I'll start out.
The town you are in is being invaded by a neighboring city. A group of invading soliders are holed up in an inn, and the captain of the guard, who is helping you coordinate a defense, tells you that you need to find a way to elimanate this group of enemies. There are far too many to fight.
Party
Wizard
Ranger (bow)
Warlord
Paladin
What do you do?
Ok, you are sneaking into the BBEG's lair, suddenly a guard patrol notices you and reinforcements are on their way.
Party
Druid
Cleric
Warlock
Bluff the BBEG into thinking that you have reinforcements on the way and he better surrender...
Nice Tharc
I'll do another one then anyone interested can contribute.
You are taken prisoner and stripped of weapons. Tied up in the woods, you hear howls as wolves begin to circle you, what do you do?
Paladin
Barbarian
Rogue
Warlord
There are too many wolves to fight as you are unarmed.
You are taken prisoner and stripped of weapons. Tied up in the woods, you hear howls as wolves begin to circle you, what do you do? There are too many wolves to fight as you are unarmed.
If the captors are nearby, Intimidate(Barbarian)/Bluff(Rogue)/Diplomacy(Paladin) the captors to free us and let us help defend the group from the wolves because clearly we are outmatched. Then have the Barbarian and the Warlord knock the wolves unconsious and use them as large furry clubs against our former captors.
You are taken prisoner and stripped of weapons. Tied up in the woods, you hear howls as wolves begin to circle you, what do you do? There are too many wolves to fight as you are unarmed.
If the captors are nearby, Intimidate(Barbarian)/Bluff(Rogue)/Diplomacy(Paladin) the captors to free us and let us help defend the group from the wolves because clearly we are outmatched. Then have the Barbarian and the Warlord knock the wolves unconsious and use them as large furry clubs against our former captors.
Points for creativity :D
Anyone else wanna create a situtation?
Party:
Wizard
Fighter
Rogue
Ranger
- Rogue: Tell the wizard to use his prestidigitation and/or telekinesis to lift as much gold as he can off the floor and into my backpack, since I succeed on a bluff check and am the most responsible with coinage. Then bail and spend the night at the local tavern while the Fighter dies quickly.
Just as your low level party realizes the room you just entered is a dead end, the stone doors behind you crash shut and water begins flooding in from the ceiling. You have about a minute before the room is fully flooded, and you see no way out but the now sealed doorway. What do you do?
Wizard
Paladin
Ranger
Fighter
"You're in a lair of some ancient monster. You don't know what sort of monster. however, the cave is littered with gold. There are traps all around, you just don't know where, or even how to deactivate them."
- Rogue: Tell the wizard to use his prestidigitation and/or telekinesis to lift as much gold as he can off the floor and into my backpack, since I succeed on a bluff check and am the most responsible with coinage. Then bail and spend the night at the local tavern while the Fighter dies quickly.
Just as your low level party realizes the room you just entered is a dead end, the stone doors behind you crash shut and water begins flooding in from the ceiling. You have about a minute before the room is fully flooded, and you see no way out but the now sealed doorway. What do you do?
Wizard
Paladin
Ranger
Fighter
Wizard use a frost ability on the door, making it brittle and have the fighter and paladin break it down.
You venture into a small cave to retrieve a scroll, but the caves entrance collapses and you are trapped.
Party
Warlock
Cleric
Seeker
Invoker
You venture into a small cave to retrieve a scroll, but the cave's entrance collapses and you are trapped.
Warlock
Cleric
Seeker
Invoker
- I leave the table to familiarize myself with the 4e rules for Invoker and Seeker, while my friend the cleric uses Summon Monster to force any and all small or medium creatures to be summoned inside the rockfall, the displacement from which will cause the cave rubble to fall away cleanly. Warlock Eldritch Blasts some rocks just for kicks, and we all succeed on our climb checks after the scroll grants us temporary bonuses to strength. Thank Boccob for that too, because the next thing we do is find the nearest warrior NPC and hire him to provide some melee backbone in a party that's only going to withstand about a round and a half of gobln spears.
