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2010-12-04, 03:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Ridiculous Parties
Sometimes the characters in your party can get... Out of hand. If you have a laid back dm like I turned out to be, this chance increases. If you sort of encourage dumb things, it gets even worse (this is a bigger issue for me).
Currently, the campaign I am running features
- A human paladin, an innocent stubborn girl raised by the clergy after her parents were killed by fiends.
- An Ogre/Orc (half-ogre template on a half-orc with wild template also) psychic warrior, a supernatural psychic warrior with the intelligent of maybe a horse.
- A warforged Dragonfire Adept, a warforged freed from slavery by a copper dragon
- A Vanara (Oriental Adventures) "Sorceress" (Beguiler), who makes a living fooling the town into believing she can see the future.
- A Hadozee... Something (cleric? Fighter (sneak attack UA option)?), still sort of working on it...
- and a wild card, one more member still has to make a character.
What are some of your more obscure parties?Last edited by Lord.Sorasen; 2010-12-04 at 03:51 AM.
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2010-12-04, 03:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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i have had one based off led zeppelin :)
that was funny
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2010-12-04, 04:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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A 'good' campaign where the only Evil aligned character had the highest Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma. Needless to say we all in-character did what he said because he was the most experienced and knowledgeable in most situations.
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2010-12-04, 04:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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It was a big group. We had several gnomes, a ranger, a dwarf fighter, a wizard (he didn't cast much though) and an elf. At one point the party got split. One group got a plant thingy and the other found some sort of goblin. Strange game, that one. See what I did thar?
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2010-12-04, 04:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Well, the 4E Dark Sun game I'm running has a Minotaur Fighter, a Half-Giant Warden, a Dragonborn Infernal Warlock, a Thri-Kreen Fighter, a Human Swarm-Druid, and a Halfling Fey Warlock. The Halfling would be the most normal one of the bunch, but she's half crazy.
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2010-12-04, 05:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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In my current party, the loadout is as follows.
-Dwarven Nature Cleric, Boragor - The epitome of a dwarven cleric, the only difference being his worshp of a non-dwarven deity
-Half-red Dragon Beguiler, Aesthyr - ... kind of horny all the time. interestingly, not a bade interpretation by a male player, but a female one.
-Half-Red dragon Fighter, Daika - The somewhat angry stability of the group. infatuated with the other half-dragon
-Human Fighter, Lily - A girl who was ran out of her hometime because of her troll bloodline. Works as a mercenary under Bruce.
-Spellscale Sorcerer, Melankurian Abatha - Over the top completely, he's probably the most competent member of the group, matched only by Bruce
-Half-Ogre Dungeoncrasher, Bruce McWinchester - My character, and de facto party leader, as he is the leader of this merry merc band. he wields a Fullblade and wears Mechanus gear. with, equipment, he weighs a total of 766 Lbs., not a small amount of which is the two barrels of liquid he carries on his back, one containing Water and the other containing Orcish Kragg, a very, very dangerously strong spirit. And he drip feeds it through what is essentially a hose.
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2010-12-04, 05:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-12-04, 06:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Well, let's see, there was the party with a Saiyan, a Romulan Archmage, a Vulcan scientist who didn't believe in magic, a drug-dealing stalker and a man who names his lazer rifles...
And then there's our favourite and most-long running party, whose bloated cast now has swelled over the year to consist of a jedi, an psychotic Irish criminal trench fighter with a potato obession, a half-Klingon Japanese ninja, a mysterious evil alien scoping out everywhere for his race's invasion, an X-Man-style mutant mall-rat, an alien cyborg engineer, a super-spy sniper, a ex-time-travelling female James-Bond-spy, an archmage spy, the Jedi's technician fiance, a guy who never leaves his Powered Armour, a guy with a booze and treasure obession with Dwarf ancestry, a criminal walking fish and the chainsaw/shotgun wielding manic who lairs in the brig.
Our Rolemaster games are somewhat...special...
