
Inspired by our Monday night game where we discovered that the “enemy” wizard had a whole collection of little glass figurines of dragons from various craftsfolk around the lake…
In fact there are a near-infinite selection of these Figurines of Wondrous Boredom – the Soapstone Bear, the Little Earth Mother, Big-Eyed-Clay-Kitten, and so on. Each has the same general function – they break into pieces if dropped. Most are less dangerous than the glass dragon as they don’t break into razor-sharp nearly-invisible bits of glass.
I have an Oriental version sitting right here on the shelf. Dropped it once but only one of the tail flaps broke off. Guess it was a dud.
You obviously forgot to invoke the command word before dropping it. 😉
I was about to ask what would happen were it thrown to the floor without the command word … now I know!
The most common command words (and each figurine has many) are “Yeet!” and “Oh fuck, dropped it!”
Over a decade ago I ran a bunch of delvers through a giant ant nest as part of an ongoing campaign. Instead of the traditional “the ants have a bunch of precious metal nuggets” treasure, they had several cabinets crammed full of especially cheesy halfling “precious moments” figurines. PCs being PCs, they took them and tried to sell them in the next town they shopped at.
Merchant: “Yeah, my aunt collects those too.”
Ooooo they were maaaaaad.
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