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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Templetroll" data-source="post: 1969198" data-attributes="member: 2201">way back when my dwarf had a Mirror Shield; the face of the shield was reflective.  We were fighting a basilisk and I decided the dwarf would peek around the edge to make sure I had the aim right.  The DM asked me several times if I REALLY wanted to do that and I was emphatic.  Then, he asked me to make a save, which I promptly failed.  Luckily, so did the basilisk.  The party carted my statue back to town to get me restored to what passed as normal.In a game I ran, a cleric was imprisioned for treason, even though he had not committed the act.  Another PC, a 1e bard, knew that the cleric would never have done it; he decided to rescue him.  he also knew that the cleric, being uber-LG, would never go along with the escape.   The bard rode his figurine of Wondrous Power Nightmare up into the tower cell while the cleric was asleep.  The cleric was manacled  hand and foot and asleep on a cot.  The bard drew his sword and went to slit the throat of the cleric.  I told the player to roll to hit.  He looked at me in dismay, "You know we both hate having to roll to hit a sleeping person!"  I agreed, and said, "make the roll."  He did, looked up triumphantly and said, "There!  A 20!  Satisfied?"  I nodded and replied, "His head rolls off the cot."    The player's eyes went wide, he actually stared at his "sword hand" and burst out laughing - he had forgotten that the only sword he had to use to slit the cleric's throat was a Vorpal blade!</blockquote>

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