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Also, we can all tell, Fluttershy is either going top be Zecora of Luna. I can't see her playing Luna, though. Not unless DM got her really, really angry.
Umm, can't Fluttershy play Fluttershy, and Rarara's player go with Luna? I mean, Luna and Twilight do show up at Fluttershy's door in the episode, so there would be caps for this "something" the DM is figuring out.
I'd say if your story is long enough, then start posting your mini-chapters of terror to lead up to that climax then.
I remember this episode Raxon. I'm pretty sure I know what Fluttershy will be upto. But don't want to post a spoiler.
Isn't Zecora in prison, though? Didn't she get arrested at the end of the Bridle Gossip session?
I, uh, thought not, but I can't find the page I was gonna link. I could've sworn the players asked that same question and were told she was out doing community service...
Just, uh, ignore my above comment, new(er, or just a little behind) readers. Spoilers.
I can't imagine how much it would suck if my mother was like that, considering it's also her birthday.
Oh to have your own mini-session... that would be great. :3
I actually have no idea how to proceed from what's on today's page. From the info provided, Fluttershy has no love for Nightmare Night (as shown in the show as well, no blame there), but I know more then certain that the DM wouldn't allow for her to get side-lined again (for being that good at playing her character)...
I am sure there are reasons she is afraid of this night...
-Edit-
... and I think I know why.
Cat videos? That's what the internet is for, right?
That and stuff that is definitely NSFW...
That and stuff that is definitely NSFW...
Heh, trust me.
Also, doesn't Fluttershy have Angel with her?
Sad because vocals were raised 2 octaves from the original version and the cute kitty is a poor substitute for the super hot gypsy bard goddess.
That was beautiful, Raxon, though I can see why those with tears to shed might shed them at that.
...I was waiting throughout that entire video for it to just suddenly become incredibly dark without having seen any of the replies to Raxon's first comment, and then, nothing came. I'm not sure whether I should be annoyed or congratulating you on tricking me like that.
There are other reasons she might be crying.
And people wonder why I hate Ontario.
Edit: @HonorableInsanity I don't even have to do anything anymore. all I have to do is post a video, and you people troll yourselves. I'm just that good.
I've had the spotlight twice over the multiple years I've played DnD: One was so negligible it might as well not have happened at all and the other one was last week, when my plan to spy on a camp as a prisoner backfired when my cleric proved he was too much of a pansy to even break stone and got sentenced to death. That ended with a lot of fire and made me actually feel like I was important to the group, a feeling I rarely get playing this game.
I guess I'm saying this to throw my own perspective in with what Spud said. As much fun as it is to watch people play, it's nice to be involved more often than not.
But then, I'm preaching to the choir here, eh?
I mentioned that one failed Star Trek game where I was background furniture for most of it. I know that side-lined feeling from then.
I'm kind of the mercy of my players' personalities. I don't really ask for much in the way of character backstory (at least, not since that ill-fated Exalted campaign,) so I don't exactly have a lot of hooks for character-centric quests.
I definitely need to fix this. Especially since it means that players have revealed character traits out of nowhere. Nothing game-breaking, thankfully, but two inexplicable hatreds: one of hedge mazes, one of gnomes. (And the gnome-hater decided to reveal this in the middle of a gnome city.)
Yeah, I definitely need to work on this...
I definitely need to fix this. Especially since it means that players have revealed character traits out of nowhere. Nothing game-breaking, thankfully, but two inexplicable hatreds: one of hedge mazes, one of gnomes. (And the gnome-hater decided to reveal this in the middle of a gnome city.)
Yeah, I definitely need to work on this...
I actually wrote down that my character's balls were six pounds of solid adamantine, and the DM said, "Sure, why not?"
The DM had no objections to this, as my character had been absent up to this point, due to being freaking lost.
I know, as a player, I've been sidelined. It wasn't enjoyable, but it was my own fault. I've also seen a lot of people sidelined for things not their fault. I'll admit that at the moment, I'm sidelining at least one person in a campaign, but I blame that on letting my player base get out of control. I was unable/unwilling to say no or trim people, and now the group averages 10. One extended combat took 3+ hours.
Oh. Dear. Celestia.
Never again.
Dear Princess Celestia,
I will keep the focus on my players, making sure they have a fun time. I will prevent the party from getting too big, if it becomes necessary, so that everyone is able to enjoy the game to its full extent. Especially since I have at least 3 people willing to DM other games.
Your faithful student,
LegendofMoriad
Oh. Dear. Celestia.
Never again.
Dear Princess Celestia,
I will keep the focus on my players, making sure they have a fun time. I will prevent the party from getting too big, if it becomes necessary, so that everyone is able to enjoy the game to its full extent. Especially since I have at least 3 people willing to DM other games.
Your faithful student,
LegendofMoriad
@LegendofMoriad
I hear you on that one Legend. Our group currently averages between 8-10 players based on who remembered that week, and it's usually the same two people that missed. We had a single combat session which took around 4+ hours and it was still going. The DM ultimately ended up just calling the session.
I hear you on that one Legend. Our group currently averages between 8-10 players based on who remembered that week, and it's usually the same two people that missed. We had a single combat session which took around 4+ hours and it was still going. The DM ultimately ended up just calling the session.
Do the names Mad Dog, Lady in Gold, and Lord Aldebaran of Paladins ring any bells?
Because you just described last week's game. Scarily so.
Because you just described last week's game. Scarily so.
I was once sidelined because I was so dead tired from work I fell asleep. We basically explained it as my character being in shock, seeing as how his boss (who was also the person he looked up to the most in the world) had just died in front of him.
