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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 913032" data-attributes="member: 812">Sometimes it's the little things...The party at last teams up with the Demon Goddess, the scariest, hairiest, baddest and prettiest bad girl you ever did see, to help take down her mortal enemy, the twisted sorcerer Matai Shang, on account of he's just ever so slightly worse than she is.So the day of the final battle dawns. The Demon Goddess steps up to the party tanks and says, "Here, this'll help" and gives each of them a portion of her divine essence. Making each of them demigods. So we spend twenty minutes revising everyone's stats as I list off all the divine qualities they now possess.At first everyone's all thrilled. Bonus to AC, right on. Damage Resistance, sweet! But as the list of buffs increases they actually start to get very, very nervous. They start to realise that the Demon Goddess thinks they'll NEED all this just to survive long enough to help her out. They start thinking this is going to be very, very bad.My players are convinced that this is going to be the end of the campaign. They honestly truly believe that they might lose it all right here.So there they are, standing with the Demon Goddess, protected by their infusions of her divine energy, when Matai Shang shows up right on cue.And smacks their erstwhile ally with a bad-news bear that STRIPS HER OF HER DIVINE NATURE.All those necessary buffs they'd just received from her go poof. The Demon Goddess falls to the ground.And Matai Shang just laughs at them.Wow they were scared. The entire nine-hour session consisted solely of the battle with Shang -- in the end our heroes triumphed, but the look on their faces when those divine abilities disappeared still warms the cockles of my heart.</blockquote>

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