Shadowrun
Off-topic => General Gaming => Topic started by: FastJack on <09-08-10/1431:09>
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I posted the Gazebo story elsewhere and also mentioned the 20-something kids that didn't know who Gygax was, so I figured I'd put this thread out there to share any horror stories you may have. Doesn't have to be Shadowrun, but extra Rep points if it is... 8)
I'll start:
Me and the missus (now ex-missus) had moved to Virginia because of my job in 2001. When we got down there, we started looking to join a new gaming group to satisfy the addict- ... er, enjoy the hobby. The first group we went to sounded good. The DM had been running 3.0 for while and he had two other players, but recently lost two players so there was an opening. He told me he was going to run us through The Sunless Citadel and to be prepared to provide a backstory to our characters. No problem, we'd done that before.
The game was set to start at 3, so we got there about 15 minutes early to get through introductions and get a feel for the game. After everyone was introduced, the DM gave both of us a 'booklet' of pages, asking us to fill it out (not right away, but definitely before the next game). Now, I'm all for detailing the character out a little more than Ork - Axe - Strength, but this was a 20 page questionnaire and form that required you to plan your character from 1st through 20th level and list every feat/spell/skill that you were going to take. That was the first three pages; the rest was just as asinine. 1st warning flag up and waving.
We put that aside for the game. Normally I plan my characters out anyway since I tend to get OCD on character development and my ex used to just so she would understand every part of the rules she needed to. So, the DM then had to step out to make his daughter dinner and we got a chance to talk to the two 'regulars', guys he'd be gaming with for years. Turns out they've been playing Sunless Citadel for about six months and have gone through about 5 other players. They were just starting to tell us that the DM has very clear distinctions between Character/Player knowledge, when he came back into the room. 2nd warning flag up.
As we started playing, we were at the very beginning of the adventure. Our characters met up with the regulars (who had two brand-spanking new characters - 3rd warning flag) at the camp of an army near the entrance of the citadel. The other characters wanted to purchase some holy water, but the DM refused, (asking them "Why do you need holy water?" with warning look. Regulars began grumbling - 4th warning flag). Neither I nor my ex had created a cleric, nor stocked up with holy water, and the regulars looked dejected. We then went into entrance. Now, if you haven't played Sunless Citadel, the first encounter in the adventure is a room with a Shadow in it. And the shadow drained characters of their Strength, and if he got the Strength to 0, the character died, and rose the next round as a new Shadow. 5 warning flag.
As we entered the room, the wifey and I discovered that the DM had run the group through this room many, many, MANY times. And because the first adventurers had critically failed and went TPK, there were now over a DOZEN shadows in the room. And, TPK. 6th warning flag.
Even after this, we were pretty sure that the group was disaster, but we stuck around to just feel out what would be next. Well, the 7th and last flag came up because we were sitting there talking about how we needed to roll up new characters, but the DM wouldn't allow any of us to roll a cleric. Because we had no idea there were undead! So, he's forcing his regular guys to roll-up Bob's Cousin characters every time and not allowing them to take any steps to prevent another TPK.
*sigh* We were scheduled to play for another four hours, but ducked out with an excuse that we forgot we were meeting friends for dinner and never went back. As far as I know, those poor bastards are still trying to get through the Shadow room...
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Yeesh. I've never had anything anywhere near that bad. The worst I've ever had are games where the players roll HORRIBLE, as in nothing over a three six times in a row, while the monsters all roll critical hits and get balls out lucky on everything. At that point, I usually just say "screw it," call it a game, and reset everything like it didn't happen.
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Heiliger Herr Jesus... thats just like some greek part of hell! Trapped forever, never to be able to clear the first room, after which there would be... freedom. Peace. Oblivion...
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Something I posted on another forum:
One of my players had been bugging us to run a campaign for a while, apparently he had GMed quite a bit in college and missed it. So, we got to a decent stopping point in the one I was running, and I felt like a turn as a player, so we said yes.
To start off with, we had asked him for a lower powered campaign; we wanted to be a nameless wandering band for a while, since we were coming off a 5 year campaign.
Within 10 minutes of starting we stumbled across the Legendary Lost Armory of Somethingorother, where the necromancer found a staff that automatically summoned up a Legendary Death Knight Warrior, my elf ranger found a gourd of sentient sand that made me invulnerable and also automatically attacked my enemies for me, the barbarian had some axe whose former owner possessed the bearer, granting incredible strength and stamina, but losing control of himself, etc.
From then on, the GM basically played our characters - the way out had been blocked by falling stone, and there was only one way forward. So, the rest of the night we got to listen as he told us how our awesome gear was slaying armies, and eventually gods, and every 5 minutes we got to roll a d20...
To be fair, he was an interesting storyteller; it was basically like a 4 hour long Final Fantasy cutscene, and when my character was done absorbing the essence of some god and taking his place, I was done. So, I stood up to go, and he tells me that the real adventure had just started, and this was just the gearing up portion so that we could survive the combat to come...
He was quite upset that everyone else voted to have me GM the next week :P
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I can't say I've ever really had a horror story a few bad games but real horror nah.
Had a GM once get all cranky at a player so the GM spent like 4 hours of our time >:( chaseing his character to capture him.
When he finaly did (massive chase all through Seattle) the player woke up in a cage and he told the GM screw you his character was biting off his toung and swollwing it the GM thinking ok fine try the player made the roll ;D
After that he had us all captured and questioned then killed to which we all made the same min/maxxed Troll Adepts and proceded to case trouble in the next game.
For the life of me I don't get why he stopped running games :P
Now as a Missions GM I run the adventures as per the papers in front of me I'm sure other have horror stories of my GMing. (I'm trying to do better give me time)
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It wasn't the GM. Drek, this time it wasn't even me! How about I share a horrific player story?
So, I had just rolled a glitch on my fireball spell, ended up kissing the wall behind me. My nearest partner decided that instead of dragging me behind cover so I could be out of the line of sight of the corpsec raining death down the corridor, He decided to do an "I WILL AVENGE YOU!!!" scream (In the most retarded japanese I'd ever heard, mind you. people and their not researching...) and proceded to charge down the hallway.
Needless to say instead of just having to drag the mage out of botched run, they also had a less than intelligent, heavy as drek, cybered up troll sammie to drag away. Guess who got left behind? The frakkin' mage!! Oh, and the other sammie glitched while draggin his buddy, and managed to trip the alarm system on their way out. So now there was a mass of angry corpsec pointing guns at an unconscious mage bleeding on their recently redone flooring, but everyone else got away.
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It wasn't the GM. Drek, this time it wasn't even me! How about I share a horrific player story?
So, I had just rolled a glitch on my fireball spell, ended up kissing the wall behind me. My nearest partner decided that instead of dragging me behind cover so I could be out of the line of sight of the corpsec raining death down the corridor, He decided to do an "I WILL AVENGE YOU!!!" scream (In the most retarded japanese I'd ever heard, mind you. people and their not researching...) and proceded to charge down the hallway.
Needless to say instead of just having to drag the mage out of botched run, they also had a less than intelligent, heavy as drek, cybered up troll sammie to drag away. Guess who got left behind? The frakkin' mage!! Oh, and the other sammie glitched while draggin his buddy, and managed to trip the alarm system on their way out. So now there was a mass of angry corpsec pointing guns at an unconscious mage bleeding on their recently redone flooring, but everyone else got away.
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Ouch. Hopefully CorpSec wasn't too harsh on you. Maybe a prison release program? ;D
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Ouch. Hopefully CorpSec wasn't too harsh on you. Maybe a prison release program? ;D[/quote]
Not for mages. He'd be lucky to have five minutes outside a magemask.
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Its not much but here it is.
Players were to protect a convoy as it drove through the awakened desert in the southwest. The minotaur gun nut decides to bring a Ares Thunderstruck Gausse Cannon he picked up in a previous run. The convoy gets attacked by bandits, he sets up the cannon on top of the trailer and fires. He sends himself flying into a Morgan and sends it off to a firey death, then wonders why he can't play as the minotaur in the next game.
