"then after we teleported there we started fighting their leader...

>Gets called out for being a massive faggot who'd probably kill an entire gaming group simply because "REEEENOFUNALLOWEDSCREEEE".
>Spews the tired "LULULULULNOTANARGUMENTYUFAGSHAHAHAHAHABRAAAAP" point.
How utterly predictable.

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Good thread

Don't lie.

>His campaigns aren't based on the Epics and Vedas
>He doesn't roleplay the divine conflicts between godly avatars and ten thousand faced, billion armed gigademons
>He likes to pretend to be an average man running around in a hole with an iron stick
Sad!

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Nobody gives a fuck about Hindu mythology except Ancient Astronaut Theorists.

I'd be more interested if there wasn't so much to know about. Can somebody give me a concise explanation of the Hindu mythology in one or two posts?

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>When Boogie falls to Chaos

Dudes with mustaches and lots of arms throw nukes at each other because they're dicks.

A bunch of shit happens.

Then the One True God naps for a few millennia.

Then the same bunch of shit happens again, possibly with minor variations.

Lot of arms, lot of drama, lot of gods, lot of fantasy potential. You have dozens and dozens of larger than life heroes, some of whom are children or avatars of the Gods, some of whom are just badasses. Nearly every major god as their own signature weapon they hand out to their champions that do cool shit. For instance, the Indrastra, signature of the storm god Indra, fires an arrow that splits into thousands to create a 'rain' of arrows. There's also all kinds of cool demons and other monstrous assholes like the Rakshasa or the Asuras

This

Low fantasy or trying to remain "grounded" only really works for a while in a fantasy game, at a certain point, you need to go higher up unless you want to turn things into a shitty rehash of GoT.

Why would somebody do this? Just dust off an old piece of bait and post it? They can't even bother to make new bait?

Pieces of the big god break off when it isn't paying attention. The big pieces are gods. The little pieces are living things. Climb the ladder until you're all one with the big god again... until pieces break off again, and the cycle begins anew.

Out of all of the shitty things to come out of the /polr9kv/ cancer, "not an argument" and "nice strawman" are among the worst

This isn't a goddam debate, it's just a fucking Veeky Forums thread

i think i get where you're coming from. i've seen my fair share of lazy dms trying to reach overdramatic high fantasy ends, only to fall short
it's the sort of thing that a lot of people try to do (especially inexperienced dms), but can't pull off. which is a shame, since it can be pretty damn awesome when done right

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What about Western mythology, then? Stuff like Achilles routing the Trojan armies by himself and then kicking the ass of a local river god in the Iliad?

>Posts in an imageboard for grown men who do math-structured play pretend with expensive versions of childrens' toys
>thinks it's the fucking high-school debate club
Where do you think you are? Go back to /pol/ nigga.

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Not an argument.

See? You get it now.

People who post smug anime girls should be banned

>b-but muh anime imageboard

That doesn't excuse shitposting

Why and how would anybody respond to a non-argument with an argument?

OP is completely right honestly.
>characters are just a bunch of random dudes with above-average abilities and powers going around fighting ogres and dragons
>Suddenly they can fight off a higher dimension being
That shit is genuinely retarded.

>shitposting needs to dissapear !
point at him, point at him and laugh

Literally SEETHING.

>"not an argument" and "nice strawman" are among the worst
Maybe you should stop making non-arguments and strawmen.

Shitposting is objectively bad. That's why it's called SHITposting; because your post is shit

It's also shit I've never seen happen in a game, and rarely in other media.

Do you even know what a strawman is?

Still no arguments from you.
SEETHING.

Post story pls.

What are you talking about? Characters fighting off enemies with ridiculous nonsensical gaps in power from the ones beforehand happens literally all the time.

I would love to have a discussion about things like this; but sadly OP doesn't actually have anything to talk about. It's just a thread about bait and nothing else, it doesn't seem like anyone even agrees with the sentiment. Kind of infuriating to waste bandwidth, tbqh.

I'm not trying to make an argument.

Now answer my question dickweed

More or less regular dudes suddenly being able to fight gods for no particular reason sure as fuck isn't a regular thing.

