hello! i don't know if there has been a thread like this before but i didn't see one on the first page so here you go!

this thread is for fun sad funny or generaly unusual things that have happened in your second darkness for example the pc's unusual way of doing something here's my one to start of

Pc's are

Isack human male assassin

Tempest female elf wizard

Haldvin male dwarf elementalist

And Axeman male human warblade

It is when Depora has run out onto the Cyphergate (after the pc's spent an unusualy long time healing and not casing her) Axeman goes charging out onto the Cyphergate after her and hurls the mundane glue she had in her cave at her hoping it was Sovrien glue since that fails cause it's normal glue Depora leaps of of the Cyphergate and starts floating down to the ship below Axeman leaps of after her and misses splat in the water. so Tempest uses ventriloquism to make a deep manly voice to sound on the ship below HARD TO PORT! so the ship swerved to port and Depora landed in the water with Axeman and got minced by the waiting warblade Tempest had run down to the waters edge below and floated out to Axeman with Floating disc and got Axeman to strip her and load her gear on the disc

(Tempest is now wearing most of Depora's cloths)
So they leave a naked Drow in the harbor later to be swept up by the wave and hurled onto Kwava

that's mine what's yours?

How far did axeman fall?

from the top of the Cyphergate to the water so 300ft i recall

I’ve got a few scenes that I could share, but I thought my players enjoyed this one quite a bit.

Our little group of adventurers had a rough time in the smuggler’s tunnels and were forced to go back to the surface to heal. They didn’t know it but they turned around just before reaching Depora’s lair. (Part of me wanted to have her attack, but I didn’t want a TPK). The drow followed, and was pleased to find that the PCs left the GG entirely, and it was after midnight.

The heroes returned before daybreak, planning to sleep until dawn and then take on the rest of the tunnels. However, Depora ambushed them with her dretches in the main gambling hall. The drow couldn’t get anyone to succumb to her sleep poison, and the dretches did not hold up very long against the group’s fighter, and paladin. In desperation she cast darkness and fled before the group could close.

The heroes moved forward cautiously until they heard noise from the kitchen, and realized the drow was fleeing fast. They came to the kitchen and found two doors open; one that eventually led back to the tunnels and one that led outside. The paladin and the ranger headed toward the smugglers tunnels. The fighter and the rogue headed outside where morning was just beginning to start. In the dim light, the rogue thought he spotted someone dart into an alley. They ran full speed to eventually spot Depora heading toward the Runegate. Seeing her run up the structure, the fighter realized that he did not have a chance to catch her. However, he spotted a single ship in the harbor, slowly preparing to leave and making its way under the gate. He stripped out of his armor, and dove into the bay in hopes of making it to the ship (guessing what Depora was up to). The rogue climbed as quickly as he could, and found Depora at the top, waiting for the ship to come closer for her escape. As the rogue tried to close the distance, Depora shot him with a poisoned bolt, and this time he fell to the sleep poison. (I let him roll a balance check to determine if he fell off the gate or not. He didn’t, and I was slightly tempted to have Depora kick him off). Depora makes her leap and lands on the ship.

In the mean time, the fighter made an attempt to swim to the ship heading out of the harbor. He got really lucky and did not have any marine animals attack him (I made it random as I wanted to give him a chance). At this point, Depora and he only had a few HP each. I also ruled that the ship was still preparing and not at full sail, so I let him reach the ship by swimming. The fighter struggled onto the ship to find Depora killing a few of the crew. He grabs a short sword from a fallen sailor, and puts an end to the drow menace.

I’ve got a few scenes that I could share, but I thought my players enjoyed this one quite a bit.

Our little group of adventurers had a rough time in the smuggler’s tunnels and were forced to go back to the surface to heal. They didn’t know it but they turned around just before reaching Depora’s lair. (Part of me wanted to have her attack, but I didn’t want a TPK). The drow followed, and was pleased to find that the PCs left the GG entirely, and it was after midnight.

The heroes returned before daybreak, planning to sleep until dawn and then take on the rest of the tunnels. However, Depora ambushed them with her dretches in the main gambling hall. The drow couldn’t get anyone to succumb to her sleep poison, and the dretches did not hold up very long against the group’s fighter, and paladin. In desperation she cast darkness and fled before the group could close.

