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- From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
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- Subject: Re: Announcement!
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 22:26:21 GMT
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- > Amanda laughs, "Ug! I remember one time when my GM calmly took out a bag,
- >upturned it, dumping around 300 pennies on the table and announced, "Each
- >penny is the equivalent of 25 wildebeasts." Argh! That was scary! He
- >seemed to be enjoying himself though." She chuckles in fond rememberance.
-
- Speaking of GM's enjoyment ...
-
- Last year, for my campaign, I put in a nasty glowing green rock (the players
- decided to call it the Illearth Stone after the one in Donaldsons books, simply
- because it had similarities and they had to call it *something*). When they
- actually got to the combat with the creatures protecting it, I represented it
- with a large chunk of green malachite, and each creature with a green token of
- some sort, and rolled only green dice on all my rolls ...
-
- =8)
-
- The party survived (barely), and at the end of the session I handed each member
- of the party a green malachite cube, representing a chunk of the evil rock. It
- became an in joke that the cube was an alignment die. People would get it out,
- roll it, and declare that it had come up Chaotic Evil every time ... (It had
- no markings, of course ...)
-
- Soon after, a friend of one of the players (a New Age type) needed a malachite
- for a healing ritual, so the player let her borrow the rock and use it, without
- telling her that it had been used to represent huge amounts of evil and
- misfortune. When she found out later, she almost killed him ... and spent
- several days doing cleansing rituals ...
-
- - Abner
-