Chapter 10: Q&A / Discussions

[Darren]

[Jeff]

By the way, Ken, I love these little touches.

Dec 22, 2011 14:03:16 GMT -4 Ken said:

First he looks at some bolts of cloth, warily picking up a corner every now and then as though it were a slightly petrified type of ooze.

[Ken]

Thank you, thank you kindly.

Condign and Adamant are cracking me up. Oh, Adamant....!

[Jeff]

Hey guys. I'm going to be away from home all day today, so I won't be able to finish my combat post until tonight. But I'm halfway through it, and I'll tell you that Kal, Condign, and Streko all hit....Condign might've missed, but Kal's and Streko's attacks both granted combat advantage and gave him the edge he needed to hit. Those combat advantage-granting powers really help. Plus, had Kal not dazed the ettin with his spell, there'd have been some ugly opportunity attacks this round (against those moving into its reach).

Anyway, stay tuned. ;D

[Darren]

Redoubt drops his girls and pack to shoulder into the grey surcoat. He makes the last adjustment as the dwarves arrive. (Emphasis added)

What the heck kind of adventure are you guys having, anyway?

[Dave W.]

Dec 28, 2011 9:58:51 GMT -4 Darren said:

Redoubt drops his girls and pack to shoulder into the grey surcoat. He makes the last adjustment as the dwarves arrive. (Emphasis added)

What the heck kind of adventure are you guys having, anyway?

Okay, I'm at a loss here... I know it was late but I wasn't that tired... . Obviously the iPod did some fancy word replacing there...

[Brian]

Maybe Dave meant girdle? ;D

[Jeff]

Yeah, when the Invisible Castle dice roller is down, I'll handle the rolls, no worries.

[Jeff]

Brian:

Condign watches as the innocent woman is crushed to death by the ettin. Bits of blood and flesh splatter his shield and legs.

Just to clarify, Brian, because this wording makes me unsure: the woman who got splattered by the ettin in the first round is one of the "b" bystanders (situated on the south end of the map by the gray stone wall), who is nowhere near Condign. (So her blood and flesh would not spatter his legs.)

The other woman mentioned is the broken-arm, armored woman ('W') in dragonmarked house livery, who Condign is standing beside. She didn't get hit this round, she's still alive.

[Brian]

Sorry, I was just trying to be graphic. I really didn't place her on the map. My bad.

[Dave W.]

would it be kibitzing too much to suggest an action for the other group? I'm not there, I know...

I hope Team K does better with the Ettin that I did with my first meeting with a giant in Skyrim! Doh!

[Jeff]

As comfortable as I am with some out-of-game strategizing, yeah, I'd rather the metagaming not extend too much among players nowhere near their characters. Unless there was some telepathy going on between the two groups.

When you choose to split the party, there's got to be some drawbacks. This is one of the less obvious ones.

Commentary is fine, though!

[Dave W.]

I know, its just so tempting... I'll just restrict myself to useful advice like "try not to let him hit you..."

[Brian]

Jeff, didn't Streko's last attack give Condign's hit an extra 1d6 fire/radiant damage against the ettin?

[Jeff]

Why...yes. Have a look-see.

[Jeff]

Opportunity attacks are almost always melee attacks, Darren. Kal isn't close enough to the ettin to stab at it with his dagger. So he just can't take advantage of Condign's viper strike.

[Darren]

BUT, because of Sorcerrous Blade Channeling, I thought that Kal could use ranged attacks as basic melee attacks....?

[Jeff]

No, no.

Sorcerous Blade Channeling lets you make a melee attack with an otherwise ranged attack, if you're close enough to go stabby-stabby. And it lets you use Electric Orb as if it were a basic melee attack, which is the only kind of attack you can make with an opportunity attack. But again, melee.

No way can Kal make a ranged opp attack. That's all.

[Darren]

Okee doke. I never really understand any of these rules.

[Dave W.]

"brassy shards of pain"... Nice Brian!

[Brian]

Thanks, Dave.

[Jeff]

Darren:

Kal will use Lightning Shift to get to the new location.

Hmmm. Lightning shift is about moving unhindered across difficult terrain or through enemies. But it's not teleportation. Also, it's just his speed, which is 6.

That said, Thunder Leap would be more likely to do the trick. It's not teleportation, either, but since it implies vertical movement, I'd be okay with this working. But you'd still have to be closer to the building in question, as all 10 squares of movement would be needed.


Lightning shift lets him use

[Darren]

Well, wouldn't Lightning Shift at least let him get up to the bridge, and then he could run the rest of the way?

[Jeff]

As long as the path the lightning shift has him take has an actual surface he'd normally have to traverse, I'm find with that, sure. The spell basically allows you to go 30 feet in a flash along a route you'd normally have to walk/run to.

So if Kal's lightning shift basically goes the route Rinti went (climbing up the vendor's stall and jumping up to the walkway from there) then yup, he can simply do it faster.

[Darren]

Alright, then. What the hell? He'll use Thunder Leap to get there. What are the odds we're getting into another fight today?

[Jeff]

It is morning in Stormreach, the City of Danger, the City of Dungeons, the Gateway to Xen'drik. But hey.

[Darren]

I re-wrote my post to account for Thunder Leap instead of Lightning Shift.

We will just have to be certain to be more diplomatic throughout the remainder of this day.

[Darren]

Before I decide what Kal should do, Jeff, could he NOW use Lightning Shift to catch up to the fleeing guy?

[Jeff]

Using Lightning Shift will simply give him a bonus on one of the few skill checks you'll need to make. You don't even need to decide this moment; you can use it to boost an otherwise bad roll or something. We can figure it out.

[Darren]

What do you think, Brian? My instinct is to just let him go. We're here to be noticed, anyway, so if he reports in to someone, we're really only accomplishing our goal. And Kal's instinct is to get down to Rinti unless he can completely ameliorate the man (which he intends to do when given the chance). Your thoughts?