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31. Raise the goblins as your own personal child pickpockets / snatch & grab crew. Name all of the girls Artful Dodger and all of the boys Oliver Twist. (this way you don't have to remember a slew of names and when you call for one, they all snap to)

-Fagin

son, age 10, party elf rogue, gets snuck up on by a tentacled monster called a grell. he's grappled.

DM: "Slithering tentacles engulf you, what do you do, elf snot"

Dustin: "I'll start by cutting off its testacle's, then shove them in its beak so it can't bite me."

[stunned silence]

I start to snicker. Dm goes red trying to contain himself. other players have no such luck.

We rolling for 15min before I'm able to explain to Dustin the anatomy of what he said.

[rumbling thunder]
The gods, demons, devils, clerics, witches, wizards, sorcerers, GM's &/or PC's that cursed valiant keyafey, have noted your inattention
[rumbling thunder BUMP]
[ominous] this means all of you [ominous]

151. Hit the party rogue's Armor Class, and the player, EVERY. TIME., says "but i have Evasion". And she's not just joking around.

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142. They plan various stratagems for distracting the party paladin while they torture their captive for important quest information in the next room.

142 b. Paladins will randomly mention how they dumped wisdom so they can't possibly be aware of what's going on while the rest of the party has extremely vocal debates.

142 C to Z. (worth the read, trust me.) It was our 11th hour, we'd hounded the streets for days trying to round up cult agents and get information out of them.

We found out the plague was already in most of the food and water, as they had been at it for months, but a ritual needed to be completed for it to become active.

The cultists were hard to break, and our group (generally not the nicest folks) wanted to torture it out of them. Naturally, Sir Peter was opposed.

"We can't preserve freedom while denying it to others. It's not right, we can't do it, and I won't allow it."
Chris wasn't being a dick, he was just playing the character. As much as our characters might not have liked it, we as players were having lots of fun. The added drama really worked.

We managed to capture a high priest of the cult, someone responsible for conducting the ritual in this part of the land. It turns out the ritual needed to be conducted at the same time in several parts of the kingdom at once, in order to deliver the maximum effect.

We need to know the other locations, or else all our efforts would have just saved one northern barony and not the whole land. He gave us no choice but to beat it out of him.

Sir Peter wanted no part of this: "If you're going to treat a man like some animal for the slaughter, then don't expect me to sit by and watch." He then stormed out, and let us carry on in our work.

We'd been at it hours, and we couldn't get the guy to crack. He just wouldn't tell us anything. He was covered in cuts, had lost a toe at our hands, was dripping in his own blood, but still won't give us want we needed. We were going to give up and try another method, when all of a sudden, our doorway darkens and in walks Sir Peter. He's wearing nothing but his tunic and pants, unarmed, bar for a half drank jug of some form of strong booze in hand.

In steps into the room and announces:

"If you're going to do this, do it right..."
He walks over to the bound cultist, tosses aside his bottle, lifts the chair and sits in front of the beaten man.

Sir Peter:

"I don't want to hurt you, I just need to know the locations of your brethren, then this can be all over for you, I will make sure you are safe and cared for."
Cultist:

"Ha! I know who you are, Sir Peter Fairgrave; kingdom breaker, runaway child, father slayer. You can't threaten me: I know what you are. Your order, your God won't allow you to lay your hands on me, otherwise you'll fall, and you won't be able to help a soul."
Sir Peter:

*sighs* "You seem to be under the misconception about what I am, what I do. I am a paladin, that is true; but as a paladin I don't fear falling... I look forward to it."
The cultist shot a nervous look at the rest of the party, we were all looking at each other, not sure what was about to happen. The cultist opened his mouth to speak, but Sir Peter cut him off.

Sir Peter:

"As a paladin, I walk on a razor's edge. Not between good and evil, I could never be something like you, but between "law" and "justice". The "law" I follow doesn't permit me to harm you, but I could be "justified" in anything I did to you in order to save innocent lives. ANYTHING!"
"You don't know what it is like to be me. You don't know the pain of having to store all your anger, all your fury, all your sense of justice, and hold it inside you, all day every day for the rest of your life. Doing the right thing doesn't mean I get to stop all evil, I just get to trim it when it becomes overgrown. The path I walk is not about vengeance, or what's right; it's about moderation in the face of power, restraint and compassion for scum like you.
"This is why paladins don't fear falling. We don't spend all day looking for ways to prevent ourselves from doing evil and giving in to the darkness -- we actively seek it out. Every time we face evil, we ask ourselves, 'Is this the threat that I'm going to give it all up for? Is this what I am going to give up my ability to help others in the future, in order to bring it down now. Is this the evil that I am willing to forsake my God and my power to stop?!'".
At this point, he stands up suddenly and swings his arm against the chair he was sitting on. Sending it flying and shattered against a wall, he then kicks over the chair the cultist was sitting on, he leaps and straddles his chest, flinging him about for a few seconds in pure rage, before calming once more.

