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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5325945" data-attributes="member: 20741">No, the story as presented generally on the Net is a true one, originating from a session held at a game store in So Cal. The gazebo tale is accurate, more or less as stated on the Net. It was not a monster -- it was a gazebo. The player in question (Andrew was his name) was a computer programmer who was, generally speaking, a superior player. He simply didn't know what a gazebo was. If you are unfamiliar with a word -- you are unfamiliar. It's not a word that intuitively means anything. In this case, he believed it was the name of a monster that he was unfamiliar with.The original DM in question was Richard Aronson whom I worked with a few years ago at roXidy Games.  Richard was a software developer for 30 years, worked at Sierra-On-Line and most recently, Left-Field. He's currently teaching computer game design in Phoenix.  He told me the tale on a couple of occasions. Not a vessicant or anything else. It was just a 10' wide gazebo.</blockquote>