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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drakhe" data-source="post: 523227" data-attributes="member: 4930">Here's two incidents I came across and how I handeled them:The central character of the group, a Paladin, had aquired a mace with some magic runes on the wooden haft. I had miscalculated the powers of the mace so that he allmost never missed and he dealt enormous amounts of damage, killing foes with one or 2 blows. Having seen enough NPC's (well uh, monsters actualy) die at the hands of this mace, I gave the final monster a parry roll and on success I ruled the monster died but in a final attempt to ward off the blow parries with his weapon (a morningstar if I recal correctly) and scratched the runes on the haft, rendering the mace harmless (as harmless as a mace anyways)The next anecdote is closer to your question. At some other time I needed also to steel something from the party, so I placed a gypsy fair in the next village. The plan was to have some pickpocket snatch some small things from the party. If the party fails to notice I would have an NPC witness the whole thing, leading the party to the gypsy camp. The camp leader (a rather round man called El Patron) convinces the party he'll do anything to round up the scoundrel who's thieving is incurable bla bla and offers the party a meal and accomodations as recompence. I then slipped some sleeping potion in the food and the next morning the gypsies were gone with whatever needed steeling (and some other little tidbits I wanted to eliminate <insert evil grin>)And guess what: my party fell for this little trap ! They never suspected a thing. Now the'll look suspicious at ANYTHING being offered for free <repeat evil grin></blockquote>

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