Lighthearted Quests, Heartwarming Campaigns

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>>50262083
gb2tumblr, libtard

>>50262083
>Trying to find where the blacksmith's daughter's cat has gone

>Trying to restore the old lighthouse for the lighthouse keeper's ghost to feel comfy

>Trying to convinve the geriatric baker to share her mushroom-pumpkin pie recipe

>>50262083
>finding lost library books
>dealing with small animals wandering into a thermal spring bath and bothering the bathers
>performing an intervention for a man who has got hooked on gambling
>helping an old man find someone who can cook his favourite dish
>"field testing" a shoemaker's new style of boots
>helping stage a play
>train city guard/local army
>helping the local priest run a school for poor children
>you find a treasure map
>street lights need fixing
>a cat has gone missing
>a child dropped their lucky rock down the well
>help a market trader run his stall while he goes on a break/errand

>>50262083
>i can't think of interesting challenges for players and so i will drown them in bullshit under the disguise of "comfy"

"Comfy" is the worst fucking thing to happen to /tg/. Nobody is interested in your gay-ass halfassed snoreventures. Fuck your "interesting" NPCs you shit out on a party. Fuck your "down-to-earth" (more like Down-to-shit) quests. They are trash. Nobody cares on how your fucking NPCs live, they're NPCs, not people.

Fuck you.
Go kill yourself.

>>50262163
I agree. You meet in an inn, check the quest board and go to the dungeon, easy.

>>50262163
>>50262174

>t. murderhobos

>>50262103
>>50262163
ITT: people who are fun at parties.

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>>50262174
>Faggot GM gives us a "cute" kid sidekick
>"Hey, whatsyourface, go see what's at the end of this hallway
>mfw i checked for traps first and noticed a lot
>mfw GM's fw

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>>50262083
>>It's the start of the hunting season and the Lord is running a contest on who can find and capture the White Stag as is customary to begin the season

>>It's time for The Grand Tournament and skilled warriors, archers, and magi are entering in order to win, as first prize is a place in the king's royal guard and a kiss from the crown princess.

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>>50262163
You seem awfully upset at the prospect that people enjoy things you do not.

>>50262285
Don't reply to 40kids.

>>50262195
"Hey guys! Who wants to play a game of Palermo?"

>shut the fuck up Jerry, you fucking tumblr casul nigger, we'll play fucking monopoly
>I fucking hate all of you and your shitty "durr hurr whodunit" games
>kill yourselves you shithead, fuck you and your nigger birthday and your fucking "but it's fun" excuse
>monopoly is way better, I can have a proper economic strategy instead of pointing fingers you motherfucker
>what do you mean I'm not allowed back in?
>wait until I tell /tg/ about this!

>>50262285
I am.
I am upset tha RPGs move into "everyone is a winner" mollycoddling tumblr shittery. The games like faggots in this thread describe usually don't last beyond a single session after which everyone just doesn't bother arriving to the second. You know why? Because if a game provides no challenge and no consequences, it's not interesting.

>>50262311
This

I play D&D to fight dragons and orcs and get loot.

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>>50262195

>>50262311

Things can be challenging and have consequences without being certain be violent. Some people want games that are more drama than action movie.

>>50262311
What's the appeal in posting in a thread you dislike just to broadcast your being butthurt over other people's preferences? Do you actually have that little going for you?

>>50262311
Not him, but I am astounded at how you manage not to gag on that foot in your mouth.

>>50262083
What about helping either that commoner woman or that elf soldier/town guard in confessing or supporting their romance towards each other, as it turns out both that commoner woman and the elf-dude-at-arms have a crush on each other but won't admit it to one another. So you may help either of them out.

>>50262333
If i do it enough, more people will be put off by these games and there would be more games left for us. Stamp degeneracy out before it takes root.

>>50262311
>I am upset tha RPGs move into "everyone is a winner" mollycoddling tumblr shittery
>playing anything other than murderhoboism and dungeon crawls is "everyone is a winner" and tumblr
>games should be nothing else but kill, loot, repeat

t. shitposters and shit people in general

>>50262311
>The games like faggots in this thread describe usually don't last beyond a single session
You must not have played many games then. or turned full that guy on those that weren't to your liking.

I've recently had an elaborate campaign based on protecting and rescuing poor, misunderstood monsters. It was comfy as fuck.

>>50262332
I blame bioware for this shit

A generation of millennial libcucks raised on LE QUIRKY CHARACTERS and shitty waifus

TEE HEE THE ZANY ELF WANTS ME TO PRANK OTHERS

LOL THE CUTE LADYKNIGHT READS LEWD BOOKS, SO FUNNAY

>>50262350

As opposed to characters with no personality beyond 'Has a sword'?

There are shitty things in all directions of media.

>>50262347
It's just making you look like a tool. And everything you stand for.

Just sayin' senpai

>>50262347
But everyone else in the thread is just laughing at you for being a salty faggot.

The fact that you seem so worked-up over strangers having fun wrong makes it seem like you don't even have a group of your own.

ITT: People I'd never run a Ryuutama game for, even if they put a gun to my head.

>>50262359
hey imoen had a nice backstory.

>>50262332
>Things can be challenging and have consequences without being certain be violent.
If your consequence is "oh no, mr.bumblefuck and mrs.yeastcunt didn't marry :(" it's a shit consequence. It changes nothing. It's even worse than "omg so creative" DM's "oh no, the kingdom will fall into darkness :(", they like to brag about. I don't give a single shit about your imaginary kingdom, i care only for my character. He (and other party members, but it's THEIR job to look after their characters) is the center of a game, and nothing DM says has an effect on that.

>>50262347
Actually, it's making me lean the other way, as it makes people who are opposed to these kinds of games look like total douchebags.

>>50262347
>Nobody should like the thing I don't like, otherwise the entire hobby is ruined for me
I always wonder if there is hope for people like you to function normally in society.

