Except the animals . <| sep |> Yeah he has . After last year ' s slump it ' s really nice to see him do well . <| sep |> I was helping a friend play test a varient DnD based on DnD 2 nd ed preadvanced using schools to explain skills . I had a 3 rd level dwarf Martial artist I was testing and got sent on a quest to retrieve an orb of the Dragonkind . Guarded by a dragon The GM was playing a npc necromancer that was trying to get rid of my character . I did not care how absurd this sounded , it started as a pick up game with a throw away character My character was give a an amulet of etherialness and a bag og holding . Another gamer friend showed up and he got recruited to help . I explained the scenaro and his eyes got round . My character would distract the dragon guardian and his character , with the amulet and bag would search the cave . My first act was to toss my sword to the ground forcefully . The GM was confused . I said . I am third level ! The Sword is nonmagical . What am I going to do to a dragon ? A dragon came out and I told it , I was here to help it with its fight against humans . The Dragon and GM intrigued took my character inside and we discovered that there were actually 5 dragons guarding the orb . all evil . I started with knocik , knock jokes and went down hill from there . The GM told me as long as I can keep him laughing , the other player could keep searching . Eventually we got the orb , got away . found out later that this was part of the ongoing story arc for a major war that had recently stale mated . The Dragons could not just go back to their masters and tell them some wimpy dwarf named Duron had stolen the orb by telling jokes . so suddenly my 3 rd level Dwarf was now a 20 th level duel wielding swordomatic with screaming armor that beat all of them to the edge of death . meanwhile My character took the loot , gave it to the very surprised necromancer who without caring emptied his entire horde of loot into my characters and friend backpack . My character went on a drinking binge , while the forces of evil scoured the country side looking for him . Thats what turned into the Backstory . Duron the 3 rd level Dwarf was approached by the forces of light who had been blindsided AGAIN by the sudden eruption of war . They had heard rumors about a great dwarven warrior that had fought five evil dragons barehanded . Drunk Duron agreed to be the general of the armies . The GM wanted me to play my character as the general , I told him TBH all my character would do is get drunk and delegate the warbattles to the jr officers . The Light side started winning . He retired filthy rich , hero of the wars , drunk and still 3 rd level .