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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hummingbird" data-source="post: 88875" data-attributes="member: 3383">Hey,This is my first post ever on the board, so hello everyone.  I have been reading for a long time, I just never got around to setting up a userid before.  But now on to my topic.  We were playing a few weeks ago, and our party was attacked by a band of orcs lead by a shaman (we think) riding on the back of a dire wolf.  We had fought this guy before, and didn't want to let him get away, so as we began to win, and he started to flee, I disengaged from combat (taking 4 AoO's) and ran towards him, and grappled him ignoring the wolf.  He failed his AoO, and I successfully grappled.  Our DM ruled, that I had flying tackled him, and knocked him off wolfback.  I was amazed that my daring was successful, and am now prone to playing my character as a bit reckless since his ego was boosted by his success.  Do you have any other stories, where an outrageous plan (either well though out or spur of the moment) worked a lot better than you expected?  Mine was due to all good dice rolls. (I am a lvl1 fighter/lvl1 rogue with an AC of 16.  I was just lucky that all AoO's missed.)--Hummingbird</blockquote>