Did I just hear a player stating that he doesn't want to avoid any monsters?

Okay, I'll make sure to give you plenty.

But who's going to eat the zombie mince pie after you make it?

Didn't say we would like thousands of monsters, only that monsters were preferable to undead, less gag reflex, but really small undernourished imps with no weapons are best!

Oh! Did someone say pie!?

((hehe I'm going to see Sweeney Todd on stage this weekend, and there is a dinner before at the theatre, I wonder if they will serve pie! ))

M.

So, you would rather fight thousands of undernourished imps?

Ooookaaaayyy.... your funeral.

Invulnerable to fire, cold, electrcity.... check.
Invulnerable to normal weapons (need silver or magical weapons to hit).... check.
Ability to polymorph.... check.
Attacks with insta-kill poison.... check.


Okay, you asked for it, I'll have an evil wizard open a rift and accidentally let in a whole bunch of imps. So, what do you guys what to play in the next adventure?

Ooh, ooh, can we have some pink, fluffy were-bunnies?

Or even better some zombies riding on pink were-bunnies. Hopping death.

Big pink were-zombies riding fluffy, polymorphing, insta-kill bunnies with inherent magic resistance?

You guys have nowhere near enough of a healthy fear of the DM.

With DMs like Wyrmsting and/or Utan, fear of the DM is life-saving and often should be taken to a point of near-paranoimia ...

I just disguise it as attempts to egg others on in their derisions and lead them further astray, thus compunding their fall (and enhancing my own amusement) when the "DM's true meaning of life" or "game reality" appears ...

Do you allow giant barking vampire tree frogs as pets?

Time to rename this game "Epic Party Wipe."

That could be the secret we find out later

Time for a trip to the mental hospital... Again

Okay, enough silliness...
Are you going to make us use material compenents for the spells? Or is making Syana talk to get them to work enough torture for the girl?

M.

Yep I have a serious question too. How decomposed are the zombies? Do they look as if they've come straight from a grave, or could they be freshly killed villagers?

...I've got answers.

You absolutely have to use material components. I won't make you keep up with every rose petal or pinch of sand that your spells might need; if your character periodically makes an effort to replenish components, I won't worry about the cheap/free ones (unless you cast sleep twenty times, and I KNOW you're out of rose petals, for instance). However, if your spell requires costly components, I will stricty enforce you to keep careful track of them.

No casting "death spell" willy nilly... I don't see you carrying around a pack full of rare black pearls.


Now, as for the zombies: two are quite decomposed. The other two are certainly rotted, but not to the same level as the aforementioned pair. I would not guess any of these four to be "fresh" dead.