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Published: 2010-10-24 21:45:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 4628; Favourites: 54; Downloads: 39
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"Few people grasp the complicated nature of keeping a game entertaining. Take, for example, the event-to-loot exchange rate. If players get too much loot, they stop caring about it and have no incentive to care about the story. If the players get too little loot, they become obsessed with it and completely ignore the story. Only by keeping the exchange rate carefully balanced can a GM keep their players in line. It's still a lot easier, though, than just making the game fun all the time."Uh oh, looks like the GM is losing control of the players. It will take drastic action to get them back in line, and maybe even a little backup...
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Airmaster - anime series with some great fight scenes. You'll believe a 6-foot schoolgirl can fly.
Just fyi.
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As an occasional GM, I know all about this kind of stuff. Ugh, players are so stupid sometimes. ^^''
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Grrr Argh, huh? Sounds like the DM is gonna introduce... a mutant enemy.
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GRR ARGH!! Loving the grr argh-ness. Must...fave...this...
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I can't wait to give you more to read. 
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Thanks! That's what we're going for.
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Heehee, nothing like the "All can be forgiven if you do this" quest! Sure, perpetrating evil is bad, but we don't mind as long as you go run our errands! XD
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It's a great pressure release for the GM. "They burnt down what?! How will I keep the guards from slaughtering the lot of them? ...oh, maybe some fetch-quest blackmail!"
It's saved my players the bother of rolling up new characters more than once.
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If they're anywhere as crazy as my players, I can believe wholeheartedly that death would have been the result! XD (If my games didn't tend to be so cinematic, my players would have rerolled up a small community every couple of sessions!)
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lol... "I we die, can I go home?..." At lease Aang was still thinking ahead with selling junky weapons! 
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You're quite welcome!
Katara just hasn't found her gaming niche yet. Perhaps someone will be along shortly to help her with that...
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True, snappy comebacks are the universe way of punishing someone who decides to be the GM. With great powers come smart@sses...
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Of course, they can't get too snappy. Who would want their world's god really unhappy? At least, that's what us GM's keep trying to impress on people.
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Never EVER say that nothing's happened in a while! The monsters will appear if you do!
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Don't tell Aang, he'll do it on purpose.
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is sokka the GM? are Aangand Katara the only players ?
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Not quite, but all your questions will be answered next time.
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Event-to-loot ratio is a very tricky little beast. It also helps if the GM is in charge of dinner/snacks-- sometimes bribing the players themselves helps.
At this point, I'm already trying to figure out likely stats/alignment for characters.
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I think INT was their dump stat.
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My friends made me take INT as the dump stat. My character could make up for it with wisdom, but I knew entirely too much about anatomy for them already.
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I always made my players roleplay low intelligence and/or wisdom. I had one who did a very good job playing a mentally-impaired dependent, and awarded him XP for it, but he still got himself killed as soon as reasonably possible. (I gave him a little boost with his next character for arranging a believable death, though.)
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I think my favorite character in our party was the immensely charismatic barbarian with a negative intelligence modifier. His attacks actually got a lot of benefit from the charisma, but we teased that we needed to hire someone to play the character that points him in the right direction.
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Ah, a perfect Meat Shield.
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Not that it will stop him from continuing to try...
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We'll try to oblige.
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So did Aang take some of the loot with him? You never know when a bow staff that will not break, a necklace that never stays latched, or a bison whistle will come in handy!
I'm so excited for Backup.
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Oh, Aang took All that loot, baby! He'll probably just forget about it in his "magical inventory" by next week though.
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I can't wait for them to go in about 3 months and then have to clean out their inventory a bit.
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L.O.L. xD
Now that I actually get what's going on, this is hilarious. Yay for not being confused about things!
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It's a bit of work, but definitely worth it. Thanks for Fav'ing!
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And that is why Guild Wars 2 will be the greatest MMO in existence.
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This isn't about GW2 is it? Darn...
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Ugh, Aangs moding the game again, better nerf him before he gets OP.
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Something tells me that "nerf" is not in this kid's vocabulary. 
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