>the adventuring party has to get dressed up to go to a fancy ballwhy is this such a common cliche in campaigns and has it ever actually been fun?
>>93245639It is no a cliché, bumpfag.
>>93245639NAME THIRTY SEVEN EXAMPLES
>>93245639You may not have much in the way of a social life, but that doesnt mean your characters can't.
>>93245639Is pic a common cliche in campaigns?
>>93245639I often subject my players to feasts or festivals after "you did something to help the kingdom" adventures. Once a parade. In fact our last adventure started with a festival. It got attacked by undead but still. My players always seem to enjoy them.
>>93246499not nearly common enough
>>93245639It's far from a cliche, but usually it's done to force the murderhobos into an unusual situation.
>>93245639happened in a game my buddy was running last week, but we were on guard duty, so those with armor got a bit of a passturns out the food was poisoned and my character didn't act fast enough to stop a bunch of people from puking blood and dying
>>93245639Balls, feasts, court functions, tourneys, and other official high society events offer opportunities to role play scenarios that require more tact and diplomacy than a dungeon crawl. You can also dunk of player characters who only took one language https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5OnBHdp-j2I&pp=ygUaam9obiBhZGFtcyBraW5nIG9mIGZyYW5jZSA%3D
>>93245639Because it challenges the party to act like socially competent adults (difficulty: Dante Must Die).
>>932456391. Let's you introduce a lot of important political figures all at once. 2. Gives you a chance to put your characters in a more human centric environment develop them as people, explore relationships and take a breather before things hit the fan.3. Pretty pretty dresses.
>>93245639I'm saying this from the bottom of my heart and not as a shitpost. You would know if you played games.
has never happened in any game I've been in.
>>93245639more than anything else, the ball is a way to push combat off the table.want to introduce an NPC without the players immediately killing them? host a ball!want to throw a stealth heist that even the unsubtle members of the party can participate in? host a ball!want your players to actually try role-playing instead of throwing dice at monsters? host a ball!
Wow janny, you really are on the ball and you work hard. Kek, it wasn't even ten minutes yet. Go take a break outside.
Because putting characters in situations that they are not skilled in can make for interesting storylines and events?
>>93245639>common clicheIt is?
>>93246499>>93245639That's a nice tomboy you have there guts....
>>93247265want to keep the players from killing people? put them in a room with a bunch of unarmed rich bags of xp!lmao
>>93245639Because the upper classes in pretty much every civilization maintain a dress code.
>>93247527He's just trying to spam his fetish again.
>>93245639It was fun. My character was the only one that was familiar with the 'refined' environment. Me and the parties face ( a former con-artist) played a game of saying the the most obscene lines in conversation, the winning being the one that called the most attention to them.
>>93245639>why is this such a common cliche in campaignsIs it? It has never happened to me or my 356 TRPG friends.
>>93247560You pay attention to women now? What happened?
It is a nice cliché.
>>93245639I ran a game for some friends where they had to do this. They were spying on the local Duke who was under the influence of mind control. They had to go to a tailor and have fancy clothes made for them, steal and forge invitations. It was a fun series of quests which was a change from the usual dungeon crawl. also a lot of my players are artists, so they had fun drawing their scrappy outlaws in fancy regalia.
>>93245639It's a trope, not a cliché, and yes it is usually fun.>>93246124Unbirth yourself, newfag.
>>93255373lmao that pic
>>93247615why do you assume hapless nobles would provide any XP
>>93247265>more than anything else, the ball is a way to push combat off the table.It can also set up a kick ass fight scene when and if assassins show up and try to merc people. You can take it a lot of ways.
>>93246124>Bumpfag has ascended to such a level that he is bumping threads before they even exist
