>your party get framed for a cime they didn't commit, and must find the real culprit to clear their namesI fucking hate this cassandra complex bullshit
>>98896908Why do you hate it, OP?
>>98896992It's contrived, tedious and reminds me of every time my younger brother pulled a psyop on my parents at my expense.
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>>98896908Anything involving teleportation magic.
>>98896908Time travel/alternate dimensions. From now on, if a piece of media has some sort of short story where the events couldn't happen within the regular continuity, I'd prefer they say it's just a what if and not some alternate timeline or dimension.
>>98897278One of my players feels this way. As she puts it, the idea that you can dramatically change the past or that there are many possible worlds serves to commensurately reduce the stakes and sense of protagonists' agency. Somebody died? Don't worry, I'm sure someone will undo it eventually, or maybe none of us will ever have existed. Sucks that this timeline might get wiped, but apparently there's another one out there almost exactly the same, and they will be fine.I don't entirely agree, but I've tried to be very clear when presenting some NPCs tied into "alternate timeline" stuff, that these are advanced simulations of how things might have played out, rather than parallel worlds that can be visited.
>>98896908>cimeHere in my jurisdiction, boy, you spell your words properly, ya hear now, boy?
>>98897574This is the outer ring, bronze. The only law out here is cold hard dennies.
>>98896908what's a cime?
>>98897643beats me
Would Burnice be a good girlfriend?
>>98897666I'LL beat you, Satan.
>>98897687if you fireproof your whole entire home and don't mind people staring at you for keeping her on a tard leash, then sure.
>>98896908I had a DM that kept quantum ogreing bandits in our path with a note on them to start an adventure. Completely ruined that plot hook for life.
>>98897724
Burnice is for the streets
>>98896908Plot hooks.
>>98897839Explain
>>98897894she's a plot hooker
>>98896908Have you ever actually seen this happen at the table or are you imagining things and getting mad about them again?
Burnice's VA on the left.Chibinice is more accurate than full-size Burnice
>>98898556Would you count it as "framed" if they got implicated by their own greed and idiocy?
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>>98898572Thanks a lot, now I have a midget fetish.
>>98896908>plot hooks>proceeds to describe fixed plotOh, so we are in AI thread. Good to know
>>98896908I pity the fool that tries that BS on me.
>>98900547suffah bish
>>98897278Fucking THIS. Chronoslop should be SHAMED openly!
>>98897467>Sucks that this timeline might get wipedWhy the fuck does she think that timeline will be wiped? No, you will continue to exist in the misery of your faliures. The alternate timeline is not your salvation. If you even know of their existence they are just perpetual reminders of your miserable failures, and how some you that is not you is out there reaping the rewards of not being a collosal fuckup.The whole point of alternate timelines is either (i) As a narrative what-if devise, (ii) As a very convoluted means of being able to change somebody else's reality (iii) The direct metaphysical analogue of Multi World Theory in the real world in being experimentally indistinguishable from a single flow of time.
>>98902882>that the timeline*>device*
>>98897278Multiverseslop and timeslop are a blight upon all modern fiction.
>>98897801>I had a DM that kept quantum ogreingseriously, fuck DM's who do that shit
>>98897666Damn bitch, you live like this?
>>98897467The DBZ problem, basically.
>>98896908Abominable. Always just makes me want to leave, or kill my way out/die trying. I'm not a big fan of mysteries where you can't just leave, either. It's never as obvious as the GM thinks and they almost never have a backup plan if you don't proverbially click on the right pixel. Really good mystery GMs can make it work.
>>98904328The DBZ problem is that it should have ended with Cell.
>>98904355Oh, definitely. And the Android arc is way too long as it is. Buu is grotesquely overlong even beyond that, but I admit I at least liked Videl until Toriyama did what he always does with women besides Bulma and turn them into a scenery character only.Man, I've wanted to fuck Bulma since I was 12 and now I'm 38 and I STILL want to fuck Bulma.
