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5 months ago ::
Jan 17, 2013 - 2:35PM
#11
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For that mater i've entirely skipped the last round of combat. Sometimes when it's down to a final monster and "in the bag" i ask if the players want to skip ahead or continue to slug it out. They usually like to slug it out. Lol. 
FWIW [4e designer] baseline assumption was that roughly 70% of your feats would be put towards combat effectiveness, parties would coordinate, and strikers would do 20/40/60 at-will damage+novas. If your party isn't doing that... well, you are below baseline, so yes, you need to optimize slightly to meet baseline.
-Alcestis
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5 months ago ::
Jan 17, 2013 - 3:19PM
#12
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Date Joined:
Jul 18, 2012
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I made a considerable portion of last night up...yeah...there was totally meant to be a hippogriff in the rafters of that room in the dungeon... XD But I did improvise a lot of NPC voices and mannerisms...and pulled loot out of the air..
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5 months ago ::
Jan 17, 2013 - 3:29PM
#13
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Date Joined:
Jul 21, 2004
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I wish improvisation wasn't something DMs felt they needed to "confess."
[N]o difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract questions. - L. Tolstoy
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5 months ago ::
Jan 17, 2013 - 4:19PM
#14
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Date Joined:
Mar 28, 2010
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I thought we were confessing things that our players didn't know about, not things that we felt guilty about... ? No need to paint this thread in a negative light Centauri, if you can't stop yourself then simply don't post / read it. We're all having fun just fine so far.
"Non nobis Domine Sed nomini tuo da gloriam" "I wish for death not because I want to die, but because I seek the war eternal"
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4 months ago ::
Jan 17, 2013 - 5:03PM
#15
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I had a player once tell me that they had fallen head over heels in love with one of my NPCs. Then that player invited me to their place for drinks...I declined. Once in a Hackmaster game gave the players a really good deal on a Ring of Three wishes, but the Genie had the Hard of Hearing Flaw. I was accused of by the religious parents of my closest friend that getting him and his wife involved in D&D caused the end of their marriage.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 17, 2013 - 7:14PM
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Date Joined:
Aug 28, 2011
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(deep breath)
I too fudge dice sometimes. A crit here, a low damage die there, all for the sake of dramatic flare. Never to screw over the players of course, but when my players tell me how awesome a session was and how excited they were about being on the brink of death, i wonder if it was (or even should have been) neccessary...
I don't plan as much as I should. I have no problems with improv and am willing to follow the party's direction, but I should put more effort into interesting encounter ideas, map renderings, monster stats, and world background.
And worst of all, when a campaign starts to get underway and a few levels have passed, I begin to think of all the things i could have done better, the holes the pc's have dug themselves into, my lack of overarching plots and interesting quest hooks, and virtually any other percieved "problem". Then i panic that the game will never get any better than it currently is, and that a clean slate is needed for the greater good. Every few months I have started a campaign over. I have refused to start my current campaign over, but i have been tempted to...
He said to me: "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. -Revelation 21:6
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4 months ago ::
Jan 17, 2013 - 9:50PM
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Date Joined:
Nov 28, 2012
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I run 3rd Ed-
I fudge die rolls from time to time. Usually if I think it will make the story better.
Make up a lot of my DC checks on the fly. Again based on situation.
Have a bad knack of making my NPC be jerks to the PC. Granted they don't help this by stealing from townsfolk and trying to rip people off. But they are learning to be nicer to the King and the head of the adventuers guild. They have found it is a lot easier to get work if they are.
Sometimes I find myself actively trying to kill off a certin PC. Only cause he shows up every other week, at best. He is like 3 levels behind everyone else, so at some point he is going to get killed just because the monsters and traps are scaled higher for everyone else.
Sometimes I have a tough time, even with all my notes, of keeping track of the major BBEG that the PC have ticked off. Right now it is a lich, death knight, vampire, orc king, and a minotaur in charge of an army of bugbear werewolves.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 17, 2013 - 10:10PM
#18
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I suck down rum like it's going out of style while DMing. My players insist because I seem to think faster. (I should see someone about this.)
I run games with no pants on. Same as when I run online.
But I sure as heck don't fudge. You... you disgust me.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 17, 2013 - 10:14PM
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I suck down rum like it's going out of style while DMing. My players insist because I seem to think faster. (I should see someone about this.)
I run games with no pants on. Same as when I run online.
But I sure as heck don't fudge. You... you disgust me.
Seriously Iserith...no pants. Forget seeing someone for liquor. Should see someone about that lol. 
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4 months ago ::
Jan 17, 2013 - 10:17PM
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Seriously Iserith...no pants. orget seeing someone for liquor. should see someone about that lol.
The two may be related.
But anyway, get off my back! I got it under control. I can quit not wearing pants anytime I want.
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