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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 2122708" data-attributes="member: 99">Floyd The Blue DogIt wasn't a campaign I was running but I was a player.  One of the other players was a guy who we became increasingly aware was a cheating, powergaming, jackass.  We were using the Central Casting book to generate character backgrounds and this guy's character wound up having two pets.One was a wolf who breathed fire and was as intelligent as a human.  The other was a dog whose only special feature was that he was blue.  The guy named him Floyd.On one of our early adventures the wolf took a fatal critical hit that was just an unlucky dice roll.  The player pitched a bloody fit, begging the GM to "let it be Floyd!"  The GM refused to have Floyd take a bullet for the wolf and the player was incredibly irritated.  He essentially shunned Floyd thereafter, angry at the dog for not suffering the fate that befell Uberwolf.  The rest of the party essentially adopted Floyd after that.We basically treated Floyd with more regard than that guy's character (he was frankly more deserving) and nothing bad ever happened to Floyd after that.  It helped that we did our best to keep him out of danger but I think the GM had a soft spot for the pup.</blockquote>