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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vandaexpress" data-source="post: 6628314" data-attributes="member: 6790472">Funny you should ask. That Vampire ended up having a fairly interesting demise and yes, it did involve grappling her.The ogres wound up targeting the PCs only - they recognized the Vampire as a friendly. The Vamp ended up hustling out of there with legendary actions. The party tried to pursue her but were getting absolutely chewed up by the ballistae, so they killed daylight, ran behind cover, ranger cast pass without trace and they hid on the fog-obscured roof of the stable before escaping the deathtrap. The vampire returned to harass the party again later when they were hiding on a balcony on the exterior of the castle (the vampire patrolled the exterior as a bat, searching for them). The vampire managed to get a surprise round, fought hard, daylight went off, vampire turned into a bat to fly away. My goal was to use her to repeatedly harry the party throughout the dungeon since they had several charges of daylight remaining in their item.The party dragon sorcerer, whom I permitted a very limited polymorph spell that allows him to turn himself into a blue dragon wyrmling (and nothing else, since this is a deviation from both what the spell normally permits as well as the spells normally permitted for a sorcerer), shifted into wyrmling form and chased down the vampire-as-a-bat and grappled her mid-air as the rest of the party shot off ranged attacks from the balcony while the wyrmling locked down her movement. It was a highly memorable aerial encounter, she had disadvantage on her checks to escape the grapple due to the lighting, the sorcerer used the help action to assist the rest of the party in hitting the vampire with arrows, etc, essentially moving her around to get hit. She was finished off with daylight and incinerated in the claws of the sorcerer-turned-wyrmling. I didn't play the vampire to its fullest since the party was low on resources and only level 7, but it was quite fun nevertheless.Grappling - One of the best things about 5e combat, IMHO. Simple, but it opens up so many options.</blockquote>

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