Sent to me by Panther
The Great Paladin Fire
So, as I promised, I am going to tell you how our party of lawful good (except the rogue), level 1 PCs slaughtered a town of 20,000.
It was the start of our adventure, we had a Halfling bard, a Dragonborn Paladin, an Eladrin Monk (me) and a Tiefling rogue.
The DM started us off in a port town tavern, where we were supposed to meet up and get a contract for our mercenary group. Right off the bat, the Tiefling tried to pickpocket an off-duty guard, and gets himself thrown out of the tavern. He comes back in, and starts some more crap with the off-duty guard, who blows his whistle and summons more guards.
The rest of us let the Tiefling get arrested, and we collect our contract. However, we REALLY need the Tiefling for this job, so we decide to break him out of jail. We scope out the jail for a day, and we can't find any way in, except through the front door.
We eventually decide that the bard and the paladin will cause some kind of distraction, so that I can make my way into the jail and punch out the only guy on duty. We decide that this is best done at night, so that the guards are tired, and there aren't many on duty anyways. We decide that the best distraction at 2 AM would be a building on fire...
However, none of us are cool with setting an occupied building on fire, and potentially getting someone killed, or ruining livelihoods... So, we find an abandoned building block that we can set on fire.
We use magic to signal each other, and the dragonborn paladin uses his breath to set the abandoned buildings on fire. The bard starts running around, telling guards that the building is on fire, and I get prepared to sneak into the jail and free the rogue.
The DM decided to start rolling to see if the fire was contained, or if it spread to any where else. It spreads.
I encounter resistance at the jail, but it isn't too much for me to handle, and I manage to free the rogue. Meanwhile, the fire has continued to spread, and our paladin has joined the firefighting effort. However, the city keeps failing the "contain the fire" rolls, and eventually the entire ghetto is ablaze.
The fire eventually spread through the city, and most of the port was leveled by dawn. It was not totally contained until the army showed up with some wizards who could conjure rain. All told, some 20,000 souls knelt before The Raven Queen that day.
Our paladin went into a catatonic state, and did not speak for weeks.