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Ouch. Hopefully CorpSec wasn't too harsh on you. Maybe a prison release program? ;D
Not for mages. He'd be lucky to have five minutes outside a magemask.
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Nah, nowadays they keep the mages in a box covered with astrally active iy.
Its not much but here it is.
Players were to protect a convoy as it drove through the awakened desert in the southwest. The minotaur gun nut decides to bring a Ares Thunderstruck Gausse Cannon he picked up in a previous run. The convoy gets attacked by bandits, he sets up the cannon on top of the trailer and fires. He sends himself flying into a Morgan and sends it off to a firey death, then wonders why he can't play as the minotaur in the next game.
Uhm, since when does the Thunderstruck have recoil...? Gauss Weapon...?
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Its not much but here it is.
Players were to protect a convoy as it drove through the awakened desert in the southwest. The minotaur gun nut decides to bring a Ares Thunderstruck Gausse Cannon he picked up in a previous run. The convoy gets attacked by bandits, he sets up the cannon on top of the trailer and fires. He sends himself flying into a Morgan and sends it off to a firey death, then wonders why he can't play as the minotaur in the next game.
Uhm, since when does the Thunderstruck have recoil...? Gauss Weapon...?
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Botched roll. 10 dp had like 8 1s. Just go with the roll.
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Uhm, since when does the Thunderstruck have recoil...? Gauss Weapon...?
If you want to get all physics technical, you're still accelerating the shot down the length of the barrel. This action imparts an equal reaction on the gun in the opposite direction (recoil). Differences are instead of applying all your energy to the shot at the start of the process (chemical reaction for the charge going off) you can apply it over the entire length of the acceleration rail/coils. This will smooth out the recoil but it will not eliminate it.
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I haven't had a really nightmarish Shadowrun game, but I've had a few Battletech games that I'd have happily stayed home for. My favorite was the guy at a small convention in Denver who, upon finding his ammunition bin had exploded, upended the table and stormed out shouting obscenities (and, of course, breaking several miniatures in the process). He lived only because I was so stunned it didn't occur to me to beat him to a pulp.
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I haven't had a really nightmarish Shadowrun game, but I've had a few Battletech games that I'd have happily stayed home for. My favorite was the guy at a small convention in Denver who, upon finding his ammunition bin had exploded, upended the table and stormed out shouting obscenities (and, of course, breaking several miniatures in the process). He lived only because I was so stunned it didn't occur to me to beat him to a pulp.
This from the guy who is a walking horror story. ;)
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I haven't had a really nightmarish Shadowrun game, but I've had a few Battletech games that I'd have happily stayed home for. My favorite was the guy at a small convention in Denver who, upon finding his ammunition bin had exploded, upended the table and stormed out shouting obscenities (and, of course, breaking several miniatures in the process). He lived only because I was so stunned it didn't occur to me to beat him to a pulp.
Yikes! At a Con?!? He's lucky 20-30 guys didn't beat him to a pulp.
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Thats like getting caught cheating at a LAN and make it out the door with your computer and your face intact. Wow.
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I haven't had a really nightmarish Shadowrun game, but I've had a few Battletech games that I'd have happily stayed home for. My favorite was the guy at a small convention in Denver who, upon finding his ammunition bin had exploded, upended the table and stormed out shouting obscenities (and, of course, breaking several miniatures in the process). He lived only because I was so stunned it didn't occur to me to beat him to a pulp.
Yikes! At a Con?!? He's lucky 20-30 guys didn't beat him to a pulp.
They were my minis, for the most part... a couple of which were beyond any attempt to repair, sorry to say. (I take pride in my painting!). Kidding aside, I really was just so shocked at it that I had no reaction whatsoever beyond a mere 'What the *frack*'?
I haven't had a really nightmarish Shadowrun game, but I've had a few Battletech games that I'd have happily stayed home for. My favorite was the guy at a small convention in Denver who, upon finding his ammunition bin had exploded, upended the table and stormed out shouting obscenities (and, of course, breaking several miniatures in the process). He lived only because I was so stunned it didn't occur to me to beat him to a pulp.
This from the guy who is a walking horror story. ;)
Heheh... good to see you over here, Peter- and a pleasure to see you at GenCon this year as well. Wish I'd had more time to stop and chat!
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Heheh... good to see you over here, Peter- and a pleasure to see you at GenCon this year as well. Wish I'd had more time to stop and chat!
It was good to see you too. Next year won't have much opportunity to chat, we'll be coming down for just a day. The wedding is going to suck down 2/3rds of my vacation, working GenCon just won't be an option.
As for here, you say it's good to see me now... :D
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Great Thread!
Mine isn't too bad.. But once (read: once) I played a D&D game with a DM who was notorious for rolling for the player.
Nothing more boring. Nothing.
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My group that my dad ran in highschool was a nightmare. We put the "ADD" into AD&D.
I paid attention, most of the time (yes Dad, even though I'm usually drawing or have my laptop open I do USUALLY have at least a working idea of what's going on), my friend was a space cadet, the boys had the attention span of a tsetse fly, and the thief was actually halfway competent. Not the character (or player) you want doing things unsupervised. She was the only one that paid attention when Dad was rattling off treasure and EXP totals, so naturally she'd just star what she was stealing, hand it to Dad, he'd nod, and then she'd write up a new list sans the starred items to the party as soon as they were done talking about whatever new book just came out or new song they'd downloaded. I didn't say anything because my character was in on it and quite frankly didn't give much of a hoot as long as she got a big enough cut for booze and a look at the shiny new swords and medium armor. Every once in a while ONE of the boys would notice her saying "Hey, I'm gonna steal this, ok?" (as after a while she just gave up trying to be sneaky about it) and start to throw a fit but then another would bring up some off-topic BS and he'd forget about it.
That thief also thought that since she was a DM for the highschool's club, she could tell my dad what was what who, you know, had only been playing the game since before she was born.
I've had a group break into a fist fight. Over what I don't even remember, probably something stupid and completely unrelated to the game. I tended to just try and ignore those two people in general. We've also had someone in our group try to steal from us. Oh yeah, and I've been stabbed with a pencil. I don't miss that party.
Being a role player in a group of roll players is always a pain. Half my party didn't even name their characters. That bugged the crap out of me.
OH! And our party that turned "evil," and by "evil" I mean "slaughter randomly and kill each other for no reason whatsoever." Chaotic Evil =/= mindless murderous psychopath. Hell. Even most sociopaths at least have SOME sort of motive. Not just, you know, because it's Tuesday. It's also just considered gaming etiquette to NOT kill a player who's bringing a new character into the party before he even has a chance to come into the party because you think it'd be funny. No joke, as soon as the DM asked the player to introduce his character another player started rolling dice to kill him. Just because. I'd still show up, but I stopped playing about the second time the party wiped themselves out for S&Gs and just curled up in the comfy couch and doodled. I was the only player that still had my original character because as soon as the party would start to bicker I'd just tell the DM I was getting up and leaving them to their idiocy. Half the time he didn't even notice.
My dad's the one with all the good ones not fueled by raging teen angst.
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Heheh... good to see you over here, Peter- and a pleasure to see you at GenCon this year as well. Wish I'd had more time to stop and chat!
It was good to see you too. Next year won't have much opportunity to chat, we'll be coming down for just a day. The wedding is going to suck down 2/3rds of my vacation, working GenCon just won't be an option.
As for here, you say it's good to see me now... :D
Yeah, yeah, ban-cannon is loaded and aimed, bucko ;)
Not sure if I'll be at Gencon next year myself- depends on how finances look at the time, but sure hoping to do it again.
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<snip> Not just, you know, because it's Tuesday.<snip>
Tuesday is a very good reason, especially after some of the Monday's I've had... ;)
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Being a role player in a group of roll players is always a pain.
Sig'ed for truth!
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<snip> Not just, you know, because it's Tuesday.<snip>
Tuesday is a very good reason, especially after some of the Monday's I've had... ;)
XD oh har har.
I'm just defensive of my evil beasties. I love them ever so much. I can't stand it when people make them catastrophically stupid.
