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<blockquote data-quote="coyote6" data-source="post: 912992" data-attributes="member: 1225"><p>It sounds like the player overreacted, rather majorly. OTOH, we do have only one side, so it's hard to say for sure.</p><p></p><p>As for the situation -- I think it's a nice setup. However, it is harsh -- a PC was killed in a campaign I play in when we were attacked by a troll at night -- no armor, and he got rended. So the ECL (and XP) ought to be bumped up, and the GM should be aware that character death (given the vampires, permanent character death, since the victims would end up vamped) is quite likely. </p><p></p><p>I also think that a sudden attack like this would leave some time; unless the PCs were sacked out right next door to the location of the attack, it ought to have taken some time for the PCs to go out, find the source of the explosion, and figure out, "vamps loose, imminent disaster" -- certainly enough time for the other PCs to have armored up, at least hastily. So either the disaster (140 dead and soon-to-be-new-vampires) should have happened already, or the PCs that didn't go check things out should've had time to armor up already, and be on the way.</p><p></p><p>Certainly, the players could've done other things -- backup armor (chain or mithral shirt pajamas, <em>bracers of armor</em>, etc.), emergency <em>mage armor</em> (via sorcerer, scroll, or wand -- a <em>wand of mage armor</em> is 750 gp, and quite handy in emergencies), run out naked, or whatever. However, I don't think they were idiots for choosing to get armored up; from the description given here, it doesn't sound like it was Blatantly Obvious that they were all needed <strong>now</strong>. The explosion could've been a grain silo meeting a careless lantern, after all.</p><p></p><p>FWIW, 12th level characters going naked to fight multiple D&D vampire wizards sounds like a good way to end up with 6th or 8th effective level characters, if not vampire ex-PCs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="coyote6, post: 912992, member: 1225"] It sounds like the player overreacted, rather majorly. OTOH, we do have only one side, so it's hard to say for sure. As for the situation -- I think it's a nice setup. However, it is harsh -- a PC was killed in a campaign I play in when we were attacked by a troll at night -- no armor, and he got rended. So the ECL (and XP) ought to be bumped up, and the GM should be aware that character death (given the vampires, permanent character death, since the victims would end up vamped) is quite likely. I also think that a sudden attack like this would leave some time; unless the PCs were sacked out right next door to the location of the attack, it ought to have taken some time for the PCs to go out, find the source of the explosion, and figure out, "vamps loose, imminent disaster" -- certainly enough time for the other PCs to have armored up, at least hastily. So either the disaster (140 dead and soon-to-be-new-vampires) should have happened already, or the PCs that didn't go check things out should've had time to armor up already, and be on the way. Certainly, the players could've done other things -- backup armor (chain or mithral shirt pajamas, [i]bracers of armor[/i], etc.), emergency [i]mage armor[/i] (via sorcerer, scroll, or wand -- a [i]wand of mage armor[/i] is 750 gp, and quite handy in emergencies), run out naked, or whatever. However, I don't think they were idiots for choosing to get armored up; from the description given here, it doesn't sound like it was Blatantly Obvious that they were all needed [b]now[/b]. The explosion could've been a grain silo meeting a careless lantern, after all. FWIW, 12th level characters going naked to fight multiple D&D vampire wizards sounds like a good way to end up with 6th or 8th effective level characters, if not vampire ex-PCs. [/QUOTE]
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