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I couldn't really reconcile this to any other forum than this one. It's not system specific, or I'd've thrown it in 3.x/OGL... but this transcends game setting in my opinion.
That said, I'd like to ask what's the strangest thing you've ever encountered in a published adventure? No, really, the most "What the...?" type encounter.
I can top it. But only if you follow the logic.
Ok, we're on the Positive Material Plane. We're chasing a demon-hearted great wyrm red Dragon (if you've played Bastion of Unborn Souls, you might know what's coming next)
And after beating our way through what amounts to about 100+ combined hit dice of demons, we enter the sanctum sanctorum-ish.
Four. Unique. Monsters. All of them with the "Half-Dragon" template.
Ok, Kobold Half Dragon. Not too much of a stretch to see where such a creature came from.
Chimera Half Dragon. Bit more of a "Huh?"
Ettin Half Dragon. Two heads = Twice the breath weapon. Meep!
Advanced template Dire Bear... Half Dragon. At this point, I looked at my GM and made a noise of pure incredulity. "Hi! I'm an evil dragon with aspirations of devouring the souls of an entire world before they're incarnate. I'm so evil I MATED AND REPRODUCED WITH A DIRE BEAR!!"
We laughed so hard I think we both nearly became sick. And every time "Grizzly"'s initiative came around, we started cracking up again. I'm having trouble typing this with a straight face.
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Seriously, this blows the doors off the "Calzone Golem" that I once found in a published WotC adventure.
So, with that said, what's the most off the wall thing YOU have encountered, dear readers? Because if there's anything more truly bizzare than a Half-Dragon Dire Bear... I'd really like to know what it is.
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I'm with you, here, but...
What if a Great Wyrm, Infernal Green Dragon Sorcerer/ Transmuter has been doing some evil experiments for the last couple of centuries on the Abyssal Red Dragon he defeated and captured while whooping up the punk-demons in the Blood War?
So now, he has a bunch of test-tube halfbreeds that he created.
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For me, the stupidest thing ever in recent years was a dragon vampire. I don't care that the explanation was that Dragotha cursed an enemy with a spell to make it vampric -- I can't get past seeing a vampire walking up to a Silver Dragon saying "I vant / to suck / your blood!". It's stupid.
So, with that said, what's the most off the wall thing YOU have encountered, dear readers? Because if there's anything more truly bizzare than a Half-Dragon Dire Bear... I'd really like to know what it is.
How about a half-dragon half-celestial half-illithid half-elf?
It don't make sense.
He's twice the man you are...
Seriously, this blows the doors off the "Calzone Golem" that I once found in a published WotC adventure.
God, I am so hungry...when is lunch?
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And if you go back to the late 80's, Dave Arneson put a handful of Tarrasques -- as random encounters -- in the same adventure.
DM: You hear something big charging toward you
PCs: We look in that direction
DM: You see the first of a handful of Tarrasques charging you
PCs: Wow, are you sure Dave Arneson wrote this?!
So, with that said, what's the most off the wall thing YOU have encountered, dear readers? Because if there's anything more truly bizzare than a Half-Dragon Dire Bear... I'd really like to know what it is.
How about singing, dancing mushrooms? (OLD MAN KATAN AND THE INCREDIBLE, EDIBLE, DANCING MUSHROOM BAND, from Dungeon magazine #41.)
So, with that said, what's the most off the wall thing YOU have encountered, dear readers? Because if there's anything more truly bizzare than a Half-Dragon Dire Bear... I'd really like to know what it is.How about a half-dragon half-celestial half-illithid half-elf?
It don't make sense.
Sweetie, I keep telling you that your fourth father was a satyr, not an elf.
So, with that said, what's the most off the wall thing YOU have encountered, dear readers? Because if there's anything more truly bizzare than a Half-Dragon Dire Bear... I'd really like to know what it is.How about a half-dragon half-celestial half-illithid half-elf?
It don't make sense.
<Gives Kobold Cleaver a hug>
There, there. It's OK.
as bad as it may seem if you truly want horrible I suggest going back to second edition and looking at the pages of Castle Greyhawk. There you will find 3 foot tall bull headed men called mini-taurs or run into a gnome in a fedora carrying a whip and a gold idol running from some nazi-dressed were rats(ratzis) screaming "ve vile find you oklahoma gnome!
getting through that adventure with everything from marvel comics(drider-man anyone) to star trek TOS (dammit djinn I'm a doctor not a cleric)to just about anythng you can imagine from the 80's.
Hope you enjoy it.
Contributor, RPG Superstar 2012
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as bad as it may seem if you truly want horrible I suggest going back to second edition and looking at the pages of Castle Greyhawk. There you will find 3 foot tall bull headed men called mini-taurs or run into a gnome in a fedora carrying a whip and a gold idol running from some nazi-dressed were rats(ratzis) screaming "ve vile find you oklahoma gnome!
getting through that adventure with everything from marvel comics(drider-man anyone) to star trek TOS (dammit djinn I'm a doctor not a cleric)to just about anythng you can imagine from the 80's.Hope you enjoy it.
My friends and I loved that module.
From what I've read, though, it upset a lot of people when it was released.
