Giles ,'Sleeper'
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I am not sending these articles to my two biggest gaming pals because both of them are GMing for me and I don't want to give them any silly ideas.
Oh I'm so glad he was forced into playing the game. I felt he was missing the intentional humor in some of the monsters (i.e. Wolf-in-Sheep's-Clothing) and I felt sorry for him missing out on the big fun.
I'm running Rappan Athuk, and it's basically taken directly from those articles.
Seriously. First level had a mimic who'd been permanently turned into a big pile of shit as his base state...he mimics a clean white toilet seat to lure the PCs in, and then they're fighting poo.
(They've named him the Dick Cheney monster).
I'm trying to run it as a comedy now; it's all I can do with it.
I love comedy adventures. Come to think of it I've never had a gaming session that didn't degenerate into hysterical laughter at some point in the evening. And we're running standard modules. But our characters have names like Rusterford Shackleford and Perra Panteese.
I just told someone that Ahsoka (Anakin's girl padawan in Clone Wars) was short for Ahsokin Panteese.
I am not sending these articles to my two biggest gaming pals because both of them are GMing for me and I don't want to give them any silly ideas.
I changed my mind. I want to fight a groundsquid!
I bet that origami golem can give you a mean papercut!
He mocked the Ragamuffin pretty soundly, but I always thought it was kind of cool. There's something a little creepy about a fluttering, animate cloud of fabric shards that swoop by on the wind, surround you and possess you.
He seems to be opposed to animated fabrics of all kinds.
I think in some of those cases, he's letting his fine sense of the silly to blind him to some creepy/scary possibilities.
I'm running the Shackled City Adventure Path (in 3.5, not 4E - that conversion would give me a migraine) and the ragomoffyn plays a big role in the first adventure.
And it totally freaked out the party. It almost got the cleric. Who is of Kord, so is freakishly strong, as well as the walking first-aid kit.
Yeah - they may be mockworthy to some, but not to my group of players. :)
Oooo, Shackled City!
I thought about writing him (with links!) to point out that the Japanese have a demon who appears as a floating piece of fabric, but A) those were old blog posts and B) I'm not sure saying "but the Japanese think it's scary" was going to be a strong argument with him.
(Although, dude, Japanese horror is SCARY)