| Takasi |
Here's a summary of my campaign's last few sessions of "Champion's Games":
Day 1 ends in the Diamond Lake Freelancers flinging super fireballs, lightning bolts, psionic energy rays and warforged speed demons before the other teams can blink an eye. Despite cranking the difficulty up to 11, it was nearly a cakewalk. Hurray for the party, wow 9th level rocks, yada yada...
Despite being half way to E on the power gauge, the party decides to search for Ekaym's sister before the end of the day. A slay living trap later and the party's fighting Kyuss spawns. With a warforged paladin, a warforged monk and a Radiant Servant (of Dol Arrah) in the party this is also no sweat.
After one of the wizo's sends his familiar to get a sneak peak at the super apostle worm, the party is ready for mohrgs. While the rest of the party is screaming in fear in the sewage control room, the 6 spawns and 3 mohrgs are having a tough time cracking the warforged nut. The smarter mohrgs decide to report to the chief and Bozal pulls everyone back to unhallowed ground for a huddle.
The Freelancers snap to and have trouble getting past the mohrgs, so the cleric throws up a wall of sand at the Half-Rakshasa. The scroll carrying cat demon pushes his way through the sand and exits to his room, throwing a wall of stone behind for good measure. Out come the warforged and their portable ram makes its first campaign appearance. Once the dust settles they find Ekaym's zombified sister laying seductively on Bozal's bed. All is quiet in the room, so they head to the next one.
Thanks to the spider silk curtain, a cone of cold surprises the party. Bozal grabs the blob king by the tentacles and greater teleports his way back to unhallowed ground. After a bit of searching the party finds the duo behind them now, in the altar room. Seeing the obstacles surrounding them, the cleric summons a brelani eladron to distract the evildoers while the party makes a break for the exit. They find the cat's toilet and squirm their way down. A rope trick later and they're resting for the night.
The next day (and session) finds the crew back up the toilet, only to discover the place is now crawling in black puddings! After a few of these mooks are dispatched the party makes their way to unhallowed ground. A beefed up black pudding separates the melee beaters from the casters. A spell vulnerability and assay spell resistance later and the demon is an open target for spells, but thanks to its stinking cloud the squeamish are ready to head back to the toilet. The warforged pair and cleric are now left to defend themselves.
The warforged cleric/paladin is now an Exorcist of the Silver Flame and manages to censure old backward hands Bozal. The Alkilith demon knows nothing of warforged and throws an enervation at them to no success. Once the pudding is down the demon's last ditch effort is to put up a wall of ice. The monk karate chops it down and the cleric finally pulls off a successful dismissal. With his holy longsword in hand, the paladin attempts to smite Bozal...
Count them up, not one, not two, not three but FOUR, yes FOUR natural twenties in a row over 2 attacks. 121 points of damage later and there's nothing left but fur and whiskers.
The group had a blast. The whole encounter they were getting up and sitting down, and that last UNBELIEVABLE set of rolls was the icing on the cake.
And I had horrible, ungodly rolls for the puddings. If they managed to pin the forged just once it would have been over, thanks to Bozal's harm and inflict repertoire.
Kudos to Paizo, good times for all!