>Roomate invites me to Pathfinder campaign >I don't

>>49644739
No game > LOL FARTFIREBALL XDDDDDDDD

>>49644739

Find the most broken level 8 PF character build you can, and run it. Be Chaotic Neutral if possible to keep your RP options open.

Smuggle private jokes into the name and backstory as stealthily as you can.

Have a few drinks, or a bong, or some chems, before you start the game.

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>>49644739
>find 5e game in gamefinder thread
>ok
>DM admits he's new, that's fine
>playing over roll20, I happen to like it
>session 0 happens
>DM hasn't really done any homework on online gaming at all
>that's fine, as an experienced roll20 user, i help him through getting character sheets into the game and making handouts for everyone
>We'll be running LMoP first, then homebrew stuff
>That's fine
>suddenly the sound of a retarded dragon crashing into a cart full of plates plays through the DM's mic
>according to other players, he's dabbing
>FIRST RED FLAG

>So I go to roll up my level 1 character, and-
>>>16, 14, 12, 8, 7, 7
>Well, fuck, guess I'm playing Wizard.
>Mix a couple of stories together, Wizard is an elf who hates orcs because they burned down his hometown. It became motivation for him to learn even more arcanery on his own.
>i know nothing about anyone else's character besides classes ( Bard, Paladin, Druid, I think one of them was a cleric.)
>but that's fine because it's a premade module anyway
>So, we get to session 1(the next day, because we'd be running fridays)
>Escorting a caravan for whatever reason, not really given a chance to RP much- but he's a new dm, I'll cut him some slack
>see a bunch of dead horses with arrows sticking out of them
>Go to investigate, because I probably have the highest INT out of the party.
>I'm probably gonna get sho-
>get shot
>goblins pop out of the bushes
>>>it's a party of 5-6, against four goblins
>>>all the goblins focus on the paladin
>>>they have -1 to hit and he has ac 18
>one of them survives for some arbitrary reason(nobody held back)
>Interrogate him, because I know a few monstrous languages thanks to backstory
>figure out he came from a nearby cave
>as a true neutral wizard, I leave him to the whims of the party because I am done with him
>the bard CUTS OFF SOME OF HIS FINGERS. The paladin and GM are perfectly okay with this.
>SECOND RED FLAG

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>>49645088

>so, the party kills the goblin and we go the way he told us to
>surprisingly reliable informant, we get there pretty quick
>find more goblins, group actually comes up with a pretty cool plan to disguise the bard as a goblin and have us all fake tied up
>we get through the door, the story being that he captured these adventurers after a battle to near-death between his group and theirs, tied them up and brought them to face punishment or smth
>he actually uses the finger as a prop for this
>it gets us in the door, but the goblins in the next room aren't as stupid and we gotta fight them
>I ray of frost one, roll max damage
>instant kill
>bard uses prestidigitation to make poop jokes and fling poop at people, great.
>druid constantly makes jokes about back massages and stuff
>paladin disappears, I assume his character is staring at the cave wall with a thousand-yard stare, wondering what he's gotten himself into
>meanwhile, I cast Sleep for the first time in the next room, and put a goblin and worg to sleep.
>bugbear isn't happy
>bard sneaks over to the other side of the room, casts speak with animals, and talks to the worg, waking it up to do so
>Bard gets an animal companion? ? ?
>I mean, it's cool and all, but really shouldn't be something you do for a single handle animal check.
>and we already outnumber these goblins & bugbear, especially after my sleep spell
>we kill them after some fiddling about and me telling them how attacking helpless targets works
>more jokes about finger cutting and shit
>jokes about me cucking the gnome with his wife who has a similar name or something


At this point, I tune out, we end up exploring the cave and killing more goblins. I somehow make it through the rest of the session without expiring irl.

I didn't go back. I politely messaged the GM telling him that I'd not be coming back because it simply wasn't what I wanted out of a game.

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>>49645088
>>that's fine, as an experienced roll20 user, i help him through getting character sheets into the game and making handouts for everyone
I read that as "and making handjobs for everyone"
I think I need help

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>>49645368

>>49645382
I misread "handout" as "handjob"

>>49645285
>>49645088
was this one session?
Goddamn, now I actually hate my group.
>I know all these people in person
>they've done roleplaying before, some of them are actually the /reason/ I'm into it myself
>can't even get to the bugbear fight in one session from the goblins jumping the caravan.
>absolutely nobody rolls up a backstory
>The two people who requested i run 5e in the first fucking place don't even find time to roll up characters in the 3 weeks I took to get my shit together, read through all the 5e handbook a couple times, and read through the adventure, then learn how to use roll20 better.
It can /always/ be worse, anon.
I have to know these people in real life.
I explicitly told them they get one more chance, ever, but that it wouldn't be until like a year or so for me to DM.
If absolutely any of them don't show up with a character or skive off without even sending me a message when I've passed on no less than possibilities to get in contact with me, I've explained I'm cutting them out of my life completely.
Harsh? yeah. But believe me, it's deserved.

>>49645368
I don't think that's Fatalpulse.
Sanagi Torajirou, maybe?

>>49645397
Technically two sessions- a session zero the first day where we made characters and chatted, session one happening the day after.

I guess it could be worse, though.

>>49645388
No, I understood what you posted. I was wondering why.

>>49644739
>be heavily into RPGs for about a decade
>all my friends decide that DnD is the cool thing and want to play a campaign
>I say alright to them asking me to DM
>I set up all of their characters for them with mild input from the players
>I show up later at the decided date and literally nobody except me had even taken a look at any of the core rulebooks
>they all just thought that you were supposed to roll a d20 if a monster showed up


I quit when one guy wanted to plant some weed

>>49645572
This is literally me dude. Blog post incoming

They do the most fucking prickish and awkward shit too. One of them just goes "haha Uhm" every time I asked how he wanted to build his character like he was afraid of sounding like a nerd. He was trying to be lolsorandumb to spite me and would put in no fucking effort at all to flesh out his character up to and including picking a name. Just outright refused and I kept thinking why the fuck did you insist on playing with us if you're going to act like this is beneath you?

I also had a dwarf npc meet them in a dungeon and he pulled a tobacco pipe during conversation with the one player taking it seriously and one dude interrupts me and says "is that weed? Aye bruh lemme get hit of that". I said the dwarf refuses to share as be just met them and he literally pipes up with "alright then I kill him" which is fucking dumb since he's playing a neutral good cleric. (Keep in mind this guy is also whiter than snow too, like all of us)

They also, almost more frustrating than anything else, expect me to take care of all 6 of their character sheets and got very upset when I told them I don't have time to go home after every session and level them up and purchase gear.

