We decide who lives or dies. Be nice.
Behold! Yonder lies our hated foe! With steel and magic shall we lay him low! BUT FIRST!
…We need healing for our ouchies and our booboos.
Continue reading “Fabletop Classes: Making Clerical Terrors”
And unlike Pokemon, they get to SWITCH their moves at the start of each day.
Don your pointy hats and ostentatious robes, get your character sheets and start picking out your most useful and overpowered spells, folks! This post has arrived, neither early nor late, but precisely when I meant to show it!
Masters of magic. Sorcerers supreme. Wizards of Waverly Palace…! …Oh, sorcerers are actually a different thing? Oh, OK then. So yeah, what ARE wizards?
Incidentally, expect them to ignore shields in favour of two-handed, dual, or dual two-handed weapons.
It’s that time of the month, when I return to fables of the tabletop! And just who could be the cast member we’ll be focusing on this week? I’ll give you a hint:
That’s right, folks, you guessed it! It’s…! …NO, it’s not the BARD! Are you CRAZY?! What in that picture would make you think BARD?
Such a mistaken answer makes me ANGRY. One might say I am even filled with RAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!
“You know what? I abandon my holy order and defect to the enemy.”
Yep, it’s that time of the month where I talk about tabletop gaming! …Yes, it’s now a thing. I even announced it and everything!
Every game needs a player. And players need a goal. So the campaign is set, the story begins, and the actors in this production gather. Their myriad paths will cross and converge in an entire adventure, but there is a great obstacle in their way.
Their ability to cooperate.
Are they spellslingers? Hack-and-slashers? Do they have a giant robot at their command?
The adventurers go in to meet with the enemy. Based on intel, it’s apparently a lich at the head of a small army of hobgoblins. He’s a sorcerer, but he apparently has a high level cleric under him as well. And as initiative is rolled, the question is:
What do you, the GM, make the lich do?
Don’t give up. Just pick yourselves up, work it out, laugh it off, and move onwards. Change the system, learn from your mistakes, try and try again. Rinse and repeat.
It’s weekly game night. A time when people with different tastes come together for a shared purpose. And you’re the one in charge.
You have to strike a delicate balance, of course. Sure, you pick things which seem good in general, things you’re sure everyone will like, and one or two things YOU love which you’re sure they’ll enjoy if they just tried it. But you have to remember: Some of these guys have specific needs or tastes. Special things that need to be catered to, whether it’s because they’re temperamental or because they have needs. So you adjust your offerings to fit.
Alright, now that we’re done picking the snacks and drinks, let’s talk about the game!
Also, Homing Missile of Righteous Retribution sounds like an amazing magic item or spell.
‘Twas the week nearing Christmas, and all ‘cross the blog
Was stillness and silence like a dead driftwood log
And the writer did ponder on what he should say
In order to welcome this year’s Christmas day
When inspiration struck like a singing weevil
The zealot that bellows “Smite Evil!”
Continue reading “Fabletop Classes: Paladins, O Holy Knights”
