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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dungeon blaster" data-source="post: 2162556" data-attributes="member: 30575">Ouch, that last story is a doozy.I've got one that ended in a horrific defeat to the DM.  To me it was a great victory!I'll set the stage here: we're playing 2ed, our PCs are  in a duergar city, deep in  the underdark...we're being forced to fight in a grand gladitorial match against the worst fiends the drow have to offer - a battle royale so to speak.  My character, being a drow fighter, is particularly hated by the locals.  Our first opponent: a hideous skeletal female robed in black.  We're lucky enough to watch as another gladiator spars off against her...if you could call it sparring.  She reaches out, makes a gesture, and the poor sap coughs up his heart.  "oh crap" we say.  The bell rings, round 1:DM: you guys have initiative, what do ya do?ME: Um, take a couple swings at her with my sword (of sharpness).  ::roll:: CRIT!  sweet!DM: She loses her left arm to your sword and begins frantically preparing to cast a spellME: ::2nd roll:: CRIT!  Yeah!  There goes the other arm!DM:  :<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />anicking:: she begins casting another spell, a POWER WORD.PC2: My turn!  I called shot to her mouth!  A hit!DM: Arg!  Alright, her jawbone goes flying off her face, right off the edge of the platform.  She stares at you with eyes that could only mean "awww...f****"PCs: We pick her up and toss her over the edge of the platform.  NEXT!With our victory we got pretty cocky.  Next up: a bulky duergar fighter with a magic warhammer.  He looked like he meant business.DM: He has initiative!  Ok, with a mighty roar he spins around and hurls his hammer at you (me)!!ME: I've got gloves of missile snaring!  ::roll:: I caught it!  Um, I toss it back his way! ::roll:: Hit!  How ya like that?!Suffice to say, he got beat down in two rounds, much to the chagrin of the thousands of duergar watching the fight.  It didn't help that we made fun of them as we were beating him to a pulp.There was one other encounter with the champion, a half-spider minotaur.  Really cool monster.  All I remember of that battle was that we actually took some damage, but managed to toss him over the edge of the platform.</blockquote>

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