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[megamania]

Today's game went completely off the tracks. The next three adventures were designed for a rapid go-go-go action. Instead, a PC was killed and the unstable CN / CE character violated her dead body then looted her goods. Violation meaning.... he flailed the Dragonmark off her hand and arm to study later.......

WTF Dan....... WTF......

Tim's remaining character just walked in and discovered her and saw the removed skin wound. He knows only Dan's character was with her during the battle.

Stopped there. Sunday we pick up with a possible PC vs PC to the death battle...... instead of saving innocent people frpom raiding and experimenting aberrations.

Welcome to DMing.

 

[megamania]

Ugh! Instead of gaming Dan and Tim got called into work. Tomorrow I leave for surgery. When will we resolve this mess......

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Don’t think of it as an unfortunate interruption, think of it as an opportunity to plot...

 

[Scott DeWar]

Don’t think of it as an unfortunate interruption, think of it as an opportunity to plot..MUA HA HA HA!!!!.

FIFY

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I thought the maniacal laugh was unnecessary because I envisioned a cape being brought up to conceal the face, with a cinematic turn away from “the camera” POV.

 

[Scott DeWar]

Well, I believe there should ALWAYS be a maniacal laugh. IMHO

 

[megamania]

Had a TPQ.

Worked out a crazy way to deal with it. However.... once more the Players messed with it. A Yithian erased Zig's memory as Kyr escapes. Bring in the new characters as bystanders. A defeated Emerald Claw magic caster just "happened" to have a potion to correct the amnesia.

Yay! Happy ending.

Nope.

Role playing.

"I forgot my adopted father. This cannot happen. I am leaving to see him. Feldrix- he is my friend. I go where he goes.

So in three sessions......

Killed Tyson, Killed Ayur, Zig and Feldrix quit. Kyr betrays the group and leaves.

oye.

 

[Scott DeWar]

as bad as a tpk

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

“I Have Herded Cats”: Tales of a Zen Master DM.

That book needs to be written and released.

 

[Mad_Jack]

I had a party of engineers and physics geeks who TPK'ed themselves once - they were crossing a thin creaky ice bridge when one of the guys gets a thoughtful look on his face and breaks out a calculator...

And then announces that the bridge as I described it is insufficient to hold the combined weight of the party.

So of course the whole party unanimously decided that they tragically fell to their deaths and began rolling up new characters, entirely over my rather vociferous protests as the DM.



In other news, I went down to the FLGS a couple days ago, and one of the guys there mentioned that they had just gotten in a collection of old lead on consignment. I asked about the prices and was told that one of the other guys was the one who talked to the person that brought it in. So I came back the next day.
And somehow got talked into curating the entire collection so I can tell them how much to charge for them...
< rolls eyes >

There are somewhere over two hundred minis in the collection, and I've just finished taking pictures of all of them so I can start hitting the archives and ID them all.

The up side is that I have first shot at some classic minis and will be getting to keep a few of them in exchange for the work I'm putting in. Most of it is just random old Grenadier and Ral Partha, but there's a full set of the RP Legion of Doom: Lords of the Dead set of skellies... And the human form of Takhisis from the RP Dragonlance Villains set.