Let's see... there was the wizard Sarothane, whose name I had come up with by putting together various old english words for the effect/meaning I wanted. I thought it sounded cool.
Then one of my players immediately began to sing, "Sarothane, Mr. Sarothane, shoulda been my name, Mr. Sarothane..."
Another character, a horse-shaped outsider referring to herself as the Epona (as in the Celtic goddess, but "the" to differentiate her from the planar creatures known as epona) got nicknamed "the E-pony." She was meant to be someone's cohort, and the PC's player himself insisted on her having another name instead. (I then went for the Welsh goddess Rhiannon, but then they had to put up with me singing the Fleetwood Mac song, but that was apparently more acceptable.)
I am sure there are others, stuff like that happens a lot.
Hey, it just seemed odd to Morag that her name was "the Epona" :) And I don't recall anyone calling her "the E-pony", because I would have withheld healing until they apologized suitably to her!
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There's a character named Epona in Zelda? Of the three games I've played (the first 2, and then one I can't remember the name of for the DS with the ship), I never encountered that, although it's been so long I could have easily forgotten.Another character, a horse-shaped outsider referring to herself as the EponaWhere were Link and Zelda? Was the BBEG a were-boar eldrich knight named Ganondorf?
Epona is Link's horse, in Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and Twilight Princess.
There's a character named Epona in Zelda? Of the three games I've played (the first 2, and then one I can't remember the name of for the DS with the ship), I never encountered that, although it's been so long I could have easily forgotten.
Never played Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask?
Hey, it just seemed odd to Morag that her name was "the Epona" :) And I don't recall anyone calling her "the E-pony", because I would have withheld healing until they apologized suitably to her!Let's see... there was the wizard Sarothane, whose name I had come up with by putting together various old english words for the effect/meaning I wanted. I thought it sounded cool.
Then one of my players immediately began to sing, "Sarothane, Mr. Sarothane, shoulda been my name, Mr. Sarothane..."
Another character, a horse-shaped outsider referring to herself as the Epona (as in the Celtic goddess, but "the" to differentiate her from the planar creatures known as epona) got nicknamed "the E-pony." She was meant to be someone's cohort, and the PC's player himself insisted on her having another name instead. (I then went for the Welsh goddess Rhiannon, but then they had to put up with me singing the Fleetwood Mac song, but that was apparently more acceptable.)
I am sure there are others, stuff like that happens a lot.
Axel and Dheza's players were doing it constantly, but maybe they were careful to do it behind your back. ;)
Never played Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask?There's a character named Epona in Zelda? Of the three games I've played (the first 2, and then one I can't remember the name of for the DS with the ship), I never encountered that, although it's been so long I could have easily forgotten.
Nope. As I mentioned in the very post you quoted, the only ones I have played was the original Zelda, Zelda II, and... *actually looks up the name this time* Phantom Hourglass. The only Nintendo systems I've ever owned were the original NES and the DS.
Okay, TECHNICALLY, I played some of Ocarina in the demo mode at the game store, but I never got very far.
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My worst screw up is deciding that I could homebrew a campaign. I had a great backstorys planned out for each of the PC's, and it all went down the toilet when the Efreet ran though a tavern wall scooby-doo style screaming "They're after me luckycharms!"
It's been all down hill from there.
Well of course it has. That scene sounds like it would be pretty much the apex of ANY campaign. No GM could improve on that.
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I DMed a 2nd ed campaign set in the Forgotten Realms. I wanted it to be a bit different, so I set up a situation where fighting makes them lose!
The six PCs were about level 12, and the patron was a diplomat sent by Silverymoon to gain an alliance with a strategically important town. Their job was to protect her and do whatever was needed so that the mission would be successful.
Just before the PCs set off on their mission, I told them that a guy called Morben had disappeared presumed dead. What they didn't know was that he had turned traitor. I based him on Morden from Babylon 5.
The mission started badly! The party were ambushed teleporting to a secret surveillance area, teleporting to an area where the floor gave way to a pit with blade barrier. They were ambushed by some members of an evil party I had made to mirror the player party. Each of the party members had a counterpart equal in ability.
The party survived and travelled to the town in question. They thought that all they'd have to do was turn up and watch the diplomat persuade the leaders of the town to become allies FTW! When they arrived they were told that there was a rival delegation representing the Zhentarim! The Zhents were an evil trade empire who'd stop at nothing to expand their sphere of influence. The party entered the chamber where negotiations were to take place, only to see the enemy party that had ambushed them! They were the Zhent delegation! What's more, one of them was none other than Morben! Not dead, but traitor! He always wore an Amulet of Proof Against Detection and Location; that's why they'd no information regarding his fate .
