I prefer to get the DM to laugh and/or this:
Por que no los tres?
that’s the emily axford approach
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I ran a cyberpunk red campaign as the GM. I set up a storyline where the group was captured by Arasaka using an experimental “flashbang” that would shut down anyone with neural implants (the whole group). The dumbest of my group attempted to escape that. He rolled a nat 20 and I had him literally commit ego death inside his mind to “wake up.” Inside the AV they were all trapped in was my version of the head of arasaka security. Basically an undefeatable t-1000.
He rolled a nat 20 again and woke everyone on the av up with advantage. Then the fucking rockerboy convinced the head of security to save him rolling his own nat 20 while the others worked to override/crash the AV before it could land at arasaka
So I ended up having the rockerboy being wrapped in a big hug by the head of security and jumping out as the av crashed (the tech lowered the speed). So the rockerboy survived with like no damage, the head of arasaka security was fucked up, the team survived, and never made it to the entire narrative I had planned.
10/10 would GM again
Virgin Silverhand: Sets off a nuke and barely anyone even remembers him or his band, gets soul killed.
Chad random rockerboy: Restarts his own brain with pure willpower and immediately talks a decades long Arasaka supersoldier into helping him.Lol it was the idiot solo who woke himself and everyone up. The rockerboy just always avoided conflict and made a wildly dramatic exit. But the events in motion had us all crying laughing while my brain scrambled to plot the continuation of the story as the group rolled to destroy my cool narrative
I became a much better player after I DM’d.
It taught me that it is possible to thread the needle and do both.
what does that even mean? both what? what is thread the needle
I once knew a munchkin who literally had the GM say to them exasperatedly something like “Fine, you win!”. The munchkin naturally replies with “But, you can’t win at D&D”, to which the GM just said “And congrats, you managed it anyway.”, at which point the GM ended the campaign.
“Eat your dice, Brennan!”
How can you say that about Emily? Ali Beardsley makes the GM cuss at least as often. :)
It’s not always bad when your GM says “Fuck you.” Sometimes we say it because you just skipped to the end of the mystery that was supposed to last a few more sessions, sometimes it’s because you use the spells I just gave you to kill my big-bad.
Mostly it’s beautiful, because you did something I wasn’t expecting and now I get to work around it in real time. It’s not truly a collaborative story until you are making my life as the narrator hard, otherwise I’m just telling you a story on rails.
last time I played I assassinated the main antag the DM spent weeks on. had maps, quests, characters, back story, etc.
the character was really rude and antagonizing towards me because I had the audacity to tell him to stop attacking the nearby village. just having a chat…pulled out my dagger and stabbed his bitch ass face without warning. before I rolled the DM asked, “are you sure? he’s pretty high level.” I rolled just high enough and dropped him inside his cottage door.
the DM just sighed, defeated and started calculating exp. We didn’t even know who he was until we saw how much exp we were getting.
I felt really bad for the DM. he was really good at it for being so new. I didn’t go back after because I felt I ruined the fun for everyone else.
I generally play chaotic good and absolutely lose my fucking shit to evil characters. I’m drawn to them like catnip. this wasn’t the first time I ruined a campaign like this.
one time I “accidentally” burned a village down that was home to the only living heir to the kingdom we were hired to find. well, we found him. extra crispy. long story on how the village was set ablaze…
Perhaps you should challenge yourself and try different, more… “morally fluid” characters. It will take you out of your comfort zone, but might be surprisingly enjoyable!
I like to be outright evil with one exception where I’m a paladin for.
Like utterly evil but I will go to the ends of the earth to ensure a child has a teddy bear.
There will be death to get that teddy bear.
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Got to play again the other night for the first time in like 15 years and there were several “I’ll allow it” statements made. Fun night.
