DrunkonDuty's latest activity
-
DrunkonDuty replied to the thread How do you like to start a campaign.Nowadays I like my PCs to have connections to one another set up as part of session 0. The actual starting session will usually be a... -
Always start a campaign with a BANG!!! My favorite way to start a campaign is with a massive disaster. Start it with something...
-
DrunkonDuty reacted to zarionofarabel's post in the thread How do you like to start a campaign with
Like.
I like to have a Session Zero that includes group PC creation wherein the players decide on preexisting relationships between the PCs. I... -
I've had the PCs show up at a specific place, at a specific time, all having received letters suggesting they should be there, then. The...
-
My two Stonetop campaigns, with a set of provocative questions at a few of the PCs to set the scene ("Judge, when the last kid went...
-
I recently re-read Blood of Elves from the Witcher series and was struck by how it started. A dozen travelers sharing a campfire on the...
-
DrunkonDuty reacted to Staffan's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
Haha.
Birds of Prey? -
DrunkonDuty reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
Setting lore matters when it can be used to further their characters' goals. I suspect in a longer campaign it may become easier for...
-
DrunkonDuty reacted to Umbran's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
Hm. I am pretty sure you are wrong, in an "assuming the conclusion" sort of way. What is the point of the question? Why do we ask what...
-
DrunkonDuty reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
But who is saying that "Lore does not matter and reason for lore does not matter"? I might have missed someone but as far as I can tell...
-
DrunkonDuty reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
Quite the reverse. Races are part of how players get to personalise their characters. They are more intimately connected with the parts...
-
DrunkonDuty reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
Meanwhile for me what I get by actively letting everyone create is never what I want and is 90% of the time actively better than what...
-
DrunkonDuty reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
I think some of this comes down to how we personally decide our expectations. When I go out to dinner with friends, I'm not expecting...
-
DrunkonDuty reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with
Love.
I was thinking about this thread cycling home yesterday evening, and was puzzled by what seems to be an assumption made in many of the... -
DrunkonDuty reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
The notion that there is some sort of trade off between player and GM enjoyment of the game - on some posited spectrum from "dancing...