Seems like it would be a good time for the cursed/enraged Owlbear to spontaneously attain the Run feat. Stranger things have happened in the middle of combat.
Pendagast: I placed the lair close to the plains.
Traken: That would have been a sure kill on the monk. Wouldn't mind making him fear death, but that would have been overkill!
So a Monk, a Fighter, a Cavalier, and a Sorceress walk into a bar...
In the immortal words of Adam Savage, well there's your problem.
I removed some posts and the replies to them.
Play nice. Flag it and move on.
It's so bizarre to me that some people seem upset that the monk is having its turn to shine.
It's so bizarre to me that some people seem upset that the monk is having its turn to shine.
I'd love for the monk to shine IF the rules weren't broken to do it. I think it sucks if that is the case, because it enforces his reviled status
edited: to remove some irrelevant stuff about summoners
I see it being mentioned that an open plain would be required for this to work but as I read it it seemed to make more and more sense that this would work well in a forest. Monks can run up trees you know, and more then likely jump to the next one over. Even if the owlbear tries to run away you can leap from tree to tree and shoot him down.
I will throw my hat in with those saying, "So what."
Wizards 'control' situations all the time with tactics and it is applauded because, well, they are wizards.
People constantly complain about how the monk is under powered. One of the few instances that they are perhaps more capable and people are annoyed by it. Running seems a good tactic when you are as fast as a horse. Had a wizard held it or cast deep slumber on it and walked up and killed it no one would blink and that is no less "Fair" and much less clever.
Why would the Owlbear chase around the Monk while it was plinked to death?
If I was the owlbear I'd just go back to sleep and claim experience points for making the monk run away. See how the monk deals with an owlbear with ninja levels.. if he dares to try again
Why would the Owlbear chase around the Monk while it was plinked to death?
because the monk will turn around and continue to plink him if it tries to run away.
couldn't the owlbear go back to its lair for cover?
couldn't the owlbear go back to its lair for cover?
Couldn't the monk and his group, once they were up and moving again, smoke it out with fire?
The point is, if the group decides to kill a lone owlbear no-matter what, it's dead.
Besides, you missed the part above where the owlbear was permanently enraged as part of an AP, and thus would never go back to it's lair. Or even run away for that matter. It was bent on fighting to the death.
Probably had rabies.