Barbarians on prozac

[alsih2o]

i have a campaign in which a cook is about to be aquired by the party. this cook worked (forcibly) for an orc/giant crew beforehand and regularly uses an herbal mixture she puts in the food that keeps everyone levelheaded. AND it keeps any character regularly ingesting it from being able to rage.


too cruel?


i mean, it could take a while to figure out what is going on.

 

[nsruf]

Would this affect a lot of your party members? And is the cook really going to "poison" her new employers, after they rescue her (or am I wrong in assuming that)?

 

[Florin]

And the cook would be doing this, why...?

 

[Archibald Theocliste]

Oh, you are EVIL!!!

But your idea is great, so great in fact that I must use it on my players one day (I'm EVIL too ). And it will cause great pain since the barbarian won't be able to rage and so to turn into a bear (Yup I found the Bear warrior shamanic enough to fit in an occidental style campaign).

Knowing my players they will blame half of the world before finding out what is happening... I must be cruel too... MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA....... Errrr, sorry.

 

[alsih2o]

it only effects one player on a regular basis, and she doesn't see it as poisoning so much as self preservation.

and she has not been rescued so much as they have killed her boss and tend to take and try to make use of nearly everyone.


she is a midget half-orc with a slight mental handicap who was fairly well abused by her previous "owners" and sees this as a standard thing one does to keep themselves safe, having never been in the company of good guys before.

 

[the Jester]

What a fabulous idea....

(steals it)

 

[Malakye]

man, that is beautiful. I fear I must steal this idea as well.

*swipe*

 

[alsih2o]

anyone else? expansion ideas? warnings?

 

[the Jester]

I'd prolly give the barbarian a Will save when he tries to rage to see if it's successful, with the DC increasing as time goes on.

And make it addictive, too.... But then, I'm mean.

 

[zyzzyr]

I think that's terribly unfair to the players.

But I will also steal it to use on my players as well =)

Though I would suggest that the herbs she uses are for "flavor" - and she had no idea that it had any effects. The head orc cook told her to put em in, she put em in. It makes the food taste better.

Of course, you could argue that "what tastes good to orcs doesn't taste good to anyone else", in which case you make them flavorless - but it's habit, she puts them in. She never thought about what it might do.