It's been only two sessions and I am at my fucking wits end. Only like 2 of them take it seriously and I can't kick the others out because I'm sorta friends with them and because they are all really close with each other.

honestly, the only limit is imagination.
A good DM should know how to take ideas and run with them, direct them, put down players, encourage and foster creativity and allow players to do whatever they feel in order to make it 'real' to them.
LET THEM DO DUMB SHIT. Just punish them for it or play it as a joke. IT'S ENTERTAINMENT. And you are in control.
You can choose to say 'no' to everything your dumb players want, or you can do what the best DMs do.
Say 'Yes, But!:" and make things even MORE awesome, build on their ideas or shoot them down in a funny/integrated style.
Make it so that instead of regretting making suggestions, your players go away feeling they've had a great time messing around and doing whatever they felt.
So what if your PC got incinerated by a dragon while he was doing something dumb. That's how the game goes.

That doesn't sound like it's gonna be a good time, OP. I wish you luck. I recently came out on the other side of a similar situation.

>Get invited to play in a friend's campaign. He doesn't give any details, just a 1st level Pathfinder game. "Just make whatever."
>Decide I'll play a support spellcaster, in that case. At the very least, I'll be able to buff other people.
>Show up, everyone has REALLY gimmicky one trick ponies. Doesn't look like I'll get to role play much.
>GM presents us with some sort of adventure stolen from WoW or Dragon Age or something. (or one of those capeshit-tier "generic modern fantasy" video games.)
>"Fond the magical Macguffin from the terribad enemies."
>The whole game is people trying to tell jokes and shout memes, and everyone howling like a bunch of apes whenever anyone rolls a twenty for any reason.
I did not go back.

>>49645285
I was expecting a horror story, this just sounds like you met a group you didn't mesh with and dealt with it very responsibly. Good on you.

>>49647037
Pretty much.

I don't game enough to get horror stories.

>>49645428
>No, I understood what you posted. I was wondering why.
Handjobs and Handouts are similar words.


Most people can read sentences fine even if all the letters except for the first and last in each each word are changed.

To make it easier to understand
hand***s

>>49647163
I'm not that fucking retarded anon.

Why did you have to share the thought with us?

>>49647195
I don't know why he had to.
I assume because he found it amusing.

>>49647195
>it's an anon takes his Chinese picture posting website a little too seriously episode

Does your mom know it's past your bedtime?

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>>49647405

>be me
>get invited to play D&D
>show up, only person here
>40ish minutes later another member shows up
>DM forgot to tell me he changed the time
>we wait and tak another 20 or so minutes until the others show up
>DM's gf wanted to order takeout and literally placed the order when she pulled up to the restaurant which explains why they were all late
>ok
>DM explaining his long-winded campaign ideas while we roll up characters
>one of the players wants a prestige class because it balances out the party
>DM being the pussy that he is agrees even though it's a higher level than the campaign he wrote up
>gf throws a fit because he's got more spells than her now
>here we fucking go...
>right in the fucking middle of char gen we have to redo our shit to match this guy's level
>3+ hours into this shit one of the players has to go pick up his roommate from work
>fffffffffffffffffffuck
>we wait another solid hour for him to get back
>DM droning on and on and on about his fucking homebrew setting we're about to play
>guy gets back and we FINALLY start character introductions
>DM starts with his own character
>almost 30 minutes later he moves to his gf who just so fucking happens to find a bracer of fucking plot importance that can summon whatever she fucking wants and blah blah blah
>doesn't fucking matter anyway since he gave her 25 (TWENTY FUCKING FIVE) charisma
>she's more beautiful and compelling than most deities in the setting
>we introduce the rest of our characters, fiddle around a bit in a generic tavern
>DM asks if we'd like to take a break
>gf is bored
>DM sighs and looks at us
>oh here it comes...
>"Hey, do you guys just want to hang out this week? Maybe catch a movie?"
>I FUCKING KNEW IT DOT JAY PEE GEE
>we disband, some go to the movies, I go home
>we never even got to a single encounter
>next game session the DM has us genning up another character for a completely unrelated game

Shit like this happens all the fucking time to me. All. The. Fucking. Time.

>>49645840
Almost makes me miss high school.

>>49647610
Don't play with those people?

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>Haven't played a tabletop in almost a decade but took up LARPing 4 years ago to scratch my RP itch
>LARP family is awesome. Lots of cool people.
>"Hey Anon! My DND game needs a 5th player. Our one guy had to quit because of schedule stuff. I'm kinda picky about who I invite to my games, but I know from LARP that you're a good roleplayer."
>Oh Hell Yes dot jay peg
>DM plays 2 times a month with his wife and a few other people; some who I already know and some who I don't.
>Group is chill. Lots of RP.
>DM has a gaming table he made himself with a grid and a surface that you can draw on with markers then wipe off later which is perfect for drawing out dungeon layouts. There's even little slots you can fit rulebooks into.
>Gimmick of the campaign is that everyone has amnesia. Instead of a backstory you get to write one very specific memory of your choosing that's too important to your character to ever forget. Future memories are revealed to you by the DM or through writing assignments he emails you between games, but even when you write the memory you don't know the context in which it is revealed to your character. The whole game has a massive air of mystery.
>This mofo even hand crafted scaled miniatures for the homebrew slug monster that the party encountered.
>Shit is so cash.

I feel sorry for you poor losers. Stop playing with 20 year olds.

>>49647610
In my inexperience I fail to see how the guy inviting you folks to see a movie is a red flag.

Please enlighten me /tg/.

>>49648143
he's getting bait and switched, anon. It's really obvious, too.

>>49648143
Going to the movies isn't a tabletop game.

>>49644739
Bless a couple of corks at the temple and offer one to the dwarf when he asked for healing. You'll either achieve instant celebrity with the group or be asked to leave, so either way you win

>>49645840
they're newbies, stick it out.

I've had a few group cycles like this, they'll either get bored and quit or get good at the whole table top thing.

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My personal least favorite gaming experience of all time.
>Looking for new systems to play, anything that just isn't fantasy, D&D, PF, no matter what the setting ebberon in particular is still OK, though.
>Friend suggests a seemingly rules lite magical girl system as a trial run, suggests we run it pretty seriously, but not madoka tier suffering.
>Actually hype, despite that it's mahou shoujo shit that seems janky just from a quick read of the material
>Game day/session 0, he introduces a friend who has not only never been into anime of any kind, but has probably never done a single session of any tabletop in his entire life, and is younger than the rest of us, still in high-school.
and also explains that the guy who's the most knowledgeable of magical girl style anime/guy who makes the best character backgrounds isn't going to make it... ever
>Ohboy.
>everyone runs around and introduces characters.
>New guy says "my magical power is memes"
>"Welp, this is done, tuning out now"
>session immediately fucking crashes and burns as I expected because it develops into complete horseshit and dumb jokes and the kid WONT SHUT THE FUCK UP.
I politely excused myself after that game, said "the system isn't that great, lots of holes (which it is)" and despite numerous begging from the guy who suggested the whole thing to try any more systems, I've turned them down.
I actually kind of hate my old friends, but I'm such a shitty NEET It's hard for me to make more.

