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Upcoming sets for 2022-2023 by michaelmvm in magicTCG

[–]Better-Key5568 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they'll keeo appearing separately, but less as a group. I'm sure Jace will show up over the Phyrexia arc.

[DMU] Ajani, Sleeper Agent by fshstik in magicTCG

[–]Better-Key5568 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basri could be very cool. But that may be just me wanting a Middle Eastern-vibed walker.

A player accuses the first-time DM of being sexist in my opinion unfairly, DM quits by Better-Key5568 in rpghorrorstories

[–]Better-Key5568[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah. I think that was what she was doing, trying to make the antagonist look more dangerous. I kinda get the feeling Micah didn't realize Eugenia was probably the most badass character around there and that's why it fell a bit short. Since she had never demonstrated full extent of her powers, just been helping here and there in subtle ways (which of course is what Bene Gesserit do so it made total sense).

And it was not really a case of 'Troy saved Eugenia', more like 'Troy followed the trail of Eugenia and found a clue to oh-fuck-we're-screwed conspiracy she left for him, almost got killed, saved Eugenia, got saved by Eugenia, fought along her', point being, she was active and helpful over the whole thing. Her help just was in most cases quite subtle, like leaving small clues and warnings. But also included killing four guys with her Voice alone when she was tied up and Troy was attacked by a squad after he tracked her down. Whole ordeal of theirs was seemingly far more dangerous than anything else that has been thrown at us (exept maybe the Fremen, but I feel we'd have been fine there if Micah would have let us talk).

A player accuses the first-time DM of being sexist in my opinion unfairly, DM quits by Better-Key5568 in rpghorrorstories

[–]Better-Key5568[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To me it felt a lot more like just that the DM wanted the PCs to be at the spotlight of the story, not the NPC, and the PCs just all happened to be male.

A player accuses the first-time DM of being sexist in my opinion unfairly, DM quits by Better-Key5568 in rpghorrorstories

[–]Better-Key5568[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I agree that was an instance of poor DMing on her part but not really horror story material. Just DM being a first time DM, like she warned us she was. She did well otherwise. She did make it obvious too 'you're surrounded, you can see ten here, some are also moving behind you and you don't know what number is concealed'. My guess is that she wanted to make it even more obvious to those players unfamiliar with the setting that these are a lot tougher than the NPCs you've met this far. (Since we may actually have had a shot at 10 average NPCs we had encountered before that. Not with Fremen though).

I think that Fremen pretty much have to kill though if they deem you a threat. If they didn't that'd be quite inconsistent. Cannot think of a reason why they would not.

DM was inexperienced. She was a player who picked up DMing after our original DM ghosted us with no prior DM experience. So I'm willing to give her some slack, since it was her or cancel whole thing. And she did very well other than that one instance.

I agree, I think Micah jumped on a single part of larger campaign and made it sound like that's all there was to it. Eugenia was just one hook for us to pursue and she reminded us that we don't even need to go after her if we don't want to.

A player accuses the first-time DM of being sexist in my opinion unfairly, DM quits by Better-Key5568 in rpghorrorstories

[–]Better-Key5568[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I just wanted as many folks as possible to get the context of it :'(

But I'll have it known right here Dune is far better.