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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angcuru" data-source="post: 855299" data-attributes="member: 10948">This is where guys with big weighted nets come into play.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Geez, you think THAT'S bad?<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I'm currently writing up some detail and story for my upcoming campaign(a bit of which I shall eventually post in Story Hour), and let me tell you, big-ass armies don't have NOTHIN' on a pair of pissed off epic-level characters.  We all know the general idea of the mage:  starts off weak as a new-born squirrel, ends up stronger than hell(sometimes literally).  Such was the case for an elven woman named Aerie, who was at first a timid, self-concious cantrip-flinger with low self-esteem, but now is quite possibly one of the most powerful spellcasters in all of Faerun, yet is still a bit timid. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />  But she knows her stuff.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  But, back to what I was saying.  There's a big difference between an epic battle and an epic massacre.  In an Epic battle, the characters are wading through the carnage basking in glory, and come out victorious or as a heap of dead flesh.  In an Epic massacre, (an example from my campaign) Aerie went out ahead of her people's army and literally just casts a single spell, and the enemy army is enveloped in in a maelstrom of fire, lighting, ice, flying rocks, and poison gas.  She then turns around to her own army "Ok, then. That was easy enough. Lets go home." and just proceeds to head home while the others just look at the enemy army in shock and awe.  (the right combination of time stop, auto quicken spell and area-effect spells can be just DISGUSTING).</blockquote>

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