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<blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 3215597" data-attributes="member: 3586">If I may note: I consider AoOs a really suitable topic for humour. I really do - there are many situations where they become convoluted, confusing, and many other terms beginning with C. (Witness someone standing up provoking someone with ability to Trip... I know how it works, but it's not completely obvious when looking at the rules).However, for the humour to work, you've got to create a situation when the confusion is clear. Legolas not knowing that a bow can't make an AoO just shows how dumb Legolas is, not the AoO rules. *Good* humour from confusing rules or other situations? Lots of examples. Rich Burlew does so often. &quot;Spell Level... L.E.V.E.L.&quot; comes to mind, the exaggeration of the &quot;Armor Check Penaltae&quot;...One of my favourite bits of comedy comes from Dork Tower (IIRC), when the DM sets the PCs against a rather mismatched group of enemies: the contents of one booster of D&amp;D Miniatures! This pokes fun at the drawbacks of the random nature of the minis really well, without giving the reader a &quot;huh?&quot; moment.Cheers!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MerricB, post: 3215597, member: 3586"] If I may note: I consider AoOs a really suitable topic for humour. I really do - there are many situations where they become convoluted, confusing, and many other terms beginning with C. (Witness someone standing up provoking someone with ability to Trip... I know how it works, but it's not completely obvious when looking at the rules). However, for the humour to work, you've got to create a situation when the confusion is clear. Legolas not knowing that a bow can't make an AoO just shows how dumb Legolas is, not the AoO rules. *Good* humour from confusing rules or other situations? Lots of examples. Rich Burlew does so often. "Spell Level... L.E.V.E.L." comes to mind, the exaggeration of the "Armor Check Penaltae"... One of my favourite bits of comedy comes from Dork Tower (IIRC), when the DM sets the PCs against a rather mismatched group of enemies: the contents of one booster of D&D Miniatures! This pokes fun at the drawbacks of the random nature of the minis really well, without giving the reader a "huh?" moment. Cheers! [/QUOTE]

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