{"id":1336,"date":"2013-10-17T22:26:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T22:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2016-01-28T17:03:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T17:03:13","slug":"room-5-monster-summoning-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/?p=1336","title":{"rendered":"Room 5: Monster Summoning Trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>As you enter this room you feel a coldness as if a frigid vapor sucked the life out of the room. Then you see a nebulous cloud of energy which seems to be contained within a summoning circle engraved upon the floor. The 5\u2019 square tile directly before the circle glows with an opalescent silvery sheen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A plaque set into the floor reads:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHow well do you know the creatures that you may face? You will be asked questions about the creatures that you will see before you. A correct answer defeats the beast. Answer incorrectly and the beast may defeat you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Once a character steps upon the colored square, the energy in the circle will resolve into the image of one of the following creatures and a disembodied voice will ask a question related to the specific monster. A correct answer will cause the image to disappear and the voice to say \u201cCorrect!\u201d With an incorrect answer, the creature becomes corporeal and is unleashed upon the adventurers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DM Note:<\/strong> Choose a number of questions based on what you know about your players\u2019 preferences, the session time and how well the players have answered the questions (for instance, you may not want to play out five successive combats). In my experience, players tend to answer 5 or 6 correctly and then end up fighting 1 or 2 combats. Once the creatures\/questions are defeated (one way or the other), a fang key fragment will appear in the center of the circle. If you want your players to be presented with another challenge, explain that the circle is still active and see how they retrieve the key without being telefragged.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sample Monster Trivia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wail from this undead creature causes hearers to die on the spot \u2022 Banshee<br \/>\nSlimy scavenger that can flow through narrow openings and lives underground \u2022 Black pudding<br \/>\nTeleporting canine \u2022 Blink dog<br \/>\nDistant relatives of halflings; also name of a delicious desert \u2022 Brownie<br \/>\nAlso known as the \u2018landshark\u2019 \u2022 Bulette<br \/>\nHalf man, half horse \u2022 Centaur<br \/>\nTiny creatures that drain psionic abilities \u2022 Cerebral parasite<br \/>\nRooster-like creature whose touch turns flesh to stone \u2022 Cockatrice<br \/>\nArch-enemies of devils \u2022 Demon<br \/>\nHumanoid shape shifter \u2022 Doppelganger<br \/>\nCan belch forth a cloud of scalding steam \u2022 Dragon turtle<br \/>\nLeaves eggs in creature\u2019s head which hatch and eat host \u2022 Ear seeker<br \/>\nGiant-like creatures with two heads \u2022 Ettin<br \/>\nPurple mushroom with tentacles that cause flesh to rot \u2022 Violet fungi<br \/>\nIndistinguishable from ghouls except for their carrion stench \u2022 Ghast<br \/>\nHyena-like humanoids \u2022 Gnoll<br \/>\nMagic servants made of clay, flesh or iron \u2022 Golem<br \/>\nSlimy horror that resembles wet stone or sedimentary cave formations \u2022 Gray ooze<br \/>\nFire breathing dog \u2022 Hell hound<br \/>\nLarger tribal cousins of goblins \u2022 Hobgoblin<br \/>\nMulti-headed reptilian monster \u2022 Hydra<br \/>\nEvil Intelligent manta rays \u2022 Ixitxachitl<br \/>\nJackal able to assume the form of a man \u2022 Jackalwere<br \/>\nHalf woman and half animal, touch drains a creature\u2019s wisdom \u2022 Lamia<br \/>\nformerly ultra powerful magic-users now non-human and non-living \u2022 Lich<br \/>\nReptilian humanoids that dwell underwater \u2022 Lizard man<br \/>\nDisguises itself as part of the ceiling \u2022 Lurker above<br \/>\nWorm-like fish with poison spines \u2022 Masher<br \/>\nPsionic humanoid forth brains with its tentacles \u2022 Mind flayer<br \/>\nThe \u2018Wraith of the deep\u2019 \u2022 Morkoth<br \/>\nBig cousin to the Otyugh \u2022 Neo otyugh<br \/>\nWater sprites\/pixies \u2022 Nixie<br \/>\nGiant amoeba that is golden and sludge-like \u2022 Ochre jelly<br \/>\nFiercely competitive bullies made popular by LOTR \u2022 Orc<br \/>\nHalf owl and half bear \u2022 Owlbear<br \/>\nLower bodies of birds and the upper bodies of stags \u2022 Peryton<br \/>\nDragon-like with a flexible sting-equipped tail \u2022 Pseudo dragon<br \/>\nGiant polar worms \u2022 Remorhaz<br \/>\nLives in poo, but burrows into live flesh \u2022 Rot grub<br \/>\nHumanoid eats ferrous metals such as iron, steel, and steel alloys \u2022 Rust monster<br \/>\nFiery magic amphibians \u2022 Salamander<br \/>\nHalf lion and half fish \u2022 Sea lion<br \/>\nSlimy, ambulatory, intelligent heaps of rotting vegetation \u2022 Shambling mound<br \/>\nScreaming fungus \u2022 Shrieker<br \/>\nMosquito-like magical beast \u2022 Stirge<br \/>\nHorrid carnivore able to regenerate damage taken \u2022 Troll<br \/>\nMagical equine woodland creature \u2022 Unicorn<br \/>\nFeeds upon the life force of dying beings \u2022 Will o\u2019 wisp<br \/>\nUndead with chilling touch that drains life energy \u2022 Wraith<br \/>\nMagically animated corpses \u2022 Zombie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you enter this room you feel a coldness as if a frigid vapor sucked the life out of the room. Then you see a nebulous cloud of energy which seems to be contained within a summoning circle engraved upon the floor. The 5\u2019 square tile directly before the circle glows with an opalescent silvery sheen. A plaque set into the floor reads: \u201cHow well do you know the creatures that you may face? You will be asked questions about the creatures that you will see before you. A correct answer defeats the beast. Answer incorrectly and the beast may defeat you.\u201d Once a character steps upon the colored square, the energy in the circle will resolve into the image of one of the following creatures and a disembodied voice will ask a question related to the specific monster. A correct answer will cause the image to disappear and the voice to say \u201cCorrect!\u201d With an incorrect answer, the creature becomes corporeal and is unleashed upon the adventurers. DM Note: Choose a number of questions based on what you know about your players\u2019 preferences, the session time and how well the players have answered the questions (for instance, you may not want to play out five successive combats). In my experience, players tend to answer 5 or 6 correctly and then end up fighting 1 or 2 combats. Once the creatures\/questions are defeated (one way or the other), a fang key fragment will appear in the center of the circle. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/?p=1336\">Continue Reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[618,664],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encounter","tag-puzzle","tag-the-tomb-of-athganazar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}