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<blockquote data-quote="Patryn of Elvenshae" data-source="post: 2000206" data-attributes="member: 23094">&quot;No, no, Good Dwarf.&quot;The full saying, usually abbreviated to the above, is &quot;No, no, Good Dwarf.&nbsp; Let me check for traps / go ahead.&quot;My first game with a new group (I'd played with some of the members before, but never the DM or many of the others), our group was descending into a Temple to a Demon God, sunk into a swamp millenia ago by a force of lizarmen druids and shamans.The temple, of course, belonged to Belial, the SerpentKing, General of Hell, yadda yadda, who had held the lizardmen in thrall for millenia before that.&nbsp; It had recently reawakened, and had begun &quot;calling&quot; to the lizardmen.So in we go, and after a 200' descent down a vertical hole, we found ourselves outside of what used to be the gatehouse.&nbsp; I, a Water Genasi-variant Wizard, looked around at out party of half-elven Ranger / Barbarians, dwarven Fighters, dwarven Fighter / Barbarians, and a human Monk and realized that, not only was I the only one with any skill in Search, I was also the only one who had an Int bonus! <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />So, we're about to walk up to the front door when I put my arm out, and say, &quot;Wait, dwarf.&nbsp; Let me check that door for traps.&quot;So, the wizard strides forward, intently studying the door, and ...Falls into the pit trap 10' in front of the door.Over the next several sessions, the hyper-intelligent wizard managed to find roughly 2/3rds of all the traps in the place - and almost always by running into them head-first!So now, our group has a tendency to utter, &quot;No, no, Good Dwarf ...&quot; whenever someone's about to do something stupid.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Patryn of Elvenshae, post: 2000206, member: 23094"] "No, no, Good Dwarf." The full saying, usually abbreviated to the above, is "No, no, Good Dwarf. Let me check for traps / go ahead." My first game with a new group (I'd played with some of the members before, but never the DM or many of the others), our group was descending into a Temple to a Demon God, sunk into a swamp millenia ago by a force of lizarmen druids and shamans. The temple, of course, belonged to Belial, the SerpentKing, General of Hell, yadda yadda, who had held the lizardmen in thrall for millenia before [i]that[/i]. It had recently reawakened, and had begun "calling" to the lizardmen. So in we go, and after a 200' descent down a vertical hole, we found ourselves outside of what used to be the gatehouse. I, a Water Genasi-variant Wizard, looked around at out party of half-elven Ranger / Barbarians, dwarven Fighters, dwarven Fighter / Barbarians, and a human Monk and realized that, not only was I the only one with any skill in Search, I was also the only one who had an Int bonus! :D So, we're about to walk up to the front door when I put my arm out, and say, "Wait, dwarf. Let me check that door for traps." So, the wizard strides forward, intently studying the door, and ... Falls into the pit trap 10' in front of the door. Over the next several sessions, the hyper-intelligent wizard managed to find roughly 2/3rds of all the traps in the place - and almost always by running into them head-first! So now, our group has a tendency to utter, "No, no, Good Dwarf ..." whenever someone's about to do something stupid. [/QUOTE]

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