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Darkblade40001 04-03-05, 01:34 PM	A couple of my players do some weird things when killing monsters. They seem to have a body-part fetish for just about anything. For example, the monk rushes into an ankheg they encountered on the mountain, grappled it, squeezed it to death, then ripped off its pincers! He kept them, and hangs them in their little house as a trophy. Or last night's session, the PCs are ambushed by some kenkus (crow-people in MM3), and once dealed with, the rogue sawed their beaks and talons off, and sold them in the slums of a metropolis. (I know it sounds kind of evil, but it was hilarious, and they did try to kill them) Do your players have any weird quirks or odd things they do to fallen foes?
Lord Ian Stark 04-03-05, 02:04 PM	For example, the monk rushes into an ankheg they encountered on the mountain, grappled it, squeezed it to death, then ripped off its pincers! An ankheg is a Large creature. I assume he went around the throat? I would have had the Ankheg go back down his hole and suffocate the Monk underground. :devil: My players over the years have done some odd things. Myself included. Keeping a body part trophy or selling off body parts is only "odd" if they are of the same type IMO.
greatfrito 04-03-05, 02:13 PM	Heh, in our Eberron game I, like most people, took the Iron Defender bodies from the Forgotten Forge. A half-orc Barbarian in one of our other games used to keep fingers/ears/other in a sack with him. I think our druid keep some fur/scales/feathers/skin from any animals that we have to fight.
Didge 04-03-05, 02:14 PM	Trophies? You're complaining about player's taking trophies? Be glad they haven't started putting the bodies in compromising positions ala Men-at-Work. Be glad your players are only taking trophies.
Alcari Ambaron 04-03-05, 02:52 PM	what? is this all.... no Ear-necklesses? no eyeball manacles? no gut-bracers (yes as in intestine) well, they were evil, but I still found it slightly disturbing
On_the_wings_of_TPK 04-03-05, 03:17 PM	Mine collect teth and make necklices every now and again. I've also see them take heads as trophies once, (hydra). Hmm i had an an evil PC eat his fallen enemies, raw! And it was a hound archon, of all things! other then that they are pretty much the usual NY street thug, kill loote and move on. Just kidding. :D (Honestly they are a great group, i won't trade them for the world.)
Titan W 04-03-05, 03:36 PM	The tally so far... Druid - Kept an imp's tail to make into a weapon -Edit: He actually kept the whole imp, to make various items from, mainly a whip from the tail. Monk - Used a bugbear as a shield, by grabbing it's spine (Temporaraly against another attack) Dragon - Ate eggs of loth
DmMagnus 04-03-05, 03:42 PM	jepp! One of my players play a dwarf. The dwarf loves keeping orc skulls! he has a head hanging from his beard and another head hanging on his dwaven war axe. this is going to be a problem because he has forgotten to get ridd of them and now he is in an orc city (i call it Orc-dale). If he walks in to a tavern like this ( full of orc skulls ) ...Is it evil of me, as a dm, to make som orcs attack him or do you support this? :confused:
speeblefreak 04-03-05, 03:45 PM	kept a scorpion's tail (for making poison) After defeating a certain drow ranger, cut off his hands, slit his mouth open from ear to ear, cut out his heart, stuck his heart in his mouth, put out both eyes, and dropped him onto Silverymoon from a mile up. That was fun. Killed some kobolds and kept them as trail rations (that character was the pragmatic type) A former player of mine, after defeating two skeletons, kept the skulls, had them cast in bronze, and connected them by rope to use as a weapon
Moblin 04-03-05, 04:28 PM	Besides from occasionally collecting of skulls and teeth of the more rare creatures my players generally doesn’t care about their former enemies’ bodies once combat is finished. Give them the body of a dragon however and it’ll be taken apart in no time (Once they actually tried to do first aid on the dragons wounds to try and minimize blood loss), and I’ll be answering questions about dragon products for the next 30 minutes.
