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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wild Gazebo" data-source="post: 2282697" data-attributes="member: 24413">I'm not sure if this is in the nature of the thread, but:  Long time ago, a sauve halfling thief was meandering through a delightfully posh galla when he desided to dust off some off his pickpocketing skills.  Now, the thief was around 9th or 10th level, very wealthy, very respected in the city, and had a bit of a reputation as a ladies' man.  Making a quick glance around the room he darted his hand into the satchel of a wealthy merchant and pulled out a few coins..no more than a few...leaving the bulk.  He was just oiling the old skills.  Just as he places the coins into his hidden pockets, a bellow erupts from behind him.  The Commander of the local paladin order, red faced with anger, bustles through the throng of people and grabs the halfing with both hands, yelling "THIEF!"  The halfling tries desperately to get away from the strong old paladins grip to no avail.  The paladin lifts the kicking halfling off of the ground and walks over to a coatrack.  Still struggling, the halfing manages to get a hand on a dagger.  The paladin disarms the halfling, hangs him on the coatrack, whips down the halfling's pants and spanks him in front of the city's most influencial people.  The halfling goes into a rage.  After a few minutes of corporal punishment, the thief manages to burst free and flee from the scene...as only a 9th lvl halfling thief may.Now, in all of my years of gaming (25), I have never seen a player's face get so close to the shade of red that I feel his character's should be.  He was so angry...and the character didn't lose a single hip point.  The character wound up catching the next ship out of town and never coming back.  The player made up a new character...a paladin. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />To this day he still gets ribbed...behind his back...and a little in front.  This was the ONLY occasion that I have seen this player get angry over a game...we were only 17 or 18...mmm...17 or 18...I could do that again.</blockquote>

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