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Ok, ok, don't attack all together! I just botched my Intelligence roll!
I am up for frappe anytime, Lith. National pastimes must be honored .

Yeah, cluebats come in all shapes and sizes. Some people just need a weblink.

Others a steamhammer.

Others a Theian level asteroid strike.

Not a new one, but i was inspired by the avatar of a new board member, Crumbos the Bard.

When i first saw that image in the epic handbook i was inspired to make an NPC out of it. So in my first campaign, when the PCs had reached level 15 and were sufficiently known, they met Lyath the epic elven bard: long golden locks, clad in white and light blue leather, a pattern of shells on his harp, charisma to rival the Gods and yet enamored of the PCs...
...and they hated him.

Truth is whenever i wanted something conveniently known, i used Lyath: he made songs out of their deeds so the enemies knew what to expect, he sang about them in detail so people began to recognize them and pester them for help, he chatted them up and loudly gave up their names when they were trying to blend in to find some info... plus he dag up their past and made their romances, misdeeds and origins well known, claiming artistic license whenever they called him to it. I knew they hated him but still, he was too good natured (and adored by the masses) to even think that someone could not think of him as a loving friend -or that someone could not want his songs and praises.

Three years after while in the middle of another campaign we decided to run an one-shot of epic proportions using the old characters. To make them realize the urgency of the quest, i had them gathered at one PC's wedding when the skies opened, a foul creature was seen flickering and then vanishing, and a bloodied Lyath fell from above whispering to them that he barely had time to warn them before...before...
Did they thank him? Did they heal him? Did they panic and secured the gates, did they cast any True Seeing? Did they ever let their DM finish her sentence? No, they cackled maniacally and gleefuly for ten orgasmic minutes of real time, until a Lawful Good character finally gave poor dying Lyath a healing potion under among a thousand mumbled curses and asked him if something was the matter.
I hate hate hate it when i make them accidentally happy.

Here's one I was dm'ing for.

I dm for a friend and her two sisters. This friend of mine plays a rather seriously ADHD female drow rogue with a ridiculous dex, con, int, and charisma, but a 7 wisdom. As you may guess, this has caused some issues.

Well, her two younger sisters played a sorceress and a ranger, the youngest (and strangely most responsible) playing the sorceress. Said sorceress spent much of her time watching the drow, especially when in cities to keep the rogue in line but one time got distracted by a spell book in an alchemy shop (she was a sorceress obsessed with spellbooks because she could still scribe scrolls from them). This low wisdom drow wandered around the alchemists shop until she found a very pretty golden liquid inside a crystal vial on a RED SHELF WITH WARNINGS ALL OVER IT! In her defense, she WAS very careful when she picked it up and began to examine it, but then the sorceress noticed her and panicked. She ran over, yelling, "NOOOO!" and that startled the drow and she dropped the vial. She caught it again and was alright, it didn't set off the liquid, but as the sorceress started spouting off how dangers it was the drow said it couldn't be, it had survived a fall and SHOOK it.

I rolled a D20 instead of a percentile since there was a 5 percent chance something would happen. I rolled a one. The alchemy shop blew up. The sorceress managed to survive as did the rogue, but the poor unsuspecting alchemist died. As punishment, the sorceress and the ranger made the rogue pay for the poor alchemist's resurrection by herself AND give him 2000 gold for damages.

A campaign with real life three sisters? I hope your sanity is intact .

And I thought playing with my mate's cousins was bad...

Playing with couples can be all kinds of weird. At some point i had to turn and announce to my partner who, while posessed shoot a Destruction spell at me, "Baby, if i miss this saving throw we are breaking up'.
It has been six years now and the troupe still will not let me forget it, despite my very reasonal explanation that i had Morgana longer than i had my partner.

Heh, yeah, actually, the girls are nice enough, 17, 18, and 21. >.>;;; surprisingly its the 21 year old who gives me the most headaches, the 17 year old acts the oldest and the 18 year old is so sweet natured she's not a problem. They recently added a friend of theirs so I'm running an all-girl D&D group. I'm still waiting for the universe to impload...

Don't worry, the universe won't implode.
I ran FVLMINATA (did you read "House of Paulus" in the Comix Blog?) with Hilary and 2 female friends. We nicknamed the game "Feminae Romanae" (Roman Women) and they played three slave girls who ultimately made it big in the Empire. (Calliope, Midna and Safiya) It was a HOOT!

Made it big? In what way? And no, i am not making ugly puns, i am actually asking.
I am a sucker for stories.

It's in the comic.
They all earned their freedom for a start. Safiya became a successful professional midwife. Midna was given a gladiator school to teach her craft and make money. Calliope married a Senator, gaining the ear of the Emperor himself and now has a rather significant hand in controlling the WORLD (as she knows it).

Dude, enjoy it for all it's worth. Having played since back in the day (we had to walk uphill for ten miles, just to get dice - both ways - in the snow), I can tell you that having an all-woman gaming group is an experience that everyone should be lucky enough to have. Outside of the stereotypical stuff about women being less competitive with each other and the like, I find that what really makes them interesting to play with is that they tend to focus more on the actual task at hand than men do. (At least in games that I've run.) So a mission to rescue a princess (to use a timeworn example) comes off as actually being about a rescue, rather than an excuse to kill everything within arm's reach and loot everything not nailed down. Therefore, as a GM, you have to be more careful about what you're doing, and have tighter setups. Not to mention the fact that women tend to create much more interesting characters than men.

There are still times when they'll kill anything that moves and swipe everything not covered in burning acid, though. It just happens more rarely.

Our group has 11 guys and three girls in it, me included. While everyone is a role-player most and dungeon crawler last, usually it is girls who take the lead, which never fails to surprise me. I have gamed with all girl groups before but the only difference i noticed is that they want to know more about the world, the surroundings and the circumstances before they do something while guys assume you have told them everything there is and go ahead.
Then again, one of the girls is the greediest, most battle happy, lustful player of all no matter the campaign so i am making no assumptions here.

I do, I do, in fact, I'm heading up to their place to run a game tonight. I'm even bringing my Pathfinder core book to see if they might be interested in converting their characters. Its kind of a strange situation because they rarely do what I expect. >.o I wouldn't be surprised if its because of a lack of understanding the minds of women to be honest. They manage to outsmart me WAY more than my male players usually do.

For example, one situation, they're in an evil wizard's lair and have actually already located and dispatched him (long story there, a huge mistake on my part) and are wandering around his keep. They find their way into the alchemy lab and while looting it, the drow rogue found a pouch of alchemist's silver flakes. She pocketed them and they continued on until they found something that I had planned on setting loose on them earlier if my plans had gone right; a Chain Devil. He was still in the circle and before they fought him, they made knowledge rolls. The drow actually had knowledge religion ranks and managed a nat 20, so I told her about devils and the weakness to silver. She pulled the flakes from a pouch and made a ranged attack, throwing them in his eyes... She blinded the devil before the fight even began with sometime he couldn't regenerate from... Ugh...

Totally outsmarted and they managed to hand the devil his butt. >.o They celebrated for quite a while about that.