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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9536877" data-attributes="member: 508">In tonight's "Ghourmand Vale" session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Approached a warehouse where we believed the stolen cargo from three of my PC's brother's merchant ships was being stored; we decided I'd go in pretending to look to purchase some stolen merchandise, and if we spotted the stolen cargo (identifiable by the family emblem on the crates) we'd take everyone out and then bring in my brother and his men to unload the stolen merchandise back into his ship</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the halfling rogue enter the warehouse under a greater invisibility spell and spider climb along the wall, confirming there were commoners removing cargo from my PC's brother's crates and storing them in crates with a different merchant's logo on them</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Notified everyone over our active Rary's telepathic bond spell, and my sorcerer started combat with a maximized chain lightning spell that split one commoner into him plus some sort of red devil (we found out later it was a protean scourge from the 3.5 MMIII)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The elf druid wildshaped from an albatross 30 feet above the warehouse roof into a Large earth elemental, did a "cannonball" through the roof, and the DM determined the protean scourge and commoner he'd split from (who were directly beneath the hole in the roof) both had the presence of mind - and reflexes - to leap out of the way, avoiding all damage</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the paladin charge the protean scourge for a fair chunk of damage</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Took out the commoners and most of the half-orc bodyguards with spells (wall of thorns, chain lightning, cone of cold)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Killed the protean scourge with multiple attacks by the paladin and halfling in the same round (smite evil plus sneak attack damage = big damage!)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Slew the half-orc pirate captain with a well-placed arrow through his eye and head by the elf archer</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Recovered the stolen cargo once all of the warehouse workers had all been slain</li> </ul>Our DM reverted a bit back to his "I'm going to rule against you automatically at all times" ways, denying the paladin from gaining extra damage on his attack when he leaped down through the hole in the roof to attack the protean scourge (gravity apparently doesn't add to momentum when he doesn't want it to) and allowing the pirate captain to use Deflect Arrows to prevent the elf archer from performing her signature move (shooting an eye out via quick aim), negating 113 points of damage from an attack there was little chance of him being able to see coming (she flew a carpet of flying from one side of a hole in the roof to the other; he had no idea she was there (she was invisible) but she knew exactly where he was before she moved into position (described over the Rary's telepathic bond) and has a class feature allowing her to quick-aim.He actually backed down away from that last ruling after we all complained, and showed him the Deflect Arrows feat only applies to attacks he can see coming.Incidentally, we think this campaign will be finished up by this summer, and the players are all kind of looking forward to it. Then my son takes over the Wednesday night DM reins for the next couple of years.Johnathan</blockquote>

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