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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aeric" data-source="post: 3626488" data-attributes="member: 17012">Most epic moment in gaming for me:It was a Birthright game, 2nd Edition AD&D.  There were two players and the DM.  My character was Aeric, a paladin/cavalier, the son of a minor landholding noble in the Barony of Roesone.  Over the course of the campaign, he rose from being a lowly knight-errant to the husband of the Baroness and leader of an international army fighting against the Gorgon (Birthright's equivalent to Sauron).Towards the end of the campaign, the army fought a terrible battle in a major city.  The city itself was practically demolished and there were heavy losses, including someone who had been a good friend and romantic interest to Aeric from very early on.  That night, Aeric (who had lost his paladin status a while back but remained LG) prayed for her soul in the ruined temple of Haelyn (BR's equivalent of Heironeous).  A priest found him there, and the two had a deep discussion of faith and the like.  In the end, the priest turned out to be the ghost of the temple's head priest, who was sent to my character as one last test of faith.  Apparently he passed, because not only did he get his paladin status back, but the ghost gave him the Sword of Roele (the world's only Holy Avenger) to use in the upcoming battle.The next morning, Aeric rode out at the head of the army, the Sword of Roele held high.  It was overcast, but the clouds parted to bathe him in a ray of sunlight.  The battle began, and the Gorgon himself appeared, astride his green dragon.  Immediately my character charged with his lance, and critted the dragon, doing something like 54 points of damage to it (double damage from a charge + triple damage for critting with a lance).  The dragon failed its System Shock roll and died right on the spot.Aeric fought against the Gorgon in one-on-one combat, and managed to get him down to about 25% of his max HP total before the Gorgon killed him.  However, his noble sacrifice was enough to turn the tide of battle; the Gorgon fled the field, and his army was slaughtered behind him.  The war was over.The last scene of the campaign was Aeric coming to his senses seated near the head of a long table in a great feast hall.  Near him was his friend who had died in the city, along with his father and his mentor.  At the head of the table was Haelyn himself.All of this at 6th level. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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