Dyllan
2009-01-17, 01:07 AM
Alright, everyone says the frenzied berserker's drawback, that he will attack party members until his frenzy ends, makes it nigh unplayable. Tonight, that drawback saved our party.
We were going after a red dragon, and it got the jump on us after we killed it's child.
Well, it hit us all with the breath weapon... and everyone but the rogue/sorcerer (only 1 level of base rogue, no evasion) failed the save. Cleric was severely hurt, the wizard (me) was at -7, and the frenzied beserker was in bad shape too (he has a weakness to fire - orcish draconic heritage variant). Well, the fight was taking place with persistant fly on all the party members, at the edge of a lava pool. The Beserker went into melee, above the pool.
The dragon wanted his equipment (minor artifact sword especially), so he didn't want to drop the guy in lava. So he tried charm person... which the FB failed.
Now our Beserker considers the dragon his friend... oh, no enemies in the room, so he attacks the nearest creature - the dragon. Had it been a normal charm, there is no doubt that the dragon would've killed the cleric, and in short order finished off the rest of us. The Beserker was doing the majority of the damage, with the cleric healing him.
So see, the Frenzied beserker isn't all bad... it saved our party...
Of course, he DID kill the cleric after the battle ended, before I could throw a Otiluke's Resiliant Sphere around him.
-Dyllan
We were going after a red dragon, and it got the jump on us after we killed it's child.
Well, it hit us all with the breath weapon... and everyone but the rogue/sorcerer (only 1 level of base rogue, no evasion) failed the save. Cleric was severely hurt, the wizard (me) was at -7, and the frenzied beserker was in bad shape too (he has a weakness to fire - orcish draconic heritage variant). Well, the fight was taking place with persistant fly on all the party members, at the edge of a lava pool. The Beserker went into melee, above the pool.
The dragon wanted his equipment (minor artifact sword especially), so he didn't want to drop the guy in lava. So he tried charm person... which the FB failed.
Now our Beserker considers the dragon his friend... oh, no enemies in the room, so he attacks the nearest creature - the dragon. Had it been a normal charm, there is no doubt that the dragon would've killed the cleric, and in short order finished off the rest of us. The Beserker was doing the majority of the damage, with the cleric healing him.
So see, the Frenzied beserker isn't all bad... it saved our party...
Of course, he DID kill the cleric after the battle ended, before I could throw a Otiluke's Resiliant Sphere around him.
-Dyllan