One Night in Xag: Part Nine
Chapter: Season Six
You heard the lady! ROLL FOR INITIATIVE!
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HOVER TEXT: You know Brett is sporting a Conflicted Boner right now. Also the name of my Tom Jones Ska Band.
Is the band Conflicted Boner or Roll for Initiative?
“Roll for complicated boner” of course
Is that required when the opponent rolls for n-dimensional anal circumference?
I vote for Conflicted Boner. Has a ring to it.
So long as one of the band members is named Prince Albert
“It’s not un-us-uaaaal to be SPRUNG by anyone…”
Are conflict boners anything like conflict diamonds, aside from the hardness?
There may or may not be blood involved…
Oh Sam, it’s that realisation that happens to every forever GM when they finally get to play. Yes Sam, you make the rape face when you’ve done something clever; we all make that face so don’t feel bad.
It’s that moment when you figure out how to make your players pay for all the stupid, boneheaded, and idiotic (read player) ways they broke your carefully crafted world. I mean, not that /I/ would do something like that. That would be wrong.
The only thing a GM could say that fills me with more dread is “Could you make a spirit check please?”
Sanity checks rank up there, for me.
Oh, and for some old-school fear, the Constitution-linked “system shock” roll. I’ve lost quite a few characters on that one, dwarves with Con bonuses even…only gods can live when the dice show double zeros…
“Violence and lust! Like a hyena about to get laid!” made me laugh out loud. Great line.
After GM’ing for a little (my first game) I said to my GM (different game) last week: “I understand you just asked for Perception, but I’m going to forego that in favor of moving straight to the next logical step: rolling Initiative.”
It’s not unusual to be surprised by anyone
It’s not unusual to roll init with anyone
But when I see you setting up minis for everyone
It’s not unusual to see me cry
Oh I’m gonna’ die
*UPDATE*
Last panel is my new cellphone background!
I hope that is okay? (what’s the difficulty on that diplomacy check?)
I love this scene/strip so much! The perfect expressions, –KNOWING– that you face certain doom. Every gamer has been there before, even if it wasn’t PnP.
These are the moments that rank highest in your memory when your group recounts stories of gaming glory.
We had a reversal on this. We were running a purposely OP campaign (us and the monsters both) – just taking a break from the normal stuff and going a bit insane. The GM kept underestimating us. Leading to situations like my Monk shoryukening (flight+stunning fist) a black dragon. Our sorcerer being hit by a baleful polymorph – turning him into a squirrel – succeding on the save to keep his mind, and then throwing a disturbingly well rolled (there was some metamagic and/or feats involved, that meant he could do it even in squirrel form)fireball in the face of the guy who polymorphed him – and anyone standing too close, obviously. And then… Then there’s the time where he had prepped an encounter for us that actually had us a bit concerned (in a normal campaign, it would’ve had us shitting bricks, then running like mad in the opposite direction). He figured, since it was as bad as it was – he’d give the Artificer a free round (or so) to buff up… Bad move. Our loveable arti (played by the guy who usually GMs) wiped out almost the entire encounter in one (impressively buffed) strike. The mixed look on our GMs face was priceless. He couldn’t decide whether to flip the table, laugh his ass off or just give up and walk away :p
I got a 15 before mods…. oh wait, was that not directed at us?
GM: “mmm. give me a moment”
That first panel… I’ll be in my bunk.
That face…someday, I’ll get to use that face again. for now, I can not.