My friends and I once came across what was clearly a pit of spikes (in hindsight), and instead of going over them…proceeded to climb down into the pit of spikes, navigate through them, and climb up the other side. The DM said nothing and just let it happen. Me and the rogue were probably both a little intoxicated (I definitely was). If the barbarian knew, she also didn’t say anything.

So I was wrong on saying it came from an image and was looking into it after but before your comment. Evidently that was the first image to use it but it’s not the first time the joke was said. It was just a text post. [image: 692c10cf-6484-4d21-a33c-28cdf7c1f896.png] Source

Not sure why you are so hellbe This is my first time responding to you ever. Conveniently ignoring that. Seeing clips of something out of context is not the same thing as watching that. I was not ignoring it, it’s just not relevant. And yes. It is a childrens animated television show. It was made for children and marketed to children. Which is why it was made on Nikelodeon and stars a 12 year old. Initially, yes. Which is why the first three episodes suck. After that it’s clearly aimed at adults and the creators aren’t going to suddenly move it to a different network. That makes no sense. You are going mental over a childrens television show. Like I said, this is my first time literally ever responding to you. No one except you is going mental.

On the other hand, we got an absolutely precious scene where the one party member who wasn’t magic-affine and didn’t want to be involved with any supernatural stuff had to ride an unnaturally fast six-legged half-demon horse in order to catch up with the bad guys. Ardo still thinks that we should just leave this whole mess to the sun god’s holy inquisition and get the fuck out of town, thank you very much.

Hm. Haven’t played in a LONG while. Are there still people that play Roleplay games with the objective to win? (or their own consideration of ‘winning’) and now I can’t stop imagining Charlie Sheen playing a minimax character.

meat-a-gaming

but I’d prefer not to be told what I think I am merely going off of what you said. A constant stream of “meh, why not? Fine by me.” seems kind of lame / Giving players carte blanche to warp the world whenever the GM feels like it is lame. The original meme tied the rule of cool to being a good GM. I don’t think that’s sensible. And I think it’s not sensible to follow the rules ad infinitum and never bend them at all. The bending of those rules is ‘the rule of cool’. But there are many other ways for players to contribute, I enjoy using them as a player and a GM, so I listed some. Which is great and all but they’re not compatible. The rule of cool is something in the moment and you are talking about things that are pre-written and pre-planned. You said that it only works if it’s “part of the system” but the entire point of the rule of cool is that it isn’t built into a system. There are no mechanics or limitations for it which is how it can go terribly wrong. But like the title said, in moderation. If you’re openly denying your players to do something cool when there is no downside to it… then that’s just going a shitty experience for the vast majority of players. Best example I can think of is of a friend playing a game where the party was descending down a long pipe. It was low enough that you couldn’t stand up tall but tall enough that you had to crouch only to an extent. Most people slid down on their ass. My friend asked if he could slide down on his shield and the DM said no. There was no reason for saying no other than to stick to an incredibly strict set of rules that were pre-built. Sliding down on the shield would have done nothing other than add fun for him and the potential of things going wrong and adding for more hilarity. Like what if that banging noise alerts someone down there? Or if he fails an acrobatics check and faceplants at the bottom, making even more noise and potentially hurting himself? That is the rule of cool. Obliterating that from a game because it isn’t outwardly laid out in the rules is just not fun. It’s a limiting experience for your players because of an obsession with the rules as written. It’s possible to have a fun discussion about a hobby we share without being unpleasant, so I’m going to assume you just want a friendly chat, and respond as if that comment was respectful. I am not trying to be unpleasant at all and I am sorry if it came across that way. I just feel like you do not understand what the rule of cool actually is and are being dismissive of it due to that misunderstanding.

Thanks, something kinda of clicked for me now, gonna give another try with this in mind

Alternatively, it turns out the noblewoman who has hired the adventuring party for a string of missions is effectively destitute and extremely in debt. Neither able to pay the adventurers nor pay her outstanding credit debt toward several influential and unscrupulous banking houses who have thrown some gold together to pay a mercenary troop to collect the gold from her or alternatively take natural goods (speak plundering her holdings). Now, with a small mercenary army bearing down on the pastoral villages and crumbling castle, what will the party do?

The sorcerer is named Charles le Sorcier (Charles the Sorcerer) and it is his father who has been killed, named Michel Mauvais, Michel Bad.

A former foot soldier in the crusades who had a panicked war horse fall on his legs in a skirmish somewhere on the way to Antioch and was left behind in Bulgaria by a retreating supply train on his way back. His shattered leg never healed well and he is in constant pain he has mostly learned to live with, does not speak the language and is edging out a small existence as a gravedigger in a bigger city, dragging his twisted limb through rain-soaked earth, muttering prayers in a foreign dialect to saints no one there worships. Somewhere between Neutral Good and Neutral Bitter, depending on the day. I know it is a bit hammy.

Shhhhhhhhhhh! He’s a sleeper agent…Turns on the rest of the party at the end!

Opening a tavern after retiring from adventuring is so out of fashion. I’d open a prank/novelty/gag store and sell little wooden thumbs to the unthumbed. I’d also sell middle fingers but only to bards.

Mage the ascension sounds a lot like Lancer in that way

Scheduling issues

“If a tree kills alone in the forest, does it make a sound?” ~Durkon Thundershield

Sounds like an Umber Hulk tbh

Got a Scroll of Prestidigitation as a joke item, but I saved it, and eventually found a use for it, allowing my character to avoid the use of a public bathhouse, which was great for him due to personal issues. The scroll became a running joke, everyone would always laugh about, “Oh, if we only had a Scroll of Prestidigitation!” whenever we fall into a sewer or something. So when he got his next cantrip, at level up, there was really only one choice

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1951)

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