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Warhammer: 3025
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 Posted: 29-May-2005 10:33 Post subject: RE: Most Extreme Gaming Moment |
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This one is pretty cool. It happened yesterday. Well, yesterday and today.
Our DM was taking us through a mega-dungeon he spent all month creating, in one of those "ragnarok" scenarios (kill all the current characters, what characters manage to survive get made into demigods or whatever) in preparation for a new round of character creation.
Our party consisted of:
*A 12/6 Neutral Drow Rogue/Fighter (me)
*A 20 Neutral-Good Grey Elf Wizard
*A 18 Chaotic-Good Half-Ogre Barbarian
*A 14/4 Neutral-Good Avariel Sorcerer/Bard
*A 20 Neutral-Good Tallfellow Halfling Ranger
*A 19 Neutral-Good Hobgoblin Cleric
*A 14/4 Lawful-Neutral Githzerai Monk/Fighter
Note that none of our characters are violations of their respective races. You won't find Neutral-Good Drow or Lawful-Whatever Hobgoblins. Our group takes great pride in that. We also take pride in the fact that we don't allow powerplayers, only people who simply enjoy playing.
Good deal, eh? 
Anyway, he was taking us through a mega-dungeon, and we were doing okay. Our job was to find a magical tome, along with its' companion artifacts called "The Mage's Stones" (yes, we all had a chuckle when we heard that). It turned out that the tome was a book full of diagrams for how to lay out the stones on the ground, getting different magical effects with each pattern (more on how this is important later).
He threw every silly trick he could think of in here. As we were heading down one corridor, we began to hear a chanting. "Doom! Doom! Doom!" This had already been established to be an Orcish war chant earlier in the campaign. As we continued down the corridor, the chanting grew louder and louder until we finally reached a large set of doors. Our Half-Ogre was kind enough to knock the doors off their hinges, and we rushed into the room. It was empty. The words "Doom! Doom! Doom!" were emanating from the walls! On a Search check I noticed a doorplate that had been on one of the doors, and the Wizard translated it: Chamber of Doom.
The DM was liberally pelted with chip bags and empty soda bottles.
Finally, after almost ten real-time hours in this dungeon, we had recovered the tome and all of the Stones, and were on our way out. Unfortunately, a collapsed passage prevented us from extricating ourselves (we still hadn't faced the final critter. What kind of DM would just let us leave?). So, we had enter the final chamber.
Dracolich. OH. CRAP.
So, while most of our guys are up front trying to fend off the Dracolich, the Wizard is sitting in the back, reading the book. He spends a few rounds arranging the stones, then casts Teleportal (a custom spell. Opens a portal that can transport a specified number of people from one place to another), opening a gateway that he then instructs the rest of the party to step through. Since we were barely hanging on, nobody really asked any questions, and we all headed through the portal. While we were fighting our way to the portal, he cast Spacial Freeze (another custom spell. Freezes an object in place for as long as the caster keeps chanting) on the last Stone as it was dropping into place. As he stepped through the portal, the spell ceased to function and the last stone plopped into place.
As we all assembled in a field about a mile away from the mountain the dungeon was housed in, we heard a BOOOOOOOOOOM! We looked toward the mountain, and saw a giant crater.
We asked to see the book that the DM had made (yes, he actually made a prop-book with all the patterns and their effects), and the Wizard pointed out which pattern he had used.
"Armageddon."
Our DM went between laughing and yelling at us for ruining his big finish.
End result: All of us survived, and were either made into superhero-like demigods, or lived the rest of our days like rich bitches. It was PHENOMINAL.
EDIT: I just realized that some of you might play with Core Rules only, and might not know what an Avariel is. An Avariel is a winged elf from the Forgotten Realms campaign setting. We moved a bunch of stuff over from that setting to our DM-created universe.
[ This Message was edited by: Warhammer: 3025 on 2005-05-29 10:50 ]
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WhizzbangThePowerSquig
Royal Black Watch Regiment
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Joined: 21-Mar-2005 00:00
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Location: Canada
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| Posted: 29-May-2005 12:16 Post subject: RE: Most Extreme Gaming Moment |
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Sounds like some of our Beyond the Supernatural (contemporary horror) games. We normall managed to cause widspread destruction and chaos. Of course, we didn't exactly blow up a mountain, just a medium-sized office building, a large Bavarian mansion, numerous unused warhouses, a large statue, and hordes of walking dead.
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Seraph
Blighted Sun Battalion
2nd Company
"Seraph's Slaughter"
Major
Joined: 11-Mar-2004 00:00
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| Posted: 29-May-2005 20:16 Post subject: RE: Most Extreme Gaming Moment |
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OKay, I have to post at least one event.
AD&D 2nd edition. About 15 years ago. My brother's grgoup was trying to leave a large town/small city after deposing the count who had set them up for a fall. Being chased by the local guards and counts retainers. This included 3 wizards. They get to a large square and are stopped by a flesh golem and 14 guards. My brother has 4 characters( 6 bard, 8 warrior, 7 ranger, 8 rogue) I have a 7 monk, and my friend has his 2( 4/5 cleric/rogue, 4/4 mage/rogue).
