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Post by Piono on Oct 23, 2016 0:55:54 GMT
Exactly what it says on the tin, this is a thread to share stories about stuff that's gone on in games you guys have been in. I could post it in any number of other forums and probably get more traffic but... meh, this is really the only forum I'm actually active in, so I decided to make it here. I actually have one really big one in particular (some of you remember me talking about DTG? Well, I think I'll be going through and collecting the details of that story in it's entirety soon, and I need someone to share it with who doesn't already know, so whatever) but that'll come later.
For now, have this gem: I'm the GM's assistant for a big game of DnD (we have like 9 players in the party) and things are very... entertaining. There'll probably be a good number of stories out of this, but the very first one comes from something that happened during set up of the world and character generation. We have several MLP fans in our group, one of the girls (our group is actually mostly girls, which is pretty funny) decided that she wanted to play as Discord and would be from the land of Equestria. Of course the GM thought this was stupid and said no, but after enough people making jokes about it he finally said "Fine, we'll roll a dice." Guess what? She rolled a 20 Equestria is now officially part of our world's lore now.
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EffinCoy
Gadabout Pipsqueak
Die.
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Post by EffinCoy on Oct 23, 2016 2:40:48 GMT
I play Dark Souls 1 at level 3 and Darkwraith+3. The fact that I had to play halfway through the whole game just to achieve this, is really satisfactory.
I just like trolling people and myself THAT much. I don't remember the counts of how many invasions I already made. I feel mean.
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The One Guy
Rust Maid
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Post by The One Guy on Oct 24, 2016 17:04:11 GMT
I always like to avoid spoilers like the plague for games I'm really interested in, among which being the Legond of Zelda series though I've only gotten the chance to play a few of them. Anyway, because of this, I went through probably 80% of Occarina of Time before learning that I could travel back in time again. I ultimately was told about it when asking one of my roomates how to get the horse.
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Post by heyitskane on Oct 24, 2016 19:23:47 GMT
I finished sonic 06 without encountering a single game-breaking glitch. Somehow thats even more worrying than encountering dozens of glitches per level.
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PlatinumUmbreon
Raise of the Conductor's Baton
A thumbs-up to you, good sir/ma'am!
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Post by PlatinumUmbreon on Oct 24, 2016 20:55:38 GMT
I was playing on a TF2 Payload map on the RED team. We were about to win but all of us except for me got massacred, and I had to run away. So the entire BLU team went on to push the cart on overtime. Now bear in mind I was playing Medic, and I had full uber. The fact I'm a Medic should be reason alone to hunt me down, but they never did. I was waiting for the whole team to come back so I can pop an uber on one of my teammates. But they didn't arrive fast enough. So I YOLO'd it and popped to block the cart in order to buy my allies some time. I ran away after the uber wore off, but before the other team could finish me off, my allies obliterated the BLU team. I still consider that one of my luckiest saves.
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Post by Piono on Oct 25, 2016 21:57:54 GMT
Alright, so I've been going through the thing, and due to being busy with other things have not gotten it all done.
So, first thing to say, the first game took 9 months to go through. And was, for the most part, generating a high rate of shenanigans of various forms. There have been 6 canonical games (well, 6 successful ones. 1 failed one thanks to the staff of the original official MSPA message board), 2 of which are still in progress. There are also 3 different non canon games that are running strong and HAVE BEEN running strong for a while. I might got into the details of any of the completed sessions if I finish up the tale I have to tell of the original one. As a corollary to that... People split up the game into Chapters afterwards, separating chunks of posts by certain events that happened within.
These Chapters still have a fair amount of stuff that happens in 'em, so I'm not gonna post 'em all in one post, but I'll try to find good breaks (probably between large events, or at cliff hangers if I start feeling mean.) and end 'em there. I'll upload as I finish up to good stopping points...
But let us begin the epic tale of how we/they (I wasn't there for most of it) Destroyed the Godmodder.
The whole thing begins with the game’s premise: the players of the game are, well, players on a Minecraft server called “Genericraft”, which, despite what the name implies, is actually far from generic, due to the possession of an absurd amount of mods and plugins that enable all sorts of crazy actions and the like (the universe got blown up and reassembled at least twice for example). The Godmodder, is, well, a godmodder, a guy who has hacked into the game and given himself godlike powers (or so the lore was at the time) and making himself all but invincible. The ground rules were given as such: 1.Don’t expect your attacks to actually work. 2.You can help the Godmodder, but he will betray you (and boy is this rule ever enforced) 3.You can beat the godmodder, but you have to use attacks that cannot be godmodded. 4.If an attack works, it will only deal a little bit of damage, and the Godmodder will do something to make sure it doesn’t work again. Godmodder HP: 100/100
This was immediately followed by someone trying to fart on the Godmodder and a peace offering of bananas. After roughly ten different attempts to ban and ipban the godmodder (only one of which actually did damage due to being made by a member of the forum staff) a bunch of flat attacks with pointless number values and “un-godmoddable” attached onto the end of them, someone throwing a black hole at the godmodder, and the unveiling of the Anti Chuck Norris Turret, people finally started to settle into the flow of the game.