>>49646388
I live and die by this philosophy as a DM. If my players want to do something I don't like, then I'll usually describe the situation in a way that'll make them disinterested in what they originally wanted or try and manipulate the concept of what they want into something manageable without them noticing. Of course, if my players want to play OP shit, then I'll throw OP shit back at them to balance it, so it all works out in the end.

That's why my most recent 5e game involved a Witcher, a Final Fantasy Card Mage, a dimensionally-displaced French Napoleonic Soldier, and a demolition expert rogue, all helping out a Cult to rescue a mad goddess from Agathys. They had the help of a Yithian Elder, a Wyvern Werehuman, a Loli Vampire, a Doppelganger Monk-Cleric, a Weaboo Silver Wyrm, a literally autistic princess merged with a mimic, and a 30 Charisma Deva named Chaddicus Maximus. It ended with them dropping a kinetic bomb on an anti-magic prison and salvaging the goddess, thus making for a happy ending.

My god, I miss that game and those players.

>>49647860
>This DM story
I always love reading these, probably because they are so rare and don't end retardedly. Thanks for sharing anon.

>>49647860
>>Gimmick of the campaign is that everyone has amnesia. Instead of a backstory you get to write one very specific memory of your choosing that's too important to your character to ever forget. Future memories are revealed to you by the DM or through writing assignments he emails you between games, but even when you write the memory you don't know the context in which it is revealed to your character. The whole game has a massive air of mystery.

I had seen this system posted on /tg/.

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>>49644739
>Join Only War game in roll20 (there's the problem)
>GM tells me he's frustrated that the party pay no attention to the plot
>agree to help stop part 2: Murderhobo Tendency through the power of plot interest
>join with Tech-Priest PC, fixing our Chimera transport
>only two memorables PCs are some arrogant priest and an ogryn whose player burped every second minute
>The plot is "Tyranids attacked, let's fight them"
>GM attempts to give character to the exposition boxes through lame voices
>bad german accent commisar informs lung cancer general that we best unit
>suddenly an officer flashes her boobs at us
>high ranking mechanicus appear with less augs than my meh-tier techie
>lady mechanicus also flash her tits at us
>the dumb shits openly chear for this
>3 hours pass of them wanking off over the items they want to requisition with no roleplay at all
>we go to one place or another and fight starts
>50 tyranids vs 7 PCs (& comrades)
>excuse myself and never return

And thus concludes my third worst experience playing with people online and 6 hours of my life wasted.

>>49649591
>suddenly an officer flashes her boobs at us
>lady mechanicus also flash her tits at us
>the dumb shits openly chear for this
SLAANESH CULT
PURGE THE UNCLEAN

>third worst experience
It was kind of bland desu. I hope the top tier ones were at least more spicy.

>>49649606
Second worst was me running a game, getting an edgelord that wanted to play a dark and brooding character, then completely lost his shit when he started a fight and his non-combat speced character got restrained. It's this high, because at first I thought he was going somewhere with his trashbag PC and spent a good amount of hours trying to cater to what I thought would be the best player in the game.

The absolute worse will take quite some time to explain. I'll come back in an hour and post it piece by piece if the thread is still up.
For now, think of it as this: the problem with lazy newfags.

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>>49644739
>I'm playing a flatulent dwarf, whose instrument is his farts

>>49647860
Plenty of people have good games, most of them don't post about them on /tg/. I sure as hell don't

>>49649659
I'm certainly interested

I got shanked by a edgy weeb for not pandering to his shit

>>49649701
actually shanked?

>>49649733
Switchblade I didn't see the fucker pull out
Im actually surprised he knew how to flick it open fast enough for me to not see

>>49649740
You're gonna need to explain this more, that's a pretty crazy thing to happen

>>49649748
>My first time GM'ing in about 3 years
>was to lazy to learn how to use Roll20 cause Im a bitch
>Decided to ask my old party for new people I can try GM'ing since I got use to them and they gave me some contact info
>Met a cool dude who's now in my main party,His GF,Some Teenager I don't remember,and That emo cuck fuck bitch suck lick a duck
>Long Story Short its a Dark Heresy session
Emo fuck is some trench coat wearing fingerless glove having Fedora toting cigarette smoking shades having Stub Revolver using motherfucker thats being super pissed cause he isn't being allowed to be super edgy and powerful
>Im so goddamm mad at this fucker since he needlessly goes on FUCKHEUG rants about how badass and grimderp he is and how he's so uncaring or feeling to those around him as long as he does the "mission" and is nothing but a stereotype OC
>He tries to steal a smurfs bike so he can accomplish his "mission" of getting to some genestealer cult even though we already have transport
>Everyone see's cause he just walked up and tried shoving a fully armoured marine off a bike
>He's mad cause his character is super stealthy when he want's to and is a super cool assassin (Fluff-Wise)
>Im sick of his shit and try to calmly tell him why all this shit went wrong what he's doing wrong and whats not
>He REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES
>I finally snap and yell at him to get the fuck out and insult him
>I was so caught up in my anger I don't see him flick out a switch
>Shanks me
>runs off
>Nobody's heard of him for about 2 months now?
Fucking piece of shit cock sucker cunt bitch cuck fuck

>>49649828
Holy shit that's really fucked up

>>49649659
>because at first I thought he was going somewhere with his trashbag PC and spent a good amount of hours trying to cater to what I thought would be the best player in the game.
Ouch.
Yeah, those wasters of time are some real shit.

>For now, think of it as this: the problem with lazy newfags.
I'm interested as well.

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>>49649868
Well since you guys are interested.

I was closing a few months of using the site and most of the people that I gamed with during the summer where in a timeslot that became unfriendly when it was time to go back to uni & work. Suddenly there pops up a fledgling group of newbies willing to play Dark Heresy and in a very convinient night slot. I join up, the group is formed and we start rolling characters.

I should mention that most of them went in the game because of that Dark Heresy game Total Biscuit played that one time. Since I'm the only one that knew anything about 40K apart from the cliffnotes, I offered my help if anybody wanted it. They were confident enough and I thought that was good.

