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The trap was taller than our halfling who just walked underneath it. At one point he was considering riding the blades like a surf board!

-Andy Brogan

Cool! Your Rogue had to make two pretty good back to back rolls there or you would have all ended up "ducking into" a "little more chaotic situation"... I am happy you were on edge, but kinda sad you missed the trap!

My favorite moment was in Round 3 in the room with the dagger and the orc shaman.

We got the drop on those guys and our repeating crossbow guy got to go 'Scarface' all over the orcs with a little "Say hello to my little friend" before wiping everything in the room with crossbow death.

Brought a tear to my eye...and makes me itch to watch Al Pacino again.

We did not share with your saddness!

None of the other teams detected that room on level 3, so they dont know what you are talking about

Whoops, my bad. To set it up, circular room with a dagger that's very important to the conclusion of the dungeon suspended in a red globe of energy. Two orc shamans and 3 (blinking!!) orc warriors pray around the globe. One orc shaman reaches in the globe to grab the dagger and gets disintegrated.

Only entrance to the room is a door at the top of some stairs that wind around the room to the floor below. Perfect setup for repeating crossbow death!!

That would have been an amusing assumption had the trap gone off! Man i hope that trap went off on someone!

One of the things i love about D&D - and the authors at Goodman Games understand this and write accordingly - is the best players have seen and done it almost all of it and so the odd "descriptive clue" triggers a cascade of imaginative deduction and reasoning almost as enjoyable as the reality of the pretend situation... think i may have lost my self somewhere in that point!

Anyway i love that more than one person thought the slot was a blade trap!

One of the things i love is reading a module after playing it - and for those of you in the tournament reading the tournament module must be an amazing experience after racing through it in competitive mode.

My group was still looking for a continuation of that trap on the 3rd level. They were eyeing the elevator lever suspiciously. Good times.

This was my first experience writing and judging for DCC. I ran four rounds of Level 1 and let me tell you, one of my favorite experiences was running a group with players who hadn't cracked open a D&D book since 1st edition. They were my highest scoring group, not because they understood every tactical nuance of v.3.5 D&D, but because they understood and keenly responded to the principles of classic dungeon crawl. Huzzah!

Is that the dagger that is supposed to free the axe? I was wondering where that was. I don't think you needed it to complete the dungeon though. You wanted the dagger to keep the heartfeasters from using it to free the axe.

Tell us more about what happened in that room! I'm intrigued. Give us details! What happened?

Okay, call it writer's ego, but I haven't yet heard a bit about the rooms I created to torture, er, entertain adventurers ... and I'm dying of curiosity (although I'm digging all the stories)...

Hints: Any contestants recall a room on the upper level where it was easy to "get the point" (quite literally) or one on the lower level that had some, well let's say, "gravity problems"?

hmmm... not sure if you mean the room that was full of spikes that had a small path working through it, on level 1? If that's the one, my group avoided the room and decided to head back later and ran out of time. That room looked a little dangerous, LOL.

Not sure gravity problems rings a bell, LOL

I'm not sure about the 1st level room, but I definitely recall the room with "gravity problems". We opened a door to find 4 orcs (I think they were orcs)...and one of them was on the ceiling! We fought them from the doorway and never entered the room. We did summon a bear, and had it enter the fray, while the barbarian whacked at anything that came near the door. Suddenly, the room shifted a different direction (in terms of gravity). This happened a couple times during the course of the combat. Yogi wasn't happy about it.

After defeating the orcs, we observed the room in order to get an idea on when it would "shift" so that we weren't caught in the room when it did.

Give another hint regarding the 1st level room.

Is that the room you're talking about? How did you open the door at the other end? Did it open AT ALL?

We walked straight across the spike room (based on the riddle on the floor about walking the most orderly path).

Then, we proceeded to spend the next 30 minutes trying to open the other door...and finally gave up.

That was indeed the room ... and yes, the gate could be opened!
A "special" spike along the "real" (read: safe) pathway provided a clue to open the door; without that clue, opening the door would be difficult, but not impossible.

Well done figuring out the first clue ... I've just heard tell that other teams may not have been so wise/lucky!

Just a little. Heh heh.

I just love watching the PCs squirm when something I've written go into motion! That's the payoff for all the hard work! I've been writting a module of my own as well and will enjoy seeing it in action!

I had one group that went to the door. They missed the spike (with the clues), but still managed to solve the disc puzzle in under 5 minutes. I was impressed as heck. Unfortunately I wasn't watching time and they were 5 minutes over when they accomplished it. Major bummer. Most people seemed to get hung up on the platinum and the silver. They couldn't decide which cam first. This group started to get hung up on the platinum/silver issue, but then realized the puzzle wouldn't align if it wasnt the correct way. It may have helped that I had my puzzle cut out and laminated so that it actally turned correctely.

Erica

As far as the orcs went, nothing but feathered death!!!

The fact that we watched an orc shaman get disintegrated while trying to reach in and get the dagger had us FREAKED OUT.

We went there again when time was running out and had our Fort save guy reach in and snag the dagger (after appropriately buffing him of course).

I'll admit it....we were scared. Goodman Games messed with our minds yet again!

We actually had the other clue as well...and STILL couldn't get the door open. All we succeeded in doing was disarming the trap...

That riddle kept me from getting sleep...I'm not kidding. I woke up the next morning at 7:00 (we didn't have to be at an event that morning), thought about the riddle, and then couldn't get back to sleep.

So, nothing happened when he grabbed the dagger? I guess the orc shaman disarmed a magical trap for you. Funny.

Or the shaman failed his save... or possibly it was an alignment that allowed you to grab it...

Ahh...that would make sense considering the room in round 2 (crypt of Desid Blightbane...however you spelled his name).

Yeah, Rella didn't like trying to open that door, LOL

Neither did Landron.