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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 2790313" data-attributes="member: 2020">(reads all the posts above)  Hey, thanks folks.  Thanks for the input here.    I'm making mistakes hand over fist.  But I'll get better.  At the beginning of this thread, I could not possibly have attempted the combat above at all.  How would things have gone if YOU were writing the story, from Round 2 onward?  How would you have had things go, with Claire, Narrin, Grom, Lidda, Henneth, and the dire bear, if you were running them?  (assume Mialee, Tordek, and Jozan are occupied with the Damaran vipers)  Let's say that Round 1 (where they all ran a lot, see the previous page of this thread, and the top of this page) has occurred already.    We need Round 1 to have occurred as it did, to jury-rig a situation where all the characters would engage in melee.  Anyone?  EDIT:  Here is what happened in Round 1, the way I did it:   - Lidda is no killer, and is reluctant to sneak attack either Claire or Narrin. Furthermore, sticking around means the survivor of her sneak attack will get to her. She hears the fight at the top of the hillock; her party is in trouble.Lidda turns and runs back up the gradual slope, moving at quadruple speed. She moves 80 feet.- The dire bear, with a speed of 200 feet running, runs 100 feet through the underbrush, then 10 feet into the clearing, stopping at 5 feet from Claire and 35 feet from Narrin.- Claire isn't waiting for the bear. Claire runs after Lidda, determined to kill the halfling who was a member of the group who wounded her friends. She has a run of 120 feet, so she ends her round next to Lidda, 80 feet up the slope. Then she does a Spot check and realizes in sudden shock that this is the wrong halfling.Claire: You're not her!Lidda: I don't know you. Outta my way!- Grom just simply hates elves. A Spot check shows him that Claire, running up the slope, is indeed an elf. He does a listen check. She sounds like an elf too. That's enough for him. He changes direction, charging anglewise towards Lidda and Claire.He was 100 feet behind the bear, and 200 feet from the clearing. He now runs at an angle for 120 feet, placing him about 100 feet from Lidda and Claire (actually, it's a triangle: 230 feet long, 85 feet wide, and Grom is creating the third side with his run. Anyone remember the equation for that one?)- Hennett does an all out run to get to Lidda, seeing she is being overtaken by her foes. He moves 120 feet straight down the slope, screaming deprecations, yelling threats at everyone approaching Lidda. (Being a sorcerer, he's going to back up those threats in a real nasty way, too, in a couple of seconds.)- Narrin does a Spot check, and sees Grom. (He also sees the bear. He could hardly miss that!)Narrin is enboldened by the appearance of Grom, the fact the bear is veering off after the assassin, and in a case of bravado decides to charge after Lidda and Claire himself.Narrin's run is also 120 feet. He charges up the slope, ending his move 5 feet from Lidda, and 10 feet from Claire (Lidda is now flanked, but with Improved Uncanny Dodge, this means nothing for her.)Narrin: Try to shoot me in the back, will you? Now you die!At the end of the round:Lidda is 80 feet up the slope, 415 feet from her friends at the top (who are in a fight for their lives against the Damaran vipers.)Claire has moved up next to her, on her left side, 5 feet away.Narrin has moved up next to her, on her right side, 5 feet away.The bear is 80 feet back, at the edge of the clearing (which means, it will catch all of them next round, if it keeps coming. And it IS coming. It's lunchtime.)Grom (who hopes the bear eats the halfling while he kills the elf) is 100 feet from Claire, 105 from Lidda, 110 feet from Narrin, and about 110 feet from the bear.Hennett, REALLY yelling threats now - seeing that Lidda has been overtaken - is still 195 feet away, directly upslope.(Mialee, Tordek, and Jozan, remember, are out of the fight unless Lidda can reach them, because they have their hands full with about a dozen attacking Damaran vipers, and they are out of line of sight on the far slope of the hillock.)Beginning of round 2 ...</blockquote>

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