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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 1502065" data-attributes="member: 63"><p>Five key ingredients made this fight possible:</p><p></p><p>1. A psionic demiplane where, if you physically strike a person, both of you have to make Will saves. If you both fail, you switch bodies.</p><p></p><p>2. A house rule that, if you switch bodies, magical abilities affect your body, not your soul. Psionic abilities affect your soul, not your body. So if you are hit with a magical <em>slow</em> and are affected by a psionic <em>animal affinity</em>, you can switch bodies to escape the slow but keep your stat boost.</p><p></p><p>3. An immortal NPC villain, a monk/psion, who Fate Linked himself to the NPC love interest (Shalosha) of one of the PCs (Rantle). Any damage he took, she would take the same amount of damage. But he would regenerate all damage and could come back from the dead, and she couldn't.</p><p></p><p>4. An immortal PC with very low hit points (Katrina), who is the sister of the PC with love interest (Rantle).</p><p></p><p>5. Rantle and Shalosha wear a ring of Friend Shielding.</p><p></p><p>Combat goes badly for the first few rounds. This fiend of a monk, tripped out with psionic enhancements, is dealing tons of damage to the PCs, and though they hit him a few times, just that much damage is starting to weaken Shalosha. Rantle takes half the damage dealt to Shalosha, but she's still near passing out. Desperate, Rantle slaps Shalosha, so she can get into his body, which is less damaged. Cue a moment of the two lovers being quite, erm, surprised with what it's like to be inside each other. *cough*</p><p></p><p>So, the fight continues, and though they're wailing on the monk, his Will save is something like +22, so he's not going to be switching bodies any time soon. I nearly kill one of the PCs, when the party's wizard has an "Aha!" moment, and he casts Tasha's Hideous Laughter on Shalosha, in Rantle's body. Shalosha voluntarily fails her saving throw, so it affects both her and the monk. The evil master villain falls to the ground and is bent over in laughter, just barely able to defend himself as people hack him to bits.</p><p></p><p>Did you know that Tasha's Hideous Laughter lasts 1 round per level? The PCs were 13th level, so they've got a lot of time to spare to kill the monk. The monk, however, lets himself fail his Will saves whenever people hit him, until finally he manages to switch out bodies with one of the PCs, the gnome named Rivereye. Meanwhile, Shalosha passes out in Rantle's body, and Rantle's immortal sister Katrina slaps her, switching her to a body that will heal itself.</p><p></p><p>So now:</p><p></p><p>a) Rantle is in his fiancee's body, somewhat injured. His ring means he's now sharing damage with . . .</p><p>b) Katrina, his sister, who is in his own body, passed out, but afflicted with Hideous Laughter. Unfortunately, the rings of friend shielding are useless now because . . .</p><p>c) Shalosha, in the body of her fiance's sister, is still taking damage as they wail on the immortal, named . . .</p><p>d) 41, who has actually managed to get out of his own body, so he's no longer laughing maniacally. Sadly, he's now in the body of a gnome, a physically unimpressive creature. Worst, he's no longer immortal, but . . .</p><p>e) Rivereye, in 41's body, is immortal. </p><p></p><p>It takes the party a while to realize something's different, when the gnome gets the drop on one of the PCs, and drops him. In a few moments, they've shifted tactics, ended the Hideous Laughter, and starting attacking the non-immortal gnome. The gnome is smaller and harder to hit, but without his regeneration, 41 is dying.</p><p></p><p>Rantle, in his fiancee's body, grabs the greatsword from his own body, and manages to deliver the killing blow, hurling the sword twenty feet to impale 41, in the gnome's body, in the chest. This kills 41, and also kills Shalosha, in Katrina's body. In fact, Katrina's body suddenly rips a hole in itself, and falls to the ground. Rantle is worried, because he doesn't know if that means the woman he loves is dead, and he's a little uneasy cradling the body of his dead sister.</p><p></p><p>The psychic mindscape begins to decay, and people start to get pulled back into their own bodies. Rivereye manages to stay in 41's body, but unfortunately for him the real body is far away in the fortress of the main villain. Rivereye will last about a minute before they realize the evil monk is acting a bit like a gnome. They end up exorcising Rivereye's spirit, which kills him, and if they manage to get 41's soul they can put it back in his body.</p><p></p><p>The rest of the party is fine, having actually taken rather little damage, thanks to the Hideous Laughter spell. But Rantle, Shalosha, and Katrina, have bizarre mental scars from swapping bodies and dying together, so though they all end up alive, things get a little awkward from then on.