The diplomat made it clear (so did the town leaders) that anyone committing violent acts would be expelled from the town, and that would lead to the alliance being made with the other delegation. The party really, really wanted to kill the evil party, but just trying would mean mission failure and would condemn this town to eventual Zhent rule and the...
That is a great story, and a really good idea for a campaign. Babylon 5 forever! Was their diplomat like Londo Mollari?
I've skipped players' turns by accident multiple time. We now have MULTIPLE tracking systems to aid me, and I still occasionally mess it up.
>> I make one player be responsible for it.. Keeps me on my toes, and it's easier :)
I do that too... somehow it manages to be the same player for the whole session that I will be looking at and talking to, then check initiative to see who is next and completely skip - so around the table I just hear "So I don't get a turn this time?"
Also, I like calling the guy "Blah" - I tend to fill the blank with "Gary" if put in a situation where I have to have a name.
It being an in-joke with my group from a long ago multi-player magic game when we had a bit of a sit and wonder about what each planeswalker involved in the epic war going on would be thinking about the guy just sitting over there in a forest saying "look at all these trees!" because he couldn't manage to draw anything but forest cards... and we labelled him Gary Greenrobe, friend of the trees.
...and Fallout 3 then solidified Gary as being the official filler name in my brain.
A group I was in a few years ago named any non-essential NPCs (and they almost always came in 3s) Jim, Bob, and Nebuchadnezzar.
Nope. As I mentioned in the very post you quoted, the only ones I have played was the original Zelda, Zelda II, and... *actually looks up the name this time* Phantom Hourglass. The only Nintendo systems I've ever owned were the original NES and the DS.
Okay, TECHNICALLY, I played some of Ocarina in the demo mode at the game store, but I never got very far.
Ah. They're well worth playing. They just remade Ocarina of Time for the 3DS and there's whispers and mutterings of a possible Majora's Mask remake sometime soon.
Though they're still perfectly great on the N64 if you can track one down at a garage sale or flea market some time. Should be pretty cheap.
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That is a great story, and a really good idea for a campaign. Babylon 5 forever! Was their diplomat like Londo Mollari?
Actually, she was based on Delenn! Lady Alysee was a priest of Sune, and one of the PCs was based on Lennier, her assistant. The player pretended to be just a low-level priest, but was really a dual-class priest3/rogue9. There was a paladin of Sune, a duelist-type fighter and a wizard.
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Not her?!?
No wonder violence was off the cards.
In my second Jade Regent party, I have a pair of Gnome sister PC's who are adopted by one of the prominent NPC's. For the life of me, I've mixed their names up atleast once per session while having discussions with them in character.
It's become a running gag at this point, with each of them quick to correct the NPC's in question about who is who.
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Well, my GM "oopsies" range from the errant to the epic...
Last session I was using Combat Manager to manage initiative and decided that I needed to have the prisoner's initiative in the mix in case she ever got a chance to move. The party did not yet know there was a prisoner involved. Until I got to her spot on the initiative chart and muttered out loud "OK, now Orchid.... "
"Orchid!?" She's here?!"
I once created two custom races that appeared to be almost identical. One race was extremely powerful physically, but were vulnerable to magical effects. The other race was extremely weak physically, but fed on magic so that the more spells you hit them with, the stronger they became.
I thought it would be a good opportunity to "teach" the players about expectations. So they first encountered the physically powerful race and after nearly getting killed in a frontal assault, they realized the magical vulnerability and dispatched them quickly.
Unfortunately they were so pleased with the success of that tactic, when they encountered the second race they never questioned it, even when the creatures grew to three times their size..... And eventually TPK'd them.
After the battle I asked them, "Didn't you realize that the magic was feeding them?" Their near unanimous answer was "you said they were 'almost identical'!"
Since then I have learned to avoid subtlety....
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I accidentally revealed one PC's personal secret (which she was planning to reveal in a dramatic and heartfelt moment herself) before she got a chance to reveal it.
She'd been gushing to me, privately, for weeks about how excited she was about the upcoming reveal. On the week where it was going to occur, we had to cancel the game at the last minute. The week after that, I began by quickly summarizing the events of the previous game, and my scumbag brain decided to make me think "she was planning to reveal it last week, therefore, it's already been revealed" despite that I clearly remembered the session cancellation of the week before. So I casually gave away the secret that she'd been excited for weeks about doing the reveal for.