>>50262359
Simple archetypal characters are better than cutesy whedon / felicia day quipfest shit

I don't care about your backstory you faggot, go and fap over how you're like totally doing NaNo with your other fanfiction.net retards.

You're a Fighting Man, you fight. As Gygax intended.

>>50262367
What if I pat your head?

>>50262378

So you don't give a shit about the actual role playing in a role playing game? Why don't you just play a video game instead?

>>50262395
>implying proper OSR dungeon crawls are equivalent to video games

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>>50262083

This trope might exist in JRPGs somewhere, but I would be a fan of a kind of "cosy catastrophe" post apocalyptic setting. A lot of post apocalyptic stuff is like Mad Max, where technologies from the former civilization are still available and familiar to the characters who lived before "shit hit the fan." And the post apocalyptic society is extremely chaotic as people are using guns and cars to fight over what few resources exist.

I'm thinking of going farther into the future, where the climate has stabilized somewhat and human society exists as an agricultural society somewhat resembling our notion of generic medieval fantasy. So far in the future that people forgot what happened, and regard the ruins of the previous civilization no differently than the more natural features of the landscape.

Obviously the kind of stuff you see in weeaboo ruin porn art.

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>>50262386
>as Gygax intended

Gygax was fair for his time and that time is long gone. RPGs have shifted gear and have managed to be more than a miniature wargame. A proper RPG can have your swordfag get swarmed by a guy that decided to make connections in town, make himself likeable and send a bunch of guards your way. Also GMs start growing some balls and if you say that shit, your character gets killed and you get kicked.

tl;dr, what Gygax intended doesn't apply anymore, kill yourself you baity faggot and choke on this (You)

>>50262378
>anon hits "extraneous smileys" level of desperation
How much longer before you start replying with misspelled all-caps greentext?

>>50262421
>RPGs have shifted gear and have managed to be more than a miniature wargame

>le change is good meme

yes, letting all the fucking casuals in really improved the hobby

show some fucking respect for the hobby, or fuck off

>>50262421

That and Gygax ran plenty of games with plenty of story. I mean, that's the entire REASON we have Greyhawk as a setting with a heap of fleshed out details.

People seem to think that con games (Games designed for people who don't know each other and will likely not meet again) were 100% of his games.

>>50262395
>Actual roleplaying
Here's how it works.
You're a normal dude, with a normal sword (or a magical dildo if you're into that).
You go into dungeons. In a dungeon nobody cares if you're third prince of Fuckoffistan or a duke of Bumburg - you catch an arrow in your gut, cleric either resurrects you or gives you a small epitaph, the group moves on.

You can roleplay in downtime, buying bitches, building castles, sodomizing yourself with your magicl dildo, i don't care. It's not ROLEPLAYING game, it's roleplaying GAME. The world doesn't give a shit who you are. Git gud or git ded. Don't try to save your shitty mary sue with "b-but i have ten fail points! I can spend one and magical fairy will fly to me and not make me die of tetanus!". No. get over it. The world doesn't give a shit.

>>50262419
I would play that. GURPS or some other system?

>>50262440
>the fucking casuals
reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

>Lazarus Darkshadow has been sitting in the dark corners of the pub for a week now. The owner is upset he has been bring his own drink and never buys anything. He thinks this town is boring and is waiting to find an adventure. He just needs a friend, someone to help take the edge off.

>A dragon has come to town trying to book a venue for the 213th Council of Wyrms. He is trying to buy land to begin construction for the event but no one will sell it to him and he is getting tired of explaining to knights that he won't fight them.

>Old Man Wizfizzle is a retired wizard who mostly uses wish spells to help out the people of the town. But his hearing is really starting to go and his interpretations on wishes is getting worse and worse. Maybe he should get it in writing...

>Dopplegangers are coming to town looking for work. When anti-doppler sentiment keeps them out of jobs they start imitating some of the lazier townspeople and doing their work for them and taking their pay. Someone finally caught on and they are very upset.

>>50262367
What if I give you a massage, anon?

>>50262450
Ryuutama.
Magic is just NANOMACHINES, SON.
Ryuujin is benevolent AI on a satellite, tasked with rebuilding humanity and making it better.

>>50262461
So it's basically the homebrew setting I made when I was 15?

>>50262454
That Lazarus Darkshadow reminds me of a story of an angsty edgelord stuck in a light-hearted campaign

>>50262461
Damn, when do we start?

>>50262461
>Ryuujin is benevolent AI on a satellite, tasked with rebuilding humanity and making it better.

What a thankless job.

>>50262509
hey, it's AI. It's not like it has anything better to do.

>>50262461

>the harvest god is a climate control satellite that regulates weather on the planet to maintain balance and sustainability

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>>50262458
that might help, but only a little.

>>50262461
>>50262509
>>50262515
>>50262532
>What is Numenera

>An ancient golem, buried for thousand years has reactivated on the outskirts of town.

>It has been plodding through farmlands and farmhouses, locked into some sort of patrol mode that doesn't account for the growth of the town in the centuries since it was programmed.

>While the golem doesn't seem to have an attack mode and won't do anything but walk through obstacles, no means of force or magic the townsfolk have come up with has been able to stop it.

>Any attempts made to communicate with the construct thus far have been met with strange quires made in its original magical programming language.

>The PCs must find a way to talk to or reprogram the golem, stopping its slow-motion rampage and turning it toward more constructive activities.

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>A Dwarven mercenary has fallen in love with a travelling human Minstrel and needs the PCs help in wooing them
>A hulking giant wants to intergrate into society, finding the idea of sleeping in a village with friends instead of in a ditch surrounded by corpses to be more appealing, and wants to find a peaceful job that a simple brute like himself can do
>A strange man from a far away continent has come to visit, and won't shut his mouth about how great his nation is and how the locals are backwards savages. Show him a good time or teach him a lesson.
>A Barbarian tribe is having a competition of strength and skill, and for the first time is opening the competition to outsiders (optional: A dastardly baron is entering with intent to cheat his way to victory, and the PCs have to stop him)
>A village is stripped of just about all of its guardsmen when a war mandated draft rolls in. It's up to the PCs to train a ragtag group of misfit villagers into a competent fighting-force that can keep the village safe until the regular guards return
>Another adventuring party rolls into town, and gets competitive with the PCs over who can impress the most townfolk

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>>50262461
>>50262367

I'm glad my half baked ideas have been properly formulated well before me.

