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<blockquote data-quote="rgoodbb" data-source="post: 7200731" data-attributes="member: 6801229"><p><span style="color: #008080">"Really?!?" Replied the DM, just starting to loosen up into their long rant.</span></p><p><span style="color: #008080"></span></p><p><span style="color: #008080">"<strong>First. </strong>Not only are you are now a party size of nine. NINE!</span></p><p><span style="color: #008080"><strong>Second. </strong>But now one of you is now a Demi-God?</span></p><p><span style="color: #008080"><strong>Third.</strong> You hit me with an intimidating AD&D Deities and Demigods manual when you know I only have the Legends and Lore manual. You know, the one with Odin on the cover.</span></p><p><span style="color: #008080"><strong>Fourth.</strong> You also know I haven't got my Tomb of Annihilation book yet, yet you still want to go to Chult. Oh yes.</span></p><p><span style="color: #008080"></span></p><p><span style="color: #008080">Well you've done it now haven't you? You've had your chance. You've had your fun and your freedom. SANDBOX IS OVER folks. Do you know why? Because one of you is now going to DM for the foreseeable future. I'm going to play. I've done my bit, but it's your turn. I'm fed up with having to do the work and all I get in reply is whinging and whining. Petty complaints, and ridiculous rule-skirting:</span></p><p><span style="color: #008080"></span></p><p><span style="color: #008080">I parkour up the wall using acrobatics - Nope. Athletics</span></p><p><span style="color: #008080">I run up the beast's back and hang on while stabbing it in the eye repeatedly with my dagger - Action, action, action, action.</span></p><p><span style="color: #008080">I cast hold person and then cutting words their save..........Nope</span></p><p><span style="color: #008080">I cast fireball and crit - ...........Dear lord!</span></p><p><span style="color: #008080"></span></p><p><span style="color: #008080">Next week I'm coming back as a player. Which one of you is going to DM.............See?...........Not so eager now are you all?"</span></p><p><span style="color: #008080"></span></p><p><span style="color: #008080"></span></p><p><span style="color: #008080"></span></p><p><span style="color: #008080"></span></p><p><span style="color: #008080"><u>The next week</u> </span></p><p><span style="color: #008080">Not surprisingly, only five players turn up and one of them is the DM with their new PC</span></p><p><span style="color: #008080"></span></p><p><span style="color: #008080"></span></p><p><span style="color: #008080"><u>PC's</u></span></p><p><span style="color: #008080">1 Ex-DM reviving and playing their favourite NPC: <strong>Footnote</strong> (Bard-College of sonic feet-Level 7)</span></p><p><span style="color: #008080">2.......</span></p><p><span style="color: #008080">3.......</span></p><p><span style="color: #008080">4.......</span></p><p><span style="color: #008080"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rgoodbb, post: 7200731, member: 6801229"] [COLOR="#008080"]"Really?!?" Replied the DM, just starting to loosen up into their long rant. "[B]First. [/B]Not only are you are now a party size of nine. NINE! [B]Second. [/B]But now one of you is now a Demi-God? [B]Third.[/B] You hit me with an intimidating AD&D Deities and Demigods manual when you know I only have the Legends and Lore manual. You know, the one with Odin on the cover. [B]Fourth.[/B] You also know I haven't got my Tomb of Annihilation book yet, yet you still want to go to Chult. Oh yes. Well you've done it now haven't you? You've had your chance. You've had your fun and your freedom. SANDBOX IS OVER folks. Do you know why? Because one of you is now going to DM for the foreseeable future. I'm going to play. I've done my bit, but it's your turn. I'm fed up with having to do the work and all I get in reply is whinging and whining. Petty complaints, and ridiculous rule-skirting: I parkour up the wall using acrobatics - Nope. Athletics I run up the beast's back and hang on while stabbing it in the eye repeatedly with my dagger - Action, action, action, action. I cast hold person and then cutting words their save..........Nope I cast fireball and crit - ...........Dear lord! Next week I'm coming back as a player. Which one of you is going to DM.............See?...........Not so eager now are you all?" [U]The next week[/U] Not surprisingly, only five players turn up and one of them is the DM with their new PC [U]PC's[/U] 1 Ex-DM reviving and playing their favourite NPC: [B]Footnote[/B] (Bard-College of sonic feet-Level 7) 2....... 3....... 4....... [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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