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Big Blue Battle Aftermath (D&D)
Feb. 22nd, 2007 12:44 pm-This past weekend I participated in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bluegargantua's Big Blue Battle, a D&D combat in which twenty-four 12th-level characters were placed in combat with a single Ancient Gargantuan Blue Dragon.
-The battle was over quicker than anyone expected. The dragon rigged a couple of decoys, which we spent a few rounds investigating, then popped up out of the ground and vaporized a fifth of the party with its breath weapon. After the survivors got their hits in, in its next round it took out another four victims with claw-claw-bite-wing-wing-tail. (One of those victims proved problematic. Eamon's raging dwarf barbarian with assorted Toughness feats had an awful lot of hit points. The dragon had to chew to kill that one.)
-Then we killed it.
-Of my characters, Laios the ranger did nothing effective. He got into position, prepped a spell he needed, swigged a potion to counteract the dragon's frightful presence, and the combat was over. Li-Tel the necromancer managed to lower the dragon's spell resistance before it died. Christina the platinum knight got lucky, and crit'd with her smite evil dragon icy burst crossbow shot, doing 60 points. Lancaster the dragonslayer was lucky enough to deliver the finishing blow with his flaming dragonbane falchion, doing 30 points. So, given that the dragon started with about 450hp, I did around 1/5th of the total damage, or just about my fair share.
(Oh,asciikitty? Tell Eamon that I checked up on what he said, and he was thinking of the vassal of Bahamut prestige class, not the platinum knight. Very easy to confuse the two.)
-Tom says he's going to try it again with only 12 characters and better dragon tactics. Given that it killed 9 characters this time around, I suspect that will be a much fairer fight (though probably not much longer). Regardless of the relative brevity, I had a lot of fun.
-My current problem is that designing my four PCs was really engrossing, and now I'm kinda hooked on the D&D design process. So, which prestige class goes best with the Beguiler from PHB2? Recaster (RoEb), Dracolexi (RotDr), Bladesinger (CW), Shadow Adept (FR)?
bluegargantua's Big Blue Battle, a D&D combat in which twenty-four 12th-level characters were placed in combat with a single Ancient Gargantuan Blue Dragon.-The battle was over quicker than anyone expected. The dragon rigged a couple of decoys, which we spent a few rounds investigating, then popped up out of the ground and vaporized a fifth of the party with its breath weapon. After the survivors got their hits in, in its next round it took out another four victims with claw-claw-bite-wing-wing-tail. (One of those victims proved problematic. Eamon's raging dwarf barbarian with assorted Toughness feats had an awful lot of hit points. The dragon had to chew to kill that one.)
-Then we killed it.
-Of my characters, Laios the ranger did nothing effective. He got into position, prepped a spell he needed, swigged a potion to counteract the dragon's frightful presence, and the combat was over. Li-Tel the necromancer managed to lower the dragon's spell resistance before it died. Christina the platinum knight got lucky, and crit'd with her smite evil dragon icy burst crossbow shot, doing 60 points. Lancaster the dragonslayer was lucky enough to deliver the finishing blow with his flaming dragonbane falchion, doing 30 points. So, given that the dragon started with about 450hp, I did around 1/5th of the total damage, or just about my fair share.
(Oh,
asciikitty? Tell Eamon that I checked up on what he said, and he was thinking of the vassal of Bahamut prestige class, not the platinum knight. Very easy to confuse the two.)-Tom says he's going to try it again with only 12 characters and better dragon tactics. Given that it killed 9 characters this time around, I suspect that will be a much fairer fight (though probably not much longer). Regardless of the relative brevity, I had a lot of fun.
-My current problem is that designing my four PCs was really engrossing, and now I'm kinda hooked on the D&D design process. So, which prestige class goes best with the Beguiler from PHB2? Recaster (RoEb), Dracolexi (RotDr), Bladesinger (CW), Shadow Adept (FR)?