</p><p></p><p>It was a very fun fight.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 1502065, member: 63"] Five key ingredients made this fight possible: 1. A psionic demiplane where, if you physically strike a person, both of you have to make Will saves. If you both fail, you switch bodies. 2. A house rule that, if you switch bodies, magical abilities affect your body, not your soul. Psionic abilities affect your soul, not your body. So if you are hit with a magical [i]slow[/i] and are affected by a psionic [i]animal affinity[/i], you can switch bodies to escape the slow but keep your stat boost. 3. An immortal NPC villain, a monk/psion, who Fate Linked himself to the NPC love interest (Shalosha) of one of the PCs (Rantle). Any damage he took, she would take the same amount of damage. But he would regenerate all damage and could come back from the dead, and she couldn't. 4. An immortal PC with very low hit points (Katrina), who is the sister of the PC with love interest (Rantle). 5. Rantle and Shalosha wear a ring of Friend Shielding. Combat goes badly for the first few rounds. This fiend of a monk, tripped out with psionic enhancements, is dealing tons of damage to the PCs, and though they hit him a few times, just that much damage is starting to weaken Shalosha. Rantle takes half the damage dealt to Shalosha, but she's still near passing out. Desperate, Rantle slaps Shalosha, so she can get into his body, which is less damaged. Cue a moment of the two lovers being quite, erm, surprised with what it's like to be inside each other. *cough* So, the fight continues, and though they're wailing on the monk, his Will save is something like +22, so he's not going to be switching bodies any time soon. I nearly kill one of the PCs, when the party's wizard has an "Aha!" moment, and he casts Tasha's Hideous Laughter on Shalosha, in Rantle's body. Shalosha voluntarily fails her saving throw, so it affects both her and the monk. The evil master villain falls to the ground and is bent over in laughter, just barely able to defend himself as people hack him to bits. Did you know that Tasha's Hideous Laughter lasts 1 round per level? The PCs were 13th level, so they've got a lot of time to spare to kill the monk. The monk, however, lets himself fail his Will saves whenever people hit him, until finally he manages to switch out bodies with one of the PCs, the gnome named Rivereye. Meanwhile, Shalosha passes out in Rantle's body, and Rantle's immortal sister Katrina slaps her, switching her to a body that will heal itself. So now: a) Rantle is in his fiancee's body, somewhat injured. His ring means he's now sharing damage with . . . b) Katrina, his sister, who is in his own body, passed out, but afflicted with Hideous Laughter. Unfortunately, the rings of friend shielding are useless now because . . . c) Shalosha, in the body of her fiance's sister, is still taking damage as they wail on the immortal, named . . . d) 41, who has actually managed to get out of his own body, so he's no longer laughing maniacally. Sadly, he's now in the body of a gnome, a physically unimpressive creature. Worst, he's no longer immortal, but . . . e) Rivereye, in 41's body, is immortal. It takes the party a while to realize something's different, when the gnome gets the drop on one of the PCs, and drops him. In a few moments, they've shifted tactics, ended the Hideous Laughter, and starting attacking the non-immortal gnome. The gnome is smaller and harder to hit, but without his regeneration, 41 is dying. Rantle, in his fiancee's body, grabs the greatsword from his own body, and manages to deliver the killing blow, hurling the sword twenty feet to impale 41, in the gnome's body, in the chest. This kills 41, and also kills Shalosha, in Katrina's body. In fact, Katrina's body suddenly rips a hole in itself, and falls to the ground. Rantle is worried, because he doesn't know if that means the woman he loves is dead, and he's a little uneasy cradling the body of his dead sister. The psychic mindscape begins to decay, and people start to get pulled back into their own bodies. Rivereye manages to stay in 41's body, but unfortunately for him the real body is far away in the fortress of the main villain. Rivereye will last about a minute before they realize the evil monk is acting a bit like a gnome. They end up exorcising Rivereye's spirit, which kills him, and if they manage to get 41's soul they can put it back in his body. The rest of the party is fine, having actually taken rather little damage, thanks to the Hideous Laughter spell. But Rantle, Shalosha, and Katrina, have bizarre mental scars from swapping bodies and dying together, so though they all end up alive, things get a little awkward from then on. It was a very fun fight. [/QUOTE]
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