FIRE AND BLOOD AND UNDEAD BITS

[miladygrey]

Last night at D&D (5th-edition rules set in the world of the Witcher), our merry band descended into the depths of a mysterious silver mine to investigate why the 100 miners and support crew, plus one witcher, had vanished without a trace. The answer, it turns out, is "evil necromantic magic augmented by some weird entropic stone". We discovered this because one person got too close to a scepter embedded in said stone, and suddenly the 100 dead miners and support crew rose from the dead and came for us. Here's what happened:

Orryn the Clockwork Witcher and gunsmith: Well, I can shoot this one to my right. One down.
Hossbjorn the Bear School Witcher and bard: I can bash these two on either side of me. Two down.
Modi the Clockwork Witcher and cleric: I can cast Turn Undead--*rolls a 2*--I cannot. Sorry.
Dufnjall the Bear School Witcher and fighter: I can re-murder these two. Two down.
Mungo the Hornet School Witcher and rogue: I can stabinate this one. One down.
Me, Dagmara the Phoenix Sorceress: FIREBALL.

DM fails saving throw, I roll excellently on my damage roll. 35 zombies off the board.

By the end of the fight (which we all survived by the skin of our teeth, some clutch death saves, and Modi's liberal use of Healing Word), my two Fireballs, one Scorching Ray, one Fire Bolt, and my Phoenix power that gives anyone who attacks me in melee an automatic 5 points of fire damage took out 66 of the 100 undead.

Dagmara: FIRE AND BLOOD.
Hossbjorn: ...I will never call you 'Bubbles' again, ma'am.
Dufnjall: But she likes it!
Dagmara: *turns still-smoldering death glare on Dufnjall*
Modi: I am not raising you if she kills you.

I love this game.

Comments

[lizbetann]

Fireball IS amazing, isn't it? My baby Ivory-Tower elf wizard girl is getting a liiiiiitle too fond of how well that cuts down the numbers. (At least, it's gotten the rest of the party to quit teasing her about that time she insisted that they cut off the bugbear's head and take it into town for the bounty to prove that they had actually killed it, because she read in a book somewhere that's how you prove such things...) (Okay, fine, it hasn't, but they've largely forgotten about that and mostly just tease her about her sleeping with the priestess of the luck god every time they're in town...)

[miladygrey]

I have (somehow) never played a magic-user before, so once I got used to not being able to rush headlong into the fray, I realized just how much potential ranged spells have. Fireball is THE BEST. It's probably lucky I only had two to spend, I would have gleefully used it a third time and barbecued two companions with only a slight qualm.