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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mordmorgan the Mad" data-source="post: 1985918" data-attributes="member: 27199">Barovia?*As the mists arrise, seemingly from nowhere* "Bad Mists! Bad! Go to your room! You know the DMF Members are protected! Sorry guys  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /> "As far as plans destroyed...In 12 years it's happened once, just about a month ago. Some of the older members remember my Waterdeep campaign during the Year of Rogue Dragons, where a Flight of Ancient Red Dragons (12 strong) attacked Waterdeep, nearly leveling it. The PCs tracked one of the dragons (the one who landed atop thier HQ and proceeded to batter it into oblivion) back to its lair.I had this really cool dialogue planned where the dragon would mock the PCs and tell them how he would crush them and make them into jam and what not. Turns out, this particular dragon was about to have the world's mos catastrophic streak of 1's.The party wizard cast Greater Invisibility on the party (6 members total, so she only had about 2 rounds [IIRC] of Invis left when they went in). They charged in and the Barbarian cohort got the crap knocked out of him in one hit (I think he was at about 4 HP), but no one noticed because he was invisible (although there was a big bloodstain where he landed). The druid wild shapes into a snowy owl and hides near the cavern's ceiling where he proceeds to summon fire and lightning down through the cavern's opening.This didn't bother me so much because the dragon had loads of HP left and was making his saves. Now the wizard steps up. Her invisibility is about to run out, so she yells over to the dragon: "Hey! Sulfur-breath! Suck on this!" and lets fly a blast of Cone of Cold.I didn't think much of it because she hadn't been able to overcome a SR of 12 all week, but this time she did. Not only that, but I failed my save (the dragon needed a 2). This was one of the rare occasions where I didn't feel like I needed to fudge rolls for cinematic effect, so it happened to fall in the open. The damage was past the threashold of the Massive Damage rule, but since his Fort save was phenomenal (again, I needed a 2 to succeed), I rolled in the open. Massive BOTCH!!!!The dragon froze solid and shattered on the ground (it was flying at the time). This took all of about 6 rounds. Everyone just looked at me with a blank expression, and I just kept looking at the die. Finally I looked up, and the wizard said: "So...how much [XP] was that worth?"Fortunately, we died laughing.</blockquote>

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