NoGo Doors

[DJ LaBoss]

Hey all,

Okay, those of you who have played or run an Xcrawl campaign:

have your players ever actually used a NoGo door?

just curious,

Brendan

[ynnen]

I have not in my home games - but I do have secret doors where camera crews, cleaning crews or guest stars enter or exit the various rooms.

My XCrawl game setting is a mix of American Gladiator, televised obstacle course, The Running Man and Paranoia -- there are lots of things going on behind the scenes the players/characters don't really know about, they only know XCrawl is the biggest sports spectacle ever, warranting its very own ESPN ... ESPNX! Devoted to all your XCrawl needs!

[vagen]

I once had a player headed to the nogo door in a tournament I ran at a book store, I explainde in advance that the tournament score was based on points and there was a -10 points for each dead crawler. however there was no minus for using the nogo door.

Saddly the team managed to defeat the room before he either died or exited.

[barcode]

My team has had to use the nogo door on one occasion. Our DJ had stocked a room with two Nagas, one of whom demonstrated the near TPK capability of Prismatic Spray.

Our team had 2 clerics, one of Baccus and myself of Hades, two heavy hitting fighters, a sorcerer, and a specialist. Both clerics caught reflex save rays, one fighter was turned to stone, and the others took significant damage. I believe the second fighter got hit by the poison ray, which fortunatly he passed.

With only one member ko'd, we pressed on, but the sorceror got polymorphed into a faun, and I got fireballed unconcious. The specialist, fighter and faun headed for the nogo door, knowing that insurance would cover the stone to flesh for their team statue. They tried to save my Hades cleric, but I'd unfortunately put up a shield of blades after the first barrage... a spell that quite rudely doesn't vanish when the caster goes unconcious. That prevented the faun from pulling me out, and caused the room stats to record the deaths of both clerics when the nagas fireballed our downed bodies once more.

I seem to remember a false nogo door in a crawl as well, which was a particularly nasty trick

[kingpaul]

have your players ever actually used a NoGo door?

Not in any game I've played/GM'd