Bodies = Difficult Terrain?

[Mistwell]

There is no RAW for it, but have fun with house rules. This is actually a pretty popular house rule from what I've seen.

RAW: That gargantuan dragon you just slaughtered is not considered difficult terrain nor cover.

I disagree.

RAW says "If you want to use something not covered in this chapter, refer to the examples here as a guideline...look at the sample terrain, find the closest match, and use those rules."

Closest match to a dead body looks to be ""uneven ground", which counts as difficult terrain.

I'd say RAW covers this situation, and calls it difficult terrain.

 

[Dalzig]

I disagree.

RAW says "If you want to use something not covered in this chapter, refer to the examples here as a guideline...look at the sample terrain, find the closest match, and use those rules."

Closest match to a dead body looks to be ""uneven ground", which counts as difficult terrain.

I'd say RAW covers this situation, and calls it difficult terrain.

That's a different kind of RAW. You could also say that any action the PCs can imagine is RAW due to Pg. 42. Or a Level 78 monster you pit against a Level 1 party is RAW...

 

[renau1g]

Fun thoughts, I never really considered it, but with minions now... Hmmm...stacking the bodies like cordwood to create an impromptu barrier... nice! How much time would you put to moving a body? Str check to move a Large enemy? I'd imagine that a dead troll weighs a lot...

 

[Rechan]

Fun thoughts, I never really considered it, but with minions now... Hmmm...stacking the bodies like cordwood to create an impromptu barrier... nice! How much time would you put to moving a body? Str check to move a Large enemy? I'd imagine that a dead troll weighs a lot...

Move action to move a medium (or smaller) body 1 square. Athletics check for larger.

 

[Sceadeau]

yes

I never bothered in 3.5, because there were so few enemies. Now that there are scads of enemies, I have ruled that they constitute difficult terrain (making the elf a great choice, for lightly stepping over bodies as part of a shift ) .

I use little glass beads to mark the fallen. I thought about using x number of creatures in the square rule, but found that that was needless bookkeeping. Just replace the mini with a bead, and keep the battle moving. The players got a kick out of being surrounded by nothing but bodies, and the fact that they stopped kobold shifting craziness by littering the ground with corpses made them happy for a brief moment in time.

 

[Mistwell]

That's a different kind of RAW. You could also say that any action the PCs can imagine is RAW due to Pg. 42. Or a Level 78 monster you pit against a Level 1 party is RAW...

There are rules as written which tell you how to handle the issue.

There are no rules that call out specifically "what happens if someone hits me with a wrench", but there are rules for "what happens if someone hits me with an improvised weapon" which tell you how to calculate damage from an object such as a wrench. I wouldn't call calculating damage from a wrench a house rule, or not RAW. And I do not see how this is different.