The heroes moved forward cautiously until they heard noise from the kitchen, and realized the drow was fleeing fast. They came to the kitchen and found two doors open; one that eventually led back to the tunnels and one that led outside. The paladin and the ranger headed toward the smugglers tunnels. The fighter and the rogue headed outside where morning was just beginning to start. In the dim light, the rogue thought he spotted someone dart into an alley. They ran full speed to eventually spot Depora heading toward the Runegate. Seeing her run up the structure, the fighter realized that he did not have a chance to catch her. However, he spotted a single ship in the harbor, slowly preparing to leave and making its way under the gate. He stripped out of his armor, and dove into the bay in hopes of making it to the ship (guessing what Depora was up to). The rogue climbed as quickly as he could, and found Depora at the top, waiting for the ship to come closer for her escape. As the rogue tried to close the distance, Depora shot him with a poisoned bolt, and this time he fell to the sleep poison. (I let him roll a balance check to...

from the top of the Cyphergate to the water so 300ft i recall

In which case Axeman would need either to have made a DC 40 Acrobatics or Swim check to have "dived" from the 300ft apex of the Cyphergate, or he would have been subject to 1d3+27d6 damage for plunging from that height.

Your game, so your call, and clearly would be unfair to your player to retcon now "Oh by the way, 2 days later you died from massive internal bleeding" :)

The part about having the ship turn cracks me up. It reminds me of similar abilities to feather fall in World of Warcraft, where you leap and float, but what ever your momentum was when you started carries you through to where you land, even if the 'land (or boat)' is no longer there when you get there.

Fun thing that happened in my game... SPOILERS !

During the Unfriendly Warning phase of the module, when Clegg Zincher pays a visit to the Gold Goblin, two of the players go out to talk to him. Zincher says, "You would be much better off working for someone else...someone like me." And to my suprise, the players take him up on his offer!

The next day, they meet one of Zincher's lietenants and sign on with Zincher's organization. Many times they are warned that Zincher values loyalty and all kinds of not-so subtle threats are thrown their way should they betray him. The players are instructed to continue to work at the Gold Goblin as Zincher's spies and to report everthing back to him. They are told that there's already a spy at the Gold Goblin and that when they return, Saul is going to ask them to escort some exotic liquors back to the Gold Goblin from the docks. ( Attack on the Foamrunner ) Zincher's man tells then that they are escort some Gold Goblin kitchen staff to the docks. When Old Korvosa shows up, he will kill the kitchen staff to send a message to Saul, and the players are supposed to "take a fall," allowing Zincher to steal the liquor. Zincher makes it very clear that he wants none of his men hurt.

The whole plan goes to hell, though. Two of the players go along and "play dead" when Old Korvosa smacks them on the head with his shield. But the other two refuse to fall. The rogue, because she starts to feel some loyalty to Saul. She sticks Old Korvosa a few times, then just decides to flee the scene rather than play dead. The barbarian on the other hand goes totally freaking beserk. He kills a few of Zincher's men, then he kills one of Saul's cooks ( he never liked him anyway). The Foamrunner starts to pull the gang plank up, because there is fighting on the docks, and the barbarian leaps aboard and kills the Captain Fizgabon. Then he almost kills Old Korvosa, who runs away swearing curses.

Out of character, the players who have been "playing dead" are going nuts, shouting at the Barbarian player and lamenting that now everybody's screwed, cause Zincher's going to have them killed. Hehe

The Gendarmes show up, but they've already been bribed by Zincher, so they find no wrong doing and escort the liquor back to the Gold Goblin with the players.

So, the next game, when we get to The Raid section, it is Zincher's men storming the Gold Goblin to kill the players and Saul. Oh, and to get the liquor too.

Oh... and one final note. In my game, Lixy is a spy for Zincher. So, she tells Saul that the players are working for Zincher. Infuriated, he sends them to the Boneyard Ambush. Which is where we are now!

I love it when games go in directions I would have never thought of!

my gods, what is wrong with your barbarian?! that insane killing spree that you discribed is, well... insane. I had to laugh when I read it.

my gods, what is wrong with your barbarian?! that insane killing spree that you discribed is, well... insane. I had to laugh when I read it.

But while his fellow players were very upset about the whole thing, I thought it fit in perfectly with the whole barbarian thing! hehe

Sorry this post is a practical joke as it were, one of the players in my gaming group has seen my name as a poster in this thread, but doesn't want to open it for fear of spoilers. So this is me just baiting him more.

