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KyleG
2019-01-31, 04:52 AM
Im looking for a list of situations that I can ask myself "what would my pc do if.....?
I want to try to see how she might react before I start player her. Getting a bit of insight into who she is. Right now she feels like a series of events, and connections but with no depth.

Zhorn
2019-01-31, 05:08 AM
You are pursuing a high priority target. An item acquisition has gotten messed up and the mcguffin is on the move, and it is moving fast. During the chase, some horses were spook and in their panic have upturned a wagon onto some innocent bystanders.
You can either choose to help those in trouble and likely lose track of your quarry OR ignore their pleas for help and continue with the chase, not knowing if help is on the way for the bystanders or even if you can catch the fleeing target.

hymer
2019-01-31, 05:15 AM
I'll cheat and just link you a quiz (https://www.gotoquiz.com/oblivion_class_quiz) with lots of situations.

Zhorn
2019-01-31, 05:37 AM
You and your party have made past the the dungeon boss and are now on looting duty. You're given the task of appraising the gems and dividing them equally among the group. No one else in the party has this skill and you can get away with taking all the best gems without anyone knowing.
Do you divide the gems by value evenly, or take the lion's share for yourself?

Particle_Man
2019-01-31, 12:36 PM
This link is mandatory. :smallbiggrin:

http://dragon.facetieux.free.fr/jdr/Munchkin.htm

But more seriously, you are on a quest to Save the World from the BBEG who is trying to find and destroy the Seven Seals that keep the world from dissolving into the Chaos from which it was made. On the way to one of the seals you see the lair of a huge red dragon. It is not currently troubling any area, but it is nearby and a known evil entity. You probably have the power to deal with it, but might fail and then who would go after the BBEG?

Do you ignore the dragon and go after the BBEG like an arrow, or do you dare the dragon's lair? And of course, whatever you choose, why do you choose it?

BreaktheStatue
2019-01-31, 09:55 PM
A bad guy has spent months trying to kill you and your group, and he has killed dozens of innocents. You've found out where he lives - but he also lives with his innocent family (wife and minor children of various ages).

The only way to reach him is by relaying his location to a local constabulary, but they have a reputation for extreme brutality. They will almost certainly kill the bad guy, and there's a good chance they'll kill his family too. Do you tell them where he is and remove a threat - not only to you, but to other innocents he will likely harm - or do you not say anything.

KyleG
2019-01-31, 10:08 PM
A bad guy has spent months trying to kill you and your group, and he has killed dozens of innocents. You've found out where he lives - but he also lives with his innocent family (wife and minor children of various ages).
The only way to reach him is by relaying his location to a local constabulary, but they have a reputation for extreme brutality. They will almost certainly kill the bad guy, and there's a good chance they'll kill his family too. Do you tell them where he is and remove a threat - not only to you, but to other innocents he will likely harm - or do you not say anything.

Report him but accompany the constabulary, giving her at least some chance of protecting the innocent. If necessary she'll take on the constabulary afterwards if they dont agree with her methods.




But more seriously, you are on a quest to Save the World from the BBEG who is trying to find and destroy the Seven Seals that keep the world from dissolving into the Chaos from which it was made. On the way to one of the seals you see the lair of a huge red dragon. It is not currently troubling any area, but it is nearby and a known evil entity. You probably have the power to deal with it, but might fail and then who would go after the BBEG?
Do you ignore the dragon and go after the BBEG like an arrow, or do you dare the dragon's lair? And of course, whatever you choose, why do you choose it?

She is steadfast in her focus...she is going after the BBEG and attend the dragons later.


You and your party have made past the the dungeon boss and are now on looting duty. You're given the task of appraising the gems and dividing them equally among the group. No one else in the party has this skill and you can get away with taking all the best gems without anyone knowing.
Do you divide the gems by value evenly, or take the lion's share for yourself?

She is honest enough that she would divide it evenly.


You are pursuing a high priority target. An item acquisition has gotten messed up and the mcguffin is on the move, and it is moving fast. During the chase, some horses were spook and in their panic have upturned a wagon onto some innocent bystanders.
You can either choose to help those in trouble and likely lose track of your quarry OR ignore their pleas for help and continue with the chase, not knowing if help is on the way for the bystanders or even if you can catch the fleeing target.

The hardest one yet....She wants with almost every part of her being to pursue but her training with a very honorable captain means the innocents should take priority. Hmmm. I think she might not even notice them, everything is background noise when shes in a mission.

