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Secret Doors are too secret. Thoughts?
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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 4316419" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>I make sure finding secret doors is not necessary to the plot. Nothing hidden in them the party needs to find.</p><p></p><p>I've found 1 secret door in over 20 years of playing D&D. It was with a 2e human mage. </p><p></p><p>There was a party argument about using an evil magic key on an unknown gate where drow had been raiding from. I had my good character storm out of the room saying lets not use the key, lets keep exploring down here. The evil PC with the key used it and doors slammed down around the room separating me and my familiar from the rest of the party, and they got teleported to a drow dimensional city on another world. I searched until I found the release catch for the secret door, but alas they had teleported with the key and we ended up with a split party for many games.</p><p></p><p>That's the only time I can recall finding one and it was because it made sense for me to think there was one there. I don't think I've ever stumbled on any while playing an elf.</p><p></p><p>As a DM I try to give clues about secret doors if there reasonably would be some, and sometimes just because I think it makes the game more interesting. I always prefer discoveries based on picking up on description and interaction rather than noticing odd mapping exclusions or SOP search everything dungeon crawling.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 4316419, member: 2209"] I make sure finding secret doors is not necessary to the plot. Nothing hidden in them the party needs to find. I've found 1 secret door in over 20 years of playing D&D. It was with a 2e human mage. There was a party argument about using an evil magic key on an unknown gate where drow had been raiding from. I had my good character storm out of the room saying lets not use the key, lets keep exploring down here. The evil PC with the key used it and doors slammed down around the room separating me and my familiar from the rest of the party, and they got teleported to a drow dimensional city on another world. I searched until I found the release catch for the secret door, but alas they had teleported with the key and we ended up with a split party for many games. That's the only time I can recall finding one and it was because it made sense for me to think there was one there. I don't think I've ever stumbled on any while playing an elf. As a DM I try to give clues about secret doors if there reasonably would be some, and sometimes just because I think it makes the game more interesting. I always prefer discoveries based on picking up on description and interaction rather than noticing odd mapping exclusions or SOP search everything dungeon crawling. [/QUOTE]
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