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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raunalyn" data-source="post: 5620626" data-attributes="member: 72670">Oh, wow...there are so many. Do I have to pick one? How about this; I'll pick one as a player and one as a DM. As a player, I'd have to go with my favorite moment being the death of one of my characters, who only lasted one session. Yes, that's right...one of my characters dying was one of my most favorite moments as a player. This was back in the days of 2e, and we were playing in Forgotten Realms. The DM running the game was one of those types who thinks its a game to try to kill off the players. He was also not too bright, and he was really interested in Spellfire. He asked me to make up a character who could use Spellfire and wanted to place me into one of his ongoing campaigns. During the course of the session, my character was kidnapped by the Red Wizards of Thay, and the rest of the party had to try to rescue it. Eventually, my group is able to find me, open a gate, and grab my character. The DM, incensed that the players ruined his carefully drawn plans, had 18 red wizards all cast 9th level spells at my character to kill it. For those of you familiar with Spellfire wielders, you know they have a chance to overload if they absorb too much spell energy, and they will explode. So, while the players are all arguing over the results of the rescue attempt, I'm quietly sitting at my corner of the table calculating. The DM is smirking at his "success" when I quietly look up and say, "Anybody got 187d6?" The explosion caused by the overload of my character nearly obliterated the top of Thaymount. My favorite moment as a DM (and there are so many) has to be when I was running a game in Dragonlance. The characters, chasing a prophecy, journey out into the Blood Sea of Istar so that they can prevent the prophecy from happening. The main villian sends his minion, a Blue Dragon, after the party. As they sail closer and closer to the Maelstrom, the dragon finds them and attacks. One player gets a great idea and attacks the dragon's wings with the ship's ballista so that he can't attack them from the air. The dragon falls into the ocean, and being an intelligent creature, casts water breathing on himself and starts attacking the boat from underwater. The fight was intense and exciting, and still sticks out in my mind after 20 years.</blockquote>

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