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DougRed4
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| griff wrote: | | The worst time in dealing with my groups metagamer, was when it was his turn to be the GM. This is when the group would pull out our "throw away characters" because someone was going to die. My first time as one of his players, I was playing a scout character who liked sleeping in trees outdoors. That just bugged him. So durning the first twenty minutes of the game, me sleeping in the tree, the first encounter of the session we were attack by some insectoid alien he found in a suppliment and used it to attack our camp. The first roll of the game was damage to me, plus the fall and another damage roll, dead scout. That encounter seemed to be only there to attack me. We never see those aliens again, and the story takes a tangent to a space station. This wasn't the last character in the group to go that night. And in the Star Wars tradition all characters are cremated. We roll up the character sheet put it on the barbeque, and put a match to them. Also he would play the antagonist known things about the PCs that was unreasonable for the NPC to know. His games were just s meat grinder. |
This sounds pretty familiar. Our resident power gamer/munchkin (who also was the one who most often tended to metagame) once had a player character (in our supers game) die, due to really foolish choices on his part. He announced he was running next, and then went on to run what everybody else termed a "revenge module", where he did his darndest to kill everybody else, even bringing one of his old PCs out of retirement, boosting them massively, giving them a magical item from way in their past, and turning them evil. It ended up being one of the worst nights of gaming for most involved, and numerous ones stated they would never again play in an adventure run by that guy. I was on vacation at the time, so missed out on this, but I don't think that fellow ever ran again.
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DougRed4
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| Whill wrote: | | I once ran a game where a PC had an entertaining interaction with one of the goons in Jabba's palace, in an adventure set years before RotJ. The NPC turned into an ongoing antagonist of the PC and the NPC would turn up in various ways once every few adventures. Since killing the NPC was off the table, the tone become annoyance and frustration for the PC, and a lot of fun roleplaying sessions. |
Just out of curiosity (and because I know so many of the obscure characters from my years with Star Wars CCG), what character was it? (if you remember)
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I don't remember which Jabba's goon it was. But I do remember that I had gotten the idea for that from an earlier campaign with a different player whose character gained Walrus Man as a nemesis. Walrus Man just kept turning up in various ways every so often. The most memorable occasion was when the PC ordered a pizza to his ship in the docking bay, and who was the pizza delivery guy? Walrus Man! 
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It's always our kasa horansi or coynite (or both) who meet delivery drivers. We learned that lesson early on  |
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DougRed4
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| Whill wrote: | | I don't remember which Jabba's goon it was. But I do remember that I had gotten the idea for that from an earlier campaign with a different player whose character gained Walrus Man as a nemesis. Walrus Man just kept turning up in various ways every so often. The most memorable occasion was when the PC ordered a pizza to his ship in the docking bay, and who was the pizza delivery guy? Walrus Man! |
Ah, good old Ponda Baba (or another Aqualish). I remember well the days when these guys were known as 'Walrus Man', 'Hammerhead', etc. 
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| DougRed4 wrote: | | Ah, good old Ponda Baba (or another Aqualish). I remember well the days when these guys were known as 'Walrus Man', 'Hammerhead', etc. |
Yeah, I'm a first generation Star Wars fan and WEG Gamer, so I first knew the alien characters by their action figure names, and I was there when WEG first named them all. Sometimes I can't remember the RPG/EU names or just slip back to my earlier childhood and refer to the older "speciest" names. Here I didn't say "a walrus man" but instead said Walrus Man, so I was meaning to refer specifically to the original Walrus Man: Ponda Baba. He can be a fun antagonist. I actually altered a Ponda Baba action figure to have a cybernetic hand.
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