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<blockquote data-quote="Pants" data-source="post: 1445563" data-attributes="member: 8849"><p>Problem is, two things happen when I write my ideas down, I A) Still forget about about it or B) Loose my train of thought.</p><p></p><p>I usually run things by the seat of my pants and when I do prepare extensively for games, they usually suck. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Weird no?</p><p></p><p>Okay, this may not be an example of me screwing up, but it's damn funny nonetheless...</p><p></p><p>Setting: The PC's are trying to sneak into a manor in order to apprehend a criminal. There is one guard currently guarding the front gate. One of the PC's tries to sneak up behind him to subdue him and rolls VERY poorly on his Move Silent check, but rolls rather well on his Hide check (it's in the dead of night), so the PC scrapes his boot on the stone and this is what happens:</p><p>PC: *boot scrapes on the street*</p><p>Guard: What was that...? *starts moving to investigate*</p><p>PC: *thinking quickly* Meoooow... *rolls a bluff check*</p><p>Guard: *rolls poorly on his Sense Motive and then, because I'm feeling nice, I make him roll an Intelligence check. The Guard rolls a Natural 1. A 1. And he says* Damn cats... *and he moves away*</p><p></p><p>The PC's won't let me forget about that one, they joke about it all the time. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pants, post: 1445563, member: 8849"] Problem is, two things happen when I write my ideas down, I A) Still forget about about it or B) Loose my train of thought. I usually run things by the seat of my pants and when I do prepare extensively for games, they usually suck. ;) Weird no? Okay, this may not be an example of me screwing up, but it's damn funny nonetheless... Setting: The PC's are trying to sneak into a manor in order to apprehend a criminal. There is one guard currently guarding the front gate. One of the PC's tries to sneak up behind him to subdue him and rolls VERY poorly on his Move Silent check, but rolls rather well on his Hide check (it's in the dead of night), so the PC scrapes his boot on the stone and this is what happens: PC: *boot scrapes on the street* Guard: What was that...? *starts moving to investigate* PC: *thinking quickly* Meoooow... *rolls a bluff check* Guard: *rolls poorly on his Sense Motive and then, because I'm feeling nice, I make him roll an Intelligence check. The Guard rolls a Natural 1. A 1. And he says* Damn cats... *and he moves away* The PC's won't let me forget about that one, they joke about it all the time. ;) [/QUOTE]
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