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Extreme Roleplaying [Archive] - Wizards Community

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PeteRR
08-05-07, 12:39 PM As a CN fighter I had a reputation for recklessness in combat. Leaping from one dying flying Wyvern to the next Wyvern. Good stuff like that. My rep was sealed one day in Sigil. The party was in the 13th-15th level range. A succubus approached me in a tavern and asked me to buy her a drink. We started to chat about the planes and adventuring. When she was unaware, I snuck a kiss from her. I fully expected to lose a level. The DM ruled that she didn't drain me because I had startled her(What a mensch!). She then asked me to kiss her again as she wasn't ready and hadn't enjoyed it. Our LG cleric was prattling on about the dangers of unprotected sex with outsiders, so I kissed her. And I went from 15th to 14th level. It was totally worth it.

This was 2nd Edition and it took me 6 months to get the 250k EP back.
Ack
08-05-07, 12:52 PM My dwarven character has (in game, where there is little to no magic outside of CLW) shoved his arm into a monster's mouth in order to ensure that it swallowed something that would definitely harm it (it was regenerating everything we threw at it). He lost the arm as a consequence.

Since then, in the last game, he twice went for broke; first, to charge an amphibious dragon through rapidly rising water (he missed his attack) and then later to attack said dragon while he was on one HP. He struck, driving it below 0 HP, but was then struck down by the 2 HP of electrical damage it emitted as a result (and that was when he made his Reflex check...).

He lives on the edge. It's fun. :D
Caelic
08-05-07, 01:00 PM At one point in our old first edition campaign, the highest-level character was lured away by a Succubus and drained to the tune of something like 6 levels. He survived and returned, with the group none the wiser.

Now: we were plenty high enough level that he could have had a Restoration for the asking. He refused to ever...EVER...admit in character that it had happened, preferring to struggle along 4 levels behind the rest of the group rather than admit he'd been suckered. ;)
FponkDamn
08-06-07, 03:42 AM Byron: "Did Jack just body-check the Werewolf Lord?"

Gloria: "Yeah. And look... he's actually winning."

Jack: "Hey, I'm as surprised as anyone."

- Johnny
Grogmir
08-06-07, 04:30 AM Our Fat Halfling Knight fell from a rope bridge into a lake. As the DM started to scribble about for the drowning rules as quickly as the Knight started to try and take full plate off, the Cleric of Korn, Paladin and myself, the Transmutator, look on helplessly. While the Cleric struggled with Rope Skills to create a long enough bit of rope I jumped fearlessly off the edge if the cliff into the lake, I used the C.Mage Transmutation variant to fly down to the water and then my last one to swim down to the drowning Halfling and breath into his mouth. I managed to get back to the surface before my lack of swim skill and 9 strength started getting me in trouble.
So with the Halfling still under the water, me about to go under the cleric starts to climb down to grab us. However he’s half way down and he rolls a 1, so the Cleric comes crashing down taking falling damage – enough damage to knock him out. I manage to doggy paddle over and shove a potion down his gob just in time, the halfing is now free having left all our gold at the bottom of the lake! And then the Paladin has to use his last Bull Strength potion to drag us all out, sopping wet and feeling not at all adventurous. Took us an hours of game time to get over that dratted rope bridge!

Extreme Roleplaying!? Oh Yes – Extremely silly roleplaying.
Grogmir.
SirTodd
08-06-07, 08:35 AM Reminds me of the time a single 20' deep goblin pit trap slaughtered our entire party.

It was predictably at the entrance to their lair. But we stumbled straight into it... our rogue wasn't looking for it. Only two of us fell in, but the fall dropped the rogue into negatives and the cleric in all his armor with no climb skill was stranded. We didn't buy any rope so my monk tumbled into the pit to try to climb out with the cleric first. But even though I was a skilled climber I kept rolling horribly low (combined with the situational penalties of carrying a person). I kept falling back in. Soon the cleric was out of healing spells and we were both badly hurt. I climbed back out alone to where the fighter and rogue (who had been healed and had climbed out himself) were waiting at the top and we knotted together all our clothing to 'make' a rope. I tumbled back in and we tried to use that to help get the cleric out of that pit. But none of us had use rope skill. So the GM had us make three checks. The first was the use rope default roll which we botched (so the rope came apart as we came up it). The second was a strength check for those at the top they rolled a natural 1 so the GM had them slip and fall into the pit. The last check was our climb roll which failed yet again. The fall killed my monk and the cleric. And the rogue was in negatives. The fighter was badly hurt but alive. Unfortunately he didn't have any climb skill. So when the goblins showed up to see what was making all the noise they found a helpless fighter trapped in a pit with a bunch of dead or dying pcs. TPK... All because that cleric couldn't climb and we were too foolish to buy rope.
Grogmir
08-06-07, 09:01 AM we were too foolish to buy rope.

“Rope!” SirTodd muttered. “No rope! And only last night you said to yourself: “SirTodd, what about a bit of rope? You'll want it, if you haven't got it: Well, I'll want it. I can't get it now.”

