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Message: <blockquote data-quote="broghammerj" data-source="post: 6095785" data-attributes="member: 1869">My three favorite things we've done as "surprises":1. In one of the biggest battles we've ever fought in the home brew, the entire party was either dead, dying, or captured.  My cleric was down to virtually no spells and had just seen the tank go down after getting blasted by flamestrike.  I had 2 HP left.  The BBEG cleric was perched upon a rocky outcropping commanding the battle.  He was out of melee range and we basically had nothing left to hit him with.  The remainder of the enemies were decimated but for a few mooks.  I looked at my spell list and decided I would stone shape the rock he was standing on and engulf him in stone.  He failed a reflex save and was suffocated.  The next morning when we got our spells back we opened the rock to find his body was missing (bye bye magic items).  The DM decided that stone shape wasn't an offensive spell but the idea was cool so he let it go, but then opted to take some creative liberties to say the cleric had a teleport trigger upon reaching 1 hp.  The DM wanted to bring him back to make later appearances.  It got no complaints from us.2. The Gates of Firestorm Peak are guarded by pole arm wielding spriggans that increase their size to hit you over the door with the pole arms.  Their reach is fair enough that you can't get to the gates to even climb over an attack.  We couldn't even get the adventure really started because we couldn't get in the mountain.  On top of that the rest of our party was doing their best to screw up any semblance of a plan.  I got so pissed I said I was just going back to town.  Showed up with a donkey, wagon, and a spoon.  Backed the wagon up to the gate, crawled underneath it, and began digging my way through the wall.  Wagon stopped the polearm attacks.  Why a spoon?  I just wanted to protest the complete idiocy we had just wasted mucking up our previous plan.  The DM loved it because it was really impossible for us to do virtually anything against the spriggans.3. With nearly everyone dead, the mage screams, "There can be only one," and retributive strikes the Red Dragon from Dragon Mountain.  Destroyed the dragon, the party, the treasure, and the DM decided the mountain erupted into a volcano.  The mage survived the ordeal and was ported to another plane and never heard from again.</blockquote>

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