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Today I had one of the raddest things happen in a game ever!
Here's the set up:
Party, 12th level, on the back of a huge eagle, the party druid using wild shape, flying over a lake towards a castle in the middle of a crater. A group of gargoyles attacked from the castle. (Arial combat can be fun.) The fighting noise attracted a huge umbral dragon.
At one point the party had a couple of gargoyles behind them and the dragon behind the gargoyle. The rogue wanted get on the dragon. He jumped off the giant eagle, landed on a gargoyle and jumped again onto the dragon's head. He stuck the landing. The druid then circled around and the fighter also jumped on the dragon. (Mostly just stepping over on to it.)
The dragon didn't like having riders so proceeded to climb in the sky. Fighter fell onto the castle. Rogue held on. At the end of the climb the rogue pulled out 2 immovable rods. (I made him make Dex checks to get the rods and stay on his feet.) He then stabbed the dragon in the eye with an immovable rod and hit the button.
DRAGON CLOTHESLINE AT 200 FEET!
So awesome!
The dragon took 25d6. Then the dragon could not make the Str check to move the rod. However the rod had a weight limit of 8,000 lbs. So the dragon and the rogue slowly fell straight down. The dragon was never able to make the Str check and then the rogue used the 2nd rod to back of the dragon's head. I ruled they were descending at 40 feet. So the dragon took an extra 8d6.
Also since the dragon was pinned he was denied his Dex bonus. The rogue proceeded to stab the dragon and get his sneak attack during the descent.
The druid was helping out with some called lighting and ball lightning when he made his caster level checks. I had the rogue make a hold on check each roundon the way down. Rogue was hitting about half the time. Then he got hit with an enervation, he started hitting less. Once the dragon "landed" the rogue and druid finished it off.
I had to share. I love being surprised by my players like this.
(This was playing Pathfinder rules D&D in the Skeletons of Scarwall, book 4 of the Curse of the Crimson Throne adventure path.)
How did the rogue survive the fall?
Did he just jump back onto the eagle thingy or did you simply rule of cool say he stuck the landing?
I congratulate your player on finding a great use for a highly under-rated magic item.
I love immovable rods I try to alwaya get my hands on one. You can find sooooo many uses for them when you think about it.
Creative players are so awesome. ^_^
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I had a guy who played a rouge in the socity game "murder on the sinken trail". In this he snagges a harpy with a grappeling hook while he s on the back of a running cammel. The harpy gets yanked out of the air and slammes into ground for some damage. Then the rouge bales off the cammel and draws his sword to get in an attack of oprotunity. He dident hit but would hav gotten sneak attack damage in if he had.
harpy still gets taken out though becaus it never is able to free its self and so is drugg to death by a galiping cammel.
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Creative players are so awesome. ^_^
Awesomely annoying! LOL
Especially when it comes from a guy who usually is the one who has all the bad ideas.
The dragon took 25d6.
It took me a while to understand why the dragon took so much damage from that. But after reading what the immovable rod does and what the rogue did with it... I totally understand... ITS FRIKIN AWESOME!!!
8000 lbs streight to the eye... that is on so many levels of bad assery.
+2 because 1 just isnt enough!!!