I felt so bad about it. I still do. I've since been forgiven, but it's still one of my biggest shames in GMing.
I have only been a GM a few times. My first time was a 4e adventure from the Dungeon Delve book. Everything was going fine until I failed to realize the group had a Goliath that could look over the 8ft tall fence surrounding the enemy camp. The combat was less than thrilling with the party knowing enemy positions and able to plan. Now I know to take any fences in a campaign, find out tallest PC height, and make fences 4ft taller than tallest PC.
once i was dming and setting a random encounter, one of the players goes to the bathroom and at that moment i was phacing pages and stop at Displacer Beast!!!
so, i feel so sorry for the famelic image in the book and say to myself "hey!! why don´t make that displacer came to try for a meal?"
the characters are lvl 1 all of them... TPK
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I once got confused on the rule change for ethereal type monsters and ended up giving a set of reasonably weak monsters both 50% miss chance and 50% less damage from magic attacks (including +1 weapons) AND no damage from any other source. It took them the better part of an hour to chip away at the enemies meanwhile they all took considerable amounts of STR damage. Finally, they get past that room cursing and healing...next room...same enemy type, but +2 CR each. This finally prompted me to check the defenses properly and found my screw up before what would have surely been a slow and agonizing TPK. The intent was for them to get through a maze of shadows type structure with an easy then moderate encounter leading up to a shadow wizard. The final encounter of the night, I almost said "more shadow creatures!" just to screw with them.
I accidentally revealed one PC's personal secret (which she was planning to reveal in a dramatic and heartfelt moment herself) before she got a chance to reveal it.
What might that have been, if you don't mind revealing it?
I just realized that characters can freely move through one anothers' squares, as long as they end their movement in an unoccupied square. So many encounters in the past have been bogged down by miniature placement. So many turns delayed/skipped. Oops.
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I sometimes speak aloud what I'm thinking, revealing more information than was necessary, when it comes around to the NPC/villain's turn.
"Alright, the werewolf is up. Alright, he... damnit."
I ran my group through an adventure where they had raided a den of werewolves, and had to slay the matriarch of the pack, who was also a cleric of the Wolf-god of the setting. The PC's were carrying several powerful magic items, and a couple of them were formidable spellcasters as well.
So, my big plan was to drop a large anti-magic field in the BBEG's chamber, nullifying the groups magic support. I figured this would work great, since the matriarch would just shift to her wolf form and tear the group to shreds...
Except for the part where shapechanging is a Supernatural ability, and thus nullified by the anti-magic field as well. Which, only came to my attention after the encounter had begun.
So, yeah. BBEG spellcaster with no spells, no weapon, and no shapechanging. The group pounced on her and beat her down like it was a mugging. Total blunder on my part. What was supposed to be a fierce battle, turned into a group of people beating down a defenseless old woman. Worst adventure climax ever.
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I would have just ruled that shapechanging is (Ex) and continued with the adventure. Sometimes the rules get in the way of the fun. That's when they gotta be put in their place! XD
Hm. One I still cringe remembering.
I managed to kill a Champions character.
Taught me to never get po'd when a pc takes a different route.
I was just learning to GM. The group was going to be sucked into a different dimension created by the BBEG. They were picked up by a federal group and driven to the site where they were to be caught in the expanding field that has swallowed a town. One pc refused to travel in the van. Insisted on using his motorcycle. It never occurred to me to just catch the motorcycle in the field. I got mad because he wouldn't follow the plot and had demons with killing attacks jump out and slash him, hoping to scare him into getting in the van.
He had no resistant defenses. I rolled max...
Immediate retcon.
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I had a large battle consisting of multiple goblins, four spellcasters and elementals of all four primary colors.
The battle went on, spells flying, hordes of humanoids moving. PCs cleaving, spell slinging and what not left and right.
And then I overheard them, peering suspiciously at this one fire elemental that just hadn't done anything the entire battle. Just sitting there in its initial position.
They became intensely suspicious of it, thinking it must have a plan, or be concealed spellcaster.
I'd just forgotten to move it. I forgot to put it on the init chart..
The party ended up tip toeing past it. They concluded it had fallen asleep and opted to not irritate it. The entire rest of the adventure kept resulting in people wanting to pause but 'That creepy fire elemental might wake up.'
