A goblin that can resist playing with fire? If Scrabbler climbs the tower, I guess someone else is helping with the smokestick then?
Menrozzar will help with the smoke stick.
As the orcs get to see nothing, whoever wants to show his head first is free to go.
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Waiting to see the result of the collision up top before writing Bupkis' action.
sorry it took so long, weekends are lil busy lately. Also, I think while the tower shield provides me total cover against most attacks from the angle its facing, Ivan can still make attacks? Seems to be the best thought, as otherwise it would be even more "useless". Up to you though, or someone else who understands tower shields better?
A minor note: Ivan's profile still shows his CMD as 16 (ie 1st lvl).
*blusters* Bah! what are ye talkin' about!
Don't forget the War Mind bonus Ivan :)
It doesn't make sense from a real world perspective, but as the feat reads, only you gain total cover, not the one coming at you, so you get an AoO.
I guess you could think of it as I'm behind the shield, but I poke out just a bit to swing, or swing around it maybe? and cool.
You just have to forget about real life combat. Putting a shield down, so it acts as a wall on one side would completely disable you. You don't swing a weapon with your arm. You swing it with your whole body. You can't do that with your arm tied to a wall.
I just need to remind me sometimes of the fact that we are playing a FANTASY roleplaying game, to read the rules as written and not ruin your fun with real life stuff, that gets no say in this game. ;)
How you imagine fighting that orc over or around the shield is up to you.
@Scrabbler
Sorry for the lack of detail.
Scrabbler goes 10 feet down the ladder, outside, and 20 feet up the tower. The dwarven metal pile goes up 10 feet of ladder. That is quite some advantage.
Besides that, I assumed, that you all want to start the assault on the orcs when all are up, and Scrabbler is waiting hidden behind the battlements.
I know, assumption is the mother of all f%~~ ups. You wanted to act before the others?
Nope, sounds like we are on the same page. If I'm up there I'd want to wait to coordinate with the others anyway. Thanks.
Oh, just realized, My CMD vs bullrush would be 26, since I add the AC bonus from my shield to my CMD vs that and overun attempts XD, Ivan didn't even budge. XD
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Climbing is at quarter speed. The height of the ladder is 10ft.
Bupkis is climbing up the ladder. I don't imagine that he's made it up top yet, but next turn he will scramble up and start shooting.
If no one makes the first step, I'll simply let the smoke disappear to get it going :P
Bupkis is willing to go up top, however my impression is that several people are ahead of him on the ladder. He's trying to get up as fast as he can.
Everyone is standing on top already, but Daseem who didn't move after asking for actions needed and Bupkis.
Your rolls remind me of the movie "The Hallelujah Trail". With a fight between the people of a trek and native americans during a sandstorm. After shooting bullets and arrows for hours the fight ends with no one hurt.
Lol. and both sides just walk away and pretend it never happened? XD
It is indeed the parties turn. I just wrote the "readied action" so you know that something might happen before you act after you post your action. I'm just not giving away what the readied action is.
Who's up in initiative right now?
Everyone fromthe party but Daseem, who already acted.
Catapult next?
I think we want to repel the attack on the main gate first. The catapult is well beyond the city walls.
How about we go get it via the main gate?
So to the main gates fighting more orcs? As that would be the natural way to get outside town and to the barterstones anyway?
Barterstones is No 5 on the map in the player's guide.
sounds good to me
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About the fight I added another map, which has 5ft grid and no tags. I also moved your avatars in and added the orcs. You get time for setting yourself up and preparations.
Yay! You've been doing a great job, thanks for picking the game up.
If someone wanted the spot where Bupkis is currently positioned, he could alternately stand in front of the barricade, beside the logs to the top of the map. Any orcs that wanted to attack him would have to pass in front of the logs.
Info: If you want to roll the logs at the orcs they have to be cut loose on both sides, which is according to the AP a full round action.
And outside the gates are more orcs. This is no single fight vs. those six and then over. So make wise use of these "area attack weapons".
The boulder can also be rolled down.
I think we will want to save the logs and the bolder for the later waves.
I agree
It's two piles of logs, each bound at both ends.
The boulder can be rolled down as a move action at any angle.
I have no clue when that stuff is used best.
Sharpened Stakes: The easternmost barricade is equipped
with sharpened and splintered wooden fences that Omast
salvaged from the wreckage of nearby homes. A PC can
ready an action to impale an incoming attacker on the fence
posts as though readying a brace weapon against a charge.
If readied in this way, the fence posts deal 2d8 points of
damage to an orc that ends its movement on the barricade
in a square threatened by the PC.
How difficult is it to move across the barricades?
Edit: Also, how high are the barricades? Can a goblin shoot over them?
To cross a barricade is takes two squares of movement, to pass the one square barricade.
I don't know how high they are, but there are no limitations given for small characters. The barricade provides cover though. As long as you're closer to it than your opponent.
Are you all in position? You could also ready actions vs. the orcs, especially if you use ranged weapons.
Daseem has a couple of uses of his blessing left, let me know if you'd like it, first come first serve.
War Mind (minor): At 1st level, you can touch an ally and grant it a tactical advantage for 1 minute. At the start of its turn each round, it can select one of the following bonuses: +10 feet to base land speed, +1 dodge bonus to AC, +1 insight bonus on attack rolls, or a +1 luck bonus on saving throws. Each bonus selected lasts for 1 round.
Added a readied action to my last post (not that it's going to hit with a roll of a 2).
So nobody wanted a free buff? That's too bad :(
I see you didn't check the explanations, how the logs work.
But I'd suggest to not waste the logs for two orcs. Once you have 10 there, you could try again, according the users manual how to operate the weapons of mass destruction.
I updated the map, so you see that this pouring only brought you the six orcs so far.
Ah the logs are cut at both ends, never mind. I'll do something else then.
So nobody wanted a free buff? That's too bad :(
Is that a touch thing? I'd love to have it, but I might be out of range now unless we can retroactively do it.
Can you have more than one up at a time?
It might be best to save the Blessing for a later wave. I don't think 6 orcs are going to be that difficult to defeat.
Apparently my dice have no middle ground. It's either fail or great success.
So nobody wanted a free buff? That's too bad :(Is that a touch thing? I'd love to have it, but I might be out of range now unless we can retroactively do it.
Can you have more than one up at a time?
The war blessing is touch range. Neither the ability or the war blessing mentions any restrictions on having multiple ones up, so I assume it's like a regular buff spell and we can.
Re retconniong, I'll leave that up to Foxy. It was certainly Daseem's intent but events may have overtaken things.
Apparently my dice have no middle ground. It's either fail or great success.
no matter what you go all out. full on failure or super sweet successes. Moderation is for cowards anyway.
If you have a good to-hit bonus, and are hitting on a 7 or something, you want to be rolling those middle numbers too.