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<blockquote data-quote="Herobizkit" data-source="post: 2700735" data-attributes="member: 36150"><p><strong>Mission Complete!</strong></p><p></p><p>ROFL! I DM'd "The Sunless Citadel" early this morning, and I have already killed a PC!</p><p></p><p>The PCs were at the final battle, and for some unknown reason, the Paladin on the party went on a mad rush and charged into the center of the enemies. What the PC didn't know was, in addition to the regular baddies, this final battle was joined by a group of sub-villains that were driven away earlier in the adventure. </p><p></p><p>So, the fight turned out to be harder than it should have been. The Paladin was summarily surrounded, had <em>heat metal</em> cast upon her, and then butchered by the hobgoblin chief. After she dropped, the <em>heat metal</em> spell finished her off. </p><p></p><p>I have never seen such shoddy planning before. The funny thing is that the other PC is an expert real-life strategist, but the player of the Paladin refused to listen and just charged ahead. I laughed. </p><p></p><p>Now, had the PCs followed the strategist's advice, they would have advanced 10' at a time, used ranged weapons, and kept close ranks, forcing the monsters to advance or retaliate with their own ranged weapons. Combine this with the fact that the strategist was playing a Gestalt Drow Sorcerer/Favored Soul of Eilistraee, and a win would have been a sure thing; the character had a silly amount of spells at her disposal, including <em>sleep</em>. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Herobizkit, post: 2700735, member: 36150"] [b]Mission Complete![/b] ROFL! I DM'd "The Sunless Citadel" early this morning, and I have already killed a PC! The PCs were at the final battle, and for some unknown reason, the Paladin on the party went on a mad rush and charged into the center of the enemies. What the PC didn't know was, in addition to the regular baddies, this final battle was joined by a group of sub-villains that were driven away earlier in the adventure. So, the fight turned out to be harder than it should have been. The Paladin was summarily surrounded, had [I]heat metal[/I] cast upon her, and then butchered by the hobgoblin chief. After she dropped, the [I]heat metal[/I] spell finished her off. I have never seen such shoddy planning before. The funny thing is that the other PC is an expert real-life strategist, but the player of the Paladin refused to listen and just charged ahead. I laughed. Now, had the PCs followed the strategist's advice, they would have advanced 10' at a time, used ranged weapons, and kept close ranks, forcing the monsters to advance or retaliate with their own ranged weapons. Combine this with the fact that the strategist was playing a Gestalt Drow Sorcerer/Favored Soul of Eilistraee, and a win would have been a sure thing; the character had a silly amount of spells at her disposal, including [I]sleep[/I]. :) [/QUOTE]
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