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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agent Oracle" data-source="post: 2935310" data-attributes="member: 40076">My last campaign featured an end-battle in a small tower room. there were two exits, one lead to a balcony (and the exterior spiral stairway up) and the other lead to the interior (and a stairway down.)The BBEG was a pretty powerful sorcerer with magic item that made him even more powerful (a ring of counterspell, preset for the party sorcerer's favorite offensive spell).  The room was small and cramped, and the party was fighting the BBEG and one of his leutenants at the same time.  The party couldn't get into any kind of tactical positioning at any time during the fight, but still managed to beat up the BBEG pretty badly (and his leutenant)  So, as a final action, I had the BBEG (realizing he was near death) pull a "emergency escape" plan out of his hiney.  He shot a flaming arrow (the spell) into an oil trough, then, he turned and fled through the inside door.  The Leutenant, seeing what happened, turned and sprinted for the outside door, (drawing, and taking 2 attacks of opportunity in the process, he still survived).  THe players took a round realizing that the oil trough was actually a kind of tributary that ran throughout the castle, and was burning out of countrol.  They thought "we could chase the BBEG down the inside of the tower, and probably get whacked by the exloding castle, or we could chase the leutenant down the outside of the building...They gave chase to the leutenant.  he had a good lead on them, so he turned to taunt and yelled "You can either stop me, or save the girl"... refering to the hostage they had (kind of) forgotten in the tower... then the fighter let loose a bolt from his crossbow... Critical hit.  maximum damage.  I rolled a reflex check for the Leutenant (taking damage on a narrow stairway no handrails, it might not be rules standard, but it was part of that area)... he critically failed, and fell... about 70 feet to the ground.</blockquote>

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