FitzTheRuke
Legend
@jmucchiello Can you even reach the crabrider with a chaos bolt? He's 150 feet up.
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jmucchiello
Hero
When did that happen? It's only been 3 rounds. What's the crab's climbing speed? I assume a shear cliff in not a natural terrain for a crab. A normal crab has a land and a swim speed, not a climb speed. Even if it's land speed is 40, climbing for 3 rounds would only be 120 feet.
FitzTheRuke
Legend
I admit, I've screwed it up before. Let me see:
(Notes)
1) it's been four rounds, with the first one being the "suprise round" - I tried calling it round zero for a bit, but that's not how 5e works. So it was R1, and everyone but Thorbin, Lex, and Jathlin (and all the Sahuagin) were surprised.
2) The CrabRider has an action to command the crab to move or attack (recharge 5/6). He used it in Round 1, and Round 4. Round 2 and 3 he fired his blowgun.
2) The Crab has done nothing but dash. I was sure when I started that the crab would have a climb speed, but it doesn't. I'm not going to make it roll (let's say that the combination of a crab's 'grip' and the nature of the cliff makes the DC low enough not to bother). But I will make it climb at half speed. So 30 feet per round.
(Audit)
Round 1) It started 5 feet below the surface. This is why Lex wasn't surprised. He saw something down there. Then round 1 started and the CrabRider commanded it to climb. (His turn). The crab climbed to 10 feet up. Then it had its own turn, and climbed to 40' up. (Post OOC#188 calls this 50 feet, wrongly.)
Round 2) Rider fired his blowgun. Crab climbed to 70' up. (Post OOC#188 calls this 110 feet, wrongly. Post OOC#217 calls it 80 feet, also wrongly. Huh. Mistakes.)
Round 3) Rider fired his blowgun. Crab climbed to 100' up. (Post OOC#252 has this right).
Round 4) Rider finally recharged his command and commanded a move. Crab climbed to... 145 feet. Post IC#88 calls this 150 feet, wrongly. So do my notes.
So... 145 feet up at the end of round 4. Everyone is going for round 5 now, unless I've really screwed something up.
I have to admit, I've been confused many times while running this combat. It's probably a bit too big for any sane person, even if it were run IRL and with miniatures, it would be ambitious. It's a bit much for PBP. But it has taught me to keep better notes, so I should be making less mistakes going forward.
One of my mistakes early on was thinking that I could get away with handwaving all the non-pc-related combatants. But that was just too difficult with players, very rightly, trying to save NPCs who were in danger (causing them to turn away from 'their' enemies to fight NPC's enemies, if you see what I mean) therefore I needed to do it 'properly'. So my son and I ran the fight IRL, but we did extra rounds (the first time) but again the actions of the players (including Throbin's shocking body count) changed everything, so I had to backtrack and just play it out one round at a time. (This is one of the reasons that a few guards seemed to come back to life. I thought they were goners for sure, but the orca and shaman were killed much faster than I thought they'd be, and the guards had survived only one round of attacks).
Anyway, we've got it down now. If everyone can get their turns in relatively quickly, I'll see if I can get this round rolled as fast as possible.
(Notes)
1) it's been four rounds, with the first one being the "suprise round" - I tried calling it round zero for a bit, but that's not how 5e works. So it was R1, and everyone but Thorbin, Lex, and Jathlin (and all the Sahuagin) were surprised.
2) The CrabRider has an action to command the crab to move or attack (recharge 5/6). He used it in Round 1, and Round 4. Round 2 and 3 he fired his blowgun.
2) The Crab has done nothing but dash. I was sure when I started that the crab would have a climb speed, but it doesn't. I'm not going to make it roll (let's say that the combination of a crab's 'grip' and the nature of the cliff makes the DC low enough not to bother). But I will make it climb at half speed. So 30 feet per round.
(Audit)
Round 1) It started 5 feet below the surface. This is why Lex wasn't surprised. He saw something down there. Then round 1 started and the CrabRider commanded it to climb. (His turn). The crab climbed to 10 feet up. Then it had its own turn, and climbed to 40' up. (Post OOC#188 calls this 50 feet, wrongly.)
Round 2) Rider fired his blowgun. Crab climbed to 70' up. (Post OOC#188 calls this 110 feet, wrongly. Post OOC#217 calls it 80 feet, also wrongly. Huh. Mistakes.)
Round 3) Rider fired his blowgun. Crab climbed to 100' up. (Post OOC#252 has this right).
Round 4) Rider finally recharged his command and commanded a move. Crab climbed to... 145 feet. Post IC#88 calls this 150 feet, wrongly. So do my notes.
So... 145 feet up at the end of round 4. Everyone is going for round 5 now, unless I've really screwed something up.
I have to admit, I've been confused many times while running this combat. It's probably a bit too big for any sane person, even if it were run IRL and with miniatures, it would be ambitious. It's a bit much for PBP. But it has taught me to keep better notes, so I should be making less mistakes going forward.
One of my mistakes early on was thinking that I could get away with handwaving all the non-pc-related combatants. But that was just too difficult with players, very rightly, trying to save NPCs who were in danger (causing them to turn away from 'their' enemies to fight NPC's enemies, if you see what I mean) therefore I needed to do it 'properly'. So my son and I ran the fight IRL, but we did extra rounds (the first time) but again the actions of the players (including Throbin's shocking body count) changed everything, so I had to backtrack and just play it out one round at a time. (This is one of the reasons that a few guards seemed to come back to life. I thought they were goners for sure, but the orca and shaman were killed much faster than I thought they'd be, and the guards had survived only one round of attacks).
Anyway, we've got it down now. If everyone can get their turns in relatively quickly, I'll see if I can get this round rolled as fast as possible.
jmucchiello
Hero
I've edited my last post.
VLAD the Destroyer
Adventurer
I will get my post up tomorrow.
Steve Gorak
Adventurer
Hey @FitzTheRuke,
Did you skip my post? I don’t see anything about Thorbin’s actions... Since the deck has pretty much been cleared, he’ll jump down to face the remaining fish man.
cheers,
sg
Did you skip my post? I don’t see anything about Thorbin’s actions... Since the deck has pretty much been cleared, he’ll jump down to face the remaining fish man.
cheers,
sg
FitzTheRuke
Legend
I was about to say, "What? I wrote a whole bit on Thorbin!" and then I looked... apparently I called him Valrin three times and Thorbin only once. I knew who I was talking about, though. I fixed it. Take another quick look.
FitzTheRuke
Legend
... Remind me never to have that many NPCs in a fight ever again.
Steve Gorak
Adventurer
Hey y’all,
FYI, I don’t want to create a pvp situation by having Thorbin refuse to give his weapon. He’ll resist, bc he fought for his freedom.
@FitzTheRuke, let me know if you need me to tone this down for the sake of the game’s good flow.
Cheers,
SG
FYI, I don’t want to create a pvp situation by having Thorbin refuse to give his weapon. He’ll resist, bc he fought for his freedom.
@FitzTheRuke, let me know if you need me to tone this down for the sake of the game’s good flow.
Cheers,
SG
KahlessNestor
Adventurer
Heh. Just point out that he's out in the cold on the strand with no food or shelter, a bunch of guards, and no way to anywhere warm.
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