Now they buy pigs

[ThirdWizard]

Bah, forget the celestial stuff.

Blue lightning.

Step 1: Pick up all your blue dice. All of them. I have around 40.
Step 2: Roll all the dice.
Step 3: Player takes damage, no save.
Step 4: Laugh maniacally.
Step 5: Dodge.

 

[jasper]

Pigs for the
Elimination of
Troublesome
Adventurers
Send 5 acorns to address below so we can eliminate adventures.

…, and with a bit of training, could probably be used instead of dogs at airports and other places where you need trained beasts with a good sense of smell.

Except that dogs are easier to train and command more respect than pigs, of course…. But would give truth to line that you were caught by the pigs.

Run cows have guns, pigs have pig stickers……..

 

[Synthetik Fish]

Not much you can do about pig smell though. Of course most monsters don't have the scent feat. Zombies don't even have a nose. You know how zombies smell without a nose? AWFUL!

*rimshot*

Thank you, thank you! I'll be here all week!

So... you mean... you're only going to be here a week then? *whew*

 

[Mixmaster]

At this years Dungeon Crawl Classic tourney, session one, our group found a bag of tricks. We used whatever animal popped out as bait in every room we entered. Worked great, and it helped us come up with a team name, the DB Crew (dead bunny).

That was you?? Oh my goodness, I was on your team. I played the sorcerer. I'm still annoyed that they changed the semi-final rd from noon to 4pm. I again humbly apologize.

 

[Nellisir]

Maybe if pigs would have been domesticated stronger, it would have helped. But since the herding of pigs was never tried a lot because other animals weren´t as "dangerous" to eat, that never happens. Though I have no idea if that really makes sense - I guess it´s quite possible that some animals are just easier to domesticate than others (think of the difference between cats and dogs) ...

Cats & dogs are equally domesticated; dogs just have a more...obedient social structure that we can insert ourselves into. Cats don't have a pack hierarchy.

 

[Dryfus]

umm

*Players all look at each other and say in unison...* - "We'll chance it."

Then as they walk to the next dungeon sheep in tow, a figure stride towards them wuth a scicle and in leather saying, "DEFILERS, PREPARE TO DIE" ansd casting some high level nasty spell.

 

[Dryfus]

Player 3 - "And that will likely save the lives of many of the townsfolk, make us heroes and win back the title to my father's ancestral estate, right?"

Rel - "Yes."

Or have the player whos ancestral land have a dream that his father was reincarnated as a pig(or sheep), and that he killed him by stuffing him down a long corridore, and the god stands before him saying "I CURSE YOU TO NEVER GET BACK THAT WHICH WAS RIGHTFULLY YOURS"

 

[Vertaxis]

I used to be in a party that used this trick. But we used sheep instead. They have a natural herding instinct that we could exploit

 

[Darmanicus]

I really wish people would stop using this erroneous argument. "There's fireballs in D&D, so nothing has to make sense, and reality is impossible!"

Bull-dookie (yes, I used the word dookie, out of respect to Eric's Grandmother. ) Just because one aspect of a campaign is fantastical does not mean you check your sense of realism at the door. Basic gravity, physics, etc. still apply. And, IMC, the general behavior of farm animals. I only change the reality I want to, and I see no reason to suddenly make pigs behave other than naturally, in order to invite Cheese into my campaign.

Granted, as someone else mentioned, they could simply switch to sheep. At which point I might get a chance to pit the PCs against some of the good celestials I've always wanted to try. Those sheep have a god too, and that god has servants. Sacrificing sheep in such a callous way is bound to piss somebody off Upstairs.

Ah it's not totally erroneous. If even one of the players has a decent handle animal skill they should be able to herd pigs in this fashion just so long as they make the DC. Yes, you might want to make it a hard roll due to the obstinate nature of pigs however if that roll is made then tough jerky pal!

On another note a poster mentioned about the pig/s rummaging through backpacks n stuff. What would really be funny would be the pig/s happening across a potion and slurping up thye contents. Because it was a pig that drunk it up maybe the effects differed slightly, became permanent or both!!!

I'm thinking a potion of polmorph turning lil piggy into what he really wanted to be.......that big ol' bad ass dire boar he saw when he was a wee piglet........with class levels in barbarian and frenzied beserker!

 

[Ceresco]

Or have the player whos ancestral land have a dream that his father was reincarnated as a pig(or sheep), and that he killed him by stuffing him down a long corridore, and the god stands before him saying "I CURSE YOU TO NEVER GET BACK THAT WHICH WAS RIGHTFULLY YOURS"

I like this idea best.

And a few quick porcine facts. http://www.bio-med-swine.com/physiologicaldata.php
Notice the daily intake foof and water. And of course the daily output of feces and urine.