Writing Proper escalation of violence

[TheEldritchGod]

Murderhobos are lame. No fun. Brainless. The only thing they can think to entertain themselves is violence.

I'll have you know I DM for a group of very lovely murderhobos.

Murderhobos is justice!

 

[NotaNuffian]

I'll have you know I DM for a group of very lovely murderhobos.

Murderhobos is justice!

Bro, every time I see you post, I feel that your mental age is deteriorating. Or are you slowly getting more upbeat and youthful?

 

[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

I'll have you know I DM for a group of very lovely murderhobos.

Murderhobos is justice!

If everyone's into it then it's probably pretty fun.

 

[Ilikewaterkusa]

War is fought over advantage or survival, sometimes both.

True. But nowadays ideology is the basis of warfare

 

[TheEldritchGod]

Bro, every time I see you post, I feel that your mental age is deteriorating. Or are you slowly getting more upbeat and youthful?

The further from Christmas the more my powers return.

If everyone's into it then it's probably pretty fun.

Everyone's been too busy. Miss the game even if I got stuck doing all the time.

These guys are a dungeon destroying machine. So rapan athak starts of saying every door is locked with a DC 40 lock. What do the players do?

They go, that's a master lock. That's worth 50 gold. If we sell it, we can get 25 golf, easy.

SO THEY STEAL EVERY SINGLE DOOR.

The way they systematically destroyed this supposedly undeafeatable module was just art. Orcas is the final boss. I remember reading the encounter and it states, Orcas does nothing but laugh at the players the first two rounds. I just read that and said, "this fucker won't make it past the first round. He and his whole damn army is dead."

The elder brain encounter. They list off like a million immunities. Touching it causes continuous electrical damage. What do the players do? Ooze puppet a mustard jelly, which gets stronger if you hit it with electricity, name it Hot Dog, and make it go eat the Elder Brain. The psionic God brain cannot mentally attack the mindless ooze, zapping it only makes it stronger, and nothing in the modual says the elder brain, lord of the mind flayers, is immune to digestion.

The players wrote an actual song about it, make it into a children's picture book called, "Hot dog, the mustard jelly" and passed it out in the slums for free.

Oh and was just reminded, the song was basically a step by step guide on how to kill elder brains, JUST TO TWIST THE KNIFE.

Imagine... your God is killed, then the children of you food sing songs about how it was eaten by an over active condiment WHILE THEY PLAY JUMP ROPE.

See? That is how you mudrrhobo. It isn't just killing, but also humiliation. There is no cure light wounds for an injured reputation.


Ahhh... that was fun. Murderhobos at their finest.

 

[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

The further from Christmas the more my powers return.

Everyone's been too busy. Miss the game even if I got stuck doing all the time.

These guys are a dungeon destroying machine. So rapan athak starts of saying every door is locked with a DC 40 lock. What do the players do?

They go, that's a master lock. That's worth 50 gold. If we sell it, we can get 25 golf, easy.

SO THEY STEAL EVERY SINGLE DOOR.

The way they systematically destroyed this supposedly undeafeatable module was just art. Orcas is the final boss. I remember reading the encounter and it states, Orcas does nothing but laugh at the players the first two rounds. I just read that and said, "this fucker won't make it past the first round. He and his whole damn army is dead."

The elder brain encounter. They list off like a million immunities. Touching it causes continuous electrical damage. What do the players do? Ooze puppet a mustard jelly, which gets stronger if you hit it with electricity, name it Hot Dog, and make it go eat the Elder Brain. The psionic God brain cannot mentally attack the mindless ooze, zapping it only makes it stronger, and nothing in the modual says the elder brain, lord of the mind flayers, is immune to digestion.

The players wrote an actual song about it, make it into a children's picture book called, "Hot dog, the mustard jelly" and passed it out in the slums for free.

Ahhh... that was fun. Murderhobos at their finest.

