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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8408333" data-attributes="member: 20564">We fought Strahd.&nbsp; The descriptions were cool.&nbsp; The DM did a good job of giving each of us spotlight time.&nbsp; We won.But he also had leveled us to 10, gave us two sunswords (one 1H, one 2H) for our two front-liners, a pair of holy-spike chucking hand crossbows for the rogue, we had the Holy Symbol of Ravenkind and our whip wielder had a custom anti-undead whip.&nbsp; And we had a friend from a previous campaign who dropped in for the last couple of sessions and his character was a 15th level barbarian with the Sword of Avernus.&nbsp; And this was the definitively the last session, which meant that Strahd retreating was off the table.There was no tension.We had two people go down, and one was because they were charmed and we took them out ourselves.&nbsp; The other was our cleric whom I dumped 50 poitns of lay-on-hands into and then he stood up and healed us all.&nbsp; We put out ridiculous amounts of damage, much of it radiant. [ISPOILER]First round our cleric of Pelor paralyzed a bunch of Strahd clones with the Holy Symbol of Ravenkind.[/ISPOILER]&nbsp; And we just went to town.The DM is normally fantastic, but you could tell he was tired of running and these last three sessions in Castle Ravenloft itself you could tell he just wanted to end it.&nbsp; Didn't help that we lost most of the summer to various people on vacation so it dragged longer.He gave us an epic fight ending where we each were important and got to really show off what we did, which would have been a triumphant end of a one-shot, but for this many months of building up Strahd to defeat him so easily kind of let down the premise of the campaign.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 8408333, member: 20564"] We fought Strahd. The descriptions were cool. The DM did a good job of giving each of us spotlight time. We won. But he also had leveled us to 10, gave us two sunswords (one 1H, one 2H) for our two front-liners, a pair of holy-spike chucking hand crossbows for the rogue, we had the Holy Symbol of Ravenkind and our whip wielder had a custom anti-undead whip. And we had a friend from a previous campaign who dropped in for the last couple of sessions and his character was a 15th level barbarian with the Sword of Avernus. And this was the definitively the last session, which meant that Strahd retreating was off the table. There was no tension. We had two people go down, and one was because they were charmed and we took them out ourselves. The other was our cleric whom I dumped 50 poitns of lay-on-hands into and then he stood up and healed us all. We put out ridiculous amounts of damage, much of it radiant. [ISPOILER]First round our cleric of Pelor paralyzed a bunch of Strahd clones with the Holy Symbol of Ravenkind.[/ISPOILER] And we just went to town. The DM is normally fantastic, but you could tell he was tired of running and these last three sessions in Castle Ravenloft itself you could tell he just wanted to end it. Didn't help that we lost most of the summer to various people on vacation so it dragged longer. He gave us an epic fight ending where we each were important and got to really show off what we did, which would have been a triumphant end of a one-shot, but for this many months of building up Strahd to defeat him so easily kind of let down the premise of the campaign. [/QUOTE]

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