Actually considering running my favorite one-shot sometime soon. Wondering if I should look around on Lemmy for some players…

  • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de
    262·
    1 year ago

    My longest “one shot” ever ended up taking 52 sessions over a little more than two years. What started as a very simple local festival where the party tried to win a cooking competition led to (not in order):

    • one of the largest inns in town burned to the ground
    • one party member pregnant with twins from two different fathers (one of them a different party member)
    • at least six assistants of one of the other chefs dead by the hand of the one party member that has the worst combat skills
    • the same party member killing a local merchant with a single punch in the face after he was accused of stealing when the thief was really a different party member (the pregnant one)
    • one party member waking up in the Empress’ bed with a black rose on the pillow next to him
    • one supernatural STD sent by the goddess of (essentially) sex, drugs and rock & roll ravaging the whole barony
    • the one session where they visited said goddess’ temple being the only occasion where they were super PG-13

    I know at least one of my players reads this community so feel free to add anything that I may have missed.

    • Jesus_666@feddit.deEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      As one of the perpetrators players I have to issue a correction:

      The supernatural STD was actually fully contained by pure accident. Patient zero ended up in medical care, the party (all of whom caught it) somehow ended up having intercourse with very few people despite their best efforts, and the one other person that did get infected ended up joining the party.

      I’d also point out that the STD had to be invented to explain an absurdly improbable string of crit successes and fails on skill checks that led to a party member getting seduced by someone with so many negative charisma modifiers stacked up that he was less attractive than the ground he was standing on. And then it happened again right afterwards.

      And that wasn’t the only bizarre string of extreme die rolls: The combat-inept party member turning into One Punch Man involved a series of 17 rolls, 14 of which were either crit fails or crit successes. At one point dfyx threw up his arms and said that the punch (a crit, naturally) did an absurd 5d6 damage, which of course came up as all sixes. Then two party members crit failed trying to administer first aid.

      Oh, and dfyx forgot to mention that one other party member one-critted a raging bull with a rapier but that was so mundane compared to the rest of this pile-up of improbability that it’s easy to overlook.

      That one-shot was cursed.

  • Eagle0600@yiffit.netEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I started my longest-running campaign with a “one-shot”. Part of that was by the publishers’ design. I ran the free module “We Be Goblins” (highly recommended), which involved a pack of goblins searching for more fireworks. The end of that adventure acts as a teaser for the “Jade Regent” adventure path, which I ran to completion with most of the initial group.

    In that adventure path, the PCs get to revisit (and drive off) their tribe from the one-shot in the opening act.

    • Kichae@lemmy.ca
      1·
      1 year ago

      I really wish Paizo would convert the Goblins pentalogy to 2e. I think my step-son would get a real kick out of them.

      I know there are conversion guides out there for the first one. Maybe I’ll try converting the rest some day.

  • sammytheman666@ttrpg.network
    8·
    1 year ago

    I did it on purpose. I loved to start 2 campains with The wild sheep chase. One of thoses 2 even had Finethir be a part of it.

        • Stamets@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          1 year ago

          It was one of the first things I ever DMed. I’ve got a fondness for it. Love doing my specific brand of Finethir and Noke as well. Not to mention Guz.

          Fuck. Is there a LFG community on this server somewhere?

  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    1 year ago

    The DM said

    "It‘s just a goblin cave! You’ll be out in no time!“

    and the adventurers stepped foot into the entrance to hell

      • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 year ago

        Ah dayum this just made me remember one of my first sessions back when I went to this hall for beginners. On one table the faint sound of the Skyrim theme started to play and one from my table jumped up, pointed to that table and screamed "YOU GUYS ARE FIGHTING A DRAGON???“

  • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
    3·
    1 year ago

    This is me every time I host a 3-4 player game of tabletop Talisman. Sure, we’ll use the Ice Queen ending and purge the Frostmarch cards for a more straight-forward game. Base game and The Reaper. No corner boards. Should have a victor within a couple of hours.

    The clock strikes midnight.

    Wow, I finally gained a strength counter! What a wonderful start this has been for the ol’ Druid. Glad I still pick him every time because of those two games that went really well six years ago.