Adventures Under the Dark Sun

@Grand_DM A long time ago we played at a friend's house who had shag carpet. D4s hid in the tall carpet, waiting.

Fixed. If you know, you know.

@GrampsToolshed I have the same problem if I sleep too well. I either wake up with a hurt back or bad sleep.

Lower back got hurt last night by - Sleeping.

@Blackmoor_Film I'm not a fan of evil campaigns either. They often devolve into PC vs PC and, sometimes, Player vs Player. Although, I did run a monster game once. There were two golbins, a kobold, and an Orc. They kidnapped a Princess, but ran her carriage off of a cliff and everyone died.

The biggest problem with evil characters is actually a lot of problems. First off: On a metagame level, much of what appeals to me about the hero theme is how players work together. An evil character is in conflict with everything it cannot kill or subjugate. Conflict is a fail state, unless the DM nerfs the game to favor that one player who must win. Which points to how narcissistic playing evil PCs ultimately is. Players who do things like torture enemies and or even play aginst other players just do not get invited back. If I want conflict I will play a war game. Just one reason of many, I could go on and on about why having evil PCs break a classic RPG format.

@Hamishkt I've never seen this meme before. It's hilarious.

My 2nd Edition AD&D Generic Character Sheet. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2E

@OldWorldHermit I am not welcome at your table.

If you can name this movie, you will always be welcome at my table. #ttrpg #dnd #CastlesandCrusades #WFRP

@marten_sorby @NEROANG3LO @SquidVovoide Good point.

@AdventuresSun @NEROANG3LO @SquidVovoide Well in 40k we know that people who die get tortured and eaten by Daemons so... probably better to live as long as possible, realistically!

Thinking about the "Return to Armageddon" video, and besides the fact that the Steel Legion has been left to the wayside, another thing left a sour taste in my mouth. Might be the T'au within me, but to kill a man like the Governor, who seems to value guardsmen's lives, is foul

@DungeonNoir Please tell me you wrote this.

Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity To run the greatest game your players ever wanted One session Would you prep it all or just let it slip? His palms are sweaty, rolls are weak, DM's book is heavy There’s a map on the table already, hand-drawn and messy They just chopped up his orcs like spaghetti He’s nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready To drop plots, but he keeps on forgettin’ What he wrote down, that 20 rolls so loud He opens his mouth, but no lore comes out He’s chokin’, now the players start jokin’ loud The turn’s run out, time’s up, next round, roll now Snap back to reality, oh there goes sanity Oh there goes the rogue, he crits He’s so mad, but he won’t give up that easy, no He won’t have it, he knows his whole party’s in deep with this foe It don’t matter, he’s dope, he knows that But he’s broke, no minis or fancy battle mats When he goes back to his original roll That’s when it’s back to the crit again, yo This whole game craft He better go capture this moment and not let it pass You better lose yourself in the session, the moment You own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, don’t fudge that final roll This opportunity comes once per campaign, yo

@marten_sorby @NEROANG3LO @SquidVovoide Only if living in misery is better than dying.

@AdventuresSun @NEROANG3LO @SquidVovoide But in your example there clearly is a good choice and a bad choice? Sure, the good choice is uncomfortable, but doing the right thing is rarely easy. Sometimes things are hard and there's no easy fix or clean way out, but we do the best we can. That's just life.

@Blackmoor_Film I agree. If there's any setting info I need to give my players, I give it to them before we meet to make characters and play our first game.

I never understood the Session 0 concept. Me calling my friends, "Hey, wanna play some D&D?" Wanna play some D&D is code for: we're going to do some kind of RPG thing that may not even be D&D, it could be traveller, or Gamma World, or whatever. Everyone shows up to play and we roll up characters as fast as possible so we can actually get to playing. If there is a distraction, like wasting a session not playing, I am not coming.

@marten_sorby @NEROANG3LO @SquidVovoide Picture your life as a common human. You work in a factory, with no safety protocols, for 14 hours a day. It's dirty and horrible. You never see the sun. You work to keep the war machine running. Or, an alien or demon kills you. Those are their options. There is no good in 40k.

@AdventuresSun @NEROANG3LO @SquidVovoide The difference IMO is whether or not you think the Imperium is justified, not literally 'good'. I despise the idea of the Imperium being 'justified' because it makes the whole setting less interesting. It's just good vs. evil, the good guys happen to be mean and spikey, y'know?

@DungeonNoir Oh, that's pretty cool.

@AdventuresSun Hex Kit drivethrurpg.com/en/product/238…

Dark Sun doodle in HexKit

@marten_sorby @NEROANG3LO @SquidVovoide Yes, of course it's all fiction and designed to sell miniatures However, we're fans, so we argue about dumb things. Speaking of which: No one said the Imperium were misunderstood good guys. The Imperium is terrible. I was just pointing out that they have enemies everywhere.

@AdventuresSun @NEROANG3LO @SquidVovoide I don't understand WHY people want the Imperium to be poor misunderstood good guys, when the fact they are batshit insane and self-destructive is such a central part of the setting's identity. They aren't rational. They're ideological fanatics! They're bloodthirsty lunatics!

@YoDanno Family first, always. Good luck to you and your family.

Friends, bad news. Got as far as O’Hare today, and had to turn around. Had to cancel GaryCon trip. My father was admitted to the ICU, already on hospice care and going fast. Don’t mean to dump this on you all, just might be in and out for awhile, though some time here might help distract me too.

@marten_sorby @NEROANG3LO @SquidVovoide So, they should abandon Armageddon and fall back to where? I would argue that the Orks would just pursue them, or bypass them and attack another unprotected world. Comissar Yarrick understands Orks better than anyone and he believes they should stay and fight.

@AdventuresSun @NEROANG3LO @SquidVovoide The Imperium has the *physical* ability to withdraw their troops, reorganize and counterattack. They have countless weapons, advanced technologies that can be used to destroy the Orks some other way. But they will *never* do that, because the Imperial ideology forbids it.

@MightofMe I love this.

City of Klo

@DungeonNoir It's beautiful.

Not the worst weapon, really. Brittle, but hard and sharp as sin, Hand-knapped green obsidian knife

@marten_sorby @NEROANG3LO @SquidVovoide What are their other options?

@AdventuresSun @NEROANG3LO @SquidVovoide It's not "the fight". It's the system itself. The video is a good example, though the writing is clunky: The Imperium is not even considering tactical options. They fight because it's what they're ideologically supposed to do, even when the only result is more dead humans.

@DungeonNoir Flat top.

Flat top or pointy top?