Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Suzaku455 02-27-07, 03:21 PM	1) A small white bunny inside a locked room with one exit and a large amount of corpse of enemies the pc would have trouble fighting when they're alone. And then bunny starts hopping towards them. 2) A small girl in the middle of the road looking at the pcs and doesn't seem to be lost. 3) A single Kobold yells at his comrades to stay out of the fight he'll handle the pcs on his own. 4) If said Kobold had a tiny viper familiar 5) If said familiar suddenly grows in size. 6) There's a lever in the middle of a room. 7) The pcs encounter a Balor and Kobold in the same room and the Kobold angrily stares at the Balor and that alone causes him to wet himself.
MasonMurdoc 02-27-07, 03:47 PM	Wow, those are awesome Have you actually used any of them? 8) An NPC walks into a room and the door closes. All the PCs hear is screams of pain. Then when they have the courage to go in, all they see is [Insert cute thing here]
Grognor 02-27-07, 05:45 PM	9.) My friend created an Inevitable that hunts down metagamers, not exceedingly powerful but enough to harass us.
Evil DM Mk3 02-27-07, 05:54 PM	10) change the description of some of your creatures. If they relay on metagame knowladge then th eunknown will freak them out.
Vaalingrade Ashland 02-27-07, 07:19 PM	11) "The troll notices you coming and puts out his cigar in his palm." 12) A man with a hat that covers his eyes steps into the path ahead of them and grins menacingly. 13) A beautiful woman approaches and hits on one of the characters without provocation.
LostMage 02-27-07, 08:21 PM	14) You stab the pirate in front of you, but he dosen't die. (then ask the players if you've told them if the moon was out or not)
Malraux 02-27-07, 08:59 PM	15) You see a reddish fat cricket with a fan-like tail, that is about the size of a pony.
tharivol266 02-27-07, 09:04 PM	16) an attractive woman walks up to you and seems genuinly interested in your conversation. after a few minutes she gets up and tells you where her room is and she walks away. any metagamer (unless you are really mean to PCs) will freak and not go.
Firestar27 03-01-07, 10:50 PM	:bump:
Keiichi_m 03-01-07, 11:46 PM	17) A (Discribes a large ugly creature without mentioning the name) steps into the bar. PC: Oh that's a (Large ugly creature). Large creature: What did you just call me boy? Imma gonna kick your ---
Ioosef 03-02-07, 12:03 AM	18) The PC party encounters a kobold in the middle of a road. When they ask him what's he doing there he says "I'm pun-pun! And I'm angry!".
NerdNumber1 03-02-07, 12:13 AM	Even non-metagamers would be afraid of some of those. The monty-python bunny would creep me out. Something had to kill all those things, and in a world where the most powerful draconic mages can become invisible or take on whatever form they want, I'm not taking any chances. Also, kobolds can be scary, if you know enough about their society. Not all of them are first level warriors, some are powerful spellcasters (what is their perfered class? Sorcerer! The have many sorcerers).
Radijs 03-02-07, 04:31 AM	Tomb motes with levels in a spellcasting class.
Bengal 03-02-07, 04:36 AM	Kobold warrior lvl...2! with the feral, half-minotaur, and mineral warrior templates
LCD2YOU 03-02-07, 08:32 AM	I tell my players straight up that my monsters don't always have the same stats as the MM. Like Trolls that regain HP when hit with Fireballs..... 21) They walk into a town and nothing happens you tell them, yet.....
UndeadMouse 03-02-07, 08:37 AM	22: have a stack of printed out Elite Opponents, with a creature 3-5 Challence Ratings higher then the PC's level on top. 23: Okay, i don't have an adventure ready, so let's just kill random monsters. (opens a book up to a random CR 20 creature), let's start with this one.
Makuta999 03-02-07, 08:40 AM	24) Don't tell the player's about the new book you got, and then throw creatures from it at them. EDIT: Dang, other guy beat me to posting number 22.
tharivol266 03-02-07, 04:50 PM	25) have the epic level handbook in your stack of books when the party is tenth level or lower.
Cryforge 03-02-07, 06:09 PM	The whole Monty Python rabbit trick is still too predictable. It encourages metagaming actually, since they expect the rabbit to be a vorpal bunny with big pointy teeth etc. So this is what you do... 26) The PCs come into a cave filled with corpses of very powerful monsters and see a white rabbit come hopping along. They fight it, it puts on a good fight (give it some template to give it a bite attack and maybe some intelligence), but dies in the end. Then what really killed all of those monsters shows up.;)
AngelofCthulhu 03-02-07, 06:19 PM	27) Use an absurdly complex but highly punishing system of Exp. 28) 2 words: Intelligent Enemies.
