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<blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 465805" data-attributes="member: 633"><p>This is recent. Bear with me as I explain everything.</p><p></p><p>The day before yesterday, two players (call them Alex and Steve) were missing. Ok, no problem. At the end of the session, we talk a bit about the previous session where the party got hit by a Mordenkainen's Disjunction, and where Alex lost almost all his magic items except for a Ring of Shooting Stars. The Ring of Shooting Stars (despite its actual usefulness) is considered in our group as a stupid and worthless item, so the whole thing was fairly funny for everyone save Alex.</p><p></p><p>In any case, while talking with Alex absent, I jokingly said that to punish him for missing the session I would have had his last magical item, the Ring of Shooting Stars, stolen by a kender and used against him. Mind ya, it was in jest at the time, ok?</p><p></p><p>So yesterday, the following session, Alex is back and the party starts planning how to enter a big city. What follows is IMO a marvel of evil DMing.</p><p></p><p>Since the party includes a drow, a hobgoblin and a half-dragon, heavy Polymorphing is involved. Alex's character, a sorcerer, was being teased by Steve's character, the hobgoblin, and Steve didn't trust Alex, so many charades were played before he finally let himself polymorphed into a human. After that, Alex says "Ok, I Teleport him near the city, in a field".</p><p></p><p>So I ask Steve: "Do you willingly fail your save against Teleport?", to which he says yes.</p><p></p><p>Then I turn to Alex: "He's willingly failing the save. Do you <em>really</em> cast Teleport?"</p><p></p><p>An evil grin later, Alex is casting Polymorph Other and wondering aloud about which creature should be chosen. When I see he's considering a gnome, an evil plan springs into my mind, and I suggest him "a kender maybe?", and an enthusiast Alex turns Steve's hobgoblin into a kender.</p><p></p><p>Steve, not an expert on Dragonlance, doesn't know what a kender is, so I tell him. He, being a fast learner, immediately attempts to pick Alex's pockets, rolling a surprising 31. "What did I steal?"</p><p></p><p>So I pick up Alex's sheet, look for something a kender would find interesting, and lo and behold, there's a Ring of Shooting Stars, one of the most kender-baiting items around with all its flashy powers.</p><p></p><p>"Ok Steve, you've got the Ring of Shooting Stars. Noone has noticed anything."</p><p></p><p>"Cool! I use it on the sorcerer!"</p><p></p><p>...at which point everyone (save Alex and Steve) fell to the table laughing our respective behinds out, the other players astonished at my l33t manipulation skillz.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zappo, post: 465805, member: 633"] This is recent. Bear with me as I explain everything. The day before yesterday, two players (call them Alex and Steve) were missing. Ok, no problem. At the end of the session, we talk a bit about the previous session where the party got hit by a Mordenkainen's Disjunction, and where Alex lost almost all his magic items except for a Ring of Shooting Stars. The Ring of Shooting Stars (despite its actual usefulness) is considered in our group as a stupid and worthless item, so the whole thing was fairly funny for everyone save Alex. In any case, while talking with Alex absent, I jokingly said that to punish him for missing the session I would have had his last magical item, the Ring of Shooting Stars, stolen by a kender and used against him. Mind ya, it was in jest at the time, ok? So yesterday, the following session, Alex is back and the party starts planning how to enter a big city. What follows is IMO a marvel of evil DMing. Since the party includes a drow, a hobgoblin and a half-dragon, heavy Polymorphing is involved. Alex's character, a sorcerer, was being teased by Steve's character, the hobgoblin, and Steve didn't trust Alex, so many charades were played before he finally let himself polymorphed into a human. After that, Alex says "Ok, I Teleport him near the city, in a field". So I ask Steve: "Do you willingly fail your save against Teleport?", to which he says yes. Then I turn to Alex: "He's willingly failing the save. Do you [i]really[/i] cast Teleport?" An evil grin later, Alex is casting Polymorph Other and wondering aloud about which creature should be chosen. When I see he's considering a gnome, an evil plan springs into my mind, and I suggest him "a kender maybe?", and an enthusiast Alex turns Steve's hobgoblin into a kender. Steve, not an expert on Dragonlance, doesn't know what a kender is, so I tell him. He, being a fast learner, immediately attempts to pick Alex's pockets, rolling a surprising 31. "What did I steal?" So I pick up Alex's sheet, look for something a kender would find interesting, and lo and behold, there's a Ring of Shooting Stars, one of the most kender-baiting items around with all its flashy powers. "Ok Steve, you've got the Ring of Shooting Stars. Noone has noticed anything." "Cool! I use it on the sorcerer!" ...at which point everyone (save Alex and Steve) fell to the table laughing our respective behinds out, the other players astonished at my l33t manipulation skillz. [/QUOTE]
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