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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mersie" data-source="post: 940128" data-attributes="member: 12443">Re: Re: Re: Balance Checks Suck Hard!Hiya all. New to this but had to recount our parties colosall inability to get a good roll between them.The Scene. Midway thru Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil (Fire Temple)Me, a 9th lvl Sorcerer and recently elected Tainted Spellcaster (Prc from Dragon) due to selfishly hogging a nifty idol that changed me from Neut Gd to Chaotic Evil, due to demonic possesion. I had spent the past 8 seshions since "getting evil" very casually and carefully raining friendly Lightning Bolt (Empowered of course) on my fellows, to good effect, and after many seshions they clicked I was possessed, probably after the 4th time I had Polyed into a Green Dragon and was flying about invisibly pissing them all off and scaring them silly. So eventually I got bored of fighting the party, and allowed them to come a get me and recover and destroy the evil idol.  Standing stock still in a room, no def spells up, a 11 Dex and a desire to getting grappled, a 9th lvl Paladin, Monk, Fighter6/Rogue3 and a 1/2 Dragon 1/2 Orgre Barbarian ALL charge me, each rolling 1's on their Grapple checks, and slipping on the blood on the floor, much to my mirth. Again they all try to grapple me, expecting firery death to fall on us all at any moment, again each failing their rolls! I, being the easiest PC ever to get nobbled by this form of arcane counter-attacking am wetting myself laughing as 4 PC's are sliping on their arses, and me WANTING to get grappled, so we can get on with the game and duff up some baddies...... Much cursing ensued, and eventually they got me on the floor, stripped of everything and rendered spell-incapable, and still they are holding a stilletto to my throat. To mine and the DMs hilarity (as we have been planning these encounters in secret) a handfull of cultist baddies turn up and attack them, I poly into a snake, free myself, slither off and come back and save the party from certain death with some well placed Fireballs. Suffice it to say my share of the loot has been less than fair since then, and the Gnome Paladin still hates me cos I killed his beloved War-Dog. Twice.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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