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Who Is Ellen - 134 - HD

🕑 Added 2023-05-25 03:31:14 +0000 UTC

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Some Ed

@ijuinkun: I remember when I thought that would matter to my players. They just went to another town. Then another town. But at least that group didn't really last. I've heard about someone with a campaign world where there were something like 20 different assassins' guilds after their players due to all the crap they pulled over more than four years in the same campaign. (They started in junior high school. I met them in college. They were still going.)

ijuinkun

Not just won't get paid--the angry Mayor would probably blacklist them in that town as well, so they would have to leave that town and not come back.

R L

That... would happen, not gonna lie.

KC

It's less about caring about the chicken itself and more if they don't bring the chicken back alive the party probably won't get paid. And it wouldn't be a far stretch that this guy knows that. And it's entirely possible the cleric is either bluffing or is just that obsessed with whatever's behind the wall

Ed Abrams (aka The Superdak)

Interesting. The cleric is assuming that the party will value the chicken as much as his FRIEND, the Mayor, does -- what's the plan now, chief? Kill your friend's beloved pet because someone who OBVIOUSLY doesn't care one whit about it took off?

Latency

I've never been able to have a villain monologue without someone in the party deciding to take a pot shot and see if they can get a surprise attack round. This has usually led to some level of creativity around the villain being out of reach during the "big reveal", a projection of some sort, astral form, w/e. Or just TKO-ing the entire party then they wake up captured without their weapons and have to find some way to get free after the monologue.

David Fenger

She... wasn't very good at it. She appears to have levelled up.

Stephen Gilberg

Of course Ellen knows. When she and Elliot first split via the Dewitchery Diamond, she made a point to be evil.

Rodford E. Smith

AKA the Curly Howard maneuver. :-)

James C

Or, at least, ensure that the actions to progress the boring-but-practical plan are the same as the actions to halt the complicated-and-impressive plan. The heroes escape, foil the plan you told them about... and complete the plan you *didn't*.

Thisguy

The really smart guys come up with plans so that no matter what happens, one of the plans will succeed.

Casey

The trick is to come up with two evil plans. A complicated and impressive evil plan to explain to the heroes, and a boring but practical evil plan to actually use. You still get to sound impressive, but you don't have to reveal any secrets, and you don't even have to hire minions smart enough to understand the complicated plan. But then again, I just explained my evil plan to all of you, so what do I know?

Crissa Kentavr

This is something 5e D&D Rogues can actually do.

KC

Brave Sir Nanase bravely ran away. Bravely ran away away. When danger reared its ugly head, she bravely turned her tail and fled.

Chris Gropp

He might not, but his minions? Even just splitting them into "can't attack while avoiding traps" and "fighting the party" is probably worthwhile. Plus, it's a very fun plan.