So I was on here a few days ago talking about a possible encounter with a beholder and my level 7 player party up against a CL 13 beholder and everyone sorta assured me it would be an impossible task that would end with all my players dead... So I placed the beholder behild a magic cell with a "Chance" Of it getting free.. Well the players accidently dropped a magic orb down a great chasm into the beholders den ware it slept.
This beholder was ambitious, manipulative and vile to the core... It had a chance to get the crystal ball of power and in a moment of reaction my teams Wizard hast/flight down the shaft as fast as he could getting to the crystal seconds before the Beholder could... even flighting into the beholders eye slight and losing all his magic and plummiting... so he drew his sword and struck the crystal ball with the full speed of his plummiting body.... shattering it...
He hit the ground... too weak and injured to fight the beholder back even if he wanted too... it was furious that he had opposed him... Pupil dilating and shrinking. as fury over took its central eye... I was seconds from having it use a command ray to force the wizard to release him from his prison.. And than proceed to kill the wizards brother... And than have the the Wizard throw himself to his own death only after making him watch as he consumes all his friends... a cruel end to the heroes...
Well this broken little wizard just so happened to have a magical jar of dirt in his pocket... how effectively a regular jar of dirt the wizard threw it into his large eye as a surprise maneuver. With the anti magic field down he scrambled to his feet and grabbed a dream shape scroll and a magic trinket he found... like a long time ago... this magic trinket had to roll max and he could put the beholder to sleep.... which wouldnt be very useful normally other than to get maybe one good shot in. But once the beholders eye shut i thought Awlin was gunna flee... but no... He used that dream scroll to alter the beholders dreams to believe he had died! And if anyone knows anything about the beholder there dreams are so powerful they can alter the world around them and make dreams become reality.... Now theres no rules behind this but as a good DM I rolled with it, the beholder split its body and ripped its own soul asundre!
They left the body there so i am just gunna wait a while and have it come back as a death tyrant. But man were they happy with that, its been two days and he is still talking about how much fun it was.
I would have probably still had the Beholder roll a WIS save. given the immense power of the creature's dream and the possible difficulty in manipulating them compared to any other creature, but your Wizard was most clever indeed.
Make sure he doesn't get the chance to do the same with the Death Tyrant ;P
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Oh dont worry i did roll a wis save! Due to the importance of the moment i even took down the DM screen and rolled infront of everybody! they all watched on in anticipation as the beholder rolled and the dice went back and forth rolling around before juuuust barely landing on a 2! The plaayers all jumped up and cheered and had a huge celebration hug!
But if it comes back as a death tyrant later they cant do the same thing... Undead cannot be charmed by enchantments quite so easily now is the beholder going to make the same mistake twice... After that mission the players leveled up twice! And my wizard claimed to be scared for the first time as he stood under its anti matter feild and the beholder had yet to be revealed and they had no idea what this glowing eye in the darkness was.... Heck the first time he met with Vaal the beholder he got dragged around by its telikinisis and was toyed with like he was nothing only managing to escape cause the beholder let him to having plans for him later in the game. He expressed it was the first time he ever felt helpless in the game... I can tell you that this particular wizard is hard to humble... he has always been slippery and tricky cause of his illusion speciaalization and his rejection of all things evocation he basically specializes in enchantments and situational magic... and cause of that you can never catch him off guard... he has 10 spells for every solution and is arrogent about that fact.
Haha I worked too long and hard on that campaign to let it crumble apart at the end! Although I did get a little grumpy in the middle when they complained that my room descriptions were getting not very descriptive and they were unable to figure out ware they were or how many enamies were in one place. But slight grumping aside the campaign went off without a hitch and the players are so excited by how they outsmarted the beholder its 4 days later and they are still talking about it with pride. Thats how you know you did a good job as a DM when your players feel that big of a impact or emotional reaction.
Its funny cause the players had never faced a beholder before, they barely knew about the dream thing. but it was a chance that he took the only thing he could think of doing.
