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"I think I've found a way to protect our clothes from vermin damage. There a spell that looks promising in this old grimoire."

The thief perked up. He'd been fond of that cloak of invisibility, Now it was a joke with all the huge holes in it.

"Still working on the translation. Looks like I'll need body parts from some sort of insect. Probably a giant one so we don't have collect huge numbers of them."

The combat types exchanged looks. "Giant insects again?"

The mage kept on muttering half to himself. "Hmmm, Winged insects... Ok, some sort of Lepidoptra... nocturnal.... dull colored wings... so not butterflies."

He pored carefully over the text squiting.

"Ok, need the,,, gonads? of the male ones." More muttering. "Oh, of course, the testes!"

The bard stared at him. "You. Want. Us. To Gather. Giant. Moth Balls."

Heard an ad on YouTube the other day. Went something like this:

Sale! Today only! Buy now for realy low discounts!

Methinks the copy writerwas aa mite confused about what "low discounts" actually means, or he was being unintentionally truthful.

Came across this in an old comment by siliconshaman:

"no matter how much you shine a turd it's still not a diamond"

Which gave me the thought of making jewelry from polished coprolites (the kind that are *completely* mineralized, thank you very much)

"It's just some shitty jewelry I got given.."

... it really *is* DEATH metal when the band has a gigawatt speaker stack.

I've read a number of "magical academy" stories, and my brain wandered off on an odd tangent. Something reminded me of skyclad... and then my brain veered off to the magical academy stories.

So I had the thought of the potential mess if being skyclad was required for magic *and* you had teenagers learning it in a mixed gender school. Oy.

But *that* lead to an evil interesting idea. Instead of a school, use the concept in an FRPG or just a fantasy storuy.

So, to cast spells, enchant items, etc you have to be skyclad. Casting a spell with a duration on someone does not require *them* to be skyclad, nor is it required to use magic items.

Ok, this makes magic users even *more* vulnerable in battle than in classic D&D. If it applies to clerics, they get pretty vulnerable as well.

It'd make many magic items a lot more valuable. For example rings of protection. And magic scrolls (you could cast from the scroll while clothed).

I can see the mages wearing sandals and a satchel. The sandals to protect their feet while able to be quickly kicked off (if they count against being skyclad). and the satchel to carry gear while being able to both quickly access items and quickly drop it so they can cast.

Obviously not a game you want to play with sophmoric types, nor stories for children unless carefully written. But they could be fun.

[theme music plays]

I've been to the Twilight zone... Oh god the *sparkles*!

Any fan of the BC comic strip is familiar with Clumsy Carp and his incongruous ability to make water balls.

In a fit of silliness, I once added them to my D&D game. the PCs, came across a room with a stack of spherical objects with a light coating of dust.

They seemed to be semi transparent. And of course, when one them them tied to pick one up, it opped and they wound up with droplets of water on their hand and tracks in the dust on the rest of the stack. plus a small puddle on the floor.

Took them a few to figure out what happened. :-)

No real point to it, just a bit of whimsy to make them wonder.

This is what happens when my brain free associates.

I have to present this more or less in order for full impact.

First, we've all heard of pink slime (yuck) the stuck they make out of ;eftover bits of alleged meat.

Second, D&D has a monster called green slime.

Third, most gaming depictions of orcs make them green.

So... Is green slime what left over after a evil mage/cleric is done harvesting the "useful" parts of orcs?

Another unrelated set of thoughts was triggered by one of those "player in VR game suddenly winds up in another world" stories.

In this case one her her first, "this isn't a game anymore" moments was when she needed to pee.,.. bodily functions not being something that games worry about much.

That got me wondering what rules for that sort of thing would look like.,

Then I realized that would open a can of worms most players would want no part of given the number of evil GMs out there. Just think of the monsters and traps that might be triggered by urination or defecation!

Cindiru fish might seem trivial in comparision

,,, wanna bet?