D&D Shenanigans - Page 7

TDK · 05-09-2010, 05:05 PM

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Okay, no D&D this week again (gah), but here's an old WH40K story. The Legend of the Archer:

It all started when two of my friends were having a game of WH40K. Space Marines vs Tyranids. Space Marines were in trouble. I was bored, and I'd found a vanilla WH archer sitting around - just one of the ordinary guys. As the Tyranids were closing on a group of Marines, I suddenly stuck him on top of a hill and shouted "NOT WHILE I'M AROUND." So began his legend.

The archer has singlehandedly killed a Carnifex. Some orks believe that he is Gork.... or Mork. Some believe him to be a mortal avatar of the Emperor himself. No one really knows anything about him though. He appears on battlefields seemingly out of nowhere, does his work, and vanishes. You never know which side he'll help, just that you don't want to be on the other one. He can singlehandedly darken the sky with an endless supply of arrows. He can outfight orks in close combat; in fact he once garroted a warboss with one of his spare bowstrings. He doesn't have a ship of any kind - instead he fires an arrow which opens a small hole directly to the Warp and cuts a path directly to his destination. Daemons know well enough to leave him alone, and when they see the blazing white glow of his arrow, they run home to their Daemon houses and shut the doors tight.

Ever wonder why Old One Eye only has one eye? Whatever you may have heard about a weakness to plasma weapons and such is a pile of horseshit. The Archer happened to its eye. No one knows why he let it live. Some speculate that he did it just to show the Hive Mind that he could kill anything it made, anytime he wanted.

I've never played Warhammer or 40k, but I've always wanted to.

But that's just fucking epic. XD

Rejected Again · 05-09-2010, 06:33 PM

Last night I killed an entire village of goblins with my Wizard. First I made them leave the village by setting it on fire, then I caused them chase me towards a cliff. Before this had started I used Hallucinatory Terrain to make it appear as if the cliff was 20 feet farther out than it really was. My DM stole my wands of Expeditious Retreat and Wind Walk.

BitVyper · 05-09-2010, 06:38 PM

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Last night I killed an entire village of goblins with my Wizard. First I made them leave the village by setting it on fire, then I caused them chase me towards a cliff. Before this had started I used Hallucinatory Terrain to make it appear as if the cliff was 20 feet farther out than it really was. My DM no longer allows me to play illusionists with a wand of wind walk...

Ah, the Sparrowhawk ploy. That's okay - things like darkness and fog work just as well. I wouldn't disallow that kind of character anyway - that's how they're supposed to operate. Just means you're good at playing one. Their weakness is that they get in trouble when they aren't smarter than everyone else, or at least a couple steps ahead of the game.

Awesome work, anyway.

EVILNess · 05-09-2010, 08:16 PM

Hrmm, the world exploded in my campaign. This could be a setback.

BitVyper · 05-09-2010, 08:40 PM

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Hrmm, the world exploded in my campaign. This could be a setback.

Make Whole!

krogothwolf · 05-09-2010, 09:08 PM

Well, my dwarf cleric nearly died today. It was an entertaining fight. We wrere battling Vampires and a Lich. We had killed the Lich and most oft he Vampires, but we were sorely screwed. We lost one member to death and our sorcerer was knocked out. My cleric fell at -9. Soon to be dead. We had 1 member left alive and kicking, though barely. I rolled and stabalized on the first turn. The DM let me move about if I wanted to. Landing beside our sorcerer I did bestow on him a heal minor to stabalize him and bring him to 0. He lived and was able to cast spells! And thus did he rise from the grave and bring fire upon the Vampire, burning him to a crisp! It was great!

Ryong · 05-09-2010, 10:23 PM

I started playing 4th ed. today. Human Warden.

My team fought sahagins. A small one watched as we slew all others. We're expecting it to either come back at us later for revenge or grow up and rule the sahagins and tell its children about the day where a Minotaur Barbarian killed most of its family in less than a minute, with a human warden, a human psion and an eladrin wizard killed the rest.

