The Palimpsest Trap

[mark hill]

this kinda stoopid has genuine mid 1970s flavour! high kudos from me :)

make it 2 dragons in arena .. plus crowd of 40,000 (projected images)

[FireHorse]

Originally Posted by mark hill

make it 2 dragons in arena .. plus crowd of 40,000 (projected images)

Or better yet, skip the die roll and make it the whole page: both dragons, the giant, the human warrior, and all the participants in the battle from the other illustration. One second you're in a library, the next you're in the middle of a pitched battle with no idea whose side to take…

[mark hill]

this is sooo judges guild

[Skarg]

Does Detect Magic tell you how many enchantments/spells something has, or just whether it is magic or not?

(We always played it as just "it's magic" or "it doesn't seem to be magic".)


Also, how would the thief's companions think to intervene? (Flipping through the pages seems like fairly normal behavior, even if the thief is illiterate.)

[FireHorse]

Originally Posted by Skarg

Does Detect Magic tell you how many enchantments/spells something has, or just whether it is magic or not?

(We always played it as just "it's magic" or "it doesn't seem to be magic".)

That's pretty much exactly what ITL says.

Also, how would the thief's companions think to intervene? (Flipping through the pages seems like fairly normal behavior, even if the thief is illiterate.)

They probably wouldn't notice… at first. But if it's all the way back on page 106, it'll take quite a while to get there, and it may seem odd that the Victim is so fixated on that book.

Plus, the Victim may realize what's happening — and the Control Person spell is only making them turn the pages, not be silent, so they may say something like, "Uh, guys… I can't stop flipping these pages. I mean, seriously, I can't stop…" And then they can try to pry the Victim away from the book.

Of course, you could just skip the Control Person part entirely, and put the Long-Distance Teleport trap on page 1, so they get it just by opening the thing — or the cover, for that matter. Or the doormat on the floor in front of the magnificent gold-chased ebony Lectern atop a rose marble pedestal (complete with overhead spotlight) upon which you were displaying the book…

But that'd be too easy, and wouldn't serve as an in-joke for anybody who knows what Page 106 means. ;)

[hcobb]

Cast reveal five times then Spellsniffer for "and an unknown spell".

[JLV]

Steve, if you're reading this, we REALLY need our own traps book. Yeah, I know, "Grimtooth", but I still think something like this would be well worth doing for TFT!

BTW, if anyone wants to see/buy the Grimtooth's Traps books, you can get them here, in one huge collection from Goodman Games, or here, item by item, from Flying Buffalo directly. Note that the second link takes you to their Catalyst page, which also includes their incredible City Books series, which are also well worth exploring...