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[Tiny Deev]

my elf ranger found a gourd of sentient sand that made me invulnerable and also automatically attacked my enemies for me

Reminds me of Naruto. Kid called Gaara of the Sands had that.

[Lansdren]

Reminds me of Naruto. Kid called Gaara of the Sands had that.

I think you can pretty much put that one down to a stolen idea but still not a bad one. come to think of it a rpg in the naruto universe wouldnt be to bad

[Mooncrow]

Reminds me of Naruto. Kid called Gaara of the Sands had that.

Yep, he had watched the Chuunin Exam Arc the week before (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[Tiny Deev]

I always thought Gaara was awesome, but more as a bad guy. I would never give a player that. hmm, would be a cool Big Bad..

[Neraph]

come to think of it a rpg in the naruto universe wouldnt be to bad

Yes. Yes it would.

[WyldKnight]

Yes. Yes it would.

Believe it? (Annoying main characters catch phrase)

I am sorry but no ninja should be wearing a BRIGHT orange jumpsuit. That is anti stealth, in fact it sucks the stealth away from everyone around you.

Oh, I completely forgot about this story. It's not that big of a horror story but I have had some decent GMs so I don't have many. I was in a DnD game and was the groups healer (like I almost always am) but had to miss a session due to not having a way to make it to the game. When I come back next week I find out my character was killed, raised as an undead priest and killed again by the group. You can imagine my wtf response. My GM said to make a new character but for the sake of speed I could just use my old one with a new name. Annoyed at this occurrence (they could have not left my character by himself in a hostile dungeon) I decided to tweak my cleric a bit and instead of him being a kind healer I made him a cliched greedy priest because this group had a nasty habit of killing all the churches holy men or more appropriately allowing them to die and they thought why send the good ones with them. So when time came and someone needed heals there was an appropriate charge. I kept this up until the fighter tried to threaten me into healing him and I did the complete opposite and nuked him. Needless to say they stopped killing my priests after that.

I forgot one detail, this wasn't the first time. In fact it's become a running gag in my group that my healers (only my healers, all other characters are ok) get killed off when I am not around to the point that at the end of every adventure they will be killed regardless of what happens but another priest will take their place next week with the same gear, stats, etc. kind of like Kenny from South Park. I am the red shit. Ironically I actually named a character Rodney Redshirt and not only did he survive to the end of the campaign but in the final fight against the BBEG he was the only survivor and had to return everyones bodies to their respective homelands. This was a semi low magic campaign where stuff like resurrection was only available through true divine intervention and not a friendly rich cleric.

[Neraph]

Believe it? (Annoying main characters catch phrase)

I thought about editing that in, but I figured someone else would pick up my slack.

I am sorry but no ninja should be wearing a BRIGHT orange jumpsuit. That is anti stealth, in fact it sucks the stealth away from everyone around you.

Oh, I completely forgot about this story. It's not that big of a horror story but I have had some decent GMs so I don't have many. I was in a DnD game and was the groups healer (like I almost always am) but had to miss a session due to not having a way to make it to the game. When I come back next week I find out my character was killed, raised as an undead priest and killed again by the group. You can imagine my wtf response. My GM said to make a new character but for the sake of speed I could just use my old one with a new name. Annoyed at this occurrence (they could have not left my character by himself in a hostile dungeon) I decided to tweak my cleric a bit and instead of him being a kind healer I made him a cliched greedy priest because this group had a nasty habit of killing all the churches holy men or more appropriately allowing them to die and they thought why send the good ones with them. So when time came and someone needed heals there was an appropriate charge. I kept this up until the fighter tried to threaten me into healing him and I did the complete opposite and nuked him. Needless to say they stopped killing my priests after that.

I forgot one detail, this wasn't the first time. In fact it's become a running gag in my group that my healers (only my healers, all other characters are ok) get killed off when I am not around to the point that at the end of every adventure they will be killed regardless of what happens but another priest will take their place next week with the same gear, stats, etc. kind of like Kenny from South Park. I am the red shit. Ironically I actually named a character Rodney Redshirt and not only did he survive to the end of the campaign but in the final fight against the BBEG he was the only survivor and had to return everyones bodies to their respective homelands. This was a semi low magic campaign where stuff like resurrection was only available through true divine intervention and not a friendly rich cleric.

Nice. Kind of like asking if they'll accept the spell and then casting "Peaceful Death" or whatever it was called.

