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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 3340873" data-attributes="member: 1210">I love good boxed text!  In our group, we make a production of it; when the gm (usually me) announces, "Boxed text!" there's usually a hue and cry that goes up as everyone focuses on the words to come.Then again, we're atypical, I think.In the spirit of things, I'll post a few recent instances of my homebrewed boxed text for critique as well.  Here's one from a dungeon:A large mound of earth and stone, stained with blood and scattered with bits of dried grass, straw and hay, looms out of the mist.  The corpse of some kind of large beast is rotting atop it, festooned with arrows and showing the signs of stab and chop wounds.  From the smell, it has been here for a month or more.  Here's another.  Note how it cleverly talks about the character's entry path without specifying which path they took! <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=":)" />The path leads to a clearing, roughly 20’ in diameter, with three other paths leading from it.  Throughout the place, rosebushes grow, scenting the area with their delicate fragrance.  Two statues of men with daggers upraised are in the place; the moldering, headless corpse of what appears to be a human woman lies near the entrance of one of the paths. Finally, this one is from part of a wilderness trek:Once again you have come onto a ravaged battlefield.  This one is strange and disconcerting, however, for no clothes, armor, weapons or other things remain: only naked corpses, terrifically damaged.  They show the signs of battle, including cuts and stab wounds, but nowhere is even a single broken spear or a tattered remnant of a banner.  The ground itself looks scoured, and rather than the churned earth one normally finds at the sight of a battle, there are only pitted stones and broken gravel.  There are probably several hundred corpses here, all of them apparently human.</blockquote>

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