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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 7814248" data-attributes="member: 50987">From "The Hobbit," by J.R.R. Tolkien:It was at this point that Bilbo stopped.  Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterwards were as nothing compared to it. He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait. At any rate after a short halt go on he did; and you can picture him coming to the end of the tunnel, an opening of much the same size and shape as the door above. Through it peeps the hobbit’s little head. Before him lies the great bottom-most cellar or dungeon-hall of the ancient dwarves right at the Mountain’s root. It is almost dark so that its vastness can only be dimly guessed, but rising from the near side of the rocky floor there is a great glow. The glow of Smaug!There he lay, a vast red-golden dragon, fast asleep; a thrumming came from his jaws and nostrils, and wisps of smoke, but his fires were low in slumber.  Beneath him, under all his limbs and his huge coiled tail, and about him on all sides stretching away across the unseen floors, lay countless piles of precious things, gold wrought and unwr--"Aw come on, seriously?" Bilbo Baggins called out toward the ceiling, the whine of his voice tearing through the fourth wall like a record scratch.  "Smaug's a friggin' dragon?!  You are a terrible DM, John Tolkien!  Is this supposed to be fun?  If you aren't gonna give me encounters that I can win, I quit!"</blockquote>

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