Yeah, honestly this time they did try to accomplish the mission. Aside from Tara and Alice going straight to the party hall with their hostage, of course.
Speaking from experience that is how it usually goes. Opening a simple locked door? Impossible. Snipe the lich from across the battlefield with a bottle? Natural 20.
For Failure I’ll usually have them wake up naked on a prison galley, a slave market in the City of Dis, or in the pantry of a hill giant trading post.
For batshit I have a plausible random combat that I can distract them with while I try to improvise a railroad back to the plot.
9 thoughts on “A Memorable Party #10”
Annelise
So that’s why Sarah was doing so well at finding stuff out – she was rolling 20s for speech checks !
Hydreichronos
Rookie mistake, Noah… you ALWAYS anticipate the players botching the easy stuff and crushing the hard stuff.
Satyr
First rule of D&D. Players will always manage to take a simple situation and absolutely turn it into the most convoluted fuster cluck imaginable.
Mac
BEVERLY IN GLASSES BEVERLY IN GLASSES BEVERLY IN GLASSES
Jaded Cynic
IKR? She MUST have been reading at some time in the past; can’t believe I forgot how awesome she looks like that. <3
Michael Steamweed
Panel 4: Poor Noah! I want to hug him out of sympathy. Been there many times! 😀
BossBoro
Yeah, honestly this time they did try to accomplish the mission. Aside from Tara and Alice going straight to the party hall with their hostage, of course.
Witch of many jobs
Speaking from experience that is how it usually goes. Opening a simple locked door? Impossible. Snipe the lich from across the battlefield with a bottle? Natural 20.
Good for Thought
When I DM I try to have response matrix.
Success – Failure – Batshit Crazy
For Failure I’ll usually have them wake up naked on a prison galley, a slave market in the City of Dis, or in the pantry of a hill giant trading post.
For batshit I have a plausible random combat that I can distract them with while I try to improvise a railroad back to the plot.