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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9492362" data-attributes="member: 508">In today's "Dreams of Erthe" campaign, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Departed the drow city they'd been staying in with a warning about gnoll bandits attacking people on the road</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Traveled half a day without incident, then saw a dilapidated wooden structure up on a ridge overlooking a meandering stream surrounded by scrub brush</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the elf sorcerer's pseudodragon familiar fly over to investigate the wooden structure, and when he flew up he saw dead gnolls laying on the ground just ahead</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Found themselves surrounded by gnolls on all sides courtesy of hallucinatory terrain and veil spells, creating the illusions of false scrub brush and making each gnoll look like a bush - they all got surprise attacks in before the full melee started (but my attack rolls were subpar, so I didn't deal as much damage as I would have hoped)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Discovered (over the course of the battle) they were up against 20 gnolls, 8 gnoll archers (10th level), 4 gnoll fighters (10th level), one gnoll adept (10th level), 12 undead gnoll skeletons, 14 undead gnoll zombies, and one gnoll sorcerer (15th level) - the PCs were all 17th level at the time</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Got hit by a chain lightning spell that the pseudodragon saw came from the top floor of the wooden structure</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Took out most of the basic gnolls (18 out of 20), most of the skeletons, and about half of the zombies when the half-orc cleric/paladin cast a holy word spell</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the half-orc take out the rest of the undead with two turn undead attacks</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Messed up the gnoll fighters and archers with random effects from multiple castings of the elf sorcerer's prismatic spray spell</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the human spellsword and human bard/rogue take out the remaining fighters (who'd been blinded and deafened by the holy word spell - it was pretty much a clean-up action at that point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Discovered the wooden structure was in fact a wood colossus when it assumed humanoid form and started heading towards the PCs, only to be stopped in place by a summoned Huge fire elemental (and when the construct had slain it, by a replacement Huge earth elemental)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Took out the archers with a large summoned earth elemental, the dwarf cleric, and the sneak attacks of an invisible bard/rogue</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the pseudodragon attack the gnoll sorcerer in the attic "head" of the wood colossus, hitting it once in two subsequent rounds and actually knocking it unconscious with its sleep venom on the 2nd round</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the spellsword fly into the attic window, only to discover all the controls were written in Drow (which he didn't understand)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the half-orc fly the elf sorcerer up to the wood colossus' head (just out of striking range) and  cast gaseous form on him so he could enter the attic control room</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the elf revert the colossus to house form</li> </ul>The PCs have decided to keep the wood colossus; the half-orc cleric/paladin will be casting six make whole spells per day to spruce the dilapidated colossus (which is thousands of years old, dating back to the wizard war that almost destroyed the drow civilization on the continent) over time until it's almost like new.And as this was our 85th adventure in this campaign, they all leveled up to 18th at the end.  Only 15 more adventures to go!Johnathan</blockquote>

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