[3-5] As a player, would you get the reference?

**newbDM** · 2008-10-04, 01:07 AM (ISO 8601)

I have been working on these for a while. I plan on randomly placing them in random dungeons and locations (even taverns and houses maybe?).

Spoiler of what I tried to make it resemble:

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Also, how would you feel about it? In one of my recent threads someone pointed out that there is a fine line between fun and "silly", so now I am paranoid about that.

p.s. What should I place in these, in case the PCs actually try breaking them (n game of course)?

**Mattarias, King.** · 2008-10-04, 01:13 AM (ISO 8601)

XD I say go for it. Love the idea. And I say make a little table and roll every time they break one. May I add explosions to the mix? Explosions are fun.

**JaxGaret** · 2008-10-04, 01:14 AM (ISO 8601)

Are you talking strictly about the jars, or also about the figure? I wouldn't get the reference for the jars, but I never was a big Zelda fan. The figure doesn't really look like Link, just like Random Archer Dude.

I would suggest putting gems of some kind in them. And maybe some food that's still somehow perfectly edible despite being open to the elements, to hang a lampshade on it.

**streakster** · 2008-10-04, 01:14 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by newbDM

p.s. What should I place in these, in case the PCs actually try breaking them (n game of course)?

I got it.

And the obvious answer is rupees. Rupees that no shop will take.

Watch them scour the world for a shop that takes rupees....

**newbDM** · 2008-10-04, 01:17 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by streakster

I got it.

And the obvious answer is rupees. Rupees that no shop will take.

Watch them scour the world for a shop that takes rupees....

Damn, it has been SOOOOO long. I really want to play this again.

Anyway, what did the rupees do again?

**JaxGaret** · 2008-10-04, 01:19 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by newbDM

Anyway, what did the rupees do again?

They're money in the Zelda 'verse.

They're basically just gems though, so I don't see why no one would accept them.

**Yahzi** · 2008-10-04, 01:20 AM (ISO 8601)

Even with the spoiler... I still didn't get it.

**JaxGaret** · 2008-10-04, 01:21 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Yahzi

Even with the spoiler... I still didn't get it.

In Zelda games, jars such as the ones shown in the OP pictures are literally everywhere, and when you break one open, some of the time they hold treasure.

**newbDM** · 2008-10-04, 01:22 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by JaxGaret

They're money in the Zelda 'verse.

They're basically just gems though, so I don't see why no one would accept them.

Yeah, I am not to sure why myself.

What if I made rupees the official elven currency?

**Doresain** · 2008-10-04, 01:27 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by newbDM

What if I made rupees the official elven currency?

you should make it the currency of some incredibly obscure society...preferably a short race...with brown cloaks...and yellow glowing eyes...

**Zeful** · 2008-10-04, 02:24 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Yahzi

Even with the spoiler... I still didn't get it.

Since either LoZ: A Link to the Past (Triforce of the Gods in japan), or Link's Awakening, there have been breakable jars in every Zelda game, and when you break them you get stuff (money and hearts mostly, but after you got the Bow, arrows would be included, as would bombs after you gained the ability to buy them).

Also, I say it's cool that you made them, a little big in my mind but meh. As for what to put in them, I'd pull what Zelda did. I'd put potions of cure minor wounds, 20x Arrows, explosives, etc. there would be a table that would look roughly like:

{table=head]d% roll|Result
01-40%|1d4x10 cp
41-46%|One stick dynamite
47-59%|2d4x10 Arrows
60-67%|1 Potion of Cure Minor wounds
68-73%|1 Potion of Cure Light wounds
74-85%|1 rusty key
86-93%|16oz water
94-99%|1d4 Tiny monstrus spiders
100%|DM's Choice[/table]

**Ragabash** · 2008-10-04, 02:28 AM (ISO 8601)

I got it instantly, I didn't even have to wait for the first image to completely load. The pots turned out great.

**Kizara** · 2008-10-04, 05:58 AM (ISO 8601)

Would your players actually take this seriously?

I mean, if someone did this at my table it would be a complete hoot for about 20 minutes, but noone would think that now we will in a universe were pots fill in for a banking system...

**Adumbration** · 2008-10-04, 08:42 AM (ISO 8601)

I've never played Zelda. I thought they were alien eggs.

