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Creak...? Oh, it's the door opening.
Irregular Webcomic has been one of my favourites, too, especially when it came with commentary.
Irregular Webcomic has been one of my favourites, too, especially when it came with commentary.
Try the internet webcomic "Internet Webcomic"
Really that's what it's called
Really that's what it's called
The best subversion of a "Twisty Little Passages, All Alike" sitch was when we were in a huge mansion fighting our way out.
The team combined our available explosives on hand and we blasted holes in a straight line through the walls until we got out. XD
Messy, but it worked.
Also, I finally got my idea for a guest comic! Yay!
The team combined our available explosives on hand and we blasted holes in a straight line through the walls until we got out. XD
Messy, but it worked.
Also, I finally got my idea for a guest comic! Yay!
I swear you're like a Muppet sometimes, Digo, where the conclusion to ever sketch and problem involves an explosion. ;)
Well, I did watch a LOT of Muppets when I was younger, so my ideas may be skewed in their style. ;)
If some Grue grew some, would some Grue be more gruesome?
No! Bad commentator! No Biscuit!
Unless you have an aversion to biscuits, in which case you will have naught but biscuits for the remainder of the day.
Unless you have an aversion to biscuits, in which case you will have naught but biscuits for the remainder of the day.
> touch table
> take grue repellent
> spray repellent on me
> take grue repellent
> spray repellent on me
Yeah, our DM is always saying things like that. His dungeons make the Labyrinth look like a maze in a colouring book.
Does he work in tesseracts? Nothing complicates a maze like a tesseract.
I had an actual mapped out Tesseract dungeon to use on my players. The rooms were laid out like a lavish manson and some of the doors were hidden.
The campaign halted before I implimented it though, which is too bad because the encounters were inspired by castles found in Disney films. :3
(Nothing says "WTF" like a Challenge Rating 13 dinning room mini-boss).
The campaign halted before I implimented it though, which is too bad because the encounters were inspired by castles found in Disney films. :3
(Nothing says "WTF" like a Challenge Rating 13 dinning room mini-boss).
Please tell me you'd planned to play "Be Our Guest" as background music for that mini-boss fight.
I even have the Animaniacs parody "Be Our Pest" song too!
I had one GM run us through a tower where the doors were all one-way, so the only way to keep track of where we were was by mapping it out as a directed graph.
Oh, and all the doors had three states based on some... buttons or something? Something you could do to the doors. And most of the rooms had three to five doors. It was completely insane.
Oh, and all the doors had three states based on some... buttons or something? Something you could do to the doors. And most of the rooms had three to five doors. It was completely insane.
Open Closed and "Shhh, you'll wake Schdroedinger's cat....."
What!? Oh come on man, take it to the next level! I one pulled THIS little beauty on my gaming group!
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http://0-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/tg/image/1336/95/1336956250060.jpg
How difficult was it to keep track of which room they were in?
Heh, a 'KHAAAAN!' gag could've been made from the last few panels here, given that they're all buried alive, buried alive...
This movie is a favorite of mine. It has Ricardo Montalban in it. He also played the role of another villain that I adore.
Between Shatner and Montalban, I'm surprised the movie sets survived the scenery chewing. That was some epic ham-to-ham combat.
Ricardo Montalban is great. I really enjoyed his performance in Spy Kids 3D.
"Because he tasks me, he tasks me. Round the moons of Snivia, I chuckle at thee. Beyond the corpulent clouds I chuckle more at thee. Revenge is a dish with pinto beans and muffins. Kirk o friend of mine...oh sorry. Goodbye."
Great lines there.
Great lines there.
I once did "Little twisty passages, all alike"- but they were literally all alike. It was just walls layed out in a repeating grid pattern- as soon as the players started mapping it out, they had no trouble getting where they wanted to go. Makes sense, as it _was_ supposed to be a city's sewer system. Don't want your plumbers getting lost, after all.
I once ran my players through an abandoned research facility for a modern game. My players started collecting the evacuation maps from each building because they made decent maps to follow.
Except the maps didn't show secret rooms, of course. So there was still some work to be done.
Except the maps didn't show secret rooms, of course. So there was still some work to be done.
Yo!
