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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 538303" data-attributes="member: 2">Can't you just see The Two Towers as a badly run D&D game?GM: Failed your climb check, huh? You slip and plummet.PC1: Cool!PC2: Cool? Dude, you're falling to your death! Now we have to finish this stupid quest without your mage.PC1 (ignoring PC2): Can I see my sword?DM: Err... sure!PC1: Okay, I want to fall down and grab my sword from mid-air.PC2: What the hell? You dropped that like two rounds ago when you failed your balance check, then you wasted another round calling me a "fool" in character. PC1: So?PC2: You know how far something falls in three rounds?DM (ignoring PC2): Okay, you've got it! Glamdring slides into your hand. You see the balrog falling below you.PC2: But balrogs have wings! It says so right in the MM!PC1 (ignoring PC2): Cool! I want to go attack the balrog!PC2: You WHAT? Are you stoopid?DM: You... umm, okay. Roll to hit. PC2: What? No AoO? PC1: A critical! I hang on to him and keep hitting him on the way down. Whack! (to PC2) This is going to be MY kill, baby. All those lovely, glorious XPs for a balrog, mine alone.DM: (rolls a critical for the balrog that would kill PC1, panics, ignores dice) It missed you! Roll to hit again.PC1: YEAH! You're going down, servant of Melkor!PC2: This is stupid. I'm going to go get some Mountain Dew.(later)PC2: Is this debacle over yet?PC1: Almost, man. It's really wounded, but I'm down to my last few hit points. We beat each other up swimming for a while, then climbed a bunch of stairs, and now we're on the top of the mountain.PC2: Oh, brother.DM: It hit you again for... (roll dice, cheat on result) 5 points of damage.PC2: 5 points! It's supposed to be a balrog!PC1: Shut up. I'm at negative 1. Can I take one last swing?DM: Umm, sure.PC1: Hit! And 8 points of damage! Hoody hoo!DM: Wow - you killed it! It falls off the cliff - 7d6 points of falling damage -PC2, sotto voce: winnnnggggsss.... it has wings!DM: - and collapses on the mountain below you.PC1: Yeah! In your face, balrog! I collapse back into the snow.DM: Roll some stabilization checks.(roll, roll)DM: You failed them ALL?PC2: Hah!PC1 (miserable): Yeah.DM: Hey, I know! You get all the balrog's experience points, right? So that puts you up a level, giving you more hitpoints, and you don't die!PC1: YES! Hahaha.. I'm unstoppable. Mage with a sword, baby! Balrog-bane!PC2: You guys suck. I'm going home.PC1: I'm putting all my new skill points in animal empathy, ride, and disguise (evil wizard).</blockquote>

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