...or that’s what I would say were it not for the fact that the first event activated almost immediately. A quick primer on that; citricsquid is basically the head admin of the forum the game took place on, so apparently he counted as an admin in the server? I dunno, there wasn’t too terribly much logic behind the game at that point in time so whatever. Point was someone called in a server admin for backup. Thus began the first event of the game. The basic idea was that Citricsquid, as admin, had the power to destroy and remove the Godmodder, but thanks to “uber hax”, it would take some time to accomplish this, so the players had to defend Citricsquid until he could finish finding away around the Godmodder’s hacks and ban him right and proper. (Yes yes, he already got banned before, but one of the first attacks was blocked because of the Godmodder having convenient™ Anti-Invisibility Goggles, so logic wasn’t one of the major factors in such things at this point.) Highlights of the event include FOUR different people either attempting to become godmodders themselves, or summon a godmodder in one form or another (my personal favorite is the guy who tried to use a ditto for that purpose), three more attempts to ban the Godmodder, a demonstration of “inappropriate times for cliche anime speeches” and the first few attempts to help the godmodder, resulting in: The Godmodder healing citricsquid because he wanted to do it all himself, smashing the “help” into the ground Hulk-style, responding to a healing spell with a firebolt, and kicking someone into the sun. So of course, citricsquid’s attack goes off (I mean, not for lack of effort on the Godmodder’s part. It’s just hard to kill someone when there’s a guy who keeps jumping in front of all of your attacks, and yes, there was only one person who actually tried to defend citricsquid.) the Godmodder is destroyed and Citricsquid leaves, safe in the knowledge that his work is done.
Hahahahaha yeah right, this is only Page 2 out of 311, but I’m cutting off here because I don’t have the next part finished up.
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PlatinumUmbreon
Raise of the Conductor's Baton
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Post by PlatinumUmbreon on Oct 27, 2016 18:04:44 GMT
Haha, I heard about the Destroy the Godmodder, but I did not take the fact that you led a roleplay of one (or two) seriously until I saw your name on TV Tropes, and I take anything I see on the site seriously except the one for The Ugly Barnacle. Pretty amazing your name ended up on the site for tropers.
My first Shiny was a Bidoof in Pokemon Platinum. Despite knowing the existence of them and how rare they were when I encountered it, I caught like any other Pokemon. In stark contrast, I was practically bursting with joy when I caught a normal Latios in Pokemon Soul Silver. My priorities were a bit out of order in those days.
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Post by Piono on Oct 28, 2016 2:49:31 GMT
Haha, I heard about the Destroy the Godmodder, but I did not take the fact that you led a roleplay of one (or two) seriously until I saw your name on TV Tropes, and I take anything I see on the site seriously except the one for The Ugly Barnacle. Pretty amazing your name ended up on the site for tropers. My first Shiny was a Bidoof in Pokemon Platinum. Despite knowing the existence of them and how rare they were when I encountered it, I caught like any other Pokemon. In stark contrast, I was practically bursting with joy when I caught a normal Latios in Pokemon Soul Silver. My priorities were a bit out of order in those days. Eh, it's not super amazing, the (successful) session I ran was on the Tvtropes forums, so a lot of entry pimping came from the very people who were playing the game. I myself kept having to go in frequently to clean up the page and make sure tropes were properly cross-linked. Don't do that as much now, but I suppose I could if I ever need something to do. Also, I think your priorities are fine there, I honestly don't understand why people are so ecstatic about shinies. I mean, yeah, it's cool to get something rare, but shinies are just too much of a pain in the neck to collect, with no actual mechanical differences for me to care. I'd be much happier with catching a legendary, which you can actually do something with. Anyways, I've got the next (and final) part of "Chapter 1" mostly finished, don't know when I'll upload it, but it should be soon.
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phantos
Moppet of Destiny
『HARD TIMES』
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Post by phantos on Oct 29, 2016 0:29:05 GMT
I run multiple games of D&D and each time I am surprised by how well my players can out-think me and my challenges. I'll have to think of some of the better (and short) examples.
One of my latest games involved a team of investigators (think a fantasy X-files) entering a laboratory connected to a church on the ethereal plane. One character started walking from one end of the laboratory to the other end of the church and never stopped moving except to pick up key lore items (a research book, a hidden staff of power) eventually coming to the main boss and using the staff to paralyze him. The MB was still stuck in place by the time the rest of the party had caught up to this character's hubris; the MB was then auto-crit four times (paralyze is a bitch) and died before I hardly had time to monologue. A lot of secrets died with the boss, but I have to give them an A+ for speed running my dungeon. It beat my par by about 2 sessions.
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Post by Archindale on Dec 27, 2016 4:15:19 GMT
I'm playing FTL: Faster Than Light, and right now I'm at the last part of the game, Sector 8. Considering that this is a roguelike game, this run has actually been pretty lucky. I even have what you would call a "battle strategy", though I'm not sure how that will hold up against the final boss.
It's my first time reaching Sector 8, so I don't know what's coming. This is all on easy mode too, so I wonder how hard normal mode must be, though it of course depends on what factors are randomized for the run.
I'll edit this post when I lose/win with details on how it went.
And I lost. Everything was actually going well at the final fight, and I'm pretty sure I reached the last/2nd to last stage of the final boss. Everything was actually going great at the beginning of the fight, but everything took a dark turn once I reached the previously mentioned stage. It was bad. At least I know what to expect for next time!
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Post by professionalMKsman on Jan 24, 2017 3:45:14 GMT
I've played FTL and figured out how to beat the final boss. I think I also did some no damage final boss fights at some point (although i think they were all on easy, I MIGHT have done one on normal). If I can get the game back, I might just go for a full no damage run.
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