Does your party have a taxidermist?

[Angel Tarragon]

Forked from: Does your party have a cook?

Like the previous poll I am interested in seeing if anyone in your group or you have ever taken up the trade of Taxidermy.

I remember back in my 2nd Edition days, I had a character that had a lot of bags of holding. She would always stuff 'em with dead creatures, to later stuff and mount them as trophies or sell them to collectors. She made quite a bit of money selling body parts as well.

 

[Snoweel]

I played in a Dragonlance game back around 1990 and during character creation one of the players made a point of taking painting as a non-weapon proficiency for his wizard.

I was the only one new to the group (though I played basketball with the DM and one of the other players remembered me from primary school) and none of the other guys batted an eyelid - apparently this bloke ALWAYS took painting as a NWP.

So we get to our first combat (goblins I think) and the artist gets out his painting gear and paints the battle scene while we fight the goblins.

He sold it at the next town for a stupid fee (50gp or thereabouts).

Who needs treasure huh?

We were only about 14 years old.

 

[MortalPlague]

Taxidermy? No. But I have had characters in our group who have taken trophies (heads of terrible monsters, mostly). Then again, who hasn't?

 

[Psion]

No, but it would be cool.

"Hey guys, you all remember that owlbear we waxed? I stuffed 'im and now 'e's at the entrance of old Joe's tavern!"

 

[Gilladian]

There have been two occasions when PCs in my campaigns took trophies; once they took the skull of an emerald dragon and mounted it over the fireplace of their Inn (Emerald Dragon Inn, in a village that became known as Emerton a generation later).

The second was a half-orc barbarian who collected ears. Fresh, untreated ears. He eventually got run out of the group (Player left, I think) when he stank so badly he began attracting giant (dire) flies.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

Like the previous poll I am interested in seeing if anyone in your group or you have ever taken up the trade of Taxidermy.

Not personally, but my wife's dwarf fighter used to collect heads as trophies.
Would shrink them and wear them tied to/impaled on her spiked plate mail.

 

[Evilhalfling]

my party is more interested in living monsters.
they recovered 3 of 5 holy chickens from a kobold tribe (see sig) 2 spiretop drakes, 1 immature guard drake and 5 drake eggs from the tower of drakes. They have two different cages, and the wizard finally learned tenser's disc .

They rely on NPCs for taxidermy as one PCs armor has needlefang drake heads hanging from the shoulders, and the local tavern has a new stuffed Griffon head.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

bump.

 

[Inferno!]

I remember back in my 2nd Edition days, I had a character that had a lot of bags of holding. She would always stuff 'em with dead creatures, to later stuff and mount them as trophies or sell them to collectors. She made quite a bit of money selling body parts as well.

Back in my 2e days, my necromancer and another wizard would collect monstrous body parts (i.e. vampire hearts, other examples escape me now) to sell or use as spell components. Not that we ever had anything particular in mind - just whatever sounded good at the moment.

Taxidermy? No. But I have had characters in our group who have taken trophies (heads of terrible monsters, mostly). Then again, who hasn't?

Back in the 1e days (I was in High School), I had an elf Ftr/MU/Clr that collected the heads of Liches he'd killed, becoming known as "Lich-Slayer"

Aaah the memories...but, no...no taxidermist.

 

[Rackhir]

In Shilsen's SH, we hired a taxidermist to stuff a Mind Flayer we killed. We use it to discourage door to door salesmen. We also have a petrified Beholder we are using as part of a fountain. Boy will it be unhappy if it ever gets unstoned...