... Get them to either use up all their spells on healings beforehand, or else make it highly desireable to save them for later. Maybe they know that some of...
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Michael Garcia
fratermax
Jan 30, 2009 2:31 am
__,_. More excellent ideas. Derek suggested depleting the PCs' oil supply. I like this, but I need to do it subtly. I could extend the tunnels a bit and get...
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Justin Berg
bergj89
Jan 30, 2009 2:42 am
MJ - Thanks as ever for the thoughtful response. I think that the situation with Donald will blow over. From what I know of him, I think that his...
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Eric VanDenhende
ericvandenhende
Jan 30, 2009 3:21 am
... This is kind of where I was going. Maybe the monks had some old evil artifact stashed and it's lost in the caves now. If the party stumbles over it and...
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I AM
o_i_am
Jan 30, 2009 3:30 am
Hey all, want to see what happens when the power goes out and people get bored? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sqQ1Wa5QSQ Check this out ;-) (we all had fun...
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Michael Garcia
fratermax
Jan 30, 2009 3:32 am
Guys, Each year, usually in October or November, I run a day-and-a-half-long, D&D, power-gaming session. We usually meet on Friday night, select characters,...
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Rick Vaughan
lunar_rickyv
Jan 30, 2009 3:33 am
You could tie her special abilities to an altar or figurine. Something the PCs could see but not necessarily associate with the bad stuff she is doing. Tie her...
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Michael Garcia
fratermax
Jan 30, 2009 3:39 am
Wait a minute... You're onto something. The Eaters-of-the-Dead are supposed to hibernate for decades at a time, right? Then they reappear and roam the...
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Michael Garcia
fratermax
Jan 30, 2009 3:42 am
Yes, Rick! In fact, the movie on which this is based, 13th Warrior, had in the lair a giant, grotesque, bulbous, female statue. It was soemthing like an...
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Eric VanDenhende
ericvandenhende
Jan 30, 2009 3:47 am
Hmmm...I think there was a Dr Who episode that sort of had this theme. They kept doing the same thing over and over until they could break out of the cycle....
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Eric VanDenhende
ericvandenhende
Jan 30, 2009 3:52 am
I like the flicker idea. You can do light and see 10'. Maybe an eater comes into view, maybe a friend. You don't know what will happen, things will pop into...
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Michael Garcia
fratermax
Jan 30, 2009 3:55 am
Hotmail® goes where you go. On a PC, on the Web, on your phone. ...
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Michael Garcia
fratermax
Jan 30, 2009 4:09 am
Ok. I'm not sure what happend to my last message. Sorry, everyone. It just said that I like the flicker idea, Eric, and the mufflling effect. That should...
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Ronald Oakes
ronboakes
Jan 30, 2009 6:20 am
... I don't know, for sure, about a Dr. Who episode or story that dealt with that, but it has been used several other times in SF. Off the top of my head, I...
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Icosahedrophilia - Ch...
rcheard
Jan 30, 2009 6:46 am
Hello all, ... I was thinking of stealing just this trope for a session of my current D&D 4e campaign. However, I'm having a hard time fleshing out the ...
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Charles Waterman
agapeesl
Jan 30, 2009 7:53 am
Justin - YOU rock, man! You clearly hear the heart behind my words, and I really appreciate that! And if I haven't said it before clearly - I DO appreciate...
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Charles Waterman
agapeesl
Jan 30, 2009 8:03 am
MJ Young wrote: <snip> I must therefore assume that in such a world, God is working through the agency of supernatural beings who are unlike Him in many...
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Charles Waterman
agapeesl
Jan 30, 2009 8:06 am
...didn't successful fantasy writer Raymond Feist say he got a lot of the ideas for his early novels from his rpg groups exploits? Chuck Waterman [Non-text...
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Charles Waterman
agapeesl
Jan 30, 2009 8:14 am
One last thing, Justin. I think you've got some ideas that might work for your wife about handling a character concept she can playact comfortably. ...
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Michael Garcia
fratermax
Jan 30, 2009 1:34 pm
Ok, Chris. Let's see if we can't make ground together on this. I have thought of a few things, though they're not campaign specific. I think I want the...
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vulcanstev
Jan 30, 2009 1:52 pm
Star Trek TNG has done a time loop episode. Stargate SG1 has done a timeloop episode. In the TNG show it was a temporal causality loop that was caused by a...
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Bryan Ray
bryanray73
Jan 30, 2009 4:41 pm
... Other examples of the trope I've seen recently (Warning! Spoilers ahead!): In SG-1, the only way to resolve the loop was to convince the man who had caused...
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Bryan Ray
bryanray73
Jan 30, 2009 4:52 pm
... If I recall correctly, you said that Kent's main exposure to the Forgotten Realms was Neverwinter Nights? If so, you've got a perfect "in," as Ao was...
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M. J. Young
tiras1
Jan 31, 2009 2:53 am
I don't recall the title of the Dr. Who episode, but it was in the Tom Baker/Romana II episodes. Some doppelganger being wanted to steal some powerful device,...
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M. J. Young
tiras1
Jan 31, 2009 3:05 am
Charles "Chuck" Waterman wrote, quoting me: ***** MJ Young wrote: <snip> I must therefore assume that in such a world, God is working through the agency of...
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Michael Garcia
fratermax
Jan 31, 2009 12:45 pm
Thanks, MJ. I didn't know of the Dr. Who episode. I do agree with your breakdown of Groundhog Day. It is too vague, though it' a comedy, so few people care. ...
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Bryan Ray
bryanray73
Jan 31, 2009 5:47 pm
... I generally approach something like this top-down: I would determine who is causing the loop and why, then how, then figure out how it might be broken. And...
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Eric VanDenhende
ericvandenhende
Jan 31, 2009 7:41 pm
That wasn't the Dr Who episode I was thinking of. I had to ask my kids about it, and the one they mentioned wasn't what I had in my mind but yet it's an...
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Tom Vasel
kcisnow
Jan 31, 2009 9:50 pm
Episode # 140 has been posted! http://audio.funagain.com/thedicetower/TDT140-TheDiceTower-Episode140.mp3 This is the last in a three-parter in which Tom...
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Ron Oakes
ronboakes
Feb 1, 2009 3:39 am
... As an aside, I sat on a panel at Interaction, the 2005 Worldcon in Glasgow, with the writer of this episode. The panel was "The Past, Present and Future...
