The Role-Playing Game Thread!
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2018 2:52 am
This thread is for those who engage in role-playing games. My personal favorite is Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, but anyone is free to post about whichever game they're into.
You can post ideas, anecdotes from past games, useful links, whatever floats your boat.
I'm going to post crazy stories from my campaigns, but to preface my first one I need to post what is called, "The Ones Table"
(for the uninitiated, GTFO of this thread.)
(I kid, I kid. When you enter combat with monsters. you roll a 20-sided die to determine if you strike a successful blow, depending on how strong you are, how advanced you are, and how tough the monster's armor is. An optional rule is that when you roll a "1", something bad happens to you to reflect the chaos of combat.)
As you can see, you might lose your weapon, it might break, or you might end up hitting one of your own teammates!
Well, in one campaign of mine the Player Characters invaded a castle and for some reason, elected to split up. This made the adventure harder, as you would have a single player marching into a room and facing multiple enemies designed to face off against a party of six!
One of the fighters decided to storm the guard tower! He went up to the top and found himself surrounded by about 20 guards. Undeterred, he pulled out his magical two-handed sword and started hacking away gleefully. He diced up about a third of them until he finally rolled a 1!
His sword flew out of his hands and tumbled off the tower. Without breaking his rhythm, he unsheathed his backup sword (also magical, but not as powerful) and proceeded to slice through the remainder of his foes... until he rolled another 1!
Losing that sword over the edge as well, he settled for killing everyone else with his bare hands. Once he'd finished, he announced, "I'm going down for my swords!"
So he made his way down to ground level and found his original sword in the hands of a patrolling guard... who was quite dead, as he was killed by the second falling sword impaling him when he bent over to pick up the first one!
You can post ideas, anecdotes from past games, useful links, whatever floats your boat.
I'm going to post crazy stories from my campaigns, but to preface my first one I need to post what is called, "The Ones Table"
(for the uninitiated, GTFO of this thread.)
(I kid, I kid. When you enter combat with monsters. you roll a 20-sided die to determine if you strike a successful blow, depending on how strong you are, how advanced you are, and how tough the monster's armor is. An optional rule is that when you roll a "1", something bad happens to you to reflect the chaos of combat.)
As you can see, you might lose your weapon, it might break, or you might end up hitting one of your own teammates!
Well, in one campaign of mine the Player Characters invaded a castle and for some reason, elected to split up. This made the adventure harder, as you would have a single player marching into a room and facing multiple enemies designed to face off against a party of six!
One of the fighters decided to storm the guard tower! He went up to the top and found himself surrounded by about 20 guards. Undeterred, he pulled out his magical two-handed sword and started hacking away gleefully. He diced up about a third of them until he finally rolled a 1!
His sword flew out of his hands and tumbled off the tower. Without breaking his rhythm, he unsheathed his backup sword (also magical, but not as powerful) and proceeded to slice through the remainder of his foes... until he rolled another 1!
Losing that sword over the edge as well, he settled for killing everyone else with his bare hands. Once he'd finished, he announced, "I'm going down for my swords!"
So he made his way down to ground level and found his original sword in the hands of a patrolling guard... who was quite dead, as he was killed by the second falling sword impaling him when he bent over to pick up the first one!