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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 465805" data-attributes="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 really 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.</blockquote>

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