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DerLykanthrop 02-10-05, 02:54 PM	The reason for this thread is our last gaming session: We played the last part of "Whispers of the Vampire's Blade". Everybody enjoyed it and it was really great until (DANGER: PLAYERS DO NOT READ ON! SPOILER ALERT!) the pcs encountered the minotaur zombie. The group consisted of a human wizard5, a human rogue5 and a warforged fighter4/paladin2. Well, the wizard had used up almost all of his spells, the rogue was utterly useless in this fight(crossbow :ahem: ) and the warforged was the victim of a critical hit which reduced him to -19 hit points!!!!!!! :weep: Later on (the remaining partymembers continued their adventure) they were surprised by this dreaded centipede swarm and (of course) poisoned. The "warforged" player (now thinking about his new character):"Ha! That had to hurt!" - reaction of the rogue's player:"You're easy talking! You are ALREADY DEAD!" We all laughed about five whole minutes :D In the end, nobody really complained about the utter destruction of this player character, although everybody really liked him. Strange and yet funny in the end, isn't it. :D
Puppy 02-10-05, 07:19 PM	Nibbla F. Finklewurm, a goblin rogue in the campaign I'm DMing managed to headbutt a shifter in his crotch so the shifter died (critical, and shifter was low on hitpoints). Funny moment.
Zalaz Mavi 02-10-05, 07:44 PM	My players are...unconventional. Their methods tend toward the creative, often brilliant. While not the best example, it is my favorite: the tiefling rogue of our party opted for pure white skin with raven black eyes and hair as her inhuman traits. At one point in a past adventure, they found themselves pinned down by an Emerald Claw rearguard on a snow blanketed mountain path. The industrious rogue had the party's fighter shave her raven hair off, then removed her clothing, making her perfectly camoflagued against the snow. She then snuck around behind the Emerald Claw, before attacking them. With their attention diverted by a naked half-demon battering them with a quarterstaff, the rest of the party charged the position and finished them off. Needless to say, we got a good laugh out of that, and she got a nice ad hoc experience reward...
Nos-4-A2 02-10-05, 08:32 PM	I have a human rogue in my party named Vincent. He can't fight, he can't sneak, he can't even disarm locks or traps. His tongue however is made of silver so pure he could kill a werewolf by telling him a joke. Unfortunately for the party his genius at social grace is tied to his incredible greed. He has systematically taken all of the loot that he can get his hands on and when he doesn't he will often convince fellow PCs that giving him a certain item is in their best interest. In a twist of fate he hit the dire ape at the start of Whisper's for big sneak attack damage, the first time he really participated in combat in a way that didn't involve standing back and lobbing daggers when he felt like it. The dire ape then turned about and mauled him (unfortunately for my players, I Roll 20s). I let him live though, as he slipped from life he had a vision of the Silver Flame. His near death experience changed him from N to NG. Now Orlin (Human Cleric (Silver Flame)) and Frank (Half-Orc Monk (Silver Flame)) make sure to keep him on the right path and off the path of loot-poaching. All in all I like his character very much. Oh and he attempted to seduce Lady Eladren d'Cannith. I made the check a DC 35 (so unlikely). He got a 40. I was speachless, so was she.
Edymnion 02-10-05, 08:44 PM	I've got one playing a half-orc cleric of strength. He's got insane strength, he's over 7 feet tall.... and he's got insecurity issues. Thats just funny.
RickinNC 02-10-05, 08:58 PM	My Group is a hodgepodge of characters who had planeshifted into Eberron with a couple additions: First, Pyrath, an elf ranger with celestial blood, an obnoxious intelligent sword (a LOT of fun to NPC) and an affinity for attacking things with rope Shinji, a human drunken master with a bag of holding (lots of booze) Vanyel, a loopy sorcerer/artificer with a mysterious tattoo on his back (appeared about the same time they entered Eberron- dragonmark) and loves to toss fireballs and electrify constructs ;) Gourry, who is currently hunting down Vanyel for firing a fireball and lightning on a cadaver collector while he was impaled on its back and finally, Gheng Thok, a 1/2 human (and orc) cleric of tempus who is gathering warforged to the newest religion in Eberron and rolls a d20 to see how something tastes after he eats it (including everything he has killed in battle)
DerLykanthrop 02-11-05, 03:43 AM	Here's another one: The first time our warforged fighter (he was just a fighter then) died was in the beginning of "Shadows of the Last War", when the party was surprised by an agent of the Lord of Blades and his kobolöd mercenaries. The party slaughtered the kobolds but this warforged one-on-one fight was rather ugly (again a critical hit, but he was at -9 hp). In the end, the party rogue got lucky, sneak attacked the agent and killed him off. They transported the body of their fallen friend to the next House Cannith workshop and demanded that some skilled Artificer should resurrect him (they had absolutely no idead about the workings of warforged - still have not). In order to get the cash for the resurrection (after they contacted House Jorasco) they sold almost all of his equipment INCLUDING his beloved armblade which he aquired in a most dangerous dungeon crawl. He was quite... unpleased... to hear that after his resurrection. In addition they wanted to charge him the rest of the sum which they had to pay in order to get the money.
