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<blockquote data-quote="Challenger RPG" data-source="post: 6032486" data-attributes="member: 6701020"><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]So you’re a smart player and you think you know all the tricks. You can exploit rules, you’ve read everything, and you’ve even checked out websites on how to optimize your characters. What’s missing? Only the gaming secrets most official books will never tell you about. These are the ‘laws’ of the RPG Matrix. As Morpheus once said, “Some can be bent…others broken.”[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>[FONT=&quot]1. [/FONT]</strong>[FONT=&quot]Encumbrance: heroes can carry as much as they want.[/FONT]</span> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>[FONT=&quot]2.[/FONT]</strong>[FONT=&quot] Flank: everything. [/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>[FONT=&quot]3.[/FONT]</strong>[FONT=&quot] Charge: to the high ground so you can flank it.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>[FONT=&quot]4.[/FONT]</strong>[FONT=&quot] Ammunition: never runs out.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>[FONT=&quot]5.[/FONT]</strong>[FONT=&quot] Sleep, Water, Food, and Air: unnecessary to survival.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>[FONT=&quot]6.[/FONT]</strong>[FONT=&quot] Sleep: to gain back all your spells, hit points, and special powers.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>[FONT=&quot]7.[/FONT]</strong>[FONT=&quot] Bandages: cure hit points.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>[FONT=&quot]8.[/FONT]</strong>[FONT=&quot] Loot: absolutely everything.[/FONT]</span> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>[FONT=&quot]9.[/FONT]</strong>[FONT=&quot] Haggle: for all magic items.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>[FONT=&quot]10[/FONT]</strong>[FONT=&quot]. Traps and Secret Doors: “I check for x” should be your ‘go to’ line.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>[FONT=&quot]11.[/FONT]</strong>[FONT=&quot] Henchmen: trap detector, monster distraction, loot carrier, and scapegoat extraordinaire.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>[FONT=&quot]12. [/FONT]</strong>[FONT=&quot]In Game or Out of Game?: did it get you into trouble or not?[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>[FONT=&quot]13.[/FONT]</strong>[FONT=&quot] Death: not permanent. Coming back to life is tricky at first, like riding a bicycle. After that, you can do it over and over and over again.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>[FONT=&quot]14.[/FONT]</strong>[FONT=&quot] Aid Allies: +2 to combined checks and votes vs. the GM.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>[FONT=&quot]15.[/FONT]</strong>[FONT=&quot] Always Carry: oil, holy water, stakes, and silvered weapons.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>[FONT=&quot]16.[/FONT]</strong>[FONT=&quot] Suggest: things to the GM when he’s stuck. You never know.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>[FONT=&quot]17.[/FONT]</strong>[FONT=&quot] Listen: to the ‘amount’ the GM says, not what he says.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>[FONT=&quot]18. [/FONT]</strong>[FONT=&quot]Backgrounds: your parents died so villains couldn’t use them against you.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>[FONT=&quot]19.[/FONT]</strong>[FONT=&quot] Cast Spells: blindly into rooms. “You can only target what you can see” is hokey.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p>[h=1]An Example of Superior Game-Play[/h]</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: Okay, are you guys finished making duplicate Rangers so we can start play?[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Players: No.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]3,432,432 minutes later…[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 1: Okay.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: *Snort* What?[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 2: He’s asleep. Steal his notes.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: Prepare to turn chaotic evil and lose ten million experience points.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 2: Never-mind.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: You’ve come to the giant Dungeon of Mega-Death. Inside are all sorts of horrible demons and dragons just waiting to rip your guts out.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 1: So why are we here?[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 2: Beats me. This is where my mom drops me off from school.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: Well, uh, just because—okay?[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 1: Well, see you guys next week.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: Fine. There’s one million gold in it.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 1: Is it fake?[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: No.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 1: Is it trapped?[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: No.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 1: Is it impossible to get?[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: …..No.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 2: Bad pause there.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Dough: Shut up.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 1: Assuming we succeed, is there a likely chance we can get the gold and then not lose it to random thieves before we can spend it on stuff that’s useful to us which in turn won’t be stolen?[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: Um, your character doesn’t know all that stuff. Can you just go in the freaking dungeon? I worked like ten hours on it, guys.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 1: Fine. Walking up to the door and going inside.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: Ha ha ha, a fireball shoots from the door and kills you! End of adventure! So sweet. TPK in the first 15 seconds![/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 2: I was checking for traps. Also, our henchman always goes first.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: Okay, Ralphie the henchman dies.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 2: He was checking for traps, too.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: Okay. He failed his roll and died.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 1: …He says without rolling.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: Shut up.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 2: Using Aid Another on Find Traps.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 1: Me too.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: Still dies.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 2: My two pet bloodhounds Aid him as well.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: Dang it.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 2: From this point on, everyone in the group is checking for traps and secret doors every fifteen seconds on an alternating pattern.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: That’ll take forever.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 2: Well, we’ve got a few more hours of daylight before the next workday officially begins.