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We found stats to the Diablo II Hell Bovine. They are going in my next module...

And one of the players could possibly end up with a weapon with a curse on it called Bovine Allegiance. They suffer a -4 to all attacks against anything that falls within the bovine species.

A must resource for me when I am stumped for trap inspiration:

Deadly Trappings from Kenzer and Company

Thanks for that. I've been wanting something exactly like this for some time. Just bought the last one in stock at Amazon.com. Hehe

Soilent wrote:

This happened this week, actually.

A greater Shadow attacked the party while they were asleep, only one person had knowledge Religion, and failed to identify it, so they began referring to the creature as "The Darkness".

The sorcerer, having just gotten all his spells back, was very excited about the combat, and shouted "I CAST MAGIC MISSILE INTO THE DARKNESS!"

The entire table started cackling and he had no idea why. Appearently he had never even heard the phrase before, which warms the cockles of my dried up GM's heart.

I've never come across the phrase either. What's going on?

Dungeons and Dragons by The Dead Ale Wives. Youtube it. It's worth it.

I love the idea and I'm sure my players would, too!

Did anyone get around compiling some into a pdf for printing as a handout?

Yes, PM me your email and I'll send you the one I have. It's entertaining. I generally print them out and laminate them, punch a hole and hand the players a keyring to put them on

I like gnomes. The idea of Kender amuses me (but only if said PC is using his/her skills on NPCs or silly things like taking another PC's soap). I don't want to kill my PCs. I like ridiculous things to happen and I love seeing PCs come up with unconventional solutions.

We have a system that a seems to work. When someone makes a good roll, but can't think of something to go with that roll, the rest of us chip in to give the person ideas and the GM reacts based on the roll not necessarily the idea, because it's not fair to expect someone to be excellent at what their character is excellent at. It's not a LARP. We aren't actors. We do the best we can and have fun with it.

Yes, but the PC's description of what he was attempting and the fact that he not only used charm person but was spouting pickup lines at the female BBEG and his PC was male and a Bard....

If I hadn't rolled a 1, I wouldn't have gone with it, but it was too funny to pass up. And everyone at the table was dying of laughter.

These.

Creepy

From something that actually happened in one of my 1-sthot convention games:

I'm just that Charming: Seduce the BBEG at the end of the module.

the PC used a simple Charm Person spell and I rolled a 1 on the save... Talk about anticlimactic end to a module.

I had one that said something about roll a 1, then roll on the critical failure chart and end up injuring an ally instead of your enemy.

Friendly Fire Isn't.

I did do a chase scene in a dungeon once with the "Scooby Doo Hallway", where there were 3 doors to a side and the parties exited via random roll through differing doors until the roll came up where they opened the doors directly across from one another. Then the fight was on.

That is hilarious. I may have to use this.

It's meant to be silly, but I do actually use achievements for my players during my one shot convention games. They are amazingly popular with my players.

Magical Item: Necro-Gnome Icon - A small Gnome figurine dressed in sorcerer's clothing. With the command word "Jinkies" 5 HD worth of Zombies will be summoned. However, these Zombies are uncontrollable unless a Control Undead spell is used after they are summoned. If Item is used and no Control Undead spell is cast, roll percentiles. On a 1-45, Zombies attack the party, on a 46-89, Zombies attack the nearest non-party member. On a 90 or above, Zombies ignore everyone else around them and tear each other to shreds.

Yeah, I refuse to draw maps. I grab online ones and make my campaign fit them :P

What? I'm a smurf, not Liranys!

If anyone would like to see my New and Improved PDF of achievements made for my most recent one shot game, feel free to PM me (some are module specific most are not)

"Ursa Minor" (successfully complete a "personal quest" campaign)

"Capricorn" (successfully complete a "bizarre" campaign)

All my campaigns are bizarre. Isn't it amazing that I'm a Capricorn?

And now for something completely different - attack someone with the banana.

This is killing me! Ick ben een Banaan!

