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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sialia" data-source="post: 5979641" data-attributes="member: 1025">Piratecat once gave me a dead rat for a piece of treasure. That was memorable. When I threw it at something and hit, it would animate and attack. I don't remember all t he details. the point was, he knew my character was the sort of person who would pick up a dead rat and try to hit someone with it later. SO he found me a special one. Nobody had to wonder who that particular piece of swag belonged ot when we picked it up. nobody else but me would even have regarded it as part of the hoard. so, keep the special items few in number,a dn cutomize them to what your PCs prize. Neither of you will forget color that colorful. Also, Piratecat ran that group for long enough that evenutally stufff like this would pile up in people's inventories,a nd hten when he really at last had us over a barrel in a tight space between the devil and the deep blue sea--this time for certain--we'd pull out some unexpected thing he'd granted us years ago that would turn out to be the perfect tool for hte job. which meant we were forever catchign him off guard with stuff.. We loved doing this to him. We treasured the look on his face every single time. No matter what he dmight do to us later in retribution--it was worth it, just for that moment. It also led to some of the most memorable scenes ever, and took the plot in some truly unexpected directions. I it's not just colorful, but also mildly useful, someone will remember to use it when you get them in a really hard spot and they start scannign their character sheets for "ohmigoshI must have somethign left! anything!" Or not, and then you cna mock them later.  aftere they've lost the encoutner and are tied up on the bandsaw with whirling death slowly working it's way up towards theri legs, feel free to let your villain monologue about how the only thing she ever feareed was that dumb piece of color text they threw away last session . . . . I'm sure it won't happen twice.</blockquote>

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