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Creative Projects / Need help on a (sort of) puzzle.
« on: October 12, 2009, 07:38:06 am »
I've been wracking my brain over this for a week and have come up pretty dry. Seeing as I've seen other D&D-related topics in this part of the forum, I figured I'd toss one out and see if the collective community can do any better (I'm sure you can).
Okay, here's the deal: I'm running a D&D game. 4th Edition, going for a Greek Epic kind of feel - think a cross between The Iliad and Jason & the Argonauts. With Dwarves and Elves and Dragon-men and all that other junk that comes with playing D&D.
In this, their third adventure, the heroes are looking for a specific, legendary inventor to build them a series of special boxes. He's going to send them on some sub-quests to gather the necessarily epic materials for these boxes, but that's not the point.
The inventor is a changeling, and lots of people are looking for him. He does not wish to be found.
How the hell do I give my players the appropriate clues to find aman person who is hiding in a big city and can change its face, hair, clothes, gender, name, and voice on a whim? While it's certainly okay with me if they have a hard time of it, I have to make certain that I know of several valid clues to throw at them.
If you were a changeling attempting to uphold one identity, but make sure nobody found out it was YOU, how would you hide yourself, and how could that strategy be defeated by resourceful heroes?
Okay, here's the deal: I'm running a D&D game. 4th Edition, going for a Greek Epic kind of feel - think a cross between The Iliad and Jason & the Argonauts. With Dwarves and Elves and Dragon-men and all that other junk that comes with playing D&D.
In this, their third adventure, the heroes are looking for a specific, legendary inventor to build them a series of special boxes. He's going to send them on some sub-quests to gather the necessarily epic materials for these boxes, but that's not the point.
The inventor is a changeling, and lots of people are looking for him. He does not wish to be found.
How the hell do I give my players the appropriate clues to find a
If you were a changeling attempting to uphold one identity, but make sure nobody found out it was YOU, how would you hide yourself, and how could that strategy be defeated by resourceful heroes?