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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herobizkit" data-source="post: 2745047" data-attributes="member: 36150">I was the first to go to university from my gaming group.  I came home one weekend to find that the boys were still playing and they had just started the second part of some box set.  They had recently purchased the (then new) Skills and Powers book.  Well, they were so excited about their disadvantage choices, earning their characters lots of extra points to gimp themself to the teeth.  All of them (but one) had taken "powerful enemy" as their choice.  I whipped up a Fighter/Bard with the Blade kit and off I went.We had gotten to a point where the hereos were starting to flag, until we discovered a magical +4 bastard sword.  They gave it to me, as I was under-magicked compared to their characters.  By doing so, I had suddenly become the best fighter on the team... I think the sword was lucky in-game, as I rolled all kinds of criticals with it and never seemed to miss anything.At one point, we were suddenly faced with an onslaught of trolls.  We were outnumbered, surrounded, and running low on magic.  One character got so frustrated he tried to hide in a Daern's Instant Fortress... he jumped in and shrunk it.  Crunch.  Several others fell swiftly to the troll's claws, and there were two people left: myself, and the player who did not take a "powerful enemy" disadvantage.  There were but three trolls left, and we knew we could take them together.  Instead, I dropped a Obscuring Fog (or some such spell) and fled the scene, leaving the dwarf to his death.While I was making my character, I asked the DM how I could be integrated for my one-time appearance.  We talked, and agreed that I could be an agent of the popular "powerful enemy"; it was my goal to cripple the party at every opportunity (by taking magic items away, making them fight the hardest monsters, hanging back when I could be helping, etc.) so they would be too weak to face their collective "powerful enemy".   When the others were finished off in the troll fight, the player was extremely confident we could beat the trolls, and so was I.  The look on his face was priceless when I said, "I have come to ensure the deaths of they who oppose [whatever his name was].  My task is complete.  Farewell, if you can."TPK, minus me, who went back to university with the only surviving character from the slaughter.</blockquote>

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