Saeviomagy
Adventurer
Simple - he mis-loaded the crossbow, and the bolt went into the ceiling. He mis-loaded the crossbow and the bolt stayed there when the string went. He dropped the crossbow. He tripped over while he fired.Fieari said:
DM's head explodes, film at 11
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BlackSilver
First Post
Big build up to final battle with the wizard villain. The PCs fight their way through dozens and dozens of minions, near to single digit hp. I have no idea how they are going to fight him.
The Cleric drinks a potion of invisibility and uses it to move witht he PCs healing them during battle, dragging the wounded back out of harms way, etc.
Finally the cleric leaves the PCs (in a large linen closet) to scout as he is the only one with any hp or spells and they need to find the villain- whom they have never seen.
The wizard hears the cleric (Half Plate and no ranks in Move Silent), he is trying though. The wizard casts See Invisibility and the Cleric casts Harm (this was 3e and I had informed the Players early on that there would be a save- they agreed there should be and so there is).
Missed save. Cleric kills wizard with his mace and moves on.
“What are you looking for?” I asked the Player.
He informs me that he’s looking for the villain. I shrugged and they rest out the night in the linen closet of the villain’s castle.
The next weekend the PCs sack the castle, they kill the last of the minions and are disappointed to find that the villain is no where to be found (he’s dead on the floor of a guest room in the castle- they looted his body already and got lots of cool stuff from him).
So they start hunting for him. Two weeks of them doing nothing but hunting this villain and I proclaim that- “Harm no longer functions in my campaign. Period.”
Lots of disappointed Players asking why- I answer them not at all.
I have not told them until this moment. Two years they have searched for him, off and on, through another half dozen levels. They know he is up to something, but he's just hiding to well- dam him!
The Cleric drinks a potion of invisibility and uses it to move witht he PCs healing them during battle, dragging the wounded back out of harms way, etc.
Finally the cleric leaves the PCs (in a large linen closet) to scout as he is the only one with any hp or spells and they need to find the villain- whom they have never seen.
The wizard hears the cleric (Half Plate and no ranks in Move Silent), he is trying though. The wizard casts See Invisibility and the Cleric casts Harm (this was 3e and I had informed the Players early on that there would be a save- they agreed there should be and so there is).
Missed save. Cleric kills wizard with his mace and moves on.
“What are you looking for?” I asked the Player.
He informs me that he’s looking for the villain. I shrugged and they rest out the night in the linen closet of the villain’s castle.
The next weekend the PCs sack the castle, they kill the last of the minions and are disappointed to find that the villain is no where to be found (he’s dead on the floor of a guest room in the castle- they looted his body already and got lots of cool stuff from him).
So they start hunting for him. Two weeks of them doing nothing but hunting this villain and I proclaim that- “Harm no longer functions in my campaign. Period.”
Lots of disappointed Players asking why- I answer them not at all.
I have not told them until this moment. Two years they have searched for him, off and on, through another half dozen levels. They know he is up to something, but he's just hiding to well- dam him!
ajanders
Explorer
Yes, 3.0. Fort save and one smite per day. And we were using that default rule. Heck, I didn't know there was any other way to do it.Darkness said:Were you playing 3.0?
'cause consistent with the mechanics of its prerequisite spell, heal, it's now a Will save in 3.5.
(Obviously, assuming you're playing with the default 1 = auto-miss on attacks and saves rule, it didn't really matter in this case what kind of save it was. But still.)
BlackSilver
First Post
Gez said:
To be honest I was a little upset by the fact that none of them knew they had killed the big bad, I wanted to have a big drawn out battle, but as it turned out it was more like two hits and dead.
I have gotten a couple of emails and a phone call regarding this post and everyone is fairly upset that there was not a big fight, because few of them remember the guy or the fight.
Darkness
Hand and Eye of Piratecat [Moderator]
Bring him back, undead and badder than ever. Not to forget radioactive.BlackSilver said:I have gotten a couple of emails and a phone call regarding this post and everyone is fairly upset that there was not a big fight, because few of them remember the guy or the fight.
Nyarlathotep
Explorer
Darkness said:
My group rued the day I got my greasy mitts on the CoC book. Radioactive villians now abound!
I really need to put more mythos into my FR games...The BBEGs from this fight, Laurel and Hardy Irius and Mordecai, are now statted up in my NPC thread:
http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=82227&page=2
Behold the cheese that went to waste.
http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=82227&page=2
Behold the cheese that went to waste.
Xath
Moder-gator
I thought Harm couldn't drop anything below 1, regardless of the save. That's the only reason good clerics could cast it IMC.
Once, our party was fighting a half-dragon storm giant, who was one of the BBEGs at the time. We teleported him out into a field where the rest of the party was ready, and then we all attacked. The paladin managed to do 50+ damage and it rolled a 1 on its saving throw in the second round.
Once, our party was fighting a half-dragon storm giant, who was one of the BBEGs at the time. We teleported him out into a field where the rest of the party was ready, and then we all attacked. The paladin managed to do 50+ damage and it rolled a 1 on its saving throw in the second round.
