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<blockquote data-quote="SnowleopardVK" data-source="post: 5659478" data-attributes="member: 6677945"><p>I once had a teammate play a pyromaniac sorcerer. He knew absolutely nothing but fire-based spells.</p><p></p><p>Our DM decided to "punish" all of us (his words) for having strategies that we liked. For most of us it just required a little adapting (our fighter who specialized in tripping for example simply had to defeat a gelatinous cube the old-fashioed way). For the sorcerer on the other hand it resulted in death.</p><p></p><p>What happened was he decided to use his massive move speed (nearly double what the rest of us had. I don't remember how he got that) to charge waaaay ahead of us into the dungeon. There he met a recurring villain of ours who had been expecting us.</p><p></p><p>The villain, knowing about our sorcerer's complete lack of anything but fire spells was prepared and had gotten some sort of magic item crafted since last time we'd seen him. It either absorbed or made him heavily resistant to fire. I'm not sure exactly, it was never fully explained.</p><p></p><p>Our sorcerer, instead of running away or going back to get the rest of us to help him decided to just keep blasting the guy with fire spells. Every turn they did absolutely nothing, even with some of his better rolls, but he just kept doing it.</p><p></p><p>Eventually his fire actually overloaded the magic item (or something) and broke it. By that point he'd been taking hits for a lot of rounds already though. But he still wouldn't run and was eventually killed before we could catch up with him.</p><p></p><p>We recruited that villain to our team as that player's new character after realizing that he'd killed our sorcerer (none of our PCs had really liked the sorcerer anyways). As for our old teammate, we burned his body. It seemed appropriate, but was hard to pull off. His corpse had retained his massive fire resistance</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SnowleopardVK, post: 5659478, member: 6677945"] I once had a teammate play a pyromaniac sorcerer. He knew absolutely nothing but fire-based spells. Our DM decided to "punish" all of us (his words) for having strategies that we liked. For most of us it just required a little adapting (our fighter who specialized in tripping for example simply had to defeat a gelatinous cube the old-fashioed way). For the sorcerer on the other hand it resulted in death. What happened was he decided to use his massive move speed (nearly double what the rest of us had. I don't remember how he got that) to charge waaaay ahead of us into the dungeon. There he met a recurring villain of ours who had been expecting us. The villain, knowing about our sorcerer's complete lack of anything but fire spells was prepared and had gotten some sort of magic item crafted since last time we'd seen him. It either absorbed or made him heavily resistant to fire. I'm not sure exactly, it was never fully explained. Our sorcerer, instead of running away or going back to get the rest of us to help him decided to just keep blasting the guy with fire spells. Every turn they did absolutely nothing, even with some of his better rolls, but he just kept doing it. Eventually his fire actually overloaded the magic item (or something) and broke it. By that point he'd been taking hits for a lot of rounds already though. But he still wouldn't run and was eventually killed before we could catch up with him. We recruited that villain to our team as that player's new character after realizing that he'd killed our sorcerer (none of our PCs had really liked the sorcerer anyways). As for our old teammate, we burned his body. It seemed appropriate, but was hard to pull off. His corpse had retained his massive fire resistance [/QUOTE]
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