April 2012
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IMAGINE THAT
We were playing an Exalted game where I was brought in at the last minute even though I didn’t know anything about the game or universe and nobody around was particularly good at explaining it.
But I was an Eclipse caste Solar which meant that my special ability was to create unbreakable vows with a handshake.
And also apparently that my charisma was through the roof.
I didn’t really...
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Combat uses for a water bottle
I had a character in D&D 3.5 named Marek. It wasn’t intentional at the time, but he was largely designed around completely fucking with the DM’s plans.
Basically he was a psion who specialised in creating things. He also had a bag of holding filled with lots of random magic items, and a special magic item with the ability to create a large supply of mundane items (it was...
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Magic Item Saves the Day!
I was playing in a campaign where the GM was very new to the system and was running a 2e campaign in a 4e setting with 3.5e rules.
As you can see its a recipe for disaster, but moving on from that.
Our DM decided to give each individual player 200k in gold. Fatal mistake. Everyone went out and bought stat tomes, major magic items that supplemented their powers, etc.
I went out and bought...
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Right In The Fuel Canister
My Eldar Rangers crouched low in a ruined building, a relic of a past age. We had been hit hard by an Imperial Guard assault from the right while Orcs had rushed us from the left. With my main (if small) army locked in hand to hand combat, it was up to my two Camouflaged Rangers to do the dirty ranged work.
In the distance, an Imperial Sentinel Walker was hammering a squad of space marines as...
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Knife to a Gun Fight
My friends and I were playing a Dark Heresy game. The group was two Guardsmen, an Arbite, an Adept, an Assassin, and a Psyker posing as a Cleric. In the second session of the game our Feral World Guard decides he wants more money, so he strolls into the nearest bar and proceeds to pick a fight with the local PDF’s (Planetary Defense Force)(essentially police officers).
He wins the fist...
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The Botch Parade
Pathfinder campaign, running for a few months, and we’re on the final session plowing our way through the final few rooms until we get to the boss (the Carrion King.) I’ve got a Barbarian who was planned out to be a lot more interesting than he ended up being in practice. Our rogue is a multiclassed Barbarian as well with an INT score that doesn’t really break the bank, but...
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We'll stay right here
We’re in the far future, me and my buds, trying to make ends meet. We just rescued the Mayor’s daughter from a bunch of All-American gourmet terrorists with names like Chad, Chet, Brad, Chip (don’t ask).
Suddenly - call on our future phones! The remaining gourmet terrorists are holed up in the City’s Water Treatment Plant!
Dastardly! They’re going to poison...
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Eric and the Gazebo
(This is another gaming classic, and it looks like it was written by Richard Aronson)
Let us cast our minds back to the early days of fantasy role-playing… In the early ’70s, Ed Whitechurch ran “his game”, and one of the participants was Eric Sorenson, a veritable giant of a man.
This story is essentially true: I knew both Ed and Eric, and neither denies it (although...
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I'm a sorceror!
I have a bit of a problem with characters. It’s not an unusual one, but I think I have it to an unusual degree. It’s that I create characters with an extremely high power-to-common-sense ratio. It’s not that I can’t do common sense, it’s just much funnier if I don’t.
Probably my favourite example of this was Nicky. The backstory for Nicky was that his family...
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Snake eyes!
In one of the most fun campaigns I ever played, a friend of mine was that particular breed of D&Der: the pack rat.
Anything that wasn’t nailed down - and quite a few things that were - ended up in a bag of holding. He was carrying around the most useless pile of miscellaneous shit for most of the campaign.
My character - Baron Ovaries - was a bard and, as the most charismatic of the...
