#59722 - 02/02/06 03:09 AM
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Cranky Geek
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I know I'm not the only one here. Am I the only GM who's ever thrown a party into a wilderness survival senario? How did you handle it?
I've had PCs (and thier players) that have had PSKs for a while. I've just never tested them.
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#59723 - 02/02/06 03:46 AM
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Paranoid?
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I haven't RPed in quite a number of years, and can't say that I'd ever tried GMing a down to earth realiastic survival situation, but it sounds like a very interesting idea. I mean your brain is the number one survival tool, right?
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#59724 - 02/02/06 03:54 AM
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Cranky Geek
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Yes and no.
My modern groups have been part of my Majestic setting, where the PCs are trained in survival and are required to build thier own PSKs. But I've never really pushed them. Any ideas?
My sword-and-sorcery crews should be good to survive most of the time, but when you get dumped the high artic after crossing a desert....
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#59725 - 02/02/06 05:25 AM
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Heh. Most of the characters I play, always carry most of their stuff with them (Love that Heward's Handy Haversack and a Pouch of Accessibilty <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />). Travel lite AD&D style, as it were. So, I'm almost never without things, even when "resting up" after an adventure.
But, I have been without everything before. I went thru the Slaver series, way back when. And the last part has you captured, and when you "wake" you are in a cavern with NOTHING but a loincloth and you have to get out with whatever you can scavenge (glad I took sling as a weapon). <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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#59726 - 02/02/06 08:02 AM
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Haven't played in years. But back in the early 80's, we played a lot. We also played a made up game we called "What's in your pockets?". It was based on the assumption the nuclear SHTF scenario just occured. You're where you are when the group decides to play (your basement, school, etc). Your character is you, with only what you have on you. What do you do? (We called it that, because anyone could start a session by just asking "What's in your pockets?")
It isn't so much an rpg, like D&D, because we didn't quantify it. Though I didn't realize it at the time, it was a way to reason out the consequences of needing to survive with only what you have on you. When I found ETS, it was like, "EDC? Oh, so _that's_ what you call it." <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> After doing this a while, I'll bet we were the only 15 year olds walking around with lighters, flashlights, string, pocketknife, etc.
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#59727 - 02/02/06 01:16 PM
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I only MMORPG, so my soulstone usually gets me out of a bad scenario.
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#59728 - 02/02/06 06:18 PM
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LOL... same here. Al though even in the MMORPG that I currently play (WOW) I have a habit of carrying everything I could possibly need with me all the time.
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#59729 - 02/02/06 06:30 PM
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Cranky Geek
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I wish we had bag of holding tech. BOH + PSK = "surviving? I'm camping". Heck, give me a bit enough BOH and a couple air tanks, and I'll hold out for 72 hours in my backpack!
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#59730 - 02/02/06 08:14 PM
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Cranky Geek
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Maybe in Florida, but you would have found a lot of fellow travelers in my part of Vermont. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
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#59731 - 02/02/06 09:16 PM
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Heh heh, there actually was a RPG called TimeLords (by BTRC) that had you create "yourself" (lots of physical tasks to determine your stats and guidelines to determine your mental skills). The set-upp is that you and your buddies are about to play D&D when some guy shows up, throws something that looks supiciously like a 20 sided dice at you, then WHAM, everything within 10 feet of the center of the table is teleported back in time. Then the game begins...
We always wanted to start that game while sitting next to my friends father's gun collection! Do it in the right spot in my house now and I could overthrow a few iron age empires <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
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