Here’s a little trinket I bought impulsively in Las Vegas last week. It’s supposed to be a variation on Mardi Gras beads but I immediately thought would be perfect in our gaming group. The player (or DM) has to wear it under two possible circumstances:
- When the player’s character fumbles in combat or rolls a Natural One (automatic failure) on a Saving Throw. Always a “D’oh!” moment when I am going to bear the brunt of a nasty magic spell.
- Whenever the player does something the rest of the group deems as a stupid move. What is classified as “stupid” is a matter of opinion yet I know a guy from my old Traveller campaign who’d be wearing it constantly. He (and by extension, his character) would blurt out (practically confess) everything to complete strangers when discretion was imperative. If he were Sam in The Lord of the Rings, it would’ve been a 30-minute film due to him telling every person he encountered that his friend Frodo has the Ring of Power and they’re on their way to Mt. Doom to destroy it.