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[Mannahnin]

See, it was Pendragon 4th edition, which has rules for knights with a mild ability or two! Pictish knight can have a supernatural ability or two, based on their reference for their ancestral spirits. But he wanted fu play Merlin, basically. And Merlin is already in the game.

One of the knights in our current Pendragon game went to Merlin for tutelage in magic, and learned a spell to help his estate's crops. Of course, he took a big Honor hit for studying magic.

 

[RealAlHazred]

One of the knights in our current Pendragon game went to Merlin for tutelage in magic, and learned a spell to help his estate's crops. Of course, he took a big Honor hit for studying magic.

That's as it should be! It's a game about building a dynasty of knights and dying gloriously so that your descendants can achieve even greater heights of glory. A single wizened plotter living in a cave for decades is not really in line with the gameplay the mechanics are designed to encourage, and probably won't be as fun for the player as a result.

In my case, it was more a player who regularly comes up with characters designed to break whatever campaign the group had in mind. "We're playing spies in Faerun? I want to play an honorable paladin!" "We're playing standard dungeoneering murderhobos? I have created a spy character." Like, not completely out-of-genre, and certainly within the constraints of the system, but designed to require different handling in common situations so that the gameplay which involved several players suddenly must revolve around only his character.

 

[Ryujin]

That's as it should be! It's a game about building a dynasty of knights and dying gloriously so that your descendants can achieve even greater heights of glory. A single wizened plotter living in a cave for decades is not really in line with the gameplay the mechanics are designed to encourage, and probably won't be as fun for the player as a result.

In my case, it was more a player who regularly comes up with characters designed to break whatever campaign the group had in mind. "We're playing spies in Faerun? I want to play an honorable paladin!" "We're playing standard dungeoneering murderhobos? I have created a spy character." Like, not completely out-of-genre, and certainly within the constraints of the system, but designed to require different handling in common situations so that the gameplay which involved several players suddenly must revolve around only his character.

Sounds like the sort of player who always wants the spotlight to be on them, rather than sharing it with the group. i find that sort of player to be impossible to please and rarely worth the trouble.

 

[Alzrius]

That's as it should be! It's a game about building a dynasty of knights and dying gloriously so that your descendants can achieve even greater heights of glory. A single wizened plotter living in a cave for decades is not really in line with the gameplay the mechanics are designed to encourage, and probably won't be as fun for the player as a result.

In my case, it was more a player who regularly comes up with characters designed to break whatever campaign the group had in mind. "We're playing spies in Faerun? I want to play an honorable paladin!" "We're playing standard dungeoneering murderhobos? I have created a spy character." Like, not completely out-of-genre, and certainly within the constraints of the system, but designed to require different handling in common situations so that the gameplay which involved several players suddenly must revolve around only his character.

I still grimace when I remember the two players who, after being told that our next campaign was going to be Ravenloft-style gothic horror in tenor, decided to make characters who were tag-team luchador wrestlers. One spoke in faux-Spanish, and the other talked in a Hulk Hogan accent. The GM bent over backwards to try and make it work, but it struck me as one of those times that being accommodating was the wrong thing to do.

Needless to say, those two flamed out later on, and we don't game with them anymore.

 

[Cadence]

I still grimace when I remember the two players who, after being told that our next campaign was going to be Ravenloft-style gothic horror in tenor, decided to make characters who were tag-team luchador wrestlers. One spoke in faux-Spanish, and the other talked in a Hulk Hogan accent. The GM bent over backwards to try and make it work, but it struck me as one of those times that being accommodating was the wrong thing to do.

I wonder if there is a correlation between what kind of fiction people like and how likely they are to want to break the settings general rules. (If ones favorite shows and movies generally have characters who are the chosen one in terms of power-level, vs. shows and movies where the main character is still within the bounds of the background genre).

 

[RealAlHazred]

I wonder if there is a correlation between what kind of fiction people like and how likely they are to want to break the settings general rules. (If ones favorite shows and movies generally have characters who are the chosen one in terms of power-level, vs. shows and movies where the main character is still within the bounds of the background genre).

I think it has more to do with the social dynamics and status switching. In normal friend groups, status changes dynamically over time, usually like a sine wave. Sometimes you are in the spotlight (say, at a celebratory dinner in your honor) and sometimes someone else is (say, at their wedding). Some people cannot handle dynamically-shifting status -- I'm not a sociologist so I couldn't tell you why. When they create characters, they generally design them to require a monopoly on the GM's time when they're in the spotlight since the GM is the focal point of the action in the game -- "if the GM doesn't see it, it hasn't happened." So, it's by design.

 

[dragoner]

When we make characters it is usually a whole session, so concept, lifepath, figuring connections etc. three hours.

 

[Mad_Jack]

 

[Gradine]

recent email:

Was instructed this the best way to get into contact with Fallon on behalf
of the starseed council. You were sent down to Earth for the human
experience but there was an anomaly in the system that can't be corrected.
We can't get the exact date and only that it will happen in 2025. The
wars/conflict with India and Pakistan, Ukraine and Russia, Iran and Israel
are going to lead to a nuclear war which will be an extinction level event
destroying the majority of the population on Earth. In the past this was
corrected but too many happening at one time happening at one time is
making it impossible to correct. This is disrupting the whole experience
and are calling back starseeds to their home planets and dimensions. In
certain situations like this, we can pull you out at the last moment or be
able to leave anytime you want now being aware after the veil of
forgetfulness. Based on the level of the event you can be pulled out prior.
Memory purges and alterations can be initiated for the next experience on
another planet/dimension or could just choose to go back to the originating
dimension or planet that you are originally from.

Every once in a while you see something like this and you just have to go... but how is it a scam?

Recently I got a phone call from a local credit union saying that my account had a past due balance and that I needed to go in to the nearest branch ASAP to correct it, the problem of course being that I don't have any accounts with said local credit union, so I give the actual branch a call and they're like "nope, no account for you, probably just a scam," and I ask the question, and there's just a long pause on the other end, and finally "...yeah I don't get it either."

 

[dragoner]

Every once in a while you see something like this and you just have to go... but how is it a scam?

Recently I got a phone call from a local credit union saying that my account had a past due balance and that I needed to go in to the nearest branch ASAP to correct it, the problem of course being that I don't have any accounts with said local credit union, so I give the actual branch a call and they're like "nope, no account for you, probably just a scam," and I ask the question, and there's just a long pause on the other end, and finally "...yeah I don't get it either."

I get weird emails, not a lot but a few, and being "kosmic rpg" maybe there is some attraction. It does make one think. I am fine with weird though, I lived in pre-dotcom SF Bay Area, and it was pretty cool before it got leveled.