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I have noticed that I tend to forget pervasive conditions that cover an entire complex or location at times. For instance, a level of caverns that have heavy fog that cuts visibility. I start off great, then after a 45 minute debate among the players, dinner break or other significant interruption, the conditions seem to disappear until I remember them again. Fortunately for me I have honest players.
Namewise, the only recent name blunder in recent memory came when I pronounced Chelaxans as "chill-laxing" and now my players laugh whenenver a native of Cheliax enters the game.
I once got myself when I spent a month writing and setting up in-game events leading to a big pre-planned adventure. It was to be a 5 game-session adventure and to make sure the players found it, I had four big hooks to get the party involved. They ended up killing the two NPCs due to mistaken identity, burning both clues, and leaving town due to the killings before the last hook could happen. After that I switched to a more sandbox, less rail-road style permanently.
I mis-interpreted the Dread Wraith's negative energy damage to mean "negative energy drain". I nuked two cohorts and a PC in successive rounds before the rest beat feet. The players forgave me for it, though, since I'm still pretty new to the GM-trade.
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Once I was running a adventure in 3.5. There was a room that had a almost full page description. After finishing reading it to the group, they started making camp in there. Thing is, there was an ogre in the room. That the super long description never mentions. So, after the party is halfway setting up camp...
Me: So, what do you guys do about the ogre in the room?
Players: What ogre?
Me: The big ass ogre in the room that you guys ignored.
Players: Obviously he's friendly since he's letting us set up camp.
Now, whenever I'm DMing, if I read a long description of ANYTHING, the players ask "Is there an ogre?"
Later in that same game, they opened a door to what the adventure described as a "long and dark hallway."
The hallway in question? 10 ft. long.
I'll never live down either of those.
I almost had an entire group TPK.
They'd been chasing clues for 7 or 8 games, and finally due to some faulty intelligence transfer from one of the players (who managed to screw up every possible bit of information I gave when telling it to the other players), they were woefully underprepared for the big bad battle.
So, I had their employer step in and bring them all up to WBL, and fill in some blanks finally. Then they went to attack the Big Bad who had the McGuffin. The BB was a half-dragon witch with a nasty scythe, and 12 mooks of various types (including one adept healer with a wand).
The very first thing the PCs did was leave their own witch 120ft from the fight, their archer 80ft from the fight, and then the rest charged into the throng of mooks.
BB half-dragon witch simply ignored the melee people and the archer, flew straight to the witch, and sliced her into kibble in 2 rounds. Then flew to the archer and sliced him into kibble in 2 rounds. By then all but 2 mooks were down (plus the noncombatant healer, who refused to attack, would only heal the others, and the LG cleric coudln't attack the healer due to personal code of honor). In the end, the cavalier's horse was the only one standing, and it managed to bring the BB down to 25% hit points, which was the BB's standing order to retreat with the McGuffin.
So the Cavalier's horse was the only 'survivor' of the fight. Sheesh.
my story isnt as funny, i was in a dungeon with traps laid throughout the floor, and my character had secured a safe pathway from a switch back to the starting point, only, the GM had forgotten about one of the traps when i crossed it the first time, so i unwittingly went back over it, thinking that nothing would happen because i was retracing my steps and BAM
trap sprung on me, his excuse was "the floor board was sticky the first time"
thanks dude...
on a lighter note, when i played 3.5 we had an entire homebrew campaign setting where damn near all the NPCs were famous musicions
there was the Aero-Smithery run by Steve and his apprentice Joe
(meant to be steve tyler and joe perry)
there was the AC/DC armory, run by Angus
(meant to be Angus young)
we had an NPC named Scott Staff who was a Paladin and the Head of the town guard in our main city, and he was based off Scott Stapp of Creed (hence paladin) and every time he spoke he said MYAH (imagine the worst/best scott stapp impression)
we also had an NPC (who later became a premade PC) named Scott Wild-Land who was a homebrew version of an arcane adept who was seeking his familiar who happened to be a Pseudo Dragon that he lost
(based on Scott weiland of STP, who is a heroine addict, "chasing the dragon")
we still had plans for running into a character based on David Bowie who would be a druid (based on david bowie's appearance in the Venture Bros)
I sometimes speak aloud what I'm thinking, revealing more information than was necessary, when it comes around to the NPC/villain's turn.
"Alright, the werewolf is up. Alright, he... damnit."
I did something similar once!
I had been building up this mystery all session. The PCs had tracked a man through the wilderness back to his little shack in the woods and were about to ambush him when we got into a small debate about how Stealth worked. One of the players asked to see the PHB for clarification, so I passed it to him.