The party tracks a mysterious wizard to a bed and breakfast situated above a butcher shop. The wizard, who is supposed to be the party's contact into the local Merchant's Guild, has offered you cookies and ice cream. Not meaning to be rude, you chow down and listen patiently as he describes his troubles with the stock market. Everything seems to be going A-OK, but then the paralysis from the food kicks in and with a puff of smoke the wizard grabs each of your arms, smiles wryly, and leaves the four of you polymorphed into sheep. Then he hops out the window with a chuckle, and you're left with the footsteps of Mungo the orcish butcher closing in to investigate the commotion. What do you do?
Ranger (sheep)
Paladin (sheep)
Wizard (sheep)
Sheep (bard)
The party tracks a mysterious wizard to a bed and breakfast situated above a butcher shop. The wizard, who is supposed to be the party's contact into the local Merchant's Guild, has offered you cookies and ice cream. Not meaning to be rude, you chow down and listen patiently as he describes his troubles with the stock market. Everything seems to be going A-OK, but then the paralysis from the food kicks in and with a puff of smoke the wizard grabs each of your arms, smiles wryly, and leaves the four of you polymorphed into sheep. Then he hops out the window with a chuckle, and you're left with the footsteps of Mungo the orcish butcher closing in to investigate the commotion. What do you do?
Ranger (sheep)
Paladin (sheep)
Wizard (sheep)
Sheep (bard)
Have the sheep all run down stairs and out the butcher shop and have the bard(He's the only one that didn't get turned into a sheep?) take them to the temple of his god and pray for them to be transformed back to their normal state.
Dragons live to the north and avoid human affairs demons laying siege to what few cities exist and piracy is rampant on the coastline.
Party
Rogue(Halfling)
Ranger(Halfelf)
Fighter(Human)
As you travel through the forest on your way to kill the king of the blackroot treants, you abruptly realize that the forest is filled with his people...
Warlock
Fighter
Warlord
Druid
1. Set the forest on fire.
2. March right through the bout of dead bodies.
3. Worry about the reprocussions of our actions later.
They don't call us the Order of Collateral Damage for nothing!
Easy:
1. Set the forest on fire.
2. March right through the bout of dead bodies.
3. Worry about the reprocussions of our actions later.
They don't call us the Order of Collateral Damage for nothing!
And here I was suggesting the druid shape shift into a tree and mate with all the other trees and wait until all the older trees died off. Then round up your kids and take on the BBEG.
Your friendly neighborhood Rogue wanders deeper into a cavern around a few turns. Suddenly you hear screaming coming from his direction and the unmistakable sound of an angry troll as your suddenly beset by 2-3 times your number in Kobolds coming from a different direction.
Rogue (separated from the party)
Fighter
Mage
Bard
Easy:
1. Set the forest on fire.
2. March right through the bout of dead bodies.
3. Worry about the reprocussions of our actions later.
They don't call us the Order of Collateral Damage for nothing!
And here I was suggesting the druid shape shift into a tree and mate with all the other trees and wait until all the older trees died off. Then round up your kids and take on the BBEG.
Your friendly neighborhood Rogue wanders deeper into a cavern around a few turns. Suddenly you hear screaming coming from his direction and the unmistakable sound of an angry troll as your suddenly beset by 2-3 times your number in Kobolds coming from a different direction.
Rogue (separated from the party)
Fighter
Mage
Bard
Have the mage use slow legion and give the fighter and bard time to go kick some troll ass.
You are taken prisoner and taken to the King of the trolls. He pulls out a huge knife and begins to walk toward you to kill you, while the guards hold you still.
Dwarf Cleric
Elf Ranger
Tiefling Fighter
Halfling Warlock
Avenger
Warlord
warlock
Invoker
Your enemies light a fire around you, trapping you.
Avenger
Warlord
warlock
Invoker
Okay, I have a couple solutions:
1. Tesner's Floating Disk the Avenger over the flames (since he can keep everyone at bay and use the fire as an environmental hazard with his movement capabilities), then send it back for each party member, 1 at a time.
2. If the fire's burning too fast for the 10 minute cast time of TSD, then a simpler solution comes into play: pee it out.
