In my "Let the Fates Decide" game I now have Coran burgling Ramazith's tower. I'm in a spot where I'm just curious how others might handle it.
First a quick bit of setup: With this gaming method I use card flips (red suit = yes, black suit = no) or die rolls (via WotC die roller) to make some decisions, either for fun value or because I'm genuinely uncertain what the character would do. However, what I imagine a character would likely do always takes precedence over using chance in response to a situation. But again, as mentioned, the card flips and die rolls do also add fun value for a lot of things in the game by adding a random element. (Hope that all makes sense.)
Coran is wearing the Boots of Speed. And included in his inventory are two invisibility potions, one potion of magic blocking, one oil of speed, one healing potion, and one poison antidote potion.
So... Coran picks the lock. He everso slightly cracks the door (didn't think of it, but I guess I could have flipped a card for whether the door creaks! Oh well.) I guess we may presume Coran can pick the lock and peer in undetected because he is a fourth level Thief in stealth mode. So he peers in. And he spots Ramazith, who is right there on the first floor of the tower. From a RP standpoint I like to get a little creative with something like this; yes, Ramazith is there on the first floor, but let's say he doesn't literally have to be facing the door. The question I formulate then is: Does Coran have access to get to spiral stairs undetected, i.e., for example, is Ramazith facing away from the front door engrossed in a book such that Coran may slip past him up the stairs unseen? The card I flip is a red suit, so yes. Coran may advance. Which RP-wise I figure Coran (ever the risk-taker) would do.
Up the stairs he goes. On the next level are mustard jellies. Not a problem.
Still in stealth mode of course, Coran carefully creeps up the stairs on the second floor and peers up to the third floor level. There he spies no less than five ghasts shambling about. Myself, I don't think it is believable that he could stealth past five of them undetected even with boots of speed.
So the question I pose to you all now is...
Within this gaming method would you
a) RP that Coran gulps down a potion of invisibility and advances?
b) RP that Coran turns back? (Five ghasts on only the third floor of a tall tower is not a good sign of what may lie ahead.)
c) flip a card as to whether he advances upward with the potion of invisibility?
First a quick bit of setup: With this gaming method I use card flips (red suit = yes, black suit = no) or die rolls (via WotC die roller) to make some decisions, either for fun value or because I'm genuinely uncertain what the character would do. However, what I imagine a character would likely do always takes precedence over using chance in response to a situation. But again, as mentioned, the card flips and die rolls do also add fun value for a lot of things in the game by adding a random element. (Hope that all makes sense.)
Coran is wearing the Boots of Speed. And included in his inventory are two invisibility potions, one potion of magic blocking, one oil of speed, one healing potion, and one poison antidote potion.
So... Coran picks the lock. He everso slightly cracks the door (didn't think of it, but I guess I could have flipped a card for whether the door creaks! Oh well.) I guess we may presume Coran can pick the lock and peer in undetected because he is a fourth level Thief in stealth mode. So he peers in. And he spots Ramazith, who is right there on the first floor of the tower. From a RP standpoint I like to get a little creative with something like this; yes, Ramazith is there on the first floor, but let's say he doesn't literally have to be facing the door. The question I formulate then is: Does Coran have access to get to spiral stairs undetected, i.e., for example, is Ramazith facing away from the front door engrossed in a book such that Coran may slip past him up the stairs unseen? The card I flip is a red suit, so yes. Coran may advance. Which RP-wise I figure Coran (ever the risk-taker) would do.
Up the stairs he goes. On the next level are mustard jellies. Not a problem.
Still in stealth mode of course, Coran carefully creeps up the stairs on the second floor and peers up to the third floor level. There he spies no less than five ghasts shambling about. Myself, I don't think it is believable that he could stealth past five of them undetected even with boots of speed.
So the question I pose to you all now is...
Within this gaming method would you
a) RP that Coran gulps down a potion of invisibility and advances?
b) RP that Coran turns back? (Five ghasts on only the third floor of a tall tower is not a good sign of what may lie ahead.)
c) flip a card as to whether he advances upward with the potion of invisibility?
