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<blockquote data-quote="Dark Dragon" data-source="post: 1586814" data-attributes="member: 1115"><p>As isochron mentioned, I was the DM that created the encounter (under 3.0 rules at that time). I don't have the stats of the mage at hand (I'm at a conference til end of the week), but the wizard attacked the traveling group at daytime in Amn. He had <em>Fly, Impr. Invis</em>. (silent), <em>Shield, Haste </em> (silent), <em>Protection from Fire, Mirror Image </em> and <em>Stoneskin</em> cast prior to combat. I rolled a good initiative and gave him a surprise round. He brought one of the party wizards to negative hp during the surprise with three <em>magic missile </em> versions: one quickened, one empowered during haste and one maximized.</p><p>In round 2, the dying wizard got a good initiative, but he couldn't do anything. Then the enemy wizard got his turn. He slaughtered the other party wizard with the same combo: Three <em>magic missiles </em> in a round + movement afterwards. The cleric made a good guess and fortunately <em>flame striked </em> the opponent. I don't recall what the druid did (perhaps she tried to get to the other party wizard). One rogue tried to escape, the other tried to help also one of the wizards. The fighter dismounted and tried to ready his bow.</p><p>Round 3: The cleric and the druid (and the fighter's horse I think) were hit by two <em>empowered fireballs</em> (IIRC) leaving the druid almost dead (she failed both saves...).</p><p>The ftr/rgr/pal was not able to hit the enemy, one rogue was fleeing, the other was killed by <em>disintegration</em> after she tried to fire on the invisible but casting wizard. The cleric cast <em>Invisibility Purge </em> but the enemy stayed out of range.</p><p></p><p>That's what I recall by now. It ended in a TPK, the enemy killed the cleric, the second rogue and the fighter with area spells and by using a wand of magic missiles (CL 9).</p><p></p><p>Any questions? I can give you more details on saturday...</p><p></p><p>Perhaps we should keep on topic. BTW, the fight described above showed how overpowered <em>Haste</em> was in 3.0 <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dark Dragon, post: 1586814, member: 1115"] As isochron mentioned, I was the DM that created the encounter (under 3.0 rules at that time). I don't have the stats of the mage at hand (I'm at a conference til end of the week), but the wizard attacked the traveling group at daytime in Amn. He had [I]Fly, Impr. Invis[/I]. (silent), [I]Shield, Haste [/I] (silent), [I]Protection from Fire, Mirror Image [/I] and [I]Stoneskin[/I] cast prior to combat. I rolled a good initiative and gave him a surprise round. He brought one of the party wizards to negative hp during the surprise with three [I]magic missile [/I] versions: one quickened, one empowered during haste and one maximized. In round 2, the dying wizard got a good initiative, but he couldn't do anything. Then the enemy wizard got his turn. He slaughtered the other party wizard with the same combo: Three [I]magic missiles [/I] in a round + movement afterwards. The cleric made a good guess and fortunately [I]flame striked [/I] the opponent. I don't recall what the druid did (perhaps she tried to get to the other party wizard). One rogue tried to escape, the other tried to help also one of the wizards. The fighter dismounted and tried to ready his bow. Round 3: The cleric and the druid (and the fighter's horse I think) were hit by two [I]empowered fireballs[/I] (IIRC) leaving the druid almost dead (she failed both saves...). The ftr/rgr/pal was not able to hit the enemy, one rogue was fleeing, the other was killed by [I]disintegration[/I] after she tried to fire on the invisible but casting wizard. The cleric cast [I]Invisibility Purge [/I] but the enemy stayed out of range. That's what I recall by now. It ended in a TPK, the enemy killed the cleric, the second rogue and the fighter with area spells and by using a wand of magic missiles (CL 9). Any questions? I can give you more details on saturday... Perhaps we should keep on topic. BTW, the fight described above showed how overpowered [I]Haste[/I] was in 3.0 ;) [/QUOTE]
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