What I love about this game

[shilsen]

Cool

I take most of my ideas from really weird places too.

I think most of us do. When you're reading a 17th century French drama for a Ph.D. exam and alternate between applying Aristotle's Poetics to it and thinking of how to turn one of the characters into a warforged NPC in your Eberron campaign, you know you've gone over to the dark side completely

 

[Greatwyrm]

I got two pounds of walnuts.

Hmmm... walnuts, eh? You could use treants or dryads in your next adventure. Neither is really walnut-specific. Maybe a dryad with a good tan?

 

[Salad Shooter]

walnuts grow on trees...dryads live in trees and treants are trees...coincidence? I think not

 

[Galethorn]

I think I've got it...

The PCs get a bag of walnuts as a gift, and they notice--after a few days in the back of their wagon, in the rain--a small voice is coming from the bag! Upon opening it, they find a baby treant whose seed apparently got mixed in with the walnuts! Apparently, the rain managed to get the little creature to sprout.

There. That's the best I can do with the walnuts...somebody else take a crack at it! [/pun]

 

[Gez]

I think most of us do. When you're reading a 17th century French drama for a Ph.D. exam and alternate between applying Aristotle's Poetics to it and thinking of how to turn one of the characters into a warforged NPC in your Eberron campaign, you know you've gone over to the dark side completely

Which drama is it?


As for walnuts, you can always have a rare variety of walnut-tree that spontaneously produce walnuts that are like goodberries. A little town owes its prosperity from trading these magical nuts for good money. But recently, gnolls are attacking those who would harvest and gather the walnuts. It seems a gnoll druid is thinking "civilized people do not deserve nature's gift" and has led his tribe to a jihad against the "blasphemous treecutters" who would want to "plunder the sacred walnuts".

On a second thought, let's not go there. It's a silly hook.

 

[Psion]

My parents aren't exactly in touch, and for christmas, they bought me a strategy guide to a game I don't even own... The book's already spawned two monster stat blocks. The fact that inspiration to broaden the game jumps out at you from strange places simply delights me.

And some people actually want Dragon to yank Silicon Sorcery (practically the best regular article in the mag.)

 

[gamecat]

And some people actually want Dragon to yank Silicon Sorcery (practically the best regular article in the mag.)

Amen to that! I've never seen a silicon sorcery article that disappoints...

 

[Mercule]

And trust me, if your parents got you something even that tangientally related, be grateful.

Agreed. My parents (or any family member, actually) have never given me anything D&D related*. It got bad enough, once, that I handed my mom a Christmas list (she requests one) comprised of nothing but a list of 20ish titles, ISBN numbers, and phone numbers/addresses from which they could be ordered. Guess who got socks for Christmas.

*Okay, my mom did buy me the red box from Walgreen's for $7.00. But I don't think she thought it'd lead to anything.

 

[Mercule]

And some people actually want Dragon to yank Silicon Sorcery (practically the best regular article in the mag.)

Being one of those, I'll have to say that the fact that it's the best regular is pretty sad commentary on the rest of the mag. I don't mind the idea of pulling stuff from other sources, but the ports in Silicon Sorcery are rarely things I'd want to include in my game.

Edit: I think I'm probably just crunched-out. I'm culling critters from the Monster Manual and similar things. Everytime I see a new feat, PrC, or critter, I just want to scream. I've got enough tinkertoys. I want articles that give me ideas on how to put them together in cool ways.

 

[diaglo]

Guess who got socks for Christmas.

i hope you gave the Clintons back their cat.