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Avoraciopoctules
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Post by Avoraciopoctules » Fri Oct 08, 2010 10:13 pm

I remember one of my early campaigns when the least adept player was playing a wizard. He wanted to polymorph into a troll. This was back when we were using the default 3.x polymorph rules, and when I asked him to provide a stat block for his new form, I was unsurprised to see nothing forthcoming. I think I just gave him a pile of extra hit points and 2 claw attacks or something to that effect, then mandated that if he ever were to use polymorph in the future, he needed to hand me a physical character sheet with the new form's stats. He never cast the spell again.
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Red_Rob
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Post by Red_Rob » Fri Oct 08, 2010 10:22 pm

> Wesley Street wrote:Time to start rolling dice at random.

I'm sure it used to be standard DMing advice to occasionally roll the dice and ask one of the players for a random stat, then smile to yourself. I know I read that in at least 3 "GM's tips" back in the day.
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