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Message: <blockquote data-quote="demiurge1138" data-source="post: 2096691" data-attributes="member: 7451">I decided to take a break from DMing for a while, so one of my players cooks up a game that combines the Forgotten Realms with some cool Airship rules that he found. Our party are a bunch of brigands and sellswords, I playing an intelligent, disguised skeleton, and we've hired passage on an airship headed for Waterdeep. During a storm, I sneak around, having overheard talk in port that the captain's a smuggler. I find his loot in his cabin. A chaos gem. Worth about as much, if not more, than his entire ship. I quickly shove it into my ribcage and sneak back.The storm gets so severe that the ship is forced to make an emergency landing in the wilderness. I tell the rest of the party that I've stolen an item of great import, and we need to leave. The dollar signs going off in their head, they agree and we make excuses to get off the ship. That night, though, before we publically leave, I roll a Disable Device check on one of the fireball bombards, to make sure they can't shoot us from the air if they find out.I roll a 20. The DM goggles for a bit, then accepts it.A matter of hours later, my theft is discovered, and they start attacking us. The cannon fires. The ship explodes.OK, the moment was more unexpected for the players, but the DM didn't expect me to find the gem, much less roll a 20 to disable the cannon.Demiurge out.</blockquote>