And Doc, aint it just?
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Smart and Evil is definitely much better than just plain Evil.
"...now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb."
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That's just plain chaotic in my book. Evil at least should have some semblance of a purpose, goal, motive, whatever. Even if it's just to do the opposite of good! As soon as you start getting into "just because" it just strikes me as pure chaos which is NOT FUN in a party. Can Chaotic be fun for the opposition? Oh hell yes. Dealing with someone who has no semblance nor care and possibly not even the ability to understand between right and wrong, good and bad, law and chaos is a fun challenge; but not in my party plzthx. Especially not the whole party.
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Agreed.
On a side note, I did have a player once who wanted to play evil characters all the time (even if the rest of the party was good). He kept getting ticked off when the rest of the party would eventually either turn him over to the cops or kill him to save their own skins (by saving their own skins, I mean he threatened to mentally enslave them once too often).
Of course, he had other issues. He was also of the fervent belief that any character created using the 3.0/3.5 d20 rules HAD to have at least TWO prestige classes for proper character development.
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OH GOD THOSE PEOPLE ANNOY ME.
I play core classes. Like... PHB1 core and that's usually it. Occasionally I'll play a warmage or a Dread Necromancer but that's as "out there" as I'll go. I was being told I HAD to prestige class and write my own classes because book classes were too boring.
Hi. ROLE play then. Please.
Now again, I looooove playing my evil characters as they're some of my oldest and best developed. Even then the rest of my characters fall in the neutrals with only one or two GOOD characters. If it makes SENSE for my character to be evil and still manageable for the party I'll try for it. As in, we're not all good and there's no clerics/paladins/other holier-than-thou types. However, I also usually don't try and screw over the party unless the DM intends on using me as a plot point... or they're just really dumb and even then I usually run it by the DM.
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Yeah... I've done that. Well in almost 3 decades of gaming you get tired of porew gaming. In a party I was with in Cal. Our 20th lvl Mage threw a Fireball. IN A 20'sq ROOM! Yes... It inveloped the whole room! My character lost a Robe of the Celistine... Along with all my gear but what was under the robe and the sword in my hand! Once we defeted the enemies I cast a hols spell on the mage shattered his hands. One of the other burned characters desided to remove his tongue so he couldn't cast Verbal only spells.The player in qusetion was not a Newb. He worked his character up for 10 levels with our party he RAELLY should have known a fireball fills a 20 sqft area!
That's not the best/worst story either!
for teh record my last character I played was a Warmage. Epic great time playing him too!
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"Is there anything in there that's scary?"
That one's a gem. Don't forget that one. Though I think that falls under the "so much fail it's a win" category.
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"Is there anything in there that's scary?"
That one's a gem. Don't forget that one. Though I think that falls under the "so much fail it's a win" category.
Player joins our group at the local Red Lobster. Most of the players were employees and we were allowed to use the back Dining room (on tues cause they were slow nights) for our games as long as we didn't get to loud & we bought food.
So a Hostess wanted to join our group. Now she swore an oath she had played before. We gave her a Witch (class from Dragon Mag.. real powerful caster class). as our paarty reaches the "dark forbodeing cave enterance." Our newly minted witch askes, "Is there anything in there that will scare me?" Stunned to silence we all just turned and looked at her! :o
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"Is there anything in there that will scare me?"
I'm useing this sometime in a future game just to see what looks I get!
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I would think it would depend on how easily scared her character is...
...are we talking angry golems?
...undead hordes?
...vengeful ghosts?
...North Korean saboteurs?
...my ex-girlfriend?
...a Mad Cat Omnimech?
...a fluffy white rabbit with blood on it's mouth? (BRING THE GRENADE, DAMMIT!)
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Dude, the ex-girlfriend is WAAAAAAY more scarier than any of that other stuff.
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Dude, the ex-girlfriend is WAAAAAAY more scarier than any of that other stuff.
You've met her too, eh? ;D
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Heh... this reminds me of the episode of Law & Order where Lenny & Munch are playing pool and realize they dated the same woman...
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My one Shadowrun story I blame on myself - there ended up being a rules argument over the damage to a person behind a barrier when a shot penetrates the barrier that last an hour and a half. The sad part? I was the GM. The lesson learned (and one I should've known already) was "The GM is always right". No matter how argumentative the players were, I should've just made a call and moved on.
Another rule I learned from trying the Gaming Club when I was in college - if the 'house rules' are thicker than the actual rulebooks, it's probably not worth your time to play.
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Yeah, yeah, ban-cannon is loaded and aimed, bucko
Go ahead and pull the trigger. Did I tell you I work just south of (as in walking distance to) where your boss on this side lives? ;D
Not sure if I'll be at Gencon next year myself- depends on how finances look at the time, but sure hoping to do it again.
Won't be finances that limit me, it'll be the wedding/honeymoon eating up my vacation time.
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My one Shadowrun story I blame on myself - there ended up being a rules argument over the damage to a person behind a barrier when a shot penetrates the barrier that last an hour and a half. The sad part? I was the GM. The lesson learned (and one I should've known already) was "The GM is always right". No matter how argumentative the players were, I should've just made a call and moved on.
Another rule I learned from trying the Gaming Club when I was in college - if the 'house rules' are thicker than the actual rulebooks, it's probably not worth your time to play.
There are some people that are always right and just don't have to give reasons. Your parents, your bosses, your significant other, your DM/GM, admins, and mods.
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My one Shadowrun story I blame on myself - there ended up being a rules argument over the damage to a person behind a barrier when a shot penetrates the barrier that last an hour and a half. The sad part? I was the GM. The lesson learned (and one I should've known already) was "The GM is always right". No matter how argumentative the players were, I should've just made a call and moved on.
Another rule I learned from trying the Gaming Club when I was in college - if the 'house rules' are thicker than the actual rulebooks, it's probably not worth your time to play.
There are some people that are always right and just don't have to give reasons. Your parents, your bosses, your significant otherwife, your DM/GM, admins, and mods.
Let me fix that for you.
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For what it's worth- mods can be wrong. I've been wrong more than a few times, and if shown that I'm wrong, I'm the first to apologize for it.
...it's just so rare that I get called on it. Because I'm ban-happy, so people rarely get the chance to speak up. ;)
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There's nothing innately wrong with questioning/arguing with authority figures. The trick is to know WHEN to do it.
It's one thing people need to remember about, for instance, cops. On the side of the road with traffic whizzing by isn't when to protest your ticket, act argumentative, or whatever. Take the ticket, and get your day in court. That's what court is for, by definition.
Likewise, arguing with the GM. In the middle of the game? Shut your yap, and roll some dice, and move on. Don't hold up the fun for everyone else by pedantically flipping from page to page, citing rulebook after rulebook, and trying to "win" by making your GM eat some crow. Make a mental note to talk about it after the game or e-mail your GM sometime before next weekend, and get on with your life.
The hard part is knowing when to speak up, and when to just let things sit for a minute and wait for the right time.
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Which is why running Paranoia is always the easiest. The rules are Ultraviolet clearance.
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Of course. I just mod a site that's populated mainly by 12-18 year old girls. Several thousand of them. Trust me, they have no intelligent arguments. Ever. Sometimes it's just comical how unintelligent their arguments can be.
And Dad, I don't have a wife; though I do consider it polite and respectful to listen to what a boyfriend has to say without giving him a bunch of crap for it just as much as he has to do every little thing I say without question because I'm always right. *devilish grin*
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Of course. I just mod a site that's populated mainly by 12-18 year old girls. Several thousand of them. Trust me, they have no intelligent arguments. Ever. Sometimes it's just comical how unintelligent their arguments can be.
And Dad, I don't have a wife; though I do consider it polite and respectful to listen to what a boyfriend has to say without giving him a bunch of crap for it just as much as he has to do every little thing I say without question because I'm always right. *devilish grin*
eeeeeeeeeviiiiillllllllllllllllllllllll.
