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<blockquote data-quote="James McMurray" data-source="post: 4437935" data-attributes="member: 743"><p>what does it matter? This isn't a "$e sucks" thread, it's a "powers that cause someone to be bored for2 hours suck" thread. If a prior edition has the same situation, it's a problem there as well.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Fear and boredom are seperate things. If you have to threaten giving someone the dullest gaming experience they've had in 20 years, you might want to rethink your strategies. Would you run a monster whose ability was "on a hit, the player has to sit quietly in the corner for two hours"? That's effectively what this was, except I rolled a die once in a while.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I did make attacks. But I never rolled the 20 I needed to deal 1d4 damage.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Like I said, it'd been deleveled. It was only 10 damage per round. Even then I wouldn't have survived that long, except the GM was nice and gave me a 1-in-6 chance of wiggling close enough to the mouth that someone in melee with the worm could have line of effect. So I got the benefit of a couple of heals. I also managed to roll a 19 on my save vs. death once. with +1 from Human Perseverance that was enough to let me heal back up to 1 (I was out of surges).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In a normal game none of those would have helped. The monster's defenses were so much higher than my acrobatics or athletics that +5 from a ring wouldn't have helped. The armor would have to be 24th level to give me phasing. Those teleports require line of sight, which you don't have while inside a monster's stomach.</p><p></p><p>Either teleport would have helped in this situation, as the GM was giving me a chance to wiggle into the mouth, so I'd have had line of sight. However I'd already used my Dimension Door in a prior encounter to escape the grab of two dire stirges.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Dimension Door, but it was already used. I also have both Blur and Resistance for 10th level utils. Resistance would have at least let me survive, but I had Blur memorized that day.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Try targeting a wizard. <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=":)" /> He's easy to hit, easy to bloody, if he's used his teleport he can't escape the grab, and you're not going to miss the attack against his fortitude.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James McMurray, post: 4437935, member: 743"] what does it matter? This isn't a "$e sucks" thread, it's a "powers that cause someone to be bored for2 hours suck" thread. If a prior edition has the same situation, it's a problem there as well. Fear and boredom are seperate things. If you have to threaten giving someone the dullest gaming experience they've had in 20 years, you might want to rethink your strategies. Would you run a monster whose ability was "on a hit, the player has to sit quietly in the corner for two hours"? That's effectively what this was, except I rolled a die once in a while. I did make attacks. But I never rolled the 20 I needed to deal 1d4 damage. Like I said, it'd been deleveled. It was only 10 damage per round. Even then I wouldn't have survived that long, except the GM was nice and gave me a 1-in-6 chance of wiggling close enough to the mouth that someone in melee with the worm could have line of effect. So I got the benefit of a couple of heals. I also managed to roll a 19 on my save vs. death once. with +1 from Human Perseverance that was enough to let me heal back up to 1 (I was out of surges). In a normal game none of those would have helped. The monster's defenses were so much higher than my acrobatics or athletics that +5 from a ring wouldn't have helped. The armor would have to be 24th level to give me phasing. Those teleports require line of sight, which you don't have while inside a monster's stomach. Either teleport would have helped in this situation, as the GM was giving me a chance to wiggle into the mouth, so I'd have had line of sight. However I'd already used my Dimension Door in a prior encounter to escape the grab of two dire stirges. Dimension Door, but it was already used. I also have both Blur and Resistance for 10th level utils. Resistance would have at least let me survive, but I had Blur memorized that day. Try targeting a wizard. :) He's easy to hit, easy to bloody, if he's used his teleport he can't escape the grab, and you're not going to miss the attack against his fortitude. [/QUOTE]
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