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Cleric Generic
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 23 Dec 2009 : 20:13:58
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Well, to be fair, the elves had followed Rudolph into a violent revolution against the Santa regime and were loading bombs into all the presents ready for delivery across the material planes. The PCs, after rounding up and executing the rebel elves, piled up the booby-trapped presents in the grottoe and set it alight...
So yeah, all fully justified responces... :) |
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Alystra Illianniis
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Cleric Generic
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
565 Posts |
Posted - 30 Dec 2009 : 11:34:16
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Cheers!
The santa nuking was just a seasonal one-shot, but the rest of the game seems to be maintaining much the same tone and style, etc. Can't wait until they reach their first big city and get themselves arse deep in the intrigues and conspiracies of the various noble houses and merchant princes.  |
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Victor_ograygor
Master of Realmslore
Denmark
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Posted - 30 Dec 2009 : 12:07:09
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The group was caught in a deadly ambush by some drows deep below the Ashaba towers in Shadowdale. The hole group fell and afther the battle it was me hiding in the shadow and to drows left searching for coin on the dead players on the ground.
Most of the players were angry because the drows slaughtered them and I were just hiding in the shadows watching the battle.
Back to the episode : I were hiding and were only 4 level and I had to decide if I would backstab the one drow who were at full health and then attack the drown who were wounded. The coward that I were decided to leave, and just find some new adventures to travel with. The Doungen Master explained that the two drows gathered all the coins and gems I a big pile and were going to split the loot. Then I changed my mind whey not take the loot and find some new people to travel with. I backstabbed the one drow and finished off the other and there I were alone with all the loot. I started to count the loot and there after attending to the fallen characters. Suddenly out of now were this strange drow with a red hat and white beard and hair shows up with a wand in his hands. I had to act fast ore he would take the loot. So I gave him some of my special poison darts (in his face right). He was fast he made signs in the air with his wand and suddenly there were some white light around all the copses . But one dart hit him I had to roll a 20, and I waited to hear the result from my dungen master, he smiled and said that the old man said something about something not working properly and the he were gone. I was made aware just before he disapered that the drow was disguised as a human.
Then I understood I had tried to kill Elminster of Shadowdale. The group were resurrected and they wanted their things back.
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dwarvenranger
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 30 Dec 2009 : 13:30:51
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| I had a player who was playing a halfling rogue once, and he had forgotten buy thieve's tools when creating his character. So when traveling through a medium sized town he decides to go to general store and buy some. He walks up to the owner and asks for thieves tools. I couldn't believe it. I said that's not really what you ask is it? He said it was. Then he got mad at me when the storekeeper called for the guard. Long story short was I had gotten so tired of his sulking by the end of the session, that I had to sic a dire chipmunk on him. |
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wintermute27
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Posted - 30 Dec 2009 : 14:42:57
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Originally posted by dwarvenranger
I had a player who was playing a halfling rogue once, and he had forgotten buy thieve's tools when creating his character. So when traveling through a medium sized town he decides to go to general store and buy some. He walks up to the owner and asks for thieves tools. I couldn't believe it. I said that's not really what you ask is it? He said it was. Then he got mad at me when the storekeeper called for the guard. Long story short was I had gotten so tired of his sulking by the end of the session, that I had to sic a dire chipmunk on him.
There was a guy like this in a group I played with years ago. One of my favorite memories is when he decided to play a half-fiend and then got mad at the DM when all the towns people wouldn't talk to him and would occasionally run him out of town with pitchforks and torches. Said it wasn't "fair"...  |
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Alystra Illianniis
Great Reader
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Posted - 11 Jan 2010 : 21:43:36
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| Go figure... I had a "dire" experience of my own on my first time out gaming. A character I rolled in ten minutes- lasted all of five. I took down two orcs no problem, even being a 2nd ed. wizard. Problem was, I had four HP (elf= neg to con) and the orcs took tow of them. I continued on through the forest, and was soon thinking of lunch, when I came upon a squirrel in a tree. A large, black one. This was before I knew much about how the game worked, and all I had was a dagger. I threw it, attempting to make a squirrel-ka-bob. I missed. Then the squirrel leaped at my throat- and I learned a hard lesson about carnivorous squirrels as my ppor PC went down as a rodent-snack!!! Not really stupid, but terribly embarrassing... |
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Laerrigan
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 14 Feb 2010 : 07:19:42
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My 2nd-level party killed an entire human village by accident, one night (but at least we wiped out the orcs)....
In the late afternoon, we'd sailed into a coastal village to sell loot and such. The village had been having some trouble with orcs blockading it, but we had managed to take out their rude catapult on the shore and the villagers were eager to do business with the first people who'd made it through in some time. Sweet setup---we're minor heroes, we have goods they want, and there's some adventuring business to do right outside town if we're interested.
