[Scronan]

Hi,

Saz, those are funny stories....I only played PnP a few times, but I hope fans of these games will forgive me for this story:

Back in high school I had some friends who were into DnD, but they never were that serious. I'd play with them, and they'd play a very serious game with a DM who knew his stuff, but then they'd get silly. Have the characters smoking pot (and blowing the smoke into monsters faces, getting them stoned, well you get the idea). I would sit and look through the Monster Tomes and find weird creatures that I wanted to see. So I'd ask for some God to help us (like Ra), then they'd have some female god come and seduce him, etc. Not much fun.

Frusterated, I had heard some other not so close friends of mine played Dnd, so I found them playing in a room one day at lunch. I watched em, they were TOTALLY serious and I asked if I could play.

"Well," the DM said "we dont have time to make a new character for you, but Jeff just went to the bathroom, why don't you play his Dwarf while he's gone? I mean, whats the worse you could do? You can play Dnd, right?"

"Sure!" I say, knowing inside I really don't know what I'm doing.

Anyway, we play a bit, trash a few monsters, then we encounter a "water demon". Basically, it looks like a big waterfall but its possessed or something. I start laughing. Why dont you have a zombie fried chicken come after us? A possessed waterfall?

Anyway, I decided to lob a few warhammers at the stupid waterfall, does some damage, but it doesnt die. The DM just grins at me and I get really annoyed. So, I tell one of the others to take a closer look, he falls in the phantom pool of water and the demon starts to drown him.

"Aw crap! I'll save him!" I shout, and my Dwarf jumps in the water.

The DM laughs and says "and the brave Dwarf sinks to the bottom, since he was wearing about 60 pounds of armor, including his shield. He drowns on his own, while the water demon laughs."

Another player says "Dumbass, you're supposed to TAKE OFF THEIR EQUIPMENT BEFORE YOU GO FOR A SWIM!"

"Well, that's what I meant, he'd take off this 60 pounds of armor and.."

"That's not how it works!" says the DM.

Damn it.

I decided its time to go now, and as I'm walking out the door, Jeff, the owner of the now dead Dwarf comes in. I thank the guys for the game, and while I'm running away, I can hear Jeff screaming in the back ground.

A few days later I see the DM in class and he says "by the way, all you had to do was use a purify water spell, and the demon would have died. And you killed Jeff's Dwarf for good too, we couldn't bring him back to life."

"Can I play with you guys again sometime?"

I just got a strange glance, and figured it wasn't worth it. [img]smile.gif[/img]

So, that was my first and final real DnD experience....maybe I'll try it again some day. heh. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Best

Scronan