I roll up a Cleric, give him a motivation of trying to find his purpose in the world and call it a day. Next time we all meet up is game day. What could possibly go wrong?

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Last red flag experience.
3year ago i get invited to a dark heresy game.
>GM is apprehensive as fuck
>Asks me questions : experience age sexual orientation ho_shit.png
>GM tells me i m allowed to munchkin since other players are overpowered. o-ok
>incist on having me run a private session to see if i could fit in
>set up a special skype group for it. where_is_this_going.jpg
>end the session getting invited to the real skype group
>turns out the session was a specific scénarii he made up just for me to have me catch up on the campaign they were running.
The group was awsome ran some DH then OW and a homebrewed campaign until real life got involved in the mix and we had to stop

>mfw

>>49650420
>What could possibly go wrong?
I can't decide whether it will go down with slaanesh or khorne way of wrong.

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>>49650420
Apparently, a lot could and did go wrong.

First of all, the game was pushed two hours later than what we agreed on. That ended up fucking me up big time. Just keep in mind that as I tell the story, we are moving further into the AM.

The others present their characters. One dude has an Adept with the standard dose of grimdark, very good for a newbie and the last good character. The others three go from bad to worse.

Randomfunny Guy makes a psycher. Her gimmick is that she is w@CkY lol! He is completely irrelevant for the rest of the story, apart from random interuptions of him going "I'm doing [something stupid]!"
Other Guy makes one big red flag for a character. Metallican Gunslinger, "a living legend in Gunmetal", didn't know about the Emprah until last year when the Space Marines (sic) came down to the Underhive to kill people for fun and befriended her. He also mentions he wrote an extra three pages of backstory he wasn't sharing. And of course her portrait was pretty slutty.
And then there was Cunt. Cunt made a Catachan Assassin, but with Feral Worlder stats. Cunt's character knew everything that happened in the last 20k years of the setting. I'd like to note that it's more possible for him to fart bolter rounds than knowing that Big E is rotting.

At this point, I try pointing out to Cunt that what he did was a complete mess. He gets aggressive. I back down because I don't have time for this shit. We're done with the unpleasantries and the GM begins the game.

>>49650542
please do continue

>>49650542
>And then there was Cunt. Cunt made a Catachan Assassin, but with Feral Worlder stats. Cunt's character knew everything that happened in the last 20k years of the setting. I'd like to note that it's more possible for him to fart bolter rounds than knowing that Big E is rotting.
Haha I had a similar experience in an Exalted game.

A guy played a forest ranger, exalding in the podunks and evading the wyld hunt...
And then he questions "why you hatin" and goes on an adventure and discovers the true nature of The Usurpation (i.e. something that was shrouded by 2500 years of propaganda and a near-total apocalypse halfway through) and of the Great Curse (aka something that /approximately nofuckingbody/ knows in the setting).

Oh and he had Lore 1. Just one. With mental stats on tertiary too.
Yes, that's it, a barely literate murderhobo totally uncovers world's deepest secrets as a starting backstory.

>>49648143
The fact that they're making time to meet up again and not continue playing the game during that time shows that they all don't want to keep playing the game.

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>>49650542
And what a game it fucking is!

Apparently, our GLORIOUS GM! had zero knowledge of 40K. Didn't even read the rulebook, apart from chargen and equipment. The game itself was sluggish, uninteresting, full of invisible walls and no logical coheasion. Some highlights of this spectacular absense of sense:

>The Inquisition HQ is easily accessible by anyone, but the Administratum exists only in rumor
(For anyone out of the loop, anyone can roam into the KGB, the City Hall is a myth)
>The Arbites couldn't get involved in the investigation, because the Shrine World banned them
>A priest in full ceremonial gown is not allowed in a Temple of the Emperor, because the rituals have already begun
>Poor people have no toilets, sinks or even buckets of water in their homes

The investigation itself is also just uninteresting. Some people got butchered in a slum and only one guy saw something or another. Just imagine all these punctuated by the psycher doing stpid shit, delivering the action with the conviction of a man that knows he isn't funny, but he'll do it anyway. You know, the beginning of a giggle without it. But let's get to Cunt, who is the meat of this story.

One of the worst that happened to me and a bunch of girlfriends
>DM from local shop is running DnD 3.5
>Me and friends show up in the first session and proceed to make our characters
>Pretty nice session until DM drops this bomb on us
>"So we are going to play every friday at night"
>One of my friends points out that most of us cant play in that frecuency because we like to go out on friday and shit
>DM literally says "Roleplaying games are not for people with social life"
>"Lol ok" we decide to leave the table.
>Some weeks after that, we learn that the party exploded because the DM was harrassing one of the girls we didnt knew.
>DM is never seen again in the shop, turns out the girl was the waif of the owner.
Overall i say we dodged one hell of a bullet.

sry for the slow delivery internet's being a bitch

>>49650691
Cunt is the kind of guy that asks a question that ends with his opinion and expects no answer, but agreement. And he always posed a question on fucking everything.

>"Why isn't the Inquisition giving us all the equipment to end the investigation?? Why do we have to buy our own stuff??"
>"Why are we sent to solve this investigation??"
>"Why isn't the Inquisitor solving the investigation himself??"
>"Why do we need to talk nice to people and not threaten them with swords??"
>"That's stupid!"
I did the mistake of answering the questions, providing answers to the best of my abilities, not helped by me getting progressively tired, physicaly due to the time, mentally by his pathetic refutals of "no, it's stupid and I'm right."

At this point, it is clear that me and Cunt don't like each other OoC that much. We could keep it different IC, but then he starts following my character, acting like he is going to slaughter me. I try to play up some banter telling him to go away. His response is his character to ignore me and just make it known he is always behind me and very armed as smugly as possible. He manages to get under my skin and I yell at him. In a very not IC moment, I call him a fucking idiot and he calls me an asshole. At this point I start writing a message to the GM, that I'll not come to any further games, courtesy of cunt.

But damnit, I'm willing to tough this one out! I refuse to ditch a group in the middle of a game! I'll finish the game, help them as much as I can and THEN bail! But then we go to the city slums...

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>>49644739
>fartmaster dwarf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk-5RVMerfI

>>49650691
>Poor people have no toilets, sinks or even buckets of water in their homes
playing dark heresindia

>>49650878
DESIGNATED
SHITTING
ADEPTA

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>>49650799
We enter a bar. The barman isn't inclined to help us. We help liven up the atmosphere (well, me and Adept Dude) and then ask if anyone knows anything about the whatever we were looking for. We find a drunk guy. I decide to bribe him with drinks. Cunt attempts to intimidate him through the classic "Plunging my sword to the table the man is sitting at and loudly yell inside a populated bar that I'll kill him if he wont talk" technique. Didn't work.

