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On Revivify – This spell has had heavy use in my campaign and saved many a character from losing a level permanently.

As for the deadliness of Maure Castle – We have been playing in Maure Castle for the last three gaming sessions now. I have dropped party members below 0 HP more than 20 times already and the party has only made it to level three. Thanks to the use of revivify and quick healing, most of the players did not result in a permanent loss of level. However 4 party members have lost a level due to death and one PC permanently destroyed. Yea it’s pretty tough.

Over the years gaming I have come across some interesting use of spells that overcame situations that normally the spell was not intended for but in the particular situation worked quite wonderfully. Let me give you an example.

The party was stuck in a desert and the pack camels were attacked and killed. Without the pack animals, the party would not be able to transport the treasure without being overly encumbered. Since the camel corpses were still fresh, the cleric cast animate dead to animate these camels as skeletons. As an additional bonus, since they were animated as skeletons and still had flesh on them they also served as walking food supplies. Just a little purify food and water on the hanging meat and you have food. Although it didn’t look appealing, it still served well in a pinch. As yet another bonus, these mounts didn’t need food, water or even rest during the journey. Strangely enough, having the camels killed worked out better with the creative use of a couple of spells.

So what other type of spells have you guys come across that were used in non-obvious ways?

For about a year now I have been using DM Genie to run the games in my campaign. If you haven’t tried this program out yet, give it a try. http://www.dmgenie.com/ It is simply awesome! It takes a little while to get accustomed to but what you gain is wonderful. Anymore I can’t imagine running the campaign without it especially with all the complexities of having a large high-level party.

Are there any other subscribers out there using DM Genie? Let me know. I have loaded some of the encounters in the Dungeon adventures into DM Genie so I can run it in my campaign. If any of you have been doing the same thing perhaps we can save each other duplicated work.

Here are a couple of quotes from our games that have occasionally transferred out to our non-gaming lives.

“I’m not Evil, I’m just practical.”
“Optimism is just pessimism that hasn’t been raped yet.”