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<blockquote data-quote="STARP_Social_Officer" data-source="post: 3345168" data-attributes="member: 41202">A story that's become legend in our group is the Tale of the Plummetting Demon. The PC was atop a very high tower in hand-to-hand combat with a demon (the type of demon varies depending on who tells the story - I heard it was a balor). The demon was losing, and so decided to make a quick getaway by leaping off the tower (meaning it wasn't a balor because they can teleport). The PC, thinking either extremely quickly or, more likely, not at all, declared he was going to jump off the tower, hoping to land on the demon in mid-air, sword pointed downwards, hoping to hit the demon and impale it.The DM told him that this was a ludicrous idea, and that he would need to roll a natural 20 to hit the demon. Anything else and he'd miss and plummet to his pizza-shaped doom. The PC, always ready for some death defiance, did it anyway. He rolled a natural 20 and his plan pulled off - his attack did enough damage to kill the demon and the corpse he was now riding lessened the impact of his fall enough for him to survive.The story loses integrity with the simple 8th-grade physics knowledge that all objects fall at the same rate, and that one falling creature can't ever catch up to another one unaided. But I guess it's possible the DM didn't know that (this was years ago when everyone involved was still in school) and that's why he allowed it. Even if it's not true, it's a cool story. That player still plays with us, and is legendary for this exploit.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="STARP_Social_Officer, post: 3345168, member: 41202"] A story that's become legend in our group is the Tale of the Plummetting Demon. The PC was atop a very high tower in hand-to-hand combat with a demon (the type of demon varies depending on who tells the story - I heard it was a balor). The demon was losing, and so decided to make a quick getaway by leaping off the tower (meaning it wasn't a balor because they can teleport). The PC, thinking either extremely quickly or, more likely, not at all, declared he was going to jump off the tower, hoping to land on the demon in mid-air, sword pointed downwards, hoping to hit the demon and impale it. The DM told him that this was a ludicrous idea, and that he would need to roll a natural 20 to hit the demon. Anything else and he'd miss and plummet to his pizza-shaped doom. The PC, always ready for some death defiance, did it anyway. He rolled a natural 20 and his plan pulled off - his attack did enough damage to kill the demon and the corpse he was now riding lessened the impact of his fall enough for him to survive. The story loses integrity with the simple 8th-grade physics knowledge that all objects fall at the same rate, and that one falling creature can't ever catch up to another one unaided. But I guess it's possible the DM didn't know that (this was years ago when everyone involved was still in school) and that's why he allowed it. Even if it's not true, it's a cool story. That player still plays with us, and is legendary for this exploit. [/QUOTE]

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