Weeks after this happened my group is still laughing about this, figured I would share.
My group is doing LMoP from the 5E Starter set as a warm up before we begin our hardcover books (over the past 9 months I have caught up and own all the 5E stuff). They arrived in Thundertree and got ambushed by a couple spiders. The group consists of a couple spellcasters with a tank of a fighter taking point. The fighter gets poisoned during the spider fight. Every turn he takes I have him roll a D4 for damage, since he got a double dose of poison.
When the group searches the room they find three potions (I have one potion set to curing the potion). Without checking to see what the potion does, fighter downs the brown one. He asks but I don't say whether it cures him or not. However, the fighter notices I am not asking him to roll a D4 for damage and assumes he is cured.
As they leave the area, they have another minor encounter with a Zombie. Players roll initiative. I get to the fighter, and before his attack, I tell him to roll a D4. He gives me a look, since he hadn't taken poison damage lately. He rolls a 2. I look at him, and tell him he has to poo really bad.
The potion he took cleaned his system out, clearing the poison but also functioning as a laxative. For the next 12 in game hours before he made a move, he had to roll a D4. On 1 or 2, he has to poo, 3 or 4, his stomach growls but he can handle it. If he rolls a 1 or 2, he cannot do any action other than a 30 foot move action and poo.
He makes it awhile, but as the party is setting up came for the night he rolls a 2, runs for a river bank......and doesn't make it. He washes his soiled clothing in the water before the party fills their waterskins, but thankfully the party grabs water upstream from his washing area.
They are laughing about this weeks after this session, and now since some of us work together, the term "I need to roll a D4" is now being used to ask for a bathroom break.
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I use summon instrument to summon my kettle drum, hold it overhead like Donkey Kong, and chuck it at the nearest kobold.
Weeks after this happened my group is still laughing about this, figured I would share.
My group is doing LMoP from the 5E Starter set as a warm up before we begin our hardcover books (over the past 9 months I have caught up and own all the 5E stuff). They arrived in Thundertree and got ambushed by a couple spiders. The group consists of a couple spellcasters with a tank of a fighter taking point. The fighter gets poisoned during the spider fight. Every turn he takes I have him roll a D4 for damage, since he got a double dose of poison.
When the group searches the room they find three potions (I have one potion set to curing the potion). Without checking to see what the potion does, fighter downs the brown one. He asks but I don't say whether it cures him or not. However, the fighter notices I am not asking him to roll a D4 for damage and assumes he is cured.
As they leave the area, they have another minor encounter with a Zombie. Players roll initiative. I get to the fighter, and before his attack, I tell him to roll a D4. He gives me a look, since he hadn't taken poison damage lately. He rolls a 2. I look at him, and tell him he has to poo really bad.
The potion he took cleaned his system out, clearing the poison but also functioning as a laxative. For the next 12 in game hours before he made a move, he had to roll a D4. On 1 or 2, he has to poo, 3 or 4, his stomach growls but he can handle it. If he rolls a 1 or 2, he cannot do any action other than a 30 foot move action and poo.
He makes it awhile, but as the party is setting up came for the night he rolls a 2, runs for a river bank......and doesn't make it. He washes his soiled clothing in the water before the party fills their waterskins, but thankfully the party grabs water upstream from his washing area.
They are laughing about this weeks after this session, and now since some of us work together, the term "I need to roll a D4" is now being used to ask for a bathroom break.
I use summon instrument to summon my kettle drum, hold it overhead like Donkey Kong, and chuck it at the nearest kobold.
Glad that worked out for you and your group... most stories that start like this one does end with players thinking their DM is a jerk.
I'm pretty protective of my players, we all poke fun at each other but that's all part of it.
I use summon instrument to summon my kettle drum, hold it overhead like Donkey Kong, and chuck it at the nearest kobold.
be careful not to seem unfair to your players, but I'm glad you and your player played it off well. it's a funny story
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