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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 5063906" data-attributes="member: 63">A few weeks back I ran a one-shot &quot;monster&quot; game where the PCs basically worked for David Bowie from Labyrinth, and they were supposed to sneak into a princess's birthday party on Halloween to kidnap her. I let the players be level 8 or lower monsters, and rather than choosing anything like goblins or whatever, we had:A floating brain in a jarA floating undead that's just a brain and a spinal columnA floating flameskullA black hole wraithA displacer beastA half-elf con artistSomehow I did not realize this would be a problem. Cue an hour later, after the monsters have horrifically slaughtered a few guards, and the con-artist realizes these things are scary. He runs off to warn the king, while the rest of the macabre group tries to figure out how to sneak into the castle, since even though it's Halloween, no one will buy that &quot;floating skull with viscera-dripping jagged spinal column&quot; is a costume.Finally the PCs get in, and the con-artist player wants to know if the guards are waiting for them. Things have gotten out of hand, so I just decide that the king put his princess into lock-down and got a handmaiden to pose as the princess so she can get abducted instead. So when the monsters decide to screw sneaking around and just fly to the princess's tower, the 'princess' agrees to go with them.Victory, sort of. And then we played Modern Warfare 2.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 5063906, member: 63"] A few weeks back I ran a one-shot "monster" game where the PCs basically worked for David Bowie from Labyrinth, and they were supposed to sneak into a princess's birthday party on Halloween to kidnap her. I let the players be level 8 or lower monsters, and rather than choosing anything like goblins or whatever, we had: A floating brain in a jar A floating undead that's just a brain and a spinal column A floating flameskull A black hole wraith A displacer beast A half-elf con artist Somehow I did not realize this would be a problem. Cue an hour later, after the monsters have horrifically slaughtered a few guards, and the con-artist realizes these things are scary. He runs off to warn the king, while the rest of the macabre group tries to figure out how to sneak into the castle, since even though it's Halloween, no one will buy that "floating skull with viscera-dripping jagged spinal column" is a costume. Finally the PCs get in, and the con-artist player wants to know if the guards are waiting for them. Things have gotten out of hand, so I just decide that the king put his princess into lock-down and got a handmaiden to pose as the princess so she can get abducted instead. So when the monsters decide to screw sneaking around and just [i]fly to the princess's tower[/i], the 'princess' agrees to go with them. Victory, sort of. And then we played Modern Warfare 2. [/QUOTE]

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