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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 567818" data-attributes="member: 508">We ran through this one adventure (in 2E) where an evil wizard had used a feeblemind spell on a centaur druid and hooked him up to his normally horse-drawn wagon.  The PCs are chasing after him on horseback, trying to rescue the centaur.  Naturally, they don't want to hurt the centaur to get him to stop the wagon, so they decide they're going to ride up alongside it and jump on.The wagon is covered on top, basically a wooden box on wheels, with the wizard riding up front.  The first one to ride within range is the party paladin.  He balances up onto the saddle, leaps toward the wagon, hits it...and fails to grab hold.  He tumbles to the ground in a heap, rolling over and over, denting his plate armor up pretty good and narrowly avoiding getting run over by the rest of the mounted party.  He finally comes to a stop in the ditch...he's out of the picture.Next up is a female elven mage/thief.  She rides up to the wagon, and whether due to her greater Dexterity or lighter armor, she makes the jump successfully...but just barely.  Hanging on to the back of the wagon, her body's flung out sideways as the wizard steers the centaur around a bend, but she manages to hold on.  She also manages to pick the locked door at the back of the wagon, and stagger inside.Meanwhile, the party fighter pulls up alongside the wagon, but he saw the heavily-armored paladin fail his jump and isn't too keen on following in his footsteps.  He decides to remain mounted and try to get in a few blows with his sword from where he is.Inside the wagon, the mage/thief's having a hard time keeping her balance - the wagon is jostling back and forth as it barrels down the forest path, the wizard flogging the centaur on to greater and greater speeds - but she makes her way up to the front of the wagon, opens a small shutter leading to the driver's seat, and then does her best to backstab the evil wizard while being jostled from side to side.  Her "window" to the wizard is only about 6 inches wide, and the bumping of the wagon throws off her aim.  Her sword hits the wood on the side of the window.In the meantime, the wizard's managed to blind the fighter who's pulled up beside him with a glitterdust spell.  Unable to see, he slows his mount to a halt and waits for the rest of the party to come find him and cure him up.  He's now out of the picture as well.  It's all up to the mage/thief.Her second attempt misses as well, but now the wizard is aware of her presence.  He glances back over his shoulder, sees a figure in his wagon and the glint of a weapon and fires a sleep spell her way.He had no way of knowing she was an elf.  Naturally, the spell had no effect on her.The third time, she finds her mark, and her blade stabs into his back.  He slumps into the seat, dropping the reins.  Unable to reach the reins through the narrow opening of the window, the elf now has to go all the way to the back of the unguided wagon, exit through the rear door, and crawl over the top to reach the front.  Many Dexterity checks later, she's made it - she grabs the reins, pulls the dazed centaur to a stop, deals a finishing blow to the unconscious wizard, and goes back to gather up the rest of her party.We haven't had a cool chase scene like that since.Johnathan</blockquote>

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