| Captain Netz |
Our gaming group recently came in contact with a 12 zombie encounter in the first book of the AP Serpent Skull. One of our more experienced players told us we could simply kite the encounter by attacking then making a 5 foot step back. According to this strategy the zombies wouldn't be able to make their slam attacks because they cant charge with 5 feet of movement and would move into melee range and then end their turn.
However our GM is telling us that Zombies can still make their slam attacks by making a 5 foot step and performing their attacks without the bonus to attack rolls. He is saying this is as intended because "exploiting an encounter like this by making them unable to make attacks is obviously not what they meant to happen"
So who is in the right? The player who says from experience that this is the way low level parties (we are level 1) deal with zombie hordes or the GM who thinks that this strategy makes the encounter too insignificant to be legit.
*Also if this is in the wrong forum I apologize. Second post >.>