mehs
2019-02-19, 10:30 PM
Is this normal?
My story is, at about level 5, my party was heading to a dwarf city, and we found a door in the side of the mountain. It was a secret hidden door, Smaug style. We pretty much just kept poking it until we answered the riddle (apparently the key is a metallic art object that I had been making in my spare time) and in doing so we set off an avalanche (me wailing on the door with a waffle iron was NOT the key). We were trying to get in the door before the avalanche came, which was a problem since one of my teammates (1) climbed down the cliff to retrieve his bag of alchemist supplies (explosives and recreational drugs) that another teammate (2) threw off the cliff after the third random blinding explosion. Most of us managed to get inside, except for teammates (3) and (4). (4) got teleported inside by his artifact and (3) hid in a cart as he also wasn't able to get inside in time. (3) got buried by snow and ended up suffocating/freezing before we were able to dig him out. However an artifact he was wearing apparently is able to rez him so he was fine after a couple days.
Then the second door. We got to the dwarf city so (1), (3), and (4) went off to meet with an old friend of (1)'s who was also an alchemist, the crazy explosives maniac kind... The friend wanted to show off some det cord he made on something like a door, and (3) suggested he demonstrate it on his own door. The guy said two things initially: 1) that dwarvern explosives are essentially tubes (sticks of tnt) and 2) that the demo would go well as long as there weren't other explosives around. (3) saw a bunch of tubes (tnt) sticking out of everything, but didn't mention it. The explosives maniac wasn't the most stable minded, so he forget his house had a ton of explosives in it. So he lit the detcord, and the house exploded. 20d6 of damage. At level 5. (1) and (3) made their saves, taking half and no damage respectively, but (4) didn't and almost died again, but was teleported outside by his artifact.
So far only me and (2) weren't almost killed by a freaking door and (3) and (4) have been deus ex machina'd by their artifacts 3 times between them.
Does this usually happen?
My story is, at about level 5, my party was heading to a dwarf city, and we found a door in the side of the mountain. It was a secret hidden door, Smaug style. We pretty much just kept poking it until we answered the riddle (apparently the key is a metallic art object that I had been making in my spare time) and in doing so we set off an avalanche (me wailing on the door with a waffle iron was NOT the key). We were trying to get in the door before the avalanche came, which was a problem since one of my teammates (1) climbed down the cliff to retrieve his bag of alchemist supplies (explosives and recreational drugs) that another teammate (2) threw off the cliff after the third random blinding explosion. Most of us managed to get inside, except for teammates (3) and (4). (4) got teleported inside by his artifact and (3) hid in a cart as he also wasn't able to get inside in time. (3) got buried by snow and ended up suffocating/freezing before we were able to dig him out. However an artifact he was wearing apparently is able to rez him so he was fine after a couple days.
Then the second door. We got to the dwarf city so (1), (3), and (4) went off to meet with an old friend of (1)'s who was also an alchemist, the crazy explosives maniac kind... The friend wanted to show off some det cord he made on something like a door, and (3) suggested he demonstrate it on his own door. The guy said two things initially: 1) that dwarvern explosives are essentially tubes (sticks of tnt) and 2) that the demo would go well as long as there weren't other explosives around. (3) saw a bunch of tubes (tnt) sticking out of everything, but didn't mention it. The explosives maniac wasn't the most stable minded, so he forget his house had a ton of explosives in it. So he lit the detcord, and the house exploded. 20d6 of damage. At level 5. (1) and (3) made their saves, taking half and no damage respectively, but (4) didn't and almost died again, but was teleported outside by his artifact.
So far only me and (2) weren't almost killed by a freaking door and (3) and (4) have been deus ex machina'd by their artifacts 3 times between them.
Does this usually happen?