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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Unusual weapons
Message-ID: <765@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 13:54:30 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 17 13:54:30 1985
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Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Organization: The Cat Factory
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I used to run a fighter who carried an unusual  dagger.  After  the  second
time  he lost levels to a vampire he got fed up and commissioned a "vampire
killer" of his own design.  It had an ironwood blade, holy symbol hilt, and
could be "envenomed" with holy water.  Funny, after he acquired it he never
ran into any more vampires.

Said fighter also had a small pet bird of a species native to our world  (a
bugga-wugga  bird).  The  species  is  notable  for  it's  longish, sharply
pointed beak which it uses to impale its  prey.  They  tend  to  attack  in
flocks  and  do 1d4 each.  Anyway, he had the local druids train it for him
so it would ride on his  shoulder  and  attack  on  command.  It  was  also
trained  to  avoid  armor when attacking so it would most likely go for the
nearest mage.  Theory was being hit by the bird would interrupt  any  spell
the  mage  was  trying  to  get off and give the party time to do something
nasty to him.  Somehow, the opportunity to try it out never  came  up.  Oh,
well.

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