3. If that doesn't work and we're pressed for options, have the biggest team member run out and try to find something big enough to make a bridge for the team. Possibly, use an enemy's body
Your enemies light a fire around you, trapping you.
Avenger
Warlord
warlock
Invoker
Walk through the fire. It's a joke for damage anyways. Warlord can aoe heal everyone when you teach them some manners.
A mid teens group comes across a blue dragon that has an area burst 1 attack with a range 20(Attacks the square above his target). He stays 21 squares above the party and bombards them individually. The area around is a large savana.
Warlord
Paladin
Bard
Warlock
Your enemies light a fire around you, trapping you.
Avenger
Warlord
warlock
Invoker
Walk through the fire. It's a joke for damage anyways. Warlord can aoe heal everyone when you teach them some manners.
A mid teens group comes across a blue dragon that has an area burst 1 attack with a range 20(Attacks the square above his target). He stays 21 squares above the party and bombards them individually. The area around is a large savana.
Warlord
Paladin
Bard
Warlock
The warllock gets on top of the paladins shoulders and uses his attacks while the bard gets on the wizasrds shoulds and dioes the same.
Party:
fighter
rogue
cleric
ranger
You and your party are trying to sneak through a camp of Orcs. most are sleeping, but they do have a few guards patrolling the camp. It's dark.
Party:
fighter
rogue
cleric
ranger
Let the rogue/ranger go first and cut everyone's throat. Kill what's left.
You need to cross a 100' deep 50'wide chasm.
Party:
Fighter
Paladin
Druid
Assassin
You need to cross a 100' deep 50'wide chasm.
1. Have the druid wild shape into a hawk or eagle, fly a rope over. Wild shape back to base race, tie it to the nearest rock or tree, then pray that you roll high on your balance checks.
2. If not pressed for time, spiderclimb down the chasm and then back up the other side.
3. Summon hippogryph.
The party enters the castle of a power-hungry sorcerer just as he fails to harness a concentrated source of magical energy and rips a hole in the fabric of the multiverse, causing pure magic to flow into the material plane. All spells used in the castle have undesired effects, and the tear in the multiverse is rapidly expanding.
Paladin
Wizard
Druid
Barbarian
You need to cross a 100' deep 50'wide chasm.
1. Have the druid wild shape into a hawk or eagle, fly a rope over. Wild shape back to base race, tie it to the nearest rock or tree, then pray that you roll high on your balance checks.
2. If not pressed for time, spiderclimb down the chasm and then back up the other side.
3. Summon hippogryph.
The party enters the castle of a power-hungry sorcerer just as he fails to harness a concentrated source of magical energy and rips a hole in the fabric of the multiverse, causing pure magic to flow into the material plane. All spells used in the castle have undesired effects, and the tear in the multiverse is rapidly expanding.
Paladin
Wizard
Druid
Barbarian
Get the hell out, FAST.
If you like the multiverse the way it is,
Make sure the Wizard dosen't use spells, go kill the sorcerer, take his spellbook, and get the wizard to close the rift.
You are on one of a pair of colliding airships, high above the ground.
Fighter
Ranger
Warlord
Wizard
A group is sitting at a bar, when a fighter comes over and harasses them about puny muscles. The bar has a no structual damage rule.
Wizard
Warlock
Sorcerer
Bard
Have the fighter throw the wizard at the other ship. His sacrifice will be remembered always.
A group is sitting at a bar, when a fighter comes over and harasses them about puny muscles. The bar has a no structual damage property.
Wizard
Warlock
Sorcerer
Bard
Haha I like your solution but how does it help?
Ignore the policy and make sure the bartender........dosen't make it out.
An invisible creature will assassainate the Duke any minute now, how do you stop it?
Bard
Druid
Barbarian
Wizard
Haha I like your solution but how does it help?
Wizard bombs solve all problems.
An invisible creature will assassainate the Duke any minute now, how do you stop it?
Bard
Druid
Barbarian
Wizard
Have the bard disguise himself as the duke and have him disguise the duke as his servant. When bard dies, have the druid zone the area in clinging brambles. Then have the barbarian throw the wizard in the middle and have the wizard fireball himself.
