Minions falling = autokill?

[mtheurer]

Hi all,

I have an upcoming encounter where a roof could accidentally cave in and drop down a whole upstairs worth of zombies down into the ground level of a haunted house. Problem is that several of the zombies are of the rotter variety and if even a single point of damage destroys them would you rule that a fall, even one of less than ten feet, destroys them too? I can see if they were pushed off of a ledge or maybe even down a flight of stairs but not sure where to go with the possible cave in.

Mark

 

[Zurai]

A less than 10 foot fall shouldn't deal any damage.

 

[Palladion]

In this case, think what would be more cinematic. Perhaps you start the combat with more zombies than the PCs would normally face, when they cave-in happens, some of the non-combat zombies die, but more crawl out of the rubble to attack the PCs. If the PCs are the one who collapse the roof on purpose, I would give them to ability to roll an attack one each and deal damage as an area attack. It is a pretty cinematic way to kill zombies (think movies). Heh.

 

[Warbringer]

Hi all,

I have an upcoming encounter where a roof could accidentally cave in and drop down a whole upstairs worth of zombies down into the ground level of a haunted house. Problem is that several of the zombies are of the rotter variety and if even a single point of damage destroys them would you rule that a fall, even one of less than ten feet, destroys them too? I can see if they were pushed off of a ledge or maybe even down a flight of stairs but not sure where to go with the possible cave in.

Mark

Fall is damage vs. Ref. On a hit, kill, miss, no kill

 

[Thasmodious]

Minions have 1hp in combat against PCs. If the PCs don't collapse the roof themselves while fighting the zombies, it doesn't need to deal any damage.

 

[IanB]

I'm ok with falling damage killing minions, as long as the PCs caused the fall.

 

[Kyrail]

Only direct attacks should really kill minions.

The 1 hp thing is something to help the DM, not the PCs.

 

[frankthedm]

Just say the fall is whet reduces the Zombies to minion durability.

 

[mtheurer]

Thanks everyone.

Mark