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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gynsala" data-source="post: 1723724" data-attributes="member: 18967">This is something I'm going to throw at players in my campaign, I'd like to hear what you think of it.The villain (which is actually a fairly nice psionic warrior guy, currently inhabited by a demon the PC's don't know about yet.... long story) has disguised himself as a PC and kidnapped a cleric from a completely benevolent and helpful Order of clerics.  The PC's have to rescue him to clear his name.  They track the villain and eventually find the hostage attached to a pile of chains in the center of a room.  He cries out to them that he's been attached to a chain golem given the command to stay inert until someone moves its chains.  At this point there are two and a half options...1)  The villain simply lied, it's just a normal pile of chains, but is laughing at the PCs as they try to "carefully" extract him from the "dangerous monster"2)  It really is a chain golem, and they have to figure out a way to destroy it/sever the couple chains holding the cleric in the first round before it goes blade barrier and frapee's him.2.5)  If I'm feeling especially nasty, I'll add a time element, like a pendulum slowly dropping over the chain golem...If they succeed, they clear the PC's name and all is good.  If they fail, he becomes a hated public enemy and it changes minor things about the plot.Thoughts?</blockquote>