Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 2167714" data-attributes="member: 30035">Our group has seldom had an ignominious defeat, but a month or so ago we started a new campaign that got off on the wrong foot.Our party of 12th level adventurers were on their way to a dungeon crawl of sorts.  The first session of the campaign began with entering the dungeon.  We'd descended on ropes into a pit and found ourselves facing a portcullis with an invisible sentry on the other side.  Our dwarf dungeon delver noticed some sigils on the portcullis that were partly covered by cloths tied over them.  He tried to lift one of the cloths to see what was underneath.  A beam of energy shot out and struck our monk/warmage/enlighted fist.  Luckily she was wearing some sort of magic circlet that allowed her to increase her saves once per day.  Otherwise she would have died on the spot. The invisible guard kept poking fun at us from his post on the other side of the portcullis.  He applauded when we were attacked by a couple of large constructs that did a lot of damage before we defeated them.  Eventually his comments got on our nerves, so the enlightened fist shot an iceball (fireball with energy substitution) at him.  Unfortunately he was still able to move enough to pull the rags off the sigil.  Three PCs and our NPC healer were all in range of the ray.  Boom.  Three characters of a party of 5 dropped dead in the first 30 minutes of the campaign. Luckily the healer (favored soul) had a spell that could bring him back from the brink of death, and he was able to get to two of the fallen PCs before they completely passed over to the other side.  Then we had to haul the third person back up the ropes to the nearest town to get her raised (it was the enlightened fist).  When we got back to the dungeon that same annoying invisible sentry was still there.    <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

Verification