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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 4058298" data-attributes="member: 17691">Another time, the PCs had just finished exploring a ruined keep that had been the site of a demon attack a few centuries earlier and were returning to town. While searching they'd found a small stone tablet which they'd translated and found to be an old dwarven love letter. The author was a lady who was writing to her paramour to accept a marriage proposal and stating how anxious she was to see him again. One of the PCs, the bard, had the Gallant kit; a 2e prestige class of sorts which made the bard into a chivalrous knight dedicated to the ideals of courtly love. He thought the letter was sweet and so took it with him.When they get back to town, they go their usual tavern where they know all the local patrons from. They walk in and greet all their friends, including an old codger of a dwarf nicknamed Grizzler. The elves in the party hated him cause he was always taunting and badmouthing them. The bard walks up to him, pulls out the tablet, hands it to the dwarf and mentions offhandedly that they'd found it in the local ruins and, he being a dwarf, figured he might like to have it.I hadn't been expecting this turn of events but it turned out to be a perfect opportunity. This is the moment that I start shedding real tears in an Oscar-worthy performance. I mime reaching out for the tablet with quivering hands and longingly mumbled the tablet author's name: "Celia..."The bard's player's eyes grew wide as many legends they'd heard about the old keep, the demon who destroyed it and the band of heroes who fought him in an epic battle so long ago (including a great dwarven warrior who's love letter they'd found) finally clicked in the player's mind. The bard player simply muttered in astonishment: "It's him! He's the dwarf from the keep!..."Turns out that the dwarf and his fiancée hadn't ever managed to get together in part because of the demon attack which had ruined the keep. And by pure chance, the party had accidentally returned an old letter to its original recipient a few centuries later.I kept crying and trembling while I mimed lovingly stroking the stone tablet as the PCs helped walk the broken old dwarf back to his cottage nearby. Soon the whole group was really crying because of this fictional old dwarf who suffered such loss centuries earlier. It was some great role-playing coupled with a great revelation. My favorite role-playing moment ever I believe. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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