Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
White Dwarf Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Nest
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
EN Publishing
Twitter
BlueSky
Facebook
Instagram
EN World
BlueSky
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
Rant about my Party
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 7146203" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>Strahd came and attacked the Rogue for killing her, but since I had immediately started bringing her back he didn’t have much reason to freak out. The second time he killed the Rogue, attacking until he was dead, and continued attacking the party, I also still made it clear my intention was to bring her back that second time as well.</p><p></p><p>The fact Strahd attacked us for killing her seems to be enough to convince the party that she was lying about being terrified of him and that she was really evil, because why would he attack us if she was a good person who wasn’t working for him (I get why, they don’t it seems)</p><p></p><p>Also, he has said repeatedly that he is running a modified version of the adventure, to compensate for our power and the fact that this is essentially a sidequest. The more I talk to them though, the less and less I believe they were lashing out against the DM. Frankly, we thought this woman was a maid when we first encountered her, we never learned her name, and only one of us has ever played CoS before and he wasn’t the one inciting the violence. From the perspective of the group, she was literally a faceless NPC with no significance for the plot so killing her would have no ramifications for the game. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>None of us use alignment officially in the game. I used Lawful Good as a shorthand for the type of character I was playing. I have no idea what they wrote on their sheets and they’ve never said. </p><p></p><p>So that isn’t the issue here, according to one of them, they do it for “those dank memes”… which I don’t see how that has a bearing on the decision points I’ve been objecting to, but that’s how it was explained. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>2nd: Yeah, I keep thinking that, but then they get frustrated with me being the straight man, telling me I’m too strict and serious and they just wanna have fun. I’m mildly curious how they are going to treat my new guy but he is not going to have the same role as my Cleric, his most severe reaction to the murder of innocents is going to be “that was a waste” because he wants to make a cult and become an archedevil, not that he’s going to tell them that. I’ve never played a character who selfishly wants power before, so it’ll be interesting for me at least. An experiment.</p><p></p><p>3rd: Well, first of all, my character and the person who left the group were the only two who really considered her a friend. To everyone else she was a rando-NPC. One of the other players, when I expressed concern over her dying if we took too long by going overland instead of buying a boat, pretty much said they could care less if she died or not. But, we also didn’t care about Strahd, they went into the Death House purely because they wanted to kill a monster and the DM placed the house in front of us. To force us to continue he took the soul of the character belonging to the person who left, trapped it in the mist, and said the only way to save her was to kill Strahd. That character is literally the only one all of us care for. We can’t abandon her, in fact, that is one of the only things that bothers me about my character leaving the party. It feels like I’m abandoning her, and the only way it makes sense it to know they won’t abandon her and they kicked Strahd’s teeth in while my character was tied up on the floor, so clearly they don’t need his help. He is going straight to his friend though, and the DM already talked it through with me about how I rescued her and what condition she was in when I found her. </p><p></p><p>4th: I do like the group, and I do think some of the things they do are funny, I just wish it was more “Bad Company” than “Silence of the Lambs” (I think I got those two movies right)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 7146203, member: 6801228"] Strahd came and attacked the Rogue for killing her, but since I had immediately started bringing her back he didn’t have much reason to freak out. The second time he killed the Rogue, attacking until he was dead, and continued attacking the party, I also still made it clear my intention was to bring her back that second time as well. The fact Strahd attacked us for killing her seems to be enough to convince the party that she was lying about being terrified of him and that she was really evil, because why would he attack us if she was a good person who wasn’t working for him (I get why, they don’t it seems) Also, he has said repeatedly that he is running a modified version of the adventure, to compensate for our power and the fact that this is essentially a sidequest. The more I talk to them though, the less and less I believe they were lashing out against the DM. Frankly, we thought this woman was a maid when we first encountered her, we never learned her name, and only one of us has ever played CoS before and he wasn’t the one inciting the violence. From the perspective of the group, she was literally a faceless NPC with no significance for the plot so killing her would have no ramifications for the game. None of us use alignment officially in the game. I used Lawful Good as a shorthand for the type of character I was playing. I have no idea what they wrote on their sheets and they’ve never said. So that isn’t the issue here, according to one of them, they do it for “those dank memes”… which I don’t see how that has a bearing on the decision points I’ve been objecting to, but that’s how it was explained. 2nd: Yeah, I keep thinking that, but then they get frustrated with me being the straight man, telling me I’m too strict and serious and they just wanna have fun. I’m mildly curious how they are going to treat my new guy but he is not going to have the same role as my Cleric, his most severe reaction to the murder of innocents is going to be “that was a waste” because he wants to make a cult and become an archedevil, not that he’s going to tell them that. I’ve never played a character who selfishly wants power before, so it’ll be interesting for me at least. An experiment. 3rd: Well, first of all, my character and the person who left the group were the only two who really considered her a friend. To everyone else she was a rando-NPC. One of the other players, when I expressed concern over her dying if we took too long by going overland instead of buying a boat, pretty much said they could care less if she died or not. But, we also didn’t care about Strahd, they went into the Death House purely because they wanted to kill a monster and the DM placed the house in front of us. To force us to continue he took the soul of the character belonging to the person who left, trapped it in the mist, and said the only way to save her was to kill Strahd. That character is literally the only one all of us care for. We can’t abandon her, in fact, that is one of the only things that bothers me about my character leaving the party. It feels like I’m abandoning her, and the only way it makes sense it to know they won’t abandon her and they kicked Strahd’s teeth in while my character was tied up on the floor, so clearly they don’t need his help. He is going straight to his friend though, and the DM already talked it through with me about how I rescued her and what condition she was in when I found her. 4th: I do like the group, and I do think some of the things they do are funny, I just wish it was more “Bad Company” than “Silence of the Lambs” (I think I got those two movies right) [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
Rant about my Party
Top