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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 2288210" data-attributes="member: 20741"><p>Giant goat? Nasty Kittens? Animated furniture and rugs?</p><p></p><p>Those things are mean!</p><p></p><p>Two sessions ago - my players nearly had a TPK at the hands of a dead wyvern.</p><p></p><p>No no no. Not a <em>live</em> wyvern (they already killed it you see).</p><p></p><p>Not an <em>undead</em> wyvern - that would be nasty.</p><p></p><p>A <em>dead</em> wyvern. As in <em><em>stone cold dead</em></em> wyvern.</p><p></p><p>After their mighty deed of killing said wyvern in a nasty fight, the dwarf in the party thought he would take it upon himself to harvest the wyvern's poison gland. </p><p></p><p>He had no skill whatsoever to attempt the task. It was made clear to him that is would be potentially nasty should he fail the DC15 by more than 5. 'Not to worry" says Gawgower of Kayolin.</p><p></p><p>Rolls... <span style="color: SandyBrown">3</span>. </p><p></p><p>2d6 con results after a failed fort save which brought him at the time to -2 hits and dying. He is stabilized.</p><p></p><p>Now the wizard attempts it using his alchemy skill as a modifier. He is far far more competent than the dwarf. "I'll give it a go".</p><p></p><p>The ranger is shouting at him now to stop: "WHY! It's too dangerous! Stop it!!".</p><p></p><p>"Bah. Nothing ventured.... <roll>"</p><p></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown">3.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown">"Urk...gah"</span> 2d6 con and a barely saved roll on the secondary...</p><p></p><p>-4 hit points. Ranger stabilizes the wizard. Warns the rest of the party away from the deadly <em>dead</em> wyvern.</p><p></p><p>Not to be deterred, the kender sneaks by the ranger later that night and fails too. He's dropped to 4 hits. Not quite dying but moaning...</p><p></p><p>The ranger is now livid. I entice him by allowing a survival skill roll to harvest it. He scowls. No more fish left to bite on that worm.</p><p></p><p>By this point I'm laughing, already mentally drafting the post to ENWorld thinking about how I almost had a near TPK at the hands of the <em>dead</em> wyvern...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 2288210, member: 20741"] Giant goat? Nasty Kittens? Animated furniture and rugs? Those things are mean! Two sessions ago - my players nearly had a TPK at the hands of a dead wyvern. No no no. Not a [I]live[/I] wyvern (they already killed it you see). Not an [I]undead[/I] wyvern - that would be nasty. A [I]dead[/I] wyvern. As in [I][I]stone cold dead[/I][/I] wyvern. After their mighty deed of killing said wyvern in a nasty fight, the dwarf in the party thought he would take it upon himself to harvest the wyvern's poison gland. He had no skill whatsoever to attempt the task. It was made clear to him that is would be potentially nasty should he fail the DC15 by more than 5. 'Not to worry" says Gawgower of Kayolin. Rolls... [COLOR=SandyBrown]3[/COLOR]. 2d6 con results after a failed fort save which brought him at the time to -2 hits and dying. He is stabilized. Now the wizard attempts it using his alchemy skill as a modifier. He is far far more competent than the dwarf. "I'll give it a go". The ranger is shouting at him now to stop: "WHY! It's too dangerous! Stop it!!". "Bah. Nothing ventured.... <roll>" [COLOR=SandyBrown]3.[/COLOR] [COLOR=SandyBrown]"Urk...gah"[/COLOR] 2d6 con and a barely saved roll on the secondary... -4 hit points. Ranger stabilizes the wizard. Warns the rest of the party away from the deadly [I]dead[/I] wyvern. Not to be deterred, the kender sneaks by the ranger later that night and fails too. He's dropped to 4 hits. Not quite dying but moaning... The ranger is now livid. I entice him by allowing a survival skill roll to harvest it. He scowls. No more fish left to bite on that worm. By this point I'm laughing, already mentally drafting the post to ENWorld thinking about how I almost had a near TPK at the hands of the [I]dead[/I] wyvern... [/QUOTE]
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