I hope the next beholder (or Death Tyrant) they face has the wit and paranoia to have considered such a dirty trick, and is wearing a contact lens. (Or perhaps has a symbiotic relationship with a transparent ooze that lives on it's central eye, keeping it moisturised.)
The beholder died feeling cheated and fury... its coming back as a death tyrant dont worry about that.
I'm sure you already know this, but after the characters took out the living version so cheaply, you will need to work double time to persuade them that THIS TIME he is going to be the badass they wanted him to be the first time!
Remember the "There's always a bigger fish" scene in Star Wars? Have the tyrant save them from a red dragon (as they are low on health and sweating over a possible TPK), proclaiming loudly "These are mine - get yer own!" To steal another idea - go Green Knight on them and give them a year to "improve those pitiful skills" before the Death Tyrant comes looking for them again.....
Haha technically the players didnt want him to be a bad-ass fight, they were scared of him and tried everything in there power to avoid him getting free and killing them all, it was a last ditched desperate maneuver that happened to work that killed him. My one player said he had never felt so scared of dieing in D&D than when he was standing in the anti magic feild of the behoder and was stripped of his power. or when it closed its eye to drag him across the floor with telekinesis as it slowly spoke to him.
A seat at our table can be rough! Our last game ( this one ) lasted 20 hours straight! Man was it exhausting but worth it.
Well this broken little wizard just so happened to have a magical jar of dirt in his pocket... how effectively a regular jar of dirt the wizard threw it into his large eye as a surprise maneuver. With the anti magic field down he scrambled to his feet and grabbed a dream shape scroll and a magic trinket he found... like a long time ago... this magic trinket had to roll max and he could put the beholder to sleep.... which wouldnt be very useful normally other than to get maybe one good shot in. But once the beholders eye shut i thought Awlin was gunna flee... but no... He used that dream scroll to alter the beholders dreams to believe he had died! And if anyone knows anything about the beholder there dreams are so powerful they can alter the world around them and make dreams become reality.... Now theres no rules behind this but as a good DM I rolled with it, the beholder split its body and ripped its own soul asundre!
Wow. Just wow. I need to try that.
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So I was on here a few days ago talking about a possible encounter with a beholder and my level 7 player party up against a CL 13 beholder and everyone sorta assured me it would be an impossible task that would end with all my players dead... So I placed the beholder behild a magic cell with a "Chance" Of it getting free.. Well the players accidently dropped a magic orb down a great chasm into the beholders den ware it slept.
This beholder was ambitious, manipulative and vile to the core... It had a chance to get the crystal ball of power and in a moment of reaction my teams Wizard hast/flight down the shaft as fast as he could getting to the crystal seconds before the Beholder could... even flighting into the beholders eye slight and losing all his magic and plummiting... so he drew his sword and struck the crystal ball with the full speed of his plummiting body.... shattering it...
He hit the ground... too weak and injured to fight the beholder back even if he wanted too... it was furious that he had opposed him... Pupil dilating and shrinking. as fury over took its central eye... I was seconds from having it use a command ray to force the wizard to release him from his prison.. And than proceed to kill the wizards brother... And than have the the Wizard throw himself to his own death only after making him watch as he consumes all his friends... a cruel end to the heroes...
Well this broken little wizard just so happened to have a magical jar of dirt in his pocket... how effectively a regular jar of dirt the wizard threw it into his large eye as a surprise maneuver.
With the anti magic field down he scrambled to his feet and grabbed a dream shape scroll and a magic trinket he found... like a long time ago... this magic trinket had to roll max and he could put the beholder to sleep.... which wouldnt be very useful normally other than to get maybe one good shot in. But once the beholders eye shut i thought Awlin was gunna flee... but no... He used that dream scroll to alter the beholders dreams to believe he had died! And if anyone knows anything about the beholder there dreams are so powerful they can alter the world around them and make dreams become reality....
Now theres no rules behind this but as a good DM I rolled with it, the beholder split its body and ripped its own soul asundre!
