How to annoy Doctor Who fans


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9 hours ago, Carborendum said:

First of all, if the target is unconscious, it is considered an automatic coup-de-grace.  So, it should not have happened that way.

The "resistance" thing reminded me of an adventure of my own.

  • There were bats flying overhead.  As a psychic, I could detect that they were somehow evil/cursed bats. 
  • Several members of the party had the ability to create a sonic boom (through magic, items, psionics, etc.)  So, someone blasted them, causing disorientation among the bats.
  • This continued a few times until the GM said that it no longer worked.  He did this because he wanted to get the campaign going again.  And it was important that we follow the path of the bats.
  • So we got there and found a giant man-bat creature.
  • We did all sorts of attacks but simply could not get through the guy's defenses.
  • The GM got mad that we hadn't used sonic booms.
  • We reminded him that he declared that our sonic booms stopped functioning.  So we couldn't use them.

The idea was that we weren't supposed to play around with a bunch of harmless bats.  But when we got to the big boss, we'd use the boom.  Well, that didn't happen.

Players NEVER derail a carefully constructed story.  Nope.  Never.

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9 minutes ago, Backroads said:

Doesn't happen in our group. Our fussy DM never gets mad.

I don't get upset when my players run amuck.

The alternate DM's don't either.  In fact, in our 5E campaign the party, primarily dwarves and generally referred to as The Rockcrackers, have destroyed so many cities and buildings it has become a running joke.  You see it all started with a fire in a city one night...

 

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14 hours ago, mirkwood said:

Players NEVER derail a carefully constructed story.  Nope.  Never.

4 hours ago, Backroads said:

Doesn't happen in our group. Our fussy DM never gets mad.

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Yeah, sometimes it's like that.

One campaign the GM completely railroaded us throughout the entire campaign.  He gave us just enough down time for us to do whatever we wanted to trick us into thinking he gave us a lot of options.  Then I figured out that during our "down time" we really had nothing to do and nowhere to go.

I finally made it clear what was happening when our NPC Dwarven fighter was getting ready to do something crazy and I got everyone to grab him to keep him from giving away our position.  The GM said that he evaded all of us.

Me: But you didn't even roll anything.
GM: Yeah, I didn't have to.  He's pretty quick.
Me: In just the last town you said that he was slowing us down from catching up to the bad guys because dwarves are not known for their speed.  Now he's so fast that he gets an automatic evade on everyone in the party?
GM: Yes.  What's the problem?

We ended the campaign that week.  The GM was actually in trouble with debt collectors so he moved out of state a few days later and we never saw him again.

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3 minutes ago, Vort said:

I figured he would be so quick he could just evade them.

Apparently so.

A while later I got a call from a collection agency.  But I didn't recognize the name they were using.  I never knew his last name and he used an abbreviated form of his less common full name.  So, I had no idea who she was talking about.  But another room mate knew who she was talking about and enlightened me. 

"Wait, so his full name was...?  His last name was...?  What kind of family name is...?  Since when did he live in this apartment?"

"He didn't.  He just used this phone number when he wanted to avoid people."

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