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And that's how the Mawlers' B Team was formed! :D
I'm sorry, Felithanderas the Destroyer of Towns, but we've found that your credentials are not adequate for the position of Head Butler. Your experience "defeating your enemy, seeing them driven before you and hearing the lamentations of their women" simply isn't applicable. We hope you understand.
Interviewer: So, Mr. Siegmund, have you any leadership experience whatsoever?
Tristan: Nope.
Interviewer: Any engineering skills?
Tristan: None whatsoever.
Interviewer: Do you have any combat experience?
Tristan: I'm decent with a pistol.
Interviewer: Look, Mr. Siegmund, maybe your not a good fit fo-
Tristan: Hey, let's not count me out just yet. Look, I bet a beautiful lady like yourself deserves a break from dealing with the riffraff who desperately want to man Earth's first spaceship solely because it would make them famous, am I right? How about we continue this conversation over at that fine restraunt across the street. My treat.
Later...
Rick the Engineer: $20 bucks?! I thought you said you were rich?!
Tristan: Some prices were a lot higher than I originally planned for...
Heaven forbid I figure out how Rick the car/boat mechanic ever got picked as our only spaceship engineer...
Isn't that like the entire theme for the better part of TF 2: Analysis Anarchy?
Odd. That comment should have been a reply to Digo....
Mostly the theme's just 'MLP analysts/reviewers as TF2 characters' ('analysts/reviewers' because some, such as Silver Quill, refuse to consider it analysis the way they do it (and I agree, especially in Silver's case))
Which makes me thing of storytime:
Tell of a time when a GM or player could have utilized a perfectly legitimate in-story/in-game reason to justify out-of-game-extenuating-circumstances (had to brb, had to miss sessions, etc.), but did not. What did he or she do instead? And was it ultimately a better or worse decision?
PC turned up at the session anyway (appointment was rescheduled) and so he got to play a session of being in a hospital. Um... yay?
My problem at present is that my campaigns (at work, with easily distracted teens) keep collapsing when some don't turn up. What I *should* have been doing is running sessions for the ones that did, even with new characters or NPCs, and using that to build the world around them. The basic theme is a semi-military trouble-shooting unit which lately has been on a long journey away from home, which meant it would be hard to play through the MAJOR revelation they had just discovered without the players. I considered having the no-shows get eaten by the dragon they'd met, but what (after it was too late) I decided to do next time is to revert to the city and give them a new party investigating the same sorts of things and then, if they stuck with the storyline, eventually have them investigate the disappearance of the first group.
Depending on the situation in hand, I either sidelined their character (because I have an opportunity), or let another player control the character (because I couldn't be bothered to try). Thankfully, all of the players are my roommates, and anything that happens to a character is solely the GM's fault.
Story time! Tell about a time when your group came up against something that seemed suspicious and/or paranoia-inducing, but turned out to be totally harmless after examination. Bonus points if the DM never intended the event or individual to appear suspicious, or if the examination involved retroactively unnecessary combat.
*Sniper shoots the drone, nearly TPKing his team (who are standing under it)*
Wasn't a TPK, but no one got out of that fight uninjured.
I thought explosions were like some sort of iceberg and cars have like super-armored frontals, so that taking the explosion head on IS better than swerving and taking it to the side?? Is this not the case???
Maybe I should reconsider my driving training...
Online Old World of Darkness mixed game (so, Shifters, Kuei-jin, Mages, and both Hsien and Western Changelings running around, sharing a site). I was running a scene where someone was given an envelope by a courier, who then rode off. The doctored photo in the envelope was meant to kick off a bit of in-character friction.
But the PCs decided that the envelope itself had to be some sort of hideous trap meant to slay them all. Do you know how many ways there are to check on whether or not an envelope is dangerous in the expanded World of Darkness setting? I don't either, because I lost count, but I DO know that it takes about 6-8 hours to run through them all in an online chat game....
But the PCs decided that the envelope itself had to be some sort of hideous trap meant to slay them all. Do you know how many ways there are to check on whether or not an envelope is dangerous in the expanded World of Darkness setting? I don't either, because I lost count, but I DO know that it takes about 6-8 hours to run through them all in an online chat game....
How long do you think they'll last? And will they succeed?
Success is filling both baskets halfway.
Remember, the faster Applejack runs, the faster the belt goes.
Me:10 minutes, and yes
Success is filling both baskets halfway.
Remember, the faster Applejack runs, the faster the belt goes.
Me:10 minutes, and yes
3 Skill checks, and no/will get bored partway through/will attempt action on Applejack
"What About Discord"
it's thursday once again and despite the fact that I stayed up till the wee hours this past Sunday-Wednesday to watch Spud Stream stuff I always bring a review of the episode so....
I'm going to say it now to get it out of the way... "This was MY least favorite Discord episode in the series" I guess after the Emotional CMC episode and the 2 holiday themed episodes this episode suffered for it.
I mean yes it had it's good references and there was a villian sighting in the background but overall it was kinda tame for a Discord episode (Excuse me for wanting Chaos and Anarchy whenever the physical embodiment of freaking choas Shows up sheesh)
I'll point out my favorite References (Cause Pop culture references and Discord go hand in hand)
1) Twilight's idea of a 3 day weekend involves staying in one room and Doing something she enjoys for 72 hours straight... (Every person playing Fallout 4 knows that's how you do it )
2) Pinkie Pie and Discord make Back to the Future references ( a few weeks after Back to the future day but it's the thought that counts right )
3) The Bob Ross reference made the episode memorable for me (Until I realized the Target audience and half of the Brony audience have no idea who Bob Ross is and this saddens me :/ )
4) Blink and you miss a certain unicorn with a Purple mane with Blue stripes in it lurking in the background of This Scene yes we saw you Villian from the season premire we also saw you at the table near Twilight in "Amending Fences" which was... wait a sec... Episode #12 was Amending Fences...This episode was #22
and her Cutie mark was revealed in episode #2 the cutie map part 2.... 2222....it's a pattern.... What does it mean
so that's my take on the episode hope you enjoyed my humour
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Yeah this was really a letdown for a discord ep, though I did love the bob ross and back to the future references. The fact that people don't know bob ross is saddening
They did leave one thing hanging - but if one assumes the Mane 6 were in a giggly/freely-laughing mood, that explains it well enough.
SAGE
I found your loot!
Rob Heinsoo
How great is that? He's quite the calligrapher, very elaborate hand on the guy. I remember when my aunt first told me that her best friend's cousin Rob was a game designer, and I was like, "Rob Heinsoo?!" and immediately found out I was mispronouncing it, but still. XD
Anyway, got my core rulebooks back, plus four supplements, should make for a nice and flavorful restart to my campaign. I hope to have fun stories in the future...
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And that's why you occasionally throw in a nice one who is absolutely sincere.
Drives the players crazy :D
And that's why you occasionally throw in a nice one who is absolutely sincere.
Drives the players crazy :D
Someone to make them go 'surely no one could be that naive, right? Or at least, no one could be that naive and still alive'
Which works especially well if other Discworld classics have been around (like a local CMOT Dibbler), but even without them the murder-hoboes that are the main characters will probably be contrast enough.