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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swedish Chef" data-source="post: 1972848" data-attributes="member: 27141">Back in the 2nd Ed. days, I was running a conversion of H1 Bloodstone. I had warned the characters ahead of time that I was going to run it as it was written, IE very tough. They all "pooh-pooh'ed" that and off we went.The mage, for some reason, suspected the local Cleric of being up to no good (he was right, but couldn't prove it), so decided to investigate.All by himself.Without telling the party.He had a Staff of Power (character's were created at 18th level, with something like 75,000xp worth of Magic Items). He polymorphed into a snake and slithered into a rat hole into the church. The cleric, of course, is really a vampire. Who has lots of local RATS under his control. Who promptly inform him that a Boa Constrictor is invading the church. The vampire, of course, orders the rats to attack and has a human slave go searching for the snake. Now, a boa constrictor in a rat hole is not going to move very far or very fast. And, the mage had used his "mammal" form to sneak throw the town as a dog. His only shape left was Avian, and it wouldn't help any.So, the rats attack. He eats the first one, but can't touch the ones biting his tail. And, of course, he can only swallow so fast, so the next one at his head is biting his head. And, part of his body is exposed through a rat hole in the wall, so the human slave is poking him with a dagger.Needless to say, he died. Then, of course, the spell expired. While he was still in the rat hole. His body and equipment couldn't expand outward enough for obvious physical reasons, so he rolled savings throw vs crushing blow for his items. Staff of Power - failed.The  party never did learn what happened to the mage or why the church blew up, but at least the vampire was no longer feeding information to the invading army. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /></blockquote>

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