The Wereduck Attacks; Roll for Initiative


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A DM I had once had a recurring "villain": a Fiendish Vampiric Wereduck.

Little bugger had a fairly absurd number of Class Levels to its name, and every so often would just randomly appear and cause absolute havoc for the party.

What are other peoples' strangest encounters ever?

Grand Lodge

Across the course of several levels in a campaign, my players have regularly encountered Tog the Otyugh. The first time they helped him capture a satyr to eat, next released him from a pirate ship where he was acting-garbage disposal unit, and lastly watched him eat two bandits sentenced to death by gladiator event.


I've introduced a ridiculously powerful boogeyman named Sagroc the Ugly to my campaign. He occasionally shows up to drop a little exposition and to praise the PCs for spreading fear. At one point, the barbarian got it in his head that he should challenge Sagroc to combat. One pancaked barbarian later ....


I have had terrible encounters with Ducks. Our party was walking through a dense forest and one of our members (NEW GUY!) decides to take a branch and carve a wooden duck. A little while later he fails to notice a root and trips over it while carving his wooden duck. He falls onto the fighter in Half-Plate and then he also fails a reflex save, falls onto me, another fighter wearing Banded-Mail and I then fail my Reflex save. Needless to say it was VERY loud. Then, as three of us (3 out of 5 people) are on the ground and Flat-Footed, we get jumped by various powerful undead that then tries to grapple and pin us. The first fighter on the ground, Elund, was our ultimate defender with an insane AC of 27 or higher and was in charge of defending the squishy casters, now he can't do that. I was the group's ultimate attacker, sporting the ability to kill 99% of all our enemies in one hit, now I am face down on the ground with undead on me. The only ones left are two Very squishy casters without any reliable melee capabilities within 5ft of dozens of undead. That was something.

The Duck wasn't really an enemy but it was more dangerous to the party then anything else we have ever faced before. The Duck showed up multiple times after that to haunt us.

Ducks were banned in our next campaign.

Grand Lodge

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The fiendish dire undead wereduck has been a recurring joke at our table for 15 years.

-Skeld

Grand Lodge

I also made a tiefling character that was scared of ducks for the purposes of the Buried Anxiety trait. In my opinion a lot more people would be afraid of ducks if they knew about their reproductive habits.


If a player contracted lycanthropy from a wereduck, would you require them to watch Howard the Duck as character research?


Ms. Pleiades wrote:
I also made a tiefling character that was scared of ducks for the purposes of the Buried Anxiety trait. In my opinion a lot more people would be afraid of ducks if they knew about their reproductive habits.

I consider them tied with swans for the title of "evilest waterfowl"

Liberty's Edge

In a game I am currently running the party was attending dinner with a nobleman, the local governor. One party member, an assassin type, decided he wanted to drive the governor's chef insane... for whatever reason. After asking to talk to the chef, and said chef coming out from the kitchen to see what the matter was. The player said 'my food is bland' which, unknown to him, was the thing at the time in this area. The chef thanked the player for his compliment and returned to the kitchen. Needless to say this drove the player nuts, much to my amusement.

Later, after the players got super pissed at the governor and his politics (long story) they killed him and began to ransack the mansion. Mr. Assassin immediately ran for the kitchen, intent on taking it out on the chef. Only to find the kitchen abandoned with a note, written in the player's character's race's language saying 'You'll never take me alive!'

Since then the chef has become something of a.... recurring b-list antagonist. Shows up when the players are up to something, wearing a black chef's hat and throwing knives, before vanishing into the night.


There are the Chickens of DOOM!!! That I have used when I have been GMing for 12 hours straight and I am burned out. These creatures are a tough fight and sometimes I wonder if lovable munchkin doesn't deliberately encourage me to run long just to get this fight.

Also when I was playing my half drow wizard I ended up creating a fearsome frog BBEG. It was a quiet night and the feast the Baron had served us was over. The party had split up to do each our own thing. That's when the assassin struck a Drow assassin killed the Baron and fled out the window dropping invisibly to the garden courtyard... Fatefully the very courtyard I was visiting for an evening stroll. I had only one magical effect going my rain of flower petals spell. I saw the petals vanish 10 feet from me and knew an invisible person was there. Considering the cries of alarm from the keep I knew I was facing the assassin alone. I had one action before he finished me or got away, I cast baleful polymorph and made the miss chance roll, made the roll to beat his spell resistance, and he failed his save with a one. An elite Drow assassin was now my pet frog.

He did get away after a mishandled ambush by some rebels. And ever since then the creepy little bastard would taunt me by killing an NPC and then leaving little frog footprints all over me to find when I woke.


Teneroth wrote:

In a game I am currently running the party was attending dinner with a nobleman, the local governor. One party member, an assassin type, decided he wanted to drive the governor's chef insane... for whatever reason. After asking to talk to the chef, and said chef coming out from the kitchen to see what the matter was. The player said 'my food is bland' which, unknown to him, was the thing at the time in this area. The chef thanked the player for his compliment and returned to the kitchen. Needless to say this drove the player nuts, much to my amusement.

Later, after the players got super pissed at the governor and his politics (long story) they killed him and began to ransack the mansion. Mr. Assassin immediately ran for the kitchen, intent on taking it out on the chef. Only to find the kitchen abandoned with a note, written in the player's character's race's language saying 'You'll never take me alive!'

Since then the chef has become something of a.... recurring b-list antagonist. Shows up when the players are up to something, wearing a black chef's hat and throwing knives, before vanishing into the night.

Wouldn't happen to have a rather low INT lackey/sous chef would he? ;)


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Back in '79 I was running a weekend long marathon session, we started on Friday after school and planned to play until late Sunday night. Sometime late on Saturday night after the party had kicked in the doors of several empty rooms (After each I would tell the group, "There is nothing but a Bare Stone Floor). I was so tired I accidently described a room as having a "Stoned Bare Floor," which naturally became the room of the Stoned Bear on the floor

The Stoned Bear became a regularly occurring encounter after that. he was constantly begging for snacks.


Our running gag in the old days was if you didn't hurry up during your turn or did stupid stuff the Flaming Couch of Doom fell from the skies on your character.


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At one point, I had what I called my 4am boundary. That was to say that if I was still running after 4am, things would get silly/weird. Mind you I was already known for over the top games.

One manifestation:
In a World of Darkness crossover game, the team was exploring the sewer system under a major metropolitan area when, apropos of nothing, a blind corner leads to a large drainage chamber occupied by a human sized anthropomorphic rat in a tattered gi, holding a gnarled cane...


chbgraphicarts wrote:

A DM I had once had a recurring "villain": a Fiendish Vampiric Wereduck.

Little bugger had a fairly absurd number of Class Levels to its name, and every so often would just randomly appear and cause absolute havoc for the party.

What are other peoples' strangest encounters ever?

Did he turn any of the party? Or dominate them?


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A Fiendish Android Leoplurodon with 20 class levels in Geisha.

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