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<blockquote data-quote="Steverooo" data-source="post: 1134555" data-attributes="member: 9410">I don't know the level of the spells (and it was 1e, anyway, so they've all changed), but once upon a time, in a competition module, I &quot;got stuck&quot; playing the Mage...&nbsp; I HATE Mages!&nbsp; This one had stinky spells, too!&nbsp; His most powerful were Invisibility &amp; Magic Missile.&nbsp; Anyway, the set-up was that a town hired us to retrieve some villagers from a band of 20+ Trolls... more than we could possibly fight...So the plan was, take days to get enough Invisibility spells to cover the entire party (back in the days when it lasted indefinitely, until you took a hostile action), then rope up, go in, and try to get the survivors out.&nbsp; The plan worked, up to the point where we roped up and went in...&nbsp; I cast some Explosive Runes around the entrance, we went in, and the trolls made short work of most of the PCs.&nbsp; We ran, and they pursued...At the end of the adventure, two Fighter-types and I were all that was left, and they were visible and attacking.&nbsp; They went down, and the Trolls closed in.&nbsp; My Mage took one of the Fighter's trident, stuck the hilt in the ground, ripped a blank page from his spellbook, cast Explosive Runes on it, then affixed it to the tines of the trident while all were covered by the Invisibility.He then went &quot;Bluh-bluh-bluh!&quot;, stepped away from the trident-holding-a-page-aloft, and as the Trolls turned to see who was making the noise...&nbsp; BOOM!&nbsp; The damage was enough to take the ones who had followed us out, and the Mage was able to bandage the two Fighters (who had been outside the radius) up, and escape.We rescued zero villagers, and lost most of the party (thus didn't win the module), but three of us survived, thanks to the wimpy little Mage!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steverooo, post: 1134555, member: 9410"] I don't know the level of the spells (and it was 1e, anyway, so they've all changed), but once upon a time, in a competition module, I "got stuck" playing the Mage... I HATE Mages! This one had stinky spells, too! His most powerful were [I]Invisibility[/I] & [I]Magic Missile[/I]. Anyway, the set-up was that a town hired us to retrieve some villagers from a band of 20+ Trolls... more than we could possibly fight... So the plan was, take days to get enough [I]Invisibility[/I] spells to cover the entire party (back in the days when it lasted indefinitely, until you took a hostile action), then rope up, go in, and try to get the survivors out. The plan worked, up to the point where we roped up and went in... I cast some [I]Explosive Runes[/I] around the entrance, we went in, and the trolls made short work of most of the PCs. We ran, and they pursued... At the end of the adventure, two Fighter-types and I were all that was left, and they were visible and attacking. They went down, and the Trolls closed in. My Mage took one of the Fighter's trident, stuck the hilt in the ground, ripped a blank page from his spellbook, cast [I]Explosive Runes[/I] on it, then affixed it to the tines of the trident while all were covered by the [I]Invisibility[/I]. He then went "Bluh-bluh-bluh!", stepped away from the trident-holding-a-page-aloft, and as the Trolls turned to see who was making the noise... BOOM! The damage was enough to take the ones who had followed us out, and the Mage was able to bandage the two Fighters (who had been outside the radius) up, and escape. We rescued zero villagers, and lost most of the party (thus didn't win the module), but three of us survived, thanks to the wimpy little Mage! [/QUOTE]

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