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  • Des [she/her, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    my partner always wanted to try TTRPG and we played around with D&D 3.5 and d20 modern. soon she wanted to try to run a mini campaign with just me to practice on. so she's of course a great GM with tons of notes, characters, maps, and research and stats built and intricate plot lines. we're playing a modded d20 modern kind of dresden-files type supernatural modern game.

    so she's a great GM but isn't super familiar with the game balance and systems and overlooked some things. i'm not playing to "win" but RPing the best i can. my character was a supernatural investigator but kept a kit in their trunk with some conventional and anti-monster weapons. they sensed danger at the near completion of their investigation and went into an area packing the big guns. the big bad rouge mage comes out and i basically one shot them with a natural 20 and a G3 rifle. punched through all kinds of magic defenses that she put in place to make it a challenge. she didn't properly level scale the big bad to my character either because she was so into the investigative aspect of the campaign. plus modern weapons can really fuck shit up in arcane d20 games (more the fault of the game designers and balance).

    it sucks because she was really good and wouldn't GM again for like 5 years lol.

    • Eris235 [undecided]
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      3 years ago

      You ever play the FATE Dresden Files game? D20 is great and all for combat games, but honestly the DF FATE rules are my go-to to mod for a game that isn't planned on being combat focused.

      • Des [she/her, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        never have but i did mention it to her as an option when we were exploring other systems. it took us both so long to get comfortable with 3.5 era d20 that we stuck with it for a long time. then covid and...yeah

        • Eris235 [undecided]
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          3 years ago

          Fair nuff. I do have a soft spot for 3.5, but man is it a sprawling system lol.