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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ginger McMurray" data-source="post: 7644382" data-attributes="member: 6942760">The one I'm most proud of was a crumble vellum diary in a D&D campaign. An NPC traveling with the group had been with them for years but was actually a polymorphed dragon they'd screwed over long ago. and by "screwed over" I mean "tortured and sold to an evil wizard for experiments."Due to some planar travel time differentials the party ended up absent from the prime material plane for about 30 years. In that time the dragon had escaped, killed the wizard, aged into more of a bad ass, and enhanced it's skills using the wizard's resources. When it heard they were back it joined up and tagged along on adventures, mostly playing it straight and waiting for an opportunity to screw them over.Fast forward about a year of play time. I'd been keeping an electronic journal for him since day one. It was riddled with tales of their adventures, snide comments, examples of every time he'd pulled their fat out of the fryer, and more. My favorite quote was calling the drunken master monk a "rumsicle" after she'd been turned to ice by a variant basilisk.eventually, while running a 3.5e port of Dragon Mountain, they killed a big bad dragon and took its hoard. That much gold and magic was more than their "friend" could resist. He fire balled the weakened party using the Subdual spell feat (so he could scry on their faces later). He scooped up everything into a bag of holding, dropped him journal to rub it in their faces, and teleported away.In between that session and the next I printed out the journal on yellowed paper, baked it for a little while to singe the edges, and painstakingly crumpled and uncrumpled it. Doing that with thicker stock paper smooths the texture and makes it feel a lot more like vellum. The next session I delivered it and sat back to watch them read it. It was great. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Eventually they found the dragon and killed him, of course. He'd retaken Dragon Mountain for himself, so they all got to go through that wringer again. It was very interesting watching a party of 14th - 16th level characters struggle along with a bare minimum of magic items and money for a while. And he got to sit back and watch it all.</blockquote>

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