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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 7121253" data-attributes="member: 6787650">On a further tangent, I have to add here: the one time I got to try this trick as a PC, the campaign never got far enough for me to actually ever cast Vampiric Touch on a chicken... but just the fact that I HAD this string of chickens following me around just in case added immeasurably to the comedy of the campaign. One time after a minor disaster (burned down a friendly NPC's house) we were all standing around the ruins watching it burn (plus some were-rat corpses also in the fire), and I decided that my PC, Hathaway, who was a taciturn and kind of autistic sort of fellow, was going to wordlessly pick up one of the chickens and toss it in the flames, intending to eat it afterward. The comedy effect I intended was that you can't actually just toss a live chicken in a fire without preparing and get edible chicken meat out of it. The comedy effect I got was that everyone interpreted this as a passive-aggressive gesture of frustration on my part, taking our failure out on the chicken by burning it alive.So, what I meant to say, &quot;I'm kind of hungry, guess I'll cook something&quot; was perceived more as, &quot;Take THAT, inoffensive fowl!&quot; and everyone busted up laughing.Chickens also make handy bribes and decoys for various kinds of savage monsters who might otherwise like to eat PCs.I highly recommend a flock of chickens for any aspiring Necromancer. Muffins sounds good too. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 7121253, member: 6787650"] On a further tangent, I have to add here: the one time I got to try this trick as a PC, the campaign never got far enough for me to actually ever cast Vampiric Touch on a chicken... but just the fact that I HAD this string of chickens following me around just in case added immeasurably to the comedy of the campaign. One time after a minor disaster (burned down a friendly NPC's house) we were all standing around the ruins watching it burn (plus some were-rat corpses also in the fire), and I decided that my PC, Hathaway, who was a taciturn and kind of autistic sort of fellow, was going to wordlessly pick up one of the chickens and toss it in the flames, intending to eat it afterward. The comedy effect I [I]intended[/I] was that you can't actually just toss a live chicken in a fire without preparing and get edible chicken meat out of it. The comedy effect I [I]got[/I] was that everyone interpreted this as a passive-aggressive gesture of frustration on my part, taking our failure out on the chicken by burning it alive. So, what I meant to say, "I'm kind of hungry, guess I'll cook something" was perceived more as, "Take THAT, inoffensive fowl!" and everyone busted up laughing. Chickens also make handy bribes and decoys for various kinds of savage monsters who might otherwise like to eat PCs. I highly recommend a flock of chickens for any aspiring Necromancer. Muffins sounds good too. :) [/QUOTE]

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