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Dalillama:
--- Quote from: Akima on 20 Nov 2014, 14:10 ---
--- Quote from: Dalillama on 14 Nov 2014, 16:05 ---I prefer to put the sand into a tightly sewn leather sleeve, myself.
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Eggshells full of blinding-powder is the traditional thing where I come from.
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I meant to make a cosh, and then hit someone with it.
kryptoknight:
Longtime gamer here myself. I've played:
D&D
2nd
3rd
3.5
Exalted
Werewolf: The Apocalypse
Vampire: The Masquerade
D20 Modern
Star Wars: Roleplaying Game
Saga Edition
7th Sea
The Transformers RPG
Pathfinder
Dresden Files RPG
Call of Cthulu
Champions
Various Homebrew
One of my favorite gaming moments though came during a very rules light game I played with friends back in high school. If we thought something was awesome of hilarious we let it stand, even if it didn't quite work with the rules.
Our party was exploring a cave system being used by a cult as their base of operations. It was far larger than we had believed it to be, so in the interest of saving time, we split up to search. I took what had appeared to be a vacant barracks to search. At first nothing unusual happened. I looted the room a bit and looked for clues about the cult's numbers and motivation.
I turned to leave just as a guard entered the room. This set off alarm bells for me because I was a low-level sorcerer at the time. With no useful spells left and no other way out I have no choice but to try and fight my way free. I attack and of course I roll a Natural 1, causing my dagger to break.
My dagger is gone, and after the guard takes a couple swipes at me my hp is low. It's just me, my rat familiar, and no way out. Out of desperation I cry out "I throw my rat at the guard's nuts." DM sputters and stares. "Huh?"
"I throw my rat at him, using our empathic link convey the sense that there is delicious cheese in his pants."
Stares again. Finally he says, "Okay... First roll a strength check to throw the rat, then roll against AC to see if you hit what you aim for, finally roll a skill check to see if you can manage to convince the rat the guards nuts are food. If you can actually make all these I'll allow it."
He does some math behind a screen and tells me to roll. First is the Strength check. I make a quick prayer to anyone listening and roll. The DM raises an eyebrow and informs me I barely made it, but the rat is successfully lobbed.
Next is the to-hit roll. I cross my fingers and roll again. Natural 20! The DM blinks and tells me to roll to confirm for a critical. I roll again. Another nat 20! The DM informs me I am a lucky S.O.B. and that I need to look into the Lotto later.
Now that my noodle-armed sorcerer has not only managed to hit what I aimed , for critical damage, all I had to do was roll to see if I could convey my impressions to my rat. I crossed my fingers again and prepared myself for the likely possibility that I'd be rolling up a new character soon. Then the die shows 19!
The DM blinks a few times, looks at something behind his board and I can see him scratching out some kind of math on scrap paper. He looks at me with a grin and a raised eyebrow and says, "Congratulations. You've not only managed to fling your loyal trusting familiar into your enemy's crotch, but you've also convinced him that there is lots of yummy, yummy cheese within. The rat immediately starts to tear into him, the poor bastard. The guard is running around attempting to dislodge the offending rodent. Given the location and nature of the attack go ahead and roll 4d4, times 2 for the crit.
I did so and I reported the results. The DM shook his head and informed me the guard is, to his own sweet relief, dead.
So proud of that familiar!
hedgie:
Yeah, getting better of the DM is fun. One time during a prolonged fight, I actually managed to get hit in combat. I tell the DM that I drop. Next round, when my turn comes up, I tell him "I get up and stab that vampire bitch in the back with both daggers". He gave me a look, and I replied "dude, I said I dropped, not that I was out of HP".
Edit: That was a fight that the PCs were *supposed* to lose, and with everything I pulled out of my arse, we won. He would have got 90% of what he wanted if he hadn't insisted on one of the baddies demanding a tissue sample from my PC (she was rather vain, 25 appearance). She would have totally let the last standing super-mook take samples from everyone else. Still got beat up hard enough that my last actions were to heal the cleric up to being able to fix up everyone else, at the cost of all but 5 of my HP and half my con, and turn myself invisible so I could pass-out in relative safety. Then again, I do tend to power-game a bit, but here my weak spot was having a lousy con score, which, as a mage, I had to burn in order to heal others.
Fig:
One of these days I'm going to just make a bunch of characters and start hunting for a group. May even settle for an online group.
hedgie:
Online groups aren't as fun. You can't pull tricks like passing a note to the DM that says "just scribble something on a piece of paper, roll a few dice, and pass the paper to me". It's a lot of fun for inducing group paranoia. Of course, at least the DM can still say roll a $whatever check/save out of nowhere to freak the players out.
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