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So, I know I've mentioned use of Dirty Tricks a few times. I've been doing various methods of dirty tricks for 9 1/3 levels with my Cad/Daredevil. But I'm afraid I'm beginning to recycle ideas.
To give you an idea of how my character has been conducting himself, upon successful dirty trick checks he has:
1. Picked his nose and wiped on the enemy's face to sicken him.
2. Ripped a dwarfs beard out and rubbed in its face to blind him.
3. Hugged a cleric and said "NOW YOU HAVE IT, TOO!" To shaken him.
4. Unbuttoned a lady's top and spun it around to entangle her. (The GM followed this up by forcing all men to roll a Will save or get -2 circumstance penalty to AC from the distraction.)
5. Gave a Druid an Epic Double-Wet-Willie to deafen her, causing her spells to fail twice during the duration.
Other dirty tricks include eye-gouges, galactic wedgies, knees in the mommy-daddy button, tying a dog-eared enemy's ears together in front of its eyes, pants-ing, and even handing the enemy a magazine centerfold out.
So with this mechanic being limited only to the player's imagination and the GM's discretion, you can have a veritable cornucopia of tactically advantageous abject silliness.
That being said, I'd like to turn it to the community:
What kind of silly "Dirty Tricks" can you come up with?
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That's something I've had to be careful of recently, yes. I was talking to one GM about dirty tricks and part of the dialogue kind of went like this:
Me: "I pull a scroll out and open it, showing the enemy a picture of a 1,700 male half-orc wearing a negligee and munching on donuts. This will Sicken the enemy."
GM: "Nope. He's just dazzled. He's into that sort of thing."
Me: ;____;
I've had to be careful with too much fluff, because a quick-thinking GMs can turn it back on me just as easily.
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That's something I've had to be careful of recently, yes. I was talking to one GM about dirty tricks and part of the dialogue kind of went like this:
Me: "I pull a scroll out and open it, showing the enemy a picture of a 1,700 male half-orc wearing a negligee and munching on donuts. This will Sicken the enemy."
GM: "Nope. He's just dazzled. He's into that sort of thing."
Me: ;____;
I've had to be careful with too much fluff, because a quick-thinking GMs can turn it back on me just as easily.
So - quick-thinking = punishing for RPing?
That's like if you were to say that you cut at your foe with your greatsword & crit, and your GM says that to crit you need to either slash or hack - not just cut.
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To the GM's defense, he was just messing with me. And it wasn't during a game. He was warning me that something like that could happen.
The best option is if you are a monk with stunning fist or just a really high heal skill, and say you are hitting pressure points or nerve clusters to apply sickening or temporarily block nerve clusters. It's less silly, but it might me more open to GMs.
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The best option is if you are a monk with stunning fist or just a really high heal skill, and say you are hitting pressure points or nerve clusters to apply sickening or temporarily block nerve clusters. It's less silly, but it might me more open to GMs.
Although he's a mix of Fighter and Bard, I should still probably try to utilize this idea. Since he has Greater Dirty Trick, I should start doing things that would be more crippling than wedgies.
Old Bugs Bunny cartoons and the Animaniacs contain gems like this, too.
I'd probably just stick with old standbys like a fishhooking, eye pokes, ear boxing, a hit to the groin or liver, pulling people's cloaks and shirts over their heads, spitting in their face, tossing a load of pepper or sand in their eye, cutting their forehead so the blood gets in their eyes, etc.