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<blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6714425" data-attributes="member: 6701872"><p>Too true.</p><p></p><p>I manage to keep my players guessing entirely by ridiculous amounts of luck; a room with statues that even depict held weapons, and they assume "too obvious, definitely just statues" and end up surprised. Then the random statue of some robed woman they don't even recognize the image of "...maybe there is a secret door behind this?" and they end up surprised (especially because it spewed fire and nearly killed their hired cleric). Then the room lined with statues of various adventurer-seeming people, and they state "These are definitely going to try to kill us," and they end up surprised by a medusa.</p><p></p><p>I think the trick is that I always give roughly the same amount of detail in my description of what a statue looks like, whether it is just set dressing, hiding a secret door, part of some puzzle, a hint for some later puzzle, about to start trying to kill the party at any second, or even just enchanted to give academic advice by a wizard teacher that didn't like keeping office hours.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AaronOfBarbaria, post: 6714425, member: 6701872"] Too true. I manage to keep my players guessing entirely by ridiculous amounts of luck; a room with statues that even depict held weapons, and they assume "too obvious, definitely just statues" and end up surprised. Then the random statue of some robed woman they don't even recognize the image of "...maybe there is a secret door behind this?" and they end up surprised (especially because it spewed fire and nearly killed their hired cleric). Then the room lined with statues of various adventurer-seeming people, and they state "These are definitely going to try to kill us," and they end up surprised by a medusa. I think the trick is that I always give roughly the same amount of detail in my description of what a statue looks like, whether it is just set dressing, hiding a secret door, part of some puzzle, a hint for some later puzzle, about to start trying to kill the party at any second, or even just enchanted to give academic advice by a wizard teacher that didn't like keeping office hours. [/QUOTE]
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