I must give credit to the guys who wrote and edited the first path finder "rise of the rune lords".
we just finished one of the funniest encounters we have had in a while. Although it is probably one of those, had to be there to find it funny moments and loses a lot in translation.
Players who have not played this adventure path to the end should not click the spoiler button.
They eventually get to the treasure room and the Halfling Thief and Elven druid move over to the edge of the tide pool to see what treasure is around. The 5' golden Helmet starts to rotate and "look" in their direction at which point I ask for initiative. They go pretty early and flee to the back of the group, assuming that the helmet must be the head of a 30" aquatic goblin monster, mean while the brave fighters move to the front to do battle with what ever beast rises from the water.
It is then that they notice the helmet has now sprouted legs and 2 immense claws. The Dwarven ranger gets grabbed and hoisted into the air as the crab prepares to make him into lunch. Suddenly at the back of the group the Druid starts swaying and singing, the group think he has lost the plot, but the Hermit crab joins him, swaying from side to side in time to the music, while waving the dwarf around like a cigarette lighter at a concert. I had failed my save and he got enough HD on an animal trance spell. Eventually they managed to disentangle the dwarf from their now docile, dancing crab.
This is one of those funny images that will stay with the group for a while, a much better end than killing the crab and I wasn't even too bothered about not dealing uber pain on the PC's and dragging a few of them under water.
Brilliant link with the helmet and the goblin picture, clever design in that most groups will find that room before the real end room and a well written set of encounters.
Two thumbs up from this DM, I am still chuckling at my mental picture of the dancing helmet crab and have had a few texts from the group saying the same.
Anyone else had any funny moments?
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Great story! we havn't had too much by way of funny moments (the inital battle being the most memorable so far) but the party did go hunting and scare up a dire boar. the bard without range weapons was sitting there singing the whole time, then after it had a blanket over its head and 12 javelins sticking out of its flank... at which point the bard hit it over the head once with his staff... killing it. He looked at the fighter and goes "this is what you've been struggling to do for 45 minutes?!"
Our spirit shaman (which casts druid spells) used Speak with Animals on the crab, at which point it demanded tribute for 'trespassing' into its domain. I allowed them to make some tribute bundles by getting hundreds of copper coins, piercing them, and wiring them together. They even talked the crab into swapping them for its helmet (after using a stone shape to make him a new one....).