How would you handle an avalanche?
Have a party heading through the mountains and want a combat to trigger one. Just not sure how to handle the damage from slabs of ice or possible suffocation or hypothermia or getting trapped or not or digging yourself out or others out.
Yar.
Link to the rules for Avalanches
Avalanches are a CR 7 event. They travel as far as you/the GM deems necessary. Everything else (width, PC location relative to it's size, damage, getting buried, etc) is covered by that entry.
Hypothermia is lightly touched upon in the Cold Dangers entry, found here:
~P
Yar.
Link to the rules for Avalanches
Avalanches are a CR 7 event. They travel as far as you/the GM deems necessary. Everything else (width, PC location relative to it's size, damage, getting buried, etc) is covered by that entry.
Hypothermia is lightly touched upon in the Cold Dangers entry, found here:
~P
Thanks. No idea why the search on prd & pfsrd didn't bring it up at first.
Yar.
The PRD search function is painfully buggy. Fortunately, the Paizo staff know this and, at least according to this, are working on fixing it. However, the PRD has a lot of info in it, so it may still take a while.
~P
yeah - ok.. so the rules seem a little funky in terms of spotting the avalanche until its right on top of you. Maybe that is the intent.
from the CRB: The avalanche can be spotted from as far away as 1d10 × 500 feet by a character who makes a DC 20 Perception check, treating the avalanche as a Colossal creature.
Is this a straight DC 20 perception check with no modification for distance? Or is it a DC 4 check after you modify the "stealth" factor of the Colossal avalanche by -16 and then add the distance modifier. Even at 500 feet, the DC in this second case is 54 (4 plus 50 for distance [500/10].
I dont see how its possible to see it more than 1,000 feet away (DC 104 anyone?)
Hearing the Avalanche at 500 feet is a bit easier because of the distance modifier change in the mountains to 1 per 20 feet. The modified DC -1 (the hearing perception check is base 15 ) becomes a 24 in that case.
Any help on calculating these DC's correctly would be appreciated.
Edited: to correct the Hearing Base Perception DC
And then there is this:
Stealth and Detection in Mountains: As a guideline, the maximum distance in mountain terrain at which a Perception check for detecting the nearby presence of others can succeed is 4d10 × 10 feet. Certain peaks and ridgelines afford much better vantage points, of course, and twisting valleys and canyons have much shorter spotting distances. Because there's little vegetation to obstruct line of sight, the specifics on your map are your best guide for the range at which an encounter could begin. As in hills terrain, a ridge or peak provides enough cover to hide from anyone below the high point.
The Avalanche is treated as a colossal Creature (an other): seems like the max distance it can be spotted in this interpretation is 400 feet, heard more easily. Sheesh