Inspired by White Toymaker in the starter campaign thread...
"You are ECL 1 character of choice with any equipment available in PHB (other equipment are negotiable if you stay reasonable). You enter a 10'*10' room and there is an orc who has a pie. Your goal is to get the pie from the orc. What do you do?"
How many ways can we think of for beating this adventure?
Toymaker mentioned already two: killing the orc and taking the pie, and casting Charm Person and talking orc into giving the pie.
Inspired by White Toymaker in the starter campaign thread...
"You are ECL 1 character of choice with any equipment available in PHB (other equipment are negotiable if you stay reasonable). You enter a 10'*10' room and there is an orc who has a pie. Your goal is to get the pie from the orc. What do you do?"
How many ways can we think of for beating this adventure?
Toymaker mentioned already two: killing the orc and taking the pie, and casting Charm Person and talking orc into giving the pie.
Haha, this is hilarious...
1. You can use Magehand on the pie.
2. You can use Diplomacy/Bluff/Intimidate.
Hold person, and run off with the pie before the spell wears off.
If you're a rogue hide and move silently to sneak past the orc and nab the pie.
Offer to trade something you have for the pie if your diplomacy is enough to keep the orc from being hostile.
Magic Missile the pie! and then no one gets it!!LOL
a) A bard might sing a lullaby to fascinate the orc while his/her adventuring-buddy the (halfling) rogue sneaks and steals the pie.
b) One (a rogue?) could use rope to lassoe the orc. The halfling steals the pie.
c) The strongest party member could use a 10-ft ladder to pin the orc to the wall (and the halfling steals the pie)
Basically just get a halfling in the party, for sure he´ll get the pie somehow...
I am a Bullywug. I stick my tongue out and swallow the pie.
Then I stick my tongue out and eat the orc.
Then I burp some.
Director of Narrative
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To properly motivate me I need to know what kind of pie it is. Otherwise I'll just let the silly orc have the pie and go make my own with my 4 ranks in Craft (dessert). Then sell a map to the location to some intrepid adventurers like yourselves, telling them of the great treasures to be found and the frightening guardian that protects them.
Grapple the orc and try to force the pie down its' throat. Voluntarily fail in the attempt to push the pie in his mouth but make a bluff check to convince him how badly you want him to eat the pie. Keep this up until the orc breaks free and I'll bet he will no longer stop you from taking the pie.
1.) Make my Craft (cooking) roll. I take 20, of course, and create a roast that's so tender it falls apart.
2.) I make a Diplomacy check and offer my roast to the orc for the pie. Orcs are growing boys - they don't need a pie, they need flesh!
disguise yourself; give the orc enough really strong booze till he passes out; take the pie. Or do same thing with burnable narcotic and vent into room; if we get extra exps for not kiling him. I am going for the brainy approach rather than using a simple spell like sleep as I like to overcome by other means and save spells and not risk undue injury.
you could hire a female orc or female just about anything as it is an orc to entice him into ahem actions and steal the pie; perhaps a female party member could point to him and smile and start disrobing; hehe that would prolly work.
you could throw a bunch of pepper on the orc; take the pie during the sneezeing and blindness.
Use bluff and threaten the orc for taking the pie; slap him upside his head and take the pie telling him that he is too lowly a scum to eat pie; give him some jerky and cheap beer.
you could outright buy the pie or trade for something else. Might be helpful to speak orc though
if you have a teammate like a barbarian who runs fast; you could have him throw a rock at the orc and taunt the orc and have him chase him around, maybe down the hall while you evade and go in and take the pie; hehe you could string a tripwire down the hall a little for added humor or if you have to stay in the room; lasso the orc and tie him up; be tempting to eat the pie in front of him in a taunting way.
Are we trying to save the pie; or just get it away from him; like is there a magic ring baked in the pie or a gem or something that we dont want the orc to eat; or is the pie itself the object. I imagine the orc will eat the pie pretty quick; any fighting would probably upset the pie and ruin it.
Sleep or color spray is prolly a quick dirty spell that would stop the orc, but he might fall on the pie.
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I'm a young druid...
First and foremost, I cast Detect Poison...it's quite possibly an orc-made pie and you know they don't wash their hands before returning to work! If the pie doesn't appear to be tainted, I
Option 1 - Overwhelm
Round 1) I cast Summon Nature's Ally I and place a Dire Rat right behind the orc.
Round 2) I cast Flare on the orc as my summoned ally attacks from behind. My monkey animal companion attacks (flanking) the bedazzled orc from the front.
Round 3) My summoned Ally has dissappeared, but my monkey and I attack the orc, finishing him off.
Round 4) Enjoy a pie with my monkey in a orc-free environment.
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Option 2 - Outmaneuver
Round 1) Cast Longstride on myself
Round 2) Throw a tanglefoot bag at the orc, gluing him in place.
Round 3) Grab pie and escape.
Several rounds later) Share the pie with my monkey friend!
Monkey buddies love pie!
I'm a young druid...