>>50262562
>The patrol routes are the streets of an ancient city that use to be where the town is.

>>50262419
I'd play this game in a heartbeat. The advanced technology of the past becomes the setting's "magic," with A.I. spirits, holographic familiars and the like.

>>50262580
>if you stop the golem you can find the map inside

>the cave outside the town leads to the upper floors of a tallest building in that city

>over the centuries golems down there have carved pathways through now-buried megapolis

>some of the buildings were sealed off and still contain artifacts of civilization long gone

>>50262163

Exactly. Who the fuck plays RPGs to do NOTHING EXCITING?

I mean, 'comfy' is stupid as hell.

>>50262362

And smug asshattery like that is why so many people voted for Trump.

>>50262163
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>>50262319
>>50262607
samefagging is bad desu :^)

>>50262605
I like this idea. I will incorporate it in my game

>>50262617
I'm happy. Why aren't you happy, anon?

>>50262311
>I am upset tha RPGs move into "everyone is a winner" mollycoddling tumblr shittery.

You're projecting your hatred for that mindset onto things that aren't necessarily advocating it.

>>50262605
Can the players find a control room for the golem and stop it before it demolishes the village wall? Tune in next time to find out!

>>50262632
He actually probably enjoys slice-of-life games, because he doesn't seem to be putting a lot of effort into trolling this thread.

Or maybe he's really just a low-energy loser.

>>50262628

He clearly didn't vote for Trump. I did, and I have a nigh-permanent erection.

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>>50262617
You're no Trump, boy.

>>50262647

I honestly hate that I can't tell if comments like >>50262350

are serious anymore. I guess it's just a feature of this website.

>>50262666

I get where he's coming from, though. Like, increasingly we've seen a lot of media play that up to 'soften' what should otherwise be a more solid setting. The comic The Wicked and the Divine is an example of how...I'm not sure of the exact word for it, but 'leftism' is a good one...can infest a genre like a cancer that needs to be rooted out.

>>50262590

And the "nanomachines, son" explanation for magic might be a handy excuse for sorcerer bloodlines.

>>50262083
I love these thread because it allow me to play tabletop with KIDS

>inb4 pedojokes

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>>50262083

>>50262679

I honestly don't see enough of it to get angry about it, though. I stopped liking Bioware games a while ago, the agenda they push exists concurrently with genuinely boring game design. And I can tell that the new Star Wars movies are trying hard to avoid white male protagonists, but The Force Awakens was otherwise very uninspired so I don't care. I think you're making an opportunity cost argument, though.

I just don't think we should associate tumblr safe spaces with light hearted comedy pertaining to our interests and hobbies. That's not the point.

>>50262743

I don't know. I think that we should lash back as violently as possible, because the other side is making a mockery of everything we love. (Remember Ghostbusters and the shitstorm over it?)

We need to send these people a sign that we're onto their shit, and we don't want more of it.

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>>50262693
>shooting magic nanomachines from your dick

>>50262743
>And I can tell that the new Star Wars movies are trying hard to avoid white male protagonists

Huh? We have a white male character right in the main team for Rogue One and the Rebel Ace who gets the entire story going/saves the day in the end is a white male.

The latter can be seen as maybe not a protagonist but the entire team in Rogue One are protagonists, not just the female lead.

but what if i want to run a light hearted game for kids anon what then

>>50262758
And flinging shit is more effective than, say, boycotting them?

I don't mind this thread, because it gives me good ideas for not so serious side-tasks that the group can do when they feel like it.

>>50262758
Nah. The proper way to deal with them is to ignore them.

Just like all trolls, once they realize that their shit got in the no-fly zone, they will stop.

>>50262758
>the other side is making a mockery of everything we love
>brings up Ghostbusters
You are now aware that the people who made "everything you love" were in the past and still are today, for the most part, on "the other side".

>>50262774

Yeah, I was thinking about the team composition in Rogue One and wondering if Star Wars was the best example. But Kylo Ren was a fucking awful antagonist, I'm not sure what they were doing there.

But I could also point to the "feminist" influences in Mad Max Fury Road and say, "Hey, these make sense and the movie was really good. I can't complain."

>>50262783

Ignoring them doesn't work, that's how shit got this far. There has to be a backlash.

>>50262743

The Force Awakens wasn't trying to be a dramatic change. It was very clear it's mission statement was to go 'These is going to be much more OT than Prequels' and it did that by making a very, very OT story.

It's also set up a very different dynamic between the two factions than the OT had. The Rebellion/Empire was very much 'Can't fight a real war, so they need a golden bullet'. While the First Order is more 'Neither side has a huge military advantage over the other'. Hence the First Order being forced to pull back when the Rebels actually turned up, as they couldn't afford to get into a proper fight.

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>>50262760

>>50262350
>buzzwords buzzwords buzzwords
Kindly end your life.

>>50262803
Well if you start acting like a screeching retard, they'll play the victim card. If you dismiss them with "hey everyone, get a load of this cunt" and then let them start digging their own grave, it will work.

So no, getting violent just robs you of any proper say in the matter you may have had and reinforces their position. Think of the long game, anon.

>>50262561
>What is Tékumel
Literally the first full-fledged published RPG setting.

>>50262774

You can do that by not buying it and criticizing it fairly. Anything more and people will just see you as a sperg, and they'll just dismiss you. Of course, to your point, we have people now plugging their ears and yelling misogynist for not liking something they like that happens to have women in leading roles.

Anyways. Lighthearted can be done without fanfiction tier quirky writing a la Bioware.