The party enters Hotel California where there is plenty of room for them. A party member just remembered he left his hat outside. How does he get his hat?
Fighter
Barbarian
Rogue
Cleric
You are on one of a pair of colliding airships, high above the ground.
If there are no civilians or other potential casualties that we care about, the party jumps, and just before they splatter the wizard better succeed on reverse gravity or else we're toast. Then we cross our fingers that we don't get crushed.
If there are potential casualties, we wish them the best.
A group is sitting at a bar, when a fighter comes over and harasses them about puny muscles. The bar has a no structual damage rule.
Bard kindly asks the (probably drunk) fighter to bugger off, and if he complains, the three magic users do everything in their power to turn him into a flowerpot. Then we set the flowerpot on the doorstep, ask the bartender to lock the doors, and calmly go back to our drinks, knowing that we didn't break a single barstool.
An invisible creature will assassainate the Duke any minute now, how do you stop it?
Bring out that goblin prisoner we've been lugging around for the past three months, command the Duke to pass his title and all his wealth over to the goblin, and hope the invisible creature keeps up to date on local politics.
The party enters Hotel California where there is plenty of room for them. A party member just remembered he left his hat outside. How does he get his hat?
Considering the one who lost the hat was probably the Barbarian with the head lice, we make it a priority to ensure that nobody else touches it and spreads the disease that could cripple the material plane. If we lose our room, we promptly tell the management that we have averted the apocolypse and should be comped the VIP suite for our service.
The party just spent an exhausted night in the Moldy Brick Inn after killing three dragons, stopping the necromancer, and seperating the lich from his phylactery, only to wake up the next morning to find the phylactery missing with a silver piece in its place. What do you do?
Bard
Soulknife
Paladin
Cleric
Party:
Wizard(you)
Sorceror(friend in jail)
Cleric(not a douche)
Barbarian(hates undead)
A high-ranking cleric kills your party, brings you all back to life, and orders you to steal some items on pain of death. One of the party members is arrested for attempted theft, and to get him out of jail you disguise yourself as the cleric and convince the jailguards to let him go. However, when they take you back to the cell an anti-magic field dissipates disguise self and you are jailed for being an imposter. What do you do?
*Sorry for editing your words, OCD forced me to clean that up. Let me know if I oversimplified anything.
Assuming that:
- a) each of the jail cells are also lined with anti-magic fields
- b) the jailers have taken away my items including my spell components
- c) the local justice system is fair and we have a visiting hour at the jail, a sentencing period, and a trial,
I meet with the two un-arrested party members and suggest that the Barbarian goes directly to the high-ranking cleric and tells him that since he forced us into this mess he is responsible for paying our bail fee or getting us out. If he doesn't agree to that, the barbarian will kill him (Intimidate skill). If this fails (or the high-ranking cleric is unaccessable) we go to court (or whatever the local equivalent is), and tell the jury (or whoever is determining our sentence) about how the high-ranking cleric threatened us into stealing the items and how legally the cleric is responsible for the thefts, not us. This isn't even a lie, so no Bluff skill needed. Then, we leave our lives in the hands of the court, and if they sentence us death we re-roll characters with destinies to hunt down corrupt clerics and kill them all.
Wow,that was almost spot on what we did, we ended up going to court and the barbarian was my lawyer...that somehow ended well with no intimidation used...and we tried killing the cleric many times...he was just much higher level then us. and that implosion spell was a filthy orcs mother.
Not my first choice as a lawyer. Lol.
The air bubble generated by a spell suddenly dissapates, leaving you deep below the sea with no air.
Wizard
Druid
Ranger
Fighter
Haha I can imagine,
The air bubble generated by a spell suddenly dissapates, leaving you deep below the sea with no air.
Wizard
Druid
Ranger
Fighter
Have everyone hold their breaths right before it dissipates. Have the wizard constantly prestidigitate air pockets on his team's faces as they need to take a breath. Swim to the surface.
Druid
Rogue
Warlock
Paladin