Neverborn
2013-07-24, 08:41 AM
Hi all, I recently discovered that this site has a pretty active D&D forum, aside from the awesome webcomic...
I enjoyed browsing the forum, and especially reading the topic about total party kills. It's always fun to read stories about other people's experiences in the game...
On that note, I thought it might be fun to make a topic about narrow escapes your character/group has managed to pull off...
My personal most epic one was right at the end of our previous campaign... The party was L15, and consisted of a Rogue/Shadowdancer, a straight Fighter, an Awakened Bear with Barbarian levels (our Druid died, so the player decided to keep playing as his formed animal companion) and me, a Sorcerer/Incantatar (male Incantatrix).
We had reached the final dungeon, where we would fight the ultimate battle with our arch-nemesis, a former human knight who had been transformed into a powerful demon. We battled our way through the dungeon, and we finally confronted the BBEG…
It was a tough fight, our rogue could not really contribute much due to a sub-optimal build, the fighter and bear did their best, but they were outmatched. Most of the damage came from my Sorcerer, who blasted away at the bad guy while he was busy dealing with my party members…
The rogue died first, then the warrior and finally the bear. At this point the (badly bloodied) BBEG and my (also badly injured) Sorcerer exchanged a look, and we knew this was it…
I had the initiative advantage, so I sent a couple of spells his way (rapid metamagic and quicken spell is really nice for an artillery Sorcerer), but failed to drop him… I knew he would be on me in a moment (he had a quickened Teleport ability), and could only hope that my AC of around 40 and active Mirror Image spell (though the BBEG had tons of abilities and spells, True Seeing was not amongst them) would let me survive one more round (he could have dropped me with one attack if he rolled slightly above average for damage)… He teleported to my side, and for his first attack he rolled a 1… Since we had the house rule that a critical miss means no more attacks for the rest of the round, I was saved! The next round I finally took him out!
Another more personal one was in our current campaign, where my Warforged Monk was tangling with a Minotaur, while the rest of the party was busy with some chokers… I managed to trip the beast, but when he got back up his one attack was a crit with his Greataxe that would have killed me, if I had not made my 25% roll to negate the crit, which happily I did. Next round a flurry dispatched the Minotaur, and I was left to consider just how nice the lesser fortification ability of the Warforged is. I vowed to take the feat which makes it 100% asap (1 more level to go…)
I am curious if anyone has any cool stories of narrow escapes and victories by the skin of their teeth…
I enjoyed browsing the forum, and especially reading the topic about total party kills. It's always fun to read stories about other people's experiences in the game...
On that note, I thought it might be fun to make a topic about narrow escapes your character/group has managed to pull off...
My personal most epic one was right at the end of our previous campaign... The party was L15, and consisted of a Rogue/Shadowdancer, a straight Fighter, an Awakened Bear with Barbarian levels (our Druid died, so the player decided to keep playing as his formed animal companion) and me, a Sorcerer/Incantatar (male Incantatrix).
We had reached the final dungeon, where we would fight the ultimate battle with our arch-nemesis, a former human knight who had been transformed into a powerful demon. We battled our way through the dungeon, and we finally confronted the BBEG…
It was a tough fight, our rogue could not really contribute much due to a sub-optimal build, the fighter and bear did their best, but they were outmatched. Most of the damage came from my Sorcerer, who blasted away at the bad guy while he was busy dealing with my party members…
The rogue died first, then the warrior and finally the bear. At this point the (badly bloodied) BBEG and my (also badly injured) Sorcerer exchanged a look, and we knew this was it…
I had the initiative advantage, so I sent a couple of spells his way (rapid metamagic and quicken spell is really nice for an artillery Sorcerer), but failed to drop him… I knew he would be on me in a moment (he had a quickened Teleport ability), and could only hope that my AC of around 40 and active Mirror Image spell (though the BBEG had tons of abilities and spells, True Seeing was not amongst them) would let me survive one more round (he could have dropped me with one attack if he rolled slightly above average for damage)… He teleported to my side, and for his first attack he rolled a 1… Since we had the house rule that a critical miss means no more attacks for the rest of the round, I was saved! The next round I finally took him out!
Another more personal one was in our current campaign, where my Warforged Monk was tangling with a Minotaur, while the rest of the party was busy with some chokers… I managed to trip the beast, but when he got back up his one attack was a crit with his Greataxe that would have killed me, if I had not made my 25% roll to negate the crit, which happily I did. Next round a flurry dispatched the Minotaur, and I was left to consider just how nice the lesser fortification ability of the Warforged is. I vowed to take the feat which makes it 100% asap (1 more level to go…)
I am curious if anyone has any cool stories of narrow escapes and victories by the skin of their teeth…