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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OhGodtheRats" data-source="post: 5754184" data-attributes="member: 71815">Disclaimer: I'm still riding high on the wave that was acing Lair Assault 2. By "acing" I mean barely surviving but somehow doing it in a way that makes Logan Bonner cry. Forgive me if I go into "OMG I can't believe this worked" territory. In retrospect, the tone of this thread has a "If I were a DM I'd have changed things and killed you vibe" that may very well apply. Enjoy.Oh man. I need to transpose my Google Plus reports. I ran through it blind last Saturday and our table was the only one to not only succeed but to have absolutely no player deaths.  Which is weird. We had a warpriest, a Hexblade (a new player who ate dungeon tile most of the game but didn't die), a Berserker, and a Vampire. I'll link but in a nutshell:Encounter 1: I made a character based on the cover art for Talon of Umberlee and....it worked out stupid well. My aquatic Revenant Vampire (with Gloaming Armor) turned into an invisible (until attack is made) bat and with my +18 stealth (I built him as a scout to get the the macguffin fast though I didn't know what the macguffin was exactly when I made him) was darting around. The Talon was in the last chest but the hilarious thing? I stole the horn. Before the countdown of doom could even start, my character stole the Horn that'd signal the death of us all. The DM decided the pirates would go to the rowboat to get help...we ended up sinking their boats so they couldn't escape and get reinforcements. I....suspect from the DM conference that the module didn't account for this but it was a golden moment at the table. Encounter 2? Didn't go so well. I placed my character below deck, in the bed next to the Talon kind of as a gag. When I got above deck, due to rolling poor initiative, the entire party save 1 berserker was already making death saves. Hentai Doom for everyone, apparently.And my Vampire solo'd the Baron. And the tentacles. Kinda.I'm not proud...but they DID say to minmax. The clue was the Glory Points awarded for "bloodying the Baron & letting him go" that made me focus ONLY on that. The trick here?Revenants can stay standing if they're below 0 hit points. I had a belt of sonnlinor righteousness that gives resist 10 all when you're below 0 hp. Vampires, when bloodied have regeneration equal to their charisma. [Edit: If you don't have at least 1 hit point, regeneration doesn't work. Me & none of the DMs knew this. Oops. Text removed because I REALLY wish other people wouldn't leave bad rulings lying around for folks to trip on in the future.]]It was dumb luck but the Vampire package worked. Having a utility that boosts diplomacy for the final thing...having the aquatic keyword thanks to a half-elf (as per Past Soul feature) feat...I will never do this lair again because there's no way the stars will shine in that exact way ever again. Fun times.-JaredPS: G+ Posts on the matter. Play report: <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/110367953918386470600/posts/JMjEFwvRMtB" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/u/0/110367953918386470600/posts/JMjEFwvRMtB</a>And my "This is my character" post made BEFORE I played the game. Jon's +1 struck me as ominous. <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/110367953918386470600/posts/P72biJFjSUR" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/u/0/110367953918386470600/posts/P72biJFjSUR</a></blockquote>

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