The “What the dm planned/what the players do” meme reminded me of this instance from a few months back while I one-shotted in a campaign break.
Hands down my favorite one shot to run but yeah… Getting them to listen to the sheep initially is always the hardest. Doesn’t help that Finethir is a bit of a dick.
I’ve found that getting super animated and having a small prop scroll while physically baaaaaaaaaa-ing in peoples face while shaking the scroll gets them to take it really quick. Also sets a tone for the rest of the one shot!
I DM online and without cameras so thats a bit harder to do unfortunately lol
Spoilers!
I mean, its literally the hook. Its like calling princess leia getting boarded and arrested on A New Hope a spoiler
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divulgâche
Now the patrol wants to contratulate you personnally at the treehouse. If you mention the scroll, he goes paranoid and tries to turn you and your team. It goes from there on.
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Player Wizard: “I just can’t believe that an evil wizard managed to permanently polymorph you and six other wizards into sheep, all at the same time!”
NPC: “If the Ranger had been any hungrier it would have been seven.”
I don’t remember if this is still the case, but for most of D&D’s history, killing a polymorph to target with force it to revert immediately back to its original form. This can be illustrated by reciting to you in old story I read once, as best I can remember it, from back during the AD&D 2e days.
Their once was a gnome illusionist in the party who finally got to high enough level to cast polymorph. So one day they encountered a hill giant, at which point gnomey busts out his new spell, trying to polymorph the giant into the least dangerous thing he could think of - a grape. The giant failed his saving throw, after which he was turned into a grape. The gnome cheerfully picked up the grape, saying “I like grapes!” and popping it into his mouth to bite down on.
Kersplort.
