I had a D&D moment today...

[orchid blossom]

On a college field trip we were measuring the height of a vertical cave entrance. A fellow gamer was standing at the top and just as he read "thirty feet" off of the tape he slipped and fell. As we rushed to him and his freshly broken leg he shouted "three dice damage my a$$!"

Most of us aren't high level. 3 dice damage is fairly ouch for anyone say 3rd level or lower.

 

[morrolan]

Let's see...

I also occasionally break into Planescape cant, like calling somebody a berk if they irritate me. Nobody gets it.

You're obviously not English.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I do the statting-out thing also, to my endless shame.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

even in the rules, raise dead wouldn't work. age is one of those no help areas.

teach the kid the rules better or he may be the next Blackleaf/Marcie

LOL - I hadn't thought of that, but the cause of death was not old age, so maybe he was on to something....

If I tried to pull something like Blackleaf on him (DM: "I declare Blackleaf dead.") he'd argue about not getting a saving throw.