Our silliest story to date was when our warrior climbed in the second story window of lymas smeed, only to get bull rushed right back out. He was climbing in alone after acting rather irrationally under the delusion that Smeed was hiding something because he refused to open the front door to a fully armed, yelling, warrior.

Great stories and yeah i let the acrobatics/swim thing go cause it was awesome and yeah i remember the levitating thing but it's not always so bad one i was using the jumpatron in nagrand to levitate me then i got on my epic flyer flew along a bit then jumped of my mount so I'm hurtling through the sky with levitate on then it runs out and i land in the only pool of water in miles! lucky me! (warlock)

thanks for posting everyone

Great stories and yeah i let the acrobatics/swim thing go cause it was awesome and yeah i remember the levitating thing but it's not always so bad one i was using the jumpatron in nagrand to levitate me then i got on my epic flyer flew along a bit then jumped of my mount so I'm hurtling through the sky with levitate on then it runs out and i land in the only pool of water in miles! lucky me! (warlock)

thanks for posting everyone

i saw that earlier it's really good=)

"Oh by the way, 2 days later you died from massive internal bleeding" :)

Why didn't you have Depora kick him off? I definitely would have, 'cause to my way of thinking, that's what a Drow would do, or am I missing something?

I’ve got a few scenes that I could share, but I thought my players enjoyed this one quite a bit.

Our little group of adventurers had a rough time in the smuggler’s tunnels and were forced to go back to the surface to heal. They didn’t know it but they turned around just before reaching Depora’s lair. (Part of me wanted to have her attack, but I didn’t want a TPK). The drow followed, and was pleased to find that the PCs left the GG entirely, and it was after midnight.

The heroes returned before daybreak, planning to sleep until dawn and then take on the rest of the tunnels. However, Depora ambushed them with her dretches in the main gambling hall. The drow couldn’t get anyone to succumb to her sleep poison, and the dretches did not hold up very long against the group’s fighter, and paladin. In desperation she cast darkness and fled before the group could close.

The heroes moved forward cautiously until they heard noise from the kitchen, and realized the drow was fleeing fast. They came to the kitchen and found two doors open; one that eventually led back to the tunnels and one that led outside. The paladin and the ranger headed toward the smugglers tunnels. The fighter and the rogue headed outside where morning was just beginning to start. In the dim light, the rogue thought he spotted someone dart into an alley. They ran full speed to eventually spot Depora heading toward the Runegate. Seeing her run up the structure, the fighter realized that he did not have a chance to catch her. However, he spotted a single ship in the harbor, slowly preparing to leave and making its way under the gate. He stripped out of his armor, and dove into the bay in hopes of making it to the ship (guessing what Depora was up to). The rogue climbed as quickly as he could, and found Depora at the top, waiting for the ship to come closer for her escape. As the rogue tried to close the distance, Depora shot him with a poisoned bolt, and this time he fell to the sleep poison. (I let him roll a balance check to...

SPOILERS!

Well, Saturday my players finished the Shadow in Sky and loved it. I know this thread is supposed to be specifically about fun things that happened in my campaign, and although nothing happened here that was probably out of the ordinary, I think it still falls into the fun category. And plus I'd like to thank the writers of this module for a very cinematic and fun ending. That's what my players kept raving about over and over. They loved how cinematic it was.

Saturday, my players fought Depora and she fled up the Cyphergate for a climatic battle at it's summit. Although two of my players were put to sleep by her Drow poison, the others were able to stop her just moments before she leapt to the ship passing below. Then, while they were searching her personal affects, they witnessed the falling star, the tremors and the following tsunami. Their jaws dropped. Their initial fear was that they would be seen atop the Cyphergate and be blamed for the whole thing somehow.

Anyway, we got a little ways into the Children of the Void, and next game session begins with them leaving Riddleport for Devil's Elbow.

Thanks again to the module designers. A really, really good job with this one.

P.S. I can't wait until the Witchlight Tower encounter on Devil's Elbow. I think they'll be equally pleased!

SPOILERS

My group is into Armegeddon Echo.

They made it to the Elven Village and were sent to the ruins of the conservatory to see if the Drow were using it.

One character did not show and did not send him character sheet.

The group decided to leave him in the village and check out the ruins.

As they entered the building the rogue was looking through things and was attacked by Assassin Vines. As the barbarian tried to help the Gray Render arrived on the scene and the barbarian attended to it.

The Monk found the yellow mold and was having spore problems.

The Monk and the wizard helped the barbarian with the Render.

