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<blockquote data-quote="Orryn Emrys" data-source="post: 2603185" data-attributes="member: 6799">The more I read, the more I remember from my own years of gaming....He read the adventure:&nbsp; I've got one player who likes to get his hands on the published adventures I've run after they've been completed, largely due to my habit of making sweeping changes in any given module to fit the needs of the campaign (and to throw off players like one I used to know who liked to read the adventure before it was over...).&nbsp; He then likes to share his discoveries with his colleagues, detailing what could have happened had they made different decisions... assuming I was using the material as written.&nbsp; He truly is a very insightful person, who thrives on puzzle-solving encounters and truly enjoys well-constructed adventures.&nbsp; Consequentially, whenever he figures out some great riddle or mystery in one of my games, the players have begun proclaiming that &quot;he read the adventure&quot;... especially when they are well aware that the adventure material is my own....So... what's your next plan?:&nbsp; Early in the current ARCANA UNEARTHED campaign, the party leader, a young magister, presumably had a clever moment when the heroes were backed into a narrow tunnel outside of which an angry hydra paced.&nbsp; Interrupting the heroes' arguments concerning their options, the mage announced, &quot;Wait! I've got an idea!&quot;, then proceeded to cast a low-level conjure energy creature spell, summoning an electric monkey just inside the tunnel's entryway... only to be snapped up instantly by the hydra!&nbsp; Following a moment of stunned silence, the party's litorian warrior turned to the mage and growled, completely deadpan, &quot;So... what's your next plan?&quot;&nbsp; Now, I hear this anytime some clever idea or another suddenly backfires....A couple of running gags from my earlier days as a DM were the result of carelessness on my part.&nbsp; In one situation, I informed the group that they had entered a round room, and while I was distracted, one of the players announced that his character was going to sit in the corner...&nbsp; I just nodded, of course... I've never lived that one down.&nbsp; In the same campaign, my younger brother's thief got into the habit of &quot;disappearing into the forest&quot;... It wasn't long before he was disappearing into the forest despite the terrain.&nbsp; The first time I let this slip and someone demanded to know how he was disappearing into the forest on the lower level of the dungeon, I looked at him and said: &quot;He's just that good....&quot;&nbsp; Needless to say, this later became habitual for any truly stealthy character.And, of course... I frequently answer stupid questions with... &quot;It's a gazebo.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orryn Emrys, post: 2603185, member: 6799"] The more I read, the more I remember from my own years of gaming.... [b]He read the adventure[/b]: I've got one player who likes to get his hands on the published adventures I've run after they've been completed, largely due to my habit of making sweeping changes in any given module to fit the needs of the campaign (and to throw off players like one I used to know who liked to read the adventure [i]before[/i] it was over...). He then likes to share his discoveries with his colleagues, detailing what could have happened had they made different decisions... assuming I was using the material as written. He truly is a very insightful person, who thrives on puzzle-solving encounters and truly enjoys well-constructed adventures. Consequentially, whenever he figures out some great riddle or mystery in one of my games, the players have begun proclaiming that "he read the adventure"... especially when they are well aware that the adventure material is my own.... [b]So... what's your next plan?[/b]: Early in the current ARCANA UNEARTHED campaign, the party leader, a young magister, presumably had a clever moment when the heroes were backed into a narrow tunnel outside of which an angry hydra paced. Interrupting the heroes' arguments concerning their options, the mage announced, "Wait! I've got an idea!", then proceeded to cast a low-level [i]conjure energy creature[/i] spell, summoning an electric monkey just inside the tunnel's entryway... only to be snapped up instantly by the hydra! Following a moment of stunned silence, the party's litorian warrior turned to the mage and growled, completely deadpan, "So... what's your next plan?" Now, I hear this anytime some clever idea or another suddenly backfires.... A couple of running gags from my earlier days as a DM were the result of carelessness on my part. In one situation, I informed the group that they had entered a round room, and while I was distracted, one of the players announced that his character was going to sit in the corner... I just nodded, of course... I've never lived that one down. In the same campaign, my younger brother's thief got into the habit of "disappearing into the forest"... It wasn't long before he was disappearing into the forest despite the terrain. The first time I let this slip and someone demanded to know [i]how[/i] he was disappearing into the forest on the lower level of the dungeon, I looked at him and said: "He's just [i]that[/i] good...." Needless to say, this later became habitual for any truly stealthy character. And, of course... I frequently answer stupid questions with... "It's a gazebo." [/QUOTE]

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