I once was in a game with two Tomb-Tainted Death Masters (from Heroes of Horror...). I played the druid patch-healer and they didn't tell me what was going on. One of them dropped from damage, so I moved in to heal him, knowing OOC what he had IC, and luckily rolled very minimal, dropping him to -8 or -9 hp with my Cure spell. After a bit of fast thinking the next round I cast Bull's Endurance on him to give him the temporary HP to heal himself back up with his negative energy touch attack thing.

[WyldKnight]

The one thing I still like about DnD is the fluff that goes with some of the classes and the settings, I've even remade a few classes in SR with some GM help to create rare metamagics that I had to go on missions for or new martial arts. One thing I endorse is the DnD Planar Handbook. It's great for when you want ideas for the metaplanes and even a few areas for your Submerging Technomancers. A good purchase in my opinion for when your not sure what you want the metaplanes to be like.

[DireRadiant]

I'm a GM and I got some real Horror stories.

Once there was this player....

oh wait...

[Wounded Ronin]

Once I was to lazy to get up and go to the bathroom so I just pissed in a bottle and forgot about it. It was not my proudest moment, thankfully it was at a friends house and I left before I remembered it. I will never forget that phone call..."Hello?" "You son of *insert trail of expletives*" You know your good friends when you can past something like that. In my defense I was half asleep and didn't even remember doing it until he told me about it.

This one made my day, leaving a potentially humiliating bottle of urine at someone's house.

[deek]

I'm a GM and I got some real Horror stories.

Once there was this player....

oh wait...

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[WyldKnight]

I'm just glad his mom didn't find it, that would have been an awkward explanation.

[Wounded Ronin]

I'm just glad his mom didn't find it, that would have been an awkward explanation.

I almost spit my coffee. You were a bunch of kids at the time? She probably would have thought you were all truth or daring each other to drink it or something.

[WyldKnight]

Haha ya, I think we had both just turned 16 at the time. Honestly that probably would have been par for the course considering all the other twisted things we did. The best part is his little brother almost drank it, thats how he found the bottle.

[deek]

This reminds me of a story...

One of my younger brother's friends was over in our front yard playing or some such. I was probably in high school, so this kid had to of been maybe 12 or 13. He was talking all sorts of crap about drinking beer and how cool it was. I told him he was a liar and that he never even tasted beer. His reply was an obvious, "Uh huh."

So, I told him I would go in the house and get him a beer to prove it (I know, these days, that would be so wrong on many levels, but anyways). I grab a can of beer which had to have been over a year old and dump about half of it down the sink, filling as much of the rest of it up with my urine. I didn't need to take a whiff to tell that is what I did and the can felt much warmer than a cold beer should, but I didn't figure the little shit would figure it out.

I went out with the piss-beer and handed it to him. He grabbed it and chugged it pretty hard for a kid. I was mildly impressed that there was no hesitation. What impressed me more was he emptied about half the can, swallowed it and looked at me for almost 2 whole seconds before puking his guts out in the bushes next to him.

He ran home crying after that.

[Wounded Ronin]

This reminds me of a story...

One of my younger brother's friends was over in our front yard playing or some such. I was probably in high school, so this kid had to of been maybe 12 or 13. He was talking all sorts of crap about drinking beer and how cool it was. I told him he was a liar and that he never even tasted beer. His reply was an obvious, "Uh huh."

So, I told him I would go in the house and get him a beer to prove it (I know, these days, that would be so wrong on many levels, but anyways). I grab a can of beer which had to have been over a year old and dump about half of it down the sink, filling as much of the rest of it up with my urine. I didn't need to take a whiff to tell that is what I did and the can felt much warmer than a cold beer should, but I didn't figure the little shit would figure it out.

I went out with the piss-beer and handed it to him. He grabbed it and chugged it pretty hard for a kid. I was mildly impressed that there was no hesitation. What impressed me more was he emptied about half the can, swallowed it and looked at me for almost 2 whole seconds before puking his guts out in the bushes next to him.

He ran home crying after that.

Ha ha, pwned! The best part of course is that you probably just made it taste like budweiser.

[WyldKnight]

This reminds me of a story...

One of my younger brother's friends was over in our front yard playing or some such. I was probably in high school, so this kid had to of been maybe 12 or 13. He was talking all sorts of crap about drinking beer and how cool it was. I told him he was a liar and that he never even tasted beer. His reply was an obvious, "Uh huh."

