As Yuno stealths into the next room, it becomes very clear that her stealth is entirely useless. There is virtually no cover in the room at all, but as the party looks around to try and gain their bearings, they find themselves even more confused. It takes a moment to realize this, but there appear to be multiple of each party member. For Chan and Yuno, their keen eyes quickly deduce that most of the images are just reflections of party members off of the mirrors on all the walls, but there are still two of each party member. Gogon and Sythm both spend a turn dazed as they try and gain their bearings.
(Characters with Passive Perceptions above 15 can take their first turn, otherwise, the character is considered surprised.)
(No Repositioning)
(You will each receive a PM from me telling you the location of your actual character, but it will be unknown to the rest of the party. Please reply with your actions in the PM and I will post them here. There will be no initiative for the monsters in this battle, and instead, you will all act simultaneously with your doppelgangers in the order that I roll initiative for each of you (after the surprise of course). If you wish to discern whether or not someone is a doppelganger on your turn, you may do so as a free action by making an insight check. The DC of that check will start at a 10 and be altered by the RP and specificity of your character's speech in your PMs.)
(Also, the mirrors are naturally disorienting and can cause one to become easily confused. At the start of each of your turns, please make a DC 10 Wisdom Saving Throw. On a failure, your character has their movement speed reduced to 0 out of confusion.)
Initiative:
Gogon: 20 Yuno: 22 Sythm: 9 Chan: 4
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“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
The Yuno that is farther down on the map, rushes up and begins an assault on her clone. Shouting, "Die! Me!" she charges forward and begins an assault on the other Yuno, who is unsuspecting at the moment, and with a flurry of five blows, the Yuno that was originally next to Sythm lies on the ground unconscious. The living Yuno turns to the southern Gogon and asks with her sword pointed at the monk, "What do I hate fighting?"
The monk is too dazed to respond at the moment, as both of the halflings are stumbling around the room trying to gain their bearings with all the mirrors.
Chan is up next!
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“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
The northwestern Chan raises his arm to fire off a bolt of radiant energy and call something out, but the other cleric begins to slowly stalk towards him with a shield up. When the first Chan calls out, "We must identify ourselves! I was at our first fight with the dragon! It went… poorly…" the advancing Chan turns to the Sythm next to him and says, "That is obvious, but what color was the dragon? And until we identify ourselves, you should stop attacking me." The last bit is just eeked out as the first Chan launches a bolt of radiant energy at the approaching one. The approaching one manages to barely deflect the attack with his shield before saying, "You shouldn't be so hasty in attacking others. Now stay put." Glancing to the side at the conscious Yuno, he says, "Just in case, you too."
Hold Person Wisdom Save (Chan): 18 Hold Person Wisdom Save (Yuno): 22
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“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
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The conscious Yuno clone stands over the other Yuno's body and calls out to the Chan that tried to paralyze her by saying, "Hey! That's not nice! You're lucky you aren't another me or I would have turned you into paste for that!" She holds her weapon over the unconscious Yuno's body and is prepared to strike the body, but doesn't react yet. That Yuno also calls out to the Chan that tried to paralyze her by asking, "I'm turning that question around on you because I know that answer. What do YOU think the color is?"
Yuno Death Save: 15
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“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
The southern Gogon quickly approaches the rest of the party and mutters out, "Alright, at least Yuno's easy enough to read." Meanwhile, the other Gogon steps around so that the one that was originally on the north side of the room is now on the south side. As they spin around each other, the new southern Gogon calls out, "Chan's! Which of you can tell me the name of the instrument that Boomer plays?" The new northern Gogon calls out something more practical as he launches an attack, "I think we should take out your double first, Chan," he continued, "But since I can't tell who's who, and I really need to borrow some lifeforce..."
The northern monk's first spear strike slams into the side of the other halfling and causes the other monk to double down in pain as he growls and his eyes flash yellow. The northern monk also sucks some of the southern one's life force out as a tattoo on his arm sucks out dark life force from the other monk. The other monk, now in severe pain, retaliates furiously with a series of strikes. In a flurry of blows that occurs barely slow enough to see, the northern Gogon misses with a second spear strike but his eyes flash a bright red as a flaming kick knocks the other monk hard against the head and sucks even more necrotic energy out. The southern Gogon doesn't miss a beat, and although he looks heavily injured manages to retaliate with a perfectly placed spear strike that leaves the northern Gogon frozen in place. With a sitting duck target, the southern Gogon goes to town and lands another spear strike and two lightning-charged kicks against the other monk. Both monks are still standing, although barely and the northern Gogon is currently stunned.
