Pure Fun

[Nifft]

A House Rule that I have not instituted, but which would be totally fun:

Sending:

• Instead of a fixed number of words, you send one haiku per five caster levels.
• If you cast as a Druid, you must mention a season, a flower, or an animal.
• If you cast as a Cleric, you must mention your deity or an element of his portfolio.
• If you cast as a Bard, you may instead send one sonnet per 10 levels, or one limerick per five levels.

What've you all got?

Cheers, -- N

 

[BobbyMac]

If you cast as a Sorcerer, you muth lisp and hiss ath a lithurd becauthe of your draconic herithige...
If you cast as a Withard..errr I mean a Wizard, 70% of your words must be picked from last months Reader's Digest Word Power section...
If you cast as a Witch, you must start and end your sending with EHHEHEEHEHEEHEHEEE!!!...





Laissez les bon temps rouler!

 

[Nifft]

If you cast as a Sorcerer, you muth lisp and hiss ath a lithurd becauthe of your draconic herithige...
If you cast as a Withard..errr I mean a Wizard, 70% of your words must be picked from last months Reader's Digest Word Power section...
If you cast as a Witch, you must start and end your sending with EHHEHEEHEHEEHEHEEE!!!...

Laissez les bon temps rouler!

Yeah, I get it. Imposing rules on people isn't fun.

But this is instead of a rule that already hampers people's speech. Significantly. And causes out of character debates on the best way to phrase stuff. Which sucks.

So, snarkyness aside, anyone got any comments (or things that are more fun than current restrictions)?

Cheers, -- N

 

[Kobold Marine]

I like it. Then again, I'm also fond of haiku.

In a similar vein, in one campaign I house-ruled Contact Other Plane and Commune to provide 30 seconds per caster level of real-time conversation with the god/entity. I would set a timer and then proceed to role-play out the spell's results.

One PC managed to offer up his soul to a demon lord in the first minute of conversation. Can't get that with a regular Contact spell!

 

[IndyPendant]

Just as a small point Nifft, I see little difference between your post and Bobbymac's response.

...Unless you meant yours to be serious? Err...I'm really hoping you didn't. This change would be flat-out *horrible*. You think forcing haikus on your players would cause less ooc conversation?

Um. Okay. : )

It also lends itself to easy abuse. Sonnets can go on for a very, very long time, and so long as a cleric or druid inserts some random keywords they apparently could drone on indefinitely. Undead clerics wouldn't even need to stop for breath!

No, you must be joking with this. Right...?

 

[Nifft]

It also lends itself to easy abuse. Sonnets can go on for a very, very long time, and so long as a cleric or druid inserts some random keywords they apparently could drone on indefinitely. Undead clerics wouldn't even need to stop for breath!

I'm thinking of the 16 line guys. Maybe I need to nail down specifically Shakespearian sonnet.

No, you must be joking with this. Right...?

Options are more fun.
We count syllables or words...
Haiku ain't that hard.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Piratecat]

That's awesome. I can see my party now:

Please come save our butts.
We are stranded far away
in another plane.

Not sure where we are
My brain just leaked out my ears
Is this the far realm?

If so please cast gate
Calphas knows, we might be nuts
Prepare a mass heal.

And what of new friends?
I fear my new tentacles
might be sentient.

-- Velendo

 

[Nifft]

Sonnets can go on for a very, very long time, and so long as a cleric or druid inserts some random keywords they apparently could drone on indefinitely.

Ooo, and of course Clerics and Druids can't use the Sonnet form of this spell. That's specific to Bards. (Can't see a Bard player who's going to resent speaking in poetry... )

Clerics and Druids need to waste precious syllables. I mean, have to honor their patron who provides them this power.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Malhost Zormaeril]

Are we talking about the real thing?
These sonnets are a tad too hard to make
You're bound to think you've made a big mistake
If you should follow all the rules therein.

Four stanzas, four-four-three-three you must sing
The first two should rhyme like A-B-B-A.
C-D-C D-C-D you ought to make
The others, for the sonnet true to ring.

And if you should think this is too much work
For your poor player to think on the fly
A freer form of poetry would not hurt.

In fact, I'd hazard say it's rather wise
To keep the limit of twenty-five words
Than make him seek to conquer all those rhymes.

(Whew! Took me something like a half-hour to write. I'm proud of myself, actually!)

 

[Nifft]

(Whew! Took me something like a half-hour to write. I'm proud of myself, actually!)

And that, my friend, is the whole entire point. (And if the player really hates it, fine, they get 25 words of unrestricted prose.)

Cheers, -- N