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Are your RPG sessions formulaic? Lack-luster? Dare I say hum-drum? Want your PCs and NPCs to scream in terror and then explode like fuel air bombs? Have I got the solution for you! Liquid Firestorm! The post includes ingredients, primary effects, other fun effects, side effects, and countless ideas for encounters! Click the link to reach the post (obviously).

I always try to give my players something new. Even if its disturbing or lethal. I hate just following the path and running them through modules. I hate saying, "ah, you drink the potion and now you feel healthier". It feels like a lazy hand-wave, weak storytelling, wasted opportunities to tell an interesting and memorable tale.

Which is perhaps why I am so keen to mess with my players in terrible and humorous ways. Like turning their morbidly obese NPC companion into a rage hulk fuel-air bomb.

Anyone else find themselves drawn to involving their players in innocent, consensual, non-pervy sadomasochistic adventures? If so, what're your methods of madness?

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Are your RPG sessions formulaic? Lack-luster? Dare I say hum-drum? Want your PCs and NPCs to scream in terror and then explode like fuel air bombs? Have I got the solution for you! Liquid Firestorm! The post includes ingredients, primary effects, other fun effects, side effects, and countless ideas for encounters! Click the link to reach the post (obviously).

I always try to give my players something new. Even if its disturbing or lethal. I hate just following the path and running them through modules. I hate saying, "ah, you drink the potion and now you feel healthier". It feels like a lazy hand-wave, weak storytelling, wasted opportunities to tell an interesting and memorable tale.

Which is perhaps why I am so keen to mess with my players in terrible and humorous ways. Like turning their morbidly obese NPC companion into a rage hulk fuel-air bomb.

Anyone else find themselves drawn to involving their players in innocent, consensual, non-pervy sadomasochistic adventures? If so, what're your methods of madness?

I've actually considered a campaign heavy on the gore and "edgy" content just for the fun of it.

Gore and edge for sure. I'm actually curious if anyone else has a group of players that are uniquely able to roll with the punches as their characters are run through merciless trials and tribulations.

I can't be the only one out there who has players that expect to suffer a little in the name of fun and a good, memorable story!

Been obsessed with horror, since I was a kid. Gore and suffering goes without saying in my games, when I GM. That said, my players can handle it and know what to expect.

I would tone it down for a group of people, that I didn't know of course. But all my games are billed as over 18s (when I pop them up on a FB group).

Any of the old WFRP games I played back in the day, our characters were constantly being battered and all eventually had missing limbs, etc. You earned your xps. Great games though.

Hell yes, man. Even in the last Star Wars Saga game I ran someone ended up having their fingers shot off. It makes players take things a bit more seriously when dismemberment and disfigurement are on the line. I feel like I'm DM'ing for children and covering everything in bubble wrap if the games are anything as tame and nerfed as D&D makes things out to be.

How do you put your games up on FB?

Quote from: Godspar Games;1131755Hell yes, man. Even in the last Star Wars Saga game I ran someone ended up having their fingers shot off. It makes players take things a bit more seriously when dismemberment and disfigurement are on the line. I feel like I'm DM'ing for children and covering everything in bubble wrap if the games are anything as tame and nerfed as D&D makes things out to be.

How do you put your games up on FB?

This is it... The best games put you through the wringer. I mean, the GMs are tough but fair.

I felt the same for a few guys I played with initially (online). Basically, having to top toe around them. Then I said fuck that, and just put up some stipulations saying, over 18s, Mature content, and no X cards. Never had a problem finding players. Although, I did have a few whingers saying, I won't play in that type of game. I basically said "good". Stipulations, etc. Work as a great filter system. Muhaha.

There's a couple of FB groups dedicated to online gaming (all TTRPGS welcome). Some decent folks on their too.

'Historical Society of Excellent Role-Players' - The mods are cool and don't suffer fools.
'Tabletop RPG One Shot Group' - Very much an OSR group but anything goes.
'Grimstream: Livestreamed Tabletop Roleplaying Games' - Grim Jim's games. I've only played once. He's usually got a few spaces it's Dragon Warriors (which I like).

Following the Exploited, I always stared directly at "grown-up" ideas for my sessions. Call it "Rated-R" stuff.

So many of us grew up with rpgs. So --- can you fight down the bad guy boss with a cut-throat and one arm? Tell me about your very best worst situation you won at. And you can do it with D&D if you want. All that stress around hit points becomes what you need it to be.

