To do an empirical assessment of the kineticist's powers this thread is an arena setting where a party of four kineticists will be challenged by different monsters or groups of monsters to see how they fare.
In the right corner wait the much loved six skeletons. To reduce the effect of lucky initiative rolls the groups will alternate. The larger group starts. The arena is unlimited in size. The starting distance is 20 ft. both groups stand in a line.
We now wait for the heros to show up.
"I'm ready." Korra states taking her place on the starting line.
"Me too! Marique replies drawing two thirds of a circle with her foot in the sand around her taking a stand at the line.
Some rules suggestions:
- After the fight is done, everyone get's thrown into the fountain of endless well being
- No healing items allowed. Only innate magic.
There could be other startup settings that would be useful and could be introduced later but for this first fight:
- The lines are the opposing frontlines which are in parallel at a distance of 20 ft.
- The arena is an endless plain with no obstacles and no place to hide.
- The fight continues until all members of one group are down and won't come back from that on their own.
For now everyone is level one.
First suggested fights:
Six skeletons (CR3)
Two rat swarms (CR4)
Six Goblins (CR3)
Let's see if we do that straight in a row, or as separate fights :)
"Skrihl is ready to fight beside friends"
"I pitty our enemies."
A overzealous skeleton charges towards Skrihl to claw him.
Skrihl takes a five foot step backwards, drops a club and then uses a telekinetic blast to hurl it at the skeleton
The skeleton laughs at the attempt as it is a throw into melee and terefore misses.
The next skeleton attacks Thraggurim.
Korra decides to go for some of the distant skeletons taking one burn to create a fan of flames. She moves close and fires.
DC 14
No matter what their reflexes are the two skeletons crumble to dust.
The next skeleton takes a five foot step to claw at Korra
"Stupid piles of bones." Thraggurim shouts as he accepts a burn and turns to manifest a stone club that he slams into the side of the skeleton next to him, infront of Skrihl
Another skeleton is brought down.
The next skeleton moves to Korra and claws at her.
Marique sends a stream of water at one of the skeletons threatening Korra.
Skrihl attacks the closest Skeleton with the club he missed with before, throwing it telekinetically
He then moves as far back as possible
Korra takes a step back out of melee and throws a fire blast at one of the two skeletons.
The skeleton doesn't withstand the fire.
Thraggurim's skeleton tries another time to claw him.
But misses again.
"You have nothing on the giants of home!" Thraggurim shouts as he again accepts a burn and bashes the skeleton
The mighty smash slides off the skeletons armor with no effect.
Marique sends another stream of water at Korra's remaining skeleton.
Flushing away the bones. The last skeleton stands next to the dwarf who might take a step away to clear the path after he notices that he didn't hit.
Thruggurim steps back 5 feet
"Skrihl not like bone men."
The skeleton almost notices that it was attacked. Luckily Thraggurim stepped away or he might have been hurt.
Korra throws a fire blast back to the skeleton standing in her group's starting row.
As the last skeleton crumbles the loud toll of a large bell is heard and a swarm of rats appears on the line where the skeletons started. Directly in front of Korra.
They move in her direction and swarm her.
"Eeep! Someone save me, that is creepy and it hurts!" Korra screams.
"Rats should not attack friends of rats."
As the swarm is large and therefore not all of it in melee with Korra the telekinetic blast hits.
But it would have been the dwarf's turn.
Marique splashes the rats with a stream of water.
A lot of the rats drown with only a few remain for the dwarf to end.
Thraggurim flings shards of rock at the swarm out of the ground
Korra moves out of the swarm and back to their own baseline. From there she throws a fire blast.
As the last rats run away in all directions the large bell tolls again and six goblins appear out of nowhere on the opposing line. All of them come running over and set themself in flanking position around Korra, Marique and Thraggurim. Only Skrihl is spared as he is still some feet further away.
Marique drops unconscious to the ground.
Thraggurim uses the withdraw action to run away past Skrihl
Korra takes a step back and douses both of her goblins in fire.
The two goblins try to evade the fire.
With one succeeding and one dying.
Skrihl throws a club at one of the goblins Thraggurim ran from.
The two goblins that were with the dwarf change to Skrihl
The two that stabbed Marique change to Korra
Korra takes a step to the side again and creates a fan of flames by taking te energy out of her life force.
The one already burned and the one failing it's save drop to the ground. The other one is also burned badly.
Thraggurim moves to flank a goblin, accepts a burn and stabs at its back
The Goblin drops to the ground.
The two remaining goblins attack their respective counterpart.