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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WalkingEntropy" data-source="post: 4235197" data-attributes="member: 66851">DM Derails His Own GameHere's a silly way to derail a game from about a year and a half ago.  It begins in Sharn in the Eberron Campaign Setting and the party had a Dwarven Defender, Frenzied Bezerker, an Artificer and me, a Sorcerer.  The mission at the time involved hunting down what appeared to be a rakshasa with the help of an NPC Master Inquisitive who takes us to an abandoned warehouse.  The warehouse, according to the NPC, is the hideout of the rakshasa and our job is to search it room by room.  I personally thought that was retarded (I hate dungeon crawls) so I asked the DM what the building was made out of.  He told us that it was wood.  So I said to him, "Great, I light the building with burning hands."  The general idea was that we could get straight to the boss if I could torch the dungeon.That caught DM completely off guard and, after he tossed away the majority of his campaign notes, he scrambled to save the adventure by saying that in the bottom floor of the torched building was an adamantine door that the target must have escaped through.  Our party response was to dig around the door find somewhere to break into the underground passage.The DM in turn, upped the ante and said that our way was barred by an adamantine plate that was 1000 feet to a side and six feet thick.This immediately set off a wave off cussing around the table from everyone as a thought struck me.  It occurred to me that the group was standing on what was the equivalent of 6 million cubic feet of adamantine.  An evil glint came to the eye of our artificer and he announced his plans to immediately begin mining the adamantine for profit.The DM pointed out that we had no resources available to do that, which was the truth.  But our artificer had taken the feat Favored in House and his house was House Cannith.  He leveraged this feat to get a entire Cannith mining expedition out to extract our new cash cow.We were a little sketchy about the total value of the adamantine as we knew the amount only as a volume, not a weight, but we estimated that we had about 15 billion gp beneath our feet.Long story short, I used my cut of the treasure to bankroll a fleet of 125 mithral plated airships and used them to support the personal armies raised by my party members as we declared war on the rest the campaign setting.</blockquote>

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