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[5e] Preview of the sphinx

Started by Sacrosanct, August 12, 2014, 11:48:40 PM

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One Horse Town

They're trying to make them look Simbathetic.

I'll get my coat...

Brasidas

Quote from: jibbajibba;779208NOT keen on if you kill the sphinx you still don;t get the McGuffin cos god says so.
If that is the case why would god use a sphinx or limit them to 199 HP when they could make them regenerate 198 HP per round or whatever.

Smacks of RAILROAD to me.

I read it as you only fail to get the treasure if you enter into the Sphinx's magical test and fail.  If you never enter into the test and just go for combat, the treasure is yours.

Creatures that choose to face a Sphinx's test are bound to that test unto death...

...when a creature fails a sphinx's test, the path to the object...it guards vanishes.  Even if a sphinx is attacked and defeated, a quester will still fail to gain the secret it sought...

Maybe I'm parsing things out too selectively, but that's how I'll run it, if it ever occurs.