I'm overnight at the hospital with my son so next post may be tomorrow afternoon.
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Thanks! There's no emergency, but I don't have my books or wifi so it's hard to make GM posts.
After the combat you can peek in the spoiler to see how they and you rolled.
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There's a decent amount of debate over whether "y'all" is ever singular. Apparently, there are some areas of the US where it might be used that way? Sauce But I've never heard it used that way and I live in the South. Other sources I found note it can be used when addressing an individual with an implied "and your group," which still puts it as a plural and not a singular.
As far as I've ever seen, it's usually used as a second-person plural, with "all y'all" sometimes used to refer to more than 3-4 others.
Multiple people can go at once. Just be clear on who is doing what.
Kiyoko: if at some point I have referred to your character as Kitoro (or if I do it in the future), I apologize. There's a character named Kitoro in one of my other adventures; I caught myself in an edited post calling you Kitoro. I did a quick search and couldn't find any other mistakes, but if I did it once, I'm capable of doing it multiple times.
Right after I called myself out for it, too!
Uwu, not sure if you're still deciding what to do, but you're up in the Gameplay thread.
That's the first time I've seen Janira go down without it being a crit, actually.
That's kind of surprising given the stats (Janira's AC is terrible). Out of curiosity, I simmed it out.
93% of the time, Janira does not get crit.
- 17% of the time she doesn't get crit, she is conscious.
- 82% of the time she doesn't get crit, she is unconscious.
- 1% of the time she doesn't get crit, she is dead.
7% of the time, Janira gets crit.
- 0% of the time she gets crit, she is conscious.
- 27% of the time she gets crit, she is unconscious.
- 73% of the time she gets crit, she is dead.
So, if she's unconscious or dead, only 8% of time should it be from a crit - 92% of the time she goes down, it's without a crit.
On average she has -2.7 hp (+/-1 SD range 0 to -6 hp) and should be unconscious but rescuable.
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That is with neither. Total Defense is out of the question as the scenario explicitly states she fights. I've never considered fighting defensively but it would make sense.
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Ah, gotcha. I actually just picked up the PDF this past week (I was going to GM it locally) and couldn't recall whether she was hoping to shut it down quickly (fighting normally), hedging her bets (FD), or just trying to stay alive (TD).
Most people forget about Fight Defensively and Total Defense, but as someone who played a Halfling Megatank, it's always on my mind :D
This is the last combat, but the minotaur is dangerous and does need to be taken care of. Once the combat is finished, I'll declare this game finished. Sign up for Oathbreakers - I can't really start that until this weekend at least and you will either be victorious or dead by then. :)
Oops - you are correct. No functional differencr, though - the minotaur still ends up fleeing. But it does make it easier for a parting shot to take it down.
I have never been more afraid for Bahram!
The minotaur in The Confirmation is a CR 3 monster, which is already brought down from its Bestiary entry (CR 4) by making it wounded and breaking its greataxe (which normally does 3d6+4 as a large weapon). Even so, it's a severe encounter and a fitting capstone for the adventure.
When I played this, Janira didn't go down in Round 1, and we were full of ranged fighters so we did as Stavarg suggested - hanging out on the far bank and pummeling him as he waded across (large creatures walk through the river with a Strength check). Janira's inspire courage gives everyone a +1 to attack and damage, which is really helpful.
The first time I GMed, Janira survived Round 1 as well - but they had the same problems you did (melee characters have to eat an AoO to get in). The minotaur was surrounded but rolled a crit, and I (shh) cheated a little - I made the minotaur step out and 1-hit Con-kill Janira because basically no 1st level character can take a full-damage crit from the minotaur (raging barbarians might not be Con-dead from the hit, but when they drop out of rage they will be).
The minotaur does have a flee condition, though, so really the party needs to get in 3 or so solid hits and it'll take off. But it truly is a deadly scenario, especially for first level characters and new players (who may understandibly not make the most of their character's abilities).
You guys did well, and I hope that the fear of death added to (rather than detracted from) the fun of the scenario.
I have all your character information from the Recruitment thread, but please make your Day Job rolls in this thread.
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One of my groups decided to take on the minotaur at full health rather than let Janira run away with it.
Thankfully we had a few folks capable of Enlarge Person, an Elven Branched Spear, and some lucky rolls. We tore him to pieces and only took one hit (which, admittedly, knocked out our Paladin... but that Paladin has been knocked out in 90% of our fights since then, so that's nothing special).
10/10, would never do again!
Side note: is it possible to do a Day Job untrained?
Not to my knowledge.
By default, I'm assuming everyone is Normal and not Slow. Let me know if that assumption made something out of you and me.