magerette
Hedgewitch
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Life-and gaming-is full of little ironies and inconsistencies that can be either frustrating or amusing depending on your POV. Right now I am having a little problem with a well known game convention--the health potion. I can only regard the following situation(a composite of several games) as oxymoronic:
Playing along last night, I was killing Undead(oxymoron#1) while cleaning out the sewers(oxymoron#2) when (o.m.#3)a "slain' skeleton dropped a health potion.
My immersion level immediately dropped to -5.
I can understand an animated skeleton with a strong lust for living blood perhaps having in his possession a rusty sword, some tattered rags, a tarnished gold piece or two, or a bit of formaldehyde-drenched flesh clinging here and there, but what was he planning on doing with a health potion? I mean, isn't it a little late for that? And if he did drink it, wouldn't it simply pour out through his ribs a la Pirates of the Caribbean?
Also, when did it become impossible to finish a combat without one or more of your characters guzzling red potions like a wino sucking up Mad Dog 20/20? With that amount of liquid sloshing around in your insides, I doubt you could even breathe, let alone fight.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
Anybody else have any sterling moments of game silliness?
Playing along last night, I was killing Undead(oxymoron#1) while cleaning out the sewers(oxymoron#2) when (o.m.#3)a "slain' skeleton dropped a health potion.
My immersion level immediately dropped to -5.
I can understand an animated skeleton with a strong lust for living blood perhaps having in his possession a rusty sword, some tattered rags, a tarnished gold piece or two, or a bit of formaldehyde-drenched flesh clinging here and there, but what was he planning on doing with a health potion? I mean, isn't it a little late for that? And if he did drink it, wouldn't it simply pour out through his ribs a la Pirates of the Caribbean?
Also, when did it become impossible to finish a combat without one or more of your characters guzzling red potions like a wino sucking up Mad Dog 20/20? With that amount of liquid sloshing around in your insides, I doubt you could even breathe, let alone fight.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
Anybody else have any sterling moments of game silliness?
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