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<blockquote data-quote="kengar" data-source="post: 1135039" data-attributes="member: 3230"><p>Caravan Guards & Hired By a Mysterious Stranger in a Tavern are both old favorites.</p><p></p><p>I once threw a cliche into a crawl for some newbies as comic relief. They had come to gaming late in life by my standards (20's & 30's). Some of them were uncertain about gaming in general and their perceptions were colored by old "nerd" predjudices. Thus, I wanted to keep it light and fun.</p><p></p><p>Short story long, the party found the dungeon, went in, did all the normal stuff: check for traps, etc. When they came to the first door, they opened it to find...</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>A CHEST SITTING IN THE MIDDLE OF A 10' X 10' ROOM WITH AN ORC GUARDING IT</strong></span></p><p></p><p>None of them thought it was strange or funny except the one experienced player (had played almost as long as me) and she laughed out loud. I couldn't keep a straight face either and smiled like an idiot. The newbies took it for a sadistic grin.</p><p></p><p>... Everyone else looked at her like she was crazy. They said things like "What's so funny?", "I *knew* we shouldn't have opened the door!", "We're being attacked by a monster!! KILL IT!"</p><p></p><p></p><p>None of the newbies had any idea how wimpy a lone orc is. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> After the fight (1 round) they actually thought they'd been in real danger, and that they were lucky no one had been killed.</p><p></p><p></p><p>*snif* one of my fondest DM memories. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></p><p></p><p>PS- as a result of this incident, when Nodwick ran <a href="http://www.gamespy.com/comics/nodwick/gamespyarchive/gspynod122.html" target="_blank">this</a> strip a few weeks ago, I nearly died laughing (the second one).</p><p><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kengar, post: 1135039, member: 3230"] Caravan Guards & Hired By a Mysterious Stranger in a Tavern are both old favorites. I once threw a cliche into a crawl for some newbies as comic relief. They had come to gaming late in life by my standards (20's & 30's). Some of them were uncertain about gaming in general and their perceptions were colored by old "nerd" predjudices. Thus, I wanted to keep it light and fun. Short story long, the party found the dungeon, went in, did all the normal stuff: check for traps, etc. When they came to the first door, they opened it to find... [SIZE=3][b]A CHEST SITTING IN THE MIDDLE OF A 10' X 10' ROOM WITH AN ORC GUARDING IT[/b][/SIZE] None of them thought it was strange or funny except the one experienced player (had played almost as long as me) and she laughed out loud. I couldn't keep a straight face either and smiled like an idiot. The newbies took it for a sadistic grin. ... Everyone else looked at her like she was crazy. They said things like "What's so funny?", "I *knew* we shouldn't have opened the door!", "We're being attacked by a monster!! KILL IT!" None of the newbies had any idea how wimpy a lone orc is. :D After the fight (1 round) they actually thought they'd been in real danger, and that they were lucky no one had been killed. *snif* one of my fondest DM memories. :p PS- as a result of this incident, when Nodwick ran [URL=http://www.gamespy.com/comics/nodwick/gamespyarchive/gspynod122.html]this[/URL] strip a few weeks ago, I nearly died laughing (the second one). :) [/QUOTE]
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