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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gfunk" data-source="post: 1600317" data-attributes="member: 1813">I don't disagree with your general view.  But I am more of a game-mechanics person than a "role-player."  I could've abused Caine even more by making him a straight-up damage dealing sorcerer with subdual substition.  Then, I could blast away with elemental spells that dealt subdual damage. However, I chose to remain as pacifistic as possible.  I limited my spell selection to buffs and healing magic.  True, you could easily argue that casting improved invisiblity on a friend or yoke of mercy on an enemy is as good as casting fireball.  I wouldn't go too far to argue against you. In the end, Caine fit in well with the party, made for a good story, went out with a bang, and still served an excellent purpose in the overall structure of our campaign.  And he even saved the DM's bacon when he made a "slight" CR error.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />   If you read my latest update, it should clear things up a bit.  We don't want to give everything away quite yet though. BTW, here's a teaser for my next update (Red Dawn): While the relatively minor frontier city of Cauldron is falling to the machinations of the Cagewrights, larger events are afoot in Cormyr and the Dales.  Finally mouting a last ditch effort to eject the forces of the Lich Queen, the War Wizards and Purple Dragon Knights of Queen Alusair launch a final, desparate counter-offensive let by Jochim Dethick himself.   In what is widely expected to be a suicidal attempt, the battle takes an unexpected turn when the Gythyanki's lose their ability to plane shift.  And lose their seemingly endless supply of Astral Skiffs when their gates no longer open.  And when their Red Dragon cohorts turn on them in a homicidal rage. Those who had come to ravage the Prime Material Plane find instead their magnificent Astral city of Tun'a'roth in smoking ruins.   And sitting safely in Zhentil Keep, Fzoul Chembryl, the Chosen of Bane, feels that he is safe, surrounded by fanatical Banites, undead Beholders, and a stasis clone of the Archmage Manshoon.  However, he is about to get a nasty surprise . . . How does this fit in with Cauldron?   Stay tuned . . .</blockquote>

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