Chebucto Regional Softball Club

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2906216/ As another Lemmite mentioned elsewhere.

It's a fun movie. Maybe not a great movie, but fun to watch. My family doesn't play TTRPGs, but they liked it too.

I like that. The weird mutants from the ~~sewers are the heroes~~ *(oh wait, that's TMNT)* ~~nuclear cooling lagoon are heroes~~ *(oh wait, that's the Toxic Avenger)*. Fergeddabout subverting expectations, just throw in more anime tiddies.

The same *style*, but instead of cute ribbons of light and stars it's sprays of blood and flying skulls. And the music isn't upbeat, it's screaming death metal.

Bottom right.

They could all be the same numbers. Like the same, you know. *Numbers*

"And we're _sooooooo_ evil! We don't have any friends, family, loved ones, children, pets, or other responsibilities! Here we are, a victimless crime waiting to happen!"

10 months is enough of a cool-down time for this meme.

The rogue did it. We all saw her. She's always burning things.

As a player, I loved it when the DM would have secondary fires burning as part of the effect. It's really fun when your actions change the world. But then the building might collapse. ‍️ (Which is also fun)

Totally fair. Every table is different.

I've learned that NPCs should have the bare minimum of background necessary for my sessions. If the players like the NPC, it they become useful later on, that's when I start fleshing them out. Of course, the NPC needs to survive long enough for that to happen.

After some of my sessions, a couple of players will say "thanks! That was fun!" It's always the same ones. I'm not sure if they're being polite or if they're legit enjoying it. I try to believe the latter.

My response was (is?) tongue and cheek. Generally, I think it's best for the GM to give the players an accurate, understandable, and consistent view of the world. If the local townsfolk have said _The creature up the hill turns people to stone when they gaze upon it!_ then this is a perfectly reasonable course of action, even if the monster doesn't have a gaze attack, so long as the PCs trust the villagers. The villagers just happen to be wrong in this case. If the PCs have a reason to doubt their senses (in D&D/Shadowrun that might be due to a charm, etc; or in Cyberpunk/Shadowrun it could be cyberpsychosis) then it's also pretty reasonable. Can the GM do it once to troll the players? Sure. Would it be annoying if the GM made a habit of it? Probably. Is it funny for a meme? Yes.

this is peak GMing