Have you, as a DM, ever done something, and have it fall apart by previous mistakes? What's YOUR story with that min/maxer? Ever miss an important rule and cost a player a life? Or did that rule, that simple flaw, lead to the premature death of a prominant PC? Tell us YOUR fumbles, your uh ohs, and those times you want to bury your head in the sand.
To start things off, I'll tell you one of mine.
6th level party. I'd allowed a player to have spellfire, and take the channeling class. He had a con of 20 (He was a dwarf or some race out of Mystic Races...) He had hit full power. Anyways...
The group were sent after some druids, who had trashed the city with flamestrikes and Call Lightnings. So they come across a lake. On one side are some cliffs, which I had said had caves in them. The party then proceeded to get into a boat (Which just happened to be near by) and begin rowing across. I said they smelled chlorine. They didn't get the hint.
They keep rowing. I tell one of them that they notice the water is black, underneath the boat. They begin to panic, and try and attack the water. Then, they're surrounded by darkness. Everyone makes reflex saves, as an acid cloud hits. Everyone makes it. The following rounds, the boat is being clawed and bit from below.
The boat was pretty much destroyed, but the psion, before the boat was demolished, had the bright idea to use one o' his powers to stun whatever it was underneath the boat. A bad roll later, whatever it was is now sinking toward the bottom of the lake. He takes a deep breath, and jumps in.
At the bottom of the lake is a half-fiend Young green dragon (The HD alone had it so many yummy abilities... and only a CR 6). The stunned rounds were going down, slowly. So the psion swims down, and uses his +1 spear to poke it, slowly.
Now here comes the bad part. The character with spellfire? He swam right down to the bottom of the lake, put his hands on the dragon... and unleashed every level he had. He delt 120 points of damage. This is after the Half-Fiend's fire resistance. In essence, killed it, in one lick. And it was going to wake up, within a few seconds.
Luckily, this was a little game at school, and I stopped running it/people lost interest(I will note the spellfire player made other characters, such as the Werebear/Half dragon Barbarian/Frenzied berzerker with the +22 strenght mod, but that was for another DM...).
To start things off, I'll tell you one of mine.
6th level party. I'd allowed a player to have spellfire, and take the channeling class. He had a con of 20 (He was a dwarf or some race out of Mystic Races...) He had hit full power. Anyways...
The group were sent after some druids, who had trashed the city with flamestrikes and Call Lightnings. So they come across a lake. On one side are some cliffs, which I had said had caves in them. The party then proceeded to get into a boat (Which just happened to be near by) and begin rowing across. I said they smelled chlorine. They didn't get the hint.
They keep rowing. I tell one of them that they notice the water is black, underneath the boat. They begin to panic, and try and attack the water. Then, they're surrounded by darkness. Everyone makes reflex saves, as an acid cloud hits. Everyone makes it. The following rounds, the boat is being clawed and bit from below.
The boat was pretty much destroyed, but the psion, before the boat was demolished, had the bright idea to use one o' his powers to stun whatever it was underneath the boat. A bad roll later, whatever it was is now sinking toward the bottom of the lake. He takes a deep breath, and jumps in.
At the bottom of the lake is a half-fiend Young green dragon (The HD alone had it so many yummy abilities... and only a CR 6). The stunned rounds were going down, slowly. So the psion swims down, and uses his +1 spear to poke it, slowly.
Now here comes the bad part. The character with spellfire? He swam right down to the bottom of the lake, put his hands on the dragon... and unleashed every level he had. He delt 120 points of damage. This is after the Half-Fiend's fire resistance. In essence, killed it, in one lick. And it was going to wake up, within a few seconds.
Luckily, this was a little game at school, and I stopped running it/people lost interest(I will note the spellfire player made other characters, such as the Werebear/Half dragon Barbarian/Frenzied berzerker with the +22 strenght mod, but that was for another DM...).
