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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9214749" data-attributes="member: 2209"><a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/describe-your-last-rpg-session-in-5-words.679952/page-299#post-9214715" target="_blank">Big Villain Mistake, Charmed Bard</a>So at our last 5e Iron Gods game the party was trying to discover if a Varisian fortune teller belly dancer was a technocratice league of void engineers spy. They sent in their kobold bard to get his fortune told by her which would get him an invitation for her dancing show. He went in and they had dueling insight and deception checks and then when he went in for the dance he expected a trick from the dancer and did a perfectly timed counterbeat to her finger cymbals to countersong a potential effect. This gave him advantage on his very poor wisdom save for which he dropped a 2 and took the three, not enough to resist the entrancement and immediate smitten effect.So this game started off and the spy says she wants to get in to a hidden place blocked by a stone slab door. The kobold says sure I can open a big stone door and goes with her. The kobold bard is part of the church of Acme and pulls out a stick of dynamite.The spy who is trying to get into a buried trove of technology treasure in an anti-tech religious border city does not recognize TNT for what it is and mistakenly thinks, knock wand. She goes on and on about how clever he is with just the right tools for the job. How knock will create a big chime but they are far enough away for it not to be a problem. They can still sneak into the tech trove and loot it together. The kobold wishing to impress his new flame does not disabuse her as to the nature of his wand.They get to the slab, the kobold recognizes the religious sigil on the stone over a well as a magic ward and specifically sets his dynamite under the rock without messing with the glyph. Thinking it over as to what will be the most impressive thing he can do he uses his song of creation to create more TNT and digs into his reserves and sets an extra couple of sticks reducing his stock down to 1. He sets a 1 minute fuse (more or less) and high tails it to behind the abandoned farm house nearby to shelter against TNT explosion and rock shrapnel.The spy asks why the wand is set on fire and the kobold is running. When he takes cover behind the farm house she makes her insight check and gets behind cover too. She says "That is not a wand of knock" The kobold responds "I said I could open the stone door, not that I had a wand of knock, just watch, it will be spectacular."Just as the fuse burns down she looks horrified and says "What have you done?"We ended with a big explosion, which alerts the rest of the party who have no idea the bard was charmed and think he is simply distracting her while they investigate her wagon for proof she is a spy.</blockquote>

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