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Has your party ever had a really stupid plan that ended up working out? Tell us about it!
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It was a modified Kingmaker campaign.
Two huge armies were marching towards our capital city. We'd just finished kicking out the occupying force, and had spent most of our resources and favors just doing that. We didn't have the BP to fund an army except for some golems an NPC ally had and a couple of Leadership-based follower squads, one of which was cut down from trying to redirect the second army into the first, with limited success.
Our king, being a big dumb Str/Cha build, went off to challenge some orcs for leadership and managed to drag a horde back to help fight, while the team Bard went north to another land and tried to get an audience with one of our enemies.
She was rich, powerful, from an old family, and moreover related to both the leader of one of the invaders and the leader of the occupying force. We didn't have shit to offer her except what we'd just spent half the campaign taking away from her and her cousins.
Except, apparently, the king's hand in marriage. Having been already courting a local cleric, he made a face that could top off a One Piece arc when he found out.
>lets marry one of our rivals
He got backstabbed didn't he
Yes, we were helping a Dragon Overlord (who we eventually would've rebelled against) against his fellow Dragon Overlord from the south who was about to invade him, and we had one month of preparations time. The party being only martials, we did what we best could: Find stuff to kill and benefit from.
The DM telling us we couldn't just go find strong enemies to kill and level from, we made up a plan: We'd go to some camps and forts of the Dragon Overlord at the east, kill everyone there, and leave fake banners and symbols of the southern Dragon Overlord, so that the Dragon Overlord at the east would attack him to help us turn the tables.
It worked too well (not counting a couple brushes with death because taking a few cannonballs to the face still fucking hurts). The Eastern Dragon Overlord marched in with his armies to attack the Southern Dragon Overlord as he was sieging us (Including long-range artillery constructs that exploded on death). It happened that we knew that the Dragon Overlords weren't native from this plane, but had come from somewhere else, and it seems like their presence was what was destabilizing the material plane (the reason why magic was working with far less effectiveness and why we had to face an eldritch horror a few sessions back). Which meant that three in one place damaged the fragile balance that there was, causing eldritch horrors to pop up all over the place, our party barely escaping from the tendril monster-consumed city. (One of use almost died from bleed damage that inflicted CON drain.)
He spent another full year of IRL time expecting it, preparing for it, and...
No, never. She went behind his back a few times, but it turned out she was only looking for ways to eliminate rivals to him and their unborn child.
The kicker was that she was a Paladin the whole time and suddenly started carving up devils right when we thought the whole party was well and truly fucked.
Top waifu. What happened to the cleric he was courting?
>your enemy was a top tier waifu all along
lucky bastard
She remained his closest friend, but their relationship gradually turned from a crush to something more platonic. We joked occasionally that she kept the Queen company while he was out questing.
We all expected the GM to be running Cersei Lannister, but she turned out to be Saber. The GM eventually confessed that he'd planned for her to be a recurring antagonist and had been caught completely off guard when the bard made his offer.
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Is this game bamboozle?