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Of course. I just mod a site that's populated mainly by 12-18 year old girls. Several thousand of them. Trust me, they have no intelligent arguments. Ever. Sometimes it's just comical how unintelligent their arguments can be.
And Dad, I don't have a wife; though I do consider it polite and respectful to listen to what a boyfriend has to say without giving him a bunch of crap for it just as much as he has to do every little thing I say without question because I'm always right. *devilish grin*
eeeeeeeeeviiiiillllllllllllllllllllllll.
*bows* Why thank you my good sir! Yes I am. :3
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Of course. I just mod a site that's populated mainly by 12-18 year old girls. Several thousand of them. Trust me, they have no intelligent arguments. Ever. Sometimes it's just comical how unintelligent their arguments can be.
And Dad, I don't have a wife; though I do consider it polite and respectful to listen to what a boyfriend has to say without giving him a bunch of crap for it just as much as he has to do every little thing I say without question because I'm always right. *devilish grin*
eeeeeeeeeviiiiillllllllllllllllllllllll.
*bows* Why thank you my good sir! Yes I am. :3
not a problem m'lady :P
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Gamer geek girls - your greatest desire, yet your greatest fear...
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Gamer geek girls - your greatest desire, yet your greatest fear...
indeed!
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Gamer geek girls - your greatest desire, yet your greatest fear...
You're just mad because we know all the little loopholes you do. ;D
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That and because you know how to unhook a bra in the heat of the moment...
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That and because you know how to unhook a bra in the heat of the moment...
Trick is to distract her while you find the wire cutters.
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Heyheyhey! When did this change from Horror stories to Fantasies?!? ;D
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Heyheyhey! When did this change from Horror stories to Fantasies?!? ;D
It didn't. Try that wire cutter trick and see how many bruises you end up with... and how comfy your couch is. :P
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Hey. Sometimes you need a damn engineering degree to get in and out of these bloody contraptions.
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Heyheyhey! When did this change from Horror stories to Fantasies?!? ;D
Well, there was this one time where one of my players was wearing a rather tight (and rather see-through) shirt and only after two long hours of drooling on my part did she realize "Uhm... yeah... maaaaaaybe I forgot to put on a bra this morning". I've been told the story and encounters to this point (I was the GM) were rather... strange.
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One story that sticks out in my mind is when I used to play the old Star Wars D6 game.
The group set up was that we were all part of a Rebel Special Ops group, code name Target Group. Now,before I continue, a little background. The GM was a total Jerk. Wouldn't let anyone really accomplish anything and had to prove just how big his d....ego was. Even if you rolled heroically, you still barely got by and it seemed that no matter what you did, we failed more than we succeeded. Not to mention that he made us use the template from the book to create characters, the ones that are VERY under powered, instead of using normal character creation rules.
Anyway, we start the game on our way to Yavin 4...yeah right after some farmboy took out a large piece of Imprial real eastate. So we get ready to depart yet again but find out that 13 Interdictors have sealed off the area. So, long story short, we spend 6 hours trying to make up some sort of defense to the eventual attack. I, as the team's demo expert,cant even get some extra power packs to jury rig some IEDs. So after sweating out an entire session of feeling useless, we are conveniently resqued by said farm boy and some hotshot smuggler. We do absoluitly NOTHING.
And why? Because we were playing at the GMs house who hung that fact over our heads.
I hate GMs like that.
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Best scene from a game of Paranoia:
Referee: You are all travelling single file down the long hallway. Suddenly the lights go out
Player at the back of the line: I STAB HIM IN THE BACK!!
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Best scene from a game of Paranoia:
Referee: You are all travelling single file down the long hallway. Suddenly the lights go out
Player at the back of the line: I STAB HIM IN THE BACK!!
I had the same thing happen at a con when were all playing AD&D Drow. ;D
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Best scene from a game of Paranoia:
Referee: You are all travelling single file down the long hallway. Suddenly the lights go out
Player at the back of the line: I STAB HIM IN THE BACK!!
I had the same thing happen at a con when were all playing AD&D Drow. ;D
^ That is the way to do it.
I did have to remind my DM several times that he was gaming in MY HOUSE. He threatened to throw me out of the party many a time to you know, keep it down, keep players in line, get back on topic, stop being an ass to my friend. When he ignored me I took it into my own hands and started barking orders at the rest of the party to get their acts together. He'd tell me I was out of the party for starting fights and I'd tell him then he needed to get out of my house. That shut him up.
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Best scene from a game of Paranoia:
Referee: You are all travelling single file down the long hallway. Suddenly the lights go out
Player at the back of the line: I STAB HIM IN THE BACK!!
I had the same thing happen at a con when were all playing AD&D Drow. ;D
^ That is the way to do it.
I did have to remind my DM several times that he was gaming in MY HOUSE. He threatened to throw me out of the party many a time to you know, keep it down, keep players in line, get back on topic, stop being an ass to my friend. When he ignored me I took it into my own hands and started barking orders at the rest of the party to get their acts together. He'd tell me I was out of the party for starting fights and I'd tell him then he needed to get out of my house. That shut him up.
Yup thats the way to do it. DM has authority at any game. Unless The host isn't the DM. I had an argument with the same DM. I trumped him cause when he tried to banHammer a player, I announced the game was over! Got that funny look from the DM you know :o. Then I said. Yeah you run the game, BUT it's MY house! For me as A DM if the party was side tracking to much, I'd waylay the most guilty (in my eyes) with the DMG upside the head. Chaotix was not exempt either :-*
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This is a gaming horror story of my own making. The party was playing a Campaign' Redhand of Doom IIRC. and one of the players wanted to be a Mage/Half dragon. I asked if she would like to play the Prestige class thats evolves into a Half Dragon as her starting class. She said sure. Then I asked her if she was willing to be the Daughter of Tiamat? Understand I did this cause it was the band of goofballs that couldn't pay attention. So as the game progressed and the party got closer to the end. Our entrepid players didn't ever notice that the character stayed more than 60' away from the evil detecting character all the time. Well she was after all evolving into a half Red Dragon right? Well as the party was breaking into the Red Hands stronghold The cromatics started acting "funny". As in when the 1/2 Dragon yelled for this dragon to 'Get back here!' The Dragon flew back and bowed before her! The party was stunned but more interested in how some new Prestige class from a new book stacked up against the others.
Now Chaotix knew about the transformation. You know how girls talk! Oh and my old buddy that joined the party late... he saw there was something going on and stayed close to the 1/2 dragon (good survival instincts in that one). When Tiamat's avatar showed up and addressed her daughter... The boys in hte party just handed over their sheets knowing they were beat!
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OK, another Battletech one, because... well, because that's what I feel like posting.
So I had this long-running mercenary campaign. Whole thing was from scratch- they'd select one of four or five contracts that I'd write up, and each one had different employers, time of contract, type of missions, pay, bonuses, etc... and to my dismay, I totally biffed their salvage rules- they were pretty much treating the game like a shopping trip after a while, and by my own rules I'd hosed myself- soon they were running ridiculously tricked-out gear. And I was mad- mostly at myself, but it was easier to take it out on them.
So they took a job that involved finding a stolen short-range ballistic missile carrier (basically a Scud) that had been hidden in a shipyard somewhere. There were fourteen warehouses, and each one was on the map as a 3D paper building. And on the inside of each one was written what was in the building. The players had to stand a Mech next to a building for one full turn to scan it. It might be something random, like 'fruit' or 'lingerie' (hah!), might be the Scud, might be a booby trap, might even be an enemy unit- which could immediately open fire on the scanning unit at point blank range.
So, the defending units savaged one of the players Mechs (a Marauder, for those who know what I'm talking about), and it backed off a bit- but as the defenders got pushed back, they began using the Marauder as an inspector, avoiding combat and just checking buildings. I was gleeful- I was going to end that bastard's day. Because he walked right up to a building to inspect it, and I knew what building that was.
For those who know Battletech, they'll already be laughing- or cringing- when I say 'Demolisher II'. For those not familiar, imagine an old WWII heavy cruiser's gun turret, but put on treads. Two massive cannons, and a pair of machine guns to back them up. At this range, I need to roll a 4 or better on both cannons. It's bliss.
