Asmor
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I just quit a game today because I realized that the thing I most enjoyed was also incredibly dangerous for all the other players...
Some quick background. It's a homebrew game of the GM's called Dunaan. In Dunaan, whenever you cast a spell you have a chance of "backlashing." Rolling low is good, and you backlash if you roll high when you cast the spell.
My character's main combat action was a spell called Spirit Claw, which essentially acted like casting 6 spells (one for each finger) and each of those d20s backlashed on a 17-20.
Most of the backlash chart is bad stuff. Random polymorphs, turn to stone, typical stuff. I'm usually pretty luck and get things that are good, like growing spikes, or not too bad. I happily take the good with the bad, though. There are a couple things that affect everyone, though. For example, tonight I almost summoned a meteor which probably would have killed everyone if one of the other players hadn't used a "fate cup" to force a reroll on the backlash chart.
Now, I've only been playing for a couple months, and the backlash chart is literally the only thing I enjoy about the system. I'm not saying it's a bad system, just that through sheer coincidence he's implemented most of the mechanics in ways that I don't like. I like hanging out with my friends though, and he was a good GM so the game was still fun despite that.
The other players, on the other hand, have literally been playing their characters for years. 5+ years. And it just occurred to me tonight that every time I roll a die, there's a chance that I'm going to erase all those years of their work. Personally, I can't understand how anyone could play the same character for that long, but they're obviously really attached to them.
So I just emailed the GM explaining all of this and telling him that I was going to stop playing.
Anyone else ever realize that you were the odd man out in a game?
Some quick background. It's a homebrew game of the GM's called Dunaan. In Dunaan, whenever you cast a spell you have a chance of "backlashing." Rolling low is good, and you backlash if you roll high when you cast the spell.
My character's main combat action was a spell called Spirit Claw, which essentially acted like casting 6 spells (one for each finger) and each of those d20s backlashed on a 17-20.
Most of the backlash chart is bad stuff. Random polymorphs, turn to stone, typical stuff. I'm usually pretty luck and get things that are good, like growing spikes, or not too bad. I happily take the good with the bad, though. There are a couple things that affect everyone, though. For example, tonight I almost summoned a meteor which probably would have killed everyone if one of the other players hadn't used a "fate cup" to force a reroll on the backlash chart.
Now, I've only been playing for a couple months, and the backlash chart is literally the only thing I enjoy about the system. I'm not saying it's a bad system, just that through sheer coincidence he's implemented most of the mechanics in ways that I don't like. I like hanging out with my friends though, and he was a good GM so the game was still fun despite that.
The other players, on the other hand, have literally been playing their characters for years. 5+ years. And it just occurred to me tonight that every time I roll a die, there's a chance that I'm going to erase all those years of their work. Personally, I can't understand how anyone could play the same character for that long, but they're obviously really attached to them.
So I just emailed the GM explaining all of this and telling him that I was going to stop playing.
Anyone else ever realize that you were the odd man out in a game?
Wanted to make a Factotum when I got Dungeonscape, wanted to make a Spartan after seeing 300, etc. There's so many character ideas I have, how could I ever possibly limit myself to one character for that long? Inconceivable!
