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<blockquote data-quote="Laurel" data-source="post: 1585380" data-attributes="member: 17067">Not as good as the other storiesFrom my current game:A Dwarf in full plate armor ignores the plank of wood everyone else is using and tries jump a ten feet chasm to another ship on rough water. The dwarf instead fell over the railing and into the sea. I'll mention here this is a dwarf with no swim check and full plate armor on. After many tries of swimming in place, climbing, falling and almost drowning another PC is able to throw a rope. Once the dwarf gets the rope, falls, gets tangled in the rope, and is almost hit by a cannon he makes it to the top deck. But quickly he notices the smell of burning and no sounds of battle close by. Looking around he sees he made it onto a ship riddled with cannon holes, sinking fast and fire raging across the deck and lower decks. The only two PC&amp;NPC's left on this ship are the dwarf and the half-orc who threw the rope. This time with the help of the half-orc, the dwarf is able to get to the other ship. For time reference: The ship battle took quite awhile since it was two large ships attacking each other, but essentially the entire battle for the dwarf was just trying to get out of the water.Moral: If your a dwarf with full plate and no swim skill, be careful what heroics you pull over water <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp;My own PC though stupid moment to this point is:My 8th level ranger and a 7th level bard leave the group and run off in a city filled with dragons, and oh an army of undead and vile whites.We manage to somehow live through the first encounter, but then I get paralyzed and the bard dies.&nbsp; Luckily before they can kill the ranger (and with DM compassion) she unfreezes, grabs the bard and runs very quickly to safety.&nbsp; Not exactly her shiny moment for int. but at least she knew when to run.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Laurel, post: 1585380, member: 17067"] [b]Not as good as the other stories[/b] From my current game: A Dwarf in full plate armor ignores the plank of wood everyone else is using and tries jump a ten feet chasm to another ship on rough water. The dwarf instead fell over the railing and into the sea. I'll mention here this is a dwarf with no swim check and full plate armor on. After many tries of swimming in place, climbing, falling and almost drowning another PC is able to throw a rope. Once the dwarf gets the rope, falls, gets tangled in the rope, and is almost hit by a cannon he makes it to the top deck. But quickly he notices the smell of burning and no sounds of battle close by. Looking around he sees he made it onto a ship riddled with cannon holes, sinking fast and fire raging across the deck and lower decks. The only two PC&NPC's left on this ship are the dwarf and the half-orc who threw the rope. This time with the help of the half-orc, the dwarf is able to get to the other ship. For time reference: The ship battle took quite awhile since it was two large ships attacking each other, but essentially the entire battle for the dwarf was just trying to get out of the water. Moral: If your a dwarf with full plate and no swim skill, be careful what heroics you pull over water :) My own PC though stupid moment to this point is: My 8th level ranger and a 7th level bard leave the group and run off in a city filled with dragons, and oh an army of undead and vile whites. We manage to somehow live through the first encounter, but then I get paralyzed and the bard dies. Luckily before they can kill the ranger (and with DM compassion) she unfreezes, grabs the bard and runs very quickly to safety. Not exactly her shiny moment for int. but at least she knew when to run. [/QUOTE]

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