There is a fine line in roleplaying games where a nonplayer character (NPC) flips from being a reasonable part of the fictional game world and starts generating antipathy from the players. There's characters you love to hate and there's characters you just hate. Hopefully we can stay away from the latter.
Random bits and bobs for when your players turn out the pockets of the recently deceased.
This session opened with combat, mopping up an extended, multi-sided battle between the party, an enemy group led by one of the sons of a local baron (and the ranger's personal nemesis), some of his mercenary Greensleeves who switched sides once they learned the ranger was also a Greensleeve, and a displacer beast just lurking … Continue reading Save vs. Work, Session 9
I run a fortnightly D&D 5e game for coworkers set in a nonsense jumbled-up mess of a campaign world kind-of-but-not-entirely-inspired by Ultraviolet Grasslands. I'm taking the same GMing approach here as I do with my local group's Savage Rifts game - hold on loosely and don't worry too much about continuity or geography. Last session … Continue reading Save vs. Work (5e)
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