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<blockquote data-quote="ruleslawyer" data-source="post: 2903839" data-attributes="member: 1757">Maybe I have really dumb players, but these really don't seem so bad.My favorite episode still concerns the final encounter with Lolth's avatar in the control room of her spider ship at the end of my (modified) Q1 Queen of the Demonweb Pits. The control room is rife with windowlike portals showing different scenes in radically different-looking environments; the characters have some idea that these are interplanar gates, since they've been using analogous portals in the Demonweb to rest and recover along the way. Three of the PCs are down, with only three left standing. Though deprived of minions, Lolth is still wiping the floor with them. So, what does the player of the fighter PC do?Round 1: Walks over to downed fighter companion's body and grabs the girdle of giant strength and hammer of thunderbolts. (Clash of combat in background.)Round 2: Straps on girdle, winds up, and hurls hammer... at - or in this case *through* - the portal to Arvandor. This over howls by everyone else at the table. (Meanwhile, cleric PC is disintegrated.)Round 3: Devoid of a useful weapon (wonder whose fault that was?), decides to charge Lolth [in monstrous spider form] and grapple her. This is the same player who, while the (9th-level) PCs were sitting around a table in Elminster the Sage's library while the Old Sage himself was giving them advice on a quest, openly declared that he wanted to &quot;sneak off and see if this guy has any stuff worth stealing.&quot; When it all shook out, I gave the other players extra XP just for having to deal with that guy's stupidity.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ruleslawyer, post: 2903839, member: 1757"] Maybe I have really dumb players, but these really don't seem so bad. My favorite episode still concerns the final encounter with Lolth's avatar in the control room of her spider ship at the end of my (modified) Q1 Queen of the Demonweb Pits. The control room is rife with windowlike portals showing different scenes in radically different-looking environments; the characters have some idea that these are interplanar gates, since they've been using analogous portals in the Demonweb to rest and recover along the way. Three of the PCs are down, with only three left standing. Though deprived of minions, Lolth is still wiping the floor with them. So, what does the player of the fighter PC do? Round 1: Walks over to downed fighter companion's body and grabs the girdle of giant strength and hammer of thunderbolts. (Clash of combat in background.) Round 2: Straps on girdle, winds up, and hurls hammer... at - or in this case *through* - the portal to Arvandor. This over howls by everyone else at the table. (Meanwhile, cleric PC is disintegrated.) Round 3: Devoid of a useful weapon (wonder whose fault that was?), decides to [i]charge Lolth [in monstrous spider form] and grapple her[/i]. This is the same player who, while the (9th-level) PCs were sitting around a table in Elminster the Sage's library while the Old Sage himself was giving them advice on a quest, openly declared that he wanted to "sneak off and see if this guy has any stuff worth stealing." When it all shook out, I gave the other players extra XP just for having to deal with that guy's stupidity. [/QUOTE]

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