Apologies for just going *poof* like that. Anyway, I see the non-lethal damage as a boost because if the non-lethal damage a creature has taken exceeds their current hit points, they fall unconscious. Flanking with a rogue wielding a sap will take down a foe far quicker than flanking with a rogue wielding a rapier.
Trying again for the mite closest to him, Obi throws another small orb of fire between Torod and Eadric..
Fire Bolt(Ranged Touch) at Mite D6:1d20 + 5 - 4 - 4 ⇒ (19) + 5 - 4 - 4 = 16 Fire Damage:1d6 ⇒ 6
As for non-lethal vs lethal damage? It really makes no difference. The total amount of damage needed to incapacitate a foe does not change regardless of the type of damage done. Let's say that you are fighting something with 100 HP. If you deal it 101 HP of lethal damage it becomes unconscious and dying. If you are dealing it non-lethal damage, it still requires 101 HP of non-lethal damage to knock it unconscious (and it isn't dying).
If you are dealing a mix of lethal and non-lethal, the total damage still needs to equal 101 to knock it unconscious. Let's say that the creature has taken 80 HP of lethal damage, its current HP is now 20. You still need to do 21 HP of non-lethal to knock it unconscious. (20 damage, instead if 21 would just stagger it, the same as if you were reduced to 0 HP via lethal damage) There is no short cut here, you either have to do 21 non-lethal or you have to do 21 lethal to take it down. Total damage done still equals 101.
The key is to remember that non-lethal damage does not actually reduce your HP. Non-lethal damage is tracked separately from your HP and is added up. As HP fall due to lethal damage and non-lethal damage rises, whenever they equal each other you become staggered. When they pass each other, you fall unconscious.
Eadric ducks a little as a fiery projectile whistles part his ear, flying directly at the mite in front of him... watching to see if it hits the little ugly blue headed creature.
Out of the corner of his eye he spies Ellaria and the tick, with its sleeping rider, unsure as to what will transpire between them...
Kenderkin: I can see the map you have linked. I don't know why the earlier image service was blocked though.
Ellaria steps backward and begins casting a spell. Her eyes glow blue as she mutters arcane words. After a few seconds, she points in the general direction of the sleeping mite, and his eyes begin to glow blue as well.
Ellaria will move and try to cast Charm Person without triggering an AOO.
Ellaria smiles, then joins the mite. "Thank you, friend, but I am not hungry now - you can eat this if you want. Could you tell me more about this place? What lies deeper in?"
The mite seems to know some sylvan and shows off a bag of stuff he refers to as "spoils of war"
An ivory statuette depicts a crouching
horned devil is acting as a paper weight on the table...A tattered peice of paper penned in charcoal
the paper consists of two columns, one labeled “Us” and
one labeled “Them.” The “Us” column lists only two
things: “kobold statue” and “lots of spears and coins.” The
“Them” column lists “magic dust,” “lots of coins” and
“shiny human ring.”
Eadric isn't sure what to do with himself... so he moves quickly to put his back to the wall at a spot from which he can watch both tunnels, both mites and the tick. He stands ready to intervene if hostilities resume...
As Eadric's eyes dart back and forth from tunnel to tunnel, he whispers at Ellaria, Whatever you are doing, do it quick! I am sure that this is not the sum total of the mites down here! The rest have surely heard the commotion and will be joining us shortly, and I doubt they are going to be as 'friendly' as your new pal here!
Ellaria smiles at the mite, then says to it "Thanks, friend", as she takes his offerings. "Me and my other friends here will continue on now", she continues. "I'd like you to help us and guard our backs. Don't let anyone - anyone - pass through this room. Whoever else comes here, whether it is mite or anything else, kill it. Putting that aside, what is deeper in there?", and gestures towards the next tunnel.
After finishing with the charmed mite, she approaches her friends. "What shall we do with the other one? I think we could tie and gag him, or something like that, while we explore deeper in. We could also take one or both of them with us, to try to avoid fights deeper in. In any case, I don't want any unnecessary deaths".