The eastern Sythm raises his arms and summons a blast of flames as he answers Yuno's question, "Yuno!" Sythm calls, "The things which you hate fighting are things that don't bleed!" While the other Sythm replies, "That was an easy answer. I could have told you the same thing. But would a doppleganger ever take out one of his own allies?" With that, the western Sythm summons three flame blasts and sends them flying towards the monks. Both monks, exhausted by their exchange are overwhelmed by the flames, and they both fall to the ground unconscious.
The first (eastern) Sythm responds again, "Wira is bound to my soul! Only I could summon her!"as he says this, the pillar of flames erupts into a single flaming cat. The cat then fires a flamins seed at the other Sythm as the eastern one calls, "Wira! Burn the imposter!"
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“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
The northern Chan waits for the Southern Chan to respond to the question and the southern Chan fumbles for a second and replies, "Drums?" With this answer, the entire party knows that this is not the Chan that had been traveling with them up until this point. The other (real) Chan replies, "Boomer plays the Banjo of course," revealing him to be the true Chan.
(OOC: Known enemies are now highlighted in purple.)
The real Chan sends a healing word towards the Gogon that believed they knew Yuno and had used the tattoo while the doppleganger sends a blast of healing in the direction of the other Gogon. "Get up you fool. They have already discovered me and I need all the assistance I can get." With that, both monks come back to consciousness (although barely) and are still lying on the ground. When the real Chan summons a divine radiance to strike down the doppleganger, the clone easily dodges it as he dashes forward and past the Eastern Sythm and stabs at the real Chan with elongated claws that are dripping acid. The attack connects and scrapes acid down the front of the real Chan's skin.
Yuno is up next!
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“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
The conscious Yuno slams a massive radiant hammer into the unconscious one and the girl's head explodes. As it does, the rest of the body disappears as well.
(OOC: Now that Yuno's clone has been destroyed Yuno can post her actions straight in this thread if @Zulk wishes.)
Yuno hopes this will convince the party that she's the real Yuno and not a fake Yuno. She shouts at the enemies attacking Real Chan. "Hey! Leave Real Chan Alone! He's our healbot!" Seeing how the fake Chan has the same healing magic as the real one, she decides to get rid of the fake Yuno before the fake Chan can heal her. Yuno uses Dusk Crusher to smash the unconscious Yuno's head into a pulp before moving to U20. She then swings the Dusk Crusher at Fake Chan's head followed by a lunge to the chest from her Sun Blade.
Wisdom Save for Movement: 16
Dusk Crusher vs Unconscious Yuno to get her to fail all her Death Saves: 24 (Adv: 23) Dmg: Auto Crit - 2 Failed Death saves. Rolling Damage anyway because big numbers are fun: 19 (Forgot Brute dice but it's fine since damage to dying characters don't matter that much anyway)
One Gogon springs to his feet and rushes up to the fake Chan. While his first stab is deflected by the cleric's armor, the second stab pierces the armor and necrotic energy sucks the life out of the Chan. Even though the fake Chan resists it, the attack is still enough to take the aasimar down, and another kick in the head makes the cleric look very unstable. Meanwhile, the other Gogon springs up and slams his spear twice into the Gogon's back that knocked out the fake Chan. With both spear strikes, the first Gogon falls to the ground unconscious, and the second steps over his unconscious form to strike twice at Yuno. Unfortunately for him, Yuno's armor repels both attacks barely and he is unable to make contact with either attack.
(Note: Before the Gogon that fell unconscious did so, he was able to send off an arc of electricity from his rod that the second Gogon barely avoided the brunt of.)
Sythm is up next!
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“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
The western Sythm sends a mote of healing towards the downed Gogon, before sending a blast of flames at the other Sythm. Meanwhile, the other Sythm laughs and says, "You of all people should know that sacrifice is sometimes necessary. We must burn away everything before rebirth is possible." The western Sythm responds to the Gogon that was given the healing, "Rise up! Your time to burn has not come yet!" As the eastern Sythm finishes their sentence, however, they summon a large blast of radiant energy that engulfs everyone except for the two Sythm's.
Chan is up next!
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“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
Chan launches three flaming bolts towards the eastern Sythm. Unfortunately, only the first attack lands. However, it is enough to break the Sythm's concentration on the beam of radiant energy. Chan follows up with a radiant bolt that slams into the same Sythm as he zooms upwards 30 feet to get out of the melee range of any potential clones.
