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wnl

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Oct 3, 2003, 4:26:01 PM10/3/03
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I've been told that my group once polymorphed a horse into a drow.

Wondering what other things people have done like this in their campaigns..
;)

Cheers!

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Beth Cole

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Oct 3, 2003, 4:34:03 PM10/3/03
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wnl wrote:
> I've been told that my group once polymorphed a horse into a drow.
>
> Wondering what other things people have done like this in their campaigns..

When the Houri said "Come & get it, boys!" to a bunch of orcs and they
did, the mage hit them all with color spray. For fun, the DM had one of
the orcs fall on to the houri, who had a strength of 7. The mage cast
Invisibility on the orc, which left the houri stranded under an
invisible orc all night, because she failed her strengh check.

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Bradd W. Szonye

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Oct 3, 2003, 4:39:02 PM10/3/03
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wnl <xyzzy...@rogers.com> wrote:
> I've been told that my group once polymorphed a horse into a drow.
> Wondering what other things people have done like this in their
> campaigns.. ;)

My players sacrificed a cat to pay off a demon. Later, they felt bad
about it, so they reincarnated the cat. It came back as a human girl,
with a cat's intelligence of course. They felt bad about that too, so
they set her up with a cottage and a guardian.
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Clavis

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Oct 3, 2003, 5:07:54 PM10/3/03
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My players in an old campaign once polymorphed an Ice Para-Elemental into a
tray of ice-cubes.
They knew what ice-cube trays were because they had once time-traveled to
the future of the campaign world, where they saw a movie about their
adventures. They were played by much-better-looking actors, and they had
been transformed into heroes, rather than the amoral louts they really
behaved like. The movie was only the first part in a multi-part series, so
they knew nothing about their own future back in regular game time. In any
event, everything had been so sanitized that they barely recognized
themselves or anything they had done.

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John Wade

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Oct 3, 2003, 5:29:45 PM10/3/03
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"wnl" <xyzzy...@rogers.com> wrote in message
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> I've been told that my group once polymorphed a horse into a drow.
>
> Wondering what other things people have done like this in their
campaigns..
> ;)
>
> Cheers!


One of my players was sodomised to death by a stone golem.


Justisaur

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Oct 3, 2003, 6:16:57 PM10/3/03
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Hmm. This reminds me of using the "heroes of legend" background
generator. One of the PCs got "molested by an iron golem and priests of
his religion" as a background event.

One of my PCs used hot tongs in a blacksmith where the sun don't shine,
when the blacksmith got iritated with him breaking into his shop and
tried to use the tongs on the PCs franks & beans.

Back in the bad old days one of my PCs used to polymorph flies into cows
to feed his pet dragon.

Then there were the terrorist group who used teleport dead, delayed
blast fireball & scrying to teleport dead bodies loaded with fireballs
at thier enemies.

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Deric Bernier

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Oct 3, 2003, 7:55:25 PM10/3/03
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wnl wrote:

> I've been told that my group once polymorphed a horse into a drow.
>
> Wondering what other things people have done like this in their campaigns..
> ;)

In effort to create a distraction I cast a high level illusion of a dragon
ripping the roof off the tavern we found ourselves caught in and scowling and
roaring menacingly. We came back a year later and the tavern was booming, the
illusion was still there and the tavern had become a land mark, drawing crowds
far and wide for the attraction. The price of a meal had skyrocketed. After
threatening to end the illusion he agreed to give us a healthy cut of
business. Eventually we turned the town into a theme park and became
incredibly wealthy.


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Bradd W. Szonye

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Oct 3, 2003, 8:21:13 PM10/3/03
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Clavis <cla...@agoron.com> wrote:
> My players in an old campaign once polymorphed an Ice Para-Elemental
> into a tray of ice-cubes. They knew what ice-cube trays were because
> they had once time-traveled to the future of the campaign world, where
> they saw a movie about their adventures. They were played by
> much-better-looking actors, and they had been transformed into heroes,
> rather than the amoral louts they really behaved like. The movie was
> only the first part in a multi-part series, so they knew nothing about
> their own future back in regular game time. In any event, everything
> had been so sanitized that they barely recognized themselves or
> anything they had done.

Sweet!