A deep and ominous chasm splits the passage. The chasm is a few yards wide, and twice as deep, but thick ropes of tangled roots fill the entire area. The passage continues on the far side of the chasm, and between the two ledges, numerous loops have been tied into the roots to serve as hand- and footholds. The chasm is only 20 feet deep, and its rough walls make for a relatively easy DC 5 Climb check thanks to
the numerous roots hanging from the walls. The loopknotted roots between the two passageway ledges form a sort of crossing—by using the loops, a creature can clamber across the chasm with a DC 5 Climb check.
The mite warns you that..
"Some of the knots slip free...did have big bug friend heres."
Across the chasm you enter a new area....
You hear high pitched screams of someone coming from the next room...
The walls of this egg-shaped cavern are obscured by thick tangles of long, pallid roots. To the east, the chamber opens into a wide, root-filled chasm.
A group of six mites are joyously tormenting a captured Sootscale kobold—one of four black-scaled kobolds who have been tied into the roots along the wall.
The other three already hang limply by their bonds, dead from the mites’ torment. The last kobold shrieks in pain as the six mites take turns poking it with sharp sticks— each shriek eliciting a fresh wave of giggles and cheers from the mites.
Your guide turns to you and suggests...
"Fun?"
offering you a sharp stick to poke the kobold with.
Hmmmm... torture... I wonder how some of us are going to react to that? ;)
So that is 6 new mites, our charmed friend the tour guide and possibly the tag along survivor from the last fight. That makes 7 or 8 mites. What about the tick? Is it here as well or back across the chasm?
Half Elf Hunter/Rogue 5/1| HP 61/61| AC 18 (20) T 12 FF 16 (18)| Fo +6 Re +8 Wi +4| Init +3| Percep +16| Spells: Lvl 2: 2/3; Lvl 1: 5/5
Torod looks on impassively at the 'fun' they are having with the kobold. If offered, he declines to take part.
In Elven: "This might be why the kobolds are causing a fuss lately. Ask him about their relations with the kobold tribes.'
The tick stayed in the far room across the chasm. Eadric looks to check and indeed the other mite did tag along though he still seems confused.
The charmed kobold goes up and gives the kobold a good poke with the sharp stick, the point disappearing under the scales. The practiced mite even manages to peel the scale away, blood drains from the gash....
The kobold screams again and spotting you for the first time calls out to you in common....
Ok... I'll move things along... Eadric has seen enough.
Eadric moves up beside the charmed mite and motions like he is going to poke the kobold, remarking Your pitiless cries will not help you... but maybe this will! before swinging his sword viciously at the charmed mites neck instead...
Ellaria sighs as Eadric kills the charmed mite, as he did seem friendly enough and could have been of more use. She steps back while the rest of the mites attack Eadric, and starts chanting arcane words while making strange gestures, pointing in the general direction of the mites.
"...sighs... he seemed friendly enough..." lol Your charmed "friend" was torturing and killing a defenseless prisoner(s) right in front of the paladin... :)
It is the mites turn... we have all gone since their last round of attacks...
@Eadric: Yeah, but Ellaria could intervene, try to solve the situation peacefully, and maybe even manage to free the kobold without anyone getting killed. I agree that that would probably be too much to ask from a paladin seeing such a scene though.
@KK: waiting to find out the results of the sleep spell,
Half Elf Hunter/Rogue 5/1| HP 61/61| AC 18 (20) T 12 FF 16 (18)| Fo +6 Re +8 Wi +4| Init +3| Percep +16| Spells: Lvl 2: 2/3; Lvl 1: 5/5
The mite in T6 needs to make a Ref save (dc 15) or get scorched by a Flaming Sphere. If he manages to do that, I'll slash at him with my scimitar.
Scimitar: to hit 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
Scimitar: damage 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
So we should have at least 3 Hero Points, right? One from being a part of the game and two for leveling?
Obi chants carefully in the language of fire as gray fire starts to writhe around his fingers. Casting Defensively(Dc17):1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8...Hero Re-Roll1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25
Having safely cast his spell, Obi reaches out to tap the miteU5 next to him and transfer the strange flame...