The only time I've felt particularly sidelined was in my first 2 Dark Heresy combats, and that was just because my sniper build was doing massive damage every other round instead of something every round, and rounds were taking agonizingly long as the veteran players knocked the dust off and we newbies learned the system. That cleared up by session 3... Of course, that's when we started fighting giant robots, but panic is way more fun than boredom.
Since I am currently in my first group, I won't have a lot to say, but if anything, if I get sidelined it's because I choose to be. My DM is great at making sure everyone has a chance to get the spotlight. However, as a rogue, I tend to avoid taking the spotlight anyway.
Tell us about something that happened in a game where one of the players (or even just their character) wouldn't join in due to a fairly valid or standard reason, not including "because I'm (Alignment)."
there is fic that (to explain part of the plot) tells why Flutters fears Nightmare Night.
Apparently she used to like it, and dressed up, (as a cute animal gave out candy, attended the festival.. until one year a stranger came, and she invited him home...
that year she learned a Fatal Lesson. There are indeed real monsters- as she herself had become one. Vampire Flutters.
the kicker of the plot was that the WHOLE TOWN knew and didn't care. they even helped her out. (blood drive, etc)
Apparently she used to like it, and dressed up, (as a cute animal gave out candy, attended the festival.. until one year a stranger came, and she invited him home...
that year she learned a Fatal Lesson. There are indeed real monsters- as she herself had become one. Vampire Flutters.
the kicker of the plot was that the WHOLE TOWN knew and didn't care. they even helped her out. (blood drive, etc)
Turns out that even restricted to human blood, in a decent sized city, my vampire can eat like a king, and use his vast intellect and increased speed and strength to make a tidy profit, even after paying the townsfolk for their blood.
>increased speed and strength
mfw my first thought was of a vampire shooting through the night, before landing on a doorstep on the outskirts of town, ringing the doorbell, and then... "Jimmy Johns! Here's your sandwiches!"
Occasionally, the city guard would find vampires mutilated and impaled on pikes, left out to die when the sun came up.
Just because he was good, that doesn't mean he wasn't a territorial bastard.
I liked the conclusion to this comic. It's reassuring to hear things like that.
I do Halloween that way too. It's not fun, but it beats being scared half to death and looking like a laughingstock. As far as holidays go, April Fool's Day is worse.
Kinda ruined the holiday for me, y'know?
@Trepa: I don't recognize April Fool's Day as a holiday, if only because no one actually does anything on that day. Halloween is starting to become that way too. Not that I'll miss it, I already have conventions to replace it as a place I can go to to dress up and look silly in front of thousands of other people that are doing the same thing. Now if only I didn't have to spend money to go to a place to spend money, then I'd be set!
Luckily for me, a large part of mine group have been a DM or still are. It helps as they kinda know that ever one has a opinon about something.
But yeah stuff like that sucks. First time I played, all I did with mine charcter was participated in combat and thats it. It also did not help being new to the group and seeing as I am kinda shy around new people. Also, there was not enough beer. For some reason, the more I drink, the more I start talking.
But yeah stuff like that sucks. First time I played, all I did with mine charcter was participated in combat and thats it. It also did not help being new to the group and seeing as I am kinda shy around new people. Also, there was not enough beer. For some reason, the more I drink, the more I start talking.
My character was a noble. I spent the entire session locked in a room desperately trying to make my own entertainment only to have the DM forcibly tear the screen away from me every time because my actions weren't going to further the plot. It got to the point where I made a couple of deliberate problem-player decisions just to do *something*. For example, my character went over to where all of our weapons had been checked, and stole his back. (Naturally, the DM told that a guard approached me to inform me of this five minutes later, notices I'm wearing my weapons because they're too large to realistically hide, and I'm forced to return them. Before I can make a big scene about how the palace security is obviously inept like I wanted to, our DM changes scenes.)
Or more recently in the game I play on Thursday. My character is a late-comer to the group. It's actually pretty common for us to split the party when players have business in another town or just want some personal time. We do it a lot. (Hell, one of our players took multiple weeks off in game-time to go out to the middle of nowhere where his character's girlfriend was stationed in an attempt to get laid.) My character has yet to have an opportunity to take one of these fun little side outings. So after we wrap up a big story that saw us come face to face with a horrifying new threat, my character asks for a few weeks of leave time to visit his children and grandchildren since said horrifying new threat may mean it will be his last chance. Since the person he has to ask for it from is another player (actually that same guy who ran off to try and get laid, amusingly enough), it's granted so long as I wait until we return to base before I split off. So naturally literally the very SECOND we reach home, a blizzard rolls in which heralds the coming of that new threat to this area. This wouldn't bother me, except they just conquered a massive stretch of new territory and would legitimately need to put some time and effort into establishing an occupation.
Now obviously, those are the worst case, nightmare scenarios. More realistically it's a character-driven kind of sandbox where the players' actions are the impetus for the plot so players who don't really know what to do without at least a little railing get kinda' sidelined but are still present. I'm totally okay with being one of the ones that gets kind of sidelined sometimes (I am one of those in the game from the second example, it's just that was particularly egregious and annoying for me), but I am NOT okay with walking away from an RPG session and having to say "I did/accomplished literally nothing and my time would have been better spent at home playing video games."
Flutters seems to be channeling the yellow one here a bit from Mentally Advanced.
edit: 6 results. I'll leave the combing through them to you; I haven't slept in days and I have a Halloween costume and 5 essays to work on.
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