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<blockquote data-quote="UltimaGabe" data-source="post: 4069530" data-attributes="member: 16019"><p>Let's check the SRD:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Emphasis mine. A creature passing through the wall takes damage, with a Reflex save for half. If a person sees an enemy on the other side, and willingly jumps through the wall, he gets a save for half damage. But then, if a person sticks just an arm through to touch someone, you'd rule that they automatically take FULL damage? If anything, he should take LESS damage because he's sticking much less of his body through the barrier, and it's probably a lot easier to time a quick jab through a wall of blades than it is to time your whole body through. Both the person sticking their arm and the person jumping through are willingly putting themselves through the wall- but they're still doing so in such a way as to minimize the damage. Personally, I would give him a save for no damage, but he'd at LEAST follow the same rules as someone walking through.</p><p></p><p>That aside, I think you ruled everything else just as you should have. PCs always gripe when their players get killed, and yet they still continuously put themselves in situations where they could die. I don't get it. The BBEG was, backed by the rules, fully able to do what he/she did, and I think you played everything out fine. As long as Raise Dead and Resurrection are options, you don't need to worry about players upset at PC deaths. If death was such a terrible, terrible thing, those spells wouldn't exist.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UltimaGabe, post: 4069530, member: 16019"] Let's check the SRD: Emphasis mine. A creature passing through the wall takes damage, with a Reflex save for half. If a person sees an enemy on the other side, and willingly jumps through the wall, he gets a save for half damage. But then, if a person sticks just an arm through to touch someone, you'd rule that they automatically take FULL damage? If anything, he should take LESS damage because he's sticking much less of his body through the barrier, and it's probably a lot easier to time a quick jab through a wall of blades than it is to time your whole body through. Both the person sticking their arm and the person jumping through are willingly putting themselves through the wall- but they're still doing so in such a way as to minimize the damage. Personally, I would give him a save for no damage, but he'd at LEAST follow the same rules as someone walking through. That aside, I think you ruled everything else just as you should have. PCs always gripe when their players get killed, and yet they still continuously put themselves in situations where they could die. I don't get it. The BBEG was, backed by the rules, fully able to do what he/she did, and I think you played everything out fine. As long as Raise Dead and Resurrection are options, you don't need to worry about players upset at PC deaths. If death was such a terrible, terrible thing, those spells wouldn't exist. [/QUOTE]
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