Miteke's Legacy of Fire

Game Master miteke

Urah swears and asks himself why didn't he have the spell to fly.....

Well he would get it many levels later....

”Up, down, both, it won’t much matter after I change form. Just let me know where to climb and I’ll get ye there.” Tarak answers as he mentally begins preparing to shift into a chimpanzee.

That’ll give me a climb speed so I can do whatever we need with the rope”

As Tarak prepares to shift into a monkey to deal with the rope, Gnasher nods, calling up to the others, "Gnasher go to bottom make sure clear." He then gets a good push off, cannon balling out into space to try and get himself as far from the cliff before he begins to float down.

@Gnasher
Give me an acrobatics roll to see how far you are able to launch yourself before you start falling. I'll do the math to figure out when you hit the canyon wall and the feather fall stops. Finally get to use some of that trig I learned!

@Urah, Malgrim
How are your descending? What precautions are you taking? Are you rigging anything up or just knotting the rope and climbing down? BTW, after knotting we will say the rope is 40' long.

Trig? I'd have assumed it was geometry and, oh dear god, do not ask me to remember any of either.
accro: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 = 19

We had 100 ft of rope. Both Malgrim and Gnasher pulled out rope. So does that give us 80 ft or still just 40? I am planning on just using the knotted rope against the wall.

Yes, that means you have 80', 40' per rope. And as I said there are plenty of places to tie off as you descend so 40' is as good as 80' really.

Malgrim climbs to the first ledge and waits for Urah to get there before Tarak brings down the rope.

I just take 10.

Tarak can just go up and down as needed. He has a climb speed and opposable thumbs

Tarak shifts into a chimpanzee and awaits the knitted rope, ready to climb and tie off as needed to get the group through safely.

I just take 10.

No taking 10 as there is danger involved; however the DC is 5 with a knotted rope and you have to miss by 5 in order to fall. As long as you have a positive modifier you are safe. So... are you are taking additional precautions?

I will just take my time and climb down slowly, I am not sure how many checks are needed so I will start off making several checks.

Climb: 1d20 ⇒ 18

Climb: 1d20 ⇒ 8

Climb: 1d20 ⇒ 1

Climb: 1d20 ⇒ 11

Climb: 1d20 ⇒ 18

As long as you have a +0 modifier you are safe and there is no need to roll. You can roll if you want and RP the results, but there is no chance of harm.

@Gnasher

Give me an acrobatics roll to see how far you are able to launch yourself before you start falling. I'll do the math to figure out when you hit the canyon wall and the feather fall stops. Finally get to use some of that trig I learned!

How far down the cliff did Gnasher get?

With a 19 acrobatics roll that gives him a long jump of 19'.

Now the math. The cosign of 80 degrees is 0.1736481777

This means that for every .17 feet you jump you go down 1' before hitting the wall.

So 19/.17 gives us 111'. So you manage to clear the slope without issue.

w00t! Trig master here.

Having cleared the slope, Gnasher lands, quickly drawing his bardiche. He checks the immediate perimeter for any threats, then turns to see how his tribe is doing.

Taking 10(18) on perception :)

Malgrim is making his way down without issue. Tarak is all chimped up and ready to help. Urah is still standing at the top (not too close to the edge) and has a worried look om his face.

So much for trig foo. I misspelled cosine :(

Climb lol
1d20 ⇒ 18
1d20 ⇒ 2
1d20 ⇒ 6
1d20 ⇒ 1
1d20 ⇒ 9
Bluff 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (16) + 8 = 24

Urah seems to be extremely confident as he first grips the rope and descends.

It seems that Urah turned out to be extremely quick with his turn descending as he literally seemed to drop. Sliding down the rope so quickly that one may just fail to notice the white grip knuckles the Ifrit ended up. With knees slightly bent and leaning forward, Urah straightens out as he bounces on his feet after landing on the ground.

"Looks easy after all." he remarks as the wind blows upon sweat covered forehead but it was a hot day after all................

Urah is able to make it down with only a little struggling, but once he is done, almost as if they were waiting for you all, a foursome of gnolls come bursting through the brush and assault you! They are not particularly stealthy and the ones leading the charge are big. Like Gnasher when he's all raging. fortunately in order to stay out of sight they kept their distance.

Init
Gnasher: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17
Malgrim Gryh: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23
Tarak: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8
Urah: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23

White Gnoll: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8
Black Gnoll: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
Blue Gnoll: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14
Red Gnoll: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

Before you can get started up the other side,

Will get map set up and post combat card in a bit.

