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Got to share. A few nights ago at a public PFS event. There was a rather amusing situation.
We managed to finesse our way around the first encounter with no combat, just words.
Second encounter is a tense sneering at and threatening each other across the street with a gang of toughs.
One of the players says, "I walk right up to the guy in the middle and poke him in the chest, Are you really sure you want to do this punk?"
We're all thinking that he has a plan, for example, to surprise with high DC color spray or something like that. Gutsy, but still it's a pretty risky move for 3rd level sorcerer.
We're all waiting for him to say 'color spray' or 'sleep', but he doesn't. He just looks at the GM waiting for the punks response.
The GM finally shrugs and says "roll initiative."
The guy just grins and says "All right, I will ... ... ... HOLY CRAP! THIS IS MY SORC NOT MY WARPRIEST!"
We all just busted up laughing. It was hilarious.
We managed to just barely keep him alive (within 2 points of neg con).
The rest of the scenario, every time it was his turn we kept whispering to him "sorc, not warpriest."
Venture-Agent, Colorado—Denver
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Got to share. A few nights ago at a public PFS event. There was a rather amusing situation.
We managed to finesse our way around the first encounter with no combat, just words.
Second encounter is a tense sneering at and threatening each other across the street with a gang of toughs.
One of the players says, "I walk right up to the guy in the middle and poke him in the chest, Are you really sure you want to do this punk?"
We're all thinking that he has a plan, for example, to surprise with high DC color spray or something like that. Gutsy, but still it's a pretty risky move for 3rd level sorcerer.
We're all waiting for him to say 'color spray' or 'sleep', but he doesn't. He just looks at the GM waiting for the punks response.
The GM finally shrugs and says "roll initiative."
The guy just grins and says "All right, I will ... ... ...
HOLY CRAP! THIS IS MY SORC NOT MY WARPRIEST!"We all just busted up laughing. It was hilarious.
We managed to just barely keep him alive (within 2 points of neg con).
The rest of the scenario, every time it was his turn we kept whispering to him "sorc, not warpriest."
Cue the Urkel line...
"Did I do that?"
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The time I have felt like this the most was when my now Seeker-paladin was level three. She uses battleaxe as her main weapon. The faction mission was to not harm some guys as it wasn't their fault they were violent. I took this as "do not kill the guys, just knock them out". Battle is going okay, nobody dead yet. I go "I'll hit him one more time, it won't kill him". Then I crit. The guy is very dead. "Oops". This lead to the character eventually making her battleaxe Merciful, so this would never happen again.
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This lead to the character eventually making her battleaxe Merciful, so this would never happen again.Unless you do enough damage to wrap the nonlethal across their maxHpPool+2*con+currentHpPool. Then you kill them again.
Nonlethal damage in excess of an enemy's max hp + con score is converted to lethal damage.
Meh, huge damage potential has never been her thing. Unless she smites, and then she wouldn't be going for non-lethal anyway.
The "never again" was more about her character growth than actual mechanics anyway.
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This lead to the character eventually making her battleaxe Merciful, so this would never happen again.Unless you do enough damage to wrap the nonlethal across their maxHpPool+2*con+currentHpPool. Then you kill them again.
Nonlethal damage in excess of an enemy's max hp + con score is converted to lethal damage.
That's not the rule. Any nonlethal damage over max hp is converted to lethal. Con score has nothing to do with it.
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That's not the rule. Any nonlethal damage over max hp is converted to lethal. Con score has nothing to do with it.This lead to the character eventually making her battleaxe Merciful, so this would never happen again.Unless you do enough damage to wrap the nonlethal across their maxHpPool+2*con+currentHpPool. Then you kill them again.
Nonlethal damage in excess of an enemy's max hp + con score is converted to lethal damage.
Here's the rule text:
If a creature's nonlethal damage is equal to his total maximum hit points (not his current hit points), all further nonlethal damage is treated as lethal damage. This does not apply to creatures with regeneration. Such creatures simply accrue additional nonlethal damage, increasing the amount of time they remain unconscious.
Edit: Well, Con score has something to do with it, since it affects max hit points. ;)
And, even after that, how much lethal damage is actually needed to kill the target dead.
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I once thought my character had died in the first encounter of a scenario, and because I'd been so excited about the scenario (it was thematically extremely important to that specific character) I kind of ragequit and stomped off mid-game because I knew my character wasn't getting raised until the end of the game and wouldn't gain anything from it.
Halfway down the street, I remember my character had been wearing an Aegis of Recovery. I pause mid-step, turn around, and run back to the game, where only one round has elapsed while I have been gone. My character is brought back, we finish the game (the scenario was awesome), and I will never hear the end of that event - I have a legendarily bad temper, and this is given as the example nine times out of ten.
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We were fighting with a bunch of chairs and I carelessly engaged in melee with my wizard. The chair grappled me and I tried escaping its grapple over multiple rounds - no use. I fell unconscious. I sigh and look down on my character sheet.