They left the body there so i am just gunna wait a while and have it come back as a death tyrant. But man were they happy with that, its been two days and he is still talking about how much fun it was.
Clever use of resources :)
I would have probably still had the Beholder roll a WIS save. given the immense power of the creature's dream and the possible difficulty in manipulating them compared to any other creature, but your Wizard was most clever indeed.
Make sure he doesn't get the chance to do the same with the Death Tyrant ;P
Born in Italy, moved a bunch, living in Spain, my heart always belonged to Roleplaying Games
Oh dont worry i did roll a wis save! Due to the importance of the moment i even took down the DM screen and rolled infront of everybody! they all watched on in anticipation as the beholder rolled and the dice went back and forth rolling around before juuuust barely landing on a 2! The plaayers all jumped up and cheered and had a huge celebration hug!
But if it comes back as a death tyrant later they cant do the same thing... Undead cannot be charmed by enchantments quite so easily now is the beholder going to make the same mistake twice...
After that mission the players leveled up twice! And my wizard claimed to be scared for the first time as he stood under its anti matter feild and the beholder had yet to be revealed and they had no idea what this glowing eye in the darkness was....
Heck the first time he met with Vaal the beholder he got dragged around by its telikinisis and was toyed with like he was nothing only managing to escape cause the beholder let him to having plans for him later in the game. He expressed it was the first time he ever felt helpless in the game... I can tell you that this particular wizard is hard to humble... he has always been slippery and tricky cause of his illusion speciaalization and his rejection of all things evocation he basically specializes in enchantments and situational magic... and cause of that you can never catch him off guard... he has 10 spells for every solution and is arrogent about that fact.
IT was a 20 hour D&D session... 2 days straight of D&D I felt so drained by the end.
Born in Italy, moved a bunch, living in Spain, my heart always belonged to Roleplaying Games
I swear i felt like i was dieing by the end.
But yeah it was alot of fun.
Born in Italy, moved a bunch, living in Spain, my heart always belonged to Roleplaying Games
Roleplaying since Runequest.
Haha I worked too long and hard on that campaign to let it crumble apart at the end!
Although I did get a little grumpy in the middle when they complained that my room descriptions were getting not very descriptive and they were unable to figure out ware they were or how many enamies were in one place.
But slight grumping aside the campaign went off without a hitch and the players are so excited by how they outsmarted the beholder its 4 days later and they are still talking about it with pride. Thats how you know you did a good job as a DM when your players feel that big of a impact or emotional reaction.
Threw dirt in the beholders eye, I love it. It's awesome for a dm when the party does something unexpected, unpredictable!
Its funny cause the players had never faced a beholder before, they barely knew about the dream thing. but it was a chance that he took the only thing he could think of doing.
I hope the next beholder (or Death Tyrant) they face has the wit and paranoia to have considered such a dirty trick, and is wearing a contact lens. (Or perhaps has a symbiotic relationship with a transparent ooze that lives on it's central eye, keeping it moisturised.)
Roleplaying since Runequest.
The beholder died feeling cheated and fury... its coming back as a death tyrant dont worry about that.
Have the tyrant save them from a red dragon (as they are low on health and sweating over a possible TPK), proclaiming loudly "These are mine - get yer own!"
To steal another idea - go Green Knight on them and give them a year to "improve those pitiful skills" before the Death Tyrant comes looking for them again.....
Roleplaying since Runequest.
Haha technically the players didnt want him to be a bad-ass fight, they were scared of him and tried everything in there power to avoid him getting free and killing them all, it was a last ditched desperate maneuver that happened to work that killed him.
My one player said he had never felt so scared of dieing in D&D than when he was standing in the anti magic feild of the behoder and was stripped of his power. or when it closed its eye to drag him across the floor with telekinesis as it slowly spoke to him.
A seat at our table can be rough! Our last game ( this one ) lasted 20 hours straight! Man was it exhausting but worth it.