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<blockquote data-quote="Kafen" data-source="post: 5197788" data-attributes="member: 11273"><p>Q. What does it take to be a Rat Bastard DM? Are you one?</p><p>A. I'm not sure. My players accuse me of being one.</p><p></p><p>Q. How many TPK's have you caused?</p><p>A. Three... My fave was the very first game of my 'evil' campaign. The party died on a boat because my monsters scored 14 crits in three rounds with each creature having 8 attacks per round. </p><p></p><p>Q. How many dice have been thrown at you?</p><p>A. Two</p><p></p><p>Q. How many character sheets have you ripped up?</p><p>A. None, my group uses excel sheets.</p><p></p><p>Q. How, exactly, have you caused mental anguish to your players?</p><p>A. I give like no treasure and give out gold coins that have to be melted down to use as it is illegal to use non Imperial coins. So, players have to melt down gold in order to spend it when looting gold. Players love that sort of thing. Then, I tricked one of the dumb PCs -his character was an idiot, but the player is clever- into giving away ALL the party treasure as payment via an NPC. </p><p></p><p>Q. Have you ever fudged a die roll to kill a character. For example, you rolled a 3 but told everyone it was a "natural 20."</p><p>A. Ooooooh yeah, There was this one guy... He angered everyone with arrogance and I slaughtered him because it was the only way to shut the guy up about his uber sweet cleric. Yap yap yap...</p><p></p><p>Q. What else?</p><p>A. My best friends call me a @@@@@@@ as a GM because I raise the HD on monsters <em>just</em> enough to increase the toughness of the CR without giving them extra xp, give out increasingly low amounts of treasure, and allow only two items out of the MIC because the book is broken as a mirror in a crackhouse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kafen, post: 5197788, member: 11273"] Q. What does it take to be a Rat Bastard DM? Are you one? A. I'm not sure. My players accuse me of being one. Q. How many TPK's have you caused? A. Three... My fave was the very first game of my 'evil' campaign. The party died on a boat because my monsters scored 14 crits in three rounds with each creature having 8 attacks per round. Q. How many dice have been thrown at you? A. Two Q. How many character sheets have you ripped up? A. None, my group uses excel sheets. Q. How, exactly, have you caused mental anguish to your players? A. I give like no treasure and give out gold coins that have to be melted down to use as it is illegal to use non Imperial coins. So, players have to melt down gold in order to spend it when looting gold. Players love that sort of thing. Then, I tricked one of the dumb PCs -his character was an idiot, but the player is clever- into giving away ALL the party treasure as payment via an NPC. Q. Have you ever fudged a die roll to kill a character. For example, you rolled a 3 but told everyone it was a "natural 20." A. Ooooooh yeah, There was this one guy... He angered everyone with arrogance and I slaughtered him because it was the only way to shut the guy up about his uber sweet cleric. Yap yap yap... Q. What else? A. My best friends call me a @@@@@@@ as a GM because I raise the HD on monsters [i]just[/i] enough to increase the toughness of the CR without giving them extra xp, give out increasingly low amounts of treasure, and allow only two items out of the MIC because the book is broken as a mirror in a crackhouse. [/QUOTE]
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