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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Ipplepop" data-source="post: 5190643" data-attributes="member: 39914">I was part of a group a while back that had 4 dm's... the main DM was a Montey Haul kind of chap who made it possible for a 5thy level party to utterly destroy an old red dragon without so much as a scortch...The players had gotten to the point where they knew they could meet any challenge thrown at them, because they had the goods to kill anything they could possibly meet... until I stepped in with a standard dungeon crawl.They were waking from one adventure to another (the main DM already had it figured out, and we were moving from the previous to the new), and ran across a small graveyard. They moved to investigate, and while they were fighting the skeletons that exploded when destroyed, and the zombies that caught fire when hit, and split open to release swarms of things, a band of orcs started firing at them from the woods.Battles completed with the loss of a few hit points, but nothing too serious.They searched the broken open door to the mausoleum and discovered (big surprise) a set of stairs going down. As they had most of their items in a couple of carts, and on their horses (who, decidedly would NOT go down the stairs), they had to choose what they wanted to take with them.Along the way, they encountered a standard tough, 3 level 1ed dungeon crawl with such things as green slime, a pit trap in front of a door that was actually a mimic that fell in over top of them, a band of orcs that were part of the group from outside, rot grubs in the stack of decaying bodies, a couple of rust monsters, and all the toppings.When they finally got back to their campsite, the character that stayed behind to watch the horses and their equipment (my character) was filled with arrows, at death's door, the horses were all dead or gone, and their precious possessions they could have used to destroy Asgard were nowhere to be found... it seems that all of these orcs were part of a very large marauding band that now had their stuff...Things got really tense when the party was up against their own magic items, and when they didn't have the diety killers they had come to rely on during the next adventure... and the party had to start relying on themselves, and not be so cocky about things.</blockquote>

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