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27th Dec 2014, 5:00 AM
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One of the most effective encounters I've used against the PCs is animated furniture. The number of times I've crippled PCs with a sofa are quite amusing. :D
My favorite had to have been taking out the wizard with an end table.
My favorite had to have been taking out the wizard with an end table.
I found the occasional piece of invisible furniture could also be fun. People would slip on invisible rugs, get tangled in invisible curtains, and possibly take damage or fall after banging into an invisible chair.
I guess you could say....
*puts on sunglasses
He met his end.
(YEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHH!)
*puts on sunglasses
He met his end.
(YEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHH!)
I know a party who once managed to roleplay as weapons in an armoury for half an hour.
I once played an animated suit of armor. It had only one gauntlet, and believed it was the spirit of Sir Bedevire awaiting the return of King Arthur.
So there are dnd rules for having a character be an intelligent magical item. I had a game where someone had decided to play as one. Of course, at his level he couldn't move on his own, so he would have to be with a player in order to be used; he was a suit of heavy armour.
Not one PC could use heavy armour. Not. A. One. He was stuck on am armour stand as I had my bard go and hypnotize a nearby guard to wear him, making him have to make EGO checks (wearer's Will save) in order to control him... With an EGO of 8.
Not one PC could use heavy armour. Not. A. One. He was stuck on am armour stand as I had my bard go and hypnotize a nearby guard to wear him, making him have to make EGO checks (wearer's Will save) in order to control him... With an EGO of 8.
it seems they often behave rather similar to zombies, except detect undead doesn't detect them and turn/rebuke undead has no effect.
also, they're powered by positive energy, rather than negative, so cure spells don't hurt them
Basically, it is among the most evil zombie creation methods, because to hell with grave robbing, you are now literally stealing people's own flesh for your horrible monstrosities.
I mean, I did have Raxon do this, but he scavenged battlefields to pilfer pieces of the dying. Still horrible, but not so horrible as, say, raiding a hospital for materials.
It's more or less a flesh golem. All the limbs are uneven, it's ugly, the skins don't match, and it's not too bright. I call him Mr. Moopy.
Oh, and it's about 7 feet tall, and extremely frightening. Just another day in the Dunwich labs.
I once had a dungeon designed by the combination of a psionic medusa and a necromancer who'd learned "artistic" techniques for using spells that would turn stone back to flesh. Walls were formed by having people huddle together in a tangle and petrified. The necromancer (let's call him Montressor) would then turn reverse the petrification effect on some of the victims, ones that would be hopelessly trapped in the wall. These would be killed (eventually...) and then animated as zombies still trapped within the wall.
The results weren't overly impressive within the game mechanics, even with Montressor using pigments to make it more difficult to tell which bodies were petrified and which were zombified. Players still found it a little unnerving.
The results weren't overly impressive within the game mechanics, even with Montressor using pigments to make it more difficult to tell which bodies were petrified and which were zombified. Players still found it a little unnerving.
It almost makes me wish I still ran D&D.
Oh woe is me! I have no particularly interesting stories to share for story time!
Have a story time conversation starter instead.
Tell of a time you went off script from what your GM wanted but it all worked out (hilariously?) in the end.
Have a story time conversation starter instead.
Tell of a time you went off script from what your GM wanted but it all worked out (hilariously?) in the end.
I once was playing a kobold cleric/dragon disciple who had an obsession with power and strength. His concept was that he worshipped dragons, who are the epitome of power and might, and as en extension ended up being a servant of Tiamat. Well, the setting for this game was a sci-fi, cyberpunk style world, where there was a regime and a rebellion. Any magic users were considered too dangerous and kidnapped by the regime, locked away in anti-magic cells for their lives. With a few exceptions; I was one of the sanctioned mages, who were allowed to practice by the state, but at the cost of total control; I couldn't go anywhere without three armed guards and I had at all times a cranial bomb and tracker planted in my body just in case. I worked for the regime as a Suppression Mage, basically hunting down and killing/capturing other mages (I channel negative energy, and the setting uses low hp rules. People die fast.)