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: Fifteen hours later you’ve moved 60 ft. down the hallway and a band of ten wandering Demon-cyclops-medusa round the bend.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 1: Shoot them with my crossbow![/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: Haven’t you run out of bolts yet? Besides, they’re medusa so you turn to stone.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 1: *shows character sheet* Still got the twenty I bought at first level. Also, I was saying that out of game so I haven’t done anything yet.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 2: I pull out my mirror.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: In game or out of game?[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 2: Shut up![/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: Ralphie makes a Wisdom check and looks at the Cyclops-medusa-demons. Poof, he turns to stone![/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 2: Aid Another ‘Wisdom’ from everyone including my two pet blood hounds.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: Dang it.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 1: Charge to high ground, flank, loot everything, use bandages, cast resurrection on Ralphie.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 2: Anything else in here?[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: You see a door.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 2: Shoot 15 fireballs and lightning bolts through the keyhole. Then we camp in the bush to regain spells and come back to open the door.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: You guys are weird. Thieves attack in the night and steal your bags of holding.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 2: Ralphie was on watch.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: He’s dead.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 1: Not anymore.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: You run out of food and water and then a dragon steals your parents to force you back into my adventure.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 1: *shows background* Sorry, both of my character’s parents are dead. His village was also burned to the ground and he has no relatives.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: Well, you starve then.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 2: *shows equipment*.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: It’s impossible to carry 76 weeks of food and water.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 2: Which is why we have: henchmen, bags of holding, and very big equipment boxes to write our loot in. Case in point, we took everything off of those Cyclops-medusa-demons, right?[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: There’s a bush next to your camp. It’s pretty big and moves in the breeze.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 1: What the—?[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 2: Check it for monsters.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: How did you know? There’s a vampire in there. Ha, take that![/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 1: I’ve got stakes.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: And his buddy…a werewolf.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 1: …and silvered weapons.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: Plus a load of zombies.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 2: Break out the holy water, Jim.[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Doug: Any suggestions, guys?[/FONT]</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=&quot]Player 2: Well, since you asked…[/FONT]</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Challenger RPG, post: 6032486, member: 6701020"] [SIZE=3][FONT="]So you’re a smart player and you think you know all the tricks. You can exploit rules, you’ve read everything, and you’ve even checked out websites on how to optimize your characters. What’s missing? Only the gaming secrets most official books will never tell you about. These are the ‘laws’ of the RPG Matrix. As Morpheus once said, “Some can be bent…others broken.”[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B][FONT="]1. [/FONT][/B][FONT="]Encumbrance: heroes can carry as much as they want.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B][FONT="]2.[/FONT][/B][FONT="] Flank: everything. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B][FONT="]3.[/FONT][/B][FONT="] Charge: to the high ground so you can flank it.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B][FONT="]4.[/FONT][/B][FONT="] Ammunition: never runs out.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B][FONT="]5.[/FONT][/B][FONT="] Sleep, Water, Food, and Air: unnecessary to survival.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B][FONT="]6.[/FONT][/B][FONT="] Sleep: to gain back all your spells, hit points, and special powers.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B][FONT="]7.[/FONT][/B][FONT="] Bandages: cure hit points.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B][FONT="]8.[/FONT][/B][FONT="] Loot: absolutely everything.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B][FONT="]9.[/FONT][/B][FONT="] Haggle: for all magic items.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B][FONT="]10[/FONT][/B][FONT="]. Traps and Secret Doors: “I check for x” should be your ‘go to’ line.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B][FONT="]11.[/FONT][/B][FONT="] Henchmen: trap detector, monster distraction, loot carrier, and scapegoat extraordinaire.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B][FONT="]12. [/FONT][/B][FONT="]In Game or Out of Game?: did it get you into trouble or not?[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B][FONT="]13.[/FONT][/B][FONT="] Death: not permanent. Coming back to life is tricky at first, like riding a bicycle. After that, you can do it over and over and over again.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B][FONT="]14.[/FONT][/B][FONT="] Aid Allies: +2 to combined checks and votes vs. the GM.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B][FONT="]15.[/FONT][/B][FONT="] Always Carry: oil, holy water, stakes, and silvered weapons.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B][FONT="]16.[/FONT][/B][FONT="] Suggest: things to the GM when he’s stuck. You never know.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B][FONT="]17.[/FONT][/B][FONT="] Listen: to the ‘amount’ the GM says, not what he says.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B][FONT="]18. [/FONT][/B][FONT="]Backgrounds: your parents died so villains couldn’t use them against you.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B][FONT="]19.[/FONT][/B][FONT="] Cast Spells: blindly into rooms. “You can only target what you can see” is hokey.[/FONT][/SIZE] [h=1]An Example of Superior Game-Play[/h] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: Okay, are you guys finished making duplicate Rangers so we can start play?[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Players: No.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]3,432,432 minutes later…[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 1: Okay.