Xandria 03-02-07, 06:33 PM	26) The PCs come into a cave filled with corpses of very powerful monsters and see a white rabbit come hopping along. They fight it, it puts on a good fight (give it some template to give it a bite attack and maybe some intelligence), but dies in the end. Then what really killed all of those monsters shows up.;) Better yet, have someone (or thing) come in screaming, "What did you do to Bunny!"
skavenos 03-02-07, 08:07 PM	I think dialoge is the best but....... 29)They find a secret door in a dungeon.When they step in,they find a little girl eating.When they get closer they realise that this is the girl they saw outside as a corpse.They ask her "But...aren't you dead?" and the girl replies "Aren't we all?" 30)They are in a dungeon full of spider's webs.They enter a locked room,and after they kill the monstrous spider coming down from the walls in it,they realise that they are in a dead end.The time they try to get back the door suddenly shuts.The rogue says :"No problem!I can handle it!" but he really freaks out when he sees the door disappearing leaving a stone wall in its place.To top the bill,the walls start mysteriously getting closer.....
ant1ers 03-02-07, 08:20 PM	One of the best things to do to players is to play of their knowledge of pop culture. For example, I used to DM a group, all of whom were fans of a webcomic named sluggy freelance, specifically the character Bun-Bun. (and people, this dates back to before Pun-Pun) All I will say is that when they walked into a tavern, they heard a voice ordering alfalfa margaritas. It's the only time that I ever saw 6 PC's of level 16 & up get stuck in a doorway because they all immediately turned tail and ran. Needless to say, for those of you who know the comic, the bar did not survive the night.
Fara 03-02-07, 08:32 PM	Intelligent enemies, mostly. Nothing as scary as a truly cunning and evil enemy. Asking for random listen/spot/sense motive checks also works :) And my personal favourite, a beating with their own PHB if they let OOC information influence their IC decisions too overtly.
Zankue 03-02-07, 09:58 PM	31) ask one of the players to buy you an epic level hand book and a few extra character sheets for next week 32) Have a man with long gray hair one wing and a 9 foot sword walk around the corner
GSonic7 03-02-07, 10:12 PM	33. "DM: You wake up locked in a cell." PC: "I cast Dimension Door to get outside of the cell." DM: (While taking out new character sheets) "Nothing happens."
Raumz 03-02-07, 10:30 PM	How about this...most likely cliche... 34. Have the players walk into a small square room with a small glass mirror on one wall. They see a small doll with a large head and white face sitting on a tyke. Once they are all in the room the door shuts and locks. The white dolls says in a weird voice, "Hello adventurers, want to play a game?" 35. DM: Ok....before entering this dungeon how many extra character sheets do we have?
Dr_Necronamos 03-02-07, 10:41 PM	Alright this is currently being debated in my roleplay. 36) Your in the city storm sewers and theirs this large drain being gaurded by some thieves. The thieves also seem to be gaurding a lever.
Edymnion 03-02-07, 11:01 PM	Its simple really. Anything the Players can do, the DM can do. If the players are metagaming to specifically attack the weaknesses of monsters they shouldn't know, then the monsters will suddenly start specifically attacking the weaknesses of the players. "Oh, you're immune to everything except for small gnomish women named Susan with brown hair and green eyes that smell like lilies, and they make you explode? Remember when you just immediantly started hitting that troll with acid and fire after I told you that your character wouldn't know that? Yeah, well you see a small gnomish woman with brown hair and green eyes walking towards you. Roll init."
scarletice 03-02-07, 11:27 PM	38) The tile you just stepped on depressed several inches into the floor. Nothing appears to happen. Paranoia is fun :D
M1kh43l_P4r4d1s0 03-09-07, 05:49 PM	39) when the pc's are hunting a lycanthrope, introduce a very hairy, buff man/woman. They probably suspect them, and maybe will kill them. it's actually the clean shaven mage that lives in the tower.
Cryforge 03-09-07, 06:18 PM	28) 2 words: Intelligent Enemies. "An intelligent guard? Didn't see that one coming." (Close enough. ;)) 40. There is no Christianity in D&D, so there's no bad reason why the kind, if not slightly mysterious, son of the blacksmith was named Satan. (Watch the PCs try frame him or blame him for the first thing that goes wrong.)