Cut to the campaign: our GM allowed us to either work for the rebellion or the regime. I and another player voted for the regime, while everyone else voted rebellion. Well, my friend and I were tired of playing for rebels and crap, so we talked to the GM and he allowed us to be double agents for the regime. We had a cover story of my friend, a "smuggler" busting me out of the high-security complex I lived in, and it was played up as a huge deal in-world, this highly dangerous rogue mage had escaped, yadda yadda. We decided to RP my actual induction into the rebellion, just for kicks. He didn't think anything could go wrong.
He forgot that I was an evil sonuvawitch. So I woke up in a dark room, shady guy starts asking questions, the usual fare. I give him some answers, and then he asks me if I thought of myself as more important than the people I've killed. Naturally, I answer yes. The GM pauses, clearly caught off-guard, and says "Shoot, he might just kill you for that." We talked about it, and eventually came up with a work-around that involved him stabbing me in the wrist and me escaping the cell like a boss, especially since the cell was an anti magic field. Apparently, I had killed a lot of people he was close to, and me saying that I was more important than them really offended him.
Fun times.
Cut to the campaign: our GM allowed us to either work for the rebellion or the regime. I and another player voted for the regime, while everyone else voted rebellion. Well, my friend and I were tired of playing for rebels and crap, so we talked to the GM and he allowed us to be double agents for the regime. We had a cover story of my friend, a "smuggler" busting me out of the high-security complex I lived in, and it was played up as a huge deal in-world, this highly dangerous rogue mage had escaped, yadda yadda. We decided to RP my actual induction into the rebellion, just for kicks. He didn't think anything could go wrong.
He forgot that I was an evil sonuvawitch. So I woke up in a dark room, shady guy starts asking questions, the usual fare. I give him some answers, and then he asks me if I thought of myself as more important than the people I've killed. Naturally, I answer yes. The GM pauses, clearly caught off-guard, and says "Shoot, he might just kill you for that." We talked about it, and eventually came up with a work-around that involved him stabbing me in the wrist and me escaping the cell like a boss, especially since the cell was an anti magic field. Apparently, I had killed a lot of people he was close to, and me saying that I was more important than them really offended him.
Fun times.
Thank you. I had something similar come up from the DM side of things. This gives me a few ideas for how to handle something like that better next time.
What pumpkin?
You are quite certain there has never been a pumpkin in the room.
You are quite certain there has never been a pumpkin in the room.
Haha, that was a good one, Spud. You got me good this time.
The GM had better have some way of making an actual "splat" sound effect for that first panel.
Anyway, good one Spud.
Explosions don't double fun..... THEY QUADRUPLE IT!!!!!!'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So if Luna was invited to try the hay ride and found that even less entertaining, would the fun then be drawn and quartered?
Then she would find the best game ever and have infinite fun and the game would be called much to Spuds displeasure... Razor Pillow.
All I want is a swimming pool filled with smartass people of an extremely keen wit: Razor Snarks.
But, even then, the company I would probably play with is a factor...
...Fun is not my friend.
F is for friends for who do stuff together U is for you and me N is for... Something I don't remember maybe it was... I don't know... NASCAR?
What could possibly go wrong?
...what could possible go wrong?
...what could possible go wrong?
The question then becomes: Will it be funny?
Things mainly tend to go wrong when you say "what can go wrong?" So never say "what can go wrong?"... NEVER'!!!!!!!!!!
You just said it yourself. Now as punishment you have to figure out how to let people know not to say it without saying it yourself.
Ummmm.... I write it down on a piece of paper. That way things go wrong for the paper instead of me. GENIUS!
Games within games? Gameception! *inception music plays out of no where*
I just wanted to make an inception joke... And it seemed funny at the time.