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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hardhead" data-source="post: 1268375" data-attributes="member: 2844">Aside:This reminds me of a funny story.  I was running a game for a bunch of seasoned RPers, with one exception: the girlfriend of one of the players (whose name I can't remember, and I'll call Jennifer).  Jennifer didn't know the rules, and didn't care to learn.  It's been four or five adventurers, and the characters are third level.  They're tracking down a tiefling who knows where a BBEG lives, and they corner him in a bar.  To escape, the tiefling uses his Darkness ability.  One of the other players cast Grease, which only muddies the situation further.  Jennifer, wanting to help, looks at her spell list (yeah, first time player, playing a caster.  I tried to talk her out of it!  At least I convinced her to go Sorcerer over Wizard).  Anyway, she looks down at her spell list and says "I cast Magic Missle.""You can't hit him with Magic Missle.  You have to be able to see what you're casting it at, and he's cast Darkness."Thinking she's found my logical flaw, she says, "Then I cast it at the Darkness!"Of course, we've all heard the infamous Dead Alewives skit before, so there was a momentary silence in the room, then everyone bursts out laughing.  She got really annoyed at everyone, but it was damn funny nonetheless.</blockquote>