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<blockquote data-quote="Crust" data-source="post: 3630995" data-attributes="member: 22330"><p>I've handed out a vorpal weapon twice in my 11 years of regular DMing.</p><p></p><p>The first time was during our DL Classics campaign back in '97. My brother was playing Orson, a human berserker (inspired by Record of the Lodoss Wars, of course), and he claimed the vorpal two-hander in Fistandantilus' Skullcap fortress. He used it to behead Verminaard in Thorbardin and Sleet the white dragon at Icewall. Sadly, the campaign fizzled after <em>Dragons of Dreams</em>.</p><p></p><p>The second time was during our Githyanki Incursion/<em>Return to the Tomb of Horrors </em> campaign that had just slipped into epic levels. In the City of Moil, Rusk the barbarian destroyed the Moilian executioner construct and claimed its axe, a +3 keen vorpal greataxe later named "Executor." Rusk carried Executor through Moil, into Acererak's Fortress of Conclusion, and on to Tu'nurath, githyanki capital, where he used it to horrific effect. Vlaakith herself took notice of Rusk, cleaving a path of death at the head of a wedge of good-aligned crusaders, and she gated in a balor, tasking it to slay the iron-clad warrior with the axe. Rusk shrugged off the balor's implosions as it descended, the barbarian's allies fleeing in sheer terror. Rusk charged, meeting the balor in single combat, and in one blow swept off the demon's head. The resulting explosion didn't really hurt Rusk, btw, but I did have it knock him back several yards to crash amidst shattered and burnt githyanki bodies, a bit dazed and singed. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Vorpal weapons are awesome.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crust, post: 3630995, member: 22330"] I've handed out a vorpal weapon twice in my 11 years of regular DMing. The first time was during our DL Classics campaign back in '97. My brother was playing Orson, a human berserker (inspired by Record of the Lodoss Wars, of course), and he claimed the vorpal two-hander in Fistandantilus' Skullcap fortress. He used it to behead Verminaard in Thorbardin and Sleet the white dragon at Icewall. Sadly, the campaign fizzled after [I]Dragons of Dreams[/I]. The second time was during our Githyanki Incursion/[I]Return to the Tomb of Horrors [/I] campaign that had just slipped into epic levels. In the City of Moil, Rusk the barbarian destroyed the Moilian executioner construct and claimed its axe, a +3 keen vorpal greataxe later named "Executor." Rusk carried Executor through Moil, into Acererak's Fortress of Conclusion, and on to Tu'nurath, githyanki capital, where he used it to horrific effect. Vlaakith herself took notice of Rusk, cleaving a path of death at the head of a wedge of good-aligned crusaders, and she gated in a balor, tasking it to slay the iron-clad warrior with the axe. Rusk shrugged off the balor's implosions as it descended, the barbarian's allies fleeing in sheer terror. Rusk charged, meeting the balor in single combat, and in one blow swept off the demon's head. The resulting explosion didn't really hurt Rusk, btw, but I did have it knock him back several yards to crash amidst shattered and burnt githyanki bodies, a bit dazed and singed. ;) Vorpal weapons are awesome. [/QUOTE]
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