Michael Silverbane
Adventurer
They probably hire adventurers.
Ok,how horrible is this
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They probably hire adventurers.
Sorry no kobolds in my homebrew(they were not tuff enuf to survive)
Henry
Autoexreginated
BABY SHIELDS!
Even some of the Greatest DMs of All Time (tm) have used Baby Shields in campaigns before...
But I would be sure to know your players before putting something quite that... off the wall into the game. Just like not everyone finds certain comedians funny, some people won't take certain game elements in a well-intended manner.
Even some of the Greatest DMs of All Time (tm) have used Baby Shields in campaigns before...
But I would be sure to know your players before putting something quite that... off the wall into the game. Just like not everyone finds certain comedians funny, some people won't take certain game elements in a well-intended manner.
1 - I don't see how this is in any way "CoC-inspired". Bugbear Baby Breastplates (say that five times fast) don't have anything to do with any Lovecraftian horror I'm familiar with.
2 - I hate these kinds of cheesy "moral quandry" situations in gaming. To me, it just seems like the GM playing a metagame of "damned if you do, damned if you don't" with the players. Either they avoid attacking the bugbears and therefore forego a lot of what makes playing D&D fun for a lot of people (i.e. kicking evil's hiney and taking it's stuff) or they go ahead and attack and the GM gets to label them "bad people". Personally, I would walk out of any game where the GM pulled something like this and not look back.
2 - I hate these kinds of cheesy "moral quandry" situations in gaming. To me, it just seems like the GM playing a metagame of "damned if you do, damned if you don't" with the players. Either they avoid attacking the bugbears and therefore forego a lot of what makes playing D&D fun for a lot of people (i.e. kicking evil's hiney and taking it's stuff) or they go ahead and attack and the GM gets to label them "bad people". Personally, I would walk out of any game where the GM pulled something like this and not look back.
jdrakeh
Front Range Warlock
In the OP's defense, he didn't say that this particular element of his campaign was "CoC inspired" but that his campaign in general was "CoC inspired." It's possible to have a "CoC inspired" campaign while still interjecting elements from other sources.
BABY SHIELDS!
Even some of the Greatest DMs of All Time (tm) have used Baby Shields in campaigns before...
Oh man, Baby Shields bring back memories! I feel like I've revisited EN World in 2003 (in a good way!)
aboyd
Explorer
Yeah, I wouldn't. If I saw something like that, I would not "get into" trying to fight without hitting the babies, nor would I try to act gallant. I would mentally flag the entire situation as a contrived and unenjoyable aspect of the game, say to the group, "I'm sorry but there will be collateral damage," and then slaughter the bugbears without any caution for the (literal) meat shield babies. Not that I would want to be mean, but I don't find such a thing appropriate at all, so I would prefer to just to say, "Screw it," and push the game on to something else.
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