Re: The "typo"

[Ubiquitous]

In article <kkf79i$rls$1...@dont-email.me>, dal...@cs.queensu.ca wrote:

>My Olde Gange back in the '70s had several DMs and one was partial to
>silliness. His game had a monster called a Typo, who would change the
>name of your spells when around, causing them to have a new effect based
>on the new name. *Sleep* might become *Sleet* for example and bring a
>brief storm of freezing rain.
>
>Did anyone else use this monster? I think it may have originated in an
>April Fools issue of one of the gaming magazines of the time. Of course
>it could equally well have originated in that one DM's demented brain.

There's an April issue of Dragon I fondly remember which featured a spellbook
that was either cursed or had sticky pages, causing spells to merge or get
merged:
Find Terrain
Explosive Familiar: Causes caster's familiar to explode
Bigby.s Interposing Eye: Summons normal-sized interposing eye
Remove Hand: One of caster's hands falls off
Burning Mouth: Caster's mouth catches fire, takes damage
Locate Hands: Great if cast after Remove Hand
Detect Object: Detects any and a;; objects
Feign Invisibility
Drawmij.s Instant Death: Someone named Drawmij drops dead, no save
Magic Summons: Summons a process-server, who hands caster a court summons
(possibly for murdering Dwawmij)
Transmute Rock to Stone
Fools Summoning III
Protection From Normal Gold

Etc.


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[David Lamb]

On 20/04/2013 6:42 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> In article <kkf79i$rls$1...@dont-email.me>, dal...@cs.queensu.ca wrote:
>
>> My Olde Gange back in the '70s had several DMs and one was partial to

>> silliness. His game had a monster called a Typo, ...

> There's an April issue of Dragon I fondly remember which featured a spellbook
> that was either cursed or had sticky pages, causing spells to merge or get
> merged:

> Drawmij.s Instant Death: Someone named Drawmij drops dead, no save

LOL, and I mean literally (literally literally, not the vernacular's
synonym for "figuratively")

> Protection From Normal Gold

And the party wonders why the ancient red dragon had no treasure...

[Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)]

On 4/20/13 6:42 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> In article <kkf79i$rls$1...@dont-email.me>, dal...@cs.queensu.ca wrote:
>
>> My Olde Gange back in the '70s had several DMs and one was partial to
>> silliness. His game had a monster called a Typo, who would change the
>> name of your spells when around, causing them to have a new effect based
>> on the new name. *Sleep* might become *Sleet* for example and bring a
>> brief storm of freezing rain.
>>
>> Did anyone else use this monster? I think it may have originated in an
>> April Fools issue of one of the gaming magazines of the time. Of course
>> it could equally well have originated in that one DM's demented brain.
>
> There's an April issue of Dragon I fondly remember which featured a spellbook
> that was either cursed or had sticky pages, causing spells to merge or get
> merged:

Some years back on this very group -- in 1993, to be exact -- Topi
Ylinen invented a program called "spells.exe" which took the titles of
all the (then) 2e spells and scrambled them together to make a large
number of bizarre spell names. He posted some of the most amusing to
this group; here's one such post:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!search/%22uncontrollable$20hideous$20self%22/rec.games.frp.dnd/eRsd_AjB4_o/U03Y3J_w2ZAJ

I particularly liked "Teleport Without Friends", "Explosive Breathing",
and "Holy Nuke", but there's a lot of good ones there.


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[Ubiquitous]

I could have sworn I saw one which would summon a new familiar which would
immediately explode, with all the normal penalties for losing your familiar (in
addition to damage from said exploding familiar).

[Rast]

Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote...

>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!search/%22uncontrollable$20hideous$20self%22/rec.games.frp.dnd/eRsd_AjB4_o/U03Y3J_w2ZAJ
>
> I particularly liked "Teleport Without Friends", "Explosive Breathing",
> and "Holy Nuke", but there's a lot of good ones there.

Lot of good "teleport without" spells...
Teleport without Hand
Teleport Fingers
Teleport without Protection ... perfect fix for SBT?

[David Lamb]

On 01/05/2013 12:30 PM, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
> Some years back on this very group -- in 1993, to be exact -- Topi
> Ylinen invented a program called "spells.exe" which took the titles of
> all the (then) 2e spells and scrambled them together to make a large
> number of bizarre spell names. He posted some of the most amusing to
> this group; here's one such post:
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!search/%22uncontrollable$20hideous$20self%22/rec.games.frp.dnd/eRsd_AjB4_o/U03Y3J_w2ZAJ

In Canada "Destroy Justin's Life" is a bit more amusing than it might be
elsewhere, since it's what Conservative Party attack ads are trying to
do to the new leader of the Liberal party.

[Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)]

Here it's what anti-boy-pop fans are trying to do to Mr. Beiber.