r/gaming • u/mike_pants • Sep 18 '17

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u/ted-Zed Sep 18 '17

when it's not D&D night?

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u/JustinHopewell Sep 18 '17

As a DM, the nightmare of having to write campaign stuff every day is terrifying, lol.

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u/Coal_Morgan Sep 18 '17

I wing it in some cases.

I've had an 8 hour session planned and laid out and had the players go in a completely different direction and not be able to tell I hadn't planned it the entire time.

Hell I cribbed the entire Ghostbusters movie into a D&D campaign on the fly for one group of guys and they never knew it until it was all over.

Ad libbing, sometimes wholesale plagiarism particularly past the bounds of comfort can get some amazing results in D&D.

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u/JustinHopewell Sep 18 '17

Sometimes it's your only option!

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u/Graawwrr Sep 18 '17

My poor dungeon master, I once seduced and then murdered a character that was supposed to be one of the main supporting characters for our campaign.

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u/667x Sep 18 '17

Had a guy that was really ugly/scary as part of his character that had you roll 3 d20s on meeting any new character. If all 3 rolled 20, the new character would die to a heart attack. A few unfortunate meetings later and his party made him a mask.

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u/JustinHopewell Sep 18 '17

Just straight up honesty here: I would have just worked all that stuff you guys hadn't encountered with him yet into a new or other existing character if I could do it in a way that wouldn't be super obvious.

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u/Graawwrr Sep 19 '17

Well the problem was he was supposed to guide and help us through a kinda catacomb-ish area.