The Adventures of the Knights of Spellforge Keep

[Wizardry]

Re: Wizardry

Malachai: Yawn. Look, if I wanted to criticize Dr. Midnights writing style, I would, but it should be apparent that is not the case. I don't know why I'm even bothering to post this, but if I don't like the way the story develops, I'll say so. Not all feedback is going to be positive. Deal, and welcome to the real world.


PS

By.... the.... way.... putting.... period.... marks... in.... practically... every... part.... of.... your.... post... is.... really.... annoying....

 

[Esiminar]

Back to something related to the story

Rod of Oneder
Cube of Force
Scroll of Flesh to Stone

So thats 1+4+1

I think you will find the answer was six.
This is the only riddle in this whole thing that actualy jumped off the page punched me in the face and said heres my answer and it was the only one the Knights missed.

Now I just hope i'm right to prevent los of face

 

[Dr Midnight]

Wow, lots of discussion since I posted.

You know, I'm really tired of the attitude that unless a post is butt kissingly complimentary, it's rude and insulting.

Y'know what, I've got to stand with Wizardry on this one, and though it stung a bit, it's a reader's opinion, and I value them all. The truth is that it WASN'T a satisfying resolution to the adventure. There WASN'T much danger to it all, and I WASN'T as prepared as I should have been.

Here's my flimsy excuse: I've been out of practice for a long time, and I've never run high-level D&D... or at least D&D at this high a level. I'd been struggling with it back when I was running every week. Now, I'm dealing with four spellcasters, and I'm never sure what their weaknesses are. So many times over the adventure I smacked my head and said "You can't do that... can you?? But... but..." etc.

I leveled this adventure up from a 2nd level module, and I think I made a lot of bad choices. I'm going with a published one for the next module. I'm going to get a lot tougher, and do my homework, and before long I'm hoping we'll have characters lined up in their graves, just like the old days.

So- thanks to Wizardry AND Malachai and Cheiromancer and everyone else. I would encourage anyone with criticism or "That was lame" comments to speak up. Give me the tough love I need. Just reading the nice stuff is great, but I don't want to feel like people are holding back with the bad.
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Esiminar: Gonggggg

 

[med stud]

First of: Dr_Midnight, I love your story hour and taste of music! Though I probably should give your players credit as well, as their characters are all interresting (I have lurked my way all through all of the story hours )

Now, enough butt kissing ^^

What saves did the titan have? And what stats? Was it just a regular titan?

 

[Broccli_Head]

Wow, lots of discussion since I posted.



Now, I'm dealing with four spellcasters, and I'm never sure what their weaknesses are. So many times over the adventure I smacked my head and said "You can't do that... can you?? But... but..." etc.

vs divine spellcasters...reflex saves
vs. arcane spellcasters...fort saves

then there's anti-magic which works against spell-like and supernatural abilities.

even Vek has his weaknesses!

If you ever want some suggestions, doc there is that email thing we can use come up with and then to drop some suprises.

Although, I won't give anything away against my favorite character, Dartan. Sorry


Also...don't titans have a ridiculous SR, like a 30+. And they may be immune to alterations? I'm thinking that your titan could have been classified as an abomination from the ELH, however.

Well maybe next time.

 

[Ziona]

Gaming Table

...I would love to know what was going on at the table when all this happened...

Sitting at the table that night was rather interesting! We made our way to the platform outside and a titan was climbing up the side of the cliff. We rolled initiative and Kizz got a natural 20, giving her the highest init with a 25. So, I started casting and told Doc what the difficulty was, and to make a fort save (Kizz has very good spell diff checks). Doc looked up from behind his DM's screen & said "Okay...he failed."

Vek said something like "What did you do, turn him into a worm?"

I just smirked and said, "No...I turned him to stone!"

Like Doc described in the story, everyone sat there for a second, then Doc said, "You're just messing with my head, right?"

But, I wasn't...good initiative roll combined with good stats and a bad saving roll for the titan = success for our heroes!

Personally, I was proud of her ablilities and was quite excited when I managed to accomplish what I did, even though there were some at the table who were bummed about the lack of battle. I thought it was great! As far as it's saves and such, Doc asked for "loopholes" and there were none that would have prevented the spell's effects (trust me, they looked it up!)

All in all, it was an interesting night with an ending I was enthused about.

 

[Malachai_rose]

thanks for the reply Ziona, heh, arcane casters are dangerous at higher levels Here I was thinkin Dartan and Vek were the groups powerhouses but now I see that Kizz is pretty flippin powerfull as well. Now all that remains is to see what my favorite gruff dwarven cleric Orthos has hidden up his sleeve.

Also I would like to thank Jamisons player, ringing that gong the third time was the coolest thing I've seen in a long time, lol, just suprised Dartan didn't try and kill you for it (glad he held his cool, I kinda like the whole curious crazy mage thing you've got going for you currently)

 

[Richards]

Originally posted by Esiminar:

Rod of Oneder
Cube of Force
Scroll of Flesh to Stone

So thats 1+4+1

I think you will find the answer was six.

So close, but you're off by just a hair. You've got the right idea, though: the solution was based on the phonetics of the numbers imbedded in the words of the magic items. However, the phonetic sound of one ("won") does not appear in the word "stone" (unless you've got a really funny accent ). The hidden number in the last line was 2 ("to" = 2).

Thus, 1+4+2=7. The correct answer was 7.

Johnathan

 

[Esiminar]

Aaaaarrrgg!!!

See loss of face (no smilies)

 

[Breakstone]

I'm Kizzlorn got her chance to shine, Ziona.

When my players' characters eventually get to that level, I'll be working on my use of imagery.

"With a cry like a storm of seagulls, the titan lifts and arm, dark claws extending with a sound like steel on stone. The claw begins its descent in your direction, death in flippered form. Suddenly, Kizzlorn steps forward, reciting the final words of her spell. The claw continues to swoop as she shouts the arcaic pronounciations. 10 feet away- 8 feet away- 5 feet away. A final spat of a sylable! 3 feet away- and stopped! A sudden shadow of doubt passes over the titan's face as his scales turn to stone, a wave of gray rushing over his skin. He attempts to free himself, but it is too late. The titan's face freezs in fear as he turns to solid rock."

Y'see? Now that's a climatic spell!

Heh, I just had a thought- that's just like the ending to Clash of the Titans...