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Message: <blockquote data-quote="incognito" data-source="post: 547265" data-attributes="member: 7008">(can't believe no one rgabbed this already)DM: You crouch down on a low hill overlooking the Gate to Mordor with easily a dozen guards looking out on the gate wall. There are 100's of warriors marching in line towards the gate. As you look on, you notice two HUGE Ogres Operating a...PC1: Hey!  I thought Ogres were large!DM: What?  Fine, whatever...Trolls then.PC2: Trolls would turn into stone in the daylight, dude! DM: (growls under breath...)...OK...hold on (flips rapidly through MM1)...Ok! You notice two Advanced huge ogres operating a mechanical device they are chained to, slowly opening the gate. PC2: That's better!PC1: OK! My plan is to sneak up behind the warriors and follow them through the open gate - no one will notice will all the 'confusion.'PC2: What!?  What part of "dozen guards looking out" did you fail to hear! It's broad daylight for the love of...PC3: So, what am I again?!  Some sort of halfling template? with longevety and an addiciton?  Why do I get the crap PC?DM: Maybe you should try paying me the $5 you owe me. But yes, you are  the forefather of halfings, and you are addicted, like a heroin addiction, to the gold ring on Frodo's neck.PC2: Whoa!  You never told us he was a drug addict!DM: Well he isn't really a drug addict - he failed his will save vs. a semi-sentient, highly cursed, ring.PC2: Which is the reason we have so few other magic items - that stupid ring is putting us off the character wealth charts - man, if I just had a +2...PC1: Yeah, whatever. How about my move silently check down that rocky slope? PC3: Don't risk it - that ring is precious to me!DM: Good roleplayng guys!  Except you like to call it "My precious" - how many times do I have to tell you?PC3: ...And you wonder why I don't give you the $5...PC1: I've made up my mind, I'm going for it! (makes to roll dice)PC2: I attempt to stop him, we'll be killed and have to start over at first level in that stupid Shire again! DM: Uh-oh - make a balance check - that slope is pretty treacherous (smiles deviously)PC1: modified 26PC2: Dammit!  modified 12...Wait a minute  - how did you get a 26! We're 3rd level!PC3: (looking through template notes furiously)...24, no wait...22...no, no...um...28!!DM: Well - looks like one of you falls, I'm afraid...PC3: (snickers)PC2: I DO NOT like that old halfling forefather thing!DM: Yes, well, you like this even less.  You slide 25' down on the loose detrius landing with a puff of dust and a large whomp near the base of the hill.PC1/PC3: Oh no!DM: A guard  or two turns from the rear of the column and cocks his head slightly heading your way...PC2: Does he see me yet?DM: Not quite yet - but only becsaue your stuck waist deep in the loose soil - denied you DEX bonus, I expect.PC2: WHAT!?!PC1: I jump down to get him, using tumble to ease my fall.DM: 25 feet eh?PC1: Well 10 feet less, due to my Jump Check of 30PC2: 30!  How are you getting such high...?PC3: I cower and hiss on the top of the hill...and I'm going to go grab a beer while you two finish getting killed.DM: Ok, fine - take 2d6 falling damage...thats...drat: 3 points.PC1: Can I pull him up out of the hole?DM: No.PC2: Doesn't he get a STR check?DM: Well he would, but the DC is higher that his modified roll could possibly be - he has an 8 STR.PC1: Hey!  I would've known that, right?DM: Hey, I didn't force you to jump down - nor did I know that that's what you were going to try to do - I'm not ret-conning now!PC2: I have escape artist!  Can I wriggle free?DM: You can try...Better hurry those guards are zeroing in one your struggling forms quickly!PC2: (making strangling noises)...Gah!  9 modified...PC1: Told you you should've gone Rouge, not fighter - they don't make halfling plate mail...DM: The Guards...PC1: Wait, I lay on top of him, and cover him with my cloak!DM: What?!  It's broad daylight, on the bottom of a smooth slope, leading into an open plane.  What are you smoking?PC1:  Let's see, I'm small, with an elven cloak, and high DEX, and some ranks here...rolled a...20!  I rolled a 20! Thats a modified 43!DM: Harumph! And even with the -20 circumstance penalty I am giving to you two clowns, the warriors do not locate your scrawny little butts - looks like it's agood day to be a twinked out halfling!  The Guards turn back and...PC3 (returning with beer): Hey, can we drop this for now, and play in that game where we defend that fort-thingie - Helm's Cup or whatever!DM: That's this same game you idiot!  Fine, let's cut for now over to the Rohan fortress...</blockquote>

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