... only I actually handed him the Monster Manual, which I had left open to the entry on werewolves. щ(ﾟДﾟщ) They all noticed it and tried to act cool, except for one player, who suddenly had the urge to remind me that he bought silver arrows the last time he was in town.
Also:
Once I had to hastily name a female NPC who turned out to be more important to the storyline than I had anticipated. Flustered, I thought up a pretty common name, and then chose the first random surname that popped into my head to go with it. It wasn't until I caught my players snickering at least an hour later that I realized I had inadvertently named her after a well-known porn star.
I once named an NPC bard "Felecio." I didn't realize what I had done until it was far, FAR too late.
I now think hard about what I name objects and people in my games, and say the names out loud several times, in several different ways, before I decide on something.
...Catch Phrase,
-Chris
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my story isnt as funny, i was in a dungeon with traps laid throughout the floor, and my character had secured a safe pathway from a switch back to the starting point, only, the GM had forgotten about one of the traps when i crossed it the first time, so i unwittingly went back over it, thinking that nothing would happen because i was retracing my steps and BAM
trap sprung on me, his excuse was "the floor board was sticky the first time"thanks dude...
on a lighter note, when i played 3.5 we had an entire homebrew campaign setting where damn near all the NPCs were famous musicions
there was the Aero-Smithery run by Steve and his apprentice Joe
(meant to be steve tyler and joe perry)there was the AC/DC armory, run by Angus
(meant to be Angus young)we had an NPC named Scott Staff who was a Paladin and the Head of the town guard in our main city, and he was based off Scott Stapp of Creed (hence paladin) and every time he spoke he said MYAH (imagine the worst/best scott stapp impression)
we also had an NPC (who later became a premade PC) named Scott Wild-Land who was a homebrew version of an arcane adept who was seeking his familiar who happened to be a Pseudo Dragon that he lost
(based on Scott weiland of STP, who is a heroine addict, "chasing the dragon")we still had plans for running into a character based on David Bowie who would be a druid (based on david bowie's appearance in the Venture Bros)
Haha! This reminds me of one of the "easter eggs" I put in a very long campaign one time. There was a young up and coming bard named Ossian who was extremely popular and known for his wild singing and shows. As the party traveled the Forgotten Realms, they kept running into this bard performing gigs everywhere. Finally someone in the party decided he might be an "important NPC" and went to talk to him. I made them burn a Tongues spell to completely understand him since he spoke in a broken language none of them spoke fluently. Determining he was not after them or related to any of their quests, they dismissed him but did go to one of his shows. There were groans around the table when his name was announced... Ossian, Ossian Osbourne.
I use the GameMastery Combat Pad because I was terrible at keeping track of initiative order without it.
My habit when I first started using it in my 3.5e Forgotten Realms game was to write the name of the creature on its initiative magnet so I'd say "Now it's the ghirrash's turn" (for example). I'd remind my players afterward that they shouldn't know what the creatures were. My players used to joke that they had the Detect Name ability to recognize what creatures were.
More recently in my current Pathfinder campaign, I mostly let the players manage the Combat Pad and keep it out for everyone to see. Unless a creature's type is glaringly obvious, I use an initiative magnet that is just labeled as "creature." Sometimes I'll just use a colored AleaTools magnet right on the Combat Pad that corresponds with a matching color assigned to the mini on the board if I have more than one of the same mini in use.
So, yeah, for the most part players in my current campaign don't get the Detect Name (Su) ability.
So many...where to start?
How about silly names:
- Marin, lord of Battles (homebrew deity) - battle cry created by my players? "You've been MARINATED!" This deity no longer appears in my homebrews.
- Every single NPC I can't think of the name of is "Larry" as in "They got Larry; let's GET 'em!" My players thought it'd be awesome to jot down notes on every Larry for a while. A few months into the game they presented me with "The chronicle of Larrys", a record of all the poor shmoes I'd thrown around.
- I had a dwarf bartender change names 3 times over the course of a few months of gaming b/cause I could never remember his exact name. The third time I did it I called him the same name as the blacksmith (conveniently also a dwarf) and my player called me on it. I went with it: Player - wait, isn't that the name of the blacksmith? Me - the dwarf looks embarassed and for the first time you notice he looks amazingly like the blacksmith, save that his beard is red and the blacksmith's is black. "I...don't know what ye' mean lad" he stammers. You notice his apron is stained with soot as well as liquor...
