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<blockquote data-quote="Jefe Bergenstein" data-source="post: 6667456" data-attributes="member: 31506"><p>The beer and pretzels pillar, and it can be a lot of fun. Sometimes the story can be "a bunch of jerks got together to act like jerks, and high jinks ensued". </p><p></p><p>Every so often we run what we call "monster squad", a 1-2 session short adventure where everyone just rolls randomly for a monster and class. We get a brief mission, and then usually toss it in favor of rampaging and blowing off steam. </p><p></p><p>One of the last ones we actually "won" used 3.5 rules, and had an ogre arcane archer, an efreeti lasher, a mind flayer samurai and an ogre magi master of chains teaming up to steal the prize of the Jade Monkey fighting tournament. There was infighting, backstabbing, pillaging and a monkey we exposed to all the wonders of the world in order to make it a Jaded Monkey to trick people into signing up for a fake tournament (my lawful to the point of OCD ogre magi insisted on the last part). It was a lot of fun being terrible, because eff it, it's a one shot! At most I have to live with the consequences of my character's actions for a few hours.</p><p></p><p>The game ended up with the us stealing the treasure, killing the efreeti after a Sierra Madre standoff, and the mind flayer and ogre mage planeshifting to leave the ogre holding the bag when the Harpers burst in, as the whole thing was a sting operation.</p><p></p><p>Goofing off in the game world can be just as good a story as anything else.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jefe Bergenstein, post: 6667456, member: 31506"] The beer and pretzels pillar, and it can be a lot of fun. Sometimes the story can be "a bunch of jerks got together to act like jerks, and high jinks ensued". Every so often we run what we call "monster squad", a 1-2 session short adventure where everyone just rolls randomly for a monster and class. We get a brief mission, and then usually toss it in favor of rampaging and blowing off steam. One of the last ones we actually "won" used 3.5 rules, and had an ogre arcane archer, an efreeti lasher, a mind flayer samurai and an ogre magi master of chains teaming up to steal the prize of the Jade Monkey fighting tournament. There was infighting, backstabbing, pillaging and a monkey we exposed to all the wonders of the world in order to make it a Jaded Monkey to trick people into signing up for a fake tournament (my lawful to the point of OCD ogre magi insisted on the last part). It was a lot of fun being terrible, because eff it, it's a one shot! At most I have to live with the consequences of my character's actions for a few hours. The game ended up with the us stealing the treasure, killing the efreeti after a Sierra Madre standoff, and the mind flayer and ogre mage planeshifting to leave the ogre holding the bag when the Harpers burst in, as the whole thing was a sting operation. Goofing off in the game world can be just as good a story as anything else. [/QUOTE]
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