...and I missed with both. Even jammed the Ultra cannon. The MGs did pretty much nothing, and the Marauder blasted the tank into next week.
Now, that was NOT what I had in mind. I even had to walk away from the table for a while and calm down because I was so damned angry. I finally had a chance to punish the bastards, and failed miserably. Naturally, with my big surprise trashed without even going out with a whimper, the mercs won the day easily.
...and left me with a burning fire for revenge, which I administered several weeks later. But that post is for another time...
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Okay, it's not a horror story, but in light of Jade's BT story, I gotta share what happened at a Solaris Free-for-all I participated in about 3 months back.
Basically, everyone got to 'draft' four mechs from a limited supply. Much like other drafts, the later choices were not as good as the first round. But they were good to help 'soften up' some mechs so they were easier to kill with your better choice.
Anyway, I had an old 3025 Griffin as my bottom of the barrel. I was having a ball, so he came in second, after my first mech bit the dust. As he came in, he ran along the wall, then up a Level 1 platform. Unfortunately, I moved before the Daishi Widowmaker -- and he proceeded to come up right behind me, literally the hex right at my back. Thinking he's got an easy kill, he does a complete alpha strike (fires all his weapons, heat be damned!) right into my rear back armor (for those not in the know, this is the weakest place on a mech).
And misses me completely. Every shot. I never saw so many 2D6 rolls come up 2 and 3 in my life.
Of course, the Griffin didn't last much longer (another two rounds), but I'll never forget the look of sheer agony on the guys face as he missed with everything. Still makes me smile. ;D
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Gencon 08 I think it was.
I got a coupon from Cat Labs out of pity for going the whole game (I think it was 11 rounds) without hitting a single thing... only to break the losing streak by critting myself in the head with falling damage.
... Those dice got thrown out.
Dad can one-up me though (and it's just chaotic XD The x is just a spacer).
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Battletech horror story of my own... I lost Initative.
FOR A WHOLE YEAR.
If I didn't lose on the first roll I tied. and we'd reroll, then I'd loose. I personally could not win an init roll to save my forces! :'(
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Ok, sinse we are on the topic of tech, I got a quick one.
I was a newb Tech player, gettng ready for my second game ever at a local shop. I get handed TRO3025 and am told to pick my mech. Having had success in my first game with a Phoenix Hawk (a good light design). Now, I notice that everyone ELSE is using the newer TRO books with much more advanced designs. For you non-tech players, this is he equivilent of being issued a six shooter and going up against a Panther Cannon. Not only to I get smeared, but I get pretty much insulted the entire time becaue I "suck". Never mind all my target numbers to hit were suspiciously 10+ whilmy opponents needed arund like 6 or 7 and the explination for this kept changing.
Needles to say, I almost didnt come back to tech. But I met my current group and learned the ways o' tech. Revenge against at least one came later at another game at a different shop. One of the guys who stomped me was there. I also had another fist that day, my first ammo det with, you guessed, a P-hawk. His Zeus went up like a roman candle from my little old large laser's hit through the back.
8)
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Mystic, you played against idiots. To insult someone for picking a solid staple lvl one Mech shows their ignorance. Not to mention that the BV should have tipped in your favor for P/G scores. I'd have taken a Pheonix Hawk too. It's a darn good Mech. ;)
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Mystic, you played against idiots. To insult someone for picking a solid staple lvl one Mech shows their ignorance. Not to mention that the BV should have tipped in your favor for P/G scores. I'd have taken a Pheonix Hawk too. It's a darn good Mech. ;)
Yeah, they were itiots. This was the classic "mess with the newb" senerio with no use of BV and "set" Pilot/Gunnery ratings. And they didn't insult the mech, it was the player. But yeah, the P-Hawk is pretty much my de-facto favorite Mech.
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LAM versions are crazy nutso potent. It's insane how powerful those things are. No wonder they dropped them from the line.
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LAM versions are crazy nutso potent. It's insane how powerful those things are. No wonder they dropped them from the line.
*cough*They're back (http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=82677)*cough*
Turns out the WoBBies WERE crazy... ;)
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Oh...oh God!
ARE THEY MAD??
(OK, LAM's are cool and all, but waaaaaaayyyy broken.)
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Oh...oh God!
ARE THEY MAD??
(OK, LAM's are cool and all, but waaaaaaayyyy broken.)
Duh... They're WoBBies!! ::)
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Oh...oh God!
ARE THEY MAD??
(OK, LAM's are cool and all, but waaaaaaayyyy broken.)
Duh... They're WoBBies!! ::)
You mean the "Legion of the Bats--t Insane"? hehehe, for anyone who is a tech and SR fan, check out Battlerun, a spoof that combines you guessed it: Battletech AND Shadowrun.
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I saw that.
Oddly, it looked like it might be fun.
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Oh, the Corp/IS House descriptions are well worth it alone.
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We have it too. Dad and I were in tears laughing. ONE of these days I'm going to make him try and run it.
And my staple really is anything over 85 tons with a gauss or a PPC. I'm easy to please. If I really have my choice the Battlemaster's my favorite ride; Marauder and -specifically- Dad's Stone Rhino variant are tied for very close seconds. Be thankful if you can talk me into anything under 70-75.
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I have a slew of horror stories, but they all revolve around one player. So I guess I really don't have more than one story as much as I have experience with one particular horrific player.
He was a munchkin to the Nth degree, the type that would min/max the hell out of his character, complain and throw an adult tantrum and sulk if he wasn't better than every other character at everything, and would generally bring game to a crashing halt if he didn't always get his way. I won't even mention what happened when he almost died once. He would whine and complain and argue with the GM non-stop until he could do whatever it was he wanted to do if he was told no. He always played the exact same character in every game. Same name, meta-type, load-out etc. Got to be really old after a while. Unfortunately he was just really too much to deal with outside of game and so we eventually just stopped playing with him. Now that we are restarting up the group (without him), the games are going much smoother and are way more fun. Go figure.
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^I'm a bit scared we have a player that might turn out to be that. :/ I hope not. I sure's hell like him as a person but I don't quite like the vibe I'm getting off of him at the table. He's trying to make his character TOO perfect (then again, I'm great at making mine too flawed >_>;; ).
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^I'm a bit scared we have a player that might turn out to be that. :/ I hope not. I sure's hell like him as a person but I don't quite like the vibe I'm getting off of him at the table. He's trying to make his character TOO perfect (then again, I'm great at making mine too flawed >_>;; ).
Ah, the curse of the role player ;D
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(OK, LAM's are cool and all, but waaaaaaayyyy broken.)
If you get a chance, take a look at the rules in the printed 3085 Record Sheet book. They're quick-start for LAMs, so it's only combat. But you'll see that the changes in how they're run in the game mechanics.
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^I'm a bit scared we have a player that might turn out to be that. :/ I hope not. I sure's hell like him as a person but I don't quite like the vibe I'm getting off of him at the table. He's trying to make his character TOO perfect (then again, I'm great at making mine too flawed >_>;; ).
Ah, the curse of the role player ;D
Role Player and Psych Major. I love crazies.
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^I'm a bit scared we have a player that might turn out to be that. :/ I hope not. I sure's hell like him as a person but I don't quite like the vibe I'm getting off of him at the table. He's trying to make his character TOO perfect (then again, I'm great at making mine too flawed >_>;; ).
The problem I see is trying to be the best and forgetting that getting there is most of the fun! I'm statistically the best I can get, Min/Max I believe, I wanted a brute force I made Usda one, but I have lots of room to grow in skills.
Where's the fun if your character can already shoot the wings off a fly. Talk a Dragon into working for you, and have all the CEOs as contacts?
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^I'm a bit scared we have a player that might turn out to be that. :/ I hope not. I sure's hell like him as a person but I don't quite like the vibe I'm getting off of him at the table. He's trying to make his character TOO perfect (then again, I'm great at making mine too flawed >_>;; ).
Ah, the curse of the role player ;D
Role Player and Psych Major. I love crazies.
