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gregreid
Warrior
276 Posts
    
 | | 10/02/2005 11:11 AM |
| | recovered topic 9384 | |
Champion of the Wolf
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gregreid
Warrior
276 Posts
| | 10/02/2005 11:11 AM |
| Pissed...
If I had been the DM, I would have changed the puzzle. | |
Champion of the Wolf
Trades:Burned: 1 / Pending: 0 / Completed: 14
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Pale Rider
Underboss
1006 Posts
London, Ontario, Canada
| | 10/02/2005 11:46 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by gregreid
Pissed...
If I had been the DM, I would have changed the puzzle.
In the Dm defense (and he did take a lot of abuse last night from all of the players) he did alter one of the other puzzles (mainly due to not having access to a colour photocopier in time)- I was just floored he allowed this one. | |
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Testament
Underboss
1397 Posts
| | 10/03/2005 12:54 AM |
| So wait, you need to write out
543 60871...HOW IN THE NAME OF SWEET SWORD-CHUCKING JESUS DO YOU DO N? | |
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MerricB
Underboss
2350 Posts
Australia
| | 10/03/2005 1:17 AM |
| Rotate a 2 ninety degrees and you have a N. [:)]
The puzzle notes that a DC 20 Decipher Script check will alert a PC to the fact that the numbers look like letters.
Cheers! | |
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CarrionCrawler
Underboss
1760 Posts
| | 10/03/2005 2:05 AM |
| | I would have felt robbed. I mean, unless he mentioned the Dicipher Script thing right away....Still, that puzzle is just too....I don't know...modern. Yuck! | |
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Testament
Underboss
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bshugg
Underboss
1821 Posts
| | 10/03/2005 9:24 AM |
| In the authors defense, the numbers on the tokens are somewhat stylized and sort of look like letters.
Did your DM print them out and hand you tokens? If he did when they are laid out on a table some will be sideways and players will pick up on the fact that they could be used as letters. When I used it I slightly modified the text a bit to emphasise the "she-goblin" part a bit. The players figured it out, but there were a few groans. | |
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Pale Rider
Underboss
1006 Posts
London, Ontario, Canada
| | 10/03/2005 9:32 AM |
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Originally posted by bshugg
In the authors defense, the numbers on the tokens are somewhat stylized and sort of look like letters.
Did your DM print them out and hand you tokens? If he did when they are laid out on a table some will be sideways and players will pick up on the fact that they could be used as letters. When I used it I slightly modified the text a bit to emphasise the "she-goblin" part a bit. The players figured it out, but there were a few groans.
Actually according to the author (in a thread on ENWorld) the tokens aren't stylized at all to look like letters. His orignal designs were but the ones in the magazine are just numbers - plain and simple. We had the printed out tokens in front of us and no one at the table got any idea they could be used as letters, they simply don't look like letters no matter what angle you look at them.
We were never told about any Decipher Script check. | |
Completed Trades: Crescent Hawk, Vimes, demagogue, vidman, Eric is God, Strachan Fireblade, FungiMuncher, Dudeeehm, Shasack, gausse, kyrin, nyjastul69
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Pale Rider
Underboss
1006 Posts
London, Ontario, Canada
| | 10/03/2005 9:34 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by MerricB
Rotate a 2 ninety degrees and you have a N. [:)]
The puzzle notes that a DC 20 Decipher Script check will alert a PC to the fact that the numbers look like letters.
Cheers!
If any of the numbers actually looked anything like letters then I could see it. They simply don't. | |
Completed Trades: Crescent Hawk, Vimes, demagogue, vidman, Eric is God, Strachan Fireblade, FungiMuncher, Dudeeehm, Shasack, gausse, kyrin, nyjastul69
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Can of the Cave Beer
Commander
2838 Posts
| | 10/03/2005 10:38 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Pale Rider
We were never told about any Decipher Script check.
Ugh, I would have been very irritated with the DM for that. I'm all for roleplaying, but there comes a time when you have to give the dice a chance to bail you out.
Of course, were I a player, I probably would have asked if there were a roll that my I could make to see if my character could figure it out. | |
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