Surprise, drinks puts him on our side. We follow him into his home and suddenly "he passes out." At this point I'm nearly asleep and I'm trying to solve this as quickly as possible.

Splash water on his face?
>There's no water in the house
Give him a loud bitchslap?
>Didn't work.
Cut his leg just a bit- wait what?

Forgot to mention, this is probably the only action ever spoken by Other Guy. Violence solves everything, right? Nope.
At this point, Cunt says he grabs a syringe with a drug and hits our mark with it straight to the heart. I questioned what the drug is and if it will help. He throws his biggest hissy fit as of yet. I stopped giving a shit about him a long time ago and now I fire back. The GM takes his side and has the guy wake up. Then I get a moment or retrospect.

It's nearly 2am. I am playing with a bunch of idiots (Adept Dude was cool though). The game is unenjoyable and I am staying so to not be a dick. And all of has lead me angry, frustrated, tired and having shouting arguments about fake drugs.

I let out a fairly audible "fuck this", leave the game, ditch the group, block most of them and notify that "GM" that I'm done with them.

Moral of the story: Random Groups will leave you deprived of sleep and angry about fake dope.

>>49650799
>But then we go to the city slums...

ho shit there is more?

>>49647081
You should search more in game finder, I am sure you will find something.
The game I am at right now in Friday's is by system and setting a serious one (Eldritch horror d20 game set in the Thirty Years War).
I also figured out that people on text only games tend to be more serious.

>>49647195
Fu***ing Re***ded

>>49649686
This Guy DM/Great Game thread ?

>>49651874
Most "This Guy/This DM" threads are pretty boring . "I had a game where everyone got along and there was great combat encounters and just the right amount of roleplaying" nobody is gonna click on that thread for juicy stories

>>49651885
>Welcome to /tg/ !
>If you want your thread to be popular just make a thread about: that guy stories, magical realm, and even more lewd things !

>>49647163
I.. I read that as "handshits". I think I'm the one who needs help.

>>49649828
Please tell us you called the fucking cops on his sorry ass.

>>49649828
Your rage seems to validate this story.

I hope that the stupid weeb shit dies a horrible death.

>I was invited to do sone thing I don't like
>I agreed to do it
>I don't like it

Well shit, OP, its a really shocker that this completely unforseen tragedy happened to you.

>>49644853
DO this. It can be very fun.

In a game like this I rolled a magical variant sword sage who would summon four fell spell flaming spheres and cast haste to fling them around the room and do a bunch of negative energy damage. Made him a typical "heh nothing personal kid" guy. Upstart supermage. More fun than I thought I could have.

Lean in. Don't do cleric, play the class you've always wanted to play. Find some busted ass prestige class and go that. Break the game system. Have fun. 3.pf is great for only that reason.

>>49644739
"Hey you, I don't like non serious games. I will pass. Goodbye."

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This one is from years ago. I was playing a 3.5 DnD game (it was the newest things at the time) on DnDOnlineGames.com. The DM wanted to run a game that started at level 20 but she was woefully underestimating just what a level 20 party is capable of. Everyone is busting out crazy prestige classes and character templates because, Hell why not? You're starting at level 20 with 200k gold! Swing for the fences! She let all of the players get away with murder when making their characters. I even was allowed to make a character who was middle aged (which gives bonuses to INT WIS and CHA). I was playing a wizard. She even let me take the Leadership feat which allowed me to take a level 17 Wizard as my cohort. The rest of the part is a CN Shadowdancer and TWO halfdragons but they have no idea how powerful a level 20 wizard with close to 30 in all mental stats and a level 17 wizard in his pocket who essentially doubles his spells for the day just by existing.

Character's backstory was that he was a teacher at a mage academy on sabbatical and the cohort was his bumbling teacher's assistant. I would roleplay the cohort as being very nervous around dangerous things and then my PC would scold him and remind him that he needs my letter of recommendation to get the rank he's gunning for in the school. Shit was fun. I ended up re-using this character a bunch of times.


con't

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>>49655216

>Game starts. We're all in a private audience with the Queen of Faeries so that she can charge us personally with dealing with some mysterious new kind of evil dragon no one's ever seen before.
>Edgelord Shadow Dancer: "I sit in the shadowy corner off to the side with my hood up."
>Me: "I politely stand directly in front of the Faerie Queen and listen intently to her instructions because I don't own a black trench coat or any fingerless gloves."
>Edgy Shadowdancer goes on follow all the typical oh-so-cool-brooding-assassin tropes. It's annoying but whatever. I'm having fun actually getting to use all those level 9 spells I always wanted to use.
>Other party members (especially the Shadowdancer) start acting a bit sketchy. My character was lawful good and there's were all some shade of neutral and/or chaotic. To be on the safe side I do a Stilled Silenced Detect Thoughts. Shadowdancer's inner monologue at that exact moment was something like "This wizard guy thinks he's so great with his magic, but all the magic in the world can't save you while you're sleeping huehuehue~"
>Oh_shit!.jpeg I tuck that little nugget away for the time being.

>First part of the quest requires traveling across the country side braving various dangers and obstacles along the way. It will take weeks and could be very deadly.
>"My cohort and I both have Teleport Without Error prepared today. We can seriously skip all that and go right now."
>DM never considered this. Dozens of her encounters are ruined.
>For fuck's sake ...
>This is why you don't run games for level 20s unless you're really sure!

cont

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>>49655304

>A bit later we're camping out somewhere.
>It's the first night we're out in the wilderness.
>I cast Mage's Magnificent Mansion giving us a pocket dimension to sleep in.
>Suddenly remember that Shadowdancer was literally contemplating killing me in my sleep so I deny her entry into my magic mansion.
>Explain both IG and OOG that I had read her thoughts earlier.
>Shadowdancer's player loses her shit.
>DM demands that I apologize both IG and OOG.
>Fucking what?
>WHAT!?

