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<blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 3344362" data-attributes="member: 1656">Heh.&nbsp; We were only about 3rd level.&nbsp; The white dragon was a little one, but still, dragon!For some reason, the half-orc paladin was being played... cautiously.&nbsp; I don't think the player was very confident, and the result was that the PC came off as a wuss.The paladin and the dwarf ranger had climbed a rope to the top of the ice cliff to engage the dragon in melee... at which point the dragon scuttled down the cliff to the river at the foot.&nbsp; Not far from the vulnerable spellcasters.We all sat the player of the paladin down and laid it out for him.&quot;You're a paladin.&nbsp; Fearless.&nbsp; That dragon is directly below you.&nbsp; You swan-dive off that cliff, sword first, and land on the dragon.&nbsp; It'll be awesome.&nbsp; It'll be a campaign-defining moment.&nbsp; You may save the rest of the party.&nbsp; You may become a dragon-slayer.&nbsp; Campaign-defining moment.&quot;&quot;I...&quot;&quot;Do it.&quot;&quot;... uh...&quot;&quot;Campaign-defining moment.&quot;&quot;... I climb down the rope.&quot;We all groaned, and the DM continued.&quot;And the ranger?&quot;&quot;Hell, I'm diving off the cliff at the dragon!&quot;Unfortunately, he tanked his Jump check and made a natural 1 on the attack roll, so it wasn't awesome after all.(Incidentally, that paladin continued to be lame until the session the player couldn't attend; we generally run PCs of absent players by committee.&nbsp; The paladin ditched his shield, swapped his longsword for the magic greatsword we recently acquired, and started Power Attacking.&nbsp; He saved the party by going toe-to-toe with a Bearded Devil, whose DR none of the rest of us could scratch - he went unconscious three times in that fight (being healed by the cleric's last remaining cure spells), the last resulting from an attack-from-prone while disabled (dropping him from 0 to -1) that finally finished the Devil off.&nbsp; It was a shame that the only time the paladin was an effective member of the party was when the player wasn't there <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )-Hyp.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hypersmurf, post: 3344362, member: 1656"] Heh. We were only about 3rd level. The white dragon was a little one, but still, dragon! For some reason, the half-orc paladin was being played... cautiously. I don't think the player was very confident, and the result was that the PC came off as a wuss. The paladin and the dwarf ranger had climbed a rope to the top of the ice cliff to engage the dragon in melee... at which point the dragon scuttled [i]down[/i] the cliff to the river at the foot. Not far from the vulnerable spellcasters. We all sat the player of the paladin down and laid it out for him. "You're a paladin. Fearless. That dragon is directly below you. You swan-dive off that cliff, sword first, and land on the dragon. It'll be [i]awesome[/i]. It'll be a [i]campaign-defining moment[/i]. You may save the rest of the party. You may become a dragon-slayer. [i]Campaign-defining moment[/i]." "I..." "[i]Do it[/i]." "... uh..." "[i]Campaign-defining moment.[/i]" "... I climb down the rope." We all groaned, and the DM continued. "And the ranger?" "Hell, [i]I'm[/i] diving off the cliff at the dragon!" Unfortunately, he tanked his Jump check and made a natural 1 on the attack roll, so it wasn't awesome after all. (Incidentally, that paladin continued to be lame until the session the player couldn't attend; we generally run PCs of absent players by committee. The paladin ditched his shield, swapped his longsword for the magic greatsword we recently acquired, and started Power Attacking. He saved the party by going toe-to-toe with a Bearded Devil, whose DR none of the rest of us could scratch - he went unconscious three times in that fight (being healed by the cleric's last remaining cure spells), the last resulting from an attack-from-prone while disabled (dropping him from 0 to -1) that finally finished the Devil off. It was a shame that the only time the paladin was an effective member of the party was when the player wasn't there :) ) -Hyp. [/QUOTE]

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