Have you tried asking your GM about this? I've never seen it in any of my games, and I had a level 50 D&D campaign once.
Most power progression is very much linear. The gods come after the demigods come after the mighty paragons come after the legends of legends come after the legendary warriors etc.
It may have started from helping Mudfarmer Joe and his wolf problem but if you're slaying Demogorgon, Prince of Demons then you probably had to fight some things in between.

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>and I had a level 50 D&D campaign once.
You know, I'd genuinely love to hear about this. What is a campaign at those levels like?

Pretty much nonsense. When every attack deals 2000 damage there's no real point to tracking numbers anymore. The system falls apart, really. One character was an actual god (Divine Rank 6), one was an ancient treant warrior, one an invincible sorcerer, it was the exact thing OP feared.
Killing star gods and averting nine simultaneous apocalypses was silly but we all had fun.

you can have discworld amounts of fun if you throw in low level schmucks in over the top ebin scenarios tho. my longest running game was about the unraveling of the multivers and a war between gods and immortals and the players were basic a rincewind only just surviving and never solving anything. good fun

>You know, I'd genuinely love to hear about this. What is a campaign at those levels like?
I played from level 1 to level 31 once, straight through with no level skips. Everyone else was between 28-30 when we pretty much hit endgame and took over the pantheon as the newest round of gods. After that we started a Dark Sun campaign.

why even bother posting this? It's not funny and it's derivative, unoriginal shit that's more likely to end a thread then anything. when did it go so wrong, bros?

Not the user you're replying to, but fucking insane. I actually ran a campaign that used Immortal's Handbook when I was in high school and it's basically as batshit as you'd imagine. Pentuple digit damage,murdering whole countries, all kinds of crazy shit. I wanted to convert to Exalted before things reached that level but I was playing with a group of young 3.PF fags back when that was an acceptable thing to be, so cest la vie

>when did it go so wrong, bros?
When we got board-specific mods who wanted to prune the board to their personal ideal, and then later when Hiro opened up traffic to increase ad revenue.

I hear you, epic level campaigns are not that fun most of the time.
There's a point where the threat level of a villain runs into diminishing returns, and it's generally around "What we do every day, Pinkie: try to take over the world."

I've seen you post this thread twice already. Even if I agree with your sentiment, fuck off.

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>being this autistic

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I fucking hate this stupid bitch who joined our dnd group. She has the fall to tell me to use the toilet instead of my soda bottles when I need to pee.

I have a very strong feeling that this is either some really fucking bad b8 or a copypasta.

like this shit just seems unrealistically stupid to ever be said given the context. Why what do you mean this ruins D&D? You can play low fantasy or Dark fantasy in Dungeons and Dragons too, you know?

>What is the cancer that ruined D&D
You

>and why is it OP
Because you keep making this thread

The important thing is that you told some people that they're having bad-wrong fun

>DM runs hyper-historically actuate medieval """fantasy""" game
>Magic is limited to herbs and old witch rituals that don't work 90% of the time
>Aside from this I'm pretty sure he made things more "gritty" and "realistic" than the actual medieval era
>Spend in game years working up the ranks of knighthood
>Get my own plot of land
>Low key make it a safe haven for witches and crackpot alchemists in a vain attempt to force something more interesting than court politics and cavalry tactics to happen
>Start building a alchemical siege engine blessed by forest demons that probably aren't real
>Basically just a scary looking tower on wheels that can dump acid on people and has a cannon that takes 10 rounds to reload
>DM is assblasted that I'm dragging his world into the Renaissance kicking and screaming, but can't argue with my good rolls.
>Finally fuck up enough for the lord next door to call in the inquisition
>Nearly two years of OOC work up in flames in one night
>Get away, but succumb to an infected arrow wound and die in a cave
>mfw

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If your campaign isn't inspired by the Mahabarata, then we ain't niggas

Okay smartass, tell me why shitposting should be allowed

Thanks for proving my point. You have contributed literally nothing

I'm glad he's having fun, but this story is really one of those things you had to be there for to appreciate.

>Nobody gives a fuck about Hindu mythology
You fuck off.
Basically it's like if Platinum games made a mythology.