"MOTHERF***** - I forgot I can dimension door as a swift action!"
Afterwards we had to blow a lot of resources to sneak through a very busy area - although I even wrote down that I wanted to grab some uniforms from the wardrobe so we could disguise ourselves. Which I only remembered after we blew our scrolls and potions.
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We were fighting with a bunch of chairs and I carelessly engaged in melee with my wizard. The chair grappled me and I tried escaping its grapple over multiple rounds - no use. I fell unconscious. I sigh and look down on my character sheet.
"MOTHERF***** - I forgot I can dimension door as a swift action!"Afterwards we had to blow a lot of resources to sneak through a very busy area - although I even wrote down that I wanted to grab some uniforms from the wardrobe so we could disguise ourselves. Which I only remembered after we blew our scrolls and potions.
Dont worry. I have run this scenario a lot, and this happens to a lot of people . Its very funny for me as a GM :P
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We were fighting with a bunch of chairs and I carelessly engaged in melee with my wizard. The chair grappled me and I tried escaping its grapple over multiple rounds - no use. I fell unconscious. I sigh and look down on my character sheet.
"MOTHERF***** - I forgot I can dimension door as a swift action!"Afterwards we had to blow a lot of resources to sneak through a very busy area - although I even wrote down that I wanted to grab some uniforms from the wardrobe so we could disguise ourselves. Which I only remembered after we blew our scrolls and potions.
I LOVE that scenario. I GM'd it for a group that did not disguise themselves. Cue the summoner... carrying a massive, 7 foot-tall scythe... riding on the back of her medium-sized, armless centaur of an eidolon... striding through some curtains into the middle of a fancy dinner party.
We had to take a five-minute break for people to compose themselves before we could continue, after we pointed out how ridiculous she must have looked.
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I have forgotten to use my favored enemy bonus on my ranger far more often than I've remember to use it to the point that players will congratulate me on the rare occasion that I add it in.
Which is why the next time I use my 12th level archer, he is retraining from Fighter 10/Cleric 1/Ranger 1 to Fighter 10/Cleric 2.
Oddly, I remember all the weird stuff from his domains, just not his favored enemy bonus. And, overall, this retrain will make very little change to the PC other than losing the FE that I forget all the time, anyway.
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I keep forgetting Combat Reflexes on my character so every time I do remember the result is a round of utter mayhem as the troop of enemies moving past finds several falcata hits connecting to their collective backside. It's hilarious when it happens and actually works better in the short run than remembering the feat since it's a big surprise each time.
In addition, the more dice I roll the more dangerous I become. TWF penalties? Flurry of misses? It don't matter! Had a monk/assassin in a recent game maul the party into smithereens somehow even though she had no right to connect with her lousy bonuses.
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During a grueling run of Bonekeep 1, I had been doing very well at balancing use of spells, or so I thought. We had <redacted> in a bad position, when <redacted> finally made its way out of my Acid Pit spell. Then it happened. Both of the creatures we were fighting decided it was time to take the most powerful target out of the room. After all, I am the Master of All Things Arcane, Knower of all Things Worth Knowing, and do forth.
Well, that day I forgot that I had memorized Emergency Force Shield, and the final attack did me in. If it wasn't for my friend, the healer Zaigon, I would have remained dead. Thankfully all it cost me was a Scroll of Breath of Life. Could have been much worse.
I have not made that mistake since, though it did lead me to enchanting my arcane bonded ring as a Ring of Blinking. Saved my life a few times, already... and we all know how valuable that is.
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During a grueling run of Bonekeep 1, I had been doing very well at balancing use of spells, or so I thought. We had <redacted> in a bad position, when <redacted> finally made its way out of my Acid Pit spell. Then it happened. Both of the creatures we were fighting decided it was time to take the most powerful target out of the room. After all, I am the Master of All Things Arcane, Knower of all Things Worth Knowing, and do forth.
Well, that day I forgot that I had memorized Emergency Force Shield, and the final attack did me in. If it wasn't for my friend, the healer Zaigon, I would have remained dead. Thankfully all it cost me was a Scroll of Breath of Life. Could have been much worse.
I have not made that mistake since, though it did lead me to enchanting my arcane bonded ring as a Ring of Blinking. Saved my life a few times, already... and we all know how valuable that is.
That exact thing happened to me in an 11th level table at a special following a chase scene. I was hasted and flying, so... I just skipped the entire chase, and engaged the final boss of the special... alone... in 1 on 1 combat. She drops a power word stun on me, and I frantically looked for anything I could do to save myself before conceding defeat. Luckily, the GM let me use emergency force sphere when I shouted "WAIT!" a few moments later, before anyone else had taken any actions (it would have been certain death otherwise, as everyone else was several chase tiles behind).
