From: kroth@david.wheaton.edu (Ken Roth)
Subject: Well, more stories
Organization: Wheaton College, IL
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:41:47 GMT

For some strange reason I feel compelled to drop a few quick stories of my
own.

I am sure we all have had DMs who are just too smart for the parties own good?
Well, my roommate is one of those DMs.  Anyone who can make a dungeon crawl
into a truely memorable experience.  Well, there are two types of mistakes
that DMs can make: 1) One which will helps the party and 2) One which will
harm the party.

Guess which one the party mentions...

Anyway, What would you have done in the following situations (actually, I was
DM in the second one...)

Oh yeah, party consists (more or less) of the following characters (levels are
approximates)
Loren, 8th lvl Ranger, basic leader type
Camber, 7th level Cleric
Rhiannon, 8th level Mage
Merton, 8th level Revised Monk
F'lar, 5th level Ranger henchman (to Camber)
Gryfalia, 8th level Thief (ME!!!)
And possibly another person who was just passing through...

1)  Party has found the lair of something, we are not sure what.  Is a room
about 30x30, with an exit facing over a cliff to the north, and a 20'
passageway going to a door on the east.  Party sends me to look inside, I find
nothing but three piles of bones.  Party sends me in through DOOR again,
invisible, to check it out again.  They close door, I walk about 10 feet in,
all the sudden I am visible and no longer silent.  I have just about 1 second
to yell 'BEHOLDER!' (which I saw rising from the illusionary pile of bones)
before he took another pot shot at me, which I saved.  I hastily jumped into
my Laibile (sp?) locker to hide (like a bag of holding, kinda).  At this point
the mage charges into the room, and ends up in the locker with me.  We decide
to charge the beholder, and as she makes the first step out, she is hit by the
ray and she become a statue, which I barely dodge.  Now the beholder picks me
up in the locker and spins me around, getting up speed, and as the party opens
the door, he nails them with it.  Lots o' damage.  Battle begins in full, and
people are everywhere.  At one point I am hit by the disintigration ray, and
fail my save by one (trust me, we looked for all the plusses we could find)
Well, I start the task of saving for possessions.  Ok, about 6 rounds later
(as it is about to die) the Cleric mentions the Prayer he had cast and BINGO!,
we had not figured that plus into my saving throw.  So, he ruled that I
wavered in and out for all that time, and now popped back into existance.

What would you have done?

2)  Party is sleeping by the shore, when a large raiding party of Sehaugin (sp?
again) attack, starting with a javelin with silence cast upon it being thrown
into the middle of the party.  Then, as the battle continues, the mage (our
mage) keeps casting spells, and I never tell her she can't (yeah, I forgot,
OK?).  At the end of the battle, we rememebr the silence.  I let the battle
stand as it happened?  

Did I make the right choice?

Well, just a few items to start a discussion or two.

And, just for fun...here is a painful opponent:
A dwarf, death-master vampire.  Yes this is legal...

Ken
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