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: *Snort* What?[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 2: He’s asleep. Steal his notes.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: Prepare to turn chaotic evil and lose ten million experience points.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 2: Never-mind.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: You’ve come to the giant Dungeon of Mega-Death. Inside are all sorts of horrible demons and dragons just waiting to rip your guts out.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 1: So why are we here?[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 2: Beats me. This is where my mom drops me off from school.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: Well, uh, just because—okay?[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 1: Well, see you guys next week.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: Fine. There’s one million gold in it.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 1: Is it fake?[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: No.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 1: Is it trapped?[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: No.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 1: Is it impossible to get?[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: …..No.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 2: Bad pause there.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Dough: Shut up.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 1: Assuming we succeed, is there a likely chance we can get the gold and then not lose it to random thieves before we can spend it on stuff that’s useful to us which in turn won’t be stolen?[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: Um, your character doesn’t know all that stuff. Can you just go in the freaking dungeon? I worked like ten hours on it, guys.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 1: Fine. Walking up to the door and going inside.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: Ha ha ha, a fireball shoots from the door and kills you! End of adventure! So sweet. TPK in the first 15 seconds![/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 2: I was checking for traps. Also, our henchman always goes first.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: Okay, Ralphie the henchman dies.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 2: He was checking for traps, too.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: Okay. He failed his roll and died.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 1: …He says without rolling.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: Shut up.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 2: Using Aid Another on Find Traps.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 1: Me too.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: Still dies.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 2: My two pet bloodhounds Aid him as well.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: Dang it.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 2: From this point on, everyone in the group is checking for traps and secret doors every fifteen seconds on an alternating pattern.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: That’ll take forever.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 2: Well, we’ve got a few more hours of daylight before the next workday officially begins.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: Fifteen hours later you’ve moved 60 ft. down the hallway and a band of ten wandering Demon-cyclops-medusa round the bend.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 1: Shoot them with my crossbow![/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: Haven’t you run out of bolts yet? Besides, they’re medusa so you turn to stone.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 1: *shows character sheet* Still got the twenty I bought at first level. Also, I was saying that out of game so I haven’t done anything yet.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 2: I pull out my mirror.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: In game or out of game?[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 2: Shut up![/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: Ralphie makes a Wisdom check and looks at the Cyclops-medusa-demons. Poof, he turns to stone![/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 2: Aid Another ‘Wisdom’ from everyone including my two pet blood hounds.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: Dang it.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 1: Charge to high ground, flank, loot everything, use bandages, cast resurrection on Ralphie.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 2: Anything else in here?[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: You see a door.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 2: Shoot 15 fireballs and lightning bolts through the keyhole. Then we camp in the bush to regain spells and come back to open the door.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: You guys are weird. Thieves attack in the night and steal your bags of holding.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 2: Ralphie was on watch.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: He’s dead.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 1: Not anymore.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: You run out of food and water and then a dragon steals your parents to force you back into my adventure.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 1: *shows background* Sorry, both of my character’s parents are dead. His village was also burned to the ground and he has no relatives.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: Well, you starve then.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 2: *shows equipment*.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: It’s impossible to carry 76 weeks of food and water.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 2: Which is why we have: henchmen, bags of holding, and very big equipment boxes to write our loot in. Case in point, we took everything off of those Cyclops-medusa-demons, right?[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: There’s a bush next to your camp. It’s pretty big and moves in the breeze.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 1: What the—?[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 2: Check it for monsters.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: How did you know? There’s a vampire in there. Ha, take that![/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 1: I’ve got stakes.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: And his buddy…a werewolf.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 1: …and silvered weapons.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: Plus a load of zombies.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 2: Break out the holy water, Jim.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Doug: Any suggestions, guys?[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="]Player 2: Well, since you asked…[/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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