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PeteRR 08-05-07, 12:39 PM	As a CN fighter I had a reputation for recklessness in combat. Leaping from one dying flying Wyvern to the next Wyvern. Good stuff like that. My rep was sealed one day in Sigil. The party was in the 13th-15th level range. A succubus approached me in a tavern and asked me to buy her a drink. We started to chat about the planes and adventuring. When she was unaware, I snuck a kiss from her. I fully expected to lose a level. The DM ruled that she didn't drain me because I had startled her(What a mensch!). She then asked me to kiss her again as she wasn't ready and hadn't enjoyed it. Our LG cleric was prattling on about the dangers of unprotected sex with outsiders, so I kissed her. And I went from 15th to 14th level. It was totally worth it. This was 2nd Edition and it took me 6 months to get the 250k EP back.
Ack 08-05-07, 12:52 PM	My dwarven character has (in game, where there is little to no magic outside of CLW) shoved his arm into a monster's mouth in order to ensure that it swallowed something that would definitely harm it (it was regenerating everything we threw at it). He lost the arm as a consequence. Since then, in the last game, he twice went for broke; first, to charge an amphibious dragon through rapidly rising water (he missed his attack) and then later to attack said dragon while he was on one HP. He struck, driving it below 0 HP, but was then struck down by the 2 HP of electrical damage it emitted as a result (and that was when he made his Reflex check...). He lives on the edge. It's fun. :D
Caelic 08-05-07, 01:00 PM	At one point in our old first edition campaign, the highest-level character was lured away by a Succubus and drained to the tune of something like 6 levels. He survived and returned, with the group none the wiser. Now: we were plenty high enough level that he could have had a Restoration for the asking. He refused to ever...EVER...admit in character that it had happened, preferring to struggle along 4 levels behind the rest of the group rather than admit he'd been suckered. ;)
FponkDamn 08-06-07, 03:42 AM	Byron: "Did Jack just body-check the Werewolf Lord?" Gloria: "Yeah. And look... he's actually winning." Jack: "Hey, I'm as surprised as anyone." - Johnny
Grogmir 08-06-07, 04:30 AM	Our Fat Halfling Knight fell from a rope bridge into a lake. As the DM started to scribble about for the drowning rules as quickly as the Knight started to try and take full plate off, the Cleric of Korn, Paladin and myself, the Transmutator, look on helplessly. While the Cleric struggled with Rope Skills to create a long enough bit of rope I jumped fearlessly off the edge if the cliff into the lake, I used the C.Mage Transmutation variant to fly down to the water and then my last one to swim down to the drowning Halfling and breath into his mouth. I managed to get back to the surface before my lack of swim skill and 9 strength started getting me in trouble. So with the Halfling still under the water, me about to go under the cleric starts to climb down to grab us. However he’s half way down and he rolls a 1, so the Cleric comes crashing down taking falling damage – enough damage to knock him out. I manage to doggy paddle over and shove a potion down his gob just in time, the halfing is now free having left all our gold at the bottom of the lake! And then the Paladin has to use his last Bull Strength potion to drag us all out, sopping wet and feeling not at all adventurous. Took us an hours of game time to get over that dratted rope bridge! Extreme Roleplaying!? Oh Yes – Extremely silly roleplaying. Grogmir.
SirTodd 08-06-07, 08:35 AM	Reminds me of the time a single 20' deep goblin pit trap slaughtered our entire party. It was predictably at the entrance to their lair. But we stumbled straight into it... our rogue wasn't looking for it. Only two of us fell in, but the fall dropped the rogue into negatives and the cleric in all his armor with no climb skill was stranded. We didn't buy any rope so my monk tumbled into the pit to try to climb out with the cleric first. But even though I was a skilled climber I kept rolling horribly low (combined with the situational penalties of carrying a person). I kept falling back in. Soon the cleric was out of healing spells and we were both badly hurt. I climbed back out alone to where the fighter and rogue (who had been healed and had climbed out himself) were waiting at the top and we knotted together all our clothing to 'make' a rope. I tumbled back in and we tried to use that to help get the cleric out of that pit. But none of us had use rope skill. So the GM had us make three checks. The first was the use rope default roll which we botched (so the rope came apart as we came up it). The second was a strength check for those at the top they rolled a natural 1 so the GM had them slip and fall into the pit. The last check was our climb roll which failed yet again. The fall killed my monk and the cleric. And the rogue was in negatives. The fighter was badly hurt but alive. Unfortunately he didn't have any climb skill. So when the goblins showed up to see what was making all the noise they found a helpless fighter trapped in a pit with a bunch of dead or dying pcs. TPK... All because that cleric couldn't climb and we were too foolish to buy rope.
Grogmir 08-06-07, 09:01 AM	we were too foolish to buy rope. “Rope!” SirTodd muttered. “No rope! And only last night you said to yourself: “SirTodd, what about a bit of rope? You'll want it, if you haven't got it: Well, I'll want it. I can't get it now.”