James Silverleaf 02-11-05, 04:13 AM	hehe. In my eberron party, the palyers often get a bit bizzare, and... grose. one time, the GOOD party saw a body lying in an ally, the gnome illusionist (with necramncy af prohibited school) and the new warforged walked into the ally, and the gnome convinced the WF to pull out ALL of the organs, and put them in little flasks and the like, the gnome had a little thing for dead bodies, rather bizzare i would say. Late the WF bought a mother from a merchant on the black market, acctualy it was a 120 kg mother, that he used to toss after noble folk from the aurum, and unpleasant guards. It was also the gnome and the WF who had the brilliant idea, after slaying a knight and his fellowship, to lure the VERY naive cleric into his tent to mastrubate. The WF riped the bodies appart and made a pentagram of blood, put the bodyparts on sticks, and buried the guts, after he burned them. a rather bizzare group of neutral and good alignment people. Now the gnome is opperating as a druglord on Wroat, with the WF guarding him at all times. "A last point of showing how wicked they were. The wf did everything the gnome told him, EVERYTHING! He would rather slay a town of innocent than not obbaying his gnome. written by... the wf."
Puppy 02-11-05, 06:26 AM	Oh man that's just messed up.
Androlphas 02-11-05, 08:17 AM	My players' only claim to insanity so far is that they crucified the warforged rogue in The Forgotten Forge to the sewer grate in the E-213 Valve Cluster because they were afraid it would come back to life. They also chopped off Cutter the warforged's head and cast a light spell on it to use as a lantern... ...and yes, they're on the Lord of Blade's hit list. :schemes:
Golbez57 02-11-05, 11:38 AM	Yep, my players are a pretty fun group, but they haven't really gotten too weird lately. A moment of past glory from an older campaign involving one of the players who's now part of the Eberron campaign: shocking grasp cast as a shared spell on a toad familiar. Toad familiar hops at hellhound. Player's attack roll is a 20. "BZZZT!" That toad (Wartz) was also the recipient of many a fly spell.... I'm still waiting for the weirdness to seep into our Eberron game. It'll likely surface in some grim, dramatic battle against the forces of darkest evil. Player: "Okay, I've got the succubus that's been eating the goblin babies of Malleon's Gate grappled? Can I grab its tail? I want to ___________ ."
stone_dog 02-11-05, 11:49 AM	My players are a bit on the wacky side. From the Mendoza family motto "The Glass is Half Mine" to the description of a mother berating her adventuring son for not keeping in touch "What, so busy you are saving people you can't even use a gnome?" That and the elven artificer with a beard. "I don't talk about it." "No, seriously. You have GOT to have at least a little human in (WHACK)" "I said I don't talk about it. Lets just leave it at 'alchemy isn't an exact science' okay? Humans... only know me for two years and you already start getting all personal..." It has been a while since we all gamed together, so they are getting the wacky out of their systems early. They do pull together when things start getting serious though and they know when they should be paying attention. I am endlessly thankful for that.
Urko 02-11-05, 01:16 PM	In a recent adventure one of my PCs came up with a rather novel approach to getting information out of an unjustly accused changeling the party was serving as jury and investigators of (yes, the events were based on one of the "Steal this Hook" articles). The prisoner was bound by an oath not to speak, but had dropped some tantalizing clues about a larger mystery. In order to get him to say more, this particular PC, helped reluctantly by the rest of the party, posed as a lynch mob and broke him out of jail (taking at the same time another prisoner, a bandit the PCs themselves had brought to justice). She took them out to a field, hanged the bandit (to make the scene convincing) and told the changeling she would do the same to him if he refused to talk, breaking a finger at a time for emphasis. The other players were aghast. Her justification? 1) There was a deeper mystery to be solved, he wasn't cooperating, so she had to take extreme measures 2) the guy they hanged was evil and would have been executed soon anyway and 3) scaring the changeling and breaking his fingers was better than letting him get executed unjustly. I gave her a big XP award for her solution to the problem.
Nos-4-A2 02-11-05, 03:57 PM	I'd add an alignment shift to that XP bonus. That was a decidedly evil act, all justifications aside. Oh and they were somehow not arrested for their vigilante justice?