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I don't remember if I mentioned the one GM I had that kept all his adventure notes on a napkin. I think the only way he could be less prepared is if he was eating a meatball sub during the game. :P
ME(A)TA Attack That Transcends Dimensions:
Every time DM's meatball sauce stains your character's figurine on the table, you get 2D6spicy fire damage!
Every time DM's meatball sauce stains your character's figurine on the table, you get 2D6
Heh, haven't had food fall on my figurines yet. Had the occasional drink spill though. If it's soda, I declare it an acid splash spell. :3
Who here has done this?
You did not read the module all the way, which results in a bad situation.
You did not read the module all the way, which results in a bad situation.
Also, he was me, so
>each fight was really slow
Oy vey, I know something about that... @_@
The first game session I have lead had SEVEN players.
Now try to imagine just how slow a Newb DM + Seven Newb Players are. :p
Oy vey, I know something about that... @_@
The first game session I have lead had SEVEN players.
Now try to imagine just how slow a Newb DM + Seven Newb Players are. :p
Heh... be glad that wasn't a RuneQuest episode...
Attacker: roll to hit with weapon-X
Defender: roll to parry with weapon/shield-Y
A vs D
success:success parry weapon/shield takes damage
success:fail defender takes damage
fail:success attacker weapon takes damage
fail:fail no effect
If a weapon takes damage, reduce its points
succes:fail condition -> roll damage amount, roll damage location; defender subtract armor at location from damage, excess goes through to affect overall hit points, and location hit points
Oh, and if a fail condition is really bad, roll fumble effects.
Attacker: roll to hit with weapon-X
Defender: roll to parry with weapon/shield-Y
A vs D
success:success parry weapon/shield takes damage
success:fail defender takes damage
fail:success attacker weapon takes damage
fail:fail no effect
If a weapon takes damage, reduce its points
succes:fail condition -> roll damage amount, roll damage location; defender subtract armor at location from damage, excess goes through to affect overall hit points, and location hit points
Oh, and if a fail condition is really bad, roll fumble effects.
>so he ended up being a random guard he had to come up with a name for on the fly.
Was the fight with him at least satisfying?
Was the fight with him at least satisfying?
>in 0 hits
Like, he kept tripping over his own legs due to exhaustion as he ran, and doing minor damage to himself with every fall?
Like, he kept tripping over his own legs due to exhaustion as he ran, and doing minor damage to himself with every fall?
I also ran The Sunless Citadel in the early 2000s. However, I did read it before I ran it. ;-) My players were so taken with Meepo the kobold that he actually joined the party and earned the nickname "Deadeye" because he was wicked good with his crossbow.
I forgot. What *was* Meepo's role in the module?
My vague memory only tells me that he was supposed to guide the players to... some king-like figure, so that king-dude would give them a quest...?
My vague memory only tells me that he was supposed to guide the players to... some king-like figure, so that king-dude would give them a quest...?
He had a "pet" baby white dragon that he lost. The players were suppose to find the dragon and return it to Meepo. Which my players did.
After the module was over, though, I had a silver dragon, an NPC from my own home brew campaign that I inserted this module into, charge on of the PCs to steal the baby dragon back so he could return it to the wild.
After the module was over, though, I had a silver dragon, an NPC from my own home brew campaign that I inserted this module into, charge on of the PCs to steal the baby dragon back so he could return it to the wild.
I ran the 5E remake of the Sunless Citadel and my players also had Meepo join the party. Though it was only after he died pathetically and became the Avatar of Failure. In a later adventure, one of our players had his dwarf cleric use a magic item to teleport to a giant encampment that we'd fled from before, just to see how trapped it was. Roughly fifty Glyphs of Warding later, he somehow rolled a Divine Intervention and got Meepo sitting on his shoulder for his poor life choices (but also Word of Recalled back, then we took an airship and went the long way).
I'm always comically unprepared. But I run games for kids at the library; they don't mind or notice. My rules are so basic that I can start with an elevator pitch ("The Guard captain announces that he needs volunteers to fight monsters in the sewer") and just go at it.
I can only think of one instance... DM used an online resource to make us a quick dungeon to delve through for experience. Apparently, the scripts thought four specters and a mummy with levels of monk and high dex was suitable for a level 12 party... Improved Evasion was a thing it had, and... I just remember we were all hiding away from line-of-sight as much as we could. ... We stopped using online auto-generated stuff after that, and I never trusted any again
Guest Author's Note: "Yeah... something similar totally happened to me, as a DM, about a decade ago.
The Sunless Citadel module, I think. I ended up declaring that It Was All A Dream and let the players keep the XP they earned during that game.
Story Time! Tell us about the time your DM was comically unprepared."
Newbiespud's Note: After the last update, a few more of you lovely people contacted me about submitting more guest comics! I think I'll get the sabbatical I sorely need after all, and you all will get some interesting pages to read. Though I still might go through with the idea I had in mind… We'll see!