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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8796352" data-attributes="member: 508">Old Clem was quite a character.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">He once invented "tree fishing," in which he sat perched on a high branch and tried catching squirrels on the ground on a fishing rod and line. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">He had to fess up about his letters to the PCs when the fishing village wrote him back, asking for him and his "band of followers" to help them with a string of kidnappings by a band of bullywugs (who were sacrificing them to an intelligent sword allied with a black dragon in the swamps). </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">He was once kidnapped by a racist, human-hating elf as a means of getting a half-elf PC out in the open, who happened to own a magic bow the elf coveted for his own. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I once ran an adventure in that campaign where the PCs had all been turned to stone and Old Clem and the PCs' animals (a pet dire wolf, a wolf animal companion, a raven familiar, an eagle animal companion, and eventually a fire elemental familiar) had to fight off the ones who had done so and find a way to return them to life.  For that adventure, the players ran Old Clem and the animals instead of their normal PCs.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Old Clem's final adventure was helping the PCs fight off an older, more powerful black dragon related to the one they'd slain in the swamps near Old Clem's fishing village, where the dragon had taken Old Clem's grand-niece hostage to bring the "dragonslayer and his band" out into the open, after having razed their headquarters in retaliation.  Old Clem saw his grand-niece saved, but the excitement was too much for his old heart and he passed on from this mortal coil.</li> </ul>Here's the image we used for him:[ATTACH=full]263619[/ATTACH]In addition, my current campaign is set in the universe formed from the "universe seed" the PCs from that earlier campaign gathered, and the deific pantheon in that world is patterned after the PCs and prominent NPCs of the earlier campaign.  In that pantheon, Clem is the God of Fishing and Bluffing.  I've got an adventure coming up in that campaign where a Temple of Clem is one of the adventuring locales.Johnathan</blockquote>

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