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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StupidSmurf" data-source="post: 2569794" data-attributes="member: 35893">1. Thanks! Glad to be of service!  <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=":)" /> 2. Yeah, I get a warm special feeling when I sucker the party in on a nice lie!3. It WOULD make a great article...possibly in, oh, I don't know, an April issue of Dragon?  <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=";)" /> And of course, AFTER I sent my initial post, and AFTER I edited said post for errors (and looking at it again, I see I missed one..dang), I thought of another failure, and ironically, this one was the most recent, so it should've been fresh in my mind.I have three kids who game in my campaign. The youngest is what most folks would call a very mature 12. Well, he plays a Wood Elf Ranger from the High Forest (Silver Marches). Recently, the campaign's main antagonist, a ghost, visited the rooms of the PCs during the night and confronted them (long story short: the party has something the ghost wants and needs). So, one of the party's rogues leaps out the two-story window of the bedroom, into the dark stormy night, does a Tumble check, lands on his feet, and starts running desperately towards the temple of Lathander. The ghost sneers, passes through the bedroom wall, and begins flying after the fleeing rogue.My son's Ranger decides he needs to give chase. He leaps out the window (!) and tries a Tumble check. He rolled a 1. Here is a pretty darn close approximation to what I announced to him and the group."Ah ok. Well, emboldened by your comrade's success at leaping out the window, you give out a loud 'Huzzah!' and fling yourself out the window, hoping to duplicate your friend's success and follow him. Unfortunately, the toe of your boot catches on the window sill, and you fall to earth with all the grace of a sack of potatoes and hit the mud with a sickening SQUELCH. Oh, and let me roll those 2d6 for falling damage."And, although this wasn't a result of a "1", this last session we played brought out the following description of a fast-flying gargoyle getting shot out of the sky and hitting the hard granite floor of a cathedral:"The creature hits the ground with a squishing noise that sounds very much like what a pair of pantyhose filled with chocolate pudding and tossed off a rooftop would make when it hits the asphalt."Admittedly, it wasn't an original metaphor (I got it from an episode of Letterman), but it stopped my group in its tracks, and we all had a hysterical laugh over it.</blockquote>

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