| pennywit |
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So, at last session, I set a couple different hooks in front of my players, including a collection of strangers asking about a mcguffin, and a wild beast rampaging in a nearby marsh. My players chased after the stranger. After they figured out the collection of strangers was one guy (a bad guy they'd tangled with before) with a fetish for polymorph magic, they decided to set a trap for him. They started rumors they had the mcguffin in a place and set an ambush. So the bad guy came ... and they sprung their trap. He fought them for a couple rounds, then when the ambush got the better of him, he teleported away. The players, being players, went for the old scry-and-fry.
They teleported into a swamp ... only to find the bad guy had set a trap for them!!! The swamp beastie attacked, and the bad guy stuck around for a little longer ... then he teleported away while the players turned to the swamp beastie.
The players emerged without deaths (mostly thanks to Stoneskin), but I kind of liked turning the scry and fry around.
Now, I wonder if this bad guy might try to scry and fry THEM!!