Deimess
2011-12-18, 11:42 AM
My group finished their first campaign yesterday, and the final battle was so incredible and fun that I have to share it, because it's battles like that that a DM dreams of. The basic premise is the PCs retrieved an artifact to counter the one held by the BBEG (in possession of the party rogue). This campaign was all core with very few house rules, since 3 of the 4 player's had never played before.
The 5 PCs (level 14 each) pinned the BBEG into a throne room and all beat him on initiative. Some of them got hits in and others dwindled down his buffs, but the BBEG opened up with time stop and used his 4 rounds to summon in some help and separate the party with blade barrier.
The goons were quickly killed and the barrier dispelled but the boss used his artifact to turn some the party against eachother, in which the sorcerer, fighter, and bard all failed there saves. The rogue who was dealing a lot of damage with his own artifact was also blinded via PWB. Because of the commands, the sorcerer first disintegrated a nightmare summoned by the bard, then disintegrated the cleric, who luckily made his save and stayed alive. The cleric cured the rogues blindness right as the bard joined the fray, but most of the party got hit by a maximized horrid wilting and brought a lot of them to low HP.
They were getting hits in here and there, but the boss cast heal and continued his barrage. The sorcerer maximize fireballed the party and the boss, but killed the cleric in doing so. The boss cast finger of death on the sorcerer and instantly slew him, leaving only the fighter, bard, and rogue. The rogue finally got a sneak atack full round in and did a lot of damage (since his artifact kept him invisible even though the boss had true seeing) but all 3 survivors were paralyzed by the boss's artifact.
This is where it got really good. the 3 were paralyzed and had a really hard time breaking out because the DC was so high. The boss (although he couldn't see him), used disintegrate in the rogue's square, hit, and brought him to 1 HP, followed by a quickened enrvation which killed the bard. The sorcerer's familiar flew his staff of the magi over the the boss and used retributive strike, killig itself to hurt the boss. the staff had too few charges to kill him though, but the rogue rolled a natural 20 and broke the paralalysis and double moved behind the boss. the boss cast glitterdust to ensure that he had slain the rogue with his disintegrate and when he saw that there was nothing there, turned to the fighter and cast maximized cone of cold, bringing him to 1 HP. Thinking this was the end, he gave his villain shpeel and was about to slay the fighter when the 1 HP rogue did a sneak attack with his artifact (which bypassed all of the bosses buffs) and slew him.
Anyway, it's battles like these that you see in movies and that make D&D so awesome, so I had to share it. I was a very proud DM at that moment :smallsmile:.
The 5 PCs (level 14 each) pinned the BBEG into a throne room and all beat him on initiative. Some of them got hits in and others dwindled down his buffs, but the BBEG opened up with time stop and used his 4 rounds to summon in some help and separate the party with blade barrier.
The goons were quickly killed and the barrier dispelled but the boss used his artifact to turn some the party against eachother, in which the sorcerer, fighter, and bard all failed there saves. The rogue who was dealing a lot of damage with his own artifact was also blinded via PWB. Because of the commands, the sorcerer first disintegrated a nightmare summoned by the bard, then disintegrated the cleric, who luckily made his save and stayed alive. The cleric cured the rogues blindness right as the bard joined the fray, but most of the party got hit by a maximized horrid wilting and brought a lot of them to low HP.
They were getting hits in here and there, but the boss cast heal and continued his barrage. The sorcerer maximize fireballed the party and the boss, but killed the cleric in doing so. The boss cast finger of death on the sorcerer and instantly slew him, leaving only the fighter, bard, and rogue. The rogue finally got a sneak atack full round in and did a lot of damage (since his artifact kept him invisible even though the boss had true seeing) but all 3 survivors were paralyzed by the boss's artifact.
This is where it got really good. the 3 were paralyzed and had a really hard time breaking out because the DC was so high. The boss (although he couldn't see him), used disintegrate in the rogue's square, hit, and brought him to 1 HP, followed by a quickened enrvation which killed the bard. The sorcerer's familiar flew his staff of the magi over the the boss and used retributive strike, killig itself to hurt the boss. the staff had too few charges to kill him though, but the rogue rolled a natural 20 and broke the paralalysis and double moved behind the boss. the boss cast glitterdust to ensure that he had slain the rogue with his disintegrate and when he saw that there was nothing there, turned to the fighter and cast maximized cone of cold, bringing him to 1 HP. Thinking this was the end, he gave his villain shpeel and was about to slay the fighter when the 1 HP rogue did a sneak attack with his artifact (which bypassed all of the bosses buffs) and slew him.
Anyway, it's battles like these that you see in movies and that make D&D so awesome, so I had to share it. I was a very proud DM at that moment :smallsmile:.