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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Beale Knight" data-source="post: 1632182" data-attributes="member: 7033">Being one of those players I can fill you in.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> We've got a Wilderness Rogue, a Druid with an owl companion, and a Fighter.We had a dwarf sorcerer and human ranger, but alas they have been killed by gravity and won't factor in any longer. I think one of the replacement characters is going to be an elf barbarian, but that could change, and as for the other I have no idea.  [EDIT] I think we're all level 3. If not we're 1 L3 and the rest are L2.The battle that prompted this thread and much discussion on our yahoo group was an ambush at a rope bridge stretching over a chasm. We were ambushed by a lemure summoning cleric and her small hoard o' goblins. The lemure was quickly killed, the cleric (played very well by a visiting player) cast fog cloud (or something like that). All of us were on the bridge, leading the first horse across when the ambush began. We made generally reasonable combat choices, I thought. The W-Rogue worked at picking off goblins from a choice distance, the fighter moved to close on the cleric, the ranger (hindered by a horrible initiative roll) did the same, the sorcerer worked on killing goblins, and the druid calmed the horses. Then the first of the bridge's three ropes was cut. No one fell, not even the horse (GM rolls the horse's reflex save, looks at the result and says "I don't think horses get a +4 reflex save". The fighter had already checked his SRD printout of "Horse, Light" and was smiling). The druid worked on getting the horse to the safety of "our" side of the bridge. The W/Rogue fired a blind shot into the fog cloud (and actually made a very lucky hit!) and then ran for the safety of solid ground. The other three remained on the rope bridge. The far end was obscured by the fog cloud, but after one strand had been cut, you can probably guess what was going on. 1 round later the others were 85 feet down. When they hit the ground the fighter and ranger were still alive, but only the fighter made his stabilze roll.I've been thinking that our biggest problems in combat are communication and that we don't fight as a team, but as a bunch of individuals that happen to be on the same side. When we've had a chance to make a plan and act on it we have shined brightly. Four of us took out three of Alish2o's kerbals (feral wookies) with no damage but from a cold-die induced weapons fumble. This fight might have gone very differently had we remembered something we perpetually forget - THE #$@*ing OWL!!! So that's who we are and how we had our numbers cut. There's been some ideas brought out in this thread already that I'm going to jot down, and I look forward to hearing more now that you have more information on the situation.</blockquote>

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