GM Authority (Edited For Clarity, Post #148)

[embee]

Fun fact: The Steve Miller bad was on tour and unavailable to shoot a video for Abracadabra. So the studio went ahead and made a video without them. And having survived the 80s, I can tell you with all honesty that it's not all that bad compared to many of its contemporaries.

I didn't say it was the worst. Just easily one of the worst.

It's the Diet Pepsi of music videos. I mean, it's not a can of Diet Dr. Pepper left to ferment in the back seat of a junked 92 Buick Le Sabre in a yard in Decatur and served room temperature on a hot August day. But it's still a can of Diet Pepsi and is terrible in its own right.

 

[Maxperson]

Your honor, my client, Player 4, claims they were acting in a spirit of collaboration by making a "yes, and" statement. Player 4 already agreed to play in a GoT style game. By stating they wished to play an elf, Player 4 communicated that the addition of elves did not alter their own concept of what constitutes a "GoT style game."

In the case of GM vs Player 4, the defense asks that the jury side with the party who makes the effort to add collaboratively through "Yes, and" statements, rather than the party guilty of "no" statements.

Your honor, my client clearly stated that this was a GoT style game which pre-establishes no elven PCs as part of it. One of the primary tenets of a "yes, and" style game is that it not undo anything pre-established, regardless of Plaintiff's views on what constitutes a "GoT style game." This lawsuit is therefore baseless on those grounds and should be immediately dismissed.

 

[Maxperson]

I didn't say it was the worst. Just easily one of the worst.

It's the Diet Pepsi of music videos. I mean, it's not a can of Diet Dr. Pepper left to ferment in the back seat of a junked 92 Buick Le Sabre in a yard in Decatur and served room temperature on a hot August day. But it's still a can of Diet Pepsi and is terrible in its own right.

Remember the era. I think you mean New Coke

 

[embee]

Remember the era. I think you mean New Coke

I'm going to be running an 80's style McDonald's campaign.

Any races that appeared in McDonald's commercials are playable races. Humans - obviously. You can also play as an ooze (Grimace), an aarokocra (Birdie), goblins (Fry Guys and Fry Gals), kobolds (the McNugget buddies) or a variant human (Mayor McCheese and Officer Big Mac).

There are class and alignment restrictions:

Rogues are required to wear domino masks, wide-brimmed black hats, and a B&W striped matching shirt and trousers, and are always Chaotic. You may however play Chaotic Evil, you automatically speak Rubblese, and all attempts to burgle hamburgers are rolled with advantage. Similarly, in this campaign, goblins cannot be lawful because they always try to steal fries.

Oozes are all evil. I am adamant about this because Grimace was, as originally written, "the Evil Grimace." DEX cannot ever go above 5 because you have stupid stumpy arms. Also, you are vulnerable to milkshakes.

Aarokocra in this world all have DEX below 9 and, while I permit flying, any attempt to land requires a DC15 saving throw against fall damage.

Kobolds do get pack tactics but only if they are with at least 5 other kobolds because they come in 6 piece at a minimum (I will allow a lower 4, but only with a small goblin present (Fry Guy)).

If you choose variant human, I will require your character to be a Lawful alignment and have a hamburger for a head. There are no feats but you can choose a build from any of the 9,382 brown 2e splatbooks.

I will also let one player play an illithid, but the illithid has a 1 CHA and must consume at least 10 cans of New Coke per day or die. Also, its name is MAC.

All non-spell casters start with styofoam armor (AC 10, confers resistance to attacks from plant-based creatures and spells).

The basic plot is that the party is tasked with slaying the bloody-thirsty tyrant Mac Tonight. He can only be slain with a McDLT and, even if you procure the McDLT, you need to keep the hot side hot and the cold side cold until assembling it to kill Mac Tonight.

 

[MGibster]

I'm going to be running an 80's style McDonald's campaign.

Can I play the Burger King?

 

[embee]

Can I play the Burger King?

No. This is not a Burger King campaign. You cannot have it your way.

But you can play an elf.

 

[billd91]

Fun fact: The Steve Miller bad was on tour and unavailable to shoot a video for Abracadabra. So the studio went ahead and made a video without them. And having survived the 80s, I can tell you with all honesty that it's not all that bad compared to many of its contemporaries.

Just ask Billy Squire about "Rock Me Tonight" and its video.

 

[MGibster]

Just ask Billy Squire about "Rock Me Tonight" and its video.

I think the biggest problem with that video is that it didn't particularly fit his image at the time. Martha Quinn, MTV VJ at the time (and if you don't know who she is that just makes me old), says she doesn't remember the video having been so poorly received at the time and "Rock Me Tonight" was a fairly successful single for Squier. But maybe it did alienate his core audience.

 

[tetrasodium]

A human with magic is not an elf. I also said Game Of Thrones, not A Song Of Ice And Fire or whatever the book series is called. The TV show does deviate from the books as I was told, and TV and movies often don't contain all the details the books do. From my viewing of the TV show, almost the entire cast of characters are human. Maybe some humans with magic (which the campaign premise included) but humans none the less. Humans aren't Elfs, if they were, the player would have just played a human!

game of thrones is the name of book one. It's starting to sound like some of your players might have known more about the setting you wanted to run than you & you weren't interested in learning. If your wanting to run a game strictly confined to a specific setting expect a world of hurt if you haven't even started reading the books when your players start leveraging knowledge from them..


edit: That is after all one of the big reasons that comes up when you start asking people who hate doing it why they hate running games set in FR... Having read the books, it's going to be baaaaad.

 

[Lanefan]

No. This is not a Burger King campaign. You cannot have it your way.

But you can play an elf.

Great!

Can I name her Wendy?