
Djones520 |
Recently my party was storming Ft. Rannick in the Hook Mountain Massacre for the ROTRL adventure path.
We had 4 rangers in the party. Myself, and 3 NPC's (Shalelu Andasonah, Vale Temros, and Jakardros Sovark). We initially snuck up to the walls, and positioned ourselves on the walls and towers, while the rest of the party assaulted one of the gates. The plan was to get the ogres bunched up, and then we'd attack them, catching them in a pincer.
Turns out there was about 3 times the ogres we thought there would be, and that plan went right out the window. All 4 of us were seperated and fighting for our lives. I was in a tower, and had multiple ogres climbing up trying to get to me. I'm an archer, I don't belong in close combat and they would have made very short work of me. So two of the ogres climb over the top, and I have a choice to make. My back is at the edge of the tower, it's about a 30' drop. I can fire 3 arrows that round with a full attack action. So I take a 5' step and "throw" myself over the wall, while I make my attack action. 2 arrows drop the first ogre, and the third crits dropping him as well. It felt like a very cinematic scene. Enough so that we had it commemorated in art, thoug the artist didn't quite capture all of the elements I was hoping for.
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2014/175/9/f/ogre_scene_by_stefanomarinet ti-d7nr5tt.jpg