Meanwhile…
Me: You guys find a key woth a triangle on it
Later that session
Me: There is a locked door with a triangle on it.
Party: This door is literally impossible to open.
Me: …why don’t you check your inventory…
Party: Aha, maybe this tomato we found can open the door if we shove it into the lock.
Me: I don’t… you have a key!
Party: When did we get a key?
Me: THIS SESSION!
Party: Ohhh we didn’t write it down.
Me: IT’S ONLY BEEN 5 MINUTES! GOLDFISH, ALL OF YOU!
There have been multiple times in our games where one player (the same one every time) asks the DM if their character has something.
“Why do you not know what you possess?”
“My character has ADHD, too.”
Roll a history check to try to remember or a perception check to look through your bag.
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You’re pretty sure you took someone elses’ bag at the last inn by mistake. Why would you have this many doorknobs?
Maybe he’s a kender XD
You appear to have acquired a bag of hammers.
Please make a contested INT check to see if you are smarter than it.
This reminds me of when I had a player take the keen mind feat and it was an absolute God-send for drip feeding lore. “Kat, you’ve seen this shape before, the bartender had a symbol like this on their ring”
I had to drop in a few irrelevant observations to balance it out, but it was great.
Hahahaha yeah. I am very lucky as a DM.
My same group took 20 minutes to get past an unlocked door.
Thats classic XD
You can’t link this without explaining the item.
It reflects a single target spell back to the caster once per day. Its an armor. It was made for npcs before being looted.
A uno reverse card?
Yup. For one spell once per day. To relativise, they are level 14 now. So it’s not like they didn’t had access to 15 different game breaking options. But I was sure that the character would die… for like 1 session before one of the 5 ways of bringing someone back to life would be used.
It is hard to make a decent challenge for high leveled players. If I can make them nervous, even if they win easily I call it a DMing win. And I certainly managed that last night so I’m fine with it.
Seconded. Did it bring them back? Some kind of counterspell? Teleported them to the Astral plane?
See above :)
Happened yesterday. I was exactly 50 % amazed and 50 % shocked of the result
Okay but what does the item do?
Something amazing and shocking!
See above :)
Turns a single target spell back to the caster once per day. I was very undetailed since it was npcs using it at the time.
I would probably reword it that it absorbs the spell and then casts it back at the spell caster. That way they would still roll a save/have a chance to counterspell it.
These sorts of Uno Reverse Card moments are both frustrating and gratifying to me as a DM. I of course try to roll with them, but occasionally they do mean I need to toss out half my mental notes for the rest of the campaign and seat-of-my-pants a whole new plot branch right in the moment.
There was one campaign I was in, I’d estimate it lasted about five years of real time, where my character stabbed the final Big Bad of the campaign with a weapon that we had picked up in the very first adventure of the campaign. We’d been toting it around ever since then without using it because it seemed like a very special purpose item. It wasn’t pivotal to defeating her but it was still fun to tie the campaign together like that.
