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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8621673" data-attributes="member: 508">Years ago, my son ran a modified D&amp;D 3.5 campaign patterned after the Skylanders console games for my nephew Harry as an introduction to RPGs.&nbsp; Harry ran a humanoid sheep named Baabby the Baabarian and I ran his sidekick, Sam Crow (a humanoid crow, naturally).&nbsp; Sam performed a number of shenanigans against the campaign enemy, an imprisoned Elder God called the &quot;Devourer of Nightmares.&quot;&nbsp; The first thing I did was to shorten his title to only refer to him by his initials, DoN (which became &quot;Don,&quot; &quot;Donnie,&quot; or &quot;Donnie-Boy&quot; depending on my mood).&nbsp; Don was built rather like Cthulhu and had eyeballs on the ends of his tentacular fingertips and would occasionally extrude a finger-tentacle through a tiny portal to observe what we were doing; Sam had a tendency to &quot;drop trou&quot; and poop all over Don's eyeball tentacle whenever the opportunity arose.Sam also had an irritating habit of claiming ancestry to a number of different birds, all on his mother's side.&nbsp; If he was chided for fleeing from battle, he'd claim, &quot;It's not my fault - I'm half chicken on my mother's side.&quot;&nbsp; If anyone complained about him telling the same story over and over, he'd claim, &quot;It's not my fault - I'm half-parrot on my mother's side.&quot;&nbsp; If he was outside in the winter without any winter gear he'd explain, &quot;No problem - I'm half penguin on my mother's side.&quot;&nbsp; (His most ridiculous was when he claimed to be &quot;half-roast-turkey-and-gravy&quot; on his mother's side.)&nbsp; But in the final battle against Don, after Baabby cut him down with the Elemental Sword (the MacGuffin we'd spent all campaign powering up), as Don lay dying Sam carved out the Elder God's eye with his own short sword and started eating it like an apple in front of him, stating, &quot;But I'm all crow on my father's side!&quot;Sam also picked up an animal companion in the form of a snail (named &quot;Shelldon,&quot; naturally) that pretty much just sat immobile on Sam's left shoulder.&nbsp; Nonetheless, Sam insisted that Sheldon was fully trained, having mastered the commands to &quot;stay,&quot; &quot;play dead,&quot; and - most impressive of all - perform mathematical computations where the answer was always zero (wherein Shelldon communicated the answer by not answering at all).Johnathan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Richards, post: 8621673, member: 508"] Years ago, my son ran a modified D&D 3.5 campaign patterned after the Skylanders console games for my nephew Harry as an introduction to RPGs. Harry ran a humanoid sheep named Baabby the Baabarian and I ran his sidekick, Sam Crow (a humanoid crow, naturally). Sam performed a number of shenanigans against the campaign enemy, an imprisoned Elder God called the "Devourer of Nightmares." The first thing I did was to shorten his title to only refer to him by his initials, DoN (which became "Don," "Donnie," or "Donnie-Boy" depending on my mood). Don was built rather like Cthulhu and had eyeballs on the ends of his tentacular fingertips and would occasionally extrude a finger-tentacle through a tiny portal to observe what we were doing; Sam had a tendency to "drop trou" and poop all over Don's eyeball tentacle whenever the opportunity arose. Sam also had an irritating habit of claiming ancestry to a number of different birds, all on his mother's side. If he was chided for fleeing from battle, he'd claim, "It's not my fault - I'm half chicken on my mother's side." If anyone complained about him telling the same story over and over, he'd claim, "It's not my fault - I'm half-parrot on my mother's side." If he was outside in the winter without any winter gear he'd explain, "No problem - I'm half penguin on my mother's side." (His most ridiculous was when he claimed to be "half-roast-turkey-and-gravy" on his mother's side.) But in the final battle against Don, after Baabby cut him down with the [I]Elemental Sword[/I] (the MacGuffin we'd spent all campaign powering up), as Don lay dying Sam carved out the Elder God's eye with his own short sword and started eating it like an apple in front of him, stating, "But I'm all crow on my father's side!" Sam also picked up an animal companion in the form of a snail (named "Shelldon," naturally) that pretty much just sat immobile on Sam's left shoulder. Nonetheless, Sam insisted that Sheldon was fully trained, having mastered the commands to "stay," "play dead," and - most impressive of all - perform mathematical computations where the answer was always zero (wherein Shelldon communicated the answer by not answering at all). Johnathan [/QUOTE]

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