In the mean time the rogue rolled lousy and could not escape the assassin vines and died. The party killed the vines and extracted the body with the Monk carrying it around. They encounted the Will O' Wisp and when the Barbarian hit it for half its points in went invisible. Up to this point things were fairly undercontrol but they group was a bit chaotic in their exploration and did not stick together much.

After the WOW turned invisible the cleric threw darkness and the barbarian swung wildly. The Monk took the rogues body and laid it outside the structure. The cleric backed out of the darkness and did not know what to do while the barbarian continued to swing wildly. The monk tried to pull the barbarian out of the encounter. The cleric was attacked by the WOW - he dispelled the darkness and blew his horn of fog (given to the group by the cypher mages). The horn attracted the ghost which the cleric attempted to turn but failed and he began to take damage from the ghost while the monk and the barbarian failed their saves and were panicked.

the whole time the wizard decided to wait outside with the body.

The monk and barbarian eventually fell to the WOW and the ghost. The cleric died and the wizard decided to flee back to the village when the sounds of battle faded but did not make it.

The new group will all be elves from the surrounding forest...

I think it's safe to say there are some spoilers.

So the party has gone out to Devil's Elbow and they've made their way with the rescued cyphermages to Zincher's camp. The possibly psychotic elf, who has a serious want to kill Zincher, sees him leaving the camp in the middle of the night. He grabs the ranger, who tracks him to the secret cliff path and the secret door. Once they get close enough, they see Zincher standing on the ledge, the secret door open and a female drow casting a spell on him.
They blow their stealth checks. Both of them. They're about 45-50 feet away from Zincher and the drow cleric. And 5 3rd level drow fighters. And there is just the two of them.
And that's when we had to stop for the night because it was getting too late.

SPOILERS!

Well, Saturday my players finished the Shadow in Sky and loved it. I know this thread is supposed to be specifically about fun things that happened in my campaign, and although nothing happened here that was probably out of the ordinary, I think it still falls into the fun category. And plus I'd like to thank the writers of this module for a very cinematic and fun ending. That's what my players kept raving about over and over. They loved how cinematic it was.

Saturday, my players fought Depora and she fled up the Cyphergate for a climatic battle at it's summit. Although two of my players were put to sleep by her Drow poison, the others were able to stop her just moments before she leapt to the ship passing below. Then, while they were searching her personal affects, they witnessed the falling star, the tremors and the following tsunami. Their jaws dropped. Their initial fear was that they would be seen atop the Cyphergate and be blamed for the whole thing somehow.

Anyway, we got a little ways into the Children of the Void, and next game session begins with them leaving Riddleport for Devil's Elbow.

Thanks again to the module designers. A really, really good job with this one.

P.S. I can't wait until the Witchlight Tower encounter on Devil's Elbow. I think they'll be equally pleased!

OK my player's enjoyed this bit THE ARMEGADON ECHO ALCHEMY LAB

So they do there usual sneak up, And end up all climbing onto the roof and rolling amazing stealth tests, So They lower down Axeman and Issac, Who are dangling in the smoke (Rolling fortitude saves, and passing=()

In my adventure 2 of the Troglodyte's with her are Shaman's and they and her are moving around the alchemy lab doing various jobs While the other four laze around the door, So The axeman and Issac wait for her to be facing away from the two shaman's and then they both swing out of the fire grab the shaman's and swing in again droping them into the fire after silencing them. Then The drow alchemist passes her perception test calls to the trog's whilst casting miror image on herself (3) The trog's surround the fire Axeman and Issac charge out and start killing trog's,

Haldvin leaps from the roof into the Fire and start burning (natural 1)

Tempest leaps down lands infront of the drow alchemist and cast's mirror image (3)

So three Female elf wizard's face to face with Three Female drow bards.

And then they started fighting drow with knife Elf with Longsword Twas fun.

Last Friday we started the Second Darkness Campaign. Two of the party members burned Lubber Town to the ground purly by accident. I think they felt guilty for killing a few innocent folks and making a whole section of people homeless. Oh well.

This Friday looks like it will be lost of fun. The players are all very excited about this adventure path. One of them set up a Yahoo Google Group allowing us to post files, schedule sessions on the calendar and share photos. one of the players keep a journal of the gaming sessions and posts it to the Yahoo Group.

I have a great group and I too am excited about where this adventure path is going to take us.

I would also like to say thanks to all of those who have posted stuff to the Second Darkness Message Board. I found much of it very useful and loaded with great advice.

