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<blockquote data-quote="Kodiak3D" data-source="post: 8246431" data-attributes="member: 53660"><p>Gaming is about telling stories. What story do your friends still talk about the most?</p><p></p><p>For me, it's a boss encounter with a lich that had been antagonizing the party for a long time. They had finally entered his lair and made it to his throne room only to find it empty. An obvious magic circle was around the throne. The druid approaches the throne and crosses the circle.</p><p></p><p>Me (the DM): "OK, let me look up this spell...(grabs PHB). Let's see...Circle of Death."</p><p>Druid: "What's a Circle of Death do?"</p><p>Me: "What does it sound like?"</p><p>Rest of the the players: (roaring with laughter)</p><p>(Yes, it was a modified, higher-level version of the spell.)</p><p></p><p>Druid fails the save and dies. The cleric decides it would be a good time to cast Mass Heal on everyone. What they did not realize was that the lich was in the room, just invisible and watching. He also happened to be within range of the spell. The cleric said he was healing "everyone in range of the spell" so I ruled that he also got the lich. A painful groan came from the corner of the room as the heal spell nearly killed him. The bladesinger rushed in that direction, found the lich, and put him out of his misery (not hard as he only had 1 hp left). The boss battle was over in just a few seconds.</p><p></p><p>I may have played a little loose with the rules, but it resulted in a story that they still talk and laugh about 20 years later. As a DM, it makes me feel good having been part of creating a story like that that lives on in their minds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kodiak3D, post: 8246431, member: 53660"] Gaming is about telling stories. What story do your friends still talk about the most? For me, it's a boss encounter with a lich that had been antagonizing the party for a long time. They had finally entered his lair and made it to his throne room only to find it empty. An obvious magic circle was around the throne. The druid approaches the throne and crosses the circle. Me (the DM): "OK, let me look up this spell...(grabs PHB). Let's see...Circle of Death." Druid: "What's a Circle of Death do?" Me: "What does it sound like?" Rest of the the players: (roaring with laughter) (Yes, it was a modified, higher-level version of the spell.) Druid fails the save and dies. The cleric decides it would be a good time to cast Mass Heal on everyone. What they did not realize was that the lich was in the room, just invisible and watching. He also happened to be within range of the spell. The cleric said he was healing "everyone in range of the spell" so I ruled that he also got the lich. A painful groan came from the corner of the room as the heal spell nearly killed him. The bladesinger rushed in that direction, found the lich, and put him out of his misery (not hard as he only had 1 hp left). The boss battle was over in just a few seconds. I may have played a little loose with the rules, but it resulted in a story that they still talk and laugh about 20 years later. As a DM, it makes me feel good having been part of creating a story like that that lives on in their minds. [/QUOTE]
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