Mark said:
Will 3.5 encourage or outlaw this type of detail in your game?
Hee hee.
Note, the following post has mild sexual content and coarse humor that may offend Morrus's grandmother.
My PC just ran into an event called Guba's day, where all the kobolds of the world celebrate when they successfully conquered the world. However, this conquest was several thousand years ago, and no humans, Elves, or Dwarves remember it, so we just complain about all the kobolds going around rioting and dying in our aleflasks and having orgies in our tavern rooms while we're trying to decipher a prophecy. To make matters worse, the party's bard kept rolling badly on his Perform checks (like 3s and 4s) whenever he tried to lure the kobolds away, or when he tried to convince the innkeeper that he would perform that evening in exchange for a new room. The innkeeper didn't appreciate the bard's bad jokes, and so we had to use force to drive off the kobolds. I made friends with a few, though, and they weren't angry when they left.
It was fun, though, since it was this holiday that let one of the PCs save the day later in the adventure. While we're discussing the prophecy, we notice that we're being scryed on, and with our mage's help we follow the spell back to its source. An NPC wizard is waiting outside in the street to kill us, and he lets on that he's been watching us all day, and that he now knows that we know too much, so he has to kill us. He jokes that if we'd actually stayed in the room with the kobold orgy, he probably would've been too disgusted to eavesdrop.
The wizard turns invisible and taunts us, convincing our party's mage to waste all his big gun spells on a projected voice that we didn't realize was an illusion until too late. In truth, the enemy wizard was flying above the street, and he didn't actually attack until he knew we'd wasted our good spells. We're in the middle of a street, and all the townsfolk have fled, even most of the kobolds, though some of the kobolds I'd befriended are still hanging around watching. The wizard manages to knock out the party mage, his undead minions are hacking at me and the paladin, and his Evard's Black Tentacles spell has just entangled the party's bard. We can't find the wizard to aim our attacks, but just in case, I give my last healing potion to the party mage to wake him up so he can ready an attack spell.
Then a pair of kobolds that I'd befriended earlier rush out into the street to try to help, only to also get caught by a single black tentacle. Things look bleak, and a round passes with us getting our butts handed to ourselves. But then, the bard points to the two kobolds being squeezed together by a tentacle, and shouts as loud as he can, "Hey, that's the second time today I've seen two kobolds in that position."
The GM starts laughing, and he tells the bard to make a Perform check. It comes up as a natural 20, and so the GM rules that the wizard starts laughing too, loud enough for us to pinpoint his location (even though we're all laughing too). The party mage takes aim, and shoots him out of the sky. The day is saved, thanks to inspiration from a couple of kobolds.
