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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6144360" data-attributes="member: 5143">I didn't want to get into too much detail about this, however the DM likely caused it himself.  I don't actually believe the power lasts until the end of the encounter.  The DM made up a...I don't know, template is the best word I can come up with for it.  A demon possessed Jim's character.  But it could only manifest when he was under a lot of stress.  Otherwise it was dormant.When he became bloodied, there was a chance of the demon coming out.  When it did, Jim was supposed to replace his stats with the ones on a sheet given to him by the DM.  The DM based these stats on a Solo monster.  Which meant every time Jim got bloodied, he suddenly gained 300 hitpoints or something like that.  He had a fire aura around him continuously and a bunch of powers that did monster scale damage.  In addition to being able to use all the powers he already had.  However, he could not differentiate between friend and foe while manifested.  So, he had to attack the nearest target.  However, if an ally and enemy were equal distance away from him, he was allowed to choose the enemy.  The DM decided the only way to change back was once there were no enemies around anymore.  Then he could force himself to change back with a roll.None of his powers HAD durations because they were designed for monsters.  Jim had pointed out to him how stupidly powerful this way.  Our DM said that since he couldn't choose when to release the demon in the first place, he didn't consider it overpowered.  Also, the DM seemed surprised during that conversation as well that a solo's hitpoints were so much higher than PCs.  And that conversation was nearly a year ago.  You'd think he would have remembered.I believe that Jim was planning on staying against the hundreds of undead partially to prove his point to the DM.  He told the DM that the powers the demon form gave him were way too powerful, the DM said it was fine.  He wanted to show him how wrong he was.  Plus, I think he was annoyed that were were being railroaded to run away in a specific direction.  The only opening in the undead horde was in the direct the DM wanted us to go.  Plus, I believe he was annoyed that the DM wasn't being very clear.  We were running away from the undead horde and he told us the only place we had a chance of escaping to was this building, everything else was too far away and we'd die for sure.  Then, we got into the building and started barricading the doors to stay there the night when one of the elite undead knocked one of the walls down.  We all thought we were dead, since the DM was clear there was NO WHERE ELSE to run.  Then, when we started losing to the 4 elites he used against us, suddenly there was a miraculous hole in the undead horde that we could run through.  Jim kept giving me looks like "This is so stupid.  I'm just going to stay here and fight them."As a side note, that was NOT the character Jim was playing at the end of the campaign.  Our only healer died, so Jim had his character retire himself to bring in a leader.</blockquote>

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