in which wil has a “duh” moment of extraordinary magnitude

There are spoilers in the rest of this post, so if you're a player in Keep on the Shadowfell, or plan to be, you should skip this until you've completed the adventure.

Otherwise, follow me, as they say, after the jump, for something pretty funny…

This is from the comments on my post and so the campaign begins…(Part I):

Oh, you're THAT Bruce Cordell

For those of you who don't have context, Bruce Cordell wrote The Keep on the Shadowfell, which is where my campaign starts. 

If you see the timestamps, you'll notice that there's an eight minute gap between my final reply and the one before it. At some point during that eight minutes, my brain reached out of my body, smacked me on the back of the head, and said, "Hey, dummy, this is like someone saying to you, 'Dude! You should read this story about Star Wars figures from this book Sunken Treasure. I bet you'd like it!'"

…is this one of those things that's only funny to me?

23 thoughts on “in which wil has a “duh” moment of extraordinary magnitude”

  1. Doh! We’ve all had moments like that. And my wife and were co-DMing the Keep and we were really sad to see the “Closed” sign actually kept our players out! I was SO looking forward to the cube encounter!

  2. We all have our duh moments. At least you caught yours. I had an incident where I hadn’t known what happened until it was way too late to fix. Then again, you could just chalk it up to your excitement to share your experience with all of us.

  4. Dude! You should read this story about Star Wars figures from this book Sunken Treasure. I bet you’d like it!

  10. Ha! Way to go. Reminds me of when I was all like “ha, this guy posting a comment on my blog filled in the name of that kid from Star Trek…”
    Anyway, Wil, drop me some email? kynn AT kynn DOT com.

  13. Wil–
    You are made of awesome…most people don’t have enough courage or balls to admit when they’ve had a “duh” moment much less share it with other. Kudos for being both courageous and having a pair!

  14. Oh yeah. Arguing with someone about Aberrant on RPG.net, specifically about one of the supplements. Some guy called Greg starts weighing, IIRC correctly pretty even handedly. Both me and the other guy start whaling in on him until someone says “Dude, look in the credits for the book”.
    Oh. Greg Stolze. Who wrote the damn thing.
    Utterly cool thing? He never played the “I WROTE the damn thing so SHUT UP WEIRDO” card.
    I don’t hang out on RPG.net any more, but I do follow quite a few RPG designers on RSS and twitter. I get regular views of explosions when RPG fans with the biggest sense of entitlement outside of Wall Street “interact” with the guys actually writing their stuff….

  15. To reveal such a fragile and awkward moment, you have obviously forged your spirit in the tradition of your ancestors. You honor us.

  16. Pretty funny.
    Been lovin’ the D&D podcasts. Hope to see more on your new campaign. If only there were somewhere you could write it up like say….
    Over here – http://www.enworld.org/forum/story-hour/
    I’ve got a good group going through Shackled City (3.5) at the moment. Even if you only have half as much fun at the game table as my crew you’ll still be having a blast.

  18. I’m running Keep too! On Saturday, my completionist party went into the cistern because they thought it was the room where Splug kept all his stash! The cube didn’t present a problem, as this is my first campaign and I accidentally leveled them up way too fast. There’s only three of them, so I’ve been pretty lenient with them. So far.

  19. Wait, I haven’t read that far ahead. They haven’t hit the Cube yet, this was just the Blue Ooze in the caves on the first level. I’ll make sure the Cube eats one of them so they curse your name, Wil!

  20. I had a similar moment with Andy Collins when he came out here for Genghis Con last month. Made some snarky comment about 4e and then realized whom I was snarking to. *major blush*

  21. I’m pretty sure my players will respect all “closed” signs in the future, so it may be something of a one-trick pony. The melee all got swallowed up, the warlock “hid” in the zombie room (oops!), and the wizard started picking the door to run away….

  22. Something very similar happened to me here with Jim C. Hines. And yeah, I totally did a “Holy crap, you’re THE Jim C. Hines!!!” comment. (This was on How to Create Your Very Own Ogre Deathcrotch on 6/12/08, so you can go back and see me glom all over Jim if you want.) I mean, I know Scalzi and you are buds, but I didn’t expect to see Jim here.
    Which I guess is like bumping into any random gamer I know at the Indy airport the day before GenCon and being surprised.
    “Hey, what are YOU doing here?!”
    “Uh, it’s GenCon?”
    “…Oh yeah.”
    So yeah, tons of industry insiders read your blog. You just need to pay attention to the names in the comments.

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