>>50262798

Actually, I really like Kylo Ren (If they are doing what I strongly suspect they are doing with him.)

He's not supposed to be a potent, imposing antagonist in the way that Darth Vader is. He's supposed to be more 'Opposition that grows with the protagonist'. A rival, not a final opponent to be built up to beating.

He's got some serious, serious issues that fuck him over and a lot of room to grow himself. If I'm right (And I hope I am) the movies are going to focus on his progression as a character nearly as much as hers.

>>50262833

What long game? Both sides are just slinging shit. The side that slings shit harder wins.

>>50262815
>It's also set up a very different dynamic between the two factions than the OT had. The Rebellion/Empire was very much 'Can't fight a real war, so they need a golden bullet'. While the First Order is more 'Neither side has a huge military advantage over the other'. Hence the First Order being forced to pull back when the Rebels actually turned up, as they couldn't afford to get into a proper fight.

Star Killer Base was a pretty massive operation, though.

>>50262835

I think you might have quoted the wrong guy there.

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>>50262838
>The side that slings shit harder wins
Your posting rights are revoked.

>>50262836

Kylo Ren is a deliberate attempt to emasculate men and mock people who wanted a white male protagonist. Fortunately, with Trump in charge, the zeitgeist is going to be changing, and soon.

I won't be surprised if we see a new, white Captain America, for example. Same for Ms. Marvel. All the 'diversity' characters are now out-of-place in a country where they're no longer the prevailing interest.

>>50262842

It was, yeah but it also was the action of a very well funded terrorist group. The Death Star was built openly and used as a terror weapon. Starkiller Base was used for a sneak attack as they couldn't remotely engage the republic fairly.

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>>50262838
If that's the limit of your understanding, go sling your shit somewhere else.

>>50262836

I'm actually hoping for that, too. The first movie shows Rey as a somewhat incorruptible character with strong latent force powers, while Kylo actually expresses doubts. That foil could easily be turned upside down, and I expect we'll learn a lot more about Luke's failed Jedi training effort in the next movie. That might shed some much needed LIGHT on Kylo Ren as a character.

>>50262847

Yeah I very much did do that. Early morning.

Meant for >>50262758

>>50262867

What, you gonna downvote me, you fucking cuck?

>>50262860

>Star Killer Base was funded with Clinton Cash

>>50262815
>While the First Order is more 'Neither side has a huge military advantage over the other'
Yet they love to show the huge armies of stormtroopers and ridiculously powerful planet destroying tech, as if they are some kind of massive unbeatable threat. The whole movie came off as the OT all over again even though it doesn't make sense for the current state of things. I really have to agree with the other anon saying how it seems uninspired

>>50262876
>cuck

There it is. That word.

>>50262893

It's entirely appropriate, which is why people hate it so much. If it didn't sting, it wouldn't be effective as an insult.

>>50262903

Keep using it like that, and it will lose its "sting" pretty quick, if it hasn't already.

>>50262083

>the party is a gaggle of vassals to a minor lord that must accompany his kind-hearted but admittedly clumsy son on a yearly hunt in order to make him look good.

>The party helps a runaway mermaid girl achieve her dream of living in fresh water.

>The party pursues a mystery of a magically faked death to humor a group of retired old detectives who plan the scenario.

>>50262903
No one hates it, it's such a misused word that it has no meaning anymore beyond a generic insult. I saw people call David Bowie a reverse cuck, because he married a black woman.

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>>50262903
How do you always manage to oust yourself? It amazes me how someone can botch his shitposting by making so obvious that it's shit.

It's like watching a Tarantino movie all the way through.

>>50262871

I think Kylo's issues is that he's really, really not playing to his strengths.

His Saber skills are really not his strong point but he showed several times that he's got a fantastic control of the force...when he's focused.

Instead he's going off a very flawed idea of the Sith code where he acts like 'Using your anger' means turning into a flailing idiot as you lose all self control. Vader didn't do that. Vader's anger was focused and honed like a knife.

Rey on the other hand is a melee brawler from the very start (See: Staff stuff) and flowed with the force well to actually enhance her talents, rather than trying to push in entirely the wrong direction for herself.

Kylo needs to learn to play to his own advantages, rather than trying to focus on Vader's strengths. He'll never be Vader's equal with a lightsaber and he shouldn't try to be at the exclusion of his actual talents.

To go to the old RPG terms: Kylo is a Consular, Rey is on her way to being a Guardian but Kylo doesn't realise it.

>There is a troll in the town hall. He is complaining about infrastructure funding being cut and refuses to build any more bridges until he is paid a fair wage.

>Punzel, the dwarf, lives in a tower on the outskirts of town. She has a 12 foot long beard and needs help finding someone proficient enough to braid it into something more manageable.

>Gardening Gnomes are making a comeback this year and putting the farmers out of business. Can someone please round them up and take them somewhere else?

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I have run semiannual/ quarterly session for my son and a few of his friends. Being first graders, I basically run a Saturday morning fantasy cartoon. The kids are guards for a hedge wizard and his niece/ courier. They have solved riddles with tricky pixies, helped reinforce a small town so a ritual could make the farms fertile again and not have to import food from a shifty goblin trader, scattered a bandit group led by an elf that was the Frenchman from Monty Python and Dick Dastardly mashed together, and have a recurring villain in a Worg named Slavog that is upset they keep passing through "his" woods on jobs.

I keep it low level and as the kids get older and mature, so will the adventures and power they command. Pic is me now that they are asking, "Anondad, when can we play D&D again?"

>>50262935
>His Saber skills are really not his strong point but he showed several times that he's got a fantastic control of the force...when he's focused.

>"What are you trying to tell me, that I can dodge bullets?"

>"No, Kylo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2JwB9Zg_IE

>>50262981
I'm jelly. I wish my dad played rpgs with me when I was a kid.

All I ever got was vidya

>>50262903
>saying things to insult/trigger/bait people
holy shit how can anyone be so miserable to enjoy the bad mood of other posters on an anonymous image board?