The CN halfling (half-gnome) rogue accidentally killed a shopkeeper (partially because of my PC's obsession with a piece of loot, I'll admit). An unpleasant crowd began gathering and pressing as word spread. My TN wizard made a dash for the ship we were using and found sanctuary among the crew, after the rogue had darted off around a corner to make his own escape. We waited for him.
Hours passed while he hid in the tall grasses outside town, evading forays that were sent to find him. When darkness fell, he pulled out handy flint and steel and set a fire "for a distraction"---in all that summer-parched grass surrounding a village made entirely of old wood, wattle, and thatch---so he could make a hidden run around the walled village to the ship in the dark while everyone freaked out over the grass fire.
The fire spread. Orcs had been sneaking up on the village through the grasses, readying for a nocturnal raid. The fire flushed them out, and ALL of them fell upon the village at once, and the villagers rallied to fight. And flames engulfed them all.
After the rogue swam out to the ship standing near shore and was hauled aboard, we left very hastily. The horizon behind us glowed orange all night. We returned in the morning to find a miles-wide radius of grassland GONE, and nothing left alive. There was something almost poetic, in a horrible sort of way, about the sheer perfection of destruction entirely by accident. The DM didn't even let us have XP for them all.
The rogue said "But it was going to happen anyway, sooner or later---all that dry grass and wood, and the orcs..." My PC began to be very suspicious of that halfling around fire.
Oh yes, and another fire (and grass) story with the same PCs....We were traveling with an NPC guide and two other NPCs through wilderness. We had a rod of wonder in wand-like form with a command word. The rogue loved that stick and all the delightful wonder of chaos it wrought. We were threatened in the night, and he triggered the stick to see if it might do something horrible to the source of the threat. It instantly grew a broad radius of very high, dense grass all around us. The low-burning campfire was in the middle of the grass patch. FOOMP.
Our sleeping NPCs died quickly. My PC took to emphatically warning people about that halfing around fire. |
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Alystra Illianniis
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Posted - 26 Feb 2010 : 22:07:18
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| I'm so sorry, Learrigan.... Death by fire is never pretty. Well, there was the instance with this same group- minus the duskblade and one of the others, and with two of the players having changed PC's (one was now a gnome illusionist, and we had added a human paladin and a bugbear rogue that was rescued during this particular incident- where the male/female drow, the drow bard, and the paladin ran into a trio of "captive" elf and human damsels, only to discover to their dismay that it was the female minions of the dragon whose lair they were traipsing around in. Specifically, a disguised harpy, bugbear stormsinger, and an aranea sorceress. The drow bard was naturally the only one who succumbed to the harpy's song, and was promptly shredded within an inch of his life (he has such bad luck with females, lol!) while the paladin was stuck fighting the bugbear with her lightning staff (paladin=heavy armor, remember) and the arachnophobic female drow fighter(in her male form) ended up with the aranea! I got some laughs out of all of them facing their worst nightmares in that fight... The rest of the group had gone off down another tunnel wan was inthe middle of their own fight. Sometimes splitting up the party is not a good idea. |
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
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Posted - 27 Feb 2010 : 04:55:02
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While it may not be Ridiculous, I did play a ranger/wizard once upon a time.
The fella was with his band of friends and they came to a bridge with a guard tower on the other side. The tower had a rather nasty band of soldiers in it that not only had a pair of ballista atop the tower, but also many archers as well. For us to try and cross the bridge would have not been pretty.
Since I was the only one on hand that had an invisibility spell available (the other wizard had one, but didn't want to use it except for escape if needed) as well as an improved invisibility spell, I said I would go across the bridge, sneak into the tower, disable the ballista and make sure no guards on the tower would be "awake" to see us sneaking across the bridge and past the guard tower.
Well, these were the same soldiers (well, from the same army) that had despoiled my home village...so I thought it would be better to kill them all. So I did.
I was rather ruthless and complete in my slaughter, being as cautious as I could be and pulling out every trick in the book. I even made some of the guards think that a ghost was attacking them, made one of the dead guards walk like a zombie to scare the crap out of them, and finally used an Alter Self spell to make myself appear like a demon to one group and an Illusion spell to make them think a vampire was crouching down over another guard who's throat I had slit.
Well, I think this was all too much for my DM's senses to handle, and quite honestly the whole party was really staring at me like I was a madman after the whole thing was done.
The DM changed my alignment from Chaotic Good to Chaotic Evil...and I got really upset for it all. I mean, after all, these were enemy soldiers.
It has been a long time ago, but I still remember it...though I must confess I may not remember it correctly and some of what I have just said could be fabrications of time...but it was rather fun.  |
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The Ridiculous Stuff People Have Tried
