New Rant

[Ladyshade]

JUST KIDDING! HAHahahahahahahaha! I try not to rant if at all possible.

Everyone who actually thought this was a rant needs to send me chocolate in large amounts. How dare you think me capable of such…rantage.

Funny aren't I?:smirk:

Anyway. The real purpose of this post is to ask of people what amusing things have occurred to you in the course of RP? Things that are slightly ironic, amusing, contradictory in some way, or just plain odd.

I for one think it funny that the main character I play here is a cavalier who is very much into her calling, and not once has she been seen with a mount of any kind. True, with some players details about her career are used for background 'offsite' stuff, but hehehehehehe…she's supposed to ride around all glorious and striking. Instead, she walks a lot. How…pedestrian. Hehehehe

 

[The Storyteller]

Our DM allows us to make called shots against our targets, dealing damage to that area. In one battle, we were fighting a giant. The fighter was out cold. I, the ranger, was occupied with minions. To protect the sorceress, the druid charged the giant, and made a called shot to the groin. He proceeded to roll a natural 20 to hit, followed by another natural 20 to confirm the critical. He then rolled maximum damage. Needless to say, that was the end of the giant. He blacked out from the pain so the rogue coup-de-graced him while we removed the giant's...uh...equipment...off the druid. It was very amusing.

 

[Nevine]

Amusing..amusing..

Nothing really funny comes to mind right away, but there is something that is amusing to me atleast. There are some characters in the ISRP area that are D&D based that I could honestly see in a WotC published novel that would probably sell well based on the character concept alone. Especially some of the more well played wizard-type characters.

Sometimes I think WotC yoinks some ideas from the ISRP rooms too.. I noticed when the Loremistress character started coming around and thought, "huh..albino drow..how about that?". Then, sometime later, the City of the Spider Queen superadventure was announced and when it hit the shelves..I took a peek..and guess who the main villain was? An albino drow female! It's probably just coincidence..or is it?

 

[JacksonTT]

I was running Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil for my friends back in Florida. It was an incredibly chaotic party, consisting of a half-orc barbarian/sorceror/rage-mage, an elven archer, a tiefling bard, a half-elven selunite cleric, an elven ninja, a human cleric of (i think) Oghma, and a bugbear fighter/thief/devoted defender. We'd gotten through the entire adventure, with several party deaths, and we were finally like two rooms away from the final encounter, when we were suddenly attacked by a purple worm. The purple worm got hold of Zek, the bugbear, and started to swallow him whole. The party only had a round to act, so everyone was trying to save him, but nothing was working fast enough. At the last second, Boo, the tiefling bard fired off a prismatic spray spell at the worm. It hit with the ray that planeshifts you randomly, and both Zek and the purple worm failed their saves and disappeared. The entire party promptly abandoned the quest to save the world(two rooms away from the end!) to travel to Ysgard to get Zek back, prompting an entirely new and fun adventure. This should serve as a warning to DM's: Never get too comfortable, you can NEVER predict what your party will do.

 

[Vile_Reaper]

Well, I was DMing a campaign that I had to make up on the fly (they came to me and requested I DM a cmpaign, and well, they wanted to start immediately.) So, I began to run the campaign. Everything was going smoothly, I had decided to be unoriginal and send them up against the drow. I had them captured and imprisoned and they needed to escape. Well, they found an old escape passage and used it, but it only took them to the guard-room down the hall. They killed the guards and worked their way out of the dungeon. They got to the second to last room and had forgotten their torch in the room before, so they sent the useless gnome mage back to get it. He got the torch and came back to join them, giving them enough light to fight the last room of drow. The druid of the party then proceeded to "heal" the party, instead, he cast hold person on the gnome which stuck him in place. The druid then felt a sense of irony and picked up the torch the gnome had gone back to fetch and lit the gnome on fire. The party had all hated the gnome, so no-one stopped the druid. Side note: Most of my party was NE. Hope you liked it.

 

[Tharivious_Meliamne]

Hmm, "odd" you say?

Alright, but I'm not even going to mention the campaign that WraithOfHouseToHouse DMs, since much of that is easily beyond Book of Vile Darkness type stuff, and thus not postable. :nonono:

I will however, mention a bit of what kind of craziness happened in Nugan's campaign, which we have rather unoriginally dubbed "Old Campaign" ( Or "OC", as it is named now on the Map of the Planes boards. ).

Well, we had one player who rotated out a while back who had named his character, a 350+ pound barbarian who he named after himself who rode a donkey instead of a horse, despite the donkey being too weak to carry him and all of his equipment. He even rode the donkey after he got a horse, until one day, his player left and the character became an NPC, which was about when the donkey broke its back and died.

What's so odd about that? Well, two months later, the character came back and helped the party fight a necromancer. In an epic struggle ( We were actually level 12, but I'll call it that for the sake of calling it that ), a magical energy burst occured and >poof<, the barbarian was gone. What happened? He ascended to demi-godhood as a side effect of the blast. Turns out that a burst of magical energies of that type can make a mortal ascend. Yeah.... So now there's a god named Mighty James in Dykal because of that.

Hmm, what else?..... Well, there's a lot, but I'll leave that for a later post, this one got kinda long....

 

[Ssussunriyh]

Amusing..amusing..

Nothing really funny comes to mind right away, but there is something that is amusing to me atleast. There are some characters in the ISRP area that are D&D based that I could honestly see in a WotC published novel that would probably sell well based on the character concept alone. Especially some of the more well played wizard-type characters.

Sometimes I think WotC yoinks some ideas from the ISRP rooms too.. I noticed when the Loremistress character started coming around and thought, "huh..albino drow..how about that?". Then, sometime later, the City of the Spider Queen superadventure was announced and when it hit the shelves..I took a peek..and guess who the main villain was? An albino drow female! It's probably just coincidence..or is it?

I had thought that mine was a completely original character concept, but after I had been playing my character for a few years on and off, I thumbed through the Maztica trilogy. One character in it was an albino drow posing as a surface elf... published before I had created the Loremistress, yet completely unbeknownst to me, since I had never read it or heard about it before. Great minds think alike?

As for the albino drow in City of the Spider Queen, there really wasn't any reason to make the character an albino, at least not that I could see. There was no stigma associated with it, a white-skinned mutant among the drow - who are obsessed with conformity, standards of beauty, and physical perfection. All I can think is that it made the artwork easier to draw, since it's much harder to show contour and detail on a black background...

 

[Nugan]

He even rode the donkey after he got a horse, until one day, his player left and the character became an NPC, which was about when the donkey broke its back and died.

Are you sure that donkey died? I think I just forgot about it and stopped mentioning it.

Speaking of poor MJ, remember when Llawyn (another PC) dreamt that Pike cooked and ate him? Of all the horrific things that happened in OC, I think that one got the most shocked "No, no, no..."s, until Llawyn woke up, of course.

 

[Tharivious_Meliamne]

Originally posted by Nugan
Are you sure that donkey died? I think I just forgot about it and stopped mentioning it.

Hmm, maybe it didn't die I know its back broke at some point though.

Speaking of poor MJ, remember when Llawyn (another PC) dreamt that Pike cooked and ate him? Of all the horrific things that happened in OC, I think that one got the most shocked "No, no, no..."s, until Llawyn woke up, of course.

Actually, no I don't. I missed that session due to lack of transportation, or at least that part of it. I remember hearing about how that went though. Wow, that was a long time ago, before your sister ( Llawyn's player ) quit the gaming group.