Monday, 12 July 2010
...oh, and one more thing, your daughter is a whore...
Out of context, you might ask, "What ever prompted you to say/think that?"
Suffice to say, I didn't say that to someone's face, for real at least. I was playing Pathfinder, Paizo's 3.5e+ of the world's most popular roleplaying game (it's not WFRP :().
My character is Du'can, a 17 year old ranger, in the game run by a player in my WFRP campaign. What makes this comment so funny is both a statement about how much fun "meta-gaming" at the table can be and how hard it is tell a gaming story.
Du'can and his new friends are heroes of Sandpoint after dispatching a significant number of goblins (Du'can killed 3 at range with his longbow). Being heroes brings many benefits, like free pastries. And being a hero, and maybe the most attractive character in the party, Du'can is approached by an attractive young woman with a problem: rats in the basement. Du'can reluctantly follows her to the basement of Sandpoint's well known general store. There are no rats. Du'can instead finds a cot and a brash, forceful, and now topless, young woman.
Our GM knows what was going on, I didn't, but how the table banter played out was classic table fun!
First Du'can "saves" vs. Perception and hears footsteps on the stairs! Du'can pushes the young woman away in enough time for her to cloth herself and Du'can now has to face down the suspicions of "Daddy."
I roll a natural 20 vs. Diplomacy. Our GM was just a bit flummoxed, but in a good way. In gaming terms, I could have made up anything and the NPC would have been amiable to my treaties:
Ok, I did roleplay the reasoning:
The roll made for some of the best table banter I have had in a while...including the possibility of ending the conversion with:
Suffice to say, I didn't say that to someone's face, for real at least. I was playing Pathfinder, Paizo's 3.5e+ of the world's most popular roleplaying game (it's not WFRP :().
My character is Du'can, a 17 year old ranger, in the game run by a player in my WFRP campaign. What makes this comment so funny is both a statement about how much fun "meta-gaming" at the table can be and how hard it is tell a gaming story.
Du'can and his new friends are heroes of Sandpoint after dispatching a significant number of goblins (Du'can killed 3 at range with his longbow). Being heroes brings many benefits, like free pastries. And being a hero, and maybe the most attractive character in the party, Du'can is approached by an attractive young woman with a problem: rats in the basement. Du'can reluctantly follows her to the basement of Sandpoint's well known general store. There are no rats. Du'can instead finds a cot and a brash, forceful, and now topless, young woman.
Our GM knows what was going on, I didn't, but how the table banter played out was classic table fun!
First Du'can "saves" vs. Perception and hears footsteps on the stairs! Du'can pushes the young woman away in enough time for her to cloth herself and Du'can now has to face down the suspicions of "Daddy."
What's going on down here!"
I'm looking for rats. She told me there were rats in your basement."
I roll a natural 20 vs. Diplomacy. Our GM was just a bit flummoxed, but in a good way. In gaming terms, I could have made up anything and the NPC would have been amiable to my treaties:
Because I rolled a Natural 20. That's what I'm doing in your basement..."
Ok, I did roleplay the reasoning:
Your daughter explained there were rats in your basement, and as you know it is something of a mystery how all the goblins got into town for the festival. As a hero of Sandpoint, it would be neglectful of me to not explore the possibility that secret tunnels exist beneath the town."
The roll made for some of the best table banter I have had in a while...including the possibility of ending the conversion with:
...oh, and one more thing, your daughter is a whore. Good day, sir."
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