D-NICE

As a player in this game, there have been a few memorable occurrences so far.

Last night, while obtaining the "Exotic Booze" from Saul's incoming ship, one such event took place. Old Korvosa and his cronies were in the process of loading up our casks, and refused to stand down. We even saw the Korvosan Guard armored gent slip a pouch to the captain before disembarking.

Being the cunning rogue I am, I interposed myself between the Captain and his exit, neatly pinching selfsame pouch on his way off stage. Rolling well on the Sleight of Hand, none of those present (including the party monk, who also rolled quite well) were able to spot my ledgermain.

A fight quickly broke out amongst the PCs and the thieving thugs, culminating in them all unconscious but alive. After stripping and looting them, we interrogated Old Korvosa regarding his employer and goals. Getting nothing, I felt it only charitable to keep his magic shield and cloak, selling his armor and weapon to the nearest pawn shop. I did, however, make sure to leave him a note telling him where his distinctive gear was sold, as well as the market price.

I hope to see him again, when I can afford to watch him go swimming in that banded mail. Preferably in an area frequented by devilfish and bunyips.

-t

Spoilers Below for Chapter 4.

We are starting chapter 5 "A memory of Darkness".

A very cool and cinematic scene occurred during our groups stay in House Vonnarc. I felt (as a player) that we had been very good at being lowly slaves. our DM did a fantastic job of bringing out our abilities to give notice to the leaders of the house.

Since I am playing a monk, I was flogged several times for my inability to cook during the skill challenges part of our slavery. Just about any other skill option would have garnered me a +5 on any roll, but for cooking, I had nothing that could give me any synergy on a skill roll. So I failed time and time again, thus, getting flogged for ruining the food for dinner.

Since I didnt cry out or show that the flogging hurt me, I came to the attention of the second son for being a "tough guy" and so, he had to teach me a lesson.

So, I was brought to the house's sparring arena and challenged by the second son to a non-lethal style duel. I was frustrated with constantly rolling the kitchen for my skill check for the day. I was getting no points to move me to the next level of servitutde while the rest of my group was achieving their 25 ranks quickly.

So, I fought the guy instead of taking it like a man (like I should have). But, being the hot head type that was only down in the drow city for fame and recognition, I immediately shot off a Bull rush with my Ring the golden bell feat, which knocked the guy back 5ft. and prone. (I didnt even touch the guy). He had said, mockingly at me, right before I won initiative, "Come on slave... knock me down".

So, the fight was on, and the gathered onlookers were silent after that initial display of furious power.

The second son got up and attacked. I played with him for two rounds, testing out his defenses with my flurry of blows and seeing how hard he hit in return. The guy was a quick striker, and his damage was minimal, so I went with the improved disarm, and my CMB was up to the task. I wanted to see if he was a monk or a fighter, because his weapon was exotic, and I had to know what I was up against.

The second son did not oblige me and picked up his weapon for another strike against me. I disarmed again, which made him go to pick it up again. So I went into grapple mode and had him pinned in two rounds, applying damage with automatic hits for two rounds before he levitated to the ceiling, which was 50ft. up.

Since I had the slippers of spider climb from Devils elbow, I placed my feet on the ceiling thinking he had a trick up his sleve, which he did, and he broke my pin and then the grapple and fell to the ground. Of course, he stopped himself from being hurt by activating feather fall or levitate again.

When I wasnt on the ground from the fall, he looked up, but it was to late, I already released myself from the ceiling, taking the full 50ft. falling damage so I could apply 1/2 that to the stike with my staff on the guy. Well, it worked out very good as I took 20 points from the fall, but he took 30pts from my staff hit plus 1/2 my falling damage. (yes, I had a crit).

We both backed away from eachother. I was down 48 out of 87hp, and I had done almost 60pts against him, so it was looking good for me.

Plus, I had looked more the master, which made the drow noble think, "what the hell?"

I was then attacked with lethal damage by the second son with a wicked slash across my chest. My character simply smiled and had in his mind, "oh.. now you pay..." But the fight was interrupted by the matron of slaves and I was hauled off and flogged again for standing up to the 2nd son.

I became best friends with the matrons whip. This was a real fun part of the adventure for me.

CC

nice one, My groups latest crazies is there trying to start A temple to LOTH Argh...