So, I told him I would go in the house and get him a beer to prove it (I know, these days, that would be so wrong on many levels, but anyways). I grab a can of beer which had to have been over a year old and dump about half of it down the sink, filling as much of the rest of it up with my urine. I didn't need to take a whiff to tell that is what I did and the can felt much warmer than a cold beer should, but I didn't figure the little shit would figure it out.

I went out with the piss-beer and handed it to him. He grabbed it and chugged it pretty hard for a kid. I was mildly impressed that there was no hesitation. What impressed me more was he emptied about half the can, swallowed it and looked at me for almost 2 whole seconds before puking his guts out in the bushes next to him.

He ran home crying after that.

I am both amused and horrified by that lol. Make sure you keep this story a secret haha. I love how we went from GM horror stories to this.

[Daylen]

well you sure called his bluff... natural ice light and coors light would have their taste improved by urine.

[DamienKnight]

GM Horror Story 1

The runners pick a random bar as a location to discuss the details of the job they just accepted. Two players get in an argument and start to fight. Not wanting them to kill each other, the GM suddenly decides the normal looking waitress is actually a world-class physical adept martial artist (with 6 skill, 3 bonus skill, killing hands, etc), who then proceeds to knock out both of the players fighting each other. WTF!?

GM Horror Story 2 (Same GM)

Back in 3rd edition, where magical characters had a good chance for magic loss when they took deadly wounds. A player is playing a wolf shifter who is a wolf shaman. He goes home after the the run and notices his door handle is fiddled with. He sneaks in and searches the whole place. Rather than rolling a perception test, the GM asks the player where they search. They list every place in the house one at a time, including the bedroom closet.

The character finds nothing, so he proceeds to go to bed. Suddenly, a ninja wearing light milspec armor and wielding a Monofilament polearm. In the ensuing battle, the wolf shaman drops twice, but at the end of the round so he is able to regenerate and get back up. Both times he lost a point of magic.

Finally he beats the armored ninja assassin, then decides to take the Ninja's helmet off to see who it was. He fails a DC 16 Perception test (3rd edition) and doesnt notice that Cyanide gas has been released into the helmet. The wolf drops again, losing another magic point.

But, I said I was looking in the closet! The player cried.

Yes, but you didnt say you looked at the CEILING of the closet! Sorry.

Bah, what kind of ninja wears milspec armor? How did he even fit in the top of the closet with a polearm? Cyanide gas in the helmet, REAAAAALllly? And DC 16 to notice gas... comon.

The player was so disheartened by the lost of 3 magic points that he created a new character, understandably. Bad GM! Bad!


Oh, and I suppose I should mention, in the two stories above, I was the GM. Sorry, when I started playing 10 years ago I was pretty dumb I guess.

[WyldKnight]

Dude, Ninja on the closet ceiling? Milspec armor? Where is my beating stick!? I mean shame lol.

You know, at least it wasn't a cyberzombie. At that point it just would have been /thread.

[Blastula]

Back when Queen Euphoria was a hot off the presses release, I ran my group through it. I don't even clearly recall what happened, but I remember getting a lot of dice hurled at me and needing to head to LensCrafters the next day to get new glasses. Pretty sure it had something to do with the drek hitting the fan when they ran into the warrior spirits, but the memory gets fuzzy.

[Glyph]

I am sorry but no ninja should be wearing a BRIGHT orange jumpsuit. That is anti stealth, in fact it sucks the stealth away from everyone around you.

Yes. Anyone who has followed Dumpshock threads on stealth knows that the stealthy guy should be naked, screaming, and painted orange.

[jimbo]

Ha ha, pwned! The best part of course is that you probably just made it taste like budweiser.

Or PBR or Iron City for the win!

[toturi]

Yes. Anyone who has followed Dumpshock threads on stealth knows that the stealthy guy should be naked, screaming, and painted orange.

No, just that if the stealthy guy is really that damned good, he could be naked, screaming and painted orange.

[Trevalier]

No, just that if the stealthy guy is really that damned good, he could be naked, screaming and painted orange.

Like Garrett, from the Thief games. Dude apparently wore hard-soled boots to sneak around on metal floors.

And a guy in bright orange could play a role in a band of ninjas--I believe the term is "deployable decoy".