That's not murderhobos, that's a whole murdercommune!
The real question is: why sell anything? For gold, what do you need that for? Just take what you want. Everything's free.
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As for violence escalation, maybe make it follow the violence level that your MCs are exhibiting instead. It could be a dark reflection of your MC effect on the world. The longer they are in it the more violent everyday life becomes.

 

[TheEldritchGod]

The real question is: why sell anything? For gold, what do you need that for? Just take what you want.

To be a murderhobo, there must be a society you are ignoring. If you destroy everything, then who will you flip off? If you do not make Obscene amounts of wealth, how will you slap nobles in the face with gold to do what you want? If there are no bars, where will you buy ale and whores?

It is the giant murderhobo circle jerk of life.

 

[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

To be a murderhobo, there must be a society you are ignoring. If you destroy everything, then who will you flip off? If you do not make Obscene amounts of wealth, how will you slap nobles in the face with gold to do what you want? If there are no bars, where will you buy ale and whores?

It is the giant murderhobo circle jerk of life.

Sounds more like punk genre to me, but maybe thats just semantics.

 

[TheEldritchGod]

Sounds more like punk genre to me, but maybe thats just semantics.

See the reason for the hobo look is simple.

What gives you the most bonuses?

So you got a guy wearing leather bandage armor, with wooden saddles, a pair of bright green gloves with webbed fingers, a gemstone encrusted crown, goggles with spider eyes, you have both spikes and razors coming out of your armor because you can enchant them as held weapons, and have a giant ballista crossbow thingie that floats nearby you at all times and it has LEGS for no apparent reason.

As a murderhobo, the stronger you are, the stranger your outfit. (LIKE A HOBO) If you see a group of 4 people, each looking more strange than the last, just RUN.
BTW, I gotta share the legs.

So you can make a crossbow into a construct, then make a constuct a familiar, then give it quick loading, reloading and floating, so it can basically reload as a free action and fire twice a round from it extradimetional quiver 50 times before you have to reload. Then you upside it into a ballasts and now it's a small creature.

As a familiar, it gets my skills. I have ride. Ride let's you spur a horse to go an extra 10 feet of movement for 2 hp damage to the mount. So he put spurs on the feet of his crossbow familiar.

Yes. When the character needed to move an extra 10 feet in a round, the crossbow would STAB the player in the back with the spurs on its feet, make a ride check, and the player would take 2 points damage, but could more an extra 2 squares.

D&D3RD edition... you were so wonderfully stupid. You could do anything with it.

 

[PervyCatHermit]

Uh, that totally sounds plausible though? Imagine you're a senior that has been learning something for a long time and you get humiliated by some newbie. Now, I don't know her background but I assume she must be spoiled from her reaction. Furthermore, she has a lot of suitors, so she probably has an ego the size of Peter Quill's father. If you include the fact that the story isn't set on earth(I assume), and has a different culture and set of values, it's not surprising how she acted. The same goes for her suitors and the father. If you live your life without suffering repercussions, you'll turn out that way.

Also, haven't you heard of incidents where people were stabbed to death because the other party thought they were staring? So yes, people can commit random acts of violence.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Maybe if I gave the female senior a proper reason to murder MC and make her less of a trigger happy bitch. I mean, when she was defeated, she was very quick in throwing out accusations.

Btw, I said that "she decides that MC is a liar", not that she thinks. Because she was thinking "impossible! How can he be so good?" and immediately saw him as a threat in the upcoming tournament (which the MC don't know and DON'T EVEN PARTICIPANT) and tried to cripple him.

The author did a good job in making me hate the green eyed bitch and a great job in making me want to strangle the mayor's son. He was an admirer of the female senior, but when she lost (failed to make it past the top 16 due to her injury, though technically the bitch can't past top 8 judging by track record), he did not even bother to go and console the girl. Instead, he was fucking an escort in the grand hotel.

At that pace, MC would be the world enemy by chp 300.

You've almost baited me into writing a long reply, but I learned my lesson.