My group and I just finished Armageddon Echo. The party seems to be a little overpowered, even though there's only 3 players. Here's the party composition:

Desmyra, the dwarf druid hated by nature, with a lion animal companion named Faern;
Melissandra, the Chelaxian sorceress who intends to establish herself as the newest crimelord in Riddleport;
Kisa, the half-elf barbarian/fighter/favored soul of Gorum with pink hair and an enormous greatsword;

They are joined by Valeria, Melisandra's monk/fighter/rogue cohort, once Armageddon Echo begins.

And now their adventures:

We'll be starting the 4th book at our next session in a few weeks. I'm going to use the time to beef up the encounters in it so that there's a possibility that I'll actually threaten them with them....

Squirl riding a mephit! ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!

Played through some bits of Children of the Void last night, and it was one of the best sessions of D&D I've been in, ever.

First, there was a LOT of discussion about selling the Goblin, finding a boat to take out to Devil's Elbow, and all around just shooting the breeze. The party Sorcerer, Cap'n, comes up with the new battle cry of the party. We're all helping out, trying to get some order back into the streets, and he's looting. Rather, he's collecting "Salvage."

So, our new battle cry has become "SALVAGE!!!"

Later on, after securing passage on the Foam Runner (I think that's the name), we spot a pirate vessel a ways away. Deciding to take out the threat to our ride home first, our plan is to perform a high-speed turn at the last second, dropping off our party on the port side of the enemy vessel.

The plan works like a charm, and the ship is pacified rapidly. Some particular events really stood out in that combat:

The Sorcerer Cap'n held off the enemy Captain, the Cleric, and another pirate in her cabin with multiple castings of Acid Hands (Earth Elemental Bloodline). They never had a chance to do more than disarm him and do some buff type effects on the crew. He even managed NOT to melt the entire treasure-part of the room.

The Monk managed to kick his way through the floor of the Top Deck cabin, all but landing on the half elf Wizard/Warrior guy. Little did we know, but this was the optimal combat for him, as the squishy elf was grappled, then pinned, then rendered unconscious without getting a single spell/scroll off.

All the while, my Rogue and the Barbarian were holding off the rest of the pirate crew, moving along the racks, flanking and stabbing with abandon. We managed to knock out (was TWF with a sap in one hand and rapier in the other for a while) and capture 8 of the mook pirates and the enemy Cleric. All without a single casualty on our end.

Later on that night, at the fight against the Akata, the Monk and Barbarian made great use of combat maneuvers, kicking about 8-10 of the critters off the tower and nearby cliffside, splattering them right and proper.

Inside the tower were the Cleric and my Rogue, fighting and trying to help the others escape, when the whole thing went over the cliff. The poor Cleric was blinded on her first turn, but I rolled like a champ on the various checks, enabling me to hold on with 1 hand, grabbing her with the other. So, blinded, bruised, and tossed around in a rolling tower, the Cleric doesn't really get a chance to do anything when an escape vector opens up on the 2nd round. We both work to toss her clear (she manages to escape without harm) and she grabs onto a nearby vine.

The Rogue, meanwhile, is having the time of his life, laughing maniacally as Akata, rocks, and the tower go spinning about him. He takes no damage until the whole thing finally goes sploosh, and is rewarded with the sight of melting space-doggies in the salt water.

We later brought all 4 Cyphermages, Sam, and the party back down the hill, and now have a rather well equipped pirate ship at our disposal.

Awesome night, awesome adventure!

-t

Psion, I had a similar experience at that point in the adventure. Devils elbow was one of my favorite places.

A quick overview:

Playing the monk in our group, I found myself getting ready to go down in a blaze of glory by placing myself in the doorway of the tower so the blue doggies could not get by me and into the tower. Well, I didnt know they would do a doggie pyramid and get in on the 2nd level window of the tower, but I was holding them off for a bit when the tower started to give way.

The tower detatched itself, started rolling down the hill with all my companions inside, and I was standing there with about 20 of these blue mutations closing in. I turned and ran down the hill after the tower.

(Picture Indiana jones running from beloque's savages in "Raiders of the Lost arc").

When I saw the tower roll off the cliff, I knew I was doomed. 20 blue dogs, me, and a cliff drop coming up. As I ran to the edge, I saw the tower had not fallen that far, so I jumped and natural 20'd the landing.

the dogs did not have the same luck. They all tried and fell in the water (except one) which I pushed off the edge. Salt water seemed to dissolve them quickly, but the fact is, it was a very intense scene, and there was a similar 20 rolled on keeping the hand hold on an unconcious team member as the tower spun down the hill.