Stephen Mackey

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Oct 3, 2003, 9:15:13 PM10/3/03
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Bradd W. Szonye said:

>My players sacrificed a cat to pay off a demon. Later, they felt bad
>about it, so they reincarnated the cat. It came back as a human girl,
>with a cat's intelligence of course. They felt bad about that too, so
>they set her up with a cottage and a guardian.

Catgirl Nuku Nuku? ;)

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Matthew Miller

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Oct 4, 2003, 12:37:11 AM10/4/03
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Bradd W. Szonye <bradd...@szonye.com.invalid> wrote:
> My players sacrificed a cat to pay off a demon. Later, they felt bad
> about it, so they reincarnated the cat. It came back as a human girl,
> with a cat's intelligence of course. They felt bad about that too, so
> they set her up with a cottage and a guardian.

Hmmm. Does that work, with demons? Wouldn't it consider reincarnating the
sacrifice to be stealing the soul back from it?

(Oooh, this post will look good out of context in the google archives).


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Bradd W. Szonye

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Oct 4, 2003, 3:19:38 AM10/4/03
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> Bradd W. Szonye <bradd...@szonye.com.invalid> wrote:
>> My players sacrificed a cat to pay off a demon. Later, they felt bad
>> about it, so they reincarnated the cat. It came back as a human girl,
>> with a cat's intelligence of course. They felt bad about that too, so
>> they set her up with a cottage and a guardian.

Matthew Miller <mat...@mattdm.org> wrote:
> Hmmm. Does that work, with demons? Wouldn't it consider reincarnating
> the sacrifice to be stealing the soul back from it?

Not in this case. It didn't actually want the soul; it just wanted the
good guys to make the sacrifice.

wnl

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Oct 4, 2003, 3:45:42 AM10/4/03
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"Deric Bernier" <dr...@mc2k.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> In effort to create a distraction I cast a high level illusion of a dragon
> ripping the roof off the tavern we found ourselves caught in and scowling
and
> roaring menacingly. We came back a year later and the tavern was booming,
the
> illusion was still there and the tavern had become a land mark, drawing
crowds
> far and wide for the attraction. The price of a meal had skyrocketed.
After
> threatening to end the illusion he agreed to give us a healthy cut of
> business. Eventually we turned the town into a theme park and became
> incredibly wealthy.
>

Heh. ;)

During the Faciton War one of my characters created some kind of
flowery-type of illusion onto a group of Xaositects while flying or
levitated (I can't recall which atm).

Because of the erratic nature of the Chaosmen, the illusion took actual form
into a mechanical-like "stone" construct -- picture one of
http://www.rebelscum.com/photo.asp?image=swsaga/sw02afimperialendorpursuitat
stfr.jpg these but constructed from pure stone and with 2 extra 'legs' (and
rolling rocks surrounding it!)..

Needless to say it was a rather unexpected event that eventually led to the
enemies' demise.. ;)


Cheers!


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Brandon Cope

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Oct 4, 2003, 7:11:14 AM10/4/03
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"John Wade" <Ab...@whitehouse.gov> wrote in message news:<3f7dea4a$0$6629$cc9e...@news.dial.pipex.com>...

Damn, that's a tough campaign. Most GMs would have just done that to
the character ...

Brandon

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Oct 4, 2003, 7:24:40 AM10/4/03
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Brandon Cope wrote:

> > One of my players was sodomised to death by a stone golem.
>
> Damn, that's a tough campaign. Most GMs would have just done that to
> the character ...

Top lol for the week !!

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Jürgen Hubert

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Oct 4, 2003, 6:22:41 AM10/4/03
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"John Wade" <Ab...@whitehouse.gov> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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One of your _players_?

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Justisaur

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Oct 4, 2003, 11:56:04 AM10/4/03
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"Bradd W. Szonye" wrote:
>
> > Bradd W. Szonye <bradd...@szonye.com.invalid> wrote:
> >> My players sacrificed a cat to pay off a demon. Later, they felt bad
> >> about it, so they reincarnated the cat. It came back as a human girl,
> >> with a cat's intelligence of course. They felt bad about that too, so
> >> they set her up with a cottage and a guardian.
>
> Matthew Miller <mat...@mattdm.org> wrote:
> > Hmmm. Does that work, with demons? Wouldn't it consider reincarnating
> > the sacrifice to be stealing the soul back from it?
>
> Not in this case. It didn't actually want the soul; it just wanted the
> good guys to make the sacrifice.

Cats have souls?

