Can I just ignore him now?

[PSULion150]

Decided to start on Book 6 tonight and encountered an old annoyance. I'd completely forgotten about Roark, but suddenly, there he was barging into taverns and smacking around old people. Of course, I confronted him and...well...things didn't go so well for him. I have a base CS of 18, Circle of Fire, WM, Sommerswerd, shield, Silver Helmet and mindblast. Total CS of 36. I rolled a 0. Instant kill. Can I just skip this little dweeb in the future? Yeah...I thought not. I really can't wait to just kill him.

[Zipp]

Yep. You get the special item "Roark's Emblem" which you steal from his dead body and deletes all future reference to the snot in later books. Or you can just ritualistically burn the pages with him on them. That's what I did.

[LWhistorian]

I wish you could give him the surest way to the land of the dead around: take him along as a companion. He wouldn't last 3 numbered sections; as you rode out of town, an ambush would probably send about fifty arrows into his eye or something.

[Sol]

This is a very interesting point. If you want REAL cheese, go to Book 11 where you are fighting the Crimson Guard. If you land an auto-kill on him, his boot gets stuck in the rope ladder and his dead fingers are clutching the last Lorestone as his dead corpse flies away.

TOTAL CHEESE.

It reminds me of D&D games where your character makes all the intelligent decisions, all the good plays, rolls all the right dice, then the DM just says, "too bad - you can't have it anyway because I said so and I am too lazy to rewrite the ending to this adventure."

I mean, seriously! Just gimme two Lorestones! It's not like I won't be kicking Vonotar's butt to get home anyway!

[deiseach]

These things do happen in real life, Sol. It's the equivalent of weaving your way through a football (soccer) defence then smashing an almost-but-not-quite perfect 20-yard drive against the inside of the post

[Sol]

deiseach said:

These things do happen in real life, Sol. It's the equivalent of weaving your way through a football (soccer) defence then smashing an almost-but-not-quite perfect 20-yard drive against the inside of the post

Ouch - that sounds too painful to be made up! I salute you!

[North Star]

Sol said:

This is a very interesting point. If you want REAL cheese, go to Book 11 where you are fighting the Crimson Guard. If you land an auto-kill on him, his boot gets stuck in the rope ladder and his dead fingers are clutching the last Lorestone as his dead corpse flies away.

I don't remember ever getting that resuly. It sounds REALLY lame.

NS.

[Relenoir]

Sol said:

It reminds me of D&D games where your character makes all the intelligent decisions, all the good plays, rolls all the right dice, then the DM just says, "too bad - you can't have it anyway because I said so and I am too lazy to rewrite the ending to this adventure."

That reminds me of our old campaign. I made somebody roll a sixteen or higher on a D10 (he had to roll a ten, then a 6 or above) to stop a ritual sacrifice in the Maakenmire to resurrect Gourgaza, the dragon-lizard nasty powerful creature that I was going to pit the group against for the next adventure. He fired an incendiary arrow from far away to hit the altar and person leading the ritual, and he pulled it off!!! I had to scrap the next few weeks worth of material. Of course, now I have a new group with new players. . . };@> (Evil laughing demon face)

[Ghost Bear]

North said:

I don't remember ever getting that resuly. It sounds REALLY lame.

NS.

I really enjoyed that. I smote down the foe only for his big bird to get away from me. The irony is brilliant. If Lone Wolf dies before getting through the Shadow Gate, an overgrown magpie is responsible for destroying Aon. How cool is that?