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as bad as it may seem if you truly want horrible I suggest going back to second edition and looking at the pages of Castle Greyhawk. There you will find 3 foot tall bull headed men called mini-taurs or run into a gnome in a fedora carrying a whip and a gold idol running from some nazi-dressed were rats(ratzis) screaming "ve vile find you oklahoma gnome!
getting through that adventure with everything from marvel comics(drider-man anyone) to star trek TOS (dammit djinn I'm a doctor not a cleric)to just about anythng you can imagine from the 80's.Hope you enjoy it.
Social references in gaming? By Gygax? Never!!
Gygax was the epitome of dorkiness. This surprises me not at all.
*grins*
Castle Greyhawk was written after Gygax had been forced out of TSR, and it was a giant F U to him and Greyhawk fans.
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So, with that said, what's the most off the wall thing YOU have encountered, dear readers? Because if there's anything more truly bizzare than a Half-Dragon Dire Bear... I'd really like to know what it is.How about singing, dancing mushrooms? (OLD MAN KATAN AND THE INCREDIBLE, EDIBLE, DANCING MUSHROOM BAND, from Dungeon magazine #41.)
I remember that one - Singing Mushrooms...
Mawi ada widle wam! Widle wam! widle wam!
Mawi ada widle wam anis fleas waz wytaz sno!
Freaking hillarious...and it was five adventures by the same author - THere was the Fire in the Capital, The delivery of Taxes for a general, The seige of Kratyes freehold, old man Katan and his singing mushrooms, and a troll who sang and romanced some girl without her knowing hes a troll?
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Castle Greyhawk was written after Gygax had been forced out of TSR, and it was a giant F U to him and Greyhawk fans.
That infighting realy screwed TSR. Especially when Gygax tried to buy up all the shares and take control only to have the majority share holders dump all their share in the hands of that woman who didnt give a crap about inhouse playtesting.
Castle Greyhawk was written after Gygax had been forced out of TSR, and it was a giant F U to him and Greyhawk fans.
Yes, WG7 was poorly received by many Greyhawk fans, but no it wasn't an anything to Gygax and the Greyhawk fans--it was what it was: a really poor attempt at injecting humor into D&D.
Castle Greyhawk was written after Gygax had been forced out of TSR, and it was a giant F U to him and Greyhawk fans.Yes, WG7 was poorly received by many Greyhawk fans, but no it wasn't an anything to Gygax and the Greyhawk fans--it was what it was: a really poor attempt at injecting humor into D&D.
It had some entertaining artwork by the fellow who did the early Paranoia 'RPG' artwork though.
Indiana Gnome
Mini-onions of Set
The couch potato illusionist
Star Trek original series rip-off
Numerous other rip-offs
Fun to read ^_^
The stay-puft marshmallow dread wraiths (in 3e terms) would be a rude surprise though. :P
Expedition to the Barrier Peaks... the whole thing... especially the Vegipygmies
Seriously, this blows the doors off the "Calzone Golem" that I once found in a published WotC adventure.
I kind of liked that Calzone golem...
I once refused to continue in a campaign with a guy I had just started playing with (and didn't know very well) when he ran that calzone golem stuff. I didn't know it was an official module at the time, I thought it was something weird he was making up because he was a weirdo.
I did play with him a bit more after that and we had a semi-normal campaign until it ended with one of the party PCs killing the DMPC and trying to take out the rest of the party but running out of spells before he got around to attacking my guy so surrendering when my guy drew his shortswords and gave him the option. My rogue was the only good-aligned character in the party.
People really interested in the Module-which-must-not-be-named should root around the boards for Chris Mortika's posts on the subject, as he had an insider's view to what was happening with it. (He's a very knowledgeable and humble guy, and a credit to our community.)
Freaking hillarious...and it was five adventures by the same author - THere was the Fire in the Capital, The delivery of Taxes for a general, The seige of Kratyes freehold, old man Katan and his singing mushrooms...
Ted James Thomas Zuvich did indeed write A Hot Day in L'trel (Dungeon magazine issue #44), Courier Service (#27), and The Siege of Kratys Freehold (#33).
...and a troll who sang and romanced some girl without her knowing hes a troll?
Um... that one sounds like Song of the Fens (issue #40), which was by J. Bradley Schell.
And incidentally, Zuvich also wrote Dovedale (#46), The Vaka's Curse (#50), and Caveat Emptor (#58).
Freaking hillarious...and it was five adventures by the same author - THere was the Fire in the Capital, The delivery of Taxes for a general, The seige of Kratyes freehold, old man Katan and his singing mushrooms...Ted James Thomas Zuvich did indeed write A Hot Day in L'trel (Dungeon magazine issue #44), Courier Service (#27), and The Siege of Kratys Freehold (#33).
...and a troll who sang and romanced some girl without her knowing hes a troll?Um... that one sounds like Song of the Fens (issue #40), which was by J. Bradley Schell.
And incidentally, Zuvich also wrote Dovedale (#46), The Vaka's Curse (#50), and Caveat Emptor (#58).
Having last week GMed old man Katan (as a not so serious interlude in my campaign, because some players couldn't make it), I didn't know Zuvich wrote these other adventures as well. Many years ago, I used Dovedale a few times to start a campaign or as an introduction to new players: excellent adventure. The Vaka's was fun to play/GM as well.
I am going to check his other adventures...Hagor
