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raithyn
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 12:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

garhkal wrote:
Its like running a who-dunn-it with lots of force users or spell casters in AD&D.. Spells/magic/the force can easily neuter such a premise.


The key is to pull the rug on your players with layers of misdirection. I have a D&D one-shot where the party is tasked with stealing a wizard's spell book. They arrive at his tower (always discussing ways to sneak in) to find they're just in time for his wake which is attended by several powerful magicians who also want to get their hands on the book. The third act twist is that the wizard isn't actually dead and plans to sacrifice the guests he knew would come in order to achieve lichdom.

It usually turns into a two-shot because of how easy it is to send the players off in the wrong direction when I respond truthfully to their division/necromancy shenanigans. To be fair, my players aren't always bright. several tried to figure out an in-universe "secret" for over a year only to have a brand new player point out that the answer was clearly spelled out in the two paragraph campaign blurb I posted on our shared drive before session zero and kept as the top-level document every week they logged in to see new handouts.
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