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This is just a general interest post. Not quite a rant.

I just allowed my players to use some uber-powerful magical items against what was supposed to be an overwhelming force of an entire Drow army. Had it not been for creative use of these magic items and the presence of an artefact, they would have been mincemeat.

When players find that an army of at least 200 Drow, with at least 6 high level clerics of Lolth and twice as many high level protectors for them, you expect players to work out the odds as being somewhat greater than 40 to 1, and to avoid the conflict. Oh, no. Not my players.

The phrase "You know, I think we can take them." was quickly followed by a plan so ingenious that it might have come right out of the A-Team. "If we take this, and do this with it, then cast this, and this before they can do that, we could probably win. We could at least give them a bruising and get clean away." As it was only the rogue made his now traditional response to Drow, by falling unconscious in the first volley.

So now, L'On Daxxt, who is not just a high priestess of Lolth but one who multi-classed as a sorceress capable of casting teleport, is now more than a little annoyed with the PCs, who not only stole her artefact, but then killed her army. Methinks they have not heard the last of L'On Daxxt.

OK, so without the help of the artefact they might have been mauled a little. However when finally provided with a focus you would expect that something held prisoner for years and used as bait in a trap would use the focus to channel just a little revenge on his captors. Its just a box where someone's ashes are stored, but they are the mortal remains of someone a bit special.

Len