Errol wants to sacrifice everyone to the dark god Cthulhu…..
In this episode we take a look at flaws and bonds in your character and how you can work with it to add interest and entertainment in your character. We take a look at how you can add these traits irrespective of the role-playing system you are using, whether Dungeons and Dragons or a system like Cthulhu.
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I have(barely noticeable, but hampers my left side significantly, though I have somehow apparently acquired a high level of sneak) cerebral palsy, diabetes and epilepsy. How would those conditions work out as flaws in d&d and could a viable pc be made with those conditions?
We have this player who likes to botch his role play interactions or interrupt other players' rituals & things because … he's flawed and that's what he would do. Aaarg! Occasionally, it goes full Leroy Jenkins.
Indiana Jones's fear of snakes is explained in the third film. When he was young (at the start of the film) he moves a snake and says "it's just a snake", showing he wasn't afraid, then later falls into a "pit of snakes" and freaks out.
Yes, we don't know it in the first one at the time he confronts his fear.
Bonds can also be used to unlock magical weapons or new companions/pets. The character's ancestor could have had a marvelous artifact which had been lost (grave robbing, ancestor died by being mugged for the item- whatever) and the character always tells a marvelous campfire stories of the ancestor using the item, and another character recognizes the item as one he'd read about somewhere (history check). Viola you now have a quest to go recover a family heirloom with marvelous magical properties.
I made a character who’s goal is to become rich. He grew up poor and that sucks so he wants to get money. He did just become a warlock to an arch fey and so I’m looking to see how his goals can change and develop.
But I didn't come here to talk about milk lol… Very good talk. I arrived here via a search for bonds and flaws; I am designing a bond-centered Low Fantasy Bard class, based on the bards of tradition, more Chaucer than Python's Holy Grail. Essential to this class will be the Bond Point, a system where the bard will reward great things in the game with points that allow transferring of talents between members of the party (particularly to the jack or jill of trades themselves, the Bard). Kinda neat if you like story and bonds, right? My proto-playtester is in love with the idea. I think bonds between characters are the most essential aspect of building a cohesive narrative team, it's the equivalent of the afterwork party, or else it's just people grinding stats, even in a light rules game.
Milk like many types of food can be "an addiction," as much as your valium might be, as tryptophan is a psychoactive and very relaxing, and milk has tons of it. It's the thing you get after you a eat a gigantic feast on the holidays. It won't make you TIRED, though, because it contains other things like protein that keep you up. So you get a nice relaxing high after 1 or 10 glasses of milk… I knew a kid in high school who's mom drank four gallons of milk a day, I'm not kidding.
How did it go with the algae? Are the snails all right?
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PUPlisher. PUPlisher for crying out loud.
on your keyboard:
0: my name is errol
1: ok
Hahaha!
After so many episodes with creative intros spanning tens of seconds or even longer, this one took me by such surprise that I almost fell out of my chair.
I'm still chuckling about it, it's great.
You misspelled Cthulhu in your thumbnail.
Sure, you can have cool bonds and flaws if you got a GM who's willing to work with them properly… Unfortunately, most GM's tend to be EXTREME with these, either they pay way too much attention to it and effectively find ways to exploit them for their fun, or they tend to ignore them altogether…
The gin-drinking aunt is a great idea. Maybe she drinks that particular kind of gin because it keeps her from becoming the multi-headed monster. The downside is that there is a chemical in that gin which is killing her.
The only ones who know are the aunt, the character, and maybe the brewer. Perhaps he knows, and keeps upping the price to where she can't afford it, or hires thugs to steal the gin back because he's too lazy to brew more. Now a kind, desperate woman sends a message to her niece or nephew with just two words: "Gin gone". Could do a couple of adventures around that plot point.
@how to be a great game master and this is why i dont like the D&D offical channel they block all comments and in your 1ep of the saltmarsh game whenever u transit into another screen of the stat your players audio is muted and its very annoying end up not hearing what they say and u know whats more annoying i have to come all the way to leave a comment here to let u know because that video wouldnt allow anyone to comment. hope you and D&D would fix this technical difficulties or able to find it in the first place
Secret bonds or flaws can add mystery to a character, but shouldn't be overused to the detriment or derailing of the GM's story.
A common flaw like smoking may also have other impacts. Like the character is dedected because of his smell. Remember the smoker in xfiles.
What? Bonds didn't come from D&D – it was copied from Dungeon World.
For clarification, they do actually explain the history of Indiana Jones's fear of snakes in the third film. In the opening sequence we see young Indiana running from the baddies across the top of a train hauling circus animals. He falla through the roof of one car into a sealed off pit of snaked used for the circus. Its also the same area where he picks up the whip and gets his scar on the chin.
Alright, Errol.
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