Matthew Miller

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Oct 4, 2003, 12:26:23 PM10/4/03
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Justisaur <rpil...@rcsis.com> wrote:
>> Not in this case. It didn't actually want the soul; it just wanted the
>> good guys to make the sacrifice.
> Cats have souls?

In belief systems which include reincarnation, generally, yes.

Sir Bob

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"Justisaur" <rpil...@rcsis.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> "Bradd W. Szonye" wrote:
> >
> > > Bradd W. Szonye <bradd...@szonye.com.invalid> wrote:
> > >> My players sacrificed a cat to pay off a demon. Later, they felt bad
> > >> about it, so they reincarnated the cat. It came back as a human girl,
> > >> with a cat's intelligence of course. They felt bad about that too, so
> > >> they set her up with a cottage and a guardian.
> >
> > Matthew Miller <mat...@mattdm.org> wrote:
> > > Hmmm. Does that work, with demons? Wouldn't it consider reincarnating
> > > the sacrifice to be stealing the soul back from it?
> >
> > Not in this case. It didn't actually want the soul; it just wanted the
> > good guys to make the sacrifice.
>
> Cats have souls?

Presuming reincarnation, *everything* has a soul.

- Sir Bob.


J F

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Oct 4, 2003, 10:46:31 PM10/4/03
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"> Wondering what other things people have done like this in their
campaigns..
> ;)
>

I didn't do it personally but I was DMing a group who had this very anti
magic dwarf in the party. He went to great lengths to destroy all the magic
user items found in treasure. Finally the Staff of the Magi (2e version) got
him.


synecdoche

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Oct 5, 2003, 4:45:39 AM10/5/03
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On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 20:26:01 GMT, "wnl" <xyzzy...@rogers.com>
wrote:

>I've been told that my group once polymorphed a horse into a drow.
>
>Wondering what other things people have done like this in their campaigns..
>;)
>
>Cheers!


One of my old groups's favourite plans was operation honey head.
Basically it involved dropping a jar of honey and some unpleasant
things (this was 5 years ago so I don't remember what exactly) on the
head of their arch nemesis.

-dave

Alex Johnson

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Oct 6, 2003, 9:30:08 AM10/6/03
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wnl wrote:
> I've been told that my group once polymorphed a horse into a drow.
>
> Wondering what other things people have done like this in their campaigns..

We were chasing some giants (they had a few days head start) and came
across some zhent horses. Clues showed they met the giants and talked a
while, then the giants killed them. All the horses were normal riding
horses except the well trained warhorse of the leader. Just to be
thorough we did a detect magic and learned the warhorse's saddlebags or
something in them was magical. Our party leader, a crazy dwarf fighter
was adamant that we get that magic while the party druid was just as
adamant that no harm be done to the horse (and of course the horse
wouldn't let anyone but its dead owner near it).

So our fearless leader drinks a potion of fly and starts chasing this
warhorse around the prairy, dive-bombing with his butt trying to land in
the saddle (and missing half the time, resulting in a bruising landing).
After a few tries the horse caught on and started trampling when the
dwarf missed. So here we have a screaming war dwarf flying around the
countryside trying to drop on a horse and getting the crap beaten out of
him. He lost 3/4 of his hit points (12th level) before succeeding in
getting in the saddle, holding on, and removing the saddle bags without
injuring the horse.

It was hilarious! It took an hour of game time between the argument
with the druid, the flying dwarf antics, and recovering from laughter
afterward, but it was worth it!

Alex

Wurm

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Oct 6, 2003, 11:52:40 AM10/6/03
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We actually polymorphed (with a half broken cursed polymorph wand that was
part of the story line) a chicken into an orc into a human, back into a
chicken, and finally back to orc and left him that way.... hell, even found
him work in the local mines :)

over a year ago and we still laugh at that.....


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Wurm

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Alex Johnson <comp...@acm.org> wrote in message
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You left out one important thing..... what was the magic item! :)..... a
simple CLW potion would be wonderful *grin*


Christopher Adams

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My 16th-level sorcer/alienist Planescape character was killed by another PC with
the 0-level psionic talent Finger of Fire last Thursday.

Okay, admittedly, he had been blasted to -2 by an empowered sonic admixtured
Cone of Cold from *another* PC, and failed all of his stabilisation checks until
he hit -9 and finally made one. Then over comes the metacreationist rogue
modron, and zap.

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