**Pegasos989** · 2008-10-04, 08:51 AM (ISO 8601)

I've played two of the Zelda games (though not through, didn't like them much) and I didn't get the refererence.

**Tengu_temp** · 2008-10-04, 08:55 AM (ISO 8601)

They look like jars of hunny - only the spoilers corrected me.

**Jack_Simth** · 2008-10-04, 08:57 AM (ISO 8601)

Would I get the reference? Not really. Would I check inside the silly things? Yes, very much so (after the rogue checked them for traps, that is).

**Hal** · 2008-10-04, 09:15 AM (ISO 8601)

I got it. It's clever, though eventually it's going to play out like this at the table:

Players: "Okay, we break all the pots in the room."
DM: *Roll . . . roll . . . roll . . . roll . . .*
Players: "Well?"
DM: *Roll . . . roll . . . roll . . .* Okay. You find 52 copper pieces, 76 arrows, 3 flasks of alchemist's fire, and you get attacked by 12 tiny monstrous spiders. Roll for initiative.
Players: "Ugh. That's now 40 of those things for this dungeon alone."

I like the idea, but the streamlining it will become will take away the charm. I might do it for only one or two dungeons.

Oh, but at least let your players throw them at enemies.

**UglyPanda** · 2008-10-04, 11:07 AM (ISO 8601)

I didn't get the reference until I saw the screenshot, and after I did, I didn't really think it was funny. Unlike Legend of Zelda, PCs usually don't feel encouraged to break everything they see in order to get cash. Maybe as a one-off joke where you leave one inside the dungeon and they get currency they can't spend, as the previous posters have said.

**Hairb** · 2008-10-04, 11:13 AM (ISO 8601)

This all greatly depends on whether or not your group has played Zelda or not, a question we here are acutely underqualified to answer.

Secondly, Link's habit of breaking things and stealing the stuff inside them regardless of prior ownership marks him as a Video Game ******* of the highest order. Do you really want your group doing stuff like this?

**Tequila Sunrise** · 2008-10-04, 12:29 PM (ISO 8601)

All I could think was 'Why is Legolas stealing Whinny the Pooh's honey jars?'

But I've played all of maybe two hours of Zelda during the course of my life.

TS

**Fiery Diamond** · 2008-10-04, 01:22 PM (ISO 8601)

I also got it instantly without having to wait for the first pic to finish loading. The pots came out well.

Also, I'm a super Zelda fanatic.

-Fiery Diamond

**Maroon** · 2008-10-04, 01:40 PM (ISO 8601)

p.s. What should I place in these, in case the PCs actually try breaking them (n game of course)?

Hearts.

Juicy, tender hearts, freshly harvested.

**Starbuck_II** · 2008-10-04, 02:00 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Tequila Sunrise

All I could think was 'Why is Legolas stealing Whinny the Pooh's honey jars?'

But I've played all of maybe two hours of Zelda during the course of my life.

TS

That was my first thought as well.

**Drascin** · 2008-10-04, 02:36 PM (ISO 8601)

Got it in like half a second, really. As a one-of joke, it would be great, yeah. And then, place a single pot in every dungeon, even the ones where it would make no sense, as a kind of easter egg

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**Crow** · 2008-10-04, 02:42 PM (ISO 8601)

The jars remind me of Winnie the Pooh. That wasn't the reference you were shooting for though, right?

**Fiery Diamond** · 2008-10-04, 02:47 PM (ISO 8601)

It hurts just to see "Winnie the Pooh" in reference to Zelda....owwwwww...

-Fiery Diamond

**Piedmon_Sama** · 2008-10-04, 04:41 PM (ISO 8601)

Yeah, my first thought was that it was some kind of Honey Pot trap... like you eat the honey in one pot, and it's an instant addiction that compels your character to ravenously seek out more, and more, muttering "honneeeyy.... honneeey..." as they stumble around looking for their next fix.

Man, now I've got to throw that in somewhere.

**Vortling** · 2008-10-04, 04:50 PM (ISO 8601)

I would get it and find it hilarious. It would be good for a one shot gag or for a running gag. You wouldn't want to include them in any scene you want taken seriously though.

**Prometheus** · 2008-10-04, 04:54 PM (ISO 8601)

I say make a dungeon based around one of the zelda dungeons and see how long it takes your players to figure that much out.

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