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Filed under: Character Features, WTF!RPG | Tags: 4E, DnD, Goat, Paladin, WTF!RPG
This character, is unfortunately, one of our main members in our DND Trial Group run by Pointyman – played by one of our more eccentric players whom I’ll hide under the name Pan. Pan has one of the unique (if a bit fevered and disruptive) imaginations in our gaming group, and indeed – sometimes exhibit the wildest most eccentric concepts since Tentaclese. This, unfortunately, is not a plus very often – since he tends to shower us with one of the many WTF concepts alongside very long WTF dialogues which can derail an entire campaign.
Among his concepts was Thrashcan Man, a thrashcan which has gained sentience and decided to fight the good fight … possibly to prevent the greenhouse effect or something. Ladykiller, a happy-go-lucky mass murdering tiefling with alien antennaes for horns and a heart shaped tail. And his upcoming Fairyman Jason Bourne in the Changeling campaign has me twiddling thumbs.
The most recently released WTF character he’s made has to be Billie, the Goat Paladin. Whose name alone requires an entry here in this web blog… as a brain-breaking WTF Character.
With no further ado…
Filed under: WTF Moments, WTF!RPG | Tags: Cutscene, Death, DnD, Munchkin, WTF Moments
While Munchkins are infamous for breaking any system with sheer dedication… there are still those systems that have come to be considered as “munch-friendly.” DnD 3.5 is perhaps one of the most infamous systems in our gaming group, primarily because of its potential for “CHEESE” or Munchkinisms. Yes, anyone that heard of Elminster would know that a fighter/wizard/ranger/rogue is just a horrible, horrible concept storywise… even if it does benefit the player a lot ingame.
(Note: For those unfamiliar with the term… Munchkins are players who optimize their build so much, abusing the faults and loopholes of the rpg system just to benefit from them ingame. In other terms, they abuse the glitches… metaphorically like a Super Mario hitting that turtle a hundred times to get infinite lives.)
The powerhungry, the perfectionist, or just the plain bored gamer would probably create these gems of WTF-ness. I’ve experienced munchkin’d DnD characters in my time as well, counting Oghren Tor, the feral half fiend barbarian human rogue of doom with a symbiote who had nearly 7 attacks at level 5 alone… or the White Wolf Damphyr Hunter who was so overpowered with customized thin-blooded disciplines, that those npcs that encountered him called him the reputed Son of Kain. The biggest WTF munchkin’d character known to our group will no doubt be RV’s The Assassin Dee, in Balthazar’s Lethal DND game a few years back. Known for not only surviving the very lethal game, but also for killing a month-long prepared Boss-monster in just a single round.
I admit, as a GM, I felt the dire need to give munchkins sufficient challenges… and sometimes wanting to kill them outright for breaking the fragile tension and balance of the game. But I have never tried to attempt such an ingenious death ’scene’ as was applied to Dee.
Such WTF, that it requires an entry here…
You may remember Ilona Njis, who also had a previous WTF moment posted a few days ago regarding a malevolent red dragon… Well, that wasn’t the end of that player’s WTF moments. The player of Ilona was a writer, and a darned good one – which made him used to having the story go along his own way. His mind concocts a thousand scenarios which he thinks would fit and mesh well into the story, and follows that thread in hopes that it will be a revelation of a major story plot.
Unfortunately in a sandbox RPG, that is not the case. Things are already in place, and like the metaphorical SANDBOX (called sandbox gming by many) – all that remains is the player to enter and interact with the toys within. It happened once, when what he thought was a friendly “malevolent” red dragon turned out to be a malevolent “malevolent” red dragon.
This next story involves the “magical” Toucan.
Filed under: WTF Moments, WTF!RPG | Tags: DnD, Poo, RPG, WTF Moments, WTF!RPG
New players entering an rpg game are usually those quiet little buggers, silent, eager to enter the ‘inner circle’, and overtly cautious in what they do. Whether they be experienced or inexperienced rpgers, newly entered PCs usually feel the ground and inch slowly into the fore. So, no one expected this to happen. We all had a clue he would enter with a bang (especially with such a character name as Sistah Blistah) – but not in such a flame-covered poo-whirling fashion. Eherm, let me best explain…
Warning: Toilet Humor
A party of adventurers had just infiltrated the evil stronghold of the Demon Lord called Zan’Thul. It is a rather inefficient party – the leader of which is a young child, barely out of his teens, and never once experienced battle outside the colorful books he’s read inside the monastery. His defender was a fragile old tiefling lass, who’s beauty and charisma was her greatest talent, at least better than her flimsy use of the sword and shield. Accompanying them is a thousand year old warlock, just woken from his imprisonment – and whose motives are as volatile as his temper. And finally, the stealthy drow rogue, formerly an acrobat from the circus, and whose loyalty for the team is only skin deep.
In this session. two new players are introduced in the game.
And since the party was already too deep in the complex – their presence was then explained by making them prisoners of the deadly new Demon. One was Ranger Bob, who had the appearance of a farmer – while the other is the leather-clad, dominatrix-wearing hairy, hairy man named Sistah Blistah.
Filed under: Character Features, WTF!RPG | Tags: Character Features, DnD, Mage, RPG, WTF, WTF!RPG
While killing characters may be all because of the lethality of the genre, the GM, or perhaps some situations – it is always horrible too see those characters we spent so much time on, tweaking and otherwise perfecting – and seeing them die.
What’s worse than seeing them die?
Well, seeing them die in the first five minutes of your first game, that is.
This entry is dedicated with our utmost sympathy and also our unadulterated Panda to the shortest lived rpg characters in the community. So far, the record that I know of is the 5 minute cleric – created by Pointyman for Balthazar’s DnD game. But Without further ado, I shall introduce them all:
