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<blockquote data-quote="Wolf1066" data-source="post: 5229914" data-attributes="member: 88680"><p>Playing AD&D for the first time, decide on a Drow elf as the GM said that was one of the options, on a whim choose female which is beneficial as I get 3 spells at 1st level - darkness, fairy lights and fairy fire. Read up on what they do - nothing terribly impressive, I can plunge an area into darkness, make will o' the wisps that I can direct and make something glow a pretty green. Oh, well. At least it's better than what a male Drow can do.</p><p></p><p>So we're in this village populated by superstitious moronic villagers who hate/fear strangers and detest/fear magic even more. Someone is murdered and our party's Dwarf is arrested on suspicion. Villagers come to the inn looking for us.</p><p></p><p>It's dusk so I cast fairy lights which seem to lure the villagers off on a wild goose chase out through the forest so I slip out of the room to make my stealthy escape.</p><p></p><p>Oops, one of the yok-errr-<strong>loc</strong>als is waiting on the landing guarding the door in case the lights were a ruse - it seems that they did have <em>that </em>much intelligence between them. He starts advancing.</p><p></p><p>I say "OK, fairy fire on the guard - <em>"You're cursed!"</em> "</p><p></p><p>DM's jaw drops and she sits there staring at me for a full minute. I savour the moment then quietly say, "OK, so what's the guard's reaction?" knowing full well that the DM can't possibly have the guard react any better than she did - given she prides herself on having an IRL IQ of over 120 and the guard can't even <strong>count </strong>to 100 (or possibly 20).</p><p></p><p>She didn't even make a pretence at a reaction roll, just said "he's running around in circles, glowing green and yelling "I'm cursed, I'm cursed" in blind panic."</p><p></p><p>"Fine," says I, "I'm down the stairs and out the door."</p><p></p><p>It's moments like that, that make me appreciate how my players must feel when they catch me completely off-guard with something from out of left field.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wolf1066, post: 5229914, member: 88680"] Playing AD&D for the first time, decide on a Drow elf as the GM said that was one of the options, on a whim choose female which is beneficial as I get 3 spells at 1st level - darkness, fairy lights and fairy fire. Read up on what they do - nothing terribly impressive, I can plunge an area into darkness, make will o' the wisps that I can direct and make something glow a pretty green. Oh, well. At least it's better than what a male Drow can do. So we're in this village populated by superstitious moronic villagers who hate/fear strangers and detest/fear magic even more. Someone is murdered and our party's Dwarf is arrested on suspicion. Villagers come to the inn looking for us. It's dusk so I cast fairy lights which seem to lure the villagers off on a wild goose chase out through the forest so I slip out of the room to make my stealthy escape. Oops, one of the yok-errr-[B]loc[/B]als is waiting on the landing guarding the door in case the lights were a ruse - it seems that they did have [I]that [/I]much intelligence between them. He starts advancing. I say "OK, fairy fire on the guard - [I]"You're cursed!"[/I] " DM's jaw drops and she sits there staring at me for a full minute. I savour the moment then quietly say, "OK, so what's the guard's reaction?" knowing full well that the DM can't possibly have the guard react any better than she did - given she prides herself on having an IRL IQ of over 120 and the guard can't even [B]count [/B]to 100 (or possibly 20). She didn't even make a pretence at a reaction roll, just said "he's running around in circles, glowing green and yelling "I'm cursed, I'm cursed" in blind panic." "Fine," says I, "I'm down the stairs and out the door." It's moments like that, that make me appreciate how my players must feel when they catch me completely off-guard with something from out of left field. [/QUOTE]
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