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2010-12-04, 01:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm running one with:
A half-orc raised by halflings who just became a dragonborn. He serves the court of stars and two different gods. He has like 5 allegiances.
A Varoot (Nerra) Shadowcaster who pretends to be a Sillit (another kind of Nerra).
A Mineral Warrior Varoot Samurai, bodyguard to the Shadowcaster.
A Mineral Warrior Tortle Drunken Master, student of the Samurai.
A Tiefling Sorceress who believes she is a 10 year old girl.
A Human Cleric of the war god who has become increasingly unhinged, trusting only his mule. He has put the party in mortal danger more than once to save it.
A Pixie Bard who is a fanboy of the half-orc and the human.
An Elf Duskblade. Probably the most normal of the bunch.Editor and playtester for Legend.
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2010-12-04, 02:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Let's see, for a while, we had:
–A blue thing that was the result of a wizard's experiments in combining dragons with elves in an attempt to build a better sorcerer (from whom to steal spell secrets). Often had butterfly wings with changing colors.
-A tree in heavy armor who never talked but only sang (that is, only spoke Buommi).
-A warforged who was a blatant ripoff of Inspector Gadget.
-A Deep Imaskar (dunno why) who rode around in an intelligent sandstorm named Dusty.
-This ridiculous half-fey thing (ALSO with butterfly wings) who existed basically solely to have more charisma than the sorcerer (and yet failed to do anything with it).
The group's actually gotten a lot more traditional as characters have swapped in and out, to a certain extent (I'm still playing a dwarf whose backstory combines Boatmurdered and "The Chrysanthemum Vow" from the Edo-period collection of ghost stories Tales of Moonlight and Rain, but hey, I just said more traditional).In the Beginning Was the Word, and the Word Was Suck: A Guide to Truenamers
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2010-12-04, 02:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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A Shadowrun game awhile back...
Troll Adept, a rising star in the world of underground fighting who collected TVs.
Caster-type with a specialty in turning various party members invisible, and the occasional sniping.
Japanese Elf, nominally the getaway driver but surprisingly was most active in seducing enemies with her feminine wiles. Inspired the catchphrase "nerf women" as a result.
Elemental Summoner with a tendency to go into debt to summon very big elementals inside office buildings that we're supposed to be infiltrating.
Drone Rigger who worshipped Dunkelzahn and believed that he would one day return to rule the world, and that he must prepare for his coming by making dragon-shaped drones as "Dunkelzahn's Children".Lord Raziere herd I like Blasphemy, so Urpriest Exalted as a Malefactor
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2010-12-04, 03:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-12-04, 03:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Once upon a time I had plans for a fairly serious campaign set in a grim-dark steampunkish setting. The party consisted of...
Half-elf Rogue/Aristocrat who used a pistol that fired sunlight.
His Warforged Artificer Bodyguard, who was basically a mobile fortress covered in small constructs.
A former General for the side of Humanity turned Fighter/Ghoul who struggled with his urge to devour flesh and be evil.
An awakened sloth, the last of the world's druids, who cultivated mushrooms on his back, and owned a marijuana plantation, run by goblins, far to the south, where the necromantic-steam punk wars had yet to soil the land with profane magic.Last edited by tahu88810; 2010-12-04 at 03:32 PM.
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2010-12-04, 04:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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1) Human dark jedi guardian, who was obsessed with the music of Dethklok
2) Minotaur fighter wielding two great falchions(?)
3) Bleach-esque dude with huge sword
4) Vampire assassin named "Simon Belmont"
5) Half-elf rogue named Bill.
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2010-12-04, 04:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Worst offender:
14yr old kid in our group statted up a gay, pink bandaged wrapped Mummy using the level progression in Libris Mortis. The kid was straight so I don't understand what would possess him to play such a character but thats what he wanted so the DM let it happen, at least for two or three weeks. (In the end, the Mummy got retired as the kid playing him was clearly just using it as a way to gay-bash and enjoy terrible stereotypes.)
