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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 3890032" data-attributes="member: 8439">My favorite story took place over almost a year... I was running an adventure sometimes dubbed "Survivor D&D" and sometimes "The Australia Game" because the PCs had been marooned on a prison colony sort of island. They had no access to high enough level clerics to raise dead, but there was a slightly insane druid npc who could reincarnate. So the Frenzied Berserker gets killed and I let the player know that he can be reincarnated as an animal or make a new character. Rather than using the normal reincarnate chart (3.0 so it still had animals) I make a list of all the animals and dire animals with rage/frenzy sorts of abilities for him to roll on. He rolls the wolverine. Increases to all physical stats, natural armor (very valuable since it was a low equipment game) all kinds of good stuff. I figured if he was willing to come back as an animal, he should be happy with this. (I mean it was the best result he could have gotten short of a very slim chance for the dires.)Instead, the player grows increasingly annoyed with the character. Particularly the kind of animal. "I'm a rat." "It's just a big skunk." For various reasons the campaign petered out, and I never did figure out at that time what was so bad about being a wolverine.About a year passes. That player and I become romantically involved, move in together, get engaged. One of the things I discover early on in the relationship is that he's a huge Notre Dame fan. I've never followed sports, particularly college sports, so all the "rivalries" and such are new info. Then, one day, he's talking about the Michigan game and all the sudden this lightbulb goes on in my head.Me "Hang on.... that time when your character got reincarnated..."Him "Yeah?"Me "All that moping and whining about being a rat.... That was all because you came back as the mascot of a team you hate?!?!?!?"Him "...."Me "You had a +6 to str and natural armor and you were pouting because of MICHIGAN????"Him "It's the principle of the thing!!!!"Me *headdesk*</blockquote>

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