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<blockquote data-quote="Kilroy" data-source="post: 1946460" data-attributes="member: 5299"><p>Sounds like your DM is playing a little fast and lose with the rules, and with the story.</p><p></p><p>How can a wand do a d6 con, at range, no save? Poison spell is range touch, allows a save, and is 4th level. Wands can't be higher than 4th level, so wands can't do that.</p><p></p><p>How can multiple 10' creatures bullrush you through the same 10' door? You can't move diagonally through a doorway.</p><p></p><p>Why did you have to make multiple saves for the wall? The effects are resolved in order, and the first one Plane Shifted you. You would only be affected by the others if you made the Plane Shift save, which you didn't.</p><p></p><p>Why would the DM run an unchanged +lots CR encounter for you, missing 1/3 of the party, when you had no way to know that the encounter was way over your level without serious metagaming? If you're in the sort of game where the DM kills characters because other players don't show up, rather than change the game, it's time to leave.</p><p></p><p>Blocking the door sounds like just about the best place to be, otherwise the whole party would get flooded by golems.</p><p></p><p>Why would a DM hand a (presumably) LG party an encounter with a (known, however) CE wizard where the only viable option is for them to run errands for the wizard, without giving much indication that that was the case?</p><p></p><p>As for character death & creation, the game I've been in for the last few years is very death light. It happens, a few times a year, but it's usually fixable (Resurgence is a great spell.) If I was in the sort of game where characters died often for stupid reasons, I'd revert to my old rule of spending half the time on character creation than the DM did on character destruction. Hello, Knuckles the Seventh.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kilroy, post: 1946460, member: 5299"] Sounds like your DM is playing a little fast and lose with the rules, and with the story. How can a wand do a d6 con, at range, no save? Poison spell is range touch, allows a save, and is 4th level. Wands can't be higher than 4th level, so wands can't do that. How can multiple 10' creatures bullrush you through the same 10' door? You can't move diagonally through a doorway. Why did you have to make multiple saves for the wall? The effects are resolved in order, and the first one Plane Shifted you. You would only be affected by the others if you made the Plane Shift save, which you didn't. Why would the DM run an unchanged +lots CR encounter for you, missing 1/3 of the party, when you had no way to know that the encounter was way over your level without serious metagaming? If you're in the sort of game where the DM kills characters because other players don't show up, rather than change the game, it's time to leave. Blocking the door sounds like just about the best place to be, otherwise the whole party would get flooded by golems. Why would a DM hand a (presumably) LG party an encounter with a (known, however) CE wizard where the only viable option is for them to run errands for the wizard, without giving much indication that that was the case? As for character death & creation, the game I've been in for the last few years is very death light. It happens, a few times a year, but it's usually fixable (Resurgence is a great spell.) If I was in the sort of game where characters died often for stupid reasons, I'd revert to my old rule of spending half the time on character creation than the DM did on character destruction. Hello, Knuckles the Seventh. [/QUOTE]
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