Yuno is up next!
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“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
Yuno turns around to the Gorgon that tired to hit her. She says, "Your Kung-Fu Foolery might make you hit fast but..." She swaps the grip of her Sun Blade to a reverse grip and slashes at Gorgon's (the one that attacked her) face. "...I hit harder!" She then follows up the slash with a downward swing of her Dusk Crusher at Gorgon's head (again the one that attacked her). Finally she switches the grip on her sword once again back to normal and makes a second slash at Gorgon's (Still the same one that attacked her) Chest.
Sun Blade: 16 Dmg: 9 + 1 Radiant Sun Blade: 20 Dmg: 11 + 4 Radiant
Yuno's first attack knocks the fake Gogon unconscious and then the next two follow-up strikes finish the unconscious monk off. The monk disappears into a cloud of dust confirming that three of the fakes have now been destroyed. With only one fake left;
Gogon is up next!
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“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
Still a bit disoriented, Gogon grit his teeth and focused on the eastern Sythm. "Let's finish this," he quipped as he hurled his spear at the fake, then inhaled to follow up with a lightning bolt literally blasted from his lips.
(( Will use a charge from the Blood Fury Tattoo on the spear throw if it hits. ))
MOVE: None ACTION: Spear throw plus Breath of the Dragon * Spear Throw, Attack: 24, Piercing Damage: 11 + 16 Necrotic * Breath of the Dragon, DC 14 DEX Save or take 6 lightning damage (3 damage on success.) REACTION: If Gogon gets injured, Rod of Retribution - DC 13 DEX Save or take 6 Lightning Damage (3 damage on success.)
Finished!
With one hurl of his spear, Gogon slaughters the remaining clone who disappears into a cloud of dust. As the last clone disappears, you all feel a tugging sensation and are immediately tugged down onto the next level.
Everybody can level up. I will describe your environment once everyone has leveled up.
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“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
With one hurl of his spear, Gogon slaughters the remaining clone who disappears into a cloud of dust. As the last clone disappears, you all feel a tugging sensation and are immediately tugged down onto the next level.
Everybody can level up. I will describe your environment once everyone has leveled up.
(OOC: In case it wasn't visible above)
(EDIT... I don't know why my text is showing up weird... but I'll trouble shoot)
As Yuno stealths into the next room, it becomes very clear that her stealth is entirely useless. There is virtually no cover in the room at all, but as the party looks around to try and gain their bearings, they find themselves even more confused. It takes a moment to realize this, but there appear to be multiple of each party member. For Chan and Yuno, their keen eyes quickly deduce that most of the images are just reflections of party members off of the mirrors on all the walls, but there are still two of each party member. Gogon and Sythm both spend a turn dazed as they try and gain their bearings.
(Characters with Passive Perceptions above 15 can take their first turn, otherwise, the character is considered surprised.)
(No Repositioning)
(You will each receive a PM from me telling you the location of your actual character, but it will be unknown to the rest of the party. Please reply with your actions in the PM and I will post them here. There will be no initiative for the monsters in this battle, and instead, you will all act simultaneously with your doppelgangers in the order that I roll initiative for each of you (after the surprise of course). If you wish to discern whether or not someone is a doppelganger on your turn, you may do so as a free action by making an insight check. The DC of that check will start at a 10 and be altered by the RP and specificity of your character's speech in your PMs.)
(Battle-Map)
(Also, the mirrors are naturally disorienting and can cause one to become easily confused. At the start of each of your turns, please make a DC 10 Wisdom Saving Throw. On a failure, your character has their movement speed reduced to 0 out of confusion.)
Initiative:
Gogon: 20
Yuno: 22
Sythm: 9
Chan: 4
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
Yuno is up first!
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
The Yuno that is farther down on the map, rushes up and begins an assault on her clone. Shouting, "Die! Me!" she charges forward and begins an assault on the other Yuno, who is unsuspecting at the moment, and with a flurry of five blows, the Yuno that was originally next to Sythm lies on the ground unconscious. The living Yuno turns to the southern Gogon and asks with her sword pointed at the monk, "What do I hate fighting?"
The monk is too dazed to respond at the moment, as both of the halflings are stumbling around the room trying to gain their bearings with all the mirrors.
Chan is up next!
