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<blockquote data-quote="NewJeffCT" data-source="post: 4627232" data-attributes="member: 10784"><p>I've been DMing a 3.5 campaign for about 16 months now. The party is just now hitting level 11 (we play every other week...)</p><p></p><p>But, a few sessions back, the party learned that the evil high priest that they expected to face at the end of the campaign is employing a pit fiend as a bodyguard/enforcer. So, one of the players scoffed and made the out of game comment that pit fiends only have 225 hit points...and then stumbled to recover, saying something like, "well, the average ones in the Monster Manual..."</p><p></p><p>Hmm, methinks that was not a great idea, but I could be wrong? But, I'm not a vengeful person. </p><p></p><p>Then, last night, on the yahoo email group we have set up, I normally will send out an email after the session about XP from the prior night. I then later asked if anybody had made level 11, and two responded that they had... </p><p></p><p>So, I made a joking comment like, "Mental Note: More Vampires and soul-eaters," or something like that... knowing that vampires and soul-eaters both drain levels. </p><p></p><p>The woman playing the cleric that made level 11 responded to my email saying, "Bring 'em on!"</p><p></p><p>Now, I've been a player many times before, and I hated my levels getting sucked more than a character dying... and I could certainly send a bunch of vampires into their midst next session, but nope, I wouldn't take advantage of them like that.</p><p></p><p>However, I'm starting to think I need to put a bit more fear into them. Gee, and the woman playing the cleric got taken out by one hit from my evil duskblade a few sessions earlier (down to -3) - you'd think she'd know better than to ask me to bring 'em on?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NewJeffCT, post: 4627232, member: 10784"] I've been DMing a 3.5 campaign for about 16 months now. The party is just now hitting level 11 (we play every other week...) But, a few sessions back, the party learned that the evil high priest that they expected to face at the end of the campaign is employing a pit fiend as a bodyguard/enforcer. So, one of the players scoffed and made the out of game comment that pit fiends only have 225 hit points...and then stumbled to recover, saying something like, "well, the average ones in the Monster Manual..." Hmm, methinks that was not a great idea, but I could be wrong? But, I'm not a vengeful person. Then, last night, on the yahoo email group we have set up, I normally will send out an email after the session about XP from the prior night. I then later asked if anybody had made level 11, and two responded that they had... So, I made a joking comment like, "Mental Note: More Vampires and soul-eaters," or something like that... knowing that vampires and soul-eaters both drain levels. The woman playing the cleric that made level 11 responded to my email saying, "Bring 'em on!" Now, I've been a player many times before, and I hated my levels getting sucked more than a character dying... and I could certainly send a bunch of vampires into their midst next session, but nope, I wouldn't take advantage of them like that. However, I'm starting to think I need to put a bit more fear into them. Gee, and the woman playing the cleric got taken out by one hit from my evil duskblade a few sessions earlier (down to -3) - you'd think she'd know better than to ask me to bring 'em on? [/QUOTE]
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