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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9393528" data-attributes="member: 508">In last night's "Ghourmand Vale" session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Temporarily lost three of their number to a mirror of life trapping that managed to snag them up despite them not being in the line of sight that would have allowed them to see their own reflections (a prerequisite to being caught up in the mirror's extradimensional spaces)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had to fight not only an evil human monk and a human fighter with the two PCs that were left (a halfling rogue and an elven druid), but also the DM who at first didn't want to allow the sorcerer's shield guardian to fight back because "the last thing he'd been instructed to do was to destroy a magic water pitcher" - as if defending against attacks from those out to harm his master and his master's adventuring friends wasn't already an in-born "prime directive"</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Defeated the two, smashed the mirror, and rescued three PCs who should never have even been captured by the mirror in the first place (our DM was leaning back into the "adversarial DM" end of the spectrum, apparently his comfort zone), and went downstairs</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fought and slew an evil rogue (archer called shot to the eye) and an evil wizard (via baleful polymorph "bunnification"), then went down to an even lower level</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fought a bunch of skum and the aboleth wizard 10/cleric 3/mystic theurge 3 that had dominated our bard friend we'd come to rescue (and yes, for those keeping score, that was a CR 23 foe our DM threw at our 13th-level party of five PCs)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Took the aboleth down the hard way after discovering there was a permanent mind fog effect blocking access to his water pool and he had a spell reflection spell up keeping him safe from targeted spells (as my sorcerer found out by having a 50-points-of-electrical-damage chain lightning spell redirected back into his face), forcing our paladin to resort to his longbow, our druid to cast "non-direct-damage" spells like wall of fire and wall of thorns to whittle it down, while our elf archer brought the big pain via her own arrows and magic longbow</li> </ul>With the XP from a CR 23 aboleth propelling us what would normally be completely past 14th level and well into 15th, we ended up one XP short of 15th level (with the excess XP dissipating into nothingness), so we upgraded to 14th level and will upgrade to 15th level at the end of the next adventure session.  And if our DM keeps throwing foes at us with CRs 10 points higher than our own level, this campaign should be over quickly, either via rapid advancement through the class levels or an unsurprising TPK.  I think either event would be welcome to my nephew, my son, and myself - this DM keeps taking giant steps backwards after improving his default antagonism for a short while.Johnathan</blockquote>

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