It was quite fun. I am glad someone else loved that scene too. :D

CC

Yeah, the rolling tower was really an amazing scene. I wound up just being pushed along an edge and kept there. But I was the druid who baleful polymorphed and then awakened the squirrel illusionist in Jennibert's recounting. Much fun...

Ah the tower, I loved the tower.

The PCs had healed the Cypher Mages, but proceeded to usher everyone up stairs when the Ataka's attacked. So when the footing gave way and the weak mages failed their saving throws, all of them but Sam died. As the tower rolled down the hill everyone except the warrior got out. By the time it hit the water it was him and about half a dozen of the beasties left.

The rest of the party had systematically escaped, the mage with fly, and the rest out the window. Three of them getting trapped in the landslide that followed the tower, it was pretty hilarious, by the time everyone was dug out, healed, and the dogs puddles it was just cool.

The PCs, with much hanggling and promise of payment, have turned the Gold Goblin into a strip club. And we're only three sessions in.

Okay, so my group is the following loadout;

Savrina Human Fighter 2/Thief 2
Alamar Human Paladin 4
Koltezreal Elf Wizard 4

And we're doing the Teeth of Araska set piece. Ol' Captain "Grudge" Kreeg has heard of the PC's due to the fact that the leaderish one "Savrina" is a devout follower of Calistria and has been doing her works quite liberally in old Riddleport. (i.e. after Clegg's attacks she started beating up their workers for fun and profit. Add in the fact that she killed Saul for vengeance and you get the idea. Calistria has gifted her with unspeakable bliss on THAT one.)

He shouts over that he can forgive Savrina for shooting down a few of his men for catcalling her, if she's willing to do a bit of work. Turns out Clegg embarrassed his ass ten times over and if she brings Clegg alive to him, he'll forgive her, and even pay her 1k gold to boot. The players get together in a huddle and it mainly comes down to, Paladin is going to object no matter what. Selling out someone to a Calistrian devout is not his idea of Lawful Good.

SO Savrina jumps to the other ship, with a fifteen foot gap between ships.

She gets over when the fight breaks out, and the priestess of Calistria orders Savrina to drop her weapons using command. Unfortunately the girl can't shake off the command and does as she's told, before the next round she's beating up sailors with daggers. The Wizard has his familiar fly over to the other ship, before a handy benign transposition puts the Paladin squarely on the other ship. The Paladin immediately goes after the man at the wheel, hoping to throw a bit of chaos on the ship as they're trying to maintain control.

Let me tell you, I have never seen more 1-5 rolled EVER, and he kept BARELY missing the guy...

Following this, the Calistrian priest hears the cracks of the guns that Koltezreal was firing and decides the wizard has to be dealt with before he kills enough sailors to change the balance. So, she commands the Wizard to approach...

And he rolls a natural 1 on the will save...

I have never felt more like a bastard, than when the Wizard decides to holster his guns, and jump bodily across from ship to ship. He fails of course, not even breaching five and takes a dive into the water, before swimming across and attempting to scramble up the ship, and promptly failing. Luckily I decided he didn't have his spell book on him as he had already prepared his spells, and it was safely tucked in his cabin. He also bought scroll cases that I reasoned were water proof. and he had a near miss with ruining the bullets in his guns.

Needless to say, that fight was nearly fatal to that wizard.

Lots of near misses, not a lot of deaths. Certainly the Wizard is getting frustrated with the amount of times the group has been surrounded, beaten and pummeled to near death in a few instances.

I have another story, but I'll wait for one to pop up before I tell you the new one...

Well I've had a ton of hilarious scenes by now... some of them so far out I barely believe them myself...

First: During the heist at the Golden Goblin my team's halfling rogue was knocked prone, after which he stood up behind Angvar, killing the Chelish Wizard by a critical hit (confirmed with a 20 as well) which my player chooses (I had no hand in this) to place specifically in the (currently bending to snatch the chest in small version) "behind" of the wizard killing him with it... UNBELIEVABLE.

I'll add a few more when they're properly rounded up.

My players are having fun in Riddleport, but they haven't killed any of the main NPC opponents. Since they didn't dispatch Lymas Smeed and only managed to get an extension on the loan, I decided Saul wouldn't promote them to junior partners.

