Do your sinspawn use their ranseurs?

[Peet]

It seems to me that the sinspawn in the catacombs of wrath are much better off using just their natural attacks. The attack chain with the natural attacks has +1 damage over the ranseur, and also the bite attack has a much better chance to hit (which invokes the sinful bite ability).

I am thinking that having my sinspawn use their ranseurs would be a deliberate way to "take it easy" on my players, since that bite will almost never lay a hit on one of the party's front-liners.

Is it meant to be this way? And which way do you guys tend to play it?

Peet

[NobodysHome]

My personal take: Where do the ranseurs come from?

The runewell creates creatures of wrath from blood. How would it create ranseurs?

So all my created sinspawn were nekkid and didn't have ranseurs; it didn't make sense to me that they would have them.

Worked fine for me.

[Wiggz]

NobodysHome wrote:

My personal take: Where do the ranseurs come from?

The runewell creates creatures of wrath from blood. How would it create ranseurs?

So all my created sinspawn were nekkid and didn't have ranseurs; it didn't make sense to me that they would have them.

Worked fine for me.

I think this is perfectly fine.

I'd also like to suggest that the use of Ransuers is a superb way to introduce your players to the pointy end of having a 'reach' advantage. In many cases it can double the number of their attacks.

[RuyanVe]

Mine used them for their first attack (reach) and dropped them when the PCs closed in taking advantage of their natural weapons.

Ruyan.

[Bellona]

The way I ran it:

Any that are "newly hatched" from the runewell have only their natural weapons (claw/claw/bite). Only if enough time goes by - e.g., party leaves and returns a day or more later - do they get some ranseurs (from Tsuto, made by themselves, found in a secret stash, whatever).

Any that have been created before the party arrives will use ranseurs (and remind the players of reach weapons).

[Peet]

Yeah, good point about reach. I do agree with you guys about "freshly made" sinspawn, so I'll have the one made by Erylium be unarmed.

Peet

[Kalshane]

That's the way I ran it. The pre-existing ones had ranseurs, but the ones freshly spawned by Erylium just had their natural attacks.