People say D&D can't be socially-diverse. And, they're right: with the wrong GM, it can't.

Preach, baby!

And honestly, when you run your players through a maiming experience, you're doing them a FAVOR and providing them with a uniquely valuable experience. Most GM's are too pussified to do anything to drop the heavy hand of brutal consequences upon their players.

Also, dude, your art is fucking AWESOME. I'm gonna have to circle back on you some time and commission something.

Quote from: The Exploited.;1131771This is it... The best games put you through the wringer. I mean, the GMs are tough but fair.

I felt the same for a few guys I played with initially (online). Basically, having to top toe around them. Then I said fuck that, and just put up some stipulations saying, over 18s, Mature content, and no X cards. Never had a problem finding players. Although, I did have a few whingers saying, I won't play in that type of game. I basically said "good". Stipulations, etc. Work as a great filter system. Muhaha.

There's a couple of FB groups dedicated to online gaming (all TTRPGS welcome). Some decent folks on their too.

'Historical Society of Excellent Role-Players' - The mods are cool and don't suffer fools.
'Tabletop RPG One Shot Group' - Very much an OSR group but anything goes.
'Grimstream: Livestreamed Tabletop Roleplaying Games' - Grim Jim's games. I've only played once. He's usually got a few spaces it's Dragon Warriors (which I like).

Preach, baby!

And honestly, when you run your players through a maiming experience, you're doing them a FAVOR and providing them with a uniquely valuable experience. Most GM's are too pussified to do anything to drop the heavy hand of brutal consequences upon their players.

Also, dude, your art is fucking AWESOME. I'm gonna have to circle back on you some time and commission something.

Quote from: Theory of Games;1131821Following the Exploited, I always stared directly at "grown-up" ideas for my sessions. Call it "Rated-R" stuff.

So many of us grew up with rpgs. So --- can you fight down the bad guy boss with a cut-throat and one arm? Tell me about your very best worst situation you won at. And you can do it with D&D if you want. All that stress around hit points becomes what you need it to be.

People say D&D can't be socially-diverse. And, they're right: with the wrong GM, it can't.

Spot on with the "grown-up" bit. Players must act like adults if they want to be treated like adults. Can't handle a bit of gore and violence and the emotional impact of watching a child sobbing over his recently murdered town-guard-of-a-father? Go play Honeyflaps & Fizzywinks instead, kid!

What do you mean when you say people say D&D cant be socially diverse? Seems like WOTC has been trying to overcorrect for this the last few years.

I do love seeing RPGs being disseminated into the wider world outside of the traditional nerds' basements (such as my own). Hearing stories of Argentinians and Cambodians and black people getting down with this shit is great, in the same way that sharing ANY art form is.

Quote from: Godspar Games;1131880Preach, baby!

And honestly, when you run your players through a maiming experience, you're doing them a FAVOR and providing them with a uniquely valuable experience. Most GM's are too pussified to do anything to drop the heavy hand of brutal consequences upon their players.

Also, dude, your art is fucking AWESOME. I'm gonna have to circle back on you some time and commission something.

This is it mate. As a player I always want to feel like I've earned it. A lot of the stuff today, seems to be about placating the players and treating them like Faberge eggs. Not on my watch baby!


ps -Thanks for your kind words re. my art bro.

Quote from: The Exploited.;1132043This is it mate. As a player I always want to feel like I've earned it. A lot of the stuff today, seems to be about placating the players and treating them like Faberge eggs. Not on my watch baby!


ps -Thanks for your kind words re. my art bro.

Isnt that crazy though? It seems like Wizards of the Coast has become a gold-star-sticker dispenser. Shits revolting. I dont know if WFRPG is going that same route (I just assume all the big companies are), but that shit just encourages fragile people to be fragile players.

WEAK!

Quote from: Godspar Games;1132399Isnt that crazy though? It seems like Wizards of the Coast has become a gold-star-sticker dispenser. Shits revolting. I dont know if WFRPG is going that same route (I just assume all the big companies are), but that shit just encourages fragile people to be fragile players.

WEAK!

Yeah man. I hear that... WFRP 4e does seem a bit sanitized it's also a bit convoluted imo. If I was going to run it, I've use 2e with the 1e's lore. Keep it nice and dark.