>Later that same night we're investigating a noise we hear in the woods.
>Polymorph into a bird to go get a better view.
>Suddenly 20d6 sneak attack damage from single attack.
>Life is saved by a Bigby's Hand spell that's tied to a Contingency spell (the contingency is "whenever I'm attacked in away that denies my Dex bonus to AC).
>The hand provides 100% cover because bird form is Tiny.
>Holy shit that guy would have killed me 5 times over if I didn't have that very precise combination of spells on me at that very moment!
>Find the ambusher. It'sa half-dragon from that group of dragons we're supposed to be fighting that we know nothing about!
>Me and cohort both use Time Stop and cage him up in like 6 Walls of Force.
>Cohort uses Telekinesis and pins him to the ground using Grapple checks as soon as Time Stop ends.
>I use Vision (a spell which costs XP to use) in order to learn literally everything about this guy and the dragons he works for.
>All the spell tells me is what their breath weapon is.
>What?
>Then, in ONE TURN, the half-dragon breaks free from the Grapple (standard action) stands up (move action) walks to one of the Walls of Force caging him in (another move action) draws a Rod of Annihilation from his cloak (a third move action) uses the rod to destroy the wall (standard action) and then teleports away somehow (another fucking standard action).
>Then the DM scolds me for acting violently when she was trying to initiate a roleplaying encounter with this NPC.
>WHAT

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>>49655521

>At this point I'm getting really frustrated.
>I'm constantly getting shut down with nonsense while coming up with the perfect solution to every encounter because the DM has no idea how to challenge someone with access to 9th level arcane spells.
>DM doesn't even know the rules of the game. She tried to tell me that the half-dragon was immune to being pinned by the Telekinesis spell because dragons are immune to mind-altering effects.

>Finally a combat encounter.
>We're attacked by some giant monster out of the Epic book.
>It's really big and scary.
>Let's do this!
>Time Stop > Quicken Fireball > Maximize Fireball > Delayed Blast Fireball > Double Cast Fireball > Empower Fireball
>DM: "You can't target anything during Time Stop. They all don't work."

And then I left. It's like 10 years later and I'm still salty.

>>49655619
Oh, how I love GMs that can't be arsed to read the goddamn rulebooks and resort to so many asspulls, they might as well be throwing a turd puppet show.

I should probably throw in the story of the German guy that rewrote XP rewards 4 sessions in, because he didn't know how Flaws work in V:tR.

>>49645088
The fuck is dabbing?

>>49655807
> should probably throw in the story of the German guy that rewrote XP rewards 4 sessions in, because he didn't know how Flaws work in V:tR.

Well, there's at least one person interested. Please do share. Then again, I don't know V:tR either, so I don't know how much I'll understand.

>>49655936
Good question.

>>49646388
The DM is not there to accommodate his players being dumb. There is nothing anywhere that says he has to run these stupid ideas that don't fit the tone, setting or characters involved, or has to 'Make them work' somehow, ESPECIALLY if he doesn't enjoy doing that. Ideally, he has explained what he wants out of the game beforehand in a way that the players can understand, but sometimes this happens and the players still insist on being idiots due to lack of attention span, or feeling like things are getting 'too nerdy'.

The Player-DM relationship is a two way street.

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>>49655944
Don't worry, I'll explain everything.

>Join online Vampire the Requiem game
>ST is a pretty cool guy
>eh, asks a lot of questions about our characters and doesn't afraid of anything
>In fact, he asks way too many questions
>Nothing that he asked us ever comes up during the game

>Setting is New York 1944
>Play a police detective turned private eye after they sacked him because of a police raid that due to his mishandling ended with a lot of dead policemen
>Pick Flaw - Nightmares, can't restore Willpower while sleeping without restisting gut wrenching visions of dead cops in my sleep
>Send it to the ST
>Finds a couple mistakes, I correct them, we're good to go

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>>49656389
>We start as mortals
>excuse_me.mp3
>Going on with our daily lives like nothing is happening
>I'm barely keeping my office open due to a few police contracts I got on chargen
>Get an investigation assigned to me to go find a missing woman
>Random events lead me to meeting with an NPC I'll call Smug All Powerful, no guesses why
>Session one ends with me searching a missing woman and the rest of the party working in morgue, going out on dates, etc.

>Next session hasn't gotten to that "Vampire" part yet
>My investigation fails immediately because the ST refuses to tell me the name of the woman I was searching for, because "I never asked"
>On the last 15 minutes of the game everyone gets Sired by the various vampires
>I have the "honor" of getting Smug All Powerful
>Session two ends with half the party acting ecstatic and the other half not believing what we just saw

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>>49656580
>Next session we get a pretty cool sequence of us getting used to being unholy and unnatural abominations
>ST makes the mistake of assuming that we all love our Sires
>Smug All Powerful wanted to be called "dad" which just made my guy to loath him
>Also Nosferatu from some Bloodline that's blind
(Bloodlines are like branches in each vampire clan which you can join after reaching after a certain level of Blood Potency)
>I refuse to choose that, since I wasn't at all happy with the hijack

>All characters get crammed in a shithole apartment, for some reason and forced to live together
>"Like boy scouts with fangs" -IGN
>Half assed explanation on why we can't go freely outside of the neighborhood eliminates the "sandbox" he so proudly boasted
>Surprise visit from the local Baron, we must go find his ghoul, okay bye
>I don't know what is happening and very afraid to ask
>His answers consist of 30-45 minute monologues
>We find some clues, call it a day and leave
>Go to sleep, but get Nightmares

And so the meltdown begins

>>49655936
>>49655998
It's a way of consuming marijuana oil

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>>49656731
>Ask him in the end of the session if I get extra XP from my Nightmares
>He asks what that does
>I just say "it's my Flaw"
>Gets back to me later with a message asking what is the Nightmare "Merit"
>I tell him that it robs me of Willpower regeneration and that usually ends with +1xp
(In V:tR Flaws gimp you significantly in an area and if that affects the game, you may get an extra experience point on the STs discretion)
>He responds to me with a gigantic paragraph chewing me out for not roleplaying it with the rest of the group and that what I did was rollplaying
>The same group where nobody has any reason to speak to one another and so does not
>We exchange a few messages, consisting of me explaining to him how Flaws work and him keep calling me a rollplayer to the point that the word lost all meaning
>I stop trying to negotiate with him

>Next session starts
>"I have changed the way experience is rewarded in the game, because this isn't a roll playing game and everyone must interact"
>translation: I didn't know how chargen worked so now I'll fuck you all over
>Make up an excuse and leave for the day to rage in peace
>Start planning my grand exit for the game

>>49655936
Concentrated cannabis hits.

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>>49656936
Alright, are you ready for some really stupid shit?