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2010-12-04, 04:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well, there was:
A mortal swordsman.
A psychokinetic vortex of emotions.
Stephen Strange, Sorcerer Supreme.
A multibillionaire robotics expert with a power suit.
A shapeshifter who was forged from Pandora's Box.
That was one weird party.I use black for sarcasm.
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2010-12-04, 05:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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[all 3.5]
I ran a plot-lite campaign for a party consisting of a scout and an Exalted (BoED kind) ninja. The scout spent all his time abusing his sizing longspear, and the ninja had maxed out the "skill" "smell evil".
I'm in a campaign where the party is a halfling chaos mage/barbarian (me), an aging green duskblade, and a contemplative who wants nothing more than to get into melee combat every encounter, but never stays conscious through the first round of it.
The party in another campaign is a pair of bounty hunters: one is a swashbuckler going into daring outlaw, and the other is a LE Paladin of Malar/Crusader going into RKV who specializes in fear effects. Our strategy in every situation consists of using diplomacy (swash) or intimidate (pally) to recruit as many NPC bodies as possible to throw at any problems we might encounter. It's very effective.
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2010-12-04, 05:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ghost of a little girl focused on grappling and fear with ludicrous DC
Tauric Thri-kreen scorpion totemist with more natural attacks than fits on the sheet
Kyton swordsage that never failed a single Hide check
Half-dragon half-fey dinosaur
And so on and so forth
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2010-12-04, 05:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-12-04, 05:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Wow. The groups I've DMed for seem reasonable by comparison. I prefer humans in general, though I can accept other races (even monstrous ones) with the right context.
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2010-12-04, 09:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Just remembered another funny party I DM'd for:
- Mummified Half-Minotaur Goliath Monk (a specially-bred gladiator from eons long gone)
- Twice-evolved Dark Shadow-walker Gravetouched Ghoul Harbinger with cannibalistic tendencies
- Alcoholic Human Ghost Bard/Dirgesinger (with a cohort physically addicted to the presence of the undead)
- Augmented Human (grown out of a tree) ex-druid Necromancer-type seeking to balance nature through the introduction of additional negative energy.
Note: all non-evil; mostly actually good-aligned.Last edited by Dr Bwaa; 2010-12-04 at 09:40 PM.
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2010-12-04, 09:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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The most outrageous party I ever ran a game for was, by far and away, Adventuring Party plc.
The scene is set. The map has the dungeon in the forest clearly marked, the player have created first level characters. So, what do you do first?
"We want to find the land registry office."
??? Now I've heard horror stories about PCs in my time, but nothing comes close to sense of impending doom of a first level party starting off on their first real estate speculation deal.
"This is a medieval setting, it doesn't have government offices."
One player calmly pulls out a copy of an account of the land registration functions for 12th century King's Lynn (a small market town in England).
"It's fine if that kind of thing is just handled by the local lord's clerk or something, but if this is a feudal society, there has to be some means of establishing claim of freehold."
Ok, it turns out that they want to buy the dungeon. They figure that if they clean it out, the land will jump in value. I wanted to tell them they didn't have the money, but actually first level characters have quite a bit. Partcularly when they don't bother with 'useless' things like armour and weapons, and instead focus on important stuff. Like bribing local officials to help them out on a land deal. And priming the pump for what I later found out was basically a junk bond financing scheme.
"See anyone who contributes money to outfitting us now, gets a percentage of the profits we make on the expedition. Since they're also enabling the removal of a monster-infested menace from their own neighbourhood, they've got every reason to contribute a small amount."
but of course, they didn't use this money to outfit themselves properly. No, they used it to hire employees. Cooks, day labourers, carpenters, mule handlers.
Three weeks in, and they'd actually approached somewhere near the dungeon complex. They'd tried the junk bond financing, tried to register as much of the real estate rights as they could, and were now arguing about whether the employees should be included in the profit sharing scheme with a % bonus above the flat rate they were already paid if they were exposed to risk (i.e. didn't run away at the first sign of trouble). They'd settled their official incorporation as a high risk capital venture, sorted out the party voting rights to the corporation, appointed a secretary and CEO, and agreed on an AGM schedule.
