And the train rolls on!
Day 9 – Favorite character you haven’t
played
Wow, this question is really indicative of
gaming. Everyone has had the experience of rolling or ruling up a good
character, then have the game or campaign evaporate without a session.
We all feel that pain.
I’d have to say that my Retro Spacer from a
GURPS Space vaporgame back in the day was the biggest disappointment in this
regard. While all the other players made up cybernetic enhanced, Traveler style
spacers with fission powered spacecraft, my guy was from a colony that had
developed a 1950s style futurism. Fedora hat and suit in a big clunky
diving-suit style spacesuit, with a computer that took up half his rocket’s
compartment space. He made up for this by having mad engineering skills and ray
guns.
Day 10 – Craziest thing
Where to begin? I think anyone who’s been
gaming any length of time has a boatload of crazy stories – it’s half the
reason why we play games.
In D&D, we had a year long (in real
time) game derailed when the PC who drew lots to get the Divine Magic Weapon
Thingy (I forget, maybe a Bow of Light?) needed to defeat the Destroyer of
World had, unbeknownst to us, drawn from a Deck of Many Things the day before. His
card? Next magic item is destroyed. The player couldn’t tell us, and so his PC
touched the bow, it went poof, and we switched to Rifts after that, I think.
Chaosium games have also given us some
memorable craziness. We had a group TPK in Stormbringer after an ill-conceived
raid on a fat merchant with 2 Weeping Waste bodyguards, which ended in our
Swordmaster with a broken sword, our Hunter with a broken Bow, and a Sorceror who
fumbled with a demon sword and got run through.
Crazier still, we switched to Call of
Cthulhu and the same group of players had a TPK after an ill-conceived raid on
a construction site to steal dynamite ended with a merciless fusillade from the
night watchman whose dinky pistol let him shoot twice as many rounds as the PCs
heavy guns. Even a pop gun is dangerous if it has double the chance to hit and
do damage.
los jeugos de rolas sont locos...
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