Map link on top as usual. You may start in the Green Box.

Combat Card
Ongoing effects: Tarak in Chimp form.
Bold may go.

Malgrim Gryh(-0 HP)
Urah Pyr (-0 HP)
Gnasher (-0 HP)

Blue Gnoll (-0 hp)
Tarak (-0 HP)
Red Gnoll (-0 hp)
Black Gnoll (-0 hp)
White Gnoll (-0 hp)

Urah looks up and prepares to cast a spell on their ambushers once they in range.
Before doing so he lets his allies know.
"I'm going to cast a spell that should hinder them once they come closer"

Cast Bane once all 3 of them are within 50 feet.
Will Save DC 14
Enemies take –1 on attack rolls and saves against fear

Gnasher started in the upper rignt corner of the green square.

Seeing the gnolls emerge from their hidding place, Gnasher begins to laugh, Moving foward "Come cousin Gnasher give you death!" lifting his bardiche he begins to rage. His paws grow into overly large claws, his eyes glow red, his fangs enlarge as he begins to froth at the mouth. While his brown hide takes on a red-orange cast to it. Keeping himself against the wall of the canyon to keep from being flanked, he strikes at the Black Gnoll.

Rage: 1st/14, HP 62, AC 19, 30 ft move, Rage/enlarged Attack + 1 Bardiche, gnoll killer, power attack
attack: 1d20 + 12 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (4) + 12 + 1 - 2 = 15 for damage: 2d8 + 7 + 2 + 1 + 6 ⇒ (6, 3) + 7 + 2 + 1 + 6 = 25
If either red or black move more than 5 ft, gnasher will take one AOO, preferable against black
AOO: 1d20 + 12 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (1) + 12 + 1 - 2 = 12 for damage: 2d8 + 7 + 2 + 1 + 6 ⇒ (3, 1) + 7 + 2 + 1 + 6 = 20
yikes, i doubt if either of those hit

Malgrim sees the group of gnolls and steps forward as water beads over his skin once more. He gathers the water in the air around him into a tight ball, empowering it it to fly at one of the gnolls.

Gather Power -1 Burn, Empower +1 Burn, Far shot lets me reach them. Shoot red. I will subtract the cover for shooting around Gnasher.

Water Blast w/Elemental Overflow -Cover: 1d20 + 6 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (10) + 6 + 1 - 4 = 13

Damage, B, Water Blast w/Elemental Overflow: 3d6 + 8 + 2 ⇒ (5, 4, 5) + 8 + 2 = 24

If a 13 hits a large Gnoll, he will take 36 Bludgeoning Damage.

@Urah
With Gnasher moving forward you will not see them get within 50' until he is dead, most likely. If you take a standard to move forward, you will be able to get the three leaders in your bane spell. Heck, if you start next to Gnasher you can do a standard move, hide behind your hulking friend, and get all 4 in the bane. I'll assume that is what you do.

Bane ST Blue Gnoll: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 1 = 18
Bane ST Red Gnoll: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 1 = 14
Bane ST Black Gnoll: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 1 = 11
Bane ST White Gnoll, fear: 1d20 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 2 + 1 = 23

Lucky buggers

Black fails his save and feels the effects of the fearsome spell. The others, however, are lost in their fantasies of capturing and enslaving the lot of you.

Both Gnasher and Malgrim take their best shots but fail to connect.

When you get closer you notice that the big gnolls are not like normal gnolls. Besides being larger, they all have a circular patch of thickened, grey scar tissue nestled in the filthy fur in the center of their foreheads. None of them are carrying weapons and their teeth and claws look unnaturally long. A

One of the hulking brutes advances on Gnasher, easily evading the attacks Gnasher had planned, and attempts to rip into his opponent.

to hit, claw: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21
damage: 1d6 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12
to hit, claw: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19
damage: 1d6 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11
to hit, bite: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26
damage: 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

In this one sided-battle, the gnoll hits with both claws and takes a sizable chunk out of Gnasher with his bite (unless his AC is actually higher than 19).

Combat Card
Ongoing effects: Tarak in Chimp form.
Bold may go.
Malgrim Gryh(-0 HP)
Urah Pyr (-0 HP)
Gnasher (-30 HP)
Blue Gnoll (-0 hp)

Tarak (-0 HP)

Red Gnoll (-0 hp)
Black Gnoll (-0 hp)
White Gnoll (-0 hp)

Correction: that gnoll had to move too far for it to get a full attack. So Gnasher only took 12 points of damage.

