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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8137313" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>Ok, bit of set up. I picked up the old(ish) Owlbear Run module from the WotC site back in the spring when they were giving away all that free stuff to get people gaming. Figured it would be a nice light hearted adventure to toss at my group. The players jumped right into the spirit of the adventure too, which is really nice. Essentially, the adventure is, you have to transport an owlbear between two towns before the other three teams transport their owlbear. It's goofy and fun. </p><p></p><p>So, as a side bit, I decided the last encounter of the run, the party would stumble across a desecrated temple. I wanted to do a bit of foreshadowing, introducing a major baddie (Thessalar the lich) by having the owlbear they were transporting be a polymorphed, cursed druid of the temple. Thessalar had desecrated the temple, polymorphing the druid into an owlbear (Thessalar in Greyhawk lore is the source of owlbears) and killing the temple's avatar. All this was somewhat a long time in the past and, while I did leave a nasty baddie in the temple for the PC's to beat upon, I figured this was a fairly throwaway encounter and a bit of fun.</p><p></p><p>Enter the Wild Mage and his list of 10000 wild surges. </p><p></p><p>The encounter started off pretty much as I had anticipated, the party went into the temple, the polymorphed druid regained his sanity long enough to do a bit of exposition and the nasty baddie pops up and combat ensues. Wild Mage triggers a wild surge. On a list of TEN THOUSAND possible results, I got, "Target's attacks cause any transformed target to regain its former shape". </p><p></p><p>Nasty baddy beats on the owl bear and POOF, owlbear is now a druid. Party dispatches nasty baddy and now have to complete the race and somehow convince the race judges that the druid is, indeed, the owlbear they started with. </p><p></p><p>In a thousand years I could not have predicted this. The chain of events leading up to this result were so completely random that it was just hillarious. </p><p></p><p>Being utterly left speechless in surprise at the outcome of events in game. That's why I game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 8137313, member: 22779"] Ok, bit of set up. I picked up the old(ish) Owlbear Run module from the WotC site back in the spring when they were giving away all that free stuff to get people gaming. Figured it would be a nice light hearted adventure to toss at my group. The players jumped right into the spirit of the adventure too, which is really nice. Essentially, the adventure is, you have to transport an owlbear between two towns before the other three teams transport their owlbear. It's goofy and fun. So, as a side bit, I decided the last encounter of the run, the party would stumble across a desecrated temple. I wanted to do a bit of foreshadowing, introducing a major baddie (Thessalar the lich) by having the owlbear they were transporting be a polymorphed, cursed druid of the temple. Thessalar had desecrated the temple, polymorphing the druid into an owlbear (Thessalar in Greyhawk lore is the source of owlbears) and killing the temple's avatar. All this was somewhat a long time in the past and, while I did leave a nasty baddie in the temple for the PC's to beat upon, I figured this was a fairly throwaway encounter and a bit of fun. Enter the Wild Mage and his list of 10000 wild surges. The encounter started off pretty much as I had anticipated, the party went into the temple, the polymorphed druid regained his sanity long enough to do a bit of exposition and the nasty baddie pops up and combat ensues. Wild Mage triggers a wild surge. On a list of TEN THOUSAND possible results, I got, "Target's attacks cause any transformed target to regain its former shape". Nasty baddy beats on the owl bear and POOF, owlbear is now a druid. Party dispatches nasty baddy and now have to complete the race and somehow convince the race judges that the druid is, indeed, the owlbear they started with. In a thousand years I could not have predicted this. The chain of events leading up to this result were so completely random that it was just hillarious. Being utterly left speechless in surprise at the outcome of events in game. That's why I game. [/QUOTE]
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