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<blockquote data-quote="SkredlitheOgre" data-source="post: 5792105" data-attributes="member: 99513"><p>I have 'baited and switched' once, but I'm not sure it counts, as nothing really changed. The (D&D 3.5) party was using <em>wish</em> from one plane back to their home base. I instead sent them to a 'Mirror, Mirror' type universe (complete with evil goatees) and they had to find another way home. Everybody thought it was cool, so no worries. Nobody got the goatee reference, though. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p>I have been screwjobbed once, though. (Okay, that sounded dirty) Same D&D 3.5 campaign, different DM. My Chaotic Good Dwarven Cleric was captured by the bad guys due to poor Reflex saves and Dexterity checks. The DM takes me into the other room and says:</p><p></p><p>DM: "After a few days of torture, they decide they're going to let you go."</p><p>Me: 'Really? What's the catch?'</p><p>DM: "You're going to have the Hand and Eye of Vecna."</p><p>Me: 'Really? The Hand AND Eye?'</p><p>DM: "Yeah."</p><p>Me: 'Dude, that's <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.'</p><p>DM: "Why?"</p><p></p><p>No choice. No options. No saving throws. Nothing. So, I became Chaotic Evil and exacted my revenge on the DM by basically becoming That Guy for a session. I was a total dick. To EVERYone. It came down to me vs. the rest of the party and I managed to kill three out of six of them. I mean non-resurrectable dead. Amazingly, at the start of the next session, my deity (Moradin, even though I didn't meet the alignment restrictions) had seen what 'dire circumstances' I was in and removed the Hand and Eye and gave me back my originals.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SkredlitheOgre, post: 5792105, member: 99513"] I have 'baited and switched' once, but I'm not sure it counts, as nothing really changed. The (D&D 3.5) party was using [i]wish[/i] from one plane back to their home base. I instead sent them to a 'Mirror, Mirror' type universe (complete with evil goatees) and they had to find another way home. Everybody thought it was cool, so no worries. Nobody got the goatee reference, though. :( I have been screwjobbed once, though. (Okay, that sounded dirty) Same D&D 3.5 campaign, different DM. My Chaotic Good Dwarven Cleric was captured by the bad guys due to poor Reflex saves and Dexterity checks. The DM takes me into the other room and says: DM: "After a few days of torture, they decide they're going to let you go." Me: 'Really? What's the catch?' DM: "You're going to have the Hand and Eye of Vecna." Me: 'Really? The Hand AND Eye?' DM: "Yeah." Me: 'Dude, that's :):):):):):):):).' DM: "Why?" No choice. No options. No saving throws. Nothing. So, I became Chaotic Evil and exacted my revenge on the DM by basically becoming That Guy for a session. I was a total dick. To EVERYone. It came down to me vs. the rest of the party and I managed to kill three out of six of them. I mean non-resurrectable dead. Amazingly, at the start of the next session, my deity (Moradin, even though I didn't meet the alignment restrictions) had seen what 'dire circumstances' I was in and removed the Hand and Eye and gave me back my originals. [/QUOTE]
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