Bad Gamers - That same guy again

[ericcoleman]

I used to work Sunday afternoon's at the local game shop. I went into work one day and the guy who I worked with said "aren't you using The Black Tower in your game? Kevin was reading through it yesterday." I thanked him, and made some changes for the next session. In one of the rooms there was a very powerful sword hidden in a mattress. When they came to that room Kevin went straight for the bed and instantly found the sword. I don't remember what cursed sword I replaced the original with, but his reaction was classic ... "THAT'S NOT WHAT was in ... " Then a long pause, then silence.

Comments

[poly-scott.livejournal.com]

Hahahahahaha! That's awesome. :-)

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

You may actually teach him to think. My admiration to you sir.

[ericcoleman]

No, nothing was ever going to teach him to think ... wait till the CoC story ...

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

I am surprised the sword was not replaced by a pea (but then the player may not have gotten the reference). But changing it to a cursed sword will definately teach him a lesson. Especially if it is a talking sword that loves to heckle.

[ericcoleman]

ALL of my cursed swords had things to say ...

[bammba-m.livejournal.com]

i thought those books were just basic guidelines.


Like, i have a few campaigns from D&D and this Fuzzy Heroes book, and i'm probably going to combine them into a storyline. But they're certainly not going to be exactly like in the books, and once you introduce the players, we may go off the grid entirely.

[ericcoleman]

Generally with modules, I just use the maps ... but back then I ran things pretty much the way they were written.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

There are good and sufficient reasons for doing that, especially if you're fairly new to the racket.

There are also good and sufficient reasons for making changes, and that's one of them. :)

[ericcoleman]

I haven't used any information in a module or supplement for 20 years. I still use a lot of the old maps I have (especially Judges Guild), but I haven't read through a module in years.

Now if I can just find local folks to play with who are a "Daddy tell me a story" group.

[dement1a.livejournal.com]

Love these stories :)

[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

You and your co-worker are made of awesome. Serves Kevin -so- right! *bwahahaha*