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Viva la (orcish) revolucion!
Our gaming group recently finished up going through an old AD&D module called "The Steading of the Hill Giant Chief" -- one of the first AD&D modules I ever played in. The characters are trying to take out a sizable group of (mostly) hill giants, who are also keeping lesser (but still troublesome) creatures inside their Steading as guards, slaves, etc.
The weakest -- and most numerous -- of these creatures were a bunch of orcish slaves. Among other things, they were being forced to excavate an ancient temple site in the caves below the Steading. Needless to say, they weren't too happy about this, and so had started forming a revolution. Quite a few orcs had escaped from the giants, and were hiding out in another portion of those caves.
Well, the characters found out about this, and when the orcs saw that the party was attacking the giants, they decided that the party members were their Revolutionary Brothers/Sisters, come to aid the Grand Orcish Revolution!
And so it was that cries of "Viva la revolucion!" were going up throughout the caves... in orcish... with a bad French accent...
Have I mentioned how much I missed gaming when we weren't living in Memphis? LOL
Our gaming group recently finished up going through an old AD&D module called "The Steading of the Hill Giant Chief" -- one of the first AD&D modules I ever played in. The characters are trying to take out a sizable group of (mostly) hill giants, who are also keeping lesser (but still troublesome) creatures inside their Steading as guards, slaves, etc.
The weakest -- and most numerous -- of these creatures were a bunch of orcish slaves. Among other things, they were being forced to excavate an ancient temple site in the caves below the Steading. Needless to say, they weren't too happy about this, and so had started forming a revolution. Quite a few orcs had escaped from the giants, and were hiding out in another portion of those caves.
Well, the characters found out about this, and when the orcs saw that the party was attacking the giants, they decided that the party members were their Revolutionary Brothers/Sisters, come to aid the Grand Orcish Revolution!
And so it was that cries of "Viva la revolucion!" were going up throughout the caves... in orcish... with a bad French accent...
Have I mentioned how much I missed gaming when we weren't living in Memphis? LOL
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It has always amazed me how one throw-away comment can take on a life of its own, especially around gamers. Like the time our group was running the D&D Tournament at one of the local Cons, and the characters found a magical item known as a Rod of Smiting. They didn't have any way to identify it, so they asked if there was anything written on it, engraved on it, etc. This was the third day of the Con, so we were all a little punchy, and the DM hadn't considered whether there would be anything on the item... but she has always been able to think quickly on her feet, and her father was a minister, so what popped into her head (and out of her mouth) was that it said, "I am the jawbone of an ass."
Well, the guy didn't get the reference, but he took it and ran with it anyway. He decided that this must be some sort of command-phrase to activate the item, and whenever he would attack with it, he would yell out either that he was the jawbone of an ass, or that the creature he was attacking was the jawbone of an ass.
What made it really hilarious was that his dice went along with it, too! If he remembered to use the "command phrase," he rolled really well. The only times he rolled poorly were the times he'd forgotten to say it. (And yes, all player die rolls were made where everyone could see them, so we know he wasn't "helping" them.)
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