>Final Session
>Me and another dude say we're going to feed for the night
>He wants us to roleplay it like an actual scene
>Dude goes first
>He can't find strays due to GM fiat and a relentless railroad
>I zone out playing vidya until they mention my name
>Dude fails and goes back to the safehouse

>My turn
>I say I'll grab some hobo
>I can't find a hobo in New York because ST
>Any new plan autofails for no reason given
>rage.tnt
>He tells me the barman is alone, while sounding very annoyed
>No opportunity to attack the barman once inside because ST
>I lose it
>Scare him and chase him to the back
>Catch up and drain him from blood, steal his wallet and the entire cash register
>"Roll for degeneration three times"
>Blatant fuckery of the rules for revenge against me
>Pass all of them and fuck off into the moonlight

He then kicked the dude that failed to feed, because he very clearly told him that his NPCs are shit. Which they were.
Bonus: In his canon for V:tR, the vampires where imported into the USA by the Jews, because Jesus Christ was the first vampire. I'm not fucking kidding

>>49657169
This is why I don't play Vampire games.

>>49657255
Good call. It's the worst RPG community, online and IRL.

>>49656936
>Start planning my grand exit for the game
Why? This doesn't make you look cool or fun, it makes you look like a dick. Do what >>49649591 did, excuse yourself and don't return. If you want you can explain why you decided to leave, but trying to ruin their game is being a bigger dick and any DM.

>>49657856
I wasn't planning on ruinning the game. It wasn't a "lol I burn our shelter and go on a rampage to attract every Hunter in the state" deal. My initial thought would be something like suicide-by-cop, since it would fit the character to a T and might have given me at least some minor satisfaction that his arch ended in a proper way, fitting with the mood and setting.

The whole bar situation was far from planned. It was me trying my best to have fun with my character and then get shut down until I found the "proper" solution.

Still, wasn't trying to ruin the game and in the end I didn't do any harm to the campaign. Unless a dead NPC that they would never meet counts as ruined, which I really don't think so.

>>49657255
It requires your group to be completely solid in a way that not many other RPG's do.
It also requires your ST to not be a vengeful prick.

Hot off the presses.

>Stop by my FLGS on the way home from work last week for giggles.
>See on their bulletin board a 5e Eberron group has lost a player and was looking for a replacement.
>email DM and find out they are lacking in skill monkey and healer roles so agree to play a Life Domain Cleric.
>work out backstory with DM and he tells me to make the character at 4th level as the group has been playing for a couple months.
>show up to game at FLGS with character ready to go only to be told rolling stats is what they do (4d6 keep best three, assign).
>roll stats, my array is 7, 7, 9, 11, 11, 13 and I say "woo, I made double digits in point buy!"
>Table howls and DM tells me to re-roll.
>I reply, "Can't I just end this pain and take 27 point buy and be done with the bullshit so we can get started?"
>DM is like "I hate point buy but I guess..."
>Hand him my character sheet
>He quibbles about my gear, mostly due to splint armor and the horses and a wagon with the 1500 gold he gave me. Let him gut the crap I bought because I am almost to the point of not giving a shit.
>Get the game rolling, DM is getting me up to speed.
>DM asks for everyone's AC, find out mine is the second lowest. This infuriates me due to the DM getting prissy about me going for heavier armor.
>NPCs have no names just, Prince guy, Prince's son, Mafia boss guy, peg leg dwarf guy, and so on with one exception, some random thief is named Pedro.
>City we're in is called Mafia-Town

cont'

>>49658519
>I am joining right after the party has done some job for the Mafia-boss-guy and they are flush with money, literally 20k gold each.
>They go on a ridiculous shopping spree at the most well stocked magical bazaar of the bizarre.
>They buy all sorts of ridiculous gear, including a set of Eyes for the Warforged that cast Prismatic Ray 5 times a day with a DC 25 for the save and grants Truesight at will (no concentration).
>They finish their shopping spree and it is time for the FLGS to close in 15 minutes
>The DM asks me if I am coming next week.
>I tell him I'm going to pass, his group isn't a good fit for me.
>He asks why
>I simply reply the session I participated in was a 3 hour shopping spree during which I had less than 1/10th the funds the group had to buy shit with, so of course I was pretty much bored out of my skull. Not to mention I had only the faintest idea of the ongoing plot and where I fit in it so had no sense of engagement at all.
>DM goes nuts and starts ranting about me being a powergaming murderhobo and wasting his time. His voice getting shriller by the moment.
>The shop owner, a pretty bro guy, tells the DM to calm down and gets him out of there. He apologies to me and gives a coupon for the store, $5 off a purchase of $30 or more.

Shit was so bad I kept thinking shit like, "I could be having more fun playing Boring Man's Sky." I bet their last player left because of the retardation.

>>49658049
To be fair to the other guy, it sounded more like you were trying to fuck it up for everyone.

That's not so bad, really, what actually happened. Still, you see sooo many fagets around here that can't just quit something they dislike, they HAVE to try and just fuck it up for everyone, or just be a general shit.

Like that one faggot that was boasting about how he put together a party of furries he didn't like, just to kill off their characters in Virt-esque detail, and then got offended when people in the thread noted he was a fuckface for it...but others encouraged it, because how dare people do things they dislike.

It wasn't furries pushing their shit into other games. It was advertised as a game for shit they liked.

With that being the level of 'fun' around here at times, its easy to see why that guy snapped at you a bit.

>>49656050

This.

The whole "hurr gud GM always sez yes" meme is a massive red herring. I'm convinced most of the people who propagate it haven't ever come face to face with a legit That Guy, or else are so loose that they don't care in the first place and play with an anything goes attitude anyway.

>>49646388
Good DM's need good players, Hitler.

Players have expectations, and the ones who do dumb shit usually expect the world (and thus the DM) to accommodate them. Do the words "but that's what my character would do" sound familiar? And that's when it's only other players they're dealing with. But that important NPC? They don't even see that as the DM playing a character. They see that as a plaything. And when the plaything suddenly acts like a character, and is prepared for their bullshit, they will claim the DM is fucking with them.

>>49654456
Actually it was
>invited to do something I like
>agreed
>some red flags are popping up that suggest it might be a bad experience, but I don't know for sure because it hasn't happened yet
Reading comprehension.

>>49650878
toppest kek

>>49655619
>>DM: "You can't target anything during Time Stop. They all don't work."
That is how time stop works
>This spell seems to make time cease to flow for everyone but you. In fact, you speed up so greatly that all other creatures seem frozen, though they are actually still moving at their normal speeds. You are free to act for 1d4+1 rounds of apparent time. Normal and magical fire, cold, gas, and the like can still harm you. While the time stop is in effect, other creatures are invulnerable to your attacks and spells; you cannot target such creatures with any attack or spell. A spell that affects an area and has a duration longer than the remaining duration of the time stop have their normal effects on other creatures once the time stop ends. Most spellcasters use the additional time to improve their defenses, summon allies, or flee from combat.
>While the time stop is in effect, other creatures are invulnerable to your attacks and spells; you cannot target such creatures with any attack or spell. A spell that affects an area and has a duration longer than the remaining duration of the time stop have their normal effects on other creatures once the time stop ends.
So yes the only thing there that could have worked would have been Delayed Blast Fireball.
Learn your own fucking rules.

