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21st Nov 2020, 6:00 AM
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Spud, the last panel is possibly the greatest joke you have told in recent memory. I have to add 'recent' because your comic has been going on for years and never got stale. So that's two accomplishments! Yay!
Now the players need a plan B.
Now the players need a plan B.
You get a character! YOU get a character!
EVERYBODY GETS A CHARACTER!
EVERYBODY GETS A CHARACTER!
Ooof no, I do not think "actual" Zephyr would be fun to have as a player...
Any story when the GM offer someone a character that no one want?
That reminds me that I want to play this Starfinder campaign by the name of Skitter Shot. It’s got pre-generated characters, one of whom I want to play... But, alas, no GM, and no other players...
Probably not what you meant, BUT we used to have a DM of... Notably poor skill with a bad habit so dealing in both favors and favoritism in tabletop, and a habit of starting a game, running it two or three times, then scrapping it for another,or running multiple games for MOSTLY the same people...
He had a habit of making... Decisions for the PCs, usually in the form of forcing a familiar or the like no one wanted into the party... For example, killing off my wizards parrot Familiar(I like birds, only reason) and giving him a plot-critical Imp familiar instead to act like a guide cuz we got Railroaded into hell... Which I honestly feel like he stole from something...
And should we actually refuse this sort of shit, he tends to, out of spite. Kill said critter and make us feel bad for not wanting it... And generally end the game a week later out of the blue.
On the note of the campaign above, he had a idea where all the PCs would die and then have to work their way out of hell... Disregarding everyone's actual alignments or Religous leanings for any divine casters... And absalutely everyone passed on it as it frankly did not sound fun.
So, a few days later he supposedly had a new idea, more generally fantasy, and we all jumped aboard... Only for us to all "totally not die and just get teleported to hell ambiguously"... Which for me had my throat basically get torn out by a hellhound... Or "grabbed and dragged there" by it.
He basically tricked us into playing a game we all passed on. Via absalutely blatant lies.
There was never a second session... And how the first session went, honestly felt like he had nothing prepared for after we actually get TO hell.... Which was another issue he had in both tabletop and the old Forum RPS "Well, do stuff!" With minimal or no information to work off of...
As a reactive DM myself, I can tell that's sort of what he was going for, but you need to provide hooks and seeds still...
He also had a issue of trying to, persistently, get you to play class/race/personality combinations he would as a aPC, with those that do getting immense favoritism, which loops back into the Proposed Storytime a bit...
Have not heard hide nor hair of this jackass in literally years, and I am not eager to remedy that... One of like, two friends I've intentionally left behind over the years...
Still not as bad as the Typo-elemental whoms definition of friend was "people I benefit from being associated with", who insisted every game abandon the DMs plot and become a Civilization Builder game, and ruined the phrase "a slice of the pie" for me forever... But that's a completely separate story about Megaman, Megamind, DMPCs, and a guy who completely did not see the issue with the PCs traveling with a level 20 DMPC who was explicitly the leader, in a "I will end the game if I don't get my way" manner.
...why do all my Storytime entries end up about either these two or Dave, whom is the cosmic balance for the other two...
He had a habit of making... Decisions for the PCs, usually in the form of forcing a familiar or the like no one wanted into the party... For example, killing off my wizards parrot Familiar(I like birds, only reason) and giving him a plot-critical Imp familiar instead to act like a guide cuz we got Railroaded into hell... Which I honestly feel like he stole from something...
And should we actually refuse this sort of shit, he tends to, out of spite. Kill said critter and make us feel bad for not wanting it... And generally end the game a week later out of the blue.
On the note of the campaign above, he had a idea where all the PCs would die and then have to work their way out of hell... Disregarding everyone's actual alignments or Religous leanings for any divine casters... And absalutely everyone passed on it as it frankly did not sound fun.
So, a few days later he supposedly had a new idea, more generally fantasy, and we all jumped aboard... Only for us to all "totally not die and just get teleported to hell ambiguously"... Which for me had my throat basically get torn out by a hellhound... Or "grabbed and dragged there" by it.
He basically tricked us into playing a game we all passed on. Via absalutely blatant lies.
There was never a second session... And how the first session went, honestly felt like he had nothing prepared for after we actually get TO hell.... Which was another issue he had in both tabletop and the old Forum RPS "Well, do stuff!" With minimal or no information to work off of...
As a reactive DM myself, I can tell that's sort of what he was going for, but you need to provide hooks and seeds still...
He also had a issue of trying to, persistently, get you to play class/race/personality combinations he would as a aPC, with those that do getting immense favoritism, which loops back into the Proposed Storytime a bit...
Have not heard hide nor hair of this jackass in literally years, and I am not eager to remedy that... One of like, two friends I've intentionally left behind over the years...
Still not as bad as the Typo-elemental whoms definition of friend was "people I benefit from being associated with", who insisted every game abandon the DMs plot and become a Civilization Builder game, and ruined the phrase "a slice of the pie" for me forever... But that's a completely separate story about Megaman, Megamind, DMPCs, and a guy who completely did not see the issue with the PCs traveling with a level 20 DMPC who was explicitly the leader, in a "I will end the game if I don't get my way" manner.
...why do all my Storytime entries end up about either these two or Dave, whom is the cosmic balance for the other two...
The only examples I have are from people who I ended up hating gaming with, so they don't get the dignity of their exploits being told to others.
Makes sense, wouldn't want constant reminders of real-life drama within the game. Especially since, unlike Twilight's player, this is all it would be, only an annoying reminder, not "a chance to reconnect with her estranged family".
I saw the title and immediately thought of the Noh mask from Inuyasha. I see neither masks nor demons here. I am vaguely disappointed.
I'm always reminded of the Noh Theater sketch from MST3K.
I thought of actual Noh theater but didn't have any jokes to share. At least Dash didn't have to do any dances for Zephyr just to leave, though.
That's a reference to an actual Noh play called Hagoromo, by the way.
That's a reference to an actual Noh play called Hagoromo, by the way.
And with the non-canonization of Zephyr as Flutters' brother, we're averting Real Life Writes the Plot!
Meanwhile, on Jutsu & Jinchuuriki...
(Uncanny timing is uncanny.)
Meanwhile, on Jutsu & Jinchuuriki...
(Uncanny timing is uncanny.)
I haven't seen Pinkie or Applejack in these past few pages. I presume that this is due to limitations of the screencaps, but, in-game, are they present but "offscreen", or are they holding the fort back at the palace?