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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9540248" data-attributes="member: 6796661">Sorry, but what do you mean by "tricks" and "specials"?  I've use Bill Webb's Book of Dirty Tricks for inspiration and also playing in games that use the card deck version. I think the golden rule of DM tricks is his advice to "build the story, don't screw the players."One example I've used that was inspired by this book was to but an elaborate key in vault with treasure. It is very large, made with precious metals and decorated with gem stones and elaborate engravings. It is also 10 lbs in weight. It looks like a functional key but is just a ceremonial or art object, but players will often carry this keys around a dungeon a long time thinking it important. One cursed potion I created, I called the Potion of Helloing. I created a stack of 112 cards with various greetings, in various in-world languages. Some are simple one-word greetings, other are paragraph long poems. It would distract the PC giving some minor but annoying debuffs. Every now and then I would hand a greeting card to the player. I wrote more about it in a post to another thread <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-things-we-do-for-our-players.701535/#post-9215863" target="_blank">The things we do for our players...</a>I don't know if these are the kinds of things you are looking for, or if you are thinking more about cool tricks and special strategies that players have come up with.</blockquote>

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