So, I have been playing with wordpress...

[Dio]

Yeah; if I started reading non-game material during a session, that was not a good sign...

A lot of the issues I encountered with the fourth edition of Dugeons and Dragons revolved around the horrendous length of the combat encounters.

[Buster's Uncle]

Yah; and if you're not a great DM?  Put away your Playboy collection before sessions - and don't swing on players you can't lick.

Before anyone gets the wrong idea - I got up to leave because he was treating his wife badly, again, and -to be fair to him, I was right to, but he was already pissed when- I got fed up.  I should have just left silently.

[Green1]

Well, some wandering during the session is unavoidable. If I am playing Blaster: Kill, Barbarian Progenitor who is combat monster and a great shot with a Chaos Rifle and we are in a base talking other Progs trying to get a Empath Rover to go scout an alien artifact without having to walk there, The Progenitor Rouge, Paladin, or Bard is going to have his RP show. They know the black market or where obsolete rovers are reprocessed and need to convince the custodian to let one slip out and they AREN'T a caretaker probe team.

But, as a rule, a lot of it is how you keep the game session. TVs and radios are OFF. If you play with your phone, okay. I know, calls and RL/wives/gfs/work texts. But if it is too much, the DM needs to take notice and tries to divide time better. You got to be alert for it. You do not want someone to feel like they are just along for the ride and do not matter. Because if they do, outside of special events where another has to shine, they probably will want to sit drinking beer at home instead of getting dressed and leaving the house for a lame session for someone else to have fun.

However, there is player behavior too. Don't be that dude that wants to be up in everything and overshadow others all the time.

[Buster's Uncle]

And don't be that dude that tells Fisty-the-crap-DM that he ought to treat his wife better just because it's true and you're leaving in disgust at his continual inexcusable abuse.  Dude needs to be told, but not by you, not while he's already livid.

-And if that dumbbutt is trying to leave your game, be a mensch and restrain Fisty before he gets hurt real bad - it's ball-less to just stand there.

[Green1]

Yeah, BU. Comments about the wife or hubby's relationship probably means you shouldn't game with them if you feel that way. I wouldn't game with folks that stress me out or bad blood. No gaming > gaming with folks you do not match personalities with.


BTW: a little ditty.

Wrath : Righteous; Progenitor Paladin 2

Wrath Righteous was a needlejet pilot shot down outside of Belly of the Whale by Believer anti-air units. His jet crashed in the
ocean. But fortune favored him. He found the husk of a dead Isle of the Deep and floated to shore. A Believing scout patrol
found him. He was ragged and on his last breath. But, Sergeant Swaggart took pity on him. After all, his great, great,
grandfather on Earth had been accused and near lost his ministry over sins. Perhaps Jesus died for the sins of all creatures. The
staff medic tended to his wounds.

Knowing his kind assumed him dead and would never come for him, Wrath took to absorbing Human culture and the teachings
of the Conclave Bible. Eventually, becoming the first alien to accept Jesus. Then, strangely, miracles started happening. One of
the team had a leg infested with psionic parasites. Wrath placed his claw upon the man and he was healed! Aferwards, Wrath
would accompany the crew on scout missions. Guarding the coast against the infidels.

Unfortunately, due to stigma of being a Progenitor, he can never leave the bunker where 21st Sword of God division is. But, to
the soldiers, he is part of the team and a Child of God.

Code: [Select]

STR 14 (+2)
DEX 14 (+2)
CON 16 (+3)
INT 12 (+1)
WIS 14 (+2)
CHA 12 (+1)

Good Saves WIS + 4; CHA +3

HP 21
AC 16 (+1 dex, +4 3res armor, +1 natural). Resist psionic, ballistic (3res armor. Half damage from psionic or ballistic damage)

Skills: Religion +4, Survival +4, Intimidation + 3, Athletics + 4.

Tool Proficiency : Needlejet Pilot (Progenitor controls)

Tool Proficiency : Rover Driver (Human Controls)

-> Divine Sense: Can detect celestials, fiends, or undead (CHA mod) 1 time a day if not in total cover. Can also detect
Hallow/Desecration.

-> Lay on Hands; Heal by touch up to (5 x paladin level) Hit Points per day. 10.

-> Fighting Style: Rifles. +2 to ranged attacks with rifles.

-> Divine Smite. Expend Paladin Spell Slot to do extra 2d8 on a melee attack.

-> Progenitor resonance. Resonant field creates a personal force field if concentrated on. +4 AC as long as concentration kept.
Damage can force Progenitor to do a CON check or drop resonance.

Attack: Human Missile Rifle +4; 3d6+2 explosive.
Attack: Claw +4; 1d6+2 bludgeoning.