He looks the cultist straight in the face, both their noses just inches from each other.

"What you should be asking yourself now, what you really need to be thinking about, is: 'Is what I'm doing something that will make this guy want to fall?' Because you should know that once I fall, all those rules which protect you from me are gone. No longer will I be able to be stopped by you, or by my order, or by my God. If I give everything, and I mean give everything, I will never stop. If you escape me today, I will hunt you down and grab you into the pits of hell myself. Even if that means that I have to invoke the wrath of every demon in creation, just so they throw open a pit and drag me down where I stand, because when they do drag me down, I will make sure that my fists are wrapped firmly around your ankles and you go down with me. I want you to listen to me now, and I mean really listen, because Hell truly hath no fury like a paladin scorned."
"So I ask you, one last time: tell me where the other rituals are being held, or I swear to all on high that I will fall, and fall hard, just so I can show you what it is that paladin truly keeps his code in order to hold back..."

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At this point the player, Chris, just stops talking and looks at us. We are all kind of stunned by his speech, naturally.

He just picks up a D20, looks at the DM and says "I wish to roll intimidate."

~~~~~~~ yeah, i edited/double posted, cuz no one likes to be at the bottom of a thread ~~~~~~~

first off, i have not posted to the threads for going on 10yrs. just hanging out, stealing a tidbit here & there of people's concepts. i had not seen anthing to motivate me to post again.

then i found this ... HUGE UNDERTAKING ...
i mean the dedication alone merits high recognition. i actually started to do the same thing in microsoft word and then realized after bestiary 1 & 2 that i would never be able to keep up with it. woe! the aggravation!! That said;

i bid a special thanks to the gods, demon, devils, clerics, witches, wizards, sorcerers, GM's &/or PC's that cursed valiant keyafey. Chained a strange and ominous piece of technology, compelled to labor away, to complete the uncompletable. pray, thee, for he who hath sacrificed much to provide thee & thine this artifice of knowledge.

there are not enough expletives to properly describe how awesome this project is. Thank you!

that about sums it up

You are my hero! I was doing something similar, and was going to print them all out, because I work at a place that has a ton of poly page protectors and high end 3 ring binders to make sort of an "Omnibus Edition" for my Private collection. This saved me a ton of work! YOu are a scholar and a great help!

hmmm. perhaps since LazGrizzle has access to the poly page protectors and high end 3 ring binders, LazGrizzle could grant keyafay a hardcopy of these works, should they ever be actually completed (snicker). i might even be convinced to help finance such a thing . . .

for those of you who do not realize the magnitude, the shear dedication of 1 person compiling the Complete Compilation Books, no offense, but i have two words for you, starting with "f" and ending with"u".

in case my post has not cited my opinion, THANK YOU, so very, very much. i look forward to the updates.

btw; don't let anyone trick you into the bestiary compilation. (shudder)

[cough] reverse psychology [cough]

...excuse spelling, i don't care enough to fix it. ;)

first off, i have not posted to the threads for going on 10yrs. just hanging out, stealing a tidbit here & there of people's concepts. i had not seen anthing to motivate me to post again.

then i found this ... HUGE UNDERTAKING ...
i mean the dedication alone merits high recognition. i actually started to do the same thing in microsoft word and then realized after bestiery 1 & 2 that i would never be able to keep up with it. woe! the aggravation!!

That said, i offer a special thanks to the gods, demon, devils, clerics, witches, wizards, sorcerers, GM's & PC's that cursed valiant keyafey. Chained a strange and ominous piece of technology, compelled to labor away, to complete the uncompletable . . .

pray,thee, he who has sacrificed much to provide us this artifice of knowledge.

there are not enough expletives to properly describe how awesome this project is. Thank you!

couldn't have said it better

You are my hero! I was doing something similar, and was going to print them all out, because I work at a place that has a ton of poly page protectors and high end 3 ring binders to make sort of an "Omnibus Edition" for my Private collection. This saved me a ton of work! YOu are a scholar and a great help!

hmmm. perhaps since you have access to the poly page protectors and high end 3 ring binders, you could grant keyafay a hardcopy of the works. i might even be convinced to help finance such a thing . . .

for those of you who do not realize the magnitude, the shear dedication of 1 person compiling the Complete Compilation Books, no offense, but i have two words for you, starting with "f" and ending with"u".

in case my post has not cited my opinion, THANK YOU, so very, very much. i look forward to the updates.

btw; don't let anyone trick you into the bestiary compilation. (shudder)

(ahem, reverse psychology)

...excuse spelling, i don't care enough to fix it. ;)