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10 months ago ::
Jul 31, 2012 - 11:20PM
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So im starting a campaign with a solo player and to help her out shes an avenger,im going to let her basically add 2 characters into one. like she will add the statistics of both characters into one. so she will add thier hp,skills,her defenses she will add a plus 5 to everything instead of combining them, feats are still same amount,and powers. so say she choose a wizard. she will choose wizard powers and avenger powers and use either of them for the versitility. it may be crazy...but it may be so crazy it just might work  . either way i was wondering on what should i do for her cause she tends to be a roleplayer more then combat but she wants lots of crazy by the skin of your teeth harrowing BBEG encounters.so i came up with this idea to see if it might work.im okay with pretending some hits didnt hit and that the monsters health suddenly dropped. but if i did that i feel as if she would feel that im cheating her.any ideas?
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10 months ago ::
Aug 01, 2012 - 7:43AM
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So im starting a campaign with a solo player and to help her out shes an avenger,im going to let her basically add 2 characters into one. like she will add the statistics of both characters into one. so she will add thier hp,skills,her defenses she will add a plus 5 to everything instead of combining them, feats are still same amount,and powers. so say she choose a wizard. she will choose wizard powers and avenger powers and use either of them for the versitility. it may be crazy...but it may be so crazy it just might work . either way i was wondering on what should i do for her cause she tends to be a roleplayer more then combat but she wants lots of crazy by the skin of your teeth harrowing BBEG encounters.so i came up with this idea to see if it might work.im okay with pretending some hits didnt hit and that the monsters health suddenly dropped. but if i did that i feel as if she would feel that im cheating her.any ideas?
I don't get how you decide to fudge the numbers in her favor because she wants skin of her teeth type enouncters. As for the rest it seems ok, although I've never tried anything like it.
We summoned a devil once. All we used was the D&D books, too. It was pretty kwazy.
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"Ten cents gets you nuts." -George Michael
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''Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.''
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You are not a moral man. There are not enough middle fingers in the world for you.
Actually, Santa just didn't like you. However, you weren't on the Naughty List, so he had to give you something "better" than coal.
I'd take coal. Heating your house is expesive, and engery cost arn't going down.
Mabey if i beat enough homeless people, i won't have to be cold this year. 
"Heroes"...I wish I had those. I remember in my first-ever campaign one PC went around shootin all the unconscious baddies in the head to gain Dark Side Points...
Whaaaaaat?!??
Wow...way to waste perfectly good potential slaves.
Er...no wait I mean..uh...something not evil!
(Quotes screwed up on the next one, won't give the poster's name. It's in the Best Lines thread on the D&D forum)
First, an experience from a game I played in a few years back. Our DM didn't like 3.5 as a whole but liked parts of it. So he hands us a big ass rules packet for his modified FR campaign, complete with quotes from important NPC's on the front. I can't remember most of the HRs, just that some how gods like Cyric and Bhaal existed at the same time, despite the obvious problems there. In the end the game became a problem more because of the railroading than the HRs, but it ended with this classic line, after our ranger tried to disarm the strange woman following us WITH HIS BOW: DM: You just killed (insert random noble sounding name here) JP: Was she important? Jack: Dude, she's quoted on the front of the rules packet!
"Why in the wide,wide, world of all things irrational would I help you?
-Daniel Jackson
"Fun will now commence."
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"Excellent."
-Mr. Burns.
Whey is a crotch.
Cut the last encounter on your way out after dealing with the Darth. He's the BBEG. Treat him as such. Play up that Darth Revan is THAT much of a badarse. When the shuttle landed, I had no less than 13 JEDI MASTERS step off the shuttle. The PCs were slack-jawed. After the meetup with Bastila (as she's carrying Revan's body), only TWO jedi masters remained with her. Let me tell you, the player whining about not getting to fight Revan himself shut up pretty quickly when he saw that. 
There's so much you can do with insanity, especially when it has alot of resources.
1. Cleric cast protection from fire on Tank.
2. Tank goes in and get surrounded by enemies.
3. Wizard cast fireball and blows them up.
4. ???
5. Profit
I go by the saying," If it ain't friendly fire then it's not working."
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10 months ago ::
Aug 01, 2012 - 8:18AM
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If you're too "cheat" for her, you just could say:"OK, you won!"
I'm building a solo quest for my daugther and I told her she might die...