Callista 04-03-05, 05:46 PM	One of my fellow players has a Dragon Disciple that will tan hides from everything we catch. That includes things like Mind Flayers... My Paladin: "Honestly! Are you an adventurer, or a taxidermist?!" Dragon Disciple: "Yes." Paladin: *shakes head resignedly* (Yeah, my pally has had to deal with some pretty chaotic actions... she's learned to accept her companions' oddities; after all, she's the one who took a paladin's oath, not them!) Then there are the two elves in another campaign, one male, one female, who are brother and sister: Chaotic Neutral, in the adventuring business for the thrill and the loot, and both of them take trophies: He takes ears and teeth; she collects only teeth. She's much more innocent than he is; so he keeps some of his more underhanded dealings from her (fencing stolen property and such). The same campaign is the one I play a barbarian in. This particular barbarian doesn't see the point of cooking food; so when we kill anything edible (and non-humanoid), she'll eat a liver or some other delectable part. No sense in it going to waste (though she has discovered, lately, that she doesn't exactly enjoy warg meat). She'll take hides from anything that's got fur, tan them, and store up one or two in her pack; they make a good bedroll. Basically, this character could survive in the wild with nothing but a home-made bone dagger, and be perfectly happy doing it. Actually, half the time, the big challenge playing this character is finding reasons for her NOT to run off into the wild with nothing but a bone dagger...
Kalithor 04-03-05, 06:28 PM	Mostly dragons end up being used as trophy items in our games, but not many other creatures at all. Now, I've had them cork the fangs of a dead giant spider to syphon venom and things like that. My red wizard and his crew used to hunt green dragons (because they were near a lot of them, and also because I had a red dragon cohort). In my art gallery, I had several dragon heads mounted on the walls, including other varieties (a Bronze among them). Along the road, Kalithor would apply various skills like alchemy and cooking to sample different exotic meats (but that was more out of trying to be debonaire than barbarism). The furthest this idea ever went was when we teleported to some tall mountains to hunt for a white dragon to serve at a banquet we were having. I was hoping it would taste like frozen cocktail shrimp. But each one tasted different... the greens were too tart and acidic to eat, and the blacks tasted rotted no matter how fresh. Never tried red cuz of obvious alliances.
Heahengel 04-03-05, 06:41 PM	My last PC started TN, but ended up very evil (partially because of me, partially because of another party members backstory, and partially because my DM infected me with Lycanthropy). He skinned pretty much everything he killed, or at least took some trophy off of it (although he didn't skin sentients for a while). He also used a mask made from the face of an orc when he didn't want to be recognized. Anyway, there was another party member who he hated, and when that PC died, he skinned him, and dried him into jerkey which he would eat when he was stressed out.
Fixxxer 04-03-05, 07:17 PM	I once ran a fight where the number of enemies combined with the space involved made the fight go particuarly difficult for the PCs. The area worked against the PCs and after a while, the players began getting a little annoyed that their PCs weren't able to score solid hits very often. In particular, one dwarf NPC was posing a very difficult challenge for the party barbarian to hit, even while he was raging. Eventually, the barbarian managed to down the dwarf, who ended up barely alive on his back in a puddle of blood. While the party had a quick discussion about whether or not to spare such a tough opponent for questioning, the barbarian CdGed him, lopping off his head (which pretty much ended the discussion). That evening by the campfire, he began removing the skin and flesh from the skull. When he was finished, he attached the skull to his armor as decoration, over the shoulder. The PC made a habit of doing this, but only with particuarly tough opponents that gave him a serious run for his money. Eventually, he began taking ranks in Craft (taxidermy). All in all, it was an interesting quirk.
urial angel of death 04-03-05, 08:19 PM	I had a PC that impaled people on stakes and put them in his front lawn if they are tough and occationally goes out and take off an apendige that would serve well with graft limb :D
AramilWindwalker 04-03-05, 08:46 PM	My monk once took the atennae of a rust monster, and tried to take a dragon's wing(it was dead already, why would it need it?) Urial, you borrowed the bunny from my sig! I have a follower! Sweet! :plotting: :evillaugh :plotting: :evillaugh :plotting: :evillaugh :plotting:
Flocko 04-03-05, 09:43 PM	My group after defeating their first gnolls hired some one to turn them into... puppets. Don't really know why, they don't even use them (which I guess makes me lucky). The rouge of the party started collecting a tooth from every creature they fight. Which included an Umberhulks Pincers. Early on the Ratman got a taste for goblin meat
speeblefreak 04-03-05, 10:54 PM	My most recent party cannibalized an entire dragon corpse for gear.