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Message: <blockquote data-quote="+5 Keyboard!" data-source="post: 3259374" data-attributes="member: 48586">In an adventure my group playtested for something I wrote for Goodman Games, they are supposed to rescue what they assume is a Rapunzel type damsel from a high tower. A bit up the road, a lizardfolk has been making a good living selling ladders to adventurers attempting this heroic feat (most don't succeed). You see, there's supposedly no entrance other than the tower window 25 ft. up. The group decided to go ahead and purchase one so the 2 big fighters are carrying it between them as they approach the tower. From around the tower comes a black knight on an armored destrier. After he calls out for them to clear out or be smashed to a pulp, etc., etc., the group decides it's fightin' time. We roll initiative and the two big fighters are up first, followed by the sentient briar patch surrounding the tower (an assassin vine patch) that the party isn't yet aware of, then the black knight, and the rest of the party working down.The two big fighters suddenly decide to use the ladder their holding between them to clothes line the black knight off of his horse. They succeed! They killed him on the opposed rolls. The black knight is knocked backward off his horse landing in the furthest square threatened by the man-eating briar patch, which on its turn does nothing yet. On his turn, the black knight stands up, which draws an AOO from the briar patch. More opposed rolls and the briar patch beats him on an opposed grapple check after it slammed him.The next few rounds, the party watches in surprise as what they took for an ordinary briar patch proceeds to squeeze the black knight to goo. His mount runs off, they blast the briar patch a few times with ranged spells, and problem solved.Turns out that ladder was the best investment they made to prepare for the adventure!</blockquote>

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