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#1 ieatrazors Nov 27, 2009 0:05:15	So basically a few weeks ago me and a buddy decided to try some DnD with our little circle of friends. He had played before, but never did the DM role, I never played PnP but play alot of the forgotten realms computer games. Basically I was to show the players that you could pretty do whatever. This is the story of a drunken rogue and his quest to set an "example". None of this was talked about before, it was all on the spot by me an him. Wondering if these were useful ways to show that game is basically a sand box and is only limited by your imagination?                 -So the first example I set is by urinating on a dead goblin, then pulling loot off of it and giving it to the mage. The DM had no clue I was gonna ease my bladder on this goblin. So later on he punished me, the mage took the brunt of it, by having a wolf pick up the scent and him. It was the same goblin i had decided to take a aimed shot at and killed with a arrow to the crotch.              -The next thing I did was listen on a door, goblins were inside. So I hid, and got a low skill check. The DM allowed to me reroll to see where I was going with this. I got a better number this time. I decide to slam the door. The DM had a goblin fly out of the room, I managed to narrowly move out of the way and make no noise. The rest of the party at this point is yards behind me, so I decided to throw a rock towards them to get the goblin to go after the fighter so I could sneak attack and not get owned. I rolled a 1, I hit the goblin in the head.                     -Later on, many beers later I decided it's now important have a character trait, specifically a strong dislike of gnomes (mainly cause of grobnar in nwn2), I hate on two gnome we found in the cave and wanted to kill. Because I was drunk at this point the DM found great pleasure in having me be affected by a gas we encountered earlier, he had no intent of going anywhere with it and only did it because I was being a jerk to small people, and had me thinking my allies were goblins in disguise. It results in my character being ball gagged and tied up until we a found a locked door, and to keep me on a leash had my character convinced the fighter was someone who i had no choice but to obey, as though I were a dog. -The last couple things I did was make a chokeing powder out of hey from a wolf bed, throw wolf food on the I found and caused everyone to trip each turn of a fight thinking the wolves would be distracted. Utilized shards of an electric door to upgrade someones spear (after nearly breaking it) with electrical damage, after having to use something to pick it up after electrocuting myself the first time. And convincing a party member using bluff to run head long into a door I couldn't pick the lock on to break it. We're getting together again tomorrow and my girlfriend is getting involved, any other useful ways to show how the game can be played?
#2 mccowen Nov 27, 2009 0:38:28	So basically a few weeks ago me and a buddy decided to try some DnD with our little circle of friends. He had played before, but never did the DM role, I never played PnP but play alot of the forgotten realms computer games. ... We're getting together again tomorrow and my girlfriend is getting involved, any other useful ways to show how the game can be played? If you're having fun, just keep doing what you're doing (although I generally find it helps my thinking to stay relatively sober).  If you really want advice, the best thing to do might be for you and your friend to look into supplementing your D&D experience by joining an existing game together; it'll give you some guidance and a look at the kind of imagination that experienced gamers can bring to the table. In any case, welcome to D&D!
#3 kouk Nov 29, 2009 20:42:58	... If that's the way you want to play it sure, but please at least let others who join know that isn't typical for even D&D. I don't know what edition you're playing, but you were disregarding some rules for cinematic effect. That's OK sometimes, but a DM probably shouldn't just arbitrarily wave the DM stick over it when the DM feels like it. Punishing you by punishing your character is not really the point either, and makes no internal sense really. If you are the only drunk one, maybe you could try sober next time and not do just random things, but if everyone's drunk and having fun (though I wouldn't call it any kind of official D&D without following most rules) then that's what is important. I think you're all hitting the "do anything" angle a bit too hard, to the point where it becomes "do random things just to act out," which gets really old really fast. At least sober.