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<blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 1878499" data-attributes="member: 2">At the first gaming con I ever went to (Council of Five Nations in upstate New York, back in 1989) I had made it to the final round of the 3 round RPGA tournament. It had been a weekend with very little sleep. At the end of the module we had tracked down the demon who was killing people and we managed to bind him with a potion of demon control; It had to do exactly whatever we ordered it to do.&nbsp; It was too tough for us to kill, but at least we had captured it to show the authorities! In a fit of pique, the demon cast darkness on itself just to be stubborn. &quot;Stop that!&quot; I told it.&quot;I can't,&quot; the demon replied smugly from within its globe of darkness.&quot;Well, can't you just dispel it or something?&quot;It was the fatigue talking, and I knew as soon as the words were out of my mouth that I had made a horrible mistake. I said &quot;Noooooooo!&quot; but the DM just grinned. &quot;The demon casts dispel magic on itself. The darkness goes away, and so does the effect of the potion. Roll for initiative.&quot;The look the other players aimed at me was withering.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Piratecat, post: 1878499, member: 2"] At the first gaming con I ever went to (Council of Five Nations in upstate New York, back in 1989) I had made it to the final round of the 3 round RPGA tournament. It had been a weekend with [i]very[/i] little sleep. At the end of the module we had tracked down the demon who was killing people and we managed to bind him with a potion of demon control; It had to do [i]exactly[/i] whatever we ordered it to do. It was too tough for us to kill, but at least we had captured it to show the authorities! In a fit of pique, the demon cast darkness on itself just to be stubborn. "Stop that!" I told it. "I can't," the demon replied smugly from within its globe of darkness. "Well, can't you just dispel it or something?" It was the fatigue talking, and I knew as soon as the words were out of my mouth that I had made a horrible mistake. I said "Noooooooo!" but the DM just grinned. "The demon casts dispel magic on itself. The darkness goes away, and so does the effect of the potion. Roll for initiative." The look the other players aimed at me was withering. :) [/QUOTE]

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