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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aeric" data-source="post: 1496541" data-attributes="member: 17012">From an old AD&D game:In the Underdark, masquerading as drow, the party walks into a magic item shop in a drow city.The drow shopkeeper, with no sort of roll or Charisma check involved, managed to convince our wizard that the Staff of Fire he had looted off an opponent was fairly common, even going so far as to claim that they had apprentices create them en masse for practice.  He then offered the wizard a scroll of Magic Missile in exchange for the staff, claiming that it was a special version of the spell because the missiles looked like glowing purple skulls instead of the usual glowing yellow arrows.  The wizard bought it hook, line, and sinker, and the party was out a powerful and valuable magic item.Later on, in a trap-laden dungeon, the same character managed to avoid being squished by a descending ceiling trap by jumping into a nearby pool.  Later, when faced with an identical room (and an identical trap), the wizard pulled the same trick--only to discover that the pool in this room was filled not with water, but with acid.The player's defense for his bad decision-making later on?  "You're the DM; you're not supposed to lie to me!"****From a Star Wars game:The party had cornered a Dark Jedi after finishing off his minions.  The PC Jedi (who was notorious for making questionably moral judgement calls) then proceeded to cut both of the Dark Jedi's legs off with his lightsaber--in a non-combat situation.When it was clear that his action didn't sit well with the rest of us (in or out of character), he said "what?  It's not like I killed him!"****Along a similar note, from another old AD&D game:The PCs had captured one of the bad guys and had him chained to a wall in a cave far from civilization (I think it was originally his lair).  The Chaotic Good Paladin then proceeded to torture the helpless captive for information.When we all gave him that look (you know the one), he simply said, "your version of good is different from mine."</blockquote>

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