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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3844423" data-attributes="member: 13966">Warren the halfling, HP 30/33, AC 23When everyone gets closer to the hole in the keep's southern wall, Warren will ask if Larian intends to cast any other pre-battle spells, placing an invisible hand on the mage's left arm so he knows where the halfling is.  Once everyone is ready, Warren creeps ahead into the building with the manticore, as Gurguannin starts flying over to the hole in the roof of the manticore's dwelling.Warren will creep closer until he can attempt to stab the creature's neck or face with his short sword, quietly executing a Burning Blade maneuver with a short flourish and then striking with his Shadow Blade Technique, lashing out with a burning sword and an illusory second sword of chilling shadows.  He reappears right afterward, of course, as Larian's invisibility spell fades with the attack, and the monster likely rises from its dormancy.....[sblock=attack]Since I'm using Shadow Blade Technique again, I <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=1328766" target="_blank">rolled the attack</a> myself on InvisibleCastle.  Attack rolls were 19 and 31 (natural 12 and natural 19), so I choose the 19 to represent Warren's actual sword, and the 31 to represent the shadow-blade (so no critical threat).  So if the 19 hits, he does bonus cold damage from the shadow-blade, but it if misses, then he misses altogether.The monster is probably caught flat-footed (Warren intends to move in quietly and attack just as Gurguannin is beginning to fly towards the hole in the roof, and before the rest of the group comes clomping forward in their assorted heavy armors and whatnot), so it would be against its flat-footed AC most likely.I factored in the +2 to-hit for being invisible, but if Larian casts Haste or anything similar beforehand, that'll have to be added in separately to the attack rolls.  I forgot to include Sneak Attack damage with the initial set of rolls, so I <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=1328771" target="_blank">rolled it separately</a>.The total damage from Warren's attack is 22, from 11 piercing (7 + 4 sneak attack), 9 fire, and 2 cold.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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