Dordledum
Commander
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Netherlands
 | | 03/29/2006 1:27 PM |
| In a FR-campaign last week, I as a player (Rogue11/Thief-acrobat4) tried (with my party) to sneak into a Barbarian fortress. Killed guard number 1, no problem. Sneaked through guardpost number 2, no problem. I try to open the lock to guard tower, I fail. Guards on other side of the door get inquisitive. I'll spell out the conversation:
Barbarian Guard (DM): Who is there?
Me: I could ask the same, who are YOU?
Barbarian (DM): I am Svid, I guard this tower, do you know the password?
Me: Off course I know the password! Stupid question! As matter of fact: Do you know the password? You could be some sort of intruder.
DM: roll a bluff-check
⎮!!! (natural 20=30 + 4)]
Barbarian: Me innocent, password is ravenblood.
Me:very well, now open this door!
needless to say I caught the guard flatfooted and sneak-attacked him for 57 damage, and he only had 19 hitpoints.
[:)]
I thought these things only happened in bad comedy movies.
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Ghendar
Warlord
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In the constellation of Cygnus, or Central Connecticut
| | 03/29/2006 2:07 PM |
| One of my favs was watching the party mage convince a group of kobolds to get close together so he could cast some "beneficial" magic on them that would make them strong. They all scootched close together.
The mage promptly fireballed the whole lot of them. [:D] | |
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Rhydur
Sneak
62 Posts
| | 03/29/2006 3:45 PM |
| | Through some good rolls as well as role playing, the group in my campaign once convinced some temple guards to not only let the group into the cell room and hand them over the prisoners, but to also lock themelves in the cells ("to make sure the cells are secure"). They then left the dismayed guards locked in the cells, and proceded to raid the the rest of temple! | |
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LargeMarmot
Sergeant
463 Posts
| | 03/29/2006 4:31 PM |
| | This is what makes roleplaying what it is an not simply a longer board game. I used to barter my way out of battles alot back as a 2nd ed cleric. | |
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Shoe
Sergeant
804 Posts
| | 03/29/2006 4:41 PM |
| This one time, at.. well..
anyway.
Once, I had a player use Bluff and Diplomacy to convince one of two hulking Athachs that drinking a specific potion would make him stronger. The athach believed him, and quaffed the potion of gaseous form. The party then cleaned up the other one. | |
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driordan
Sneak
52 Posts
| | 03/30/2006 4:54 AM |
| Not through a clever use of skills (it was 2ED), but a clever use of spells . . .
I once had a player in my campaign who's character polymorphed himself into an 'attractive' female hobgoblinin order to infiltrate a hobgoblinin tribe. He/she wound up in the chief's chambers that night (for what, you can imagine - in one of the most self-depredating incidents I've ever seen in game), latter killing the chief in his sleep. The party then attacked the camp from the inside out and eventually took control of / enslaved the tribe. (Hey, they were evil. The PC's, that is.) | |
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zenthrus
Commander
4788 Posts
SLC, UT
| | 03/30/2006 4:50 PM |
| I had a bit of party vs. party humor with intriguing spell use.
The party found a Mirthral Shirt +2 after a pretty major series of battles. The party rogue slight-of-handed it into his Handy Haver. Later he had it appraised by a wizard. Knowing the expense but wanting to keep it for himself rather than argue over it he cashed out several other items he had from previous loot divies. He then took a regular chain shirt and had the wizard cast Nystul's Magic Aura and Presdigitation on it so it detected as magic and looked like Mithral. He then pulled a bait and switch with the party Warlock (who was having an extremely hard time NOT metagaming the whole ordeal). Eventually the Warlock noticed that his "Mithral" shirt was rather heavy for Mithral and had it appraised. The Dwarven smith immediately noticed that the weight was wrong and about that time the presdigitation wore off. He takes it back to the rogue to complain that it's just an ordinary chain shirt. The rogue agrees to take it back and slips off somewhere to change into the real mithral shirt (which resizes to fit his halfling frame). He then finds the warlock and shows off his shiny, new armor. The warlock is baffled and walks off in disgust.
The reason this worked so well is the rogue kept passing out bags of gold to the party for various reasons. Ultimately he managed to ensure the treasure had been divied in a balanced manner and managed to keep the armor he was coveting. | |
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Thenameless
Warlord
8879 Posts
The Fortress of Solitude
| | 03/31/2006 4:54 AM |
| | Dordledum, it's times like these that give the RPG a much richer feel than skirmish. Kudos to the DM as well for playing along. | |
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Fry
Underboss
1724 Posts
| | 03/31/2006 6:23 AM |
| Heh, for some reason this reminds me of the best use of a low level spell I've ever heard of:
For some reason, the party Cavalier(1st ed.) was in trouble with some of the locals and had to duel two of them in succession. The party was correctly able to assess that enemy duelist #1 was wielding a pretty badass magical sword because of the marginal attack rolls the guy was scoring hits with. During the brief heal-up session between the first fight and the second fight, the party bard noticed the sword getting switched from the fallen enemy to enemy duelist #2, and launched into a big speech for the crowd, recapping how glorious the previous battle was, and how the next would surely be a battle to remember, culminating with a statement to the effect of "my friend here would surely be honored if the two of you were to exchange blades prior to battle."
Party Cleric: cast command (give a one word command to the target, which the target must follow). What word? "Accept."
Enemy Duelist #2: "Uh, ok." (hands over badass magical sword)
Cavalier proceeded to mop the floor with duelist #2, much to the dismay of the evildoers who set the whole thing up. | |
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