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That exact thing happened to me in an 11th level table at a special following a chase scene. I was hasted and flying, so... I just skipped the entire chase, and engaged the final boss of the special... alone... in 1 on 1 combat. She drops a power word stun on me, and I frantically looked for anything I could do to save myself before conceding defeat. Luckily, the GM let me use emergency force sphere when I shouted "WAIT!" a few moments later, before anyone else had taken any actions (it would have been certain death otherwise, as everyone else was several chase tiles behind).
Just remember when you are flying the emergency force sphere is only the top half of the sphere, there is nothing blocking on the bottom - so spreads, bursts and emanations might still get you.
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Just remember when you are flying the emergency force sphere is only the top half of the sphere, there is nothing blocking on the bottom - so spreads, bursts and emanations might still get you.]
That exact thing happened to me in an 11th level table at a special following a chase scene. I was hasted and flying, so... I just skipped the entire chase, and engaged the final boss of the special... alone... in 1 on 1 combat. She drops a power word stun on me, and I frantically looked for anything I could do to save myself before conceding defeat. Luckily, the GM let me use emergency force sphere when I shouted "WAIT!" a few moments later, before anyone else had taken any actions (it would have been certain death otherwise, as everyone else was several chase tiles behind).
Yeah, I was flying, but at "ground level" so it created a perfect seal with the floor.
Depending on your space relative to the origin bursts generally shouldn't as they don't go round corners. Spreads definitely will. Really its a very badly named spell.
Yeah, but automatic impervious immunity-to-everything whenever you want it was a little too direct.
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Now now Dearie.. handling my sweet kitty.. (HUGE 35 pound feral cat) lets me put my mark on you an let me heal you sweetie.. from WAAAAAY over there. (Points to a ridge a 1/4 mile away)
Yeah, but automatic impervious immunity-to-everything whenever you want it was a little too direct.Just don't get a witch's scar hex -
such a witch needs neither line of effect nor line of sight to nail you with one of those.
my witch once spent most of a game non-lethal unconscious, blind folded, tied up, and just playing my improved familiar in the game- because he got dominated (days per level spell) - and they learned that tied up and gagged prevents no hexes, and thanks to the scar that they got for long range healing/water breathing, even blindfolded I could sleep hex or other nasty hex them.
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One of my players runs an alchemist, who has ended up right next to the big bad monster more often than not. Enough that we joke about Pyro being the 'tank' of the party.
In our run of Eyes of the Ten, he won initiative and ran into the room to throw his bomb, apparently embracing his status as the tank, despite the dragon disciple being RIGHT THERE.
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Got to play a game with Mike Brocks high level fighter with Kyle Elliot gming. We face a vampire. I look down at my char sheet and realize I dont have prot from evil prepared. Party spends the entire fight getting monkey stomped by said vampire with dominate, web, and fireball. I finally see on my sheet that the reason I do not have it prepared is because I have a wand of purchased a long time ago. Doh!
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My only character death came in a scenario where I made the mistake of walking into a room specifically designed to kill the character I was playing after thinking that it was just 2 mooks in the room (one of whom was chomped by a T-rex) and not a sub-boss that was waiting. Character went from full health to exact negative Con on the Manyshot arrows, but I didn't remember until months later that I had a boon on that character that made effective negative Con double, so I probably shouldn't have actually died.
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Last weekend we ran into a wizard in a small, cramped room. I had see invisibility up, and noticed him flying invisibly in the top left corner of the room, so I dropped a glitterdust on him. He makes the save, but at least we can see him. He goes right after me, glides to the other side of the room, and uses wall of force to seal himself off from the rest of us.
The party piles into the room, and the enlarged reach fighter readies an action to attack him if he is within reach while the monk nearly breaks his hand punching the wall of force.
I air walk over to the wall of force and give it a prod to make sure it's not an illusion, sigh, and cast jester's jaunt to pop the fighter to the other side. Everyone's very pleased, especially the fighter, who lands a pretty solid blow on the wizard, who goes next... and teleports out... leaving the fighter trapped behind the wall.
I waved at him as I zoomed out of the room to go hunt down the wizard. Luckily, he thought it was hilarious, but he didn't get out of there until the fight was way over.
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The party descends into a demonic temple. There, they find two people locked in cages—an old man, and a little girl.
The PCs break the bars and release the two prisoners and begin their escape.
The old man tells the group that the cultists will be back soon and begs the PCs for a weapon to defend himself in case they do.
The cleric obliges, and hands the old man a dagger they found earlier in the day.
The old man grins, reverses the dagger, and stabs the cleric with an assassin's death attack (which fails to kill).
Everyone rolls initiative, the barbarian rolls really high and goes first. She rages and power attack critical hit against ... the little girl!
- The other players: "... what? ..."
Barbarian: "She creeped me out. She is probably a demon in disguise."
GM: "Okay, roll for damage."
Barbarian:
GM: "Yep, the little girl is dead. She only had 3 hp. She was a little girl."
Barbarian: "Oh."