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
The northwestern Chan raises his arm to fire off a bolt of radiant energy and call something out, but the other cleric begins to slowly stalk towards him with a shield up. When the first Chan calls out, "We must identify ourselves! I was at our first fight with the dragon! It went… poorly…" the advancing Chan turns to the Sythm next to him and says, "That is obvious, but what color was the dragon? And until we identify ourselves, you should stop attacking me." The last bit is just eeked out as the first Chan launches a bolt of radiant energy at the approaching one. The approaching one manages to barely deflect the attack with his shield before saying, "You shouldn't be so hasty in attacking others. Now stay put." Glancing to the side at the conscious Yuno, he says, "Just in case, you too."
Hold Person Wisdom Save (Chan): 18
Hold Person Wisdom Save (Yuno): 22
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
However, both the other Chan and the conscious Yuno manage to resist the effect.
Yuno is up next!
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
The conscious Yuno clone stands over the other Yuno's body and calls out to the Chan that tried to paralyze her by saying, "Hey! That's not nice! You're lucky you aren't another me or I would have turned you into paste for that!" She holds her weapon over the unconscious Yuno's body and is prepared to strike the body, but doesn't react yet. That Yuno also calls out to the Chan that tried to paralyze her by asking, "I'm turning that question around on you because I know that answer. What do YOU think the color is?"
Yuno Death Save: 15
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
Gogon is up next!
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
The southern Gogon quickly approaches the rest of the party and mutters out, "Alright, at least Yuno's easy enough to read." Meanwhile, the other Gogon steps around so that the one that was originally on the north side of the room is now on the south side. As they spin around each other, the new southern Gogon calls out, "Chan's! Which of you can tell me the name of the instrument that Boomer plays?" The new northern Gogon calls out something more practical as he launches an attack, "I think we should take out your double first, Chan," he continued, "But since I can't tell who's who, and I really need to borrow some lifeforce..."
The northern monk's first spear strike slams into the side of the other halfling and causes the other monk to double down in pain as he growls and his eyes flash yellow. The northern monk also sucks some of the southern one's life force out as a tattoo on his arm sucks out dark life force from the other monk. The other monk, now in severe pain, retaliates furiously with a series of strikes. In a flurry of blows that occurs barely slow enough to see, the northern Gogon misses with a second spear strike but his eyes flash a bright red as a flaming kick knocks the other monk hard against the head and sucks even more necrotic energy out. The southern Gogon doesn't miss a beat, and although he looks heavily injured manages to retaliate with a perfectly placed spear strike that leaves the northern Gogon frozen in place. With a sitting duck target, the southern Gogon goes to town and lands another spear strike and two lightning-charged kicks against the other monk. Both monks are still standing, although barely and the northern Gogon is currently stunned.
Sythm is up next!
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
The eastern Sythm raises his arms and summons a blast of flames as he answers Yuno's question, "Yuno!" Sythm calls, "The things which you hate fighting are things that don't bleed!" While the other Sythm replies, "That was an easy answer. I could have told you the same thing. But would a doppleganger ever take out one of his own allies?" With that, the western Sythm summons three flame blasts and sends them flying towards the monks. Both monks, exhausted by their exchange are overwhelmed by the flames, and they both fall to the ground unconscious.
The first (eastern) Sythm responds again, "Wira is bound to my soul! Only I could summon her!" as he says this, the pillar of flames erupts into a single flaming cat. The cat then fires a flamins seed at the other Sythm as the eastern one calls, "Wira! Burn the imposter!"
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
Chan is up next!
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
The northern Chan waits for the Southern Chan to respond to the question and the southern Chan fumbles for a second and replies, "Drums?" With this answer, the entire party knows that this is not the Chan that had been traveling with them up until this point. The other (real) Chan replies, "Boomer plays the Banjo of course," revealing him to be the true Chan.
(OOC: Known enemies are now highlighted in purple.)
The real Chan sends a healing word towards the Gogon that believed they knew Yuno and had used the tattoo while the doppleganger sends a blast of healing in the direction of the other Gogon. "Get up you fool. They have already discovered me and I need all the assistance I can get." With that, both monks come back to consciousness (although barely) and are still lying on the ground. When the real Chan summons a divine radiance to strike down the doppleganger, the clone easily dodges it as he dashes forward and past the Eastern Sythm and stabs at the real Chan with elongated claws that are dripping acid. The attack connects and scrapes acid down the front of the real Chan's skin.
Yuno is up next!
