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<blockquote data-quote="aboyd" data-source="post: 4729370" data-attributes="member: 44797"><p>So, I haven't been keeping up on this even though we still play, but I wanted to add a (final?) post that summarizes tonight's session. This is the text that I sent to a friend:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">We had a pretty visceral moment, which you might enjoy. The entire night was spent in town, shopping and doing the in-between stuff. However, near the end of the night there was supposed to be this set-piece -- a chimera flies into town, lifts a villager into the air, and bites off the head. Mass hysteria, townsfolk fleeing, then epic battle. And we hadn't seen combat all night, so everyone was amped up and moved into position.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Except... our sorcerer cast Tasha's Hideous Laughter on the chimera. With penalties for cross-racial casting ("humor doesn't translate") and high will saves, the chimera only needed to do better than a 2 or 3, I think. But the DM rolled a ONE. Chimera falls prone laughing. For 8 rounds. At a penalty of 4 to AC. And then we proceeded to get in a sneak attack & a huge critical. It was dead before round 2 ended. Our barbarian began hacking off teeth for a necklace, and Alric climbed onto the monster, cut out a tooth, held it in his bloody fists, and raised them up at the sky while howling, "Raaaaahhhhh!"</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">The leader of the town guard eventually appeared and was like, "Holy... <em>crap."</em> At which point our barbarian punched her in the face and said, "Where were you?!? That's some protection you provided to this dead villager!"</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">So you know, the usual. Save the town, and then get escorted right out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aboyd, post: 4729370, member: 44797"] So, I haven't been keeping up on this even though we still play, but I wanted to add a (final?) post that summarizes tonight's session. This is the text that I sent to a friend: [INDENT]We had a pretty visceral moment, which you might enjoy. The entire night was spent in town, shopping and doing the in-between stuff. However, near the end of the night there was supposed to be this set-piece -- a chimera flies into town, lifts a villager into the air, and bites off the head. Mass hysteria, townsfolk fleeing, then epic battle. And we hadn't seen combat all night, so everyone was amped up and moved into position. Except... our sorcerer cast Tasha's Hideous Laughter on the chimera. With penalties for cross-racial casting ("humor doesn't translate") and high will saves, the chimera only needed to do better than a 2 or 3, I think. But the DM rolled a ONE. Chimera falls prone laughing. For 8 rounds. At a penalty of 4 to AC. And then we proceeded to get in a sneak attack & a huge critical. It was dead before round 2 ended. Our barbarian began hacking off teeth for a necklace, and Alric climbed onto the monster, cut out a tooth, held it in his bloody fists, and raised them up at the sky while howling, "Raaaaahhhhh!" The leader of the town guard eventually appeared and was like, "Holy... [i]crap."[/i] At which point our barbarian punched her in the face and said, "Where were you?!? That's some protection you provided to this dead villager!" So you know, the usual. Save the town, and then get escorted right out.[/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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