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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SableWyvern" data-source="post: 274927" data-attributes="member: 1008">Avoid crippling? A pox on you! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Good old Duri, the dwarven paladin from my last fully fledged Rolemaster campaign.He ended up with a missing eye, most of his ears lost to frostbite and hair that only grew in a few tufts after being burnt by lightning. <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" /> In the same campaign, I had a human ranger that had his elbow shattered early on, and had to switch to his left hand for the rest of the game.Actually, the latter was probably a mistake (in that, I shouldn't have let it happen). Although my players knew that stuff like that happens in my RM campaigns, and don't have a problem with it, this guy was new. He told me later that he had just played his character long enough to be attached enough not to dump him outright and start again.Fortunately, the player was mature enough to take it all in stride, rather than sulking/complaining. In the end, he became quite competent with his left, and the loss of his right was something of a badge of honour. In future, though, I wouldn't do that to an inexperienced player.Oh, and I almost forget the greatest maiming of all: a smart-arsed PC, who, after pushing a druid too far - a druid who was the party's only hope of getting a nasty fire spirit of their backs - had to douse himself in oil and ignite as part of his contrition. He went from an Appearance of 101 (max) down to 13. That was the player's fault though, and he knew it. It also became a great roleplaying point, with his best friend always inadvertantly mentioning the incident and getting him very angry. It was also quite appropriate that, when the character died, the party buried him by throwing the body into a nearby lava flow. <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" /></blockquote>

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