>>50263022

Because we give him replies. I'm at fault for this, but I hope the thread goes back on topic. There were a few neat ideas being tossed around.

>>50262419
Is there a name for this? Post-post-apocalyptic?

>>50262679
>The Wicked and the Divine
Huh, a friend recently told me I should check it out. What's so bad about it?
I'm not sure it's exactly what you're talking about, but I've spent years reading Homestuck. It used to be a RPG-parody, cosmic Jumanji style adventure. Halfway through it shifted to YA novel tier, shipping romance drama, and I was heartbroken. Is it that kind of thing? Ruining a cool premise with boring shit intended for a completely different audience that didn't care about it?

>>50262743
>I just don't think we should associate tumblr safe spaces with light hearted comedy pertaining to our interests and hobbies. That's not the point.
This guy gets it.

>>50262083

>Radiance using a setting a bunch of us created in Dawn of Worlds
>an Atlan Elementalist, a Goblin Shaman and a Pixie Fighter
>helped a Warlus priest deal with a necromancer who was raising the dead in his churchyard
>stemmed the magical rot in an ancient forest to save a forest spirit (in the form of a giant toad) who we had befriended
>captured a group of adventurers twice our size (both physically and numerically) and gave them a stern telling off about the effects they're having on the forest with their looting on ancient shrines before we let them go

As a group we killed one person, the necromancer, and only after he refused to surrender. We now refer to this game as Hippy Quest.

>>50262083
>The hunter and the wabbit are effecively at a stalemate yet won't stop. All the explosions and tunnels are starting to cause buildings to collapse and ruining the harvest. They've never been this bad before, might the duck know something? At any rate you need to broker peace between them.

i... strongly disagree with those saying that "Kill, loot, sell to get more killy stuff, kill more" is the best way to play, i i wanted that i'd just play a Skyrim or something, but at the same time i can see how quests getting cats out of trees make you feel like a bitch when you want to be a hero. Still social interaction shouldn't be ignored totally, especially as buildups to greater stuff.
Save the cat, it's like a two second interaction
turns out the cat's owner is the mayor's daughter.
Mayor is impressed you're a decent sort who would help a little girl, wants to offer you a job.

I've personally been toying with the idea of non-fight random encounters. Why is everyone the party meets along the road or in the forest goblins and bandits, just ONCE have them run into a group of elves having a picnic and invite the PCs to hang out, or just a hunter in the woods who can say "oh yeah the old mine is down that way, watch out, i saw bear tracks round there"

Say what you want about Bioware, one of my favorite things in Mass Effect where the random people talking that made it feel like there was a whole world happening

>>50263158
>I've personally been toying with the idea of non-fight random encounters.

That's what Reaction Roll in D&D is for. If the DM roll a random encounter with a bunch of goblins, he should check their disposition towards the PCs with a Reaction Roll (unless there are dwarves in the party. Fucking dwarves!).

Also, I like the idea of random encounters as world-building: if the DM roll an encounter with a dragon, maybe the PCs will witness a dragon catching a cow from a farm and flying to a nearby mountaintop.

Dangerous quests are thrilling, but they're also tiring in the long run, unless your group is the exception that can't get enough.
Most people will burn out from too much scheming and fighting. So low-stakes, noncombat encounters can be a great way to help your players relax.
Of course too much of -that- will get boring, so it's obviously a matter of finding a balance that changes with every group.

>>50263158
>i wanted that i'd just play a Skyrim or something
>implying the best way to play skyrim isn't to become a survivalist hobo that sells pelts and skins to fund his skooma addiction
pleb tier dovakiin

Holy shit, the autistic reeeeeeeeeing in this thread makes me glad this is just a moderate interest pass-time that I'm not obsessed with and play with well adjusted adults.

Just imagining getting into a group and seeing some fat neckbeard scream and cry and possibly shit himself in impotent autism during a game of pretend while screeching REEEEEEEEEEEEEE I JUST WANTED TO KILL GOBLIINNSSS WITH MY WISH FULFILLMENT CHARACTER FUCKING NORMIESSSSSSSSS because of a non-combat encounter is some of the most pathetic shit.

>>50263158
>just ONCE have them run into a group of elves having a picnic and invite the PCs to hang out,
I'm all for noncombat encounters, but this is an incredibly boring idea. Something interesting should always happen or there's no point in highlighting it happening at all

>>50262857
I assume you're making a joke, but maybe you're serious. Who knows!

>>50263268
Yes. The PCs should be able to at least gather some piece of useful information from the elves, like the location of some long-lost ruins, the lair of a foul beast, or the nearest McDonalds.

>>50263268
Well, three months later, as the zombie apocalypse is shambling across the earth and the party reaches a holdout of survivors you can have some of them be all "Hey, didn't we have a picnic with those guys once?" "Oh yeah, I remember. They're cool, we can let them in."

>>50263244

Skyrim held my interest for about as long as I could be a low level archer. Walking around in that game world taking shots at game and collecting their meats and hides. Being able to cook said meats and make armor out of said hides. But the higher level armor crafting abandons leather and moves into things like "glass" armor IIRC, and the food isn't terribly helpful.

But maybe I should think less about the benefits of higher level armor and items and just role play or something, I don't know.

>>50263292
And then they try to eat you. Because no one asked what they were having for the picnic

>>50263322
>they try to eat you
OP wanted light-hearted, not lewd-hearted. Personally I don't mind having both, though.

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>>50263255
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEE I JUST WANTED TO KILL GOBLIINNSSS WITH MY WISH FULFILLMENT CHARACTER FUCKING NORMIESSSSSSSSS

>>50262903
>It's entirely appropriate, which is why people hate it so much.
It just means "nuh-uh". It's a word you post when you can't articulate a real argument. You might as well reply with "U MAD LOL?" for all the weight it carries.