Kage_Ryu 03-09-07, 06:49 PM	41) Dialog: You enter a dark room. Corpses line the walls, each with their neck ripped open, some partially eaten. In the center a little white fuzzy ball sits, you hear the gnawing of teeth against bone... Suddenly the fuzzy ball turns towards the party leader - It's a bunny! Suddenly he starts floating towards you! *DM rolls a few times* *Whispers under breath angrily* And I wanted to do some damage first... Dialog: A giant Orc rushes out with fire in his eyes, smashing the bunny to the ground! Then he turns looking at you...
Dr_Necronamos 03-09-07, 07:51 PM	40. There is no Christianity in D&D, so there's no bad reason why the kind, if not slightly mysterious, son of the blacksmith was named Satan. (Watch the PCs try frame him or blame him for the first thing that goes wrong.) That be the devil talkin' in ye' lad! Practicin' magic and witchcraft all be the work of the Adversary I say. No but that's actually a good idea, but watch all the bad guys through out the game are munipulated by Satan. 42) An odd pale count becomes the employer for the party, for some odd reason he's only seen at night though.
Ltheb Liadon 03-09-07, 08:00 PM	... 42) An odd pale count becomes the employer for the party, for some odd reason he's only seen at night though. I had the opposite problem: I had a vampire NPC. I dropped every hint (Nobility title, pale, old, talks with romanian accent, drinks thick red wine, wears red and black robes, stays indoors, two 'crossbow wounds' on one side of his neck, etc). 4 sessions later, they figured it out. (After a PC turned vampire told them) Anyways... 43): At the bottom of a dungeon mysteriously full of undead, have the PCs discover a gem-filled pool. Also, at the bottom of the pool, is a Gem-Studded, rune-covered Skull... It isn't a demi-lich. But if the PCs freak and smash it, they find the runes were Glyphs of Warding, loaded with whatever makes the rest of the dungeon that much more difficult. (Bestow Curse, Blindness, or other nasty, permanent spells work well)
angryman 03-09-07, 08:45 PM	I had the opposite problem: I had a vampire NPC. I dropped every hint (Nobility title, pale, old, talks with romanian accent, drinks thick red wine, wears red and black robes, stays indoors, two 'crossbow wounds' on one side of his neck, etc). 4 sessions later, they figured it out. (After a PC turned vampire told them) See, I'm really good at guessing what monsters we fight. Once the DM said, "You see a tall pale man wearing black". I just assumed he was a vampire and he was. Another time, we were walking through a forest and there were 3 guys sitting around a fire. I just assumed they were werewolves, and they were...
Sockslayer 03-09-07, 09:24 PM	"skavenos: 29)They find a secret door in a dungeon.When they step in,they find a little girl eating.When they get closer they realise that this is the girl they saw outside as a corpse.They ask her "But...aren't you dead?" and the girl replies "Aren't we all?"" Now that one would scare the hell out of me...I need to use it sometime :cool: 44) In a futuristic setting, constantly describe the air ducts in the walls and the sound of things moving in them. 45) Have a master monk of the art of "foot to face style" set the party straight.
Muon 03-09-07, 11:00 PM	Wait, wait, hold on guys. If I take a level of Human Paragon, does that mean I can walk around saying, "I AM ALL THAT IS MAN!"?
shadowoftreefrog 03-09-07, 11:23 PM	46) I like to randomly make my pc's roll fortitude saves, try doing it when they walk through a stream or something, just ask them what they rolled.... "Hmm thats interesting. okay, you were walking west right?" they freak out 47) I also roll all their use rope checks behind the DM screen and say 'oh yeah that "looks" like a good knot'
Archangel_yuki 03-09-07, 11:27 PM	Wait, wait, hold on guys. If I take a level of Human Paragon, does that mean I can walk around saying, "I AM ALL THAT IS MAN!"? Imma so going to do this now. That and Name my human paragon Satan. >=D>
Charlym_Zuardan 03-10-07, 01:09 PM	48) make a few rolls behind the screen then laugh as you say "Hoo boy, thats gonna be fun!" or "Woah, what are the chances!" smile innocently and continue the game.
Jo_Pistachio 03-10-07, 03:04 PM	32) Have a man with long gray hair one wing and a 9 foot sword walk around the corner My DM did this to me for refusing to metagame something. :D