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2011-08-20, 03:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Strangest refluffs?
What are some of the strangest, or most ingenious, refluffs that you've encountered/used in a game? I don't have any spectacular examples of my own, at least not off the top of my head, but a minor one that comes to mind is when a fellow player recently refluffed a mithril shirt as some kind of mithril-meshed leotard (the character is an acrobat/dancer of some sort, and the player wanted her to have inconspicuous armor, I guess).
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2011-08-20, 03:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Strangest refluffs?
"Inconspicuous leotard" has to be the weirdest refluff ever.
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2011-08-20, 04:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Strangest refluffs?
OK, so take fighter (or more like swordsage) and take a rat (kobold) and take Splinter (from TNMNT) and take a jedi....and you have a rat-ish jedi-ish0-awesomesauce!
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2011-08-20, 04:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Strangest refluffs?
A friend of mine refluffed Psions with crystal shard as machine gunners.
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2011-08-20, 05:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Strangest refluffs?
We refluffled Battle Sorcerer into a Dr. Who-like science guy. His raven familiar was a floating orb that scanned things (adding to his appraise skill) and spoke, and he used color spray as a stun weapon, that was fluffed as coming from his sonic screwdriver.
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2011-08-20, 06:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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I played a Warforged Warlock once who was entirely mechanical/alchemical in nature. His Eldritch Blast was a laser cannon, he fired smoke grenades from his torso for Breath of the Night, and rocket jets in his feet fired when he used Fell Flight. All his other invocations were tech-based as well, but I can't remember them.
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2011-08-20, 08:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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What's cheesy about a re-fluffed Warforged Warlock? It's just a class / race combo. Warforged even takes a hit to casting stats, so if anything it's a sub-optimal, if awesomly flavorful choice.
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2011-08-20, 08:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-08-20, 08:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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As always, I bring in my example of my [3.5, obviously] warforged DFA who had absolutely nothing to do with dragons and who was instead a direct ripoff of Inspector Gadget. (Go Go Gadget Hot Glue!) All of his abilities were Go Go Gadget something-or-other. He also got all of his items made as attached or embedded components, so he had all kinds of things popping into and out of his body with a simple GGG declaration.
In D&D 4e, I play my Runepriest as a Truenamer (or, if you catch me on a punny day, a Rune Aimer), but that's not so much "refluffing" as "finishing what WotC started."
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Had a Spirit Shaman who was quite literally a hippy a while back. Bought as much hempen rope as he could and started smoking it. He ended up getting killed by a tree that decided to hug him (ie. he was hiding in a tree while incorporeal when someone dispelled magic on the area. DM ruled that I got stuck in the tree).
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The most annoying (and yet quite clever) was when a DM of ours refluffed the choker as a jack-in-the-box for a christmas adventure we did. Damndable thing near killed my char too.
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2011-08-20, 09:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-08-20, 11:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Strangest refluffs?
refluffed binders and warlocks that i ended up not using:
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The GodFire burned and reacted and brought forth the lands and the skies and the seas. All things come from the initial chain reaction. This new world even began to birth people, all who worshipped the first ones, the old gods. But the first ones, not being of this world but before it, found they had difficulty maintaining a connection to it. So they taught these people how to call forth the first ones and to anchor them in their very souls.
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2011-08-21, 12:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, I learned a good lesson on refluffing from reading a story on these boards. The DM's players knew the MM inside and out just through sheer amount of play, so he needed to give them an unexpected challenge. They ended up fighting a huge cat like creature on fire that tore through the party. They were utterly terrified.
It turned out that it was an Elephant with a single template, Fiendish I think or some kind of elemental kind. Replace the bash with claws but that was about it.
I didn't so much refluff a creature but I modified it's description so much no one knew what it was. It was a literal hill of rock that could move in the semi-shape of an animal. It would boulder through people and smash them underneath it. It was an advanced (huge) Rhino with the Mineral Warrior template. No one guessed.
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2011-08-21, 01:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Strangest refluffs?
True enough; presumably (from what I've seen so far) though, leotards are actually a known garment in the setting worn for acrobatics and whatnot (as we know them), so that's one thing. I think the idea was just that the protective aspect is inconspicuous, not the character herself, going around in a leotard; like wearing a bulletproof vest under your jacket (only in this case the vest is visible, except that it doesn't look like a bulletproof vest)... or something.
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2011-08-21, 02:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Once upon a time we played a d20 future game. It was zombie apocalypse on the moon. My character went to Moon High. Everything we fought were dnd monsters refluffed to be plant based zombie mutants. Some of the notable ones were a zombie mutant girallon, which was just a gorilla escaped from the zoo that grew more arms.
There was also a thing described to us as 'basically picture a grey render, but its 40 feet tall and has a plant zombie wizard riding on the back'.
By the way, there was a wizard who was fluffed as a plant zombie. His spells were changed to reflect this. It was wicked. I hit him with a Gravball Stick. He didn't die.I used to do avatars on request, feel free to use them.
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2011-08-21, 09:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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I got a DM to pass the Jedi Guardian from Starwars d20 after some re-flavoring and minor tweaks. I re-fluffed it as an order of Lawful Good knights from the elemental planes. You didn't start with a lightsaber but instead had to go on a pilgrimage to an elemental plane to find a focus crystal to craft one. The time you could survive such a quest is about the time the lightsaber wouldn't be a game-breaker anymore. The lightsaber did energy damage based on the plane the focus crystal came from (Fire, Cold, Acid, Lightning). Using force powers dealt non-lethal damage to the Jedi instead of costing Vitality and some of the powers were reworked to fit D&D's power scale. For example my ice-energy variant of force lightning whose damage actually increased with the skill's result instead of a static 3d6 whether you're level 1 or 20. Also darkside points were out, D&D has its own alignment system and attacking people with energy damage is hardly the paragon of evil in it.
The DM who passed it always had a lot of love for planes and planar politics so my character concept fit in much better than I had ever expected.Last edited by Captain Six; 2011-08-21 at 09:28 AM.
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Re: Strangest refluffs?
Well, it wasn't a game, but in a series of books I once read, the author re-fluffed a simple ring of invisibility in a children's book into the One Ring of Power which needed to be destroyed, requiring the heroes to take on a quest to a volcano in the heart of the evil realm over the course of a three-book epic to end the threat of the Dark Lord forever.
The author also re-fluffed a comic-relief gardener into a great warrior who could slay giant spiders and storm an orc fortress.
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2011-08-21, 10:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Attempt at converting the characters of Touhou to the world of D&D 3.5: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=181050
Attempt at converting Berserk characters to 3.5: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=186155
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