Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2015 22:49:35 GMT
This happened last night at my D&D Expeditions table.
One of the party members is a half-orc paladin of Ilmater, whose Find Steed mount happens to be a bear. The party was exploring an old crater, a 200 foot deep and 100 foot wide pit out in the foothills of the Dragonspine Mountains. They made their way to the bottom of the pit through a nearby cave. The entrance, however, was far too narrow for the bear to enter, so it remained outside as a sentinel.
They made their way to the bottom of the pit, fighting some orc raiders who laired in the cave along the way. They learned the orcs shared the crater with a stone giant who lived at the bottom, and moved onward to meet him.
The giant had been possessed by an evil entity, and commanded a hell hound pet. They riled the giant pretty quickly, unaware of the hound in another cave at the bottom of the pit. Once combat ensued, things got ugly fast for the party, as the first boulder he threw nearly knocked a character unconscious. When the hell hound appeared a round later, there was a moment of panic...
Until the paladin remembered his trusty steed. He commanded it to leap from the edge of the pit 200 feet above them, and land on the hell hound. I called for an acrobatics check to aim the landing, and the bear succeeded handily enough. I just went with the 1d6 per 10 feet of falling against both the hell hound and the bear. The player rolled 20d6, and got 72 -- more than enough to flatten the hound and make the magical steed go poof.
Emboldened and enlivened by this pseudo-sacrifice, the party went nuts on the stone giant. The giant got in a couple more hits and one knock-out, but everyone survived. Might've been a lot closer if the hell hound ever got to use its fire breath, but the bear bomb took care of that!
