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<blockquote data-quote="Fleetwood C. DeVille" data-source="post: 7473815" data-attributes="member: 6804906">Holy Flashback Batman!My first D&amp;D group (high school). I was DMing Temple of Elemental Evil. The party RP'ed in the nearby village, everything was great. They get to the Temple and entered a room with a fireplace with a snake hidden inside. They all hugged the far wall and exited out another door.&quot;That's odd. They ALWAYS search things like that....&quot;Later there was a room where the floor was covered in shiny rocks or dust or something. Lost on the floor was a magic ring where the only way to find it was with Detect Magic.(DM) &quot;You enter a room. The floor is covered with small pebbles...&quot;(players) &quot;WE CAST DETECT MAGIC!&quot;(DM) &quot;How odd. They NEVER cast detect magic.&quot; (thinking quickly) &quot;You don't detect any magic.&quot;(players looking confused) &quot;Hey, do you take out items in published adventures?&quot;(DM watching the clue-bus pull up) &quot;It depends. This adventure is pretty difficult so I left everything in place.&quot;(players) &quot;Come on guys, player conference time.&quot;At which point they left the room. I counted to ten and tiptoed to the closed bedroom door. BAM! Caught them with another copy of the adventure. I packed up my things and left.The thing that irritated me the most was the lost prep time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fleetwood C. DeVille, post: 7473815, member: 6804906"] Holy Flashback Batman! My first D&D group (high school). I was DMing Temple of Elemental Evil. The party RP'ed in the nearby village, everything was great. They get to the Temple and entered a room with a fireplace with a snake hidden inside. They all hugged the far wall and exited out another door. "That's odd. They ALWAYS search things like that...." Later there was a room where the floor was covered in shiny rocks or dust or something. Lost on the floor was a magic ring where the only way to find it was with [I]Detect Magic[/I]. (DM) "You enter a room. The floor is covered with small pebbles..." (players) "WE CAST DETECT MAGIC!" (DM) "How odd. They NEVER cast detect magic." (thinking quickly) "You don't detect any magic." (players looking confused) "Hey, do you take out items in published adventures?" (DM watching the clue-bus pull up) "It depends. This adventure is pretty difficult so I left everything in place." (players) "Come on guys, player conference time." At which point they left the room. I counted to ten and tiptoed to the closed bedroom door. BAM! Caught them with another copy of the adventure. I packed up my things and left. The thing that irritated me the most was the lost prep time. [/QUOTE]

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