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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1384074" data-attributes="member: 158"><p>...announces to the group that he is looking for a party of hearty adventurers to retreive an artifact of great worth. He wishes to possess it, and will pay handsomely for it (say, 1000gp per level of the party or some such).</p><p></p><p>---Don't forget to include a wandering monster or two (say a catoblepas or a manticore, one of those things you rarely ever run into these days, and which has no ecological business being there). </p><p></p><p>---Don't forget a GynoSphinx with some riddles. Make every damn one of them something the party has heard before:</p><p></p><p>walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 in the afternoon, 3 in the evening;</p><p>or the one about the coffin where the one who buys it doesn't need it, etc.</p><p></p><p>Then have the sphinx keep asking them riddles until they get tired of it and leave, or fight her. If they leave, she just curses them out.</p><p></p><p>---This one might be too new, but be sure somewhere in the dungeon is an orc guarding an Apple Pie in a 10' x 10' room.</p><p></p><p>---Don't forget about statues with jewels in the eyes that come to life when you take the jewels out.</p><p></p><p>---And you'll shoot yourself if you don't have a princess in the dungeon, guarded by a dragon, and she needs rescuing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Henry, post: 1384074, member: 158"] ...announces to the group that he is looking for a party of hearty adventurers to retreive an artifact of great worth. He wishes to possess it, and will pay handsomely for it (say, 1000gp per level of the party or some such). ---Don't forget to include a wandering monster or two (say a catoblepas or a manticore, one of those things you rarely ever run into these days, and which has no ecological business being there). ---Don't forget a GynoSphinx with some riddles. Make every damn one of them something the party has heard before: walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 in the afternoon, 3 in the evening; or the one about the coffin where the one who buys it doesn't need it, etc. Then have the sphinx keep asking them riddles until they get tired of it and leave, or fight her. If they leave, she just curses them out. ---This one might be too new, but be sure somewhere in the dungeon is an orc guarding an Apple Pie in a 10' x 10' room. ---Don't forget about statues with jewels in the eyes that come to life when you take the jewels out. ---And you'll shoot yourself if you don't have a princess in the dungeon, guarded by a dragon, and she needs rescuing. [/QUOTE]
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