Well, the battle with the guards and golem allows the rest to catch up. My brother is the powerhouse player type. Anything and everything can be solved by the application of enough force. Well, one of the mages decided to trry to capture them as they were winning against the guards. He started casting Wall of Stone. He got 2 walls up in an "L" shape before he uunderstood what was happening. The third was up by the time they got the wizard with ranged weapons. Now they were surrounded by stone walls, 20' square and 2' thick. They were hemmed in and more guards arrived. so my brother's warrior(who had max STR of course) started pushing on the back wall, trying to knock it down. Well he finally got it going and the party started to flee. the Bard failed his DEX check and didn't make it. The other 2 walls, with nothing to hold them up, started to fall down. One fell outwards, the other fell inwards. SQUISH! 3 guards, 1 wizard and the bard got squashed under the falling walls. The collapse killed the last enemy wizard which allowed my brother's guys to finish off the rest. They then managed to raise the stone wall high enough for one of the rogues to squeeze under and extract the bard's remains for resurrection. They rolled up the flat piecee of bloody foil and put it in a map case and went to the nearest cleric. Was able to get him resurrected but he lost 2 points of CHA and also 40 lbs of weight, his skin had an interesting pattern on it from the chainmail he had worn.
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Rudel Gurken
Allisters Light Thunder
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Joined: 15-Jun-2005 00:00
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Location: Germany
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| Posted: 08-Jul-2005 06:13 Post subject: RE: Most Extreme Gaming Moment |
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One of my best shots:
A single mot MG-platoon was caught in open terrain between 2 Woods by an PXH (3025)! 
It had 27 troopers after being hit by 1 missile from a LRM-5 in a previous turn.
The PXH hit with a Lrg and a Md Laser for 26 points of damage (in open terrain) reducing my platoon to 1 trooper!!
Next turn this trooper rushed into a heavy wood. The PXH followed by jumping in an adjacent hex! 
He fired 2 Md Lasers and 2 MG´s (seemed that he wanted to finish my platoon of at all cost) but hit none! 
My one-man-platoon fired back, (A lonely trooper on a Motorbike with a small MG in front!) hitting the PXH!
Yes!!! CT critical! 2 crits rolled! Gyro! Gyro!!
My friend was a bit unhappy  
I send my mech-killer-trooper towards the edge of the map to save him for decoration!
My friend was so angry that he send a Jenner to finish him of, but my trooper escaped!
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Sleeping Dragon
Draconis Combine
Tai-i
Joined: 06-Apr-2005 00:00
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Location: Czech Republic
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| Posted: 08-Jul-2005 08:49 Post subject: RE: Most Extreme Gaming Moment |
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Playing Neverwinter Nights - The Sundial tells you that it's midnight!!! (I heard that someone found working sundial underground)
DnD I was DM, my friend had Succubus sorcerer. After short flight through astral he encountered the Astral Dreadnought (really bad for him) escaped through some portal *bang*
"Your head hurts pretty bad"
"What?!?"
"I said, your head hurts pretty bad!"
"Why?"
"It seems like you fell from that gnarl above your head."
"Uhhh..."
"... and to the left there is small squirrel, madly laughing"
"I'll kill her!!"
-after some really failed dexterity checks-
"Arrgh I'm leaving"
"Hmm, You realize that the trees are unnaturally tall, everything seems really big here..."
"Never mind ..."
-after finding some trail-
"Somebody is singing behind that serpentine"
"I'll investigate that" *chuckles*
"There is a small man with blue skin and white cap and pants"
"Ehh?" Changes shape to normal human "Good man, why do you have blue skin?"
"Why are you white? Everyone else is blue."
-walks away and changes his skin color after meeting more blue people-
"Right in front of you there is really BIG mushroom and it seems like there are doors and windows in it"
"I'm going in"
"Inside is small flat small girl with blues skin, she's probably cooking something"
"Ehh, ... may I know your name?"
"Of course I'm Smurfin"
-ten minutes of intensive thinking followed by another ten of hysterical laughing-
-you know, Smurfs-
One encounter with vile necromancer vs. low level party. Rolled % dice to see where he is according to tabs. Rolled 99 = Toilet, very strange encounter ...
Fought my cousin in BT lvl1 on small map. I had 1G Battlemaster and 3N Rifleman, he had 5S Thunderbolt and 6R Warhammer.
3rd round - I decapitated his WHM with BLR punch after hitting his head with med. laser.
4th round - he repeated the same thing with his TDR on my BLR.
13th round - he flees from my RFL (one arm lost, second LL and one ML destroyed, out of ammo, almost no armor) with his moderately damaged TDR because I convinced him that I have reinforcements behind the hill.
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Oafman
Draconis Combine
Tai-sho
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Location: United States
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| Posted: 08-Jul-2005 09:58 Post subject: RE: Most Extreme Gaming Moment |
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That just rocks....
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Sir Henry
Team Bansai
Senior Tech Specialist
Joined: 04-Feb-2002 00:00
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Location: United States
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| Posted: 13-Jul-2005 18:03 Post subject: RE: Most Extreme Gaming Moment |
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The most extreme....
We were playing D&D. I was a Half Ogre fighter. A Follower of Moradin. Our party had just gotten out of an Inn run by Gnomes, or we thought we did. Our human Thief desided to sit on the half wall next to the Inn. There were traps set all through the grounds. He didn't even look for anything. They went off. We were toasted, bashed, slimed.... etc... We survived... Barely.... So I started calling him Stupid human, In Character, every two minutes or so.
After about 25 minutes The player came over the table at me, Hot and swinging.
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