So. A PC of mine wanted to play a Jermalaine (sp?). It's essentially a mutant rat, about a foot tall, and considerably smarter (Average int. around 8). Anyway, the character had a intense hatred of "The big people" (Dwarven miners), and became a rouge, picking off at their numbers. The PC soloed him for 8 levels, Rouge7/Ranger1 Jermalaine. This thing was doing about 1d3+7+4d6 dmg. His other char died, and he wanted to replace it with his Jermalaine. The idea was that the PCs would raid this cave, come back to town, walk into a bar, and meet the Jermalaine, introduce, and there we go. What happened was this:
PCs joined up with another adventuring band. I had to think of the party off the top of my head (damn PCs) so, I creatively made it consist of a Dwarven Fighter named Tordek, a Human fighter named Redgar, a Elven wizard named Mialee, and a human ranger named Soveliss. During the raid Tordek falls off a small sciff, and finds a secret catch of gems and weapons. Once the PCs found the treasure room the PC wizard decides to invis HIS party and loot the treasure, but not to tell the NPC group, as to not to let them in on the goods. The PCs agree, and it might've worked, except the NPCs were only about 50 feet behind the PCs, and heard the not-so-brilliant scheme. The NPCs might've also wondered why the chests were looting themselves. After a few fireballs from Mialee, and a furious fight (Which went very well for the PCs) they rush away with the treasure, only bumping into Tordek on the way out. He took the news of his parties death rather well, and bought the lie that the groups had run into a young red dragon.
They return to the inn, Tordek, gems and all, whereupon the Jermalaine promptly shoots Tordek in the head, killing him. The Jermalaine is executed the next day. The PCs want to rez this random rat thing. The party was without a cleric, but the Wizard had invented a spell in which you could transfer the soul to a new body (essentially the Druid's reincarnate spell, but you had to have a body already). So they use Tordek. The Jermalaine/Dwarf is delighted in being rezed, until he finds out that he is now a dwarf, the race he hates so passionatly. So, he waits 'till dark, then slays all the PCs in their sleep before killing himself.
Best party wipe so far...
The Best Party Wipe Yet.
Well, not really a wipe, but it was oh so close.
We had a powerless paladin who was on a quest to get her paladinhood back, a halfling rogue, dwarven cleric, elf ranger, and a half orc barbarian.
I can't think of the name of the creature, soem type of squid head with lotsa spells. But he ends up fearing the rogue for the entire fight making her useless, and charms the paladin and the barbarian. The ranger runs out of arrows right before the end of the fight(she's the shooty type), the charmed paladin has a healing wand and she's using it on the creature, and the barbarian is beating on the cleric.
Me, being the cleric, I'm doing all I can to break the charms, hold people, heal the hurting, defend myself, and hurt the creature if I can. The ranger is plucking away for about 10 rounds with her bow but any damage she does is being healed by the paladin. The barbarian got me from 116 hps down to 8, he got a lucky crit in with the greataxe on an unlucky spell cast. In the end I kinda got mad and just hit it with a flamestrike and it failed the reflex save. Took almost full damage. It was mostly just really bad luck but we survived, somehow.
We had a powerless paladin who was on a quest to get her paladinhood back, a halfling rogue, dwarven cleric, elf ranger, and a half orc barbarian.
I can't think of the name of the creature, soem type of squid head with lotsa spells. But he ends up fearing the rogue for the entire fight making her useless, and charms the paladin and the barbarian. The ranger runs out of arrows right before the end of the fight(she's the shooty type), the charmed paladin has a healing wand and she's using it on the creature, and the barbarian is beating on the cleric.
Me, being the cleric, I'm doing all I can to break the charms, hold people, heal the hurting, defend myself, and hurt the creature if I can. The ranger is plucking away for about 10 rounds with her bow but any damage she does is being healed by the paladin. The barbarian got me from 116 hps down to 8, he got a lucky crit in with the greataxe on an unlucky spell cast. In the end I kinda got mad and just hit it with a flamestrike and it failed the reflex save. Took almost full damage. It was mostly just really bad luck but we survived, somehow.
