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Post by mturtle7 on Jun 29, 2021 7:01:19 GMT
I've the image of Annie getting booted out of the Court's Dungeons and Dragons group when she criticizes the accuracy of a lot of the monster descriptions in the Monster Manual, based on her own encounters with their "originals". I think Kat would be the chairperson of the Gunnerkrigg TTRPG group, so dunno if that would save Annie from getting kicked out? Kat wouldn't quite go so far as to boot Annie out, but she also cares deeply about D&D as a hobby, so she might get into some very heated arguments with Annie over this, and there may or may not be a couple of incidents where she refuses to run games for the group until a "certain someone" stops criticizing the "classic" portrayal of certain monsters in D&D.
Actually, even when I made my last post on this thread, I was already thinking it might be cool to make both player and characters roles for the main cast as if they were actually playing D&D (5th edition) in-universe. Here's what I've got so far:
Kat: Dungeon Master who has a vision for a "classic" epic fantasy adventure and gets frustrated when that vision is absolutely not realized. Only member of the group with prior experience with D&D.
Annie: Redemption Paladin who refuses to fight literally any monster before at least one serious attempt at parley, and loves delving deep into the lore of the world (and criticizing it, as todd envisioned). Rey: Started out as a Rogue because it seemed simplest, then got more and more into the rules as the game as they went on, and now he's an Arcane Trickster who keeps coming up with convoluted schemes and finding weird new uses for spells.
Robot: Life Domain Cleric who keeps making these big speeches "in character" in praise of his God, the DM. Everybody but Shadow thinks he's just developed an incredibly deadpan sense of humor. He has not.
Shadow: Battle Master Fighter who keep flirting with Robot whenever he needs OOC help with the rules, or in-character healing. Also, he's by far the easiest party member for the DM to manipulate. Parley: Only joined the group with great reluctance because they needed someone to fill in for a missing player this one time, but is now very enthusiastic because she gets to play a Chaotic Neutral Barbarian (Path of the Totem Warrior, Bear Spirit) who bathes in the blood of her enemies. Kat has a very difficult time avoiding all-out PvP between hers and Annie's characters. Smitty: Generally avoids playing dice-related games with friends, for obvious reasons. He's the one who convinced Parley to play, though, and if he could play, he'd love to play a Bard. Paz: Begged off when Kat asked her to join, claiming it "wasn't her thing". In actuality, she's tried D&D with her family before and liked it OK, but that experience also taught her how easily petty conflicts could tear apart a gaming group. Being at least moderately self-aware, she has wisely decided to avoid playing in a group with her girlfriend as DM and Annie as a fellow PC. If not for that unfortunate complication, though, she might have enjoyed playing a Beastmaster Ranger (using the revised rules, of course).
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Post by todd on Jun 29, 2021 12:47:12 GMT
I hadn't thought of Kat as a Dungeons & Dragons player myself (the closest we got to a hint of that was her being more keen on what was essentially a live-action role-playing event in the Spacemonauts chapter), though it's amusing, in light of how Maps in "Gotham Academy" (she and Olive reminded me a lot of Kat and Annie respectively) was keen on fantasy role-playing games.
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Post by pyradonis on Jun 29, 2021 15:42:51 GMT
Paz: Begged off when Kat asked her to join, claiming it "wasn't her thing". In actuality, she's tried D&D with her family before and liked it OK, but that experience also taught her how easily petty conflicts could tear apart a gaming group. Being at least moderately self-aware, she has wisely decided to avoid playing in a group with her girlfriend as DM and Annie as a fellow PC. If not for that unfortunate complication, though, she might have enjoyed playing a Beastmaster Ranger (using the revised rules, of course).
In order to play in a group with less conflict potential, Paz brings her dice to the mice.
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Post by itrogash on Jun 30, 2021 7:14:56 GMT
Genasi is a relatively new race and it's basically "half elemental, half human" The more human-looking Fire Genasi have fiery red hair that writhes under extreme emotion, while more exotic specimens sport actual flames dancing on their heads. I'm gonna argue that "relatively new" is a bit of a stretch here, Genasis have been in D&D for three and a half editions and at least 20 years since they first appeared in 2001.
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Post by Georgie L on Jun 30, 2021 9:01:16 GMT
Genasi is a relatively new race and it's basically "half elemental, half human" I'm gonna argue that "relatively new" is a bit of a stretch here, Genasis have been in D&D for three and a half editions and at least 20 years since they first appeared in 2001. True, but it was only relatively recent that they had official player character stats, rather than only ever being as mobs or homebrew
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Post by pyradonis on Jun 30, 2021 10:05:32 GMT
I'm gonna argue that "relatively new" is a bit of a stretch here, Genasis have been in D&D for three and a half editions and at least 20 years since they first appeared in 2001. True, but it was only relatively recent that they had official player character stats, rather than only ever being as mobs or homebrew Define official player character stats. D&D 3.5 provided guidelines to use all kinds of creatures for PCs, and the entry for Genasi in Monsters of Faerรปn (February 2001) did contain information about their favoured class and divine domains to make them PCs.
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Post by Per on Jun 30, 2021 19:06:07 GMT
Genasi appeared with official stats in 1996.
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Post by Georgie L on Jul 9, 2021 20:11:13 GMT
Sometimes transferring characters into a new context let's you analyse how they may behave, and what is their core, so that's the main reason for my starting of this thread.
I'm not here for the discussion of history of the games ๐
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Post by speedwell on Jul 10, 2021 19:55:25 GMT
Sometimes transferring characters into a new context let's you analyse how they may behave, and what is their core, so that's the main reason for my starting of this thread. I'm not here for the discussion of history of the games ๐ Roll 2d10 for "turn discussion"
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Post by pyradonis on Jul 11, 2021 2:58:33 GMT
Sometimes transferring characters into a new context let's you analyse how they may behave, and what is their core, so that's the main reason for my starting of this thread. I'm not here for the discussion of history of the games ๐ If you have never seen a bunch of pen & paper game nerds discuss an insignificant detail into fine powder then you have never properly played a pen & paper game.
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