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Message: <blockquote data-quote="THEMNGMNT" data-source="post: 8825080" data-attributes="member: 6809274">43rd session of my Neverwinter campaign. Three 8th level characters: half-orc vengeance paladin, human genie warlock, drow evoker wizard. We're playing online and sessions are about 2 hours long.Here's the situation: Characters are up against a guild of drow rogues commanded by a mind flayer. The guild is about to receive a shipment of magical weapons sent via griffon courier. The courier service is a legitimate business with no connection to the guild -- they're not exactly civilians, more like an armored car service, but not criminals. The characters are attempting to intercept the shipment. And the guild knows it. For this heist I'm using the Feathergale Spire map from Princes of the Apocalypse. I've never played that adventure but I've used the maps in it a lot. A lot.We started the session mid-heist:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">From a rooftop near the spire, the wizard saw three griffons with riders approach -- the shipment. At that moment a black dragon flew overhead. Yet another party attempting to intercept the shipment. The wizard used a sending stone to alert the paladin.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Inside the spire, the paladin excused himself from a conversation with a clerk and raced up the stairwell toward the roof. In the stairwell he was intercepted by a guard. The paladin shoved the guard down the stairs and continued upward.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Inside the spire, the invisible warlock had been detected by a displacer beast kitten and her handler. She ran out the front door and closed it behind her -- thus alerting the pair of guards protecting the entrance.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Behind the wizard, a drider scuttled onto the roof and fired an arrow at him, missing. The wizard polymorphed the drider into a rat. A rat with eight legs.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">On the spire's landing, the paladin waved off the approaching flight. They broke formation and dived for the cover of the city below. Too late. The dragon was upon them.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">On the bridge leading to the tower, the guards attacked the invisible warlock. She dodged their attacks and jumped down to the ground level -- the griffon stables. She threw open a door and found herself face to face with a "tame" griffon.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Meanwhile, the wizard stomped on the rat -- and missed. So the wizard tried to fry it with firebolt. And missed again. The rat has 1 hit point.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Atop the spire, the paladin watched as the warlock came into view -- flying on a griffon. Only the warlock was invisible. So he didn't actually see her on the griffon. But what he did see was the dragon breathe a stream of acid and disintegrate one of the courier griffons with a single hit.</li> </ul>If you're reading this closely, I retconned the green dragon to a black dragon.Next session: Save vs dragon breath!</blockquote>

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