big teej
2010-10-06, 10:33 AM
greetings members of the playground,
a long time back (years ago) I ran across a thread on the GLEEMAX forums about 'epic character deaths' or something similar, we've all seen threads like them.
but one particular death stands out to me, and I recall the story to this day.
a character was "erased"
from what I remember:
the party had tracked down the BBEG (a lich I believe) and was in the process of smiting it to itsy bitsy bits. the dwarf fighter buried his axe in the monstorsity's chest and killed it, but with his dying breath, the BBEG cast "erase" a spell that completely removes a character from existence. their body, their mind, their soul, the memory of the person in the minds of others, essentially, all trace of the dwarf had been removed from existence, not only had he been destroyed utterly, he had been completely removed from the memory of all that had encountered him, including the party....
all that was left was a crater where the BBEG and the fighter had been, and the dwarf's axe...
the party KNEW that they had just lost someone, and they KNEW the BBEG had cast erase.....
but they have no idea who.........
so
my question, as the name of the thread implies, is simple
does such a spell exist within a sourcebook?
regardless of the existence of such a spell in a published source, would you allow such a spell in your games?
thanks in advance
a long time back (years ago) I ran across a thread on the GLEEMAX forums about 'epic character deaths' or something similar, we've all seen threads like them.
but one particular death stands out to me, and I recall the story to this day.
a character was "erased"
from what I remember:
the party had tracked down the BBEG (a lich I believe) and was in the process of smiting it to itsy bitsy bits. the dwarf fighter buried his axe in the monstorsity's chest and killed it, but with his dying breath, the BBEG cast "erase" a spell that completely removes a character from existence. their body, their mind, their soul, the memory of the person in the minds of others, essentially, all trace of the dwarf had been removed from existence, not only had he been destroyed utterly, he had been completely removed from the memory of all that had encountered him, including the party....
all that was left was a crater where the BBEG and the fighter had been, and the dwarf's axe...
the party KNEW that they had just lost someone, and they KNEW the BBEG had cast erase.....
but they have no idea who.........
so
my question, as the name of the thread implies, is simple
does such a spell exist within a sourcebook?
regardless of the existence of such a spell in a published source, would you allow such a spell in your games?
thanks in advance