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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abe.ebA" data-source="post: 2969828" data-attributes="member: 32545">I can only think of one off the top of my head and it wasn't exactly the DM's idea:Back in 2e we had a cast of characters for whom we took turns DMing.  Whoever currently was DMing had their character stay behind and run the bar we co-owned.  At one point we played a variant of the adventure, the name of which currently escapes me, with the spaceship that crash-lands off in the mountains.  In our case the ship was terrorizing one of the party's homeland and we had to rush off and save them.  During the course of the adventure one of our wizards (we had 3) who had a thing for blowing stuff up found the engine room of the space craft.  He had contingiencies to keep himself alive and rarely stopped to think about the rest of the party's survival so, sensing that this big glowing, humming thing was important to the structural integrity of the flying metal castle, he shoved a staff of power into it and broke it half.  Imagine his surprise when nothing happened (the DM ruling that the engine was capable of absorbing that much energy).  So the wizard starts chucking magic items into it, figuring it will overload eventually.  Instead, several dozen items later, the engine just vanishes.A few months later, the engine re-appears in the basement of our bar.  The tremendous amount of magical energy concentrated in it brought the thing to life and made it approximately as powerful as your average newly-ascended immortal.  The engine didn't want much out of existence, just to sit in the basement and peacefully contemplate the ultimate meaning of reality and occasionally eat a dwarf or gnome.  It was grateful to us for bringing it to life, so protected the bar and occasionally thew us a bone in the form of early warnings that some evil wizard was up to no good or keeping Elminster and Khelbin off our backs (our moral code wasn't exactly Lawful Good).  All of which developed gradually over the course of several DMs.  The original DM just had the thing show up in the basement and eat dwarves.</blockquote>

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