Awwww I love you too sweety!
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(OK, LAM's are cool and all, but waaaaaaayyyy broken.)
If you get a chance, take a look at the rules in the printed 3085 Record Sheet book. They're quick-start for LAMs, so it's only combat. But you'll see that the changes in how they're run in the game mechanics.
Don't have the money for that at the moment. So unless it's free, it will be a while before I can take a look at that.
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^I'm a bit scared we have a player that might turn out to be that. :/ I hope not. I sure's hell like him as a person but I don't quite like the vibe I'm getting off of him at the table. He's trying to make his character TOO perfect (then again, I'm great at making mine too flawed >_>;; ).
The problem I see is trying to be the best and forgetting that getting there is most of the fun! I'm statistically the best I can get, Min/Max I believe, I wanted a brute force I made Usda one, but I have lots of room to grow in skills.
Where's the fun if your character can already shoot the wings off a fly. Talk a Dragon into working for you, and have all the CEOs as contacts?
Which is why I'm making Code more bottom-of-the-barrel. He's done little itty bitty gang jobs here and there so he's not a TOTAL noob but he may as well be. I don't see anything wrong with taking a role and specializing in it. You're the tank. You're supposed to have muscle tissue for a brain. You're not trying to make your character smart and pretty and dexterous too. He's really good at breaking shit. I'm above average at sneaking into and running away from things. Mr. Face is trying to be sent from God. It's irritating me and I don't know how to snap at him for it without sounding like I'm taking it personally since, well, you know me. XD
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Well there is only 4 of us. Best way to teach sometimes is to standback and let the bullets fly into the almighty. Once they're dead and asky why didn't you back me up. You reply, "Looked like you had the situation under control to me!
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Role Player and Psych Major. I love crazies.
Remind me to let you invite me to a one-shot if I'm ever in your area, I think we would get along great. And leave lots and lots of shitlessly scared people in our way ;D
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Role Player and Psych Major. I love crazies.
Remind me to let you invite me to a one-shot if I'm ever in your area, I think we would get along great. And leave lots and lots of shitlessly scared people in our way ;D
:D!
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Role Player and Psych Major. I love crazies.
Remind me to let you invite me to a one-shot if I'm ever in your area, I think we would get along great. And leave lots and lots of shitlessly scared people in our way WAKE;D
Kay I fixed that for ya Doc ;D
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Damn lingo soft going haywire again ;) Thx ;D
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At this range, I need to roll a 4 or better on both cannons. It's bliss.
...and I missed with both. Even jammed the Ultra cannon.
Um Hellbie, this is you we are talking about, you should have know you were going to miss? (Ask Hellbie about dice luck and him sometime, wear a flak jacket)
As for LAMs-
Yes they were pretty darn broken. We worked very hard on new rules and are very proud of the results. So far BattleTech fan feedback has been positive.
The TRO3085 Print Record Sheet, with the LAM QSR rules is only $5 in PDF format.
If you have any other LAM questions, I encourage you to come over to my patch at Classicbattletech.com and ask questions. CBT community is great and we welcome you all. (And that way Jason doesn't beat me up for BT creeping into his forum. Then again, Hellbie started it!)
Best,
Joel BC
TRO3085 Product Developer
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Subtle! ;D
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Heh... All I know is that if any of you are going to be at GenCon next year, we should enter the Shadowrun Tournament as a team... ;)
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That would be super cool! Somehow I don't see having the Nuyen for that yet again. :'(
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^I'm a bit scared we have a player that might turn out to be that. :/ I hope not. I sure's hell like him as a person but I don't quite like the vibe I'm getting off of him at the table. He's trying to make his character TOO perfect (then again, I'm great at making mine too flawed >_>;; ).
Ah, the curse of the role player ;D
Role Player and Psych Major. I love crazies.
Awesome - I'm a role player and psych major too. =) Well, technically I GM more often than I get to play, but w/e.
Do you have a focus? I'm just starting down my track, but planning on getting my MA in behavioral psych with a focus on non-verbal communication.
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^I'm a bit scared we have a player that might turn out to be that. :/ I hope not. I sure's hell like him as a person but I don't quite like the vibe I'm getting off of him at the table. He's trying to make his character TOO perfect (then again, I'm great at making mine too flawed >_>;; ).
Ah, the curse of the role player ;D
Role Player and Psych Major. I love crazies.
Awesome - I'm a role player and psych major too. =) Well, technically I GM more often than I get to play, but w/e.
Do you have a focus? I'm just starting down my track, but planning on getting my MA in behavioral psych with a focus on non-verbal communication.
<stares at voydangel with wide eyes>
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what? o.0
*looks around behind him for the troll*
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I was trying to get my point across with non-verbal communication. ;D
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<narrows eyes viciously>
;)
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Isn't it already over for this year?
Maybe next year. Hell. I might be able to wrangle going with the boys on my own next year if I keep my job and we all just pile into one hotel room...
Although I think Gencon is WAY TOO CLOSE to World Steam Expo to pull off both of them... And if you ignore Wies and Hickman for Gencon (because I worship those two)... I really do like World Steam more.
@ Voy : Criminal. My ultimate goal is to be able to work in the prisons and as expert testimony for criminal trials. So many of the people in our prison system NEED proper psychiatric care so desperately. :/ Either criminal psychiatry or becoming a specialist for Schizophrenia. There's so many doctors that turn schizophrenics away too because "we don't deal with them here" or they're too complicated of a case and that completely and utterly sickens me. Both fields are pretty fierce passions of mine and they might just end up overlapping a bit. Hopefully they do because I really can't decide between them.
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I used to naturally fall into the party leader roll in my days when I had time to do RPGs. Even when I wasn't, I tended to be one that folks looked too after the party leader gave out instructions.
I now make a living as a Program Manager.
Not exactly an horror story, but I think it is interesting to see how your game personality dictates your real personality
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Isn't it already over for this year?
Maybe next year. Hell. I might be able to wrangle going with the boys on my own next year if I keep my job and we all just pile into one hotel room...
Although I think Gencon is WAY TOO CLOSE to World Steam Expo to pull off both of them... And if you ignore Wies and Hickman for Gencon (because I worship those two)... I really do like World Steam more.
@ Voy : Criminal. My ultimate goal is to be able to work in the prisons and as expert testimony for criminal trials. So many of the people in our prison system NEED proper psychiatric care so desperately. :/ Either criminal psychiatry or becoming a specialist for Schizophrenia. There's so many doctors that turn schizophrenics away too because "we don't deal with them here" or they're too complicated of a case and that completely and utterly sickens me. Both fields are pretty fierce passions of mine and they might just end up overlapping a bit. Hopefully they do because I really can't decide between them.
Kewl, Im a special deputy sheriff in my county and have spent a lot of time (professionally ;)) in the jail. I tend to agree with your assessment of people needing REAL help. I've seen a lot of...interesting people. Few of them get the care they need, but unfortunately, there is very little we, as the SO can do until we get the call. And by then, the damage is already done way or another.
>:(
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Don't have the money for that at the moment. So unless it's free, it will be a while before I can take a look at that.
Your FLGS charges you to flip through books? ;)
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OK, another Battletech one, because... well, because that's what I feel like posting.
So I had this long-running mercenary campaign. Whole thing was from scratch- they'd select one of four or five contracts that I'd write up, and each one had different employers, time of contract, type of missions, pay, bonuses, etc... and to my dismay, I totally biffed their salvage rules- they were pretty much treating the game like a shopping trip after a while, and by my own rules I'd hosed myself- soon they were running ridiculously tricked-out gear. And I was mad- mostly at myself, but it was easier to take it out on them.
[snip by Teknodragon]
For a minute there, I thought you were the one running a Battletech game I was in. Mercs, select missions, etc. Got pretty crazy as it practically became 'Grand Theft Battlemech' for a while. Then a mission choice came up, with Clan tech missiles waved under my nose. At around 90million c-bills, I knew it was going to be tough. Then the GM turned it into the Battletech RPG. I... tried a few missions, but with nobody having a handle on the rules, I just got too frustrated and dropped out.
