Attacking Squirrels in DnD
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Vraille Darkfang
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Ed Cha said:
1. Halls of the Frost Giant Squirrel
2. Squirrel of the Demonweb Pits
3. Through the Looking Squirrel.
4. Palace of the Silver Squirrel
5. Chateau d'Squirrelville
6. Against the Squirrels
7. Keep on the Squirrelands.
8. Undersquirrel I & II.
9. Labyrinth of Squirrel Madness
10. Tomb of Squirrel Horrors.
I mean, dude, look at all these classic modules just FULL of squirrels! Why do you think the body count was so high in those old modules anyway?
Digital M@
Explorer
Squirrels can be dangerous rodents. I was backpacking at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and had moved my backpack to be next to me, like you are supposed to do and everyone else left theres a a hundred yards away or so. Well, we noticed some squirrels getting into there bags so we ran over there and chased them away. In the mean time another, smarter squirrel, used the diversion to chew through my back and my trail mix bag and start chomping away. Squirrels are my nemesis!
Presto2112
Explorer
Impeesa said:You're thinking too much. Observe the squirrel: he runs 5-10 feet, looks around like he's afraid of snipers, then repeats. All day. Clearly, he's taking a move action every round and using his remaining standard action to ready an action: run like crap if anything bigger than a gnat closes to melee range.
--Impeesa--
Sounds like a meerkat. Scurry, sniff, FLINCH!!!!
Vraille Darkfang
First Post
Forgot.
I do know one guy that was nearly killed by a squirrel. (By know, I mean I met him once, I heard about his 'incident' from the ambulance driver).
He was out in a tree stand hunting deer. Apparently someone (maybe the villanous squirrel about to appear) had warned every deer, quail, grouse, woodchuck, pheasent, turkey, and any other sort of animal life to stay away for the weekend.
So, after 8 hours in a tree stand, he was bored, tired, and sleepy. Tha's when the squirrel snuck up behind his head & started barking (yes, squirrels bark) at him. This abrupt noise startled him, causing him to fall out of the tree stand, along with his rifle. He broke an arm when he failed his tumble check on the fall, but his gun managed to score a solid hit on his thigh when it discharged upon hitting the ground.
Fortunatly some other huntres heard the shot & came running to see what manner of creature had actually made an appearence in this god forsaken section of backwoods Missouri. One had a cell phone.
The hunter survived, but only the squirrel got any XP.
I do know one guy that was nearly killed by a squirrel. (By know, I mean I met him once, I heard about his 'incident' from the ambulance driver).
He was out in a tree stand hunting deer. Apparently someone (maybe the villanous squirrel about to appear) had warned every deer, quail, grouse, woodchuck, pheasent, turkey, and any other sort of animal life to stay away for the weekend.
So, after 8 hours in a tree stand, he was bored, tired, and sleepy. Tha's when the squirrel snuck up behind his head & started barking (yes, squirrels bark) at him. This abrupt noise startled him, causing him to fall out of the tree stand, along with his rifle. He broke an arm when he failed his tumble check on the fall, but his gun managed to score a solid hit on his thigh when it discharged upon hitting the ground.
Fortunatly some other huntres heard the shot & came running to see what manner of creature had actually made an appearence in this god forsaken section of backwoods Missouri. One had a cell phone.
The hunter survived, but only the squirrel got any XP.
DungeonmasterCal
First Post
Magic Missile. Never misses. (Did that in an adventure once. The Ranger came back empty handed while hunting, so my 2nd level evoker walks 50 yards into the woods and comes back with a half dozen squirrels).
And now a real life story: In college, as college students often are, my friends and I were broke. We scrounged food from the cafeteria, hoarding it much like umm...squirrels. One night a friend called and said come over, he was fixing dinner. I walked over, and they were having squirrel. Now I grew up on a farm and had hunted them as a kid, no I wasn't shocked by the fare before me, but was puzzled as to how he got it.
"On campus. They're so used to folks you can walk up to them, stun them with a Frisbee, then kill them." What he didn't realize was most of the trees on campus were pine, which makes the meat taste like turpentine. I declined to eat with him.
And now a real life story: In college, as college students often are, my friends and I were broke. We scrounged food from the cafeteria, hoarding it much like umm...squirrels. One night a friend called and said come over, he was fixing dinner. I walked over, and they were having squirrel. Now I grew up on a farm and had hunted them as a kid, no I wasn't shocked by the fare before me, but was puzzled as to how he got it.
"On campus. They're so used to folks you can walk up to them, stun them with a Frisbee, then kill them." What he didn't realize was most of the trees on campus were pine, which makes the meat taste like turpentine. I declined to eat with him.
Nebulous
Legend
DungeonmasterCal said:
Oh, I feel sort of bad for the squirrel. He's expecting a friendly snack from those nice collegiate humans and gets a face full of frisbee and cooked on a spit.
Interesting about the turpentine flavor though. Never thought about that. I wonder which tree yields the best tasting squirrel?