For the record, the minotaur rolled nothing lower than 17 for the four turns the fight lasted ( one of the sahagins was a bit further away with a bow ).

tacticslion · 05-10-2010, 12:32 AM

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Hrmm, the world exploded in my campaign. This could be a setback.

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Make Whole!

No, no, no, no, no. You're both thinking too small. Really, this is the best thing that could happen - you no longer have to worry about inconveniencing everyone on the planet! EVILNess, simply follow my plan for world-rebuilding in twelve easy steps or less!

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Clerics ever prove their awesome by being the best friend of everyone on the team.

NICE! Watch out for that lich, though. "He'll be back...!"

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My team fought sahagins. A small one watched as we slew all others. We're expecting it to either come back at us later for revenge or grow up and rule the sahagins and tell its children about the day where a Minotaur Barbarian killed most of its family in less than a minute, with a human warden, a human psion and an eladrin wizard killed the rest.

Wait, wait, wait. You saw a poor, megere child Sahuagin alone after slaughtering its whole family before its eyes and you didn't capture it and turn it into a party member? What kind of wacky-bizarre hijink-filled game are you guys playing, anyway? GM's expect that kind of thing!*

Also: wardens are (to my knowledge) the toughest single player-class available (Paladins being impressive because they have more healing surges!). And that minotaur had nice rolls.

*No, and it is therefore awesome.

BitVyper · 05-10-2010, 12:50 AM

Yeah, you could rebuild the world in your own image, but we both know you'll just break it again. With my method you can break it as much as you want any time you want, and never be inconvenienced with tedious recreation. You can be back to ogling bar wenches within minutes.

tacticslion · 05-12-2010, 10:38 AM

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Yeah, you could rebuild the world in your own image, but we both know you'll just break it again. With my method you can break it as much as you want any time you want, and never be inconvenienced with tedious recreation. You can be back to ogling bar wenches within minutes.

But... my method involves overly complex and illogical holes in the 3.X system!

05-09-2010, 09:08 PM	#66
krogothwolf Fetched the Candy Cane! Join Date: May 2009 Location: Calgary Posts: 4,278	Well, my dwarf cleric nearly died today. It was an entertaining fight. We wrere battling Vampires and a Lich. We had killed the Lich and most oft he Vampires, but we were sorely screwed. We lost one member to death and our sorcerer was knocked out. My cleric fell at -9. Soon to be dead. We had 1 member left alive and kicking, though barely. I rolled and stabalized on the first turn. The DM let me move about if I wanted to. Landing beside our sorcerer I did bestow on him a heal minor to stabalize him and bring him to 0. He lived and was able to cast spells! And thus did he rise from the grave and bring fire upon the Vampire, burning him to a crisp! It was great! __________________ Knowledge is Power, Power is Knowledge ╔╦╦══╦══╦═╦══╦══╦╗╔╦╦╦╦══╦╗╔═╗ ║═╣╠═║╔╗║╔╣╔╗╠╗╔╣╚╝║║║║╔╗║║║═╣ ║║║╔╗╣╚╝║║║╚╝║║║║╔╗║║║║╚╝║╚╣╔╝ ╚╩╩╝╚╩══╩═╩══╝╚╝╚╝╚╩══╩══╩═╩╝

05-10-2010, 12:50 AM	#69
BitVyper History's Strongest Dilettante Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Arcadia Posts: 6,662	Yeah, you could rebuild the world in your own image, but we both know you'll just break it again. With my method you can break it as much as you want any time you want, and never be inconvenienced with tedious recreation. You can be back to ogling bar wenches within minutes. __________________ "There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea is asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace; we've got work to do!" Awesome art be here.

05-09-2010, 10:23 PM	#67
Ryong Professional Threadkiller Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Brazil Posts: 3,798	I started playing 4th ed. today. Human Warden. My team fought sahagins. A small one watched as we slew all others. We're expecting it to either come back at us later for revenge or grow up and rule the sahagins and tell its children about the day where a Minotaur Barbarian killed most of its family in less than a minute, with a human warden, a human psion and an eladrin wizard killed the rest. For the record, the minotaur rolled nothing lower than 17 for the four turns the fight lasted ( one of the sahagins was a bit further away with a bow ).