Spells

1st (2) : Cure Wounds (1d8); Detect Psionics


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[Buster's Uncle]

Ooh.  Do something about that box wrecking the page width, willya?  A few carriage returns, or using quote instead of code, will work wonders.

And yeah; he was wrong wrong wrong eight times over by the time I got out of there without breaking him to pieces, but I still should have kept my spazzbo mouth shut.

[Green1]

Ooh.  Do something about that box wrecking the page width, willya?  A few carriage returns, or using quote instead of code, will work wonders.

And yeah; he was wrong wrong wrong eight times over by the time I got out of there without breaking him to pieces, but I still should have kept my spazzbo mouth shut.

Yeah, code does not do carriage returns well.

But, crap. Why even go into how someone handles their romantic relationships? Kind of a jerk move on your part even if there are real issues. Those issues are theirs alone.  If they stick together, fine. If not, okay. If you don't like one or both of them, don't hang. The only time acceptable would be if it is something VERY emergency needing medical professionals or law enforcement. Even then, think 5 times.

If their issues exacerbate your own, handle yours or leave.

[Buster's Uncle]

He. was. abusing. her. in front of us (during a boring session).  It was NOT the first time.  I would have been wrong NOT to say anything - but I shouldn't have provoked the SOB, and my bad on that.

Okay with you if I fix that post?

[ColdWizard]

That sounds like something very difficult to deal with.

[Buster's Uncle]

Yes; there was no right answer.

I think I may have been wrong not to hurt him kinda bad when I could, if only to break him of cold-cocking people he couldn't take - but that's a whole 'nother thing, and being merciful probably saved me some aggravation.


Okay; I have to fix this page width; enough is enough.

[Green1]

Yes; there was no right answer.

I think I may have been wrong not to hurt him kinda bad when I could, if only to break him of cold-cocking people he couldn't take - but that's a whole 'nother thing, and being merciful probably saved me some aggravation.


Okay; I have to fix this page width; enough is enough.

BU, I have seen you mod enough that if I step away and something is FUBAR, I won't mind. Oddly, it is appearing okay in my browser.

At least it wasn't a "magical realm". You know, where the DM pushes his power/sex fetishes on people with the wife or gf as some kind of power goddess. LOL!! I have heard from some folks I have played with before that have been in those (briefly). And, no.. no rules. Not even good ERP rules like 2e Book of Carnal Knowledge, 3e Book of Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, or 4e Naughty and Dice. Just power ego CalvinBall where all the players watch wifey pwn things and suffer if they do anything off script.

But yeah. Dude had issues.

[Buster's Uncle]

He does. 

I should have bloodied him good years before, the first time he cold-cocked me -this may have been the third, at least not first- but violence is WRONG, y'know?  Hospitalizing guys who hit like girls and have VERY bad judgment is a door it's easy to talk about opening, but I'm afraid of - I'm very good at violence out of all proportion to my small athletic ability, and I'm full of rage.

Life is finding the best balance for you of everything, and I'm a nerd, and nerds are bad at nuance and balance.  A lot of the times I wish I'd thrashed someone instead of restraining them and leaving ASAP -because I suspect bloodying a nose real good in front of witnesses -the opportunities where always there- about once a year would have saved me having to apply a LOT of headlocks after taking or blocking punches as a pacifist kid- I just don't know that it would have done any good, and could have done all kinds of harm to me and others.  -Also, I have to lose it to do that, because I'm just not mean enough for my own good, sometimes, and notwithstanding the super strength and feeling zero pain when I'm high on adrenaline, I can't fight worth a crap unless I'm in control of myself. 

I just don't know, man.  If I had to go through growing up again, I'd have to find a way to head off being assaulted all the time.

-But this is a thing that can happen when you get room full of broken people - and nobody there wasn't...  And I'm sinfully proud of having been as peaceful as I was allowed to be in this life, and maybe I got it right the first time, high as the cost of so much mercy was to me...

[ColdWizard]

It occurs to me, finally, that blogs would be better suited to include into my RSS feeder (Newsblur) and not bookmarked like fora.

[Green1]

It occurs to me, finally, that blogs would be better suited to include into my RSS feeder (Newsblur) and not bookmarked like fora.

I probably need to set things like that up, too.

But anyways, two more articles will be up. I probably need to time release schedule to have one on weekends, too. Just weekends are always so busy and I don't want to be a jerk around people and ignore them while I type junk.

[Green1]

Final of Lady Thraxus is up!

I talk spells from an NPC perspective!

https://frugaldm.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/npc-creation-lady-thraxus-dragonborn-cleric-of-tiamat-spells-spells-spells/