>>50263302
>not getting a mod that makes food/water/sleep mandatory for survival
>not getting a mod that rebalances the economy to make crafting goods a viable business
>not getting a mod that adds in-depth hunting and skinning skills along with a hunting lodge and unique game to hunt for
>not getting a mod that adds cold weather survival to the game making harvesting basic materials a constant concern
>not getting a mod that adds dozens of unique food and alcohol recipes with various mundane to magnificent effects
>not becoming an illegal skooma merchant that struggles to stay in the black because you keep getting drunk off your own supply

It's like you have no idea how to play a bethesda game
I bet you're even a filthy consolefag too

>>50263374

Words have power. The Left chants "Islamphobe racist misogynist" like a magical incantation, while utterances of "TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP" and "BUILD THE WALL" have equally totemic power.

>>50263391
>I bet you're even a filthy consolefag too

That's why, yeah. I should have known better than to comment on the base game's content.

>>50262903

At this point 'cuck' has just become one of the words that when I see it I immediately know I'm dealing with a cross boarder who doesn't know how to turn it off when he's on other boards.

>>50263268
A purpose is important. But flavor is a perfectly acceptable purpose, if your players enjoy driving the story.
For example, they'll make friends with the elves, learn their names and where they live, and bring them up sessions later (possibly to your great surprise) when they need elf-related info or help.

But obviously that takes a certain kind of group. Some players panic when faced with a new situation and no obvious goal. They prefer to have obvious challenges and obstacles thrown at them, which is totally acceptable. Just don't have them stumble across an elven picnic. It'll be awkward.

>>50263367
to be fair, for all the faults of that manga at least they made him really, REALLY competent at his chosen obsession. like, tactically competent and shit.

it's the difference between rolling a combat-ready murder hobo and roleplaying a combat-ready murder hobo (who is also rolled well)

>>50262083
Thread ruined. Shall we make a new one tomorrow without all the /pol/tards and murderhobos in it?

>>50264006
What's with the whining? Just ignore the furfags and continue enjoying life like usual.

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>>50264006

I'll keep an eye out for it.

>>50262917
I like this

>>50263268
well obviously it wouldn't just be "oh yeah some fucking elves invite you for cake" Info could be gained, maybe some simple gear as a present like "oh hey nice bow but man those arrows, here take some of mine, they're from my dad's shop and he makes the best" *you've gained 20 masterwork arrows* or one of your new elf-bros is actually someone important in the next town or something or when you need to go deep into the hidden forest for some rare herb and run into a patrol of elven guard with two dozen arrows aimed at your dick one of them pulls of his helmet and is like "Hang on everyone, i know this guy he's cool!"

>>50262917
>>the party is a gaggle of vassals to a minor lord that must accompany his kind-hearted but admittedly clumsy son on a yearly hunt in order to make him look good.

Wasn't that an episode of Slayers?

>>50262083
>Twins separated at birth live in the same town

>People keep mistaking them for the other and this has made one of them so paranoid they never leave the house

>Other twin hires PCs to investigate the rumors, fight club at the back of their mind

>>50262103
Wow what a good post fucking epic dude you fucking rekt that tumblrtard >:)

>>50262163
This is an 18+ website.

>>50262311
>a game has to be muh epic edgy grim brutal violence to be challenging

Why am I responding to obvious bait? Who knows, but the wheel still turns.

>>50262347
No on will be put off from things they like by an autistic shitposter having a meltdown.

>>50262083
Escalating prank war is one of my favorite things.

Especially when it's between two absurdly powerful beings. Like a Gold Dragon and a Level 20 Wizard.

>>50263417
>judging a TES game on its actual base content rather than unpaid, unsponsored fan made mods
Wew

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>>50262903
Cuck has become the new faggot. Use an insult long enough and it loses its original meaning, becoming the equivalent of "stupid head!" or "Idiot!!!!"

It boggles me that even after trump was elected, people on the right still fall for the same shit that fucked over the regressive liberals: If you go around flailing your arms screaming insults at everyone instead of combating dissenting opinions with thought out debate, we conservatives aren't gonna last long in power.

I really hope your just a shitposter. Take your (you) and go back to your containment board.

Im curious to know, has anyone ever done a Solarpunk themed quest before?

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>>50262083
I've got no stories since I don't actually get to play that much, so I'll just dump a bunch of art.

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>>50262083
>Finding where the goblins have hidden the prize winner magical pie

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>>50262311
Ironically the adventures proposed here are much more classic fantasy than "FUCK ORCS. LOOT DUNGEON."

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>>50262350
C'mon, man. I'm /pol/ as fuck but you're going way overboard.

If you just want to dungeon crawl play roguelikes.

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>>50262419
I love the idea of post apocalyptic fantasy. That's why I liked early adventure time.

>>50262461
Can I get in on some Ryuutama, guys?

>>50262774
>Huh? We have a white male character right in the main team for Rogue One and the Rebel Ace who gets the entire story going/saves the day in the end is a white male.
Yes, and yet both the protagonist of Rogue One and Force Awakens are tuff action girls who don't need no man.

>>50262083
Campaign I've run: 2e D&D, with the players all some type of fairy/pixie/et cetera. I don't remember what they each picked, now.

They had each been chosen as the forest's protectors, from their tribe. Their mission was to prevent harm from befalling the forest, but forbidden from doing any harm.

So most encounters ended up as morale rolls and RP. Their first adventure was to scare a trapper into leaving the forest. Things followed like sabotage a logging operation, convince travelers that the forest was just haunted enough to leave alone, but not haunted enough to burn down. Rescue animals from natural disasters. Stuff like that.

Was fun, and completely devoid of combat.

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>>50270355
Here's a fun question. How would you do demons and devils in a light-hearted world? Would you at all?

>>50262815
>The Force Awakens wasn't trying to be a dramatic change
No shit. It just did ANH badly.
> It was very clear it's mission statement was to go 'These is going to be much more OT than Prequels' and it did that by making a very, very OT story.
OT was all about Luke being a hapless asshole who had to grow as a jedi. From the word go Rey is a badass and only gets more badass, literally putting every other character to shame.