Tarak runs across the valley, lining up a shot and points a monkey finger at the gnolls while screeching and jumping up and down. Soon after a blast of lightning rips out from his outstretched finger.

Move, cast lightning bolt. Use Beacon of Faith for +2 CL on the bolt, from the corner of my square it looks like I should hit all four

Lightning Bolt, Beacon, DC 18 reflex for half: 8d6 ⇒ (1, 4, 1, 1, 6, 5, 5, 5) = 28

Chimp form should have 16 AC [lose my +5 armor and +1 shield, but gain +2 NA, so net -3], and +2 STR

Nice!

Reflex Blue Gnoll: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 1 = 20
Reflex Red Gnoll: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 1 = 20
Reflex Black Gnoll: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 1 = 17
Reflex White Gnoll: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23

HP Blue: 2d10 ⇒ (6, 7) = 13
HP Red : 2d10 ⇒ (2, 7) = 9
HP Black: 2d10 ⇒ (6, 4) = 10

Lucky buggers, again.

The bolt rips through the already injured pack and sears their flesh in a brilliant flash. One of them goes down in a heap, but the others fight on.

Combat Card
Ongoing effects: Tarak in Chimp form.
Bold may go.
Malgrim Gryh(-0 HP)
Urah Pyr (-0 HP)
Gnasher (-30 HP)
Blue Gnoll (-48 hp)
Tarak (-0 HP)

Red Gnoll (-53 hp)
Black Gnoll (he's dead, Jim)
White Gnoll (-14 hp)

Will get post up later. Need to go somewhere now.

The suviving extra large sized gnoll moves forward to engage Gnasher, taking a swipe with it's claw, though after the lightning he looks pretty badly injured.

to hit, claw: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24
damage: 1d6 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13

The leader in the back snarls in anger when he loses one of his grunts. He starts whirling a scorpion whip impressively, cracking it over his head, and looking pretty alarming as he moves up, then lashing out at Gnasher.

to hit, scorpion whip: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (12) + 14 = 26
damage: 1d4 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10

Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.
Once again they have no trouble connecting and Gnasher takes yet more damage. Gnasher is still standing, but it is only his rage that sustains him.

Combat Card
Ongoing effects: Tarak in Chimp form.
Bold may go.

Malgrim Gryh (-0 HP)
Urah Pyr (-0 HP)
Gnasher (-53 HP)

Blue Gnoll (-48 hp)
Tarak (-0 HP)
Red Gnoll (-53 hp)
Black Gnoll (he's dead, Jim)
White Gnoll (-14 hp)

Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.

Once again they have no trouble connecting and Gnasher takes yet more damage. Gnasher is still standing, but it is only his rage that sustains him.

Correction: that gnoll had to move too far for it to get a full attack. So Gnasher only took 12 points of damage.

So he's at -35 HP yes?

Reeling from the three different attacks, the bloodied Gnasher drops his bardiche, snarling, "Yes finish this with tooth and claw." He then bites at the Red gnoll to his left. Following with rapid attacks with his claws.

If red goes down he will attack blue first then white, Rage: 2nd/14, HP 32, AC 19, Rage/enlarged Attack bite, claw, gnoll killer, power attack
bite: 1d20 + 12 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (15) + 12 + 1 - 2 = 26 for damage: 1d8 + 5 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 5 + 1 + 4 = 15
claw: 1d20 + 12 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (10) + 12 + 1 - 2 = 21 for damage: 1d8 + 5 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 5 + 1 + 4 = 13
claw: 1d20 + 12 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (18) + 12 + 1 - 2 = 29 for damage: 1d8 + 5 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 5 + 1 + 4 = 14
if the first two attacks put red and blue down he will 5 ft step to attack white

miteke wrote:

Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.

Once again they have no trouble connecting and Gnasher takes yet more damage. Gnasher is still standing, but it is only his rage that sustains him.

Remember:

miteke wrote:

Correction: that gnoll had to move too far for it to get a full attack. So Gnasher only took 12 points of damage.

So he's at -35 HP yes?

Yes, I copy/pasted and forgot the change.

Red drops with the bite and blue is finished off with the claws and Gnasher steps up to menace white.

Combat Card
Ongoing effects: Tarak in Chimp form.
Bold may go.
Gnasher (-53 HP)

Malgrim Gryh (-0 HP)
Urah Pyr (-35 HP)
Tarak (-0 HP)

Blue Gnoll (he's dead, Jim)
Red Gnoll (he's dead, Jim)
Black Gnoll (he's dead, Jim)
White Gnoll (-14 hp, looking nervous)

Feeling much confident after watching the carnage distributed by Gnasher.

