[3.5] Does anyone make use of April Fools Day Content in actual games?

[Chronikoce]

WotC put out various web articles over the years on April 1st and while they can be quite silly I was curious if anyone plays games where this content is actually used.

A few examples (I will add more as I find the links to them)

The Avenger (http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/prc/20070401a)
Potion Miscibility (http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/20060401b)
Fabulous Cats! (http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/fools/20030401c)

[Forrestfire]

I've used the Cat domain and the collar of perpetual attendance (http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/fools/20030401c) before.

[Necroticplague]

I've used the Cat domain and the collar of perpetual attendance (http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/fools/20030401c) before.

As have I. I've actually had tibbits that put a good deal of the cat rules to good use. I've also dipped Commoner for Chicken infested before, for a wide variety of reasons (mostly because it's simultaneously useful and hilarious).

[SwordChucks]

To be fair the avenger is just an assassin with a different alignment requirement, so I would allow it as a DM. And the potion miscibility table is lifted from earlier editions. Probably just the author saying "Look at this weird old rule".

Only the commoner one seemed like something I wouldn't allow and I doubt any of my players would complain.

[Chronikoce]

Isn't Chicken Infested actually from a dragon magazine issue or something like that? I didn't think that one was actually wotc. Not that it really matters from a game use perspective since it is exceedingly silly.

[Troacctid]

Avenger is legit. I don't think it's even supposed to be a joke.

[Necroticplague]

Isn't Chicken Infested actually from a dragon magazine issue or something like that? I didn't think that one was actually wotc. Not that it really matters from a game use perspective since it is exceedingly silly.

Yes, it is Dragon content. Dragon 330, to be precise. That makes it official second-party content. Technically, it's Paizo, but it's given permission to be officially dnd by WoTC.

[Malimar]

I do allow Chicken Infested (slightly modified to be less abusable, and if you do find a way to abuse it anyway then you'll eventually draw a Titanic Chicken of Legend), because it fills me with joy.

I don't allow any of the other Commoner flaws, not even Corpse. Nor most other April Fool's content.

[Crake]

Avenger is legit. I don't think it's even supposed to be a joke.

Yeah, despite the article being published on april fools, I don't actually see it being much of a joke. I never even realised it was released on april fools to be honest. It's basically just a re-fluffed assassin, and I've had it in my games before.

I also use the collar of perpetual attendance from fabulous cats for a tibbit familiar a player once had who prefered being in cat form than human form.

[Graypairofsocks]

I do allow Chicken Infested (slightly modified to be less abusable, and if you do find a way to abuse it anyway then you'll eventually draw a Titanic Chicken of Legend), because it fills me with joy.

I don't allow any of the other Commoner flaws, not even Corpse. Nor most other April Fool's content.

Chicken Infested would probably be more "balanced" as a feat.

[Malimar]

Chicken Infested would probably be more "balanced" as a feat.

It's a 50% chance of wasting your action every time you try to draw an item. (Drawing a chicken is always a move action, because a chicken is neither a weapon nor a spell component.) That's... not a bonus.

If the chickens are worth no experience, and you're not actually generating chickens (because each chicken you draw is coming from a finite pool of chickens and they go right back into the pool when you drop them), and if you kill too many chickens you're suddenly faced with a Titanic Kaiju Chicken of Legend (which is also worth no experience), it's pretty balanced with other flaws.

[Deophaun]

Avenger is legit. I don't think it's even supposed to be a joke.

Yeah, it was...


As befitting the spirit of April Fool's Day, we offer the following variant of an existing prestige class... in this case, a look at when assassins go good.

And I did not add the ellipsis.

[ATHATH]

Interestingly, because the Avenger casts spells as a Bard does, it must make noise to cast its spells.

[Graypairofsocks]

Interestingly, because the Avenger casts spells as a Bard does, it must make noise to cast its spells.

The Assassin also casts spells like a Bard.

[HunterOfJello]

Collar of Perpetual Attendance is an awesome item. Definitely got a lot of use out of it while dungeon crawling.

[Vizzerdrix]

I always wanted to abuse weresheep. I think its the only way to make dwarven defender able to preform its job.

[zergling.exe]

The Assassin also casts spells like a Bard.

The greatest Assassins in film! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdJg6Duzzf4)

[Chronikoce]

I always wanted to abuse weresheep. I think its the only way to make dwarven defender able to preform its job.

I've never actually read that one before. That is delightful.

[Kelb_Panthera]

I always wanted to abuse weresheep. I think its the only way to make dwarven defender able to preform its job.

Given the stereotypical scottish accent of dwarves and a certain less-than-flattering stereotype of rural scottish people, my brain took the "abuse" of weresheep in a weird direction.

Anyway, potion miscibility can be pretty hilarious on a less than serious one-shot.

[Âmesang]

Remember the April Fools' errata (https://www.schadenfreudestudios.com/dnd/books/3e%20errata%20april%20fools.pdf)? :smalltongue: Wizards' link (http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4dnd/20080401a) seems to be broken at the moment, though.

I will admit I used the "chainmail bikini" for a succubus NPC, once.

[DrMotives]

The Assassin also casts spells like a Bard.

I was surprised by that in an earlier thread, I think because 3.0 the assassin cast spells like a wizard, even had a spellbook. I didn't read the class in 3.5, just assumed it was the same. Frankly, it makes no bloody sense, and if they wanted to ditch the spellbook it should be "cast as a sorceror" which is how I houserule them to work.

[Talwar]

My dwarven cleric is the proud owner of a Bag of Beanie Weenies, although he hasn't attempted to eat them all in a round to force fort saves. It initially functioned as his default meal choice, but continues to serve a social role when he offers other PCs and NPCs a snack.

[Snowbluff]

My tibbits will Flop on occasion.

[Graypairofsocks]

My dwarven cleric is the proud owner of a Bag of Beanie Weenies, although he hasn't attempted to eat them all in a round to force fort saves. It initially functioned as his default meal choice, but continues to serve a social role when he offers other PCs and NPCs a snack.


Where is that item from?

[Talwar]

Where is that item from?

Here:

http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Bag_of_Beanie_Weenies_%283.5e_Equipment%29

...though I'd completely forgotten that it was a homebrew. My bad.