D&D Adventure #1: Dungeon Siege

[Grimmie]

You can ready an attack if you want.

Make a search roll to look for traps.

[Dog Pants]

I will ready an attack.

Spot -
Roll(1d20)+5:
17,+5
Total:22

[Grimmie]

That's search you need for trap finding, not spot!

[FatherJack]

I'd have made that mistake too. Perhaps it's why in every DnD-based computer game where I make a rogue, my keen senses detect traps are nearby yet I still blunder into them.

[Grimmie]

Hehe, yeah. There's a bit in the dungeon master's guide that says you might want to trip your players up with spot/search checks, as they're easily confused.

ie. Player told to make a spot check while they're looking for something. Not a search check.
Player gets a lousy spot check and assumes they cant find what they were looking for, doesn't realise the spot check was for the monster creeping up from the shadows.

[HereComesPete]

Probably shouldn't have told us that.

[Grimmie]

I won't be mentioning it again, if you trip up, then you trip up :D

[mrbobbins]

I won't be mentioning it again, if you trip up, then you trip up :D

"You trip up on a rock you didn't spot beacuse you rolled a search check"

[Dog Pants]

Hehe, yeah. There's a bit in the dungeon master's guide that says you might want to trip your players up with spot/search checks, as they're easily confused.

ie. Player told to make a spot check while they're looking for something. Not a search check.
Player gets a lousy spot check and assumes they cant find what they were looking for, doesn't realise the spot check was for the monster creeping up from the shadows.

Protip - That's likely to piss your players off, since it's a rules thing not a roleplay thing. Not understanding the rules isn't fun.

Search:
Roll(1d20)+3:
12,+3
Total:15

[Grimmie]

Alrighty.

The webby door in front of you appears to be safe from traps, while feeling around the room however you find a long vertical crack in the wall which begins to give way when you tug on it.

You've found a secret door, hurrah hurray!

[Dog Pants]

Woo! Does that mean there's two doors out of here now?

[Grimmie]

Aye, but both in the undercroft. Seekrit one and webby one.

[Dog Pants]

Ohhh. I'll look for traps in the sekrit one;

Search:
Roll(1d20)+3:
16,+3
Total:19

[Grimmie]

You see no traps!

[Baliame]

Ohhh. I'll look for traps in the sekrit one;

Hahaha, that reminds me of Unforgotten Realms.

[Roman Totale]

[Dog Pants]

I thall investigate then.

Spot:
Roll(1d20)+5:
2,+5
Total:7

I see no ships!

[Grimmie]

Seems to be a pretty musty storage room, there are one or two stray tiny spiders hanging around the ceiling, but no web in sight.

There's a load of linen stacked up in storage crates, a few broken chairs that have torn upholstery with star-patterns over them, and about fifty books all singing the praises of Pholtus.

Right in the corner of the room is.. A chest!
It's wooden and has a key-hole on the front of it.

[Dog Pants]

Ooh!

Look! Heathen books!

I'll pick the lock while he's distracted.

Search (for traps):
Roll(1d20)+3:
10,+3
Total:13

Open Lock:
Roll(1d20)+8:
1,+8
Total:9

Fucksocks.

[Grimmie]

Ouch, bad luck.

You don't find any traps when you check, but as soon as you jam your lockpick into the keyhole a slender needle shoots out and jabs your finger, neatly piercing your leather glove.

Same process as last time please, make a Fort saving throw to avoid being poisoned, and a second one to avoid after effects.
You also take 1 damage.

While a thin green oil drips from the fresh cut of your finger, you also find that the pick you were using to unlock the chest is now wedged inside the keyhole.
The chest is still locked.