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
The conscious Yuno slams a massive radiant hammer into the unconscious one and the girl's head explodes. As it does, the rest of the body disappears as well.
(OOC: Now that Yuno's clone has been destroyed Yuno can post her actions straight in this thread if @Zulk wishes.)
Yuno hopes this will convince the party that she's the real Yuno and not a fake Yuno. She shouts at the enemies attacking Real Chan. "Hey! Leave Real Chan Alone! He's our healbot!" Seeing how the fake Chan has the same healing magic as the real one, she decides to get rid of the fake Yuno before the fake Chan can heal her. Yuno uses Dusk Crusher to smash the unconscious Yuno's head into a pulp before moving to U20. She then swings the Dusk Crusher at Fake Chan's head followed by a lunge to the chest from her Sun Blade.
Wisdom Save for Movement: 16
Dusk Crusher vs Unconscious Yuno to get her to fail all her Death Saves: 24 (Adv: 23) Dmg: Auto Crit - 2 Failed Death saves.
Rolling Damage anyway because big numbers are fun: 19 (Forgot Brute dice but it's fine since damage to dying characters don't matter that much anyway)
Yuno moves to U20 and attacks Fake Chan twice:
Dusk Crusher: 18 Dmg: 9 Radiant + 1
BA: Sun Blade: 27 Dmg: 13 Radiant + 2 + Sneak: 2
Gogon is up next!
Disadvantage on the First Attack from Warding Flare: 31
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
Gogon is up next!
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“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
One Gogon springs to his feet and rushes up to the fake Chan. While his first stab is deflected by the cleric's armor, the second stab pierces the armor and necrotic energy sucks the life out of the Chan. Even though the fake Chan resists it, the attack is still enough to take the aasimar down, and another kick in the head makes the cleric look very unstable. Meanwhile, the other Gogon springs up and slams his spear twice into the Gogon's back that knocked out the fake Chan. With both spear strikes, the first Gogon falls to the ground unconscious, and the second steps over his unconscious form to strike twice at Yuno. Unfortunately for him, Yuno's armor repels both attacks barely and he is unable to make contact with either attack.
(Note: Before the Gogon that fell unconscious did so, he was able to send off an arc of electricity from his rod that the second Gogon barely avoided the brunt of.)
Sythm is up next!
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
The western Sythm sends a mote of healing towards the downed Gogon, before sending a blast of flames at the other Sythm. Meanwhile, the other Sythm laughs and says, "You of all people should know that sacrifice is sometimes necessary. We must burn away everything before rebirth is possible." The western Sythm responds to the Gogon that was given the healing, "Rise up! Your time to burn has not come yet!" As the eastern Sythm finishes their sentence, however, they summon a large blast of radiant energy that engulfs everyone except for the two Sythm's.
Chan is up next!
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
Chan launches three flaming bolts towards the eastern Sythm. Unfortunately, only the first attack lands. However, it is enough to break the Sythm's concentration on the beam of radiant energy. Chan follows up with a radiant bolt that slams into the same Sythm as he zooms upwards 30 feet to get out of the melee range of any potential clones.
Yuno is up next!
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
Yuno turns around to the Gorgon that tired to hit her. She says, "Your Kung-Fu Foolery might make you hit fast but..." She swaps the grip of her Sun Blade to a reverse grip and slashes at Gorgon's (the one that attacked her) face. "...I hit harder!" She then follows up the slash with a downward swing of her Dusk Crusher at Gorgon's head (again the one that attacked her). Finally she switches the grip on her sword once again back to normal and makes a second slash at Gorgon's (Still the same one that attacked her) Chest.
Sun Blade: 16 Dmg: 9 + 1 Radiant
Sun Blade: 20 Dmg: 11 + 4 Radiant
BA: Dusk Crusher: Sun Blade: 24 Dmg: 10 + 2 Radiant
+ Sneak attack on... 1st Attack: 1
Yuno's first attack knocks the fake Gogon unconscious and then the next two follow-up strikes finish the unconscious monk off. The monk disappears into a cloud of dust confirming that three of the fakes have now been destroyed. With only one fake left;
Gogon is up next!
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
Still a bit disoriented, Gogon grit his teeth and focused on the eastern Sythm. "Let's finish this," he quipped as he hurled his spear at the fake, then inhaled to follow up with a lightning bolt literally blasted from his lips.
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
(EDIT... I don't know why my text is showing up weird... but I'll trouble shoot)
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”