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I'm glad I won't be subject to the SWAT any time soon. (They aren't gonna be in tier for Captive in Crystal by GenCon, right?)
TOZ, you would love it if you got us. But, those of us that are going (5-6) will be GMing the entire weekend, and most have played Captive in Crystal already. But, we'll be in tier.
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(They aren't gonna be in tier for Captive in Crystal by GenCon, right?)They are very much in-tier.
Oh bloody hell.
TOZ, you would love it if you got us. But, those of us that are going (5-6) will be GMing the entire weekend, and most have played Captive in Crystal already. But, we'll be in tier.
Well, at least maybe you'll get a shot at offing my Aspis agent in the first slot. :)
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I encountered another "SWAT" team a long time ago in LG days...
Group of Halflings (or maybe Gnomes)... S.W.A.T. (Short Weapons and Tactics).
I also ran a member of (redacted) - another Halfling team (Dog Mounted). ("Swiftly Mounted, Undercover, Recon Force").
And my -1 PC is a member of FED-Ex (Fast Elven Delivery - Express: "We Deliver While You Sleep")
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I'm curious as where to draw the line in RP in another light. What about when it's not about whether it's PC or not? What if we are struggling with the good old "The LG paladin and the CN Barbarian have differing opinions on whether or not we should be murdering the party." What if we need to start fire-balling but the driud's animal companion will die and he is against it.
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When you look at a companion being, imagine instead a PC standing in that spot.
Does the criteria for unleashing fiery death change with that imagination?
If no, then you may fire when ready, Gridley.
If yes, then it falls into PvP.
Companion beings are *not* (despite some apparently popular perceptions) speed-bumps to be thrown into the worst situations, but an important and balanced part of a given character's class, working in synergy with their other class skills.
With a relatively recent ruling about conditions applied to animal companions, it could be extrapolated that a dead companion being could translate to a dead PC.
So yes, the druid could be understandably against such a thing.
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so say we are doing a specific module, and the animal companion runs up to free a person, then a bunch of let's say "things" appear and are supah scary. Now the 2 casters in the party, gunslinger, and dex based fighter are panicking. But, hey i mean the druid is in the back and he has really good con, and probably will avoid a touch attack as well. As the things all kill stuff, and are more scary, the casters start casting maximize fireball, and the animal moves again to get in position to free the unspecific man. We face the impasse of we can kill all of the things and the animal companion, or not, and all die except maybe the druid. So if the druid says no, we are expected to just not attack?
EDIT: made as generic as possible
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Again.
Due to the fact that a Companion Being's status effects are considered part of a character's 'resolution package' at the end of a scenario, is the party willing to pay the 'condition removal costs' for the PC?
If no, then without permission from the character(or player) there is no authorization to fire.
If yes, then you may fire when ready, Gridley.
EDIT: Missed in the description the comment about a prisoner being freed.
Looks at the scene.
So we have a prisoner.
Companion Being goes to free prisoner.
Scary things happen to freak out party.
"NUKES FOR ALL!"
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So to put this into more context, roughly this occurred to my lv 12 monk, while some minor details are changed just to make the analogy fit better, but regardless
Having some one summon the Kool Aid man.oh yeah
*begins statting up the "Sweetwater Golem"*
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If my Take 10 T-shirt upset anyone at the table - I'd switch it. (I bring an extra shirt just for this).Good gods, nosig, what does that shirt look like? Is it "Take 10 on {insert offensive action here}" or something?
Inquiring minds wants to know!
It has printed on the front of it...
Taking 10: When your character is not in immediate danger or distracted, you may choose to take 10. Instead of rolling 1d20 for the skill check, calculate your result as if you had rolled a 10. For many routine tasks, taking 10 makes them automatically successful. Distractions or threats (such as combat) make it impossible for a character to take 10. In most cases, taking 10 is purely a safety measure—you know (or expect) that an average roll will succeed but fear that a poor roll might fail, so you elect to settle for the average roll (a 10). Taking 10 is especially useful in situations where a particularly high roll wouldn't help.
You MONSTER! How COULD you?
:-)