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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GammaPaladin" data-source="post: 4063443" data-attributes="member: 60497">This is actually my favorite moment ever, but I know the GM meant it to be significantly harder than it was.We were playing the GM's homebrew system in a play-by-post campaign. The party was all low level, just 1st/2nd basically (Although it's hard to translate the systems). A few of us spellcasters were separated from the rest of the party, and the GM sics a rather largish group of opponents on us. Something like 10-15.Now, we're spellcasters, but we're babies. We have level 0 and level 1 spells basically, and one guy has Web. It's not quite DnD, in that we can melee, and we'll probably win, but we're going to be battered and limping home, if none of us die.The highest level player happens to win initiative and tosses web, to buy time. He lucks out and gets every enemy but one. That guy is still charging us. I go next, I have nothing for damage, really, but I have heat metal. I'm thinking fast to try and actually slow this guy down, I don't want to just make him drop his sword, he's got other weapons on him. So I ask the GM what kind of armor he's wearing. Chainmail. So I cast heat metal on his armor, thinking it'll take him a few rounds to get out of, and he'll have to take some actual damage from it instead of just dropping the weapon before being hurt.The guy in the armor fails the check the GM rolls to figure out what's going on, and, thinking he's on fire, pours water over himself, creating scalding steam and taking extra damage, and delaying beginning the multi-round action of taking off his chainmail.Meanwhile, one of the other level 1 players tosses his one useful spell at this guy: Entangle.He now can't take any action at all, and is slowly roasting to death, one point of damage at a time.Another friend, inspired, tosses an unlit lamp full of oil into the midst of the people entangled in the web, breaking it.I cast spark.The GM outright told us he'd never seen an encounter foiled quite so thoroughly and creatively. We were quite proud of ourselves.Next encounter he sent an elemental after us <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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