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What's the most cinematic thing one of your character's has ever done?
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<blockquote data-quote="gunter uxbridge" data-source="post: 567432" data-attributes="member: 7526"><p>This didn't exactly work out too well for the PCs, but I can totally picture it in my mind.</p><p></p><p>Imagine....a rowboat full of PC heroes in the harbor of Procampur rowing like mad to board a bad guy vessel. It's the middle of the day and they have been seen. (Sure...lousey tactics, but an invasion was on and there was no time to wait until nightfall. Time is of the essence men! To arms!) The main deck of the baddie boat is buzzing with crewmen taking up small-arms in preparation of repelling boarders and two massive ballistas are being brought to bear.</p><p></p><p>"Don't worry," says the optimist Priest of Lathander aboard the dinky rowboat. Perched in the bow like Washington crossing the Deleware, he eyes the baddie boat with murderous contempt and looks on while the crew struggles with the cumbersome ballista. "They couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with that thing at this range!"</p><p></p><p>The plucky young cross-eyed gunner aboard the baddie vessel loads a bolt the size of a phone pole in the ballista and takes aim. "Hmmmm...." he thinks. "Adjust for wind, the rolling of the boat, planetary rotation, a-ha! Got it!" He breathes a quick prayer to Tymora, the goddess of luck and lets the bolt fly!</p><p></p><p>(The DM rolls furiously) Natural 20.</p><p></p><p>The smile quickly falls from the face of the Priest of Lathander as he ducks in vain for cover. The bolt slams first into the dwarven psionicist nearly cleaving him in half! The murderous projectile then continues on and smashes the boat into splinters, tossing the happless...and mind you....mostly still armored group into the harbor. That's right, the mostly armored group of players who thought spending skill points in the Swim skill was a waste of resources.</p><p></p><p>Nobody drowned, but their attack was pretty much a bust from that point on, and a lot of their heavier goodies wound up at the bottom of the harbor. It just so happens that this was the last session of that campaign and we never resolved what happened after this little debacle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gunter uxbridge, post: 567432, member: 7526"] This didn't exactly work out too well for the PCs, but I can totally picture it in my mind. Imagine....a rowboat full of PC heroes in the harbor of Procampur rowing like mad to board a bad guy vessel. It's the middle of the day and they have been seen. (Sure...lousey tactics, but an invasion was on and there was no time to wait until nightfall. Time is of the essence men! To arms!) The main deck of the baddie boat is buzzing with crewmen taking up small-arms in preparation of repelling boarders and two massive ballistas are being brought to bear. "Don't worry," says the optimist Priest of Lathander aboard the dinky rowboat. Perched in the bow like Washington crossing the Deleware, he eyes the baddie boat with murderous contempt and looks on while the crew struggles with the cumbersome ballista. "They couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with that thing at this range!" The plucky young cross-eyed gunner aboard the baddie vessel loads a bolt the size of a phone pole in the ballista and takes aim. "Hmmmm...." he thinks. "Adjust for wind, the rolling of the boat, planetary rotation, a-ha! Got it!" He breathes a quick prayer to Tymora, the goddess of luck and lets the bolt fly! (The DM rolls furiously) Natural 20. The smile quickly falls from the face of the Priest of Lathander as he ducks in vain for cover. The bolt slams first into the dwarven psionicist nearly cleaving him in half! The murderous projectile then continues on and smashes the boat into splinters, tossing the happless...and mind you....mostly still armored group into the harbor. That's right, the mostly armored group of players who thought spending skill points in the Swim skill was a waste of resources. Nobody drowned, but their attack was pretty much a bust from that point on, and a lot of their heavier goodies wound up at the bottom of the harbor. It just so happens that this was the last session of that campaign and we never resolved what happened after this little debacle. [/QUOTE]
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