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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 4783736" data-attributes="member: 31216">D&D3.5 party:Human druid 6 w/ wolf companion (flies and summons dire wolves)Human sorcerer 6 (flies and ranged damage)Dwarf fighter 6 (tank)Human cleric 6 (tank) – meLast night: We were having to fight various dire animals in a series of battles, and we had done pretty well, planning and executing smart strategies and tactics. But when a pair of dire lions came at us, I made a terrible tactical blunder. I stepped out into an open area right in line for both dire lions to charge and pounce.Right after that double move, I realized what I had done. “Oh &%&^$#!”Both dire lions charged and pounced, getting 5 attacks each on me. I was thinking this one, dumb mistake of moving into the open would be the end of my character.My cleric tank has a normal AC 24, but fortunately had shield of faith up also, for a total AC 27. The lion attacks took my cleric from a fully healthy 51 hit points down to 2 hit points in one round.Fortunately, our party works as a team, and the other PCs poured on the attacks and drew the lions off my mauled cleric. I withdrew completely from the fight and spent the rest of the fight healing myself and the dwarf fighter (who also retreated after taking some heavy damage from one of the dire lions).I haven’t played a PC as much as I’ve DMed (although I’m catching up with our group’s current round-robin game), so maybe this kind of thing happens all the time to you and your PCs. But for me, this was “Wow!” Not only was it the first time I can remember where my PC took such a clobbering in one round, but I think it is totally cool that my PC was saved from death by a single first-level spell (shield of faith in this instance -- my cleric would have taken two more hits from the dire lions if not for the extra +3 AC).Tell me of some of your instances of making a dumb action that ended up getting your PC mauled, but not killed. How close to death have you had a PC get in one round from full health? Also, how often do you see a low-level spell be directly responsible for saving a PC life? Bullgrit</blockquote>

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