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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swedish Chef" data-source="post: 5200348" data-attributes="member: 27141">Back in 2ed days, I was running H1 BloodStone Pass at the group's insistence. Since they were high level, the player playing the mage requested that his Staff of the Magi be a brooch instead. Since we started the characters at 18th level, I allowed that he had "created" it himself.We also had a house rule that any spell from an item, or cast by a spell caster, that had a time limit, would end immediately if the person who cast the spell or used the item fell unconscious. The party becomes suspicious of the town priest (who was a vampire, if I remember correctly), so made plans to check him out the next day. The mage decided to polymorph into a mouse and do some recon, without informing the party.Mouse/Mage enters church, is discovered by the servant rats and attacked while in the walls. Mouse polymorphs into large snake and tries eating rats. More rats start attacking the tail end, and now humanoid servants are aware of the intruder, so start stabbing a small exposed section of the snake through a rat hole in the wall. Snake/mage does not polymorph into an insect to escape. No, he continues to swallow rats in front of him while being eaten from behind and stabbed from the side. He eventually dies. And the polymorph wears off. Suddenly human sized in a mouse hole in a wall is not good. Various items and body parts are crushed, including the Brooch. Which fails its saving throw. Retributive Strike.The rest of the party (and village) awaken to the sound of a large explosion, and discover that the local church is now a smoking crater. Everyone, including the party, blame it on a preemptive strike by the enemy, and no one ever discovers what happened to the mage. Nor do they ever discover that the priest had been turned into a vampire, but they also never have to deal with destroying it, all thanks to the mage.</blockquote>

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