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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Uller" data-source="post: 5621213" data-attributes="member: 413">In a game I was running in college, in the 90s (2e...I don't remember all the game mechanics that lead to this situation..) the party was fighting a green dragon on a small tropical island.  They had no flying ability and no serious ranged weapons other than a wand of lightning bolts in the hands of the party thief.  The mage (a wild mage) was pretty much out of spells, the cleric out of healing.  The thief was low on hitpoints as he had taken the brunt of the breath weapons. Everyone was trying to stay spread out.  The dragon was circling above but was also getting low enough on HP that the wand was a real threat.  It decided to crush the thief so it could take the wand and deny the party the any real ability to hurt it.It landed on him (killing him), the wand survived so he stood on it, intending to grab it and take flight on the next round.  All seemed lost.  TPK was imminent. The wild mage cast some 1st level spell...got a wild surge...rolled the effect:  Target becomes ethereal...Another character picked up the wand and ran back to the mage to give it to him and the dragon sensing defeat fled (and was later slain, I believe).</blockquote>