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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6087376" data-attributes="member: 6669384">There are a few standard tropes in D&D that I occasionally abuse.Here are a few standards:  1) See a maze?  Look for a Minotaur (or a Troll), even though Minotaur's can't be lost in one.2) There is no such thing as a statue in D&D, just a monster that hasn't animated yet.3) The "innocent maiden" needing rescue is inevitably a Succubus or Vampire, or some other monster trying to get close to the party.4) Cobwebs always mean giant spiders.  5) Giant spiders always mean Drow.As for abuse, sometimes the pretty girl needing rescue from the monsters isn't a Succubus, she's actually an innocent victim.  Sometimes the statues you see in that room really are just statues.  They aren't going to animate.  Sometimes the cobwebs in the corners of the room are just signs of normal spiders, not giant ones.  Sometimes the damp spot on the floor or wall isn't a mold or slime.  Sometimes the skeletal remains in that cell really are just skeletal remains, and the mummy in the sarcophagus really is just an embalmed corpse.)And at least once, when they see a skeleton in worn armor advancing on them, it shouldn't be a Skeleton Warrior, it's a suit of Animated Armor carrying the remains of its last "owner".  Turn or Rebuke Undead doesn't work. (Now if, after the victory, someone decides to repair and wear that neat magic armor... <evil laugh>).I absolutely floored my group once when they found a Tiefling being beset by Gnolls.  She was running more than fighting.  After the rescue they started to ask her questions, trying in a roundabout way to ask what her class and level were.  She continued to not know what they were talking about.  One player, getting blunt, asked her, "How do you go about killing things?".  She was shocked, and swore that nobody had ever died from eating her cooking, not even once.They were in shock that the Tiefling was just a cook who moved from mining town to mining town, wherever the latest strikes had been reported, to cook good (if overpriced) meals for the miners that inevitably showed up.  She wasn't an adventurer class at all, and her "expert" ranks weren't in anything related to combat, espionage, assassination, or anything even slightly nefarious.They kept trying to trip her up, to see if she knew things she shouldn't, or could do things a cook shouldn't be able to do.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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