DuctTapeKatar
2019-02-01, 02:59 PM
Your character has been separated from the party after a long battle in the woods -- after attempting to attempting to regain contact with your friends, you realize that you are alone, and there is no lead on where your party has gone. You encounter one of the foes that you fought with earlier, and it seems as though he is in the same situation as you.

WDYD?

After being invited to an important individual's home, you enter to see it ransacked, the owner is dead, and it is clear that somebody set you up.

WDYD?

An incredibly clingy groupie is following your group, and it is possible that they might be caught up in an intrigue plot your party is trying to unravel.

WDYD?

You are attempting to sneak out of your lover's house without being noticed by their spouse -- when you are caught at the door by their close friend/lieutenant.

WDYD?

You have cut down an ancient tree in front of your family's old home, and find that inside are a series of letters that contain evidence that your grandfather/grandmother was a spy for a kingdom that has participated in an ages-old cold war with the lands you call home. These notes also contain incriminating details on your homeland, including several atrocities that have been undocumented.

WDYD?

KyleG
2019-02-01, 06:37 PM
What di you do? always makes me want to say Shoot the hostage.
Anyway...


Your character has been separated from the party after a long battle in the woods -- after attempting to attempting to regain contact with your friends, you realize that you are alone, and there is no lead on where your party has gone. You encounter one of the foes that you fought with earlier, and it seems as though he is in the same situation as you.

WDYD?

Size him up...capabilities, supplies and the reasoning behind original battle...

After being invited to an important individual's home, you enter to see it ransacked, the owner is dead, and it is clear that somebody set you up.

WDYD?

Get the hell out of dodge.

An incredibly clingy groupie is following your group, and it is possible that they might be caught up in an intrigue plot your party is trying to unravel.

WDYD?

Interrogate or Seduce

You are attempting to sneak out of your lover's house without being noticed by their spouse -- when you are caught at the door by their close friend/lieutenant.

WDYD?

I think she would try to seduce actually.

You have cut down an ancient tree in front of your family's old home, and find that inside are a series of letters that contain evidence that your grandfather/grandmother was a spy for a kingdom that has participated in an ages-old cold war with the lands you call home. These notes also contain incriminating details on your homeland, including several atrocities that have been undocumented.

WDYD?

Take and hide the evidence but dont open up any cans of worms.

OverLordOcelot
2019-02-01, 08:01 PM
You're in a bar while asking around for information. You're talking to some mercenaries when suddenly a bunch of drunk dockworkers barge in and start picking a fight with them. You can try to defuse the situation by talking down or intimidating the dockworkers, if you let the fight happen you can try to avoid the fight, pick a side, or wait for a party member to pick a side then pick the other.

You're pretty sure you died in a fight, but mysteriously you are now alive with some disturbing, intrusive thoughts in your head. Do you keep it quiet, seek treatment, tell people you're marked/posessed by a demon/undead/etc now, or what?

You're hired to clear undead out of some catacombs. You've got permission to loot the bodies of undead and anyone you find animating them, but are specifically told you don't have permission to take anything off of the interred undead. Do you take loot from non-undead bodies anyway? How do you respond if a party member does? What if you find some people unconnected to you who were robbing graves and ask for your help to get away with their loot?

You're hired to investigate a situation that happened in the past by taking part in a projection where you have to fight on the bad guy's side (in the projection, you won't find the information you need if you don't help the bad thing happen). The projection doesn't affect the real world. Do you refuse to help the imaginary bad guys, help them just as much as needed, revel in the chance to act evil without actually hurting people, or what?

You are in a fight in a giant shark tank belonging to a bad guy. There are several aquatic creatures plus the bad guys who have been plotting. You have the chance to make one of the sharks intelligent and fight on your side (like the Awaken spell), but don't have any easy way to get the shark to a large body of water later. Do you do it anyway and then (presuming you win the fight) leave it in the tank, go through a lot of effort and/or expense to free it, avoid awakening it, or what?

Schismatic
2019-02-01, 10:56 PM
What would you do if your character was told by a bedridden descendant of a deceased wizard long ago that they need a staff inside their family mausoleum to prove their ancestry, but not to disturb the rest of the mausoleum and its treasures?

