A damsel in distress!

[Faraer]

As a player I will insist on assuming 'damsel' despite apparent statistical evidence to the contrary, because 'damsel turns out to be XX' is fun and 'cynical adventurers leave damsel in jail' is not.

 

[Yellow Sign]

It was an evil genie in a game I ran in years ago!

Two of the more suspicious players though she was bad news from the start and one fired his bow at her right of the bat. Of coarse my swashbuckler and the paladin type jumped in the way of the arrows to protect her. That’s when she turned into the genie and attacked.

 

[sckeener]

I've often wondered: Is all of a medusa's hair snakes, or just the hair on the head? Medusas might have scary bikini lines!

and now we know why they do not need men....they already have trouser snakes.

 

[lukelightning]

As a player I will insist on assuming 'damsel' despite apparent statistical evidence to the contrary, because 'damsel turns out to be XX' is fun and 'cynical adventurers leave damsel in jail' is not.

I like playing cynical adventurers! You can have fun with "damsel dies when you abandon her in the dungeon and comes back as a ghost hell-bent on revenge." You think vampires are bad? You can at least stake 'em in the heart.

 

[lukelightning]

and now we know why they do not need men....they already have trouser snakes.

What's wrong with male medusas? I was going to make one that was kind of dwarvish-looking, with a beard of snakes.

 

[Evilhalfling]

you forgot evil Sorceress/thief/psion
I have used Succubus, evil thief, and irritating pre-teen with a crush on rescuers, with a politically connected family.

 

[Mycanid]

Oh no. No no no no no no no no.

I can't believe you didn't include doppleganger in the poll!

The only experience I can remember with this sort of a thing was with a doppleganger.

 

[Eli-kun]

It could be a man.

It could be an orc.

It could be the product of a gnome illusionist.

 

[Gold Roger]

I don't know what she really is, but I think she's guarding a pie.

 

[Mr. Draco]

Of course it's a Succubus. Only succubi are kept in dungeons. Damsels are all kept in towers. Unless the succubus also happens to be posing as the damsel from a well known merchant family, and has been doing so (through the guise of shape changing magic) since the real princess was killed only days after her birth. Of course, the family doesn't know about the switch, and they have no reason to suspect anything being amiss, after all, the "damsel" certainly never openly acted evil...

There's a moral quandry for your paladins! :-D