And the original game from whence 'Twisty Little Passages' comes from.
See, there's actually TWO mazes. The first is the Maze of Twisty Little Passages, All Different. This one has rooms described "You are in a maze of little twisting passages, all different" or, "You are in a twisting maze of little different passages." you get the idea. The OTHER maze, the room descriptions were all identical...
And the original game from whence 'Twisty Little Passages' comes from.
See, there's actually TWO mazes. The first is the Maze of Twisty Little Passages, All Different. This one has rooms described "You are in a maze of little twisting passages, all different" or, "You are in a twisting maze of little different passages." you get the idea. The OTHER maze, the room descriptions were all identical...
During one particularly drawn out game session, my party and I were trying to infiltrate a keep owned by a cult of the god of undeath.
We didn't have a rogue, so the 'rogue duties' were distributed between the characters. The sorcerer handled all the charming and bluffing, the dragon born bard handled trap checks and my character handled everything else.
My character, a lawful neutral ranger, was a true master of stealth and she filled the role of sneaker, outdoor survivalist and sniper.
My ranger had snuck into the keep and was going to unlock the gate for the rest of the party to get in. She had a total bonus of 15 to stealth checks. Easy enough, right?
She decided however, to mitigate the number of guards we would have to deal with. I had her prep to slit a few throats since, being lawful neutral, she had judged these evil cultists to be guilty of murder (Since she'd witnessed them killing innocent people in the street anyway) and got her knife out.
The DM had me roll a stealth check... Our DM has a house rule though, of keeping a natural 1 on skill checks being a disastrous failure, even though natural 20s had no such benefit.
So what else do I roll then, at this critical moment, but a 1?
Our DM tends to embellish when it comes to critical failures, describing just what went wrong.
'You step in a mop bucket and slip, falling over and causing a large amount of noise!'
I asked if the sleeping guards heard me.
The DM rolled a one and sighed 'They're all heavy sleepers.'
So I rolled my stealth check again in order to stay quiet while I prepare coup de graces against these cultists...
Another 1.
'Guess what? There's ANOTHER mop bucket you step in!'
This next time, he rolls sufficiently to wake the guards.
My ranger ran for the corridor outside the barracks only to slip on the soapy water spilled by all the mop buckets turned over.
The irony was that in so slipping, she slid all the way down the corridor, out the window and landed safely in the mud outside, albeit screaming all the way.
The moral is twofold...
Never trust your greatest skill to carry you all the way and NEVER trust mop buckets...
We didn't have a rogue, so the 'rogue duties' were distributed between the characters. The sorcerer handled all the charming and bluffing, the dragon born bard handled trap checks and my character handled everything else.
My character, a lawful neutral ranger, was a true master of stealth and she filled the role of sneaker, outdoor survivalist and sniper.
My ranger had snuck into the keep and was going to unlock the gate for the rest of the party to get in. She had a total bonus of 15 to stealth checks. Easy enough, right?
She decided however, to mitigate the number of guards we would have to deal with. I had her prep to slit a few throats since, being lawful neutral, she had judged these evil cultists to be guilty of murder (Since she'd witnessed them killing innocent people in the street anyway) and got her knife out.
The DM had me roll a stealth check... Our DM has a house rule though, of keeping a natural 1 on skill checks being a disastrous failure, even though natural 20s had no such benefit.
So what else do I roll then, at this critical moment, but a 1?
Our DM tends to embellish when it comes to critical failures, describing just what went wrong.
'You step in a mop bucket and slip, falling over and causing a large amount of noise!'
I asked if the sleeping guards heard me.
The DM rolled a one and sighed 'They're all heavy sleepers.'
So I rolled my stealth check again in order to stay quiet while I prepare coup de graces against these cultists...
Another 1.
'Guess what? There's ANOTHER mop bucket you step in!'
This next time, he rolls sufficiently to wake the guards.
My ranger ran for the corridor outside the barracks only to slip on the soapy water spilled by all the mop buckets turned over.
The irony was that in so slipping, she slid all the way down the corridor, out the window and landed safely in the mud outside, albeit screaming all the way.
The moral is twofold...
Never trust your greatest skill to carry you all the way and NEVER trust mop buckets...