After Saturday's session, where they poked along long enough to cause this to bleed over to the next session, so I'm in limbo as to what they are going to do next. Next session is in 2 weeks.
I do agree with BigLizard with regards to the old modules. This one supposed that the party would go to a tavern and allow themselves to get drunk under the tables and robbed. I'm trying to NOT railroad the party, mainly because I hate that kind of tactic.
Instead, I may just have the Sahuagan venture into the town to, erm, request that they hand over their holy relic, and skip the human fanatic trying to steal it to run off for a reward. I half expect them to just hand it over after a few days of carrying the eye around. It's not exactly a wholesome item.
So they have obtained a petrified eye right? I bet they just put it in a bag or something? Okay I got you
You want this to be an adventure hook, the worst thing that can happen is the players beat it before the hook so you need something that it seems like they can fight but can’t.
So I would go with temporary petrifaction - they can still make saving throws to try and fight it off but what you want to do is give them a bunch of red herrings so they don’t know it’s the gem. Have them be camped out, maybe throw in flavour about some wild mushrooms, players will definitely pick and cook, they can’t help themselves. There is a weird fauna. The clearing they are camped in has a rick formation that on inspection turns out to be Ruin’s. And then as they are sat down eating whoever had to lowest constitution starts to feel a stiffening pain and as they stand up there legs become stone.
theres panic and they try and work out what is happening, maybe somebody casts a greater restoration it works, but the petrification keeps coming. Taking more they pull at red herring thread after the other. Nothing works and then as the final party member is just a head losing consciousness on a stone body the sahaguin approach and using stone tools take the eye and place it in a stone container and leave.
and then the final player succumbs to petrification....until the next dawn
Idea: Make the warforged just freak out. Put some crazy magic nanoconstructs somewhere that cause an insane hallucination for other constructs. The floor could turn to cheese and the warforged could sink into it. The warforged could turn to cheese and start unwillingly eating themselves. The food could turn into cheese! Or maybe something less cheese-related, like maybe the roof and walls start raising and the warforged is hundreds of meters in the air. And if they try to walk, the floor moves backwards. And if they try to touch the roof, everything is suddenly made of coloured ants. And if they keep eating, they land on the moon. It doesn't have to make sense! It's a hallucination!
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Re: warforged - would a giant magnet work?
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It would immobilize one, but would not render it unconscious. Warforged are constructs, not robots. You can't short them out like that.
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Thanks for all the replies and the great ideas.
After Saturday's session, where they poked along long enough to cause this to bleed over to the next session, so I'm in limbo as to what they are going to do next. Next session is in 2 weeks.
I do agree with BigLizard with regards to the old modules. This one supposed that the party would go to a tavern and allow themselves to get drunk under the tables and robbed. I'm trying to NOT railroad the party, mainly because I hate that kind of tactic.
Instead, I may just have the Sahuagan venture into the town to, erm, request that they hand over their holy relic, and skip the human fanatic trying to steal it to run off for a reward. I half expect them to just hand it over after a few days of carrying the eye around. It's not exactly a wholesome item.
LOL, this would be funny. I might have to keep this in mind for some future session.
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So they have obtained a petrified eye right? I bet they just put it in a bag or something? Okay I got you
You want this to be an adventure hook, the worst thing that can happen is the players beat it before the hook so you need something that it seems like they can fight but can’t.
So I would go with temporary petrifaction - they can still make saving throws to try and fight it off but what you want to do is give them a bunch of red herrings so they don’t know it’s the gem. Have them be camped out, maybe throw in flavour about some wild mushrooms, players will definitely pick and cook, they can’t help themselves. There is a weird fauna. The clearing they are camped in has a rick formation that on inspection turns out to be Ruin’s. And then as they are sat down eating whoever had to lowest constitution starts to feel a stiffening pain and as they stand up there legs become stone.
theres panic and they try and work out what is happening, maybe somebody casts a greater restoration it works, but the petrification keeps coming. Taking more they pull at red herring thread after the other. Nothing works and then as the final party member is just a head losing consciousness on a stone body the sahaguin approach and using stone tools take the eye and place it in a stone container and leave.
and then the final player succumbs to petrification....until the next dawn
Idea: Make the warforged just freak out. Put some crazy magic nanoconstructs somewhere that cause an insane hallucination for other constructs.
The floor could turn to cheese and the warforged could sink into it.
The warforged could turn to cheese and start unwillingly eating themselves.
The food could turn into cheese!
Or maybe something less cheese-related, like maybe the roof and walls start raising and the warforged is hundreds of meters in the air. And if they try to walk, the floor moves backwards. And if they try to touch the roof, everything is suddenly made of coloured ants. And if they keep eating, they land on the moon. It doesn't have to make sense! It's a hallucination!
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