New Posts For Thread: The irl challengehttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29529881/The_irl_challengeIn the few games that I have done, I have found that some of the best ways to get the whole 'roleplaying' thing into the game in a interesting manner is to us stuff irlI dont mean figures etc I mean traps or effects that are put upon the players forOne trick I have used is a homemade scroll case (which may or may not be trapped).Another is a letter from an NPC that a player read out loud to the group, and at an unexpected spot were the words "Exploding Runes" If the player starts reading them thttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29529881/The_irl_challenge?post_id=526759987#526759987One trick I have used is a homemade scroll case (which may or may not be trapped).Another is a letter from an NPC that a player read out loud to the group, and at an unexpected spot were the words "Exploding Runes" If the player starts reading them tMon, 10 Dec 2012 06:22:24 -0600I love this kind of ****.Last month, I incorporated something along these lines into my Dark Sun game. The players were meeting with a powerful psionicist (Agis of Asticles, if you know the Dark Sun world) and at one point he sat in a circle with thehttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29529881/The_irl_challenge?post_id=526752333#526752333I love this kind of ****.Last month, I incorporated something along these lines into my Dark Sun game. The players were meeting with a powerful psionicist (Agis of Asticles, if you know the Dark Sun world) and at one point he sat in a circle with theSun, 09 Dec 2012 18:14:23 -0600We have a DM who used food once. Some of it was 'poisoned'. I can never look at a beer the same way.http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29529881/The_irl_challenge?post_id=526745367#526745367We have a DM who used food once. Some of it was 'poisoned'. I can never look at a beer the same way.Sun, 09 Dec 2012 14:31:30 -0600All of my PCs are smokers. I made a house rule saying that, if they want to smoke irl, they also have to smoke in-game. It isn't a problem if they are strolling through town or resting. However, if one of them is smoking during a fight, they have tohttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29529881/The_irl_challenge?post_id=526744563#526744563All of my PCs are smokers. I made a house rule saying that, if they want to smoke irl, they also have to smoke in-game. It isn't a problem if they are strolling through town or resting. However, if one of them is smoking during a fight, they have toSun, 09 Dec 2012 14:10:16 -0600Puzzles!Last year i had a puzzle with symbols corresponding to letters that the PC had to decipher and some where missing and they all worked on different part of the message and joined the message once completed at the end and one read it out loud.Ahttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29529881/The_irl_challenge?post_id=526743575#526743575Puzzles!Last year i had a puzzle with symbols corresponding to letters that the PC had to decipher and some where missing and they all worked on different part of the message and joined the message once completed at the end and one read it out loud.ASun, 09 Dec 2012 13:44:23 -0600