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Message: <blockquote data-quote="malcolypse" data-source="post: 5232189" data-attributes="member: 92042">ok, two stories, the first hasn't happened yet, but it's directly related to the leading post: for over a year now, i've been threatening every d&d dm with a wizard pc. every day, i would use one of my unused spells to cast explosive runes on a new sheet of paper in a blank book. when confronted with a terrible thing that needs to go away, the book would be thrown by the party fighter at the thing. when it struck, i would use the second method of setting off explosive runes: an area dispell magic(for which i would choose to fail the save). every explosive runes in the book would go off, leaving the terrible thing a smoking hole in it. no one wants me to play a wizard. this second story actually happened in a game: the party was travelling along to the next town(with my halfling rogue in the woods along the road on point), which the dm didn't want us to get to just yet, so we were accosted by a large green dragon demanding tribute(or a toll, or a backrub, who really listens when they're busy silently climbing a nearby tree?). i made an amazing jump roll to land on the things back and plunged my tiny little halfling shortsword into it's spine. i roll a twenty on the attack roll. i roll to confirm my critical and up pops another 20. our gm was using an alternate rule that in just this situation allows a third roll for an instant and silent kill, which i took. and rolled another 20. the party(and their players) went bonkers. i stood up and took a victory lap around the pool table we were playing on for high fives and a dm hug(he needed it, i'd just rewritten his game for the night twenty minutes in), after which i insitsted that the dragon be hacked upon by the rest of the party before we rolled it's carcass into town on our wagon. a dead dragon with one tiny hole would have raised some eyebrows, and my character didn't have time for fame just then, he had a world to save.</blockquote>

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