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I messed up my D&D players last night and just wanted to share the fun. 
First I tossed a Teratomorph (a gargantuan ooze!) at them. Whenever it physically hits them it causes a random effect - including a Polymorph Any Object effect. I turned the barbarian into a dire badger for a week. And the half orc got turned into an Armand, then a Phoelarch, then a Doppleganger. Which he loved and was depressed that it wore off in a week.
I then gave them a very powerful magic deck of cards. They immediately (and incorrectly) concluded it was a deck of many things and they were going to draw out all the good cards.
It was actually a deck of transformations (in Races of Eberron, in case anyone is interested).
I was sure that some level of common sense would kick in and they would stop drawing cards when bad things happened.
I was wrong. It was a hilarious.
The psion got turned into a dwarf to get things started, which destroyed the basis for his character, and he wound up at Lizardfolk by way of elf. The feral gargantuan got shrunk to Small size, then turned into a gnoll, and wound up a hobgoblin.
The half-elf became a gnome, became a kobold, wound up back at half-elf (with a -1 to wisdom, which I think was earned). Oh, yeah, then he got hit with Flesh to Stone. The stonechild became a human got +1 str, got -1 str, and then wound up a halfling. And the cleric got Disintegrated!
The best change though was the half orc. He became a changeling then a kobold then a full out orc. The newly transformed orc then drew the Queen of Hearts; which in our deck of Sin City cards has boobies. He yells "Yay, I got boobies!" Which is amusing in itself, but the Queen of Hearts changes gender so when he asked what happens I yelled back "Yay, you get boobies!"
They literally drew every card in the deck. I've now pretty much destroyed 4 characters - the barbarian character is now small and has neg. strength modifiers, the racially psionic character is now a lizardfolk, the cleric is a small pile of ash, and the two handed knife fighting half elf is now just a statue of his former self. Good times.
On the bright side, everyone left laughing and smiling, so I guess I did a good job.
First I tossed a Teratomorph (a gargantuan ooze!) at them. Whenever it physically hits them it causes a random effect - including a Polymorph Any Object effect. I turned the barbarian into a dire badger for a week. And the half orc got turned into an Armand, then a Phoelarch, then a Doppleganger. Which he loved and was depressed that it wore off in a week.
I then gave them a very powerful magic deck of cards. They immediately (and incorrectly) concluded it was a deck of many things and they were going to draw out all the good cards.
It was actually a deck of transformations (in Races of Eberron, in case anyone is interested).
I was sure that some level of common sense would kick in and they would stop drawing cards when bad things happened.
I was wrong. It was a hilarious.
The psion got turned into a dwarf to get things started, which destroyed the basis for his character, and he wound up at Lizardfolk by way of elf. The feral gargantuan got shrunk to Small size, then turned into a gnoll, and wound up a hobgoblin.
The half-elf became a gnome, became a kobold, wound up back at half-elf (with a -1 to wisdom, which I think was earned). Oh, yeah, then he got hit with Flesh to Stone. The stonechild became a human got +1 str, got -1 str, and then wound up a halfling. And the cleric got Disintegrated!
The best change though was the half orc. He became a changeling then a kobold then a full out orc. The newly transformed orc then drew the Queen of Hearts; which in our deck of Sin City cards has boobies. He yells "Yay, I got boobies!" Which is amusing in itself, but the Queen of Hearts changes gender so when he asked what happens I yelled back "Yay, you get boobies!"
They literally drew every card in the deck. I've now pretty much destroyed 4 characters - the barbarian character is now small and has neg. strength modifiers, the racially psionic character is now a lizardfolk, the cleric is a small pile of ash, and the two handed knife fighting half elf is now just a statue of his former self. Good times.
On the bright side, everyone left laughing and smiling, so I guess I did a good job.
I AM the evil bastard!
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