The OOC Hangout Thread (New people introduce yourself here!)

[Magni Prime]

Chaos Reclaimer

Ahhh, the joys of criticals. I remember one game was dedicated to a MASSIVE battle against the avatar of a goddess we had seriously honked off. I mean, the GM was prepared to spend hours and hours on this fight. One member of hte party kept making called shots with a specific kind of strike that ignored all armor to the back of her head. When he made it, it was a Natural 20. Oh yeah. We had fun watching the avatar's head roll off somewhere!  

[Saucy Goblin]

Magni Prime

Chaos Reclaimer

Ahhh, the joys of criticals. I remember one game was dedicated to a MASSIVE battle against the avatar of a goddess we had seriously honked off. I mean, the GM was prepared to spend hours and hours on this fight. One member of hte party kept making called shots with a specific kind of strike that ignored all armor to the back of her head. When he made it, it was a Natural 20. Oh yeah. We had fun watching the avatar's head roll off somewhere!

My favorite character was called Tiny. He was a dragonborn half-golem. 1 int. 1 INT!!!! But. He had, if I remember correctly, 40+ str at lvl 10ish. And AC out his butt hole. Our DM thought he was being cute when he threw an ancient dragon at us. Our rogue ran. Wuss. Our warlock did something I can't remember. Paladin made sure we were all buffed. Then they looked at me. What's Tiny going to do? They asked. "Tiny smashes." Was my response, told them he was going to punch the dragon in the eye. Rolled. 20. 'Kay. Crit. 'Kay. Got another melee. Rolled. 20.

needless to say, the dragon's skull was inevitably caved in and our party rolled in loot and experience that day, my lovable idiot was the hero of his friends for the rest of his days. And the rogue was left out of everything.  

[RagingBluMunky]

Man, I love DnD. I just ran a one-day campaign last Saturday, and I'm hoping to run one in the new 5th ed. soonish. I usually DM, as no one else seems to be able to, or something. I don't particularly mind, as I get to indulge my love of world-building.

My worst/best moment was during said one-day campaign, the bandit chief that they had been sent to destroy, three rounds in a row, scored a critical and knocked out a player. The last player standing (of 5 plus a wolf) was the wizard who managed to Shocking grasp the last HP out of him.

It probably didn't help that there were 3 spellcasters, and one of the 'melee' characters was a rogue.  

[Skreemer]

So, Utterfanatic and I may be collaborating on a new horror roleplay. One with really weird monsters and our own mythos to invent. And I'd like it if you guys would join in when it's ready. Because I love this guild. But I am tired of seeing it stagnate.  

[Saucy Goblin]

Griefen Nach. It was a creature I created once. .3.

An owl like monster that steals you. It could only move when you could see it and when you turned on a light source.  

[Skreemer]

that's a good one.
The Worms that Walk. Colonies of mutant tubifex worms that seeks out and infest fresh human corpses, whereupon they will be hostile to live humans and attempt to infiltrate them, but are easily detectable by their unnatural rippling under the skin, inability to speak and lack of human concepts like clothing.
These are definitely good starts.
As well, we aren't going to be badass monster hunters. We're going to be low on funds, resources and allies, and more often than not we'll be hiding from the monster, trying to outrun it.
I'd like to use a sanity system, where encountering extreme weirdness the narrative and prose itself breaks down and gets weird for a bit.  

[Alexander Magnus]

I keep trying to think of ways of drumming up participation, but honestly little has come to mind that hasn't failed spectacularly in the past. I personally believe that happened because of the same reason WoW has endured so long. Players. With the mass change in Gaia from RP to MMORPG and such, the idea of RP has been fading for years. with less people interested in it, less participation is evident. It isn't because the Refuge is bad, or because of a single person. It's because RP itself is scarce on the site compared to what once was.

I'd love to be wrong and fix it. I'd love to see the place approach 1K members again. I fully support any way we have to make things better again.  

[Skreemer]

Well, for now all I can really suggest is we don't just lurk the OOC and put in as much as we can. Those assholes in the High Voltage guild seem to be doing ok, but it's through pandering to the lowest common denominator.  

[Skreemer]

Yoder

Ah, so this will be SCP/Numenera-level weirdness. There's a lot of potential there...

Very much so. But without a budget. It's literally going to start with a few guys operating out of a government back office. Only resources we'll have are a few pistols, some binoculars, a coffee pot, cigarette and bar tab.
The sanity system is going to be key. Basically, any exposure to anything like say, a lycanthrope transforming, artefacts of the starborn pantheon or other seriously unpleasant stuff will cause the character to lose sanity, which should be reflected by more broken, simplistic writing, thought patterns, fourth wall breaking.. Hence the importance of ritual and every day addictions to our investigators. Not to mention it's rare we get to actually kill or contain what we come across. Most of the time  

[Alexander Magnus]

High Voltage guild? neutral