I won't kill her but if she dies or fail something, I'll come up with something so the quest isn't failed but she get less exp. She misses a side-quest, etc. The death of a charactert isn't the end of everything.
Or, if she dies, get caught, etc. You could let her have a second character. This character will have, as a quest, to save her first one! Instead having a "two character in one" like you're doing right now, she could have two characters, one at a time, depending of what must be done.
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Abin Gadon, Halfling Bard
Winston "Slurphnose", Gnome Sorcerer
Pasiphaé, Minotaur Shaman
Eglerion, Elf Ellyrian Reaver (Ranger)
DMing:
Le Trésor du Fluide (Treasure from the Fluid)
Un Royaume d'une Grande Valeur (A Kingdom of Great Value)
La Légende de Persitaa (Persitaa's Legend)
Une Série de Petites Quêtes... (A serie of short quests)
Playtesting:
Caves of Chaos
We're building the greatest adventure ever known to DnD players!
Also playing Legend of the Five Rings and Warhammer Fantasy.
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I am Neutral Good and 32 years old.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 01, 2012 - 10:19AM
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i dont like killing PCs unless they become a problem,because some of my players put alot of emotional investment into them. i come up with ways to help them if they try something crazy. in another campaign with that same solo player, we have 3 level 16 PCs in the party,a warlock,another Avenger,and a ranger. well warlocks pact for power decides to finally cash in his debt when the warlock steals something from his benefactor.Turns out it was orcus. well the other 2 PCs decide to look through his library find the name of a demon and ask for helps in taking back thier friend.Well they find a name and the ended up summoning a balor.debate started on what the price for helping them started,and they ended up making an agreement should he help them and they win,he gets to take orcus position and his power and they get thier friend and gtfo, if they didnt succeed he could come claim thier souls.they signed a contract,went to Everlost and infiltrated the palace with rings the raven queen gave them to make them undead as long as the rings were on. well of course thier not going to be able to win even with the balor....so when it came to the fight it was the 3 PCs vs an aspect of orcus and orcus himself being kept busy by the balor and 2 other epic NPCs the PCs had relations too. made for an interesting story to be honest and i was proud of the players for being bold enough to risk thier characters in such a way for thier teammate.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 01, 2012 - 11:46AM
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Jul 21, 2004
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she wants lots of crazy by the skin of your teeth harrowing BBEG encounters.so i came up with this idea to see if it might work.im okay with pretending some hits didnt hit and that the monsters health suddenly dropped. but if i did that i feel as if she would feel that im cheating her.any ideas?
The rules don't support "skin of your teeth" encounters. They can occur, but there's no way to plan for them, as long as dice are being used. If dice aren't being used (which, if you're going to fudge them anyway, might as well be the case) then you can have any kind of encounter you want. That's what I advise, and here's how:
First of all, make the point of the encounter something other than just surviving. Put in a goal for the player, such as a rescue, sabotage, recon, or the like. Make it something that doesn't require the PC to kill all the enemies or even survive herself in order to achieve. Do the same for the enemies: give them a goal they can achieve without killing the PC, or can achieve without surviving. This gives you a reason for not having to kill the PC. It becomes plausible that the enemies might halt their attacks if they'd driven the PC off.
Then, reinterpret what 0 HP means. The default is that it means death, but mechanically that's similar to saying that the PC can no longer contribute to the encounter. Whatever goals the PC was trying to achieve are lost, and the PC can't put any more effort toward preventing the enemies from achieving their goals. But, this can be imagined in a number of ways, including that the PC has been driven off. You can describe a harrowing escape or evacuation, or if the player thinks death is more appropriate the PC can just die. If the PC's goals weren't achieved, or the enemies' goals were, then the PC lost, but otherwise she achieved at least a partial victory. Death itself shouldn't be considered a failure, nor should survival itself be considered a victory.
This probably sounds like I'm saying to take the challenge away, since the character can always choose to escape at 0 HP. But the challenge doesn't have to do with HP, it has to do with achieving goals, which all the HP or damage in the world might not be enough to achieve.
[N]o difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract questions. - L. Tolstoy
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10 months ago ::
Aug 01, 2012 - 5:57PM
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hmm thats an well thought out way of doing things, ill defintly take your advice on that!
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10 months ago ::
Aug 01, 2012 - 6:05PM
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hmm thats an well thought out way of doing things, ill defintly take your advice on that!
Thanks for saying so. I hope you find an approach that works for you.
[N]o difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract questions. - L. Tolstoy
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