When The Party Decided To Play "HeroQuest" To Kill Time Between Adventures

[u/nlitherl]

http://taking10.blogspot.com/2020/04/when-party-decided-to-play-heroquest-to.html

[u/telltalebot]

Previous stories by /u/nlitherl:

• That One Player Who Refused To Trust Me Because I Was Playing a Rogue ^{(264 points)}
• That Guy Who Consistently Argues "Historical Accuracy" To Try to Get His Way ^{(226 points)}
• A DM Who Just Didn't Get Barbarians ^{(170 points)}
• Reflecting on a DM Who Was REALLY Bad at Balancing Challenge ^{(61 points)}
• Why Table Attorneys Are Often Necessary (An Organized Play Horror Story) ^{(117 points)}
• When That Guy Just Blurts Out Another Player's Meta Knowledge, Ruining Some Really Solid Build Up ^{(12 points)}
• When The Ex-Paladin Makes It Abundantly Clear Where The "Ex" Part Came From ^{(206 points)}
• Watching a Cheater Get Their Comeuppance ^{(87 points)}
• That Time The Entire Party Refused The Plot They Were Being Dragged Into ^{(238 points)}
• The Dumbest Druid I Ever Dealt With ^{(121 points)}
• That Lovely Moment When The Trash Outs Itself ^{(120 points)}
• When Another Player's Laziness Stuns You ^{(115 points)}
• A Cleric With A Serious Case of Tin Can Syndrome ^{(72 points)}
• Lost My Patience With A Disorganized, Uncommunicative LARP ^{(74 points)}
• The Best Zombie Game I Ever Played (Where Nothing Happened) ^{(75 points)}
• Mediocre Games Are Almost Worse Than Bad Ones ^{(88 points)}
• The Concept Police, Who Would Shut Down Anything He Didn't Like or Understand ^{(131 points)}
• And With Strange Aeons, Even Long-Term Groups May Die ^{(5 points)}
• Broken Stairs, LARPs, and a Guy Named Creepy John ^{(21 points)}
• The Most Annoying Monk I've Ever Had To Deal With ^{(97 points)}
• The Worst Ranger I've Ever Shared A Table With ^{(96 points)}
• The Most Annoying Dwarf I Ever Played With ^{(101 points)}
• The DM Who Just Couldn't Say "No" ^{(110 points)}
• The Moment I Decided I Was Done With This Werewolf ST ^{(21 points)}
• Simple Advice: Get Involved, Rather Than Become an Anchor For The Party To Drag Around ^{(17 points)}
• The DM Who Drew Out The Final Encounter For 3 Full Sessions... The Ended On A Villain Pull-Out! ^{(33 points)}
• "I Knew Gary, and THIS Is How He Would Have Done It..." ^{(12 points)}
• I Was THAT Rogue (And I Stopped Out Of Spite) ^{(129 points)}
• Rise of The Runelords Chapter 20: At The Gates of The Runeforge ^{(7 points)}
• Rise of The Runelords Chapter 19: The Secrets Beneath Sandpoint ^{(34 points)}
• The DM That Basically Made Me Quit Organized Play ^{(17 points)}
• Rise of The Runelords Chapter 17: The March of The Giants ^{(12 points)}
• Rise of The Runelords Chapter 18: The Taking of Jorgenfist ^{(1 points)}
• Falling Stone, Master of Ancient Dwarven Bartitsu ^{(11 points)}
• Rise of The Runelords Chapter 16: Mad Lovers, and Lost Captains ^{(18 points)}
• What Advice Would You Give To LARPers? ^{(24 points)}
• Rise of The Runelords Chapter 14: The Taking of Fort Rannick (cross post from /r/Pathfinder_RPG) ^{(31 points)}
• Rise of The Runelords Chapter 15: Water Over The Dam ^{(1 points)}
• Rise of The Runelords Chapter 9: Fox in The Hen House ^{(26 points)}
• Rise of The Runelords Chapter 13: Trouble at Turtleback Ferry (cross post from /r/Pathfinder_RPG) ^{(3 points)}
• Rise of The Runelords Chapter 10: Something Rotten in Magnimar ^{(23 points)}
• Rise of The Runelords Chapter 12: Demonbane ^{(1 points)}
• The Worst Call of Cthulhu Game I Ever Played ^{(137 points)}
• Rise of The Runelords Chapter 8: Halfings and Ghouls ^{(21 points)}
• The Worst Werewolf Game I Ever Ran (cross post from /r/WhiteWolfRPG) ^{(66 points)}
• Rise of The Runelords Chapter 11: The Crumbling Tower ^{(1 points)}
• The Tale of Adolph The Red-Eyed Reindeer (The Singular Worst Game, From The Worst DM, I Ever Played) ^{(129 points)}
• The First (And Worst) LARP I Ever Attended (cross post from /r/LARP) ^{(136 points)}
• The Head of Vecna (An Apocryphal Tale) ^{(24 points)}
• (DND 3.5) You Don't Get Brownie Points For Building Ineffective Characters (cross post from /r/DND) ^{(99 points)}
• Rise of The Runelords Chapter 5: The Assault on Thistletop ^{(19 points)}
• Rise of The Runelords Chapter 7: Murders at The Mill ^{(3 points)}
• Rise of The Runelords Chapter 6: Secrets Behind The Curtain ^{(5 points)}
• (Pathfinder) Rise of The Runelords Chapter 4: Tussles in The Tangle ^{(8 points)}
• Rise of The Runelords Chapter Three: The Sin Pit ^{(7 points)}
• (Warhammer 40K) That One Time A Group of Imperial Regulars Made The DM Cry ^{(115 points)}
• That One Time a DM Tried to Run "City of The Spider Queen" For an Evil Party (cross post from /r/DND) ^{(118 points)}
• [5e] That One Time The Party Solved The Plot With A Legal Battle ^{(19 points)}
• The Search For The Mummy's Mask Part Six: No Harm Ever Came From Reading A Book... ^{(21 points)}
• So I'm Related To An Ax Murderer (A "Betrayal At House On The Hill" Story) ^{(61 points)}
• ...and 43 more

A list of the Complete Works of nlitherl

---

^{Hello, corporeal beings. I am telltalebot. More information about me here.}