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<blockquote data-quote="Sadras" data-source="post: 6329226" data-attributes="member: 6688277">I used the Sleep spell in one of our sessions against the wizard/leader of the party during one of their Temple of Elemental Evil forays. It was an epic sword&amp;sorcery duel between an evil wizard and the PC fighter-mage, while the rest of the party was engaging a black dragon and a half-orc barbarian (already 2 out of the 5 PCs had dropped).It was the most exciting duel I have ever run, 4-5 rounds of tactical play and this was before the sleep spell so things were already at a high. I told the PC the enemy wizard cast a spell and that his character began to feel a little drowsy and then began rolling the sleep-spell die on the table, open for all to see. Needless to say, if the PC went down, the fight would have been over with an inevitable TPK. When the PC realised that it was cast at a much higher spell slot level he began to worry (it was cast as a 3rd level spell).&nbsp; I could see the nervousness in everyone's eyes despite the teasing from the other players, calling the wizard PC a hedge wizard because he was about to be bested by a sleep spell. The player/PC plays to this massive ego so the others generally rag him.I finished 1 hit point away from his current hit point total.Tense Combat Encounter&nbsp; - checkAwesome that Party Survived&nbsp; - checkMemorable - check&nbsp; Whatever the problems or abuse that could occur, thankfully I have never experienced it, but after that fight I'm a huge fan of it. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sadras, post: 6329226, member: 6688277"] I used the Sleep spell in one of our sessions against the wizard/leader of the party during one of their Temple of Elemental Evil forays. It was an epic sword&sorcery duel between an evil wizard and the PC fighter-mage, while the rest of the party was engaging a black dragon and a half-orc barbarian (already 2 out of the 5 PCs had dropped). It was the most exciting duel I have ever run, 4-5 rounds of tactical play and this was before the sleep spell so things were already at a high. I told the PC the enemy wizard cast a spell and that his character began to feel a little drowsy and then began rolling the sleep-spell die on the table, open for all to see. Needless to say, if the PC went down, the fight would have been over with an inevitable TPK. When the PC realised that it was cast at a much higher spell slot level he began to worry (it was cast as a 3rd level spell). I could see the nervousness in everyone's eyes despite the teasing from the other players, calling the wizard PC a hedge wizard because he was about to be bested by a sleep spell. The player/PC plays to this massive ego so the others generally rag him. I finished 1 hit point away from his current hit point total. Tense Combat Encounter - check Awesome that Party Survived - check Memorable - check Whatever the problems or abuse that could occur, thankfully I have never experienced it, but after that fight I'm a huge fan of it. :) [/QUOTE]

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