Sorry ya'll. Life just caught up to me. :D I got busy. I'll try to poke my head in once in a while from now on. :P

Nope, haven't seen her. Not at all.

Congratulations! As for a mystery using all skills I would need to craft said mystery entirely to do that.

I'll take any ideas you might have about what kinds of situations would go with various skills. :) Not asking for the entire mystery here. I already have a premise. I'm going to re-use the Necro Gnome Icon. ;)

Sissyl wrote:

Run away, because the next time, you can choose the battlefield, be buffed, and bring allies.

That's right! He who turns and runs away...

** spoiler omitted **

Only if they forget to run in zig zag patterns...

Run away Brave Sir Robin!

Never cross a Sicilian when death is on the line.. Oh, wait... That was a movie not an RPG...

Yeah, I would have died laughing as well. It would have been a good death.

On a serious side, it introduced me to the Egyptian pantheon of gods and helped foster my current interest in all things ancient Middle East. It boosted my already expansive vocabulary, it taught me the value of teamwork and to question what is good and evil. It also made me weird friends who've been with me for 30 years.

Heh, I was a mythoholic (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, etc) WAY before I ever got into gaming.

Liranys wrote:

Oh, go ahead and dump Charisma. Don't dump Will. Unless you like hitting your team mates...

Charisma makes a huge difference in real life.

Unfortunately, I dumped the stat.

Only to some people. Some people just don't care how you look as long as you behave civilly for the most part.

Original topic:
Another thing brought up by Teatime42's comments on communication.
I have gotten no better at this over the last several decades and by this point I probably won't.

I am not a real empathic person. I will virtually never be able to tell that someone is not having as much fun as they say they are or would like something to be different if they won't tell me. Making real subtle hints does NOT work.
If you tell me you are having fun and the campaign is going great...
I WILL BELIEVE YOU and give you more of the...

Same here. I do not read people well. I never will because of the way my brain is wired. So if you try subtle, I'll miss it.

Magic (or in the Real World Case: Technology) cannot solve all of our problems. Some just take hard work and others can't be solved and you just have to live with them.

Getting different personalities to work together is like trying to herd cats.

I agree with Terquem. Don't try to conform, be what makes you comfortable and don't feel ashamed about it. You aren't broken, or bad or anything like that. You're just you. :) It took me a long time to figure this out.

We are, however, getting a Gaming Tavern soon (as in the serve some alchohol and food and have specialized tables for gaming: including board games and war games, etc, not just RPGs) and I plan on having a membership for that place.

Sword of Sans Serif
Arrows of Re-Noun
Shield of Re-Verb-eration

I think you mean you agree. Usual Suspect was saying that the DM and players were calling those actions CN but Usual was saying that they should have been classified as evil, yet the DM refused to act on it.

i've posted this twice elsewhere this week but since we're talking about goats i'll post it again:-)

Goat Story!
My parents, having lived in cities their whole lives when they got married decided to move to the country (i.e. Wisconsin) and become cliche organic farmers, so in addition to the multitudes of chickens, turkeys, pigs, cows and a horse we also had two Goats and our farm was at the bottom of a wooded hillside with a nice family on the hilltop.
when i was nine or ten our goat pen had ten foot high wire fence, which they would gradually bend down between the fence posts until they could climb over it (it didn't take much goats are f**@ing crazy good climbers!) anyway we'd get a call from a top the hill so me and my year younger brother would march up the hill with the tether!

now a goat that doesn't want to move will not move, at all so one of us would have to pull on the tether and the other would have to push her in the rump, pull and push, push and pull, all the way down the hill. we'd get the pen as fixed as a 9 and 10 year old can fix a ten foot tall goat pen, then back up the hill for goat number two! which we'd get about half way down the hill, where we'd get passed by the first goat marching back up the hill.

lol i hate goats!

to top it all off my teenage brothers refused to help because "they're your goats!" (in other words for.... reasons?) it should also be noted i never once, never ever asked for a goat:)

We didn't have that problem when I was growing up. Our goats were all pygmie goats and could actually be picked up even as adults. So if one got away we could just carry it back. :P

How much of that can they actually digest?

