Timberflake
Chapter: Season Four
Based on actual events. A player left a bag checked in at the Inn and did not mention grabbing it upon departure. The DM gave the player Intelligence checks on the road to remember but failed every one until, upon reaching the entrance to the ruins of Castle Greyhawk, reached for his weapon and then used a free action to shit himself.
That story made me laugh out loud. A pitiless laugh, but full of mirth. I’ve been there.
THAT’S HOW I LOST MY SPELL BOOK THE FIRST TIME! My wizard was kidnapped (lesson learned: NEVER SPLIT THE PARTY!), and the rest of the party, while remembering to grab their things as they rushed off to rescue me. Meanwhile, my stuff, which was left at the inn, was taken by thieves. To make matters worse, I ended up rescuing myself while they were involved in a battle with the people they “thought” were the kidnappers. >_< When we managed to reunite and get back to the city and I learned that all my stuff, including my all important spell book, was gone… If I'd been able to cast fireball (wasn't high enough level yet), I'd have razed the city! lol
Naw… after all, no Spellbook. Lol
Well… there would have been the chance that she didn’t use the spell yet and had it prepared still. ^^
It’s unlikely for Fireball, but still. XD
Very unlikely, indeed! lol Now that I’m level 9 and get 3 3rds, you better believe I have all three slots as fireball! lol
Forgive me, but to me, the funnist part of Amber’s story are the words ‘the first time’. Makes me want to hear about the next time (and perhaps the time after that too)!
LOL! The second time, I was possessed by my evil twin sister and killed almost every member of the council of elders in my homeland, and was put on trial by the Elven gods, and my own goddess teleported me out of the lands (as banishment), leaving me without my stuff for the second time. >_<# I have a "cheat" now in case I lose ANOTHER spell book, but it came at a terrible cost!
HA! HA! Bad ass.
Had a wizard once who tattooed certain passages of his spellbook to himself specifically to avoid being left powerless. Died after being flayed alive by a daemon.
Hind sight being 20/20, that deal was not worth it.
Curse you Timberlake!! Will your reign of sexy villainy ever end?!? But seriously I think this is karma for Brett’s bitch fit earlier. NEVER bitch to the DM over such trivial things. You will not like the result.
Tis true. He has no obligation to help you out on everything.
best use of a free action evar
Man, i could kill for things like this. 😀
OK, I can understand wanting to have a realistic campaign, but there’s a big difference between forgetting to mention something during a tabletop game and physically walking for several hours (days, in this case) without noticing that you’re not carrying your backpack. I notice if my schoolbag is one-notebook-lighter before I make it out the door.
“Did you say you took your stuff?” “I have to say I take my stuff?!” “Then you don’t have your stuff.” “Of course I have my stuff! I don’t have to say I bring my stuff with me, it’s always with me!” — Actual conversation that happened to a friend of mine. The hilarity still sticks to this day.
Yeah, I’ve seen those conversations. They’re always kind of retarded.
“What about my pants? I haven’t brought them up the entire campaign. I must have left them in Riverdale!”
This is poor GMship to go as low as this in the name of realism. What’s next?
“Ok, you shit your pant as a free action, but you never mentioned you have put your pant this morning, so…”
Thankfully, I was only sitting in for one session.
“Hmmm…. I have this sudden urge to roll up a monk with a predilection for being in the buff at all times…”
Keep in mind up until two minutes ago, Brett was being a total doucher. You might wanna be more leniant with a nice player..but when said player is being a bitchy bitch? Not so much.
Ah, but I was just referring to Brian’s anecdote.
Anyway, for Brett (or any player like him) I’m not sure fighting douchy behavior by being douchier is a working solution…
Realistic? In this case perhapy but not in general. Oh you forgot your whole stuff at the inn, walked for miles completely unencumbered while your companions traveled with a lot equipment and never realized it because you are too dumb?
Think I never had a character forgetting his stuff in 20 years. Not because they have eidetic memory but well it´s rather silly. Small things perhaps but that´s pixelbitching. No you didn´t say you put your comb back into your bag this morning so you forgot it at the inn.
But a bag? His pack? He would realize the difference rather soon because well the weight is missing and he would probably see and feel it. His companions would point out that he is marching without his backpack on the back. The player isn´t able to perceive everything his character would and IMO some stuff has to be assumed to be done automatically.
