Sure, 6. Can you tell me how many quivers of arrows you have and how many arrows you appear to have? (obviously I can't count the exact number, but I could probably tell the difference between 20 and 5, you know?)
So, yeah, reading the acrobatics skill, I definitely dropped the ball on how hard the acrobatics DC would be to get you when you're 25 ft up--I thought it was lower than it is by a large margin, thinking I could just jump. But yeah, it seems impossible even if I roll a 20. But I'm not just going to forfeit and give you a free win, as that would be unfair to the other gladiators, so I will try this tactic...
Round 1
Arian runs to the center of the arena and hits the deck, trying to get cover from the arrows.
Move to F10. Total Defense. Free action: drop prone. Your go.
Also, I have to go back and read the maneuverability rules of flying mounts, but can your mount hover like that while you attack me? Or does she have to land at some point?
Hovering is a DC20 fly check and moving less than half speed is a DC15 fly check. Otherwise, as long as you move only the mount speed i.e. 80 ft for a roc, you can cast a spell and attack without penalties. If you move more, you get penalties on attack or concentration check on casting. And no, she does not have to land at any point.
Liane has a single quiver (around 20 arrows) and another bag plus two pouches.
If you plan to wait before I've exhausted my arrows, this will last very long.... I've got multiple back up plans for that:)
To be clear about the way you could catch Liane and because 3D fight is not easy to figure, if you are enlarged you just need to jump 5 foot up to reach Liane, a DC20 acrobatics check because you occupy a 10 ft tall cube and have a 10 foot reach. This was discussed and established in my last fight.If you are not enlarged, then its a DC60 :(
Round 2
Puzzled by her opponent action, Liane keeps to her plan. She directs Pearls in a lazy curved flight towards K4 while she draws her bow with her right hand (the hand with the buckler on) and casts another spell.
Yeah, I just glanced over that match and saw the DC 20 and was like: "Oh, that's nothing". But I didn't realize he was enlarged. 20 I can do. 30, I can do. 60, not so much. And yeah, you might have enough arrows, but I guess we'll find out, hehe.
Arian crouches low like some kind of scuttling beetle, moving slowly and methodically and readying himself for any attacks.
Liane directs Pearl to K17, same elevation and casts another spell. Her face changes appearance, eyes growing and turning golden and feather sprouting on both sides.
Liane swings her mount back to K4, moving her bow to her left hand and drawing a first arrow. As she gets a full view of her opponent, she lets the arrow fly.
Yep, that's a crit. 8 I can handle, but 23 is a bit rough. ;-) My hand is forced a bit, so here we go...
Round 4
Arian hops up and approaches, throwing a small blade at the mount, waiting to see if it strikes.
Ok, so I stand up and 5ft move to G4. I throw a shuriken at Pearl, which I believe is two increments so I took a -4. I hit a 16, but I assume that misses after looking up a roc's stats. Not trying to gripe too much, but you can take a medium-sized roc animal companion at level 1? 19 AC, 80ft flight, and 3 attacks per round (1d4/1d4/1d6) is WAY overpowered at level 1. Compare that to Bruno's camel, for example. Anyway, just my two cents. If it does hit, you need a Fort Save for Pearl DC 13 or she's unconscious. If that happens, I'll stay standing. If not, I'll hit the deck again. Then back to you!
Arbiter:
Move: Stand up. 5ft move to G4. Standard: Throw Shuriken, two range increments? 1d20 + 6 - 4 ⇒ (14) + 6 - 4 = 16
Comments on the roc: Its powerfull (high AC and attack) but has low hit points, plus you have to be a druid, which is not the best arena buuild. I had to fiddle a lot with multiple classes to get it to work. There are lots of overpowered builds but it depends against who: The Frost wielding Magus is one, for example. Or an enlarged fighter with a range weapon that can also chase me all around the arena...
Round 5
Liane fires another arrow at the half-elf then spurs Pearl over him to B4.
No, I didn't mean that having a Roc is a cheesy build in this format or anything. Your build is fine--it's mitigated by the fact that we start at 3rd level and people have different ways to deal with it. I just mean that the fact that a roc is a 1st level animal companion choice for a druid is, in my opinion, a flaw in game design. As to my magus being overpowered--I disagree. Shigeharu (at least at level 3 and probably 4) is actually far worse than a standard magus--no armor allowed and reduced casting is a pretty hefty price to pay for the Kensai bonuses. Anyway, here goes...
Round 5
Arian produces a vial from his bandolier, trying to dodge the incoming missiles.
That actually misses. Prone total defense ftw! :-)
Arian stands up and hurls the vial up at Pearl, snarling as it explodes in a burst of flame on her feathers.
I haven't eaten in awhile--that bird smells good. Rrrragh!
Stand up, throw vial of alchemist's fire at Pearl. Ranged touch is a 22 (one extra range increment penalty included), Fire damage is 5 and she is on fire. Then 5ft move to H4 and he starts to "look mad".
Arbiter:
Stand up as move action. Standard: Throw Alchemist's fire at Pearl, ranged touch with one extra range increment. 1d20 + 6 - 2 ⇒ (18) + 6 - 2 = 22 Fire damage 1d6 ⇒ 5. Then 5ft move to H4 and free action: enter Rage.