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Round 4) Enjoy a pie with my monkey in a orc-free environment.
...Several rounds later) Share the pie with my monkey friend!
Monkey buddies love pie!
Okey my young druid friend, you clearly asked for this one...
So, what do you do when your monkey goes ape on you? Does something you have forbidden it to do?
What is your method of punishment for it?
Do you perhaps just spank it?
And hey, be honest everyone. Didn´t you all see this coming? Right.
Disguise the halfling rogue...as a pie!!!
Tell the orc you have a bigger pie and trade it for the smaller one - you have a stomach ache or something...
Eat the pie.
The orc eats the halfling.
Everyone's very happy. :D
Let the orc eat the pie. Kill the orc. Eat the orc.
Then you get delicious orc meats and PIE MEATS!
Use my muffin of justice method (note requires 4 ranks in profession(baker)). Bake some delicious muffins and start eating them in front of the orc, using bluff to show how much more delicous they are than the pie. Then just as the orc wants to trade, the dog you bought savagely mauls the orc. The pie is ours!
I think getting the pie in order to consume its delicious goodness is the goal here, Valegrim.
There are some really interesting and amusing posts, and I'd like to see them continue for their humor, but aren't we doing quite a bit of extrapolating here?
That said, I've got nothing to add. Sorry. Maybe it's because I haven't had breakfast yet and all this talk of pie is getting to me....
I think getting the pie in order to consume its delicious goodness is the goal here, Valegrim.
There are some really interesting and amusing posts, and I'd like to see them continue for their humor, but aren't we doing quite a bit of extrapolating here?
That said, I've got nothing to add. Sorry. Maybe it's because I haven't had breakfast yet and all this talk of pie is getting to me....
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Maybe it's because I haven't had breakfast yet and all this talk of pie is getting to me....
I know! I have pie in the fridge, though, I can fix the pie-craving part.
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My players' usual (rules light) approach* :
Go into the room and say "What is that elf child doing in front of the room?"
Greetings,
Günther
* After five years of playing I still work hard on persuading some of my players that it is rewarding to know the rules by oneself (without the help of the more experienced players).
One word: ninja'd
Anyone who wants that pie bad enough would seduce the orc. 1/2 orcs gotta come from somewhere.
Anyone who wants that pie bad enough would seduce the orc. 1/2 orcs gotta come from somewhere.
Badly -- "who wants the pie badly enough..." You need an adverb there.
:P
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Anyone who wants that pie bad enough would seduce the orc. 1/2 orcs gotta come from somewhere.Badly -- "who wants the pie badly enough..." You need an adverb there.
:P
At least the rouge/rogue didn't come up. I take it you have taken over the cause of adverb usage. Good luck and let the ridicule roll off of you like water off a duck.
FH (insert witty comment here)
FH (insert witty comment here)
Any witty comment, or did you have something more specific in mind?
Badly -- "who wants the pie badly enough..." You need an adverb there.
:P
Actually, I prefer to want pies competently. If you can't even desire something properly, what good are you? Now, on the other hand, if you wanted something desperately, that's a valid, sensible adverb. Badly always seemed silly to me.
"I need to eat badly!" Well, I've got a good meal on the table, but there's a box of ramen in the pantry if you insist.
;P
hehe reading up on this thread makes me want to make a pie when I get home; as I am an Lord Efretti and not an orc, be my guest and try to take it away, but dont blame me if you get turned into a small harmless rodent; my favorite polymorph creature is a mole; anyone want to be a mole; if I get enough I can make molepie, or with some leftover chocolate and garam crackers; some smoles.
hmm... ponder how to get Liliths pie...conjures a case of shiner bock and uncaps them all; quick Lilith; their going flat! hold the case out to her.....
Smoles! That's a good one! :D
...conjures a case of shiner bock and uncaps them all; quick Lilith; their going flat! hold the case out to her.....
Don't tempt me...at this point, I would probably do it. :)
A couple more possibilities:
Cast command and get orc to drop the pie, then snatch it (or get that halfling rogue to snatch it).
Cast grease on pie, so it becomes slippery and orc drops it. Better be careful though that the pie doesn't get ruined (grease does wear off).
Cast ventriloquism and make the orc believe that the pie is an evil cursed pie of horrors...
Taunt orc and provoke it to try to hit you with the pie, then catch it with snatch arrows feat. True swashbuckler option.
Let's see
I'm a Paladin. Walk into the room, use detect evil on the orc. Get the orc's attention. If the orc is evil, it gets up and comes over to attack. I block its attack with my shield and smite with either longsword or bastard sword (if I have the Exotic Weap Proficiency for it). If the orc is evil but stands there I ask what it is doing in this room. Orc attacks, I block then smite. If the orc isn't evil I ask (in a more pleasant voice than if the orc is evil) what it is doing in this room. Orc responds and depending on the answer I ask if the orc wishes to join my companions and myself. Orc agrees we walk out of the room and we all share the pie (Cha is for diplomacy as much as smiting, possibly even more so). We slice up the pie first to check for buried items.