#walls as a given though I have to wear headphones whenever someone's in therapy

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Both my brother and father are frequent GMs for the ttrpgers in our social circle. They also each play in the other’s game.

This leads to fun situations like a week or two ago when my brother brought up giant undersea scorpions being a thing that exists in casual conversation.

Dad: That’s coming up in a game.

Bro: (His girlfriend, who plays in Bro’s) already forbade them.

Mom: *laughing* I love that you both went straight there. You and she just knew he’d do that.

Me: Who do you think he learned from? And who plays in his games and therefore KNOWS exactly what he’d do?

Bro is, I believe, the one who suggested to Dad back when we were still kids the phrase “carnivorous crickets,” before realizing he was giving the GM ideas. Horrifying arthropods are in fact part of his GMing style.

So anyway, Dad’s the GM tonight, Bro’s visiting his girlfriend, so I just heard the alarm go off and Dad go “time to go kill some adventurers.”

I told him to have fun.

#family shenanigans #ttrpg #arthropods #insects #carnivorous insects #just feels like something I should tag for #with the virtual campaigns it's very amusing because you can hear one of them say something from one room #and then the other respond not-infrequently #at least if you're on the main level (as one is upstairs and the other downstairs) or if you are me and can hear through floors #... usually not distinctly but I can occasionally make things out if respective doors are still open #walls as a given though I have to wear headphones whenever someone's in therapy #as a total bystander in BOTH games (and any others one or both of them may be running) who relies on them for transport #it's not at all uncommon for me to hear their plans for one or the other's game and/or help pick choices for a dungeon design or the like #(because yes of course my game designer little brother has both a massive homebrew setting and often designs dungeons off his own ideas) #he also does magical items himself he has fun with that #winner has to be the Sack O' Daggers - an unassuming porch containing infinitely respawning magic daggers #(capable of having whatever property you as GM would like added to them by making the sack a sack o' +whatever daggers; magical by default) #you cannot sell them; only one is active at a time; but if you're going to be checked before entering somewhere hey! #You just have an unassuming empty pouch. Totally empty. SURPRISE! Daggers. #(and of course my dad who has been involved in this hobby since the 70s when he was a teenager is pretty experienced as a GM) #the real monster of mythic proportions in the household is actually frogs that nearly wrecked his party in like the 70s/80s #leading them all to ask 'what? do they have vorpal tongues or something?' #the vorpal frogs have come up at least once since with INTENTIONAL death in their eyes #but yeah of course I gleefully enable them both in trying to kill each other's characters this is bonding time for them #and all their friends. Hey there's a third GM in that group don't feel TOO sorry for everyone.