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Yes, please let us know what happens--preferably in this thread, since I don't check the Story Hours. If you do a Story Hour, please post news about it in this thread so I'll know to read it. Good luck!! This thread has been very interesting, btw. I've been in 2 gaming groups which...

Thanks for posting, Jebeddo and Esme. Coupled with Ketherian, I now count 3 Players who are fine with Ambrus' handling of the gnome situation. Not only fine with it, but happy with everything Ambrus has done. THEN, standing apart from those happy Players, is Noelani, the fiance who wrote...

I agree with Raven Crowking. After sending a few of my posts, I thought, "Holy crap, I should've been more diplomatic--Ambrus is going to tear into me over that." But you never did. Your replies have always been completely courteous. Few threads are more annoying than those where a DM asks...

The anticipation and/or reality of blood running from the PCs eyes and ears is where the in-game cruelty of geas comes in (that's my description of the daily damage; yours may involve boils or spontaneous combustion). When the NPC cast geas, she cast the spell to kill the PCs in a hideous way...

I'm surprised. I would NEVER have guessed that an NPC so untrusting and cruel as to cast a geas on the PCs for the obvious purpose of threatening them and controlling them would 'ever' voluntarily remove it. I wonder if this news comes as a surprise to any of your Players. If my PC was in...

Haha, that's great! Tony M

In the PHB v3.5, page 235, it says that "the geased creature must follow the given instructions until the geas is completed, no matter how long it takes." This is in the text, which I'm given to understand would override the info written under duration. Tony M

In the PHB 3.5, it says, under "Geas, Lesser" that "the creature must follow the given instructions until the geas is completed, no matter how long it takes." Tony M

Hi, attached is a JPEG of cartoon strip I did for Dragon Magazine, one that I thought some of you folks would get a kick out of, considering the topic. :) Me, I like the idea of some paladins not being chaste. As long as they are nice about it. Tony M

You're right. I now 'dislike' the potential for geas to be mis-used rather than 'hate' the spell itself. Thanks for putting my rage back in the cage. :) Tony M

Good idea, tec-9-7. I bet if the DM did that, and also said something to the Players like, "Don't despair, you are near the end. Three more sessions, tops! One to get the artifact, one to repair it, and one to give it the the gods," then all the Players would be very interested and happy...

That's how the control-freak DM's suck you into their trap. You think you are merely accepting a quick 1-session geas to recover a scepter or something. But then 10, 20, 30 sessions later, your PC's life still revolves around that debt. Because (big surprise!) it turns out that the scepter is...

I have never used geas on a PC, and never will. For me, the spell only exists for PCs to cast on NPCs. I like my adventures to be so exciting that the PCs 'want' to do the adventure for their own reasons, not because they are forced into it. As a Player, I can't imagine a scenario where I'd...

Whoa. When a Player that the DM respects enough to plan a marriage with says she is "very tired of losing" in his campaign, and refers to the McGuffin as a "stupid thing" and says the world is stacked against the PCs, I'm inclined to think that the DM might be less interesting in creating a fun...

I was assuming, initially, that the PCs had no real choice--only a choice between entering crates or failure. But it seems that the PCs brought the McGuffin-theft upon themselves by choosing to crawl into the crates. So, assuming there truly was another way to move the McGuffin besides the...

Ah-HAH! You foiled their pre-cautionary efforts ON PURPOSE! By making the McGuffin chest too small for their sprite! Or, rather, the gnomes did. (But same thing.) Hmm. Actually, that would've tipped me off that something sinister was afoot. Between that, and the behavior of the various...

But they lost the McGuffin to a bunch of gnomes. I repeat, GNOMES! Whom they trusted. What a humiliating end to such a long, complex adventure. Now, a new adventure has begun: Recovering the McGuffin. That particular adventure may be a lot of fun. Hopefully it will be. Nonetheless, the...

For a DM, it is the easiest thing in the world to foil a party of PCs. At any moment in any campaign, the DM can yank away victory if he feels like it. Simply put, there is no way a group of PCs can cover all their bases, so Players need to trust their DM not to spoil their fun. What usually...

I was assuming the DM had arranged things so that no PC could be crated with the McGuffin. Like the crates were already built and the McGuffin was so big, it needed its own crate. Or the McGuffin was radioactive or stank real bad or something. But maybe the PCs didn't think of the idea of...