Let Me Take A Moment to Geek Out

Yesterday Andy and I went to play in the RPGA Living Greyhawk game. It's Dungeons and Dragons. I just have to complain for a minute about the game and it's going to be really geeky, so bare with me.

First off, nothing happened!! A guy dissapeared and there was no way to track him and yet the group my character was with had to track him because we are good guys like that. There are no clues. No one's seen or heard anything. Great. But there is this mysterious forbodding fog that rolls into town evry night and oh, undead creatures wander the streets at night. Fine. Kill, hack, slash, but we still can FIND the guy we need to find!

And there's this old Sage, he's a plot device. We pay him gold to give us information. Except the sage fails his knowledge roll and doesn't know anything to tell us. But he needs to give us information so the fucking game and move forward. Plot Devices should not be giving the opportunity to fail a roll!! The very nature of a plot device is that it is so important the story hangs on it and it must happen, pulling the characters and story forward with it. But the plot device last night just sat around and scratched his wizzened old sage bottom and said, "Gee, I am a learned man, but even I do not understand what is happening." Fuck!

And then there were vampires. Vampires at a table with the average playing level of 2! That's the beginningers tables. We were the equivilant of kids with cooking pots on their heads and sharp sticks. We can't stand up to a vampire, it's kill us all and have time to do in the rest of the city before dawn.

So we were pretty lucky that we couldn't find the vampire, even though we were literally right outside the secret crypt "searching" for the vampire but we were too thick to find it. If we had found the cryp, all the characters would be dead. It's unreasonable to expect first and second levels characters to battle a vampire.

So, the game module last night sucked. It was broken.Too much hinged on a plot device that was allowed to fail and if it had worked, we would have died. Damn, sometimes D&D really sucks.

The Geek Out is now over. Sorry to bother you. I wentot bed super pissed last night, dreamed about trying to find an invisible vampire in a big city, and then work up all pissed that I dreamed about the horrible game.