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Re: Ouch! | ||
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Posts: 7848 (01/14/04 10:34:07) Rules Lawyer, Esq. |
Eww, 60 damage? Khasar, you should check your character sheet and high light everything, to see if there is a hidden ability score called Luck at 1 translating into a -5 modifier.
Darken Light, is the lack of darkness. |
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olivar |
Re: Ouch! | ||
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Posts: 1334 (01/14/04 10:37:38) Wyrm |
Duh, I wasn't even thinking that it could have a really high init...just higher than mine, which is usually pretty low.
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SuperJoshP |
Unlucky | ||
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Posts: 4913 (01/14/04 11:39:05) |
Darken: Given that human scores tend to be between 3-18 I bet a 1 luck score would make Khasar the unluckiest man alive! Of course that would explain a lot.
 May be his tribe did not send him on his quest to find hamutis so much as the sent him on it to get him out of their way.
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Andorax |
Re: Unlucky | ||
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Posts: 7052 (01/14/04 12:14:15) |
Unlucky would have been 1 more point of damage. I nearly fell out of my chair when I checked his current status and compared it to the damage dealt.
"Whadda ya mean, Orcs get levels too?!?"
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olivar |
Re: Unlucky | ||
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Posts: 1334 (01/15/04 08:05:42) Wyrm |
Hey, zachol, I just wanted to point out that, since Zanas goes first this round, she won't get Qayan's instruction until well after she goes. In fact, ogwul only has Qayan shout that if Valarion's spell doesn't stick.
Nevermind. Combat already posted. |
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zachol |
Re: Unlucky | ||
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Posts: 1849 (01/16/04 12:32:12) |
Sorry. I was confused about the way initiative was going, exactly. Sorry about the death part.
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darken |
Re: Unlucky | ||
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Posts: 7848 (01/17/04 11:16:19) Rules Lawyer, Esq. |
Yeah... we were talking about whether or not to just abandon Khasar when he dropped, but apparently our plan is still not good enough as we merely exchanged Khasar for Gron'rindul.
Andorax, think we can score a True Resurrection from the temple free of cost, seeing we are doing a good thing for the city and for the dwarven heritage?
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zachol |
Re: Unlucky | ||
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Posts: 1849 (01/17/04 13:58:07) |
Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but are you both blaming me, somehow, for this? I'm fine with changing what I'm doing, and I'm sorry I turned out to be the first one to retreat, but I'm not going to get any better with sarcastic remarks about what's happening.
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darken |
Re: Unlucky | ||
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Posts: 7848 (01/17/04 14:05:07) Rules Lawyer, Esq. |
Woah, where are you getting that? I was just saying had we just left Khasar there, we would have lost the same amount of characters as now. I am not blaming you for anything.
Darken Light, is the lack of darkness. |
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olivar |
Re: Unlucky | ||
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Posts: 1334 (01/17/04 15:54:42) Wyrm |
Do you know how ironic it is that if I hadn't chosen the full defense action, Gron would still be alive? God, I feel dumb.
 As for the trading one character for another thing, if we had left Khasar there, the thing would likely have got Gron too, considering his slow movement. |
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zachol |
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Posts: 1849 (01/18/04 17:13:18) |
I think that I must have read some sort of sarcasm in your post. Never mind, I've been getting less sleep than usual.
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Andorax |
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Posts: 7052 (01/20/04 08:50:23) |
Actually, I'm not so sure that a different action other than "full defense" would have done you any better. Any other sort of withdrawl would have still suffered the same AoO followed by attack...and staying and fighting *might* have only put you into the negatives instead of outright dead...which likely makes little difference if the group can't get back to you in time.
"Whadda ya mean, Orcs get levels too?!?"
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SuperJoshP |
Re: Unlucky | ||
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Posts: 4913 (01/20/04 10:38:27) |
I hate to hold up combat, but I want to wait and chat with Darken and Ogwul a bit before I post. Sorry, but it only anothr 4 or so hours.
Egad...that's one for the recordbooks. Within one combat round, one player has said "I grapple the Mind Flayer" and another has said "I Intimidate the Mind flayer". -Andorax DM of Realms of Shadow |
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Andorax |
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Posts: 7052 (01/20/04 11:09:00) |
Not a problem for me...I'm going to be leaving for home in about 20 minutes due to another appointment (about 37 weeks now) and not back into the office today. I should be able to update the next round first-thing tomorrow morning if everyone's posted by then.
"Whadda ya mean, Orcs get levels too?!?"
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olivar |
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Posts: 1334 (01/20/04 21:17:40) Wyrm |
Doing nothing but moving would not have suffered an AoO, it was moving _and_ taking another action that suffered it. And, yeah, not taking the 7 points from the AoO would have simply put me in the megative range, so likely no difference once everyone had to run. But it's just as well he did die for certain, or some PCs might have got it into their heads to stay (like Gron did).
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zachol |
Re: Unlucky | ||
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Posts: 1849 (01/20/04 21:29:28) |
So, by squeezing do you mean that the monster is slower than usual?
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olivar |
Re: Unlucky | ||
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Posts: 1334 (01/20/04 22:09:16) Wyrm |
Yeah, isn't that scary? It's moving almost as fast as Khasar, at half speed part of the time. Hopefully, now that it'll be in a corridor that is 5' for a ways, it won't catch anyone, until you get to the domes, that is.
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darken |
Re: Unlucky | ||
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Posts: 7848 (01/20/04 22:32:12) Rules Lawyer, Esq. |
Quote:If it makes you feel any better, this thing has reach, that means he'll get an AoO either way. The move you are talking about is called "withdraw", which means you do nothing but move in this round, and all the benefit of it is "you may avoid AoO for the square that you start your movement with". For all other movements, AoOs occur as normal. Darken Light, is the lack of darkness. |
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SuperJoshP |
Are you sure? | ||
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Posts: 4913 (01/21/04 07:04:23) |
Darken, are you sure you want to stop and cast suggestion on the beast? Isn't that a lower level spell than the charm monster spell you already tried? Not that I have any better ideas at the moment, but I am fairly certian that what you are attempting is tantamount to suicide and, as you so elequintly put it, we can afford to lose fighter levels more than we can afford to lose caster levels.
Egad...that's one for the recordbooks. Within one combat round, one player has said "I grapple the Mind Flayer" and another has said "I Intimidate the Mind flayer". -Andorax DM of Realms of Shadow |
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Andorax |
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Posts: 7052 (01/21/04 09:07:13) |
I'd just toss one comment out..for what it's worth, the Charm Monster suffered the -5 penalty for being used on someone already under attack (and attacking). The suggestion, if the creature considers it reasonable, is under no such penalty.
Then again, it could have just saved really well. "Whadda ya mean, Orcs get levels too?!?"
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