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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 912396" data-attributes="member: 8704">Too late to post any campaign spanning rat bastardness, but I have a couple of "got ya" shorts.I set up one dungeon with most all of it being creatures that damage weapons or equipment (slimes and rust monsters and such), then at the end of it they run into a Death Knight. They attacked him with two rusted kitchen knives, a chair leg and a rotten 2x4 with a couple of nails in the end of it. Needless to say it wasn't a very pretty fight. ------------The party was exploring a ancient cursed city, they found a palace with intact catacombs underneath it which they explored. After working their way deep under the palace they defeated the horrible creature that had cursed the city and found the city treasury. The room had so much treasure in it that they were literally knee deep in gold, but when the creature breathed it's last breath a mighty earthquake shook the city and it started sinking. I told them the curse was lifted and the city was sinking, then I held up my watch and asked them what they were going to do. Knowing that I was timing them but not knowing how much time they had they got frantic, one of the characters yelled grab the magic items, they are worth more so they all dropped the bags of gold and all their equipment and grabbed a bunch of items in the room then ran. Once they got out of the city they started trying to figure out what all the magic items they had grabbed were, you could see their faces drop when I pointed out that nobody had actually used detect magic before they started grabbing things. They had dropped all their equipment and supplies in order to grab as much of these "magic items" as they could only to find out that most of them were just old items and weapons. The guy who had nearly died dragging stuff out just so he could save a copper monkey statue and a old tower shield was particularly angry. --------------The party had been tracking Frost Giants that had been raiding caravans in a mountain pass. They found the Giant's hide out and set up camp to wait for nightfall, then they attacked. After several hard fights they killed all the Frost Giants except for one who escaped during the battles. They figured they would track down the injured Frost Giant later and decided to celebrate by drinking some Dwarvish Ale the Frost Giants had stolen and roasting a big side of beef they found in the larder. They got so into celebrating that they forgot to go check on the horses they left at the campsite. The next morning they found that the Frost Giant that escaped had brutally slain all their mounts by ripping their legs off, dug through all their belongings and stole or destroyed everything they left at the camp. then defecated in their supply wagon. So they are stuck at the top of a frozen pass with no mounts, very little equipment and nobody really wanted to eat those rations anymore. It really made for a good reoccuring villian, they hated that Frost Giant (and that wasn't the last time he had gotten the best of them even thought they thought they had defeated his plans.)</blockquote>

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