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fray · Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 7:30 pm Post subject:

Today I had one of the raddest things happen in a game ever!

Here's the set up:
Party, 12th level, on the back of a huge eagle, the party druid using wild shape, flying over a lake towards a castle in the middle of a crater. A group of gargoyles attacked from the castle. (Arial combat can be fun.) The fighting noise attracted a huge umbral dragon.
At one point the party had a couple of gargoyles behind them and the dragon behind the gargoyle. The rogue wanted get on the dragon. He jumped off the giant eagle, landed on a gargoyle and jumped again onto the dragon's head. He stuck the landing. The druid then circled around and the fighter also jumped on the dragon. (Mostly just stepping over on to it.)
The dragon didn't like having riders so proceeded to climb in the sky. Fighter fell onto the castle. Rogue held on. At the end of the climb the rogue pulled out 2 immovable rods. (I made him make Dex checks to get the rods and stay on his feet.) He then stabbed the dragon in the eye with an immovable rod and hit the button.
DRAGON CLOTHESLINE AT 200 FEET!

So awesome!

The dragon took 25d6. Then the dragon could not make the Str check to move the rod. However the rod had a weight limit of 8,000 lbs. So the dragon and the rogue slowly fell straight down. The dragon was never able to make the Str check and then the rogue used the 2nd rod to back of the dragon's head. I ruled they were descending at 40 feet. So the dragon took an extra 8d6.

Also since the dragon was pinned he was denied his Dex bonus. The rogue proceeded to stab the dragon and get his sneak attack during the descent.
The druid was helping out with some called lighting and ball lightning when he made his caster level checks. I had the rogue make a hold on check each roundon the way down. Rogue was hitting about half the time. Then he got hit with an enervation, he started hitting less. Once the dragon "landed" the rogue and druid finished it off.

I had to share. I love being surprised by my players like this.

(This was playing Pathfinder rules D&D in the Skeletons of Scarwall, book 4 of the Curse of the Crimson Throne adventure path.)

Kobold Courier