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<blockquote data-quote="Zaran" data-source="post: 5230394" data-attributes="member: 56710"><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">The first time my group played 4e I did a little adventure for our new first level characters. It was an attack on a fortress full of goblins led by the Mighty Maltos , all-powerful wizard, who is as dreaded as he is infamous!</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">They managed to get into the fortress and fight their way up the mountain in which the fortress is built against to the tower where the wizard plots his world domination. They enter the tower and the wizards shadow looms over them from above. They look up at this great entity that is about to turn them into bits of burning death and it's a little halfling! So they go running up the stairs towards him while he starts pulling out decripit skeltons from his Bag of Holding and uses them as a shield. The first skeleton gets killed by someone, I don't remember who, but this gives the Dwarf fighter the chance to go charging through the minions and use his daily power, Brutal Strike I believe, on the halfing. Well, of course he rolls a crit and me being a newbie 4e GM I was just using the 4th level Human Mage instead of a real solo. He cuts the little guy into a quarterling with one swipe! It was the funniest thing and fit so well with the all the fake hype of the wizard that it made since that he would go down like a chump. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">I realize today that he should have made the dwarf do a reroll but since I was just using the human mage's stats straight from the MM I didn't know about the Halfling racial ability. I don't regret it a bit though. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zaran, post: 5230394, member: 56710"] [FONT=Comic Sans MS]The first time my group played 4e I did a little adventure for our new first level characters. It was an attack on a fortress full of goblins led by the Mighty Maltos , all-powerful wizard, who is as dreaded as he is infamous![/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS]They managed to get into the fortress and fight their way up the mountain in which the fortress is built against to the tower where the wizard plots his world domination. They enter the tower and the wizards shadow looms over them from above. They look up at this great entity that is about to turn them into bits of burning death and it's a little halfling! So they go running up the stairs towards him while he starts pulling out decripit skeltons from his Bag of Holding and uses them as a shield. The first skeleton gets killed by someone, I don't remember who, but this gives the Dwarf fighter the chance to go charging through the minions and use his daily power, Brutal Strike I believe, on the halfing. Well, of course he rolls a crit and me being a newbie 4e GM I was just using the 4th level Human Mage instead of a real solo. He cuts the little guy into a quarterling with one swipe! It was the funniest thing and fit so well with the all the fake hype of the wizard that it made since that he would go down like a chump. [/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS]I realize today that he should have made the dwarf do a reroll but since I was just using the human mage's stats straight from the MM I didn't know about the Halfling racial ability. I don't regret it a bit though. [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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