DM: I’m sorry, I don’t have the next Equestria adventure ready yet, but I borrowed this new Halo game I thought we could try out.
Rainbow Dash: Sweet! I love it already!
Rarity: Well, variety IS the spice of life, I suppose. I’m game.
DM: I’ve got some pregens here and – whoop! That was fast.
Rainbow Dash: I got what I need right here. This CQB guy gets a sweet assault rifle and can attack even after moving double his speed!
Applejack: Ah git one of those rifles too, but as Demolitions, Ah also git this handy grenade launcher.
Rainbow Dash: Whoa! I want one of those!
Rarity: I, however, chose a more delicate approach. As the Scout, I have an armor-piercing sniper rifle and a cloaking device.
Pinkie Pie: I got the Hayabusa class! I get a COOOOOL katana! I can also make copies of myself. I’m my own party!
Rainbow Dash: Why does she get a katana? This is a sci-fi game!
DM: It’s to balance out the Covenant energy swords.
Rainbow Dash: Can I get-?
DM: Sorry. Class feature.
Rainbow Dash: And what sort of cool features do you guys get?
Fluttershy: Oh, I picked the Medic. I deploy healing fields and only carry a pistol.
Twilight Sparkle: And I’m a Soldier. I get some extra health and ammo with no special powers.
Rainbow Dash: Nothing I’m missing then.
Twilight Sparkle: I also get to start with any weapons I want, so I took a laser cannon and a rocket launcher!
Rainbow Dash: GAH!!!!
DM: Alright, I’m getting a nice game out, like Risk.
Guest Author’s Note: "Loosely inspired by the Halo HeroClix line from years ago.
"As Yogi Berra once said, 'It ain't over 'til it's over.' Until your entire team is dead, there's always that one-in-a-million chance that you can turn things around and come out smelling like roses. Story Time today is tell us about last-minute saves."
Newbiespud's Note: As an alternate Story Time (2 for 1 today!), tell a story about "buyer's remorse" - a feat choice or class feature that someone else got that made you want it, or one that you got and regretted later.
Eh, a few years agos, my group were playing Eberron. At some point, one of the player of the group, in-between two adventures, said he want to buy a horse. And he want it right now, no waiting for the next day, so he keep pestering the DM about visiting every shop he can find that might sell horses, until the DM, out of having enough of this, tells him he manages to find a shop, then buy his damn horses. Next to what, the player announces that he get on his horse, then start parading proudly all around the city, waving at the people like a knight or a king.
To what the DM replied "You do realise you're in the city of STAIRS, right ? Your horse won't be able to get in the city, there are stairs everywhere."
It took us around half an hour to stop laughing and manage to get on with the game. And after that, we mostly travelled using either ships, train or teleport spell. XD
I had a character level up right before one of Paizo's big multi-table events and felt my sorcerer was a little lacking in attack power, so I bought a Wand of Fireballs and took the Burning Palms spell.
Then I find out that practically every enemy in the campaign is immune to fire spells and the one that wasn't was fought in such close quarters that using the wand would've been more likely to cause a TPK than kill the enemy.
Ugh, I hate that. I've had a character who bought a flamethrower to fight some undead and learned too late that these creatures had such a high tolerance to fire that they were getting bonus damage to body-slam us. :p
On the other side of the coin, I once managed to lob a live grenade into a closing elevator that had a werewolf inside it. The blast by itself would hurt, but most werewolves we fought would survive the explosion. THIS TIME the werewolf was in an enclosed metal box where the blastwave couldn't escape the confines of t
As for the question I could understand, every single game I have ever bought for my younger brother.
To what the DM replied "You do realise you're in the city of STAIRS, right ? Your horse won't be able to get in the city, there are stairs everywhere."
It took us around half an hour to stop laughing and manage to get on with the game. And after that, we mostly travelled using either ships, train or teleport spell. XD
I had a character level up right before one of Paizo's big multi-table events and felt my sorcerer was a little lacking in attack power, so I bought a Wand of Fireballs and took the Burning Palms spell.
Then I find out that practically every enemy in the campaign is immune to fire spells and the one that wasn't was fought in such close quarters that using the wand would've been more likely to cause a TPK than kill the enemy.
On the other side of the coin, I once managed to lob a live grenade into a closing elevator that had a werewolf inside it. The blast by itself would hurt, but most werewolves we fought would survive the explosion. THIS TIME the werewolf was in an enclosed metal box where the blastwave couldn't escape the confines of t