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<blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9123351" data-attributes="member: 7035894">It was, and it also directly led to a major plot point in the current Critical Role campaign.I need to rewatch that episode. It was amazing. So many great moments:[SPOILER=&quot;Spoiler for Critical Role Campaign 1 finale&quot;]Vox Machina barely surviving not one but two meteor swarms. Grog getting banished until Percy finally manages to break Vecna's concentration. Zahra and Kashaw showing up. Pike's first ever casting of mass heal just when the party seemed doomed, and just before they were hit by a third meteor swarm that would have been a TPK. Arkhan showing up at a clutch moment. Vecna attempting to teleport away only to be foiled by Scanlan's 9th level counterspell...after which a visibly distraught Sam Riegal said &quot;I was going to save Vax&quot; (the character Vax'Ildan had been killed and brought back as a revenant specifically to defeat Vecna, so would die again at the end of the battle...unless Scanlan used a wish spell, which was his plan). Vecna preventing Scanlan, the only character who could read the arcane text, from completing a magical ritual that would banish him from the Prime material plane...only for Marisha Rae, whose druid had earlier shapeshifted into a planetar, to realize that planetars can read all languages and thus grabbing the scroll and finishing the ritual in the nick of time. It is the hands down the best D&amp;D battle I have ever seen! Oh, and then Arkhan stealing the hand and eye and teleporting away using the hand, just to cap things off.[/SPOILER]Note that counterspell is cast close to a half a dozen times in that battle, by both sides, and far from reducing drama, it raises it to incredible levels.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clint_L, post: 9123351, member: 7035894"] It was, and it also directly led to a major plot point in the current Critical Role campaign. I need to rewatch that episode. It was amazing. So many great moments: [SPOILER="Spoiler for Critical Role Campaign 1 finale"]Vox Machina barely surviving not one but two meteor swarms. Grog getting [I]banished[/I] until Percy finally manages to break Vecna's concentration. Zahra and Kashaw showing up. Pike's first ever casting of [I]mass heal[/I] just when the party seemed doomed, and just before they were hit by a [I]third[/I] meteor swarm that would have been a TPK. Arkhan showing up at a clutch moment. Vecna attempting to teleport away only to be foiled by Scanlan's 9th level [I]counterspell[/I]...after which a visibly distraught Sam Riegal said "I was going to save Vax" (the character Vax'Ildan had been killed and brought back as a revenant specifically to defeat Vecna, so would die again at the end of the battle...unless Scanlan used a [I]wish[/I] spell, which was his plan). Vecna preventing Scanlan, the only character who could read the arcane text, from completing a magical ritual that would banish him from the Prime material plane...only for Marisha Rae, whose druid had earlier shapeshifted into a planetar, to realize that planetars can read all languages and thus grabbing the scroll and finishing the ritual in the nick of time. It is the hands down the best D&D battle I have ever seen! Oh, and then Arkhan stealing the hand and eye and teleporting away using the hand, just to cap things off.[/SPOILER] Note that counterspell is cast close to a half a dozen times in that battle, by both sides, and far from reducing drama, it raises it to incredible levels. [/QUOTE]

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