Reverb Gamers 2012 - #18, 19, 20

REVERB GAMERS 2012, #18: "Have you ever "cheated" on a die roll/random chance outcome, or looked up a quest solution on a fan site? Why or why not? If yes, was it worth it?" - Reverb Gamers

Nope.  But there have been many times where I have wanted to cheat.  It's especially tempting on a night when I'm rolling really bad and I just want one success!  But in the long run, it makes the game less fun for everyone if there is one character who always makes every skill check and hits with every attack roll.  One of the things that makes the game so much fun is the unpredictability of it and when you do succeed, it makes it even sweeter.  Especially if it's a critical success!  And sometimes the failures help to make the game more fun because they encourage creative thinking.  So you didn't make that disable device check?  Find a different way to open the door/break the trap.

REVERB GAMERS 2012, #19: What's the weirdest character you've ever played? How did you end up with him/her/it?

The weirdest character that I ever played has to be the Malkavian vampire that was obsessed with babies.  I was playing Vampire: The Masquerade while I was pregnant with my first child and I got the idea that my character was made a vampire while she was pregnant.  Malkavians always have some sort of derangement that they start out with and so I decided that the loss of her child is what drove her crazy and she was obsessed with babies after that.  As a result, she would ambush pregnant women at night and rip the babies from their wombs.  Sometimes, she'd steal babies and she would carry them around but she never remembered to feed them so they would always die and she would be carrying around a dead baby.  Eventually, the other vampires would get tired of the smell so they'd take it when she wasn't looking or she'd put it down somewhere and forget where she left it.

The guys in my Vampire group that it was the most fucked up character ever.

REVERB GAMERS 2012, #20: What was the most memorable character death you've ever experienced? What makes it stick with you?

This is a really weird character to remember but it was one of the first that I had played with my gaming group.  It was a halfling bard named T'angela (she was based on the character Olive Ruskettle from The Finder's Stone Trilogy books).  I can't remember what campaign we were playing or what level she was but we were ambushed by a bunch of vrocks.  The vrock has 4 natural attacks and if it hits with all 4, it had the special ability: rend, which allows it to rip it's victim in half.  So we have a bunch of vrocks coming at us and one attacks T'angela and hits all 4 times, then rips her in half.  I don't think I had been playing her for very long but it was such a brutal attack that I remember it fondly.