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<blockquote data-quote="The Grumpy Celt" data-source="post: 1750897" data-attributes="member: 1019"><p>In the TV show <strong>Farscape</strong> the flowers are mostly just a plot device giving both motive and liability to the Scarrans, who are among the lengthy list of bad guys.</p><p></p><p>Incidentally, in the original make-up the Scarrans looked very much like hair-less, albino versions of the ogre from the Monster Manual. Later make-up has gone the way of Star Trek in depicting them – namely just odd-colored latex lumps over the actors face.</p><p></p><p>Another character – a half-Scarran who whose depiction in the show made me reset my standards for villainy – said the Scarrans were dumber than dogs without the flower.</p><p></p><p>If I remember it correctly, the flowers in the show were just a chrysanthemum. The Scarrans treated the flower like manna from heaven while the show’s protagonist commented they are common on Earth.</p><p></p><p>My thoughts are just that – the “brain flowers” are just any number of verities of the common chrysanthemum. The aforementioned goblin, hobgoblin, bugbear, orc, troll and kobald gain a temporary benefit to intelligence. </p><p></p><p>To any other race, the flowers offer nothing, but they might be mildly poisonous – i.e. a failed constitution roll (DC 12) for the character vomits and loses 1d3 temporary constitution points due to weakness and 1d3 temporary charisma points until they brush their teeth and clean themselves up.</p><p></p><p>The races who do benefit only discover the benefit by accident. And then the “good” races have to figure out what is going on and try to cope with the terrible peril poised by the <strong><em><u>Brain Flower!</u></em></strong></p><p></p><p>I mean, how do you handle the situation when you enemies are gaining a special advantages from one of the more common flowers around? </p><p></p><p>You get up in the morning, are having you cup of Fantasy World Joe and you hear the neighbor woman – who does a lot of gardening. You rush over and find a pair of goblins standing in the ruins of her chrysanthemum garden, emergently debating Fermat Theorem.</p><p></p><p>Imagine the player characters having to deal with Obould’s Many Arrows latest plot, which centers around raiding the <em>12th Annual Woman's Chrysanthemum Show</em> in Silverymoon this weekend.</p><p></p><p>The fact that chrysanthemum’s are ubiquitous makes the threat all the more pervasive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Grumpy Celt, post: 1750897, member: 1019"] In the TV show [b]Farscape[/b] the flowers are mostly just a plot device giving both motive and liability to the Scarrans, who are among the lengthy list of bad guys. Incidentally, in the original make-up the Scarrans looked very much like hair-less, albino versions of the ogre from the Monster Manual. Later make-up has gone the way of Star Trek in depicting them – namely just odd-colored latex lumps over the actors face. Another character – a half-Scarran who whose depiction in the show made me reset my standards for villainy – said the Scarrans were dumber than dogs without the flower. If I remember it correctly, the flowers in the show were just a chrysanthemum. The Scarrans treated the flower like manna from heaven while the show’s protagonist commented they are common on Earth. My thoughts are just that – the “brain flowers” are just any number of verities of the common chrysanthemum. The aforementioned goblin, hobgoblin, bugbear, orc, troll and kobald gain a temporary benefit to intelligence. To any other race, the flowers offer nothing, but they might be mildly poisonous – i.e. a failed constitution roll (DC 12) for the character vomits and loses 1d3 temporary constitution points due to weakness and 1d3 temporary charisma points until they brush their teeth and clean themselves up. The races who do benefit only discover the benefit by accident. And then the “good” races have to figure out what is going on and try to cope with the terrible peril poised by the [b][i][u]Brain Flower![/u][/i][/b][i][u][/u][/i][u][/u] I mean, how do you handle the situation when you enemies are gaining a special advantages from one of the more common flowers around? You get up in the morning, are having you cup of Fantasy World Joe and you hear the neighbor woman – who does a lot of gardening. You rush over and find a pair of goblins standing in the ruins of her chrysanthemum garden, emergently debating Fermat Theorem. Imagine the player characters having to deal with Obould’s Many Arrows latest plot, which centers around raiding the [i]12th Annual Woman's Chrysanthemum Show[/i] in Silverymoon this weekend. The fact that chrysanthemum’s are ubiquitous makes the threat all the more pervasive. [/QUOTE]
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