Still feel guilty about leaving my chums in the lurch there, but I couldn't take the frustration, and quietly backing out was better than the other choice that came to mind, which was a rather unseemly, immature fit. /That/ much frustration.
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I never really got the BTRPG rules. Just straight wargaming here really. I mean, we had backstory and our own companies/units/commanders but I mean they weren't really used as people. Just run the mechs, roll the dice, and blow some shit up.
There was a lot more in-character stuff going on with the other members of our group but most of it was way too much accounting and I just couldn't be bothered with learning it at the time. At battletech, I'm way more of a "just give me my sheets, point me in the direction of the bad guys, let me know if there's anything I probably shouldn't shoot at, shut up and let me roll." I also tend to play my units more like turrets (really, how much maneuvering can you get with a 3-5 move rate?) and just pick a good spot where I could see a lot of people and preferably had my back covered, park, and alpha strike all day. We had a couple players that would just be dicks and run away from EVERYTHING (and I'm saying at the planning stage). <whine>They didn't want to put their units out in harm's way!</whine>
It's kinda sad when a preteen/teen girl was telling 30-50 year old men to stop being cowards and just play the damn game.
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Don't have the money for that at the moment. So unless it's free, it will be a while before I can take a look at that.
Your FLGS charges you to flip through books? ;)
The FLGS sells WH40K and M:TG firstly and also caters to the video game crowd (consoles LANed up, lotta PC's, etc.) with only a handful of RPG books. Very sad.
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Don't have the money for that at the moment. So unless it's free, it will be a while before I can take a look at that.
Your FLGS charges you to flip through books? ;)
The FLGS sells WH40K and M:TG firstly and also caters to the video game crowd (consoles LANed up, lotta PC's, etc.) with only a handful of RPG books. Very sad.
That is very sad. You need to make a trip up to The Source (http://www.sourcecomicsandgames.com/) up here in Minneapolis. They have a very extensive collection, including a lot of older out-of-print books. Why, I just recently saw two copies of the FR "Grey Box" still in its shrink wrap for $25 each.
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If you want to talk about BattleTech RPG, I'll tell you the time I was getting into the main spaceport in Solaris City, on the Solaris VII Game World.
There was a multi-party game run by Herb Beas at GenCon when it was still in Milwaukee. It was started when 3rd Edition came out and it became a staple for a number of years. In that game I played a Capellan Death Commando (some of the best SpecOps guys in the game). I wasn't sneaking into the spaceport, rather I was traveling quietly trying to get into the city. As it turned out, members of the other parties in the group started some trouble. When security at the spaceport started locking things down I wanted nothing to do with that. I figured the best way to get out of there was to use the skills I trained and developed.
Did I tell you I was trained to cause pain, death, and destruction?
I ended up meeting with the other member in my party, another Capellan. The character was a Maskrovka agent, the secret police/traditional spy counterpart to my commando character. After finding a quiet room to change into my armor and gear up we started making our way over to the diplomatic wing. We changed our goal of making it out of the spaceport over to making it to the diplomatic mission located on the spaceport. As we made it around the now-deserted spaceport we ended up making contact with a couple of security guards. More than rent-a-cops, but less than full-on MPs. We decided to swing around close and take them on at very close range. This would allow us to maintain the element of surprise, giving us a chance to neutralize them before they could get on their radios. And just to sweeten the pot a little bit more we could see the signage to the entrance of the diplomatic wing. It was time to adjust our plan, to go from maximum speed to maximum damage and shock them into submission (note that we considered death to be submission).
I plastered myself against a rather large column and inched my way around to see if I could see the guards. Sadly, they saw me and proceeded to plaster themselves around the same column. So I motioned to my partner that I wanted her to take her two microgrenades and pitch them around the column, so I could follow up with my pistols.
*click* *click*
*toss* *toss*
*boom* *boom*
What, you were expecting a *BOOM* or even a *ka-BOOM*? These were microgrenades, and we were in a rather open area. These were going to damage, I was going to finish off.
So I swung around the column, drew from my cross-draw holsters, pointed my pistols at each of the two guards and declared to Herb that I was going to shoot each of them. He totaled up the modifiers and then asked me what my pistols skill was. I looked at my sheet.
I looked over my sheet again.
I studied my sheet for 30-45 seconds.
"I don't have the pistol skill."
"What do you mean, you don't have the pistol skill? You're a Death Commando, it should be there."
So we pause to grab the book and go over the Life Paths for a minute to find the skill that I obviously overlooked. And to our surprise...Capellan commandos don't learn how to use a pistol. Nor is it taught in boot. Nor AIT. If you want to be a Death Commando and be able to use a pistol you have to learn it on your old time.
So now I faced a choice: take the penalty for untrained skill use, or do something dramatic. Being a gamer I went with dramatic. My action for the rest of the turn was to drop my pistols and move to my backup weapon, a vibrosword. But I was told that I would have to wait to the next turn to get it ready. Not a big deal I thought, so I went along with it. Of course being told that by the GM meant I was going to have to go along with it.
Next turn rolls around and I announce I'm going to try to use a draw cut on the guy in front of me, and continue the motion to attack the guy to the side of him. I get the modifiers, this time I do have the skill so I make my two rolls. A success on the first one with some open-ended rolling gave me a great damage roll, enough to permanently cripple his right hand (also known as his gun hand). The other guy...at least I didn't crit fail the attack roll. His response was three quick pulls of the trigger, close enough that he would have to be Helbie to miss.
Herb is not Helbie.
I took a bullet to my sword arm, another one to the opposite leg, and one to the belly. The limb hits were penetrating hits, each of which fractured a bone in the limbs struck. My armor stopped the third shot, but it still hurt like a bitch. My partner came around and using the hand cannon they favored (a Sternshot pistol for those of you playing from home) she proceeded to have her character inspect each of the brain pans with a lead probe. She then grabbed a people mover cart, threw my gear on the seat next to her, threw my broken body on the rear bench, and drove *through* the gate in the diplomatic section and up to the Capellan mission. She picked up my gear bag with one hand, threw me over her opposite shoulder, and walked to the front of the line at the desk. I was rather unceremonously flopped onto the top of the counter so I could look the now shocked woman manning that desk in the eyes. I locked eyes with her and said: "You need to get the senior diplomat out of whatever meeting he's in and into his office, where he will meet with my partner and me. You will then call whatever passes as a medic in this facilty to that same office so he can plug up the holes in me." When the first thing to come out of her mouth was shocked blubbering I asked to have my bag put on her desk, then with my good arm opened it to show the rather impressive sniper rifle I had with me. The model is a Minolta 9000, the signature weapon of the Death Commandos. That shocked her out of her stupor and got me what I wanted.
Still one of my favorite gaming cock-ups, and always a great story to tell. Too bad I can't show you how I tell the story in person, it's always fun to replay the movements to a small audience.
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The FLGS sells WH40K and M:TG firstly and also caters to the video game crowd (consoles LANed up, lotta PC's, etc.) with only a handful of RPG books. Very sad.
Indeed. Sounds like you need to see if your local Demo Agent will be willing to run some BattleTech along with Shadowrun (or get two Agents in the area).
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Peter I've been gaming since 1979! That has to be the best character SNAFU I have EVER heard. thank you for sharing it... Two Gun! ;D
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When you don't have a cooking skill, and you are trying to infiltrate a Kurita state dinner as a cook, best to stay away from the fish courses.
"How was I supposed to know it was blowfish!?"
"You killed the ambassador and started an international incident!"
"Come on, who heard of serving fish that can kill you!"
"You're fired."
The end of a promising Davion officer's SpecOp career.
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One time, a poor GM had to run a game with me and Bull as his players. Poor bastard
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Ok, a SR game, something that I came up with when my own players almost outsmarted me.
