OotS 599 is up

[Asmor]

My guess is that V's "player" left the game and the "DM" is making him into an NPC. .. Or is it just me that has a tendency to transform abandoned PCs into villains?

Except there are no players and there is no group. OotS is not a simulated game. Vaarsuvius's "player" IS Vaarsuvius.

 

[el-remmen]

Except there are no players and there is no group. OotS is not a simulated game. Vaarsuvius's "player" IS Vaarsuvius.

Uh. . . That's why I used the scare "quotes" - there is a kind of ambiguity regarding their status as characters/player characters that created by the meta-language the characters themselves use. There is a kind of slippage between narrative and occasionally suggested meta-narrative.

 

[Darkwolf71]

There has never been any indication of player or DM manipulations. Many meta-game references have been made, from books to rules to 'die rolls', but never have there been mentioned, any entities that control the PCs.

 

[Delta]

^ Agree with above.

 

[I'm A Banana]

I don't think V is going go be tempted. The character's arrogance is such that V is looking for isolation, not assistance, and the intelligence is vast enough to know that fraternizing with an imp is just not good for the eternal soul.

More than likely, Rich has something completely different planned for this.

 

[el-remmen]

There has never been any indication of player or DM manipulations. Many meta-game references have been made, from books to rules to 'die rolls', but never have there been mentioned, any entities that control the PCs.

No there haven't been because from the characters' POV they are not being "controlled", they are themselves. . . but the meta-game references are indication enough that they are within a game. . . . The slippage I refer to is along a continuum of awareness of the game aspect.

The suggestion of "players" and "DM" is there without it ever having to be explicitly stated, though sometimes words/actions bring the narrative closer or futher away from that.

It is perfectly valid to enjoy OotS as an adventure story narrative with winking references to game mechanics, however, I find it much more satisfying by keeping that suggested sub-text in mind and realizing there are two stories going on - except that we can only glean hints of one from the other.

 

[Fifth Element]

Okay, who here besides me wants to see the statblock for a dire half-dragon bone-eating saltwater werepiranha?

 

[Storm Raven]

Giant In the Playground Games

Here's hoping episode 600 is a good one! This is a little bit of "calm before the storm", I think.

And V is not doing anyone any favours, as usual. V is going to be in big trouble - or big temptation? Anyone for a Mage's Fall From Grace story line?

Could it be that in #600 V will say the right four words to the wrong person at the wrong time?

 

[I'm A Banana]

Okay, who here besides me wants to see the statblock for a dire half-dragon bone-eating saltwater werepiranha

4e-style:

Re-fluff the werewolf, give it a swim speed and a breath weapon like the dragonborn.

DONE!

 

[dmccoy1693]

Anyone else getting tired of the thousand different plot line that just keeps looking worse and worse? Roy's dead and they no longer even have the skeleton, belkar is going to be dead before long, looks like v is going to join a different branch of team evil, hailey's subplot wants her dead, ochul has his own subplot (one bright spot) that he'll almost assuredly survive and start a revolution, elan wrapped up his own sub plot (thankfully), we have no clue what happened to nale and the gang, cracks are showing in team evil between red cloak and ... what's his name lich (been so long I forgot), and and it doesn't look like any of these will be resolved anywhere near soon.

Anyone else missing the days of where the plot was simple and the jokes easy?