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<blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 5595570" data-attributes="member: 99">I've done lots of stupid things in both roles over my 30 years of gaming (holy crap I'm getting old!).&nbsp; Here are two that spring to mind:My character, a bard born with a club foot, I'm desperately fleeing from a Firbolg that his chasing me.&nbsp; I'm losing the footrace, doing every trick I can think of to try and slow him down, and taking pot shots at him with my sling for almost no damage.&nbsp; I'm pretty much screwed and I can't understand why the GM has put me in this horrible, unwinnable predicament.I finally throw up my hands in frustration and tell the GM that I'm going to just sit down on the ground and let the giant eat me.The GM, in a sigh of exasperation says, &quot;As you sit on the ground, you feel a bulge in your back pocket.&nbsp; A bulge that can ONLY BE the MAGICAL ACORNS that you BARGAINED WITH THE WOOD NYMPH FOR LAST SESSION!&nbsp; THE MAGICAL ACORNS THAT SHE SAID WOULD BE VERY USEFUL IF YOU RAN INTO THE GIANTS OF THE FOREST!&quot;&quot;Oh right...&quot;As a GM I recall a major screw up from my 4e campaign when the PC's found an artifact in the form of a talking statue of a Dwarf that contained some information and rituals.&nbsp; It was this statue, among other artifacts, that the PCs had been sent to recover by a clan of Dwarves.&nbsp; One piece of information proved to be controversial and half the party felt that it wasn't something that should fall into the hands of the Dwarves (whom they didn't fully trust yet).&nbsp; Thus began a very long and spirited, nearly heated debate that spilled out of the session and onto e-mails exchanged over the course of the next week.&nbsp; There were two phone calls approaching an hour each on the topic.That's when the player who'd primarily been handling the statue mentioned, &quot;Of course I'm the only one in the party who speaks Dwarven so none of the rest of them should have known about this information if I hadn't told them, which of course I wouldn't have.&quot;*forehead smack*Yeah we'd devoted probably a good 4 or 5 hours of debate on a topic that should have been handled by a very brief note passed to the PC doing the translating.&nbsp; I explained this and we basically retconned it but I felt like a dolt.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rel, post: 5595570, member: 99"] I've done lots of stupid things in both roles over my 30 years of gaming (holy crap I'm getting old!). Here are two that spring to mind: My character, a bard born with a club foot, I'm desperately fleeing from a Firbolg that his chasing me. I'm losing the footrace, doing every trick I can think of to try and slow him down, and taking pot shots at him with my sling for almost no damage. I'm pretty much screwed and I can't understand why the GM has put me in this horrible, unwinnable predicament. I finally throw up my hands in frustration and tell the GM that I'm going to just sit down on the ground and let the giant eat me. The GM, in a sigh of exasperation says, "As you sit on the ground, you feel a bulge in your back pocket. A bulge that can ONLY BE the MAGICAL ACORNS that you BARGAINED WITH THE WOOD NYMPH FOR LAST SESSION! THE MAGICAL ACORNS THAT SHE SAID WOULD BE VERY USEFUL IF YOU RAN INTO THE GIANTS OF THE FOREST!" "Oh right..." As a GM I recall a major screw up from my 4e campaign when the PC's found an artifact in the form of a talking statue of a Dwarf that contained some information and rituals. It was this statue, among other artifacts, that the PCs had been sent to recover by a clan of Dwarves. One piece of information proved to be controversial and half the party felt that it wasn't something that should fall into the hands of the Dwarves (whom they didn't fully trust yet). Thus began a very long and spirited, nearly heated debate that spilled out of the session and onto e-mails exchanged over the course of the next week. There were two phone calls approaching an hour each on the topic. That's when the player who'd primarily been handling the statue mentioned, "Of course I'm the only one in the party who speaks Dwarven so none of the rest of them should have known about this information if I hadn't told them, which of course I wouldn't have." *forehead smack* Yeah we'd devoted probably a good 4 or 5 hours of debate on a topic that should have been handled by a very brief note passed to the PC doing the translating. I explained this and we basically retconned it but I felt like a dolt. [/QUOTE]

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