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Demortis
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Try touching goo, not knowing what it is (6int), then being told by a god that you stuck your hand in his, well, stuff, then killing your entire party in there sleep. Yea, the DM was kinda mad at me...
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Here is the best wipe my group experienced
This is not actually mine, but it was funny...
It started as a good session, the adventurer's guild offered a new commission to the party, and they took it. They were to patrol a stretch of highway for a few days and wait until their contact showed up, when he did they would go and raid a goblin temple, where the local shaman was killing innocents for some ungodly reason. Late during the second day (the first having been uneventful and basically skipped), the party hears a horse coming down the road. For some reason a PC suggests that they hide until they can determine if this is their contact or if it is something else. (I should have seen it coming). The rider came up, and suddenly the PC's all jumped out in ambush. The wizard polymorphed the horse into a chicken, and the rider (in full plate with holy symbols across his chest) fell to the ground. The rider stood up and the party engaged. The human rogue and elven ranger shot arrows from the trees to either side of the path, the dwarven fighter charged forward with his hammer and waraxe swinging. The elven wizard then buffed the fighter with a bull's strength, while the rogue used a potion that granted invisibility to sneak up behind the rider and go in for the sneak attack bonus. The rider held his own and started throwing holy smites around, to the much protest of the party. (They only just realized he was a paladin, and were saying that they weren't evil characters and shouldn't take the damage from being smited). I countered that argument by saying that any god watching the battle would surely see their actions as evil. The wizard then let off a lightning spell which killed the paladin's mount (which was still polymorphed), and the paladin was knocked unconscious when the rogue decided to deal subduel instead of lethal damage. Then the party found out that the paladin was their contact (from a letter in his possession telling him to meet people on that highway. When he finally woke up, he was in a forgiving mood courtesy of a recent divine proclamation that came to him in his sleep (plot device). But then a PC made a comment about anyone wanting fried chicken...
This is not actually mine, but it was funny...
It started as a good session, the adventurer's guild offered a new commission to the party, and they took it. They were to patrol a stretch of highway for a few days and wait until their contact showed up, when he did they would go and raid a goblin temple, where the local shaman was killing innocents for some ungodly reason. Late during the second day (the first having been uneventful and basically skipped), the party hears a horse coming down the road. For some reason a PC suggests that they hide until they can determine if this is their contact or if it is something else. (I should have seen it coming). The rider came up, and suddenly the PC's all jumped out in ambush. The wizard polymorphed the horse into a chicken, and the rider (in full plate with holy symbols across his chest) fell to the ground. The rider stood up and the party engaged. The human rogue and elven ranger shot arrows from the trees to either side of the path, the dwarven fighter charged forward with his hammer and waraxe swinging. The elven wizard then buffed the fighter with a bull's strength, while the rogue used a potion that granted invisibility to sneak up behind the rider and go in for the sneak attack bonus. The rider held his own and started throwing holy smites around, to the much protest of the party. (They only just realized he was a paladin, and were saying that they weren't evil characters and shouldn't take the damage from being smited). I countered that argument by saying that any god watching the battle would surely see their actions as evil. The wizard then let off a lightning spell which killed the paladin's mount (which was still polymorphed), and the paladin was knocked unconscious when the rogue decided to deal subduel instead of lethal damage. Then the party found out that the paladin was their contact (from a letter in his possession telling him to meet people on that highway. When he finally woke up, he was in a forgiving mood courtesy of a recent divine proclamation that came to him in his sleep (plot device). But then a PC made a comment about anyone wanting fried chicken...
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Demortis
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Why not? I mean, the DM was alil crazy anyways, and it was my first game ever, leave me alone lolRob-hin wrote:That had nothing to do with D&D!
I'd have a serious talk with your DM if I were you...
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Have you ever wondered why, in a dream you can touch a falling sky? Or fly to the heavens that watch over you. - Godsmack
Have you ever wondered why, in a dream you can touch a falling sky? Or fly to the heavens that watch over you. - Godsmack