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The typical player:
“Cool. Roll initiative. Your level 4 party watches the guide who was trying to lead you away from here return to their natural form, a fully formed adult Steel Dragon.”
Townsfolk: “No one dares to go even near these woods. Even $WellKnownHighlevelLegendaryHero found his end there!”
Tavern: “Keep away from the woods to the east!”
City guards (obviously more experienced and way higher level than the group): “We’ve lost so many troops around there, no one goes there in that wishes to live on.”
“Everyday there are funerals on the towns cemetery - concerning part is, that that only happens on the northern cemetery, where people from the eastern fields near the woods are buried.”
“The east gate of the town is closed. Only the grave diggers may use it to deliver new corpses of adventurous groups and heroes like you”
“You look weaker than the other bunch who dare to come here. Are you suicidal or …?”
“You have the feeling that something’s a bit unusual here. Everyone is armed, even the children.”
“You begin to notice the fine gear and the muscular shape of the bloody, dismembered dead bodies constantly arriving at the east gate.”
“On your way east toward the forest you pass many warning signs, each one getting drastically more graphic that the ones before…”
“You arrive at the edge of the wood, eager to enter. Your game master breaks the fourth wall and directly asks you bluntly ‘Are you sure you want to do that?’ and hands you some dice…”
I remember being part of TPK with almost the same. The only difference was Shadowrun rather than heroic fantasy
All that is indistinguishable from a “go there for today’s adventure” hook
I thought so, while writing this, but the only way to make it perfectly clear would probably just be to spoil what is going to happen. Any warning, as dire as they may be, may be seen as a challenge otherwise.
I’m seriously considering running a game in the Rape of Nanjing where the players are Chinese martial artists who might be able to stop it, but half the ways are instant death
Everytime I read something like this, my mind just goes “just port Gary Gygax’s infamous “Tomb of Horrors” to your favorite scenario”
TBF if I saw that I would laugh it off as a joke.
Anyone know where the art is from? It’s pretty cool tbh
Yeah, I’d also like the original art without text over it!
EDIT this is the oldest similar version TinEye could find me, but I couldn’t find the credit along with it.
Wow good find! It is a very cool image isn’t it
There’s a sign showing a bird eating a human…
Let’s go forward.
Our friend nearly rage quit towards the end of a long session. Everyone wanted to finish up and we blow past obvious signs. He died trying to save us 🤣.
