-06-16 at 10:53 AM.
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2019-06-16, 12:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Ah, another DM experience you got!
I remember this very short-lived campaign I ran, the main villain for the first part was a guard captain who was working the long con and set himself up for the big score, with part of the plan being to cover his escape by blowing up a warehouse of fireworks for the city's huge festival the next night. Big enough explosion to take out an entire city block, at least, with a huge amount of expected splash damage and fires outside the initial blast zone. He ended up going down easy, while the fuse he had going was surprisingly difficult. That rope ended up being the final boss, to everyone's mix of amusement and annoyance.Last edited by Peelee; 2019-06-16 at 12:15 PM.
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2019-06-16, 12:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Did you turn it into a recurring antagonist?
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2019-06-16, 01:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Updated the 1st post now, so it should be more respectable.
ION: the sun is shining, the birds are singing, and I'm going to be heading into work to run some data analysis. Such is the life of a graduate studies.
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2019-06-16, 01:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-16, 01:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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2019-06-16, 01:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-16, 01:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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2019-06-16, 02:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2019-06-16, 03:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-16, 09:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
@Mith, you are on Mountain time, then? I am on central.
Has any one seen my jar of anti-protons or my cyclotron of positrons?
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Professor Emeritus:Studies of Supernatural Events and Countermeasures;
Miscatonic University, Nashville Campus
sig thread is here
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2019-06-17, 12:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Yeah.
Still didn't end the day where I wanted to be for work, but ce la vie. That's the problem when you are running something with a 5 minute run time, and need to stop and debug it. I'm not skilled enough to say that I can generate a smaller test set to have a faster run time to test things.
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2019-06-17, 04:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Has any one seen my jar of anti-protons or my cyclotron of positrons?
Side employment:
Professor Emeritus:Studies of Supernatural Events and Countermeasures;
Miscatonic University, Nashville Campus
sig thread is here
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2019-06-17, 06:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Quotes!
The Neutralizer - my 3.5 class that attempts to make wizards less OP.Spoiler
Fantastic dragonpuppy drawn by my sister in the ancient times.
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2019-06-17, 08:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
It's not the worst thing. I was also grumbly because Friday and Saturday sort of blew up my sleep schedule that I had just gotten back on track.
Agreed. The other advantage is that emergent stories gives you the flexibility to not railroad your players.