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Famously, Gary Gygax had to retreat some of his characters in Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure to obtain means to restore victims of the golem's whip of cockatrice feathers. I think Bigby or Yrag was stoned. Anyway, the victims were returned to flesh and continued.

In the real world, witch.

"When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?" Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Prove their paranoia correct by back-stabbing them. Don't permit them to make new characters. Alternatively, research the spell Grow Cojones and cast it on their characters.

Let's start it. Fill in your rank as we go. 1. Gentlegamer - 80%

80% no Google.

When I was in 6th grade, a new student, Dan, who had attended private elementary school, told me about Dungeons & Dragons. At that time, D&D was a cartoon. I had no inkling that there was a game attached to it. I was very much into Choose Your Own Adventure books, as well as the Endless Quest...

The mechanics of a role-playing game is the interaction of the participants. This exists in the social/mental realm. The presence of a game master to adjudicate player actions on the game environment is the key part of this interaction. Written rules are guidelines that assist in this...

Auric Goldfinger. Sounds like a French nail polish.

How about Barf. Full name, Barfolomew.

What's next? Naming a hard-ass adventurer after a dog? I mean, who would take "Indiana" Jones seriously?

For language, I don't go by sounds. "Papillon" actually doesn't mean "butterfly," for instance, they both indicate the pretty winged insect that transforms from a caterpiller. Or to put it another way, when we see "ship" and "navis" one doesn't mean the other, they both should conjure in our...

Papillon is French for butterfly, and the name of Holger Carlsen's warhorse in Three Hearts and Three Lions.

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (519 BC – 430 BC) was an aristocrat and political figure of the Roman Republic, serving as consul in 460 BC and Roman dictator in 458 BC and 439 BC.[1] Cincinnatus was regarded by the Romans, especially the aristocratic patrician class, as one of the heroes of early...

How about a paladin with a war horse named Papillon?

Sounds almost exactly like TSR . . . of the early 80s. The Blume Brothers boxed out Gary, brought in Lorraine Williams (who was initially helpful), then finally forced Gary out, and ran the company into the ground.

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My M-Us and Thieves who rolled 1s on their initial hit dice wanted nothing to do with combat of any kind. ;) I usually had hirelings or charmed servants do the combatin' on their behalf.

Tolkien didn't know who Strider was when he introduced him during the LotR manuscript. The character grew as he wrote.

Hehe Now through a maze of 10' square rooms with walls that pivoted vertically, horizontally, slid up,down,and sideways. Each direction had to be individually specified. The party agreed and our 18 (80%) fighter started making holes in the wall instead. -tournament report from Origins I