Search results

A PC in one of my earlier games got squashed by an elephant. He was hunting and I rolled on a random encounter table, only to have him encounter an elephant. He thought he could take it. He was wrong. It crushed him. The story is somewhat of a legend in our group because time and time again...

No booze, but I used to know a bloke who got stoned and played. He spent 3 hours hunting a bull through the forest with a sword. He wouldn't give up.

A story that's become legend in our group is the Tale of the Plummetting Demon. The PC was atop a very high tower in hand-to-hand combat with a demon (the type of demon varies depending on who tells the story - I heard it was a balor). The demon was losing, and so decided to make a quick getaway...

This happened years ago in my old campaign. The scene: a kingdom where the function of magic is erratic due to an aeons-past magical war. In 'wild zones', wild magic rules and a caster level check is needed to cast any spell correctly without something going wrong. The PCs are in a wild zone...

Next time my PC dies, I want to ask my DM if I can come back as a ghost. I've always wanted to play one.

We play a 'dead pool' game ('we' means myself and about twenty others), in which we nominate ten names and if one of them dies during the year we recieve points based on age, as well as bonus points for various factors. Someone had Anna Nicole Smith on her list. She picked up 141 points, which...

Attention, people with nothing better to do: I'm in the process of organising my campaign world for a future project (you might call it 'pre-production'), which will be a "Next Generation" (that's its official name right now), following on from my longest-running and most successful campaign so...

Barnam was right - there is indeed a sucker born every minute. And to reflect the fact that a good liar can usually recognise a bad one, and that a con artist knows a con when he sees one, we have a very basic house rule in our campaigns - anybody who has 5 ranks in the Bluff skill gets a +2...

My question to the teeming thousands is this: what is the most unusual adventure you have ever run or played in? By 'unusual' I mean both 'against your normal style' and 'against what most players would consider a 'typical' adventure. You all know what I mean. My most unusual adventure would be...

I just let my players 'level up' when they have the XP to do so, but I don't let them take on a new class (including prestige classes) unless they have a reason to. "I want to become a rogue" isn't good enough - they have to have done something 'roguey' this level.

Say I'm killed, and then for whatever reason I come back as a ghost, with the malevolence power. Let's also say my body, which I am no longer occupying, is animated as a zombie. Since I have the power to possess the bodies of others, can I use the malevolence ability to possess my own body, and...

Thanks everyone for either your simplistic, or in some cases, incredibly complex answers. Also thanks to Pbartender for his concern for my poor head. I totally agree, of course, with the idea of suspension of disbelief, and dramatic appropriateness. Absolutely it's not worth getting bogged down...

What did I say about talking while the exam is in progress!? OK, you've raised two points that I would have thought of if, you know, I knew anything about this stuff. Let's say we're viewing from the north pole, just for the sake of argument. We'll sa Luna Alpha's axis is the same as the Moon's...

It's 10pm, I've had a long and busy day, and I suck at maths. These are three very good reasons why I couldn't be bothered working out the maths on this question. Can someone help me, please? Remember that I'm timing you, and no slide rules or MP3 players are permitted. If you need help, raise...

"Der vere zwei peanuts, valking down ze strasse. Und vun vas assaulted...peanut..." Oh, how they laughed...

I didn't know there was a Get Smart RPG! :confused:

If a PC dies, which doesn't happen with our group often, the player usually just shrugs and rolls a new one up again. The attrition rate for PCs in my campaigns is pretty low, since I try to avoid killing characters if I can, though sometimes they just die. When they do, I rule that if the...

::slaps thigh:: It's the way you tell 'em, Hyp...

I know there's been many forums like this in ENWorld's history, but, truly, does it ever get old? Any subject of joke is welcome, though politics and religion are out as usual, just to be safe. I'd also steer clear of dirty jokes, just to be even safer. So, aside from that, no holds barred. I'm...

My games have a rule: if you aren't there, your character is safe. The only exception is if you have given express permission to be proxied knowing the potential for death. I've had players try to take advantage of this by having the absent player's PC do all the dangerous stuff; I've...