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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bran Blackbyrd" data-source="post: 2601445" data-attributes="member: 1710">"Mohrg Barrel" We had a bard get killed when he raced another PC to a barrel in order to loot it first. Turned out a mohrg had been placed inside and it grappled him. That alone would have killed him in a few rounds but a (young) trigger-happy PC cast a lightning bolt at the two of them and they both got fried.The whole concept of a mohrg in a barrel was so funny (especially since it proved to be fatal) that we made constant references to it whenever there was a mysterious container that needed searched or when someone contemplated what might be waiting in the next room. I've threatened on more than one occasion to "drop a mohrg barrel" on someone if they didn't behave. An image comes to mind of something like a can of spam... a can filled with spam with a non-threatening picture of spam on the front; except this is a mohrg barrel... a barrel filled with mohrg with a non-threatening (?!) picture of a mohrg on the front. I'll never know why those kobolds were living in the same chamber as a barreled mohrg."How much for the macramé? / Oh, you can't afford the macramé." The same PC that would eventually be killed by the mohrg barrel lost an arm and went to a "specialist" to get a replacement. He had his choice between various types and materials (admantium, iron, etc) and one was macramé. They all seemed pretty expensive so we asked how much the macramé arm was figuring it was nearly worthless. The reply was simply, "Oh you can't afford the macramé arm." Who'd have guessed...but we took his word for it. The PC chose copper or brass in the end, I think. Whenever someone tries to buy something, invariably someone will ask how much the macramé version is and someone else will tell them they can't afford it."So anyway, the local magistrates show up and take you to jail..." I was (and still am) having a hard time getting my players together because of Real Life and at the end of our last session of my homebrew the local magistrates showed up and took the PCs into custody.  A year or so later one of the players was back from college and starting DMing for the first time. I joined the campaign after a few sessions and during a slow spot I said, "So anyway, the local magistrates show up and take you to jail..." The players from my campaign remembered the line and laughed. From there on out whenever a session was grinding to a halt or the DM was allowing people to take too long getting ready I'd say the line; a subtle, playful insinuation that I'd take over and start my campaign again if things took too long. It usually got a (sometimes nervous) laugh out of him.EDIT: "You're part of the problem!" As in "Be part of the solution, not part of the problem." We've taken to yelling either "You're part of the problem!" or "Be part of the solution!" at anything from warlords and BBEGs to dumbfounded orcs and unsuspecting commoners if they aren't cooperating in the manner we want them to.Also there's the exchange in my sig...</blockquote>

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