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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jubilee" data-source="post: 2849803" data-attributes="member: 36594">Our group is more likely to argue over who gets to be the one to take the highest risk or gets to stay behind to die heroically so the rest can get out safely.For example, we've got a goblin that's something of a ward for the Paladin (my character).  He's probably also our stealthiest (only stealthy?) resource - and an NPC.  One suggestion was to have him climb over the walls and sneak around to let us in.  Then the wizard brought up that he can cast gaseous form on someone and they could slip under the door that way.  When sniffles later reported in her journal that the plan was to have the gaseous goblin (that just sounds wrong) go in and open the door for us, the Wizard was upset because it was his intention to go in, scout about while invisible, and let us in himself. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />He then said he was best because he could use the knock spell if the door were barred, locked, or magically sealed.At which point the DM pointed out that he could just "knock" the door open from outside and we could all rush in then.We also now have at our disposal an unreliable, torn and bloodied, magic carpet that we don't know how fast it'll go, whether it'll land right, or how long it will work.  Can't wait for the argument about who gets to risk their skin trying to fly in on it to hold the gate house while we try to storm it that way... <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Ah well.  The last time we spent so much time discussing how to approach a situation tactically, we ended up charging up hill a camp of giants, on a narrow road, and only one of us got knocked off by a giant's rock (or maybe the giant jumped on someone from above, I can't remember).I think we'll probably end up throwing progressively larger rocks at the front gate until they let us in.. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Ultimately, the GM wants us to get inside so we can get beat up by the evil priestess and her wizardly minions, not to mention the warlord, so I imagine we'll get in.  The problem really will be in getting out alive again, which no one is even beginning to consider. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />/ali</blockquote>

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