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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scourger" data-source="post: 1936201" data-attributes="member: 12328">2004 campaign highlightsAs a player, the highlight was the escape of Bjorn in the second quarter of this year.  Bjorn, a cleric of Boccob, went unarmored and lightly armed with the halfling thief to scout a barn in which we thought was trouble.  We were right.  The rest of the party was slightly wounded by paper cuts and wanted to rest at the inn.  So, Bjorn watched the halfling thief from a treeline.  The other player thought that having a few ranks in hide and being a halfling equals invisibility.  When the worg riders descended on his secret location, he was quickly overmatched, despite Bjorn's wild crossbow fire support (bad rolls by me).  As Bjorn approached the side of the house to get a look at the battle behind, the halfling took more damage and announced he was down.  Ready to pull out all the stops, Bjorn drank an old-school potion of fire breath.  Thinking to take out one or two baddies, Bjorn revealed himself and loosed the dragon's breath.  Shockingly, it got most of the baddies and the halfling who announced he wasn't down after all--just at zero hit points.  Sadly, the half pint failed his save.  Bjorn retreated around a corner.  Just before reinforcements burst from the barn, Bjorn used a domain spell to show the squirt the true meaning of invisibility.  He slipped off unseen to witness the party's reinforcement get taken down in single combat by the pursuing baddies but eventually saved that guy and scooped up all the magic from the hobbit.    As a DM, the highlight was last night.  At the climax of Life's Bazaar, the first adventure of the Shackled City, four of six PCs died: a jedi consular; a halfling cleric/thief; an aasimar paladin; and a big, strong, one-armed mutant.  The jedi guardian stabilized at -9 hit points by using a luck chip to reroll.  Left standing was the street judge who prevailed by fragging all the bad guys and himself with a high-ex round from his lawgiver and then using AP rounds to defeat the big, armored foe.  The highlight was that the players immediately rolled new stats for their replacement characters.  I had visions of the campaign ending, but we'll be ringing in the New Year with it next week.</blockquote>

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