His parents died under mysterious circumstances everyone believes a bear killed his parents. (Story is an elven man is a mentor to a young human boy. Even when I go out of my way to try and come up with every possible thing they could do, they manage to do something unexpected.
When I’m DM, I’m almost constantly caught off guard by the things my players do. (Unfortunately our consistent party tends to be just three people: myself, my husband, and a friend of ours. “Make the noises that the little ones are making. The away team is threatened by a Large Animal protecting its young. (“It seemed lonely, so I was talking to it. Sounded kinda dumb.”)Īlien is alarmed to hear the sound of two Dangerous Animals coming from the containment room. (“As soon as he leaves, I’m gonna do the sound of a failing hover engine, okay? Just see where he looks first!”)Īlien hears a different noise and a thud, then “Sorry, I tripped.” (”But you squeaked.” “Yeah, didn’t mean to.
What if that was a special skill of ours that was constantly surprising the aliens?Īlien talks about human like s/he’s not there, only to be shocked when its own language comes out of that strange little mouth.Īlien can’t figure out WHAT that noise onboard is, only to find human crewmate pranking it. We can do impressions of anything, and some of us are really good at it. It seems to always be the case that aliens have names that are “unpronounceable by the human tongue.” But, y’know, humans are actually really good mimics.