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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 907474" data-attributes="member: 198">In a very short 2E campaign I ran for a few friends who were total newbies to D&D:The bard had found a rod of wonder and was totally fascinated with it, flinging grass and butterflies around at enemies every chance he got. Returning battered and bruised from an adventure, the PCs ran into a wagon train being attacked by a group of goblinoids. The others charged into battle, while the bard triggered the rod and summoned...a mouse. Infuriated, he tried again, and promptly shrunk himself to a height of 5 inches. Seeing that his friends were in trouble and refusing to give up, he leapt onto the mouse (now perfectly-sized for him) and charged into battle, still brandishing the (now toothpick-sized) rod. The dice finally turned in his favor and he rolled for a fireball and lightning bolt in successive rounds, and won the day for the heroes.Then later he tried the rod on a black dragon and it ate him <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>