Urah preens and attempts to force the gnoll to back down, never mind the blood caking both of them. He was behind the wall of Muscle.

"Hey! Hey! Still wanna fight? Just give up will you? You're no match for us!"

And Yes, moving up to get them all in the Bane effect works.
Intimidate, take 10 due to Fiery Glare a Racial trait. Total 19

intimidation contestation, language, odds: 1d20 + 16 + 4 - 4 ⇒ (2) + 16 + 4 - 4 = 18

He seems to know that you are trying to intimidate him, but he does not seem to know what it is you are saying and barks something back in gnoll. but seeing the odds arrayed against him tips the scale and he does look a bit flustered glancing back at his escape route.

Malgrim walks up and tries to tap Gnasher with a wand.

UMD: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28

Well, I decided not to attack with cover. But that would have hit with cover. :P

CLW Wand: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

Gnasher regenerates a HP and Malgrim really knits a few wounds together too. Gnasher is looking rather good right now. Meanwhile the remaining Gnoll is looking visibly nervous. Or is it just that hyena laugh?

Combat Card
Ongoing effects: Tarak in Chimp form.
Bold may go.
Gnasher (-53 HP)
Malgrim Gryh (-0 HP)
Urah Pyr (-35 HP)

Tarak (-0 HP)

White Gnoll (-4 hp, looking nervous)

Tarak again bounces up and down and points while making chimpanzee noises and flings poo lightning at the remaining Gnoll.

Lightning Arc, Touch Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9
Damage, Electric: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

But its mostly flash and noise. I assume that missed

Good assumption

Tarak dos a MUCH less impressive lightning bolt than last time. One has to wonder if it was just an after image. The remaining gnoll steps back and starts acting all crazy -like, cracking his whip and looking quite impressive.

dazzling display, shaken: 1d20 + 16 - 2 ⇒ (17) + 16 - 2 = 31

Combat Card
Ongoing effects: Tarak in Chimp form.
Bold may go.

Gnasher (-53 HP, intimidated 4 rounds)
Malgrim Gryh (-0 HP)
Urah Pyr (-35 HP, intimidated 4 rounds)
Tarak (-0 HP, intimidated 5 rounds)

White Gnoll (-4 hp, intimidated)

Remember that you can contest the intimidation with a skill instead of 10 + Hit Dice + Wisdom modifier. Malgrim, you were out of range and the display was wasted on you.

Watching as the gnoll retreated Gnasher was shaken by it's impressive display of Whippery. Intent on staying away from the whip as long as he could, Gnasher picks up his bardiche and swings it at the last surviving gnoll. After the attack he steps forward slightly hoping to keep the gnoll from fleeing.

Shaken Rage: 3rd/14, HP 32, AC 19, move action: picked up bardiche, Rage/enlarged Attack + 1 Bardiche, gnoll killer, power attack, shaken; 5 ft step.
attack: 1d20 + 12 + 1 - 2 - 2 ⇒ (13) + 12 + 1 - 2 - 2 = 22 for damage: 2d8 + 7 + 2 + 1 + 6 - 2 ⇒ (7, 7) + 7 + 2 + 1 + 6 - 2 = 28
I believe the 5ft step put gnasher close enough that if the gnoll retreats gnasher will get an AOO

Urah looks at the gnoll and points to Gnasher.
He then draws a line across hie neck while looking at the gnoll.

Intimidate 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18
this gnoll has a +16? I can't match that. that's more then double of mine.

Yea, trying to intimidate him is an exercise in futility. The best you could hope for is one round of being shaken with that roll. On a good day. But since you are intimidated and he no longer is, you are at a -2 and he would have shaken it off even if I rolled a 1. But the gesture... Apropos.

oppose intimidate: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (8) + 16 = 24

Intimidated or not, Gnasher has the instincts of a born killer and his bardiche is quite effectively employed.

Combat Card
Ongoing effects: Tarak in Chimp form.
Bold may go.

Gnasher (-53 HP, intimidated 3 rounds)
Urah Pyr (-35 HP, intimidated 3 rounds)

Malgrim Gryh (-0 HP)
Tarak (-0 HP, intimidated 5 rounds)

White Gnoll (-32 hp)

Tarak, remember that you can contest the intimidation with a skill instead of 10 + Hit Dice + Wisdom modifier.

