dmzane
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Post by dmzane on Sept 13, 2014 1:02:44 GMT
I can see my group figuring this out (after some rp) and then the pally would try and figure out how to get the skeleton out for proper burial. I'd say 20 % of the coppers would do the trick.
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Post by thedmg on Sept 13, 2014 9:09:28 GMT
Indeed
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Post by onethatwas on Sept 14, 2014 16:27:05 GMT
The issue then comes about if the trap works to stop players from using the barbarians lockpick...aka, the adamantine weapon to hack through the wall... Who says they have an adamantium weapon? I love treasure based traps...the dilemna of the players having to choose between their own greed or survival is very classic, but when it comes to treasure, even if its not a deadly trap, there should always be a catch.
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sotf
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Post by sotf on Sept 14, 2014 18:43:12 GMT
The issue then comes about if the trap works to stop players from using the barbarians lockpick...aka, the adamantine weapon to hack through the wall... Who says they have an adamantium weapon? I love treasure based traps...the dilemna of the players having to choose between their own greed or survival is very classic, but when it comes to treasure, even if its not a deadly trap, there should always be a catch. Knowing my party, they'd remember the location and come back specifically to spite the trap if they didn't, these are players whose reaction to some of the Gygaxian style dungeons was to get their hands on adamantium pick axes and go through the walls, and haul chunks of the dungeon itself away for sale.
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Post by DarthTaco18 on Sept 14, 2014 19:25:31 GMT
The issue then comes about if the trap works to stop players from using the barbarians lockpick...aka, the adamantine weapon to hack through the wall... ooo...good point. But if the adamantine weapon did not come from the treasure pile the adamantine weapon would just go through the wall.(door?) Most stone walls a huge amount of hp so just hacking at it would take a long time too, but after trying to smash the original entrance the first time and failing most of my give up rather than looking for the "real" walls however.
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Post by thedmg on Sept 14, 2014 21:07:17 GMT
They pick through the walls and lava starts to pour in... now they have a time limit...
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Post by onethatwas on Sept 15, 2014 4:12:46 GMT
That'll teach those overly clever PCs...
I like to use the "Indiana Jones" or "The Mummy" tricks...the dungeons where these awesome treasures are hid are in exceptionally difficult to find locations, and rigged to destruct upon exploration and plundering. Some traps just can't be overcome with a simple set of theives tools.
Also, they're magically sealed and on time triggers...if the players don't get out with any treasure, they aren't going back because the ruin shifted out of reality and is adrift in the planes for the next thousand years...
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Aeldrei
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Post by Aeldrei on Sept 17, 2014 14:44:42 GMT
This is wonderful! A perfect set-up for my wind-up to our current campaign. Stealing and running!
I need to give credit, though. Any choices on what I should name the corpse in the corner?
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Post by DarthTaco18 on Sept 17, 2014 15:26:00 GMT
This is wonderful! A perfect set-up for my wind-up to our current campaign. Stealing and running! I need to give credit, though. Any choices on what I should name the corpse in the corner? Bruhndir the dwarf! It's a dwarf barbarian on of my players played. Had an unbelievable AC but the fool couldn't resist a good treasure. It was to the point he would go head on into the most dangerous situations just to grab the loot. Dragon hoard? great I'll get it. Dragon's coming home? Let me think about this. Dragon is coming into it's layer? I know lets just kill the thing so we don't have bargain for our lives and keep the treasure! Really big dragon? I hope to Heironeus that someone packed a charm spell or lots of healing cause this thing will probably kill me. But I'm gonna go for it anyway, I mean, LOOK AT ALL THAT TREASURE!!! The party had to force him to tutor under a master trapsmith just so he could learn. If it obviously looks like a trap, the it is probably a trap.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Oct 5, 2014 0:07:30 GMT
or even stops druids from shaping stone out of the room !
all of this quite easy to solve... make the walls magically invulnérables to everything. the room is cursed after all.
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Post by thedmg on Oct 5, 2014 14:17:04 GMT
I actually used this trap on the weekend. One of my players who has played in my games for 10 years took one look at the treasure and said "F#&K this, I'm getting the hell out of here!". However, curiosity got the better of the rest... Only took about 5 minutes for them to sort it out though
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Post by DnDPaladin on Oct 6, 2014 11:30:55 GMT
i Wonder, as a paladin... would donating the skeleton items to the treasure free him from the curse ?
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Post by DarthTaco18 on Oct 6, 2014 16:04:55 GMT
i Wonder, as a paladin... would donating the skeleton items to the treasure free him from the curse ? as a dm I would say only if the skeleton's loot was equal to 25% of his total wealth on hand. (assuming the donation is based on wealth on hand and not just total personal wealth)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2014 23:32:30 GMT
my players would shoot me. then just move their mini's back into the hallway tile.. (only half joking)
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Post by thedmg on Oct 12, 2014 14:08:24 GMT
i Wonder, as a paladin... would donating the skeleton items to the treasure free him from the curse ? Yes.
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Post by onethatwas on Oct 12, 2014 16:28:39 GMT
Interesting question...does etherealness overcome the trap? Or is the trap resistant to incorpereal creatures? How about other methods of teleportation/astral travel/plane shifting (such as Rope Trick or Leomund's Tiny Hut)?
If this trap really overcomes all methods of circumvention, then it begs the question: who made the trap, and why? It obviously is a really gnarly, well thought out trap, so it's creator must be someone with some power (arcane most likely).
But why make the trap? Clever though it is, I would be asking these questions as a player. As a DM, I would be supplying answers via history, even making a campaign revolving around it...
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Post by DnDPaladin on Oct 13, 2014 1:39:02 GMT
i Wonder, as a paladin... would donating the skeleton items to the treasure free him from the curse ? Yes. so the others would hate me, but at least i would of freed the poor soul ! cool !
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Post by thedmg on Oct 13, 2014 8:24:46 GMT
It will free his bones. What you choose to do with them thereafter is your business
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Post by DnDPaladin on Oct 15, 2014 0:07:00 GMT
was wondering, does the trap reset for a person ? like if they got out of th eroom, what would of hapenned if that same person would go back in ?
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Post by thedmg on Oct 15, 2014 3:36:21 GMT
was wondering, does the trap reset for a person ? like if they got out of th eroom, what would of hapenned if that same person would go back in ? The trap continues to work, there is no reset. If you pick up the treasure you are trapped and have to give up 25%. If you run out of money... you run out of options
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