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Page 1178 - Tails of Empire, Part 3
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We're discussing these plans OOC in order to try avoiding a potential pvp incident, since their PC assassinating the lord I support quite likely means I'd come to the lord's defense. We've found one work-around so far, and that is if the other PC can prove they're the better choice to rule the region. It'll take work, but the first steps are already being taken, so we'll see how that goes.
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On an unrelated note, if you or anyone you know has any dragon or griffon characters that they would be OK with me using as background color in the next issue of Pone Wars, feel free to contact me with a description or reference pic.
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I have no idea what's going on here, but at least it looks good.
I can't memorize rules either, so am still an improviser when it comes to gaming. I run XD20, where the only real rule is: "The GM tells you what to roll."
I can't memorize rules either, so am still an improviser when it comes to gaming. I run XD20, where the only real rule is: "The GM tells you what to roll."
The gist of the page is RD loses her grip on the GM hat as the other players start making up their own rulings (as indicated by who has speech boxes vs bubbles) and eventually gives up to go play Smash Bros by herself.
I think part of what RD's running into in this mini-arc is the creeping realization that the GM isn't supposed to be the main character of the story.
Based on the comic where Rd's Player was stating how they wanted Fluttershy's player to have fun and this one, I would say RD has the makings of a good DM (The focus is players having fun (which she cares about) and having a cool adventure (which she's got in spades). But she doesn't care about knowing the rules at all (which if it was a purely story based game would be fine), and she still wants to be part of the story not simply the storyteller. And once you have a DMPC which the DM worked really hard on and is attached to then you get an invincible fun ruiner who is the main character.(Because most of us would make our characters invincible and the protagonist if we could, we love them).
Guest Author's Note: "I have no idea if these tweaks would actually work. I went looking to see if anyone had put up house rules for 4e PvP and these were the only ones I could find.
All of RD's 'bad GM' moments are personal anecdotes. I don't really like memorizing rules, so I tend to leave that to the people who prefer such things, and either deferring to them on rules calls or overriding the rule if it doesn't make sense in the moment. This works fine most of the time... up until you try to play Paranoia."