Right well I guess since everyone is doing playgroup gripes I might as well pitch in.
>Start a pf campaign with a close group of friends
>All but me and DM know almost nothing about dnd/pf
>"its fine, just get past character creation" I thought
>friend and his gf make weaboo characters with no idea now to stat them
>Annoyed but I help them
>Other members of the party make reasonable characters but our party is kinda ass (Fighter, wizard, oracle, 3ppDE)
>then there's that guy
>That Guy:"I wanna be a bard that just buffs my bear animal companion"
>We start level three so its possible, but all ways of obtaining an animal companion are taxing and don't mesh with bard well
>Me:"So like you could be a druid or like a hunter, and have profession in an instrument, otherwise you might not do much."
>That Guy:"I made this character before and it was pretty good"
>he lost his character sheet and doesn't remember anything but bard with a bear
>I talk with DM about his character and we both agreed that the bear animal companion sucks and needs to be buffed
>That Guy and I setup a day to work on and flesh out his character
>Me:"So you could do like a controller with a synergist offspec with druid, or more like a brawler strengthens his pet with hunter. Or like pure skill monkey/party face with buffs and stuff using Bard."
>That Guy:"Ok I just want to have a bear and buff the bear"
>Me:"well you have options on how you want your character to be"
>That Guy:"Ok"
>Literally no other input, nothing got done
>We meet up another day with the DM to work out his character
>Again, give That Guy options and he just shrugs and says "ok"
>Now I'm upset, because he just doesn't give a shit
>That Guy:"Ill figure it out"
>Day1 game, shows up 2 hours late, and no character sheet.
>I haven't played in years and I want this to work out, so I just write up a bard and use his first 3 feats for Eldritch Heritage Sylvan.
>Session went well, but he bitched that he didn't do anything.

>>49650878
Take the Poo to the Inquisitor, and then be purged as a filthy heretic.

>>49658597
archive post?

>>49659196
Fireball doesn't target, fool. It counts in the final clause about area spells. You can load an area with fireballs during a time stop and they'll all trigger when the time stop ends. If you want to shit on someone for being retarded, get your facts right.

>>49650716
>we dodged one hell of a bullet
Possibly a whole barrage of the things...

>>49659673
>A spell that affects an area and has a duration longer than the remaining duration of the time stop have their normal effects on other creatures once the time stop ends.
>A spell that affects an area and has a duration longer than the remaining duration of the time stop
What is the duration on your fireball? Is it longer then time stop?
>Duration: Instantaneous
Oh right it isnt.

>>49654615
Desperation makes for some very questionable decisions.

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>>49659673
thats not how that works at all dumbass, spells fail to affect a target unless their duration exceeds the time stop. fireballs are instantanious. You also cannot target spells, so even spells like dominate person wont work even if the duration easily lasts past the time stop.

There are plenty of ways to abuse the system of time stops to attack people during it, you have to both know what you are doing and have access to certain abilities. regular fireball is not one of them unless you make use of the beginning of turn effect of the recurring metamagic feat. Even then, thats just one fucking fireball.

>>49647860
where do you find good larp

>>49644739
>Anything I can do to lessen the disappointment once game night comes around, or even trick myself into having fun with this inevitable clusterfuck?
Get blackout drunk

>>49659920
Figure out the kind of larp you want to goto thematic wise, then goto the internet and look them up. I know there are like four different larps around where I live, ranging from post zombie Apocalypse, to the wizard of oz with people upto the 1900s, to Medieval Old World. of Darkness.
Also figure out how far you are willing to travel, the larp I used to goto had people traveling several hundred miles to come to it.

>>49655936
Niggerspeak for stupid shit.

>>49659383
>>he lost his character sheet and doesn't remember anything but bard with a bear
Red Flag 1
>>That Guy and I setup a day to work on and flesh out his character
Red Flag 2 (seriously, having to help someone work their character that much, fucking hell)
>>Everything else
Oh God Why Fuck Why

>>49659921
I second this emotion.
Seriously, those fuckers are going to be shit, so you might as well be good and buzzed when you get there, maybe slowly sip over the course of the game. Get some fucking enjoyment out of the game.

>>49644739
>>Roomate invites me to Pathfinder campaign
>>I don't even like 3.pf but I'm so starved to play anything that I'm so down
Don't do this

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>>49659673

He just posted the fucking rules in that post and you somehow still fucked up. You're a god damned embarrassment.

Probably one of those shitter players that makes non-stop gameplay errors that slow everything down because you have the reading comprehension of a child and/or couldn't be bothered to do more than skim the rules.

>>49645840
Instead of running the game you want them to play, run a game they want to play. That is, lolsorandumb 420nosope murderhobo shit. Let them at least get it out of their system or if not, just have someone else run a murderhobo campaign.

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>>49659196
>>49659777
>>49659834
>>49660648

OP here.

Huh. Maybe I'm remembering an older version of the rules for Time Stop where AoEs with instantaneous durations would all go off at the end of the spell. I could swear I had at least done it in Baldur's Gate. Or maybe I'm remembering the game sessions wrong and I did it all with Delayed Blast Fireballs.

Or maybe I was 20 and retarded.

In any case I was already pretty fed up with that game for tons of other reasons.

>>49661510
Yes, in AD&D 2nd you could do whatever you wanted while time was stopped.

>>49661583
Forgot to put the quote
"Upon casting a time stop spell, the wizard causes the flow of time to stop for one round in the area of effect. Outside this area the sphere simply seems to shimmer for an instant. Inside the sphere, the caster is free to act for 1d3 rounds of apparent time. The wizard can move and act freely within the area where time is stopped, but all other creatures, except for those of demigod and greater status or unique creatures, are frozen in their actions, for they are literally between ticks of the time clock. (The spell duration is subjective to the caster.) Nothing can enter the area of effect without being stopped in time also. If the wizard leaves the area, the spell is immediately negated. When the spell duration ceases, the wizard is again operating in normal time. "

>>49660404
I was legit livid, but we had fun during the session, since it was mostly rp.

I hadn't played in a long ass time, so I put up with a lot of bullshit to make it work.

>>49661395
See>>49656050

>>49658597
>that one faggot that was boasting about how he put together a party of furries he didn't like, just to kill off their characters
>Virt-esque detail

Christ, what?

>>49645088
>Dabbing into the microphone

Asshole.

>>49659920
europe