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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8119958" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>Or that player could stay put, have his character watch the rear, and enjoy watching (and maybe laughing at!) what the others get up to in the meantime. Depends on the table and people, of course.</p><p></p><p>The more it happened, the more we laughed about it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Truth be told, I don't remember - I was probably running on three hours sleep in three days (a typical con state for me <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ). But that one room really did stand out.</p><p></p><p>With, I take it, no means of escape or of returning to the upper decks?</p><p></p><p>Or was there an unspoken expectation that your character would kill or disable the crazy guy?</p><p></p><p>Yeah, that doesn't sound like it was any fun at all - except for the gonzo sacrifice scene; that almost makes up for some of it. Well played! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Where I see this as simply part of the game sometimes.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes my repeated failures are just bad luck - it happens, and gets cancelled out by other times when I just can't miss. Just like a team on a losing streak, keep on bangin' and it'll come around eventually.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes my repeated failures are a hint I should be trying something different, or that what I'm trying for some reason isn't as easy as I think it is.</p><p></p><p>Also, I don't see a 'skipped turn' as nearly the horror that some seem to; and in no way do I equate it with your tale of spending most of a session in a pungent bilge.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8119958, member: 29398"] Or that player could stay put, have his character watch the rear, and enjoy watching (and maybe laughing at!) what the others get up to in the meantime. Depends on the table and people, of course. The more it happened, the more we laughed about it. :) Truth be told, I don't remember - I was probably running on three hours sleep in three days (a typical con state for me :) ). But that one room really did stand out. With, I take it, no means of escape or of returning to the upper decks? Or was there an unspoken expectation that your character would kill or disable the crazy guy? Yeah, that doesn't sound like it was any fun at all - except for the gonzo sacrifice scene; that almost makes up for some of it. Well played! :) Where I see this as simply part of the game sometimes. Sometimes my repeated failures are just bad luck - it happens, and gets cancelled out by other times when I just can't miss. Just like a team on a losing streak, keep on bangin' and it'll come around eventually. Sometimes my repeated failures are a hint I should be trying something different, or that what I'm trying for some reason isn't as easy as I think it is. Also, I don't see a 'skipped turn' as nearly the horror that some seem to; and in no way do I equate it with your tale of spending most of a session in a pungent bilge. [/QUOTE]
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