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Do your PCs walk around town in armor?

Started by RPGPundit, July 13, 2015, 02:29:26 AM

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Bren

#375
September 05, 2015, 09:46:25 PM
Quote from: Omega;853764Then the PCs are all killed by a random pack of wererats because they were in their civvies. And  the next time the DM tells them the local law says "no armor" they tell him and the local law to go to hell.
Yes if you run your town like that it would be a problem. But if that's what town is like, how do the mundane townspeople survive long enough to build a town?
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DavetheLost

#376
September 06, 2015, 08:41:14 AM
The wererats only randomly attack adventurers? Everybody in town is a wererat? Shut up you fool! It's D&D, it isn't supposed to make sense.

Omega

#377
September 06, 2015, 09:50:50 AM
Quote from: Opaopajr;853769So that's what my last Mechwarrior game needed... wererat packs. :)

Dinosaur things got us once in MW. Just stay in space where its nice and safe and "random -METEOR- impact" oh well...

Omega

#378
September 06, 2015, 09:51:45 AM
Quote from: DavetheLost;853862The wererats only randomly attack adventurers? Everybody in town is a wererat? Shut up you fool! It's D&D, it isn't supposed to make sense.

Played that module for BX. Was great.

Omega

#379
September 06, 2015, 09:59:31 AM
Quote from: Bren;853780Yes if you run your town like that it would be a problem. But if that's what town is like, how do the mundane townspeople survive long enough to build a town?

In that case you build the town and it attracts things like the wererats and whatevers. The encounter tables in AD&D for towns and cities were all things that would be likely to move in after, or be generated by. And the NPCs could be upwards of level 9 on the street, the town guard had a magic user with them, etc.

The point is that there is no one way. Every locale could be different. Saying "The PCs must always shuck the gear entering a town. ALLWAYS!" is nonesense.

LordVreeg

#380
September 07, 2015, 07:07:19 PM
Quote from: Bren;853780Yes if you run your town like that it would be a problem. But if that's what town is like, how do the mundane townspeople survive long enough to build a town?

Again, as we go around the same circle.  For those that did not read the earlier posts.
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Bren

#381
September 07, 2015, 07:27:41 PM
Quote from: LordVreeg;854411Again, as we go around the same circle.  For those that did not read the earlier posts.
It's like a merry-go-round.
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kosmos1214

#382
September 07, 2015, 10:17:15 PM
Quote from: Bren;854424It's like a merry-go-round.

round and round and round we go where she stops only this threads death knows
sjw social just-us warriors

now for a few quotes from my fathers generation
"kill a commie for mommy"

"hey thee i walk through the valley of the shadow of death but i fear no evil because im the meanest son of a bitch in the valley"

Omega

#383
September 07, 2015, 11:36:15 PM
Quote from: kosmos1214;854483round and round and round we go where she stops only this threads death knows

Id have equated Bren with being more like a broken record in this case. But same same.

Christopher Brady

#384
September 08, 2015, 05:03:08 AM
Quote from: Bren;853556Good luck with that. If lightning is being tossed around, I don't want to be anywhere near the lightning rod in the plate armor.

Actually, you'd be pretty safe.  Because you'd be less conductive than the metal you're wearing, so the electricity would actually avoid you.  Plate and chain is worn away from the skin with a layer of leather padding for good measure, after all.

Oh, you might not be unscathed, but in a lightning storm, there's a fair (not perfect) chance you'd come out lightly toasted but breathing.

Magic, on the other hand, tends to break the conductivity rules.
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Gronan of Simmerya

#385
September 08, 2015, 09:32:00 PM
Quote from: Bren;854424It's like a merry-go-round.

Is that hipster-speak for "circle jerk"?
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Bren

#386
September 08, 2015, 10:05:44 PM
Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;854673Is that hipster-speak for "circle jerk"?
No. I just meant a merry-go-round. One of those things you see at old fashioned amusement parks. The spinning round things covered with ponies, carriages, swans, unicorns, you know the usual thing.

Or to paraphrase: sometimes a merry-go-round is just, simply a merry-go-round.
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Omega

#387
September 10, 2015, 05:59:47 AM
An armoured pony. In town! mwah-haa-haa-haa!

Opaopajr

#388
September 10, 2015, 10:21:16 PM
Quote from: Omega;855018An armoured pony. In town! mwah-haa-haa-haa!

Do I throw wererat packs, meteors, or both at it? :p
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camazotz

#389
September 11, 2015, 06:01:22 PM
Typically my parties shop like this: they get off the boat, arrive in town on the winding road from the south, or pop through planar gate X and immediately go to the bazaar to buy, sell and trade. So naturally they arrive looking fully armored, covered in filth and goblin spinal fluid, reeking of odor and decay. But most merchants recognize them for that special breed of madmen known as adventurers, laden with treasure, and proceed to do their best to fleece them.
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