Pure Fun

[Malhost Zormaeril]

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

Yes, but would the group sit around me for half an hour and help me compose it? The average gamer might think that's holding up the game a little too much. Besides, what if you finish telling your message in the first stanza? A sonnet must have all four stanzas. Do you fill it with gibberish? This Space For Rent?

I think it's great for the players to be challenged, and some times requiring them to come up with poetry is awesome. But I would say to keep with the haiku, or some other simpler verse form. Unless it's a puzzle in Heward's Tomb, or something, but I would expect XP for it, then...

Eh, I think I'm just being curmudgeony. Please forget it.

 

[Shieldhaven]

Nifft, I feel confident that my players would throw things at me if I even suggested this... but I totally love it! I do think that sorcerers and wizards need a comparable option, though. (Maybe something like Arcade Deltarrion's spell verbals in Piratecat's SH?)

Haven

 

[green slime]

I like this idea Nifft. Very cool.

I don't think I'd enforce it, just point out that those who helped create the haiku/sonnet would recieve extra XP credit for effort. Just let those uninterested settle for a 25 word message, with no XP.

 

[Spatzimaus]

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

Oh sure, taunt us with the progress of your group. Some of us are still in withdrawal from your Story Hour...