Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fieari" data-source="post: 3064604" data-attributes="member: 16221">I had one encounter with an adult white dragon that the party faced unprepared, and it was very nearly a TPK.  Would have been had I not allowed a Deus Ex Machina enter into the equation.I'm not a killer DM though.  I had put MORE than plenty warning signs up.  The party wanted to go visit a town in the mountains to the north.  Against advice from the townspeople, they made the journey in winter.  They were warned that no one makes it through the mountains alive during the winter.  They were warned frequently that dragons were seen in the mountains to the north.  They personally had seen very large dragons flying over those mountains.  They decided to go anyway, more or less on a whim.  I shouldn't have let the Deus Ex Machina save them, but... meh.  I'm a softy.For a while, I was pitting them against the enviornment.  Snowstorms, dealing with hypothermia.  Getting warm.  Making shelter.  Dealing with wolves stealing their food.  But slowly they learned.  They caught food for themselves, made lots of good Survival rolls, and continued on.  Then game started getting scarce, they were being hunted by wolves.  I asked them if they wanted to turn around, but they pressed on.So that night, when they set up camp, the dragon attacked.First, obscuring mist covered the campsite.  In the middle of another natural snowstorm, a blinding one.  The tents were covered over with drift.  The dragon melted the surface of the layer of snow, making everything slick ice.Then it sent some enslaved mephits to tunnel under the snow to harrass the party and drive them out.  There were enough of the mephits that they decided that getting out into open air for the use of fireballs would be a good tactic.  As the first party member popped out of the hole, he got nailed by the breath weapon.So now they're trying to make new tunnels out, while being harrassed by the mephits, who aren't really dangerous, but are making a real nuisance of themselves.They get out, and find themselves at a horrible disadvantage.They can't see because of the mist.  The dragon, with blindsense, can.They have to make balance checks to move anywhere.  The dragon doesn't.So they're blindly running about (I'm keeping track of their locations, and asking for movement based on relative directions.  The party gets more and more seperated.) and the dragon starts toying with them, herding them into pits designed in the night by the dragon, torturing them as they try futily to excape.There really wasn't much any of the party could do at this point.  So when the succubus came to offer them a teleport out, they were pretty eager to accept.They never again made fun of white dragons.  They'd done so frequently in the past.</blockquote>

Verification