Comments on: Find a GMing Mascot

By: Jeff Rients

Jeff Rients — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:59:54 +0000

I finally posted a pic of mine:

http://jrients.blogspot.com/2007/09/my-mascot.html

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:29:57 +0000

Okay, these sound awesome — more of you need to follow Ken’s lead, and share pictures of your GMing mascots!

Hmmmm. If enough folks were interested in trying out Flickr, this would make a great photo group…

By: ScottM

ScottM — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:25:20 +0000

We’ve never stumbled into a mascot… now you have me thinking. Though some “props” only barely apply… if they recurred, I suppose they might make the transition to mascot. Hmm.

By: Allen V

Allen V — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:01:15 +0000

Mine is a small plush Cthulu… cuddly and
evil. Like the skull, I always tell people he
improves my die rolls.

By: Craig L

Craig L — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:28:59 +0000

When my DM was running his homebrew game, we’d met with the NPC that would eventually be the campaign boss (so to speak). Once we found out that this guy was Serious Business, our DM took out his miniature and stuck it on top of the cabinets that faced our gaming table, so for months this evil looking guy with a big black sword was staring down at us from on high.

By: Adam C

Adam C — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:44:01 +0000

I wasn’t GMing, but I bought a C3POtato head for our Star Wars campaign, which was kind of like the mascot for the whole group.

By: clem

clem — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:55:13 +0000

My current campaign is pirate themed. When it is time to start play, i ceremoniously set up a small skull and crossbones flag. When I want to put my players on edge a bit, I have it at half mast.

By: Ashy

Ashy — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:43:14 +0000

Oh yea – we have “Snuffy, the Patron Saint of Gaming” – a small, stuffed snuffleupagus! You have to rub his trunk for good die rolls!!

By: Ken Newquist

Ken Newquist — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:27:44 +0000

Our long-running mascot is Jabu, to whom we make sacrifices of rum, beer, soda (whatever we have handy, but clearly the more alcohol, the happier Jabu is and thus, the more he favors your dice.

By: Telas

Telas — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:53:07 +0000

Not really a mascot, but I do have my Black Dice of Death, a set of large black dice (30-40mm) that I roll in the open.

The very first time I used them, I made something like 5 of 6 difficult saves. The rest of the combat I critted more than a few times, and hit far more often than I should have.

Obviously, the players didn’t like them. So they stayed.

By: gospog

gospog — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:46:05 +0000

When my Players feel like they are being railroaded or treated unfairly, they produce a foot tall frog garden ornament. The frog has it’s little flippers on it’s belly like it is laughing. Blu-tac was used to attach a giant plastic D6 to its’ belly with “1″ facing up.

The frog would often admonish me in the early years of D&D 3.0.

Years later, I found a slightly larger frog wearing an impressive gold crown and sitting on a perfect sphere (another garden decoration). The next time that “The Players’ frog” made an appearance, “The GM’s Frog” appeared to shout him down.

I think you kind of had to be there but both frogs still hang out in the game room. So everyone has a mascot, potentially.

By: DNAphil

DNAphil — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:07:52 +0000

LOL…your timing is great. A few weeks before GenCon I had gotten my son a kids meal at Burger King, and they had these big-head Spiderman figures in it.

So I had the figure in the basement at our Gaming Table, and nicked named him Encephalitic Spiderman.

When one of the players asked for a ruling, I picked up the figure and said, “Encephalitic Spiderman says, ‘I’ll allow it’”. The table broke up laughing, and since then Encephalitic Spiderman is on the table next to me when we play.