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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gaiden" data-source="post: 1810743" data-attributes="member: 103">All right <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=":)" />.  Enough of that.  We are not designed to be super uber munchkins, we are not level 16 and this is in mechanics dominated by pre-BoED's and pre-CW.I suppose you are right though - but still, with one spell, 122 damage is nothing to snuff at.  Actually, the real concern is that we have opened pandora's box.  I think the most damage dealt by one character in one round has approached 100 or so damage (several criticals ina row).  This is entirely different though.  Where as those were very lucky rolls combined with smites and what not, this was a simple casting of 1 spell with average rolls.  There is no reason the enemy would not use such tactics against us as well.  Maybe one of us at 12th level (we all gained a level from the fight with the seeds) has 120 HP's, i.e. probably none of us could survive such an attack (and my DM told me over IM with glee that the use of fire seeds prompted an epiphany of a new way to use some other spell liberally and whenever he hints at future pain, it happens - worse than I can imagine).BTW - My DM assured me that given the conditions of the battle, everything was still legit - giant would still be a dead stone giant, so no worries on having to come up with some estranged rulling to accomdate what happened in the story.</blockquote>

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