The entrance to the Council of Owls, a secret group of select nobles and merchants who secretly oversee the machinations of the city for their profit.
Scott Selvidge nice way to Batman up the place! I am so there.
Eric Duncan I once had an NPC who was basically Batman in a game. He was pretty fun to put into situations. I also had a villain who was a former orc pit fighter and slave who I named Bane. He was leading a movement of orcs to put them into power over the other races. I had a plastic cup with me each game for doing the Bane voice. 🙂 (He had an armored collar that came up to the bottom of his nose to hide the scars his human master gave him)
Owlbears
Scott Selvidge I think I will use your idea and the picture in my campaign soon ! 🙂
WHO is behind this door.
Claytonian JP WHO IS this door?
“Why are you so late?”
“I’m not, but it took me 20 minutes to work up the courage to come inside.”
The owl is actually Old Brown
“Riddle me, riddle me, rot-tot-tote!
A little wee man, in a red red coat !
A staff in his hand, and a stone in his throat ; If you’ll tell me this riddle, I’ll give you a groat.”
Now this riddle is as old as
the hills; Mr. Brown paid no
attention whatever to Nutkin.
He shut his eyes obstinately
and went to sleep.
I know this one!
An upscale Hooters.
Master woodcarver’s tool shed. It’s where he keeps his awls.
A dark room, 30’x25′ with 20′ high ceiling and one small statute sitting in the middle. The statue is hard to make out from the door.
There is no lighting other than the light beaming behind you from outside.
Dust layers the floor
What do you do?
I hold up my “Athena the Owl Fan Club” membership card and step inside.
I have a distinct feeling that this particular door is not what it seems.
An intelligent owlbear (ex- mage) that has been cursed into this form. Will require party to take up quest to return him to prior form or eat them.
Anyone who said “owlbears” has no imagination or attention to detail. Why would owlbears be in there? They’re usually not sentient creatures, so someone would have had to have put them in there. Are they the king’s owlbear minions? Perhaps the door was created by the dwarves who dug into an owlbear alcove to keep them out. “Owlbears”, isn’t enough.
Now, to the few of you who thought of something other than owlbears, I’d like to congratulate you. That’s what I like to see from players in Dungeon World.
As for my answer, I know I’m late to the party, but I’ve just now seen this. I’d like to think that this door is tucked away under the old widow’s deck what’s inside is a family of anthropomorphic mice who worship an owl as a god and live off the scraps the old woman throws off her back deck for the squirrels. Most of the time, the squirrels don’t bother with her scraps, but when they do, epic battles between the factions last up to tens of seconds! Once every week, the mouse who has best proven their worth is chosen to seek out and meet the owl. It is believed by the mice of “Underdeck” that those who meet the owl are knighted and become his guardians of the great tree as they are never seen or heard from again. You are Steef, and you have proven yourself to be the most worthy. Go and meet the owl, young one. You have our blessing.
Owlbears are cool. They may lack imagination but have sensitive feelings and sharp claws.
Who‘s behind that door.
An Howl bear ! 🙂
I’m not sure i had read the question before i looked at the picture and was like “that looks like the entrance to an Owl Bear cave”
A woodcarver. He’s been trying to sell this door forever after a commission went south.
The entrance to the tree-tavern in Sarah Richardson great DW scenario.
http://cdn.bleedingcool.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Owlbear1-600×900.jpg
The entrance to the Council of Owls, a secret group of select nobles and merchants who secretly oversee the machinations of the city for their profit.
Scott Selvidge nice way to Batman up the place! I am so there.
Eric Duncan I once had an NPC who was basically Batman in a game. He was pretty fun to put into situations. I also had a villain who was a former orc pit fighter and slave who I named Bane. He was leading a movement of orcs to put them into power over the other races. I had a plastic cup with me each game for doing the Bane voice. 🙂 (He had an armored collar that came up to the bottom of his nose to hide the scars his human master gave him)
Owlbears
Scott Selvidge I think I will use your idea and the picture in my campaign soon ! 🙂
WHO is behind this door.
Claytonian JP WHO IS this door?
“Why are you so late?”
“I’m not, but it took me 20 minutes to work up the courage to come inside.”
The owl is actually Old Brown
“Riddle me, riddle me, rot-tot-tote!
A little wee man, in a red red coat !
A staff in his hand, and a stone in his throat ; If you’ll tell me this riddle, I’ll give you a groat.”
Now this riddle is as old as
the hills; Mr. Brown paid no
attention whatever to Nutkin.
He shut his eyes obstinately
and went to sleep.
I know this one!
An upscale Hooters.
Master woodcarver’s tool shed. It’s where he keeps his awls.
A dark room, 30’x25′ with 20′ high ceiling and one small statute sitting in the middle. The statue is hard to make out from the door.
There is no lighting other than the light beaming behind you from outside.
Dust layers the floor
What do you do?
I hold up my “Athena the Owl Fan Club” membership card and step inside.
Knock knock. Hoots there.
Tim Franzke This guy: https://66.media.tumblr.com/d01e88f51f937573eedb83ec895132a4/tumblr_ock5qyIt8v1qehhjho1_500.jpg This:
I have a distinct feeling that this particular door is not what it seems.
An intelligent owlbear (ex- mage) that has been cursed into this form. Will require party to take up quest to return him to prior form or eat them.
Anyone who said “owlbears” has no imagination or attention to detail. Why would owlbears be in there? They’re usually not sentient creatures, so someone would have had to have put them in there. Are they the king’s owlbear minions? Perhaps the door was created by the dwarves who dug into an owlbear alcove to keep them out. “Owlbears”, isn’t enough.
Now, to the few of you who thought of something other than owlbears, I’d like to congratulate you. That’s what I like to see from players in Dungeon World.
As for my answer, I know I’m late to the party, but I’ve just now seen this. I’d like to think that this door is tucked away under the old widow’s deck what’s inside is a family of anthropomorphic mice who worship an owl as a god and live off the scraps the old woman throws off her back deck for the squirrels. Most of the time, the squirrels don’t bother with her scraps, but when they do, epic battles between the factions last up to tens of seconds! Once every week, the mouse who has best proven their worth is chosen to seek out and meet the owl. It is believed by the mice of “Underdeck” that those who meet the owl are knighted and become his guardians of the great tree as they are never seen or heard from again. You are Steef, and you have proven yourself to be the most worthy. Go and meet the owl, young one. You have our blessing.
Owlbears are cool. They may lack imagination but have sensitive feelings and sharp claws.
Be warned!