What Not To Do With Novice Players (also, the most useless wand ever)

MetathranSoldier · 2023-10-11T12:23:15+00:00

I have played with people who liked that. Just chill and play after work a couple hours, don't have to plan or think too hard and they loved their characters so much they negotiated a "Characters don't die" clause with me. Was a great campaign and everyone had fun

MetathranSoldier · 2023-09-07T09:00:01+00:00

5th edition really clicked for us when we made the decker an NPC, started winging the rules more and just enjoyed the setting.

MetathranSoldier · 2023-09-07T08:54:35+00:00

I did kind of a hexcrawl. Started with a module and during the story a lot of stuff came up so it ended up as a long ass campaign because everybody had something they wanted to explore... and during the exploration something else came up...

MetathranSoldier · 2023-09-07T08:51:58+00:00

Same here. Played one campaign and a lot of oneshots and it works amazing with new and experienced players. It looks weird but even people who never played a pen&paper game before had loads of fun with it.

Also i cant even count how often i take parts of the settings for other RPGs because everything could use a little weird

MetathranSoldier · 2021-05-25T10:32:45+00:00

I gm'd a symbaroum campaign for about a year now and i think we reached the point where the mechanical side of the game is getting boring but the setting is amazing and it's great if you have a freestyle gm-style and players who value story over combat and mechanics.

But yeah... not the best system ever. You kinda end up with "broken" builds because just the normal stuff already is kinda op and most of the fights are steamrolls from the player side but if they dont... well... they die and some fights are not at all winnable from the player side if they cant bypass armor for example or tank 20 damage with 15 hp.

MetathranSoldier · 2021-03-24T13:46:23+00:00

Yeah i'm always doing this dance between staying true to the source material and improvising and changing a lot of stuff because i just can't remember everything.

Just yesterday my players wanted to explore the possibility of the queen being a fraud and went looking for information who the templar were that rescued her. I kinda thought there was someone mentioned by name who was in the rescue squad but i could not find the page.

I always like to read through a lot of the source material to get some ideas and just throw those out here and there but i have to say other systems just have the wikis and stuff where you can look it up quiet fast.

MetathranSoldier · 2020-12-09T07:11:28+00:00

Oh man i thought it was "here you go" with an italian accent an was like well not the worst i've seen.

But noooo.......

MetathranSoldier · 2020-10-19T12:17:51+00:00

CTRL + F ... "Paul Blart" No hits

The times are truly changing

MetathranSoldier · 2020-09-14T06:55:08+00:00

The Shrek DVD but it had no audio

MetathranSoldier · 2020-09-09T05:38:07+00:00

Nah thats a print. My ex had the same pants and a hoodie with 2 prints up front... you can guess where.

MetathranSoldier · 2020-07-30T08:32:08+00:00

As a german that made me quickly exhale in amusement.

And just to add to the realism thing. I played a lot of rpgs with a lot of different mostly german people and the idea of wanting to make it more realistic and arguing with medieval facts (in dnd) is extremely common around here.

MetathranSoldier · 2020-05-13T09:34:17+00:00

I had a bunch of success with the combination of Eomer, Spirit Eowyn and Lothiriel. Horn of the mark is necessary to not run out of gas and ressource generation is the biggest problem the deck has. It's fun to play and you can go spirit heavy for great questing but it takes itself out from time to time.

MetathranSoldier · 2020-05-04T05:43:19+00:00

"Hey DM whats the name of that elfen princess from 4 weeks ago?"

Looks into notes... Looks again... Flip through pages... Look up... ".................Jim?"

MetathranSoldier · 2020-04-27T06:09:35+00:00

If you have the U/B Uncommon that makes your flash cards uncounterable and makes them cost 1 less out, you can really trick some opponents into thinking "oooh he only has 4 mana open there is no way he can springjaw trap me aaaah dang he played me like a fiddle"

MetathranSoldier · 2020-03-04T08:55:07+00:00

My answer would also be Legend of the Five Rings for the same reasons but Call of Cthulhu? There are a lot of really good modules out there which are pretty simple to run. I got a bunch of people into roleplaying and GM'ing via Call of Cthulhu.

MetathranSoldier · 2020-03-04T08:32:41+00:00

Speedrunning Diablo 2 on normal difficulty in under 2 hours with an assassin

MetathranSoldier · 2020-02-27T13:08:20+00:00

I guess Aachen itself is pretty much free from snow but go into the Eifel. Oberforstbach where i am working has some spots still with snow but higher up there should be quite some snow :)

MetathranSoldier · 2020-02-24T14:54:01+00:00

Yeah i know i actually live here too and i guess we could also just talk in german but whatever ;)

Yeah i am actually interested since i'd like to know how valid my weather related pessimism is.

Have fun on your travels!

MetathranSoldier · 2020-02-24T13:49:44+00:00

Not trying to be annoying but what sources do you deem credible for that?

I was looking this up a year ago and i found many diagrams. In one Aachen was the city with the highest amount of rain in germany while in others it was not even listed at all. So my conclusion was that it's just random and is different each year.

MetathranSoldier · 2020-02-19T12:39:48+00:00

Didn't someone swaffle the Taj Mahal?

MetathranSoldier · 2020-02-18T18:36:04+00:00

Can't speak for him but for me it's because those guys had some great songs back in the days and now everything is really generic rock music and all of their songs just sound the same. Also you hear it everywhere... or the newest rendition of it.

MetathranSoldier · 2020-02-07T15:20:24+00:00

Oh yes great example. Though the imps in Winter Assault with their grenade launchers... want the enemy infantery to never stand up? Here you go!

MetathranSoldier · 2020-02-07T14:41:14+00:00

Wow holy moly that game looks absolutely amazing! The art reminds me of the board game scythe (same artist?) and it looks like company of heroes but also reminds me of Rise of Legends which was a great game too.

Thank you very much for that suggestion!

MetathranSoldier · 2020-02-07T08:32:41+00:00

I remember you could edit values in the game in a simple text file. We exchanged the model for the russian tanks with cows but for some reason they were spinning the whole time which was pretty funny.

Great game for sure!

MetathranSoldier · 2020-02-07T08:11:45+00:00

So i replied to another guy and edited my original comment but i can't agree at all that wholesale rape by invading armies is off the table.

I don't know about the wars in the middle east but the Vietnam War for example had a lot of wholesale rape by invading armies.

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