All 7 of them took damage.  :)

I believe the idea to hold hands was the character played by Grant.

Haha, that's great.

To be fair that's the best way not to split the party if it teleported them or something like that.

Huh, I just realized that none of the posts I made to ASWoT yesterday uploaded -- not a one of them. I won't be using the chrome browser on my Android to do that again.

EDIT:  Never mind, some posts uploaded and others did not. I won't complain.
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Out of all the ingenious things I come up with to ruin your plans, using the hand-holding technique was the best story you could come up with? What about the time I used Withdraw to figure out how to beat your timed "Falling into lava if you don't figure out the puzzle" trap? Or the time I used stone shape to barricade a lich from chasing us? I can't think of anything else off the top of my head but I'm sure there's better tales than that.

Yes, you have come up with many ingenious things.  That was at the top of my head because it was fresh on my mind AND it had a funny outcome.

Should I share my personal favorite story of gamer experience? It takes place in a Star Wars D6 game during a reenactment of the Battle of Hoth, but the story is a little long winded.

Sure, I'll read it.  I like Star Wars and long D&D session retellings.

Did I tell you the one about the PC who got his head cut off in battle, and the players had to dump his body in a nearby well?  The well was a well of healing water, so his body kept coming to life and dying again until finally the head and body reconnected during healing, and then he kept starving to death and being reanimated yet again.  This recurring process made him grow crazy.  When he finally got out of the well (many years later), his driving ambition was to get revenge and kill the whole party, blaming them for the years of torture he endured.

And then there was the time there was a giant flood they went to investigate.  As it turns out, someone had died, and their magical water container had tipped over in the process. Because it created neverending water, it eventually flooded the entire area.  It didn't help that the guy died atop a tree, so the water kept flowing down.

Did you take off a level for every time the guy died?  If that's the case he must have been way too weak to be a threat to the party!

In reply to Heath (msg # 196):

Our party did the same thing with a jug of everlasting water. It happened during an AD&D campaign. In a forest setting, we found the entrance to a dungeon that we had been seeking. Expecting to be in the dungeon for a few hours, perhaps a day, someone had the bright idea of tipping over a jug so our horses would have fresh water to drink while we were away. What we didn't know is that the dungeon existed into a separate reality, and once we entered, there was no way out until we completed the dungeon many dungeon levels later. The entire party of mid-level characters died in that dungeon. Our replacement characters all died in that dungeon. The GM would not let us bring in new characters to his campaign world anywhere but inside that dungeon until we completed it. Rather than bringing in a third set of characters, all first level, into the same dungeon to die again with ever decreasing odds of success, we quit the campaign. That water jug was left pouring onto the forest floor, causing an ecological disaster. Perhaps it was (in our head canon) our jug that you found.

Wow, that DM was kind of a jerk. If my players were going to up and quit because either my campaign was too hard or that I had some strict TKO policy I think I'd change something. Unless of course I hated running it and that's why I was fine with it ending.


One of the best stories I have is in the multi-year 2nd Edition AD&D game my older brother ran for most of my childhood. I had a thief who specialized in dual wielding and had a special proficiency in using fire as a weapon so he was pretty deadly in combat.

We were breaking into a castle and had to be discreet about it so my character climbed the 50' tower with no ropes to dispatch the guards so they could unlock the gates. I went through and backstabbed or straight up murdered every guard there was in there (accidentally) before getting the doors open. Everyone else was pretty surprised when the scrawny little thief killed 30+ fully armed guards, using nothing more than a (heavily enchanted) dagger and a torch.

I wish I had good stories.  I should play more.

One of my current games, I'm playing a female half-elven Cleric, and I died to a snake.

The GM let me get a free reincarnate, but brought me back as a dwarf.  And to make matters worse, I have to get hitched and have a baby in a year, or else my parents estates are going to be taken away from my family and I'll have nowhere to live.

Fun times ahead :)

2nd edition decanter of endless water, worth 1,000 xp
   Stream: pours out 1 gallon per round
   Fountain: 5-foot long stream at 5 gallons per round
   Geyser: 20-foot long stream at 30 gallons per round

3.x edition decanter of endless water, worth 9,000 gp
   “Stream” pours out 1 gallon per round.
   “Fountain” produces a 5-foot-long stream at 5 gallons per round.
   “Geyser” produces a 20-foot-long, 1-foot-wide stream at 30 gallons per round.

7.48051948 gallons in a cubic foot.  So on Geyser it fills roughly 4 cubic feet per round.  A 10'x10'x10' room is 1000 cubic feet, so it would take 33 rounds to fill.

