Plaag wrote:Never heard of it, but I'd assume one could just heat the air somehow long enough to evaporate the water so as to get at the gold coins.Or just fill the pool with junk, turning it into gold coins that would eventually fill it and begin to spill out.ShaneG.
Plaag wrote:Never heard of it, but I'd assume one could just heat the air somehow long enough to evaporate the water so as to get at the gold coins.ShaneG.
NetRodent wrote:On a related noted, in one of my earliest dungeon crawls we came across a pool with albino talking fish. It really captured my imagination and ever since I've been searching to find out if this was a home brewed invention or if it was a published piece.
DungeonDelver wrote:Hmm I'd say levitate or Tenser's Floating Disc, or maybe even Bigby's Grasping Hand to get the coins out.
Keith the Thief wrote:Magic and magic items had no effect on the pool. Or, at least, our PCs did not possess any type of magic that would work on it. Our DM was fair and ran a balanced game. So I always figured there was some simple trick we were overlooking ... like the aforementioned notion of somehow evaporating the water.
DungeonDelver wrote:I am however going to steal this idea.
Keith the Thief wrote:During the first D&D campaign I ever played (a stereotypical dungeon to slay a red dragon in the summer of 78 ), our DM threw a riddle at us that I've always wondered about.It was a pool/fountain full of gold coins. The trick was that any object (including hands and other body parts) immersed in the water would "dissolve" and turn into gold coins and float to the bottom.The pool seemed impervious to magic, and our party of 4 to 5th level PCs (I was the thief ) never solved it.
Keith the Thief wrote:It's a good idea to steal, and there have been quite a few innovative solutions posted already.I do remember trying to fill the pool, but it was too deep.I think we tried using gold ... that rings a bell ... but all we had were gold coins, which didn't work well as a "shovel".
grodog wrote:Who was your DM? I like the idea a LOT