>It's also set up a very different dynamic between the two factions than the OT had
Oh bullshit. Republic is still acting like rebels and the New Order still act like the empire.

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>>50262836
The only way I'll be okay with Ren is if they have Rey fall to the dark side and have him redeemed. Otherwise he was a weak, if sympathetic antagonist who you literally can't take seriously because I gets his ass kicked.

And I can't state this enough, Rey is terrible. She's obnoxiously perfect, has that same old "TUFF GIRL" problem and the actress they chose smiles like she's got a spear up her ass. She's just not very likable.

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>>50270474
They're not trying to constantly kill you or fuck you over.

They're pleasant enough to hang out with, but be careful, they're crafty. They'll try to trick even their friends into accepting unfair deals.

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>>50270474
They can be coniving and "I want your SOOOOOUL!!!" Completely over the top, but harmless otherwise. Like they'll try to exchange a lovely carpet for an eternity in hell and thus their bussiness is strugling.

>>50262607
I'll bet you $20 that I can come up with a plot idea that is both interesting/challenging and "comfy."

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>>50270474
Comedically over the top, probably mostly as easily dispatched imps to the frustration of the demon king. Also more of a focus on tempting people to sin by starting fights or encouraging laziness rather than murdering for souls.

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>>50270677
>>50270669
>>50270580
>>50270552
Love all of it, especially the idea of them being over the top to the point of ineffectiveness.

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>>50270799
Gonna take a break for now. I'll get some more pictures organized and dump again if there is a thread up tomorrow.

>>50263039
Homestuck crashed and burned when Hussie made up Troll Romance to make a joke about shipping wars and PEOPLE ACTUALLY USED IT IN REAL LIFE JESUS FUCK AAAAGH. I read Problem Sleuth, I loved it, really enjoyed early Homestuck and the community when it was still basically a quest, and then I couldn't even bring myself to read it after a while. The fandom was also venereal disease-tier.


As for this whole thread point, I really like to inject some casualness, especially since I have players that really like world building and roleplaying. I once had a serious gothic horror campaign planned and my party ended up turning themselves into a merchant company in the first session.
In the end, we ended up doing the gothic horror thing, just in a roundabout and much less terrifying way than I had been planning.

I also ran adventures for my younger sisters and cousins a while back, and most of those tended to be like >>50262981 's stuff, but with slightly less fairy tale and a little bit more Redwall-style adventuring.

>>50271351
Homestuck was good until half way through part 5. Then you can actively see Hussie stop caring.

Fuck, remember when Karkat had an arc? And personality?

>>50271404
Yeah, I'd agree with you there. Maybe early act 6 as the breaking point. The whole point of the first round of trolls is that they were characters who were all flawed to be point of unlikability but with just enough charm to be tolerable. Or, like, half of them had enough charm to be tolerable.
And like, Karkat was a fun character because he was this snarky asshole who genuinely wanted to help but couldn't do it without being a dick, which comboed with his own horrible personal issues to make him a vaguely interesting character to watch.

.......... to be honest, the last thing I remember happening to him at all was some kind of shipping bullshit with uh. The fish queen? Something stupid.

>>50271597
I really liked the human focus early on, and some of the troll shit wasn't bad. I'd say that the Rose grimdark saga was probably the highpoint, though. And I liked Karkat because he was a funny and yet complex character and Hussie seemed to have plans for him.

But oh god, Vriska. Her and Jade becoming an actual mary sue ruined the comic for me.

Quests don't belong on /tg/.

Faggot.

>>50272179
I used to like Vriska when she was a hilariously shitty puppet master who also had a bit of a hero complex.

The only part of Homestuck post-all the new characters that I actually kinda liked was the whole like three panel Vriska "fuck you all I'm going to be a hero" arc.

That said, everything she did between the funnier half of her interaction with John and her death was so fucking obnoxious.


And Jade went from being a fun and clever character I wanted to see more of to someone I wished would just jump into the sun. And then she did. And lived. And everything was awful.

>>50272638
Vriska's arc ended perfectly with her death. It was a great capstone to her character.

Then she got brought back and fixed everything. Not even joking. Not even Caliborn being hilarious could make up for it.

>>50262311

>Everything is over the top and campy reminiscent of Mario and Luigi Series

>Plot involves most basic save the princess from evil dragon

>Characters who run out of HP are decommissioned by the king and are no longer allowed to adventure any more

Does this sound better it's still lighthearted, but has stakes to the player

>>50270898
cheers anon, this shit is comfy

>>50262083
I too wish to play a campaign of Ryuutama.
Honestly, I was considering going through every season as a back-to-back-to-back campaign that starts off hyper-comfy and then gets harder as the players get more used to the game, until it finally culminates in a final test of their survival skills and instincts.
The epilogue would be the trip home and seeing all the people that they helped along the way, as well as all the rewards the party has not already been given for their efforts.

>>50273200
I'd be down if you need players. I'd love innawoods oregon trail.

>>50263255

Nice patting yourself on the back anon.
Did you cum yet?

>>50272408
Are you literally retarded? How is this a Quest Thread? Do you even know what that is?

>>50275397
I think it was a joke.

>>50270929
This reminds me of a time I burned down a village entirely by accident and wound up having to start a revolution to not get killed by the king of he land.
That was a fun game.

>would really enjoy doing this
>my entire playgroup is either chaotic stupid edgelords or lol so randumb halflings
>sometimes both

>>50276123
I know exactly how you feel,

>>50276664
>>50276123

We should get a game together lads.

>>50276671
I literally just woke up, so that sounds like an amazing idea right now,

>>50276680
You keep weird hours, friend.

Dunno 'bout the other guy, but I' down for Ryutama or some otherwise light hearted game.

>>50276123
You just described 99% of the people who play D&D.

>>50276709
>weird hours
It's seven in the morning over here in Burgerland. I'm a model citizen at the moment.

