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<blockquote data-quote="Lidgar" data-source="post: 9403904" data-attributes="member: 28334">This reminds me of a funny story. Was running a magic-user in the Temple of Elemental Evil (original version) and we were inside the Earth Node. My PC was surprised by a stroper, who promptly captured him with its sticky tentacles and hauled him up to the ceiling and its waiting mouth, pretty much helpless.The paladin in the party, being the hero-type, decided this was a perfect opportunity to use his newly acquired Helm of Brilliance to blast the beast with a prismatic spray. Since my PC was in (very) close proximity, the DM reasoned that he had to roll &quot;to hit&quot; to ensure he struct the stroper and not my PC. He made it an easy AC to hit.Well, you guessed it, the paladin rolled a 1, so ended up hitting my magic-user instead. He then rolled on the table to determine which ray struck him, and of course he rolled an 8 - which meant he was struck not by one, but by two rays. Rolling again for the two rays, the first ray was green, which is poison. So dead (no save). The second was violet: sent to another plane. Awesome!The DM then had the paladin's player roll to see what plane my poor dead magic use was sent to. Want to guess? Yeah, it was Hell. But hey, at least he's on the first layer!The whole adventure then pivoted to the remaining party members using the Well of Many Worlds we had found earlier to go to Hell, fight numerous devils (with the paladin re-enacting the famous &quot;A Paladin in Hell&quot; scene by David Sutherland III), and recover the remains of the poor magic user, who was ultimately resurrected. Not for the first, nor last, mind you. He ultimately retired from a life of adventure with a Constitution score of 5.Good times. And maybe a topic for another thread, &quot;Describe your worst magic item mishaps.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lidgar, post: 9403904, member: 28334"] This reminds me of a funny story. Was running a magic-user in the Temple of Elemental Evil (original version) and we were inside the Earth Node. My PC was surprised by a stroper, who promptly captured him with its sticky tentacles and hauled him up to the ceiling and its waiting mouth, pretty much helpless. The paladin in the party, being the hero-type, decided this was a perfect opportunity to use his newly acquired Helm of Brilliance to blast the beast with a prismatic spray. Since my PC was in (very) close proximity, the DM reasoned that he had to roll "to hit" to ensure he struct the stroper and not my PC. He made it an easy AC to hit. Well, you guessed it, the paladin rolled a 1, so ended up hitting my magic-user instead. He then rolled on the table to determine which ray struck him, and of course he rolled an 8 - which meant he was struck not by one, but by two rays. Rolling again for the two rays, the first ray was green, which is poison. So dead (no save). The second was violet: sent to another plane. Awesome! The DM then had the paladin's player roll to see what plane my poor dead magic use was sent to. Want to guess? Yeah, it was Hell. But hey, at least he's on the first layer! The whole adventure then pivoted to the remaining party members using the Well of Many Worlds we had found earlier to go to Hell, fight numerous devils (with the paladin re-enacting the famous "A Paladin in Hell" scene by David Sutherland III), and recover the remains of the poor magic user, who was ultimately resurrected. Not for the first, nor last, mind you. He ultimately retired from a life of adventure with a Constitution score of 5. Good times. And maybe a topic for another thread, "Describe your worst magic item mishaps." [/QUOTE]

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