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<blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 5926977" data-attributes="member: 6669384"><p>******* </p><p>Epilogue:</p><p></p><p>The scene of the struggle with the blade, and of its final destruction, were a case of me seriously taking my literary license out for a spin. The actual game scene was a lot more mundane.</p><p></p><p>There were, of course, some WTF moments for some of you readers, I'm sure, as you tried to relate things in the tale to game rules. There's a simple explanation: We messed up.</p><p></p><p>The Bard (me) broke a rule when he summoned up a crowd of people. <em>Silent Image </em>doesn't work that way. One object, creature or force, not many. The DM missed it at the time as well.</p><p></p><p>The DM had intended the birds as Cockatrice, but got the descriptions wrong, saying that they looked like scraggly chickens with long tails. He also had the people stoned come back with sunlight. He thought that the Bard could make Stone Salve (right out of the DMG) with Alchemy and/or Brew Potion. The fact is, it calls for spells we don't have in the group, so again I took my literary license in hand and pretended that such things could actually be done in the game. They can't.</p><p></p><p>Several players were absent from the early sessions, which is why their characters weren't there. The DM still swears that the convenient teleport (which has no explanation by game rules) was not supposed to be powered by a sacrifice, but the timing was so perfect that we've played it that way ever since. </p><p></p><p>Advice: Don't accept "free" rides from clerics of death deities.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greenfield, post: 5926977, member: 6669384"] ******* Epilogue: The scene of the struggle with the blade, and of its final destruction, were a case of me seriously taking my literary license out for a spin. The actual game scene was a lot more mundane. There were, of course, some WTF moments for some of you readers, I'm sure, as you tried to relate things in the tale to game rules. There's a simple explanation: We messed up. The Bard (me) broke a rule when he summoned up a crowd of people. [I]Silent Image [/I]doesn't work that way. One object, creature or force, not many. The DM missed it at the time as well. The DM had intended the birds as Cockatrice, but got the descriptions wrong, saying that they looked like scraggly chickens with long tails. He also had the people stoned come back with sunlight. He thought that the Bard could make Stone Salve (right out of the DMG) with Alchemy and/or Brew Potion. The fact is, it calls for spells we don't have in the group, so again I took my literary license in hand and pretended that such things could actually be done in the game. They can't. Several players were absent from the early sessions, which is why their characters weren't there. The DM still swears that the convenient teleport (which has no explanation by game rules) was not supposed to be powered by a sacrifice, but the timing was so perfect that we've played it that way ever since. Advice: Don't accept "free" rides from clerics of death deities. [/QUOTE]
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