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Oh the looks on my players faces...

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This was a classic moment for me, TOTALLY. When the wizard bungled the roll of a dimensional teleport roll. I allowed them to roll to see how nice I should be, -10. They rolled a 47. I put them in the world of a popular 80's/90's cartoon. And the look of their faces when they figured out where they were...It was priceless!!! The world is Myrrh. And I started them off where the show ended. LOL! And they met Ryn, Ioz, and Tula, and a Monkeybird name Midlor. But it wasn't until they encountered one of the major villain that it finally clicked.
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I have not seen Pirates of Dark water since it first aired on TV...
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Try YouTube.
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Alas, I have not the time.
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Pirates of Dark Water, where they made up curse words so sailors could sound like sailors.
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I had all the episode on tape at one time. Another one of the few cartoons on tv in the 1980s in which characters died.
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Fun story. Do you have a lot of dimensional teleporting in your PFRPG games?
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Torval wrote:Fun story. Do you have a lot of dimensional teleporting in your PFRPG games?

Usually in the ones I play in, not too much the ones I run.
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pblackcrow wrote:
Torval wrote:Fun story. Do you have a lot of dimensional teleporting in your PFRPG games?

Usually in the ones I play in, not too much the ones I run.


When it does happen in the games you play, is it usually by player's actions or as a consequences of NPC actions?
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Torval wrote:Fun story. Do you have a lot of dimensional teleporting in your PFRPG games?

Usually in the ones I play in, not too much the ones I run.


When it does happen in the games you play, is it usually by player's actions or as a consequences of NPC actions?

A mixture of all of the above actually.
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I like dimension hoping in Rifts (with environmental suits and sensors n' stuff to check things out), not so big a fan of it in PF.
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Reagren Wright wrote:I had all the episode on tape at one time. Another one of the few cartoons on tv in the 1980s in which characters died.


Which characters died? I don't recall any of them actually being killed (well... none of the 4 main characters anyways).
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Jerell wrote:I like dimension hoping in Rifts (with environmental suits and sensors n' stuff to check things out), not so big a fan of it in PF.


I kinda hate to admit this, but as a fan of things like the old tv shows SLIDERS, Stargate SG-1, and Farscape, I still have yet to run a campaign wherein any of the players go dimension/universe hopping... To be honest, I have actually tried to motivate my players to do this on several occasions, but to no avail. I also should admit that not one of my regulars would even get the Pirates of the dark waters reference, as most were born in the late 90's.
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I just finished running a PFRPG adventure to set up a larger campaign and introduce a long-term nemesis.

One of my players wanted to run a Caecil from "Aliens Unlimited." I didn't make it easy for him, nor did I give him any unfair advantages. It did make for an interesting side-story as to how that particular character "hopped" into the fantasy setting from his homeworld, and how he was treated.
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pblackcrow wrote:
Torval wrote:Fun story. Do you have a lot of dimensional teleporting in your PFRPG games?

Usually in the ones I play in, not too much the ones I run.

yeah...and when you did it, you always told us ahead of time. so we would know to not play characters with obligations or duties.
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