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Message: <blockquote data-quote="invokethehojo" data-source="post: 5362348" data-attributes="member: 62525">This makes me want to tell quite a few stories, but I'll keep it to the two I think will be the most entertaining to read.In highschool I had a very cocky DM who converted this cool kid into a full fledged gamer... mostly by showing him all kinds of favoritism (I think he had a little bit of a man crush on him).  He wrote a campaign around this guys 21st level mage, in 2e dragonlance.  I didn't get into the campaign early enough, so when a friend and I started to show up the DM made our characters lackies of a white dragon scemeing to stop the party.  We were really just supposed to hang around for a session or two to make an interesting "aha, your the bad guys" fight... but we just wouldn't die.  So fast forward to the final session of the campaign where the main party is climbing the mountain to slay the white dragon and we are chasing them.  The cool dudes mage cast pebble to boulder and rolled it down the mountain at us (a new spell from a new book he had just bought, it was his favorite).  I was stuck in a spot where I couldn't avoid the boulder for some reason... so I cast the 1st level spell shrink, and since I was high enough level it basically turned the boulder back to a pebble and it went right past us.  The odds were way against the two of us, we were several levels lower than the main party, and the DM was obviously trying to kill us off, so it made the moment so much better... until the DM used some bs trap to insta kill us in the next scene, and I had believed he might actually let us defeat the party.I had a different DM in highschool that was very good and descriptive... but he started dating this really annoying girl.  So one day he invites me to play with his new gf and a few of her friends, none of whom had ever played before.  I agreed on the terms that he allowed me to play this necromancer I had rolled up (2e) that had the animate dead once per day wild psionic talent.  He agreed and we began play.  I have to admit at the time I was pretty aloof about being an "experienced" player, so I was over doing it a bit.  We came up against some kind of dryad or similar that used  a riddle the DM obviously had spent time working on to slow us down and make us think... but I cast friends on it and it let us by anyway.  So these kids begin to think I'm cool.  Then we fight a giant spider and, once its dead, I animate it, hollow out its abdomen, and ride around inside.  So now I'm looking really cool.  Then we enter into some dungeon where we think we will find (can't remember the monster or treasure) and the DM makes some descriptive comment that I pick up on and so I say, "I disbelieve the wall"... and poof the wall dissapears (since it was just an illusion) and a red dragon is staring at us.  Those kids didn't know what had happened, they didn't know you could disbelieve anything or that walls could be illusions, to them it seemed like I willed the wall into non existence.  It was pretty cool... can't remember what happened after that, but I didn't play with them again.</blockquote>

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