HELP! Need Clarification for Scenario 17- Running Tommorrow Night!!!! (spoilers)

[Neil Phillips]

Please help. Pathfinder Society Scenario 17: The Perils of the Pirate Pact.

I am running tomorrow night (Monday April 27). I have a question about a scene in the scenario. In Act 4, on page 11, it describes that "giant webbings obstruct some areas." It goes on to decsribe how they work mechanically.

However, I need to know if the Ettercap produced these using its Web ability to (from the SRD) "create sheets of sticky webbing from 5 to 60 feet square. They usually position these to snare flying creatures but can also try to trap prey on the ground. Approaching creatures must succeed on a DC 20 Spot check to notice a web, or they stumble into it and become trapped as though by a successful web attack."

1. Are the webs on the map a product of the web attack?

2. Are the webs on the map visible, or does it require a DC 20 spot to see them?

3. If question 1 is a "yes," are any of the daily uses of the web ability used up?

Thanks for the help!! I want to do a primo job tomorrow.

[Matthieu Dayon]

Hi there Neil,

The way I see it, the webs in the shrine where made by both the ettercaps and their spider friends. They might have once been transparent, but time and dust have long since given these tangles a quite noticeable macabre look fitting a shrine of the Demon Lord of Vermin. Quoting the boxed text: "Thick layers of sagging webs choke the room from floor to ceiling" or "Beyond the mass of tangles..." or "Gruesome carcasses and human-sized cocoons dangle from ghastly strands."

So, to answer your question:
1. Yes and no.
2. No
3. No

Good luck with tonight's game. Looking how you prepared for it, I have no doubt you're going to grand slam that one :)
Also, if you find time, please let me know how it went. I'm very interested in hearing how that scenario plays out.

Cheers,

/Matthieu

[Neil Phillips]

Thanks for the help. I'll give you a report after it rolls.

Matthieu Dayon wrote:

Hi there Neil,

The way I see it, the webs in the shrine where made by both the ettercaps and their spider friends. They might have once been transparent, but time and dust have long since given these tangles a quite noticeable macabre look fitting a shrine of the Demon Lord of Vermin. Quoting the boxed text: "Thick layers of sagging webs choke the room from floor to ceiling" or "Beyond the mass of tangles..." or "Gruesome carcasses and human-sized cocoons dangle from ghastly strands."

So, to answer your question:
1. Yes and no.
2. No
3. No

Good luck with tonight's game. Looking how you prepared for it, I have no doubt you're going to grand slam that one :)
Also, if you find time, please let me know how it went. I'm very interested in hearing how that scenario plays out.

Cheers,

/Matthieu

[Joshua J. Frost]

What Matthieu said. Thanks Matt! :-)