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DMs! Have you ever had a “boss encounter” turn into a cakewalk? What happened?
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<blockquote data-quote="ccs" data-source="post: 7538627" data-attributes="member: 6803664"><p>That would be our Sunday night PF campaign that wrapped up back in Nov.</p><p></p><p>I ran Reign of Winter from Jan.8th '17 - Nov.11th of '18. </p><p>All 6 books, lvs.1-17, many modifications/twists/turns/etc based upon the characters & RP. Nearly two years of great stuff. To date it's the only PF AP that we've ever actually finished.</p><p>We <em>almost</em> wrapped it up on the 4th, but it was getting late & everyone had Monday morning to look forward to.... So rather than start THE final fight & then have to pause it, we chose to call it for the night & finish the campaign the next week. Everyone expected this to be a fairly lengthy encounter. And I was well prepared.</p><p>So the next week comes & one of the players decides to open with essentially a hail mary, hard casting a Trap The Soul on the villain as they entered the room (provided they survived the entry - they knew the villain was well prepped & had the initiative on them).</p><p>ALOT of damage/effects were suffered upon entry, but the party did survive.... The spell was cast, bypassing SR.</p><p>All I have to do is roll a 2+ to save. And I have a re-roll.</p><p></p><p>So of course I roll a 1.</p><p>And then a second 1 for the re-roll!</p><p></p><p>Everyone sat there in silence for a moment. Nearly two years of play had pretty much just ended in snake-eyes.</p><p></p><p>Of course the <em>rest</em> of the fight, even though a mop-up action at this point, was still a really tough battle. The Witch Queens minions weren't about to just concede....</p><p>But really the campaign ended with that botched save.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ccs, post: 7538627, member: 6803664"] That would be our Sunday night PF campaign that wrapped up back in Nov. I ran Reign of Winter from Jan.8th '17 - Nov.11th of '18. All 6 books, lvs.1-17, many modifications/twists/turns/etc based upon the characters & RP. Nearly two years of great stuff. To date it's the only PF AP that we've ever actually finished. We [I]almost[/I] wrapped it up on the 4th, but it was getting late & everyone had Monday morning to look forward to.... So rather than start THE final fight & then have to pause it, we chose to call it for the night & finish the campaign the next week. Everyone expected this to be a fairly lengthy encounter. And I was well prepared. So the next week comes & one of the players decides to open with essentially a hail mary, hard casting a Trap The Soul on the villain as they entered the room (provided they survived the entry - they knew the villain was well prepped & had the initiative on them). ALOT of damage/effects were suffered upon entry, but the party did survive.... The spell was cast, bypassing SR. All I have to do is roll a 2+ to save. And I have a re-roll. So of course I roll a 1. And then a second 1 for the re-roll! Everyone sat there in silence for a moment. Nearly two years of play had pretty much just ended in snake-eyes. Of course the [I]rest[/I] of the fight, even though a mop-up action at this point, was still a really tough battle. The Witch Queens minions weren't about to just concede.... But really the campaign ended with that botched save. [/QUOTE]
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