oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev x268) (10/18/85)
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In a AD&D game I ran long time ago
There were two of them left of the party of 6 (?). A thief with boots
of levitation and a ring of fire-resistance( well, so he lifted it off another
player earlier! so what?) and a mage with a few spells of levitation and a ring
of fire-resistance, and a mage with a few spells left and a flask of oil. Both
are at MUCH less than full hit points.
They enter a room... CRASH! A stone panel crashes across the doorway they
just passed ( "I didn't say you removed the trap! I said you *THINK* you
did!"). The light of a few weak candles in the wall niches and a hangin in the
middle of the room chandelier reveals....
.... 12(11?) ratty-looking people sitting around the table and looking
RATTIER by the segment.... and an open door 60' away, on the other side of the
room...
(The were-rats were having a dinner/conference.)
... The were-rats were brandishing their weapons; a few of them had SILVER
swords! The mage and the Thief had only a lousy +1 dagger between them (I don't
count non-[magic|silver] weapons)....
The players lost no time! Thief put on his ring of fire resistance. Mage breaks
his vial of oil on thief's head at the same time (yes, it did do 3 points of
damage!). The thief levitates up and toward amused and smiling were-rats ....
..... then as the Thief was grabbing a candle out of the chandelier and
applying it to himself(!) the mage was casting a pyrotechnics spell on him!
(It took them about 3 segments, the were-rats had *just* enough time to ready
their weapons)
The outcome was simple : The small "super-novae" right over the croud of the
were-rats while they were looking straight at it caused blindness for the next
1d4 melee rounds. The players had gotten out of the other door and had spiked it
shut. The mage had picked up a 500gp silver sword in the process. The thief
had suffered a loss of a quarrel of arrows and a bow in the flash.
The players DID get out of the dungeon a few turns later....
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I thing that THAT was one of the most amusing and un-anticipated escapes I've
ever seen.
Why had the mage not just cast pyrotechnics on a candle? Because nobody was
looking at it, and every were-rat in the room would be looking at an idiot who
was slowly flying toward their swords ....
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