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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 7202029" data-attributes="member: 19675">Ooojhh- big reading skill check fail.  The AoO melee combatant was [/i]my[/i] character- the one who did most of the ass kicking.And again, basic failure to understand.The knight had no ranged weapons- the reason the story was mentioned in this thread in the first place- and his efforts to draw the dragons to him failed because the dragons succeeded in shrugging off his insults.  That's mechanics letting him down, not his RP.  When I pointed this out, you doubled down on critiquing his RP.I've already addressed the fact that you somehow mistakenly believed that the knight was the one with the polearm above, AND that the build you're critiquing proved deadly effective.  (In fact, I used variations on that build several times in 3.5Ed, and it held its own against other warriors.)So, moving on...And yet, with details lacking, you saw fit to jump to not one but several incorrect conclusions.  Bravo!I don't know why you're still faulting the knight's player.  As mentioned, the knight was thorough in his taunts- he definitely entertained the room.  Again, the dragons didn't...bite.Had I tried a fastball special, that would have left the arcanist briefly engaging both dragons by himself.  That would have been monumentally stupid.Now you're making assumptions about the one-shot & the guy that ran it.  1. there was a strict cap on magic gear, and it wasn't high.  I had a good weapon and a quiver.  The knight had decent armor and an OK weapon.  The arcanist had some wands.  We all had some potions.  That was it.2. Because the adventuring group was a trio, my PC and the arcane spellcaster were multiclassed- he had a good array of spells, but Fly wasn't one of them.  With the foreknowledge we had of the game, both fireball and lightning bolt were solid choices, and that was proven in play.</blockquote>

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