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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gothmog" data-source="post: 2026110" data-attributes="member: 317">There have been several times, but this remains the funniest one:In my homebrew, one player (a math/physics major and now engineer at Boeing) played a Human Paladin.  By this time in the campaign, the paladin and party was well known, and around 9th level.  The paladin had also attracted the amorous attentions of the local baron's daughter, and she rashly followed the party out of town as they went to check out some ruins.  Naturally, the party ranger noticed the girl following them (she was an Aristocrat 2, and was woefully naive and unprepared for traveling, much less adventuring), and when the group caught her, she proclaimed her love for the paladin, and said she would accompany him on all his adventures.  Now the paladin was about 30 by this time, and the girl was barely 17- and the paladin freaked out.  He knew the girl was a troublemaker, and if he simply rejected her, she would pout and stew, and would likely cause trouble for not only herself, but for the paladin and the rest of the party when she got back home and made up some story to tell her father (who the paladin had pledged fealty to).  After considerable deliberation, the party came up with this plan...They decided to "create" their own adventure, to show the girl how dangerous, dirty, and undesirable the life of an adventurer was.  I had not anticipated anything like this at all, but it sounded fun to me, so I let them go for it.  It was decided they would tell the girl they were headed to the local forect to investigate strange disappearances, ghosly lights, and look into rumors of animals behaving like humans.  And yes, while this would mean the paladin had to lie to the girl, he felt it was warranted because it would keep her safe and protect the greater good of the barony in the long run- and I've never been a big stickler for the paladin requirements on lying (especially white lies) and this sounded fun, so I let it slide.  Over the next few days the party made up a number of extremly funny faked events for their adventure, including: playing a game called "toothy mumbley peg" (using illusions to pretend to catch daggers thrown from other party members in your teeth), having a bear (really a ploymorphed druid) come into camp one night and carry off my sister's wizard to eat (explained by the ranger as "she had three strikes against her, so we didn't try to hard to save her"), but the best was an unintentional slip-up by the paladin.  The party had seen "signs" of ogres in the area (really the Enlarged wizard my sis played and the NPC druid making a ruckass in the forest and leaving huge prints), and the paladin leaned down, put his ear on the ground and said "I figure we are dealing with probably 4 or 5 ogres, about 3 miles away, and traveling about 4 miles an hour, so we have about 12 hours to prepare for them."  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />   He said this with a straight face, not realizing his error, and everyone at the table sat there looking at him in stunned silence then we all broke into uncontrollable laughter at once!  After about 5 minutes of gasping for air (by this time the paladin player realized what he had said and was laughing harder than anyone), we regained our composure, and the group completed their "adventure" with the girl.  Not only did she never want to leave the city again, but she thought the paladin was a simpleton and boorish plebian, and she never mentioned sneaking out of the city to follow the paladin and party to anyone.  Over the subsequent years of gaming, further run ins with the young noble lady resulted in a cold reaction at best, and lead to some further very amusing RP moments.  <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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