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<blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 8610805" data-attributes="member: 3457"><p>We always just did it our own way. The only time I cared about "official" was during 3.x because I changed something small once and it spiraled through the rest of the game resulting in several leaks in the dam and we had to start a new campaign because I was running exactly like I would in 1e/2e years where I could just change things and it would be transparent even if it wasn't a consistent mechanic like D20 mechanics. Once we made a house rule for something, we wrote it down and it was always just how we did it. How we interpreted monsters and the granular situations was whatever we thought was cool.</p><p></p><p>In campaign my cleric died once. Another player came and murdered my cleric. Straight up murdered him. He was a follower of the god of murder so it was annoying but fair and we were doing a campaign where we were NOT a party but disparate threads that the DM would weave together into a bigger story. He experimented with narrative like this all the time. I rolled up a new character and he asked for my character sheet. Next session comes along and he hands me a folder and asks for my new character sheet. He smiles. I open the folder and it is my Cleric as a revenant, resurrected by the god of vengeance to find the other player and avenge not just myself but all the other people he was murdering in the campaign.</p><p></p><p>I wasn't a revenant from the FR Monstrous Compendium though, he was inspired by that. I was equal parts Ghost Rider and Moon Knight. He changed my alignment to Chaotic Neutral and I had deep red armor fused to my body that gave me AC -2 and a + 1 mace that turned into a chain whip +3 vs the guilty and a power similar to Penance Stare from Ghost Rider. I wasn't a cleric anymore, just a Fighter but he made the abilities like a Kit and a race. It was really cool.</p><p></p><p>Yes, I avenged myself and others. Olaf was a bad mamma jamma.</p><p></p><p>By the rules or rulings, we never could have done half that crap.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="teitan, post: 8610805, member: 3457"] We always just did it our own way. The only time I cared about "official" was during 3.x because I changed something small once and it spiraled through the rest of the game resulting in several leaks in the dam and we had to start a new campaign because I was running exactly like I would in 1e/2e years where I could just change things and it would be transparent even if it wasn't a consistent mechanic like D20 mechanics. Once we made a house rule for something, we wrote it down and it was always just how we did it. How we interpreted monsters and the granular situations was whatever we thought was cool. In campaign my cleric died once. Another player came and murdered my cleric. Straight up murdered him. He was a follower of the god of murder so it was annoying but fair and we were doing a campaign where we were NOT a party but disparate threads that the DM would weave together into a bigger story. He experimented with narrative like this all the time. I rolled up a new character and he asked for my character sheet. Next session comes along and he hands me a folder and asks for my new character sheet. He smiles. I open the folder and it is my Cleric as a revenant, resurrected by the god of vengeance to find the other player and avenge not just myself but all the other people he was murdering in the campaign. I wasn't a revenant from the FR Monstrous Compendium though, he was inspired by that. I was equal parts Ghost Rider and Moon Knight. He changed my alignment to Chaotic Neutral and I had deep red armor fused to my body that gave me AC -2 and a + 1 mace that turned into a chain whip +3 vs the guilty and a power similar to Penance Stare from Ghost Rider. I wasn't a cleric anymore, just a Fighter but he made the abilities like a Kit and a race. It was really cool. Yes, I avenged myself and others. Olaf was a bad mamma jamma. By the rules or rulings, we never could have done half that crap. [/QUOTE]
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