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#1 MrCelsius Oct 11, 2008 17:36:19	Not a lot of point to this post, just sharing an idea that worked out well in the Agents of Artifice campaign I'm running now. I'll spare you the irrelevant details, but the party went to see an NPC in Sharn and found him brutally murdered. Heal check indicates that the wound was made by a large blade like a sword or axe. The only weapon at the scene, however, is a bloody dagger. Examination of the victim reveals that the dagger is his. Near the body is a blood-stained page that gives a clue to the murderer's identity (the victim was a fence, and the page was a half-completed ledger entry giving the name of his most recent customer). The blood on the page, however, is easily as interesting as the ink. A dagger-shaped imprint of blood sits, point-upward, in the midst of the page. A line has been traced, as with the edge of that bloody dagger, across the page, touching the dagger mark's pommel. Finally, a single, deliberate fingerprint rests just above that line, to the right of the dagger-shaped bloodstain. A hastily-snapped photo of my hastily-made visual aid Here I will disclaimer that that's a very, very crude visual aid. It's the first time I've ever used props with my players, I had to throw it together in about five minutes as the players were coming in the door (dunno what they must've thought when I fled to the bathroom with a sheaf of paper, box of food colouring, and several knives) because my original technique didn't pan out, and frankly I didn't want to go overboard until I got a read off of them with this test. Judging by how well they took to it, the next 'mysterious page' will get the full 'tea-stained parchment' treatment. (EDIT: Hm, dunno why it isn't showing up as a picture. Oh well.)
#2 skrap-san Oct 13, 2008 15:45:52	Great idea. I was looking for something for when my players eventually enter Sharn. Probably sometime mid next year. But hey, never to early to be thinking about it.