Now, dungeons tend to be fairly big. I have no idea how big.  Let's take a rollable battle mat, say that a common 24" x 36" mat is one floor of a dungeon, that is a 1" to 1' ratio, and that perhaps 1/2 of the map is actual open space.  24x36=864 square feet x 10 = 8,640 cubic feet / 2 = 4,320 cubic feet per level or 1077 rounds to fill a level, which is less than two hours to fill a dungeon level.  Yup, decanters fill a dungeon level fairly swiftly (when on Geyser -- if left on stream then it's 30 times longer or 2 1/2 days to fill a dungeon level.

Now, how about to fill a valley?  I'm going to use Lake Arrowhead in California for that because I grew up there, and also because it's a man-made lake. Anyway, the lake is a decent sized lake and fills one valley.  It's nothing like Lake Powell, though, it's much smaller.  One acre foot equals 43,560 cubic feet or 435.6 hundred cubic feet and is equivalent to 325,851 gallons.  Lake Arrowhead has a surface area of approximately 780 acres (320 ha) and a capacity of 48,000 acre·ft.

That's 48000 acre feet * 325851 gallons in an acre foot / 30 gallons per round / 10 rounds in a minute / 60 minutes in an hour / 24 hours in a day / 365 days per year = 100 years to fill Lake Arrowhead from a decanter of endless water.

Although I could see a decanter being a serious problem in a dungeon, especially since the lower more valuable levels would fill up before the higher levels, and since even 2' of water in dungeon level starts becoming seriously annoying and anything over head height starts to be seriously life threatening (and some races aren't that tall), I don't see a decanter being a real problem outside.

Let's consider just Papoose Lake, which you can see at https://www.google.com/maps/pl...+Arrowhead,+CA+92321 next to Lake Arrowhead.  35 acre feet * 210 feet deep is 35*210*325851/30/10/60/24/365 15 years to fill although that brings up an interesting question, how much not to fill a valley and create a big lake, how much just to make life difficult for halflings?  And let's use a titchy small thing like Papoose Lake.  Seriously, I can run from one end to the other in just a few minutes, it's not very big.  35*2*325851/30/10/60/24 = 52 days to make the water 2' deep.  By then, someone out to have noticed the gradually occurring flood.  The deeper the water gets, the more slowly it's going to take to rise since the ground likely slopes and every foot of rise will mean even more acre feet to be filled.

Tl;dr A decanter of endless water is likely a huge problem in a dungeon, but isn't really a problem at all outside.  Outside is freaking huge.

Now I just want to buy a boat, and about 200 decanters.  I'll recreate Noah's Ark in pathfinder :D

Sooo.... pour the decanter into the dungeon, flood the whole thing, wait for the creatures to drown, then make all of the party members bail out the dungeon with bags of holding, dumping the water into a nearby lake or valley or something. Free dungeon loot! How long would that take? (Assuming the valley/dumping ground is a five minute walk away, ten minutes round trip.)

Take one sacrificial bag of holding, put it at the bottom of the dungeon, then place a portable hole within it while you're tied to a rope that the rest of the party are holding.  A gate to the Astral plane is then created which sucks in everything with 10' (If you're held back you should be fine).  There is now a gate to another plane at the bottom of the dungeon and all the water should drain out through it.

Even easier! Never gonna have to dungeon crawl again XD

Pros:
Helps reveal secret doors.
Pit traps are now water hazards, but in general this method should short out or help destroy traps.
Costs a fair amount of money.

Cons:
Need to hold your breath for a long time while you swim down to the bottom of the dungeon, or get a potion of water breathing.
Doesn't get rid of any undead or construct dungeon guardians.

Hmm... Maybe go back to bailing it out as we go. Then we're on land for fighting the leftover baddies and none of the loot gets sucked into the astral plane. :D

Until you start bailing out that little pool of water in front of the doors to Moria...

Ha XD

So, in one campaign I'm writing, one character... does as "roleplay" if I'm playing all the characters myself in my head then writing down what ends up happening?

Anyway one character made a threat and the city watch was called.  They caught up with the character back at the inn and eventually that character ended up with a geas'd community service penalty.

BACK AMYBRI18!!!

THOU SHALT NOT HAVE MINE BOARD ROYALTY!!!

I SHALL SMITE-ETH THEE BY BURYING-ETH THEE UNDER POSTS FROM A TIME WASTER!!!!

lol jk :P




not but really




just kidding XD

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In any case how are you?

I was about to express my astonishment that it's been eight months since Tanner made a run at the throne, then I noticed that I was off... by about a year

Oops