Xeviat
Hero
4E was about to come out. We were playing our last 3E campaign. We started at 17th level, the 5 players were using the Book of Nine Swords. They represented the champions of 5 of the schools. The other 4 schools were the villains, and they were trying to protect the capitol from being overran by a horde the likes of which the world had never seen before.
One session ended prematurely when the White Raven champion Crusader used the everybody charge maneuver on a high CR red dragon and killed it in one turn. So I quickly whipped up a nastier black dragon with invisible buddies and we had a proper fight.
Two weeks later, the party was facing off against the leaders of the horde. The Desert Wind champion won initiative and kept forward, erupting the battlefield in a cloud of fire, trying to clear out all of the horde's minions and leave only it's champions. Some of the minions died, but many remained.
Next turn came one of the enemy champions. He pointed his sword at the Desert Wind Champion and said "Charge". My first player death, killed with the same maneuver the party had just used to gib a dragon in one round.
One session ended prematurely when the White Raven champion Crusader used the everybody charge maneuver on a high CR red dragon and killed it in one turn. So I quickly whipped up a nastier black dragon with invisible buddies and we had a proper fight.
Two weeks later, the party was facing off against the leaders of the horde. The Desert Wind champion won initiative and kept forward, erupting the battlefield in a cloud of fire, trying to clear out all of the horde's minions and leave only it's champions. Some of the minions died, but many remained.
Next turn came one of the enemy champions. He pointed his sword at the Desert Wind Champion and said "Charge". My first player death, killed with the same maneuver the party had just used to gib a dragon in one round.
