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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fnork de sporg" data-source="post: 1288338" data-attributes="member: 4713">Ok so the party is infiltrating their former town recently conquered by evil in an attempt to rescue the townspeople currently being used as unholy sacrifices. A quartet of infernal gnolls decked out with a number of items from the Book of Vile Darkness and lure the party in to an ambush using a crowd of mindless zombies as bait, then attacking the party from sides. I had fully expected the chaotic-neutral Githyanki Psychic Warrior to use his Clairvoyance powers to foil this trap and had mostly added it as color to emphasize how cunning the enemy was, but he never really could get a good handle on how and when to use his powers.  The party's main muscle get tied up fighting the high-number but relatively low powered zombie horde who basically swarm them, while the more support-oriented characters end up fighting off the much nastier badguys. So the githyanki and one of the cleric/magess end up fighting one of the gnolls behind a building, about ten feet away from the rest of the group but around a corner. The two cleric/mage players got it in to their head that they really liked this one dual cleric and mage prestige class and so decided to multiclass their characters. Only problem is that untill that reach the prestige class they kind of suck, and the game eventually went of hiatus before they ever could. This particular player is regualrly taunted (though in a good hearted way) for his consistently cowardly tactics and decisions. The characters had previously found a supply of unlabled potions iwth permanent effect and the githyanki character ha, through no real fault of his own as the contents of the bottle were randomly rolled, consumed a Shrinking potion making him currently 3 feet 3 inches. The cleric is still mounted while the githyanki is not, and doesn't own his own horse-like-desert-creature anyways.So the nasty evil nasty Infernal Gnoll comes up, with its various magic items made from children's skulls and severed hands and its nasty nasty war-scythe and enters melee combat with the githyanki. But the cleric mage refuses to dismount. He refuses to even get within melee range. Instead he postions his mount behind the shrunken githyanki and begins to pick away at the gnoll iwth his crossbow. Using a weakened three foot character as a shield! The githyanki player urges the cleric/mage to join him in the front ranks, but the cleric/mage player reclines because, if I remember correctly, "that gnoll dude is <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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" />in' nasty". The other player's uge the githyanki character to attempt to flee, possibly using his dimensional slide. The githyanki character refuses, stating he thinks he can last at least one more round. He can't. The gnoll brings him to something like negative seven with the first blow and then, with not other targets in range, uses the second blow to cleave the poor <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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" />er's torso in twain.It was the first death of the campaign. Actualyl I think it was the first character death that particular grouping of people had ever had. Everyone's jaw kind of dropped.Really that character seemed almost doomed to die. If/when that campaign goes on hiatus I always wanted to have that character somehow come back through a miraculous intevention of his God. But the players has stated he thinks he would want to play an all new character, maybe ranger, so I guess I'll haveto bring him back as some sort of exposition souting undead/spirit npc.</blockquote>

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