Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[overgeeked]

There's nothing better than coming to the table intending to basically wing an adventure, dropping in the tiniest bit of atmosphere into the description of a Dyson Logos map and just letting the players wind themselves up imagining all sorts of horrors.

The players basically convinced themselves they were descending a dungeon beneath a wizard's tower into Hell when my contribution was to squint at a mysterious structure on a Dyson map and say, "uh, it's a strange altar with a bowl meant to collect some sort of liquid sacrifice on top. The altar is warm to the touch."

Having failed to give out any meaningful treasure this way, I agreed that the PCs could take some of the esoteric books they found and sell them for 50 gold pieces each.

"But you need to roll a d6 for each one." I gave no other information.

They were so spooked that they returned to town with no treasure, not having encountered anything other than the confused ghost of a military wizard of some sort, and were convinced they had escaped getting sucked into Hellraiser.

Those are the best. Works great in horror and mystery. It’s why you never need red herrings in RPGs. The PCs will gladly lead you everywhere but where your notes suggested.

 

[dragoner]

Sorry to hear about that. It sucks when people screw with your stuff. It bothers me far less when I get to be the person who messes up my new things.

Whoever did this to my car was particularly vindictive. Like I said, both doors down to metal. There was enough pressure put on the key, or whatever they used, to push up a couple of little curls of steel.

This is horrible to hear, people are just no good. Makes one want to shake their fist at the sky and declare "I'm trying to not be a misanthrope here!"

 

[Scribe]

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Bro, just get therapy, it will help you.

Anyway, the data gods seemed to smile on me today. I stumbled on 3 or 4 different 'oh how did that get there' weird pieces of data that the client insisted would never happen, and so could resolve them before my deadline which will almost CERTAINLY not be met anyway thanks to my week delay due to a faulty IT/Laptop.

We COULD pull the trigger, but is it really worth it? I hope someone above my pay grade says 'no, push it out a week'.