Yep. I'm nothing if not consistent!
Also, life is busy. I'm away from my book for the weekend, so if you would like to advance any further (even into the room that appears to be on the map at the moment), we'll have to wait until late Sunday or Tuesday night.
Don't hurry too much :P
yay babies xD
Yeah, sorry, unexpected late night Tuesday night. Should get it up today though.
I've got two more enemy actions to go, but I gotta go to work.
BTW, just for reference on ability damage: by RAW I don't think he suffers any negatives from his ability damage until it's greater than 1
...not that being dead vs being one hp away from death while surrounded by enemies is a big difference...
Yep, it shouldn't apply, by RAW, to the death threshold... and as your resident healer, I can assure, one hitpoint can be a LOT.
My mistake. I didn't realize ability damage didn't actually damage the character's ability. They should really think of a different name for that.
Still, we have a heavily poisoned bard, a cavalier on death's door, an inquisitor with a short sword and an oracle who's rather inept at fighting. Mind you, if Gird falls I'm turning tail and fleeing rather than facing certain TPK.
Still, that was a dramatic critical.
Gage would heroically run for his life too xD
Sorry Andreas and/or Gird :P
Discussing here so we don't clog Gameplay: I'm not sure that someone can withdraw from prone, and standing up provokes. The mites have darts, so they can't AoO, the only problem is the tick. Should someone with a weapon that's not a farmer's tool drop her, it would make everything so much nicer.
Alternatively, standing up while fighting defensively should benefit from the AC boost.
I just did a quick couple searches and I doubt you could withdraw while prone, apparently there's an acrobatics skill use that you'd want to use (if you could move all full speed, i.e. not encumbered or wearing armor heavier than light...)
I agree about fighting defensively + stand-up. One thing to remember is that he'd take an additional penalty on his attack, so he'd probably just whiff unless he rolled really well xD
I think he could also do total defense + stand-up. Then he wouldn't even get a chance to hit though...
Oh, yes, total defense. For some reason I though it would be a full-round action.
I had to double check too xD
I was thinking of tripping the tick, but I think it's +2 per leg (except the first two) so it has like +8 vs trip on top of anything else.
Even without other bonuses, it has at least 18 CMD vs trip.
Seeing as how it was strong enough to one-shot our mighty forntliner, I'm guessing it has bonuses that put its CMD vs trip near or above my max roll of 20+4 xD
I forget if a 20 on a combat maneuver always succeeds...
(for reference, if Andreas had 4 more legs somehow, he'd have a CMD of 23 vs trip)
Seeing how easy that first mite went down, I might be able to get rid of the guys that are trying to kill us via paper cuts xD
Which reminds me, unless I end up doing over twice their hitpoints in nonlethal damage, we'll have prisoners and/or target practice after this fight...
wait, mites are tiny?
if the bug is small that'd be -1 CMD. Maybe my chances are above 10% lol
I'm afraid that one can't 5' step while prone, you can crawl but it provokes.
I don't know if anyone else was as curious as me about ability damage not actually damaging abilities (lol), but I found this and thought I'd share this page about 3.5 rules.
I think that ability damage was one of the things that changed between 3.5 and pathfinder.
Sorry, I missed all this (the last 10 anyway). Clearly, Andreas has to wait his turn (a round is 6 seconds so all this is kinda happening at once); mites are small, and Tickleback is a Variant giant tick (from Tome of Horrors Revised) which is Medium sized.
At my table, if not RAW/RAI, a 20 on anything is an automatic success. Gives even the commoner with a pitchfork the chance to grab a Tarrasque by the eye. Will it do any real damage? No. Will he be able to hold on for long? No, but it makes for a fun story.
Did I miss any questions that wouldn't be meta-knowledge?
Hey, I do! Forgot about it! >_>
Gird is on the ground, though. I suggest you drag him out.
Also with a heal check of 12, you can't really tell how badly hurt the tick is.
Sorry, I missed all this (the last 10 anyway). Clearly, Andreas has to wait his turn (a round is 6 seconds so all this is kinda happening at once); mites are small, and Tickleback is a Variant giant tick (from Tome of Horrors Revised) which is Medium sized.
At my table, if not RAW/RAI, a 20 on anything is an automatic success. Gives even the commoner with a pitchfork the chance to grab a Tarrasque by the eye. Will it do any real damage? No. Will he be able to hold on for long? No, but it makes for a fun story.
Did I miss any questions that wouldn't be meta-knowledge?
Thanks for the info dump <3
Also, it's definitely RAW that 20 always works (and 1 always fails) for saves and attacks ^^I remember really well 'cause of this one time I was hoping that it applied to skills by RAW too, but for skills you'd need a house rule...
And this other time I was relieved to find out skills don't necessarily fail on a one (by RAW) xD
Sorry, I spelled the wrong name, I wanted to cure Gird, not Gage. Four letters, G-starting names broke me.
That's okay, the GM confused our names a couple times too xD
Also, I kind of wish Andreas had Whirlwind attack right about now...
Anyone else having issues getting logged out repeatedly?
Yes. Rather unpleasant, it has paralyzed half my campaigns and there's no real way to contact those who didn't notice.
Same problem with me...have to sign in repeatedly...
PLUS
I am not getting updates on my games...
Andreas, please try to kill the tick. I'm out of spells.
lol, we need a better plan next time.
Maybe some sort of scouting and/or ambush. Oh and Gage will definitely remember to not use up all his nice abilities early on xD
yay experience! xD
Total Defense is actually a standard action, but yeah, any move action right now would provoke a lot. Whether that would actually matter is another story entirely (the mites have to crit, and the tick has to roll a 16 or better; and then there's the miss chance).
Not to worry though, you will not die...mites are lawful hehehe...
um, total defense means you don't take AoO s... Also that's why Gage was waiting to see if they'd come out xD
They seem to really want to knock you over, for better or for worse >.>
Continuing here, Gage can't use the scroll as it's divine, and dragging Gage would also likely cause AoOs.
He can't use it.
The spell must be of the correct type (arcane or divine). Arcane spellcasters (wizards, sorcerers, and bards) can only use scrolls containing arcane spells, and divine spellcasters (clerics, druids, paladins, and rangers) can only use scrolls containing divine spells. (The type of scroll a character creates is also determined by his class.)
I'll try and drag him out next round, if you fight defensively, since counting all penalties, I attack at -2/-3 for laughable damage.
Well, since it requires a bunch of feats (4) to grapple from a distance with a whip, I'm going to guess no.
Of course, grappling isn't the same as dragging someone who isn't fighting back...
Sorry for the delay. My wifi decided to cut out randomly on me. Just got it back up, but I've got to go to work. I'll post Friday at the latest.
PS: I haven't read the gameplay thread, but Gage, I'd consider this an Improved Whip Mastery attempt, and would allow an "untrained" grapple attempt with your whip from 10 feet with a -4 for it not being a trained skill. Use your attack bonus AC 10.
Didn't want to leave half the party behind. Also, you kept suggesting things that we could do.
:( Sorry, prayers for swift recoveries.
Get well soon!
I just realized that I forgot to use my bite attack. Although at a -7 penalty, it was likely to never do anything. But I may have an idea on what to do next round, if we don't go down.