As the vial reaches Pearl, Liane hurls herself on the side, spurring Pearl to do the same and the vial barely miss the Roc and crashes on the wall behind, showering Liane and Pearl with fire.
Ride check immediate action 23.
As Liane is back to a wall, I suppose both Liane and Pearl will take splash damage (1 for each),
Thus Pearl has to make a fly check to avoid loosing altitude vs DC 10. As she has a fly bonus of +9, it is an automatic success and I did not roll it.
Round 7
For the first time, Liane answers her opponent. "Pearl not cooked yet. You die before us."
Taking out another arrow, she fires it a the furious half-elf. And flyes
Bow attack 27, damage 9
Arbiter:
Ride check to avoid attack:1d20 + 12 ⇒ (11) + 12 = 23,
Pearl Fly check to avoid loosing 10 foot altitude, DC10: automatic success with a fly mod of +9
Good game, that'll do it--I assumed you had Mounted Combat, but I figured I'd go for it just in case you didn't.
One note for future fights, though. Even though your +9 ride is an automatic success, I believe you still have to roll the d20, since the roll does occur (if we were playing in person, for example). That would mean that your good attack roll would have gone toward the ride check, therefore requiring another roll for your actual bow attack (which could have been a 1 or 2, for all we know). At this point it doesn't really matter as I have no chance and I'm not about to make you reroll on a technicality. But in other, closer matches it could very well matter. Good luck at level 4!
Good game, that'll do it--I assumed you had Mounted Combat, but I figured I'd go for it just in case you didn't.
One note for future fights, though. Even though your +9 ride is an automatic success, I believe you still have to roll the d20, since the roll does occur (if we were playing in person, for example). That would mean that your good attack roll would have gone toward the ride check, therefore requiring another roll for your actual bow attack (which could have been a 1 or 2, for all we know). At this point it doesn't really matter as I have no chance and I'm not about to make you reroll on a technicality. But in other, closer matches it could very well matter. Good luck at level 4!
Thanks for your comment. I have never made any of the rolls when there is an automatic success (like DC5 ride checks every turn). So it's not as if I am chosing sometimes to roll and sometimes not. But I'll ask the Arbiter to make a ruling about it and will conform me to it. I just clarified the fact that I was not rolling because had I not, you would fairly have asked me if I had not forgotten that roll.
And thanks for the game. I know Liane build is frustrating to play because it's a defensive build and I've tried to find ways to limit most of the offensive abilities of others. But you've come up with ideas I had not considered like the poisoned shuriken. I'm going to give it further thought for the next level.
In terms of rolling things, I'll go ahead and say that all rolls must be rolled, even those that you're sure you will succeed on (this seems a better option both for completeness's sake as well as for those corner-cases when someone has sneakily modified your nonsense and you didn't notice).
Bruno Bullrush: Smelly Dwarf astride a smelly camel. Win:2 Loss:6 Rep: 3
Bruno confidently strides onto the sands beside Esmaralda, both of them smelling of things unmentionable. He grins lopsidedly at the crowd and makes ready.
Jezebel reads from a scroll in her hand and disappears from view. The strange six limbed creature next to her moves forward a few feet and then stops in a guarded stance.
Arbiter:
Jezebel uses a scroll of invisibility. Five foot step to K9. Trick moves to I11
Bruno Bullrush: Smelly Dwarf astride a smelly camel. Win:2 Loss:6 Rep: 3
Bruno snorts (not unlike a camel) when the actual target vanishes, but fixes his eyes on her minion instead. He spurrs Esmeralda into their specialty: a great, thunderous charge across the arena sands.
Bruno Bullrush: Smelly Dwarf astride a smelly camel. Win:2 Loss:6 Rep: 3
Esmaralda doesnt just go down under the eagles assault, she get evicerated. Bruno lands hard and his lance clatters to the ground. He is up again in an instant. He draws his pick and snarls at the eagles.
dice:
ride to avoid fall damage:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13 fall damage:1d6 ⇒ 1
Move to get up (provoking)
Move to draw pick (if I survive)
Since you can pick the square you fall into I think, I figured you would fall into a square only threatened by one eagle which would be either G10 or H10. I put H10 but if you would rather be in G10 we can do that as all the attacks would be the same.
AoO vs your prone AC for eagle 1 in H9: 16
Damage: 4
Round 2
Arbiter:
Summon mastery to summon a small lightning elemental in square K10 to charge and trip attack to I10. charging augmented metal mastery trip:1d20 + 11 ⇒ (14) + 11 = 25
Eagle in H12 5' step to H11
Eagle in G12 5' step to G11
A creature that looks like a roughly shaped man made out of storm clouds appears and charges you, arcs of electricity coursing over its body. Slamming into you, it tries to knock Bruno back to the ground.
Trip attack vs your CMD: 25
If successful you are knocked prone.
The creatures continue their attacks, except for the lightning elemental who moves off for what you suspect is another charge, when suddenly a rocky humanoid rises from the ground and slams into you with stunning force.
The elementals and eagles just keep pounding away until Bruno is no more. Jezebel then comes back into view and sways quietly out of the arena.
Yeah, if you don't have a way to see me it's pretty hard to withstand all the actions I can put out. Nice battle though and as I said before you and Esmeralda are my favorites from a sheer fun perspective.
