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<blockquote data-quote="Astragoth" data-source="post: 286071" data-attributes="member: 6351">583)This is what my DM did to us.... and some of us are leaving therapy right now........during the campaign we had the pleasure of watching some guys in black armor absolutely WASTING some of the opposition we had serious difficulties defeating with. over the course of the campaign we found out that those guys in black armor were indeed baddies who were chasing the exact same item we were..... for reasons not disclosed but it wasn't too hard figuring out that it wasn't good. we also learned they were rather unhappy about our progress.now this happens.... after fighting our way through the first lvl of a dungeon we encounter a maze with is filled with doors with riddles... so we ponder about 5 minutes about the first riddle, get it right and enter. Door closes behind us. ( we are talking massive stone doors here... there was no way we could bash them open). Same thing at second door.. we go through that one as well and it closes behind us.&nbsp; A little bit too relaxed and comfortable (enjoying snacks and beer over a good set of riddles, I think someone mentioned the dreaded phrase: aaah... finally a relaxed session) we start at the riddle of the third door.&nbsp;and WHAM!!!! the first door explodes in a massive shower of rockshards and sounds.I can tell you... solving riddles under extreme timepressure is JUST NOT FUNNY. We were exhausted at the end of the session with literally sweat in our hands... although ome people got remarkably creative under pressure (big cheers to Ingrid who solved three riddles in a row within 5 seconds.... the DM was not happy about that) all in all it freaked us out completely</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Astragoth, post: 286071, member: 6351"] 583)This is what my DM did to us.... and some of us are leaving therapy right now........ during the campaign we had the pleasure of watching some guys in black armor absolutely WASTING some of the opposition we had serious difficulties defeating with. over the course of the campaign we found out that those guys in black armor were indeed baddies who were chasing the exact same item we were..... for reasons not disclosed but it wasn't too hard figuring out that it wasn't good. we also learned they were rather unhappy about our progress. now this happens.... after fighting our way through the first lvl of a dungeon we encounter a maze with is filled with doors with riddles... so we ponder about 5 minutes about the first riddle, get it right and enter. Door closes behind us. ( we are talking massive stone doors here... there was no way we could bash them open). Same thing at second door.. we go through that one as well and it closes behind us. A little bit too relaxed and comfortable (enjoying snacks and beer over a good set of riddles, I think someone mentioned the dreaded phrase: aaah... finally a relaxed session) we start at the riddle of the third door. and WHAM!!!! the first door explodes in a massive shower of rockshards and sounds. I can tell you... solving riddles under extreme timepressure is JUST NOT FUNNY. We were exhausted at the end of the session with literally sweat in our hands... although ome people got remarkably creative under pressure (big cheers to Ingrid who solved three riddles in a row within 5 seconds.... the DM was not happy about that) all in all it freaked us out completely [/QUOTE]

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