Malgrim steps up and gathers water to him as he sends a powerful bolt at the remaining gnoll.

5 ft step. Gather power -1 Burn. Empower +1 Burn. So we even out with 0 burn on a blast.

Water Blast w/Elemental Overflow : 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 6 + 1 = 9

Damage, B, Water Blast w/Elemental Overflow: 3d6 + 8 + 2 ⇒ (6, 6, 2) + 8 + 2 = 24

I blow a random rock up behind him real good.

It was Gnasher's fault. He got in the way. I mean even with precise shot, the guy IS a big rock.

I don’t have any skills that would be better than level + WIS

oppose intimidation: 1d20 + 5 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 5 + 4 = 13

Somewhat awed by the gnolls display, Tarakpanzee again jumps and points and looses another bolt of electricity.

Ranged Touch, intimated, into melee: 1d20 + 5 - 2 - 4 ⇒ (10) + 5 - 2 - 4 = 9
Damage, Electric: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Tarak has similar issues and can't seem to find the gnoll behind Gnasher's bulk and only manages to put on a light show. Pretty, but useless.

Stepping back, the gnoll whips up some courage and strikes out at Gnasher again. The regeneration helps him out a bit, but he's taken a LOT of damage and is a bit wobbly.

to hit, scorpion whip: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (11) + 14 = 25
damage: 1d4 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10

Somehow Malgrim and Tarak get
Combat Card
Ongoing effects: Tarak in Chimp form.
Bold may go.

Gnasher (-62 HP, intimidated 3 rounds)
Urah Pyr (-35 HP, intimidated 3 rounds)
Malgrim Gryh (-0 HP)
Tarak (-0 HP, intimidated 4 rounds)

White Gnoll (-32 hp)

@Gnasher
Does that regeneration happen before or after you do your actions. If after, you are going to collapse unconscious if you attack.

@Gnasher

Does that regeneration happen before or after you do your actions. If after, you are going to collapse unconscious if you attack.

He wasn't at -53 you never adjusted you stat sheet Here I believe he was only at -35. And I think I totally forgot about the fast healing, so 2 or 3 higher.

I think I've been mostly good about applying the regeneration. New HP totals as follows...

Combat Card
Ongoing effects: Tarak in Chimp form.
Bold may go.

Gnasher (-44 HP, intimidated 3 rounds)
Urah Pyr (-35 HP, intimidated 3 rounds)
Malgrim Gryh (-0 HP)
Tarak (-0 HP, intimidated 4 rounds)

White Gnoll (-32 hp)

I think I've been mostly good about applying the regeneration. New HP totals as follows...

You are a better man than I, I keep forgetting it.

Lifting his arm so the whip strikes his shoulder and back Gnasher smiles a toothy smile Droping the bardiche again. he Steps closer attacking the whip using intimidator with tooth and claw.

Shaken Rage: 4th/14, @ 18 HP, AC 19 Rage/enlarged Attack bite, claw, gnoll killer, power attack, shaken
bite: 1d20 + 12 + 1 - 2 - 2 ⇒ (7) + 12 + 1 - 2 - 2 = 16 for damage: 1d8 + 5 + 1 + 4 - 2 ⇒ (4) + 5 + 1 + 4 - 2 = 12
claw: 1d20 + 12 + 1 - 2 - 2 ⇒ (5) + 12 + 1 - 2 - 2 = 14 for damage: 1d8 + 5 + 1 + 42 ⇒ (4) + 5 + 1 + 42 = 52
claw: 1d20 + 12 + 1 - 2 - 2 ⇒ (12) + 12 + 1 - 2 - 2 = 21 for damage: 1d8 + 5 + 1 + 4 - 2 ⇒ (1) + 5 + 1 + 4 - 2 = 9

It's a good thing that first claw didn't hit. Things would have gotten messy. I'm betting that +42 should have been a +4-2. :)

But Gnasher does land one claw on him, but he is still standing and looking all menacing-like.

Malgrim continues to slowly move forward as he draws in water and sends another bolt at the gnoll.

5 ft step. Empower Blast +1 Strain, Gather Power -1 Strain. So no strain.

Water Blast w/Elemental Overflow : 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 6 + 1 = 19

Damage, B, Water Blast w/Elemental Overflow: 3d6 + 8 + 2 ⇒ (1, 1, 1) + 8 + 2 = 13

Terrible Damage roll. But if AC 19 hits he takes 19 Bludgeoning Damage.

Sooo close. Malgrim blasts off a shoulder pad but does no real damage to the gnoll.