I was getting scared, so I threw some random Kobolds at them.
Two of the six PCs had bothered with armour and weapons, but first the Kobolds had to survive something far worse. The Hard Sell.
"Are you happy with current employment as marauder/bandits? We'll give this free food and 10 silver apeice if you agree to listen to what we have to say. Don't worry, I'm unarmed, and you're more than wecolme to keep your weapons handy. Obviously, if anything violence should occur, my two heavily armoured colleagues there will have to become involved. Now, what would you say to an income several times greater than your current rate, at a greatly reduced risk?..."
Eventually they got to the actual dungeon, and went in. But they brought new meaning to the phrase 'dungeon crawl'.
"We'll trying moving forward about 15 feet, to the first junction, and then stopping there for the week."
"For the week?!"
"Sure, we need to establish a perimeter, shake loose some of the hirlings now that we have a room to stay in which is more secure.... Are you sure we can't find any skilled crossbowman to the actual fighting?"
"Yes! I'm sure. You're adventurers! You're supposed to do it yourself. "
I suppose, but it's both risky and wasteful. We really want to recruit as much as we can in the early stages so we can guard our supply lines back to the city. We've already found.. sorry, did you say a 10 foot wide corridor?"
"Yes..."
"10 times 4 times 15 - 600 square feet of dressed stone, and it looks like there will be a lot more. We'll need to send someone back to establish a market and lines of distribution...."
They were reasonably good optimisers -certainly enough that they didn't have much trouble with the monsters, and they'd literally employ bricklayers to brick up rooms that looked too tough for them to get through. But the most dangerous thing about them was that they rejected the entire idea of a adventuring party lock stock and barrel. To them, the point was to defeat the scenario, and sending in a few commandos on a desperate mission to wipe out the monsters was clearly an inefficient use of reasources.
In short, they were absolutely terrifying.Last edited by Togo; 2010-12-04 at 09:52 PM.
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2010-12-04, 10:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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-A cat rogue/ranger, with favored enemy: Human
-A goldfish Wizard with a Water Elemental Familiar. The Goldfish lives inside the Water Elemental.
-A Warforged Monk, with the feat that allows ranged unarmed strikes, flavored as a Rocket punch.If my text is blue, I'm being sarcastic.But you already knew that, right?
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2010-12-04, 10:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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The Tank - Male Half-Ogre Barbarian 3/Fighter 2/Frenzied Berzerker 10/War Hulk 10
Monkeygripped a huge fullblade. Had a strength score in the 50s. Truly, just beyond appalling.
The Caster - Male Human Psion 25
Don't think this is ridiculous? It is when you have Psicrystal Containment and Epic Psionic Focus.
You can manifest two quickened powers, both with one other metapsionic feat on them to, without even using up a moment of your turn.
The Backup Tank - Male Human Fighter 10/Ranger 10/Master Thrower 5
I think he felt a little left out.
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2010-12-04, 10:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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This sort of topic always brings back good memories. Reposting this from a similar thread:
Originally Posted by PairO'Dice Lost
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2010-12-04, 10:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hrmmm... Strangest party?
Likely:
- Elf beguiler DEAD-SET on convincing the party he was someone new everytime we started session. They believed him.
- Dwarven drunken master played only after the player had multiple shots of alcohol.
- Orc druid who forgot her animal companion EVERYWHERE.
- Human Paladin of Tyranny taking levels in Blackguard while never actually telling the party. They didnt even question him. He said "I'm a paladin of..." and they said "doesnt matter lets go."
- Human...ish Half Shade assassin who never spoke a word THE ENTIRE FREAKIN GAME.
- And lastly, halfling rogue determined to get the assassin in bed.
Not so much "weird" as in race/class combinations, but holy heck I've never seen a party get in more trouble where ever they went.
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