We had a good laugh during last night's session. The PC's are going through all the unexplored rooms in Bhal-Hamatugn, looking for any more Kuo-toans. They enter Dhorlot's room and I start drawing out the 25ft x 25ft square room.
Then one of the players, upon seeing the size of the room says jokingly, "You see a dragon!". Another player, who has only played D&D for about 2-3 years said, "that would be so lame". A third player (who's been playing since 1E) then told him how big dragons in small dungeon rooms used to be not that unusual in the "old days".
At this point, with Black Dragon mini in hand under the table, I was barely able to control my laughter. I put the mini on the table and told the players, "this is what you see when you open the door" before adding, "and no, I'm not kidding!"
We all cracked up laughing at the situation, wrote down the quotes for posterity and then launched into the battle against Dhorlot. The PC's took him down with only 1 PC being taking into the negatives and no deaths. The high point of the battle was probably when the Hexblade managed to stop Dhorlot's attempted Bull Rush to escape the room. This allowed the Rogue with Improved Invisibility to sneak attack his way to victory! :)
Olaf the Stout
Gotta love moments like that - they're part of what makes the game so much fun.
Hey Olaf, what did you decide about the Carcerian Sign, from your post earlier in the week?
Gotta love moments like that - they're part of what makes the game so much fun.
Hey Olaf, what did you decide about the Carcerian Sign, from your post earlier in the week?
I read the posts in that thread and saw that I hadn't really missed any information about the Carcerian Sign in the hardcover. It just happens to be a little vague in regards to it.
In the end I just told the player that you he knew the mark to be something called the Carcerian Sign, showed him the picture in the introduction section of the hardcover, and told him that he knew Carceri was a "Prison Plane".
The hardcover seems to suggest that players shouldn't be able to find out too much about Carceri, etc., until they get some of the notes and journals that the Cagewrights have written. With that in mind I decided to give out little information for now.
Olaf the Stout