Never had one die of indigestion. :P

I'm really feeling lucky right now. I've never had that type of an experience in a game. The last RPG I quit was due to personality conflicts with a player not due to the DM. I really liked that DM but I couldn't handle the personal hygiene of the player in question and I was volunteered to give the player a ride there and back.

I had a DM that let the party gang rape my character's cohort. The idiot couldn't quite understand why I quit after that. Kept pushing to know why I quit coming to the game (I had made a polite excuse as to why I wouldn't be back). He was terribly upset when I explained what a douchbag move it was for the DM to ignore evil actions in a game where he had specifically outlawed evil characters. Most of his players thought it was hillarious. Honestly, 3 twenty-something guys couldn't figure out why rape isn't fin or funny.

Pretty much ruined gaming for a year as I wasn't even interested in role-playing because of that.

Okay, that is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. Are you sure they were 20-something and not 12 year olds? I'm glad to see that you do not find that type of thing funny.

Sic Simper Tyrannosaurus Kill a dinosaur

Hey everybody, Did you See that?? Do something spectacularly stupid that you expect to die from and survive it mostly intact.

The funny and sad thing at the same time is the DM is not a killer or bad one. Far from it. It was as a bad set of rolls on the players part. Let's be honest 24 out of 25 bad rolls. What are the odds of that happening.

About the same odds as that roll of 5 natural 20s in a row I read about in another thread, I'd bet.

I didn't like the space trilogy at all. I did like his greek myth retelling and I like the Narnia books. I really like explanations, perhaps because I like to know how things work. I should have been an engineer, but I can't math.

1. Take the rust monster.

2. Apply the swarm template from the Advanced Bestiary.

3. Watch the look on your players' faces when the egg sac ruptures, releasing a wave of baby rust monsters upon them.

Dude, that is evil. I like it.

I was speaking forward as in publishing order, less than in-story chronological =)

The Magician's Nephew is one of my personal favorites because it explains so much of what went on in Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Orthos wrote:

Thank you. I now know how I'm going to bring back Belimarius in my expanded NWN Runelords campaign.

Don't thank me, thank C. S. Lewis! :)

I Thought I recognized that scene! Magician's Nephew where they wake the

I'm an Engineer, Not a Magician! Fumble a Knowledge: Engineering roll

mango habanero wings.

I'll skip those, but pour on the candy!

I searched the thread looking for the name being used before and didn't see it, must've missed it.

Nope, it wasn't used. I used during my games this weekend. I have over 200 achievements printed and gave away probably half of them. So you didn't miss it. :) Great minds think alike.

You wouldn't believe what a little laminated piece of paper and a 5 cent key ring is worth to some people. They were a HUGE hit.

Liranys wrote:

If I said you had a nice body would you hold it against me? Attempt to seduce an NPC.

"My Hovercraft is Full of Eels" (fumble a Linguistics check)

I. Am. So. Using that one!

Should've Taken a Left Turn at Albuquerque Fumble a Survival or Knowledge (Geography) check to avoid getting lost.

I like your use of this one. Mine was for a one shot so it was this:

Should've Taken a Left Turn at Albuquerque Be the last person to arrive to game.

I did. It was easy. It's just a triangle after all. And Foil Hats really work for that sort of thing.

The next poster found the Island of Dr. Moreau and will tell us about it.

Liranys wrote:

Eat healthy and die anyway? I'd rather go out having fun.

I used to think that, before my first kidney stone. Was 9mm too.

Hard to have fun when your money goes to medical bills :p

I'm actually not in bad health. I'm a bit overweight, but that's due more to a genetic condition and some medication from when I was 18 (a long time ago) than from what I eat.

Marry me.

I would, but my relationship status is rather complicated and it's likely to stay that way for some time. But you're sweet. ;)