Also there are GAPING inconsistencies in my campaigns. There have been details I've forgotten to drop "How do you guys NOT know the name of the noble who's missing?" players look befuddled, "because you NEVER told us...", there's been whole set pieces in homebrew games I forget so that the adventure makes no sense and of course I forget little things...like what's happening in the game's plot.
But we all keep rolling on don't we?
There was one time, and don't know what I was thinking, that I described a creature in detail that was attacking the party. Except I neglected the most important bit of information: the fact that it was huge size. They were thinking it was medium and it started this argument about how reach works and I couldn't for the life of me understand how they were confused. So I got frustrated a grabbed some minis. They immediatly pointed out that was retarded and I hadn't told them that it was this massive creature. Yeah...that was derp.
Not from a campaign I was in, but one of my fellow players apparently was GMing a game where the party entered a town that was having a spring/summer festival where many games were being played. Unfortunately, he had not thought through a potential game list, and so just started rattling off different games going on. Somehow curling made the list. Needless to say, the PCs all wanted to go curling at the festival, and so he had to make up the mechanics for curling on the fly.
I usually forget the size aswel :D
I have smaller than you, your size, and everything bigger than you is BIG... Big surprise when *after* combat I read the fluff out loud, and it described it as being 9-12 feet high.
My players' eyes are not easily forgotten!
For Kingmaker, I kept slipping up on Oleg's name and kept calling him Olaf. After like 5 times of me slipping up, I finally say f+*$ it and called him Olaf. Also his wife Svetlana got some laughs from us because that's the name of this really terrible manga artist that draws people horrifically out of proportion and somehow got her own show in Canada. The running gag was that every time they saw his wife, her features were always different. Arm shorter than the other, eyes too close. Was funny.
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In a homebrew game, the PCs were supposed to fight a bunch of punks in a factory with a conveyer belt system in hopes of stealing a quest item from them. During the fight, the punks were going to drop or throw the quest item onto the conveyer belt and half the battle would be chasing it down as it goes all over the place, repeatedly exchanging hands and what not as it did so.
It turned into a humdrum fight and basic treasure recovery as none of the NPCs bothered putting the quest item on the conveyer belt when I FORGOT MY OWN PLAN.
You were illustrating the encounter area with the RoboRally boards, right?
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. . . a town that was having a spring/summer festival where many games were being played. Unfortunately, he had not thought through a potential game list, and so just started rattling off different games going on. Somehow curling made the list. Needless to say, the PCs all wanted to go curling at the festival, and so he had to make up the mechanics for curling on the fly.
Curling at a spring/summer festival? Magical ice?
. . . a town that was having a spring/summer festival where many games were being played. Unfortunately, he had not thought through a potential game list, and so just started rattling off different games going on. Somehow curling made the list. Needless to say, the PCs all wanted to go curling at the festival, and so he had to make up the mechanics for curling on the fly.Curling at a spring/summer festival? Magical ice?
Yep. Curling. He still hasn't explained how exactly it worked, but apparently the players had fun with it.
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Yep. Curling. He still hasn't explained how exactly it worked, but apparently the players had fun with it.. . . a town that was having a spring/summer festival where many games were being played. Unfortunately, he had not thought through a potential game list, and so just started rattling off different games going on. Somehow curling made the list. Needless to say, the PCs all wanted to go curling at the festival, and so he had to make up the mechanics for curling on the fly.Curling at a spring/summer festival? Magical ice?
Curling sheet- Using precedents established through trap building to create permanized yet cheap running water, a series of traps were established around the rink, known as the "sheet" utilizing create water, ray of frost and a single sleet storm spell to create a constantly forming/evaporating sheet of ice. The target and lane are defined by a prestidigitation and arcane mark woven into the sleet storm trap. Matches are timed with an hour limit; at that point the ice traps need to shut down and refresh.
This trap, crafted by the clever gnomish adept named Zamm Bo-Ni was originally meant to be part of the town's defenses but due to cost overruns the illusory fireworks, color sprays and mecanical golems meant to accompany the sheet were never produced. Since these generators only seem to kick on during the summer festival for some reason and no one really knew how to shut them down, they were repurposed for the entertainment of the crowd.
I almost had an entire group TPK.Not your fault however. :)
The BB was a half-dragon witchNow I'm REALLY embarrassed.
I forgot to tell you the class? Yeah, sorry. He didn't even have to cast any spells. He only used a hex on the cavalier to make her horse hate her and that was it.