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<blockquote data-quote="Goobermunch" data-source="post: 3896472" data-attributes="member: 10516">Eerily similar to one of my early D&amp;D experiences.&nbsp; About 15 years ago, I was playing in a friend's homebrew setting.&nbsp; I was the chaotic, impulsive rogue type (actually a fire wizard).&nbsp; At one point during this game, I nearly killed the entire party (three times in about 10 minutes) after falling under the sway of an evil sword/artifact (which had the special purpose of destroying the noble armor/artifact worn by our paladin.&nbsp; Long after we'd recovered and moved on, we were wandering the wilderness on our way to wherever we were headed, and found a mystical fountain.When you look into the fountain, you see your pure self.&nbsp; Then, you make a will-type save (probably mind control).&nbsp; If you fail, you drink from the fountain.&nbsp; Then, you get a second fortitude-type save (Poison, Paralysis and Death Magic, I'm sure).&nbsp; If you fail that save, you become whatever it was you saw.So our Paladin goes up and looks into the fountain.&nbsp; There, in his reflection, he sees the golden form of his noble armor.&nbsp; He then fails his two saves and immediately becomes a walking suit of golden armor.&nbsp; Not that big of a change for him.&nbsp; A couple other party members roll the dice and take a look.&nbsp; No one fails their saves.Then it's my turn.&nbsp; I take a look in the fountain and see a swirling mass of colors and sparks.&nbsp; I make my will save and decide to drink anyway.As I'm rolling my fortitude save, I casually ask my DM what it was that I'd seen.&quot;Pure chaos,&quot; he replies.Fortunately, I made my saving throw.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />To this day, I wonder what it would be like to play pure chaos.--G</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Goobermunch, post: 3896472, member: 10516"] Eerily similar to one of my early D&D experiences. About 15 years ago, I was playing in a friend's homebrew setting. I was the chaotic, impulsive rogue type (actually a fire wizard). At one point during this game, I nearly killed the entire party (three times in about 10 minutes) after falling under the sway of an evil sword/artifact (which had the special purpose of destroying the noble armor/artifact worn by our paladin. Long after we'd recovered and moved on, we were wandering the wilderness on our way to wherever we were headed, and found a mystical fountain. When you look into the fountain, you see your pure self. Then, you make a will-type save (probably mind control). If you fail, you drink from the fountain. Then, you get a second fortitude-type save (Poison, Paralysis and Death Magic, I'm sure). If you fail that save, you become whatever it was you saw. So our Paladin goes up and looks into the fountain. There, in his reflection, he sees the golden form of his noble armor. He then fails his two saves and immediately becomes a walking suit of golden armor. Not that big of a change for him. A couple other party members roll the dice and take a look. No one fails their saves. Then it's my turn. I take a look in the fountain and see a swirling mass of colors and sparks. I make my will save and decide to drink anyway. As I'm rolling my fortitude save, I casually ask my DM what it was that I'd seen. "Pure chaos," he replies. Fortunately, I made my saving throw. :) To this day, I wonder what it would be like to play pure chaos. --G [/QUOTE]

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