quick! what's this mean?

[rangerjeff]

prepping a scenario to run tonight and have a question.

under SLA's in a monster's statblock it says: "summon (level 3, 1d4 dorus 50%)"

what's the 50% mean?

I'll be gone in a little more than an hour, so after that don't worry about replying.

Thanks!

[Grick]

rangerjeff wrote:

under SLA's in a monster's statblock it says: "summon (level 3, 1d4 dorus 50%)"

what's the 50% mean?

Summon (Sp): "A creature with the summon ability can summon other specific creatures of its kind much as though casting a summon monster spell, but it usually has only a limited chance of success (as specified in the creature's entry). Roll d%: On a failure, no creature answers the summons."

[Bacon666]

the way we use it is that the ability have a 50% chance of success... so while spending an action trying to summon, roll a D100, and depending on your group call high or low...

success you summoned 1d4 dorus
failure you spent 1 action.

[rangerjeff]

Thanks!

[Howie23]

rangerjeff,

Monster abilities like summon are explained in the Universal Monster Rules. When you are prepping and find something you don't understand, that generally will be a place to find the answer.

I recognize that an active forum is sometimes easier than looking it up, but I'm doing the whole "teach a man to fish..." thing. :)