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Jarren Longblade
Seeker
USA
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 Posted - 29 May 2004 : 05:58:39
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I was running a campaign for some freinds they had battled long and hard through many battles they always depended on the parties 1/2 orc fighter, when the reached the end of the adventure and entered the Wizard's casting chamber to fight the evil Mage and the demon he summoned, the fight was progressing in the favor of the players the 1/2 orc doing terrible damage against the demon, so the players were able to bring him down faster than I would have liked. When they moved to attack the mage I looked at the 1/2 orc character and nodded at him, he then turned at attacked his own party members. After the inital shock of him attacking their players the changed tatics and though they were terribly wounded and close to death managed to kill the mage and 1/2 orc character. They searched the room found a hidden door that open into a small cell room with the 1/2 orc dead on the floor. As they looked about confused they turned back to the fallen 1/2 orc to see it revert to is Doppleganger form. The player who was the 1/2 orc played his part as the trader doppleganger perfect. After raising the real 1/2 orc they were able to find out that he was abuducted the night before the attack on the tower and killed so the Doppleganger could assume his identity.
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One of the few thing you don't want to hear while deer hunting with your brother-in-law "DUCK" |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Thelonius
Senior Scribe
Spain
730 Posts |
Posted - 29 May 2004 : 09:03:27
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Hey this was a real evil-madness trick. ... Nice  |
"If you are to truly understand, then you will need the contrast, not adherence to a single ideal." - Kreia
"I THINK I JUST HAD ANOTHER NEAR-RINCEWIND EXPERIENCE"- Discworld's Death frustrated after Rincewind scapes his grasp... again.
"I am death, come for thee" - Nimbul, from Baldur's Gate I just before being badly spanked
Sapientia sola libertas est |
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Thelonius
Senior Scribe
Spain
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Posted - 29 May 2004 : 09:06:45
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I remember a fight against five fire giants. The were in a great room, rounded of walls and doors. The first time my party tried to kill them, many of them were really bad-injured, so we get out. The second time i told them i had a plan. I encouraged our ranger to hide in shadows and attack one of the giants, they got angry, and chased the ranger who dissapeared through one of the doors, and killed the five giants all alone... they couldn't pass through the door!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  |
"If you are to truly understand, then you will need the contrast, not adherence to a single ideal." - Kreia
"I THINK I JUST HAD ANOTHER NEAR-RINCEWIND EXPERIENCE"- Discworld's Death frustrated after Rincewind scapes his grasp... again.
"I am death, come for thee" - Nimbul, from Baldur's Gate I just before being badly spanked
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Cherrn
Learned Scribe
Denmark
323 Posts |
Posted - 31 May 2004 : 02:48:38
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Hmmm I did this to my players once. Happened in my homebrew world.
Kren the Marauder was conquering the known world, having taken the old empire he moved his massive armies north and laid siege to the 8 City States of Alduur. The City States, who had been on very bad terms with the old Empire and eachother for a very long time, was quickly overrun by the powers of Kren and his armies. A small resistance group formed in the old Empire, the leaders ended up being the PCs and some others. They quickly grew stronger and stronger and soon they had a small specialized army themselves. They moved against the southern most city of the 8 City States to liberate it and gain support. They defeated Krens garrison stationed there and thus entered the city triumphantly. When they entered they were met with boos, people throwing garbage at them, and shouting nasty words at them such as rapists and childmurderers. They thought that was rather odd, so the PCs started investigating. As it turned, one of the smaller outlying villages had met with some of Kren's soldiers who stationed a small garrison there. Kren's soldiers then worked on becoming well-liked by the population, and had succeeded, only to later have tell the villagers that they had to leave because they were needed up north. They left a few soldiers behind though. Then just about a week later a small army wearing rebellion insignia arrived in the village. They slaughtered all the men and the remaining soldiers, and raped the women, leaving only the women and children alive.
So Kren built up trust with the villagers, had his own soldiers, and the men in the village killed by his own troops wearing fake rebellion insignia, just to make the rebellion look bad and loose a lot of their support.
One of my players felt so powerless that he wanted to retire his character right then and there. He really felt how it was like to be the good hero who always had to do the right thing, fighting aCE madman who didn't care about what he did.
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A wise man from Calimport once told me: "If a merchant puts sand in the flask of oil he's trying to sell you, then he isn't trying to sell you sand..." |
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The Cardinal
Senior Scribe
Canada
647 Posts |
Posted - 31 May 2004 : 08:43:04
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| That very good trick! Make them shocked, bet us. That the think about rebellions, always two sides. Sounds like now dead guards was good guys though working for evil boss. |
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Sarta
Senior Scribe
USA
505 Posts |
Posted - 31 May 2004 : 09:17:05
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My favorite trick I've played was as a player against another player. I made up a fake name and began occasionally sending death threats to his character by this phony person through several intermediaries. I'd email the dm before the game session about what I was doing and how I was going about it. At some point during the sessions the DM would present the packages or letters to the pc in question. The rest of the players in the group were completely certain that it was a dm storyline and the character began taking all kinds of insane precautions to keep himself safe.
I had no intention of acting on it, my character had a sick sense of humor and just thought it was funny.
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SoulLord
Seeker
Mexico
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Posted - 02 Jun 2004 : 00:37:17
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This wasnt actually played by me but by a fellow dm
a group of players had entered a room with a zone of darkness on it
all around it were corpses and signs of a recent battle including an impaled bugbear while sounds of battle ensued from the darkness.
as some of the players cautiously moved inside the darkness the impaled assasain bugbear which had been studyng one of the pc who remained outside launched the spear at the unfortunate pc.
who was killed the rest of the pc when they went out of the darkness found out his friend impaled by the spear and no bugbear at least for the time being....
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Capn Charlie
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 02 Jun 2004 : 02:54:17
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Ok, I was running through the module Tears Twilight Hollow(from Dungeon #90) and at one point they were exploring some ancient Talosian ruins, and found in a chamber a mechanical construct beholder, which could be ridden in and fire 8 wands from it's "eyestalks". Not wanting my players to have access to such an impressive device at their current level, I described it and my players percieved it to be a currently innactive construct. I even fed their misconception by friendly suggesting dropping a true strike on the Barbarian and him max power attacking it.
THey charged in, fiercely battering the device, then the next round comes around and it has still ot moved. They hammer at it again. And again. Still nothing. They stop, and begin to examine it ore closely, and realize their mistake.
They still took it, but had to find a Favorite NPC of mine to repair it.
Another time my players had inflitrated the crypt of a lich in the Battle of Bones(FRCS pg. 222), dispatched the creature and searched for his phylactery. After finding the cunningly hid object that radiated evil and necromancy, they destroyed it, and with a wailing of the damned and a gust of fetid wind, they ended forever the creatures existence.
Looting the tomb they found the haphazard belongings of the lich including some equipment of former, and less succesful, adventurers. The wizard in the group spotting a fine rapier that identified to have some great qualities claimed it as his share.
THe creature slain, they continued on their journey to cormyr.
Unbeknownst to them however, the object they thought was a phylactery was indeed a magic item designed to appear to be one. It of course had some nice wards on it to actiuvate when it was destroyed. 5 days later at camp, on the hour of midnight, the lich reformed next to it's phylactery: which was currently resting in the scabbard of the wizard!
After a pitched battle, and several almost dying they managed to lay the beast low again, and sadly destroyed the sword. From this day forth, all magical items retrieved from the lair of a lich face a quarentine of one tenday before being claimed or sold. |
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Best Trick you've played against your Players
