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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Norfleet" data-source="post: 929570" data-attributes="member: 11581">Use Gaseous Form upon the fighter.Haste for Fighter and Rogue.Spell Immunity for the Fighter and Rogue would also make good picks. The wizard and cleric, with their superior will saves, are not really at risk here, but more never hurts.Improved Invis for the Rogue and Wizard. This will probably tie up your L4 capability.You didn't list this, but if available, you can deploy L2 standard Invis on your cleric and fighter as well.Your group should now be undetected, assuming you have managed to cloak everyone with Imp. Invis/Invis/Gaseous.The fighter should move to establish a vertical envelopment position over the target flayer. If the ceiling is sufficiently high, in excess of 50 feet or so, he should position himself at a high altitude. If the ceiling is not high, he should merely position himself such that he can land near a flayer.That means it's surprise and terror time.The Rogue should begin by launching 2x +3d6 sneak attacks at range. Firing a typical CSB, assuming no outstanding bonusses, it's not unreasonable to expect at least one hit, for an average of 14 damage.I think the dismissal of a spell involves slightly more than a free action.The wizard should now dismiss gaseous form. The fighter should be ready for this, and will plummet to the ground as gravity reasserts itself upon his now solid form. If going for a high-altitude assault, land on a flayer, inflicting large amounts of falling object damage. If going for a low-altitude assault, land and attack. Shouting "DEATH FROM ABOVE!" as a free action is optional for the fighter.In the event of a successful high-altitude assault, both targets will probably prone as a result.Regardless, the fighter should accept the penalty for being prone, if prone, and attack under haste at -4 against the probably also prone flayer, at +4, for no net bonus or penalty. If the aerial assault failed, the fighter will be at -4 net.In the surprise round, the fighter will therefore be expected to attack 2 or 3 times: once as part of falling, once as a standard attack, once for haste. Falling for something like 5d6 damage has an expected yield of 17 points of damage. Two attacks, with at least one expected hit, by a typical greatsword wielding lug at +5strength is expected to inflict another 2d6+5, so we'll say an expected yield of 12.The fighter should now use his free 5' step(roll?), if available, to disengage from the flayer and roll towards a new flayer, if one exists, or at least to get out of the way.Cleric should charge invisibly, smashing into the target flayer, perhaps attacking at +4 for a prone victim. We expect a hit.As an average case, against your typical 44hp flayer, we can expect to scratch one flayer. If that was the only flayer, you have now neutralized the flayer, and spared the lives of the poor, mind-controlled sods. Congratulations!If not, round 1 opens with another sneak attack volley against a new flayer, a fighter performing either a step and full attack, or move/charge and attack, and the cleric should also do the same. Sleep is a helpful option for the wizard to consider if the thralls appear susceptible and the demise of all of the flayers doesn't seem sufficiently imminent. Crossbow sniping of a flayer that bucks the odds is another possibility.Hopefully, you won't be running into too many of these things, and the cloaked blitz ought to allow you to take out as many flayers as possible. With the flayers down and out, the thralls should be liberated from their control, and therefore be considered overcome as a challenge. Free experience, and you didn't even have to kill anyone for it!At this point, they should be suitably grateful to you and offer some kind of reward, or at least be useful as human shields later.And remember: Surprise and terror!Fireball and burning hands are options to consider after the battle if anyone is hungry and up for fried calamari.</blockquote>

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