I've never played Ryutama before, but I just picked up a PDF and I'm gonna be doing boring shit during most of the day, so let me flip through it and get a feel for it. If this thread is still up when I get back, let's exchange info or whatever, make something happen.

Really tired of just murdering stuff and nothing else, something comfy sounds fun.

>>50262367
Ran Ryuutama last weekend, anon.
Was surprisingly better received than expected!

>>50276753
Ah, east coast. That explains it.

I'll leave my skype if ya lads wanna get shit rolling.

sevenbladeisawesome

>>50270780
Damn, that is one cute witch!

>>50262454
Based doppelgangers

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>>50262083
Make this guy your campaign's BBEG.

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How to medieval economics?

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>>50263158
This thread was on /tg/ a while ago, it contains manyy random encounters that doesnt invovle violence or atleast where it isnt the only option. I think its great, and have used several of the encounters with success

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>this thread ended up not dying after all

Cheers.

Some of my players favorite sessions have been lighthearted quests.

>circus is in town, enjoy some carnival games and shows
>gypsies set up camp, get your fortunes told, draw from the deck of many things, try not to get robbed.
>new towns quest board is a bunch of trivial personal ads. Pet needs training, garden needs tending, lost dog needs found.

In fairness, there's always been something else going on in the background that helps to progress the campaign.

>circus performers are actually demons kidnapping children in the towns they visit.
>gypsies have left previous camp because hobgoblins took over nearest town
>city council suspects one of their members is a traitor, PCs gather info while answering personal ads.

>>50262319
And your character just ceases to exist when not fighting monsters and getting loot? He doesn't even try to spend the loot? He doesn't even get a chance to?

That's...genuinely fascinating.

Imagine stepping into a dungeon and suddenly there's this battle-crazed guy or girl in armor who's searching for orcs and traps and helps you fight and demands a share of the loot, but then as soon as you reach sunlight he or she just ceases to be until your next dungeon delve.

Is your character a summon or something? A semi-helpful spirit that follows the party around? Where does he or she go when not killing things or looking for things to kill? What does he or she want the loot for?

>>50278684
That image is so ubelievably comfy.

>tfw, in a campaign, managed to go from level 1, to 3, with TWO, low level encounters.

>tfw, in a campaign, had 7 fucking sessions, with 4 bits of combat, and still not even level 2.

I want to enjoy lighthearted quests, and not combat-based ones, but god damn, if making it the majority is just the worst.

>>50270247
>>50270292
cute

>>50278621
I think there were some pdfs about it in Da Archive

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I'm a sucker for this artist.

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I like the idea of these kind of quests, but honestly, I simply don't know how to make them work.

The closest I got was a tournament where they battle on top of ceratopsians (dinosaurs like Triceratops and such). And even if there wasn't any killing, they is was still a battle. Though I must say, the finals were the best moment we had so far.

The worst part is that I think my group might actually enjoy something like that if I managed to make it work.

>>50262378
Then go play a video game, dumbass. I like tabletop RPGs because there can be a flexible world that affects (and is affected by) the PCs.

>>50280036
The given example is the kind of pointless choice that plagues this generation of video game rpgs

>>50262447
In the dungeon you care who you are. Being a third prince you mat not want to crawl through monster shit and vomit even if its the fastest route.
To some the character is far more important than what they do. Comfy quests and settings allow them to explore their character without rolling every minute to see if they get decapitated, without needing magic fail points as you put it. Comfy characters are far less likly to be mary sues than your army slaying min-maxed murder hobo.

Now I've said that I can honestly say I prefere a mix of comfy quests and dungeons, it helps me feel more attatched to all the characters, including my own so peril and death actually have meaning

I once GM'ed a lighthearted campaign like that, we roleplayed a lot in the city (most of the sessions where pure roleplay, practically 0 combat except for one tavern brawl and helping a guy who was getting mugged) and where having a good time. The characters where just a group of 5 friends, a merchant's apprentice, a barmaid, a fruit vendor (female), a guardsman and his brother who wanted to be a guardsman too. Things started really light hearted but slowly turned grim as a war broke between kingdoms. By the time the campaign was over there was nothing left of the group of friends, the barmaid was executed for treason, the merchant's apprentice was captured by the enemy while he tried to flee from the war, the fruit vendor became a nurse to help the troops on the battlefield but couldn't handle it so she became a drunken waste instead and the 2 brothers where called to arms, the younger one died in battle, it wasn't a really heroic death, just one more dead soldier. 10 years passed, the war ended with their country as the loser. The merchant's apprentice was released and sent back to his town where the 3 surviving characters met at the place they always gathered before the war. Their country was impobrished and occupied by enemy troops for the next 20 years, the 3 surviving characters had to live with the memories of those 30 years for the rest of their lives

>>50262981
that sounds like great parenting mate. Also do you do the voices of the npc's?

>>50278769

Not that guy, but a character like that could make for really good plot. Imagine if he's not even aware he's in any other dungeon, that every time he meets the party at the dungeon he doesn't know them...even after giving the cleric his pendant as a memento.

And then starts slowly breaking down as his memories clash with his magically ever blank personality after seeing the pendant both in the cleric's hands and on his neck.

>>50281575
then he snaps, sometimes he is a friend, sometimes he's a terrible enemy (you know, for all that XP he got clearing innumerable dungeons for thousands of adventurers groups) Each time the party goes into a dungeon they fear the spectral warrior because they don't know what he will do

>>50281618

Yeah! Maybe a side quest to figure out where he snapped.

His past incarnation fell for the cleric, and, due to possession shenanigans that didn't happen yet, ended up seeing the rest of the party kill the cleric, but not the cleric getting possessed, flew into a rage and tries to kill the party for killing his sweetheart. If it's not the enemy one, it's another one where he was there to help, and saved the cleric, or one who didn't have any of that happen yet, or maybe one from a timeline that got blocked off in the game because the thief didn't try to open the mysterious colorless door of ominous and so on and so forth.