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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 3914684" data-attributes="member: 50987">Save-or-die works both ways, I suppose.&nbsp; I remember a particularly bad gaming session where my BBEG (a red wyrm) was slain by a finger of death spell in the first round of combat because I rolled a natural 1 on the dragon's save.&nbsp; While everyone at the table cheered and congratulated the druid's player, I felt robbed: this was supposed to be a grand finale, a fierce battle-royal in which the party got to use all of the fancy anti-dragon magic items they had been collecting for months.&nbsp; And instead of an epic battle, I got one-round wonder.But I got over it.&nbsp; I could have pulled some stunt out of my nostrils that would have spared the dragon's life (&quot;it was all a dream,&quot; etc.), or I could have secretly rolled my save throw behind a screen and announced my desired result, but I didn't want to rob the player of a truly spectacular kill.&nbsp; After all, how many druids have defeated a 37-HD dragon single-handed?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 3914684, member: 50987"] Save-or-die works both ways, I suppose. I remember a particularly bad gaming session where my BBEG (a red wyrm) was slain by a [I]finger of death[/I] spell in the first round of combat because I rolled a natural 1 on the dragon's save. While everyone at the table cheered and congratulated the druid's player, I felt robbed: this was supposed to be a grand finale, a fierce battle-royal in which the party got to use all of the fancy anti-dragon magic items they had been collecting for months. And instead of an epic battle, I got one-round wonder. But I got over it. I could have pulled some stunt out of my nostrils that would have spared the dragon's life ("it was all a dream," etc.), or I could have secretly rolled my save throw behind a screen and announced my desired result, but I didn't want to rob the player of a truly spectacular kill. After all, how many druids have defeated a 37-HD dragon single-handed? [/QUOTE]

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