pming
Legend
Hiya!
LOL! Sorry to semi-derail here...but this just made me LOL and instantly think of a "campaign that never was". I own, yes, I admit it, about a half-dozen of the d20-based "Everquest RPG". I had actual random tables that I had created for when certain rolls/situations came up.
You didn't "roll for divine intervention"...you rolled on the "Favorable Bug Table"; it had things like 'PC's camera clips through side of wall and can see 10d10 feet in a 45 degree arc', and 'Temporary Exploit Loop found, PC can repeat last action to get exact same result', and stuff like that. There was a "Bad Bug/Glitch Table" as well; it had things like 'PC's actions are completely ineffectual for Xd10 rounds and at end of that time PC is reset to exact location where this glitch started'...and the dreaded 'PC manages to DC and must wait 5 minutes of real time before he is respawned at his last save spot' (fyi, "DC" in mmo lingo means 'Dropped Carrier'...ie, his game crashed or internet connection gets lost too long).
Anyway, yeah, you could 're-load' your character if you got a lucky "Death Happenstance Table" roll.
The whole purpose was to REALLY bring home that feeling of playing a video game MMORPG, but in table-top form. Guess what? It worked. Well. Almost too well!
Ok, back to the regular discussion.
^_^
Paul L. Ming
Just re-load your saved game.
LOL! Sorry to semi-derail here...but this just made me LOL and instantly think of a "campaign that never was". I own, yes, I admit it, about a half-dozen of the d20-based "Everquest RPG". I had actual random tables that I had created for when certain rolls/situations came up.
You didn't "roll for divine intervention"...you rolled on the "Favorable Bug Table"; it had things like 'PC's camera clips through side of wall and can see 10d10 feet in a 45 degree arc', and 'Temporary Exploit Loop found, PC can repeat last action to get exact same result', and stuff like that. There was a "Bad Bug/Glitch Table" as well; it had things like 'PC's actions are completely ineffectual for Xd10 rounds and at end of that time PC is reset to exact location where this glitch started'...and the dreaded 'PC manages to DC and must wait 5 minutes of real time before he is respawned at his last save spot' (fyi, "DC" in mmo lingo means 'Dropped Carrier'...ie, his game crashed or internet connection gets lost too long).
Anyway, yeah, you could 're-load' your character if you got a lucky "Death Happenstance Table" roll.

The whole purpose was to REALLY bring home that feeling of playing a video game MMORPG, but in table-top form. Guess what? It worked. Well. Almost too well!

Ok, back to the regular discussion.

^_^
Paul L. Ming