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<blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 2174723" data-attributes="member: 1656"><p>There was un underground river, passing through a cavern alongside an ice wall some thirty feet high, with a white dragon's lair above it. (Wasn't a very <em>big</em> white dragon.)</p><p></p><p>The dwarf ranger and the half-orc paladin had made it up to the top of the ice wall, eventually, and were finally dealing some real damage to the dragon (readied arrows and magic missiles just hadn't been cutting it, when the dragon was sticking its head out to breath frost at us). The dragon went for its escape tunnel, diving off the cliff into the river and preparing to swim out through a hole in the cavern wall.</p><p></p><p>"Now's your chance to shine!" we told the paladin's player. "Evil dragon. Low on hit points. About to escape. Champion of goodness. Big sword. You have to do it. Swan-dive, greatsword-first, onto the dragon down the bottom of the cliff..."</p><p></p><p>"It'll be a campaign-defining moment!"</p><p></p><p>"Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it..."</p><p></p><p>The player thought about it a while, and then said "I climb down the rope..."</p><p></p><p>The dwarf gave the paladin a withering glare, and cannonballed off the cliff with his axe.</p><p></p><p>It would've been cool, if he hadn't rolled a 1... <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" /></p><p></p><p>-----</p><p></p><p>Then there was the same paladin, who had shown more and more of a yellow streak as time went on. But the player was absent, and we were running the character by committee, and we decided that it was about bloody time he showed some backbone.</p><p></p><p>We were fighting a bearded devil, and the paladin was the only character who had any real show of overpowering the DR. We were all low on hit points, and low on spells. We'd dealt with the minions, and the devil was caught in a Web (I mentioned to the DM later "I thought he'd just teleport out of it"... the DM looked at the stat block and said "... oh. Damn.")... gave us a chance to feed the paladin some cure potions and buff him a bit before the devil got out of the Web.</p><p></p><p>The paladin hit the devil a couple of times; the devil hit the paladin a couple of times; the paladin made a few Fort saves; the paladin went unconscious; the cleric cured the paladin; the paladin hit the devil; the devil hit the paladin; the paladin went unconscious at -1.</p><p></p><p>"All I've got left is a Cure Minor," the cleric said. So we cured the paladin back up to 0.</p><p></p><p>"If he stands up, he'll provoke an AoO... and he'll be unconscious again... but if he attacks, he'll go unconscious too..."</p><p></p><p>But we decided that in his new spirit of heroism, the paladin would take the shot. A swing with the greatsword from prone... and the last thing the paladin saw before falling unconscious again was the devil collapsing on a pile of its own entrails... <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=":)" /></p><p></p><p>-Hyp.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hypersmurf, post: 2174723, member: 1656"] There was un underground river, passing through a cavern alongside an ice wall some thirty feet high, with a white dragon's lair above it. (Wasn't a very [i]big[/i] white dragon.) The dwarf ranger and the half-orc paladin had made it up to the top of the ice wall, eventually, and were finally dealing some real damage to the dragon (readied arrows and magic missiles just hadn't been cutting it, when the dragon was sticking its head out to breath frost at us). The dragon went for its escape tunnel, diving off the cliff into the river and preparing to swim out through a hole in the cavern wall. "Now's your chance to shine!" we told the paladin's player. "Evil dragon. Low on hit points. About to escape. Champion of goodness. Big sword. You have to do it. Swan-dive, greatsword-first, onto the dragon down the bottom of the cliff..." "It'll be a campaign-defining moment!" "Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it..." The player thought about it a while, and then said "I climb down the rope..." The dwarf gave the paladin a withering glare, and cannonballed off the cliff with his axe. It would've been cool, if he hadn't rolled a 1... :D ----- Then there was the same paladin, who had shown more and more of a yellow streak as time went on. But the player was absent, and we were running the character by committee, and we decided that it was about bloody time he showed some backbone. We were fighting a bearded devil, and the paladin was the only character who had any real show of overpowering the DR. We were all low on hit points, and low on spells. We'd dealt with the minions, and the devil was caught in a Web (I mentioned to the DM later "I thought he'd just teleport out of it"... the DM looked at the stat block and said "... oh. Damn.")... gave us a chance to feed the paladin some cure potions and buff him a bit before the devil got out of the Web. The paladin hit the devil a couple of times; the devil hit the paladin a couple of times; the paladin made a few Fort saves; the paladin went unconscious; the cleric cured the paladin; the paladin hit the devil; the devil hit the paladin; the paladin went unconscious at -1. "All I've got left is a Cure Minor," the cleric said. So we cured the paladin back up to 0. "If he stands up, he'll provoke an AoO... and he'll be unconscious again... but if he attacks, he'll go unconscious too..." But we decided that in his new spirit of heroism, the paladin would take the shot. A swing with the greatsword from prone... and the last thing the paladin saw before falling unconscious again was the devil collapsing on a pile of its own entrails... :) -Hyp. [/QUOTE]
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