<not the adventure> Burn down the town

[Ry]

Oh, yeah. That takes me back. The village around that nunnery wasn't that big, but still. Chasing an aberration who uses some kind of dimension door in a Christian monastery... some players were literally gathering wood before I stopped the initiative count.

 

[Mycanid]

Err ... Not really. Come to think of it I can't remember a single occasion related to a burning building of any sort and pc's. Earthquakes? Yes. Fires? No.

Although I have some kind of dim recollection of a mage unleashing a fireball in a wooded area once....

 

[Kurashu]

In a Forgotten Realms campaign, we firebombed Hillsfar with some help from a necromancer, polymorph and a cart full of alchemist fire (that pixie and his carts). Then my halfling's body got shoved into a tree after the pixie took all his stuff. Jerk. We also pretty much destroyed another town when our Air Gensai was imprisoned for assaulting the captain of the guard. Afterwards, we had to go back to the town because our necromancer buddy had turned against us (like we all knew he would) and had to destroy him and his undead army. So we ramapaged again.

The DM talked about bringing that group back, but I doubt it as one of the key members moved to California.

 

[Greylock]

Haven't burned down a town, but in one game our chars were sent by the elders of a village to save it from raids by nearby drakes and kobolds. In the course of clearing out the nest of baddies we damned an underground stream to wipe out a nest of drakes. We got back to town and were feted and praised, and very soon thereafter came this torrent, directly through the town we'd been tasked to save.

Kinda think the DM had it in the back of his mind as a possibility from the beginning though.

 

[Moon-Lancer]

What is Doug doing to himself in the bottom left panel? :\

I think he is jabbing himself in the leg with a pen, but it does look like something else doesent it? well at least sugestively.

 

[Aeric]

I once played in a game where one player, through a combination of ignorance and sheer pigheadedness, managed to burn down a quarter of the city our characters were running (he was the head of the church, while I was the lord mayor). I don't remember what happened to his character, but mine fled the city through the postern gate as his people were rioting and calling for his head. The campaign ended that night, and it took the DM several months to get over it and try again--without the problem player.

 

[der_kluge]

In a round-robin game at Gen Con, we flooded a town with a strange artifact. Now that was some cool imagery.

 

[Someone]

No, not burning. At most, we've cast Fear in a overcrowded market, and Insect plague shortly after that.

 

[Sanackranib]

ROTFL not THAt brings back memories . . . .

 

[LostSoul]

I played a game once where the players decided that the King was evil and needed to be overthrown. The DM kept telling us that he was good. The peasants that we were trying to "free" kept telling us that the King was good and that they liked how things were going.

We didn't listen. We just ran around trying to take down "the man", burning whatever we could.

To the DM's credit, he didn't get pissed off, he just ran things normally. As in we were branded criminals, everyone hated us, normal villagers (the ones we were trying to "save") wanted us dead, etc.

It was great fun.