elliott20
2009-01-19, 10:15 PM
So, a long time ago my friend and I went around and converted a bunch of Final Fantasy creatures for the heck of it and most of them they never came out to see the light of day again.
Two weeks ago, my friend finally got to use one for his own game. (One that I couldn't participate in, unfortunately)
Here's what happened:
The PCs were hunting for this ruin that has a lot of hidden treasure, they were accompanied by two other NPCs, one who was a guide to the region, and another who was more like a hireling. The guide kept on talking about the guardian of the ruins that was the most vicious thing he's ever met in his life, and that it is not to be trifled with and he strongly URGED the players to turn back. (in fact, the players had to get a couple good diplomacy checks in to get the guide to keep his end of the bargain and take them to the ruins. It also took a good couple sense motive checks from the players to make sure the guide wasn't trying to swindle them either, but more on that later)
they finally got there, and when they managed to awake the guardian of the ruins, this crawled out of the ground.
http://videogamecentral.com/gamersvoice/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/tonberry.jpg
now, my friend didn't actually just use the picture. He described it as what seems like a cute little lizard wearing a cloak. The little thing couldn't see very well though, so it pulled a small lantern out of the ground. But the lantern got stuck in the ground! so to help get it out, the little lizard use a small knife it carried on him to help dig it out. It then slowly waddled it's way towards the players, making the cutest little noises ever.
Now, most of the players at his table don't play final fantasy enough to know the reference. Add on top of that, they were already skeptical of the guide's trustworthiness due to prior events. So when the guide disappeared by that point along with a small number of their gold coins, they didn't think twice about his warning and assumed that wasn't the guardian.
One player, however, soon realized what that was, but was a big enough **** to sit back and let the rest of the party walk right into this. He just kept snickering to himself. The party leader said to everyone "let's just ignore this and move on".
It was then though, that things took a turn for the worse. Suddenly, the little cute creature set into a vicious attack (incidentally, it was a level 13 warblade) that completely and utterly eviscerated the hireling in a fountain of blood, dealing enough damage to set the hireling into -20 hit points in one blow. The players realized that this was the guardian and tried their hardest to kill it. Note: my friend took some artistic liberties here and changed up some of the specifics of the reference.
two more party deaths later, they finally managed to kill it. My friend came *THIS* close to having the guide show up somewhere and go "I told he was dangerous!" just to taunt them.
Two weeks ago, my friend finally got to use one for his own game. (One that I couldn't participate in, unfortunately)
Here's what happened:
The PCs were hunting for this ruin that has a lot of hidden treasure, they were accompanied by two other NPCs, one who was a guide to the region, and another who was more like a hireling. The guide kept on talking about the guardian of the ruins that was the most vicious thing he's ever met in his life, and that it is not to be trifled with and he strongly URGED the players to turn back. (in fact, the players had to get a couple good diplomacy checks in to get the guide to keep his end of the bargain and take them to the ruins. It also took a good couple sense motive checks from the players to make sure the guide wasn't trying to swindle them either, but more on that later)
they finally got there, and when they managed to awake the guardian of the ruins, this crawled out of the ground.
http://videogamecentral.com/gamersvoice/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/tonberry.jpg
now, my friend didn't actually just use the picture. He described it as what seems like a cute little lizard wearing a cloak. The little thing couldn't see very well though, so it pulled a small lantern out of the ground. But the lantern got stuck in the ground! so to help get it out, the little lizard use a small knife it carried on him to help dig it out. It then slowly waddled it's way towards the players, making the cutest little noises ever.
Now, most of the players at his table don't play final fantasy enough to know the reference. Add on top of that, they were already skeptical of the guide's trustworthiness due to prior events. So when the guide disappeared by that point along with a small number of their gold coins, they didn't think twice about his warning and assumed that wasn't the guardian.
One player, however, soon realized what that was, but was a big enough **** to sit back and let the rest of the party walk right into this. He just kept snickering to himself. The party leader said to everyone "let's just ignore this and move on".
It was then though, that things took a turn for the worse. Suddenly, the little cute creature set into a vicious attack (incidentally, it was a level 13 warblade) that completely and utterly eviscerated the hireling in a fountain of blood, dealing enough damage to set the hireling into -20 hit points in one blow. The players realized that this was the guardian and tried their hardest to kill it. Note: my friend took some artistic liberties here and changed up some of the specifics of the reference.
two more party deaths later, they finally managed to kill it. My friend came *THIS* close to having the guide show up somewhere and go "I told he was dangerous!" just to taunt them.