The job is a milk run, low DC mechanical trap, a magical door that you have the key to, and the staff itself is simply hidden behind a secret wall you merely need to pull bricks out of the way to retrieve.

Because of the relative ease of the job and that the bedridden family member has spent most of their personal wealth on a myriad of treatments, they're only willing to pay you 500 GP for ostensibly an afternoon of work.

As you break into the mausoleum, you notice through a crack in one tomb's lid, shaken lose by likely a recent earthquake, that a body of one of their family has been interred with some serious bling. Gem encrusted gold rings, a woderful amulet with a gold chain that looks like it weighs 2 lbs, a stunning headband of platnium adorned with a 20 carat diamond fixture...

Would you honour the dying family man's last request and not disturb the site even if they will never likely know and get your 500GP for no real effort?

What if you're inbetween adventures and you're fighting the machinations of an elder evil that threatens the world, and you're short of money to buy necessary gear to help your cause?

What if it was an bad person in life, and interred person was incredibly notorious that escaped mortal punishment while they still drew breath?

How would you feel if the interred body was a half-fiend, tiefling/aasimar, or some other race other than your character's?

What if the interred person was a noble and are you a disgruntled peasant?

What if it was the body of an invader of your home? A foreigner who in the past conquered your people and subsumed your lands into an empire?

Are you considered you a trustworthy servant of the household and elevated you above the rest of the staff?

What if it was your own family mausoleum and you are broke?

Would you do it for free out of a sense of gratitude and charity to the elderly person, or simply out of a sense of honour to allow the dead rest or you feel that you should't be rewarded so much for such a simple task?

Are you are a god/dess-fearing soul and have you spent many an hour worrying about your place in the afterlife, but also recognize that those trinkets could allow you to do more utilitarian good for the rest of the poor in your city? Could you, with your religion, justify such an action as looting the grave to help the needy?

Are you annoyed that anyone would waste your time with such a petty task so beneath you when you could be partying and mingling with society's elite...? 500GP for raiding their family mausoleum--Are you already so wealthy you wouldn't lower yourself to such menial trite?

Does the accoutrements seem gauche to you? I mean that thick gold chain--There's a difference between quantity of something and a fashionable amount of something... Clearly the person died from bad taste.

Are you thinking to yourself that your backpack is already full and you can't possibly drag more loot and get past the gravekeeper unnoticed?

Are you thinking; "Screw the gravekeeper..."? You'll club them with their own shovel. Steal their horse, and take flight from the gendarmerie. All that's left is to decide which non-extradition country to retire to...?

Have you, at all, considered the gravekeeper is working not 10 yards away from the entrance if you stuff your pockets?

Zaharra
2019-02-03, 07:12 AM
You awake to the sound of someone rummaging through your things and investigate to find a small tiefling girl, no older than 6 or 7, stealing coin and food. When you question her, you learn her parents have died and no one will take her in because of her heritage, people in town sometimes throw rotten food at her, which she eats, but she's clearly thin and starving. What do you do?

KyleG
2019-02-04, 03:26 AM
You awake to the sound of someone rummaging through your things and investigate to find a small tiefling girl, no older than 6 or 7, stealing coin and food. When you question her, you learn her parents have died and no one will take her in because of her heritage, people in town sometimes throw rotten food at her, which she eats, but she's clearly thin and starving. What do you do?

I suspect she takes her in/under her wing/shell

PastorofMuppets
2019-02-08, 08:11 AM
You and your party have made past the the dungeon boss and are now on looting duty. You're given the task of appraising the gems and dividing them equally among the group. No one else in the party has this skill and you can get away with taking all the best gems without anyone knowing.
Do you divide the gems by value evenly, or take the lion's share for yourself?

Rogue here, I take the best 3-4 for myself and evenly divide the rest. At a later time when a party member can’t quite afford a thing they want/need I step in and offer to cover what they are short by, using my extra money from before. They get the benefit of the extra value and I get to look extra kind and helpful for gifting them cash when they are in need.


Walking home from the tavern late one night you have stumbled over a thief completing a successful heist. She drops from an open window 2 stories up with a bag overstuffed full of valuables but lands wrong on the loose cobblestone, hurting her ankle. She gets to her feet but is very shaky and need to lean against the building to stay upright. You two are alone in the back alleyway and no sounds of alarm come from the noble’s house. You make eye contact and she limps back a step grabbing at an empty scabbard for the dagger that fell on the ground during her landing, what do you do?