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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herremann the Wise" data-source="post: 4646560" data-attributes="member: 11300">Now this story is most probably more about context and situation than anything else, but boy was this a classic for our group.The ScenarioOur DM (Paul), tells everyone he has a special surprise for us this game session, one that we'll possibly get up to before the end. He then places his wooden box on the table and everyone knows what this means. He has specially painted up a new figure and is just waiting for it's unveiling.Now our group had consisted of the usual array of adventurers including my Paladin (Herremann funnily enough) and the party fighter (Demar, played by Stuart). Now there had been a bit of friendly rivalry between Herremann and Demar in terms of leadership and equipment, but things had turned a little nasty when the party got hold of the highly magical blade Darkrazer. There were arguments over who should get to use this blade. Demar was quite keen to put his hand up for most items, but this time Herremann decided that in the name of his deity he would wish to take possession of the magical blade. Now this caused a stir as the paladin had never directly asked for any item before (normally getting trounced in our party's usual stampede).Demar was not happy. And may I repeat again not happy! Actually it was most probably Stuart who was not happy as well. It was an item we were not really supposed to get I suppose and so it was markedly more powerful than any gear we had gotten up to that point. Anyway, after much debate amongst the party and group, Herremann received the blade.First Combat with the Big New BladeThe party had cleverly concocted a plan to head directly to the enemy's supposedly hidden lair. In fact the plan (courtesy of the halfling rogue played with absolute cleverness by Justin) was of a genius so pure, the DM had to bow to its resolution. We got to the lair, untouched and with our reserves at their fullest. And then the DM pulled out the box...A f***ing Nalfeshnee Demon! (Along with a few very nasty cronies). Us players have looked at each other incredulous about what we're facing (off the CR scale here), and then we looked at the model. Now you had to admire the level of work that Paulie put in to modifying and augmenting this model - it was downright spectacular. He then tells us the number of hours it took (he had been planning this guy for months - this was the finale of the arc of the campaign). "And now, Porky is going to kill you all", said Paul in his best growl.After a single round, it quickly became apparent we were going to die, a TPK well and truly on the cards. The mage had been dusted up, Demar had a perfect opportunity to hack into Porky as he is now perpetually known, but missed terribly (rolling a 1 and a 2 - or something low on the second roll). However, the worst was for poor Herremann, feebleminded by Porky. I roleplayed this as some sort of religious revelry but in truth the paladin had been completely neutered. With no reasonable way of escape, the party was completely stuffed. And then...The phone rang, and I had to go. I can't remember what the circumstances were but it was something with my wife that was fairly inconsequential. However, it was late so driving home, I kind of figured we were all dead anyway. Our DM (Paul) plays hardball and getting to the final bad guy prematurely was more incentive for him to take off the gloves. No sugar-coating encounters to match levels. He was quite happy to let us bite off more than we could chew - although the plan that got us there was pretty damn good. And so I missed out on seeing the group wiped off the battlemap.Anyway, the following morning I decide to give Paul a call to see how it all ended up. He didn't sound happy.Me - "What happened Paul, you upset you killed the group off?"P - "No, it's not that"Me - "What happened then"P - "Actually, you'll find it quite funny"Me - "So did you kill us off"P - "Well... no actually. In fact I was a very disappointed."Me - "Huh?" [confused]P - "You know how I spent so much time painting that Nalfeshnee, well he barely lasted more than a round"Me - "What we killed him"P - [laughing] "Yeah, in fact Herremann killed him"Me - [surprised] "Huh, he was stuffed. Intelligence 1, Charisma 1 is enough to neuter a paladin. How did he kill him".Now I'm thinking what on earth could have happened?P - "Well I gave him to Stuart (Demar's player) to play and he had Herremann charge him".Me - "And what happened?"P - "20/20/20, rolled by Stuart trying to get your guy killed..."Me - "...trying to get his hands on that blade?"P - "Porky's head came clean off"We both started laughing.P - "And from there, Herremann went into a religious frenzy and with the rest of the group took out the rest. I still can't believe that Porky got killed so quickly after all this time, and Stu rolling the 20/20/20 for your guy rather than Demar. He was so pissed off."I'm not too sure if this fits in with the ethos of the competition but heh, it was just one of those combats that you'll always remember.Best RegardsHerremann the Wise</blockquote>

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