Deathtrap💀Games
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Deathtrap💀Games
@BrianRideout7
Voiceover actor, podcaster, & gaming geek. Creator of Trans-Real News & Swords Against Madness. Writer of Welcome to the Deathtrap. Aërial photographer 🇨🇦
The dirty 'Shwa Katılım Mayıs 2020
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“All the sugar…TWICE the caffeine”
Jolt cola single-handedly fueled many all night gaming sessions for us the in the 80s.
Were you part of the Jolt Revolt?
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@YoDanno Ultra Jolt and RIFTS are bout all I remember about my Junior year of Highschool.
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@YoDanno I can almost taste the heart palpitating goodness now...
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@yum_dm I sometimes record notes onto a recorder, although I prefer to bullet journal. Character sheets, maps, dice, & books are all analog.
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@WorldofWeirth @jpmccarthyjr They're not asking the more important one. Once enough of this guy has been Frankensteined, what happens when we cast resurrection on a bit of the original. 🤔
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This has been turning over in my brain since i read it yesterday.
I haven't arrived at an answer yet.
#DMProblems
Harmony Ginger@Gingerblast
Following an in-game incident involving a brain transplant, players in my game are debating how many body parts thier characters can lose or have replaced before it counts as a character death
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@TewFuller @HandyGingerGal The perfect verification that you don't work in politics.
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@HandyGingerGal The problem is that dumb dumbs congregate online.
I don’t see this much dumb IRL.
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@memeslich That is a painfully incisive meme regarding the expectation versus the reality of horror sci-fi role-playing. 😅
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@BrianRideout7 @WorldofWeirth @AnnalistThe We’d make it fun.
If someone wants to be that big of a details person we would accept the challenge and break his game. Within the rules of course.
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Ok. In my favorite group I’ve played with, we’d get that money pretty quick.
Even if we had to rob the tax man or be mercs for a few weeks.
There’s gotta be a dungeon to loot.
What’s the issue?
@BrianRideout7 @WorldofWeirth
@AnnalistThe
no context memes@nocontextmemes
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@TewFuller @WorldofWeirth @AnnalistThe Selling kobolds as house pets or setting up a stand to serve orphan pies...
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@TewFuller @WorldofWeirth @AnnalistThe Yeah. There are definitely 2 problems here:
Too much verisimilitude making an unfun game.
Players failing to embrace the "Challenge Accepted" mentality and brainstorming up a way to get the needed materiel.
Assuming the DM isn't a railroading cockblocker, tis a minor hurdle.
GIF
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@Samwise7RPG It was pretty good for the time, though it could be repetitive.
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@Lordmatteus2312 There's plenty of groups in the real world that are low information, ideologically blinkered, willfully ignorant, arrogant, or a combination thereof. It would be strange if they weren't worse in a fantasy world full of tricksters, illusions and false prophets.
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I'm curious about what everyone thinks about this: Should every faction, villainous or otherwise, be intelligent, i.e., capable of thwarting the PC should the PCs screw up? Does it break immersion to have a "dumb" faction, i.e., one that has a bad idea or false belief and acts on it to its own detriment?
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@YoDanno @ralphbakshi I watched these when I was 10 a few months after finally finishing RotK. They blew my mind. I'd watch them over the Jackson films any day.
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I remember the chills I got, the first time I saw this scene with the Ringwraith.
Called me old fashioned, but I prefer the @ralphbakshi animated Hobbit and Lord of the Rings over the live action movies any day.
Anyone else enjoy these?
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@Ser_Crotum The PCs made it to the high-priority elimination list and were banished to Carceri with the help of bound Yugaloths.
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@Ser_Crotum Thanks! I was really proud of that one.
The Queen identified potential rebels & troublemakers w/ the power to stop her, then targeted them for elimination, & recruited the pliable.
Then she initiated her new tyrannical reforms, forced religious conversions & a war of conquest.
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This brings up an interesting topic for table top players, do you like the inclusion of an adventur's guild? It can act like a license for pcs to go about dangerous places without interference from the law as well as give quests and pay for adventuring. Or does it add nothing?
MarkyX 🌹 MafiaBlitz.com@Marky_X_
Funny story about this. The only reason why the "Adventurer's Guild" trope exists is due to the video game Wizardry. Fantasy in Japan was not introduced through novels like Lord of the Rings or Conan. It was video games like Wizardry, which became a major inspiration for Dragon's Quest and Final Fantasy. In Wizardry, you didn't have a set party. You created your own characters and death was permanent, so it wasn't uncommon to create new characters. Swapping and "grinding" were essential aspects of the game. Before you went to the dungeon, you were town where you level up, get items, create new characters, and swap characters. Where did you swap characters? Adventurer's Guild. So now you know why this trope seems to be every anime. It's based on a video game in the 80s that still sways influence today.
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I played some "Video Game RPGs" in the 80s & 90s. They were total crap compared to what we could do with our imaginations. Same with video wargames.
Painting minis is fun.
Crafting terrain is fun.
Moving pieces around on the table is fun.
This isn't just one hobby.
Nobleshield@Nobleshield
The way many people online describe "old-school play" with TTRPGs makes it sound like the most boring nonsense, like a worse implementation of Diablo. If I want dungeon hack-and-slash today, a video game does it better.
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