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<blockquote data-quote="ichabod" data-source="post: 9196182" data-attributes="member: 1257">This is getting a lot of reaction, so I thought I would explain. [SPOILER=&quot;Dungeon of the Mad Mage Spoilers&quot;]They ran into some hags in a previous session, but didn't realize they were hags. They though the hags were just nice old ladies. Further exploration got them around to the back of the hags' caves. Their they found a strange cauldron that was part of the floor, which they did not mess with. Then found the pantry, with a goblin and a young boy (human). At that point it became clear the hags were hags and were eating people. They let the goblin go and are trying to get the boy back to town. But they figure they should kill the hags first. So they tell the kid to wait in the room with the cauldron while they kill the hags.Now, one of my players is sort of an instigator type. One of the things I was planning to do was add instigating NPCs to play off of that. So that's how I was playing the boy. The adventure write up says he stole a boat, so it seemed to fit. And his instigating had already found them some treasure. If he's an instigator in a room with a cauldron, I figured he mess with it. The cauldron had a random effect, and the one I rolled up for the boy was 10d10 fire damage. They get back to the room after the fight with the hags, and find a charred corpse.[/SPOILER]This has turned out kind of interesting. Now they are agonizing over resources. They have a scroll of raise dead, and enough diamonds for one revivify. Diamonds are scarce in my world, because they are so useful in magic. That means they are not getting any more diamonds for another month. And they are arguing with themselves over bringing the kid back to life. I think they're going to do it, but they didn't do it last night. We'll have to wait for next session.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ichabod, post: 9196182, member: 1257"] This is getting a lot of reaction, so I thought I would explain. [SPOILER="Dungeon of the Mad Mage Spoilers"] They ran into some hags in a previous session, but didn't realize they were hags. They though the hags were just nice old ladies. Further exploration got them around to the back of the hags' caves. Their they found a strange cauldron that was part of the floor, which they did not mess with. Then found the pantry, with a goblin and a young boy (human). At that point it became clear the hags were hags and were eating people. They let the goblin go and are trying to get the boy back to town. But they figure they should kill the hags first. So they tell the kid to wait in the room with the cauldron while they kill the hags. Now, one of my players is sort of an instigator type. One of the things I was planning to do was add instigating NPCs to play off of that. So that's how I was playing the boy. The adventure write up says he stole a boat, so it seemed to fit. And his instigating had already found them some treasure. If he's an instigator in a room with a cauldron, I figured he mess with it. The cauldron had a random effect, and the one I rolled up for the boy was 10d10 fire damage. They get back to the room after the fight with the hags, and find a charred corpse. [/SPOILER] This has turned out kind of interesting. Now they are agonizing over resources. They have a scroll of raise dead, and enough diamonds for one revivify. Diamonds are scarce in my world, because they are so useful in magic. That means they are not getting any more diamonds for another month. And they are arguing with themselves over bringing the kid back to life. I think they're going to do it, but they didn't do it last night. We'll have to wait for next session. [/QUOTE]

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