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Journal Short Circuit's Journal: D&D: On Discipline and Revenge 10

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As DM, how/when have you found discipline to be necessary? Do you do it in-game our out-of-game?

As a player, why/how have you sought revenge against another player, or against an NPC?

As always, anecdotes are welcome.

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  • With the discipline, its just rational sense. If someone is causing enormous problems, sometimes you just have to ask him/her to leave. If its someone being mildly/severely annoying, its time to introduce the deck of many things (with a lot of the 'good' cards removed) ;-)

    As far as revenge (PC to PC), I've mentioned it before... in Rifts my glitterboy thrashed a technowizard. It was good times ;-)

  • Never had to dicipline a character, but I play with people I've known for years, and I haven't been running that long.

    On the other hand, I have gotten revenge on people in game. In one, our party gets attacked by a bunch of duplicates of ourselves. I'm playing a Blue (psionic goblin) psion/pyrokineticist. Arr of the clan Mihardes (one of my better names... Goblin prince. I thought 'arrogent goblin' was a funny character concept) Target is a half-orc barbarian. And we know that the dupes (from where

    • It sounds like whoever was playing the barbarian stayed in character admirably. Sure, it wasn't to his advantage as the player controlling the character, but from the character's perspective, whacking a nutty psionicist who just tried to mind-control you seems fairly reasonable.
      • Like I said, it was in character. But my response was also in character. After all, as far as Arr was concerned, the barbarian was too stupid to justify allowing him to have opinions of his own. So informing him of who was in charge was necessary.
  • Most of the people I have played with over the years I've known for quite a while before playing, so it's rarely been an issue.

    When it has been an issue (normally using outside knowledge in the game), I send a stronger enemy in than they were expecting. The party as a whole suffers a bit, so they try to encourage each other to behave themselves after that.

  • I realize this is a Rifts story but I find it hilarious. I was a technowizard with a hover vehicle. My friend was a SAMUS Warrior.

    One night he thought it would be a great idea to ransack my belongings whilst I was asleep. And as much as I hate PC vs. PC and I knew it would end the quest but my alignment kinda forced me to attack him. This really pissed him off and I knew I didn't have a chance one on one.

    So I hopped into my hover vehicle and took off just as he came running back at me to finish me off. I

    • That is quite funny. I take it that your GM must have been very involved with the non-standard combat, interpretations of the wich, etc.

      How did the other guy take it? Despite losing his character, was he able to laugh about it? Will he word his wished more carefully in the future?

      Until this climax, had your two characters gotten along pretty well?

      • I take it that your GM must have been very involved with the non-standard combat

        The GM was always looking for interesting ways to spice up combat. When most players he GM'ed were hack'n'slash types combat would take 10-20 minuts per melee.

        How did the other guy take it? Despite losing his character, was he able to laugh about it? Will he word his wished more carefully in the future?

        At first not well. He made great effort to complain to the GM and even attempted to RolePlay a complaint to the Air Elem

  • But I've been a DM for around 17 years and I guess I've had to use discipline a couple of times. I used to have a rule that was iron clad:

    No interupting the story to discuss a rule.

    I didn't mind people bringing stuff up in a pause, to clarify an action or when asking questions - but if you interupted another player, a DM narration etc it really pissed me off. Other discipline issues were players blatantly using player knowledge.

    I had a pretty simple penalty system and the players all knew it. Force me t

  • I used to control players by adding "items" to tehir path. I had a player who would try everything in his power to break my story and go off on his own. So I let him find a set of magical armor, that his lore identified as a -2 AC Plate. He put it on.

    He became a she. Magical plate of permanent gender change. he/she was pissed.

    "I take off the armor!"
    "The rest of your party gawks at your ample breasts."
    "AHHHG! I was supposed to change back!"
    "Nope, change is permanent, stat sheet please."

    He didn't play

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