The most amusing thing is the Human Paladin of Torag (he grew up an orphan in dwarven lands) has fallen for Lavender Lil. He was looking for potential rivals of Clegg Zincher and found her. The player knows she's using him, since he's read the Player's Guide, but is playing his lovestruck character to the hilt. "You don't know her like I do!" he yelled after the other players were saying that she might not be trustworthy.

I just had to smile.

I had some fun with Lavender as well, which has led to my entire party beign on the verge on going to Zincher's Arena mulitple times (with anything but friendly intentions) - I suppose part off the fault is mine, for leading the (by then CE) rogue to nearly get hired by Zincher (which the higly perceptive and highly fanatic) cleric noticed and saw as a severe betrayal. Of course, my players only know Lavender as "the creepy ranger's date"...

My group has beat the BBEGs with Hold Person. Both times the cleric barely overcame their SR and I've rolled a 1 and a 2 for the will saves. And with the barbarian raging, and doing the coup de grace...

My group has beat the BBEGs with Hold Person. Both times the cleric barely overcame their SR and I've rolled a 1 and a 2 for the will saves. And with the barbarian raging, and doing the coup de grace...

Sanakht Inaros wrote:

My group has beat the BBEGs with Hold Person. Both times the cleric barely overcame their SR and I've rolled a 1 and a 2 for the will saves. And with the barbarian raging, and doing the coup de grace...

Don't feel bad, I just has ran the encounter with Razorhorn in Armaggedon Echo and it was a massacre. After ending up last on the initiatives, Razorhorn could do little to stop the Cleric from beginning to summon an undead shadow. First round the wizard cast Enervation, costing razorhorn 4 negative levels, before fleeing out of the room (and using the fighters as door blocks). Razorhorn used his chlorine (8d6 acid damage) breath and I didn't roll above 3 on any of the dice. They barely even noticed the damage, the cleric passed his concentration check, and it was going to be another 4 rounds before breath recharge.
Next round the wizard used 'Ray of Exhaustion' and thanks to the lost levels, Razorhorn failed his fort save. The arrival of the undead shadow drained what was left of Razorhorn's strength. Crippled and weakened, I barely hit anyone at all with the full attacks, and got pounded by a mixture of 'Channel negative energy' from the cleric and 'fireball' from the sorcerer. ANOTHER failed fort save vs. Ray of Emfeeblement meant I was pretty much finished. Razorhorn is now about to be used as an undead minion for the PC's.
It should be noted that Razorhorn had an AC of 30 during this encounter and it barely help him at all.
That's evil PC's for you.

Neil Mansell wrote:

Sanakht Inaros wrote:

My group has beat the BBEGs with Hold Person. Both times the cleric barely overcame their SR and I've rolled a 1 and a 2 for the will saves. And with the barbarian raging, and doing the coup de grace...

Don't feel bad, I just has ran the encounter with Razorhorn in Armaggedon Echo and it was a massacre. After ending up last on the initiatives, Razorhorn could do little to stop the Cleric from beginning to summon an undead shadow. First round the wizard cast Enervation, costing razorhorn 4 negative levels, before fleeing out of the room (and using the fighters as door blocks). Razorhorn used his chlorine (8d6 acid damage) breath and I didn't roll above 3 on any of the dice. They barely even noticed the damage, the cleric passed his concentration check, and it was going to be another 4 rounds before breath recharge.
Next round the wizard used 'Ray of Exhaustion' and thanks to the lost levels, Razorhorn failed his fort save. The arrival of the undead shadow drained what was left of Razorhorn's strength. Crippled and weakened, I barely hit anyone at all with the full attacks, and got pounded by a mixture of 'Channel negative energy' from the cleric and 'fireball' from the sorcerer. ANOTHER failed fort save vs. Ray of Emfeeblement meant I was pretty much finished. Razorhorn is now about to be used as an undead minion for the PC's.
It should be noted that Razorhorn had an AC of 30 during this encounter and it barely help him at all.
That's evil PC's for you.

The party consists of an elf barbarian, a half-orc cleric of Gorum, a gnome sorcerer, and a half-elf bard. The bard, barbarian, and sorcerer are CN and the cleric is LN (I think). The sorcerer is the closest to evil we have in the party. He's testing the waters (just two more acts and I'll let him know his alignment has changed). The cleric is the closest to good we have and the barbarian and the bard kind of bounce around their alignment, depending on the situation. It's gonna be one or two...

They haven't figured it out yet. No one thought to actually CHECK to see what was really and what was memorex. They're already talking about what they're going to do with all of Zincher's deeds.