Long story short, said team of Runners was breaking into an Ares owned warehourse to boost some specific goodies. The rigger's van got shot to hell when a roaving KE patrol unit got suspicious and the rigger got into a high speed running firefight (but managed to escape) and back leaving said team stranded inside the warehouse without transportation or extraction. But, being the resourseful types, they decide to steal a van. Now, forgive me but I dont remember the van type, as this game happened about 12 years ago. They all made their checks for stealth (and came up for a decent plan of getting out) and for the Street Sam to hotwire the new van that was parked in the loading docks. I tried to use the noise of the engine to alert the sec forces, but then the rigger PC pointed out that the model van they were boosting was electric and therefore argued that the noise would be nill. I decided to to let it slide to avoid another rules lawyer session and slow the game; they tossed a few high fives and begin to put their escape plan into action. Being this was a warehouse van, a company vehicle, and after the Sam said "I back out of the parking space" I had a thought and immediately started going "BEEEP BEEEP BEEEP!!!" The group was like, "No way we tripped an alarm! Chilly (the decker) has the alarms wired!". I replied "No, but you forgot about the backup warning alarm on the van. Safety first in a loading dock, right?"
;)
A few security teams and couple of combat drones later, the team was having a nice "chat" with the local KE Sec Chief.
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Don't try to game on cold meds.
Or sleeping pills.
Just don't.
I fell asleep last night while Doom was running Dad and I through our first SR demo during dad's turn (I was stunned for 4 rounds) and when they got my attention again the room was spinning. o_0;;
Then the cold meds related incident was just me running some light mech off the map or a cliff or something because I'm not entirely sure my brain came with me to the convention or if it stayed in bed trying to recover from whatever bug I was trying to ignore. I couldn't even tell you what con it was, let alone the year. XD
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Since I mentione it in another thread... the "pacifist" Phys Ad story!
So we had been playing Missions (Denver) in our local gaming shop for a few weeks, and had a mix of people droping in on the games. So when the new guy came in with his ready character, we thought nothing of it. Dwarven Phys Ad, some stealth, some negotiation, a pacifist. Sounded OK to us. I don't remember which Mission it was, but it involved getting in and out of a Doc Wagon facility.
So our team medic happens to be ex-Doc Wagon, and has some stacked contacts fo this (and happens to be the acting face as well). Well during the planning the new guy decides we shoul try and get in as employees. We think, "hey, good plan" and the medic begins calling his contacts. The PhysAd gts a bit bored with this and decides to go on his own to case the joint. He insists that his stealthy ways are best when he goes alone...so we let it slide.
Well during his overnight watch, we land access codes tha were put on an ambulance that was going to be out of service for the day. I get on programming it in my ride, and we try and call the PhysAd for pickup. He tells us "I wouldn't have given you my code... I don't know you well enough". Ok, whatever, hopefully he'll see us riding in. Our ride in looks set; so the gm turns to the PhysAd and starts doing some work to get him inside with us.
Well, the PhysAd walks through the door and starts requesting service from the troll nurse who is working the desk. He ties to fast talk his way in... some roleplaying ensues, and the GM asks for a SIN, and a Con roll... the Ad glitches the test. The gm response with "that SIN is one number short... what's the last number?" At that point the guy says "I punch her in the throat!" ??? and we all give "the look". The GM asks if he undestands the pacifist trait... he says yes; that he's backed in a corner and has to fight his way out now.
In the end, our team couldn't have asked for better distractions to get around the facility. He ends up running all over the Doc Wagon facility, then breaks in on a ritual healing, decides that the shaman with the obsidian knife is a threat as well, kills him and continues to rampage all throughout the place. We slip in and out while this is gong on, and then he tries to call us for a pickup to getout of the place. We left him, and never saw him return to the tables at that gaming shop. Hopefully none of you will ever hve to meet him at your tables!
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I got a horror story for ya...
I was in this town, just for a weekend, so I dropped in on their local gaming store `cuz I had this awesome character rolled up and they had Missions going on. So I sit down with my wizzer dwarven PhysAd ...
:D :D :D Great story Caine!
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Pacifist/Pacify. all works out in the end. Our player Codac seems his Dice want him to be a Pacifist! I seen him roll 20ish dice for damage all night last night. with usually no more than 3 successes! Yet he rolls almost 10 successes for damage. ;D
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^ That's also why I got a new set of dice. My whip kept doing that. I switched dice and I actually managed to kill a couple guys last night.
My damn white and clear dice betrayed me. T_T I loved those dice, too!
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^ That's also why I got a new set of dice. My whip kept doing that. I switched dice and I actually managed to kill a couple guys last night.
My damn white and clear dice betrayed me. T_T I loved those dice, too!
Maybe they just don't like Shadowrun. I know some of my dice don't like certain systems.
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I did have to separate my d6 from their various other shaped brethren to try and play shadowrun... and if I remember correctly they didn't like being used as battletech dice too much, either.
We gamers are such silly, superstitious people. There should just be another thread opened up for everyone's dice superstitions and the HORRIBLE HORRIBLE THINGS done to dice to make them behave. (I'm looking at you Doom).
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I been telling you for years Chaotic, that dice KNOW. ;D :o
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THEY DO. As do electronics.
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I did have to separate my d6 from their various other shaped brethren to try and play shadowrun... and if I remember correctly they didn't like being used as battletech dice too much, either.
We gamers are such silly, superstitious people. There should just be another thread opened up for everyone's dice superstitions and the HORRIBLE HORRIBLE THINGS done to dice to make them behave. (I'm looking at you Doom).
See what you started? (http://forums.shadowrun4.com/index.php?topic=535.0) ;D
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Thankyou, this is very nice information, thanks.
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When I play, I love playing the Rigger. And, not a Drone Rigger, I mean the good, old fashioned wheel-man(hooked up to the party's tac-net nowadays).
In one second edition game, I was playing the Rigger. On our first run, the street sam pulled a gun on me and tried to tell me the getaway route to follow.
Thankfully, the plunge into the Bay, sinking of the Eurovan, and then its moving under water made him realize I had an idea of what I was doing.
Ejection seat installed.
Next run, the Samurai AGAIN pulled his gun on me, yelling at me to go into the underground parking garage(which, BTW, I knew ICly had only one way in or out)
instead of running Corpsec into the Go Gang I had already arranged s cover....Samurai Ejection Seat launched. New Ejection Seat with shaped charges installed...
Third run, guy has a new character, since his previous one got to be the guest of honour at an Aztechnology Holiday Party. He's still playing a Samurai. We get a
bit of a case of Hot Pursuit by guys in red with Renraku corporate emblems...Mostly because we are stealing a prototype Banshee-like thing...(This is when they realize
the Rigger CAN shoot that Mossberg he carries pretty damned well..that it is not just for show) I have a timed sequence on my Eurovan get it where I had planned it to be as I finish
getting the info we were asked to get as the primary mission(Stealing the prototype was secondary, and optional objective..our Johnson just wanted performance info on
the prototype), and so, we bail out of the prorotype, and I put in a fun course into the Autopilot, and get the hell out, and jack into my eurovan at the planned point.
As we are evading, the Streetsam AGAIN pulls out his gun and tries to tell "Get back there and steal the prototype! We get a huge bonus for that!"...Ejection seat goes up, and the GM
gets to smile. The Samurai player goes "Um...what are you smiling about?" The GM just says "Boom." The look of confusion on stupid sammies face was priceless...and then, I say over
the internal speakers "Anyone ELSE want to try and tell me how to do my job? I'll do the same to you!"
Um...yeah..I guess that makes me the horror in that horror story?
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I posted the Gazebo story elsewhere .......
OMG ROFL!!!
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As we are evading, the Streetsam AGAIN pulls out his gun and tries to tell "Get back there and steal the prototype! We get a huge bonus for that!"...Ejection seat goes up, and the GM
gets to smile. The Samurai player goes "Um...what are you smiling about?" The GM just says "Boom." The look of confusion on stupid sammies face was priceless...and then, I say over
the internal speakers "Anyone ELSE want to try and tell me how to do my job? I'll do the same to you!"
Um...yeah..I guess that makes me the horror in that horror story?
Rigger's car, rigger's rules. Brilliant job... and an awesome inspiration.
You'd think the sammie would have gotten the point!