Request

[baloonworld]

Does anyone know a way to stop warhammer players from endlessly rolling d100s and checking on elaborate look-up tables? I've found the Paisly role players soc and they seem to do this an awful lot.

Comments

[xanthipe]

Break their fingers?

[baloonworld.livejournal.com]

They'd just use their noses or something; then it would take longer for them to describe in tedious detail the horrific mutation that I kill the charitor for developing.

They thought about rolling for hair colour and things like that. (I was filled with hate :) )

[xanthipe]

Have a timer on the table. If they start with the rolling, start the timer at 20 seconds. If the timer runs out, declare they've been eaten by a grue.

For more fun, set the timer time randomly and watch them panic.

[baloonworld.livejournal.com]

oh no I'm not DMing, my charitor killed his one for growing a face-body. The rest of the party agreed that it was for the best.

[kipperfish.livejournal.com]

steal their d100 and burn their epic look-up-tables?

[baloonworld.livejournal.com]

They need d100 to perform basic tasks, so I have to let them keep those :(

[helbling.livejournal.com]

Er....pass. We play warhammer, but the only time the tables are used is if one of us crits...otherwise, they get left alone, but that's due to our own volition rather than anything else.

[baloonworld.livejournal.com]

You have made a wise choice :)

[roadkillgerbil.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine spent about 9 months creating a programme that did all the dice rolling and look-up tables for him. His players each bring a laptop and access their character sheets and so on via the network. It sorts out XP, levelling and so on. He gets to see the numbers rolled, whereas they only see the result. Other than that, it's a completely normal role-play game. They've been playing for about 12 years now.

Moral of this story - Warhammer players are Geeks

[almosthonest.livejournal.com]

If this is Boot-man, was that Warhammer, or Roll-master? I thought it was the latter, with its insane ability to award XP for getting out the door in the morning.

Then again, programs all round. Even D&D benefits from computerisation.

[roadkillgerbil.livejournal.com]

Ah, you may be right. It may have been roll master.

I'm sure he could manage it for warhammer. In fact, I wonder if Hanbury already has?

And I'm very amused that a man with such a distinctive name has been relegated to 'Boot-man'. As if Dok Joy wasn't memorable. :)

[almosthonest.livejournal.com]

I knew it was Doc. :-P I was being LJ-polite.

[cheekychipmunk.livejournal.com]

Be sensible, rely on roleplay instead of dice, and have a good GM who actually lets you interact with the world instead of stat tables.

Works for us.

[hotpork.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm d100 & tables!