• BurningRiver@beehaw.org
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    10 hours ago

    Not too far into my first campaign, I was playing a Hexblade warlock with a level of sorcerer for some extra spell slots / CC spells. We get ambushed by some bad guy guards trying to rob us. As they’re stalking us in the bazaar we were shopping in, the initiative rolls begin out of nowhere.

    Roll a nat 20 for initiative, and end up going first. I cast grease and catch them all in it. 4/5 guards fail the save and fall prone. The 5th guard goes second and shoots an arrow at me, does a few damage. I react with hellish rebuke. It ends up engulfing all of the guards, the hay cart next to them, and half the bazaar into a raging grease fire inferno.

    I learned to be more aware of my surroundings after that day.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 hours ago

      Holy shit, that’s hilarious, hahah!

      “Local bandit gang tries to rob wandering mercenary group, public market burned to the ground.”

      Ahem, returning to my old character:

      This is why I prefer to stay out of mouths of gossipmongers.

      … that and… an intimate death is a more respectable death… and a bit more precise…