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This is the function of society, we use laws and social norms to restrict "fun" A LOT, fuck off.

This.

that might be the most wretched pube-beard I have ever seen in my life

I find if you go for a different genre with fantasy trappings, you can stay low fantasy as long as you want.
You can slot noir into anything.

This isn't a debate club. Its a discussion.

Which means that if I want to respond to your shit with "lol u a fgt tho" and then talk about how in MY dnd game we use TOASTERS instead of magic users because GYGAX WAS A TRANNY LOL you can't say I'm not properly arguring using the approved argument form to logicallly debate a certain point with you

WE're nubs onna net talking about stuff. Anything is allowed. Accept it.

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like how is it physically or biologically possible for someone to grow a bread and not have hair above the jaw line. Is the guy shaving everything above?

Yeah, well, that's no good. In my opinion society is evil for doing that.

Good thing those don't apply to storytelling.

Better luck next time.

It happens to me.

OC makes bad bait.

>he doesnt run games based on bronze age mythology where a sufficiently swole dude can hold up the entire fuckin world on his shoulders if he wants
U sound like no fun

Exalted, you're describing how Exalted is marketed but has never actually been.

k

But then no one is going to take your retard ass seriously

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Fighting gods that wanted revenge on the player characters has been a feature of high level play since Gygax's first campaign.

Stop making this dumb thread

>make my PC's go through 10 levels of dungeon crawl
>then make them fight Shrek at the top
Who /fullretard/ here?

>>"then after we teleported there we started fighting their leader, who was a LITERAL GOD who had already destroyed an ENTIRE MULTIVERSE trying to defeat us..."
Perfect pic for that.

Jesus I've overheard people in public talk like that. At least those dorks are happy and usually grow out of it.

Bait mines are dry in the spring.
Usually have to dust off some old stuff, maybe at best melt some of it down and reforge it, try to brand it off as new, but it never fools anyone.

I can somewhat empathize with OP that any game that goes long enough does eventually wind up devolving into something rediculous. Always seems to be something that's going to be world/nation destroying the players are out to stop single-handedly, it seems.

For once, I'd like to play a campaign that just revolved around a more personal goal, because as the stakes rise, the ability for players to justify their monstrous behavior does as well.

I just keep the experience low for the most part so that players don't progress too much from where they started, in terms of stats. Their deeds might get more daring, but the stakes are always higher, and at a certain point, they realize they're in over their heads and either need to take a step back or get help from a larger entity. This does create a problem that as the game progresses, martial and magical combat traits get less effective than stealth and social skills since both of those lets you keep the threats to manageable levels and leverage your impressive yet still human combat talents to better effect.

You are completely right.
>characters are just a bunch of incompetent militia and apprentices going around fighting goblins and giant rats
>suddenly they can fight off ogres and dragons
That shit is genuinely retarded.

your DM sounds like a boring asshole

Me and my GMs usually have a gentleman's agreement on technology in games. It's common nature to want to introduce something that's never been done before in the setting because you outside of the game know about it, and it is very satisfying when you're the sophisticated designer and everyone else NPC wise is an ignorant savage impressed by your revolutionary stuff. Unfortunately, the march of technology and change in society is often outside of the scope of the games we play, so instead I just restrain myself as to not put the setting off-kilter.

>those don't apply to storytelling
and yet, everytime someone goes on and on about how the story is being told about fetishes or something they don't like or find socially uncomfortable... you guys lose your shit at that, shaming the person using the the exact argument. You've lost your way user.

i hate libertarians

>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

they're baiting you. not that you don't deserve it you dumb fuck.

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Fpbp

Do you really think this is something new? I started playing in the late 80es and there were already faggots like that.

Do you get this way every time someone tells you the out of context ending to an epic?

Usually when people talk about stories or campaigns they were in that reach that scale they gloss over the beginning when they started off as green adventurers an unlikely heroes.

You don't start the story with the dial turned up past 11. You need to build up to it. So of course it sounds stupid when taken out of context. And a little dickish to be bragging about your character but no sense in faulting people for being excited about playing the game.

>hyper-historically actuate medieval
>inquisition

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