Jkeown Posted August 7, 2005 Report Share Posted August 7, 2005 My girlfriend, Dawn, says she's not a good party leader, and hates it when she's left to lead things. Last night we were missing the Swordmaster, the Chaos Mage and the Social Guy. Then the Sneaky Type had to get to work, he left and she was leader. You could see her hatin' it the whole time. Bad guys sent Ceramites, only 3 of them, and the party (what was left of them) decided to pursue, to backtrack the Vile Pottery and learn what they could. They head off into the Undercity. I'm hoping they enjoy the Tower's Dungeon. Its a cool little place right under the Noble Quarter in Chalkcliff. Undead, Oozes and farther down, old Dharzooni Automatons. Well, they get there and discover a magically-intelligent door that explains what it saw earlier in the day. Dawn smiled. "Cool. Now we know where they came from, we can go home." The party agreed. They left the Undercity... They didn't go straight home... but THEY LEFT MY DUNGEON UNEXPLORED!! How dare they use their freakin' brains and realize they couldn't win it and leave... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 7, 2005 Report Share Posted August 7, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... A GM's Bane: A gamer with a brain. Sucks, man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Long Posted August 7, 2005 Report Share Posted August 7, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... Living, evil pottery -- LOL. Might make a good Digital Hero article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlogue Posted August 7, 2005 Report Share Posted August 7, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... Jkeown, You're a lucky man, or at least a lucky GM. Having player's that engage their brains before picking up the dice is rare. I don't know if it's because most players come to the table with the expectation of combat, or because GM's tend to train their players to attack and kill whatever end up in front of them because "This is obviously what the GM has planned, so we better get through it" or both. In any case, I'd say props to your girlfriend, and the rest of the group, for the intelligence to realize that certain things needed to get accomplished and then doing it without unnecessary bloodshed - especially on the part of the party. I'd also give you props for allowing the players to take their preferred course of actions. You must be creating a reasonable level of versimilitude for the players to identify dangers in advance of bloodletting for them to have taken such a wise course of action. Excellent job all around! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted August 7, 2005 Report Share Posted August 7, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... Plus, the unexplored dungeon may appear later as the basement of a ruined fort, or the interior of a stronghold. The players won't know you've recycled it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jkeown Posted August 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... Living' date=' evil pottery -- LOL. Might make a good Digital Hero article. [/quote'] Please, follow the link, Steve... You're welcome to use them in any fashion you like. Just put my name on it somewhere... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jkeown Posted August 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... Plus' date=' the unexplored dungeon may appear later as the basement of a ruined fort, or the interior of a stronghold. The players won't know you've recycled it.[/quote'] That's the funny thing about Caleon. I do not recycle anything. Once I write a scenario, it stays there. One day, they will go back... and it will be there... waiting for them.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... Well then, they just need another incentive one day to go there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jkeown Posted August 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... Well then' date=' they just need another incentive one day to go there...[/quote'] True to the FH paradigm of not every character being "worth" every other character in a scrape, Dawn says when the "Big Guns" of the party show up, she'll be right back down there, paying somebody back for 14 NND stun she sucked up. My group is very diverse, and not all of them go with out being CON stunned by 14 stun. She was left alone to fight the pottery all by her lonesome after an Urn got to the party. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... she needs to tell the rest of the party that next time they fight the evil pottery, they will have to urn their keep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... They need to talk to a knight called Amik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roy_The_Ruthles Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... Harry Potter- legendary good guy? or just a washed up wizard who spent the rest of his days making magical cerammites? you decide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Squirrel Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... Please' date=' follow the link, Steve... You're welcome to use them in any fashion you like. Just put my name on it somewhere... [/quote'] Psst. Rewrite it to spice it up, put your own name on it and get paid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glupii Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... she needs to tell the rest of the party that next time they fight the evil pottery' date=' they will have to urn their keep[/quote'] ouch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bismark Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... Of course, if the Ceramites used bad language, that would make them potty mouths… Anyway, I think the players have enough on their plate… What's next - flying saucers? Imagine the story about a brave knight (Sir Lain) being outmatched by those things [it is of course the ballad of 'Poor Sir Lain' ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethosos Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... Ye goddess... you've just fired then up! My eyes are glaze-ing over at the sheer weight of the slip-s of the tongue! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlHazred Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... Uh, do the Urns need Personal Immunity on their EB NNDs? They take no STUN anyway... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jkeown Posted August 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... Uh' date=' do the Urns need Personal Immunity on their EB NNDs? They take no STUN anyway...[/quote'] An excellent point. I think I included it out of habit. I love Personal Immunity! To everyone else... yer crocking me up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... Hmm, someone is about to be charged with "assualt and pottery" in a kill or be kilned world. I can see there being at least two branches of the local city guard as well - homicide and the vase squad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantriped Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... do all these Puns count as Potty jokes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... My brain pan hurts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glupii Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... Ohh the agony It is that 24 hour brain tumor! Gets me everytime! And the worst one was about Sir Ameik! OUCH There goes the pain again.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onyxclaw Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... We're all psycho ceramics, the cracked pots of society. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... is this the Hero boards or did we reality warp into Callahans Bar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon... ok, I really hate to let this go, so I thought I would pitcher in a whole tun of new puns, it seems like the enthusiam for this thread is flagon, so I invite folks in this cask of thousands to join the fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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