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I once played in a one shot adventure based on the book/movie 'The Mist'. We got to make whatever character we wanted in a modern setting. Our PC group was:
A fireman
A news reporter
A police officer
A computer tech
A UPS delivery driver
We had some NPCs with us and started in a grocery store when the fog hit. The most notable thing about the adventure is that we would never see what attacked us or killed NPCs. Either the fog gave total concealment or it was "off screen" if we left an NPC alone to long.
Also, most of us had some dirty secrets. The cop was crooked, the computer tech a hacker, the reporter had a rap sheet of break-ins...
It was hard to trust each other but if we didn't, we were dead because being alone at any point was pretty much a death sentence. And a bunch of us did die.
So the GM had another mechanic in play: if you die, you take control of one of the NPCs, upgrading the stats to PC status.
A fireman
A news reporter
A police officer
A computer tech
A UPS delivery driver
We had some NPCs with us and started in a grocery store when the fog hit. The most notable thing about the adventure is that we would never see what attacked us or killed NPCs. Either the fog gave total concealment or it was "off screen" if we left an NPC alone to long.
Also, most of us had some dirty secrets. The cop was crooked, the computer tech a hacker, the reporter had a rap sheet of break-ins...
It was hard to trust each other but if we didn't, we were dead because being alone at any point was pretty much a death sentence. And a bunch of us did die.
So the GM had another mechanic in play: if you die, you take control of one of the NPCs, upgrading the stats to PC status.
That's actually one of the mechanics of the "Planet Mercenary" system.
Wait! What dirty secret did the UPS guy have! I've got to know!
I just love the idea of a UPS guy as a PC. Like, all these other characters seem like they'd definitely have useful skills but a UPS guy of all people!
I just love the idea of a UPS guy as a PC. Like, all these other characters seem like they'd definitely have useful skills but a UPS guy of all people!
They're pretty fit from all the walking and lifting, know how to drive trucks, know their way around the city, know how to avoid biting animals..
The UPS guy was stealing packages and reselling them on eBay. He had mad driver skills and some auto mechanics ability to fix things.
Always struck me as how it was going to go down. Why else would Celestia take such a heavy interest?
A lot of reasons, really. There's a lot about that entire plot thread that was really poorly handled. But nobody ever really seems to want to listen when people bring up criticisms of it.
Either way, it's far enough in the past that, even though a fair share of people still don't like how things have turned out we've somewhat settled into the new status quo.
Either way, it's far enough in the past that, even though a fair share of people still don't like how things have turned out we've somewhat settled into the new status quo.
Look, it's very important that Spud gets access to an additional six seasons' worth of screencaps.
I figured that. Though what I want to see is a player discussion if a pegasus would get at horn or extra wings. Because that sounds like a real PC debate.
I believe conventional view is that Cadance started as a pegasus.
About time, innit? She isn't one, but she's always about to become a full fledged min-maxer, so having a conversation about her character gaining more power sounds pretty darn sensible
If this was 5e, Twilight could get her wings by leveling as Celestial Warlock.
Had the skeleton (no pun intended) of a one-shot lying around for a while. The party must investigate a series of robberies at various butcher shops. Whole animal carcasses just up and disappearing overnight. It's end up in a battle vs a 5th/6th level cleric or oracle and their army of chicken skeletons and cow zombies. Because regular grave robbing is so blase.
We kept watch in shifts. In the middle of the night, everything around us falls silent, not even the chirping of crickets. Our GM drives home the point quite effectively that things are spooky right now. Being in a dying world, and everything falling silent, I can't help but comment to the GM that I am reminded of the TV movie Langoliers. The GM says, "Would I do that?"
I answer, "Yes. Yes, you would."
Though, thankfully, we do not face meatballs with teeth eating the world around us. Just an Anthro Parrot Vampire, and a couple of living Anthro Parrots.
Our party was an elven thief, a snow leopard bard, a kitsune mage, and my character was a female human monk, who dresses like Kasumi from Dead or Alive. We realized the vampire part of our main baddie after our mage torched him with spells, and my monk pummeled him with her fists, doing quite a bit of damage, but not even slowing him down. Game mechanics require us to pierce the heart or severe the head, anything else at most shakes him so he can't act that round.
Eventually we almost decapitated him, and he retreated. He's actually still out there, we hope he doesn't come back. We're busy trying to deal with our Kitsune Mage's evil sister.