sammytheman666 @ sammytheman666 @ttrpg.network

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Well... just make it invulnerable to magical damage then. Only weak to normal damage. Bingo, fun problem to solve.

PARLAY !

Of the combat of the one shot ?

Probsbly yeah.

Hence the meme indeed

Me neither, this is just a one-shot for halloween. But this kind of you-are-a-piece-of-shit-and-cannot-do-anything-to-survive isn't something I'd do for weeks on end.

I actually try to go insane or die before the end of the one-shot usually. Not this one thought, because a soul is in jeopardy this time.

We have nothing else. No weapons, no guns, nothing. It's do or die.

Plus, lets say that a player isnt comfortable into going full roleplaying. Saying what he wants to do with or without a die is a decent way to keep them included into the dialog.

How the fuck are my players doing all of this roleplaying then ??? Sorcery I tell you !

Nah

miked ? So like, getting a mike for a distrack ?

I thought I'd make it to round 3 maybe before it happens.

Not with that spirit you don't !

They said it was a bard. What's your point ? XD

Oh yeah, use Bioware as a reputation proof. Because they did so well recently.

RIGHT ?!?

Also comes with his teamsong : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0pELGUfj2Y

I know, snitties, but it's not funny ! I like funny

This is a nice reading. Thank you for taking the time to share it with us.

The funny, very funny thing in retrospect, is that I'm not sure if I'm well placed to answer that. Not only have my previous campaigns been using a magical moving merchand call Xoblub, but in the campaign that I've been heading for more than 2 years now, there is no money. They can find shinies, they certainly find items, but their tribe has a magical weapon, armor and item shop that is there to trade away and get rewards from their objectives. And since there is no civilisation to speak of, no money. It's Barter Town.

Last games, the players actually managed, as they say in John Wick, "an impossible task". After 4 encounters draining their resources away and no rest, they found a Lich wanting to rob the store from ALL of it. Meaning if they didn't somehow stopped it, they wouldn't be able to trade away or get rewards anymore.

They did it. They fucking did it.

There was even a harry potter moment, where a player used a magical item to reverse Power Word Kill on the Lich itself and was saved because of that.

Fucking amazing.

Sorry, I got taken over. But all this to say, like you said, it's all about what you want in your games and for your players.

Both as a DM and player, I'm into the generous type. I like magical items, and money, and means to buy magical shit. It's fun. Gold becomes a secondary XP meter that they can orient to a certain point. And if they are more challenging, then you get to use the 7 undead units I got to try in that last adventure.

So, I quite literally have an economy of magical items. And honor. And reputation. Making the numbers and economy behind it VERY fluctuent.

So fluctuent that, you know what their master will give them for saving the magical store and tens of citizens ? Any magical item. Anything. If it were a normal economy and world it might shatter from it, but mine ? Well, I'll tell you later. I don't know yet what they will pick :)

But yeah. Once this one is done, I might try a more down to earth campaign with lower starting point. See how it is when it's more survival-esq.

I get its a joke, but this die is actually really not scary since you have nothing but a single result possible.

Yeah. But if you start to think of it as part of a real world economy concept its not the same game anymore. But would you really prefer realistic conditions ? I mean maybe, everyone is different. But I dont think it would be fun for me personnally