Ok it´s more believable in this specific situation. But well Brett´s whole situation is a setup for annoying one player. So level 1, you are a prisoner of the other dudes who keep you in chains for days (still they and the king trust you enough to go on a mission to save Karthun), oh and they forgot your stuff. Sucks to be you, lol.
Ok Brett´s behaviour wasn´t nice, his explanation why he dislikes the game is dumb but perhaps the situation would be different if Brett hadn´t joined a game he dislikes but has to if he wants to continue playing and the initial setup wasn´t prisoner with a choice of acept mission or rot in jail. Ok it´s a comic but well if this was a situation I was the victm of, i would say, yeah, hope you had fun with me as a punching bag, game is not my cup of tea, bye.
I’d take a deep breathe, Tim.
Sam is of course going to allow Brett to have his gear (the others are fucking with him).
Oh seems my actual experience with that kind of situation seeped in too much. I had that stuff pulled on me on separate occasions, the prisoner thing and the “you didn´t say that stuff.” Mostly on conventions.
But uh well I wasn´t actually frothing at my mouth when I wrote that.
And yeah fucking with Brett is understandable, seems he is quite annoying at a table, OTOH screwing around with another player in game because of problem issues at the table is a recipe for escalation.
But in this case, it’s totally different. Because, even in character, everyone assumed someone else had it.
As a counter-point to the “GM IS A DICK” squawling, I have been in this situation where it was totally justified. The GM asks the party three times, “So, who’s picking up Brett’s gear?” And there is no answer, because the whole party is fucking around talking about a guy who sings about how awesome ties are while NOT WEARING A TIE. After a while, the GM just has to go, “Oh well, I tried. I guess Brett is just fucked because none of his party members are actually here to play the fucking game.”
Not that I’m bitter or anything.
Well I wrote that it´s more believable in this case that the pack has been left behind.
As far as we know Brett wasn´t included in the Timberlake off topic debate, so it´s not his fault.
In that specific case:
Well if the DM remembers that the issue of Brett´s gear is still unresolved, an NPC guard could appear and ask the Knight Captain what should happen with the gear of the prisoner. If there is still no answer I would slowly pack my stuff and ask if they want to do something else.
Timeon? Decaf. Try switching to it.
Seriously.
Bah. Decaf is for people who waste a third of their life “sleeping.”
let’s see… he was arrested by a bunch of guards who could give two grins less about him, carted off in chains, by a bunch of folks who knew him from adam..
why would any of them even KNOW he had a bag?
Weapon Focus (Improvised Weapon)
Timberlake *is* pretty dreamy…
i am painfully straight and let me be honest… if he came up to me in a bar and offered to buy me a drink, i’d let him.
prolly wouldn’t go up to his place for coffee tho.
well, okay, maybe just for a few.
etc.
Sure, but what are Timberlake’s stats when used as an improvised weapon?
+8 to sexy.
Have I been on the receiving end of Brett’s situation? No. Once however, I did have a GM pull that kind of micromanaging “Weeeeeelll, you didn’t actually say that you brought your pack (and your spellbook) with you from the inn three days ago…” douchebaggery. He thought it was cute.
When I found out he wasn’t just yanking my chain, I told him “Dude. That was a total douche move, and it’s costing you a player.” In the end, it cost him three players, because two other people decided they didn’t want to play with a GM with that kind of attitude, and disregard for common sense.
In my group, we tried not to worry about realism (I mean, swords n’ sorcery campaign, right?) but common sense was adhered to closely, as in I would notice the absence of my pack within minutes even if I had a complete caffeine-deficiency induced brainfart due to lack of morning coffee.
As it ended up, we who left (rather than suffer the slings and arrows of DungeonMasterMike’s outrageous douchebaggery) got started with WestEnd StarWars RPG, and had a far better time in the end.
Mike eventually played and got his character forcechoked for lipping off to a Dark Lady of The Sith. (my, I wonder who that may have been?)
In Brett’s case though, it’s justified and the circumstances make it plausible.
I failed an adventure once (well, we all survived, but we didn’t even get to confront the big bad) because the GM ruled that my character was still wearing a piece of equipment that let the enemy freeze me in place while he escaped because I didn’t specifically say I took it off… even though I’d stated I was using my stealth ability which would have required that I take it off.
I mean I still would have been screwed because the rest of the party still had theirs on too, but it was irritating to not even get to talk to the big bad.
And Brett is a jerk and a douchbag? Oh, yes he is, but so they are. Also, TIMBERLAKE?!